DeviantArt Update: Kid Asuma and Kizu
Chapter 24 - Nawirama's Last Resort
When he woke up, everything around him was darkness. Sasuke slowly raised his upper body, so that he could sit. Touching his face, he realized that what was causing that darkness were the bandages that covered his eyes. Even though he knew the time shouldn't be right to remove them, Sasuke did it anyway, unfolding them and throwing them to the ground. While it didn't hurt, opening his new eyes caused him some discomfort, despite having done so very slowly and carefully. Of course, after he did so, he still needed some time for Itachi's eyes to adjust to the light that surrounded him, even if the only source around was a small candle on top of the only table in the bedroom.
"Strange...This looks just like..." Sasuke found himself thinking, as his vision was getting better by the second. The room's boundaries were starting to look familiar to him. The walls, floor and ceiling, all made of wood and with curvilinear patterns. "Otogakure? No, it can't be..."
Sasuke stood a bit faster than he should, which caused him a slight dizziness. After all, he had undergone surgery recently and had been lying down for quite some time. Walking slowly, he approached the table, also made of wood. On top of it, in addition to the candle, was a set of folded clothes. It wasn't his regular attire, but a set composed of a blue v-neck sleeveless shirt, body mesh, blue pants, white leg-warmers and a new pair of sandals. Considering that the only piece of clothing on his body were the pants he used in the last battle (torn as a result of it), he relutanctly decided to use them.
"You don't like them? You'll get used to them, eventually." A voice suddenly made itself heard. Sasuke swiftly formed and waved a Chidori Sharp Spear, positioning it just an inch away from the throat of the voice's owner. The man who wore an Akatsuki cloak, with its hood covering his face, had his body still half-merged with the wall behind the table, two meters to Sasuke's left. Under the hood, the man's eyes met Sasuke's, or in this case, Itachi's Sharingan eyes. "Oh? Scary as always, Sasuke-kun..."
"You? Since when are you with Akatsuki?" Sasuke questioned without taking the Lightning chakra spear away from his target. The Sharingan user frowned as he identified who was hiding under the hood. "I should've killed him back then..."
"I came back to this organization just some hours ago. There was no way I could refuse Madara's offer." The man answered casually. "Come on now, Sasuke-kun, you're in no condition to exert such an effort. You're shaking and sweating so much... Besides, Madara had so much trouble to gather all of us. He won't be happy if you start killing the new Akatsuki members."
"New members?" Sasuke sounded truly surprised, while he wiped the sweat of his face with his free arm. "How many?"
"Uh, let's see...with me, one...two..." The man used his fingers to count but eventually trailed off. "Quite a few actually. Zetsu's watching over them, since Madara doesn't want anyone to see you for now."
"What are you doing here, then?" Sasuke asked, finally dispersing his Chidori Sharp Spear as he did. The hooded shinobi rubbed his throat that had been so close to be pierced by the sharp chakra weapon.
"You know I can be quite...elusive." The new Akatsuki member remembered. He then took something out of his cloak and threw it to the table. "Here's a new cloak for you. Since you're an Akatsuki member, you should use it and the other clothes as well."
"Hmph." Was Sasuke's only answer. The man chuckled and shook his head.
"Same as always, Sasuke-kun. It's amazing to see how fast you're adapting to your brother's eyes. You just woke up and yet you were already able to detect me and precisely aim your jutsu." He thought, before he turned his back on the Uchiha. "I'll be leaving then. I guess I'll use the door this time..."
"Wait." Sasuke said in demanding tone, causing the man to stop and to look over his shoulder. "What's your reason to join Akatsuki? Are you here to kill me?"
"I'm not someone who holds grudges, Sasuke-kun. It just happens that my goals can be achieved a lot easier if I work with Akatsuki. That's what it is." The shinobi clarified, before resuming his walk towards the door. "There's something under those clothes. I guess it belongs to you now."
"Hey, I'm not done with you yet!" Sasuke shouted but his Akatsuki partner didn't look back anymore. He walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. "Bastard...What are you plotting?"
