Chapter Eleven: Zero

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AN: Seriously ? nobody. well i'm kind of disappointed nobody could guess what was coming still i'm going to warn you next chapter is going to be really hard on some of you. Well with that being said let the party begin.

Three weeks later (11 months until Eye of the Moon Plan)

Dozens of masked figures were watching a shipyard with some pretty amazing technology which made the tech that the Big Five used look like they used sticks and leaves. A signal was quickly sent with a small burst of chakra signaling the rest of their forces to signal they had found one of their targets. Dozens of miles away a group of masked men stopped for a moment before resuming their tree hopping toward their target, the trees becoming a blur due to their speed.

Killer B stood on the sandy beach of a country that he didn't even know the name of, their tracking seal having leaded them here after three weeks of silence. His body was filled with adrenaline at the prospect of fighting the Jinchuriki, a force of nature if the state of the forest when their experts got there was any indication. Darui silently approached his side with a look of utter boredom though B knew he was as nervous as him if not more so. Watching the squad of ANBU with them, they knew many would never return in fact their own survival was very doubtful even though they were both S-rank not counting old man Saitou or Dodai because their power and usefulness against the Nine-Tails was limited at best.

Before leaving they had been treated with some of the old records of the Nine Tails that the village had in their archives and it was troubling indeed. While their sealing was not as good as that of the Uzumaki clan, they still had memory seal that offered images from the mind of ninja who had survived the expedition of the Gold and Silver brothers against the Nine-Tails. What they saw gave a whole new meaning to overpowered, most people though the late Raikage was overpowered or even him with his perfect control over his tenant but the fox had decimated the entire force with in less than five minutes and the Gold and Silver brothers had survived by throwing themselves in the foxes throat. The forest where the masac… battle took place was reduced to nothing more than ashes raining from the heavens like black snow and the towering columns of smoke rising from giant fires that melted the earth into rivers of flowing lava. The destruction was something you had to see to believe because he had tried to rationalize seeing the fox batting two S-rank ninja like one would flick away annoying gnats.

Still Saitou had confirmed that it was the truth and the Nine-tailed fox even inside a vessel that couldn't, hopefully,- access the full powers of his tenant was perhaps the most dangerous foe after the Yellow Flash, especially if the fox took over. The plan to neutralize it was simple use the modified Uzumaki seal, The Gargantuan Whirlpool, to practically cut off the Tailed Beast from the vessel allowing for him and Darui to disable the kid and he cover him from head to toe with chakra suppressing seal. Then they would take the vessel to Kumo where using Umashiashikabihikoji's Command seal, to transfer the Tailed beast to another loyal Kumo shinobi, perhaps his own brother. A nod came from Saitou after he finished consulting with the specialized device made to hunt one Naruto Uzumaki and they departed.

The group of masked man silently spread across the shipyards perimeter and few of them entered underwater preparing for an assault on the shipyard while the rest of their forces moved to circle their true target. Once in position they waited for precision was the name of the game today and it all depended on how coordinated their strike was.

Ao deactivated his Tailed best compass, the name itself was a misnomer since the compass could track any being provided you had a sliver of their chakra, sadly their last Jinchuriki was careful to destroy all samples of his chakra when he left, certainly with the aid of an accomplished Seal Master. Now the name itself came from the fact that the Second Mizukage created it mainly to avert them of the movement of the Jinchuriki, as the chakra of a free Tailed Beast was too dense and would destroy the device,- and his masterful use of this device saved Kiri from total annihilation. Today it would serve the same purpose for this Jinchuriki was the last hope for Kirigakure.

He was nervous not because he feared for his life, for he had come to accept that he would probably die in this mission,- no he was worried because the Nine-Tails was a big unknown. The only persons to have ever defeated it were legends that could easily cumber stomp the Big Five all on their own but hopefully it would be severely limited from its imprisonment within a vessel who couldn't use all of its power, the chakra samples they found being too rough to belong to someone who could perfectly use the Tailed Beast power. The compass was however having difficulty tracking down their target, because until three days ago the compass simply didn't work and then since yesterday it started pointing at different points simultaneously, similar to a perfect clone technique or Time-Space Jutsu. Ao really hoped it was the first because clones you could deal with but Time-Space jutsu were something no shinobi that had any self-preservation instincts wanted to fight, ever.

