Alright, this i think is the biggest chapter so far, and its a major chapter, so i hope you all enjoy it, again read and review ;)
now for the part where i answer my awesome reviewers
naturokurosaki - Thanks for the review, yeah, the battle for Rukia VS Shizune was not the greatest and i apologize for it, i can only hope that the battle in this chapter was better, as for Ichigo being the villan, yeah, i love bleach, i really do, its my second favorit anime, right after Naruto :P and i though it would be fun to have them in here as the bad guys, so i hope you are enjoying it, and wether or not they are shinobi is a good question, i will answer with saying yes, they are shinibis, but not your average chakra weilding shinobis ;) i am making them diferent since they are from a far away land not yet known to us, as for picking him as the Kage, and his age? Yeah, Naruto and He are about the same age, but when a country pick's a Kage, its not the age they look at, its how good the person is, normally its always someone young, examples are, the 3erd Hokage was young when he got it, the 4th hokage was young when he got it, hell look at Garaa ;) so you can assume that Ichigo is a new Kage and finally, about the Beta, i duno, i will think about it, i never had anyone beta for my stories, and i don't know how much that would slow me down, i like to post and not make my awesome readers wait to long, as you can see, this story has me inspired to the point where i am posting multiple times a week!
crsstlk - Thanks for the review, and REALLY?! I have not read the latest chapter, actually the last chapter i read had Konohamaru about to square off against some Akuski member, i have fallen behind, so shhh don't spoil it for me, but wow that makes me want to go and catch up! and thank you very much for enjoying the story this much :) As fo Sasuke, don't worry, i have plans for him, i know we haven't seen him in a while, but he has a place in this story ;)
chickenman00712 - Thank you very much, i am happy that you are enjoying my work, so thanks and keep reading/reviewing
Alright, well that's all of them, so keep on reviewing guys, and enjoy the new chapter!
This chapter was revised on May 19th 2017. Most grammar errors should have been addressed (Hopefully :P) I did a few enhancements and changed a few things around but the story remained unchanged
Saving old bonds
Chapter 12 (Revised)
Tsunade and Ichigo stood in front of each other, they were both trying to measure each other up, though Ichigo was very confident in his ability, he knew that Tsunade would not be a pushover. He launched an attack against her with his Katana using his speed, but Tsunade did not try to evade, instead she stood right in the path of the blade. She concentrated her chakra into her hand and hit the blade as hard as she could at an angle where she could avoid the cutting edge. The resulting blow sent Ichigo flying back to the ground. He got back up slightly surprised at the amount of strength she had "You are much stronger then I first gave you credit for"
"Then perhaps you will reconsider attacking us?" She said with a grin, already knowing the answer
"Heh" He simply answered back as he grinned "It only makes things more interesting, I love a challenge!" He suddenly vanished from sight, Tsunade went into a defensive stance, looking around for him. Suddenly he appeared to her left, she used her kunai to block and with speed she pushed it out of the way and used her free hand to strike a few locations on his body. He took a few steps back as Tsunade grind
"This fight is already over" She said with confidence
"And what makes you think that?" he said as he tried to lift his blade back up, but to his surprise his foot moved making him lose balance as he fell to the ground
"Because, I just mixed up your nervous system"
"What?" he said in shock
"Your nervous system is essentially the power grid of your body, your brain sends signals that run through your body, like move right arm up. But I disrupted your nervous system so instead of sending the signal to your right arm to go up, it may send the signal to your right leg to move forward or your left foot to go backwards. There was only one person who could figure out how to fight back under these conditions and the only reason that he was able to do so was because he knew just as much about medical Justus as I did" She said thinking back to her battle against Kabuto and how he was able to figure out a way to move all of his body parts after being hit by that move "But you on the other hand have no chance" She said as she walked up to him "I am sorry to have to do this, but I have the feeling you and your men won't back down" she said as she was about to give him a death blow
Suddenly a very young man stood in between Ichigo and Tsunade, he wore a white cloak with the number ten on it, indicating he was a captain. His hair was as white as snow and his eyes were of a teal color "Kurokage Sama, are you alright?" the boy asked calmly
"Hitsugaya, good timing, don't worry about me, she has just done something to my body, would you mind buying me some time while it wears off?"
"As you wish Kurokage Sama" He took out his Katana calmly. Every move he made was with grace, there were no wasted motions. Tsunade wasn't sure what to make of the new arrival. He was only a child yet she knew that she had seen him in the line-up of captains when they appeared behind Ichigo before the battle began. And if he was a captain then it meant that this boy was no weakling "I know that you are strong, and since you are the Hokage, I shall not insult you by toying around with you" He said with a very calm voice. For a kid, he was very mature. The total opposite of Naruto at that age Tsunade thought
Suddenly he went on the attack, his blade connecting with her kunais. But to her surprise the kunai began to freeze. She took a few steps back trying to get some distance between herself and the boy "What kind of ability is that?" She wondered
"My katana's name is Hyorinmaru, meaning Frozen Ring" he answered her, almost as if he knew what she was thinking "I have many abilities, I could end this right now. But my duty is to only buy some time. That doesn't mean I will take it easy on you, like I said, I would not disrespect you in that way" He said, always keeping the same tone of voice, calm and collected.
