Genjutsu Legend Chapter 16
Naruto sighed as he laid eyes on one of the most pathetic person he had ever met in his life, dying on the ground. The Uzumaki's blade had pierced through Hyuga Hinata's heart, there was no way that the girl would survive, blood was seepng through her clothes as her chest rised up and down through inconsistent breathing. Her eyes were slowly closing, but her mind did it's best and strained itself in order to maintain her gaze at Naruto.
Naruto sighed as he looked down at the girl. "Well, with this I longer have any reason to stay in Konoha." said the man as he bent down to pick up the safe of the Hyuga clan.
Hyuga Hinata was seriously one of the most pathetic person he had ever seen, the girl had no confidence, no strength, no will, no prospects, she was only dependant on other people and would never be able to become a leader. Maybe killing her was actually just ending her misery...Naruto highly doubt that the girl would want to live after she lost him anyway.
"The Hyuga clan have such crude skill in Fuinjutsu" said Naruto as he looked at the protective seals on the safe. The Uzumaki werely placed a few own his own seals on the surface of the safe and allowed his own chakra to break down the protection of the box. Blue chakra scanned through the surface of the safe, and when all of the chakra covered the object, the lock was released.
Naruto opened the box with a smirk on his face, peering his gaze inside, all he found was a couple scrolls. The first one was beige in color and was much smaller than the other. Feeling curious, Naruto unsealed the smaller scroll and read the contents inside. In the few minutes that it took the man to read through the contents of the scroll, his thoughts were becoming more and more surpsired...
'So Neji's father made the choice of giving his own body to Kumo...' thought the man silently as he resealed the document. 'I shouldn't let Neji see this...' Naruto sighed and sealed the scroll inside his own storage seal located on his arm.
Focusing at the objective at hand, Naruto turned his attention to the large scroll on the ground. The Uzumaki had always been spectacular when practicing Fuinjutsu and judging by the skills the Hyuag clan has on Fuinjutsu, Naruto would be surprised if he managed to unseal Neji very quickly. Reading through the thick documents of information, Naruto was surprised that the seal base was actually very well constructed, it was not as complex as most of the Uzumaki seals, but they were sophisticated.
'The chakra in the Juinjutsu is directly embedded into the branch member's brain...interwining the chakra in the seal with the person's chakra network" thought the seal master as he read through the information. 'This shouldn't be too hard to release...'
Naruto unsealed a large sheet of paper from his storage seals and laid it down flat on the grass, the slight lift of the grass made it harder for him to draw the seals, but it shouldn't be too difficult. With a breath of exhaust, Naruto closed his eyes before he let his instinct guide his pen, the ink lightly trailed on the paper as Naruto glided across it. Many seals soon decorated the large piece of paper, from supression seals to storage seals. In the eyes of a normal Ninja, they could only see the nonsense of the paper, but in the eyes of a seal master, it was a key to unlock an existing seal.
Naruto smirk when he was finished and resealed his pen back into his seals. "Well, that was more tedious that I expected...it took a whole ten minutes." said the man amused as he rolled up the key. NAruto looked up at the sky and was that it was almost time for the signal to activate, so Neji should be arriving in his area very soon. Smirking to himself, Naruto got ready for his part in his plan...
Early in the morning, Naruto had sent Kabuto to the stadium to act as the Yondaime Kazekage, because of the fact that most of the people watching the battles were not under his hypnosis, so he had Kabuto put on a simple veil to cover his face. He had ordered Danzo and his portion of the Ne army to be on stand-by at their headquarters, which was located at the center of the village. Sasuke had his troops all located at the edge of the village at the Uchiha compound, and all of them were armed and ready. Manami and the Suna forces were all located at the stadium, their responsibility was to destroy some specific locations in Konoha, and after their mission is completed they will aid all the other troops by suppressing all of Konoha military forces.
Kabuto was forced to reveal to Naruto that Orochimaru had shared the knowledge of Edo Tensei with him, so the Uzumaki gace the medical Ninja the responsibility to handle to Sandaime Hokage. Given that the legendary Shinobi was nothing more than a spineless old man and a shadow of his former self, Naruto had confidence that Kabuto would be able to handle him.
