With immense fire the power of Xachikyu lit up the land of iron like a second sun.
Sasuke watched his opponent burst with chakra, his sharingan gasped with anxiety. 'So much chakra...' Sasuke thought to himself, the Rinnegan had created the monstrous creature before him.
"Now." The phoenix flies up and closes its wings and cuddles in making the shape of itself into a sphere, energy gathered around the sphere and the fire burned with so much chakra it wasn't countable.
"Dance of Searing Fire!" The phoenix bursts its wings out of the sphere making light beam all over the land of iron, and with that light searing fire bombs rained all over the land of iron.
"AHHHH!" Guards ran to keep themselves from being hit by the immense fire that rained down on them, but there was no escape the fire exploded like the land was made of TNT. Pain uses his repelling jutsu to keep the fire from hitting himself and Konan, Sasuke takes flight using his curse mark and dodges the bombs that seemed to be an endless rain of fire. Sasuke could only dodge for his life he did make it out alive, but barely. When the bombs finally stopped the entire mountain had ashes on it, the land of iron was covered with ashes within a 2 mile radius. Trees burned down, the lakes were dried up, the mountain was breaking apart.
The Xachikyu in the sky screeched a massive fire breath around the land making everyone knowing the immense power it had.
"Now die!" The phoenix instantly flew down at Sasuke with immense speed and aim, Sasuke stood there was the fire engulfed the area around him and blazed with a tornado of blazing flames, the fire was burning through even the rocks nothing could withstand this intense heat.
Sasuke would have been burnt to a crisp if it wasn't for Obito in the distance who had warped Sasuke away to save him.
Sidra's Xachikyu was only out for minimal time and it already destroyed everything within a 2 mile radius. Sidra deactivates the technique and only stared at Obito who stood calm and not threatened. "You are stronger sister, we will be back."
Obito and Sasuke soon were warped out of the area.
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Kage building. Naruto's immense nine-tailed chakra had created a shield to defend himself, Hinata and Dias from the fire that melted the building to mere rubble. The 5 kages were still alive, but all were injured with flame burns and blisters.
"Time to leave." Danzo was standing alive to the 3 Akuzura standing in front. Danzo disappeared in smoke.
"No!" Naruto yelled in anger, Danzo was gone so he couldn't hear.
The land of iron swarmed with bloodstain. All the guards were dead at the mere first assault, the kages could barely stand yet the whole goal was out of the picture, or was it?
Itachi and Kisame busted out from ground having hid deep underground, they still had scratches and burns, but they were alive. Itachi and Kisame breathed heavily and couldn't put up more of a fight.
"We'll meet again." Itachi disappeared in crows and Kisame was gone with a mere splash of water.
Pain only looked on. "They'll be back."
The 6 Akuzura regrouped at the ruined Kage building.
Naruto jumped "Wow Sidra that was awesome, that technique amazing!"
"It truly was powerful, those eyes..." Dias notices.
"They are Rinnegan." Pain mentions.
"Yes, thank you Dias, it's because of you that I am able to use this power."
Dias simply similes and nods.
"We should take the other kages for treatment, we wouldn't want to influence war on our hands." Konan suggests.
"Yes." Pain agrees.
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Uchiha Base.
Sasuke came back in scratches and burns he was favoring Itachi's shoulder to keep himself up, Sakura went up to him in gasp, she was worried sick about him. "Sasuke are you okay?"
"Yes, just help." Sakura does her medical jutsu on Sasuke he was healing, but it was slow. Her hand glowed green and the damage on Sasuke began to heal.
"Who did this?" Sakura asks.
Obito responded to this in a cruel voice. "My sister."
"Sidra did this?"
"Yes, she has obtained Rinnegan, she is more dangerous than before, I am the only who is allowed to deal with her now." Obito orders.
Obito turned and went inside the base to rest.
Obito looks at the only picture he had of his entire family together, it was in a purple picture frame with stainless gain, and he only stared at it.
'Sister, must you get in the way of my plans, I never thought you would have survived the Uchiha massacre, but the moment I saw you, and you didn't recognize me, I thought you were going to be of great use, but I guess grudges go on.'
Obito holds his hand to his right eye. "Ugh..."
'My mangekyou is fading, it's the blind cost of using it too long, it looks like I'm forced to kill my own sister for the cure, not that I have a problem with it, however it would seem that my sister has both her eyes Rinnegan now, and that works too.'
'And that man, I knew I'd seen him before.'
