Chapter 7: Chapter 7
POV:NARRATOR.
"Am sorry my children." He said with no regret showing on his face whatsoever.
Hagoromo raised a single hand, and the ground beneath him trembled. Six Truth-Seeking Orbs floated around him, forming into a massive spear of pure chakra. Without a word, he hurled it toward the Uchiha.
"Shisui!" Itachi shouted.
Shisui disappeared in a blur of speed, his Body Flicker Technique activating as he dodged the incoming spear and removed the twins from the attack. The ground erupted in a cascade of debris, the shockwave rippling outward. Itachi was thrown away by the shockwave of the attack but he gained his balance in the next split second.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!"
A massive wall of flames surged toward Hagoromo, lighting up the dark sky. The Sage raised his palm, creating a barrier of pure chakra that effortlessly absorbed the fire. But the moment the flames cleared, Shisui was already upon him, his tanto aimed at Hagoromo's chest.
Hagoromo caught the blade with his bare hand, his Rinnegan glinting. "Slow."
Shisui frowned.
He activated Kotoamatsukami, his Mangekyō Sharingan spinning and dimming slightly from use. The subtle genjutsu aimed to plant a thought deep into Hagoromo's mind, hoping to give them the upper hand. For a moment, the Sage squinted his eyes with hostility .
"How dare you!!" He raised his other hand and pulled Itachi using the almighty pull.
But midway Itachi seized the opportunity. "Fire release great fire ball jutsu!" Crimson flames erupted on Hagoromo's shoulder, burning with unrelenting intensity. Hagoromo's calm demeanour shifted slightly as he waved his hand, extinguishing the flames with a surge of chakra.
But his pull didn't waver as Itachi's neck was grasped tightly in his hand. His rinne-sharingan spinning as he planter a genjutsu on itachi. "Saigo no kokoro no masutā ninjutsu( master of the last mind ninjutsu)." He called out, and the white in Itachi's eyes turned dark, making his Sharingan turn more malevolent than before.
Shisui let go of his tanto and made some distance away from them.
The sage let go of Itachi's neck and said, "Keep him busy, but don't kill him."
He turned around and focused on the twins.
Two truth-seeking balls shot out and raged on towards the kids.
POV: MENMA
As the attack was about to hit us, I held Naruto's arm and jumped the world folding around us as we reappeared up in the sky, but then the balls traced towards us as we fell.
Naruto's arm was no longer in range as I dived and speared him in the stomach before we hit the ground and jumped once again creating cracks in the ground from the recoil, disappearing from view and reappearing trees away from our original position.
*Boom*
The balls hit the ground causing a mini explosion and crater to appear.
POV: NARRATOR.
Meanwhile, the battle between the Uchiha prodigies began.
Without warning, Itachi lunged forward while Shisui was cut between saving the kids and defending against Itachi.
But he wasn't given a chance to decide as he barely had time to dodge as a kunai was thrown, aiming for his stomach. Sparks flew as Shisui parried with his own. Blades clashed as a shriek spread through the air.
"Itachi don't make me hurt you, please." Shisui pleaded as he dropped the kunai, but to no avail, as Itachi went for a kick to his stomach. Grabbing the leg, Shisui hit it with a knee in the joint to break the other's balance.
Itachi jumped with his other leg and hit the other with a kick to the chin, disorienting him and releasing his leg. He picked a kunai from the ground from the previous clash and proceeded to plunge it into Shisui's thigh, then kicked it to drive it further and deeper.
Shisui flickered away and removed the kunai with a grunt. He weaved hand sighs.* Fire release:flame kunai barrage. * His chakra burst out and turned into multiple flame-shaped kunai that shot out towards Itachi.
Itachi weaved hand signs of his own .*water release: water wall* moisture from the ground rose and made a tall water wall.
Steam was released as the jutsus collided together. Using the thick cloud of steam, Shisui flickered behind Itachi and put him in a headlock, sending a burst of his chakra into him with the hope of breaking the genjutsu but It was futile as Itachi swung his foot behind and kicked Shisui in the nether. Disorienting him as he let out a hiss from the sudden pain.
Adding chakra to his arms, Shisui proceeded to turn the headlock into a suplex, creating cracks in the ground when Itachi's head hit.
Letting go Shisui created some distance between them as Itachi got up from the ground with his face still emotionless while blood started flowing from his head to his face.
"What the hell!!" Shisui exclaimed
Kakashi appeared as the battle took a break . He was torn between helping the twins and breaking up the fight. But Itachi identified him as a threat who might interrupt the Sage's plans.
Their eyes connected for a brief second, but it was enough for his mind to be ensnared by a genjutsu cast by Itachi. His body became still and unfocused as Itachi threw a few kunai aimed at his legs to disable him from interfering.
But Shisui stopped the attack by throwing his own kunai, which changed the attack trajectory.
