Chapter 29 – Aftermath of the Invasion

At the Night

Naruto opened his eyes to find himself in a hospital room. He looked around to find Kakashi and Sasuke on his right and Itachi on his left. "So, you are awake?" Jiraiya said, sitting in the corner.

"Yeah. What happened to them?" Naruto said as he sat on his bed.

"Kakashi and Sasuke are fatigued while Itachi is suffering from some kind of sickness," Jiraiya said.

"I see. Guess, I lost my arm." Naruto said looking at his left shoulder.

"Yeah. Not the ideal age to get crippled." Jiraiya said.

"Certainly not. What is time now?" Naruto asked.

"5 in the morning, the sun is about to rise now," Jiraiya said.

"What about the village?" Naruto asked as he stood up from his bed and walked up to Jiraiya.

"It has fallen. More than half of it is destroyed beyond repair and the rest of it is barely standing. Luckily, your house is still standing without any scratch." Jiraiya said.

"I see. And what about the people?" Naruto asked.

"30 per cent of our population is dead and over half the population is injured in one way or other.

"300k dead. They dealt some real damage." Naruto said as he gazed out of the window at the remains of what could be called a village.

"Are the shinobi ready for a potential war? I doubt the other villages will remain still while we are at our weakest." Naruto said.

"I have already dealt with that. Other villages won't be hearing about the invasion for at least 60 days. And that should give us time to stabilize. You should think about your missing arm." Jiraiya said.

"That is barely an issue." Naruto said as six chains formed out of his shoulder to take the shape of an arm.

"I see. But even now, you still cannot use Ninjutsu and certain Genjutsu and Fuinjutsu, all of which are your strong suit." Jiraiya said.

"True indeed. But I am still among the top dogs in Konoha. So, what happened to the Snake?" Naruto asked.

"There were no survivors left to tell the tale. My guess is that he killed everyone and left, as his objective was complete." Jiraiya said.

"That is very likely. There is one thing you should know, both the Snake and Kabuto have the Snake Sage Mode. Though I took care of Kabuto, the Snake still lives." Naruto said.

"Sage Mode? How?" Jiraiya asked in a shocked manner.

"Both of them had implanted Lord First's cells in their bodies, thanks to their previous defeat from me." Naruto said.

"If he has the snake sage mode then-" Jiraiya said.

"Don't worry, if we ever cross paths, he will certainly die there without fail." Naruto said.

"You don't know what the Sage mode is capable of. No one in Konoha can defeat him now." Jiraiya said.

"How are you so confident in that statement? As of now, Konoha is finally regaining its past strength. We five people in this room alone could take over any country. The snake and the Akatsuki are no more than mere ants that could be crushed effortlessly." Naruto said.

"What are you saying? Sure we are strong, but there the likes of Orochimaru are now even stronger. And what about the guy whom you fought? He should also be quite stronger if he managed to stalemate you and even took your arm." Jiraiya said.

"Sure he had a trick up his sleeve but he is no longer a match for me now," Naruto said.

"Whatever you say, no point in arguing," Jiraiya said.

"I will be going somewhere, don't come after me." Naruto said he used his lightning shunshin to disappear.

"Where is Naruto?" Rui asked as she, Haku and Zabuza entered the room.

"He is gone." Jiraiya said.

With Naruto

Naruto shunshined just before a so-called secret gate hidden in the Hokage Mountain. He used his chains to break open the door. As he entered the secret chamber, it turned out to be surprisingly big and full of ROOT ninjas.

As Naruto walked in, half a dozen of ROOT shinobi shunshined before him. "What is the meaning of this?" One of them asked. But instead of a verbal answer, he got diced up into multiple pieces in return.

Seeing their comrade die, the other five shinobi immediately dashed at Naruto. But before they could reach him, multiple chains formed out of Naruto's body and pierced all of them in less than a second. Naruto then immediately dashed at his nearest ROOT ninjas and decapacitated him.

Suddenly a siren blew up, alerting everyone on the premise. But it was all in vain as Naruto just started massacring everyone present there with no exception. In a matter of few minutes, everyone in the building was dead and gone except Naruto and Danzo, who was hiding in his office room.

