I've done it! I've finally finished the story! And I'm proud of this final chapter!
Madmanmark666: Thank you for your praises.
Leonardobluesummers: Looking back, I definitely could have discarded some of the filler arcs. I tried to make sure Dracula gained something out of each of them, but I wasn't completely successful.
And no worries, I don't mind answering questions like those if i can.
It's one of those off-screen things, but it would make sense that Shinigami told Dracula about the Otsutsuki clan, right? So, originally, Dracula would look for a way to space-travel. But after dealing with both Kaguya and Toneri in this chapter, he'll have grown bored of the Otsutsuki clan and use Kaguya's dimensional powers to travel to other dimensions.
Also, about Kaguya, I used to think the same thing, but eventually thought that, even though the Gedo Mazo was summoned, her soul was still sealed in the moon. I thought that, in canon, her soul had rejoined the shinju once its eye gazed upon the moon.
Rangle: Thank you for your multiple reviews and for putting up with the story, despite how bland it was at first.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Chapter 18: Otsutsuki
A shockwave echoed throughout the battlefield before Dracula and Lee landed on the ground, face to face. Lee's skin had reddened from opening the Gate of Life whereas Dracula's face remained gleeful. Both of them charged forth and theirs fists met midway. Dracula then took a step forward and tried to backhand Lee, but the Chunin ducked and went for a sweep kick. Dracula jumped over Lee before landing and blocking Lee's high kick with his left forearm.
"W-What should we do, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura's voice trembled at the sight before her.
Kakashi remained silent as the Dracula and Lee clashed all over the battlefield at high-speed.
After a moment, his eyes went down to the throne. Or rather, the tree behind the throne. It was a recent addition, made by the Obito's mistake.
Flashback
Lee kicked Dracula in the chin in a very familiar manner. As Dracula recoiled in the air, Lee jumped to get behind Dracula and readied his bandages.
However, Dracula spun himself and kicked Lee away, shocking all those who knew about Kage Buyo and Omote Renge.
Dracula looked over his shoulder when he felt a presence above him. It was Obito.
"I will figure out how to unseal the Juubi later." Obito claimed before activating Kamui. The vortex of his right eye was trying to suck Dracula in.
"You intend to trap me?" Dracula asked rhetorically. "Worthless."
He disappeared using the Hiraishin, to the shock of those who did not know he could use it, reappeared above Obito and stabbed a hand right in the right half of Obito's body.
"Surprised? Remember your fight with my father? He marked you for the Hiraishin when he struck you with the Rasengan." Dracula explained, keeping his grip on Obito's insides as they landed behind the throne. "This is strike one."
Obito grunted in pain as wood started sprouting from the right half of his body. "H-How?"
"A mix of Hashirama's cells in your body, Yamato's Mokuton and Orochimaru studies of Hashirama's cells." Dracula answered. "It's over for you."
The wood kept growing until it entangled Obito and became a tree. Dracula placed his free hand on the tree. The tree shifted until Dracula's other hand was freed before he placed it on the tree as well. With a pulse of chakra, the tree tightened onto itself until the sound of crushed flesh was heard. Obito's soul shot out of the tree and into Dracula.
Dracula turned back to Lee, who had been resting on the ground since the interruption. "Ready to continue?"
"Why are you just waiting?" Lee asked back.
"Because I want to fight you at your best!" Dracula's face turned gleeful. "There is no point or enjoyment in finishing you off now. This fight won't continue until you've opened the Gate of Rest and recovered."
Flashback end
In the end, it was Obito's fault for thinking he could pull a fast one in the middle of a fight.
Kakashi snapped out of his thoughts when another shockwave echoed. Turning his attention back to the battle, he saw Lee flaring even more chakra.
"Gate of Pain, Open!" Lee called out before he disappeared.
Lee appeared before Dracula and kicked him on the chin once more, sending him skyward.
"I will not allow another counterattack!" Lee claimed before he jumped in the air and kicked Dracula again. Just like with Gaara, Lee juggled Dracula in the air with multiple kicks until he kicked him downward.
Lee flared chakra once more. "Gate of Limit, Open!" He fell towards Dracula.
Just before Dracula crashed, Lee kicked him straight into the ground, creating a massive crater and a lot of smoke.
"Ura Renge!" He called out before jumping out of the smoke.
When the smoke dissipated, they saw Dracula sit up from his crash.
"Marvellous..." Dracula chuckled. "You never fail to disappoint."
Suddenly, the Raikage charged, crackling with his Raiton no Yoroi.
Dracula frowned. "Strike two." He said when the Raikage's fist was inches away from his face.
A red fist struck the Raikage with an uppercut, making him stagger.
"No more interruptions." Dracula ordered.
A red armoured figure with a horn on its helmet appeared, to everyone's shock, and charged at the Raikage.
"Ora!" The figure screamed as it punched the Raikage in the face. "Ora!" It kicked him in the shin. "Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora!" It then sent a barrage of punches.
Dracula charged forth and sent a Balore punch at the same time as Guardian Cagnazzo's final punch, sending the Raikage back to the rest of the Alliance.
Dracula turned back to Lee. "Open the sixth gate."
Lee's eyes widened. "What?"
"I'm tired of these idiots always interrupting our fight. Go all-out, make this enjoyable again."
"How do you know about my ability to open the sixth gate?" Lee asked.
"I know through Guy." Dracula answered.
"Guy-sensei?"
"...He's gone, Lee." Dracula said.
Realization slowly appeared on Lee's face. After a moment, tears appeared in his eyes.
"Gate of View, Open!" The green aura around him was greater than ever.
"...You are not above killing precious people, are you?" Lee asked, anger in his voice.
Dracula wasn't going to deny it. A lot of people died by his hand, both directly and indirectly.
"I have lost both Guy-sensei and Neji..." Lee muttered. "I will not let you make anyone else suffer!"
"Spoken like a true hunter." Dracula said.