'That man from the time I attacked the leaf village with the nine-tails, I saw that kid.'
'The Rinnegan in his left eye makes no mistake, it's that guy from before, that child from the Hidden Leaf under the guard of the Third Hokage.'
'That kid he's a senju, there's no mistaking it.' Obito could guess, Dias had a Rinnegan and only one who had the power of both Senju and Uchiha could wield it, considering Dias had no Sharingan in his right eye, he was no doubt a Senju.
'Well, well, my sister probably got him on their side without question.' Obito smirks.
'You've grown strong sister, but the next time we meet will be the last battle of your life.'
Obito shatters the picture frame on the ground.
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Uzumaki Tower
The Akuzura members had taken the 3 kages to Uzushiogakure to rest and heal thanks to Karin's advanced healing powers and Kakuzu's stitching jutsu.
The 3 kages laid on beds in the tower resting some other Akuzura were helping them recover. Karin was evaluating healing, Kakuzu had already stitched the injuries up.
"Urgh, urgh taken down by you." A was stressed out and unhappy with his defeat.
"Well Deidara I never thought I'd see you again." Onoki tells Deidara.
"No problem, Kage."
'Hmm they really are like brothers.' Mei thinks to herself.
Temari and Kankuro sat not talking to anyone, they were grateful to the healing, but they were still angry on the death of their brother Gaara.
Karin goes to Pain with a status report "They're healing they should be good in a day or two."
"Thank you Karin." Pain goes into the room with some words to say.
"May I have your attention Kages, I am Pain, leader of the Akuzura."
"We are going to wage war with the land of fire, and I ask you to not interfere, we mean the other lands no harm."
A wanted to kill everyone in the room, but he was too weak for that. "Why should we trust you."
"There is nothing of value the other countries could provide for us." Pain states.
"You've already taken the jinchuuriki from us." Mei mentions.
"That was merely the other group who is still the Akatsuki, we promise we will obtain them back when we get the chance."
"Hmm."
"Fine then, but the moment you attack us we'll attack back okay..." A confirms.
"Yes we are aware of that." Pain agrees.
"We'll be on our way then." Onoki, Mei, A, Temari and Kankuro all go out the door and back to their own lands.
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Somewhere in the Outskirts of the Leaf, Midnight.
Jiraiya and Tsunade stood looking at the moon.
Jiraiya closed his eyes. "Nagato, Konan, Yahiko, and Naruto..., what has become of them..."
"Jiraiya?" Tsunade looks at her partner.
"Tsunade, my former students are nothing now, they've all turned to the Akatsuki, and I wonder, is it my fault, did I not give my way of a ninja clear to them?"
"Jiraiya..." Tsunade said is depression.
"Yahiko is gone, Nagato, Konan and Naruto are in the Akatsuki, so now what..."
"Jiraiya, I know things look bleak now, but we'll snap some sense into them somehow."
"Yes, I know, but how?"
"We'll figure it out..."
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Uzushiogakure outskirts, Nighttime.
Neji, Hiashi and Hanabi all stood looking at the tower that was almost fully repaired, it was like a shiny coin over a sea of rust.
Hanabi coughed up the courage to speak. "So Elder sister is in there?" She asked, knowing the answer.
Neji brutally responded. "Yes...she's in there."
"The entire organization is in that tower, including Hinata and Hikari." Hiashi mentions.
"So this is it." Hanabi stated.
"Yes, we are going to kill them both." Hiashi said.
Neji looked in shock that they were actually going to do this. 'I had hoped to knock some sense into Hinata that last time, but now there's no saving her.'
Hanabi felt close to the same 'I don't want to kill Elder sister, but I can't let her destroy us and our clan though still...'
'My daughter and my niece, I have to kill them both, why must fate be like this.'
"Let's go." Neji went down from the rocks into the village.
Hanabi and Hiashi followed.
Neji ran across the dirty streets and old walkways to get to the tower, but there was a sound, it was like wind.
"Urgh!" Neji jumps back to barely avoid a slashing wind attack that scratched the ground like a saw blade. Hikari and Hinata both stood on the 2nd floor of the tower looking at the 3 Hyuga with Byakugan active and ready.
'So they sensed us, impressive.' Hiashi thought to himself.
Hikari and Hinata jumped down and landed right in front of the tower as if they were guarding it.
Hiashi, Neji and Hanabi stood in a similar bold matter.
