Uzumaki's Wrath
Chapter 6
"I can't believe those two morons went back to that planetarium thing while we have to keep that nerdy owl busy!" Kyuubi complained.
Naruto scowled. 'Shut up fox! They wanted to see when the next solar eclipse was so that we have the better advantage in this war." Naruto said as they ran with Katara and Momo
"Yeah but you are forgetting one important detail." The fox said seriously.
"Oh and what is that?" Naruto asked.
"I WILL LOSE MY FIRE BENDING DURING THAT TIME AND THE GOLDEN FOX WITH BE USELESS!" The small fox shouted, which gave away their position and they had to run some more.
"There are other ways to fight in this war." Naruto whispered as they hid behind a pillar with Katara and Momo behind another.
Wong arrived in the room that they small group was in and narrowed his eyes when he saw Momo's tail popping. "At least I'll have one specimen to add to my collection, although i wished with was Kyuubi."
Naruto growled before he got in the way of Wong's decent on Momo and Katara and threw a blast of Gravity in the owl's face, veering it away from them.
As they were running towards the exit, Naruto shouted to Katara, "We have to get the hell out of here! Toph maybe slowing the decent of the library, but she can only hold on for so long!"
"I figured that that!" Katara shouted back.
"I am also worried because she let go twice. Toph or Appa might be in trouble." Naruto said.
Katara widened her eyes at this but didn't have time to comment because Wong was upon her, so she got ready to fight.
"Your water bending won't do you much go here!" Wong announced. "I've studied, Southern Water Style, Northern Water Style , and even Foggy Swamp Style."
Naruto saw Sokka and Aang coming to get them and nodded his the water tribe boy. The blond sent a blast of Gravity at the owl, sending him up a few feet before Sokka came down and bashed the owl's head with his club like blade. "That's Naruto and Sokka's style! Learn it!"
Naruto chuckled before saying. "Come on! We have to get out of this place." The blond then jumped high in the air thanks to his chakra and gravity bending.
"Wait! Professor! Let's go!" Sokka shouted.
Professor Zei, who had been near a few book shelves, reading some tombs, looked up and smile. "I am not leaving, I can't. I spent to long trying to find this place. There's not another collection like this on earth." He then closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. "I could spend an eternity here."
Kyuubi, for once, kept quiet.
"Just go!" Katara screamed.
Aang took hold of the rope the others were climbing up on and quickly made his way out of the library, with Naruto and Kyuubi not far behind.
As soon as she heard them landing on the sand, Toph quickly let go, letting the library fall into the ground.
Aang looked around and saw that Appa was not there, something that Naruto feared. "Where's Appa." Toph just shook her head sadly. "No…"
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"How could you let them take Appa?" Aang yelled at the blind girl, hurt that Appa was taken. "Why didn't you stop them?"
The desert was getting windy and Naruto could tell that tensions were high. "Don't blame her, Aang." Naruto snapped. "She is the reason we didn't sink to the bottom of the desert."
"She could have come to get us! I could have helped him!" Aang shouted in Naruto's face.
"I can hardly feel any vibrations out here. The sand benders snuck up on me and there wasn't time for-" Toph shouted back before she was interrupted by the Avatar.
"YOU JUST DIDN'T CARE!" Aang screamed in their faces. "NEITHER OF YOu DO!" he then point to Toph and shouted, "You never liked Appa, you wanted him gone!"
"Aang, stop it. You know Toph did all she could. She saved all our lives." Katara interjected, trying to calm the boy down so that Naruto would not hit the boy for yelling at Toph.
"Who is going to save our lives now?" Sokka said as the mini sandstorm got worse. "We'll never make it out of here."
"That's all you ever care about, yourselves!" Aang shouted as he stomped on the sand. "You don't care whether Appa is ok or not!"
As he sat on the sand, sulking, Katara continued, "We're all concerned, but we can't afford to be fighting now."
Aang, not really listening, looked out onto the sandy horizon and he gained a serious and angry expression on his face. "I am going after Appa!"