"Gate of Wonder, Open!" Another shockwave echoed. Lee's eyes glowed red and his green aura became blue.
"The blue vapor..." Dracula muttered in shock before he became gleeful again. "Rock Lee... Has the pain of loss enabled you to open the seventh Gate?"
"This is my determination!" Lee claimed. "I shall go beyond every one of my limits to stop you!"
"By all means!" Dracula exclaimed.
Lee disappeared in flash. Dracula caught the fist aiming for his face before blocking a kick with his free arm. He then blocked another kick with his knee before pushing Lee away.
"Now!" Lee said before charging forth, one of his palms facing his face and tapping it with his other hand.
Dracula's eyes widened in realization.
Lee stopped before Dracula, his hands in a tiger head-like handsign.
"Hirudora!" Lee called out before a massive shockwave appeared between the two of them.
Most of the Alliance was blown away by the biggest shockwave yet.
Once the smoke dissipated, Dracula was several feet away from Lee, with both hands held out.
Steam appeared on the burns on Dracula's arms as they healed.
"So powerful..." Dracula muttered. "Guy knew you'd surpass him, but seeing it for myself is simply thrilling."
"He actually took the blow point blank..." Kakashi muttered, shocked.
Gaara was watching the battle in silent shock. He recognized the moves Lee used back during the Chunin exams.
"You should be at the end of your rope, at this point." Dracula said. "It is the first time you've opened the seventh gate, after all."
"It won't end this way!" Lee said, unzipping his flak jacket.
Dracula's eyes widened. "Are you really going that far?"
Lee pressed his thumb on the heart region of his torso, puncturing it with his nail.
"Lee, no!" Tenten cried out in horror.
"Guy wouldn't have wanted it this way..." Kakashi thought sadly.
"To sacrifice yourself like this..." Dracula muttered before summoning his Gudodama to his side. "Come, Rock Lee."
"Gate of Death, Open!" The blue vapor turned red with his blood. Even his hair and his eyebrows turned red and flickered like flames. There were marks on his skin that looked like magma.
Sakura's eyes widened as the preliminaries came to mind. The Gate of Death...
Once again, Lee disappeared in a flash.
Dracula looked around, being able to follow Lee's movements, thanks to the Rinne Sharingan.
"Speeding through the sky by kicking the air..." Dracula muttered before floating up in the air.
"Sekizo! First step!" Dracula turned around just as Lee punched the air between them. A wave of air rushed toward Dracula, who blocked it with his Shakujo and his free hand. To the others, the wave of air looked like an elephant's foot.
"So that's Sekizo..." Dracula said as he struggled. "The real thing is far more powerful than the knowledge of it..." The Sekizo was finally pushing him back.
"Second ste-" Just as Lee was about to punch air again, he winced and stopped.
Dracula's eyes narrowed and he used the Hiraishin to appear next to Tsunade, who had been marked for the Hiraishin squad.
Everyone immediately braced themselves at the sudden appearance. But Dracula ignored them and flew back to the battlefield.
"What unbelievable pain..." Lee thought as he watched Dracula approach. "But for everyone, I will bear it and win."
"Sekizo normally has either four or five strikes..." Dracula thought before he used a Gudodama to create a second Shakujo. "This should be enough protection."
Lee sped through the skies and 'ran' large circles around Dracula.
"First step!" Lee made his first punch.
One of Dracula's Shakujo became a barrier big enough to shield his body. The Gudodama destroyed the very air that touched it.
"Second step!" Dracula turned his other Shakujo into another barrier on the opposite direction.
"Third step!" Four Gudodama became parts of another barrier that protected his front.
"Fourth step!" The last four became the barrier that protected him from below.
Dracula's eyes widened before he turned around. Rock Lee was charging forth.
"Fifth step!" Lee called out as he went for a direct punch this time.
Dracula caught the fist, but his wrist broke on impact. Keeping his momentum, Lee managed to punch Dracula straight in the chest, making the Lord of Darkness cough blood before the punch sent him crashing down through the Gudodama and into the ground.
Lee landed on the ground, but winced and fell down.
"Lee!" Tenten called out.
Looking down at his leg, he saw that his shin had scraped the Gudodama.
Hearing a cough, he turned to the smoke. Dracula walked out of the smoke, his Gudodama by his side, with one close to his torso. The Gudodama was healing it while his wrist had already healed.
"He took a direct punch of Sekizo!?" Lee thought in shock.
Dracula spat out a drop of blood. "I guess that's the end of the line. Look at your right hand."
Lee did so and his eyes widened. His hand was scorched black!
"Your body is burning from the inside out. Your hand has been especially pushed."
Lee got up on his one good leg and got into his stance. As he did, he saw his hand bubble up and crumble to ash.
"The rest of your body will soon follow suit." Dracula said. "I enjoyed this fight. You have exceeded all of my expectations."
"We can still...win..." Lee insisted through his pain.
Dracula shook his head. "I can match and survive your level of Taijutsu, which is one of the greatest of the Alliance, and I can absorb any Ninjutsu along with seeing through any Genjutsu."
"That won't stop us!" Tsunade claimed.
"I am not facing anyone else." Dracula said. "It's over, goodbye."
He started flying up, but a wave of sand got in his way.
Dracula looked down at Gaara.
"Why are you doing this?" The Kazekage asked. "The Naruto Uzumaki who defeated me would never do such a thing."
"How can you be so sure of that?" Dracula asked. "All you have seen is my facade. I have existed long before the birth of Naruto Uzumaki. And I have lived in this body almost immediately after Naruto Uzumaki's birth. This is what I meant back then, Gaara. No human in this day and age knew of the real me, that's why their opinions were all insignificant."
"So you claim to have walked in the shadows all this time." Gaara said. "I have done so as well, but you have brought light to my eyes, even if it wasn't your intention!"
