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Virtue and Venom: Chapter 50

Center of the village: With Naruto, Sasuke, Tsunade, Hiruzen, Gaara and Sai

Naruto charged ahead towards the Deva path with his Kurama cloak and trench knives glowing from his chakra; the Deva path used the two chakra rods it was holding to defend itself from Naruto's assault.

Naruto slashed at the path with his trench knife and the black chakra rod stopped it before it could hit the Deva path; the Deva path attempted to stab Naruto with the other chakra rod but Naruto dodged to the side. The Deva path opened it's hand and spoke.

"All Mighty Push" the path said; Naruto was hit full force by the jutsu and was sent flying in the air into the distance. The Deva path flew after Naruto as now it and Naruto can fight one on one.

"Damn idiot" Sasuke said "oh well, now we only have five of these things left to destroy"; Sasuke looked at tall the paths looking for his target. Sasuke found what he was looking for as he verified which one was the 'Naraka path'; Orochimaru using his knowledge of the Six paths of Pein and the Akatsuki informed him that this should be the first path to be eliminated.

The Naraka path can reform the other paths once they are damaged; although sadly Orochimaru only had information on the Deva path and the Naraka path since they were the only ones he's ever seen used.

Sasuke wasted not time charging towards the Naraka path and got ready to use his Susanoo; Sasuke launched a punch towards the Naraka path and the path dodged before coming over to the side and throwing a punch at the Susanoo.

The Naraka paths punch hit the Susanoo and left a little crack surprising Sasuke as he didn't expect the punch to have so much power behind it; Sasuke swung his fist towards the Naraka path but it jumped away and began to run across the roof tops.

"I'm heading after it" Sasuke shouted and he ran off.

Gaara using his sand sent a wave towards the remaining five paths making them all scatter "pick your targets and engage" Gaara said before he chased after the Asura path.

"Good luck everyone" Tsunade said as she chased after the animal path.

Sai nodded before going after the Human path and Hiruzen stayed behind to fight Preta path.

Hiruzen cracked his neck and gripped his staff as he stared down the Preta path and mentally sighed '*sigh, I'm too old for this shit' he thought as he got ready to fight.

With Naruto

"Gah" Naruto shouted as he smacked a roof and bounced off to another roof, then another and another "shit, fuck, crap"; Naruto hit another roof before he flew over a fence and landed in a grassy training ground. "Owwww" Naruto whined as he got back up feeling all his bones pop 'if I didn't have this cloak on I'd be dead… or in some serious pain right now'.

Suddenly a crash appeared on the other side of the clearing and the Deva path appeared; the Deva path pointed his hand at Naruto his palm facing out. The Deva path fired a single black chakra rod from it's palm towards Naruto; Naruto instinctively used his trench knife to knock it out of the air.

The Deva path fired several more towards Naruto and Naruto began to block them as the ricochet hitting the ground and surrounding trees; the last one came to Naruto and Naruto ducked and caught it.

Naruto threw it towards the Deva path and the Deva path simply reached up and caught it like it was nothing 'he has good reflexes and is skilled with those knives' the Deva path thought 'and that cloak protected him from my almighty push; anyone else would be dead, but he has more durability from the Kyuubi'.

The Deva path created another chakra rod and along with the one Naruto threw now had one in each hand 'the best course of action is to attack him with my chakra rods; once his cloak is disabled he will be at a significant disadvantage' it thought.

Naruto scowled at he made a hand sign "Shadow Clone Jutsu" Naruto shouted as 100 clones appeared in the clearing all having a Kurama cloak "ok you bastard; lets get it on". Naruto and his clones all charged towards Pein in an attempt to overwhelm through numbers.

With Kakashi, Danzo, Fuu and Torune

Kakashi charged towards Madara with a kunai in his hand; Kakashi charged the Kunai with a raikiri and thrusted it towards Madara. Madara instead of phasing to avoid the jutsu dodged the Jutsu and avoided the attack; Madara sent a stab towards Kakashi but Kakashi dodged the attack and sent a kick.

Madara blocked the kick and Kakashi followed up by throwing his lighting covered kunai towards him; Madara was so close that he wasn't able to fully dodge the attack and the kunai grazed his shoulder cutting his cloths.

Kakashi jumped away and both Fuu and Torune rushed in taking out their swords and attacked Madara; Torune slashed first and his sword went through Madara and Torune ran past. Fuu followed up two seconds behind Torune's attack and sent a stab towards Madara's midsection; Madara however instead of letting the attack phase through him dodged the attack.

Madara sent a stab using his kunai towards Fuu but Fuu spun around and used his sword to block the attack before jumping to a safe distance; Danzo was standing a few feet away a using his sharingan to observe the attacks and analyzing what was going on.

