Naruto 507: The Gate of Wonder!
(Gai’s afternoon tiger collides with Kisame’s shark missle there’s a massive explosion of water. Gai stands on all fours with the massive tiger-shaped cloak of chakra around him)
Gai: (in thought) if I can’t finish him soon I will have to open the final gate.
Kisame: It seems that he has become even more of a beast now; (thinking) I need to stall him for 5 more minutes to get that scroll to zetsu. Well it seems that that to beat a rare beast like you I must become one as well!
Gai: ??
(Kisame fuses with samehada to the monstrous form like against Bee and rushes towards Gai, who quickly avoids the strike at lightning speed, kisame is shocked)
Gai: TAKE THIS!!! (Gai throws a punch with the tiger paw chakra around it, kisame counters with his elbow fin, they both go flying)
Kisame: (struggles to steady himself, he looks down at his arm it’s badly burned with lacerations all over it) Amazing even though he attacked with a chakra powered punch the sheer concentration of the chakra I couldn’t absorb it I better make sure that he doesn’t punch me like that again.
(four minutes left)
(We see naruto and yamato flicker to the location of bee motoi and aoba, naruto is not in RS mode with the splint on his ankle still)
Yamato: what happened here?!?!
Bee: that shark dude along with green leaf went that way.
Motoi: You have to hurry he’s trying to get a scroll off the island and escape, it they get out of the barrier, we’re done for.
Naruto: all-right! Lets go!
Yamato: naruto your ankle is still injured and..(is interrupted and shocked to see naruto is in RS mode with a fully healed ankle)
Naruto: not now we have to go (they flicker off panel)
(three minutes left)
(Gai and kisame are about 100 yds apart from each other panting heavily, kisame is bloodied and bruised all over from just trying to avoid Gai’s punches. Gai is sweating profusely quickly the tiger cloak around him reduced to half it’s size)
Gai: (thinking) Damn my chakra is fading fast it’s already half-way gone, I may have to release the eighth gate, (he quickly has a flashback to when he was training Lee)
Lee: the eight gates? Whats that?
Gai: the gates are points along the chakra pathways in a ninja’s body that allow him to unleash the full potential of his body at a cost.
Lee: cost?
Gai: that’s right the damage to your body increases with each gate you open until….
Lee: until…?
Gai: (serious look) the eighth gate
Lee: what happens then?
Gai: All the energy your body can release at one time comes out, your body it put at its maximum operating ability, until you die!!
Lee: Die!!!!
Gai: that’s why it can only be used in a situation where you must sacrifice your life for the greater good, in order to defeat a very powerful foe that you otherwise could not.
Lee: YES GAI SENSEI!! (flashback ends)
Gai: I can’t give up yet! I must show Lee that I can defeat this powerful a foe without resorting to that technique! Prepare yourself for the power of youth!!
(Gai rushes at him still on all fours, they clash again)
(two minutes left)
Kisame: water release: typhoon dragon shark missile! (a twisting dragon-shark forms from the water and heads straight at gai)
Gai: Konoha senpu! (the blaze of his kick destroys the missile, where we see from above kisame lunges at him with his razor sharp fins pointed downward at gai, he quickly reacts by sending a barrage of punches at kisame, as kisame rolls along the ground a high speed until he slams into a rock and steadies himself)
(one minute left)
Kisame: (blood flowing from his mouth and from the cuts all over him, he coughs up a massive amount of blood) well this appears to be my limit.
Gai: (the tiger cloak is right around his body now as it has shrunk again, to about the size of naruto’s cloak. it’s fading slightly) It looks like this next exchange….
Gai and kisame: WILL SETTLE IT!!!!!
Gai: AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (all the chakra from his cloak forms around his fist in the shape of a tigers head)
Kisame: AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! (his arms forms into a mutated shark head with spiraling water around it
(they connect with a massive explosion we see them driven into the ground about 30ft apart, gai’s chakra is gone he’s barely conscious, kisame is in the same condition, we can only see their faces)
Kisame: well it seems the shark got away….GUAHHHHH! (coughs up blood violently we see an overhead shot with his left arm and most of his chest on that side blown away completely) This is it huh my beast of an opponent?
Gai: (barely conscious has a moderate to large gash on his right side) damn it! I couldn’t stop that shark, and now I can’t even open that final gate now anyway. My youth wasn’t enough Lee I’m sorry I have failed (he begins to pass out he see’s Lee Smiling giving the thumbs up, until it fades to black)
Kisame: (looks at guy) who would’ve thought he would be the one to kill me, no matter my final mission was a succ…..(!!!!!!!!!!!!)
( we see the shark thrown into the ground 10 ft from kisame it splashes into water revealing the scroll. Kisame reaches feebly for the scroll until we see a flash of light in front of him)
Naruto: (in RS mode picks up the scroll) looking for this??
Kisame: !!!!!!!!! impossible!
(yamato catches up panting from going full speed)
Yamato: huh….you….got…it?
Naruto: yeah yamato sensei here (tosses the scroll to yamato, looks over to gai)
Naruto: !!!!! Bushy-brow sensei!!! (he walks over to the crater he’s in) His life force is fading fast we need to get him to granny tsunade right away!!!
(we are now in one of the akatsuki HQ where madara walks into a private room, where there is a small shrine with ten fingers on it like gedo, there are three flames on it, one begins to flicker and snuff out)
Madara: !!!! (Zetsu appears)
Zetsu: zuzuzuzuzuzuzu whats up?
Madara: our plans have slightly changed…kisame is dead, I didn’t want to do this but we need the man power now…bring me sasuke…and kabuto.
Zetsu:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are madara’s plans now that kisame is dead? How will naruto get Gai to safety