This was the day… that Naruto Uzumaki…
They just stared at each other in silence. Time was almost still from the tension. Son Goku, legendary Saiyan warrior, and Naruto Uzumaki, unstoppable hyperactive shinobi. Both of them were straight up myths when it came to their power and fighting ability. And now, here they are. Face to face.
"So, what do ya say?! Care for a match, old man? Huh? Huh???" Goku asked excitedly, like a little kid wanting to go to a water park.
"Come on! How many more of you lunatics are there?! AND WHO ARE YOU CALLING OLD! YOU'RE CLEARLY OLDER THAN ME, PAL!" Naruto yelled angrily.
"Hey, no need to get nasty. I just asking a question." Goku said.
"Well, forget it! I'm not fighting another one of you guys! I'm just trying to go home here! C'mon, do me a favor here! One guy in orange to another!" Naruto pleaded.
"Sorry, but I can't. We're kinda enemies here. I mean, I was told not to fight you directly, but I just couldn't resist." Chuckled Goku.
Naruto groaned. He did not have the time or energy for this.
"Naruto, we don't really have a choice. This guy's not going to let us go." Kurama pointed out.
"Not even if we ask nicely?" Cried Naruto.
"Nope! He's right! Not letting you get away no matter what!" Goku laughed happily.
Kurama flinched from within Naruto. Did Goku just hear him? From inside his Jinchūriki?!
"Huh?! He heard me?!" Gasped the fox.
"How can I not? The fact that I can read minds kinda helps with that too."
Kurama growled and Naruto pinched his forehead. There truly was no way out of this.
"Ugh! Fine, I'll fight you! But don't think for a second I'm gonna hold anything back! Believe it!"
His face curved into the happiest smile imaginable. Goku jumped up into the air and click his feet together like a giddy leprechaun.
"Yahoo! Awesome! And I hope you don't. I want this to be a good fight."
"Easy for you to say. I want this done as quickly as possible."
Both Goku and Naruto took stances. The wind blew across the forest, picking up leaves in its flow. Both fighters scanning their opponent, hoping to find the slightest opening they could make the moment they moved. They didn't even dare to blink.
Then… they charged.
Goku threw a punch, but was caught by Naruto. With his opponent in his range, Naruto pulled out a kunai and thrust it into Goku's throat, only to have the blade snap like a stick. Naruto was shocked. Goku's iron-like Saiyan flesh is resistant to most weapons, so he can handle whatever Naruto may throw at him.
Son quickly grabbed the ninja by his arm and tossed him. Naruto recovered mid air and leapt off a tree, zooming towards Goku like a speeding bullet. Uzumaki smashed his fist into Goku's face and sent him flying, crashing through numerous trees. Naruto yelped in pain and started shaking his hand. He could have sworn he felt a crack in his knuckle.
"Ow, my hand! That's was like punching a rock! What the hell is this guy made of?!" Cried the ninja.
He would find out soon enough as Goku charged at Naruto, shouting his lungs out as usual. He leapt up into the air and dropped an axe kick. Naruto blocked with his arms, but Goku continued by jumping off Uzumaki's arms and summersaulting behind him. He attempted a roundhouse that was also caught by Naruto. This gave the shinobi the opportunity to throw the Saiyan. Naruto held Goku's leg over his shoulder and hurled him with all his might.
"Got you!" Naruto shouted.
"Not quite!" Goku replied.
The martial artist vanished mid throw and Naruto lost his balance, face planting into the dirt. Goku reappeared somewhere else, dusting off his gi.
"Oh wow! That guy's skills are off the charts. He's reading every one of my moves and countering them on the fly. He would have had me back there if I hadn't used Instant Transmission." Goku said giddily.
He scanned his surroundings, trying to pick up where Naruto may attack from. As a ninja, stealth was his specialty. That means Goku had to be extra vigilant. He had to find the slightest movement, sense the faintest Ki signature, hear the quietest sound.
'Where is he..? There!'
Goku quickly spun to his back. Naruto was above him, diving down fast.
"You lousy..!" Shouted Naruto.
Goku jumped out of the way and Naruto's fist crashed into the ground, upturning dirt and dust upon the impact. Goku smiled happily. It had been too long since he fought such a strong opponent. He could feel his heart racing, his sweat pouring down his face, the chafing of his legs. Aside from the chafing, Goku was enjoying himself.
Multiple shurikens zoomed out from the smoke at Goku. They however inflicted no damage as they all shattered upon touching Son's very skin. Naruto charged from the cloud at his foe. Goku fired off several energy bombs, but Naruto dodged each of them effortlessly. He managed to get close to Goku and strapped a piece of paper onto his arm, then retreated.
Goku looked at the sticker on his arm. It had strange writing on it. He was curious about why Naruto had planted it on him.
"I don't get it." He said.
Suddenly, the paper caught fire and Goku instantly started freaking out.
"Huh?! Oh crap!"
And then… *BOOM*
Goku tried ripping the sticker off, but it was too late. An explosion engulfed the Saiyan. It was a paper bomb. They work like land minds and can be detonated remotely or on timers by linking with one's Chakra. Naruto smirked from a distance at his successful attack.
"Yeah! Eat that, jerk! That just happened!" He laughed.
"Don't get so cocky, Naruto." Kurama urged.
"Come on, Kurama. Take it easy. I blew him sky high. No way he'd getting back up."
"Didn't I just say don't get cocky? I hate cocky! Boo cocky!"
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"Just heard it, imagining how you must have heard it-
Naruto and Kurama were snapped out of their mental conversation, by a thunderous roar. A shockwave of immeasurable force was unleashed and almost the whole of the forest was blown away. Naruto was caught within the blast and got sent flying along with the trees.
"WHAAAAAAAA?!"
The shockwave soon dissipated. Naruto was practically buried in rubble, but he was still able to pull himself out without issue. He took a step forward, but he fell to his knee in pain. There was a large wood splinter embedded in his right thigh. Naruto pulled it out and the wound healed within seconds, thanks to Kurama's Chakra.
Naruto then looked ahead and what he saw shocked him. At the center of the crater was Goku, but changed. His hair rose up and glowed a brilliant gold. His eyes turned bright green and he was surrounded in a golden aura. The ninja was left speechless from Goku's display of sheer power.
'What just happened? What's up with that form? He just blew away the whole forest just by screaming!' Naruto mentally exclaimed.
"Naruto, be careful! It's not just his form that's change. I can sense that power has increased at least fifty fold!" Kurama urged.
That information only frightened Naruto even more. He gulped, but he tightened his fists and took a deep breath. Five seconds. He allowed himself to be afraid for five seconds. No more. He was now ready.
Naruto rushed down into the crater to meet Goku. The Saiyan's emerald eyes staring into Naruto's, now red and slitted like a fox.
"I could have sworn your eyes were blue a minute ago." Goku said.
"I could have sworn you were human. What's up with the dye job?"
"This is called Super Saiyan. It's a technique used by my people. You could say this is me 'getting serious'." Goku explained.
"Is that so. I guess I should have figured you weren't from around here, if you know what I mean. I've dealt with my fair share of invaders before." Naruto replied.
"Good to know."
Goku reached to his back and pulled out his Power Pole. He extended it to make a bow staff, twirling it a few times before taking a stance.
"Ready for round two?"
Naruto smirked. He crossed his fingers and made a hand sign.