"Okay this is the last chance, you surrender now or else you can both die here." Hiashi yelled, though his threat wasn't that threatening.
Hinata smiled, in fact she was shaking, that shaking turned, and she laughed hard. "HAHAHA!" This laugh wasn't the shy or timid type it was bold and ambitious.
Hinata yelled back "Do you really think you can order us around anymore, father?"
"We are more powerful than you could ever imagine, don't act like you can kill us whenever you like!"
Hikari thought to herself. 'Hinata really has changed, it's amazing what love can do, Naruto you really have yourself a great girl.'
Hikari spoke "We'll be making threats now, why don't you just leave here and don't bother us, or else."
Neji confidently spoke back. "Or else what?"
All 5 Hyuga turned Byakugan on to the fullest, the wind blew in the night as all 5 stared at each other, their vision was like a laser to the night darkness.
"Hinata, leave Hiashi to me." Hikari said.
"Okay, I'll take brother and sister then."
All 5 Hyuga jumped at each other with their gentle fist palms ready to strike at each other.
Neji was on route to Hinata, Neji threw his palm forward, but at the last minute Hinata was gone in a flash. 'That jutsu again...' Neji said, since it was night it was even harder to see where Hinata was.
Hanabi and Neji landed and looked all around trying to detect Hinata's chakra. Hinata appeared out of the ground and struck Hanabi right in the back knocking her down and blocking the chakra. Neji swung at Hinata, but she was gone once again after her attack. Hinata appeared again behind Neji this time and struck him in the back, and with another jutsu she was gone again,
'Damn that shadow jutsu...' Neji thought to himself.
Hinata was below Neji now her palm hit his leg like a needle. "GAH!" Neji fell to his knees as his leg had its chakra blocked off, Hinata was already gone at the moment.
Neji thinks to himself 'Think, every jutsu has a weakness, how does one stop a shadow...'
Hikari's palm hit Hiashi's palm dead on neither giving an inch of power shortage. "You're strong..." Hiashi says.
"This is what years of anger does..." Hikari says. 'Of course she doesn't know it.'
Hiashi retreats from Hikari's attack. "What's wrong, a Hyuga is not supposed to run."
"Look here, Neji heard this story, but you didn't, let me tell you it."
FLASHBACK
About 11 years ago...
Hiashi and his twin brother Hizashi talked.
"The land of lightning demands refuge, if not the land will go to war with us." Hiashi says.
"But, they demand my death." Hiashi says unhappily.
"No, brother you can't." Hizashi responds to the event he would do anything to prevent.
"I must, for the sake of the village." Hiashi was about to walk off.
"No, I must..." Hizashi says.
"Huh?" Hiashi turns around and looks.
"If they want you to die, I'll die in your place, we're twins so they won't know."
"But brother, no." Hiashi would do anything for his brother the other way around.
"No, we both know the branch family would survive just as well without me." Hizashi argued.
"I can't let you."
"No, I insist."
Hiashi sucked in his feelings. "Fine, if that's truly what you want..."
"Yes."
Days later Hizashi met his death that the hands of the land of lightning, Hiashi lived on in to lead the family and assumed care over Neji and Hikari.
FLASHBACK END
"What?" Hikari was in shock by this.
"Don't you see, your father didn't die by my will, he died by his will."
"Father..., this doesn't change a thing..."
"Huh?"
"I do believe you and believe me this cancels some rage, but..."
"This makes you worse, you had to kill that man from the land of lightning!"
"And more, you deserved to die that day instead of my father!"
"My father had more to his story then, he gave me a letter before he died, it said."
My son and daughter.
"I'm sorry by this, I really am, but I've been chosen to be killed in my brother's place to satisfy the agreement with the land of lightning. I'm sorry I have to leave you alone, my brother will take care of you. I hope you grow up to be great ninja. My last wish is that you will be free from the curse mark someday while you live, I know I'm dead by the time you read this, but I'm free from the curse mark and I know someday you will be too."
"He died for the freedom from the curse mark, a mark that you put on him!"
"His last wish is for us to be free and I've succeeded in that, and now there's only one more thing to do."
"And what's that?"
"Finish the job the land of lightning should have done, you will die today Hiashi..."
"You really have gone into the darkness child, what is it going to take to get you to stop this madness?"
"Let's see, bring my father back, and then get rid of the accursed seal!"
"We both know either of those things aren't going to occur."
"Neji understood this instantly if you can't then you haven't grown up in the least."
