Meanwhile with the Tailed beasts
With the death of Tobi the tailed beasts who had their consciousness suppressed from taking over the Zetsu's body used as containers had gone idle, slowly gained full control.
Feeling the chakra spike emitted from Naruto. They instantly went on alert and immediately acted quick.
Using the distance between themselves as an advantage and the source of that foreign chakra as the target location , they took in air while gathering their chakra which caused numerous beasts bones to form.
Flinging their necks towards the battlefield location they all began firing numerous bombs.
With Naruto
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Footsteps
Footsteps
Everyone panicking from the sudden continuation of the tailed beast bomb attack stopped to stare at Naruto who had walked back into their view, this time he had his head down shadowing his eyes as he spoke in a cold and serious tone.
"I am Naruto uzumaki, Heir to the uzumaki clan..."
'He's insane?' People thought gulping in fear
Seeing no movement Naruto stretched his left hand out as if offering a gift making a black orb material with it as he prepared to destroy most of the forces below
Poof
A cloud of smoke appeared below where Naruto stood on the battlefield, making him halt whatever he was about to do.
"Seems I'm a bit late" the new figure who just materialized said with a bit of humor
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"Where have you been?" Naruto said calmly dropping his arm down making the orb disperse. He then switched into a more relaxed stance, as his face took a calm look completely expressing how calm he was despite the situation.
"You know the usual, pest control" the old man said jokingly while looking at mei and Hinata who stopped and were staring at him in shock. It was kinda funny the way the old man was backing the shinobi alliance army and wasn't even looking a bit fazed .
With the kages
"That's the man, the one who attacked us and stole the eight tails" Yamato said loudly pointing an accusing finger at the frail looking old man
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'What, so he's one of Naruto's partners ' Everyone thought getting a lot worried with the sudden revelation
'Meaning he already has the 8 tails' Hashirama thought with a calculated gaze while gradually moving his eyes from Naruto to the old man. Then he looked at the location of the tailed beasts
'They need to be taken care of too' Hashirama thought ignoring the numerous shouts echoing on the battlefield
"Oh I see you youngsters are alive, you even arrived here before me...ah how good it is to be young" the old man said acting hyped while waving happily at them
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'What the hell' Everyone thought staring at the excited old man
Assessing the situation hashirama had immediately come up a somewhat good plan, from his observation Naruto had no intention of fighting them at all, sure it was a relief, but still it was a bit troubling for numerous reasons and It also meant that instead of him, they were going to be battling his followers.
So he instead relayed his plan to the remaining people on the battlefield who were still fit to fight.
With Naruto
"Begin" Naruto said seriously
The moment those words left Naruto's mouth all hell broke loose. The feral man immediately jumped off the rock he was on causing it to crack and crumble as he began heading towards the directions of the bijuu's.
The three Sannins too sprinted in the same direction. From the looks of things, hashirama wanted them to deal with the bijuu situation first, maybe even the two followers. The remaining kages and soldiers would take care of the elderly man, while He on the other hand would handle Naruto himself.
Sure it was a god plan, but hashirama did not consider the possibility of what happened next.
The elderly man immediately appeared in front of Hashirama catching him by surprise,
"Kamino tenohira (God palm)" the elderly man muttered as his palm struck the belly of Hashirama then he wasted no time rotating it clockwise sending ripples through the form of the reanimated kage. Hashirama was quickly blasted far into the center of the alliance formation.
Spinning on the sole of his grounded leg, the elderly man immediately dodged Ay's attack, their eyes slowly met as Ay sailed got dangerously close to him.
'Shit' Ay mentally cursed once he noticed the palm of the elderly man.
His original plan was to hit the Raikage with an attack similar to that the first had taken, but doing that would leave him open for a while. Sighing lightly the man moved his gaze to the kunai heading his way in slow motion.
So choosing to make a hasty decision, the elderly man instead twirled around the Raikage who sped pass him. Grabbing the kunai mid air the elder man rotated making himself look like a mini tornado as he deflected the barrage of kunais.
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Immediately weaving through numerous kunais, the man skillfully bent avoiding a backwards slash from suigetsu.
" You still don't understand the situation... just like everyone here, we are merely pawns in this game. This battle isn't between myself and all here" the elderly man said
Sasuke then appeared mid swing forcing the man to plant his hand on the floor as he skillfully twisted avoiding the slash, suigetsu appeared again forcing the man to continue dodging. They intended on attacking the elderly man from both directions giving him little space to escape or worse perform a jutsu.