The signal came and all teams moved in perfect synchrony. The first strike came from the underwater teams which used a barrage of really powerful black spheres to blow up the twelve ships in construction, turning them to molten slag. In the initial shock over two dozen masked ninja landed between the people present and attacked viciously. The unprepared shinobi closer to the outer lines of the camp were quickly slaughtered by precise strikes of silvery broadswords. The others recovered quickly enough and hundreds of kunai covered in explosive tags rained upon the masked shinobi exploding in mid-air filling the air in smoke and deadly shrapnel. Over half of the masked ninja didn't come out of the smoke but those who did attacked with vengeance a dozen black spheres were launched from their outstretched palms and exploded with various degrees of power.

The sheer power of such counter attack shocked some of the younger recruits as the saw their comrades blown up to pieces but the veterans fired continued barrages of explosive tags that took out another eight of the masked shinobi. Their advantage was short lived however as five masked ninja emerged from the water and attacked with "Water Release: Feeding Frenzy" and "Wind Release: Great Migration" combos which tore through their clustered formation like a hot knife through butter.

As per protocol one of the defending shinobi sent a signal over their wireless communication devices though that cost him his head literally as a water shark enhanced by wind birds tore through him and struck the sand a few feet from him creating a man-sized crater. Miles away thirty shinobi were dispatched to help the attacked forces. On the, beach the stunned defenders had recovered their wits and were now firing their own jutsu, mainly Lighting and Water but with some Wind mixed in. Which earned them another three kills but that was it since the masked ninja had achieved their goal and with less people they made full use of their prenatural speed and attacked their foes using quick kunai and silver broadswords strikes, quickly thinning their ranks as though they were teleporting.

When a signal came to them, the masked ninja stopped for a moment getting one of them killed due to his proximity but the rest dodged in time the five A-rank lighting jutsu heading for them. The beach was quickly filled with the unmistakable sound of whirling chakra and the masked ninja disappeared and in the next moment the remaining forty five defenders fell to the ground, their hearts having been turned to red mist from the grinding power of the legendary Rasengan. The five masked ninja the disappeared in a plume of smoke leaving behind only a beach full of corpses for the incoming help to find.

The city was now open for attack their flying machines having flown away and what remained were a mix of Chunnin and some Jounnin level ninja but unfortunately they were not enough to stop the fury of approximately a hundred of the masked shinobi who had stealthily surrounded the city hidden in the jungle vines. The first to fall were three dozen patrolling shinobi, that didn't even have the chance to notice they were not alone before they dropped dead from a fatal case of kunai to the back of their head. Their approach was halted by a golden dome snapping into place killing eleven of the masked ninja.

There were many ways to disable Fuinjutsu barriers but the most reliable and quickest method was good ol' raw power and unfortunately for the defenders that was not a problem for the attacking shinobi. Dozens of Great Spiraling Rings meet the barrier and exploded in a massive light show which was followed by dozens minor explosion of lone Great Spiraling Rings impacting the nigh-impenetrable barrier. In one minute thirty five seconds the barrier ceased to exists as the Fuinjutsu arrays exploded in a shower of shrapnel from the Chakra overload.

The masked shinobi were meet by turret fire which thinned their ranks considerably before they found shelter in the city walls. The continuous fire made moving further impossible and not even the walls were secure enough as they exploded every now and then in showers of shrapnel and reducing his forces to less than half of their original numbers. With a tsk one of the masked shinobi moved forward a hastily erected wall of chakra-enhanced wall stopped the projectiles in preparation of his new technique.

