Title: End 8
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"Hope I'm not too late..." The new arrival asked and Naruto shook his head.
"You came right on time...I've been waiting for you all...Dad."
"Huh? Dad?" Some of the Konoha nine standing around Naruto asked in confusion only for Minato to smile and say
"Brace for impact."
"Huh?"
They all reacted in confusion, but before they could think further...
BOOOOMMMM!
The sound of a loud explosion resounded throughout the battlefield before a massive gust of wind generated by the explosion reached them, displacing a few mildly and throwing some unprepared Shinobi into the air
"Wha-! Are we being attacked from the rear?" Some Shinobi questioned the bizarre happening on the battlefield.
"You're still as fast as ever Minato." An old voice commented as three figures appeared beside him.
Minato scratched his head and said. "It was urgent, I needed to go on ahead of the group."
"Hmm. Impressive execution of the Hiraishin young man." Tobirama said in praise.
"Surely you jest Lord Second. I only learnt from your-"
"Don't patronize me. You're good. Accept it." Tobirama huffed and turned away from Minato.
"Um, speaking of group, where are the first Kages?" Minato asked as he looked up but didn't see the Thunderstorm and Earth Dragon.
"There." Hashirama said and pointed towards the front. "They went to confront the owner of that humongous Chakra signature."
As they discussed, the Shinobis were all in shock and awe at the appearance of the Hokages. Seeing Hashirama pointing towards the massive tree in the distance they all looked over to see the entire sky in front of them darken. To perceptive eyes, the space around the tree wasn't even stable any longer, as for the reason why...
"That level of power...Is that the First Generation's Domain?" Minato asked with a look of awe.
To him and those perceptive enough to notice, from Anel, Ishikawa, Byakuren and Reto...all of them were exuding pure elemental Chakra that seemed to create a separate space around them.
"Are those also reinforcement?" Naruto asked, half expectantly and half suspiciously. If those were allies, then all was well, but if they were foes... Kurama had already told him he stood no chance... although he begged to differ.
"For now... allies... I think." Minato replied unsurely before he turned to Naruto. "I'd like to ask how you've been but something tells me I've already asked that..."
"Hehehe, you already did." Naruto laughed happily at that
"Then I guess all is well... Your mother, how is she?"
"She's alright. She's back at the headquarters helping out however she can. After she woke up, she couldn't use chakra anymore so..." Naruto said sadly.
"That's to be expected...she took much damage back then...and Shun? Has he done anything about it?" Minato asked hopefully but Naruto shook his head.
"Mom doesn't want it. She's happy with being alive...is what she said." Naruto finished with a helpless shrug.
"Haha, your mom can be a bit stubborn." Minato laughed.
The dialogue between the two left those around them unable to react. Some of them like Sakura, Karin and Hinata knew of Naruto's status as an orphan. Shikamaru, Ino, Choji and Neji too. They all knew but not one of them thought that the Fourth Hokage was Naruto's father.
None...not even Hinata who had spent the most amount of time with Naruto figured that one out.
Shikamaru however, suddenly had a look of realization as he put things together. 'Naruto is the Jinchuriki, the one before him was his mother, Kushina-san, but the blond hair and red hair didn't have any similarities so it was overlooked. So that's how it is...Lord Fourth was married to the Jinchuriki... What a drag...'
The area around them managed to get a moment of rest, not because of the new appearances, but because of the four battle hungry Kages duking it out with Obito and Madara at the front.
"Umm... I don't mean to be rude, but....how are you guys all here?" Kiba asked what was basically on everyone's mind.
"Hmm? It was this friend of yours...of course he had help, but he's the reason we're here." Hashirama replied and gestured to the back where Sasuke was quietly standing with his teammates right behind him.
"Wha-! Sasuke! You bastard! Why are you here?" Kiba shouted, drawing everyone's attention to the Uchiha standing as though he owned the place.
"Sasuke-kun?" Ino, Hinata and Sakura all called out in confusion as well as with a little cautiousness.
"Hmm?" Sasuke hummed as he tore his eyes from the fight going on in the horizon and turned to the group with his EMS blazing. "Oh...hey guys, figured that I should come help out around here...with Naruto here, I fear for the worst."
"Wha-! You bastard! Is that any way to greet your friend?"
"Hn." Sasuke grunted with a light nod.
"That's not how it works! Shun will get you for this. Use words! Words!" Naruto raged but Sasuke didn't pay him any attention.
"Since when did a rogue nin like you think he can do whatever he likes whenever he likes?" Kiba, still hung up on the issue asked.
Sasuke turned his gaze to him for a few seconds before totally ignoring him. This action however, managed to send the young Inuzuka over the edge, but before he could blow up, a glare from Hinata silenced him.
