DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know by now...
(A/N): Welp, if ya wanna know anything, just read the name of the chapter.
TO THE STORY!
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Chapter 107: Everything Goes To Hell
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He fell to his knees, not wanting to believe in what he was seeing. His organization fell before his eyes. His closest friend lie dead on the ground. His former Sensei and father figure was being killed before his very eyes. And he was beaten and defeated by a man with the same eyes as him.
"What is this pain..."
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Naruto had just crushed Sasori's core when he felt two things. First was the shock wave from the explosion caused by Deidara. That knocked him across the battlefield like a rag doll. Once he finally stopped bouncing across the ground, he felt a second thing. Well, it was more like the lack of the second thing struck him.
He could no longer sense Maito Gai. Not a trace. Not even a single hint of the green clad mans existence. He was just...gone. The blond turned to where the blast came from and made a mad dash for the last place he had felt the Green Beast of Konoha.
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Sakura was busy taking the poison out of Sarutobi Hiruzen to notice the lack look on Kakashi's face when the explosion happened. But she didn't miss his words.
"Dammit...dammit...I failed...I failed...DAMMIT I FAILED AGAIN!" He sobbed as he crashed his fist onto the ground hard enough to make a small crater under it. "DAMMIT! DAMMIT ALL TO HELL! RRAAHHHHHHH!"
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Nagato sat in his hidden base, alone. Sitting in the machine that kept him alive. A blank look on his face as he contemplated what had happened. He failed. He lost all of his members. Either from betrayal, assassination, or from this current battle. All that remained was himself, Madara, and the Uchiha's little lap dog Raiga.
His path to pain, to show the entire world the pain he had felt, turned left so fast it flung him from the road and sent him over the edge. He lost. He lost it all. Yahiko...Konan...He wasn't even able to make his final peace with his Sensei. It was all do to the meddling of two men.
Madara. If it wasn't for him, he would be the Amekage. He would still have Konan by his side. Hell, he might have even had Yahiko with him still. But no. The Uchiha decided to turn the Akatsuki into his personal hit squad and turn their beliefs in for the betterment of his own agenda.
And then there was the one called 'The Oracle'. If it wasn't for his early interruption of his plans, he could be having a world wide peace. One where the world knew pain, and chose not to continue feeling such pain. A world that had felt enough loss, enough sorrow, to throw away their petty grievances and live in coexistence. Live in peace.
But no. He stuck his nose in where he didn't belong. He killed his members. He turned them against one another. And was worst of all, he completely decimated him and his forces. Almost as if he knew that he would do exactly what he planned. The Oracle kept the Akatsuki from gaining any of the Bijuu, save the Sanbi, and humiliated them at the same time.
No more. Nagato wouldn't take this anymore. He had lost it all. But he wasn't going down alone. He would take everyone with him. He would destroy them all, so that he could at least die with dignity.
He brought his hands together to form a single hand sign. "Chibaku Tensei..."
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"Jiraiya of the Sannin...maybe you can help show me how far I have come." Sasuke mused as he created a second Chidori in his palm.
Jiraiya paled at the sight. There stood the before believed dead Uchiha. He wore a black cloak that had large hood that covered most of the Uchiha's face. Save his right eye, that glowed red with three tomoe that spinned slowly as he gazed at the injured Sage. The youth also wielded a guardless Katana on his hip.
The two Elder Toad Sages saw the new danger and stood to protect their summoner. "Sorry boy, but yer gonna have ta get past us ta get to Jiraiya-chan here." Fukasau said in a dark tone as he took a fighting stance. Shima stood proudly next to her husband with a look of determination.
Sasuke looked at the two amphibians and scoffed. "You're hardly worth my time, move." he ordered the two Toad summons. Fukasaku laughed at the boy. "You think were scared of some punk kid who ju-" he started to say before he felt an invisible force knock him far away from his summoner. Shima gasped loudly and watched as her husband flew across the battlefield. "PA!" she yelled in worry. She turned back to the Uchiha but couldn't see him anymore.