"First things first… I need to even the odds. MULTI SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!!!"
In a matter of an instant, Naruto summoned hundreds upon thousands of clones all around Goku and himself. Goku was left in total shock from the sheer mass of clones that encircled him.
"Thing is, when you fight me, you're not facing one guy! You're facing an army!" All the clones said at once.
The coones all charged simultaneously, shouting bloody murder as they closed in on their target. Goku did not back down. He couldn't. Because he's faced worse than this.
One by one, Goku swatted down, pummeled and blew away clone after clone. Each one disappearing in smoke. He fired off beams, energy bombs, shockwaves, yet the army didn't let up. Many clones dashed towards Goku with spiraling balls of energy in their hands.
"RASENGAN!!!"
They were charging from every direction. Only way to go… was up. Goku thrust his power pole and climbed up onto the top and leaped off it into the air before the clones could hit him. From the air, Goku charged up energy into his hands and fired off a huge blue beam at the ground.
"KAMEHAMEHA!!!"
The beam blew away numerous clones with a single blast. Goku fell back to the earth and picked up his staff. He looked at his surroundings and grunted. He was still outnumbered by the hundreds of clones of Naruto.
'There's too many of these copies. I'll run out of energy before I wipe them all out. In that case…'
Goku readied his staff and started spinning around.
"POWER POLE, EXTEND!!!"
The staff extended to an extraordinary length, as long as a football field. Goku spun around and used the huge staff to swat down Naruto's clones rapidly. He was like a lawn mower chopping grass. Many of the clones tried to retreat, but were caught by the staff and turned to smoke on impact.
Once all the clones were dealt with, Goku retracted his Power Pole to normal size. He looked around to find where the real Naruto could be. So far, no signs.
"Where did he go now?" Goku wondered.
"Right here!"
Naruto appeared from behind Goku and thrust his fist at his head. Goku shifted his head and dodged. Or so he thought. A sudden impact to to the left side of his face sent him fling to the right. The Saiyan crashed onto his back, rubbing his face where he was somehow hit.
'I could have sword I dodged his attack.' Goku thought.
He noticed that Naruto has changed as well. The ninja's eyes, once were red and fox-like, now more yellow and his pupils were that of a frog's. There was also orange eyeliner around his eyes. Goku could feel that there was more to Naruto than just a physical change.
"Whoa. What's up with his Ki? It's gotten stronger, but it's more calm, almost peaceful, like he's totally in tune with nature itself." Goku said in awe.
'My Shadow Clones were just a diversion so I could gather up Nature Energy and activate Sage Mode. Now this should be a piece of cake!'
Naruto summoned two clones and had them gather Chakra in his right hand. It formed a Rasengan several times the size of his previous ones. It had to have been the size of a wrecking ball.
"Whoa! That's huge!" Goku gasped.
"Sage Art: MASSIVE RASENGAN!!!"
Naruto then charged at Goku full speed with the giant orb in hand. Goku got back up and quickly fired off a huge beam of Ki in a counterattack.
"KAMEHAMEHAAAAA!!!"
Naruto's attack collided with Goku's beam. The Rasengan was barely able to block the unbelievable force of the opposing attack. The earth beneath them began to split omen in fissures. Both Naruto and Goku screaming at the top of their lungs, each side pushing for dominance in the clash. Neither side giving up in the slightest.
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*Meanwhile*
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Vegeta ducked to the ground, barely dodging the slash that sliced clean through a boulder. Strands of his hair fell to the ground right in front of his face. That last attack was too close for comfort.
"What's wrong, Saiyan? Did you find something there on the ground?"
Vegeta's gaze focused on his opponent, Sasuke, who wasn't even breaking a sweat. The sword in his right hand was humming and glowing with an electric current. Sasuke glared down at the Saiyan warrior, his eyes obscured by his long bangs.
Vegeta stood back up and wiped the sweat off his forehead. His hair was glowing gold and his eyes green.
"I'm just getting warmed up, brat." Vegeta arrogantly chuckled.
"Is that so? Then I hope you don't end up being boring." Said Sasuke.
He vanished in a burst of speed and reappeared behind Vegeta. He swung his surging katana down to Vegeta's neck, but the Saiyan prince screamed and generated a wave of energy that repelled the sword before it could touch his skin. Sasuke was almost blown away from the force but managed to hold his footing.
'A shockwave? He generates that much power just by screaming?' Thought Uchiha.
Vegeta turned around and quickly fired off a burst of energy at Sasuke, blasting him off across the forest. Vegeta then followed up with a huge purple laser.
"GALIC GUN!!!"
Sasuke quickly recovered from his tumble. His left eye lit up with purple light and the laser was drawn into his Rinnegan. Sasuke's eye was absorbing the attack completely.
"What?! He's absorbing it?!" Vegeta exclaimed.
The laser was consumed completely and Sasuke was now surrounded with a strong purple aura.
'My Galic Gun! Its energy became his!' Vegeta mentally pointed out.
Sasuke made a hand sign with his only hand and breathed a huge ball of flame at Vegeta.
"Fire Style: FIREBALL JUTSU!!!"
The fireball soared across the forest, burning everything in its path. Vegeta didn't move. He merely yelled and swatted the fireball away with his hand, dissipating it in the process. He flinched upon seeing that Sasuke was now right in front of him with a sword surging with electricity. The fireball was a diversion.
"CHIDORI LIGHT BLADE!!!"
Vegeta charged Ki into his arms to create invisible forcefields around his arms. He used them to block Sasuke's katana. Vegeta grunted.
'He's running electricity through his sword and making it vibrate at an extremely high frequency. That's what's allowing it to cut me, otherwise that sword wouldn't even scratch my skin!'
Vegeta was right. He was riddled with cuts from the Chidori-enhanced katana, bleeding like a pig.
Since they started fighting, Sasuke had outsmarted and countered Vegeta left and right, to the point Vegeta had to go Super Saiyan 2 just to keep up. He was cornered. Normally, most of Vegeta's fighting strategies were all about overpowering his opponent and blowing them away with huge blasts of energy. Sasuke was all about picking up on patterns in his opponent's fighting style, outfoxing and tricking them into making fatal mistakes. Then, once they have dropped their guard, Sasuke makes his move. It was a classic case of brains vs. brawn.
Both the Saiyan and the ninja were locked in a clash. Despite only having his non-dominant arm, Sasuke was able to match Vegeta's own strength as he pushed down on his sword, aiming to cut off Vegeta's arms.
'Damn! Tricky bastard keeps pulling these cheap moves on me. I can barely keep up!' Vegeta thought.
"Raw power only goes so far, and once it's gone, you're finished." Sasuke stated.
"I don't need some nobody giving me a lecture on fighting, especially one who gonna be reduced to ash once I'm done!" Vegeta said aggressively.
"Is that so? I hope you have the resolve to back that statement up. By the way, I've heard what your name is, Vegeta. Why have you asked me for mine?"
Once they started fighting, Vegeta had stated his name upon going Super Saiyan. However, Vegeta had not heard his opponent tell him their name at all. To him, Sasuke was an unknown.
"I could care less what your name is because you're not the one I want to defeat." Vegeta answered with a cocky smirk.
Sasuke was curiousz. He raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? And who would that be?" He asked.
"Sasuke Uchiha. Once I find that little shit stain, I plan to crush him into a thin, red paste!"
