Naruto: Tales of Ashihara
Kakumei – Arc 1: The Consumer of Worlds
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Chapter 43 - The Divine Blood Cursed Seal Part II
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Shigetsu no Juin, the Divine Blood Cursed Seal. When a member of the Otsutsuki clan consumes the integrity of a fellow member's chakra, he's cursed with this seal upon his body. It gives him access to all the powers and energy of the late Otsutsuki, but also to all his memories. When one unlocks this ability, he becomes able to use a new form of Senjutsu, that rivals Rikudo Senjutsu, and whose strength depends on the connection he had with the one he consumed.
However, this seal, despite all the power it offers, remains a curse. For as long as you'll live, the soul of the one you consumed will stay trapped in your body, and you'll be forced to hear and listen to his cries and thoughts for the rest of your existence. But there is one way to counter this effect. If the consumed offered his self to be eaten, then he won't have any regrets and complaints to curse upon the seal's wearer.
If an Otsutsuki were to absorb someone who shares both a spiritual and biological bond with him, the strength, speed, durability, and agility gifted by his seal would surpass the abilities of the Rikudo Senjutsu. Momoshiki Otsutsuki just absorbed Kinshiki Otsutsuki, his real father and partner in adventure for over a millennium. With this, he acquired far more than just his father's might.
In this new form, he stands, levitating, above Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, ready to continue the fight and take over. The two heroes of the ninja world, even if a bit shaken and unsure about this, stand their ground and are ready to pursue. Momoshiki gets lower and closer to them. The two ninjas exchange a quick gaze and then concentrate on the enemy again. The very instant his feet touch the ground, the two Konoha-nin duo rushes as fast as possible to take him on, hand to hand.
The celestial being, feeling fresh and confident in his new self, takes a fight pose, and receptions the two ninjas' offensive. Moving swiftly and nimbly, he perfectly dodges, counters, redirects, and absorbs any of their hits. Naruto and Sasuke, while still going strong, look at each other to express their unsettlement in front of this unpleasing surprise. Momoshiki was already really fast and agile, but now he seems to be far superior to them.
To interrupt this intense rain of punches and hits, Momoshiki aits for the right moment and catches on Naruto and Sasuke's fists. Firmly holding them still by only their closed hands, he presses his fingers against them and digs his claws in their backhands. They squint, and look up to see Momoshiki's third Rinnegan open wide.
Chimatakami
A black space rift appears under their feet. Unable to break free from the enemy's hold, Naruto and Sasuke are forced in the rift with him. It swallows them all three before closing and leaving the field desert.
Arriving too late, Gaara comes to the place floating on a sand suspension, followed by another, wider one carrying Sakura and the 3 other Kages. The three of them, even though they had passed out following their battle with Kinshiki, were abruptly waken up when they felt an intense new chakra on the battlefield.
Levitating over the scene, the Kazekage looks around but doesn't find the Hokage. Nor does he see or sense Sasuke Uchiha or their two opponents. Kurotsuchi stands up hardly, and helps the Raikage to do the same. Together with Sakura, they search around, confused by how the unbelievably dense chakra source that woke them all up just vanished in an instant. However, they can still sense its traces in the air. Traces that overwhelm and greatly surpass those of Naruto and Sasuke's chakra.
"What happened?" asks the Mizukage, a bit anxious due to the feeling that dominates the ambient air.
"Don't know… But it looks bad…" answers Darui, just as confused and anguished.
"Naruto…" worriedly whispers Gaara.
On the platform with the Kage, Sakura clenches her fists. Once again, Naruto and Sasuke left to take care of a burden alone, without her. She knows very well that, despite being strong enough to have the Kage council rely on her help, she is close to nothing compared to what her friend and husband have become.
She's all the more worried as she knows how heavily emotional this fight is for Sasuke. Quietly, she hopes that Naruto will be there for him when he needs it, and that they'll return safe and sane once again, wherever they now are.
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Somewhere in the emptiness of space, light years away from the solar system, a portal output opens and releases the three fighters. Momoshiki is still holding the hands of his opponents and throws them away, off to disappear in the endless void. Naruto and Sasuke are pushed back, but manage to interrupt their unstoppable fall before it goes too long. They immobilize themselves, at their opponent's astonishment.