"Aang! Wait!" Katara shouted but it was too late, he had already flown off. She looked on sadly as he flew away until she turned back to the group. "We better start walking. We're the only people who know about the solar eclipse. We have to get the information to Ba Sing Se."
As they were walking away, Sokka asked, "You think if we dig out the giant owl, you think he will give us a ride?"
Kyuubi jumped from Naruto to Sokka's head and asked, "Oh, you mean the one that was trying to kill us?"
Naruto noticed that Toph looked down and said, "Don't blame yourself, Toph."
"But…it is my fault." Toph replied sadly.
"No, there was not much you could do." Naruto countered. "I would have helped if I could have gotten them all out sooner. I felt that you were in trouble, but I didn't react fast enough."
"Felt?"
"What? You think you're the only one who use earth bending to see." Naruto said with a smirk.
"But, I thought you couldn't."
"Nah, I was just a slow learner when I came to that." Naruto said as they followed Katara. "Besides, I had to use it to get out of places where I bit off more I could chew."
"Yeah, you'll never change." Toph giggle, which made Naruto happy that he could cheer her up.
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Trudging through the desert, Sokka was panting hard because it was way too hot. Kyuubi was on Naruto's head using his tails as a fan. "This is ONE of the time that I wish I was still in that seal."
"I don't blame you." Naruto mumbled. He did not do well with extreme heat.
Toph smiled, her friend was still the same, no matter how long he had been away from her, however, something seemed off. Naruto seemed a little too understanding with Aang's loss. He never actually told her much of what happened while he was gone and he mentioned something about having something against the Fire Nation. She was so in thought that she ran into Sokka while he was trying to make Momo's wings into an umbrella.
"Can't you watch where you're-" Sokka said angrily before he notice who he was talking to.
"No." Toph said indignantly.
"Right, sorry." Sokka replied while rubbing the back of his head as she passed him. As Naruto passed him, he smacked the back of his head. "What was that for?"
"Just because." Naruto said with a smirk.
Katara looked at them tiredly and said, "Come on guys, we have to stick together."
"If we sweat anymore, I don't think sticking together will be a problem." Sokka said as he and Naruto's sleeves where stuck together and Toph was stuck to both of the boys. She fixed that problem easily by forcibly pushing the two away.
Katara did think that all that was hilarious because the two boys tried to fight each before Toph tried to stop them and that got all of them stuck together. Toph 'looked' to Katara and asked, "Katara, can I have some water."
"Ok, but we have to try and conserve it." She said as she bended five small orbs of water into all of their mouths, excluding herself.
Sokka put on a thoughtful look as he tasted the water. "We're drinking your bending water?" His eyes widened, "UGH! YOU USED IT ON THAT SWAMP GUY!"
"It does taste swampy." commented Toph.
"So that is what the odd taste is." Naruto said, "I was just going to play it off as fish water."
"Oh shut up….at least we go it." Kyuubi said, too tired to complain while Momo made a 'blah' sound.
"I am sorry, that's all we have." Katara said.
"Not anymore! Look!" Sokka said as he pointed to a random cactus before running over and slicing it, revealing that there was liquid in it.
"Sokka wait! You should not be eating strange plants!" Katara yelled to her brother as she took ahold of Toph's hand and dragged her over to her brother.
Naruto shook his head as he watched Sokka, Momo, and Kyuubi drink what was inside the plant, not bothering to heed Katara words.
"Look, there is water trapped inside these." Sokka said as he offered it to the other in the group.
"Dumbass." Naruto said as he walked up to them. "drinking crap like that can….
Naruto bother to finish because Sokka went and drank it anyway. That is when Sokka and the other two animals went loopy. Sokka spewing out some crap about the water being quenchy and good. "Why do I even bother." Naruto said as he held the bridge of his nose.
"Who let Toph on fire?" Sokka babbled while Momo flew in cirlces before falling down. Kyuubi was worse though because he was talking about getting with a certain two tailed cat.
"Ugh….this is going to be a long trip." Naruto mumbled.
"Can I get some of that cactus juice?" Toph asked with a smile.
