Chapter 13
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With Toad Sage
The whole area around him was covered in a mist. Juzo Biwa the infamous swordsmen of the mist was quite famous for the silent killing technique which he passed down onto his apprentice, Zabuza Momochi. The vast water reservoir which was present nearby was quite helpful for the missing Mist-nin. Toad sage was keeping up with his opponent without a sweat, but he was worried about Kakashi. While he did not doubt his abilities, anyone could get overwhelmed by the sheer number of opponents. Currently, Kakashi was facing about dozen of Chunins and couple of Jounins.
"Water style: Water Dragon jutsu" a shout was heard by Jiraiya, who just managed to dodge the water dragon by side-stepping towards his right, "Fire Style: Fireball" Toad sage responded with his own jutsu. Unlike Juzo who was quite familiar with the terrain, Jiraiya was having some hard time locating his opponent. 'Damn It! I can't even Sage jutsu to sense him,' his musings were interrupted by another sneak attack of his enemy, this time Projectiles were thrown towards him, suddenly he heard a ringing sound. His eyes widened, "Needle Jizo" at the very last minute his whole body was covered by his silvery white colored hairs, which were as hard as steel.
'Damn, that was a close one. Using bells on the projectiles was a clever idea!" he felt some moment at his rear and fired another fireball towards it, the fireball was engulfed by the mist. After a couple of seconds he heard the explosion, due to his quick reflexes he was able to duck underneath the horizontal slash of his opponent, 'Damn, you clever bastard covering your movements under the sound of explosion'. Using his presence of mind, toad sage quickly unsealed a paper from his pouch and was able to stick it onto his enemy's' sword.
Juzo suddenly felt his sword quite heavy, he quickly used this weight to increase the momentum and twirled it towards the Jiraiya who just dodged it by jumping upwards, Juzo smirked "I got you now!" he grinned, as he went through some hand signs, "Water Style: Great Cannon Ball jutsu" as a large cannonball made out of water blurred towards Jiraiya, the hit finally connected. Juzo was hoping to see the shreds of meat but there were pieces of metal scattered everywhere.
"Looking for something?" he twirled his head towards the voice but it was too late as Toad sage was a couple of inches away from him, Jiraiya connected with his Rasengan, right onto his chest which sent him flying away. The missing ninja dematerialized into the water when he made a solid contact with the tree.
"You live up to your reputation of leaf's strongest, eh Jiraiya?" Juzo chuckled as he slowly walked out of the mist, he was already feeling drained by using those high-level jutsus.
"You are not too bad either, Juzo Biwa!" Jiraiya praised, "But I do wonder how do you planning to keep up with me? You don't have your blade anymore!" toad sage finished, he was sure that the threat probability was low now as Juzo was considered to be a master of the sword.
"I don't need, a blade to defeat you!" he grinned like a maniac and muttered something, after a couple of second his hands were covered by water, "Consider, yourself Lucky you are the first one to witness my new-Technique," Juzo grinned, "Water Style: Dual Wield" he shouted and rushed towards Jiraiya, who was already halfway through his hand-signs, "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu". Dozens of small fireballs were launched towards the Juzo, Jiraiya was hoping that this would at least slow him down if not stop him, but what happened next completely gave him a sucker punch right in the jaw as He observed Juzo using his swords which were composed of water, cutting through his fireballs like a butter.
"Told you SO!" Juzo grinned as he was a couple feet away from Jiraiya, Juzo used both of his swords and delivered a cross slash, Suddenly Jiraiya was replaced by a log, "Damn it! A Substitution" Juzo cursed and leaped back into the mist.
Jiraiya was using his famous espionage jutsu to keep undetected in the mist, after all, two can play the same game. Suddenly he heard a large explosion, "Damn! Kakashi knows some flashy Jutsus!"