With the Biju chakra cloak given to him by the Hokage, Sasuke is protected from the vacuuming effect of space, and with his Rinnegan, he can lightly manipulate his body's gravitational field and move a tiny bit. Naruto, in his Rikudo Sage Mode combined with Kurama Chakra Mode, is as immune to the harmful effect of emptiness as Momoshiki. He is unaffected by the vacuuming, the lack of air to breath, and the lack of matter and forces to move. He can simply move around and live without any issues.
He flies back to Momoshiki and goes on to fight him one on one. Sasuke, not as free of his movements as his friend, tries to attack from a distance.
Katon – Ryuen Hokka
Sasuke tries to breath out multiple dragon shaped fire balls, but nothing comes out. The lack of air makes it impossible for fire to be produced in space. After feeling dumb for a second, he quickly corrects this mistake and tries something else.
Chidori Eiso
As Naruto is fighting alone against the enemy and losing due to an evident disadvantage of experience and comfort, Sasuke manages to throw a lightning spear to Momoshiki who sees it quickly enough and grabs it in his bare hand before absorbing it with his Rinnegan. With this hand busy, Naruto tries to land a Rasengan in his face, but the cosmic being uses his hair to grasp on the Hokage's wrist and stop his wind orb.
Bansho Ten'in
Sasuke uses this jutsu to pull the two fighters closer to him, but is attracted to them instead. The lack of strong gravitational force here causes such a pull to simply bring the lightest object (Sasuke) to the heaviest (Naruto and Momoshiki).
Whatever… He's still brought closer to his enemy, which is the result he wanted. He gets nearer and uses a Susanoo arm holding a sword to try and promptly cut off the enemy's head. Momoshiki just slightly looks aside with his Byakugan to see the Susanoo limb and waits for it to reach him, keeping his now free hand, done with absorbing the lightning, down.
Inyoton – Haki
When the spectral purple hand and its blade comes in contact with his neck, it simply deconstructs itself and vanishes away. Sasuke widely opens his eyes and raises an eyebrow annoyingly as he recognizes what just happened.
Momoshiki used the jutsu that is naturally imbued in the Gudodama. A Yin-Yang jutsu that nullifies any ninjutsu. Still falling toward him, the Uchiha finds another way to attempt an offensive. He creates a black chakra rod in his hand and tries to stab Momoshiki's nape with it.
Unfortunately, the stick doesn't break through the Otsutsuki's even more durable new skin and instead breaks when only coming in contact with it. Momoshiki raises his loose hand and catches Sasuke by the collar. With his other hand, with which he was stopping all of Naruto's hits easily, he grabs the Hokage's shoulder. The two ninjas make slightly stressed faces for a moment as the celestial moves his three eyes to gaze at them both.
"Bringing you here was a mistake. You don't seem to be disadvantaged by this setting." he says as a portal appears behind them again.
Momoshiki throws them in and follows right after.
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Naruto and Sasuke, followed by the Hokage's Gudodama,fall through and out of the rift, and land in a desolated plain. They stand up and look around to discover where they are now. As far as they can see, there's only devastated mountains and hills, shattered rocks and dust filling the air. Above, the sky has an odd gray color and is filled with thick reddish clouds. The two heroes of the 4th war look around amazed by this landscape that feels like another planet.
"What's this place?" asks Naruto to Sasuke who seems to be looking for a way back to Shin no Kuni.
"It's… bizarre." says the Uchiha who opens his eyes. "We aren't on Earth. But this isn't another dimension. This is… another world like Earth, but still in the same dimension."
"Like another planet? You know what? It doesn't even surprise me anymore." answers Naruto. "I went to the Moon once, and a second ago, we were in the void of space fighting an inter dimensional cousin of Kaguya."
"He's coming. Stay focused!" says Sasuke, unamused by Naruto's chill.
From the portal that is still open above their head, Momoshiki flies out and stands still in the sky. They both look at him, standing there, then gaze at each other. They nod their heads together, ready to keep on.
Chidori Nagashi
Sasuke surrounds his body with a lightning field that gets denser and wider. The lightning starts to lift and destroy the ground under his feet. Momoshiki looks over to them and waits, curious about how they'll engage battle again. Next to Sasuke, Naruto leaps backwards 20 meters away and forms the head of Kurama around his body. In the fox's mouth, he prepares a Bijudama that he points to the target, up in the air.
