Author's note – Kishimoto Masashi owns Naruto while Guyver is written by Yoshiki Takaya.
I make no claim to either, I am merely playing in their sandboxes.
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Chapter Seventy-Six
Tsukiyomi
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Rising above the ground, Madara turned his head to the sky, his third eye opening to its fullest extent and glowing with an unearthly light.
"Let the Eye of the moon open and bathe the world in the light opf eternal peace!" He shouted and in the sky far above, the moon started to darken and change its hue until a giant Rinne-Sharingan floated amongst the stars, its radiance spilling across the Elemental nations.
"And so my plan is complete." Madara smirked as he felt the Infinite Tsukiyomi begin ensnaring its victims.
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Minato teleported behind his final adversary and thrust his kunai into the top of her spine, then he froze as the light shifted around him. Freezing in horror, he slowly lifted his gaze to the moon, watching as it turned red, then the world seemed to whirl away from him.
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"Oh crap." Kakashi whispered as he absent-mindedly slew the last standing enemy even as the light around him turned reddish.
"Kashi-kun? What's happening?" A heartbreakingly familiar voice called and Kakashi spun round to see a teenaged kunoichi with purple squares tattooed on her cheeks approaching, looking confused.
"…Rin…?" Kakashi whispered.
"Kashi? What happened to you?" Rin asked as she stopped just in front of him. "You… you've got old…"
"Rin… but… but I killed you…" Kakashi choked.
"No, I made you kill me." Rin whispered, one hand reaching up to cup Kakashi's masked cheek. "But enough of the Biju's chakra leaked into me to bring me back… Kashi-kun."
Kakashi's eye flooded with tears that trickled down his cheek and into his mask.
One of his greatest sorrows had been turned into his greatest joy.
Rin was alive.
And this time, he would make certain that she stayed that way.
"…Rin…"
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Gaara grabbed one of his floating swords and channeled his chakra through it, turning the already-deadly blade into a spiked lance that stabbed straigth through the four Iwa shinobi trying to hurt his family. The metal blades retracted and Gaara blinked in confusion at the growing redness around him, redness that wasn't blood.
"Gaara?"
Gaara froze, then he slowly turned as a portal of light opened behind him. The few surviving Iwa nin vanished as a person stepped through the door of light, a person whom he recognized even through she had died giving birth to him.
"…mother?" Temari gasped and Karura nodded, a smile crossing her face as she spread her arms.
"My children." She half-whispered, her indigo eyes brimming with tears. "I am so sorry."
"You… died…" Gaara whispered and Karura shook her head.
"Almost, but Rasa called in a favor he was owed by the Sun-setting Monastery. Simply healing me took over a decade, then I had to learn how to walk again, but now I'm back…"
Kankuro was the first to hurl himself into her hands, ignoring the tears flowing down his face with Temari reacting a split-second later. Gaara moved forwards, but halted, uncertain…
"Gaara… as I told you when you were born, I love you and always will." Kurara smiled and Gaara let himself be pulled into the embrace.
He no longer had to live with the guilt of being the cause of his mother's death.
Perhaps now he could truly live.
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"What happened?" Naruto asked, shaking his head.
"I'm not entirely certain." Kurama admitted from inside the seal.
"I think I might know…" Kushina said from behind him.
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Kin stared at the reddening moon, then the sound of a person approaching on a crutch caught her attention. Kin turned as Choji appeared at the door, his face tight with pain.
"Choji!"
"Hey, Kin-chan." Choji smiled as he let her help him through the doorway. "Bad news and good news."
"What happened to you?" Kin worried as she guided him to the sofa and helped him to sit down, then let herself be pulled onto his lap.
"Bad news, got injured." Choji grunted as he wrapped his arms around her. "My chakra system's almost burned out along with my leg, I can't be a ninja any more."
Kin's eyes filled with tears, then she paused at the sight of Choji's smile.
"The good news," He continued, "Is that if you'll accept a beaten-up former ninja as husband material, Naruto's agreed to remove your seal and dad's offered me a job in the clan restaurant. Money may be tight for a little while, but…"
Kin halted Choji by clamping her lips against his as firmly as she could.
Her boyfriend had almost been taken away from her and now she would ensure that she would never again be parted from her wonderful snuggly studly love-god.
As Kin devoted herself to demonstrating her love for him, she felt his arms tighten around her, one hand drifting lower…
Kin smiled as Choji made his appreciation of her… assets obvious.
She would devote herself to him forever.
To the one she truly loved and who truly loved her.
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Konan gasped as Nagato seemed to glow with chakra, then in front of them, Yahiko shimmered into existence. As he solidified, he opened his eyes and smiled.
"Thank you for bringing me back… brother." He said, stepping forwards to support the exhausted Nagato, then he half-turned to look at Konan.
"Hello, Konan-hime." He said in a soft voice. "I'm sorry to have left you for so long. Please forgive me."
Konan almost flew forwards into his embrace and cried tears of joy into his shoulder.
The three Ame Orphans were together again once more.
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Hiashi felt himself swell with pride as Hinata and Naruto recited their vows to each other.
Although Naruto still had two other weddings to go through, the fact that they had all agreed that Hinata should go first had been a pleasant surprise.