With Kakashi Earlier
He was surrounded by the dozen of missing Ninjas, all of them carrying some kind of weapon, without any delay they all charged at him. Kakashi sighed and engaged them in the fight. At first two Chunins attacked, relying on the speed and his skills in the kenjutsu, he twirled his body in such a way that both strikes went pass through his ears, he quickly drew his Kunais from the pouch and armed himself with them. One of the two chunin charged at him with a big long sword. Kakashi being an Anbu captain once, quickly disposed of him by jumping above and embedding his kunai right into his thick skull and landing behind him. He then proceeded and took hold of his enemy's sword.
"Water Style: Water Bullet" the missing Jounin who was accompanying the ambush shouted. Kakashi used the recently acquired long sword as a shield, the water bullets struck on the blade. But failed to give any damage to it, his quick battle instincts proved his life-saver as he quickly jumped up to avoid being impaled by the dozens of shuriken.
"Damn it!" were his thoughts as he quickly realized his mistake. Two figures accompanied in the air, as they went on with Horizontal strikes, while a third one was coming right up with a vertical strike. Kakashi used his agility to his advantage, he blocked the two horizontal slashes with the soles of his boot and made a cartwheel jump by using them as a rigid support, he went on to strike the third one on his back as he landed on the ground. "Two Down!" his thoughts were cut off as he engaged another one from the dozen in a taijutsu contest.
They exchanged the punches, Kakashi was gaining the upper hand but had to halt and jump away to avoid another hail of shuriken, "Damn it, How should I dispose of them?" he went through some handsigns and fired a large Fireball at one of the two jounins, who countered it with his own variation of Water Bullet. Due to this head-on collision of Fire and water, a large amount of steam occupied the area. "This is my Chance!"
After a couple of minutes mist finally cleared, all remaining Ninjas were standing together. There were ten of them now, two of their comrades were lost to them. As the mist cleared they observed their target standing there, all high and mighty with a small smirk on his face and on top of that a familiar orange colored book in his hands, eyes tracing the lines and few giggles that escaped his mouth.
"What the hell does he think he is doing?" wondered mist ninjas. Suddenly they felt a resistance and felt a pair of hands latch onto their legs, it was too late as leaf Jounin gave them a sly smile, "Earth Style: Head Hunter Jutsu" they heard as almost all of them were pulled right back into the ground.
"My-My you guys sure are pretty ambitious, trying to keep me away from my precious. ANYONE WHO TRIES THAT DIES!" Kakashi got out coldly, he tenderly placed his precious in the pouch and started walking towards them with a sick smile on his face and alone kunai in his hand, covered with lightning chakra. He made his way towards the jounin and bent down on his knees and whispered, "Now tell me what you guys are doing here?"
With Jiraiya
The game of hide and seek was still going on, none of them managed to land an accurate blow to one another but toad sage was sure that sooner or later Juzo has to release the jutsu after all the Hidden Mist jutsu takes a lot out of user's chakra pool. He was just waiting for the right moment. "Hm, judging from the sound I think Kakashi's fight is over, now all I have to do is wait for my shot and then capitalize on it" his line of thoughts were broke off when he had to bend 180 degrees to avoid being cut into pieces. By using his upper body strength Jiraiya managed to connect bicycle kick right on his opponent's face, who then within a second burst in a poof of mist.
"A Mist clone!" Jiraiya panicked, this was not going to well for him, without waiting for a second he used a wind-style Jutsu to quickly disperse all the mist around the area, where he observed bloodied Kakashi at the feet of Juzo, who was holding his so-called, 'Water-Sword' on Kakashi's neck.
"Surrender now, or your pal dies here!" Juzo threatened as he applied pressure enough to pierce Kakashi's skin, who screamed like he was on fire. "Do you know, how does it feel to have water pierce your body? You know what, I always wanted to know….."
Jiraiya lost his cool and slammed his right hand on the ground, "Summoning Jutsu!" but to his surprise, nothing happened, "What the FUCK!" the toad sage wondered.