"No...it's between Uzu and the five Shonobi villages" the man concluded
Eyes widening in understanding the elderly man moved his gaze from the confident yet blood thirsty grin Suigestu gave him and scanned everyone else on the battlefield who watched for an opening to join in.
Attacks after attacks, the elderly man was finding himself hard pressed using a single kunai to deflect the two swords. Sasuke's wasn't that much of a problem, it was Suigetsu, with his sword size, weight and his aggressive swings.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sasuke said
The kunai was already showing signs of giving up as cracks appeared each time a swing was deflected or stopped.
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"Watch out!" Kushina shouted out. Orochimaru had limited her control so she couldn't control her actions.
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The elderly man had deflected sasuke's attack and was ready to act on the opening created. Unfortunately his victory was cut short once he heard Kushina's voice, having little time to react he felt something wrap around his leg, tossing him into the main arena.
"I won't let you.." suigetsu said slamming his sword straight through the mid section of the man tossing his body roughly towards where hashirama's repairing corpse laid .
Landing roughly the elderly man quickly ducked his head getting into a bowing pose, making sakura miss her punch. Immediately recovering to see that the fourth actually making a move to advance towards the real Naruto, smiling inwardly the elderly man speedily blurred through one handed seals then slammed his palm on the floor.
Kakashi and more ninjas that were heading towards him instantly stopped and went on guard.
A see through black cylinder-like barrier materialized, completely surrounding the whole alliance army with its height being pretty far into the sky.
"Damn..." muttered the second hokage who had just roughly rammed his face into the invisible wall.
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Cursing loudly sasuke stabbed his sword into the downed man who stayed idle for a while before proofing into a log.
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"Shintenshin no Jutsu(Ninja Art: Mind Transfer Jutsu)"
Immediately hearing the voice Sasuke turned to see the man calmly move aside as the attack of Ino missed, relocating her consciousness into some nameless shinobi. From the look on the man's face it was obvious he found his action hilarious, almost as if he was toying with them.
"Jūjin Taijutsu Ōgi: Gatsūga (Beast Human Body Technique Secret Art: Fang Passing Fang)" a huge drill like thing slamming into a location before proofing as two figures appeared.
"Did we get him" Kiba said to his partner as they scanned the area of their attack.
"Woof" growled Akamaru turning his head in search of a scent from the enemy
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"He's here!!!" Some random ninja shouted out drawing everyone's attention to the elderly man who stood casually in the mist of a group of shinobi.
'How'd he get here?'
'Why didn't anyone sense or notice him since '
Numerous thoughts filled their mind as they moved to get a good distance from the man
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"Destroying a nation is hard, but it gets a lot harder when instead of one it's five. So this got the boss thinking, what would be the appropriate time to do such a thing" the elderly man said while skillfully avoiding their numerous attempts to kill him
Seeing as his body was completely destroyed Hashirama could only turn his head watching the battle unfolded.
A brief assessment of their situation made them notice that a few ninjas along with the three sannins and the fourth had made it out of the barrier. But that wasn't really something that would make a huge difference, considering most of the more stronger ninjas were trapped inside.
"So that was his plan" Hashirama said in a low tone. He was a bit confused why Naruto released the chakra spike but now it made sense , it wasn't to just frighten them but to sense the range at which their ninjas were spread and now that he had the exact distance all the elderly man had to do was create a barrier trapping all within the range.
This also pointed out his theory that Naruto and the elderly man were somehow related, if they could communicate like that without uttering a single word and also their chakra felt too similar to be a coincidence.
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With the three Sannins
"Tsk" Jiraiya bit his tongue both in annoyance and anger once seeing what had happened to their soldiers
'We have to get there before them' Tsunade thought watching as the feral man sprinted through the surrounding at a very scary pace that would even make guy panick. What was more scarier was that he was also avoiding the beast bombs as if they were nothing at that amount of speed.
Orochimaru on the other hand had his mind elsewhere. Originally he had only intended on observing the battle, but with the way things were going and the arrival of interesting specimens, he couldn't help but get invested in the battle too.
Performing his creepy lip licking action once he saw the man with the scar focus on them, orochimaru couldn't help but feel like this battle was going to be a lot more enjoyable.
