576 - The tide turns.
sasuke: i-itachi?
itachi ignores him.
sasuke: ITACHI! what the hell is going on!
sasuke follows him through the forest.
*scene change*
madara: you've done well. but i've barely even gotten started. it's time i showed you my true power.
his EMS spins.
onoki: DON'T LOOK INTO HIS EYES!
amaterasu spits forth and hits onoki who screams. susano's hand forms a fist and knocks away mei and hits gaara who is knocked out cold.
madara: wood style: wood wall jutsu!
wood ramparts start rising from the ground around mei, and lock her inside a wooden prison.
madara: that should put a stop to her long range bloodline limit.
text: rinnegan!
tsunade: we're doomed...
asura path mechas form on madara's hands and he shoots a rocket fist. tsunade counters with her own fist and destroys it.
madara: bansho tennin.
tsunade yelps as the force draws her towards the susano and the burning screaming onoki. susano's hand draws up and sends tsunade flying with a clean hit. blood pours from her broken nose and cheekbone.
tsunade: i..can't even move...let alone use..yin release...
onoki: looks like this is it...had to end sometime.
he flashes back to 1st tsuchikage, muu teaching him jinton, madara leaving their battle.
onoki: i thought i could end this age-old feud...guess it just wasn't enough.
text: the kages defeated!
*scene change*
sasuke: itachi if you-
two figures run up behind him.
suigetsu: its a good thing you were so close. juugo sensed his chakra deep within you. we have something very important to show you.
sasuke: can't it wait?
he watches in vain as itachi moves on ahead. suigetsu pulls out the scroll.
sasuke:....
his eyes widen.
sasuke: this is...! he even made a jutsu like this? this changes everything.
itachi looks back sadly.
sasuke: itachi you should see this too...wait is this how you're here? were you-
itachi: i was summoned via impure world resurrection by orochimaru. i have no idea how. i was sure i sealed him away. but nonetheless i feel his presence nearby.
sasuke: then i will kill him for good, then konoha is next! that bastard will learn he never should have touched you!
itachi: sasuke...i didn't mean for you to seek revenge on the village. i only wished to make you strong enough to protect it.
sasuke: why would i protect a village that produced such a pathetic maniac like orochimaru? why would i defend the old coots who ordered you to destroy our clan!
itachi: after everything i've done, everything i failed to do, its no surprise you refuse to turn from your path. i'll leave you to naruto.
sasuke: naruto?
itachi: i talked and fought with him on the way here.
sasuke: hn.
itachi: he is determined to stop you.
sasuke: and i'm itching to kill him! he's currently fighting against fake madara.
itachi: indeed? what do you mean "fake"?
sasuke: if whats on this scroll is true, i may not get the chance. all along orochimaru had the body of the REAL madara.
itachi: !
sasuke: that's not the good part.
itachi: my worst fear is realised...there are two madaras? naruto needed my help and i foolishly went off on my own again. i stand no chance against madara by myself.
sasuke: naruto comes second. this is more important. i don't care about konoha but the world isn't so bad. orochimaru must be stopped. i need to try this jutsu. you go on ahead to orochimaru.
itachi: goodbye, brother. it was nice seeing you again. remember for me, that you are not only an avenger. you are also your own man. a shinobi born of konoha.
itachi leaves.
gaara stirs.
gaara: am i..alive?
madara is sitting and talking to muubuto.
madara: i confess myself disappointed. hashirama was much stronger than these clowns.
kabuto: how did that fight go down again, madara?
madara:....
*flashback*
100 years ago.
madara and hashirama stand face to face, standing on a field.
madara: a friendship with an uchiha is not lightly thrown aside, "first hokage".
hashirama: mad, what is this madness? why did you leave the village?
madara: i must show everyone the way.
hashirama: this is without honor!
madara: no konoha is without honor! the senju ordered that my clan cast me out. i've been betrayed by everyone, even you. get out of my way. you're all scum. i should have been the leader.
hashirama: madara, you need to come back. don't go down this path. you still have a family.
madara: my family..hates me.
hashirama: i don't.
madara: DO YOU THINK I GIVE A SHIT? DIE!
madara's scythe slices at hashirama's face who dodges then draws a kunai. they engage in a furious kenjutsu exchange, too fast for the human eye.