'Hmmm… With Kakashi he didn't even bother phasing through the attack' Danzo thought narrowing his eyes 'and with Torune and Fu he was able to phase through the first attack but had to avoid the second'. 'So his technique is nulled by Kakashi and when it isn't he could only use it for less than five seconds' Danzo thought 'he has a time limit'.

Danzo began to go through hand signs as he looked at Madara "Wind Style: Vacuum bullets"; Danzo fired a several small blasts of wind chakra towards Madara before taking out a kuna. And Madara looked at them; Madara used his phasing technique to allow the wind chakra to phase through him.

Danzo immediately rushed towards Madara and made a hand sign; Danzo exhaled wind chakra onto his kunai blade and swung it towards Marada. Madara just unable to phase through the jutsu ducked under the blade but this is what Danzo expected as he made another hand sign.

Right under Madara a spike of wood shot out and impacted Madara right in the chest sending him flying across the room; Madara landed and revealed an opening in his chest. On Madara's chest half of his body was human while the other half was some kind of white matter which was repairing itself.

"So… you can use wood style eh" Madara said and Danzo looked on passively "using your own first Hokage's skill is quite a feat". "However; it will not help you against me" Madara said as a vortex began to form and Danzo went wide eyed.

"Kakashi; use your Kamui" Danzo shouted and Kakashi focused on Madara but he vanished before he could get him.

"Damn it" Kakashi said as he began to look around "where did he go" he said; Danzo and the others all stayed on alert as they scanned the room for Madara. A vortex appeared behind Danzo and Danzo spun around just in time to see Madara appear and stab him in the chest.

"See what I mean" Madara said with a chuckle; Madara pulled his kunai out of Danzo's chest and let his body fall.

"Lord Danzo" Fuu shouted as he charged in with Torune and Kakashi; Kakashi made it first and threw several punches towards Madara who began to block the attacks as he grabbed Kakashi's arm and put him in a lock Madara kicked Kakashi in the gut before jumping over him over him and grabbing him by the back of his jacket.

Madara threw Kakashi into Torune knocking both men away while Fuu continued to attack; Fuu sent a slash towards Madara and the attack phased through him. Madara responded with a kick to Fuu's face but Fu jumped over the kick doing a roll before jumping back and sending a stab.

Madara dodged to the side and grabbed Fuu by the wrist; Madara twisted his arm making him drop the sword before head butting him using his mask as a weapon. Madara caught the sword before it could fall and he stabbed Fuu in the gut; Fuu coughed up blood and Madara spoke.

"What a feeble attempt" Madara said "what did you expect to happen"; Fuu chuckled and looked at Madara's one eye.

"To buy sixty seconds" Fuu said before spitting on Madara's mask in defiance; Madara was confused until he heard a noise from behind him. Madara turned and saw Danzo there with a wind chakra covered Kunai sending a slash; Madara couldn't fully phase through the attack and the result was that slash instead of cutting his whole back only cut his lower left side.

Madara let out a sound of pain as he was cut and Fuu was sliced in half due to the attack phasing through Madara; Madara attempted to slash Danzo with the sword but Danzo blocked the strike before jumping back.

Madara was looking at Danzo "how are you alive" Madara asked before he looked at Danzo's arm; one of the sharingan on Danzo's arm was closed "Izanagi; you used a forbidden technique, even among the Uchiha".

"That's right; a small price to pay" Danzo said "but now I know how you operate and your technique".

"So why did you sacrifice you subordinate" Madara asked and Danzo scowled.

"He, just like me and Torune came here prepared to die" Danzo said "we are willing to lay down our lives for victory; no matter the cost, and from what I see we are one step closer". Danzo looked at the wound he created "I may have missed your heart and lung, it appears I nicked a kidney and severed some muscle; and it's not healing up".

Madara cursed mentally as he realized that Danzo was right as he the part of his body that's artificial can reform but his human half couldn't repair itself. "This is far from over Danzo" Madara said gripping his newly acquired sword "you will not win".

"Neither will you" Danzo said as he gripped his Kunai "Kakashi with me, Torune assist from a distance"; both Kakashi and Danzo charged Madara as he got into a defensive stance.

With Mamushi, Orochimaru and Anko

Mamushi was in a defensive stance as Habu charged towards her with the Kusanagi in hand; Habu swung the Kusanagi at Mamushi and Mamushi used her scythe to block the blade. Mamushi hooked the sword and knocked the sword to the side and sent a kick towards Habu; Habu dodged the kick before sending another slash towards Mamushi.

Mamushi jumped over the sword and landed a few yards away; Habu quickly closed the distance and rushed in sending a stab towards Mamushi who dodged to the side. Habu sent a kick towards Mamushi hitting her in the face and knocking her away.

