Chapter 44: The Final Battle
Heads rolled, houses and stores burned, screams tore through the air like a sheet of paper being ripped apart in a silent room, smoke permeated the air, the whole air turning dark grey from the ashes that rose above the village and into the sky, dark clouds promising a storm to be remembered above.
It was at this moment, that Naruto Hatake easily broke the neck of an Uchiha, who was no more than thirteen years of age; but the Hatake didn't care. The Uchiha will play for all the blood they shed with their own blood, and then, Naruto could rest.
"Where are you bastard?!" He shouted, dodging under a stray kunai as the buildings around him exploded, the little pieces of wood and brick scattering across the terrain. But then, the man that was so detested by Naruto Hatake, the man who was the source of everything wrong in Naruto's life, stood before him, his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan activated, one of them being Kakashi's old Sharingan, and the other being Naruto's old Sharingan, and this man was Fugaku Uchiha.
"I knew I should've killed you when I had the chance." Fugaku spat out bitterly. "I had you chained and I let you slip through my fingers like sand." Naruto didn't smirk, laugh crazily, or even glare at the man before him, he just looked at him with a blank face, his regular Sharingan also active.
"Fugaku," He began, finding his words and drawing his sword, lightning dancing around the blade. "I will end the Uchiha Clan, and I believe my first major blow was Shisui." Fugaku didn't even flinch at the revelation that Naruto had killed Shisui. "And my second major blow was your own wife, I hope you liked the message."
Fugaku's face twisted in a rage as pure malice and hatred oozed off of him like water from a faucet.
"You," He said in between gritted teeth, practically grinding them as he glared at Naruto. "You killed my wife! My sons! You took everything from me one by one!" This time, Naruto did smirk.
"You're partially correct I suppose. Neither Itachi nor Sasuke are dead yet, but I plan on correcting that soon after I kill every last Uchiha in this village." Fugaku took out the Uchiha Family Sword as he held it in a reverse grip, the back of the blade resting soundly on his back.
"I'll kill you before you get the chance to harm a hair on their heads!" He shouted as he charged.
"Your wife said the same thing, look at what she's become now." He said loudly as he met Fugaku's blade with relative ease, the two exchanging sword blows as the swords clanged off of each other, sparks flying as the pace increased so much to where they were seen as just blurs, neither one of them landing a single blow.
Naruto leaned back, narrowly dodging a swipe to his head before he spun around and used the hilt of his sword to slam into Fugaku's ribs, making the man grunt in pain as he flipped over the Uchiha Clan Head, taking out a kunai as he stabbed the man's calf, causing a scream of pain to erupt from the man's lungs, much to Naruto's delight as he relished that scream, it echoing in his mind over and over again.
"I've been waiting for so long," Naruto said in a calm tone, but a grin was practically plastered on his face. "So, so long. I've dreamt of this, of this very moment, and I fantasized how I would kill you, but now that I'm here, I can get all the satisfaction I want just by piercing your heart with my sword."
"Heh heh heh," Fugaku began laughing, the chuckle low, but it soon grew in intensity as he began laughing harder. "Hahahahahahahaha!" Naruto's grin grew bigger.
"What's wrong Fugaku? Have I broke your mind?" Fugaku stopped laugh, but the humor did not disappear from his eyes.
"You assume that I am alone, but the only one truly alone in this very moment is you!" His gaze looked above Naruto, causing Naruto to turn around, and before him, he saw Itachi and Sasuke, and all of the Akatsuki behind the two heirs.
"Ah, Sasuke, I'd say it's good to see you, but I don't lie."
"Stop this Naruto, I don't want to watch you die!" Sasuke called, his hands clenched in fists, memories of his old friend popping into his mind. "We've been through so much together back then, and to lose all of that, it hurts!"
"I'm sorry Sasuke, but this is my path, I'm an avenger. My path was doomed from the moment I was born, from the Kyuubi to this moment right now. Tell me Sasuke, when have you ever seen me truly happy?" Sasuke paused and was about to answer before Itachi hushed him.
"Naruto, I, as the leader of the Akatsuki, am giving you one chance to stand down and surrender." Naruto smiled.