madara: fire style: giant rolling fireball!
hashirama: wood style: hardened wood wall!
the two jutsus collide, and the wood turns to molten coal. hashirama jumps out of the way as madara screams. he unleashes a barrage of kunais from his belt, which hashirama barely dodges.
hashirama: earth style: sand spear!
madara: mangekeyo sharingan!
the sand spear dissipates on susano's ribs. then he thrusts four thick wooden logs from his hand, and they too splinter on the defence.
hashirama: damn it!...you've grown stronger since we last duelled, mad.
madara: DON'T CALL ME THAT! i'm stronger than you EVER were! summoning technique!
his sharingan whirls with power. a dark orange behemoth bursts forth as if from the darkest depths of hell.
hashirama: the kyuubi...madara you didn't...
*scene change* present day.
madara: it's too grim a tale to tell fully right now....kabuto?
muu is back to his original self.
muu: what..just happened?
genma: he doesn't know? bastard.
madara: ...well that was just weird. i should probably lay off on the pollen.
*scene change*
back at kabuto's hidden base, kabuto starts squirming and whithering.
kabuto: i used up too much chakra...he...
?: let me come out...let me control this body...
kabuto: lord orochimaru...stay down...
orochimaru: no thankyou. you really did overexert yourself controlling the tsuchikage. you know you need me to defeat itachi...you know i kept much from you...
kabuto: no! i surpassed you! get..back! i'll keep you supressed a while longer! when juugo gets here, ill absorb him!
orochimaru: like you did to dear anko? kukuku.
*scene change*
sasuke: i don't know if this will work or not.
there is a burst of smoke and two tall figures awaken.
?: where am i?
??: i don't see any coffins. we haven't been summoned with impure world resurrection at least.
sasuke: no you have been summoned. by me, uchiha sasuke. this is more incredible than i ever thought possible. that orochimaru would even consider this.
suigetsu: i told you.
juugo: the birds tell me the madaras are inactive. the 5 kage are defeated and fake madara and naruto are at a standstill.
sasuke: good.
?: so this is a war...
??: in every era, there's always war.
?: but the last thing i remember was-
sasuke: i summoned you because i thought i'd do one last favour and end this war before it destroys what i want to put down with my own hands. *thinking* and it'll be the last time, naruto.
??:..
sasuke: now go and find madara. kill them.
?: uchiha...madara? isn't he dead?
sasuke: that's right you wouldn't know. madara was resurrected by impure world resurrection.
?: ...
sasuke: hurry before i change my mind and end this technique.
??: hey i'll just use my teleportation technique.
the hidden figures phase into the ground, zetsu-style.
juugo: what WAS that, sasuke?
sasuke: a way to bypass the 4th hokage's secret technique. because he willingly died for the village, it didnt fully work.
577: There is always War.
?: so you've come..
itachi: and my brother will be right behind me soon.
?: sasuke? kukuku. two for the price of one. this will indeed be fun.
orochimaru tears off his kabuto face.
itachi:!?
orochimaru: you didn't seriously think you sealed the real me did you? i'm alot smarter than that. you sealed a special clone of mine that operated even when i had "died". made from hashirama senju's chakra as it were. and now i've finally taken control over kabuto's body as he ironically always wanted. he could never surpass me. only imitate me like a lost puppy.
itachi: it matters not. you will come at me and i will make my stand. i've beaten you before.
orochimaru: do not think this will go as it did last time.
*scene change*
onoki is dead. mei remains unconscious. tsunade is badly hurt and bleeding. only gaara remains still able to fight, barely awake.
tsunade: he's..a monster..how in the world did grandpa defeat him?
madara: its quite simple. i let him. i knew from the beginning he was more powerful. so i concocted a plan. i would steal away from him a piece of his power, and then fake my death once i'd activated a secret forbidden jutsu even to the uchiha clan.
tsunade: izanagi?
madara: no. izanami. complete hypnosis. not a genjutsu since what the world sees is still percieved as real. but ultimately, i would call it turning back time. you see i actually did die at that valley. but once hashirama left, izanami activated and i willed myself back to life. that is how i fooled him. it can only be activated when you have reached the level of the eternal mangekeyo sharingan. and now i'll use that and much more to finally finish off this pathetic alliance and then that traitor. who does he think he is, wearing a mask? he should never have let this kabuto dog resurrect me in this false form with that accursed hokage's face on my breast-
*there is a gigantic explosion behind them and smoke pours from the ground. madara waits no longer and screams.
madara: mokuton: death vine grip!