"Enough, talk is cheap..."
Hiashi jumps at Hikari, who holds her breath back and blows a massive attack. 'Wind Style, Great Breach!" A massive wind stream flies at Hiashi like a train. Hiashi holds his palms out and starts to spin. "Rotation." Hiashi's rotation exceeded the skill of that of Neji's it repelled Hikari's wind attack with ease. "So you can still fight."
After Hiashi finishes his rotation he stood with his hand on a signal sign "I don't wish to do this."
Hikari stared at that sign, she saw it once before, during her and Hanabi's battle. 'The curse mark hand sign, I knew he'd try and use it, too bad for him.'
Hiashi sighed and crossed his arms. "Look here, if you don't wish to die just surrender now and you can live out your sentence in peace."
Hikari smirked. "And just how are you going to kill me?"
"Don't play games with me, this is for real, surrender or I will kill you here." Hiashi readied his hand sign.
Hikari held her hand going back into gentle fist stance, she looked at Hiashi focusing on his heart chakra point using Byakugan and gathering chakra in her palm ready to strike at any moment that Hiashi's guard was down.
"Try me." She said. With that Hikari charged full out at Hiashi blue chakra gathered around her palm.
"As you wish." Hiashi made his hand sign. "Death." He said.
Blood spilled on the ground. "Ah, ugh..." Hiashi coughed. Hikari's palm was in his chest her attack had pierced bone. "But how?" Hiashi asks as his life is slowly drained.
Hikari opened her eyes and talked "A technique, I call it Kari Purification, it was created in the Hidden Shadow Village years ago, that is how." Blood stained her palm as she removed it like a sword. Hiashi wobbled backwards and struggled to sit down, putting his hand on the wound Hikari made just above his heart, a little higher and he would have been dead off the bat.
Hiashi clenched his wound and stared at Hikari. Hikari's hand band came off from the force she just used to strike him in the chest. 'It's gone.' Hiashi thought to himself, the X and lines on a forehead that would symbolize the curse mark they were gone when it came to Hikari. "I never would have taken that vow you made before you left seriously, I thought you would just be killed off in the wild by rogue ninja, but I was wrong, you are a threat to our clan and must be killed."
Hiashi brought himself back up with his strength. "Time to end this, niece..."
"I wouldn't want it any other way." Hikari took the gentle fist stance.
Hiashi's palm collided with Hikari's palm edge, the chakra canceling each other out, Byakugan was fully active and being used to the fullest. Hiashi grabs Hikari's left arm and throws her. Hikari's eyes bulge as she's thrown down, she rolls and flips back up to avoid them damage she normally would have taken. Hikari does her hand signs and unleashes anther wind technique. "Wind Style, Spiraling Dragon." Hikari holds her arm up in the sky and a spiral of wind blows around her repelling Hiashi back from the danger of being swallowed by the tornado she created. As the wind breaks Hiashi comes in with his palm charged and ready to strike.
"No." Hikari sidesteps slightly, but enough so that Hiashi misses his mark. Hikari jumps behind Hiashi and kicks him in the back making him fall to the floor. "It seems your speed is low, uncle..."
"Nothing like bone to sharpen edge." Hiashi responds.
Hiashi smacks the ground with a gentle fist palm and chakra creates a shockwave that hits Hikari right in the chest. Hikari is sent flying into the wall of one of the ruined buildings. "You still underestimate me."
"We'll see." Hikari brings herself to get back up. She wipes the blood from her mouth with her hand and shakes off the rubble.
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"AH!" Neji attacks with his palm aimed at Hinata, but Hinata's jutsu let her disappear right before he does, Hinata comes up behind Neji and strikes him in the back with a heavy palm attack. Neji goes flying forward and falls on his front the dust getting in his face.
"Cough...cough..." Neji coughs up some blood he had already taken many attacks. 'Not good if this continues she'll kill me.'
Hanabi attacks her sister with her palm attack, not as fast as Neji, but the same result occurred, Hinata was gone before the attack even reached her, Hinata comes down on Hanabi with her heel and blood tears off of Hanabi's left cheek and her head is hit looking at the ground. Hanabi shakes her head trying to get off the blood, and looks at Hinata. She felt so much pain doing this to her sister. 'Elder sister won't kill me, or brother Neji, but now what, she's rendered our Byakugan and gentle fist useless with that jutsu.'