Naruto then stood right before Danzo's office. The only thing that was now preventing him from reaching Danzo was a 1-meter-thick titanium door. Danzo's room was not just a normal room, but a bunker with walls twice as thick as the door.

"It seems that you have caught the wind of my doings. But you cannot reach me now that you are incapable of weaving hand signs." Danzo spoke from behind the door.

"You think a mere metal door can fend me off. You are gravely mistaken." Naruto said as his eyes transformed into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

"AMATERASU!" Naruto as he projected the black flames of Amaterasu onto the metal door that completely melted down the door in mere seconds.

"What!? Whom did you steal those eyes from?" Danzo said.

"These eyes allow me to see chakra, and I can clearly see the right half of your body and the ten eyes that you have got on your right arm," Naruto said as Danzo got stiffened a bit. Suddenly Naruto shot out multiple chains that pierced Danzo and slashed him into pieces.

"Do you think you can kill me just like that?" Danzo said as he materialised behind Naruto and tried to stab him with a kunai. But before could reach Naruto, a white rib cage appeared around Naruto. As the kunai hit the rib cage, it immediately snapped.

Danzo tried to jump away but a white skeleton hand materialised in mid-air and smashed Danzo to a wall like a mosquito, splashing blood all over the place.

"Izanagi, eh? So the ten eyes on your right hand are all actually sharingan, wonder how you got them. But I won't fall to the same trick twice." Naruto said as Danzo materialised before him again.

"The Susanoo. This is going to be a tough one." Danzo said as he weaved a set of hand seals.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Bullets." Danzo said as he shot multiple air bullets at Naruto from his mouth. Trying to test out the Susanoo's durability, Naruto decided to take the hit. But the vacuum bullets were much more powerful, as they pierced the Susanoo and Naruto through multiple spots, causing him to spurt out blood.

"That Susanoo is not all that powerful." Danzo said as he took out a shuriken from his sleeves and used his wind release to create a razor-sharp spinning disc. He then launched the shurikens at Naruto.

But as the amped shuriken left Danzo, Kurama's Face Avatar formed around the Susanoo, easily deflecting the shurikens. Steam started to come out from Naruto's injuries as they all healed immediately. "Since I am about to kill you, I will show you how much outclassed you are," Naruto said as he just stood there in his white kimono with all his might.

"The fact of the matter is that I have never ever fought at my full strength, primarily to conceal my affiliation with Kurama, but another reason was that I was never forced to. I have a bad habit of enjoying the battle, that is why I don't fight at full strength, because if I do so then it will no longer be a fight, it will just be a stomp." Naruto said.

"Even now, what you are seeing now is but a fraction of my true power. If I release this form, it will be tall enough to touch the clouds and shatter the mountains with a mere flick of a finger. Do you understand Danzo, the grave mistake that you committed by not killing me when I was an infant? You should have tied this loose ends that I was after you went to all the trouble of telling that imposter about the location of my birth." Naruto said as the Skeleton hand, now covered with Kurama's chakra avatar, crushed Danzo to a pulp, shaking the entire building.

"So he told you about that too," Danzo said as he materialised again.

"No. I figured it all myself. I figured out your plan too. You had hoped that the imposter will kill me and my mother. Then he and my father, the fourth Hokage, will kill each other. On the other hand, Lord Third would give up his life to seal Kurama in some random person. And after the battle would end, you would have framed the Uchiha clan for that attack, getting the Hokage's hat for yourself." Naruto said as he covered the whole room with the flames of Amaterasu, burning down Danzo to ashes, and killing him for the fourth time.

This time as soon as Danzo materialised, he instantly got incinerated by the Amaterasu flames from before. "You may think what I did was evil but it was necessary for the good of the village. The village was going too soft to maintain its position in the world." Danzo said as this time he materialised outside the room.

"Do not give me that crap. You vandalised the whole village for your own benefit. And now your time has come to repent for your crimes." Naruto said as he stared directly into Danzo's eyes.

Suddenly he appeared just behind Danzo and used his chains to gouge out his heart. Danzo was perplexed at how Naruto just appeared behind him albeit he used the Izanagi one again to rematerialize himself.