Just as the wood wall fell away, the masked shinobi's voice boomed Rebirth Arrows and hundreds of ruby red bolts of energy came out of his outstretched palms and impacted the thirty eight turrets located in the city turning them to gas from the power they packed. The shockwave of the explosion served to throw the awaiting Sora Nin of balance and the remaining masked Shinobi moved out whistling at the destruction the mana spell had caused, even though it cost close to 10.000 mana points to cast in the first place but then again they hadn't had it for long enough to use it efficiently.

The shocked Sora nin never stood a chance as a tidal wave of masked shinobi descended upon the with various cries of "Orange rules" and "Glory for the Ramen Emperor"

The compass activated suddenly showing Ao, a new location, a single one this time. With a short order the Hunter Nin squad quickly changed direction deeper into the jungle. Ao's mind was a whirlwind of though as he thought of the various jutsu and evasive maneuvers he and his team had to perform to give the five-person sealing team to rip the Tailed-Beast away from its vessel and encase it into a crystal cylinder that would be sent to Kiri by the survivors of the expedition, if there was one of course if not a smaller team trailing behind them at a safe distance ,for a battle between S-rank titans,- would then recover it and send it home.

Saitou was an old war hawk or hound depending on who you asked, so he was a bit suspicious on the reason why their tracking map suddenly showed a single location as the location of their target, which coincidentally happened to be deep within a jungle, a ideal battlefield for a Konoha nin. Hastening his step Saitou approached the leader of the mission, Darui of the Back Lightening.

"The map now shows a single location" informed Saitou.

"That's good. Where?" asked Darui.

"In the middle of nowhere, twelve miles northwest of here" replied Saitou and pleasantly saw Darui catching onto the implications.

"An ambush" Darui stated "foolish of the boy to think we'd fall for it"

"What troubles me more is that he knew we were coming" warned Saitou "nothing suggested the boy was that good'

"He might just have encountered a patrol from other villages and choose to confront us in his own terms" reasoned Darui.

"Perhaps" nodded Saitou "or perhaps the boy has inherited is fathers cunning"

"You seriously believe that he is the spawn of that man?" snorted Darui.

"It all fits" Saitou explained "his intelligence, the fact that he is the Jinchuriki and his pelicular features"

"There a lot of people who have those features" countered Darui.

"Yes, the Namikaze clan being among them while the rest come from the frozen wastelands of the Land-of-Sky lights" reasoned Saitou "so which is more likely, him being his son or him being an orphan from the Northern Wasteland?"

"Well, I suppose you might be right but it doesn't change our mission" stated Darui "get ten ANBU and move forward no further than five hundred meters no closer than two hundred"

"Immediately" saluted Saitou as he flashed away in a speed that was hard to believe came from an old man.

With a single hand seal, the original Naruto sent a signal to the remaining forty three clones to begin phase three of his assault plan. Immediately five of them moved to a secluded area and began writing seal with a speed that was frightening. Normally he would have simply guided the chakra but this particular seal required a rough edge that nothing but a human hand could give it. His chakra sense had already gone haywire so he could not be certain on when the flying machines would return so he had to adapt his plan to allow for maximum protection against a surprise aerial attack. The seal being drawn was one of his own design that instead of creating a big impenetrable barrier as most Seal Masters did, it worked more subtly by creating two pockets of air, one hot and the other cold, which would later be merged and with some help would create a level 6 storm that while harmless to the titanic city, - it would obliterate all the flying machines.

With that done, Naruto stepped out of the shadows concealing his form and drew a single three-helix blade that was his own attempt to replicate the legendary sword of the Sage and although it failed it still produced a weapon that could bend Space-Time itself to get to the target. Coating the blade with a thin layer of chakra, which caused it to glow with an ethereal green color, - he started slashing at thin air. Too bad for the protecting shinobi that the glow was not just for show but was similar to his ultimate one hit kill technique which he couldn't use if he planned to use the Flying Thunder God jutsu which he had mastered to a degree that while not as good as his father's, it made fighting him a health hazard… well more than usual that is.

