[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV
Uzushiogakure, Year 42.
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"We made them run," Kushina commented, while Minato was still sensing.
"Alright. I think it's better for us to split up now. The south seems to be handling Suna well. You can go west to fight the bijūs and help Tsume. I'll support Mikoto in the north," Minato said, while Kushina nodded.
"I'll take her there." Minato said and switched the yellow chakra, making the full Nine-Tails Bijuu form disappear as Kushina went to the other side of the island.
Minato looked at the Uzumakis, who all still seemed stunned by everything that had just happened. It hadn't even lasted more than five minutes since Minato had arrived at that battlefront, as if they had all just woken from a dream.
They didn't even need to move amidst all that chaos happening around them. On the east side, Minato and Kushina had basically wiped out all of Kiri's forces as if it were nothing. In truth, Minato had done almost everything alone if they stopped to think about it.
Now, they no longer had to worry about that side.
Minato was about to approach them when a light dizziness took over the blond. He kneeled, gasping, having a little trouble breathing. The Uzumakis quickly approached.
"You're handling too much chakra!" Shima shouted in concern from one side of his shoulder, while Fukasaku also agreed, worried.
"Are you alright, Lord Minato?" the Uzumakis asked as they reached Minato's side, channeling healing chakra onto him.
Minato looked down at the ground, trying to steady himself, before closing his eyes for a moment and then raising them back to the Uzumakis.
"I'm fine... I'm just using too much chakra. My mind is worn out," he murmured.
After all, the amount of chakra he had been using was as large as that of a bijū, while he was just a normal human forcing natural chakra to flow in and out constantly. Even with Sage Mode, absorbing and expending chakra nonstop, his body wasn't accustomed to that scale. On top of that, he had been using S-Rank jutsu since the beginning. He had essentially wiped out an entire nation, put one bijū to sleep and made another vanish, killed one Kage and sent another somewhere far across the world.
He really wished Kushina had the ability Naruto would one day have, to distribute the fox's chakra, but he knew she didn't — Naruto was special because of that.
Minato slowly stood up, regaining his composure.
"I need you to go south and north, while some of you stay here to hold guard in case Kiri returns for any reason, and to keep the Three-Tails sealed," Minato requested.
All the Uzumaki nodded.
"Understood, Lord Minato Namikaze. We will do as you command. And we will never forget what we witnessed today."
Minato only nodded before disappearing from there.
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Meanwhile, in the west, a few minutes earlier, the fight seemed fairly balanced. Tsuna received a lava attack from the Four-Tails. She tried to punch him quickly before she could be injured, but she felt her skin burn, gritting her teeth and backing away.
She took some distance, using her own chakra to heal herself.
Gradually, the sage mode she had began to fade, with the black markings disappearing from her body.
She quickly formed a hand seal as one of her clones, the one meditating in the center of the village gathering natural chakra, dispersed. Black markings began returning and circulating on her body. She felt a bit dizzy, still not used to the large amount of sage chakra entering and leaving her body, but she held firm.
She was lucky she had only used a few clones to replenish chakra; if she had used as much chakra as Minato had since the beginning, she would be in a critical state by now — to the point where her brain would simply shut down and she would faint. After all, her mind was inferior to Minato's.
The Five-Tails lunged toward her at that moment, while the Four-Tails was already starting to go berserk, roaring on its own. The jinchūrikis of Iwa had better control over their beasts than the one from Kiri did, so they could remain more stable and not die being consumed by the will of the bijū.
"Where is the Tsuchikage?!" shouted a Stone ninja, worried, trying to sense him through chakra sensory. But he couldn't find his Kage's chakra anywhere, which was starting to frighten everyone there.
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They didn't know that Ōnoki was flying at full speed over the sea at that very moment, frustrated for having been sent so far away, trying to return to Uzushiogakure as fast as possible, with no sign of the correct direction. He didn't even know where he was.
"Damn... that boy!" He cursed Minato in every possible way.
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Back again on the west side:
"Wood Style: Stone Wall!" shouted a Stone ninja, when something lunged at high speed toward him and his companions. Chakra arrows of the wind element continued to crash against the wall, some breaking through, but one in particular pierced through the defense with no resistance, exploding in the middle of the Iwa ninjas and killing them instantly, striking them precisely even behind the wall.
The impact caused body fragments to be thrown due to the chakra explosion Hanabi had placed in the arrow.
She could easily surpass most of Stone's defensive jutsu.
The entire coast was at war. Several bodies of Uzumakis and Iwa ninjas were scattered around, with blood dyeing the sea red.
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"Please... save me..." cried an Uzumaki ninja, while his arm and leg were missing, blood pouring out.
An Uzumaki woman quickly extended her arm to the mutilated ninja and waited for him to bite it. "Please, bite it too!" she asked.
The ninja did exactly that, while she used healing chakra to try to close his wounds. She couldn't regenerate the missing limbs, but she could save his life.
"I found his leg!" Another Uzumaki appeared, bringing the leg.
"Then put it in place, I want him to keep biting my arm!" she said quickly, continuing to heal.
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"Please... don't die!" shouted another Uzumaki, watching her lover bleed to death in her arms. She cried, even in the middle of the battlefield.
Kunai flew toward her, but red-haired ninjas appeared in front of her, defending her.