*scene change*
tobi: ...
naruto:..
tobi: are you going to tell me or not?
naruto: nope!
tobi:then let us end this. for the first time i will fight personally. brother should be happy about that.
tobi and naruto raise battle stances and then run at each other. a burst of speed separates them before they can clash. tobi's mask takes the brunt of the force and flies back a little, his mask finally cracking in two.
??: what have you done, izuna?
izuna: !
the man who shot the water jutsu steps forward, having warped here from sasuke's location.
izuna: my old rival..you've come.. i should have seen right through your teleportation and your super strong pressured water fist technique..but..how?
*scene change*
madara's vines rip themselves from the ground and shoot towards tsunade and gaara but are suddenly blocked by wooden ramparts, covered in sharpened stakes.
the man who summoned the ramparts walks through the smoke into the light.
*scene change*
sasuke is talking to juugo and suigetsu.
sasuke: death god bypass! that is what orochimaru called it. he knew he couldn't hope to defeat akatsuki alone, you see. and he wanted nothing more than to get his arms back. but he stumbled upon something even better. like i said, the 4th and 3rd both CHOSE to be sealed. the others did not. now, onwards to itachi.
madara battlefield.
red armour and a konoha symbol on the forehead protector. a booming yet kind voice.
?: it has been a long time granddaughter. i'm sorry i died when you were a baby. know that i intend to finish madara off for what he has done!
tobi battlefield:
the mask splinters away and falls to the ground with a shudder.
kakashi: wait so madara's brother was claiming to be madara all along?
naruto: no wonder you said you didn't want to be anyone.
izuna: what the hell does that mean!
??: it means you die here today. a boy by the name of uchiha sasuke called us forth.
silver hair flows in the wind.
izuna: orochimaru...you...bastard!
double spread.
the figures are revealed to be none other than
tsunade and naruto: lord hashirama and lord tobirama!
text: orochimaru's final secret!
sasuke: i-itachi?
itachi ignores him.
sasuke: ITACHI! what the hell is going on!
sasuke follows him through the forest.
*scene change*
madara: you've done well. but i've barely even gotten started. it's time i showed you my true power.
his EMS spins.
onoki: DON'T LOOK INTO HIS EYES!
amaterasu spits forth and hits onoki who screams. susano's hand forms a fist and knocks away mei and hits gaara who is knocked out cold.
madara: wood style: wood wall jutsu!
wood ramparts start rising from the ground around mei, and lock her inside a wooden prison.
madara: that should put a stop to her long range bloodline limit.
text: rinnegan!
tsunade: we're doomed...
asura path mechas form on madara's hands and he shoots a rocket fist. tsunade counters with her own fist and destroys it.
madara: bansho tennin.
tsunade yelps as the force draws her towards the susano and the burning screaming onoki. susano's hand draws up and sends tsunade flying with a clean hit. blood pours from her broken nose and cheekbone.
tsunade: i..can't even move...let alone use..yin release...
onoki: looks like this is it...had to end sometime.
he flashes back to 1st tsuchikage, muu teaching him jinton, madara leaving their battle.
onoki: i thought i could end this age-old feud...guess it just wasn't enough.
text: the kages defeated!
*scene change*
sasuke: itachi if you-
two figures run up behind him.
suigetsu: its a good thing you were so close. juugo sensed his chakra deep within you. we have something very important to show you.
sasuke: can't it wait?
he watches in vain as itachi moves on ahead. suigetsu pulls out the scroll.
sasuke:....
his eyes widen.
sasuke: this is...! he even made a jutsu like this? this changes everything.
itachi looks back sadly.
sasuke: itachi you should see this too...wait is this how you're here? were you-
itachi: i was summoned via impure world resurrection by orochimaru. i have no idea how. i was sure i sealed him away. but nonetheless i feel his presence nearby.
sasuke: then i will kill him for good, then konoha is next! that bastard will learn he never should have touched you!
itachi: sasuke...i didn't mean for you to seek revenge on the village. i only wished to make you strong enough to protect it.