"Surrender now, please just spare yourselves the death that inevitably awaits." Hinata spoke, she wasn't the timid girl her family members knew, now she was actually acting like someone worthy of being the head of the clan.
"Never, I won't give up, not until you and Hikari die." Neji says back.
Hinata closes her eyes, and feels her pain it she wouldn't kill them, but it was only a matter of time they are rendered completely useless. "I won't kill you, and there's no way you'll kill me, so give up and let us do what we need to establish peace."
"I'm sorry sister, but I can't do that, you may be a Hyuga and my older sister... cough..., but your choices are criminal, and if that's the path you choose... cough..., I must stop you." Hanabi says back still coughing up some blood.
"Then I'm sorry for this." Hinata lunges in and strikes Hanabi in the chest sending her flying into a wall with incredible force. "AHH!" Hanabi screams in pain as blood goes out of her wounds, she couldn't fight anymore, not with those injuries.
Hinata approached Hanabi. "It's time for you to join us." Neji jumped at Hinata hoping to catch her off guard, but she disappeared thanks to the Byakugan's 360 degree field vision view. "Not again..."
Hinata appeared behind Neji and struck him in the leg, now his left and right legs were disabled, Neji could no longer move. "Ugh, why are you doing this?!" Neji yells at his cousin.
"Because, it's for your father, and the branch, and Naruto." Hinata says back.
"Huh?" Neji was in shock more now.
"I'm doing this for the Hyuga, we can all be free from the curse mark, and no one like your father will die again. And for Naruto, I will help him restore the family that was never there for him for all those years."
"That's crazy talk, how in the world would you help Naruto anyway?!" Neji snaps back enraged.
Hinata preceded to say this in full seriousness "Because, I will ... become his family, I will be his wife."
Neji and Hanabi looked on in very mixed emotions. "Hinata, that's no right, you can't forsake the clan for that failure who calls himself a ninja." Neji says back.
"Neji don't insult Naruto, he's gone through enough pain already, and as I recall he defeated you so you have no right to call him a failure."
"GRRRR." Neji and Naruto fought during the Chunin Exams and in that battle Naruto won even after how everyone said he would lose.
Hinata walked away from her cousin and sister who couldn't move to pursue her. "Get back here!" Neji wanted to follow, but there was no way that was going to happen, his legs were numb and he had injuries in his arms and back.
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Hikari jumped back. The 2 Hyuga were close on their last legs, they couldn't do anything more except one last attack. Hiashi stood back and readied his palm, gathering all the chakra he had left to strike into one point. "Time to end this."
"I couldn't agree more." Hikari charged at Hiashi was all the force she had.
'Bad move.' Hiashi thought, one wrong move cost her the game. Hiashi strikes Hikari right in the heart piercing through clean and clearly. Hikari held her shaking hands on Hiashi's arm that was in her chest. "If only you surrendered earlier you wouldn't be dead now." Hikari brought herself to talk her last words. "Hiashi, I'm sorry, for everything..."
Hiashi only closed his eyes and said. "It's too late for apologizing, but I appreciate the try."
"And I'm sorry for this..." Hikari said barely holding onto life.
"And what is this?" Hiashi asks the dieing child.
Hikari's body dispelled into wind, pure wind Hiashi knew at that moment it was over, he had been tricked.
"Ultimate Wind Style, Hyper Hurricane Jutsu!" Hikari was above Hiashi and called out her most powerful attack, Hikari spins at such an incredible speed a hurricane forms from her rotation.
The Hurricane swallowed Hiashi completely and tore his body to shreds. The tornado ripped through the air like a blizzard in the sky, wind cutters tore apart the nearby forest and rubble. As the wind finally cleared Hiashi was torn to atoms, a folded paper flew down from the wind into Hikari's hands.
Hikari opened the paper, the diagram should the hand sign for the curse mark jutsu that the main branch used. 'This is my reward...' Hikari closes her eyes and morns her uncle's death, but she felt satisfaction as the wind died down as did Hiashi's life. Neji and Hanabi only looked on, their head Hyuga was no more. Hinata looked on too she let the wind dispel as Hikari did. 'Father, I'm sorry it had to end like this, I just hope that besides the fact we were on opposite sides, you could see that I've grown.'
'Father, you are finally reunited with your brother, I guess you'll be unhappy to know it was us, but I'm sorry, it was for the Hyuga, so that no one could suffer the way you did.' Hikari prays to her own father.
This battle was coming, it always was. RIP Hiashi Hyuga.