They all stood there in the presence of this masked menace. A smile arose from Natsu's Face.
"Sorry," Natsu said, "but I don't plan on dying anytime soon. And neither do my friends. We'll beat you hear and now!"
"Arrogant aren't we?" he said with bitterness in his voice, "I'll turn you to ash!"
He began weaving his hands together.
"Fire style: Fire Ball justu!"
A giant ball of a ragging inferno erupted from his mouth and began speed toward the trio of heroes. Naruto and Ichigo jumped out of the way but Natsu just stood there, with a confident smile on his face.
"Natsu move!" Naruto pleaded but he just stood there as the blazing inferno rushed toward him.
"Natsu! No!"
Natsu began to inhale and the fireball started to get sucked into his mouth. A shocking expression appeared on everyone's face and soon the fire ball was all gone.
"My turn," Natsu said, "Fire Dragon Roar!" A stream of fire burst from Natsu's mouth and was heading in the direction of the masked man. When it had it and there was smoke and dust where the masked man was standing.
"Well what a surprise."
Everyone turned around to reveal the masked man who had somehow evaded the attack.
"Now let me…" he started but never got the chance to finish. Natsu charged him with some lighting fast speed and was in front of the masked man almost instantly. An expression of shock ran across his face. Natsu attempted a round house kick but the masked man had ducked, he than planted his hands on the ground and then preformed a sweeping kick, the masked man jumped and evaded it. Natsu began throw punch after punch but the masked man was evading them having a bit of trouble. He managed to connect one of them send the masked man flying a few feet back. The masked man managed to regain his balance.
"How bothersome. You boys aren't even worth my time. Just lie down and die."
"Not gonna happen," Ichigo said while standing behind him. He was already in his Bankai and was casually standing behind him.
A smile arose from the masked man's face, "Oh please, did you really think you could get the better of me?" Ichigo slashed vertically but the masked man had disappeared before he could make contact.
"Damn, I thought I had hi…"
"Hey!" the masked man yelled from some distance away, "below you."
Ichigo looked down and saw a kunai stuck into the ground with a red tag with some symbols on it attached to the kunai.
"Huh?" Ichigo said, "What's this?" Ichigo said confused. But Naruto knew exactly what it was.
"Ichigo!" Naruto said, "Move!"
The kunai erupted into a fiery inferno and sent Ichigo flying in the opposite direction.
"Ichigo!" Naruto and Natsu called simultaneously.
"You see?" the masked man said.
The duo turned to reveal the masked man standing behind them
"Resistance is futile. Just give up and offer me your lives."
"Tch… damn… Naruto! What do we do?"
Naruto took a spot next to Natsu.
"All we can do is fight," Naruto said
A smile rose across Natsu's face, "Alright let's go!"
"W-Wait! We should come up with..."
"Back me up!" Natsu took off in the direction of the masked man.
"Tch… let's go!" He put his fingers in a plus shape and summoned a shadow clones and charged in the masked mans direction.
Fire surrounded Natsu's hand, he threw a punch; the masked man jumped in the air to evade it, but Naruto was also there with a Rasengan formed; he aimed it at the masked mans chest but the Rasengan went through him with the rest of Naruto. Even though he was wearing a mask you could tell a smile had formed across his face; but he forgot about an important thing, Natsu was still around. He jumped behind the mask catching him off guard.
"Talons of the Fire Dragon!"\
A fiery elbow connected with the masked man's back sending him flying in the other direction. When he hit the ground smoke and dust erupted from the ground where he landed. Natsu came down from the air and land with both feet. Naruto took a spot right next to Natsu.
"Do you think we got him?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know, maybe he…"
"To answer your question; no," the masked had gotten behind them catching them off guard. Naruto and Natsu had tried to react but it was too late. The masked man had placed an explosive tag on both of their backs and side kicked Naruto in a diagonal direction and reverse side kicked Natsu into the same direction. They both went flying and the tags exploded causing a cloud of smoke to appear where the duo had once been. They both fell out of the smoke cloud and hit the ground with a thud. They both lied there almost lifeless. Naruto; with blurry vision, looked up and saw the masked man standing over him. He was holding a kunai, and was raising it very slowly, as if to savor this moment.
"Any last words?" He asked sadistically.
But Naruto couldn't move, let alone speak. He was in an immeasurable amount of pain and it was a workout just to lift up his head.
In a flash; or a yellow flash; a man was above the masked man with a spiraling sphere of chakra in his hand. The mask man had no time to react; the spiraling sphere was brought down on the masked man causing a big impact.
"Flying Raijin Level Two," the man said and side flipped back and at was at Naruto's side. This man had the same headband Naruto had one but that was the only thing Naruto was able to make out. His vision was too blurry, and he was losing consciousness. Lass he could stay conscious anymore. His head dropped. Then, everything had faded to black.