"This boy is dangerous, if only I had some fire jutsus to use" She thought as she looked at the melting ice off her kunai "I guess I should go on the offensive, it's my best chance" she thought and she went on the attack trying not to give him any chance to react. As she got near him his facial expressions did not change. She launched her assault, trying to land a strike but the boy was fast, nibble and agile. With little effort, he dodged the attacks.
"I am a captain of the thirteen-protection squad, you are going to have to do better than that" He said as he launched an attack of his own. But to Tsunade's surprise he used his fist and landed a few shots. How could this boy be so fast? She began to look around and noticed her ninjas were having similar problems. These people were extremely fast, but she couldn't give up. She began her attack again, using everything in her power to try and land a single punch. If she could hit him even just once, then perhaps she could slow him down a bit. But she would always miss by mere inches. That's when she grinned as she got an idea, instead of concentrating her chakra in her hands, she was going to extend it outside of her hands. Finally, she hit him, once, twice, three times, four five. He quickly jumped back to regroup himself, he felt blood dripping down his face "Now you are finally fighting me seriously" he said while wiping the blood off his face, in addition to his face, she had also cut parts of his arm and legs, but he seemed not too worried about it
"I will not allow you to win here"
Suddenly Hitsugaya felt someone tap his shoulder "Thanks Hitsugaya, but I will take it from here, I know it must have been hard for you to hold back, and you had to get those cuts because of it" Ichigo said as he had recovered from Tsunade's initial attack
"As you wish Kurokage Sama" he said bowing his head in respect and suddenly vanished
"Now then, I may have underestimated you and your abilities, but don't think that while I was trapped by your last trick that I was just lying there. I studied you, watched you, you won't hit me with that move of yours again, I won't underestimate you again, and thus, I shall fight you with my full power" he said as he lifted his sword in the air "BAN-KAI!"
The winds began to pick up as a dust cloud surrounded Ichigo, when it cleared he had transformed. His katana was now one quarter its original size and his clothing looked thorn up for some reason. Tsunade could not figure out what he had done, and his blade looked weaker, so how was that fighting her with his full power she though. But suddenly she felt a huge surge of power from the man in front of her
"I am the Kurokage of the Moon and Night country! BEHOLD MY POWER!" suddenly he vanished from sight, she could no longer sense his presence. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain from her right arm and suddenly blood began to gush out, and again from her right arm, she then felt cold steel go through her body as she fell to her knees, she looked at her chest and there was now blood gushing out, and Ichigo appeared in front of her with a blood drenched blade "This fight is over, you are about to die"
"No, you cannot win!" she screamed out in pain
"You are fatally wounded, but don't worry, I will end it now"
"I am not done, not yet!" she said, and suddenly the diamond shape image on her forehead began to spread all over her body, and to Ichigo's surprise and amazement, her wounds were healing at extreme speeds, she stood back up "I am the Hokage of the leaf and the fire country! Now YOU behold my power!"
Ichigo grinned as he attacked her, he slashed her, pierced her, but no matter what he did, her wounds were healing up just as fast as he was inflicting them, he stopped wanting answers "What kind of power is this!"
"Creation Rebirth, over the years, I have stored up an enormous amount of chakra in my forehead, when released I can use it to force my cells to regenerate at extreme speeds" she said with a grin, leaving out the part that cells can only multiply a certain amount of time during one's life time, and thus the more wounds he inflicts on her and forces her body to regenerate, the shorter her lifespan became. She had already shaven a few years of her life against Orochimaru, she knew this battle would shave a few more "What that means is, you cannot kill me for as long as this is activated"
"Oh really now? Let's test that theory out then!" with lighting speed he attacked her, he cut her, her body was being shredded, blood was gushing out from everywhere, but her body was able to keep up with the healing, but Tsunade knew that she must had just lost 10 years of her life, she had to do something! And fast, she concentrated her chakra in her hand and slammed the ground, and since Ichigo was near her and stabbing her, it sent him flying through the air. He hit a tree and spat out blood from the impact, he couldn't believe it. She was right, she did not have a scratch on her body, and he was feeling his powers getting weaker, the more he used up his ban-kai, the more of his power it would drain. And if she could keep fighting like this indefinably, then eventually he would run out of power.
