Disclaimer & Author's Note: I do not own anything Naruto or Zelda that is mentioned in this plotline. All I own are original characters, items/weapons/jutsu/ect.

Chapter Thirty

"Well, excellent, Naruto... I guess you ARE the Hero, if you can defeat your own shadow."

Be careful, Naruto... Midna told Naruto.

I know... I have you near me, Midna-chan, he replied softly.

Everyone had long since abandoned the civilian-heavy areas once the explosion went off (as standard procedures when a village is under attack all civilians must retreat to underground bunkers near the mountain), and in this portion of the village, it was just the King and the Hero. He floated off the ground before an evil sneer formed on his lips and a wicked gleam appeared in his eyes.

"Time to face me, Hero..."

He suddenly thrusted his palm out, and fired a few energy blasts. Naruto had ducked to the side behind a nearby empty dumpster. Lansing cackled as he floated of the ground briefly before expelling his aura, while Naruto swung back into the open, on guard and sword/shield deployed.

Twilight King Lansing

Naruto back flips away before Lansing suddenly propels himself up into the air at a higher distance, and was lit in the red/black aura. Suddenly he rockets forth, smashing into Naruto and sending him crashing into a deserted house. Naruto got out of the way as Lansing sent a ball of glowing energy, and it caused the house to blow up. Naruto swore as he dragged the blade, and swung, releasing the Shougekiha jutsu. Lansing came back at him again using his flying trick, cackling as he thrusts his right fist, and sending a fist-shaped blast of red energy. Naruto blocked that attack with his shield, before lunging at Lansing and swinging. The Twilight King cried out in pain as Naruto unleashed more slashes at the stunned Twili, before he managed to get his wits together and warp away. Reappearing, he jumped into the air, and held his hand out open before him. Three concussive blasts explode from his hand, but Naruto blocked them with the shield. However the blasts did push him back with three loud clangs. As he braced himself for another attack, Naruto was given the shock of a lifetime when Uchiha Itachi suddenly appeared and swung his katana in a full revolution, forcing Lansing to warp to a safer distance. Naruto stared as Itachi now came after Lansing, and Lansing was forced to go on the defense.

"I saw you Madara, or should I say, Twilight King. I always knew that alter ego you call Tobi was nothing but a false mask. How could Tobi, even if childish, die so easily? You faked your own death so you can execute whatever plans you plotted."

"And what are you going to do about it Itachi? I knew the truth of what you did to your own family, but leaving your brother alive. He's warped, just like the rest of you Uchihas..."

"And that is why I had to kill every single one of them!" He swung, and unleashed the black flames, but Lansing warped, and struck Itachi in the gut, launching him back and to Naruto's feet. Naruto rushed over, and helped the S-Rank Nuke-nin up. As he did so, Itachi slipped an item into Naruto's pack. Naruto noticed but gave no indication to it.

"Hm, amusing this scene is... the Kin-Slayer and the Hero, working together as a truce? Oh, now what would that fool Pain think of this?" A sinister smile appeared.

"He knows... he too held a suspicion. Which is why I'm here in my own village again... the rest of your dark army's burning under black flames... before I came here."

Lansing grinned. "But each time you use that particular jutsu, your eyesight gets weaker and weaker... not unless you devour the eyes of another Uchiha dojutsu, one of your blood of kin."

Itachi said nothing, but merely glanced at the former Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. "Naruto." Naruto prepared the Master Sword, and stood next to Itachi. Lansing laughed quite evilly, as several ninjas led by Kakashi appeared on the rooftops of the immediate area.

"Itachi?" Kakashi questioned, confused as to why he was here. Anko, Asuma, and Kurenai were all confused as well.

"Well then, come meet your death, gentlemen!" He roars, as his glowing hands were brought high, and then began to rain bolts at them.

"Raiton: Raijinheki (Lightning Release: Lightning Encampment Wall)!"

Itachi displayed just how he was the best former Konoha-nin there ever was as far as his dead clan concerned by forming a webbing of electricity that shielded them, which also with a formed truce dashed out of the danger zone. Itachi comes at Lansing's left and swung his katana, slicing a gash across his side. He shifted through hand signs, and expelled a Katon: Karyuudan no Jutsu. Lansing screamed in pain before warping out of the way, and reappearing once again. Naruto puts the sword and shield away, and brings out the Clawshots. He fires one, but Lansing dodged and came at him almost instantly, but Itachi sent him flying with a blast of Suiryuudan. Naruto took aim with the other Clawshot grappled Lansing, and reeled him back. Itachi sprinted up, and swung a full revolution, cutting into the evil man... who suddenly appeared and stabbed his right hand through Itachi's back. Itachi in response exploded into crows that flew into the air. In this moment of confusion, Naruto had spin up close, the blade cutting into the king, and Itachi came from behind, and stabs the man in the back. Both are blasted away when a bigger aura surged around him. Both looked up as the Master Sword was ejected from his body by the blast of energy the man was releasing, but Itachi's sword shattered like glass. Lansing then exploded into twilight. It was a clone!