Sasuke eventually shook his head and picked up the first two pieces of cloth. After putting the t-shirt on and over the body mesh, he picked up the pants. Before he could exchange them for the ones he was wearing, he noticed what had been mentioned before. Carefully disposed over the table was a necklace with three metal rings on it. A necklace that, Sasuke knew, had belonged to his older brother.
"Itachi..." Sasuke whispered as he tightly clutched the necklace in his right hand. "I swear to you, those responsible for your suffering will get what they deserve."
"Shukuen..." As soon as Madara said the first syllable of the jutsu's name, two huge portals similar to the ones used in his space-time jutsu appeared, one in front of Nawirama and Naruto and the other one behind them, both being parallel to eachother. "...Amaterasu"
"Shi..." Naruto didn't have any time to react. As soon as the leader of the Akatsuki said the last syllable, black flames erupted from everywhere, filling the entire space between the portals in less than a second.
"Chaos brings reconstruction. I'll destroy Konoha and rebuild it under my leadership! I'll destroy the Will of Fire and make everyone follow the will of Madara Uchiha! And then, there will be no more chaos and no more reconstruction! It will be like that for infinity!"
"Naruto..."
"Huh?" Naruto's eyes opened wide, as he noticed he wasn't inside the underground cave anymore.
"Listen to me carefully..."
"If it is just for a brief moment, this jutsu won't kill them, but they won't be able to jump around any longer." Madara stated. As he was about to make the flames disappear, there was a burst of golden light between them. Immediately afterwards, Nawirama jumped off the inferno, his right arm raised to cover his face. He came crashing hard into the ground but, overcoming the initial pain, he quickly got up on one knee and ripped off his right sleeve, which was covered in black flames. "Adamantine Power: Mokusa to push the flames away for a brief moment, which allowed you to jump out of there. I really hate the Senju clan's hidden jutsus..."
"Shit! NARUTO!" Nawirama shouted and stared in fear to the blazing inferno. "I didn't have the time to jump after Mokusa! I was pushed by...by It!"
"Oh, I see..." Madara started to chuckle, as he recognized the foul chakra accumulation between his Amaterasu flames. Focusing his right eye into the dark fire, Madara erased every single blaze. There he was, covered in a cloak made of chakra from the Tailed Beast sealed inside him. There it was, covering the body of the Hero of Konoha. "Victory is mine!"
"Are you alright, Nawirama?" Naruto asked in a perfectly controlled tone that surprised both older men. The cloak had two tails coming out of it, but there was no sign of the Kyuubi's influence. However, the Jinchuriki's eyes remained closed.
"Is this a trick?" Madara aggressively asked, frustrated because he didn't knew what was going on. "How can you be in control?"
"Could you buy me some more time?" Naruto ignored the Akatsuki leader and directed his attention to Nawirama.
"I guess you'll explain later..." Nawirama stood and worriedly stared to his partner, before he turned his back on Madara and whispered. "I don't know how you're doing it, but don't try to defeat him. Just focus on making him waste chakra."
"So that he goes away, right?" Naruto asked.
"Thinking you can turn your back on me, so that I can't read your lips? You seriously underestimate me!" Madara furiously shouted. "Amaterasu"
"It told me." Naruto added and Nawirama's eyes widened. A chakra arm came out of Naruto's cloak and intercepted the black flames that were about to touch Nawirama's back.
"It?" The shocked Nawirama asked, but shook his head immediately afterwards. "Leave it for later...He already lost a considerable amount of chakra with the space-time jutsus and with that overpowered Amaterasu. I'll hit him with everything I have..."
"What about you?" Naruto asked, while Nawirama finally turned his attention back to Madara.
"Enough, I hope..." Nawirama answered before he charged towards Madara, with a glowing golden sphere in his right hand. "Adamantine Power: Acala"
Madara dodged two Acala thrusts and did a cartwheel to change into a better attacking angle. He then tried a low kick from the right side but Nawirama lifted is left leg, dodging it. Nawirama used the momentum of his left leg to try a kick to Madara's face who blocked it with his right hand. While he held his opponent's leg, Madara tried another low kick, this time to the exposed right leg but Nawirama jumped and used that same one to kick Madara's arm, forcing him to release the grip he had on Nawirama's other lower limb. In the same rotating motion, the midair Nawirama attempted to drive Acala downwards, but Madara grabbed his wrist with both hands.