When the lightning field is thick and strong enough for Sasuke, he readies himself, Naruto now turns Kurama's head and the charging orb toward Sasuke.
Ameno Tejikara
The Uchiha switches his place with Momoshiki again. The Otsutsuki is now standing in the raging lightning field of Chidori, but is just barely harmed by it. He uses the electricity, manipulates it, and makes it his own to, just like Kinshiki used to do, spread it around his body and accelerate his movements. Naruto, just now ready, shoots the chakra orb right to his face.
Bijudama
At extreme close range, he fires the jutsu that is about four times the target's size, but doesn't achieve anything. Momoshiki stops the Rikudo powered orb with just his left hand's palm and absorbs it effortlessly. Falling from the sky, Sasuke sees their attempt fail in the distance.
Kanzentai Susanoo
He unleashes the perfect body of his Susanoo, spreads its wings wide open and flaps them to stand in the sky. From one of them, he pulls out a giant sword that he lifts up and throws down on Momoshiki who's still absorbing the orb in front of Naruto, who seems lost and confused at the sight of his unique chakra nature being absorbed once again.
The Otsutsuki looks up and, in his right hand, creates a red ethereal sword that he raises above his head. The Susanoo's colossal sword collides with it,… and is stopped. Under Momoshiki's feet the ground breaks open and all the valley is split in half, but he remains unharmed. Naruto watches as the enemy seems unimpressed. Desperate to win, he randomly sends one of his Gudodama to his face while he's almost done with absorbing the Bijudama.
Shurado
With this ability of the Rinnegan, Momoshiki grows a 3rd arm that emerges from his left shoulder. This new limb catches the levitating black orb like a tennis ball and holds it firmly to keep it still.
"Fox…" he says. "Do you know that Gudodama is nothing but the combination of the five basic chakra natures with the energies of Yin and Yang combined? To create it, you need what you call Rikudo Chakra, the essence of the One-eyed God himself in a pure enough form. Sadly, the centuries I've spent harvesting the chakra off his remaining roots didn't make me find the nature that Kaguya found in that millenary fruit. However, to manipulate these orbs, a superior sage power like I have now is enough."
He infuses the truth seeking ball with his own chakra and makes it grow a bit bigger, to the size of a volley ball. Naruto leaps forward and tries to attack him again before he can do anything with the orb. Momoshiki, done with absorbing the Bijudama, but still blocking the Susanoo's sword that is trying to break through, simply pushes him away with his loose hand.
Shinra Tensei
Naruto is repulsed far away, rapidly gets back on his feet, but has been sent too far to intervene immediately again. The Otsutsuki turns toward the Susanoo and, with his bonus Shurado arm, throws the Gudodama that he's holding like a base ball. The ball expands quickly on its trajectory, and hits the Perfect Susanoo's lower body. Effortlessly, it passes through and blows half of the spectral armor up, along with half of its wings.
Almost destroyed, the giant Susanoo falls over. Its sword slides away from Momoshiki's weapon, and off from its hands. It goes crashing in the land further away and causes a massive earthquake just by falling down.
With still half of his spectral body, Sasuke summons a bow in the Susanoo's hands and points it at Momoshiki. He fires a series of arrows while he falls, but all of them are swallowed by the enemy's orange Rinnegan. Right after absorbing the arrows, he turns his hand to Naruto who's coming closer on his left side.
Takami Musubi
He fires back all the projectiles he just absorbed at once to the Hokage who's overwhelmed and hit by a few of them. One pierces his thigh, another goes through his left arm, and a last one stabs his belly, but luckily none of his vital organs have been touched. He flutters back and crashes in the ground, nailed down by the bow projectiles.
Momoshiki looks up again to see the Susanoo 's bust and portrait fall upon him, and raises both his hands.
Gakido – Kyuin
He turns the remaining upper body of the spectral armor into pure chakra and vacuums it in his palms. Now defenseless, Sasuke keeps falling down, heading right to the five eyed freak who looks up with his arms still risen.