Sasuke fell silent.
"What's wrong? He a friend of yours or something, Mr. Mystery?" Vegeta half asked.
"Brain-dead idiot." Was his reply.
"What did you call me?! You! You…"
The wind picked up. Sasuke's bangs that covered his face were picked up in its current, revealing the rest of his face. Vegeta could barely breathe upon witnessing what was before him. Sasuke's right was red with black patterns in it. His left was all purple with ripples. Vegeta thought back to Madara's words.
"Members of the Uchiha clan possess what is called the Sharingan. Its characteristics are a red iris with the black markings around the pupil. It is the bloodline trait of my people."
'His..! His eye..!'
Memories filled Vegeta's mind. Memories of… him.
'He has the same eyes! As HIM!'
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. You wanted me? Well then, here I am. I hope I'm what you were expecting."
Sasuke's left eye started to bleed. His Sharingan changed into a black, six pointed star pattern.
"AMATERASU!!!"
Suddenly, black flames appears out of thin air. They engulfed Vegeta in their dark blaze. However, he bolted upward into the sky before the black flames could so much as touch his skin. Vegeta looked back down, sweat pouring from his face, veins popping.
'That was too close! What were those black flames just now?! No, that's important! That punk is Uchiha?! Him?! I've been fighting that bastard this whole entire time?!'
Vegeta felt as though he would go insane. He had found his target. Itachi's brotger, Sasuke. His anger and hatred were burning like a wildfire.
"Why did you run? Is my little brother too much for you to handle?"
"Shut your mouth, you bastard!" Vegeta yelled at the voice in his head.
"Don't think you can run. Bend for me, Amaterasu!"
Sasuke stared at the blaze in front of him. His right was now bleeding also. The black flames burned even hotter and began to grow.
"Inferno Style: FLAME CONTROL!!!"
The black fire exploded into tendrils of fire, rising into the sky at blinding speed towards Vegeta. The Saiyan flew out of the way before they hit, but the flame tendrils split apart into more and homed in on it once again.
'He can manipulate the flames?! That means they'll coming until they hit their target!'
One of the tendrils grazed Vegeta's shoulder. The flames soon spread across the sleeve of his unitard at an alarming rate. Vegeta yelped from the pain. He tried patting his arm to put if the flames, but they wouldn't. This alarmed Vegeta. He didn't have time to panic, however.
The flame tendrils resumed their assault. Vegeta thought fast and unleashed a powerful shockwave of energy, blowing away the black flames completely, including the ones on his arm. He looked back down at the ground. Sasuke was staring right back at him.
"Hmph! I doubt you can fly, you brat!" Vegeta scoffed.
Sasuke sheathed his sword and raised his arm at Vegeta. His Rinnegan pulsed.
"UNIVERSAL PULL!!!"
Vegeta was quickly pulled towards the ground by a powerful invisible pull. He crashed like a meteor and coughed up blood. Vegeta rolled onto his back and panted heavily.
"Damnit..! Lightning, fire, and now gravity? How many powers does this guy have..?" He groaned.
'No, that wasn't a gravity attack. Otherwise, I would have felt the change. I train in times one hundred gravity, so it wouldn't have effected me that much. It was more like he just grabbed me in midair and pulled me back down to earth like he's some kind of giant magnet!'
Sasuke walked up to the grounded Vegeta. He stared down at him with that same blank expression and blood trails running down his eyes.
"Talk. What do you want with me?" He question.
Vegeta pounced off the ground towards Sasuke feet first. Sasuke bent backwards and dodged easily. His Sharingan gives him the ability to see his opponents future movements before they even make them, which was a handy ability for a shinobi. A hindrance for a rage fighter like Vegeta.
"I want your damn head!" Yelled Vegeta.
In midair, he charged up a big ball of Ki in his hands and pointed it right at Sasuke's back.
"HAVE A BIG BANG ATTACK!!!"
The orb exploded. Vegeta skid out from the smoke cloud and smirked. He was sure he hit him that time. However, when the smoke cleared, a log was seen where Sasuke was standing. Vegeta was flabbergasted.
Sasuke bursted out of the ground behind the still airborne Vegeta and thrust his electrified hand at the Saiyan.
"CHIDORI!!!"
His hand just missed Vegeta's side, tearing through his flesh. Vegeta disappeared in a burst of speed and reappeared some distance away, holding his bleeding right hip.
"Oh, come on! Slippery son of a bitch!" Vegeta grunted.
"Why are you so intent of killing me? I didn't do anything to you." Sasuke asked.
"It's got nothing to do with you, brat! It's about that damn brother of yours!" Answered Vegeta.
Sasuke's eyes widened in shock.
"My brother? You knew Itachi?"
Vegeta charged. He unleashed a swarm of rapid punches and kick at Sasuke in sheer rage. Sasuke was able to predict and dodge each on of them without issue, thanks to his Sharingan.
"Of course I knew your damned brother! He's the one who humiliated me and my father years ago!" The Saiyan screamed as he continued his assault.
Having had enough, Sasuke's Mangekyo Sharingan glowed red and a purple spectral skeleton was summoned, or at least the rib cage and arms. The arms grabbed hold of Vegeta's own and hoisted him into the air away from Sasuke.
"What the fuck is this creepy thing?!" Vegeta shouted, trying to break free from the skeleton's grip.
"The Susano'o. It should keep you in place for the time being."
Vegeta shouted loudly. This thing was strong enough to hold even him.
"Why would my brother attack you and your father?" Sasuke asked again.
"On my planet, my people, the Saiyan race, found this huge hole in the ground. We weren't sure what it was so we sent in a team to investigate. When they came back, the team said that they found an entirely new world beyond the hole.
As a warrior race who specialized in wiping worlds of their inhabitants and selling them off, we thought we'd get a good price off it."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. He should have guess Vegeta was not off his planet. Just like the Ōtsutsuki.
"When we sent a warrior to cleanse it, a fucking human brat emerged from the hole with his head in his hand. I don't know how, but that kid ripped through every Saiyan in his path, armed with nothing but one of those kunai things you ninjas use.
When he brought down my father, he told him that Earth was off limits. I was about to kill that brat until he did something to me with his… weird eyes and I couldn't move. Then, for some reason, he said that, if I ever met you one day, he wanted me to fight you, no holds bard."
Sasuke's blank expression remained the same, but in his mind, he was rather intrigued. Then it hit him. Sasuke remembered, back when he was a kid, Itachi had told him that he went on a 'special' mission. He was still fuzzy on the details and Itachi couldn't say much.
Sasuke had also learned about that said mission through scattered data in the Leaf's archives. From what he could piece together, It was apparently so top secret that the few digital files were locked by a level ten security encryption that only the Hokage has access to, and the physical files were destroyed by the Third Hokage after mission completion.
"But make no mistake, Uchiha! I'm not doing this for your stupid brother, nor do I care about this invasion anymore!"
'Invasion?' Sasuke thought.
"Now, all I care about right now, all I want to do is crush every bone in your body! Your family shamed mine! Just looking at you makes my blood boil! And there's only one way to quell that burning rage!"
Vegeta's golden aura began to change into a fiery bright red. The Saiyan prince screamed as loud as he possibly could. His energy became so unbelievably intense that it reached the sky and blew away the clouds, and Sasuke's Susano'o into nothing.