"Do you think I am Joking! Because I am not, so stopping fooling around!" Juzo was pissed off right now, No one makes a fool out of him No One!
"What the fuck is going on? What's happening with the toads?" Jiraiya cursed along with Kakashi, "You know what! Screw this," Juzo got out and pierced Kakashi with his water blade,
"KAKASHI!" Jiraiya shouted, and was about to go on a rampage when he felt a familiar presence behind him, "Ahh!" Juzo screamed and jumped back from his position.
"How..?" Jiraiya questioned a very tired Kakashi.
"I substituted myself with the lightning clone," he barely got out.
"Very clever of you, Kakashi Hatake. No wonder you are his son!" Juzo grinned, he loved to fight. He hardly faced anyone who was stronger than him, most of the fights would end within a blink of an eye, courtesy of his deadly combination of Silent killing and hidden mist jutsu. "All right, everyone get ready, cause today we are going to have a Toad Kabab along with Dog sixty-five, (I know these recipes are really pathetic, T_T).
"In your dreams, Juzo!" Jiraiya volleyed back and went through some hand-signs along with Kakashi, "Fire Style Collaboration Jutsu: The Great shield of Rejuvenation" and then suddenly a large wall of fire stood between Mist-Shinobi and them.
Some Mist-Shinobi's were foolish enough to rush towards the wall, "NO-WAIT!" Juzo cursed but he was too late as wall already shootout it's tentacle-like projection and engulfed the attackers who died an agonizing death, as they could feel their bodies melt slowly.
"Sir, what do we do?"
"Nothing! It's one of the forbidden Jutsu of the Hidden leaf village, we can't do anything except waiting for the user to run out of chakra. This wall is not an ordinary wall, No! This wall is the one of the most dangerous fire jutsu in the leaf's arsenal, the very same jutsu that Madara and his brother Izuna used against Senju brothers, Hashirama and Tobirama. The Jutsu is capable of stopping any attack, as long as the will of the user remains intact. If the user hesitates even slightly then, the wall of fire will surround the user and incinerate him." Juzo responded he knew very well that he had blown his chance away. Juzo as experience as he was, he was not a fool. Charging or attacking the duo was suicide as long as they have that wall of fire surrounding them.
"Kakashi, I know this is hard for you! But I am sorry!"
"What do you mean…." He could not finish as Jiraiya dealt a knock-out chop right on his neck, leaving Kakashi unconscious. He then picked up Kakashi's unconscious body and leaped right onto the boat, leaving the land of wild-crabs and marching on forward and towards his destination, the Land of Wild lands. "What have you done this time, my old teammate?"
Meanwhile, Juzo was glaring at the ship, "You will not survive next time, Jiraiya!" he cursed and left with his comrades.
With Team Seven
Sayuri was using all of her brain cells to recall the procedure, in fact, she was trying to visualize the whole page. There was a reason why she was the smartest guy in the room, well a girl to be honest. She had come up with a new jutsu, this jutsu was nothing but a chakra control exercise, she would power up her brain by transferring her chakra, this way she could remember every little thing. She used the principle that the Human brain never forgets, it just stores the useless information somewhere else, but by using her advanced chakra control she could make that area highly receptive and retrieve any information.
Meanwhile, Natsuki and Nimato were on a guard duty. 'it's been too long since we lost Naruto and Obito-sensei, I wonder if they are alive!' Natsuki wondered.
'Damn that Naruto! Where the hell is he anyway! When I get my hands on him, I swear not even his shadow clones could save him!' the rage was building up inside Nimato, but he was worried about his rival too. Suddenly they heard a slight rustle in the trees.
"Get Out of there Naruto! I know it's You!" Nimato ordered, but still, nothing happened. Finally, Nimato got so mad that he pulled out two Kunais from his pouch and hurled it towards the target. A black blur jumped out from the bushes.
