Chapter 6: Old Faces

“Here we are,” Imikamaru stated, “After two weeks we’re finally here!” “Can I put the girl down now,” Kaze wined. “Yes, yes…” Ikkus said lightly, gazing wearily at the looming fort before them hid among towering mountains “You two stay here and set up camp for the night, I’ll go scout out the area a bit. Corvus subcinctus formam…” as they soared away towards the fort, Form Shifting into an obsidian black raven. “Kaze, can you start a fire while I set up tents,” Imikamaru stated, “I want to go to sleep as soon as possible.” After Kaze built a fire Imikamaru started cooking a deer he hunted earlier, and left some out for the child and Ikkus. After this he ate and went to bed for the night.

As Kaze was eating he heard a horrific yell that kind of sounded like Ikkus. The cry was abruptly cut off nearly as soon as he heard it, leaving nothing but the still silence of the night. Imikamaru suddenly jumped up from, “KAZE, WHAT WAS THAT!?” “Shit Shit Shit,that sounded like Ikkus!!” Kaze screamed. Meanwhile, in the looming castle two figures watched the travelers below, “You done well, without their caster, they are much weaker now without their supportive spells…We wait for now, to draw them into a more dangerous location…” “Something’s off,” Imikamaru thought out loud, “Ikkus can’t go down that easily. This is either an illusion or some type of genjutsu. Kaze, keep a lookout while I check things out.”

Kaze looked at the sleeping girl, “yay so fun I get to watch the girl.” The night grew more unsettling; at camp Kaze sat stuck as a babysitter for an increasingly anxious young girl, while Imikamaru started his search into the surrounding glaring forest. I hope I don’t get caught in a genjutsu, Imikamaru thought. Just then a disguised man jumped from a tree. Meanwhile, kaze was watching the beat up girl from the forest. Then, a thick smoke started circling them. “Kaze, it's old smokey, remember,” Ty said grinning. Both new strangers, familiar to the adventures, as they were once old friends yet no longer. “Who are you,” Imikamaru asked the stranger. “An old friend,” the stranger responded. Then a little ways away Imikamaru saw a huge pillar, rivaling the height of the mountains, of radioactive liquid. The pillar was like a beacon, lighting up the night as two figures watched from afar high above in the fort’s highest turret, “Everything is going as planned so far…” one rumbled, voice deep and gravely “They’ll be at eachothers throats then we can finish them off in their battle weakened states…Well done, Arroth…” Wait, this guy I’m fighting can’t be Hiruzen. He died ten years ago., Imikamaru thought. “Is that you Hiruzen,” Imikamaru asked the stranger. “Indeed it is Imi. I HOPE YOU’VE GOTTEN STRONGER,” Hiruzen yelled at Imikamaru as he was lunging at him with a kunai. Imikamaru quickly awakened his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (EMS for short) and blocked Hiruzen. “Ah, I see you’ve awakened your EMS since the last time we saw each other,” Hiruzen corrected Imikamaru, “Well then I now know this will be a good fight.” While Just outside the woods. “Kaze you've grown but you really thought that would affect me” Ty snickered , “I thought Jazzy Taught you better,” he paused, “ actually that makes sense, I mean our old master did die at my hand,” he finished with a grin. Just then the entire sky turned green, the ground turned to liquid, and the trees and rocks melting. The entire 10,000ft area around them turned into a sea of neon green radioactive material melting Ty with everything else. High up in the turret, the larger of the two figures stepped forward into the hazy green light smiling coldly at the battle scene below, “Oh my my my.. They’ll be busy for a while, might as well go. Wouldn’t want to spoil their little spars now would we? Arroth, go gather Ikkus… We’re leaving now…” the figure said with a cruel smirk turning, leaving the warring chaos below.

Letter: Escape

The second we are 55 ft away from the fort, destroy it.

Make sure nothing is left for them to find, fake our deaths and hide our tracks from the two.

Our plans must not be ruined.