Once the energy faded, Sasuke could see that Vegeta had undergone yet ANOTHER transformation. Vegeta's hair and eyes had become a brilliant vermillion red. His aura was like a raging fire and his muscles had slimmed.
Sasuke had to admit that his heart was beating a few ticks faster. Such a drastic change in appearance and power was not even humanly possible. He could feel a single drop of sweat fall down his face.
"And that is to destroy you and prove my superiority, Sasuke Uchiha! It's time I showed you the true power of the mighty PRINCE VEGETA!" Vegeta declared as he erupted in bright red energy.
Sasuke's mind was, honestly, telling him to turn around and run, but that just wasn't who he was. Instead, he smirked and looked at Vegeta with an amused expression.
"Judging by how much you're running your mouth, I take it that defeat was a lot worse than you say it was."
Vegeta raised an eyebrow.
"Anyone who knew Itachi as well as I did would know that he doesn't just beat his opponents, or humiliate them. He makes them cry. Well, at least not intentionally. Was daddy begging for his life when my brother got him on his knees?"
"YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH, YOU DISRESPECTFUL BRAT!" Vegeta screamed in rage.
Sasuke drew his sword once more, twirling it before pointing it at Vegeta.
"Look, I don't know what happened on that mission, nor where you and rest of your clan of freak came from, but the fact that you traveled to my world just to settle a vendetta you have with my brother for mopping the floor with you when you were in diapers?"
His hand surged with electricity and the blade began to glow. Vegeta noticed Sasuke's incoming attack. He spread his arms and golden energy gathered in them. The Saiyan brought his hands together and fired off an enormous laser beam.
"FINAL FLAAAAAASH!!!"
"CHIDORI TRUE SPEAR!!!"
Sasuke's sword became pure electricity and extended at light speed. It pierced right through Vegeta's giant beam like tissue paper. The severed halves of beam plowed through the forest, vaporizing and blowing up anything and everything they came into contact with.
'What?! He countered my Final Flash while I'm in Super Saiyan God THAT easily?!' Vegeta mentally exclaimed. He was blown away.
Sasuke chuckled evilly.
"I mean that's just beyond pitiful! IT'S PATHETIC!"
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*Meanwhile*
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"DESTRUCTO DISK X6!!!"
Goku fire off a barrage of yellow energy saws at the fleeing Naruto, who was hopping through the forest to avoid said attacks.
Goku's hair and eyes were now a burning red and he was surrounded by a red aura, while Naruto was completely cloaked in golden energy with black markings across his whole body. His eyes were red and slitted and his whisker marks on his face got thicker.
Super Saiyan God vs. Nine Tails Chakra Mode.
"Damn! His power is completely different from just a few moments ago! Now it's like, a billion times stronger! How many forms does this guy have?!"
"Don't get distracted trying to find the answer to that, Naruto. You need to focus and find an opening, or we're finished!" Urged Kurama.
"Did you guys forget I can hear your conversations?" Goku reminded them.
The disks continued to chase Naruto relentlessly. They sliced clean through branches and trees. Imagine what they can do to a person.
Naruto pulled out a scroll and opened it. It turned into smoke and a strange device appeared. It looked like a wooden hand cannon. Naruto pointed it at the incoming disks and pulled the trigger, firing off numerous kunai with paper bombs tied to them.
The kunai hit each of the disks and they all exploded. The gun was now empty so Naruto tossed it aside.
"Alright, enough of this! MULTI SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!!!"
An army of clones appeared in a huge cloud of smoke. They all charged towards Goku. The martial artist hit the breaks mid flight and moved his hands over his face and closed his eyes.
"SOLAR FLARE!!!"
A blinding white light shined from Goku's face, blinding all the Naruto clones. Now Goku had the chance to strike. He whipped out his Power Pole and extended it. Goku swatted all the clones out of the sky like before. Once the smoke they created cleared, Naruto was standing atop a branch with a giant spiraling shuriken of wind hovering over his hand. Goku gasped.
'Uh oh! That doesn't look good!' Goku thought.
"Wind Style: MASSIVE RASENSHURIKEN!!!"
Naruto threw the giant wind star. It was hurdling towards Goku just like his own Destructo Disk. Son summersaulted over the shuriken, just barely dodging it as strands of his hair were severed. The shuriken exploded behind Goku, generating an absolutely gigantic spiraling explosion of wind. Goku was left in shock and awe.
"Whoa, crap! If that had hit me, who knows what would have happened!" He exclaimed.
Goku shouldn't have looked away. Naruto dove towards him and the two were locked in a midair tussle. They crashed through tree after tree, relentlessly punching and kicking each other. Some were blocked, others fractured a bone or two. Goku clenched his hands together and smashed them down on Naruto's head.
"METEOR SMASH!!!"
The force of impact cracked open his skull and turned his brain to mush, killing him instantly!
"Yeah! Got ya!" Goku cheered.
But then the ninja disappeared in a puff of smoke. It was just a clone! Goku whined, naturally. The real Naruto was above him, closing in fast. Goku smirked. He spun around a fired off a large ball of Ki at his foe.
"C'mon! Don't stop, pal! I can keep this up all night!" He stated.
"Go to hell!" Naruto shouted angrily.
Uzumaki summoned nine huge fox tails of pure energy and wrapped himself in them like a caterpillar encasing itself in a chrysalis. The Ki ball exploded and engulfed Naruto in the blast. However, the whole encasement was not to defend.
"This guy's seriously bad news, Kurama! We need to finish this yesterday!" Naruto spoke to his furry tenant.
"Agreed. Are you ready to show him what we can really do?" Asked Kurama.
"Hehe! It's been a while, but I don't think I'm too rusty. Let's show him together!"
Goku was listening on the conversation again and was curious as to what they were talking about, so he decided to snoop since he had the ability to read minds. He peered inside Naruto's mind.
There sat Naruto and the giant monster fox, Kurama, in what looked like a gross sewer. The two of them sat in front of each other, eyes closed, legs crossed, chanting in Japanese while making hand signs in perfect unison. Goku was totally unsure as to what they were doing until they finished chanting and everything went white.
Naruto exploded in a blinding golden pillar of light piercing the night sky above. Naoto and Hibiki were some distance away, both left in awe by the beam of light shooting upwards.
"What on earth is that light?!" Exclaimed Hibiki,
"These numbers are higher than anything I've ever seen! Are they coming from Old Man Naruto?!" Naoto gasped.
Sasuke and Vegeta also bared witness to the light from afar. Vegeta was in shock from the energy level he was detecting, and Sasuke just smiled.
"It's about time, Naruto."
The heaven piercing pillar disappeared and Goku could finally open his eyes and what he saw blew him away. Naruto's golden aura was even more brilliant, his whisker marks even thicker and his eyes were now a combination of both a fox and frog. There were also nine black orbs floating behind him. One zoomed beneath Naruto and widened into a disk for him to stand on.
"His power! It's amazing!" Goku exclaimed.
"Six Paths Sage Mode Naruto is back in the house!" Naruto stated.
In his hand, Naruto gathered Chakra and formed a Rasengan, except this one had smaller ones circling it like a planet with moons.
"PLANETARY RASENGAN!!!"
Naruto zoomed towards Goku and smashed the orb into the Saiyan's gut. Goku cried in pain and was totally blown away. Goku smashed into the ground and a huge crater was formed on impact. Uzumaki defended and his floating foothold reverted back into a black orb. Goku walked out from the dust cloud completely unharmed, brushing off dust from his shoulder.