"How Rude uncle! Is this a way to greet with your nephew?"
"It's Impossible! Don't tell me you killed Obito-Sensei!" Natsuki shrieked.
"YOU BASTARD!" Nimato shouted and rushed towards Nozume, a lone kunai in his hand trying to finish him in one blow, but without even looking at him, Nozume blocked his strike with his bare hands and grabbed him by his throat.
"My-My, uncle you are as impatient as ever!" Nozume teased and then punched in his gut with a tremendous force, which was enough to knock him out. The blood was oozing out of his mouth and without even sparing another moment, Nozume tossed Nimato aside like a rag doll.
"Now, show me what you got for me, Aunty! I am really excited," Nozume ginned and slowly walked towards Natsuki.
'What should I do? I can't beat him on my own, but I also can't allow him to reach Sayuri, she needs time to create that poison' she took a deep breath and opened up her eyes with a very determined face, she clutched her right hand and bit her thumb, she then proceeded to spray her own blood on her left wrist. After a couple of seconds, a large reddish-black sword poofed into the existence, the blade itself was similar to that of Nozume's. The blade was long enough to be called as a longsword, there was kanji for 'Peace' engraved on it in golden embroidery. It was no question that the blade was hand-made by one of the blades smith. But there was something weird about it.
Nozume could feel some sickening aura around his 'future aunt', 'Watari, what's this feeling? It's almost similar to that of…' his telepathic conversation with his trusted comrade or rather a trusted AI was abruptly interrupted as he had to dodge the incoming attack.
"You know it's really rude to interrupt someone during a conversation!"
"What do you mean conversation? You were just standing there staring into nothingness and I would be dammed if I didn't take that chance!"
'She is just as mean as she is in the future, if not meaner' Nozume sweat dropped and pulled out his own katana from the sheath. "Now, let us fight like a true Swordsm..a….a…n or a swordswoman," Nozume stuttered. He was too smart to call her a swordsman, 'I still remember, how she kicked my ass during that training session when I called her an Old-Lady to tease her,' Nozume shivered remembering her scary face, she was much scarier than his mom, he was sure of it.
"Hmm, it's been a while, I almost forgot that I could use a sword on the missions," Nozume mumbled and settled into his own kenjutsu stance, he didn't have to wait too long as his aunt rushed towards him in a blur. Natsuki was attacking him with everything she got but her every strike was being countered or neutralized by Nozume. She went for an aerial slash which Nozume blocked with his katana and was about to kick her in the gut when she suddenly released her hold on the sword and went for a stab with a kunai, Nozume who was a master of lightning style manipulated her sword just in time to block her kunai.
"Phew, that was a close call," He mumbled and struck her with a palm strike and with a poof of smoke she disappeared.
"Here we go again, everyone from my family just loves to play the clone game,"
"You are the same Master, after all that's, how you managed to earn the title of a trickster as your bingo book Moniker,"
"Eh, wish I could turn back time, to the good-old-days, when I was the one doing this trick on the idiots, but it's hideous how everyone from the past whom I face knows this, don't you think?"
"Hmm, hey wait a second you stole the lyrics from Twenty one Pilots, That's not fair!"
"Oh, piss off! Watari. We are not playing the Rhyme game again!"
"Yeah, because everyone knows you suck!"
"That was all your goddamn fault, seriously why would you suggest the word 'Porn' as a rhyming word for corn anyway?"
"I only suggested, I did not…" watari could not finish as his master did a total one-eighty degree to avoid being pummelled by the flock of shuriken.
"We will continue this later, Watari!" Nozume replied and before watari could respond he cut his link with him. "(sigh) I hope," that all watari wanted to say.