Mundus Noster #4

Chapter 7: Old Friends, New Enemies

“Hiruzen, why are you working for the king? You know Yamato Sensei told us not to work for anyone,” Imikamaru said. “Well, maybe because you always thought you were better than me, so I got power hungry and here we are now,” Hiruzen stated. “I never thought that Hiruzen. Did I really act like that? If I did, I didn’t mean to. I always thought of you as an equal who would always be by my side,” Imikamaru said. Just as he finished his words Kaze walked out from behind a tree and took 5 steps and passed out in front of him. Before anyone could respond to Kaze’s sudden appearance, a monstrous rumbling sound echoed throughout the valley shaking the ground and the Alaburea Fort violently. Why are so many damn things happening at once, Imikamaru thought. “Hiruzen we’re going to have to finish this later,” Imikamaru stated. Kaze began to glow a greenish color, bright lights started to light up all over then a ripple effect surged through his body. From his eyes acid started to fall. Then in the blink of an eye he blew up, the only thing left was a strange heart. You see kaze has 2 Godly fruits, the Ná Ná No MI and Owari Owari No MI fruit, on the power of radiation and the other is the curse of life. After about 2 moments of kaze’s heart just laying there just as quickly as he blew up he came back to life. No one had time to take in what just happened as Alaburea, knocked off balance by Kaze’s mini explosion, started to crumble and fall, the mountainous tower showering the surrounding area with a hazardous rain of bricks and stone. “WHAT. THE. HELL,” Imikamaru yelled. “Hiruzen, I’ll get back to you,” Imikamaru mumbled under his breath as he trapped him in a genjutsu. (A genjutsu is a part of the sharingan, but not specific to it, that tricks the opponent into thinking what’s going on is real but isn’t.) Kaze sat there recovering from him dying. At least now the two remaining adventures had a little breathing room, Ty melted off somewhere, Hiruzen trapped by genjutsu and the ruined woods around them destroyed. Now they had much more problems to deal with, first tracking down that king, second Ikkus’s missing and now old friends turned into new enemies to add to the growing list, can’t it get any worse.

Letter : Rivals

Our team managed to get some dirt on Kaze and Imikamaru, and with a few strings pulled we managed to find some old friends of theirs that would “love” to meet them again.

Don’t worry about them too much, we got plenty of surprises to launch at them.

Chapter 8: The Hunt

Imikamaru sprinted to Kaze in a panic. “Kaze. KAZE WAKE UP! This isn’t the time to be passed out again. Hiruzen won’t be trapped on the genjutsu for long,” Imikamaru said with anger, “Ah, what the hell I’ll just put you on a tree branch a little far from here.” As they got almost out of the woods Imikamaru’s pursuer came quickly. “You’re a powerful creature Ikkus, with us, you can be a god-like beginning… No more cowarding, below those who look down on you…” The man towers above Ikkus, his cold green eyes meeting Ikkus’s wary fiery ones. “What do those two mean to you anyways? All they do is manipulate and belittle you…” The gravelly voice rumbling.

Ikkus didn’t know how to reply, not that they could anyways. Not being able to hold the weight of the stare and more, Ikkus slowly turned away hearing the man chuckle and walk away. In their Skystone infused muzzle and chains, they watched the fort fall, as the words the man spoke echoing in their mind. Ikkus was afraid to even think about it. What if the man was telling the truth?

“COME HERE IMIKAMARU, I’M NOT DONE WITH YOU,” Hiruzen yelled as he sprinted toward Imikamaru with a katana in hand. Imikamaru quickly unsheathes his ninjato (a ninjato is a katana like sword but straight and slash type weapon) blocking his attack. After about twenty minutes of them going at it they hear a quiet yet menacing sound. Stopping everyone, even the king three towns over, it was like time stopped and Kaze yelled, “ I'm tired, leave us alone.” The sound echoed throughout the forest, Hiruzen wasn’t distracted for long, took his advantage over the confused Imikamaru and slashed his katana right though Imikamarus exposed neck.

After Hiruzen thought he had won, Imikamaru appeared behind him and whispered, “Did you forget your in a genjutsu, Hiruzen?” Then Hiruzen jerked his head back and jumped away out of danger. Hiruzen huffed, "Genjutsu or not, I can assure you… I'll win. Just like always Imikamaru."