"You've lost a considerable amount of chakra. You shouldn't use those jutsus any longer." Madara advised, causing Nawirama to frown. "You have to waste a nice amount of it to gather the natural energy together. It's faster than Senjutsu, but since you don't mix it with the chakra inside your body, you can only use it for one or two moves. That means a lot of your chakra goes to waste if you aren't able to hit me."
"Is that why you decided to fight me cleanly? Because you're lacking chakra?" Nawirama countered. As if to say yes, Madara attempted to kick Nawirama in the gut, but the Konoha Jounin grabbed his leg with his free arm. "Are you sure you can risk yourself like this? Without being intangible?"
"I can only use it for a total of five accumulated minutes, which have passed already. I can still warp away, but that takes more time to perform and since you won't allow me, I won't risk to be drawn back to this dimension and be left defenseless for an assault." Madara revealed. The pressure he was making on Nawirama's wrist made him lose control over Acala, which dispersed. Both locked eyes and smirked, one out in the open and the other behind his mask. Nawirama pulled Madara's leg and the latter pulled the first's arm, making them both clash foreheads.
Flashback
"Naruto..."
"Huh?" Naruto's eyes opened wide, as he noticed he wasn't inside the underground cave anymore. Instead, he was on some familiar sewers and in front of a huge cage.
"Listen to me carefully..." The Nine-Tailed Fox came closer to the cage's grid, becoming visible to its Jinchuriki. "I know we don't see eachother eye to eye, but I want to make a deal."
"You? Make a deal with me?" Naruto questioned doubtfully. "From the dealing experience I have with you, I have to say no."
"Just listen to me first." Kyuubi actually sounded desperate. "We have a common enemy in Madara. If you get caught, you'll die. If I get caught, it won't be much better than dying."
"So now that you're in a pinch, you want to team up?" Naruto asked and the Kyuubi relutanctly nodded. "What do you suggest? I bet you want to take over."
"You're wrong. I was always quite...weak against genjutsu. And considering what the Yondaime did to me, I guess that weakness only got worse, since now I don't possess Yin chakra. While you can't use yours properly, you still have a better chance to resist his genjutsu than I do." The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox remembered. "I'll help you, so you can use that Senjutsu of yours."
"How?" Naruto asked, carefully searching for any slip of tongue from his Biju.
"The Yondaime's seal is made so that you can have access to my chakra. Even though the seal was reinforced, you're still able to tap on my powers. Thing is, for this to work, you have to allow me to control them, while you remain still." Naruto's eyes widened at the proposal. "My chakra is linked to my will, so I'll control it from the inside to protect you. At the same time, you'll keep your consciousness and keep still to gather that natural energy you need."
"So you want me to trust you?" The hesitant Naruto asked. "Since your chakra and will will be out there, you could take over at any time."
"Yes, it's about trust. I won't take over, because it doesn't benefit me today. It's the only way. That guy who's with you won't be able to hang on forever."
"I guess..." Naruto stared down, involved by his doubts. "So how does it work?"
"Tap on my powers like you used to do and the cloak will start to form. I don't know if my will will inadvertently taint yours, so we'll only use two tails to keep it safe." Kyuubi explained. "Then, I want you to keep your eyes closed the entire time."
"My eyes? Why?" Naruto inquired.
"The Uchiha's genjutsu is casted through eye contact. To avoid it, just close your eyes." Kyuubi simply answered. "You won't need them to gather the energy, right?"
"No...but how does it work for you? Will you be able to see what's going on?" The confused Naruto insisted on that point.
"It's true that I share my senses with you. What you hear, I hear. What you see, I see." The fox agreed. "While I won't be able to see what's going on, I have a special ability that will be very useful in this situation. I can sense negative emotions, like hate and inner killing intent. That way, I'll always know Madara's position. It may not be as accurate as vision, but it is the best way to avoid getting captured."
"I guess there's no other way..." Naruto admitted. "Just promise me that you won't take over."