"I don't think that is a good idea." Katara said as he put a hand on the two earth bender and lead them away. "Come on, we have to find Aang." After a few second of Sokka staring at the sky, Katara ran back to get him.
"How did we get out here in the middle of the ocean?" Sokka suddenly asked, making his sister sigh.
Naruto put on an evil smirk. "Oh it was Wong, that giant owl chased us to a magical portal."
"Whoa!" Sokka yelled, making Toph giggle, but that turned into full blown laughter as Kyuubi started sing the Sailor Song. Naruto, not seeing any harm in it, sang along. They all sang as the song started. "So if we all come together, we know what to do! We all come together just say we love you. And if we all come together, we know what to do. We all come together just for you!" It was then that Naruto, very crudely used his earth bending on the sand to create a cannon, and its occupant was the fox. However, when the blond tried to shoot it off, it just exploded, but it did the intended job and sent Kyuubi into a dune, erecting a scream from the fox.
Katara wanted to smack her head at all the stupidity she was seeing. However, she was surprised when Toph began to sing along. She blamed all this insanity on the heat. "Racing all around the seven seas, chasing all the girls and making robberies. Causing panic everywhere they go. Party Harty on Titanic!"
Sokka butted in as he was jumping around. "Sailing, Sailing, jumping off the railing." He took another random cactus and drank the liquid. "Drinking drinking, till the ship is sinking."
The both the boys jumped in, "Gambling, stealing, lots of sex-appealing"
"Come, let us sing the sailor song!" Toph continued, before everyone but Katara joined in. "So if we all come together, we know what to do! We all come together just say we love you. And if we all come together, we know what to do. We all come together just for you!"
Toph jumped in again as her hip bumped the blond. "Sailorman, you really turn me on. Now the guys are gone, come let us get it on! Girls like me are really hard to find. So if you go, I'll kick your heiney."
Sokka and Naruto jumped in once again. "Sailing, Sailing, jumping off the railing. Drinking drinking, till the ship is sinking. Gambling, stealing, lots of sex-appealing."
"Come let us sing the sailor song." Toph sang.
Finally, Katara could not take it anymore and shouted. "STOP! Come on! We have to find Aang!"
Naruto shrugged. "Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood." As they walked away, Sokka was still singing the song, but it was bad and a giant mushroom cloud made of sand rose up behind them.
"What is that?" Katara asked.
"What? What is what?" asked Toph, oblivious to it all.
"It is a giant mushroom." Sokka said with awe as he threw his arms in the air. "Maybe it is friendly!"
"No…it is just a pissed off Avatar." Naruto said with a sighed.
"Come on, let's just go." sighed Katara as she took Toph's hand while Sokka went on and on about the large mushroom cloud before Naruto dragged him and Momo away.
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The desert was entering twilight now and things were starting to get cold. The Avatar and still not returned to his group and that was just fine with Gaara. The sand man noticed that the blond had put on his Akatsuki cloak and narrowed his eyes. Shukaku saw this and smirked evilly. "Is it time?"
"It is time." Gaara said stoically as he lifted his hand, making sand float in the air before it turned into sharp daggers.
As they flew off, Shukaku grew wide eyed with bloodlust as he watched the daggers fly toward their enemy. "It is about damn time!"
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Naruto had been sensing that someone had been watching them for a long time now. Ever since they entered the desert and now they were revealing themselves. His eyes cut to the sky and saw the air bender coming for them in the distance.
So just as the Avatar touched down with a sour expression on his face, he was shocked to see Naruto running at him before knocking on his back with his boot. Before Aang or anyone else could ask why he did that, Naruto revealed his craws out of his sleeves before slashing in the air. A few things few off in different directions, but one landed a few feet from Aang's head. He saw that it was a dagger made out of sand before it fell apart. Looking back to Naruto, he said as he took the blond's offered hand. "You saved me?"
"What are friends for?" Naruto said with a smirk. "But even you should keep aware of your surroundings."
"Yeah." Aang mumbled with rubbing the back of his head. "But who is attacking us?"
"We're about to find out Aang." Naruto said as they all heard a creepy yet annoying voice that sounded high pitched.