sasuke: why would i protect a village that produced such a pathetic maniac like orochimaru? why would i defend the old coots who ordered you to destroy our clan!
itachi: after everything i've done, everything i failed to do, its no surprise you refuse to turn from your path. i'll leave you to naruto.
sasuke: naruto?
itachi: i talked and fought with him on the way here.
sasuke: hn.
itachi: he is determined to stop you.
sasuke: and i'm itching to kill him! he's currently fighting against fake madara.
itachi: indeed? what do you mean "fake"?
sasuke: if whats on this scroll is true, i may not get the chance. all along orochimaru had the body of the REAL madara.
itachi: !
sasuke: that's not the good part.
itachi: my worst fear is realised...there are two madaras? naruto needed my help and i foolishly went off on my own again. i stand no chance against madara by myself.
sasuke: naruto comes second. this is more important. i don't care about konoha but the world isn't so bad. orochimaru must be stopped. i need to try this jutsu. you go on ahead to orochimaru.
itachi: goodbye, brother. it was nice seeing you again. remember for me, that you are not only an avenger. you are also your own man. a shinobi born of konoha.
itachi leaves.
gaara stirs.
gaara: am i..alive?
madara is sitting and talking to muubuto.
madara: i confess myself disappointed. hashirama was much stronger than these clowns.
kabuto: how did that fight go down again, madara?
madara:....
*flashback*
100 years ago.
madara and hashirama stand face to face, standing on a field.
madara: a friendship with an uchiha is not lightly thrown aside, "first hokage".
hashirama: mad, what is this madness? why did you leave the village?
madara: i must show everyone the way.
hashirama: this is without honor!
madara: no konoha is without honor! the senju ordered that my clan cast me out. i've been betrayed by everyone, even you. get out of my way. you're all scum. i should have been the leader.
hashirama: madara, you need to come back. don't go down this path. you still have a family.
madara: my family..hates me.
hashirama: i don't.
madara: DO YOU THINK I GIVE A SHIT? DIE!
madara's scythe slices at hashirama's face who dodges then draws a kunai. they engage in a furious kenjutsu exchange, too fast for the human eye.
madara: fire style: giant rolling fireball!
hashirama: wood style: hardened wood wall!
the two jutsus collide, and the wood turns to molten coal. hashirama jumps out of the way as madara screams. he unleashes a barrage of kunais from his belt, which hashirama barely dodges.
hashirama: earth style: sand spear!
madara: mangekeyo sharingan!
the sand spear dissipates on susano's ribs. then he thrusts four thick wooden logs from his hand, and they too splinter on the defence.
hashirama: damn it!...you've grown stronger since we last duelled, mad.
madara: DON'T CALL ME THAT! i'm stronger than you EVER were! summoning technique!
his sharingan whirls with power. a dark orange behemoth bursts forth as if from the darkest depths of hell.
hashirama: the kyuubi...madara you didn't...
*scene change* present day.
madara: it's too grim a tale to tell fully right now....kabuto?
muu is back to his original self.
muu: what..just happened?
genma: he doesn't know? bastard.
madara: ...well that was just weird. i should probably lay off on the pollen.
*scene change*
back at kabuto's hidden base, kabuto starts squirming and whithering.
kabuto: i used up too much chakra...he...
?: let me come out...let me control this body...
kabuto: lord orochimaru...stay down...
orochimaru: no thankyou. you really did overexert yourself controlling the tsuchikage. you know you need me to defeat itachi...you know i kept much from you...
kabuto: no! i surpassed you! get..back! i'll keep you supressed a while longer! when juugo gets here, ill absorb him!
orochimaru: like you did to dear anko? kukuku.
*scene change*
sasuke: i don't know if this will work or not.
there is a burst of smoke and two tall figures awaken.
?: where am i?
??: i don't see any coffins. we haven't been summoned with impure world resurrection at least.
sasuke: no you have been summoned. by me, uchiha sasuke. this is more incredible than i ever thought possible. that orochimaru would even consider this.
suigetsu: i told you.
juugo: the birds tell me the madaras are inactive. the 5 kage are defeated and fake madara and naruto are at a standstill.
sasuke: good.
?: so this is a war...
??: in every era, there's always war.