"Your darkness and mine are far different." Dracula said as he landed on the ground. "Your Jinchuuriki status made you a pariah. Everyone was either against you or too afraid to stand by your side. I am different. I was once a knight, a loyal soldier, and a married man. But my dear wife died while I was away."
The Alliance started listening intently.
"When she died due to illness, I gave up everything. I delved in my point of expertise to gain immortality. And I found it."
Most of them were shocked. He found immortality?
"A single crimson stone." Dracula said. "I created the Crimson Stone, which granted me the loyalty of the Shinigami himself!"
Blood ran cold as his words sunk in. Those who knew how the Kyuubi was sealed realized how Dracula returned to this world.
"There was one thing that the Stone needed, the soul of a vampire. Once I sealed that soul within the Stone, I gained his powers and became an immortal vampire! But even then, darkness had not completely consumed my heart."
"If even after all this, the darkness hadn't consumed you, then you can turn away from this path right now." Gaara insisted.
"You do not know the final nail in the vampire's coffin." Dracula said. "After a few centuries, I found another woman. She was so much like my wife that my heart became hers. We even had a child together."
Some of the girls wanted to swoon at the thought of a happy family, but the tension of the moment hardly made it the right time.
"And then she was also taken from me. She was executed in broad daylight, when I couldn't reach her, by the very people she helped with her medicinal talents! Our son was there in her final moments! When I learned of her death, I plunged deeper into darkness and became the enemy of mankind. This world will always take away from me. Therefore, I shall take everything away from it and leave it to rot."
Gaara closed his eyes, a single tear rolling down his cheek. "Then I shall stop you, in the name of the true Naruto Uzumaki!"
"Humans' perception of the truth is quite twisted, then." Dracula commented. "Regardless, if you stand in my way here and now, then suffer the Juubi's Tenpenchii."
Dracula gathered chakra across his entire body before letting out a battle cry. The landscapes were scraped into layers of craters, sending the Alliance flying back. Water was rising from beneath the continent, thunderstorms and tornadoes all over the battlefield. It was a cataclysm.
Dracula looked up to the moon. Most of the Alliance had been killed by Tenpenchii, if the great amount of souls he just gained was of any indication. Some shinobi, mostly the tougher and stronger ones, survived.
He flew up to the sky and peered to the moon with his Rinne Sharingan. "Mugen Tsukuyomi."
The Rinne Sharingan appeared on the blood red moon before the moon light up like the sun.
When the Alliance saw the moon, their eyes turned into the Rinnegan and they were lost in their dream world.
Dracula landed back on the ground, sat on the throne and grasped the armrest. "Shin: Jukai Kotan."
The back of the throne extended to the tree behind it and merged together before the tree started growing to enormous proportions. The roots of the tree grew out of the ground across the Elemental Countries. Even the Shinobi before him were caught.
Dracula leaned his head against his knuckle, focusing on absorbing everyone's chakra.
Suddenly, a hand pierced his torso from behind. Looking over his shoulder, he saw a pitch-black face with glowing yellow eyes.
"You..." Dracula said.
"This is perfect!" Zetsu said. "You are an even better vessel than Madara for Mother's return!"
Zetsu's body spread across Dracula's body like goo. As this happened, Dracula's body started bloating into a big blob of flesh.
"Sasuke?" Karin called out after Sasuke activated his Susano'o, which was fully humanoid, to cover the full team Taka.
Sasuke turned to the team. They were shocked to see the Rinnegan with six tomoe on his left eye.
"Dude, what the hell!?" Suigetsu demanded. "First, you space out outta nowhere, now this!?"
"It's a long story." Sasuke said before he recounted the tale.
Flashback
Sasuke looked around. He was in a complete void.
"Where is this?" He wondered aloud.
"This is thine inner mind." A voice behind him said, making him turn around.
It was an old man, with deep wrinkles that showed his elderly age. He had spiky, shoulder-length pale-red hair, with a chin-length braid in front of his left ear. He also had a goatee that went down to his waist. On either side of his forehead were short horns, a red Rinnegan marking in the middle of his forehead, Rinnegan eyes and no eyebrows. He wore a full-length kimono with a pattern of six black magatama around a high collar, beneath which he wore a necklace of six black magatama. He floating in mid-air, in a seating position with a Shakujo floating around him. The eyes alone were enough guess who it was.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "Rikudo Sennin..."
The sage nodded. "That was the title given to me. I am Hagoromo."
Hagoromo grabbed his Shakujo and tapped the ground with it, making the once-transparent water ripple.
Sasuke looked down at his feet. First, his reflection appeared, but was soon replaced by the appearance of another man.
Said man had long brown hair, with two locks wrapped in bandages framing either side of his face. His eyebrows were cut short and he had blue markings around his eyes. He wore a high-collared, light-colored kimono held close by a dark sash. The collar was adonred with magatama. He also wore a black full-bodied suit underneath the kimono.
"You are my son Indra's... So be it, there are things I must entrust you with."
Sasuke looked back up to Hagoromo.
Hagoromo waved his Shakujo over the water. "First, I must tell you about my mother and sons."
The water rippled and showed a white-haired woman with rabbit ear-like horns on her head. She had Hyuuga-like eyes and her eyebrows were cut short. She wore a high-collared hime-kimono adorned with intricate gold and purple lines.
"My mother, Kaguya Ootsutsuki, came to this land of yours from a faraway place. She came in search of the fruit of the Shinju."
"Shinju?" Sasuke asked.