"I thought my promises didn't mean a thing..." The demon fox actually seemed to be smirking.
"You said it, it's about trust." The jinchuriki remembered.
"Fine then, I promise not to take over." Kyuubi vowed after chuckling. "As for the best way to solve all this battle..."
End of Flashback
Both Madara and Nawirama recoiled after butting heads. Madara's mask cracked, the upper right part of it separating itself from the rest, revealing his Eien no Sharingan. Above his left eyebrow, the flesh on Nawirama's forehead splitted from the impact, making him bleed. While it was just a small cut, the blood mixed with the sweat that covered his face, quickly making the left side of Nawirama's face a crimson mask. They were less than a meter away from eachother when a red chakra claw erupted from the ground between them, missing them narrowly.
"I guess the Kyuubi doesn't care if it it's me...I better be careful." Nawirama thought, before making a cross-shaped hand seal. The Konoha Jounin and his three clones started to run in circular motion, with Madara in the center, each of them performing a set of six hand seals at the same time.
"Ne, Tora, Inu, Ushi, U, Tora...ingeneous." Madara silently complimented, as he recognized the combination of gestures.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Sacred Vortex" The four Nawiramas shouted, just before they spat multiple fireballs towards the centre of the imaginary circle. Since they continued on running at high speed, the fireballs covered all the possible angles from which Madara could escape. Without time to perform a jutsu able to deflect the fireballs, Madara warped away, before he reappeared in the ceiling. He hanged upside down, while he focused a fixed amount of chakra on his feet to avoid falling. At the same time, he started to perform some hand seals of his own.
"Fire Style: Flame Flower" Madara used Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu four times in quick succession, causing four huge flame spheres to fall down on his enemy. The way they were arranged on the fall, truly resembled a flower made of flames. The four Nawiramas performed the same hands seals as Madara, each of them spitting a Fireball Jutsu of their own. All the flame infernos clashed together, causing a loud explosion.
"It's a shame you can't see what I'm about to pull off..." Kyuubi seemed to be enjoying itself from behind the cage's bars.
"Would you be quiet? I'm trying to focus." Naruto scolded his Tailed Beast, while he was sitting on the middle of the sewers with his legs crossed and his eyes still closed.
"He dismissed his shadow clones. Trying to gather his chakra back for something big?" Madara wondered, as he watched Nawirama's movements through his chakra flow, since his body remained hidden by the curtain of smoke created by the explosion of the fireballs. He saw Nawirama starting a new set of hands seals, but he suddenly stopped and looked to his right. Feeling something was wrong, Madara looked in the same direction. That was what saved him. A Tailed Beast Chakra Arm stretched in his direction, holding a huge sphere of red spiralling chakra.
"I think I'll call it...Demon Fox Odama Rasengan." Kyuubi announced.
"You gotta be kidding!" Naruto barely resisted to the urge of opening his eyes to see what was happening. Continuing on the sewer, he questioned the fox. "How is it possible?"
"I was there when you learned the jutsu, remember? It isn't that different from my Menacing Ball...Wait a minute, rocks are falling." Indeed, the ceiling started to crumble with the huge impact of the jutsu used by the Kyuubi. Using the Chakra Arms, the Kyuubi deflected the falling rubble, preventing it from hitting his host. "Besides, it was through my will you used the Demon Fox Rasengan for the first time, against the Uchiha offspring."
"Damn..." Nawirama mumbled as he watched the destruction made by Kyuubi's Rasengan. "He warped again...If the Kyuubi is able to make him waste chakra for awhile, I may able to save enough chakra for that jutsu...It's for sure the best way to force him away. Still, it is already risky for me to use it..."
"Kyuubi...I liked you so much more when you were a nice obedient pet." Madara hissed as he reappeared on the opposite side of the chamber. Inside its personal cage, the Kyuubi angrily snarled, making the Naruto in the sewers grin in amazement. With over 80% of the ceiling destroyed, the sunlight filled the battlefield. The chakra cloak that enveloped Naruto seemed to be glowing wildly. Nawirama wiped the blood of his face once again. The Akatsuki leader broke off a bit more of his mask, since the broken edge under his right eye was hurting his face ever since Nawirama's headbutt minutes before. "It's a shame. It was the last orange one I had. Those were my favorites..."