Seeing the original literally cut a swath in the enemy forces his clones took advantage to tunnel the city with extensive use of the Spiraling Ring. Their aim was only one, disable the artificial Tailed beast before it could so much as stir in its hibernation. His own on the other hand was capturing the leader of this place and gain insight in Orochimaru's body stealing technique. The defenders were good but unfortunately his S-rank danger rating wasn't there just for show as he dodged the hails of kunai sent his way and placed his smoking sword back in his inventory, it's power depleted for the next hour or so. The Sora Nin attacked with a ferocity born out of desperation while he fought with the clarity of one who had cast away his doubts and was driven solely by one aim, Peace.

In less than a minute he had killed twenty three Jounnin level shinobi with nothing more than a kunai and his father's legacy. The sickness within him began to raise its head once more but he ruthlessly squashed it for he couldn't afford hesitation. The hole in the formation of the Sora Nin was quickly taken advantage of by his clone mini-army and the carnage began in its truest sense. Moving quickly to avoid spilling his guts at the massacre, for there was no other word apt to describe what was happening. His senses quickly located the only chakra signature mixed with the artificial dark chakra the Zero created.

He encountered the man at the gates of the room were the Zero was held. Not giving the man a chance to speak he flashed at the man but his kick was stopped by a hand that was way too strong for an old man. He was thrown into the wall and through it with nothing more than a flick of his hand. A quick Observe revealed the man's strength to be in excess of four hundred. Cursing his bad luck for meeting somebody both stronger and faster than him, he launched one of the three pronged kunai that he had in his inventory and teleported to it once it hit the ground, launching a Spiraling Ring to the clearly surprised man.

The insane Vitality, concentrated on body density, - the man held made sure that he came out of it with minor injuries but the levels of artificial dark chakra were drastically reduced. Grinning behind his mask, Naruto prepared another Spiraling Ring but didn't have the chance to fling it t the man because his stomach meet Shinno's knee. Quickly recovering from the staggering blow, Naruto back flipped and launched an overpowered Spiraling Ring at Shinno who like an overconfident fool stood and took it head on, to prove to his opponent that he was invulnerable. Shinno was quickly reminded he wasn't immortal or invincible when the Spiraling Ring exploded with such power that it shock the entire city and threw him through the Titanium-Chakra metal alloy door like it was made of tissue paper.

Not giving his opponent a moment to recover, Naruto unleashed Wood Release: Dance of Konohanasakuya-hime, a rather powerful jutsu created for one reason and one reason alone, to capture and immobilize an enemy and not even the powerful Dark chakra inside Shinno's body made any difference as the plants of the jungle around the city rose to put a stop to the abomination polluting the world around them. The giant sleeping behemoth that was the Zero tried to wake without the necessary energy and would have succeeded had it not been for four of his remaining clones that sealed it away with the Secret Uzumaki Art: Heavenly Chains of Tsukuyomi which while too weak to imprison any of the Tailed Beasts above the Three-Tails was quite effective on the artificial being.

The four shadow clones dispelled due to exhausting their chakra because while highly effective against minor nuisances the seal was very crude requiring massive amounts of chakra to properly function. Picking up the crystal that had manifested from the sealing process he slumped to the ground using the wall to slow his descend and gazed at the bright yellow crystal, the same color as a wisp of his own pure and refined chakra,- with black dots that moved across its surface, proof of the success of their mission. After a few minutes the bar was almost full again and as he stood up again a massive explosion shock the now defenseless city.

The Kumo squad lead by Darui and Killer B was the first one to arrive on the battleground, for that would be the only word that would do justice to what they saw there, well there was also Slaughterhouse but it doesn't sound quite as good does it? With a few hand signals Darui gave the orders for his squad and they quickly hid themselves and waited for the remaining part of their expedition to arrive. They didn't have to wait for long as within a minute and a half Saitou and Dodai had arrived and with a quick use of reflected light they were told where to find them seeing as a chakra burst would be useless due to the air being practically drowning in chakra.