"Man, this guy's like a brick wall." Naruto muttered.
"I won't lie. Definitely gonna feel that tomorrow." Goku said, rubbing his aching side.
His gi was tattered and ripped, so Goku pulled off the torn remains of his outfit, showing his blue undershirt from beneath.
"Man, you just keep getting stronger and stronger, Naruto. Not only that, you've got as many transformations as I do. I can't remember I've had this much fun in a fight!" Goku chuckled in amusement.
"Well, I'm glad you're having fun." Naruto replied sarcastically.
Uzumaki spread his arms out and two large Rasenshurikens appeared in each hand. They spun like buzzsaws at blinding speeds.
"Son, was it? I don't care if you're having fun. This fight isn't some game to me. I need to get home and I won't let you stand in my way, so I won't be holding back any longer! So get ready to get shredded!"
Goku just grinned excitedly. He summon Destructo Disks in his hands like Naruto did and he exploded in crimson energy.
"Haha! You just took the words right out of my mouth! Let's amp things up!"
Both Naruto and Goku charged at each other. Their energy blades clashed and sparks of both Ki and Chakra flew all over the place. They kept clashing with their spinning blades over and over again. The force of the strikes caused the ground to crack open, the shockwaves split and chopped down the trees around them. Neither side was losing ground, they just kept swinging their blades non stop.
"I'm curious. Why are you so obsessed with fighting, Son?" Naruto asked.
"Well, I come from a warrior race, so fighting's in my blood. Plus, whenever I fight a strong opponent like you, I understand that person more. I learn about who they are, what's in their heart, what it is they fight for."
Another clash of blades. The high speed wind of the Rasenshuriken broke loose and cut both fighters cheeks, blood leaking from the small incisions.
"I fought a lot of people in my life, a lot of them became my friends, some of them even started out as my rivals and enemies. It was how I learned to love. By fighting you, Naruto, I'm learning more and more about who you really are! That's the reason I like to fight!"
Despite continuing to block and counter Goku's attacks, Naruto was left astonished by Goku's words. At first, Naruto thought Goku was done kind of selfish berserker, but he had a heart almost as big as his own. He felt as though he was fighting a mirror image of himself in a way. Well, one with tree trunks for arms.
Both Goku and Naruto shouted like madmen as they pushed their blades into each other one more time. The resulting explosion could be seen for miles. Both fighters were panting hard in the crater of the blast from exhaustion, blood trickling down their faces.
Naruto wiped the blood out of his eyes and started to laugh.
"You know, I know a guy. He has the exact same name as you, and he's my friend. To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't mind making you my friend. You seem like a decent guy, ya know."
Goku smiled at Naruto.
"I wish we met under different circumstances. So I'm sorry this how it's gotta be! HERE I COME!"
In a burst of lightning fast speed, Naruto appeared before Goku and smashed an uppercut into Goku's abdomen. He hit the Saiyan with a punch and kick combo before launching g him into the air with a kick to his jaw. Goku spun around in the air and fire off a ball of energy at Naruto, exploding in the ninja's face. It was however blocked by one of the orbs floating around Naruto.
The orbs scattered and circled around Goku. They raced at him and began to pummel him over and over. The orbs were like molecules circling around an atom, and Goku was unlucky enough to experience what it was like first hand. Goku fell to the ground in a thud. The orbs all smashed into Goku's back hard, cracking his spine. He screamed in pain from the attack, but it didn't stop there. The black spheres quickly transformed into rods and skewered Goku's torso and limbs.
Son screamed again in agony. The black masses returned to orbs and returned to Naruto's back. The shinobi jumped up and opened his hand. Chakra particles gathered in his palm, forming a small, condensed purple orb.
'I'm sorry about this, Son. I have to end this fight. I hope you can forgive me.' Naruto thought.
"SUPER MINI TAILED BEAST BOMB!!!"
He nosedived. Naruto thrust the orb into Goku. The explosion it caused was even bigger than the last one. There may as well have been bombs being dropped in that area because of the power of their attacks.
The smoke cleared. Goku was lying on his back, beaten and bloodied, barely able to breathe. Naruto merely stared at Son with an apologetic look on his face. He didn't want to have to go this far. Naruto fights to protect his friends, not to hurt people. It felt like his heart was in a vice.
"I'm so sorry. This fight's over, Son. Stay down." He pleaded.
Goku coughed up blood and gasped for air. The pain was unbearable. Just then, he heard a voice in his mind. A familiar voice.
"Goku!"
His eyes slowly opened. He remembered that voice from not long ago.
"Jiren..? Is that you..?" Goku asked telepathically.
"Who else could it be?" Jiren replied.
A small laugh escaped Goku's lips.
"What are you doing here in this Universe? Are you and Top on a mission?" He questioned.
"No, I'm here for personal reasons and I sense your energy. I'm curious as to what YOU'RE doing here."
"Kinda complicated."
"Is that so? Well, regardless of reasons, you seem to be in quite the bind."
"Yeah… The guy I'm fighting… He's strong…"
"Strong is an understatement. I've never anything like this before. It's extraordinary! Do you need my help? Top and Dyspo aren't here, but I have powerful allies with me."
"Thanks, but I'm alright. It's time I stoped pulling my punches and get serious..! Gotta go, Jiren."
Goku could barely move from the pain, but he managed to reach into his pocket and pull out a small bean. He flicked it into the air with his thumb and it fell into his mouth. Goku bit down and swallowed the bean and, in an instant, his whole body tensed and his injuries were healed.
Goku immediately hopped back onto his feet and took a fighting stance. Naruto was left in total shock.
'What?! He's back on his feet from all those attacks?! And his wounds have healed!' He thought, flabbergasted.
"Naruto, just now I saw him eat something. It looked like a bean. That must be how he recovered!" Kurama pointed out.
'That was my last Senzu Bean since coming to the Soul Society. I need to be smart from here on and take as little damage as possible. It's time to pull out all the stops!' Goku mentally declared.
His Ki roared to life. Goku unleashed a might roar and his aura exploded. Naruto stepped back, feeling his heart skip a beat. He knew what was to come next.
"Oh no, not this again! How many forms does this guy have?!" He said irritatedly.
Goku clenched his fist and mustered up as much Ki as he possibly could. Soon enough, his burning red aura became a bright blue and, with a mighty shout, the earth shook and Goku underwent a new change.
Hair and eyes, blue as the sky, and an energy so intense that the space around Goku was being warped by his mere presence. Goku looked at Naruto with his aqua blue eyes.
"Six Paths Sage Mode, meet Super Saiyan Blue. The real fight starts right now!" He declared.
Naruto groaned in annoyance.
"Damnit! I'm getting really sick of this bullshit!"
The Hokage bolted at Goku. He threw a punch into Goku's chest, then a kick, then another punch until he was furiously pounding away at the Saiyan's body. Yet no matter how much he hit Goku, he was effected in the slightest. And once Naruto realized that, that's when the sweat began to pour. He could see Goku's stoic face looking down at him.
"Oh boy, not good…" Naruto said.
All Goku did was smack him in the face and it was more than enough to launch Naruto like he was fired from a slingshot. He tumbled until he crashed into a rock, pulverizing it on impact. Goku took a step back and fire off a giant blue beam from his hands.