“Whatever, the only time you ever won against me was when I first joined training. Every other time I won,” Imikamaru said. “That was only cause you awakened your sharingan,” Hiruzen said back. Then, Imikamaru grinned and started to rush his opponent. For this fight was planned to be the last, not just a training spar, but a battle to the death. “AMATARATSU ” Imikamaru shouted. Hiruzen burst into black flames swallowing him whole with no trace of blood. After they eliminated their foes, Kaze wiped a 10,000 meter area and the forest child and everyone in the castle off the map. They went to find the stolen friend.

Letter: plan

Escaping with Ikkus in our hold. Kaze and Imikamaru will most likely be going after us soon, but the battling and collapsing fort will buy us more than enough time to retreat.

We are now headed towards our base hidden in Jerrysvile. Our plans will be completed long before those two can even find us.

Chapter 9: Give them back

Terrible was the overall feeling for the group, the battle had taken its draining toll as they partially collapsed shortly after barely getting over the mountain range that ringed the smoldering battle grounds. “Guys, I’ma set up camp real quick and afterward I’m going to bed,” Imikamaru stated. “Ok,” Kaze said, passing out. The remaining night was short, with daybreak coming far too soon as the first rays of light touched the camp of theirs’.

“Kaze,” Imikamaru said, “Kaze. KAZE! WAKE UP! We have stuff to do. Don’t forget that the king took Ikkus.” Kaze just remained asleep, almost as if he were dead. The only reason not to panic was he was slowly breathing. While the battle had taken a lot out of both of them, from Kaze’s shallow breathing it seems it took the most out of the normally fiery elf, Imikamaru could only sigh at the sight. “Fine if you don’t get up I’m going back to sleep,” Imikamaru muttered to himself. While the two slept there, the imp wasn't so good.

Chapter 10: The Coordinates

“Now, what do you plan on doing with this little fiend here?” The red haired lady grumbled inspecting the unconscious Ikkus from their cage, “Oh, nothing much…” The towering man chuckled to himself turning to glance at the imp “The poor thing just deserves better than those two… I’m just showing them how terrible they are… Nothing more. Not at all…” What was that, Imikamaru thought, why did I just dream Ikkus in a room with the king?

By the time the rooster crowed the ground was dewed and the leaves were wet, after the downpour last night our heroes barely got any sleep. That didn’t matter; they still had to go save their friend… or that's what they thought. But first off, they needed to find out where their friend, Ikkus, was being held before they started wandering off. “Kaze, come here,” Imikamaru said from outside the tent, “I need to tell you something; I had a dream last night about Ikkus being held in a cage in some dungeon with the king and his assistant. This is either at the castle or a secret area only known to the King and his adversaries.”

“Hmm…” Kaze paused, “was there any sort of direction to follow?” Which was the problem, stuck without any direction at all led to the two arguing shortly after; meanwhile, just out the corner of their eyes a blurry, flickering, and indefinitely shaped silhouette attempted to get their attention. “Who’s there,” Imikamaru asked while putting his hand on his katana and activating his sharingan, “Come out now or I’ll force you out!”

“Whoh,whoh,whoh, don't hit the messenger,” she said grinning, “I just wanna say 332,64,185…. now go find your friend my loves” She blew a kiss to Kaze and Imikamaru and left. Coordinates, where too who knows plus the fact of them being given by an untrustworthy stranger made the two wearily of these instructions; yet, it’s the only thing they have to even have a chance at getting Ikkus back. “That was weird,” Imikamaru mumbled to himself, “If those numbers are coordinates, how can we get to the exact spot? I don’t have any jutsu that can do that, even my teleportation jutsu can’t go to exact coordinates like those. It might possibly be a trap as well. Kaze, what do you think? And why the heck did she blow a kiss and call us her loves?” “Um… well I can find coordinates of where we are standing with my godly fruit.” kaze paused, “but it will take at least a day.”

With a powerful focused punch, Kaze thrusted a powerful radioactive waves into the earth as he faded into a deep unconscious trance. “I never said do it but go ahead I guess,” Imikamaru said irritated, “Didn’t really want you to until we confirmed things, but whatever.” For the next day Imikamaru gathered food and resources for their trip. As the first rays of new light landed, Kaze started to wake blinking groggily from his energy saping trance, their location was pinpointed: 102, 27, 395. “How…you know what, I'm not even gonna ask how that works,” Imikamaru said.

