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Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes or any OCCness.

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 23

Naruto, Sasuke: 17-18

Shisui: 26

Kakashi: 32

I sat on a rock, a leg dangling from it. Madara quickly caught up to me and stopped when he saw my position.

"Your presence here must be the reason I was brought back like this."

"You're mistaken. Naruto is the one who got to Nagato with his words, not me." He frowned.

"Then you're here to keep us from winning."

"My reason for being here is indirectly because of you, but not this. I saved a member of your clan, which kept the Uchihas from being slaughtered by one of their own. Anyway, it's Obito's fault if I ended up here, he fucked up my life from the beginning." He rose a brow.

"Are you the Uzumaki brat then?" I frowned. "He said he wanted to keep one alive, I guess it is you." He narrowed his eyes. "From the outfit, I'd say you are from Kirigakure." He took his chin between two fingers, his fan in his other hand. "If I remember well, the Uzumaki in Kiri was Mamiko." I blinked. How did he know her? "Are you related to her?"

"What is it to you?" I asked coldly, getting off my rock. "And why the familiarity with my grandmother?"

"The granddaughter I see. I thought I extinguished this line when they were executed."

It was not a surprise, I knew Madara manipulated the Third Mizukage before Obito did it with Yagura. He plotted Rin's death, how Obito would see it so my grandparents…it was no surprise. Hell, Uzushio was in part because of him I bet.

"This makes you Uzumaki Masashi's great-granddaughter then." This was interesting.

"Not that talking about my family tree isn't interesting, but what is it to you?"

"I just want to make sure you are related to Mito, and by extension Hashirama before making you suffer."

"What a wonderful attention, I'm honored," I replied, hiding my nervosity as much as I could.

"Why are you provoking him?" the Sandaime asked me.

"I don't know, force of habit I guess?"

"Well stop," Tobirama added.

"Hey, if he does kill me, they won't get the other half of Kurama and bye bye their plans."

"If I see it is needed, I'll take over," Hashirama told me sternly. I didn't turn him down.

He started with a fire jutsu. It was humongous. I stopped it with a water jutsu, that I had to reinforce with a wind one. Vapor engulfed the area, and I barely dodged a punch. I solely used sensing to fight back in taijutsu, but just a few seconds was enough for confirm he didn't earn his reputation for nothing.

He was a beast. The guy was a beast, not getting a scratch from my jutsu, even my kekkai genkai. I couldn't dodge the kick in my temple, my hitai-ate flying away. I found myself on all four.

"Is that it? I would have expected more from Masashi's descendant."

"You were friends with him or what?" I said through gritted teeth. Sage Mode right now? I didn't want to waste Umiko's gift and…

"He was an interesting man, and a formidable opponent. Not in the same kind as Hashirama, but he would be very resistant. For what is left of the clan head's bloodline and Uzumaki Ashina's descendant, it is disappointing."

"Boom," I stated, activating the explosive seal I left on the ground.

He jumped away, dodging it, then the other, and the other until out of the dozens explosive seal on the ground, none were left. I used this opportunity to teleport in front of him with one of the many markers I had left on the ground. He seemed taken back and I punched him. He grabbed my wrist and attempted to break it. I froze its inside to keep it intact.

"You have a good grasp on your other lineage." I didn't answer and kicked him in the stomach, making an explosive seal. It blew up and I moved away before being caught in it.

When the smoke vanished, he was slowly being pulled back up.

"You saw it coming."

"Call it curiosity," he corrected me. "I can feel them." I blinked. "I have to give it to this Kabuto, I wouldn't have felt them if I wasn't an Edo Tensei reanimation. I can feel the Shinigami inside of you, and I can feel the four souls awakened in your seal…especially Hashirama." I widened my eyes. "You didn't think I was interested in knowing what this era had, right? I know Hashirama must have trained you knowing this would be happening."

"I see." It was raining. Maybe if Itachi came…the Sword of Totsuka…

There was no time for "maybes". He was toying with me, had been from the very beginning. I needed time to send the Kages in the White Zetsus sealed in a scroll. I'd need to rest after anyway. Naru, Kakashi, Gai-san and B-san were busy with Obito, who knew where the rest of the allied forces were right now…

Madara was…Uchiha freaking Madara after all. With unlimited chakra. And EMS. And Rinnegan. It was not a walk in the park.