"So what now? Will he go after me or Naruto first?" Nawirama wondered as he stared to both. The three shinobi were disposed in a large triangle formation. After deciding what to do, Madara warped once again, to reappear behind Nawirama. Knowing that would be the place to strike, Nawirama turned and kicked, but Madara dodged narrowly. However, instead of continuing his attack, Nawirama decided to run in the opposite direction.
"What is this?" The confused Madara asked to himself, before going after his opponent.
"I need to conserve my chakra for Azusa..." Nawirama remembered himself, as he rushed towards Naruto. As if the Kyuubi had spoken with him beforehand, another Chakra Arm stretched from the cloak, this time aimed towards Nawirama.
"Too bad if he doesn't dodge it. I never promised to keep him safe..." Kyuubi kept its thought to himself. However, Nawirama did as expected and dodged to his left side. Madara, was too close to be able to move to the side, so he dodged by jumping. While the claw continued to move forward, the arm of chakra remained under the midair Uchiha. From the original arm, over a dozen others stretched upwards to attack Madara, who was forced to warp. Coming out of the portal, another array of arms came in his direction, forcing him to do it again. And again. And other time. As he appeared from behind Naruto, the two tails from the cloak stretched and made him do it once more.
"This is bad...I'm wasting too much chakra just in escaping." Madara's visible eye then widened, as he heard the sound of exploding tags starting to burn up. The former head of the Uchiha Clan disappeared again, this time to escape the exploding tags attached to kunais thrown by Nawirama.
"We're doing good." Nawirama let out a relieved sigh. "Maybe I won't have to use it..."
"You...are you mocking me?" Madara shouted as he saw what the Kyuubi was preparing. Nine Chakra Arms were coming out of the cloak, each one holding a normal-sized Demon Fox Rasengan.
"Let's see...Demon Fox Rasentarengan" The Kyuubi announced its new jutsu.
"If you weren't the beast that destroyed Konoha once before, I would say you're quite a funny one." Naruto said in mocking tone.
"While I admit I'm no good, I want you to remember that I wasn't acting according to my will on that night." The Kyuubi aggressively remembered. One of the chakra arms stretched to drive a Rasengan into Madara's body, who was able to dodge it on his own. However, he wasn't able to avoid the second one without his space-time jutsu. While Kyuubi drove all the spiralling spheres, creating huge craters throughout the battlefield, Madara warped some more times.
"While it's not absolutely necessary to capture the Kyuubi right now, it would be a shame to miss this opportunity." Madara, who was panting already, glared towards both his opponents.
"Naruto!" A girl shouted from the cave's entrance. As Nawirama and Madara looked towards there, they saw Hinata, sided by Shikamaru and Kakashi.
"Hinata?" The Naruto in the sewers asked. "Is that Hinata? What's she doing here?"
"Be quiet! Don't throw everything away now that we're so close." The fox warned its host.
"Grrr...I guess I have no choice." Madara sighed in defeat, before turning exclusively towards Naruto. "I'll let you live for today, but mark my words, I'll punish you both for your insolence someday. Especially you, Kyuubi!"
"What's this?" Nawirama's eyes widened in surprise as he saw Madara disappearing.
"Huh?" Naruto opened his eyes, showing he had entered Sage Mode, since he had a reddish-orange pigmentation around them. However, due to the Nine-Tails' influence, his eyes were red and with slitted pupils, mixed with the Sage Mode's horizontal bar-like pupils. Besides, the chakra cloak continued to surround his body, making him look quite fearsome. "Is he really gone?"
"Be careful." The Kyuubi advised. "I can't sense him any longer, but he may be leading us to a trap. Let's just get the hell out of here!"
"Yeah, I know." Naruto agreed with the demon resident inside him. Leaving the sewers behind, he started to run in his friends' direction.
"Is it over already?" Sakura asked by the time she arrived with Ino and Choji. She forgot that question soon after, as she saw her friend's appearance. "Naruto?"