"I don't believe, you could defeat Obito-sensei, you are an easy target," Natsuki voiced out, she was observing this Nozume guy, it appeared that he was talking with someone Again. But she was quite surprised at how alert he was, even with all of her hidden attacks she couldn't even scratch his body, on the other hand, he managed to knock-out her idiot brother, Nimato in one blow. "Nimato may be an idiot, he may be a pain in the butt, but he is not that weak. In fact, he is the most powerful among the three of us in terms of raw physical prowess, so I don't know if he is playing with me or am I that good? Well probably the first one, so what could be his motive? I did know that he was sent here from the future to assassinate Sayuri, that means he could will not kill any of us except for Sayuri, that also leaves out the possibility of him being a liar, so it confirms that he is my nephew from the future, which means I could sweet-talk him, to buy some time for Sayuri to create that poison!" her train of thought was derailed at the moment when she felt a powerful jab on her left cheek. She was blasted from the branch and hit the ground really hard.
"OUCH! You Bastard you just ruined my face! And Now Naruto is going to hate me for looking this bad and guess what? IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" she screamed and blurred towards him in a blink.
"Whoa, Whoa-Whoa, take it, easy Aunty, OUCH! That hurt, OUCH please stop it!" Nozume leaped back and created some separation, "Jeez, why are so fixated on my Paa? Ops!" Nozume quickly shut his mouth, suddenly he felt a very familiar aura around his aunt. "Watari, I fucked up, didn't I?"
"Yes, you did it wonderfully! So should I send your last recorded message?" watari understood the silence of his master as an affirmative and sent the message.
Nozume was sweating right now, this was the exact same aura he felt when he called her and Old-Lady accidentally during a training session.
"What did you say?" Natsuki asked very sweetly, her body was moving on its own as she was marching towards the Nozume without any fear.
With Naruto
He was running for quite some time, his legs were aching, but he did not care, his body was tired but he did not care and last but not least his chakra was almost depleted but he did not care at all. Suddenly his path was blocked by a large wall made out of ice. He observed the wall carefully and could see a figure approaching him.
"Step aside kid, I am in a hurry," Naruto commanded the kid but to his dismay, that kid just shrugged and kept walking towards him.
"You, have the similar chakra signature as that of that man, you must be related to him. I will avenge my master by sacrificing you!" the kid yelled and suddenly Naruto could feel the fog surrounding him, the kid was quite capable of using the Hidden-mist jutsu.
"This is my last warning Kid! Step aside or I will take some preventive measures," the blond warned but this time he received his answer in the form of the hail of Kunais and Shuriken which he blocked quite easily. Naruto went through some hand-signs and performed his least favourite jutsu, "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" the blond exclaimed and suddenly all the fog and mist surrounding him were blown away due to the blast of this wind. But apparently, the blond was so focused on his jutsu that he failed to dodge the incoming attacks of the kid. He winced when four Ice-needles struck on his shoulder.
"Is this Ice?" he wondered and pulled out those needles, "Yup, definitely Ice!" he cursed his luck, after-all he was a fire and a mediocre wind user, the Ice had the advantage over his elements. "Have to do this the old fashioned way!" he sighed and activated his Sharingan. "One, two, three, Hmm I could see three openings in this situation," he deflected another hail of the Ice projectiles and dropped a smoke pellet. The smoke provided the perfect cover he was looking for to set up his trap. After a couple of minutes, the ice user finally had enough and decided to something about the smoke, so what he did? He fired one of his own jutsu, "Water Style: Cry of the heaven," the effect was instantaneous as large droplets of water along with some ice-bergs made their way towards the ground with tremendous velocity.
The smoke was completely vanished and there stood Naruto with an impassive look on his face, the Ice user was quite surprised as he was sure that blond was up to something but he could not feel or see anything unusual, well except for his opponent. His opponent was staring right at him with a look of disinterest. Those were the eyes he was familiar with, the very same eyes that would just stare at you until you cut your own throat off, the eyes that will watch millions of innocents die, the eyes that always searched for something to satisfy their self-needs. He hated those eyes, those eyes were responsible for the death of his mother, and he pleaded and pleaded. But no one listened or even looked at him when he cried for help, No one. But one day, everything changed when his master came.