"It was also known as the Juubi." Hagoromo said, making Sasuke's eyes widen. "Kaguya consumed the fruit, attained power, and subdued this land. Mother was powerful, more than any other. Some called my mother the Rabbit Goddess and others considered her a demon... They both worshipped her and feared her. Later, she would birth two sons: myself and my brother, Hamura. We brothers, to atone for the crimes Mother left behind, battled Juubi and sealed it inside me. The Shinju, robbed of its chakra fruit, went on a rampage in order to recover it. Many years later, I myself had two sons. I named the elder son, Indra, and the younger son, Asura, and taught them the Ninshu. But the two of them were very different. The elder son was born with my chakra, whereas the younger son did not. You are very similar to Indra."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Indra and Asura walked different paths in life. Indra possessed powerful Dojutsu and senses from birth, making people call him a genius. He always did everything alone, leaning only on his own strength and came to understand that his power was different and special. He perceived that power could achieve anything. Asura, however, was untalented and couldn't do anything by himself. In order to compare to his brother, he needed the cooperation of others in addition of his own effort. While struggling through training, the power of bodily chakra awakened within Asura and he attained power rivalling his brother's. He came to understand that he became strong, thanks to the cooperation and help of those around him. He learned of the love that arises from thinking about others... And perceived that it was love that can achieve everything. I saw new possibilities in the way Asura chose to live his life. I partitioned the power of the Juubi inside of me and named each of the pieces and believed that the bond known as 'Cooperation' was true power. Then, I named Asura the leader and guardian of Ninshu, believing Indra would cooperate with him."
"But that's not what happened." Sasuke said. "After all, the Uchiha and the Senju have been at war ever since."
Hagoromo nodded. "Indra did not accept my decision. He and Asura fought countless times. Even after their deaths, they reincarnate across time and continue fighting." Hagoromo turned to Sasuke. "In this day and age, you are Indra's reincarnation. My eyes can clearly see Indra's chakra clinging about."
It was true. Indra's chakra was standing behind Sasuke, taking the form of the elder son. Sasuke's eyes glanced over his shoulder, but there was nothing there. Nothing he could see, anyway.
"You don't seem surprised." Hagoromo noted. "Perhaps you have sensed Indra's presence within you already?"
Sasuke remained silent, but that was enough.
"I thought as much." Hagoromo said. "That means you know who Asura's reincarnation is."
He knew... He felt it back during the Kage Summit...
"Naruto..." Sasuke said.
"Yes. You sensed it, after all."
"Who else has been within this cycle?" Sasuke asked.
"Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha." Hagoromo answered. "Hashirama was Asura. Madara was Indra. You know how they ended up."
"Of course." Sasuke thought.
"However, before Madara could end his life as a reincarnate, he created a certain problem. Madara was so obsessed with power that he stole some of Hashirama's. Which, in short caused the merging of a portion of Asura and Indra's chakra, resulting in my own chakra. Madara had awakened the Rinnegan. I always thought someone like this would appear one day, among Indra or any of his reincarnates. Hence, I left behind the stone tablet that contained the writings on how to deal with this. Although, it seems no one else could understand its meaning. And now, we face dire circumstances because of it."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Even after my mother, Kaguya, put an end to the chaotic times, she ruled with her power alone. However, my mother's power bred arrogance within her. And mankind began to dread the existence of that power. That is why the Rabbit Goddess became feared as a demon. When power is concentrated in one person, that power runs rampant and in time, it possesses the person. The current Asura reincarnation is a prime example of that."
"Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
Hagoromo nodded. "He travelled the land as Souma Kurusu."
Sasuke's eyes widened.
"You understand now. He has the power to absorb all life and chakra. He gathered the nine pieces of the Juubi and recreated it before becoming it's vessel. Now, the entirety of its powers is his. He's become just like my mother, Kaguya. The Mugen Tsukuyomi doesn't just cast a genjutsu over you. It keeps you trapped within genjutsu dreams, so that the caster can use your individual power while keeping you alive."
"But Naruto doesn't need them alive." Sasuke said. "He could kill them all and still use their powers."
Hagoromo nodded. "However, he will still use the Shinju's roots to catch everyone and take their chakra. I would like you to stop Naruto."
"Even after death, you care about this world. Are you looking for gratitude?"
"No. If the world desires Indra's way, Mother's way, and that's the natural flow, then I'm the one who is selfish. Even now, the prophecy has been fulfilled."
"Prophecy?"
Hagoromo nodded. "A blue-eyed youth who can unite all nine Bijuu will change the world."
Sasuke scowled. That seemed to fit Naruto.
"Sasuke, what do you want to do?" Hagoromo asked. "What do you see in the aftermath of this world?"
"...I see change. I will change the world. But first, I will prevent the world's destruction." Sasuke claimed.
"Is that your answer?"
"Yeah..."
"Long ago, I entrusted everything to Asura and cast my attention away from Indra. This time, I must do the exact opposite to balance the scales. Put out your arms. From now on, everything is up to you."
"Very well." Sasuke said as he walked closer to Hagoromo.
Both of them aligned their hands with each others'.
Flashback end
"...And then I saw the moon and covered you guys from the Mugen Tsukuyomi."
The shocked looks on their faces said it all.
The Perfect Susano'o disappeared. The sky was still bright, but no longer entrapped anyone.
"What do we do now?" Jugo asked.
Sasuke turned to the giant tree that was so far away. "I will finish this. Come along if you want, but you'd just get in the way." He then left.
"Hey, Sasuke!" Karin called out before she and Jugo ran after him. Suigetsu reluctantly followed.
Kaguya Otsutsuki opened her eyes, only to see total darkness.
Her eyes narrowed before she activated her Byakugan. Her eyes widened as her Byakugan vision was all static.
"Welcome." She quickly turned around upon hearing a voice and saw Dracula.
"Who are you?" Kaguya asked.
Dracula smirked. "Name's Dracula. Zetsu's trying to use my body to bring you back. I'm not letting this happen, of course."
"You have no say in the matter." Kaguya said.
Dracula chuckled. "That's where you're wrong." He brought a hand up.
Kaguya's eyes widened as the surroundings changed with the snap of a finger. They were in a courtyard with a great castle nearby.
"We are within my mind." Dracula smirked. "How long will you last before I completely dominate your soul?"
Kaguya's eyes widened before she flew up just as hands sprouted from the ground and tried to grab her ankles. She looked down and saw a corpse rising from the ground.