"Are you in control...of It?" Kakashi asked what Sakura wasn't being able to.
"That doesn't matter now!" Shikamaru shouted. "Hinata! Naruto! Are there any signs of him?"
"N-no." Hinata, with her Byakugan, didn't see any trace left of Madara's chakra signature.
"Yeah, he seems to have left!" Naruto supported the Byakugan user's report, while he continued to run.
"Then let's get the hell out of here before he comes back!" Shikamaru loudly ordered. Most of them darted back towards the staircase, except for Nawirama who was searching the chamber with his eyes and Hinata who wanted to wait for Naruto to reach them.
Then it happened.
Madara had both his hands clasped around Naruto's neck. His eye meeting Naruto's.
"Naruto-kun!" Hinata shouted and started to run towards him. Kakashi and Shikamaru stopped and turned back to see what happened.
"I knew it! He still had sufficient chakra to warp a couple of times!" Nawirama thought, already in Body Flicker motion.
"You're mine!" Madara hissed, as the Kyuubi's chakra was burning through his gloves, skin and flesh.
"Sh-shit! I told you to be careful!" The Kyuubi roared in its cage. "He's already suppressing my chakra! I'm not even able to use the cloak to push him away..."
"I...I can't move my body!" Naruto thought. He was only able to see Madara's Eien no Sharingan, which seemed to be glowing. The Tailed Beast Cloak was starting to disperse, and even though he was in Sage Mode, Naruto couldn't do nothing to stop Madara from taking him away.
"Now, let's go!" As Madara was about to warp Naruto away, he was kicked in the chest by Nawirama, being projected some good meters away.
"I'm sorry, Naruto..."
"Huh? Wha..." Not even having time to recover from Madara's binding genjutsu, Naruto was kicked in the torso by Nawirama who did so as hard as he could. The impact sent Naruto flying even faster than Madara. As Hinata tried to catch him, the impact sent both back and against Kakashi and Shikamaru, who almost lost their balance when they caught them.
"Take care of him, Kakashi!" Nawirama shouted without turning. As he performed a complex set of hand seals, Nawirama started to join up a great amount of chakra and natural energy. "I had to take Naruto to a safe distance. Madara won't teleport so close to his fresh opponents! He won't be able to get Naruto! I hope this works..."
"Those seals...Not that jutsu!" Madara showed a truly afraid look in his eye, since he knew very well what would happen if he was hit by it.
"Adamantine Power: Azusa" Nawirama joined both palms together and stretched his arms forward. A large golden halo surrounded the hands of the Senju Clan's descendant, before he released all the gathered chakra and natural energy in the form of a huge beam that only got bigger with each meter it covered.
"If that hits I'll be completely obliterated!" Madara could only use his jutsu three more times. Considering the wide range of the attack, he had no choice but to use Fumetsu Kamui once again. The energy beam completely destroyed not only that chamber, but also the rest of the cave, with all the Konoha shinobi running to find cover. When everyone was already outside the Mountain's graveyard, the natural energy moved upwards and blew off what remained of the ceiling, including the huge skeleton that covered the hideout's entrance. Explosions continued to occur for many minutes after the first impact.
"Nawirama!...Nawirama!" Naruto continued to shout as he moved throughout the destroyed battlefield. He kept Sage Mode working, just in case.
"Nawirama-san!" Choji helped Naruto in trying to find the Jounin. Not far from them, Shikamaru got dizzy and almost fell to the ground.
"Are you alright, Shikamaru?" Ino questioned.
"Yeah, I think so..." Shikamaru answered, while his face was a bit pale. "But why am I so tired? It seems I got my energy sucked out."
"Oh my..." Hinata suddenly brought her hand from her belly, which she had been holding until then, to her mouth.
"What is it, Hinata?" Sakura asked, as she watched her.
"Ma-Madara returned." She revealed while she pointed to her left. While some charged towards that area, no one noticed the tears forming around her eyes.
"Bastard! Curse you, Senju! Curse you!" Madara was on his hands and knees, sweating profusely. "Even though I warped with enough time to spare, even though I thought to be safe...that jutsu nearly brought me back! It was luck! If I wasn't lucky, I would've been dragged to the center of the explosion and burn to the ground along with the hideout!"