Naruto stretched his arms out and sighed a breath of relaxation, he had been wearing suppression seals on his body for many years already, as his vast chakra would attract attention of some unwanted people. But the time has come for him to reveal his full power...
At exactly 2 o'clock in the afternoon, his forces located in the Uchiha compound unleashed the signal, creating a blast of green energy and shooting it to the sky. All of Naruto's people reacted to this instantly...
The Suna Jounin Baki immediately activated the Genjutsu, Nehan Shōja no Jutsu. A powerful genjutsu that generates a fluttering rain of sleep-inducing, illusory white feathers. Whomever sees them will experience Eden-like bliss and fall into a state of tranquil slumber. No matter how much one resists the hypnotic spell, the desire to sleep is instinctive, and there's no fighting it. The span of the Jutsu was quite vast, it covered the entire stadium, and all the civilians and weaker Shinobi all succumbed to the spell.
Kakashi and Gai instantly reacted and pulsed their chakra to rid the effects of the Genjutsu. They checked their surroundings and saw that only a few of the Jouin in the stadium managed to escape the sudden attack. Kakashi lifted his headband off of his covered eye to reveal his Sharingan, and used it to search for any attackers coming their way.
"What is this?" muttered Gai as he got into a combat stance.
Kakashi shook his head seriously. "This is an attack of Suna...all of their Ninja were able to evade the Genjutsu!" said the man as he glared at some of the Suna Ninja coming their way.
Gai also growled at the enemy as he got ready to fight the sudden enemy...But to both the Jounin's surprise, all the Suna Ninja were not coming after them...they were all jumping onto the stadium floor where Sabaku no Manami was...
Kakashi's eyes widened. "Gai, we have to stop them from going to their leader!" cried the masked Jounin as he sped towards the Suna Shinobi forces. Gai nodded and quickly followed his friend into battle. Kakashi was the first to reach a Suna Ninja, and he quickly sliced through the man's jugular to end his life. Gai stormed into the group with his supreme Taijutsu, killing three of their enemies by snapping their neck in two with his kicks.
Kakashi pulled out a Kunai and started to engage a few Suna Shinobi in battle, it was him against three others, but the masked Jounin was still slowing cutting is opponents. Blood splattered his clothes as he killed off the three men. Various wind attacks came towards Kakashi like a swarm of bees, but his Sharingan allowed him to see the normally invisible attacks, and with his superior movements, Kakashi dodged most of the attacks, some of them leaked through and sliced him around his leg and arms.
"Katon: Gyokayu no Jutsu!" cried Kakashi as he fired a large flaming ball at the Suna Shinobi.
Before the attack hit it's destination, someone called out another jutsu. "Suiton: Suijinheki!" a wall of water erupted from out of nowhere and blocked the fireball completely.
Kakashi looked over at the enemy Ninja, and was extremely shocked when he saw that Inuzuka Hana was the one holding a water sealed scroll. "H-Hana-san?" muttered the masked Jounin in shock.
"Sen'eijashu!" cried another voice from behind Kakashi, and before the man could react, many snakes wrapped themselves around his body, immobilizing him. Hana quickly jumped into action and punched Kakashi right in his face, knocking the man into a stupor. Anko pulled her snakes back and used the leverage to slam Kakashi through the many chairs of the stadium until she made a full circle.
Gai saw what was happening and was shocked. "What the hell are you two doing?!" cried the man as he sped over a quickly as he could. But before he reached Kakashi, he saw his student Lee running straight for him. "Lee, stay out of this fight!" cried the man to his pupil.
The image of Lee continued to run towards Gai, but when the boy was about to reach his sensei, he just disappeared out of thin air...
"Lee?" mumbled Gai to himself.
"Shinso..." mumbled someone behind the Taijutsu master, but when the man turned around with his arms raised, a very long blade pierced his body.
Gai stared in shock as he saw Uchiha Sasuke holding the blade that had attacked him. "W-What?" he mumbled as he held part of the blade with his two hands. Blood was flwing from the Jounin's chest and hands, his face was contorted in pain as he breathed heavily.
