- Jiraiya -
Suddenly, Danzo landed near the place from wherever he was hiding.
"Danzo, where are your roots?!" Sensei asked, landing near them.
"The roots are assisting with the evacuation of the people." He replied and Jiraiya didn't even need to think to know that he was lying so it was only natural that sensei knew it too.
"You!"
Danzo however didn't wait for the reply and jumped into the battle. Although, instead of the dragon, he went off the pink haired girl who was floating in the air, watching everything quietly.
"Capture her. We can use her to negotiate with the dragon." He ordered the surrounding ninjas while he took the lead himself.
"Uwahahaha you all want to fight me? Alright, come. I will take you all on."
Danzo sent several anbu forward. Surprisingly, Itachi Uchiha followed him and attacked the girl from all directions.
Later down the line, Jiraiya and everyone who survives this day would realise that this was the worst decision they could have made.
The girl laughed and a massive aura erupted from her and to the shock of everyone.. Her aura… was beyond anything they could ever imagine.
It made the dragon flying in the sky look like a candle flame compared to the sun. Many ninjas collapsed on the ground, fainting from the pressure she was releasing.
Jiraiya saw many Hyugas covering their byakugan as cries of agony erupted from them.
She raised her hand and an orb of energy was fired from her hand. It struck Danzo and blasted him towards the Hokage Mountain. The attack seemed harmless but that was only till it touched the mountain and then the ground shook as the entire hokage mountain was turned to dust, leaving a large valley in its place.
"Danzo!"
Sensei shouted and raised his newly recovered Adamantine Staff and raced towards the girl but was met with a strike from the dragon above. The dragon's tail struck him, breaking his arm and sending him crashing into the academy building.
The dragon gathered energy in her mouth and fired a beam, ripping a landscape of konoha, creating a large canyon through the middle of the village.
"Pay attention when you are fighting me. I am giving you all a chance to try your worst. After that I will start attacking and nothing will be left of this land. You were the ones who made the first move, now pay for it."
Suddenly, black flames appeared on the pink haired girl's body.
Jiraiya looked to the side to see Itachi Uchiha covering his eyes as he kneeled on the ground.
The girl however was completely unbothered as her aura erupted again and the flames were scattered around. It was only when the specks of flames fell on some of the nearby ninjas that they understood what it could do. The ninjas were burned to ashes without any chance to defend themselves while the flames kept on burning.
"Don't touch those flames." Itachi shouted. "They cannot be extinguished."
Jiraiya understood the meaning and quickly jumped ahead to seal the flames to prevent the surrounding ninjas from getting caught.
"This is not going to work. We need Tsunade. We need to contain the damage." Four Red Yang Formation. They could do it to contain them for a while but they needed another strong ninja for that. Right now they only have Sensei, Fugaku and him. "Itachi, go and try to get Tsunade up. I will try to hold them back for a while."
Itachi was about to leave but the girl raised a finger and fired a beam, ripping through his heart and causing a massive explosion around Itachi, taking down the entire block of the village.
"Itachi!" Fugaku shouted at the loss of his son. Surprisingly though, before he could do something, a figure jumped out from the flames.
Itachi Uchiha landed on the ground and stumbled on his knees, breathing heavily. To the surprise of everyone around, including the girl, he was uninjured. She however seemed more curious and didn't attack, preferring to watch instead.
"Are you alright, Itachi." Fugaku asked while Jiraiya also reached near them.
"I… I will live. I am sorry. You carry on with the plan. I have a way to bring Tsunade-sama back into the fight." He said as he got up again but they noticed that one of his eyes… they had gone white while the other had a unique pattern, completely different from a normal sharingan.
"Itachi you!" Fugaku looked at him in shock.
"It's for the village, father. Please assist Hokage-sama."
"Fugaku." He too called out and the man was an experienced veteran who collected himself quick enough.
"What's the plan?" He asked while Itachi went towards Tsunade.
He started explaining the plan to Fugaku.