"At this pace we're going it would take ages" Jiraiya said seriously as he began making handseals quickly. The others quickly caught on to what he was doing and followed along, and with that all three of them concluded and slammed their hands on the floor at the same time.
"Summoning Jutsu" their voices vibrant as they were immediately consumed by large fumes of smoke.
Outside The barrier
"You handle the others, I will hold off the Forth" Mei said firmly while glancing at Hinata to see a hesitant nod.
"Good, let's go" Mei said talking off towards the forth. Mei obviously knew that she wasn't going to last long against the forth Hokage, despite that she wasn't going to just give up on helping Naruto as much as she could.
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Watching the two girls charge towards the enemy, Naruto couldn't help but feel worried and a bit happy that they were willing to go this far for him. Moving his gaze back to the barrier he watched the old man play around with the shinobi's.
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Reaching into his pouch Minato quickly pulled out his stylized kunai, unaware that one extra dropped out. Seeing this Mei instantly went through her handseals then muttered "(Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu: Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu)"
Numerous kunais launched at the reanimated Hokage giving him no other option but to quickly change from a sprint to a side dive, effectively dodging the attack, but not without a few scratches . Still, that gave him enough time for what he wanted to do. The eyes of Mei widened in surprise as the kunai sailed pass her.
'Shit' Mei muttered just as the hokage appeared in a golden blur. Performing a spinning axe kick the leg of the fourth instantly met the sides of the ex mizukage tossing her harshly.
Landing gracefully, the hokage glanced at the form of the mizukage to see her disperse into a puddle of water. A frown adorned the late hokages face as he instantly had to teleport back to the kunai that fell out his pouches position.
A huge blob of lava consumed his previous location causing his eyes to widen in surprise. 'Obviously it won't be that easy, she was just a kage seconds ago' Minato's thought
"You know the mechanics of your Jutsu is quite easy to understand. Wherever your kunai's are you can teleport, meaning I have to avoid getting close to any of them or just destroy them all" Mei said smiling once she saw the serious look on Minato's face. Honestly it was impressive how he reacted, dodging the wall of kunais at such a close distance without sustaining any major damage.
In his attempt to quickly escape minato failed to pick up his kunai, allowing the lava from Mei's jutsu to melt it. Discretely moving his gaze to Naruto, minato couldn't help but frown knowing he would be delayed a bit.
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Action quickly once she saw the hokage shift his attention , Mei rushed in throwing quick punches. It was obvious that if they had a ranged fight she would loose, so she was willing to take the risk and reduce as much distance as possible between them.
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Each punch seemed to be deflected with the same speed at which the attack was thrown, it was becoming annoying and from the scowl on the Forth's face.
'He's good, a little bit slower than I anticipated ' Mei thought a bit confused.
Acting quickly Minato caught her punch, twisting her wrist, he snapping it harshly.
Mei grunted in pain. Smirking she kicked her feet backwards, pushing her upper body towards Minato's. Manipulating her wrist she pushed her elbows forward quickly forcing minato to lean back in an attempt to avoid the attack.
Giving him no time, Mei threw a chakra enhanced palm strike towards the chest of the reanimated kage, Pushing him a good distance away and also forcing him to let go of her wrist.
Coughing gently Minato used this opportunity to quick grab a kunai from his pouch.
Stiffening once Minato pulled out his blades, Mei instantly took to throwing kunais at the deceased hokage in hopes that she would distract him, but it was unavoidable. Minato had no interest in playing around with any of them and instead flung his kunai with a high amount of wind chakra towards the mountain where his son stood.
Eyes widening in realization, Mei cursed her failure to distract the man. She had not expected him to do something like this. Seeing no other option she then went to assist Hinata.
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Forced to evade the kunai that narrowly sailed by him. Naruto was about to make a remark but immediately went silent when his father immediately appeared in a flash
Having little time to react Naruto felt the Chakra orb slam straight into his back. Tossing him with so much impact that he fell off the mountain, landing in a mess on the floor.
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*thud*
Throwing one of his special blade a good distance from Naruto's body Minato disappeared then appeared at the blades location.