He did not care what the cruel world spoke about Zabuza, in his eyes he was a very good man. He raised him like his own, looked after him and trained him. He pledged to take the revenge for him, with that in mind he unleashed his one of the most deadly technique, "Demonic Ice Mirrors!"
Suddenly Naruto felt the very same air around him, suffocating. He could feel the chakra radiating in the air, he quickly rushed towards the opening and within a lapse of a second, and he had to deflect all the incoming needles and projectiles. He deflected most of it, while some of them did manage to penetrate his defense, he cursed when his hand reached out to pull those needles again, this time out of his shoulder.
"Just give up and I will make your death easy and less painful!" the ice user's voice resonated from different spots.
'His voice is scrambling, some kind of transportation technique?' blond decided to test his theory out, "Fire Style: Demon Shuriken" he exclaimed as very small shuriken made out of orange-hued flames were running wild inside the dome. This was the one of the technique he came up with by watching the old-fashioned 'Shuriken clone jutsu'. His attack was short lived as he had to jump away from another projectile attack of the ice user.
'This is getting boring!' blond scowled inwardly and went through some lengthy hand-signs, "Fire Style: Majestic Flame destroyer" he exclaimed as the giant tsunami of napalm surrounded the area, all the fog, and the mist was blown away due to this intense heat. The walls of ice forming the dome, shattered and managed to get the ice user to flee. 'Damn, my father was a beast!' the effects of the jutsu brought a smile to his face, at least his father was not a failure and a weakling in terms of power. Suddenly blond fell onto his knees, he cursed his ignorance about this jutsu. His reserves were not enough, now he had to resort to his taijutsu if the kid managed to survive this.
"You really do live to your reputation as a leaf ninja, However.." the kid finished by flashing right next to him and connected a punt kick right in his jaw. "You are weak! You don't have someone to fight for! I can see it in your eyes, you only fight for yourself and that's why today I will end your existence with my very own hand!" he then went on to pick him up from the ground by his neck and lifted him up. "Ice Style: Arctic Claw" he finished by thrusting his chakra covered hand inside Naruto's heart.
The blond felt intense pain shot through his body before the last breath of the life escaped from his body, the Ice user then tossed his body aside and was about to leave when suddenly he felt a tip of Katana on his neck.
"What's the rush, Buddy? I am just getting started!" the ice user heard some muttering pass his left ear and felt a cold metal against his throat. His enemy was behind him, but that was impossible, after all, he pierced him with his own jutsu by his hands.
"How..?" that's the only word ever left from his voice box before his enemy separated his head from his body.
"Die in suspense, you pretender!" muttered blond as he delivered the killing blow, ending the life of the ice user. Without sparing another glance to his victim he dashed off towards the Namikaze siblings.
With Team Seven
"Come on, Aunty that's all you got?" Nozume smiled at his downed relative. 'Although I am quite impressed, I didn't think she had that kind of ability in the future? So that means I am really messing up the time-line already?'
'Finally, that non-existent brain of yours has kicked off eh? I was wondering when you would bring this up,'
'Oh, shut it up Watari! Tell me how do I prevent messing things up even more?'
'What was that? I heard some snotty nosed brat asking for my help? But I didn't hear the word S-O-R-R-Y? Am I malfunctioning?'
'Fine! I am Sorry! Now tell me!' Nozume was so involved with watari that he failed to notice the absence of his relative.
'It's quite easy don't you think? Just finish up your mission ASAP and you will be fine, I guess?'
'YOU GUESS? Hey, you are supposed to be the one with huge as….' Nozume could not finish as he had to jump away to avoid a life-threatening blow. When he landed he saw his new opponent facing him, "Finally! I got to see you, Mother!" Nozume was excited, finally, he was facing his mother.