"And if I don't?" Itachi drew his old Anbu sword while the rest of the Akatsuki drew their weapons.
"Then you die." He replied simply. Naruto looked at all the Akatsuki, and he wasn't going to lie, they seemed quite powerful.
But, that's all they were; powerful. The black mark on his neck slowly spread across his face and body, dark purple chakra spreading across his body as his grin grew more feral.
"I'd like to see you try," He began walking towards the Akatsuki, but the curse mark suddenly flared up and he yelped in pain as he clutched his neck, the curse mark retreating back into the mark as the purple chakra disappeared. "What the-"
"Kukuku," A voice rang out as Orochimaru erupted from the ground, his yellow eyes gleaming with amusement. "As much as I'd love to see this village burn, Fugaku is a valuable ally," He glanced at a panting Fugaku. "And I will honor our agreement, the Hidden Sound Army is currently destroying the rebellion Naruto-kun here has stirred up."
"Heh, you? Honorable? You make me laugh Orochimaru," Naruto spat out, glaring at the Snake Sannin.
"Well, Fugaku did me a favor," Orochimaru's yellow eyes suddenly morphed into the Sharingan, the man's smirk increasing significantly. "And I plan on fulfilling my part of the arrangement."
Naruto felt several of his troop's chakra signature disappear at once, and his face turned to a scowl.
"I'm going to kill you." He promised. He then looked at everyone present. "I'm going to kill every single last one of you."
"Hmph, I'll just sacrifice you to Jashin! Then what will you do?" Hidan shouted, gesturing towards his three-bladed scythe.
"Naruto Hatake, don't let your own arrogance cloud your judgment, you are outmatched." Pain said as he suddenly summoned all of his other paths, the said paths surrounding him and making the Akatsuki look even larger than before. "Just surrender."
"I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you!" He murmured over and over again, the pain in his shoulder throbbing until it was just a moment away from being like he was being burned by lava. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL!" He took a kunai out and suddenly stabbed his shoulder and cut out the flesh that the curse mark was on, revealing his exposed flesh.
The act alone made even Fugaku sick. Naruto was panting, his shoulder now in agonizing pain, but at least he'd be able to fight.
"I've never seen that done before, interesting," Orochimaru commented.
"I'm going to kill you," Naruto said once again, his dull black eyes scanning everyone's faces.
"I grow tired of this," Itachi said as he made a few hand signs. "Die, Naruto Hatake, you were not the one after all." He blew out a fireball, but Naruto jumped up in the air, making his own hand signs.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" He shouted as a gust of sharp wind headed straight for the group of Akatsuki, who all easily outmaneuvered the attack and began preparing attacks on their own.
One of Pain's many paths arm turned into a rocket launcher as homing missiles shot at Naruto, who cut each one in half with his sword, only for a small clay spider by his foot to blow up, blasting him backwards.
He flipped through the air, landing on his feet but he heard a small sizzling sound and his eyes widened as he realized he was standing on hundreds upon hundreds of paper bombs.
He jumped in the air just as they exploded, boosting him farther in the air as he was suddenly surrounded by at least fifty different puppets, each one wielding a sort of blade coated with an unknown poison.
The fifty puppets charged forward, but Naruto easily manipulated his position by spitting out another wind jutsu, making him go down to the ground faster, barely dodging the puppets.
"Searing Migraine!" He heard a voice shouted as a sudden tornado of fire enveloped around him, the air he was breathing now being nonexistent, the fire feeding off of his air.
"Taste my art!" He heard the blonde Akatsuki member shout as he was suddenly blasted away as two clay birds hit his chest.
"Yasaka Beads!" He heads Itachi shout as he was suddenly enveloped in a large explosion, his whole body being burned at once. He fell unceremoniously onto the ground, his whole body beaten and burned severely.
"Heh," Fugaku got out his laughter, limping a little as he looked at the teen laying on the ground. "What was this about you killing all of us? You're pathetic," He spat, quite literally as Naruto now had spit on his tattered shirt. He lifted up his sword and pointed at Naruto before glancing at Itachi.