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'That hurt a-lot lesser than I expected' Naruto thought slowly getting up from the floor
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'What?' Minato thought
Seeing Naruto regain his composure a little too early, Minato had no other option but to engage him in close combat. 'Shit I'm not that good in close combat ' Minato thought as he struggled to evade all the quick punches of Naruto. ( I'm weakening Minato a bit, I find that creating or modifying a teleportation jutsu is cool and all, but technicality that would mean he was trying to compensate for something else. So I'm reducing his Taijutsu when not using the hirashin to something around high jounin level .)
This was a late improvement he made to the Hirashin. The ability to place seals on an object or person he touched, it was a huge improvement and played a major role in his fight with the masked man during his son's birth, but it had several disadvantages.
It was hard materializing the seal while engaging in combat, it took far more chakra than the usual , it was hard relocating the seal from one's body to another's without it getting noticed and also only one seal could be placed on a target.
Naruto grabbing his fathers wrist midway through the punch snapping it earning a pained gasp from his dad, not noticing the seal crawling onto his skin Naruto slammed his free palm into his dads stomach flinging his back a good distance while releasing the broken wrist.
Just as his back slammed into one of the huge pieces of rocks that fell from the mountain when Naruto spiked his chakra, Minato had to quickly move away avoiding a strong punch from his son.
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Moving his feet as fast as possible Minato had somehow managed to flip their positions. Now Naruto was the one with his back against the wall.
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Throwing a strong punch Minato had hoped to catch Naruto off guard but was immediately surprised when Naruto tilted his head, causing him to punch the rock leaving a dent in it.
Acting quickly Naruto's left hand found its way to the side of his dads head, moving his leg he tripped his dad, causing him to stumble. Flipping their position Naruto wasted no time as he embedded Minato's head roughly into the rock.
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Blinking a few times in confusion Minato tried to understand what exactly had just happened.
"You're really not a good as they say" Naruto who stood facing Minato said before disappearing in a cloud of black smoke that dispersed with the wind.
"I agree" a voice said causing the eyes of Minato to widen as he moved his gaze to the figure still standing on the mountain.
'Kage bunshin? When did he have time to perform it' Minato thought in confusion while pulling himself out of the rock. From the way Naruto behaved towards him, it was obvious he was seriously being underestimated.
Staring in amusement at his fathers confused face. Naruto couldn't help but chuckle lightly, of course this angered minato but he wasn't showing it at all.
'Wait I can still sense the seal I placed on him, meaning he probably replaced himself sometime during our Taijutsu fight' Minato concluded while staring at the boy who calmly switched his weight as if nothing concerned him.
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Seeing Naruto turn to stare at the Sannins was all Minato needed as he disappeared then immediately appeared above his son with the intent of smashing a rasengan into his form.
Without moving his gaze Naruto flung his hand catching his fathers wrist mid way through the attack. Pulling his father down from the above him, Naruto slammed him into the floor causing the Rasengan to disperse, then he immediately stomped his leg on Minato's back causing him to puke his saliva
"As interesting as it was meeting you, I'm sorry to say I'm going to have to rid you of the Kyuubi chakra" Naruto said leaning closer to his fathers frame while placing his free hand on the head of his father.
Stiffening once he heard the words of his son, Minato attempted to wiggle his way to freedom but was immediately seeing that it was not getting him anywhere. He was played, from the beginning of everything his son had anticipated him escaping and even his attacks.
"Don't do this Naruto"
"Oookay" Naruto said digging his finger into his fathers skull making the chakra of the fox crawl into his form. They eyes of Minato widened in fear as he felt pain surge through his chakra coils.
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With the fox chakra out of his dad, Naruto saw no real purpose of keeping him alive, other than allowing him to watch his village suffer just like he and other like himself had endures for years.
Vines made of black goo rose from the floor wrapping around the frame of minato pinning him into the floor as Naruto got off him.
"Things are about to get a lot more interesting, Now..." Naruto said a huge vortex appeared behind him catching both Hinata and Mei who had just arrived by surprise, as they were both pulled into it.
Honestly speaking taking them away from the battlefield was to ensure their safety and also to keep them away should one of them turn rebel and try to ruin the ritual.
Somewhere far away from the battlefield
The vortex appeared spitting out both Hinata and mei roughly, causing them to land in a mess of tangled limbs.
"Ugh" they grunted in confusion as the opened their eyes to see their faces very close, only separated by a very little distance.
Seeing Hinata's blushing face Mei couldn't help but smirk brightly.