"Konoha has a jutsu called the Four Yang Flame Formation. It requires four Kage level ninjas to cast. You have the appropriate level of chakra and strength for it. The jutsu should be able to contain them while we can seal them." He explained the jutsu to him while using the summoning jutsu.
There was only one thing he could think of which could turn the tides or at least give them some chance to hold back the enemies.
Two figures appeared this time, much smaller in size but anyone who knew them wouldn't dare underestimate them.
"Ma, Pa!"
"Jiraiya-chan! What is going on? Gamabunta, Gamaken and Gamatatsu were sent back and they are in a critical condition. Who did this to them?"
"We are in very serious trouble. I need your help. I need to use that. Please."
The two toad sages also looked around, freezing at the sight of the two dragons.
"Are those… dragons… How did you get in such a mess, Jiraiya-chan?"
"It's because the hokage couldn't keep his attack dog in control and now the whole village is paying for it. Nothing new really." To his surprise, it was Fugaku who replied, the rage in his tone evident.
"Fugaku!"
"What Jiraiya-sama? Are you going to ignore everything they did? It wouldn't be something new. Perhaps the only new thing would be them hitting an iron plate this time."
"It's not a time to fight among ourselves, Fugaku. I promise you, I will do my best to assist you in representing the Uchiha Clan after this… but please… the entire village might get destroyed at this rate."
"Jiraiya is right, Fugaku." Another voice came from behind and this time a familiar one. He turned back to see Tsunade walking towards them. There was no trace of fear in her eyes. Itachi Uchiha was walking behind her with a crow on his shoulder. "Sensei and his friends have made too many mistakes and they will answer for that but that will only happen when there is a village. I also promise you the same as Jiraiya. If you want then I, as the sole member of the Senju Clan, will nominate you as the next Hokage but for now, we need your help. Please…"
"Tsunade."
"Give me five minutes, Jiraiya. I need to do surgery on Itachi. He needs an eye transplant to replace his eye." She then used the summoning jutsu to summon Katsuyu to start healing the ninjas.
"You got it. I need five minutes to prepare too."
Tsunade started operating while Jiraiya started preparing for the Sage Mode. Meanwhile, Katsuyu healed sensei.
He too decided to take the time while the dragons were not attacking to prepare.
The rest of the ninjas only maintained a distance controlling the fires and evacuating everyone, not attacking the dragons. Then again, very few of them could attack the airborne enemies.
Sealing Squads gathered around the place.
Five minutes later, he was finally in Sage Mode as he felt the rush of energy in him. The extra power boosting his confidence for a moment… only until he spread his senses and then he collapsed on his knees as he looked at the little pink haired girl in shock. "Tsunade…"
"What is it, Jiraiya? I am busy right now."
"...we are going to die today."
"Hah?"
- Tsunade -
To say that the day had been weird for Tsunade would be the biggest understatement of the century.
She had been in reserve in Konoha, getting treatment from the Yamanaka for her Haemophobia in preparation for a civil war which might erupt anytime.
Part of her cursing sensei and the other part cursing the Uchiha. Then again, it's not like she didn't understand their situation.
She too was the member of one of the founding clans of the village, one every bit as strong as the Uchiha.
And yet, the Senju Clan had disappeared very suddenly and in no part due to the negligence of sensei. It was obvious that Uchiha were facing a similar situation. But unlike the Senju, the Uchiha were not an idealistic bunch who would just lie in wait for the butcher's knife to be swung on them.
Was this the village that her grandfather dreamed of?
The situation had become worse since the jinchuriki of nine tails had disappeared.
Some believed it to be the Uchiha's while others thought that Danzo had a hand in it so imagine her surprise when she was told that the jinchuriki was seen in the village with the Hokage. She had obviously rushed to the Hokage's office and found the Uchiha Clan head with his two sons, the Hokage advisors and finally two kids with sensei and Jiraiya.
It didn't take her long to understand what was going on.
The kid, like Jiraiya, had somehow used the summoning technique without signing any contract and was reverse summoned to their land and then he had somehow learned about his heritage. It was obvious that the kid was pissed, not that she blamed him.