"Mokuton: Nativity of a World of Trees!" Roots sprung from the ground. I jumped away, trying to avoid them. Mokuton, even fire wouldn't do much.

I activated the Claw and destroyed the branch coming my way. Madara raised a brow.

"Now it is more interesting." I pursed my lips. "It is strange how similar both our clans are, isn't it?"

"You have no idea how more similar they could have been." He went back in his Susanoo and used the Yasaka Magatama. It was one of Itachi's most powerful offensive jutsu with the Susanoo, I thought it was just his but maybe it was for all Susanoos.

I took a marked kunai and went through seals.

"Hiraishin: Guiding Thunder!" A seal appeared in front of me, and it swallowed the attack, only for the back of Susanoo to block it.

I took my nodachi and sent a wave of sharp ice. Madara absorbed it disdainfully. It was enough to cast a chill around us though and I used the Hiding in the Mist Technique, lowering my temperature and hiding my chakra.

"This is pathetic," he taunted me.

I used the mist to hide and go in Sage Mode and appeared in front of him, now in Negative Mode. He didn't see me coming and the Chidori was in my hand. He tried to use his ganbai to stop it, but as it was now senjutsu and not regular chakra, it went through it and in the side of his head. He jumped meters away from me and blew the mist away. He looked at me through the hole in his weapon and threw it away as it was now useless.

"I have never heard of a Yuurei who can use Sage Mode."

"It's normal, I'm the first one who got this power."

He gauged me for a few seconds and snickered. I watched him until he smirked, apparently satisfied.

"Now it's interesting."

Gyuki et Kurama both threw their Tailed Beast Bomb toward the newly released Juubi. Obito was strong. He was alone, yet he was still a problem, showing he could use Wood Release perfectly well. He had cursed Akane because she destroyed some of his arsenal in the Kamui dimension, but he was still standing in front of them.

To Kakashi, it was the worst part of it all. He was still standing and showing no sign of wanting to stop fighting anytime soon.

However, Juubi was set free. Obito climbed on top of it and a sort of pipe was connected to him. Juubi screamed and sent his own Tailed Beast Bomb against them, but it changed trajectory at the last moment. It destroyed several mountains and created a huge explosion in the distance, yet they felt the blow where they were, dust and smoke surrounding them.

As the army joined them, Kakashi frowned. The attack went where Akane and Madara were. She already had to face Uchiha Madara who wanted her head for being a Yuurei, but this…

"Kakashi-san, Gai-sensei!" He looked at Lee, alongside Sai. Sakura was already healing someone. Itachi quickly landed next to him, his head toward Juubi.

"Hey, we've almost waited for you," Kakashi replied, securing Gai's arm more on his shoulders. Haku and Fuu appeared behind Naruto.

"Hey guys, you're okay!?" They nodded.

"I felt Isobu," Haku told him.

"I also felt Chomei." Naruto pursed his lips.

"Yeah, they're using them against their will. I freed them from their chains, but they were swallowed back in Juubi."

"It's awful!"

Kakashi put his free hand on Itachi's shoulder, who looked at him. Dai seemed busy healing Gai.

"Where the explosion was, Akane is dealing with Madara. Find her, now." The Uchiha nodded and left in the blink of an eye.

Why, oh why, was he no longer surprised Akane got herself in this situation? Of course, if Madara had a thing against Yuurei and immediately spotted her because he was still an Edo Tensei, it was not really her fault but…She did find herself in bad situations quite often and had the tendency to dive deeper instead of trying to leave it.

Uzumakis tended to be like that, yet they always came out of these situations alive.

He went through a calcinated area and sped up. Madara's Susanoo was far from discreet. Itachi activated his Susanoo too and used the Yasaka Magatama to counter Madara's. It blew up and he jumped in the crevasse there now was in the ground. Akane was on the ground, on her stomach. She wasn't moving, bleeding from her stomach.