With a burst of chakra Kakashi broke free from the genjutsu immediately opening his closed eye to reveal a sharingan behind his anbu mask.
Shisui flickered beside him " Don't attack any lethal areas he is under a powerful genjutsu; we need to break it."
With a slight nod from Kakashi they dashed forward .
The fight raged on as they clashed itachi on the losing side. Kakashi made a few one-handed signs and hit the ground with both his hands. Instinctively a cloud of smoke appeared as hounds appeared from the ground and gripped itachi's legs holding him in place.
Before itachi could strike the summons with his hands Kakashi flickered behind him and held his hands in place.
Shisui held Itachi's head with one hand, looking him dead in the eye and activating his Kotoamatsukami, it was dangerous using the ability without the initial cooldown but it was an urgent matter.
Slowly the black sclera turned white and itachi fell to the ground in weakness. The former energy boost and adrenaline disappearing.
"The twins." He muttered weakly as he got up and started limping to where they could see the explosions.
POV: MENMA.
I kept on jumping to dodge the attacks, and Naruto, by now, had fainted from the disorientation from the jumps, which was catching up to me, too, as I felt light-headed. This has continued allover the forest and we nearing the hokage stone sculptures from behind.
"You should know you are the cause of this. If it weren't for your disgusting existence, Asura wouldn't have been thrown into this situation." Hagoromo said in pity and disgust.
"His name is Naruto you old fart. If you forgot, your son went to meet his furry of a grandmother in hell." I said as I jumped through another truth-seeking ball, reappearing a few feet above a stream of water.
*Splash*
We splashed into the water, jolting Naruto awake.
The familiar purple glow appeared in front of us. Hagaromo was clearly pissed off by my comment earlier as he raised his hand . I knew what came after that, so I immediately held Naruto's arm and jumped a few meters behind him. I was reaching my limit at this point.
*Almighty push*
*Booom*
Three kilometres full of forest were destroyed after that attack. Leaving rubble and craters behind.
"You know, you keep on calling my bro your son, but it's like you're doing your best to kill both of us. A father of the year you are, oh yeah both your sons didn't like your ugly ass." I remarked as I fell to the ground.
He turned around slowly in the air till he was facing us.
"That's just flesh for Asura to reincarnate in. Give it a few years his soul will find a new body."He shot back.
"I am growing tired of this. So don't you think we should finish this?" He said as a truth-seeking ball shaped itself into a spear. A hissing sound echoed as it was thrown towards us.
I was very tired and had a heavy headache but I was sure I could manage one more jump. Now imagine my panic when I tired to grab Naruto's arm but he resisted and stood up infront of me with shaky legs from fear.
I was flattered by the gesture to protect me but how will I show my gratitude if we are dead.
'Idiot.'
But then in a flicker Shisui grabbed both of us and tried to run away from the attack. We dodged it by a hair but before I could celebrate I saw an arm fly in the air.
"Shit."I cursed.
We fell to the ground with a thud and I heard Shisui's scream as he held what was left of his arm.
Itachi sprinted into action as he used a flame jutsu to stop the bleeding and tied the wound with a cloth from his shirt.
I tried to crawl to them but my body was weak and experiencing heavy fatigue. But luckily naruto held me up and helped me walk towards the duo helping me lie besides them.
"…" I tried to say something but I couldn't. Guilt was weighing me down because I knew this was all my fault.
A masked anbu with spiky white hair flickered besides us and started checking our condition. And from the sharingan I could see in one of his eye holes I concluded that it was Kakashi.
The sage appeared a few meters away from us and ignorantly Kakashi run up to confront him.
With a raise of the hand, Kakashi was held in the air by a white chakra.
"A thief who cherishes that which does not belong to him." Hagoromo mocked and with a swish of hand, Kakashi was thrown away at a great speed breaking a number of trees with his body.
Itachi limped infront of us but he was given the Kakashi treatment and thrown through a number of trees before standing up and taking a few unsteady steps and fell face first to the ground a a few meters away from us . He looked up and tried to shoot out his hand to us but he had no such energy.
"It's time to end this." Hagaromo said in a grave voice as he raised his hand and multiple truth seeking balls gathered infront of it, merging into a large ball of destruction.
I gathered up all the energy I had left for one final big jump .The good thing itachi ain't in the range of the attack and the sage doesn't count him as a threat. But where would i jump us to in order to escape this guy.
I knew there was no place in the elemental nations he couldn't find us then my eyes trailed off to the moon as my arms gripped both the scared and bruised naruto and injured Shisui.
"No." Itachi screamed as the attack was shot.
My eyes didn't leave the moon before shooting itachi a quick glance then back to the moon.
"Ahhhhhh." I screamed . Before the attack could hit us, I jumped for I knew where he couldn't get us.
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