"KAMEHAMEHAAAAA!!!"
Naruto got back up fast and used his Truth Seeker Orbs to form a barrier to defect. It successfully blocked the attack and, once the beam faded, he charged again. The Hokage amped up his speed and hit Goku with a barrage of lightning fast strikes from all angles.
"TAILED BEAST FLASH BULLET!!!"
He was also attaching paper bombs to Goku's body at the same time, exploding seconds after attachment. The assault wasn't even phasing Goku in the slightest. He wasn't even blocking as to how powerful he was now. Naruto was starting to panic.
'Come on! Son's power is on a completely different level as to just a few moments ago! Again! It's like the longer this fight goes on, the stronger he gets. Just how bottomless is this guy's strength anyway?' He wondered.
Naruto quickly made a hand sign.
"MULTI SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!!!"
An army of Shadow Clones appeared and they all jumped into the sky. They gathered swirling Chakra in their hands and form giant spiraling balls that blocked out the sun.
"Sage Art: MASSIVE RASENGAN SUPER BARRAGE!!!"
The clones all dove down at Goku, ready to completely vaporize him. Goku merely looked up at the clones, his face not showing any emotion at all.
"Is this all you've got, Naruto?"
That comment caused Uzumaki to flinch.
"Alright, I guess it's my turn."
It wasn't even visible to the human eye. Goku moved to fast he was practically standing still. All of Naruto's clones were wiped out in not even an instant. Uzumaki was left with his spirit almost broken. ALMOST.
He nosedived and charged up an orange Rasengan in his hand, screaming his lungs out.
"TORNADO RASENGAN!!!"
The Rasengan hit Goku's head and exploded the very moment it touched him. Naruto grunted.
'Damn!' He cursed in his mind.
His Truth Seeker Orbs changed into rods and Naruto swung them hard at Goku's face, only clanging as if they hit hard metal. All Goku did in response was grab hold of them and began to swing them and Naruto around like a twister before launching them deep into the forest, all while Naruto was screaming like a girl.
"GAAAAAAAAH! I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE JUST BOLTED WHEN I HAD THE CHAAAAAAANCE!"
"That's obvious, you baka!"
"SHUT UP, KURAMA!"
…
*With Vegeta and Sasuke*
…
A massive explosion rocked the burning forest. Sasuke was moving as fast as a lightning bolt to avoid the titanic bombardment of energy bombs that Vegeta was firing off. Vegeta seemed to have also initiated Super Saiyan Blue as his hair and eyes had turned aqua. He was irritated that he had to go this far fighting an opponent like Sasuke.
The Saiyan prince concentrated his Ki into his hands and fired off a massive beam.
"BIG BANG CANNON!!!"
The beam was tearing through the forest and heading straight for Sasuke. In an instant, Uchiha vanished and reappeared away from the beam, which was now cutting a mountain right up the middle in the far distance.
'I'm dodging his attacks thanks to Heavenly Hand Power, but he's become so powerful now that almost all of my own are useless against him. I need to get a good look at his Chakra network and find a week spot.' Thought the one armed ninja.
"Stop running and fight me!" Shouted Vegeta angrily.
He raved to Sasuke and hit him hard in the gut with an uppercut, sending him flying high into the air. Vegeta followed up by pointing two fingers at the air-born Sasuke.
"Say your prayers! DIRTY FIREWORKS!!!"
Sasuke exploded in a huge blast, leaving only a smoke cloud in his destruction. Vegeta laughed.
"Ha! Got you!"
Except he didn't. Sasuke just appeared in front of Vegeta's face, making the Super Saiyan help in surprise.
"WHAT?!"
"Heavenly Hand Power!"
The ninja's right hand sparked to life with electricity. Sasuke thrust forward at lightning speed, ripping through Vegeta's side.
"CHIDORI!!!"
Vegeta growled in pain. He swung a punch at Sasuke's face, but it hit his Susano'o rib cage instead. That irritated Vegeta even further. He backed away from Sasuke.
"Why the hell can't I make you stay down?! What are you, some kind of freak?!" Vegeta shouted.
"Of course not, you just don't know how to fight." Sasuke cruelly answered.
"W-what?!"
"Power is all you have. You fight more like a brawler and your Chakra projection is so basic I'd call it boring. You put on these big changing acts to try and scare off your opponents, but when you face someone stronger than you, you throw a tantrum and just blast everything around you. You're just one big overestimation who think's he's king of the world."
Vegeta's jaw dropped and his veins started to show.
"Ah..! Wha- You! Are you saying I'm all bark and no bite?!" He yelled.
Sasuke's closed his eyes and turned his head away.
"Exactly, because like I said, all you have in a fight is power, no brains or technique, and when that's gone you're as insignificant as you've always been. A LOOSER."
That was when Vegeta felt something snap inside. He was frothing at the mouth in anger and his veins looked like they would burst open. He roared a mighty roar.
"THAT DOES IIIIIIIIIT!!!"
His aura exploded. Vegeta flew high into the sky and spread out his arms. He began to build up as much energy as he could possibly muster in his body. Golden spheres of Ki formed in Vegeta's hands and were growing in size every passing second.
"I'll teach you not to bad mouth me the way you just did, boy! I'm gonna blow you to shit!" Vegeta angrily declared.
"Proving my point." Sasuke pointed out.
"As for my "basic attacks", why would I need to waste time making them look fancy like you do when all that matters is how strong they are! I'm putting everything I have into this move! You're through, Sasuke Uchiha!" Yelled Vegeta.
Sasuke's left eye began to bleed. He made one handed signs and breathed multiple black fire at the Super Saiyan.
"Inferno Style: FIREBALL JUTSU!!!"
The fireballs however missed Vegeta completely, soaring into the sky behind the Saiyan.
"What are you trying to hit, Uchiha?!" Vegeta taunted.
The blue Super Saiyan's energy was reaching its peak. Vegeta brought his hands together and aim right at his foe. This would be his final attack.
"This is it! All I've got! Give my regards to your big brother in Hell!"
Everything shook. The Earth itself trembled at Vegeta's sheer destructive power. Target was locked on. The time was now!
"FIIIIIIIIIIIINAAAAAAAAAAL-"
*BOOM* *ROAAAAAAAAR*
A thundering roar broke Vegeta's focus. He felt a sudden chill ravage his body. Vegeta looked at his surroundings. Dark clouds appeared out of absolutely nowhere. They lit up the night sky with flashes of lightning and shattered the silence with booming thunder. Vegeta could have sworn that the sky was clear not ten seconds ago.
He thought for a moment, then remembered the fireballs that Sasuke fired off into the sky. It hit him like a brick. Sasuke intentionally missed with those fireballs. They weren't an attack. They were to change the atmospheric conditions by creating a rising air current, producing said storm clouds!
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but YOU'RE the one who's going to be seeing Itachi!" Sasuke stated.
Vegeta glared down at the ninja who was grinning. Sasuke's right hand was crackling with electricity again.
"You may be stronger than me, and faster than me, but I'm definitely smarter than you if you didn't see this coming, Vegeta. And as strong as you are or claim to be… I doubt even a Saiyan can handle a point blank lightning strike!"
Vegeta's eyes widened.
'Lightning?! He can control actual lightning?!'
Was he serious or bluffing? He couldn't tell. Vegeta grunted.