Itachi turned her around and was relieved to see her eyes opened and alive.

"Don't…fucking panic…"

"I'm not," he said cooly. Her left hand seemed to have had been broken, so she gestured at him with her right one.

"M…mix…chakra…" His left hand was against her right one and she used it to make hand seals, releasing a healing seal on her stomach. She shook her head and sat, shooting his Susanoo a quick look.

"The whole Shinobi Army got to Naruto. Kakashi-san told me to come here," he explained briefly at her quizzical glance.

"I survived a fight with Uchiha Madara." He looked at her sternly. She was critically wounded, her left hand was broken, and her flack jacket was nowhere to be seen, like her hitai-ate. He wiped some ash from her jaw.

"Hn."

"All alone, they didn't help. I…" She tried to stand up, but he kept her from falling.

"I'll take over for now." She nodded reluctantly.

He did not like the fact Madara, instead of attacking, had been watching them quietly.

I easily destroyed the wood clones he sent me and dodged the branches trying to stab me. I teleported in the air.

"Hyouton: Explosive Snow Jutsu!" The flowers that had started to grow and the whole area were covered in snow. Madara was not bothered by it, of course. When everything blew up below me, wood flying everywhere, I cursed under my breath at the blue Susanoo.

I had to seal it, but for that I needed to trap him in some way. The Claw was out of question, and I doubted the seal used on the other Edo Tensei shinobi would be good enough to seal him and his chakra.

"Parts of him," the Sandaime said suddenly in my mind. "When I used this technique against Orochimaru, I failed at sealing his soul, but I took his arm."

"Seal parts of Madara that would not come back then, nice thinking Saru," Tobirama agreed. I started going down.

"Eyeballs?"

"Arms!" they all said in sync. I would have sweat-dropped in other circumstances.

"But he never used the De…"

"Don't risk it Akane!" Tobirama scolded me angrily.

I teleported to him. My foot met his Susanoo and I made an Explosive Seal. It made a hole big enough for me to teleport just at arm reach of Madara. I activated the Claw and dived it toward his arm. He widened his eyes.

"Shinra Tensei!" I blinked as I was blasted away. I softened the blow like I could but still spat as my back met a rock. He went into his full-body Susanoo, the four arms and swords there.

I got up and started to dodge all of his swords like I could. I bit on the finger of my right glove and pulled it off, revealing the seal on my palm for my other Amaterasu. A Chidori and an Amaterasu in my gloves, an Amaterasu on my right palm…Sasuke was generous.

I blinked when I was about to be squished like an insect. His Susanoo was blocking my Hiraishin and I couldn't stay in Negative Mode forever. If only I had the Sword of Totsuka…

I teleported to the top, just above Madara. He looked up at me, annoyed now as I put my left hand on the softest part of the Susanoo, where the user was in the head. I used the Claw to dig my hand inside and used the Chakra Canceling Seal. If a variation of it could contain what remained of the God Tree…then it could suppress the Susanoo.

Madara didn't see it coming as the blue giant started to crumble and I fell toward him.

"Hyouton: Freezing Tec…" He was quicker and used the Fireball Jutsu with me two meters from it.

The landing was brutal. However, Madara was in front of me quickly and grabbed me by my jacket. I slipped out of it and kicked his ankles. My foot went through them, destroying them. I sent ice needles to him, but he repulsed them. He then grabbed my left hand and before I could do anything, broke it. I couldn't keep myself from screaming in pain, but I used this slim window to put my right hand on his rinnegan and sealed it.

Something went above us.

"Obito has started without me," Madara stating with a frown. Without further ado, a black rod appeared in his hand, and he stabbed me in the stomach.

The blow of the explosion blew him off and blasted me away like a rag doll. I was dizzy, fighting to stay conscious as I was on my stomach, unable to move. I had to heal my stab wound, but I couldn't use my left hand and…

I watched Madara recomposing himself.

"I have more important things to do," he stated, his Susanoo coming back. He threw his Yasaka Magatama at me.

I would not be able to go back into Sage Mode until I had more chakra, I was bleeding, I couldn't move and…

"Hey!"

"Don't worry," Oji-chan told me kindly.