"RIP! SLAUGHTER! DEVOUR YOUR ENEMIES! IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO SERVIVE!" It yelled, creeping them all out except for Kyuubi, who just looked on with a bored expression. He had gotten over his juice high a few hours ago…unlike Sokka.
"Ok, there is only one idiot who would say things like that." Kyuubi drawled. "Shukaku, what the hell are you doing here?"
Shukaku, in all his small glory, popped out of the sand and shouted, "I am here to destroy you!"
"Oh and how do you suppose to do that, you were always the weakest of the Nine and now that we are in this time, our power is diminished by a lot." Kyuubi said.
"Oh, I am not alone! I have my Jinchuriki!" The same Tanuki shouted. "Gaara! HURRY THE HELL UP!"
"Yes mother." A flat monotonous voice called out as he sand shunshined in front of them all. Katara was instantly freaked out by his dead expression.
"I AM NOT YOU MOTHER!" The raccoon screamed. This made the group wonder if the duo in front them were sane.
Ignoring the raccoon, Gaara shifted his gaze to Naruto. "So the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune is before me at last. I was sent to take you back to the past." He scoffed at that. "Even I know that the ring eyed man's words were fake. He and his group captured the rest of us for a reason, but when he found out that you were not among us, he sent all of us to find you."
Naruto's eyes widened at that. "He sent…the other 8 after me!"
"Correct, and once we do, we are to go back, but I have other plans." Gaara said, getting a confused look off the blond. "I would rather prove my existence with you!"
"What do you mean?" Naruto said cautiously, not liking the growing insanity in the red head's eyes.
"I WILL KILL YOU TO PROVE MY EXISTENCE! YOU AND THE AVATAR!" screamed Gaara with an insane smile.
This statement got them all into gear, even Toph, who could not fight so well in this environment. Naruto just stood there and said, "No. Prove your existence another way."
"No? NO!" Gaara screamed. "There is no other way! I kill to prove my existence in the old time and now this time! I fight for only myself. I love only myself!"
Naruto sighed sadly, "Is that what you resorted to?" He asked with sadness before his eyes grew serious, off putting Gaara a bit. "I will show you that you are wrong. I fight to protect my friends. If you have someone to fight for, that is when you truly become strong." The blond's friends all smiled at that.
Gaara seemed to consider this before his face grew more insane. "Let's test that then!" Gaara made a few signals with his hands before the sand exploded all around them before twisting in on itself and capturing Top. The sand rose high into the air, forming a pillar. The at the top, Toph was restrained in a circular construct, with all of her limbs bound so that she could not bend her way out. "Defeat me and she lives! If you don't, she will slowly be crushed!" Sand began to rise and form an orb around Toph.
"Toph!" Naruto shouted. Seeing Toph in danger, it brought out Naruto's protectiveness of the girl. "Hang on!"
"Don't worry about me!" Toph shouted, "Just kick his ass!"
Naruto nodded, not that she could see. Aang walked up to help Naruto, but the blond just held out his arm to stop the Avatar. "Sorry Aang, but this is my battle. Just help Katara make sure Sokka doesn't do anything."
"Are you sure?" Aang asked, worried for his friend.
"Dead." Naruto replied, making Aang reluctantly nod his head before returning back to the others. Naruto began a mental count down of what he could currently do. My earth bending pretty much sucks out here. Although sand bending is just another branch of earth bending, so I should try and learn that later. Right now, I have one chakra bending technique, my gravity bending, and my lightning bending. This should be fun!
Gaara, tired of waiting to fight, screamed, "TIME TO DIE!" With that, the sand exploded all around the red head, revealing huge strands of sand, swirling the air.
Sokka, still under the influence, widened his eyes and shouted, "OCTOPUS!"
Ignoring the random outburst, Naruto looked at all the swirling sand in the air as Gaara and Shukaku rose into the middle of it all. "Ok, this is going to be harder than I though." He didn't have time to think much on it because a large strand slammed down on the spot he was just in. Thanks to his quick reflexes, Naruto jumped away just in time before he took a chance and ran up the strand of sand, heading straight for Gaara.