"You seem perplexed, Danzo. How many times have used the Izanagi?" Naruto asked just standing there while Danzo felt chills down his spine by just making eye contact with him.

"Just now was the sixth time." Danzo said.

"You should have a look at your arm then." Naruto said. Danzo then looked at his right arm only to find out that all 10 eyes were now closed. As he saw that he got half shocked to death.

"You are thinking if this is a genjutsu or not, right? It is, but an unbreakable one." Naruto said.

"It is the ability of my right eye called Kanzen Saimin. This ability allows me to control the five senses of anyone who looks me in the eyes while my Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan is active. And the scary fact about this is that it is not your normal genjutsu which you can break by merely disrupting your chakra. The thing is that it cannot be broken. And I can use it as long as I continue to use my Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, or I can plant it into someone and activate it at any time." Naruto said as Danzo started sweating profusely.

"You can run away if you want, I won't blame you for that," Naruto said as Danzo took it literally and started to run away. But as he ran away, he somehow ended up just before Naruto. He tried to run away again but he seemed to be stuck in a loop.

"What is going on?" Danzo said as he continued to run.

"As I said just now, I can control your five senses. So while you think that you were running away, you were just standing there, gouging out your right eye with your own hand." Naruto said as he broke the illusion to reveal Danzo holding his right eye in his hand, profusely bleeding from his eye.

"Now then, it is about time you die," Naruto said as he unsealed a Katana from his hand and decapacitated Danzo.

"He finally died this time," Kurama said.

"Yeah, but I won't complain if I have to kill him again," Naruto said.

"11 times is enough," Kurama said as suddenly a black fluid started coming out of Danzo's chest and he a black pattern appeared on his chest.

"The Reverse Tetragram seal. You seek to take me with you to the afterlife? What a persistent creature you are Danzo." Naruto said as he used his God Speed to step back.

"How about you take your comrades with you?" Naruto said as a black sphere started forming out of Danzo. But in the meantime, showing his incredible speed, Naruto collected all 300 dead bodies of the Root ninjas and threw them at Danzo. In a matter of a few seconds, the black sphere sealed everything inside it into nothingness.

All the corpses present there were now erased. Naruto then went to Danzo's office and extinguished the Amaterasu flames with his eyes. "The enemy barged inside and killed everyone in here, or, Danzo went crazy and killed all of his subordinates before disappearing. Which one would be a good cover story?" Naruto asked.

"The latter one, that way Danzo will get his most deserved criminal record," Kurama said.

"Yeah. Then that's the cover story." Naruto said.

Later that day at the Hospital

Naruto was wearing a black kimono with a white haori. He was wearing it since he had attended Hiruzen's funeral. After attending the funeral, he was working in the hospital relentlessly to treat the injured. Strange diseases, missing limbs, half burned to death, poisoned, he had seen every type of causality in a single day. He hadn't taken a break since he had started, and now it was Night.

One of the things which didn't require Naruto to have both hands was Medical Ninjutsu. And in the off chance that he needed another arm, his Adamantine Chains compensated for that. And thanks to his reputation as a medic, he was called to the Hospital the treat the injured.

"Let's have a look at you, Itachi-san," Naruto said as he placed his hand on Itachi's chest. After a few seconds, a frown appeared on Naruto's face.

"What is it?" Mikoto asked. The room was filled with Uchihas and they just kept coming.

"He has a peculiar type of lung disease. The alveoli are swelling continuously to the point where they burst. And sadly I do not have the skill required to deal with it." Naruto said.

"What is going to happen to my son?" Mikoto asked as tears almost fell from her eyes.

"From the looks of it, he was enduring this for almost a year. And now it had gotten worse. I can stop it from spreading more but the alveoli will keep bursting, causing him immense pain and suffering every now and then. And it will keep going until he finally dies. He has 45 days at best." Naruto said as Mikoto finally broke down, and so did Shisui and Sasuke.

"Can't we do anything to help him?" Izumi said.

"The only person on earth that can save him is Lady Tsunade. Only she possesses the knowledge and skills necessary for this." Naruto said.

"But," Izumi said.

"Yes, no one knows where she is, except one person," Naruto said.