She would have ripped the old man a new one had he done something like that to her.
Then as usual, the advisors poked their noses in where it didn't belong and made the matters worse.
It's just that she had no idea how worse that situation had been at that time.
Dragons…
The kid had a summoning contract with dragons… who somehow existed in this world.
Even when she was seeing one in front of her, she had a hard time believing it.
Then again, she had felt that dragon's strength. Her mangled arm was obviously no genjutsu and neither was her panic attack. She obviously didn't know what the Uchiha kid had done with that sharingan implanted on the crow but it had completely wiped out the fear of blood she had been suffering from or she would still be incapacitated.
And now, when she was finally ready to fight in earnest after almost two decades, Jiraiya was acting strange.
It was obviously not his looks, which were extremely creepy. He had the two toad sages sticking from his shoulders, his features had morphed to look like a toad's. It was his blank stare towards the girl floating silently in front of them as he lay collapsed on his knees.
"What do you mean, Jiraiya?" She asked, concentrating on the surgery first.
Jiraiya however didn't reply.
The battle in the background raged.
No, calling it a battle would be wrong.
The dragon was massacring everything that attacked her.
Worried about Jiraiya, Tsunade tried to look at the girl and understand what was going on when a figure landed in front of the girl.
Danzo… wasn't he… dead?
Something else however attracted her attention, along with the attention of half the battlefield more than the return of a presumed dead man. It was his arm.
For a moment she thought she was dreaming but the sudden roar of Fugaku Uchiha as well as the other Uchiha Clan members told her that she wasn't seeing some kind of twisted Genjutsu.
Sharingan… he had ten sharingan embedded in his arm, one of which had closed and looked similar to Itachi's own.
The arm itself looked white and unnatural but Tsunade could feel the vitality from it.
A thought came to her mind and she clenched her hand.
"Danzo!" She gritted her teeth. "If that's what I think it is, I am going to rip you to shreds." She growled.
The man however was not bothered in the least.
"Everything I do is for Konoha." He ripped the bandage around his eyes to reveal another Sharingan which caused Itachi Uchiha to be shocked and she had to press him down so that he didn't mess up the surgery. "You two have caused too much destruction in Konoha but I can forgive you. Obey me and become my servant. With your power, I can make Konoha rise to the top of the world."
She looked at Itachi as he seemed to understand what was going on. "What exactly is he trying to do?"
"He's… he is trying to control that girl. The Sharingan in his eye belonged to Shisui Uchiha and contains a jutsu called Kotoamatsukami. It can manipulate the thoughts and even free will of a person. It's the strongest genjutsu in the world. Danzo is trying to make them his servants."
The thought was frightening and for a moment she was frozen at what to do.
She didn't know what was worse. A Konoha under Danzo or no Konoha at all…
However they were too late to do anything.
The girl narrowed her eyes.
"Oh… it's you again. How did you survive? Is it those eyes again? Are you stupid? If you survived, you should have run away like the weakling you are. And not only that but also trying to control my mind? Are you that tired of living? Is it because I have been sitting and watching the show that you all are underestimating me?" The more the girl spoke the more her aura rose and now Tsunade understood the reason behind Jiraiya's reaction. The Dragon… it was actually not the main danger… it is this little girl.
The girl disappeared from her place and the next second she appeared near Danzo, his arm ripped off and his eyes plucked as she held his arm and threw him into the sky.
The next moment she was in the sky looking towards the now destroyed Hokage Mountain. "You wanted my power, here, have it your way."
She gathered a power in her hand and shot it towards Danzo who was still airborne.
A massive beam of light, unlike anything till now shot out from her hand. It covered Danzo's figure and the mountain and everything behind it.
There was no sky breaking sound, no shaking of earth… nothing.
Just a beam of light which lit up the place in a straight line.
Even the Dragon who had been fighting all this time paused and looked at the attack.
When the light disappeared, she understood the meaning of Jiraiya's words…
They were all going to die…