Sasuke smirked and looked at the man with his Sharingan. "Raiton: Chidori Nagashi!" cried the young man as he lightning surrounded his body and travelled up the blade to the impaled Gai. The Uchiha pulled back his blade when he saw that the man had passed out from electricity overshock to the heart.
Tens of meters away from Kakashi and Gai, Sarutobi Asuma had seen the betrayal of Anko, Hana and Sasuke. The man was shaking with rage as he held his wind chakra charged knifes in his hands, but as he was about to jumped towards the battle area, he found that his body wouldn't move to his command.
"What is this...Genjutsu?" mumbled the man quietly.
Asuma froze when someone held a Kunai to his neck, and he fell into further shock when he saw Kurenai glaring at him over his shoulder.
"K-Kurenai!?" exclaimed the man as he desperately tried to free himself.
The Genjutsu mistress looked emotionless as he stared at the man that had been pestering her for the last few years. "Goodbye Sarutobi Asuma..." whispered the woman before he sliced through the man's neck swiftly with her blade. Blood spilled out of the bearded Jounin as he fell to the ground, all the while his eyes were glued to the cold and repelling eyes of Kurenai...staring down at him with nothing but disdain. When he finally felt the ground after what seemed to be an eternity, Asuma felt his strength leaving his body...as his eyes dimmed.
Hana and Anko landed beside their surrogate sister. "Are you ready Kurenai-chan?" asked the Inuzuka heiress as she held a Kunai in front of her, she would have used her Ninken, but they had been trained to never betray Konoha, so that was out of the question.
Kurenai smirked at the other two women. "Yes, lets go finish this!" said the woman as she sped out of the stadium with her partners.
Manami was waiting at the center of the field for her forces, and within two minutes all of them were gathered. The girl could feel many battles going on around them, but she forced herself to be focused on her own responsibility. She focused her chakra around her body and refilled her gourd to it's maximun capacity.
"Listen up, our first target is the Hokage Tower, the offensive team will elimiinate all the protection of the structure, then the sealing tean would raid all the possesions of the tower, understand!?" cried the girl authoritively to her people.
All the Suna Shinobi heard her loud and clear. "Hai Manami-sama!" cried all of them in unison.
Manami felt oddly satisfied with her commanding prowess and had a smirk on her face, it was the first time in her life that she felt like she could actually communicate with the people of her own village. Gathering her spirit and chakra, Manami ran ahead of her people, she used the stadium walls as a shortcut and ran upwards. All of her people followed behind her up the wall as many of them sounded out a battle cry.
"DESTROY KONOHA!"
Sasuke was with Temari and the rest of his forces, which was about a third of Ne's army, creating an army of three hundred. The Uchiha was with running ahead of his troops with his Sharingan activated, he was heading towards the southern end of the village, where there was the most resistance from Konoha forces. Sasuke responsibility was to search and destroy and reminants of Konoha's army and cut them down. The Uchiha's army were especially trained for long distance fights, do they were all firing various attacks at many buildings and people around the village, causing havoc to evoke everywhere.
Temari glanced over at her boyfriend and smirked. "You are enjoying this aren't you?" asked the girl amused.
Sasuke looked back at his girl and winked at her. "What can I say, this is the village that tried to stop me from avenging my family, it wanted to suppress my power, it tried to control me into becoming nothing but an Uciha breeder...of course I am enjoying this." said the man as he jumped from one roof to another.
Temari nodded at the man before she spreaded her battle fan. "Then I will help you with this one Sasuke-kun!" cried the girl as he jumped up into the air. "Daikamaitachi no Jutsu!" exclaimed the Kazekage's daughter as she sliced throughthe air with her weapon. The surge of wind chakra made many wind current to collide with one another and created many vacuum forces that blasted towards a legion of Konoha Chunin ahead of them.