Ameno Habaya
In Momoshiki's hands appears a long ethereal chain that he grasps and skillfully handles. He spins it in the air and launches it up towards the sky. Up there, it enrolls around Sasuke and captures him, binding his arm close against his body and preventing him from moving. The Uchiha, however, did not forget his favorite jutsu.
Amaterasu
Black flames appear on the giant chain and Momoshiki sees it. To make sure Sasuke dies before the flames reach him, he pulls on the chain and brings Sasuke to him. But to his surprise, the sharingan user does not spread the fire down the chain, but to the other end, heading to his own self. The Otsutsuki looks at it, and now understands what this means his opponent will try. He hurries to let go off the chain and lets it fall down.
Ameno Tejikara
Sasuke switches place with his enemy one more time, but too late. Despite its extreme practicality this jutsu becomes easy to foresee when overused. He lands on the ground where Momoshiki was standing but isn't holding the chain that was let go a second ago. The celestial, now falling to the ground with the chain around his body, stops his fall and levitates. Not held by anyone anymore, the loose chain falls down before the black flames can reach the target. The two Rinnegan users look at each other, waiting to see who'll move next. Sasuke does.
Chibaku Tensei
He raises his hand and makes the hand sign for this ultimate Rinnegan ability. He creates a gravity center that appears immediately where he wants to. Momoshiki recognizes the hand sign and hurries to move aside as the pulling orb spawns right next to him, originally aimed to appear within his body. He firmly kicks it away to the sky like a football, but its effect already started. The land is being shaken, shattered and lifted by the attraction of this orb. The pieces of collapsing land fly to the sky and Momoshiki has to destroy or dodge them now, as there's too much coming.
By Sasuke's side, Naruto comes back, almost done completely healing the wounds left by the Susanoo arrows earlier. With his new Rikudo SenninMode, he can now use a regeneration jutsu that equals Madara's healing factor. He comes next to his friend while their enemy is kept busy by the forming meteor. The two of them stand on the only piece of land unaffected by Sasuke's jutsu.
"Man, we gotta go both at once if we want to touch him." suggests the Jinchuriki.
"He absorbed your Bijudama, but why not the head of your Biju Mode?" asks Sasuke, not acknowledging Naruto's suggestion for now.
"Uh? Don't know. Still this limit thing, you think?" answers Naruto, unsure. "Maybe it's too close to my real body. I don't think he could suck the Rikudo Sage Chakra out of me."
"Naruto, I have one of those eyes, So believe me when I tell you it's not how it works." explains Sasuke. "To this eye, there isn't long or short range, there's just jutsus and chakra that it can absorb, and others it can't. If he didn't absorb your fox head, it's either that he judged it useless, or that it is too dense or full of something he can't consume limitlessly."
"What?" asks Naruto. "You're saying there is a limit to his ability to absorb my Senjutsu?"
"It shouldn't be possible to absorb your unique chakra. I couldn't, Madara couldn't, even Kaguya couldn't. I get that there is something special about this guy's version of the Rinnegan, but still…" theorizes Sasuke, suddenly recalling the words of his late brother. "Every jutsu, ability, or power has a weakness. This one has to have one too… Naruto, fill my armor with your Biju chakra. I need to test out something."
Kanzentai Susanoo
Once again, the Uchiha forms the complete body of his clan's well known Susanoo. Momoshiki, who's finally done dodging the pieces of ground, sees the colossus appear and flies away, out of range, surprised by its sudden apparition. Behind him, far in the sky, the Chibaku Tensei formed a giant meteor.
In the Susanoo, Naruto does as Sasuke asked and unleashes his chakra. It completely fills the armor, overloads it and forces it open to let the chakra leak out. The Susanoo now has the same appearance as when Sasuke filled it with Biju chakra during his final fight with Naruto. The Hokage stabilizes his power, and all his leaking energy shapes into his Biju Mode, Kurama's avatar.
Rikudo Iso – Biju Susanoo
Naruto's Biju Mode is wearing the majestic attire of Susanoo as a suit of armor. In his hand, a two-edged sword appears. Momoshiki sees the divine creature get ready for a fight, and takes even more distance.
"Great! Great! GREAT!" he shouts. "This sure looks durable. But will it resist if I collapse the whole planet now and retrieve your bodies in the aftermath?"