?: but the last thing i remember was-
sasuke: i summoned you because i thought i'd do one last favour and end this war before it destroys what i want to put down with my own hands. *thinking* and it'll be the last time, naruto.
??:..
sasuke: now go and find madara. kill them.
?: uchiha...madara? isn't he dead?
sasuke: that's right you wouldn't know. madara was resurrected by impure world resurrection.
?: ...
sasuke: hurry before i change my mind and end this technique.
??: hey i'll just use my teleportation technique.
the hidden figures phase into the ground, zetsu-style.
juugo: what WAS that, sasuke?
sasuke: a way to bypass the 4th hokage's secret technique. because he willingly died for the village, it didnt fully work.
577: There is always War.
?: so you've come..
itachi: and my brother will be right behind me soon.
?: sasuke? kukuku. two for the price of one. this will indeed be fun.
orochimaru tears off his kabuto face.
itachi:!?
orochimaru: you didn't seriously think you sealed the real me did you? i'm alot smarter than that. you sealed a special clone of mine that operated even when i had "died". made from hashirama senju's chakra as it were. and now i've finally taken control over kabuto's body as he ironically always wanted. he could never surpass me. only imitate me like a lost puppy.
itachi: it matters not. you will come at me and i will make my stand. i've beaten you before.
orochimaru: do not think this will go as it did last time.
*scene change*
onoki is dead. mei remains unconscious. tsunade is badly hurt and bleeding. only gaara remains still able to fight, barely awake.
tsunade: he's..a monster..how in the world did grandpa defeat him?
madara: its quite simple. i let him. i knew from the beginning he was more powerful. so i concocted a plan. i would steal away from him a piece of his power, and then fake my death once i'd activated a secret forbidden jutsu even to the uchiha clan.
tsunade: izanagi?
madara: no. izanami. complete hypnosis. not a genjutsu since what the world sees is still percieved as real. but ultimately, i would call it turning back time. you see i actually did die at that valley. but once hashirama left, izanami activated and i willed myself back to life. that is how i fooled him. it can only be activated when you have reached the level of the eternal mangekeyo sharingan. and now i'll use that and much more to finally finish off this pathetic alliance and then that traitor. who does he think he is, wearing a mask? he should never have let this kabuto dog resurrect me in this false form with that accursed hokage's face on my breast-
*there is a gigantic explosion behind them and smoke pours from the ground. madara waits no longer and screams.
madara: mokuton: death vine grip!
*scene change*
tobi: ...
naruto:..
tobi: are you going to tell me or not?
naruto: nope!
tobi:then let us end this. for the first time i will fight personally. brother should be happy about that.
tobi and naruto raise battle stances and then run at each other. a burst of speed separates them before they can clash. tobi's mask takes the brunt of the force and flies back a little, his mask finally cracking in two.
??: what have you done, izuna?
izuna: !
the man who shot the water jutsu steps forward, having warped here from sasuke's location.
izuna: my old rival..you've come.. i should have seen right through your teleportation and your super strong pressured water fist technique..but..how?
*scene change*
madara's vines rip themselves from the ground and shoot towards tsunade and gaara but are suddenly blocked by wooden ramparts, covered in sharpened stakes.
the man who summoned the ramparts walks through the smoke into the light.
*scene change*
sasuke is talking to juugo and suigetsu.
sasuke: death god bypass! that is what orochimaru called it. he knew he couldn't hope to defeat akatsuki alone, you see. and he wanted nothing more than to get his arms back. but he stumbled upon something even better. like i said, the 4th and 3rd both CHOSE to be sealed. the others did not. now, onwards to itachi.
madara battlefield.
red armour and a konoha symbol on the forehead protector. a booming yet kind voice.
?: it has been a long time granddaughter. i'm sorry i died when you were a baby. know that i intend to finish madara off for what he has done!
tobi battlefield:
the mask splinters away and falls to the ground with a shudder.
kakashi: wait so madara's brother was claiming to be madara all along?
naruto: no wonder you said you didn't want to be anyone.
izuna: what the hell does that mean!
??: it means you die here today. a boy by the name of uchiha sasuke called us forth.
silver hair flows in the wind.
izuna: orochimaru...you...bastard!
double spread.
the figures are revealed to be none other than
tsunade and naruto: lord hashirama and lord tobirama!
text: orochimaru's final secret!
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