"Tch...just you wait, you think you're some hot stuff? I'll show you who's the boss." Kiba muttered to himself but everyone heard him alright.
"I don't mean to rain on your confidence, but I doubt you could win in any form of competition against Sasuke." One pale skinned boy beside Kiba said.
"Tch, What'd you know Sai. I've known that brat since he was a kid, he's never won against me in any physical competition." Kiba snorted.
"My point exactly, Kiba...Kids...look at him now, that eye pattern excluded, just his chakra is already on par with Naruto..." Sai said and gave Sasuke a look over. "You stand no chance bro..."
"That's absurd. There's no way that's possible. Naruto has the Nine Tails chakra-"
"I'm talking base Chakra. Naruto's base chakra is already higher than ours, and that's the level Sasuke's chakra is at now." Sai said before turning to Karin and muttering to himself. 'She's another anomaly...how did I even get to know these people?'
The thought of his less than 3 months training on Nadeshiko Island sent shivers down his spine. 'To think girls were so... improper.'
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In another battlefield, Yusano sat regally on an ice throne, while Kakashi sat on a...rock...an elevated rock. Gai, Hayayo, Zabuza, Haku and a few other Jounins around them all rested in their own ways.
Kakashi in particular needed it more than anyone of them as not to long ago, he, along with Gai, Yusano and Naruto's clone had managed to shatter 'Madara's' only to discover that it was Obito, Kakashi's long thought dead friend and brother in arm.
"For what it's worth...he's alive right?" Yusano, not being able to continue seeing Kakashi all downcast said.
"Yeah...but...he's..." Kakashi stuttered, unable to produce any sentence as thoughts ran through his mind. Conversations he'd had with Shun on the possibility of Obito being alive somewhere resurfaced.
"Y'know, for one, he's THE masked man...the one who did all those things to both Minato-nii and Kushina-nee. Just on that account alone, I won't bat an eye if I could kill him." Yusano said
"I'd dread what Shun would do if he found out." Izumi who was standing behind Yusano said.
"Heh. I have a feeling he already knows, but just left him alive...for whatever reason." Kakashi said as he finally gathered his thoughts. "But to think Obito had gotten this strong..."
"Right? Last time we fought, he fell prey to my Mangekyou Sharingan, but now..." Izumi said.
"It's not surprising. He's Madara...in a way..." The one-eyed Shusui said. "If he's capable of plotting all this for so many years...I dread to imagine how powerful he truly is..."
"It's embarrassing to say but...I think even with my Domain at full power, I can't defeat him...it's like he has a Domain that counters all domains... it's unnerving." Yusano said as she tapped her armrest in annoyance.
"It's a Space Release Type Mangekyou Sharingan... probably an eternal one." Shusui said after some thought.
"Although I've yet to understand how the Domain Expansion of your clan works, I've observed the fight long enough to understand that it's impossible to actually affect Obito... except if you have a Space related Domain...."
"Shun... He really does know who he is..." Yusano said with a small smile. "So he's the only one who can defeat that man?"
"Yeah...and Kakashi here too." Shusui said. Kakashi didn't show any reaction as he already understood that fact after coming to terms with some things.
"Our Sharingan...it's from the same source, we basically have the same ability." Kakashi said
"Only...the Mangekyou Sharingan rarely has one ability in two eyes." Izumi pointed out.
"Hmm. I can't turn intangible like he does, can't teleport like he does, but I sure as hell can restrict it somehow." Kakashi said.
"Restrict? I doubt that...not even mine could do that."
"It-" Kakashi was about to speak when Yusano suddenly sprang up from her throne and slammed her palms on the ground.
"[Ice Style: World End Castle!]"
A burst of chakra from her body saw the spread of ice for over 500 meters around her as a humongous castle gradually formed and rose to nearly a thousand feet in height.
"Yusano, what-?" Kakashi wanted to ask only for the castle to suddenly quake so vigorously that some Shinobi lost their footing. That wasn't all though, with the quake came a searing heat that threatened to melt away the roof of the castle.
"We've got company... dreadful company to be more accurate." Yusano said as her expression darkened, gone was the confident expression she always sported, right now...she knew and felt that perhaps...she would meet her better.
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A/N: Sorry for the short and late release..I'm really on my wit's end on how to proceed from here. It'll just be a free for all battle with a few people I deem important.
Then I'll skip over to Madara becoming the Ten Tails Jinchuuriki and casting the Mugen Tsukuyomi. However, no one would be affected since I plan on allowing them to witness what's to come.
And with that, Kaguya would make her appearance and manhandle Naruto and Sasuke for a bit…
It's still all coming together, but bear with me…
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