She turned around upon hearing a battlecry and saw a winged woman wearing red armor swinging a sword straight at her. Bones stuck out out of Kaguya's back before a bone needle stuck out from each of her palms and she blocked the swords using said needles. The impact made her crash on the ground.
"What's wrong with me...?" Kaguya wondered as she groggily got up. She normally would have taken a hit like this without any problem.
Her eyes widened again when giant hands grabbed her and lifted her in the air. Her shock increased even further when she saw that the being that grabbed her was the Juubi itself.
"Impossible..." She muttered. "You are my chakra. You cannot betray me!"
"Now, now, no need to get so upset." Dracula said as he landed on the hands gripping Kaguya. "The moment I became its vessel, I completely dominated its chakra. You should know the feeling, after all. Aren't you feeling your strength leaving you with every passing second?"
Kaguya started struggling as she tried to deny his words. How could she, the mother of all chakra, lose to an offspring that shouldn't compare to her?
Her eyes then started drooping.
"What's happening to me, my lord?" She asked tiredly, not noticing how she called Dracula.
"You're simply tired." Dracula said. "Rest up, Kaguya. You'll see the inside of my castle once you wake up."
Kaguya nodded and closed her eyes. Her lord was the greatest and most powerful of all. Her life was dedicated to him.
Dracula smirked before he closed his eyes and felt the chakra flowing through him.
Team Taka rushed toward the giant tree. From the distance, they could see a mass of flesh at the base of the tree.
"Sasuke..." Karin called out. "Every chakra I can feel, except ours, is flowing into that flesh."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. Was this mass of flesh supposed to be Naruto?
His eyes then widened. "Everyone, stop!"
The entire team stopped. An instant later, dozens of sickles embedded themselves into the ground before them.
A ghostly figure floated down to their level. It was Shiki Fuin Shinigami.
Suigetsu's eyes widened in horror before he pulled out the scroll he and Jugo found in one of Orochimaru's bases. He opened the scroll and showed it to Sasuke. "Hey Sasuke..."
Sasuke looked at the scroll. It was a plan of Orochimaru to unseal the four Hokage's souls from the Shinigami, with a mask being needed. A mask that look exactly like the ghost's face.
Sasuke's eyes turned to the ghost and narrowed. "Shinigami..."
The Shinigami chuckled before he turned into his true form. "Sasuke Uchiha... I can't say I did not expect this outcome."
"What are you doing here?" Sasuke asked, scaring Suigetsu with the fact that he was demanding answers from Death itself!
"I am simply waiting for my master's rise."
"Master!?" Karin asked in shock. "Who the hell controls the Shinigami of all beings!?"
"Why, Lord Dracula, of course." Shinigami chuckled. "All of you should know him as Naruto Uzumaki."
Jugo's fist tightened. When he met Sasuke, the Uchiha mentioned Kimimaro's death at the hands of someone named Naruto.
"How is Naruto your master?" Sasuke asked.
"This is simple. My lord was without a vessel for several thousand years. When the Yondaime summoned me to seal the Kyuubi, I planted my Lord's soul into the body of Naruto Uzumaki. Now, he is more powerful than he has ever been!"
Sasuke gritted his teeth. "That means he's been this 'Dracula' almost since birth..."
"Shortly after his birth." Shinigami confirmed. "And look at the world now... His dominance has caused this chaos!"
"I'm putting an end to both him and this chaos." Sasuke claimed, gripping his Kusanagi blade.
"I will allow no such thing." A double bladed scythe appeared in Shinigami's hands.
Before they could fight, however, they all felt a sudden pulse of chakra. The mass of flesh started shrinking.
Karin started shivering at the feeling of the chakra, Suigetsu took a few steps back and Jugo braced himself, his arms turning green with his Senjutsu powers.
The mass of flesh took a human shape. After the shape, the appearance was made. The whiskered face made the identity obvious, but there were differences. Instead of its usual spike-like style, his hair was closer to Soma's after Graham's defeat. There was a vertical slit on his forehead, showing he still had the Rinne Sharingan. His eyes had returned to its cerulean color, as if he had never transplanted Madara's eyes in the first place. His Juubi Jinchuuriki outfit looked more like actual clothes than chakra shrouds.
Dracula looked at himself for a moment before he lowered his head and started chuckling. He placed a hand on his face and his chuckles became small laughter. He then threw his head and started a full-blown laughter.
"...Did he lose his marbles?" Suigetsu wondered.
Dracula stopped himself upon hearing Suigetsu's voice. Turning his head, he saw Team Taka. He raised an eyebrow before he felt something within Sasuke, which he recognized through Kaguya.
Hagoromo's chakra.
Dracula chuckled. "We really were destined to have a final battle, Sasuke."
"Naruto..." Sasuke said.
Dracula held both arms out to the sides and gestured to the surroundings. "You like what I've done with the place? Odds are it would have ended up the same way if things went your way."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
Dracula chuckled. "You wouldn't have stopped with the Elders and Konoha. You simply would have looked for another target. Such is the Uchiha's Curse of Hatred."
"That's going to change." Sasuke claimed. "I don't know if a village is worth sacrificing family, but I'll create one that won't demand such sacrifices. Before that, I'll need to kill the Five Kage."
Taka was shocked by Sasuke's claim.
Dracula whistled. "That's quite the goal you have there."
"What about you?" Sasuke asked. "What's the point of you doing this?"
"Most humans, thousands of years ago, were pathetic. In this day and age, the shinobi of the world had me interested."
"And then what? There's nothing else for you now."
"On this dimension, anyway. But I will travel to other dimensions, thanks to Kaguya."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "What does Kaguya have to do with this?"
Dracula chuckled. "Ah, that's right... Hagoromo didn't know that Kaguya and the Juubi were a single being."
Team Taka's eyes widened.
"Knowing this, Sasuke, you must know how unbalanced this match is."