Gaara narrowed his eyes at the blond before he sent a few more strands of sand at the blond. Naruto growled before he ran at the incoming strands and jumped off the one he was on just as the other crashed into it. He then brought out his hook swords to swing around one of them and landing on another before repeating the process two more times, annoying the raccoon boy.
Toph, could not see anything like her friends, but this structure she was in let her 'see' what she was in. The sand was solid enough that it let her 'sees.' Her range was widened as well since this structure was connected under all the sand to the structure Naruto was in. So she was able to see her longtime friend fight for her. For some reason, she could barely see Aang and the others. As he 'watched' the battled between her best friend and this nut job, she silently rooted for this battle to be over soon. Suddenly the sphere around her closed in a bit, scaring the crap out of her. "Come on Naruto, I know you can do it."
Naruto heard the sphere and was momentarily distracted because the sand strand sharpened to spear points before shooting at the blond. Naruto, reacted quick enough to put his hook swords away and bring out his claw as he slashed them to pieces. However, one got in his guard and sliced into his shoulder. "AGH!"
"We have to help him!" Katara shouted.
"I know, but he does want it." Aang said sadly. "I think he is trying to prove something."
"What? About which way of fighting is better?"
"Yes." Aang said as he watched Naruto pulled the sand spike out of his shoulder.
Naruto growled, but he was thankful he had a fast healing factor. He then looked to the dry sky and growled again. If he wanted to do any of his high level attack for lightning bending. So he did the only thing he could think of. He bent his bio-electricity into a bright ball of energy before shooting it off into the sky, where a lone cloud resided.
Gaara saw this and laughed. Kyuubi sighed and said, "Well….this should be interesting."
"What? Why?" asked Katara not understand what Naruto was doing. "And why are you not up there with him?"
"I don't feel like fighting." was Kyuubi's simple answer. "Besides, he doesn't need my help to defeat the one tail. Now that lightning ball he shot up was to bring out his more…dangerous lightning based attacks." They saw the small cloud get a lot bigger and darker. "What is first?"
Gaara was now wiry what that the ball did. Something was going in the air that was not normal for desert conditions, even at night! "What are you doing?" The sand man shouted as he converted a good amount of his sand into spears and sent them at the blond.
Naruto eyes, which seemed to emit sparks of lightning, glowed with mirth in this new darkness as he back flipped into the air before he used his claws to slash the spears to pieces while lightning arced from his body to his claws and then into the air, creating a brilliant lightning show. He then used the lightning to shoot off towards Gaara, intending on impaling him.
But the sand user was prepared, albeit barely. While floating on his sand platform, the surrounding sand moved in on him to protect the red head from the lightning. The sand turned to glass before falling to the ground.
Shukaku, who had wide eyes, said, "I think we should combine."
"No." said a voice behind them. The duo whirled around on their sand platform to see Naruto, using gravity bending, to float in the air. The blond held out a hand and shot a blast of dense gravity at Gaara. It was pretty powerful as it knocked Gaara off his feet, sending him to the ground, but the sand that Shukaku was controlling, caught him.
Naruto looked to the clouds to see that they were not yet ready. So he did the next best thing. He channeled lightning to his fingers and held them like Goku does to get ready for his attack. Nartuto then spun in place before releasing the spun and pent up energy. The result was a large tornado made of lightning. "Take my Ionic Vortex!" The vortex ripped through all the sand before it spun Gaara around and then threw him into a sand dune.
Gaara got back up and stared at Naruto with a cracked face before all the sand on his fell off. "You are very interesting, Uzumaki!" Gaara just nodded to Shukaku before the small creature disappeared into his chest. Gaara then closed and opened his eyes to reveal the stared eyes of the Shukaku. "Now I am in control!" With that, Gaara's body floated into the air as well as a lot of sand before it converged on him, forming a sphere of sand before more sand came to form the racoon's giant body, creating terrifying sight to those watching.
Naruto glared heatedly. This is not what he wanted. Glancing at The sphere around Toph was getting smaller and then meant he needed to hurry up. However, he could not think much because Shukaku and banged on his stomach, sending out his drilling air bullet, that made Aang's eyes widen.