“It took 12 years with my fruits to figure it out and it kills me,” Kaze stated. “Ya know your powers come from a fruit, it makes you unable to swim,” Imikamaru said to Kaze, “What else can you do besides what you’ve already done?” “That is the most that I have learned.” Kaze paused, “I have 4 main abilities; regular power, gear 2 which boost my ability's, ticking time bomb that one you saw earlier and can ably be activated when I'm mad, and last radiation overload which I used to find our location but it kills me,” He paused agian, “on the last one is my strongest move but I can only use it once a month.”

“So if it kills you,” Imikamaru said, “then how do you come back to life?” “My second fruit, the fruit of eternal life, it just keeps me from dying,” he frowned, “but that's all” “Well, your going to have to put that into good use soon,” Imikamaru stated, studying Kaze, “I have a feeling Ikkus is going to need all the help they can get…” Imikamaru felt off from the exhaustion of the last match, but he and Kaze pushed through to the coordinates.

Chapter 11: The hideout

Once they got there all they could see were huge 900ft trees and some ruins of an old town. It was dark at this point but they could see a campfire off in the distance. Laughter and various chatter echoed throughout the ancient town buildings, as the smell of roasting meats and a variety of drinks floated through the surrounding air. As they wandered toward the camp it slowly faded away; as if it was a hallucination of the past.

As they got closer they found a ring that was glowing blue with a magic enchantment spell. As Kaze picked it up he suddenly felt its power run through him, but the ring rejected him saying’ “Only a special mage can use these artifacts.” The ring’s eerie blue glow faded, relieving the words ingrained into the dark silver, “Unus de Inferni” with markings of ancient tongues and runes. “Hmm, those markings look familiar. I think Inferni means something close to fire,” Imikamaru stated. Kaze pondered, “Maybe, but in order to find out we should go save our friend.”

Although, even after finding the exact given coordinates, there was no further sign of Ikkus's whereabouts; with this, the two were on their own once again. “Figured that she was lying to us,” Imikamaru sighed, “We should go to The Elder Library in Winterhold. See if we can find a book telling us what these markings mean; the bad thing is that it’s going to take at least two weeks. That doesn’t matter though we still need to do anything we can to find Ikkus.” “I'm hungry, do we have to leave right now?” Kaze complained. Overhead, distant dark clouds rolled towards the valley as thunder echoed in the distance, Imikamaru glared at Kaze saying “Yes. We’re leaving now.”

“Kaze, we will pass by Rhinestone Field on the way to Winterhold to grab a bite to eat, but no side quests, we have to stay on track,” Imikamaru informed Kaze. “But what about the smell I smell?” Kaze whined. Kaze was telling the truth; a sickly sweet scent was wafting through the air as it steadily got stronger, something is very, very off. “Kaze, you know that if you smell something good in a place like this; something bad is inevitably going to happen,” Imikamaru insisted, “ We really need to go, we don’t need something bad to happen to Ikkus. They’re the peacemaker in the group, so we really need them. I promise you, you will get to eat. Rhinestone Field is only two kilometers (3.73 miles) away.” “Ok” Kaze says dazed as he starts walking towards the smell. Then an arrow comes out of nowhere and ends up going right through Kaze's head. A tranquilizer poison, the origin of the sickly sweet scent, laced the arrow knocking Kaze unconscious in a matter of seconds; The coordinates given lead them right into a trap. “Just as I thought,” Imikamaru muttered and grabbed Kaze, “TELEPORTATION JUTSU!” Imikamaru successfully teleported him and Kaze about halfway to Rhinestone Field, and away from any danger.

As they got away kaze jumped up and yelled, “What the hell happened!!” His voice echoed throughout their new mountainous surroundings, upon a towering plateau overlooking the rocky hills, and in the distance a small dot of a town could be seen far below. “Kaze, please don’t yell, you’re going to give our spot away,” Imikamaru whispered to Kaze, “I teleported us as far away as I could, and as close as I could to the Rhinestone fields. It’s only a mile away so let’s be quick.” They proceeded quietly.