"I am not your mother! And I will punish you for what you have done to Natsuki!"
"Relax, I haven't done anything at all, she just collapsed during our fight, probably just a mild case of chakra-exhaustion," Nozume eyed his mother, he was quite impressed by her. She was just as beautiful as she was in the future. Those same piercing blue colored eyes, her pale skin, and her lovely face. She was still carrying her with grace, Nozume cherished his mother, and after all, she was the one who was with him from the beginning. She was the one who sang a lullaby for him, feed him and take care of him. It really pained him to execute his own loving mother. He sighed and concentrated for a bit, this was going to be a really hard battle for him, not physically but mentally as well. He had to be cold-hearted to deal with her right now.
'Whatever you do just don't take the tiniest bit of scratch from any of her weapons,' Watari decided to inform his master, after all, it was the wielder of one of the Three legendary Kunai they were about to face.
'Don't worry I plan to take her very-very seriously' he finished and blurred towards her with a blinding speed, Sayuri also matched him in the speed and met him in half-way. She went for a horizontal slash, which Nozume was foolish enough to block with his Kunai. Sayuri's Kunai cut through Nozume's like it was made up of the butter. The time-traveller was fast enough to quickly substitute with a log.
"Using your trump-card from the beginning? Well, I would just do the same!" Nozume closed his eyes for a bit, when he opened them, Sayuri was staring right into those cursed eyes of the Uchiha, the Mangekyo Sharingan. This time Sayuri took the initiative and rushed towards the Nozume, who was still standing on the same spot. She was swinging her Kunai like a crazy, but her opponent was dodging her attack like it was a child's play.
"I expected more from you mother!" he got out and went through some hand-signs. "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu" he exclaimed and fired a very large fireball towards his mother. She was dumbstruck, as it was impossible for her to get out of its path, she decided to test something out. She pushed a large amount into her Kunai of light and to her surprise, it started to glow, she pushed some more and then within an instant a Yellow colored beam of highly concentrated Charka shot forward through it, obliterating everything in its path and the large fireball was no exception either.
Nozume's battle instincts kicked in as he unconsciously used "Kamui". He released a sigh and analysed, the destruction caused by the Jutsu. It was devastating, the land was completely obliterated, and everything surrounding the area was completely vaporized. 'Damn! I didn't know she could do something like this, better be on the guard!'
Meanwhile, Sayuri was amazed, 'did I do that?' she mentally asked before pacing towards her opponent again. This time though, her opponent seemed quite agile and instead of blocking her strikes he was wisely dodging them, avoiding any contact with her legendary weapon. 'Just one strike and it will be over!' she encouraged herself and continued with her flurry of strikes.
Nozume was doing his best to avoid the direct contact, 'I could use Susanoo, but it will be an overkill and will surely attract the unwanted attention!' he pondered and leaped back to avoid being cut in half by her strike. "You really are strong, mother! But for the sake of the future and my little brothers and sisters I must accomplish this mission!"
"Don't you fear death? If what you are saying is true and if you are really my own son, then how would you be even born without me?"
"A man begins dying at the moment of his birth, most people live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting beside. Death is not something to be feared of, it is something to be embraced with full honesty. It would be a cruel punishment to not know the feeling of its sweet kiss and wake up from the harsh reality to be born once again." Nozume finished and quickly he made a hand seal and fired, "Lightning Style: Lightning Ball" towards the moving target. "It is really rude to attack when I am talking mother!" Nozume said with a bit of a disappointment.
"It would be foolish of me to not take all the chances I have got! So what do you say, shall we finish this?" Sayuri got out with a small grin on her face. Instead of responding to her question, Nozume started pacing towards her with a blinding speed, she met him in a half. She went for another strike which Nozume this time blocked and pushed her back like a rag-doll. "Don't be so amazed, after all, I did kill the old man Obito!"