"Do you now realize how futile it is to fight me?" She said with a grin, trying to sound confident, knowing that her body would not be able to take much more of those kinds of attacks
"I will admit, you are much more powerful than that weak feeble old man, the Mizukage, you are indeed worth fighting" he said as he turned his head to see Renji dealing a finishing blow to the Mizukage, piercing his chest with his katana ending the man's life. Tsunade looked in the same direction and was shocked by what she saw, the Mizukage had been killed. She couldn't allow herself to fall "But even you must have a weakness, I am sure that you have noticed your ninjas are all going down one by one, so time is not on your side" he said with a grin "Hitsugaya already told you the name of his katana, I don't believe that I have introduced you to mine yet. Its name is Zangetsu, literally meaning cutting moon. It's a very special and powerful blade, we make perfect partners"
"You're talking as if there alive"
"Alive, well not literally, but I guess you could say that. These Katana's are an extension of our souls, we are connected to them, we draw our power from them. When my people graduate from the Academy, we are not only given our headbands but our katana as well. However, we are not the ones who chose them, they chose us"
"So you have a deep connection with your blades, I still don't understand what's so special about them"
"Each blade has its own special power, I am sure you noticed that Hitsugaya's blade had ice elements inside of it, however you have not even seen the true power of his blade. But my point is that my blade also has its own powers, and I am about to show one of them to you" he said with a grin, he jumped back to get some distance between himself and Tsunade, he lifted his blade in the air and swung it down screaming out at the same time "Getsuga!"
To Tsunade's surprise, a huge beam of light was heading towards her, she barely had the chance to get out of the way. With all her power, she jumped out of the way. When she got up she felt something was wrong, or missing, she looked at her left arm, it was gone! Her body has already begun healing the wound so the blood would stop gushing out, but there was no way it could reconstruct her entire arm
"It's nice to see your body has a limit to what it can heal" he said with a grin, satisfied with the result. Even if she was able to jump out of the way, there was no way she could continue fighting for long in that condition
Suddenly Yamato and Shizune jumped in between them "HOKAGE SAMA!" Shizune screamed out in horror at the sight of her leader and friend
"We have got to get her out of here, we lost this battle Shizune, but we must warn the village so we can begin a counter strike" he said while doing hand sighs. Suddenly big logs of wood envelope the 3 of them and the ground swallowed them all
"What? Where did they go?! FIND THEM!" Ichigo demanded as he looked around at his victorious forces that had just finished off the rest of the leaf's forces
They appeared a few kilometers away from the now occupied port town, Yamato had Tsunade in his arms, suddenly she told him to stop and put her down. They jumped down from the trees and he laid her down.
"Is there something wrong Hokage Sama?" he asked, he had noticed that the diamond had yet to retract to its dormant state, and that the seal was glowing. Even Shizune had never seen that before
"It's over, I am at my limit" She simply said
"What are you talking about Hokage Sama?" Shizune asked
"My cells have reached their limit, my life is coming to an end, I will die within the next few moments"
"NO! I am a medical Ninja, there has to be something I can do!" Shizune screamed out in tears while Yamato was standing beside Tsunade in silence
"Shizune, we both know that no one, not even I can reverse cell regeneration. If I could then no one would ever need to get old" she said trying to smile, but all she could do was cough out some blood "I want you to listen to my final requests"
Yamato nodded and Shizune had tears rolling down her cheeks, the pain from her wounds were long forgotten
She handed them 2 scrolls "I want you to deliver these scrolls, one of them is who I pick to be the next Hokage, give them to the council members so they can begin the ceremony as soon as possible. The other scroll is for Naruto, it tells him the truth about his family, his origin, and an apology from me for not telling him sooner" she said once more coughing out blood "finally, Shizune, don't give up the hospital, it will need you now more than ever. Continue to teach Sakura the things I did not have the time to finish, and make sure she knows that I am very proud of her, proud to have her as my apprentice. Also tell her to take good care of Naruto, that boy was like a son to me, he deserves to be happy, and so does she for that matter, and finally Yamato my boy, take good care of yourself and Shizune, make sure she gets back home safely, and protect her always. I know you will do it because you have been doing it ever since you were kids" she said with a smile as both of them blushed at the comment she finally coughed out more blood and slowly shut her eyes, the diamond seal finally vanished, and disappeared, and lastly, her heart stopped beating
"NO! WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE?!" Shizune screamed in sadness and anger
"We have to move Shizune, I will carry her home to make sure she gets a proper burial, but we can't stay here, they must be tracking us by now" Yamato said while picking up the now deceased Tsunade with a small tear running down his eye. Shizune simply nodded in agreement and they both jumped back onto the branch and continued on their way towards Konoha
End Chapter 12
Alright, its a sad ending to the chapter i know :( however i REALLY REALLY hope the fight was better in this one, i tried hard to make it exciting, thanks for reading and once more, REVIEW :D