"I hope you don't mind that I finish this, he made things personal quite a while ago." Itachi shrugged.
"Go ahead, I've taken everything I possibly could by letting you send Shisui to Iwa," Fugaku smirked as he raised his sword, ready to bring it down on Naruto's head, who laid there on his back motionless, his eyes closed.
Fugaku swung down the sword and immediately he was kicked away by a black blur, revealing Haku wielding her signature ice needles. She turned to Naruto quickly and she formed a thick ice dome around the two and she immediately began healing him, a light green chakra emitting from her hands.
"You idiot, you can't take them down by yourself." She chastised lightly. Naruto opened his eyes just a little bit, sadness in his eyes as he peered up at the black haired girl before him.
"Why? Why do you save a monster like me? I hurt you, in so many more ways than one." Haku smiled at the teen on the ground.
"I thought the answer was obvious," She said. "It's because I love you." Naruto's half-lidded eyes suddenly widened.
"W-What?" Haku smiled at him, tears in her eyes.
"I said I love you, dummy," She choked out. "I have for a very long time. Ever since you held me when Zabuza-sama died. It was the first time I felt truly at ease." Naruto took a deep breath, his throat slowly choking up.
"Heh," He got out. "I'm sorry. I've been such a dumbass, I have been for a long time. I treated you so badly, especially back there. I'm such an asshole."
"Yeah," She didn't even try denying it. "But you're also sweet and are willing to do anything for what you believe in, and protect everything you love with your life and so many more different things that I love about you."
The burn marks slowly disappeared and Naruto felt immensely better. He slowly sat up.
"Don't do that yet, you're injuries aren't completely healed yet." Naruto shrugged.
"The Kyuubi will do the rest. Thank you, I'll take it from here." Haku smiled at him.
"Idiot, everybody is fighting. Just rest for now." Naruto looked at her, surprised.
"Everybody's fighting?" She nodded.
"Yep, Sarutobi-sensei died from that bastard, and everyone wants revenge. You aren't alone, and you'll never be again." She closed her eyes and smiled, her pink lips shining before the dome was shattered and an orange chakra sword pierced her heart from the back as it came out from the front.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Naruto shouted! Haku's smile didn't disappear though, her clothes slowly being stained with blood as a thin line of blood trailed down her chin.
"I-I lo-love you," She whispered before collapsed to the ground, dead. Naruto felt his blood freeze.
"No, no, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no, Haku wake up, please, I can't lose you too! I just got you back, I just came back and now you're gone, please, wake up! No, no, no, no no no no no no no no no no no no no!" Naruto yelled as he tried shaking Haku back to life, her corpse leaking blood everywhere, staining his hands. Tears flowed down his cheeks, falling onto her dead body as he wept, his Sharingan once again twisting and forming a new pattern that had a single circle around it with four triangles with the pointed edge pointing out at the rim of the circle on each side with a hexagon in the middle, the point connecting to the inner rim of said circle, forming his new Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
"Now you feel the same pain I knew when I found out you killed my mother," Itachi said from the middle of his Susanoo. "I meant to hit both of you, but I guess I'll have to kill you now that the trash is gone."
Naruto stood up slowly, Haku's blood dripping from his hands as it began raining, quickly soaking everybody present as they closely watched the teen. He looked into the sky, the air around him picking up the loose dirt and leaves swirling around as the small pebbles began rising from the ground.
"Grrgh, grhh," He got out between gritted teeth as tears flowed freely down his eyes. "Agh AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH," He screamed into the air, the wind around the teen picking up now small rocks. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" A crack formed in the air as the whole world shattered like glass, revealing a black empty abyss, shocking everyone as they watched the boy scream with agony and loss, all that pain and rage since Ellie's death now being put out at once.
The world shattered again as they found themselves now in a white empty abyss now. Naruto continued screaming, his eyes flickering to a bright purple for a split second.
Then, the world shattered one last time as they appeared right back into the world that was their own.
"H-How dare y-you? How dare you?" He said, his eyes once again flickering bright purple once again, getting Pain to peer at him curiously. "I'm going to kill you all, I swear, I swear I'll kill you all!"