"Bu…" Madara's attack was stopped by another. Someone landed next to me, and I was turned around, my eyes finding Itachi's stern ones. I could have sighed of relief.

Once I was okay, he put me against the wall and went to Madara.

"You're making a mistake." Itachi didn't reply. "Associating with an Uzumaki and a Yuurei will kill you."

"Then why am I still breathing?" Madara frowned at him. Itachi had the Sword of Totsuka and Madara was Edo Tensei, one Rinnegan…maybe? Maybe he could do it?

I had ten chakra seals on my right arm. I used six of them immediately. As I felt my chakra coming back, I looked up. Both Susanoos were clashing, Madara clearly knowing what the Sword of Totsuka was as he was very cautious of it. However, Madara had a clear advantage by having four arms, and my Pupil Seal now gone as he had been blown up. Itachi was doing the best he could but had to stay on the defense more and more.

Madara used the Mokuton again, but Itachi was quick to cover his blade with Amaterasu to set the growing forest on fire.

Yeah, with his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, he got Sasuke's ability to shape his Amaterasu, even if it was not as precise as his brother.

Now, Itachi needed to stab Madara with the Sword of Totsuka. However, it could not go through Susanoo to get to Madara. So, we needed to get rid of his Susanoo, again. For that, Senjutsu was the only way because he could absorb chakra with his Rinnegan.

I didn't have enough manpower on my own to break his Susanoo again and the seal Umiko gave me was…okay for now, but I did feel something weird toward the end of the fight. I was afraid it was already being fragilized by the fights.

As they were busy with each other, I ran to get my nodachi. I dropped it at some point during the fight. I took it and looked at the blade, biting my bottom lip at the seal on it.

"Question: do you think I could use this seal in Sage Mode on the Sword of Totsuka and put senjutsu in it?"

"You haven't succeeded with your nodachi yet!" Oji-chan immediately replied.

"Do it!" Hashirama said a second later. "As you said, there's nothing like a death-threatening situation to master a new jutsu!"

"It's not a good advice," Tobirama told his brother, the Sandaime sighing. I put my nodachi away and focused. I could teleport to Itachi's marker easily, so I did.

"You came up with something?" he asked me, his eyes not leaving his ancestor.

"Yes. I'm not sure I can pull it off, you might need to help me on your end but…"

"Explain."

"I put a seal on your Totsuka Blade that allows it to use senjutsu, well mine, I'd lend you senjutsu to go through his Susanoo and seal him."

"You're insane." I opened my mouth a little, but he beat me to it with a tiny smile at the corner of his lips. "But so is fighting my dead great-grandfather, so it might work. Do your thing." I nodded and slid in his right arm.

The gourd was solid but scorching hot. I found a way to stay stable despite Itachi moving and gathered chakra at the tip of my left forefinger, ignoring the sharp pain it sent in my body because my hand was broken. Then, I went back in Sage Mode briefly and I drew the seal on the gourd, feeling the seal taking all the senjutsu I got back. It made me dizzy, and I teleported away from the Susanoo as I had a few markers sill functional.

The Sword of Totsuka went through Madara's Susanoo though, but before he could move it to Madara, he stopped his jutsu and a meteorite appeared in the sky. Itachi's Susanoo destroyed part of it with a Yasaka Magatama, but covered with Amaterasu, to the meteorite. Half of it was destroyed and started to fall, but half remained. Itachi's Susanoo caught it and I threw a marker at it, throwing another one in the distance.

I teleported it to the other marker before realizing I was about to be crushed by the falling rocks. I started avoiding them but failed to see one. Itachi tackled me to the ground, and we rolled away from it.

I sensed Madara's chakra leaving as we remained on the ground, Itachi's arms around me as he was keeping me against the ground.

"Are you okay?" he asked me as he straddled me. His hitai-ate fell on my stomach.

"I think so?" I replied, unsure myself. I sat too and looked at the blood running down his forehead. "Can you heal yourself or…"

"I don't have much chakra left after using the Susanoo so much," he told me flatly. I took a healing seal and put it on his head. It did not remove the frown on his face though as I took care of my own injuries. It was not perfect, I was still wounded, but I could go on. "Why did he go after you?"