Chapter 12: Winterhold

The sun was approaching dusk once they finally reached the town, as lanterns were starting to be lit in cobble streets. “Ah, I finally made it. I’ll check out the tavern with an inn built into it. You grab food while I check a room in for the night, and right after we get up in the morning we are getting right on the road,” Imikamaru stated. Before he could finish kaze stprinted hooping and hollering, “FOOD! Food! FOOD! Food!!!” Kaze vanished within seconds into the closest tavern nearby bursting through its doors; over the now swinging doors, a fancy engraved sign read, “The Rusty Diamond: Gambling house and saloon.” Imikamaru walked into the tavern and up to the desk. “Sir, I would like to rent a room for two for the night,” Imikamaru asked. “All right, that will be two gold coins, and here’s the key to the room and your room number is 5,” The bartender responded. Imikamaru grabbed a bite to eat and sat by Kaze who was devouring his food violently. “Kaze, first off slow down on the eating, and second I got us a room so we need to go there soon and get rest,” Imikamaru said. The night was long with Kaze and Imikamaru both fast asleep and no movement. The sun was up and kaze woke up to a big BANG of their window braking.

The once thick window glass was now reduced to hundreds of shards, lying among the shards was a steel cannonball still freshly fired and still steaming; screams and cries started to rise from outside. “AAUUUGGGHH! WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS! KAZE GRAB ONTO ME I’M TELEPORTING US AWAY,” Imikamaru yelled. He teleported them out of the town to a small forest outside the town. “Ok, we are leaving now,” Imikamaru said angrily, “Ikkus could be in trouble and we do not know, so let's hurry.” At this point they were about 20 mintents from the library. “I can feel the magic radiation we are almost there,” kaze said slowly. The magic in this forest was in fact very strong, even Imikamaru could feel the radiation slightly; It all flowed strongly north, towards what looked like to be a huge library. “I feel the magic all the way over here,” Imikamaru mumbled, “I guess that proves how powerful the books are in Winterhold.” They ran for a while until they got to Winterhold. “Wow, this place is a lot bigger than I expected,” Imikamaru said while panting, “Let’s hurry inside.” Once inside, they started looking for information on the king, but they both found a book: Kaze found a dark book that said forget life and powers, while ImIkamaru found a scroll of the past Jinjuriki which he only heard of in legends. Kaze, meanwhile, looked over the dark leather bound book, thin and light with only about twenty or so pages even; What’s the worst this little thing can do?

Imikamaru went up to the librarian asking if he could buy the book from her. She inspected the book and accepted the transaction. “Kaze, I found a book on the king and bought it as well as a book about past Jinjuriki,” Imikamaru said, “Now I’m going to find somewhere where I can read these in private.” He fumbled over to a table in the corner of the library to sit. Cool, this book has a list of all the Jinjuriki, Imikamaru thought, Let’s see who the most recent one is. He paused in disbelief at the last name that read “Imikamaru”. Kaze decides to buy the book because he could use it later. He then went to sit by Imikamaru and read about the king. After 3 hours of reading they found out that Ikkus is probably in the castle's dungeon a month's walk from where they are currently at.

Chapter 13: Dungeons

The castle lay deep in an isolated forest, built within a sleeping volcano; to reach it, they needed to move and move fast. “Hey Kaze, wanna know something,” Imikamaru asked. “Ya sure what is it,” Kaze said. “Do you know what Jinjuriki are? I figured you don't, so I'm just going to explain it,” Imikamaru said, “The Jinjuriki are humans only known from legend. They have an ancient being inside of them called a tailed beast; there are nine of them representing a different animal. The more tails it has the more powerful the wielder gets, and the Nine-tails is the strongest. And guess what, I found out in the library I’m the Nine-tails Jinjuriki! Which means I can do so much more than I thought I could. Isn’t that crazy?”

“So Imikamaru, I've been wondering what are all the powers you can access from the littlest to the most powerful abilities.” Kaze asked?

“Well my list from least powerful to most is: Summoning Jutsu which is self explanatory, Fire style: fireball jutsu also self explanatory, Teleportation jutsu, Shadow clone jutsu, Rasengan which is a ball of pure chakra, Fire style: Phoenix flower jutsu, Chidori which is pure lightning style chakra, Wind Style: Rasen-shuriken, then I have this thing called the Rinnegan which is the purple thing in my left eye, I also have this thing called Sage Mode which is where I absorb pure nature chakra and enhances my abilities, and next I have this thing called the sharingan which is the thing in my right eye, but I have a higher level called the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and last but not least I have the Amatarasu a pure black fire that won’t extinguish until it has killed the person I put it on. The best part is I will probably get more now that I have the Nine-Tails also known as Kurama sealed inside me,” Imikamaru listed.