"AND I WON'T LET ANY OF YOU GET AWAY WITH THHHHISSSSSSS!" He screamed as his eyes turned to a bright purple with black circles trailing all across the eyes with a single pupil in the middle.
"The Rinnegan?" Konan asked, looking at Naruto with shock, then at Pain. "What is this?"
"The Rinnegan? The only two people to ever awaken those eyes naturally is the Sage of Six Paths and Madara Uchiha," Itachi said in awe. "You really are exceptional!"
"How dare you wield those eyes that do not belong to you?!" Fugaku shouted, enraged.
"I'm going to kill you!" Naruto shouted as the air around him pulsed everyone away from him except Itachi, who stayed protected within his Susanoo. Naruto saw him and he glared at him. "GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" This time, an even larger pulse came from Naruto as Itachi was blown out of his Susanoo.
Naruto suddenly began floating in the air as his Rinnegan shined like a bright star, rain pouring atop of his grey hair, flattening it to his scalp.
"I'm going to say this one last time before I make this a reality, I'm going to kill all of you."
"We, we can't beat him! He literally broke the cracks of reality!" Hidan screamed, feeling fear bubbling up in his stomach for the first time since he became immortal.
"Yes we can, as a team, we can beat him!" Pain shouted as they were running towards Naruto, ready to fight.
"Can you break reality and bring it back?!" Hidan shouted. Pain frowned but didn't answer, giving Hidan's his own.
"Trash will be trash," Naruto murmured under his breath as he held out a single hand. "Just disappear!" This time, Naruto pushed as much chakra as he could into his new move and blasted half the village away, killing anyone in his path, including Sasori, Deidara, Kakuzu, and Kisame.
"Bastard!" Hidan shouted as he jumped into the air, ready to slice through Naruto, only to stop in midair, before Naruto made him float towards himself and grabbed Hidan's head.
"The Immortal, what's an immortal body without a soul?" Hidan's eyes widened in shock before he felt his mouth open, the last thing he saw was the blue coming out of his mouth, unknowingly seeing his soul.
Grey chakra surrounded the teen's body before a fully formed and functional Susanoo, a black sword in its right hand and a small dagger in a reverse grip in its left.
"If it's all right with you, I'll end your father's life now Itachi." Fugaku was about to activate his own Susanoo, but Naruto's grey chakra sword pierced right between his eyes, killing the Fifth Hokage instantly.
"Then there were three," Itachi rose an eyebrow at that statement.
"Three? I'm not sure if you're delusional or just hopeful, but the last I checked there are four." Konan, Pain and his paths, Sasuke, and Itachi himself.
"Haku reminded me of something, and that was that Sarutobi-sensei valued his precious people over everything, and Sasuke was and is my best friend, I will not kill him," Naruto's eyes narrowed. "But I will not give you three the same courtesy.
"Naruto. . ." Sasuke whispered in a mix of shock and confusion.
"Pain, we can't, he's just," Konan said, but stopped talking as an invisible force grabbed her by the throat and began squeezing, her air pipe now pinched shut.
"Konan!" Pain shouted alarmed; but was too late as Naruto clenched his fist, breaking the woman's neck, killing her.
"NOOOOO!" Pain shouted, but his Paths, including the path that was his old friend's body, was lit aflame by the black flames of Amaterasu.
"You're weak," Naruto spit out before his eyes rolled to Itachi, who stood there impassively as his work for the last five years shattered like that. "And now, there's you." Naruto got out of his Susanoo, his Rinnegan shifting back to his Eternal Mangekyou. "But I want to kill you with my bare hands, not with chakra."
Itachi shifted his sword upwards, pointing it at Naruto.
"Then let it begin, this battle will determine our fate." Naruto smirked.
"Fate is a bunch of bull shit, now come on!"
The two shinobi charged each other, ready to kill the other.
Who would win?
Find out next episode of The Third Hatake!
Was it good? Bad? Telllllllllllllll meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
So yeah, Naruto has reality shattering power now. Cool huh?
And that should be all the real character development he'll need from the deaths of loved ones for now. Lol, rip Haku.
Anyways, yeah.
Til next time my lil demons!
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