Orochimaru seeing Habu was so close ran towards her cocking back his fist. Orochimaru threw a punch at Habu and Habu dodged before sending a stab towards Orochimaru; Orochimaru contorted his body around the blade and came up with a rising punch towards Habu.

Orochimaru sent an uppercut towards Habu and nailed her under the chin knocking her head up; Orochimaru grabbed her hand and disarmed the Kusanagi sword from her. Orochimaru gripping the sword swung it at her but Habu extended her claws and blocked the blade; Habu then slashed at Orochimaru with her claws scoring a small wound on his ribs.

Orochimaru winced before jumping back while holding the Kusanagi 'at least I got my sword back' he thought.

Anko was a few yards away as she began to go through hand signs "Earth Style: Earth Dome"; Anko slammed her hands onto her ground and a earth dome appeared around Habu and closed up. Anko rushed over and went through hand signs once more "Fire Style: Crematorium"; Anko smaller her hands onto the dome and a small hole opened up.

Anko unleashed a powerful fire jutsu inside through the hole and the dome began to get hot and smoke; after a few seconds Anko jumped off and landed a few feet away.

After a few seconds nothing happened and Mamushi got up "holy shit" she said as she looked at Anko and Orochimaru "d-did you do it".

"I-I think I did" Anko said; suddenly the side of the earth dome exploded outwards and a large chuck of earth hit Anko in the gut knocking the wind out of her and knocking her down. Anko hit the ground gasping for breath "or not" she said.

Habu walked out of the dome unscathed but covered in slime while holding Samehada making Orochimaru go wide eyed 'well looks like I was right about her killing Kisame' he thought.

"Yuck" Habu said as she wiped some slime off her face "nice try but my sword is able to swallow me whole to protect me from your jutsu". "Wow… never thought I'd ever say that" Habu said.

Mamushi growled as she dropped her scythe and grabbed one of her snakes and straightened it into a javelin; Mamushi threw the snake javelin at Habu and Habu spun around and used Samehada to cut it in half.

"Really… that was the best you could do" Habu said with a smirk and Mamushi got up with an angry look on her face.

"I haven't begun to fight yet" Mamushi said as she grabbed her scythe "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I do".

With Ino, Tayuya, Temari and Karin

Fu was flying through the air as Ino and the others were down below trying to knock her out of the air; Ino took out some shuriken and threw them towards Fu. Fu dodged the shuriken in mid air and began to fly down at full speed aiming at Temari.

Temari gripped her fan and swung her fan towards Fu as she descended towards her "Wind Scythe Jutsu" she shouted as she launched a wind jutsu towards Fu. Fu seeing the wind jutsu didn't change course as she flew through the wind jutsu; Fu was using her horn in order to redirect the wind currents away from her making her able to fly with only a little speed lost.

Temari seeing this went wide eyed as her wind jutsu proved ineffective and Fu was getting closer; Temari closed her fan and grabbed it like a bat. When Fu was in range Temari swung the fan using the metal side as a club; the fan hit Fu's horn with a resounding clang and Temari felt her muscles and bones vibrate from the percussion of the hit.

However Fu was not phased by the attack and she immediately grabbed onto the fan and pulled it to the side before spinning around; Fu landed a spinning heel kick to Temari's face making her spit up blood as she was knocked to the ground.

Tayuya seeing this rushed over with Ino and both girls began to attack Fu with taijutsu; Tayuya threw a punch towards Fu but Fu raised up her arm and blocked it. Tayuya threw a kick towards Fu's opposite side and Fu used her other arm to block it; Ino seeing as how Fu's arms were occupied took out a kunai and sent a stab towards Fu's neck.

Tayuya and Ino knew that no matter what Fu did she'd be in trouble; if she blocked the kunai she'll be hit by Tayuya or if she doesn't she'll be stabbed by Ino. As the kunai neared Fu moved her win to the side to defend herself from Ino; Ino's kunai hit Fu's wing and the kunai snapped as it felt like it she stabbed a cinder block.

Fu used her wing to swat Ino away sending her flying and rolling across the ground until Karin ran in the way and caught her; Fu then looked at Tayuya and proceeded to head butt her hitting her in the nose and making her see stars.

Fu raised up her leg and kicked Tayuya back a couple feet before jumping back; Tayuya recovering from the hits took out her flute and began to play a melody. Tayuya's 3 doki appeared and she sent all 3 towards Fu; the club doki swung it's club towards Fu who ducked under the attack.

The unarmed Doki threw a kick towards Fu while she was on the ground and hit Fu sending her flying through the air; Fu used her wings to stop her movement and was about to attack when the claw Doki appeared and took a swipe at Fu.

Fu dodged the first attack before a second landed a glancing blow on her shoulder leaving a small gash on her tricep; Fu used her wings to take flight to gain some distance from the Doki.

