Chapter 1, Part 2: The Eyes and The Body
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A single kunai, with three metal prongs and a white paper seal at its handle, dug into the soft soil of the Training Grounds, a beam of yellow light flashing behind it.
"I know you're here..." Minato spoke, his voice laced confidence. "You were once a great Shinobi, a very loyal comrade of the hidden leaf. But this level of violence is intolerable. I’m going to have to end things here and now".
A single crow perched itself some few meters on the ground in front of Minato, pecking at specs of grass and small insects or briefly looking towards Minato with curious eyes before being joined by a larger flock of crows. As they gathered, their form began to merge and converge, joining together to form a humanoid-like figure. "Do not judge what you cannot begin to understand, Hokage." Echoed a deep voice all around Minato. Finally Itachi's features could be distinguished from the humanoid figure manifesting before Minato. "I'll make you tremble before the power of my Sharingan."
Minato bent down, picking up his triple pronged Kunai. "Your sharingan, hm?" He uttered. "Then let's begin"
He launched his Kunai forward, aiming to have it pass the Uchiha's face as he followed close behind it. As his kunai had just passed Itachi, he had just arrived in front of the Uchiha, a small rasengan formed on the palm of his hand. He thrusted the rasengan forth, coming so close to hitting Itachi that he was surprised the man hadn’t made an attempt to dodge already. His form quickly disappeared in a flash of light as he utilized his space-time ninjutsu to materialize his body the location of his kunai, which had been behind Itachi. With his rasengan already fully formed and mid-thrust it was less than a second before it made contact with the Uchiha’s back. “This ends now…” Minato exclaimed, confident that a direct hit from his rasengan would do considerable damage to the man. However, on contact with the rasengan, Itachi’s body quickly dispersed into a massive flock of crows. The crows quickly flew in a very particular manner, spinning around the circumference of Minato like a whirlwind. He felt as if he were in the middle of a hectic tornado, constant cawing and flapping wings overwhelming his sense of hearing. However he stood ground and calmed himself, allowing him to think more clearly as he waited to anticipate the enemy's next attack. A crow swept down from the enormous flock around him, with such speed and at such an odd angle that Minato couldn’t react in time. As it shot past his face a small cut appeared over his cheekbone.
“Minato, wake up!” Boomed a monotonously deep voice from around him. No, from inside his mind. “He’s using Genjutsu to conceal the appearance of his attacks.”
“Kurama…?” Minato asked with surprise, almost startled by his sudden input in the situation. “Ah, thank you.”
Now having been made aware of the genjutsu and having it dispelled by his tailed beast, he looked towards the next crow that shot towards him, which wasn’t a crow at all, but a shuriken. He quickly ducked, diving forward to avoid the shuriken while also retrieving his own Hiraishin Kunai from the ground. His head shot up as his eyes darted towards the sky, noting the open hole present at the top of whirlwind of crows. He launched his kunai upward, quickly utilizing his space-time ninjutsu to appear at it's place, in the sky. When in mid air, he faced the sky, but quickly shifted his body to turn towards the ground, another rasengan forming in his free hand. “Cho Odama Rasengan!” He shouted as he propelled back into the eyes of the storm of crows, a small explosion of chakra occurring quickly after as crows were sprawled left and right. As smoke and dust cleared, Minato could be seen standing at the center of a crater.
“Enough of these mind games, Itachi.” Minato said impatiently. “Come out and fight me.”
Itachi quickly reformed yet again a few feet ahead of Minato, who quickly shot his hands into his ninja tool sash, retrieving some few Hiraishin Kunai and scattering them amongst the battlefield. Minato then launched forward, his fist clenched and in mid punch as he swung towards Itachi's face. Itachi’s precognition allowed his to read through the attacks, but he was barely able to avoid most of them as Minato was incredibly fast. They went along that way for quite a while, engaging in close quarter combat that shook the very earth as they fought. Caught off guard by overwhelming speed, Itachi was delivered a fist to his chin and sent flying a few feet away, his feet screeching on the ground as he landed.