Sasuke smirked as he ran through some handsigns of his own. "Katon: Ryuka no Jutsu!" a flaming torrent of flames erupted from Sasuke's mouth, the flames carried themselves with the wind that Temari had made, and it's attack amplified several times in power and verocity. The fire and wind combo nearly wiped out all of the Chunin ahead of them, leaving only a few groaning on the ground barely alive.
Sasuke saw with his Sharingan that the Konoha forces were pretty much scattered around the village. "Attention! team one head towards the east of the village, team two head towards the west of the village, and team three remain with me!" commanded the Uchiha.
"HAI UCHIHA-TAICHO!", cried the lot as Sasuke's legion split into three armies.
Temari sped up and ran along side Sasuke. "Let hurry this up, I want to see our new home..." said the girl to her man.
Sasuke smirked and nodded. "Sure babe, I'm sure Uzumaki-taicho is almost ready."
Sarutobi Hiruzen was looking around the village that he had been protecting for over six decades, as it was being destroyed. The elderly Hokage couldn't believe that some of his best Jounin and Genin were actually hidden soldiers of the enemy, he would have never imagined that Yuhi Kurenai, Inuzuka Hana and Mitarashi Anko would be the enemy. He was just dicussing the defensive planning with Anko the day before, and he had no idea that he was just feeding information to the enemy.
The old man's heart was aching very badly, not only was his village being destroyed before his eyes, he saw that his second son Asuma was killed by Yuhi Kurenai...tears formed in the elder's eyes, he may have been a Shinobi for over half a century, but the loss of a son was too much for the man to hold in his tears.
The Hokage's vision had a purple hint to it as he was surrounded by a Shishienjin, a powerful encampment jutsu that was designed to hold in even the most powerful of Shinobi.
Sarutobi glared at the man that was standing a mere feet away from him, the man had his arms crossed and looked to be really relaxed. "Who are you really...you are not the Kazekage." announced the elderly Hokage as he looked at the man.
The man dressed in Kazakage robes chuckled a little before he removed his hat and veil, to reveal himself as Yakushi Kabuto. "Well Hokage-sama...you sure are perceptive." he said with a smirk. "But was I the one you were expecting to see?"
Sarutobi hid any sort of surprise under his rough demeanor. "It does not matter who you are...no matter what, you will die today by my hands!" said the old man seriously.
Kabuto chuckled and nodded. "Sure Hokage-sama, I have no doubt that a legendary man like you will have absolutely no problems dealing with a guy like me..." said the grey haired man as he crossed his arms in front of his chest. "But a man like me is the least of your worries..."
Sarutobi narrowed his eyes and stepped forward a little. "Let me ask you this...who is your leader? I know that a boy like you would not be able to create an attacking force like this..."
Kabuto smirked as he pushed his glasses back up a little. "That is quite a question Hokage-sama, and I am afraid that I can't answer you..." said the man with a carefree tone. "But I can tell you now, that my leader is not Orochimaru..."
the Sandaime's eyes widened in surprise, he was sure that his old pupil was the leader of this group. Orochimaru was the only man that he could think of that could pull off such a sudden and large scale attack. The Hokage was afraid to think of the implications of this information, he would have felt more secure if it was Orochimaru that had attacked because at the least he would be able to identify the culprit. But now that Orochimaru was not the man that planned the attack, Sarutobi was at a lost of who would attack Konoha out of the blue...
Kabuto suddenly let loose a amused chuckle as he looked at the Sandaime. "It really is funny, seeing such a legendary Shinobi trying to figure out who in the world would attack his precious little village." said the man in a mocking tone.
Sarutobi glared at Kabuto. "It matters not...I will find out after I eliminate you." said the old man as he ripped off his Hokage robes to reveal some battle armor.
Kabuto smirked and waved his hands in front of his face. "Oh no...I am not the one you will be fighting..." said the man as he quickly form a handsign and planted his palm onto the ground. Sarutobi was not fast enough to stop the younger man, so he jumped backwards to prepare for an oncoming attack. Kanuto continued to smirk at the Hokage. "I told you already Hoakge-sama, I am not the one fighting you..."