As Fu was in the air she heard a noise behind her and she turned her head and immediately took evasive action; Karin sent her chakra chains towards her and Fu began to avoid them.

Karin manipulated her chains while Fu flew in the air as she was doing what Orochimaru instructed her to do; Orochimaru told her that her chakra chains is a counter to her biju chakra. Despite Fu not using her biju chakra she was still using another form of unnatural chakra; so in Karin's eyes her chains were the best bet in order to subdue or kill her.

Fu was dodging Karin's as Ino recovered from Fu's attack; Ino began to go through hand signs until she stopped on the last one 'Water Style: Water bullets'. Ino began to fire a large volley of water bullets towards Fu who now had to not only avoid Karin but also Ino's attacks.

'Damn it; this is bull shit' Ino thought as she continued to fire her water bullets 'I hope the others are doing better than us'.

With Tsunade

Tsunade was chasing after the Animal Path as she was trying to get in close enough to land a solid punch and destroy it; as she chased the path it began to go through hand signs before slamming it's hand onto the ground.

A puff of smoke appeared and a large rhinoceros with a the rinnegan appeared and began to charge towards Tsunade; Tsunade balled up her fist as the rhino came charging in.

"Is that all you got" Tsunade shouted as she swung her fist at the rhino; Tsunade's punch sent the rhino flying into a nearby building crashing through and collapsing it "you have got to try better than that".

The Animal Path went through hand signs once again and summoned out a Giant Ox which rushed at Tsunade; the Ox lowered it's head to gore Tsunade but Tsunade rushed forwards before throwing a flying kick to the Ox.

Tsunade's kick landed and stopped the Ox in it's tracks as it's head caved in and it fell to the ground; Tsunade jumped over the fallen Ox and continued to follow the Animal path.

"Come here and fight me like a man Nagato" Tsunade shouted; the Animal Path ran for a few more yards until it stopped and looked at Tsunade. The Animal path went through hand signs once more and slammed it's hand on the ground with 3 puffs of smoke appearing.

Tsunade went wide eyed at what she saw; a multi headed dog, a giant panda and a giant centipede. A few seconds later a crash erupted behind Tsunade as the Rhino had came back; Tsunade scoffed at this and bit her thumb.

"Two can play at this game" Tsunade shouted "summoning jutsu"; Tsunade slammed her hand on the ground and summoned out the giant slug Katsuyu.

"You summoned me milady" Katsuyu said as the giant slug looked around and saw 4 creatures that were slightly smaller than her "oh my, four summons; looks like I'll have my work cut out for me".

"Thanks Katsuyu; I can always count on you" Tsunade said to her old comrade "let's kill these pricks".

With Sasuke

Sasuke swung his Susanoo's arm towards the Naraka path and the Naraka path dodge the attack; Sasuke was getting annoyed at how the Naraka path was avoiding him.

Sasuke realizing that his Susanoo was slowing him down decided to deactivate it and ran towards the Naraka path; Sasuke took out his sword and his tanto and began to slash at the path. Sasuke sent a rising slash towards the Naraka path but it leaned back as the sword missed it by a few inches; Sasuke not wanting to lose his momentum swung his tanto at the Naraka path scoring a glancing blow cutting the path across the chest.

The Naraka path threw a punch towards Sasuke and Sasuke using his sharingan to track the punch moved his head just in time; however the Naraka path used this opportunity to sent a kick towards Sasuke.

The kick connected to Sasuke's ribs and Sasuke coughed out his breath before he grit his teeth and gripped his sword. Sasuke swung his sword to the Naraka Path's leg and was able to cut it off making it lose it's balance; Sasuke spun around and kicked the Naraka path sending it crashing into a building.

Sasuke closed his left eye and looked at the downed Naraka Path "Amaterasu" he said; the Naraka path wasn't able to move as the black flames began to engulf it. The Naraka path made a hand signs and summoned out the King of Hell and was swallowed by the summon in hopes it could be repaired.

Sasuke waited for a few seconds when the King of Hells mouth opened and revealed the still burning Naraka path as it walked out; the Naraka path fell to the ground as the King of Hell vanished and the Naraka path was burned to ashes.

'Phase one complete' Sasuke thought in victory 'now the other paths can't be repaired when destroyed'; Sasuke got onto his radio and spoke.

"Lady Tsunade; I've destroyed the Naraka path" Sasuke said adn Tsunade spoke.

"Good, now go and- oh shit" Tsunade began until there was a loud crash over the radio; a few seconds later Tsunade spoke again "go and help either Naruto or Mamushi".

"Copy that" Sasuke said as he began to run across the village as the army of ninja was battling the white Zetsu's "what a mess". Sasuke continued across the village in hopes of running into Naruto or Mamushi as the battle raged on around him.

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