"I'm a Yuurei, he doesn't have a great past with them." He pursed his lips. "My senjutsu is drained for now, the little I got back I gave it to you."

"It was a good plan," he said quietly.

"Thanks. I…damn, it's not as if I thought I could beat him but…it's still frustrating!"

"I know." I looked at my left hand.

"I think it's time." He blinked at me. "It's time for the Kages to be useful. I just…" I pulled four scrolls from my pouch. "Can you put them in a genjutsu so they don't move?" He nodded wordlessly.

The White Zetsus out, they met Itachi's Sharingan before they could make a move. I waited a few minutes before activating the Claw. When I did, I froze.

In Sage Mode I could actively use senjutsu, but the Claw was still..senjutsu. It just required more of my own energy. Still, I could feel…people, more clearly.

I didn't like what I was sensing right now.

"Akane, what's wrong?" I looked up at him in horror.

"Give me your hand." He did without hesitating, and I clasped it. "I have to send you to the battlefield." He shook his head and knelt next to me.

"I'm not leaving you alone and vulnerable Akane, it's not debatable."

"Itachi…"

"No."

"It's your dad." He froze at that, and I pursed my lips. "I'll be fine, I'll catch up. Just go." He stared at me, silently begging me to tell him I didn't mean it, but I couldn't. I just tightened my hold on his hand. I saw something snap in his eyes before he closed them.

"Please," he whispered to me.

I teleported him away before taking a big breath. I tried to get back to work but I put my hand on my eyes instead.

God dammit Obito…out of all the people in front of you…you had to go for Fugaku-san?

Naruto was at a loss for words. Madara came back and started to control Juubi with Obito. They destroyed HQ. Then there was a rain of stakes. Hinata tried to shield him. Then he thought he saw Neji trying to move, but he was kept back.

"It's not your time yet." Naruto knew that voice. When the rain of stakes stopped, Naruto looked behind Hinata and stubbled to the body.

"Hey…hey Fugaku-ji-chan, you…SAKURA-CHAN!" She ran to them and widened her eyes in horror.

"Naruto…"

"Come on, do something!" By now, he was on his knees, holding Fugaku.

"Thank you…Naruto…"

"Hey, don't try to talk!" He shot Sakura a glance, who shook her head.

"You're…a great friend…to my son…both of them…thank you…" Fugaku coughed, spitting blood.

Naruto didn't even hear Itachi appear in his back. He just knew the Uchiha leader was taken away from him. The Uzumaki didn't hear what was said between father and son, only that Itachi moved his ear in front of his father's mouth to listen.

"Naruto!" Obito yelled. Naruto glared at him.

Sasuke's father had been a distant figure in his life since he was seven. It had taken the previous war to get to know him better and understand his personality more.

There had been one night though, in the past war. The previous days had been hard, people died and he as frustrated. Fugaku talked to him about war and how you would go through all human emotions possible during one, before saying he had been in a similar situation with his mother during the Third War. He was not expecting this. He knew his mom and Mikoto had been close friends, and it was Mikoto who would share stories of his parents to him, but not Fugaku.

The Uchiha had told him that Kushina, being a jinchuriki like him, felt guilty and frustrated because she couldn't use this power in her as it was too dangerous. Then, he told him that only his father could really ease his mother's frustration, and that while they seemed different on the surface, they agreed on the most important things in life and that was why they were a good and solid couple.

He had not missed the nostalgy in the Uchiha's eyes.

Obito talked, and talked, and suddenly the dead bodies around him felt like they were staring at him, weighting him down. It was only because Hinata knelt in front of him, cupping his cheeks in her cold, wet hands that he could focus.

It was only because she reminded him of the people fighting by his side, risking their lives, that he gathered the courage to stand up. He took her hand in his and Kurama's cloak was back on him, giving some chakra to Hinata.

Wordlessly, he walked to Itachi. He handed him an empty storage scroll that he accepted after a few seconds. The Uzumaki put his hand on his shoulder, giving him Kurama's chakra as well.

No death in this war would be in vain.

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