Suddenly two coffins came out of the ground, each with a number on it's cover. Sarutobi's eyes widened when he figured out what Jutsu Kabuto just used, and from all his years as a Shinobi, he gathered his experience from all those years and threw two shurkien to stop one of the coffins. The projectile stopped one of the coffins from opening, and Kabuto had no choice but to release that particular part of the jutsu. The second coffin started to open, and when the lid fell to the ground, Sarutobi stared in shock at the person inside the coffin.
"Shodaime-sama..." mumbled the old man.
Neji and Tenten were both running at top speed towards the training field that Naruto had ordered them to be at during the invasion. The Hyuga could see that they have passed the area most of the battles were taking place, and wanted to speed up faster so he could hurry back and help fight. This was possibily one of the most important days of Neji's life, it was the day that he would be freed from his curse. Neji had a smile on his face as he put more gusto in his jumps.
Tenten sighed and ran faster to keep up with her boyfriend. "Stop going so fast Neji-kun!" cried the girl as she slapped his shoulder.
Neji chuckled and turned to pull his girlfriend close to him and kissed her cheeks. "This is it Baby, today is the day that I will be free!" exclaimed the man as he pulled Tenten along as they ran.
It took the young couple another few minutes before they arrived at the field, and when they arrived they found that the opening was empty. That was until Tenten saw somebody lying still on the ground on the far side of the field, and much to her shock, it was Hinata. Tenten quickly nudged her boyfriend, and when Neji saw the body of his younger cousin, he didn't know what to feel...he was indifferent. He didn't hate Hinata too much, but it was because of her that her and his father had to suffer...so if he had to say, he would say that he was glad that the girl was dead.
"Whatever...she is insignificant now." said Neji as he began to walk into the field.
Tenten adverted her gaze to hide her sadness from her boyfriend, but she knew that she would have to disregard Hinata. She held Neji's arm close to her and leaned her head on his shoulder...
Suddenly, a shadow emerged from from out of the tree line and before anyone noticed, Neji was wrapped inside a white sheet of paper. Tenten was pushed away slightly by the force, but she was still standing, with widened eyes she saw that the paper was at least three feet long and it was wrapped tightly against her boyfriend. There were some kind of writting on the paper, and she saw some blue chakra run through the sheet slowly.
"This is it Neji!" said a voice that Neji and Tenten immediately recognized.
Neji's eyes widened when he knew that it was his leader than wrapped around him. "Uzumaki-taicho!" exclaimed the man.
Naruto smiled. "Don't worry Neji, this will not take more than a few minutes." said the Uzumaki as he channled more chakra into his newly constructed key.
Neji felt foreign chakra invade his chakra network, it did not hurt him quite at all, but it did feel much warmer than normal. He closed his eyes tightly as he felt his body heat up very quickly by his leader's chakra and soon he felt the heat focused on his forehead, where his seal was. Neji suddenly felt a jolting pain shoot through his body, it was not very bad but he could feel that his seal was becoming more and more condensed and tight.
"Neji, try to relax your own chakra as much as possible, do not fight against mine." said Naruto as he started channel more chakra into the seals, and the ink began to loosen from the paper and attached themselves onto the body on Neji. The seals contracted until it was a organized square of overlapping seals and made it's way to Neji's forehead. Naruto began to pulled his push his own chakra through Neji's body and into the key, forcing the seal to unlock.
"AAHHHHHH!" cried out Neji in pain as he felt that his seal was on fire. Tenten looked on with worry, but she believed that their leader would not harm them...
Naruto grunted as he gave on final push, his chakra was forced through Neji's seal and broke it down internally. The key then easily slipped in and unlocked the chakra seal of the caged bird seal, absorbing of the residual chakra into the sheet of paper. Naruto sighed as he let Neji down from the air and left the man to kneel on the ground because of exhaustion.
Tenten quickly ran over to the Hyuga and wrapped her arms around his shoulder. "Are you okay Neji-kun?" asked the girl worried.
Neji's eyes slowly opened and the first thing he did was looked up at his leader. "Uzumaki-taicho...did it work?" he asked.
Naruto smiled and nodded. "Yes...it did."