’His speed his overwhelmingly fast. At it’s current state, my Sharingan won’t be able to keep up.’ Itachi thought to himself.
He closed his eyes, which began to bleed on both sides as he summoned his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, his eyes opening to reveal newly shaped tomoes that seemed to spin like fans as he shifted his gaze towards Minato, who didn’t return the eye contact. “It’s useless. You can’t avoid Tsukiyomi for long…” Itachi chimed in, as it was obvious what Minato was doing.
“I’ve studied the reports. I know that I should be fine as long as I avoid eye contact and don’t look at your hands. You won’t fool me…” Minato said. “But by the feel of this chakra…” he added under his breath. “I can tell that you’ve activated the eternal mangekyou sharingan spoken of in the reports…and if that’s the case then…”
Suddenly a flicker of chakra appeared at Minato’s feet, rising up his legs and towards his torso. Like flames, this chakra seemed to lick gently at the air, it yellow colour coruscating brightly as he summoned the power of his tailed beast. It was a cloak of chakra, one granted to him by his tailed passenger, Kurama.
“I might as well reveal my Trump Card too…”
Itachi’s eyes widened for a brief moment before he began weaving hand signs without hesitation, puckering his lips as fire chakra was built within his chest. “Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu” He noted mentally, inhaling deeply before exhaling, his lips releasing a massive ball of fire towards Minato. As it raced towards Minato, Itachi would utilize Amaterasu to transform the simple Katon into a massive ball of black flames that ate away at the ground as it propelled towards Minato.
“Amaterasu!” The two had said simultaneously, Minato's voice laced with surprise as he stood paused for a moment before racing towards the ball of fire. As he picked up speed, he lost his form, leaving him to be perceived only as a fast line of light that simply swooped around the ball of fire and launched straight towards Itachi. “Such speed…” Itachi uttered in commendation for the Hokage’s abilities. At that time, Minato was not too far ahead of Itachi, his cloak of tailed beast chakra seeming to form two hands that created massive balls of spiraling spherical chakra at their palms. “Twin Chou Odama Rasengan!” Minato shouted as he launched forward, ripples of compressed air and sound bursting behind him.
“But…” Itachi continued “My sharingan should be able to keep up with---” and then suddenly he paused mid sentence, and rightfully so, as Minato had just disappeared right before his very eyes, appearing beside the Hiraishin Kunai placed on the ground behind Itachi. ’When did he…’ Itachi thought before widening his eyes as he recalled when Minato had scattered his kunai all over the battlefield.
“It’s over, Itachi…!” Minato shouted as the arms of his chakra cloak launched the two enormous rasengans toward Itachi. Itachi could only widen his eyes further as there was an enormous explosion of chakra that ate away at the forest around them like paper to a fire. Wind and dust flew turbulently around, like the roar of a beast, causing many citizens in the village nearby to be blown away, despite the fact that the village walls should have acted as a shield to the massive winds. Apparently the winds were too great in strength and simply climbed over the walls.
“Minato, that last attack consumed a lot of chakra...I may need time to restore it.” Spoke a deep, monotonous voice in the Hokage’s head, presumably Kurama’s. “It’s okay, there’s no need for that. This fight is over…” Minato answered.
Just as he was going to deactivate his chakra cloak, he sensed an ominous chakra. It had the same texture as Itachi’s only darker, colder, and more heavy. Almost suffocating. He widened his eyes as he turned towards Itachi, only to meet the feet of a massive orange figure that stood like a skyscraper in the air. As the smoke cleared, it could be seen fully dressed in armor, holding a large shield in its left hand and a handle in its right. “You almost got me, Hokage. That last attack would have killed me had I not used this.” The massive figure coruscated in the sunlight as it stood before Minato. “My perfect susano’o”.
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