Naruto glared at it before he brought his hand down in a chopping motion, sending condensed gravity at the air ball to slice it in half, sending each piece to his side. However, the wave kept on traveling and sliced off the sand head of Shukaku. "OK! NOW I AM MAD!" a voice rang out before the head reconstructed itself. The face smirked before saying. "I will enjoy killing you!" he shouted before shooting off five more of those drilling air bullets, but Naruto used gravity bending to jump high in the air and keep on climbing to dodge the attacks.
Naruto saw that the clouds where ready, so he let them loose. The group's eyes widened as lightning begun to dance violently across the sky. "OOOH! SHINY LIGHTS!" Sokka randomly shouted.
"You dare to kill me and kill my friends." Naruto's voice rang out. "I cannot allow this." Naruto looked up at all the lightning and smirked. "All this power that bring this lightning down from the lightning from the heaven and I am just directing it! BEGONE WITH THE ROAR OF THUNDER!" The blond shot a bolt of lightning to the clouds, which brought down a large chinese style dragon that circled the sand demon before rising back into the clouds and gave the sand demon a menacing glare.
"Mother Fu-" Shukaku screamed out before he was cut off by a large roar and everything around Shukaku went up in a brilliant flash.
The gang had to cover their eyes because it was too bright for them. They did notice that eh construct holding Toph began to fall apart. Using quick thinking, Aang used his air bending skills to bring Toph safely to them. They were surprised that Toph had tears in her eyes but they said nothing.
"Is he ok?" Toph weakly asked.
"Yeah I think so," Katara said, "He used some huge lightning attack to bring the guy down."
However, when the dust cleared, they gasped at the new sight in front of them. The land had gone from sand to glass and most of Shukaku's sand body was glass as well. The only thing that was not fully glass was the sphere that held Gaara's body. The sphere was singed and cracked all over and Gaara pushed a piece off so that he could get out. If one looked close enough, Gaara had to different eyes. His own and Shukaku's. He suddenly looked up and saw Naruto coming for him "I WIN!"
When Naruto shouted that, he sucker punched Gaara, forcing Shukaku out of Gaara. They landed a few feet away on the glass painfully. Gaara looked up when he heard tapping and saw Naruto slowly walking towards him. "No. No! Get away! My existence will not be erased!"
Naruto looked tiredly at his red haired opponent. That attack Kirin was usually a wide spread attack that used against the Fire Nation when he could not use his Golden Fox form. It usually drained a lot out of him and usually killed fire nation soldiers so they could not get word out that he used lightning. So it was extra straining to keep all that power to one spot and not let it get to his friends, especially Toph.
"Shut up." Naruto said weakly. "I am not going to kill you. I just proved that my way is better. I know the pain you went through, all Jinchuriki know that pain. I choose to go my way and you yours."
"I see." Gaara said after a minute with calm and dead voice. "Yet I have no one to protect."
"You have me, I am willing to be your friend. And the fact that you still have family back in the past helps as well." Naruto replied. "When you get well enough, look for the ruins of your village and you will see what I mean. After that, come look for me and the others. I am sure the other would like to screw over the ring eyed man as well."
"Very well." Gaara replied before he fell asleep, glad that his demon was not in him anymore.
Naruto sighed as he trudged back over to his group and said, "Well, that was….tiring."
"I'll say!" Aang shouted. 'That last attack was insane!"
"Such pretty lights!" Sokka said with a goofy smile. "You are a real powerful bender!"
Katara was put off by that, remembering the fortune teller's words. "Y-yeah. It was amazing!"
"I am glad." Naruto said with a tired smile. "If Toph ok?"
"Of course I am!" Toph shouted as she gave him a big huge, which he returned forcefully.
Katara smiled at that be she said, "Come on, we still have to get out of here." She said before she took Toph's hand and made the others do the same as they made their way through the desert, even though they were all tired.
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Well I hoped you all liked that. Yes, I know I took Sasuke's attack, but I don't care! Besides, that will not be his strongest attack. Notice that I never even used Rasengan for this battle. Like what I did at the end?
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