The real Lansing appeared and was about to strike Itachi, but the ground expelled two hands that flew at him. Tategami Hando (Lion Hand). Lansing was caught up in the attack. Itachi did not bother to use Tsukuyomi, because he knew that this man had the eyes of an Uchiha. Even if its dojutsu is rendered useless, it was the perfect shield against a dojutsu attack. This was the scene that Tsunade and her ninjas came across as Lansing drops down before them, facing off not only Naruto, but the S-Class nuke-nin Itachi. Naruto jumped next to Itachi, and the man finally sheds off his Akatsuki cloak, revealing that underneath he wore his old ANBU outfit. Itachi shifted his hand through the series of hand signs, before he brought his right hand up before him. A ball of flame grew within his palm before exploding and engulfing his hand in a fiery aura.

Naruto rushed forward and swung, but Lansing dodged the attack, and flew at Itachi. He leapt into the air, but Itachi was faster when he saw the spark of energy rush from the evil man's hands. He performed an uppercut motion, and the trail of fire followed his path as he smashed right into the jaw of the king. Naruto leapt into the air and unleashed the Spin Attack. Lansing released a loud cry before he warped, just as the spot he once was got blasted by a pit of black flames of his Mangekyou. The Konoha ninja had jumped to a safe distance, but Itachi gave no attention to them, but Lansing as he released the Housenka technique. He shielded himself from the jutsu, but was caught off guard by Naruto as he slashed at his back. Lansing though in pain emerged behind and held Itachi under the same magical hold he once had on Naruto. Itachi however escaped by appearing elsewhere as the other Itachi exploded into feathers.

"Doton: Doryuudan!" The mud dragon, though with some hardened earth, exploded from the ground before Itachi... and riding on top of it somehow, was Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto did a somersault and the mud dragon smashes into Lansing, and Naruto came down with a finishing blow, but all he managed to slash was a gash across the man's chest before a swirl of energy knocked him back. Itachi however came up at him, and proceeded to blast him point-blank with his Amaterasu. Though, having pushed his limit, gave Lansing the perfect opening to finally grapple the Uchiha.

"Itachi!" But Lansing wouldn't have it, as he grapples Naruto with his magic and throws him back, allowing the boy to crash through the show window of a local bakery.

"When I had Naruto in this hold the first time, I had thought I had killed him, yet he survived... no doubt due to the Triforce," he hissed into the man's ear, then he switched to his native tongue, "You, Itachi, should know never to mess with me. As for those demons you and the Akatsuki are searching for... you fools are only helping me along... however, you shall not live to tell them." Itachi grunted, before he felt the hand gripping his skull increase in pressure. Then, Lansing crushed his skull. In the black flames that still burned from the earlier jutsu attack, he threw Itachi's body into the black fire, and let it burn his body into unrecognizable ashes.

Yes, Uchiha Itachi was killed... by the Twilight King. "One pawn down, so many more to go... wouldn't you agree?"

He looked to his audience, but then turned to Naruto who had climbed out of the building, and looked up at him, his eyes showing no hesitation in continuing this fight. Naruto got up, and grabbed the sword lying near him, and dodged the attack by Lansing. He came at him, but when Naruto thrusted a Rasengan at him, he suddenly hops to his right a fair distance and flew at him. If not for the sword brought up to block, he would have been struck. Lansing as he warped a distance away again snickered and jumped into the air, performed a lazy backward flip, and then shot at him like a meteor. Naruto cried out in pan as he was sent crashing into a wooden electric pole. Lansing cackles before he brought his hand out, and fires several bolts of energy at Naruto. With pain, he dodged and with Kagura in hand, sent some cutters.

Naruto force him to teleport away when he released Fuujin no Mai. Lansing warped near, enough to execute a shield of red energy that came with explosive detonation when the king slammed his fist into the ground. Naruto backed away and flung a bomb. Lansing jumped to the side and comes flying at him, avoiding the small explosion. Naruto swung, and Lansing blocked the attack before sending a glowing kick at him. He dodged and swung the fan, as a giant cutter this time slashed across Lansing's torso. He growled and jumped into the air. Naruto sprinted to the side as he came flying down, and smashed into another house which exploded. Naruto puts the fan away, replacing it with the Chakra Grapple. As Lansing leapt from the burning wreckage, Naruto now wielded the whip as he sent a slash at the man, catching him of guard. He warped behind Naruto and flew at him, but Naruto barely dodged the fist, and spun the weapon, catching him across the face with a painful sting.

Naruto lashed out with an axe kick before grappling him around the neck. Choking, Naruto with all his strength swung him around and around and around before releasing the grapple. Lansing's forward momentum sent him crashing into the same pole he himself has slammed into earlier. However, he was near another weapons shop. Lansing, when he regained his wits, screamed as he willed his magic into the kunai rack displayed in the window. They glowed with red orange lines and flew at him. Naruto performed a Matrix maneuver to dodge, but that left him open to a side fist strike, before a kick sends him into the air, and was immediately introduced with a hammerblow back into the ground. Lansing glowed more brightly before shooting down. All that Lansing struck was his own crater.