"Go ahead and try! You've seen how fast I am! I can avoid this attack of yours no… Wait, what is that?"
A small dark orb was floating right in Vegeta's face. He had no idea what it was or where it came from. But he could definitely sense a strange energy coming from it. Suddenly, the orb hummed to life. Vegeta looked back at Sasuke; his Rinnegan lighting up like a lightbulb.
"PLANETARY DEVASTATION!!!"
The orb unleashed a wave of energy and it began to pull chunks of earth, trees, rocks, water, pretty much everything towards it with an unbelievably powerful attracting force. The rubble and debris was burying Vegeta so fast and hard that his Final Flash was disrupted before he could even fire it off.
'What's happening?! Everything's being drawn to that orb! It's like a black hole, sucking up everything! Including me! Wait a minute, I know this technique! It's the same one Madara used against Kakarot back in the Soul Society!'
"AMATERASU!!!"
Vegeta's train of thought came to a screeching halt upon feeling the scorching black flames of the Amaterasu searing his flesh. His screams were however on deaf ears as the debris and black fire came into form as a small and burning planetoid floating height above the earth.
Sasuke was ready to end this. He raised his volting hand and from the storm clouds appears to massive dragons of pure lightning, circling the planetoid like it was prey.
"The name of this Jutsu is Kirin."
Finally, Sasuke waved his hand down.
"With the thunderclap…"
…
…
…
"Begone."
The dragons rushed towards the planet and everything went white.
Vegeta was now screaming in a vast void. He could feel everything. The crushing, the burning, the electricity. The pain was beyond imagination itself. In his mind, he wanted to die.
'Why? Why is he this strong? No matter how much I power up, it seems hopeless. Is he some kind of monster? I feel like… like I'm trapped in some god awful nightmare!' Vegeta thought.
He could feel himself faking deeper into the void until it went from bright white to pitch black darkness, and the only thing in his vision… was the color red.
"This is the end, Vegeta. You were a fool to think you could defeat me so easily."
Sasuke's voice filled the void.
"You failed to realize that when you battle an Uchiha, you're standing on the thin line between fantasy and reality! It's pointless to resist, because this fight was over before it even began… And I mean that literally!"
The world returned to normal. Sasuke was suddenly standing in front of a petrified Vegeta. The Saiyan's eyes were red with black markings in them, just like Sasuke's Sharingan.
Vegeta wasn't even twitching. He just stood in place with his mouth hung open. Sasuke stood in front of his foe, staring at him with an emotionless expression.
"No matter how strong you may be, that strength on its own useless against my eyes." Sasuke stated.
Naoto and Hibiki were left totally puzzled by what Sasuke did.
"Lord Sasuke, what did you do to him?" Hibiki questioned.
"I just placed him under a simple Genjutsu. It activated the moment he made eye contact with me."
Naoto went up to the Saiyan. He waved his hand in front of his face. No response. He even tried snapping his fingers next to his ear, which made Hibiki freak out and angrily ask if Naoto was deliberately trying to wake him up.
"Don't worry. Genjutsu are tough to disable. He'll be stuck like that for a while." Sasuke reassured.
"Good to know." Replied Naoto.
"Right now, Vegeta is stuck in a mental prison, forced to fight an illusionary version of me he can't win against no matter what. Though, the Genjutsu wasn't enough to stop his transformations."
Sasuke was right. Vegeta was in his Super Saiyan Blue state. Even though he was fighting an illusion, his body activated the transformation through a survival instinct. That meant that his subconscious was trying to break free.
"So what now? We just sit here and wait for him to die of dehydration?" Naoto wondered.
"Well, he's not much of a threat now, but there's no telling if he even has the ability to break the Genjutsu on his own. We can't risk that."
Sasuke reached for his sword and drew it from the sheath. He charged it with electricity and approached the paralyzed Vegeta.
"So this is our only option."
He reverse gripped the katana and raised it, ready to jam it into Vegeta's chest. Until…
"GAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
A familiar high-pitched scream filled their ears. Sasuke, Hibiki, and Naoto looked to their lefts and, to their surprise, was Naruto flying right towards them like a missile, yelling like a madman with tears flying off his face.
"SASUKEGETOUTOFTHEWAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!" Naruto urged frantically.
"Narut- *BLAM* OHO!"
Uzumaki plowed into Uchiha and they both hurdled across the forest floor before falling off a cliff, tumbling down it like rag dolls.
Naruto: "AAAAAAAHAHAAAH!"
Sasuke: "OHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIT!!!"
"Did that just happen?" Naoto asked in astoundment.
"Outta my way! Coming through!"
Goku flew in from behind and landed hard onto the ground, making a shockwave that blew away Naoto and Hibiki. After the dust settled, Goku surveyed the area. He was looking for where Naruto may have flown off to.
"Uh oh, I lost track of him. I guess I threw him too hard." He said, pouting.
Goku turned to his right to see Vegeta, still trapped in Sasuke's Genjutsu, but obviously failed to pick up on that, so he greeted his rival.
"Oh! Hi Vegeta! I was wondering where you'd run off to. You ok?You don't look so good." Goku asked.
No response.
"Uh… Vegeta..?" Goku asked again, getting slightly worried.
Still nothing from the comatose Saiyan. Now Son was concerned. He rushed over and tried to shake Vegeta back into reality.
"Yo! V! Say something! You're freaking me out!" He pleaded.
No matter how many times Goku tried, his efforts to wake Vegeta were pointless. His rival was in a completely different world. Goku was completely clueless on how to help him. He thought for a moment and deduced that perhaps Vegeta was trapped under a mental influence. That had happened to him before back when Majin Buu first appeared.
That's when Goku came up with an idea. He placed his hand onto Vegeta's forehead and closed his eyes. He focusing his Ki and cleared his thoughts.
'If this is anything like mind control, maybe I can use my mind reading ability to give Vegeta a wake up call!'
Goku focused hard. He had to be as careful as he could to try and undo the Genjutsu, otherwise he overflow of Ki could end up permanently damaging Vegeta's brain, or worse, total brain death.
It took Goku a few seconds until finally, Vegeta's eyes returned to normal and he jumped back to life.
"HUH?! What?! What happened?! Where am I?!" Vegeta exclaimed.
"Phew! That was close. Are you alright?" Goku asked.
"Kakarot? What are you doing here? Where's that bastard, Sasuke?!" Vegeta angrily questioned.
"Who? Vegeta, you were totally out of it, like you were stuck in some kind of trance." Goku pointed out.
Vegeta settled down, then looked himself over. All the cuts and burns he suffered from his battle were gone. No, not gone. They never even happened. This left him with numerous questions.
"Trance? Impossible! I was fighting for my life a second ago! Did you slip me a Senzu Bean when I was out or something?" Asked the Saiyan prince.
"No, Vegeta. I'm telling you, you weren't fighting anyone. You were just standing there with Super Saiyan Blue turned on." Goku insisted.
Despite how much Vegeta wanted to argue, the evidence supported Goku's argument. There was no damage on his body anywhere, and Sasuke was not here.
"But then-
"BANISHING FANG!!!"
"SOARING SLASH!!!"