As if to prove his point, ghostly figures appeared behind the two of them. Behind Sasuke were Hagoromo and Indra. Behind Dracula were Kaguya, Indra and Asura, a brown-haired man that, much like Indra, had two locks wrapped in bandages to frame his face. He was wearing a light-colored kimono with a black full body suit underneath. While Indra's stern face said that he would take down all who oppose him, Asura's stern face said that he would not let you get away with whatever you had done.
"I don't have to defeat you." Sasuke said before he flared some chakra. "I have another way to win."
Suddenly, he gained a chakra shroud. His body was glowing with chakra and he had an haori with the Rinnegan mark on the back along with the Magatama.
"Rikudo Senjutsu and a Rinnegan." Dracula said. "The benefits of Hagoromo's chakra, I'm sure."
Suddenly, Zetsu spores started growing from Sasuke's body.
"Oh yeah, Tobi had them keep an eye on you." Dracula said in realization.
The Zetsus grew out of Sasuke's body and disappeared into ground.
"Come on, then." Dracula said, a Gudodama stick in his left hand and Muramasa in his right hand. "We shouldn't get any more interruptions."
Sasuke braced himself with a Gudodama stick and his Kusanagi blade.
Both of them charged forward, their respective weapons clashing with their counterparts. For a small while, they merely deflected each other's weapons before Dracula managed to get Kusanagi out of Sasuke's grip and into the air. Keeping Sasuke's Gudodama away with his own Gudodama, he went for a stab with Muramasa.
"Sasuke!" Karin called out in fear.
Sasuke widened his left eye. Suddenly, he disappeared and Dracula was stabbed by Kusanagi.
"What?" Dracula said in shock before he looked up.
Sasuke was in the air.
"Kawarimi? No... that was more like Amenominaka..." Dracula thought before he said. "I see. Your Rinnegan has a Jutsu able to instantly transport yourself and other objects."
Sasuke landed away from Dracula, who pulled out Kusanagi from his body and threw it away. Already, his wound steamed and healed.
Dracula smirked as four shadow figures of himself, created from Madara's Limbo Jutsu, appeared from his body and charged toward Sasuke.
Sasuke's eyes widened as he made himself a second Gudodama stick. He blocked two shadows' attacks with the sticks.
Team Taka was confused. To them, Sasuke was striking air.
"The hell is he doing?" Suigetsu asked.
"Is he trapped in a genjutsu." Jugo wondered.
Karin pushed her glasses to the bridge of her nose and activated her mind's eye. "...No. His chakra is undisturbed."
"Then it must be something he can see with his Rinnegan." Jugo concluded.
As Sasuke kept blocking the shadows, Dracula joined in.
Sasuke summoned a Susano'o arm, with an Enton orb in hand, and spread black flames in front of him. Only Dracula dodged while the shadows were unaffected.
"I see... So only the Gudodama can hit them." Sasuke thought.
Suddenly, the shadows returned to Dracula's body.
"There's a time limit on these things." Sasuke realized. "I will take advantage of that."
Dark purple chakra pooled out of Sasuke and his Susano'o appeared. It was a full body winged Tengu samurai with a katana in its left hand.
Dracula smirked. "So be it!"
Blue chakra exploded out of Dracula's body. From that chakra emerged a humanoid monster. It was brown, muscular and unbelievably tall. It had multiple horns on its head and a single eye, the Rinne Sharingan. Another striking feature was its ten tails, with each tip having a humanoid hand. Its entire body was covered in a blue Susano'o, also shaped like a winged Tengu samurai. In its right hand was a claymore.
Karin's eyes widened in shock. She couldn't sense it's chakra!
"Oi, Jugo! You all right!?" Karin turned her head upon hearing Suigetsu's voice. Jugo was on his knees, struggling with himself.
"This monster..." Jugo grunted in pain. "...is Nature itself."
"What are you talking about!?" Suigetsu asked.
"The energy of Nature flowing through it... It's as if we're sensing the entire world."
"What do you think of this, Uchiha?" The monster spoke, its voice being a distorted version of Dracula's.
Sasuke's eyes widened.
"This is the Juubi, clad in Madara's own Perfect Susano'o!"
Sasuke cursed as his Susano'o took to the air. The size difference between their Susano'os was immense, but this could be to his advanta-
Dracula crouched before taking flight as well. Sasuke's eyes widened as Dracula was above him in no time.
Dracula brought his claymore up before swinging down on Sasuke, who barely had enough time to block with his much smaller sword. Sasuke was sent crashing to the ground.
"Sasuke!" Karin cried out in horror.
Dracula opened his mouth and created a Bijuudama, which was still round like a sphere with the exception of the pointed tip. He shot the Bijuudama at the crater Sasuke made. The explosion reached high into the sky.
But Sasuke had already escaped before the Bijuudama hit the ground. Getting back to Dracula's level of height, Sasuke's katana turned into a bow. He readied an arrow burning with black flames.
Dracula raised his free hand and a Bijuudama appeared, floating over his hand and surrounded by chakra magatama.
"Enton: Susano'o Kagutsuchi!/Magatama Bijuudama!" Both of them shot their projectiles. They met midway and created a massive explosion.
Sasuke charged forth, which Dracula responded with a horizontal slash. Sasuke used his Jutsu to dodge the slash and appear before the Dracula's eye. Sasuke then stabbed his sword toward the eye, but Dracula bent backward to dodge before striking Sasuke with one of his tails, making him crash to the ground. The tail strike damaged the Susano'o armor, making it crumble to pieces upon crashing.
Dracula's Susano'o disappeared before he shrunk in size. Upon becoming human-sized, Dracula was in his normal form again.
Dracula walked toward the downed Sasuke before he felt a presence charging toward him. Looking to the side, he saw Jugo with a bulged fist. The moment Jugo went for a punch, a Gudodama barrier appeared between the two. Dracula raised an eyebrow when he heard an actual impact against the barrier. Jugo's arm grew a piston at the elbow and pushed on. Dracula's eyes widened when the Gudodama broke to pieces. Jugo's other arm turned into an axe and swiped at Dracula, who ducked the attack and kicked Jugo away.