"There he is!" Naruto shouted as he saw Madara's figure.
"CURSE YOU!" Madara's furious scream echoed through the entire valley. He was completely ignoring the Konoha group and looking to the other side. When Naruto stared in the same direction as Madara, he saw Nawirama with his back turned to them and his arms hanging in a strange way.
"Nawirama!" Naruto ran towards his team leader, until he was face to face with him. Despair filled Naruto as he saw how pale Nawirama was, like he had been drained out of life. His eyes semi-open and his body seeming like it would crumble at any second. As Naruto stepped on the same stone as Nawirama was standing, it gave away, making him fall back to the ground. "Nawirama! Hey, Nawirama!"
"Hi-his chakra..." Hinata whispered, catching Sakura and Kakashi's attention, since they were the closest to her. "Every single bit..."
"So what now, Naruto? Will you love me or will you hate me?" Madara asked, while he was now standing on one knee. "I only have one more Kamui, I better make it count..."
"Shadow Sewing" Shikamaru shouted. He had taken his time to divide and stretch his shadow and move it through the rocky field. When the time was right, he used them to try to stab Madara from below but the Uchiha saw it with his Sharingan and dodged in time, before backing away to a safe distance.
"Wouldn't it be better to immobilize me?" Madara questioned the Chunin.
"Why try? I believe you could still warp or Amaterasu me. Besides, if I have the chance, I better just kill you." Shikamaru quickly explained.
"Bold. The fact of defeating an immortal sure elevated your ego." Madara stated.
"My ego?" Shikamaru smirked. "Does an egomaniac create an opening for someone else to shine?"
"What?" Madara's eye widened. He realized it too late.
"Sage Art: Rasengan" Naruto drove his jutsu into Madara's torso. This time it didn't go through him. This time he didn't warp. This time it was a hit.
Next Chapter: Unkept Promise
-Nawirama13
-WIKIA (I've been failing a bit on this lately. When I have the time, I'll update every info I've missed in the last chapters.)
1. Jutsu:
1.1 Adamantine Power: Acala - using chakra to control the surrounding natural energy, the user shapes it in a condensed sphere of energy that is to be used like Rasengan. One of the Senju Clan's Hiden Jutsu. "Acala" is sanskrit for immobility.
1.2 Adamantine Power: Apala - using chakra to control the surrounding natural energy, the user uses it to cover and stimulate the body, increasing the user's speed, strength, durability, etc. One of the Senju Clan's Hiden Jutsu. "Apala" is sanskrit for unguarded, meaning the jutsu is better for attack than defense.
1.3 Adamantine Power: Mokusa - using chakra to control the surrounding natural energy, the user makes it surround his body and then releases it in a explosive burst of energy. One of the Senju Clan's Hiden Jutsu. "Mokusa" comes from "Moksa" which is sanskrit for release
1.4 Adamantine Power: Azusa - using chakra to control the surrounding natural energy, the user gathers a large amount of it in his hands, before releasing it in a wide range beam of destruction. One of the Senju Clan's Hiden Jutsu. "Azusa" is sanskrit for consuming, meaning the jutsu consumes everything in its path
1.5 Shukuen Amaterasu - The user creates two parallel space-time portals, with his opponent between both of them. Out of the portals appear Amaterasu flames in large quantities, filling the entire space between them. Exclusive to people who possess the Eien no Sharingan.
1.6 Demon Fox Odama Rasengan - Created by the Kyuubi, it's an Odama Rasengan made with the Kyuubi's chakra. Appeared in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4. The only difference is that in this story, since its the Kyuubi who uses it when it's only in control of the chakra cloak and not of Naruto himself, the jutsu has to be made with a Tailed Beast Chakra Arm and transported with it.
1.7 Demon Fox Rasentarengan - Created by the Kyuubi. After creating multiple Tailed Beast Chakra Arms from the chakra cloak, the Kyuubi creates a Demon Fox Rasengan in each one. They can be used all at once, or one after the other in a way to corner an opponent.
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