As soon as Naruto said those words, Neji's headband fell off of his head because of the pressure it suffered the past few minutes. Neji picked up the piece of metal and held it in front of his face...and he lost his consciousness a little when he saw that his forehead was blank...the caged that locked him his whole life was finally gone...
Tenten had tears in her eyes as she kissed Neji on his cheek. "Congraulations Neji-kun..."
The Hyuga turned to his girlfriend with his own tears in his eyes and hugged her close to his body, all those years of being controlled by the main branch of the Hyuga was finally over, he was a free man that could do what he wanted. He turned back to Naruto and bowed to him until his forehead touched the ground.
"Thank you so much Uzumaki-taicho...I owe you my life." said the man with passion in his voice.
Naruto smiled and walked up to his loyal subordinate, he clapped his hands on Neji's shoulders and lifted him up. "There is no need to thank me Neji, I just did what I promised you...that is all." said the man kindly.
Suddenly Naruto felt a strong killer intent from behind him, he and his two subordinates were not currently under the effects of Kyoka Suigetsu, so normal people could actually see them perfectly. Looking back, Naruto saw the Hyuga clan head, Hyuga Hiashi glaring at him with untamed anger...and by the man's feet was the dead body of Hinata.
Tenten was shocked to see the man standing there, but stood strong for her leader. Neji just smirked at the man with his Byakugan activated, he knew that he was just as powerful as his uncle, and without the caged bird seal on him anymore, he no longer had to fear the man.
"Hey Hiashi-jisama, " sneered Neji with venom, purposely flaunting his clean forehead at the man.
Naruto smiled at the man as he stuck his hands in his pocket. "Well, how nice of you to join us Hiashi-san..." he said with a hint of condesention.
Hiashi felt livid, he had never been so angry in his long life. He was worried about his daughter and went back to the Hyuga estate to check on her, but to his shock his daughter was not there. He went back to his own room to change his clothes because of the heat, but then he noticed that his safe had been removed by someone. At first Hiashi was afraid that it was some Kumo Shinobi that had kidnapped his daughter along with his safe, he ran out to the village in search of Hinata, but that was when the fighting broke loose.
It was until he saw his nephew in the distance on the battlefield, he wanted to ask for his help in finding Hinata...but to think that it would lead him to his daughter's corpse.
Hiashi glared at Naruto. "Aren't you suppose to be dead...?"
Naruto smiled and nodded a little. "Yes...but I guess I guess it wasn't my time yet."
The Hyuga gripped his fists tightly and growled at Naruto. "You...You were the one that killed my daughter...she was pierced with a Katana." accused the man, having inspected his daughter wound slightly with his eyes. "Why did you kill her?" asked the man.
Naruto shrugged. "I felt sympathy for her, if I left her alive after I abandon her, she will just end up killing herself...you can say that I put her out of her misery."
Hiashi's eyes flared with untamed anger. "SHE LOVED YOU, THE WHOLE REASON SHE HAD BEEN TRAINING HERSELF TO HARD WAS BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO PLEASE YOU! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO HER!" cried the man as loud as he could.
Naruto smirked. "I wanted something that she could get me, and I used her to get it, it is as simple as that." said the Uzumaki as he crossed his arms. "Let me tell you this Hiashi-san...admiration is the emotion furthest away from understanding."
That was the last straw for Hiashi, he flared his chakra and charged at Naruto. "I WILL KILL YOU BASTARD!" shouted the man as he pulled his palm back.
Suddenly Naruto disappeared from Hiashi's vision, making the man stop suddenly with surprise...but before he saw anything, he felt someone place a finger on his chest. Looking ahead, he was shocked to see Naruto standing in front of him.
"Goodbye Hiashi-san..." whispered Naruto as Hiashi's eyes widened. "Byakurai!" a beam of pale lighting blasted through the man's chest, Naruto had aimed for the man's heart so he would have a faster death. "You can go to your daughter now Hiashi-san...you can be with her in the afterlife, maybe that is the price of neglecting her all her life...this is a chance to redeem yourself."
Like his daughter before him, Hiashi fell to the ground with blood spilling from his chest...dead.