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At konoha
One of the Naruto clone slowly walked to the village gate, a cheeky smile plastered on his face as he then placed both of his palms on the closed gate.
"Prepare, for today the demon returns"
The clone muttered in excitement with his fingers digging into the wooden gate suddenly black mist crawled into the gate, making it crumble. Within seconds it grew in size until it consumed the whole form of the gate.
'Quite a wake up call' the man thought moving backwards a bit to observe his handwork. It didn't take long as he was soon hearing the village warning bells going off, signifying everyone of a threat.
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Walking through an opening in the crumbling wooden gate that was large enough to fit him, the man came face to face with two familiar konoha ninjas who couldn't help but stare in shock.
"I-impossible"
"Naruto"
Kotetsu and Izumo stuttered our in surprise
--Some minutes later--
The other clone had made it inside the village and had made clones of himself which headed towards the home of his parents, while he himself headed to the hokage tower.
Arriving at the tower wasn't that hard, he had to fight a few ninjas but they weren't anything special. 'It's obvious, considering most of their main power was on the battlefield. But still they could have left someone here' the man thought as he walked into the tower
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--Few minutes later--
Having delt with any konoha shinobi who stupidly tried to delay his mission, the second clone had taken all he found interesting and was looking to join his other half in trimming their ninja population down .
A quick glance at the hokage monument brought a huge smile to his face. 'Give then a day to remember, that's the order' the man thought then stretched his hand out as if offering a present.
Immediately a black orb materialized, aiming his palm towards the mountain carved faces of the village leaders, the man fired the black mass of chakra
--With the konoh shinobi--
They were tasked with taking the civilians to the hideout (a secret room inside the kage monument) once the alarm of an invasion went off.
"Stop" shouted one ninja suddenly causing everyone to halt their movement abruptly. Then it happened before their eyes, the black orb struck into the head of the third hokages sculpture, once it impacted with the rock. Within seconds the orb went off in a huge explosion which completely obliterated all the other faces causing rocks to fall below towards the path at which the civilians were
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"Kami sama, protect us"
"What is happening"
"Why now"
Numerous thoughts went through every konoha citizens mind as they began panicking. With the hokage being absent the village was a lot weaker now, heck even bandits tried to invade the village for a while but it seems their numerous failures forced them to stop . Now it seemed their luck was over as a stronger opponent had come.
--Back with the clone at the gate front--
"Kami sama" muttered a ninja getting distracted to stare at the crumbling mountain
"You'll pay for that demon!" Some random ninja shouted rushing in to attack the Naruto clone who looked a bit pleased with his statement.
Slowly avoiding the attacks of them all, the clone was having one hell of a day toying with the konoha shinobi's.
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"Hahaha come on put more effort " the clone said smiling at the few remaining konoha shinobi's which were gasping in exhaustion.
Sure enough their jobs were to infiltrate konoha, claim whatever belonged to the uzumaki clan along with a lot of their valuables , weaken the village and then leave the village in shambles. There was nothing stated about not harming or killing some of them, so he was good.
"N-Naruto" a new voice said in confusion making the Naruto clone move its gaze to him instead.
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"Iruka" Naruto said in a neutral tone
With Hinata and Mei
"Sorry about earlier" Hinata apologized while blushing profusely. It made no sense why she was reverting back to her original behavior, 'maybe it's because of how close both of them were when Naruto's vortex dumped them, maybe where Mei's hands were at.' Hinata thought blushing
"It's good, besides it's not your fault" Mei said sweetly
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"Anyway I'm Mei, Terumi Mei" Mei said calmly while mentally replacing the terumi with Uzumaki.
"I'm Hinata" the blushing girl replied
Both Mei and Hinata looked around taking in the sight of their new surrounding. It didn't take them long to know they were a good distance away from the battlefield as they got a somewhat understandable view of everything currently happening on the battlefield.
Watching the numerous tailed beasts bombs crash into the barrier which showed no sign of falling, it was clear now that Naruto actually had expected this result
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"So...any particular reason why you decided to betray your village exactly" mei asked while suspiciously analyzing the fidgeting girl.
"Um umm" Hinata tried to think of a good answer but couldn't. It would be very weird to just tell Mei that she betrayed her village because she loved Naruto, or something along the lines.
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"Huh" letting her gaze wonder back towards the battlefield Hinata's eyes widened making Mei move her eyes back to the battlefield as she too stared in amazement at the scene