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Broken Promises
time skip about one year
Ryuu opened his eyes and looked around. After the last base had been destroyed, he had been transferred to a base with much more invasive experiments. They had drawn his blood, they had drawn the blood around and even in his eyes, they had taken scrapings of his eyes that took days to stop feeling like he had sand in his eyes, they took hair samples, they stole his chakra while his Sharingan were active, they took scrapings of his eyes while his Sharingan were active, and between every experiment, they had him in an arena against a small armor of other experiments, most of them being shinobi criminals that had every reason to be willing to kill him.
Finally, Ryuu was lying in bed one night, having just finished having bone marrow taken before fighting a group of four shinobi with weak cursed seals. He had killed them all, prayed for them, and now he was trying to reach the pot on his back where he had been experimented on. Finally his hand was close enough and green chakra lit up on his hand, repairing the damage. If there was one thing he had learned from Kabuto, it was the benefit of Medical Ninjutsu. And how to do it, thanks to his Sharingan.
"Uchiha," a harsh voice spoke from outside his cell. "Get up. You're going back into the arena."
"Why?" Ryuu demanded.
"Just get up before it fry your ass then throw you in," the voice stated.
Ryuu rolled over, looking out of his cell at the guard, a large man with muscles that stood out, even in the cloak he wore, a long metal pole with electricity running along the end, and a completely black mask.
"Fine," Ryuu groaned standing and following the guard out of the cell and to the arena.
Once there the guard tossed a tanto down to Ryuu. It was just a plain tanto with no tip and no tsuba but it was still a tanto, and if there was anything he liked in the world, it was the familiar weight of a tanto. A moment later, his joy at having a weapon faded as the gate opposite him opened and a behemoth of a man holding a war hammer in each hand lumbered out, spitting as he entered the arena. The left side of his face was covered in scars forming tally marks. The man held up its hammers and Ryuu spotted more covering his arms.
"How many times have you won?" Ryuu asked.
"Don't know," the man thundered. "Probably a thousand. Squishing one puny brat shouldn't be even a warmup."
Ryuu activated his Sharingan, creating a Vacuum Blade on his new weapon and grinned as the man eyed him cautiously.
"Perhaps I spoke too soon," the man grunted. "Let's begin."
The man charged forward, footfalls making pebbles near his feet bounce and clouds of dust hang in the air behind him. Ryuu rolled under the first hammer swing, then dove sideways away from another. As he stood behind the man, the man spun, swinging a hammer over his head and slamming it down where Ryuu had been. Ryuu had leapt backward and this time had a good look at the hammer. Both were identical and both were twice as long as he was tall with a massive plate steel hammer head, a massive sharpened plate steel axe blade on the back, and a solid steel handle. The hammers had to weigh upwards of two or three hundred pounds each.
Ryuu landed a good distance from the man and crouched, readying himself for the next assault from the man. The man hurled the hammer in his right hand, the hammer spinning through the air with the axe blade in front. Ryuu leapt into the air, the weapon passing under him, then looked up to see the man descending toward him, hammer already swinging.
"Water Style, Water Wall!" Ryuu shouted sending a flood of water to the ground where it surged back up hitting the man full force.
Rather than redirect him, or even slow him, the man continued, swinging the hammer at Ryuu. Ryuu held up his Vacuum Blade, the blade shattering on impact before the hammer smashed Ryuu twenty feet to the ground. Ryuu rolled unto his back, the axe blade missing his head by less than an inch as the man swung it at him. Ryuu held his left hand out, extending a Flame Sword at the man and making him stagger out of the way, leaving the hammer where it was. Ryuu stood, quickly healing his worse injuries as the man retrieved his other hammer. Ryuu created a new Vacuum Blade then charged forward, deciding not to let the man have the advantage of being on the offensive. As soon as the man's hammer began to descend, Ryuu dodged sideways away from it then leapt at the man, swinging his Vacuum Blade at the man's neck. The man caught Ryuu by both forearms and lifted him into the air. The tanto fell away, Vacuum Blade fading, and Ryuu grit his teeth in pain.
"Now, Puny Man, you will die," the man stated.
He released his hammer, the handle crashing to the ground as the man reached up and gripped Ryuu's legs.
"Fire Style, Burning Ash!" Ryuu shouted exhaling a massive black cloud of ash at the man.
The man shouted in surprise, dropping Ryuu and rubbing the ash from his eyes while coughing. Ryuu leapt away from the cloud, forming a FLame Sword and using it to ignite the cloud, causing a massive explosion around his massive opponent. When the smoke cleared, the man was holding his axe again and had a massive angry red burn covering most of his body, his clothes smoking and black.
"Not bad," the man growled. "I didn't see that coming."
"That was the point," Ryuu smirked making more hand seals. "Wind Style, Air Bullets, Fire Style Phoenix Flower Jutsu."