"I see, so not only are Rikudo users immune to the Gudodama's negation, but so is Senjutsu chakra." Dracula said. "I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for that, Jugo."
Karin and Suigetsu joined Sasuke, with the former offering her arm to the Uchiha. Sasuke bit the arm, causing Karin to cry out in pleasure. Sasuke then started glowing with healing chakra.
Sasuke got up and stood by Jugo. "We're ending this, Naruto."
Dracula smirked. "If you insist...then I'll show you the best part."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow before Dracula flew back and landed on the tree trunk. He pressed both of his hands on it.
"Soul Steal!" Dracula called out before he absorbed the souls of all those trapped within Mugen Tsukuyomi.
Karin's eyes widened in horror. She was feeling what was happening with her mind's eye.
"What's your problem?" Suigetsu asked her.
"We're all that's left..." She muttered as she fell to her knees.
"Soul Steal." Dracula repeated as he landed on the ground and walked toward Team Taka. "The offensive usage of the Power of Dominance. With it, I took the souls of all those who were connected to the tree, meaning everyone except you all."
"Wait, what!?" Suigetsu exclaimed. "Is he saying what I think he is!?"
"We're all alone..." Karin muttered. "There's nobody left..."
Dracula chuckled. "And now..." He braced himself. "Headhunter!" His body muscled up before returning to its original build.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow before a fist landed right in his gut. Before the impact could send him flying, Dracula grabbed his ankle and swung him at Jugo, sending them rolling on the ground.
"What the hell!?" Suigetsu exclaimed as Karin watched in silent shock.
Dracula appeared over Sasuke and Jugo and stomped on them, making a large crater. Both of them coughed blood before Dracula kicked them away.
"Now, here's the best part." Dracula chuckled. "The Headhunter was a princess that cut off heads and collected them to replace her own whenever she wanted, she preferred changing heads over changing clothes. She could also use her victims' abilities later on. By having her soul, my overall capabilities increase depending on the number of souls I possess." He smirked. "And I currently have an entire planet's worth of souls and more."
"Is this bastard serious?" Suigetsu muttered as he took a few steps back.
Sasuke and Jugo got up, with the latter turning into his full transformation.
Suddenly, Dracula appeared before Sasuke and kicked his legs off the ground before kicking him into the air. He then turned toward Jugo, who had sprouted cannons from his back.
"Die!" Jugo cried out excitedly. A dozen blasts shot forth from his cannons.
However, Dracula avoided the blasts and chopped Jugo's neck and grabbed his collar just as he went limp. Dracula then trapped Jugo in a Water Prison before electrocuting him with Raikiri. A bone bullet was then prepared in Dracula's index finger and was shot at Jugo.
Jugo fell to his knees when the Water Prison disappeared.
"That attack..." Jugo growled as he turned to Dracula. "That was Kimimaro's attack."
"Almost." Dracula said. "Like many clans, the Kaguya Clan are descendants of Kaguya herself. She had another version of the Shikotsumyaku. It was more powerful, yet not as versatile. She couldn't use it like Kimimaro used his bones, but they reduced her enemies to ashes. And I have both her power and his versatility."
Jugo's skin started cracking.
"Look on the bright side. You'll be joining Kimimaro soon enough." Dracula smirked.
Jugo weakly got up and walked up to Dracula, a piston fist as his right arm. He swung his fist at him, but it crumble to ashes before it could reach his face. His momentum and weak body made him fall to the ground.
"You...bastard..." Jugo muttered before his whole body turned to ashes. All that was left was the soul.
"One down." Dracula said as he got the soul.
With a Raikiri in his right hand, Dracula raised his hand and caught Sasuke's Chidori-clad hand coming from above. Sasuke then used his Jutsu to appear behind Dracula and tried to stab him with the Chidori, but fazed through him because of Kamui. Dracula then used Ranton: Reiza Sakasu point blank on Sasuke's back.
Dracula planted his foot on Sasuke's head before using Catoblepas to petrify him with a petrifying breath from his toes to his head, stepping back just before reaching the head.
"Sasuke!" Karin cried out in horror.
"Hold on, what!?" Suigetsu exclaimed. There's a Jutsu that can do that!?
Dracula punched the Sasuke statue, smashing it to pieces and gaining Sasuke's soul.
Dracula rolled his shoulders before turning to Suigetsu and Karin. The former was stepping back.
Dracula appeared behind Suigetsu with Sasuke's Amenotejikara. "What's wrong?"
Before Suigetsu could jump away from Dracula, he was bisected by a Gudodama Shakujo.
"That's not gonna do much." Suigetsu taunted before he saw his lower body turn into a puddle. "Wait, what!?"
"Gudodama negates chakra." Dracula said. "Injuring you with a Gudodama is like injuring any normal human being with a blade."
"You gotta be kidding me..." Suigetsu muttered as he started crawling away. However, he was pinned to the ground by the Shakujo. Dracula then used Ningendou to take Suigetsu's soul.
Dracula walked up to Karin, who hadn't moved from her spot. The girl looked up to him.
"This will be over quick." Dracula said as he placed his hand on her head. Like with Suigetsu, he used Ningendou to take her soul.
Shinigami floated down to Dracula. "This is the end."
"Not yet." Dracula said, looking up at the moon. "There's one more branch of Kaguya's descendants."
Dracula used Yomotsu Hirasaka, a black rift, to transport himself to the Moon's surface. He punched the ground, making a hole to the inside of the moon.
Inside the moon was an entire world. However, it was lifeless. Dracula floated in the Inner Moon's sky. Thanks to the Mind Eye of Kagura, one of Karin's abilities, he felt that the Inner Moon's sun was actually a barrier.
Speaking of which, a hole appeared in the barrier. Mounted birds flew out of the hole. The riders had chakra, but had no life to them. Automatons, perhaps?