Naruto had used Kawarimi and Kage Bunshin to escape what could have been a fatal hit. Now more Kage Bunshin came into existence to overwhelm the man, but they all poofed into smoke when he released an explosion of magic to ripple around him briefly. Naruto took the initiative to attack, swinging the sword left, right; back flips and thrusts the glowing sword, releasing the Kaze Kiwa technique. Lansing snarled, and jumped away to dodge another bomb, and came at him, but dodges the whip. Naruto spun on his heel, releasing Needle Bombs. He cried out with hate as the boy was now starting to get the edge on him. He flew off, and Naruto ran after him. Tsunade commandeered her shinobi to continue following, but then a bolt of lightning emerged, and in stepped Darknut Kumo.

"Your battle is with me," Kumo sneers, and attacks the ninjas and the Hokage.

Lansing had brought him to an open clearing of some training grounds. Lansing, with more room, cackled as he expelled several bolts of energy from his hands as several beams of wood shot down from the sky suddenly, and encloses the large battlefield. Naruto dropped to the floor as they nearly hit him, and rolled when Lansing pointed his hands down. He flew at Naruto, but Naruto, who had been charging energy into the blade, released another Kaze Kiwa. With that successful hit, Naruto unleashed another assault with the Master Sword before Lansing teleported away and to a safer distance. He was through playing around. He rips off his mask, and glared with both of his red eyes, spittle flying from the raged scream coming from him. Yes, he may have warped Madara's body for his own needs, but he still had the man's very own face. He gathered a ball of energy into his hands, and then launched it. Naruto uttered an oh shit before the explosion sent him flying back, sword knocked out of hand and flying into the nearby river that was dangerously close to the twilight barrier.

Lansing smiled with madness in his red eyes, and came down upon him with his Meteor Blitzkrieg. Naruto's eyes widen before he did the Kage Bunshin Switch. The shockwave that emanated from the blast zone however caught Naruto. Lansing slowly got back up as the raging aura faded away, and he jumped into the air before flying at Naruto. He warped when Naruto swung with the Kubikiri Hocho. Lansing glared, but unleashed a rain of plasma bolts, which Naruto blocked using the broadsword. Flying at him again, he was caught off guard when Naruto used his Rasengufuu jutsu. With multiple cuts dug into him, Naruto attacked with the larger sword, succeeding three strikes before Lansing growled and back flips away. Naruto took this chance, and ended this duel with a series of sword movements, ending with an upward slash attack that sent him into the air before crashing to the earth once again. He got up, and glared.

"You may have weakened me... but mark my words boy..." He was silenced when Naruto had appeared before him, and slammed a Rasengan into the Twilight King's stomach. He was sent flying back, with a spiral burn mark made into his stomach. With Tsunade, Kumo got back up from the strong hit he received from the strong woman, until he felt something within him stir. He vanishes in a blast of lightning, only to nearly hit Naruto had he not jump back. Kumo appeared, and then rushed to his master as the barrier shatters.

"I am weak... get me away."

Kumo turned to glare at Naruto. "You will pay, Hero." A bolt of lightning, and Kumo and Lansing vanished. No more attacks... no more battle. Naruto had, for now, defeated the Twilight King, but he knew that he would return. In the process, he had lost what he could call an ally at the last moment: Uchiha Itachi. At that same moment, what survivors of the dark army begin to escape, vanishing the same way they came into this world.

Naruto-kun. Midna appeared next to him, holding him though she was a shadow due to the unknown ninja that followed Tsunade, and in proxy, the fight.

Sore, yes... but I'll be fine. He reached into his pack, and took out what Itachi had slipped onto his person. On the scroll was the kanji for Adamant Moon Cut. Both Hero and Twilight Princess looked at the scroll, wondering why the man, who was supposed to be evil and cold-hearted, would leave Naruto such a scroll. He places it away just as he collapses, and the last thing he heard was the worried voice of Tsunade. Tsunade and Kakashi were the first people to have found Naruto.

=0=0=

Shinobi were now on extra security detail, while Naruto was in the hospital, now getting treated for his injuries of taking on Lansing head-on, and beforehand, his own dark shadow. While foolish of him to do so, the hero had in essence defended himself and everyone else while the evacuation was in order. While it had been a mystery as to why Itachi appeared in the village, and teamed with Naruto to fight against a common enemy, it was known for sure that Itachi had been murdered by the Twilight King. And while Naruto's girls all yelled at him for gambling his life in that fight, they all were glad he was alright. Of course, that was three hours ago. While Tenten and Temari stayed behind to care for Naruto, Hinata, Tenten, and Kin were preparing a good dinner for them all to share. Yes, they were back at his apartment. He had his eyes closed, and just resting after what was a near life/death situation between two tough battles he got himself in.

"Naruto-kun."

Naruto opened his eyes, and noticed all of his girls wore maid outfits meant for adults... even Midna wore a maid outfit, and had allowed her hair out of its signature ponytail plus no headgear, so he saw both of her sunset-colored eyes he liked so much.

Dear diary... Jackpot!