"Save your tears for the dead when this battle is over. For now, we must protect the island and the clan!!" shouted the commander, making the kunoichi pull herself together. She nodded, despite her tears. Her companions depended on her too.
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Chaos had taken over the area. Tsuna charged forward to punch the Five-Tails once more. The Four-Tails stopped roaring, then opened its mouth and began spitting a lava ball down on her, catching her by surprise.
"This is going to hurt..." Tsuna murmured, already preparing to withstand the impact.
But at that moment, a massive yellow aura appeared right in front of her, with Kurama being sent directly to Tsuna's side, since all of Minato's girls carried the Hiraishin seal tattooed on their bodies.
Kurama lunged toward the lava ball, catching the Four-Tails off guard. She took the impact but kept advancing, clearly intending to strike. Her yellow chakra fist reached the cheek of the red ape, who was stunned after being punched by another bijū that had appeared out of nowhere, getting thrown backward.
"Kushina..." Tsuna murmured, surprised and happy she had arrived, though she didn't know what had happened on the east side.
Gamaken quickly leaped forward, raising his small fork and striking the Four-Tails. Gamaken was there after Minato had summoned him to support that battlefront.
Seeing that nothing else was interrupting her, Tsuna continued forward and punched the Five-Tails once more. He couldn't even counterattack against the strength the girl had at that moment. He recoiled with a strong headache, flying off the island and crashing into the ocean waters.
"Gamaken, fall back!" Kushina requested, and the toad nodded.
"Alright! I'm just a bit clumsy!" he complained, jumping backward and landing on top of Iwa ninjas, who screamed in panic.
Kushina opened her mouth and quickly began gathering chakra, forming a bijūdama. She stabilized the sphere much more easily than before and fired it forward, catching the Four-Tails by surprise. He was struck by a medium-sized explosion, since Kushina didn't want to create a stronger bijūdama that could hit her allies, and this helped her control the chakra better.
"The Nine-Tails is here!" the Iwa ninjas screamed, desperate, as they watched Kushina now fully engaged in combat in her colossal nine-tailed form. The Iwa ninjas had only heard stories of the terrible beast Konoha possessed. Most of them, except a few of the oldest who lived during the Warring States era, had never seen the Nine-Tails in person before.
They were shocked just like Kiri had been, realizing there was a Nine-Tails Jinchūriki with perfect control present, even though the fox's chakra had already been sensed by the best sensors of each nation there.
With no other choice, Iwa continued fighting. The giant red toad defended himself, placing a huge plate in front of him like a shield to block the explosive tags. Soon after, he swung his fork, striking some ninjas.
"We're in a bad situation..." said one of Iwa's leaders.
The Tsuchikage had disappeared. The bijūs were being held back. A new bijū had appeared — none other than the one known as the strongest. And even though they had superior numbers, they were losing — and losing fast.
On top of that, the east had suddenly gone silent, as if Kiri was no longer there at all. Not even sensory ninjas could detect the chakra of Kiri's forces.
They still had 2,300 ninjas.
"We should retreat."
That was the only thing running through the minds of the Stone ninjas.
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Meanwhile, in the north, Minato appeared outside the Susanoo with Mikoto inside it, as Mikoto stared at him with her special eyes the moment he arrived.
Minato didn't look at her immediately, he only analyzed the situation quickly. There were at least 2,000 Kumo ninjas there. They were the ones who had suffered the most losses before arriving on the island, especially after Minato had redirected the last bijūdama used by Iwa straight into the middle of Kumo's army.
The Raikage was bleeding and frustrated, in his most powerful state with the Lightning Cloak, glaring at the Susanoo with rage. Mikoto was in her full 15-meter form, with four arms wielding yellow chakra swords.
The Raikage quickly turned to Minato, clenching his teeth upon seeing him there, perfectly fine, not even dirty.
"You look busy," Minato said, turning his gaze to his beloved, while Mikoto opened a smile.
But not everything was good news. The Uzumakis were struggling greatly against Kumo's enraged forces. They had already lost more than 200 ninjas, while only 800 Uzumakis were fighting against 2,000 enemies, with only a few supporting the Raikage in trying to hold Mikoto back.
"We're going to have to help them," Minato reasoned quickly.
Then someone stepped in front of him, blocking him from moving to support the Uzumakis.
"If you want to fight them, you'll have to get through me," declared the Raikage, trying to stop Minato and Mikoto.
Minato smiled. Certainly that wouldn't stop him from teleporting. But if the Raikage wanted to play for a bit, then why not?
"Minato-boy, we need to be quick," Fukasaku murmured on his shoulder, not knowing what Minato was thinking.
"It's alright," Minato said, as he turned his gaze to Mikoto, checking if she was perfectly fine — and if the child in her belly was healthy.
"Mikoto, I want to handle the Raikage, but first we'll need to create an opening. I want you to do exactly that."
Minato didn't say anything else. He simply took out a kunai and threw it at the ground in front of Mikoto's Susanoo. She understood immediately.
Mikoto raised the four arms of the Susanoo, each holding a chakra blade, and charged toward the kunai, while Minato flashed forward and appeared right in front of the Raikage with the power of light. He touched the Raikage's shoulder, making him disappear.
When the Raikage realized it, four blades were already descending upon him — Mikoto had launched the attack at the kunai Minato had thrown, knowing he would make the enemy appear there, almost on top of her attack.
In the next moment, the Raikage was struck with force and relentlessly driven into the ground.
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