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McAwzome: That's what I'm aiming for. This fight is LONG overdue!

meee: Well it seems your feelings have served you well! This fight's gonna put it ALL out there. Only thing you need to do is sit back and enjoy!

Mr.G: Leave it to you to talk about bacon Mr.G...IF THAT'S YOUR REAL NAME! Haha

Rykuga swung his massive blade down on the Reaper with enough force to crack the ground beneath the Reaper. He quickly retaliated by shield-bashing Rykuga and attempted to sever his leg. Rykuga jumped onto the blade before fliping over the Reaper and lashed out behind him, scratching his target's shoulder.

'Well it's progress.'

Rykuga suddenly felt a scorching pain shoot down his back. He quickly realized that he was slashed by the chakra sword, the burning feeling was the chakra burning the wound shut. He quickly turned into iron as the sword came back through, surprising him by melting through the iron before he could move away. Rykuga quickly closed the wounds before turning his attention back to the fight. The Reaper twirled the sword in his hand before he pounded it against his shield. Rykuga took that as an invitation and charged his opponent, unleashing a flurry of kicks and slashes as he attempted to land another blow on his opponent. The Reaper was quickly becoming overwhelmed as Rykuga's strikes began to increase in ferocity and speed. To buy himself some time, he kicked Rykuga in the stomach to create some spacs. Rykuga slashed at his leg and succeeded in gashing him before quickly breaking the blade off in the wound. The Reaper realized, too late, what Rykuga had been trying to do as the blade quickly sunk into the wound, Rykuga's cells spreading throughout his leg. The Reaper reacted without thought as he quickly severed his leg. He began to create another leg out of chakra to act as a temporary replacement for the one now lying on the ground.

"The perks of an unlimited chakra supply. I'll get it fixed properly when I'm done wiping you out!" The Reaper rushed forward as Rykuga did the same.

Unaware of the massive clash happening not to far away, Ohnoki was staring at a map trying to finalize his battle plans. He had roughly estimated the Reaper's forces to number around 50,000 ninja and 80,000 samurai. He silently cursed his luck when he learned about the samurai. Leave it to the Reaper to take over not only the ninja village but also invade the home country and commander the samurai. It also didn't help that mercenaries had begun to bolster his ranks. Ohnoki's army numbered at about 60,000 shinobi that were ready to fight and die for their home. If the Reaper wanted Iwa, he would have to get past ever last one of them.

He gazed back towards the location of his village and began to hope that this wouldn't be his last fight.

Rykuga dove over a boulder behind him just as the chakra bullet hit. He ducked his head as he felt said bullet melt it's way through his cover. He popped his head up to fire off several rounds of his own and used them to close the distance between him and the Reaper. He knew that the longer this fight dragged on, the less likely he was to be the winner. He decided it was time to pull out all of the stops.

The Reaper looked on in amazement, something he hadn't felt for over a century, as the man in front of him began to grow shields of bone out of his forearms. The bone growth started to extend up his arms as bones began to protrude from his shins. Two wicked looking metal blades grew from his elbows and his knees were now sporting a cluster of iron spikes on each one. The bone had enveloped everything but Rykuga's head in a form of armor. The Reaper also noticed that Rykuga's vertebrate had grown outwards into individual blades. The armor now covered everything but his face.

"Now it's time for the Reaper's soul to be put to rest!" He quickly allowed the helmet to finish forming before he let out a laugh, pounding his bladed hands on the bone shields on each forearm. Before the Reaper could even blink, Rykuga's helmet opened a slot on his forehead wide enough for the Reaper to see his Eye of Insanity open. Seeing this startled the Reaper who knew he had removed the eye himself.

"How do you have that eye?!" Asked an obviously shaken Reaper.

"When you took my eye, you were taking cells of me and implanting them in your body. No matter how much you fuck with my body, my cells are still my own. So since you took cells from MY eye that allowed me to divide those cells which allowed them to recreate me, third eye and all." With that explanation done Rykuga charged the Reaper, attempting to run him through. The Reaper was surprised at how fast Rykuga had suddenly become and struggled to keep up his blocks to avoid the lightning fast strikes. Rykuga brought down his bladed hand and at the same time, attempted to knee his opponent with his spiked knees. The Reaper blocked the hand but had to jump back for the knee. He suddenly felt a searing pain, causing him to gasp and glance down. Rykuga had extended a spike when he had jumped, causing it to become embedded in the Reaper's stomach. The Reaper let out a pained cry as Rykuga pushed the spike in deeper. He was about to pull it out so his enemy would bleed out when said enemy suddenly brought the chakra shield down on the spike, snapping it in two. The spike retreated as the Reaper lowered his shield causing Rykuga to take an involuntary step back.