By his side, Hanabi dabbed at her eyes as she watched her big sister finish the vows that made her Uzumaki Hinata. Although part of it was the beauty of the ceremony and the love that suffused the air, Hiashi was willing to bet that a small part was the proof that Hanabi no longer needed to fear the possibility of suffering the Caged Bird Seal.
A movement caught his eye and Hiashi glanced down to see Sarutobi Konohamaru place a supportive arm around Hanabi.
Hiashi returned his gaze to the Uzumakis, but his mind was working quickly.
He would encourage Hanabi to stay close to the Sandaime's grandson.
After all, one could never have too many allies.
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Danzo smiled as the victorious shinobi retruned to Uzushiogakure. The news had already been relayed, the Alliance that had been rapidly jury-rigged to combat the Akatsuki was now permanent. With the communication abilities provided by Uzushiogakure, four of the Great Five now formed the Shinobi Alliance. Under Konoha's leadership, Uzu, Mizu and Kumo stood together and with early reports indicating that Iwa was collapsing in civil war, there was nothing to stop them from finally slapping down Amegakure and putting an end to the destruction that had issued from it.
Danzo turned away, his gaze failing to note the red moon hanging in the sky.
Soon, Konoha would truly be the greatest of the Hidden Villages, the leader and the first amongst them.
All was going as well as he could ever have dreamed.
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"Wow."
Itachi lay on his bed, exhausted. Although he had been carefully romancing Hana in as low-key way as he could, he hadn't anticipated her reaction to their sudden victory.
She had literally smashed down the door to the war-room and, protected by her three ninken, dragged him off to one of the hunting lodges that the Inuzuka clan kept scattered around the edges of Konoha, where she had demonstrated just how much he meant to her and allowed him to return the favor.
"Wow indeed." She chuckled from where she was resting, her head pillowed on his chest while one hand stroked his stomach. "That trick you did… three days solid… if that hadn't been one of your clan techniques, I don't think I'd be able to even twitch."
Itachi chuckled slightly as he stroked her hair, marvelling at its smoothness despite their recent activities.
"You know, Kiba's going to freak over this." He noted and Hana giggled helplessly.
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Bee raised his fists as the almost-solid waves of applause and cheering broke over him. His grin sparkled as he looked at the huge audience that had gathered to hear his latest offerings.
Somehow, ever since the battle against Madara had ended in a stunning victory, he had been able to come up with hundreds of new rhymes while his sense of rhythm had only got better.
"ALLLLL RIIIIIIIIGHT KUUUUUUUUUUUUUMO!" He shouted, his voice echoing over the loudspeakers. "AAAAAARRRRRE YOOOOOOOU REEEEEEEEEEADY?"
The cheering doubled and Bee tapped his foot, the drummer picking up the beat almost at once. Closing his eyes, Bee let himself fall into the near-trance that let him reach new heights of rap that even his brother appreciated.
"Lemme tell ya a tale, 'bout the great war / Ame and Iwa against the Great Four.
"They were led by a man who shoulda stayed dead / Under the banner of clouds blood red…"
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Sarutobi Hiruzen smiled as he watched his son finish saying the oaths that would make him the husband of Yuhi Kurenai, who was holding his hand firmly and looking radient, despite the small bulge that showed that Hiruzen would, in less than half a year, have another grandchild to spoil.
As the two newlyweds leaned in to kiss each other, Hiruzen leaned back and smiled.
All was right with the world.
He could finally enjoy his second retirement.
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"It's Jiraiya-sama!" The scantily-clad woman squealed as she grabbed the surprised Toad Sage and dragged him through a line of bushes and into a narrow cleft in a cliff, one that even he hadn't spotted. A moment later, they emerged into a large, hidden valley where a number of women were bathing and playing and…
Jiraiya's eyes widened as he spotted that almost a quarter of them were reading his books, then one of the women playing in the pond below the waterfall squealed.
"You brought Jiraiya-sama? Is it really him?"
"It is!" The woman who had grabbed Jiraiya shouted back and instantly all of the women in the pool waded or swam towards him, rising out of the water and incidentally revealing that almost half of them had foregone swimsuits of any sort.
"Yaaaay!" "Jiraiya-sama, let me be yours!" "Please put me in one of your books, Jiraiya-dono!" "Can I be one of your concubines?" "Can I model for you?"
Jiraiya grinned hugely as he was engulfed in a wave of eager females.
He had always wondered if the rumors of an all-female fanclub were actually true and it would seem that the answer was yes, YES, YES!
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Madara let himself sink back down to the ground, although he kept his third eye open to fuel the jutsu.
"It is done." He breathed, looking round at the motionless people, their eyes reflecting the power of the Infinite Tsukiyoma that had ensnared them, enemy and ally alike. "Now, once I have recovered, I will finish the ritual and the world will be forever peaceful."
Madara smiled as he looked round again, then he frowned.
"Odd, I do not see Namikaze anywhere… or his wife… I wonder where they could have got to?"
For a long moment, he debated sending some clones to search, then he shook his head.
"I must be getting paranoid. No, all is as I had planned, the Moon's Eye is open and I have won. Let eternal peace reign! At long last, I have proven that I am the greatest and there are none who are my equal!"
A bubble of lunatic hilarity burst free and Madara leapt onto his statue.
"I have created a new world!" he shouted, even though there was no-one who was paying attention to him. "Are there any who would still oppose me?"
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