Everything had been already planned and practiced so many times that it had become practically a muscle memory but that didn't stop every one of the members of the Kumo expedition to feel their hearts hammering in their chests as Killer B flashed through the hands seals that would tear a hole in the (victorious) masked shinobi." Lighting Release: Cannon Bolt" Killer B shouted as he finished his hand seals and a single bolt of lightning which was wide enough to take an entire tower of the half sunken city, slammed unto the city with a deafening boom. Darui while having to be more careful about his chakra reserves was still highly more efficient than Killer B could ever be so he contributed with the legendary "Black Lightening Release: Battery Strike" and from his hands dozens of streams of black colored lightening slammed into the surviving masked shinobi.

The puffs of smoke assuaged his fears that the Jinchuriki had somehow founded an organization of highly skilled shinobi or what would have been worse, he allied himself with one. The rest of the team, most of their fears assuaged, - speed forward toward the half ruined city. The four S-A ranked shinobi weren't so assured of that and they weren't proved wrong as a little over a dozen masked shinobi appeared between the ruins and proceeded to launch a massive collaboration jutsu. "Fire Release :Ember Bullet" were masterfully combined with "Wind Release: Atmospheric Bash" and "Water Release: Rainfall" to produce hundreds of mini-streams of super-heated steam.

Luckily not all of them died as of the forty five ANBU that went there in what they supposed was a secure ground, not that Darui blamed them as he himself hadn't sensed them at all until they attacked,- only thirteen survived and of them four had gotten some rather nasty looking burn wounds. Saitou didn't wait for the shock of seeing an army-killer performed right before their eyes but unleashed his own army-killer, "Fire Release: Molten Phoenix Heart" which quickly dispelled most of the clones but he was sure some of them survived, after all he had gotten a bit rusty on that particular technique though he fancied himself a tad bit better than the late Hiruzen Sarutobi or as Kumo knew him The Ash Dawn.

Ao wasn't prepared to find himself in full blown battle, let alone one in which an army-killer that hadn't been seen since the last war, - had been fired. His squad of hunter Nin was quickly dispatched to deal with the Kumo ANBU. Ao himself prepared himself for what would probably be his last battle, as he made a beeline for Saitou of Kumogakure. He was stopped as a sandy haired kid, a shinobi of Kumogakure stopped him by shooting a few Lightening-enhanced kunai that he barely avoided. A single seal he completed while mid-air, activated his Byakugan and even as he landed in a crouch, Ao inspected the enemy. What he saw made him pale, the kid's reserves were insane, almost as large as that of his Jinchuriki teammate.

Cursing silently he activated the fame Kirigakure no jutsu but that was not to be as Lightening quickly flowed through the mist and into his body causing him to be temporarily paralyzed. Faster than thunder, Darui appeared behind the Kiri nin and decapitated him only for the body to turn to water. With a chuckle Darui speed forward to exit the mist and wasn't disappointed as his guess proved correct, the Kiri Nin was practically committing suicide as he had engaged the old war hawk. With a scoff he turned toward the sky from where a rain of kunai enhanced by explosive tags of quite some quality, fell upon the undefended shinobi on the ground.

With an impressed whistle he saw as the explosive tags exploded and turned the entire rubble into.. well more rubble only this one was on fire and smoking quite a bit. A few hand seal later one of his own original creations came out "Black Lightening Release: Blazing Thunderbolt" which tore through the heavens and more than half the fliers went down while the rest were having some difficulty with the static electricity which the black lightning bolt had dispersed in the atmosphere. His next technique was interrupted by a mop of blond hair charging for him which he easily sidestepped only to be kicked in the back with enough force to send him flying through a tree and land into the wet mud.

Okay, so things had spiraled out of control, not only were there at least three S-ranks in his proximity but they also had a small army with them. That simple fact would have been enough to demoralize anyone else but he wasn't anyone else he was Naruto Uzumaki Otostsuki and he had a long history of getting out of impossible situations unscathed. Eying the man who had until recently been flinging admittedly cool-looking lightening jutsu. His Black Lightening was somewhat troubling as it spoke of the ability to control and compress lightening chakra to a level that was even beyond him, oh well he could always use spells if things got sticky though he hated them, he was a ninja not a Wizard or Sorcerer or any of the other thousands of classification for magic users.

