After reading the reviews for the 3rd chapter the general vibe was: Nooooooo! XD
So I felt the need to write something to complement it. Enjoy.
Naruto held tightly to Hinata's body, his warm tears falling on her cold face. He had closed his eyes, he had given up, his psyche had been crushed, and he had lost the will to fight.
Sakura understood how he felt but he had to carry on, Hinata would have wanted him to, but to no avail, he wouldn't listen, he didn't care.
"Naruto…" He opened his eyes, he was inside his consciousness and the Ninetails looked at him with worry in its eyes. After all, it had been present in Naruto's life since he was a baby and knew him well; it felt sort of like a parent to him.
"Stop sulking and stand, we can end this."
"It doesn't matter anymore," he fell to his knees, head drooped.
"If you give up now that girl won't be the only one to die, everyone will, including you."
"I'm too weak, there's nothing I can do to win."
"Pessimism?" The Ninetails moved closer to Naruto.
"Who are you?"
Naruto raised his head, tears still slid down his cheeks. "I'm someone who just realized how insignificant and useless he is."
The Ninetails growled and punched the water next to Naruto causing a large splash.
"You are not insignificant you brainless idiot. You are the child of prodigy, the heir of the Sage of the Six paths."
"The heir of the what?"
"The heir of the old sage, you have his blood coursing through your veins, both Senju and Uchiha are one in you."
Naruto's eyes widened. "Both Senju and Uchiha?"
"Correct, the Uzumaki are distant relatives of the Senju and the Namikaze are relatives of the Uchiha. You are the one; you could end this with the Sage's power."
"I can?"
"Yes you can, so stand straight and face the challenge, that girl wouldn't have wanted to see you sulking and crying like a schoolgirl, would she?"
His tears didn't stop but a weak smile formed on his lips. "No."
"Then get ready Naruto."
"Right!"
"But I must warn you, the power you are about to receive will cause you great pain and only if you are able to control will you be able to use it."
"I'm ready, do it Kurama! I'll do anything to win."
"Very well," the Ninetails's claws glowed purple and he charged towards Naruto.
Back to the world...
Sakura was about to touch Naruto's shoulder, he had been completely quiet for a whole minute, and he seemed unconscious. When her hand was just centimeters from his shoulder he screamed loudly.
Sakura gasped and jumped back, just as she did purple chakra engulfed Naruto and he tumbled forward as he placed his hands over his eyes, his fingers curling from the pain.
Just as this was happening Hiashi and Kakashi appeared next to Sakura, Hiashi quickly touched his daughter's face, closed his eyes and felt extremely sad and very proud of her.
Kakashi watched in awe along with Sakura as Naruto seemed to be experiencing some sort of transformation.
"Kakashi-sensei, what's going on?"
"I have no idea." This chakra, it doesn't feel like Naruto's or the Ninetails's, where is it coming from?
Madara appeared in front of the group, intrigued by the new development.
"Hm…" Madara looked closely; even he didn't understand what was happening, but the power that Naruto was emitting felt very familiar.
Suddenly the chakra engulfing Naruto dissipated, he uncovered his eyes and tears of blood fell from them.
Madara quickly attacked, planning to impale him like he had done to Hinata and end it quickly.
Naruto gathered natural energy and prepared to enter sage mode without opening his eyes.
Just as Madara was inches away from his victim's chest Naruto opened his eyes. Madara watched in awe something he believed impossible.
"Almighty Push!"
Madara was blown away and smashed against a mountain, of which a good chunk fell apart and was reduced to rubble.
Kakashi, Sakura and the remaining forces were speechless.
"Naruto," the Ninetails seemed pleased, "you have assimilated the power I have given you well, just like I expected, but remember, the chakra I gave you is limited and I'm running low myself, you must finish this quickly."
"Understood," Naruto's eyes had gained the pattern of the Rinnegan, but they were unique, instead of purple they were yellow and the pattern rectangular, which was because of the influence of sage mode.