There in front of him was a chakra armor clad Reaper, complete with a massive blade on his back and a self-loading mini crossbow on both wrists. Rykuga grinned. This fight was gonna get good.

Naruto wasn't in a very good mood today. To start his day off he had received reports stating that mercenaries were now beginning to trickle into the Reaper's army causing their numbers to rise dramatically. Then he received several reports of Akatsuki activity.

'Where the fuck did Akatsuki come from?! We wiped them out long ago, why start coming back now?' That report had frustrated him greatly. It wasn't the fact that they were coming back that upset him, it was the fact that people supported their ideals to the point of resurrecting the dead group that pissed him off.

Now Akiko stood in his office giving him a mission report.

"The mission was completed without any problems. We were able to wipe out several bandit camps without sustaining a single injury." Akiko finished his report and handed his Hokage the paper.

"Ok anything else?" Naruto asked, quite distracted by the report in front of him.

"Actually there is one more thing," Naruto's head shot up at the amount of killer intent in the room and his eyes went wide at all of the paper bombs on Akiko's chest. "Die"

A bright light flashed, followed by darkness.

Sakura walked beside her son, Hotaru, and Nabitora. They were all on their way to the tower to see the same person. Sakura nearly had a heart attack when Akiko landed next to Nabitora, munching on bacon the whole time.

"Sup everybody?" Akiko looked carefree until Sakura smashed him in the face.

"DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!" Akiko gently lifted himself out of the rubble before Sakura continued much more calmly now. "We are all on our way to see my husband."

"Mind if I join you? I gotta give him a boring mission report anyway." Akiko looked at Sakura as he waited for an answer.

"Yeah sure as long-" An explosion ripped through the air. Sakura turned in horror to see the Hokage Mansion collapse in on itself. Tears began to roll down her eyes.

"NARUTO!"

Rykuga's blades were currently locked up with the Reaper's sword and shield. Rykuga was bleeding profusely and his clones were currently engaging the Reaper's samurai, cuttinv through them like a knife through butter. To end the stalemate, Rykuga quickly flipped over the Reaper while lashing out with the blades on his back. He knew he scored a deep hit when some blood splashed onto his now crumbling bone armor. The Reaper was cut up pretty bad too. The only reason he hadn't bleed out was the chakra patches he was able to create but his stamina was running low.

"Let's end this!" Rykuga shouted as he charged the Reaper. He had transformed his hands back and was now ducking under the Reaper's massive blade. The Reaper swung again only to have Rykuga jump onto the blade and run at his opponent. The Reaper quickly dropped his sword and pointed both hands at Rykuga, palms facing his advancing opponent.

"Chakra Style: Dual Chakra Cannon Barrage!"

Massive chakra bombs shot forward towards all of the Rykugas. They all disappeared in superheated explosions, leaving one standing.

"Go. This fight is over. Return to face me when your better trained." The Reaper turned around and Rykuga charged only for a chakra hand to reach into his body. He felt his chakra draining and tried to fight the drowsiness that was descending on him. Sleep finally overtook Rykuga and the hand was removed.

"Sir why would you spare him?" The samurai all looked confused and angry.

"He was the first person in 200 years to give me a real fight. I want to see what he could do in another 5. Now prepare to camp here for a few days to rest up." He dragged Rykuga's unconscious body to a cliff several hundred yards away.

"I'll be waiting." With that said he threw Rykuga over the edge, enjoying the sound that was made when his body smashed against the cliff.

Sakura helped sift through the wreckage when she suddenly seen a tuft of blonde hair and a hand.

"He's over here!" She quickly got down and began moving rubble until she could see his face. One eye was closed but she could see the red in his other eye.

"Kurama is Naruto ok?!"

"Yeah...I took over just...in time...I-I need to rest. We'll be fine just whatever you do...no hospitals." Kurama/Naruto passed out and Sakura began to laugh and cry. Hotaru soon joined her while loud cheers rang out. The mood quickly darkened when someone sadly called out "Got another dead one...". Their Hokage may be safe but this gruesome work was far from over.

AN: Well here is the (hopefully) epic fight between Rykuga and the Reaper. I hope you liked it and andlike always please leave a review about your favorite part and/or suggestions. This first book is nearing it's finish but I'm already working on some of the second one so I should be able to release it soon after this one's finished. Enjoy!