The Kumo nin was back up faster than he expected meaning that since he wasn't wearing his Thundering Trench coat, the shinobi was a tad bit beyond the 190 points in speed. Dodging to thin strip of lightening, normal one,- he used Wind Manipulation to launch of the ground breaking through the sound barrier and intending to turn the Kumo nin to mush through the sheer force of impact alas that was not to happen as an octopus tail slammed into him and sent him flying deeper into the forest. Golden chakra chains caught him in mid-air and threw him back toward the Octopus tentacles, Kurama's own bloodlust temporarily overpowering his own senses meaning that he was facing the only Tailed Beast that was even close to the power of the Fox even split as it was, the Eight-Tails, Gyuki.

A Five-Tail chakra cloak covered him just before impact the two Jinchuriki meet with enough force between the two of them to turn mountains to dust, the forest around them turning into a cloud of dust, wood and steam from the water puddles nearby. Darui had barely survived and he had had to use his imperfect Lightening Armor to escape the explosion as the two Titans clashed. Sensing the oppressive chakra of the Tailed Beast he starting applying Black Lightening chakra over his body to prevent it from shutting down at the sheer amount of chakra in the air which in fact was the most dangerous thing about battling a Tailed-Beast, their ability to simply unleash enough chakra to equal the output of a small army without even denting their chakra reserves and that chakra sought to dominate the lesser chakra of humans and only the strongest willed and those with immense chakra reserves could hope to survive.

"Interesting, Gyuki" came the distorted voice of Naruto Uzumaki, the chakra of his Tailed-Beast coloring it "you actually accepted one of them"

"So have you, ya fool" came the distorted voice of Killer B as his Tailed beast temporarily took over "surrender brother and this will be painless"

" Spineless coward" spited out Kurama as it located his enemy and shot out faster than any shinobi ever could "so afraid to fight me"

"An idiot as always" came the reply from the Eight-Tails as their chakra tails slammed together creating a crater and blowing a speeding Darui away.

"You're the idiot, Brother for like you I too have gained new tricks since last time" spoke the deep voice of the Nine-Tails as one of his tails turned into a massive chakra hammer that pounded on the recovering version 2 chakra cloak of Killer B.

"You're not the only one" bellowed out the Eight-Tails as ink came out of his tails and formed a crude kinetic seal, draining most of the immense energy out of the attack but still getting hit and further enlarging the crater.

"Nice tricks" laughed the Nine-Tails, the voice causing a chill to run down the spine of Darui "but do you have what it takes to survive the big leagues" and with those words the chakra output skyrocketed taking the breath out of Darui's lungs and setting the trees in a hundred meters radius on fire.

Naruto Uzumaki

Class: Gamer

Lvl. 123

Points to next level [234/ 174.000]

Age: 16

Height: 180 cm

Weight: 58.3 kg

Hp: 24.630 (+2620)

Chakra points: 132.250 (+22.500)

Mp: 245.800

Kurama's cp:

Hp regeneration: 236 hp/sec. (+14)

Kurama's hp regen.: 700 hp/sec

Chakra points regeneration: 22.605 cp/sec. (+703 cp/sec.)

Kurama's cp regen. : cp/sec.

Mp regen. : 62.911 mp/sec.

Energy: 201 (+50) = 251

Control: 201 (+50) = 251

Strength: 133

Speed: 185

Vitality: 181 (+20) = 201

Dexterity: 150

Intelligence: 221

Wisdom: 253 (+3) = 256

Luck: 120 (+30) = 150

Special status: Uzumaki and Namikaze Heir (+ 10 Intelligence, +15 Vitality, +10 Speed, + 30% exp in fuinjutsu and technique creation), Jinchuriki (+100 hp, +100 cp for every new lvl.), Trap master (+10% to [traps] and + 10% to [stealth]), Perfect Control (Your Control is always equal to your energy due to the Wood Release Chakra in your Chakra coils)

Stat Points to allocate: 50

Money: 1.356.352 Ryo