Jiraiya's eyes widened as he watched Sasuke disappear in a blur of speed. "MA'AM LOOK OUT!" he warned just before Shima was brutally kicked out of the way by the Uchiha. Jiraiya cursed loudly before forcing himself to stand. He would NOT be brought down by some punk that joined the fight at the last second.
He panted as he raised his right arm. A Rasengan slowly formed in his palm as he glared at the Uchiha. "You'll pay for that brat! Now face the great Toad Sage of Myobokuzan!" he roared as he used the last of his strength to push off towards the boy. He put all he had left into his attack, but it fell short. His strength gave out at the last possible second. His Rasengan dispelled harmlessly as he began to fall forward. "D-Dammit..." he said as he fell.
Sasuke scoffed at the man. "Pathetic...die you fool." he said as he drove his lightning cased hand through the mans heart.
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Cole ran through the blast zone, straight to the epicenter. He frantically looked for anything, anything he could use to bring the man back. As long as the King of Hell had some flesh to chew, he could bring anyone back from the dead soon after death. Cole looked through the scorched earth in hopes of finding Gai's body.
But his hopes were dashed completely. He failed. He knew this mission was dangerous, but he was confidant he could get everyone out alive. But, now he had a poisoned Hokage, an injured Kakashi, a unknown status on Jiraiya, and one casualty.
All that was left of the Mighty Green Beast of Konoha, was a single shred of his green jumpsuit. It stuck to a rock as the wind blew on it. Almost like a green leaf that had fallen early to the ground, before its Autumn could change it to the aged red color. It had fallen too soon, and now it wasn't even able to become to soil for the next generation of leaves to grow from, to aspire to become.
Miato Gai's springtime of youth...was cut short.
He fell to his knees and held the single piece of green in a sea of brown. Tears silently fell down his face as he looked back on his past experiences with the man. He, Gai, and Kakashi, we all the best of friends once Cole came to the Elemental Nations. They even had a poker night every Saturday. Now...what would he tell everyone when their spitfire of youthfulness never came back to play another round?
Naruto came up next to his father. A look of shock on his eyes as he took in his distressed image. "D-Dad?" he asked hesitantly, not wanting to know what the answer he would be told.
Cole shook his head before his voice croaked. "H-He's gone...Naruto...gone and nothing I can do will change that..." he said in utter defeat. Naruto joined his father and put a hand on his shoulder. He tried to say something, but his tears caught in his throat. He'd never see uncle Gai again.
It was then they felt it.
The earth began to tremor and shake. Cole could feel a massive amount of power building up from were the Deva path was. He whipped his head around to see the earth itself, rising to the heavens, forming a large mass of earthen fury in the sky above.
"YOU WILL KNOW MY PAIN! I WILL SHOW YOU ALL THE PAIN I HAVE FELT BEFORE I TAKE YOU WITH ME!" Deva path called out in utter fury.
The ground around Cole and his son began to rise. This was not good. The earth all over the ruin village of Sunagakure rose to the sky, forming a miniature planet in the sky. Almost the size of the village itself.
Cole and Naruto rushed to Sakura and the other injured members of their party. Naruto summoned clones to carry and assist them to escape from the rising earth. Gamahiro dispelled as soon as the earth began to rise, as not to be caught my the magnetic pull of the Chibaku Tensei.
Everyone was in accounting for, all save a certain perverted Sage. Naruto looked around as fast as he could for the sage, but when he found him, he couldn't believe his eyes.
Their holding the sage over his shoulder was his former teammate, but that didn't catch his eye at first. What he saw first was red. The red of blood that spilled from Jiraiya's chest, and the same red that coated Sasuke's hands.
All logical reasoning was lost to the blond as he looked to his former friend, now holding his dying godfather.
And with a rage filled roar, he charged. "SAAAASSSUUUKEEEE!"
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(A/N): To be continued...
Yup...the first major character death was in fact Gai. And maybe Jiriaya will be next 0.o
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