I kept my eyes on Nagato as I swung my Keyblades downwards, electricity following their path.
I saw Nagato throwing his hands up, Konan shifting slightly closer to him, his Chakra surging.
Planning something. Of course. Why the fuck not?
What skill will he pull out of his ass this time?
Asura Path bullshit? Animal Path 'lol-not-here-anymore'? More things the Rinnegan couldn't do in actual series?
Place your fucking bets.
Lightning fell from the sky, hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of bolts, each and every single one dozens of times more powerful than any I had thrown around in this fight beforehand. Really, it was more of a wall of electricity than it was countless bolts.
It was over almost as fast as it had begun, with a flash of light so bright that it seemed a second sun had taken to the sky briefly, and a roar of thunder so loud and powerful that it would have rendered a human permanently deaf, if they survived the sheer shock of it.
Regardless-
The spell, brief as it was, had been devastating. The previously rocky, nearly barren clearing now actually was barren, what little grass and few trees that had been present was vaporized. Much of the rock, now shattered and broken, glowed a dull orange from heat, with a not insignificant amount of it now molten. Nagato's laser-spider summon now wasn't, only a cloud of off-white smoke to denote that it had ever been in the first place. Also no longer present were Nagato's Paths, each and every single one now missing. Everything was well and proper fucked.
Except for one spot:
A two meter wide circle on the earth; where the ground was intact, and not broken and shattered and melted; where the grass still existed, and wasn't vaporized and burned; where there were still two very alive, very much not dead Humans.
Nagato and Konan were still alive.
Nagato's Chakra was severely depleted, yes, but both of them were still standing, and not dead like I really wanted them to be- They weren't even injured!
The longer this goes on, the more I dislike them. I wonder why?
Nagato was breathing heavily, Konan standing protectively over him.
My eyes narrowed.
He had lost a significant amount of Chakra, and yet...
Why was there resignation in his Heart?
"You're planning something." I spoke. "What'll it be this time, Nagato? Some more Rinnegan powers? Another artefact of the Sage? Finally giving up, ready to renounce your ways?"
His breathing slowed, and he rose to his full height. He reached into his pocket, pulling out a small pill, which I recognized as a Military Rations Pill.
Oh goody.
"Going to tell me a tragic backstory? Perhaps monologue about your plan?" He ate it, and his Chakra began to quickly replenish shortly afterwards.
At the same time, his hands weaved together, and he began running through a number of handseals at a relatively slow rate.
"What are you planning, Nagato?" What did he have up his sleeve?
Nagato slammed his hands against the ground, an array of seals spreading out.
Another summon?
Because the last one totally did so much good.
"Awaken." He spoke only one word.
My eyes widened.
Hatred surged, sheer, raw, and powerful; the kind of hatred I had only ever seen once before.
From the Kyuubi when Naruto asked about his mother.
Nagato's Chakra, so freshly replenished, suddenly depleted again, the vast majority sucked away to...
Inside of him?
The Gedō Mazō!
My vision flickered, and, sure enough, the old and sleeping Heart and Soul I had seen within was the source.
Juubi.
"Nagato... you didn't." He couldn't. Reviving that thing took eight Bijuu and a small amount of Chakra from the ninth, there was no fucking way-
A strange, brown-white fluid burst out of Nagato's body, quickly pooling in front of him.
What the fu-
It shot upwards, movingly blindingly fast considering it was liquid, directly towards me.
I didn't have time to react before it touched my Armoured boot-
And was promptly dragged across dimensions, my surroundings changing from the broken land of our battlefield to a mountainous expanse that most certainly wasn't the Elemental Nations.
Brown rock stretched out in every direction, with only a small amount of variance in the shade.
"What... the fuck?" The fuck was this?!
Where are we? This place... this place didn't exist before! The only dimensions in this World were the Elemental Nations and the Summoning Realm!
I looked out-
And there were six more, now, including this one.
None of which had been here before.
A slight bubbling noise caught my attention, and I looked down at the liquid mass.
The liquid mass that had been the Gedō Mazō, if the hundred thousand Hearts and Souls inside of it was any indication.
Okay.
Okay.
This was... this was a thing.
And I am not dealing with this.
I stepped out-
And ran directly into a dimensional wall, preventing me from passing through.
Okay, whatever. If you really want to play that way...
A Gummi Block appeared in my hand, and I stabbed at the barrier.
As ever, it sunk in easily, passing through the barrier.
There we go-
My arm lurched back, the Gummi Block repulsed suddenly, with enough force that it was almost yanked out of my grasp.
What the shit-
I stabbed the barrier again, the Gummi Block sinking in slightly-
Right before being repulsed again.
No, seriously, what the fuck?
Did... did they actually succeed at finding a way to contain me?
Another bubbling gurgle pulled my attention back to the pool of liquid-
Which, I noticed, had grown in size, now almost half as big as Isobu.
Chakra was flowing towards it, sapped from the surroundings. It was slowly beginning to take shape, forming what seemed to be a skeleton.
A really, really, really weird skeleton, one which resembled nothing I had encountered before.
And an eye.
A red eye.
A ringed red eye.
A red Rinnegan eye.
Without a doubt, then.
"Juubi."
That's...
Fuck.
I stabbed my Gummi Block into the dimensional barrier a third time, keeping a close eye on the Juubi.
Its Chakra surged slightly when the Gummi Block was repulsed again, before settling down again.
Right.
"So, you're what's keeping me in here." Problematic, to say the least. "I don't know how the fuck you're... alive, right now, but if you're what's preventing me from getting out..."
The Gummi Block vanished, and I brandished my Keyblades.
"I'll just have to kill you."
Spheres of Darkness began appearing around my form, quickly stacking up.
This was the Juubi. The closest thing to a god in this World.
This would not be an easy fight. Even as weakened as it was.
Two giant skeletal hands slammed down on the ground, a number of horns forming on the head of the Juubi.
A mouth opened.
It screamed.
"!"