The two jutsus combined and the man snorted in amusement, readying his hammer. Ryuu fired at the man, the hammer swiping the barrage and putting them out but beginning to glow an angry orange as a result. The man shouted in pain, dropping the hammer and holding his badly burned hand with his other.
"Goodbye," Ryuu smirked forming a Vacuum Blade on the tanto and charging forward.
The man threw a punch with his unwounded hand and Ryuu ducked under it then stood, removing the arm and stabbing the man through the heart. The man fell backward and Ryuu let the Vacuum Blade fade and deactivated his Sharingan before tossing the tanto away.
"Well?" Ryuu shouted. "Are you going to let me out or not?"
The door slid open but instead of the usual guard, a man wearing a black robe and a stark white mask with a spiral design around the only eye opening stepped in.
"Ryuu Uchiha," the man spoke, voice distorted by the mask. "You must leave. Your Jinchuriki friend has been found. They will capture her."
"Fu?" Ryuu gasped. "Where?"
"East," the man stated. "Hurry."
Ryuu sprinted past the man then through the hallways following a trail of unconscious guards to the exit and then sprinting out of it and into the forest before him. He glanced up at the sun, figuring that it was about three in the afternoon. He turned away from the sun and sped up, darting between the trees. After nearly three hours, it began to rain, getting dark very quickly. He skidded to a stop as he saw a massive big with six wings and a tentacle filling the sky ahead of him, towering over the mountains around it. The forest had given way to a barren stretch of land where the ground was cracked and the few plants present were dry and dead. After a distance, the barrens gave way to mountains. Somewhere in the mountains, or possibly beyond them, was the creature that Ryuu somehow knew was the Seven-tails.
Ryuu sprinted forward, speeding across the barrens but before he was halfway, shinobi began to appear in ever growing rows in swirls of the dust and rain around them. Ryuu didn't even slow as he activated his Sharingan, instantly spotting their armor.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY! ! !" Ryuu shouted, driving his fist into the first shinobi's armor and breaking it, driving broken splints into his abdomen before taking a pair of kunai from him and slitting his throat.
Then, he sprinted through the ranks of the shinobi, deflecting and redirecting their attacks with the kunai, spinning and slashing his way through, using one kunai to cut the armor free then the other to kill the ninja. Had they not had the armor, he would have simply blasted them all with a strong jutsu and been done with it. After nearly ten minutes, he stopped when the ground shook violently, several shinobi falling down. The mountains between him and Fu had exploded, nearly destroying them completely. Ryuu resumed his assault on the shinobi as they charged at him again. He blocked on sword, redirecting it into another shinobi's chest then jumped and kicked two in the throat. Finally, he reached the mountains and sprinted up the first one, killing any shinobi that got close enough. As he crested the mountain, he got high enough to see what Fu was fighting. It was a massive clay dragon that was barely a fifth the size of the Seven-Tails but that was doing a lot of damage, if the damaged wing, missing tentacle, and burns all over the Seven-tails' body were any judge.
Below Ryuu was the crater Fu's attack had left. It looked more like the top of a dormant volcano than it did a fresh explosion crater. Ryuu was about to slid into it just as the Seven-tails fired a massive black sphere past Ryuu, blasting a good portion of the shinobi into paste and killing most of the others a moment later as the explosion spread. Ryuu felt the concussion hit him, hurling him through the air. When he landed, he felt his left arm and several ribs break. He healed them, pushing himself up to realize the concussion had thrown him over the next peak and he was now standing on the mountain directly in front of the Seven-tails with the clay dragon circling around its head and Deidara and Sasori both on the ground between Fu and Ryuu.
Ryuu stood, sprinting down toward the two Akatsuki members, both of whom turned toward him just as the Dragon exploded against the Seven-tails' head. It turned into a silhouette of boiling red chakra before all shooting down to Fu, who was lying unconscious on the ground below, and soaked into her body.
"Ah, the Uchiha," Sasori greeted nodding. "I'll take care of this Deidara."
"No way," Deidara grinned. "You know how I am with Uchiha. He's mine."
"He'll kill you," Sasori warned.
"No way," Deidara snorted.
"What do you want with Fu?" Ryuu demanded, sliding to a stop in front of the two.
"Nothing," Deidara snorted. "It's the Seven-tails we want. Her death is just an unfortunate side effect of us taking it from her."
"You're going to kill her!?" Ryuu seethed, forming a Flame Sword on each hand. "Over my dead body!"
"Really?" Sasori asked flipping his tail around and driving it down through Fu's abdomen. "I wasn't aware you had to be dead first. Don't worry, the wound isn't fatal, despite the size. But the poison is."
Ryuu stared at Fu and the tail sticking out of her abdomen. His eyes itched, as they had the day he had awakened his Sharingan, and his vision focused even more. Then, his eyes burned as his anger erupted within him.