The two Saiyan's were left completely unaware of the tag team of Naoto and Hibiki closing in on them from their blind spots. Naoto coated his fist in crystallized blood while Hibiki charged, kunai in hand and ready to stab. Goku and Vegeta picked up on their Ki and the both countered and evaded. Vegeta flew upwards to avoid Hibiki's stabbing attack, and Goku blocked Naoto's punch with little effort.
"Gah! Who the heck are these guys?!" Goku grunted.
"They're from Earth Eleven, like Bloodedge and others. The pretty boy in blue is that pervert Mutsuki's secretary." Vegeta said, still flying into the sky.
"Wha?! Kagura's secretary?! But why are they attacking us?!"
Kurogane cursed under his breath. His Banishing Fang failed! Goku's sheer strength in his Super Saiyan Blue was astronomical, as was the number Naoto could see over his head. Naoto was sure why he even tried to attack the Saiyan warrior in the first place. He couldn't win, but he at least had to do something to help Sasuke.
"Eww! What's this red stuff?! Is this that kid's blood?!" Goku squeamishly cried.
Naoto continued his assault. He coated his other fist and hit Goku's chin with a devastating uppercut.
"INFERNO CRUSADER!!!"
However, the hardened blood covering his fist shattered the very moment it touched Goku mere stubble!
"Goddamnit!" Yelled Naoto in frustration.
"Hey! Time out, kid! We're on the same team!" Goku tried to plead, more for Naoto's safety.
"Same team? You were attacking my friend, dumbass! I'm not just gonna sit here quietly and let you hurt Naruto!" Naoto declared.
'Dang it, he's not gonna listen to reason while he's rampaging like this.' Goku thought.
As Naoto backed away, Goku got a better look at the boy and he noticed something. Something… familiar…
Meanwhile, Vegeta was already high in the sky. He had lost sight of Hibiki. He used his Ki sensory to not only find him, but also track Sasuke.
'Damn. I forgot about those brats. Well, it doesn't matter. They're no threat to us at all. All I care about is finding that bastard Uchiha and finding out what he did to me! Where are you, you red eyed brat?! I'm going to tear off your last arm and shove so far up your ass, your tonsils will be playing shadow puppets!' Vegeta thought to himself.
"I hate to interrupt your mental tantrum, but you left yourself wide open."
Hibiki was now right behind Vegeta and wrapped his slender legs around Vegeta's muscled waist. His heart skipped a beat when he heard Hibiki's voice come from behind him.
'What the fuck?! I didn't even sense his energy at all?! How the hell did this bean pole get behind me?!' Vegeta wondered.
As an assassin of the Kohaku family, Hibiki was trained to mask his presence as much as he could. This was useful for stealth kills. Hibiki brought his two kunai to Vegeta's chest and tightened his reverse grip.
"Normal Soaring Slash didn't work, so let's try Soaring Slash: REVOLUTION!!!"
Hibiki pulled back the kunai and slashed in a reaping fashion, but the blades snapped upon hitting Vegeta's chest.
'They broke?!' Hibiki exclaimed in his mind.
"You're suppose to be Mutsuki's secretary? That was barely even an attack."
Vegeta smashed his elbow into Hibiki's gut hard. It would have ruptured his organs, but Hibiki scattered into a flock of ravens which encircled Vegeta. The Saiyan was left unimpressed.
"Is this all you can do? Make clones of yourself and turn into birds? Give a rest. You can't beat me, kid!" Vegeta pointed out with an arrogant smirk,
Hibiki suddenly appeared before him after one Raven passed right by his face. He grabbed hold of Vegeta and pulled him with all him might. The two began to plummet to earth at high speed while spinning like a drill.
"It's true. Naoto and I have no chance of defeating you, but we are not just going to sit around and do nothing! If we are to lose, then we're not going down without a fight! PULVERIZING FIN!!!"
They hit the ground like a falling boulder. The force of the pile drive left a crater on impact. Vegeta was standing in the crater, unfazed in the slightest, while Hibiki stood atop a rock, glaring down at Vegeta with hatred as pure and potent as sunshine.
"One more thing…"
Hibiki tossed aside his cloak aside and revealed his arsenal of weapons which covered his entire torso. These were all the ninja tools he had collected during his time here. Kunai, shurikens, senbon, sai, sickles, and paper bombs. Hibiki reached for several small kunai and gripped them between each of his fingers. He then spoke in a voice so cold it would shivers down a person's spine.
"Keep Lord Kagura's name out of your filthy mouth, you swine."
…
"GRIM OF PHANTOM!!!"
Naoto's blood axe shattered upon hitting Goku's head. The vampiric teen grunted and formed another blood blade. It shattered as well. He backed away and created a blood shuriken. Naoto threw it, but Goku smashed it with his arm like he was swatting a fly.
Goku however didn't realize that Naoto had snuck up behind him and summoned a giant crystallized blood scythe. Goku turned his head and glared at Naoto who, despite not being anywhere near Goku's level of power, refused to back down. It was respectable.
"DIVINE REAPER!!!"
But like all of Naoto's attacks, the scythe broke into pieces like glass. Kurogane backed away from Goku, panting in exhaustion. He was using every drop of his power to at least try to SCRATCH Goku, but it was no use.
'Man, this isn't going anywhere. Not only does this big, muscly karate guy have fucking diamond skin, but he's also got power practically pouring out of him. It's bottomless! That number over him is so huge my eyes can't even measure it!' Naoto thought.
Suddenly, he began to feel lightheaded and he was seeing stars. Naoto almost lost his balance, but he grabbed hold of a tree for support.
'Shit, I'm using up too much blood. At this rate, it's only a matter of time before I pass out.' He pointed out in his mind.
Goku instantly took notice of Naoto's current condition.
"Hey, Kid. You're not looking too hot. Those powers of yours clearly come with a risk. I think it's best if you just grow in the towel. If you use up anymore of your blood, you could die." Son urged.
"Screw you..!"
Naoto dashed to the right. During his assault, he noticed a large body of water a few feet away. That gave him an idea.
Once he reached the pond, Naoto slit his wrist with a blood shard and jumped in. He let his blood trickle into the water and the two liquids began to mix.
"Bloodedge, FULL DRIVE!!!"
His hair turned white and his eyes red. The pond became a light red color and begun to swirl around Naoto. Now that Naoto had mixed his blood into the water, he could control all of it. The pond had become an extension of himself. Goku noticed Naoto's change in appearance and was now really starting to notice similarities.
'His hair and eyes. This kid… He looks just like…'
"I'm not good at coming up with attacks on the fly, but I think this one just might be my masterpiece! Behold the blood red beast! B. O. V.!!!"
The bloody water then rose to life and quickly began to change shape. Goku looked up at what Naoto had created and, honestly, he was impressed. It was a gigantic eight headed serpent beast of red water, and Naoto stood atop the creature, blood sword in hand. He crystallized the cut on his wrist to stop the bleeding.
"Whoa..! That thing's huge!" Goku gasped.
Even Vegeta and Hibiki were shocked by what Kurogane had created.
"What the hell is that?!" Vegeta exclaimed.
'Unbelievable! Naoto is capable of an attack like this?' Hibiki thought in amazement.
"You want my best, you damn hunk of muscle? This is it! All I've got! BEAST OF VERMILLION!!!"
Next time
Naoto gambles his very life in a desperate attempt to defeat Goku, who has powered up to the unstoppable Super Saiyan Blue! Can the first Bloodedge stand up to the Saiyan of legend and protect Naruto?