Takami Musubi
He raises his hands and releases the Bijudama that he absorbed earlier from Naruto, at least 3 times bigger. He doesn't launch it immediately, but instead keeps expanding it more and more. It grows and shrinks repeatedly to become denser and bigger until it reaches a nearly 150 meters diameter, which is roughly half the size of of the Majestic Attire. The Biju Susanoo, standing ready, lengthens its sword to rival the size of the orb.
O Sentandama
Momoshiki pushes the giant orb forward and launches it to Naruto and Sasuke, who hold their blade forward. With their double-edged sword, they dash through the air and space, aiming for the super orb. The ethereal weapon slices through the dense red clouds and separates the planet's sky in half, at least as far as any of them sees from where they are.
The blade cuts through the orb and perfectly splits it in half, in its entirety. The two separate pieces of the Sentandama fall each on a different side of the Susanoo and crash in the ground way farther behind, over a country distance away.
Naruto and Sasuke don't look back, but open their eyes wide when they hear and feel the consequence of the orb's pieces landing. As they collide with the ground, they explode and completely destroy the field. Each piece obliterates an area equivalent to many Earth countries.
Together, they destroy the surface of a continent. All over the planet, the weather is shaken. The deep red clouds that were chased by the sword's movements fill the sky again, now raining acid and unleashing a surreal red thunderstorm, far more catastrophic than anything that ever happened on Earth.
Seen, from space, the planet has been slightly reshaped. Naruto and Sasuke, inside their armor, look at each other and around them to see what they think is unbelievable. Momoshiki, levitating in the chaotic sky, looks around too, but clearly less impressed, as if he's seen this many times before.
"This world won't hold long before it collapses or tries to find a new equilibrium if we give it some more." he says to his own self.
He looks forward to the Susanoo again and uses his Byakugan to see the two ninjas controlling it. Before resuming the fight, he speaks within their mind.
"This is a really interesting attire you've unleashed. Considering the natures of both your powers, it could be considered an alternative incarnation of a Deidarabocchi, don't you think?…" he says, calling the Juubi by once another of its many names. "Since you've worked your asses off to build such a great jutsu, how about we test it out?"
Sasuke listens, and smiles. Momoshiki expresses no intention of absorbing this combined armor, even though he did absorb the perfect Susanoo earlier. It could simply be that Momoshiki wants to play around, but the Uchiha doesn't think this would make sense. This bastard ate his own father to escape defeat, and earlier he spoke about fighting for his life. He doesn't seem in the mood for games now.
All this current attitude is just a play to hide his true inner chaos. The better explanation is that he can't absorb Naruto's Biju Mode, due to the massive amount of Rikudo Sage Chakra it contains.
Sasuke turns around to see Naruto, determined. In this form together, they can make it so each of their jutsu is too big to be absorbed. Whatever Momoshiki is gonna throw at them now, it can only be a fair fight.
Yoton
Momoshiki spreads his arms and creates stone, fire, lava, dirt, that spreads and flies around in the air. He throws it in all directions around him, until Naruto and Sasuke see nothing but a many hundreds of meters wide cloud of matter and fire.
Chibaku Tensei
Inside the giant cloud, the Otsutsuki attracts the matter back to him. All the rock and dirt he created are pulled closer, enclosing themselves around Momoshiki and all the lava and flames that he made.
Saruiwa
This giant pile of stone shapes into a gorilla like creature, all made of rock, with lava streams flowing through its body. With fire breathed out of its mouth and muscles, it opens its eyes, lighten up by red flames.
Where it stands, the ground melts around its feet and turns to magma. The rock titan steps forward and straightens its body, showing off its height of 4 hundred meters, topping over the ninja duo's Biju Susanoo. Amazed, and a bit intimidated, Kurama raises his sword and firmly holds it with two hands, prepared for a titanic battle. From the melting stone ape's body, a voice resonates.
"I've changed my plans." says Momoshiki. "I'll just destroy you two now and consume all your chakra. Then, back to Earth, I'll build a new garden, and let the trees feed off your energy out from my own body before they can absorb and kill everything. Everyone you know and love."
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End of Chapter 43 – Next Chapter: Battle of Titans