Madara rose from the rubble, "a battle of the ultimate eyes! Let's see whose eyes are really worth the legend."
Madara ran quickly towards Naruto and used the human path.
Naruto had no time to react as his soul was pulled away from his body and his eyes grew cold.
"It's over boy; you didn't know how to use your eyes."
Suddenly Naruto's body vanished along with the soul in Madara's hand.
Naruto's hand appeared from underneath Madara, "damn you."
"You are the one who doesn't know how to use them," from one clean swoop Naruto tore Madara's soul away from his body, ending the reanimation jutsu and the war.
Naruto breathed heavily and wiped away the sweat from his forehead. We did think alike in the end.
"Well done Naruto," the Ninetails fell down, too many chakra taxing abilities at once had left the tailed beast beat.
Naruto's Rinnegan pattern started to fade, he frowned, there was still something he had to do.
"Naruto!" Everyone ran towards him, but he ignored them.
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath and searched for chakra deep within, his eyes recovered and stopped fading.
Gedo: Art of Rinne Rebirth. He clapped his hands and the lord of the underworld appeared.
Kakashi yelled him to stop, but he continued.
"This is for you…"
The lord of the underworld opened its mouth and a green light enveloped Hinata's body.
The lord of the underworld slowly vanished just as Naruto's Rinnegan disappeared. The chakra of the sage of the six paths was gone and almost all of Naruto's as well. All the chakra he had used used until now combined with that last technique left him with barely any chakra.
Suddenly Hinata gasped, coughed and sat up. She touched her abdomen, it was all healed.
"What happened? I'm sure I…" Hiashi hugged his daughter and cried out of happiness. She was confused and speechless.
After her father helped her up she looked around anxiously. "Naruto?"
At that same instant Naruto appeared, he was being carried by Kakashi.
He stood on his own in front of Hinata, he still had the trails of blood from his eyes and a tired expression on his face, but he smiled at her.
Her eyes widened and watered. His bright blond hair was silvery and he looked very fragile. In an instant she hugged him tightly. "Thank you."
Even though the hug hurt and he could barely move, he returned it. "Thank you."
Sakura looked at the scene with watery eyes. You love her more than you realize you dense idiot.
To her surprise he became limp in her arms.
"Naruto? Naruto!"
Three days later…
"Ha!" Naruto awoke covered in sweat and nervous. "What? Hmm?" He was in a medical tent, he felt all sore and disoriented.
He looked to the side, someone was holding his hand.
"Hinata?" She was asleep in a chair next to his bed, her other hand holding her chin.
His eyes widened. He stood up and shook her awake. "Hinata!"
"Uh, what? I'm awake!" Now she was the disoriented one.
Once she realized she had been awoken she noticed Naruto's worried blue eyes right in front of her's.
Naruto, she gulped, so close... "You are awake! How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine, how about you?"
"Oh!" Now she understood his worry, she touched her abdomen." I'm OK. I don't know what happened but you..."
Now her eyes widened, she was hugged tightly, she felt him tremble a little, he was crying.
"I did it." He mumbled in her chest, then broke the hug and went back to having her right in front of him. He smiled, he brought her back.
She smiled back, "I really liked your blond hair but I don't mind the change."
"What?" He touched his head.
"It's gray."
"What!"? He ran to a mirror. "Holy crap I look like Kakashi-sensei." He pulled on it.
"You know what..." He grabbed a piece cloth and turned around.
Hinata stayed in her seat confused.
"Voila!" He had covered his left eye and had his other eye half open. "Who am I?"
Laughter burst out of the tent as the rain outside came to an end...
I guess that after that ending Naruto looks more like Kakashi's son than Minato's. XD
The happy ending ended up way longer than what I was expecting. This is why I like reviews, depending on them I might write the next stories.
So don't forget to review and have a nice day. Till the next one, which should be up tomorrow.