'Damn it! I just have to make contact with his skin and it will be all over!' Sayuri cursed her lack of skill in taijutsu, after all, who needs a taijutsu when you have an enormous arsenal of Nin-jutsu.
"Come on mother let's end this once and for all!" Nozume said with a hardened tone and went through some hand-signs, within a few seconds his katana was covered with a layer of Lightning. Sayuri rushed towards him and flung a kunai towards him. Nozume deflected it with a little effort. But within a moment Sayuri was on his point-blank range, he went for a vertical slash but to his amazement, she suddenly disappeared. "Take this!" he heard and on instinct moved his katana but it was too late as her Kunai was embedded in his shoulder while his Katana was sticking out from her chest.
Nozume watched as Sayuri began coughing up blood. He quickly removed his katana without causing any further damage to her. He then hugged her body and gently laid her down on the ground.
"I-I..." Nozume watched as Sayuri tried to speak, coughing more blood from her throat. Her dress becoming stained from the blood pouring out from the wound on her chest.
"I-I am... so sorry... m-mother" Nozume got out through a cracking voice.
"I-I'm.. a bad..son... y-you must be h-hating me for this" He got out, tears now welling up in his eyes.
"N-No... I-I.. I d-don't hate y-you, " Sayuri finally spoke with difficulty, blood spitting out from her mouth with each word.
"H-How... how can y-you not!?" Nozume stuttered, feeling dumbstruck by her reply. "I-I... I KILLED YOU!" he cried out in frustration, all of the bottled up emotions that he was supressing let out as screams of sorrow and agony. He stopped his crying when he felt a hand gently touch his cheek.
"I-I can n-never h-hate you... I al..always fel-t somet-hing fami-liar abou-t y-ou. M-my he-art w-was tellin-g me, th-at I a-am conne-cted to…you…Some-how '" Sayuri spoke, gently wiping the tears from his eyes.
"As cra-zy a..as it i-..is t…to beli-eve it Y-You... are m-my s-son... A m-mother can n-never hate her c-child!" Sayuri finished, smiling at the end, tears cascading down her face.
"I-I d-did'nt w-want to d-do t-this to y-you..." Nozume began, his body shaking from the sudden influx of emotions.
"I h-had re-refused to take this mission..."
"I-It was... y-you.. YOU FORCED ME!" He cried out loud at the end, now tears raining down from his eyes.
"No-Nozu..." Sayuri tried to speak again, but was again interrupted by Nozume.
"You... You are the one who assigned this mission to me... YOU MADE ME KILL YOU.. I WANTED NO PART IN THIS!" He continued letting out his frustrations.
"Shh..(cough).. I-I k-know i-it must b-be h-hard" She got out weakly, the small smile still on her face. "B-But, (cough,cough)... ev-everything is g-going to be fine"
She then gently rubbed his cheek one more time and said, "J-Just k-know that I.. l-love y-you.. m-my son" she finished in a small mutter, her eyes slowly drooping closed and hands falling down.
"Mother!" Nozume called out in shock, but no got no response "Mother!" again no response, "MOTHER!" he shouted out loud unable to hide his emotions as pain washed all over him.
Nozume then felt another Chakra signature, he twirled his head around only to receive a massive punch right on his jaw.
AN: Sorry it took long to finish this chapter. It was really hard to portray all these battles and mini-battles. Before you go on about cursing me killing Haku and Sayuri, I just have to say this, "Death is not the end, it is the start of something beautiful, something intriguing!" Now you all can flame me, curse me or whatever.
For those of you who are sticking up this far, I have to say Thank-you for all of your support and love. Those who wish to leave, doors are open.
Again this was possible due to the encouragement from my friend The Great Author-Chan, he is one helluva writer so could you all please check out his stories too? He is currently demotivated and I know some encouraging review will cheer him up to write more.
It is 7th of the November 2018, and I really wish all of my readers, A HAPPY DIWALI!
That concludes the chapter, I hope you guys like it.
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