"Naruto-Sama, the council has sent you a notice." An ANBU appeared before Naruto and offered him a scroll.

"Thank you." Naruto said as the ANBU shunshined away. Naruto then opened the scroll, read the content and closed it with a poker face.

"Do not worry. I will leave the day after tomorrow to find Lady Tsunade and bring her back to treat him." Naruto said with a reassuring smile before he shunshined away.

With Jiraiya

He was currently standing on the roof of the Hokage tower gazing at the village. That was until Naruto appeared behind him. "So, you can still sense chakra," Jiraiya said.

"Yeah. I can do anything that doesn't require hand seals. So, have you got the notice?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah. The fire daimyo will arrive tomorrow to appoint the new Hokage." Jiraiya said.

"So are you going to accept the new job?" Naruto asked.

"No. I am not suited for such an honourable post. I will reject their proposal." Jiraiya said.

"I see. What about Lady Tsunade?" Naruto asked.

"She will not accept it either. Not unless she is the only candidate qualified for the role." Jiraiya said.

"Very well. I am planning to make Itachi-San the Fifth Hokage." Naruto said.

"What about Danzo? And why Itachi, Kakashi is better suited for it than him." Jiraiya said.

"Danzo will not be showing up again. And as for why Itachi, well, because he is an Uchiha. It will be a final nail in the coffin of discrimination against them." Naruto said.

"Elaborate a little," Jiraiya said.

"You might have heard about how the clan was at the brink of launching a Coup D'état against the village. I had barely managed to avert that outcome by manipulating the greatest minds at that time. But deep within the Uchihas' minds, they are still insecure that they don't have an influence in the village politics. And this insecurity may lead to dissatisfaction and eventually to the same situation that I had prevented years ago." Naruto said.

"That is a valid point, but why specifically Itachi and not Shisui?" Jiraiya asked.

"I had planned to make Shisui Uchiha the next Hokage, but that was until Fugaku Uchiha was still alive. With the head position now vacant, I cannot let anyone fill it other than him. I see the Uchihas as a wild herd that can wreak havoc if not led properly, and Shisui Uchiha is perfect for that role." Naruto said.

"Alright. I don't have any problem with it. But how are you going to do that." Jiraiya said.

"Since Itachi is out of commission, I am the current head of the ANBU Black Ops, and hence I will also sit in the meeting that will take place tomorrow. After that, manipulating the Fire Daimyo is just child's play." Naruto said.

"But the problem is that Itachi Uchiha is suffering from an unknown terminal lung disease, that only Lady Tsunade can treat. If left untreated, he will eventually succumb to death within 45 days from now." Naruto said.

"Then-" Jiraiya said.

"We will need to find her and bring her back to treat Itachi Uchiha," Naruto said.

"O-Okay. I will have her location by tomorrow evening." Jiraiya said as he summoned a toad and handed him a scroll before dispelling it.

"Then we will be leaving the day after tomorrow," Naruto said.

"Alright," Jiraiya asked.

"Talking about toads, you have the Toad Sage Mode, don't you," Naruto asked.

"I do, but I have not perfected it yet," Jiraiya asked.

"Then it is about time you perfect it because we are going to face off against some Kage Level ninjas eventually.

"Yeah. I will drop by Mount Myoboku after we return." Jiraiya said.

"Alright. I will be taking my leave." Naruto said as he shunshined away.

After Naruto left, a toad came out of Jiraiya's robe. "Are you certain that he killed Danzo." Jiraiya asked.

"Yeah. I saw it with my own eyes." The toad said.

"Well, if what Naruto said before killing him is true, that I believe it is, then that son of a bitch deserved to die." Jiraiya said as he clenched his fist.


Enter Shinigami Naruto!

Well you can blame the Bleach TYBW for this. I wasn't originally planning to give him a shinigami uniform and aizen's powers but then TYBW came. Anyways, the Konoha crush arc is complete now. To summarize this, Naruto lost left arm and the ability to use ninjutsu but got the EMS in return. Also Hiruzen is dead and Itachi is set to become the next Hokage. That's it for this arc, see you in the next chapter. And I am afraid the next chapter will be even more late, probably will take upto a year, but as I said in the first chapter, I am going to complete this story.