No matter. With Yomotsu Hirasaka, Dracula transported himself inside the barrier. The moment he was inside, many cannons fired upon him, but it was nothing he couldn't avoid with Kamui.
He flew toward the one lifesign in the moon, which was inside the castle. Breaking through the castle, he found a young man with shaggy white hair wearing traditional Otsutsuki robes. His eyes remained closed, even when his attention was obviously on Dracula. That's when he realized that no chakra was flowing through his eye sockets. His eyes were removed?
"Who are you?" The young man asked.
"Just someone here for your chakra." Dracula said.
The young man tensed as the many automatons in the room prepared for battle.
"How many people have you taken chakra from?" He asked.
Dracula shrugged. "Oh, about everyone on the planet."
The Otsutsuki's eyebrows raised in shock.
"I'm disappointed that there's only one descendant of Hamura left." Dracula admitted. "After getting Kaguya and Hagoromo's chakra, I had hoped to get somewhat of an equivalent amount from Hamura's side. Oh well, I'll take what's there."
"What kind of monster are you?" He muttered.
"A lord kind." Dracula answered as he walked forth.
The automatons charged toward him with laser swords. Dracula caught one of them before throwing it at another. He kept this going as he walked toward the young man.
The Otsutsuki tried running away, but he was caught by the neck. A bone needle from the palm stabbed his neck before Dracula threw him at the automatons.
The young man groggily got up. He went to grab the needle in his neck, but it crumble to ashes. His skin started to crack.
"What is this?" He muttered.
"You are crumbling to ashes. Now, your soul and chakra is mine."
The young man looked at Dracula and opened his eyes, revealing the void in his sockets before his body completely crumbled. His soul entered Dracula's body.
He browsed through Toneri's memories as he kept dodging the puppets.
"The Tenseigan, huh..." He thought before he activated Hinata's Byakugan, his most powerful Byakugan after Kaguya's. He then focused Toneri's chakra through the Doujutsu. His eyes started pulsating. After a moment, he opened his eyes, revealing sky blue pupils with white flower-like irises.
The puppets stopped. There was a conflict in their programmed behavior. He was an invader, but he had the Tenseigan, which basically controlled everything in the moon.
Dracula smirked as he left for the Tenseigan vessel. It was in a meteriote in the very middle of the 'sun'. Walking through a set of caves, he eventually reached the vessel.
It was glowing brightly with the chakra of generations of Otsutsuki clan members. Many eyes were sealed in it. By destroying it, he could absorb the chakra in those eyes.
He created a Gudodama, grasped it and focused Tenseigan chakra through it. A silvery hurricane swirled around his hand.
"Silver Wheel Rebirth Explosion!" He called out as he unleashed the hurricane at the vessel. The vessel crackled with lightning before exploding into an enormous amount of eyes.
"Hmph." He smirked. "Soul steal!"
Chakra flowed out of the eyes and into his body. If what he was feeling was right, then there had also been a single Tenseigan eye in the vessel.
Dracula walked away. He was finally done with this world. But there was one last personal business to attend to.
Dracula walked into the grey void. It appeared before him, in the same first form Soma had battled.
"It's over." Dracula said. "I'm getting rid of you."
Chaos let out a low, angry growl as one of the statues reached out to him. Dracula slapped the hand away, making the hand go limp from the force behind the slap.
"Don't bother." Dracula warned. "Without the Crimson Stone, your edge on me is severed." He opened his Rinne Sharingan.
Through Amenominaka, they were transported in Kaguya's ice dimension. Chaos started shifting forms before Dracula aimed at Chaos with his Rinne Sharingan.
"Chibaku Tensei!"
Chaos became a center of gravity, which attracted rocks from the mountains and became a giant boulder. Dracula pushed it on the ground, enclosed it in ice and buried it in snow.
Dracula smiled. That...was a major weight off his shoulders.
He appeared in his throne room and sat on his throne.
"Is it done?" Shinigami asked.
"Yes..." Dracula rested his head on his knuckle. "Chaos has been sealed."
"It certainly was a surprise to me." Kabuto pushed his glasses to the bridge of his nose. "When I heard that this castle was a creature of chaos, I didn't think there was a literal sense in the meaning."
"The castle may be connected to Chaos, but it ultimately responds to the Lord of the Castle." Dracula explained. "How else do you think I gave you that lab so quickly?"
"The castle itself changes to the Count's will." Carmilla supplied.
"I see..." Kabuto said. "By the way, what is the next plan of action?"
"Something I have been curious about for centuries." Dracula answered.
His words got Shinigami's attention. "You intend to investigate one of those dimensions? Are his words trustworthy?"
"Knowing him, it could have been a giant joke." Dracula admitted. "But I believe the pros far outweighs the cons."
"A battle royale of Heroic Spirits..." Carmilla muttered. "Could that dimension also have an alternate version of the Count, I wonder."
"Heroic Spirits?" Kabuto asked.
"Heroes of time long past summoned like the Edo Tensei. Monster hunters, Dragon slayers, kings and knights, and even samurai. The Old World is ripe with legends and stories!" Dracula smirked. "And in those dimensions, most of them are legitimate!"
"The library has many of those stories." Carmilla said. "Do have a read. You will anticipate this as much as we do after a few books."
"Don't mind if I do." Kabuto smirked.
Dracula sat back on his throne.
He fully intended to have a look at one of those Holy Grail Wars.
And that, as they say, is that. As it is written, Dracula will be going through Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night's Holy Grail Wars in the sequel. Why? Because I wanna see how much further I can take this. But that's for another time. Up next is the 'Tsukune with Emerl's abilities' Rosario fanfic. If I put flashbacks of moments from Sonic Battle, would it count as a Crossover or would it remain just Rosario Vampire?
Anyway, after that, I'm working on White Maelstrom's sequel, 'cause that's been a long time coming. Then it will be Shinobi's Lament's sequel.