"YOU MOTHER FUCKER! ! !" Ryuu roared charging at Sasori. "I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU INTO SHREDS! ! !"
Deidara stepped between the two of them but before he could do anything, Ryuu snapped his head around, looking Deidara in the eye, placing him in a genjutsu leaving him immobile. Ryuu sped past Deidara, beginning to spin and slash at Sasori rapidly. Sasori wrenched his tail out of Fu and blocked one of Ryuu's Flame Swords just as a massive clay centipede shot out of the ground, wrapping around Ryuu.
"You're a fool," Deidara laughed from behind him. "I trained my left eye to see through genjutsu. You can't fool me with that."
"Good," Ryuu grinned. "I love having difficult fights."
And with that, he began to swell.
"What's he doing?" Deidara demanded just before Ryuu exploded into a massive ball of fire.
Deidara and Sasori landed a distance away, Sasori holding Fu in her tail and setting her down as the real Ryuu rose out of the ground beside the cloud of smoke.
"You bastards," Ryuu growled. "I don't care what my fucking religion says. You're both going to burn! Fire Style, Dragon Flame Bomb!"
The massive wall of flame shot toward the pair, forming a dragon in the middle but not the entire thing this time. Just as it got close, a clay dragon landed behind them, blocking the flames with its wing and then roared at Ryuu as the flames died down.
"You want to go ugly?" Ryuu asked forming a Chidori. "Bring it fucker!"
He leapt at the dragon, slamming his Chidori into the dragon and drilling his way completely through it before landing beside Fu. Before he could catch her, Sasori's tail exploded from his chest. He disappeared in a puff of smoke and the real one fell toward Sasori from the remains of the dragon with a Chidori. Sasori spun his tail around, smashing Ryuu away then turned toward him as Deidara began pulling out clay, the hands that Ryuu now saw on his palms eating it. Ryuu stood, forming two Flame Swords and charged forward. Sasori's tail flashed toward Ryuu and he slashed it sideways then continued. When he reached Sasori, he slashed at him but a deformed mass of clay smashed into his side, launching him away. Ryuu flipped over, landing on his feet and looking at the clay creature. It looked like a human that had been mashed up, squeezed into a ball then spat out and formed into the general shape of a human again. It had a length of clay cord reaching back into the mouth on Deidara's right hand.
"Allow me to introduce my Clay Minion," Deidara introduced as his left hand coughed up a second one.
The second walked up beside the first and stopped. Ryuu created a Flame Sword in his right hand and the Clay Minions charged. Ryuu sprinted forward, slashing one and cutting it in half then spun and kicked the other away as well. The half of the one he had slashed that didn't have a cord attached to it grew one, the cord connecting to the one attached to its other half. Ryuu growled in frustration, creating fifteen clones and all the clones charged. They began to tear into the three minions but as more and more pieces began to move around and attack, the clones soon found themselves out numbered. The pieces were able to be flung around by the cords faster than the clones could react to and soon the clones were all destroyed. The pieces all flew toward Ryuu and he leapt over them, slashing the cords. The cords reconnected and the pieces all shot up at Ryuu, crashing into him from every side but smoke shot out between them and they all flew past each other, cords tangling together. Deidara swore loudly as Ryuu fell toward him, firing Wind Bullets at him as he did.
Deidara leapt out of the way, rolling to his feet as Sasori smashed Ryuu to the ground with his tail before smashing him completely through the cords where they were tangled, shredding them. They reconnected again, untangled, then the pieces all began flipping and spinning around, fling at Ryuu.
"Wind Style, Pressure Damage!" Ryuu shouted firing the blast at the pieces.
They were all hit and slammed into Deidara who growled in anger as Sasori extended his tail again. Ryuu slashed it aside with his Flame Sword, sprinting forward again. This time, however, his foot sank into the ground after a few feet. He used the Body Flicker Technique to escape as an explosion shot us where he had been. He spun, knocking Sasori's tail aside then leapt backward as Deidara's minions chased after him again. Ryuu landed on a second mine and again escaped via Body Flicker and this time, appeared directly behind Sasori.
He slashed at him but before he could hit him, the tail swung around, batting him aside before Sasori turned to him and his mask floated up exposing his mouth. He opened his mouth and senbon began to fire out of it rapidly, blurring at Ryuu. Thanks to his Sharingan, he saw them coming and was able to get out of the way.
"Wind Style, Pressure Damage!" Ryuu shouted blasting Sasori. Sasori slid backward several feet before driving his tail into the ground and stopping himself.
Ryuu turned to Deidara just as Deidara's minions all smashed into his side, cords wrapping around him as the mouths on Deidara's hands bit down, separating them from him.
"Die!" Deidara shouted angrily.
All of the extra cord wrapped around Ryuu, tripping him before the clay exploded into a massive fireball. After several seconds of nothing happening, Sasori and Deidara collected their Jinchuriki and left.
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