“Ok good to know, now let's go get our friend!” Kaze cheerfully said. Leaving the library behind them, they started on their new quest; A impish rescue mission, to find the castle of the Unknown King and finally rescue Ikkus. The King’s castle was huge. Standing at an unbelievable height of 500 meters. “Kaze, we will need to stick together as we find a way in, so be quiet,” Imikamaru stated, “There’s most likely a back entrance to the dungeon, and it won’t be easy if there are guards in the way so let’s head out around the castle and find a weak point in the wall.” Before he could finish, Kaze walked up to the wall and melted it. “Or we could do this,” he paused, “I would also melt down to the dungeon, or we could go the long way like you said.” Imikamaru had a concerned look on his face, looking around warily.

“I guess we can do this, but we will have to be quiet and cover our tracks,” Imikamaru said, “If it means getting to Ikkus faster then let’s go for it.” Kaze proceeded to melt a hole to the dungeon where they found Ikkus. “Oh. My. God,” Imikamaru said in shock of seeing Ikkus almost dead, “WHO DID THIS!” Imikamaru’s eyes suddenly turned red almost like a fox's eyes. An almost red-orange chakra formed around him in the shape of a fox with three tails. He started to go out of control, causing everything in the room to fly around in amock.

“What the hell,” Kaze said.

What’s happening, Imikamaru thought, I’m out of control. Imikamaru looked around, Where am I?

“You’re inside of the seal,” Kurama the Nine-tailed fox said.

“What do you mean,” Imikamaru asked, “How did you hear my thoughts?”

“This is the way I have contacted the past Jinjuriki,” Kurama stated, “And this is how we will be in touch from now on.”

“What is happening to me,” Imikamaru asked Kurama.

“You have my chakra because you got too emotional,” Kurama said, “Your hatred seeped out of your heart and caused this chaos.”

“Well can you stop it,” Imikamaru asked.

“No,” Kurama said sternly, “Only you can do that. What you have to do is control your emotions through meditation, so sit down and meditate now!”

“Fine, but how will this take,” Imikamaru asked, annoyed.

“It won’t take long probably,” Kurama said.

Imikamaru sat there for a few minutes while Kaze was keeping Imikamaru still. Suddenly Imikamaru in Kaze’s arms went back to his normal state, but something was different. He was glowing orange instead of red. He was in control of Kurama’s chakra. “Wow, you got that a lot faster than the others,” Kurama said surprised. Imikamaru was fully back with more power. “Hey, you idiot are you back,” Kaze asked. “Ya, and it looks like I have a new form,” Imikamaru said exasperated, “I’m grabbing Ikkus and getting out of here.” He grabbed Ikkus and jumped out of the hole with more speed than he had ever experienced before. “Holy shit,” Kaze said under his breath. “WOOOOOOO,” Imikamaru screamed as he emerged from the hole. The guards noticed him in the air with awe in their eyes. “Shit they noticed me,” Imikamaru muttered, “TRY TO CATCH ME BITCHES!” As they made their way through the castle killing anyone in sight, “I can see the exit,” Kaze yelled. Then out of nowhere a huge man comes flying through the air and lands right in front of them. It was The King.

As he rose up to his full height, his cold green eyes studied them carefully, a smirk developing on his lips, “My, my. It seems like our guests finally arrived, we’ve been waiting for you for a while now…” voice gruff with words dripping with malice. Imikamaru tried to make a Rasen-shuriken but instead it looked a little different. It was usually a pale bluish white, but this time it was a red-purple. I read about this, Imikamaru thought, It’s a tailed beast bomb, but I accidentally combined it with my Rasen-shuriken. This is gonna be fun! Imikamaru landed then immediately without a millisecond for the King to think he got blasted through his own castle wall with immense destruction. “I think I’m gonna like this,” Imikamaru said standing beside the King. “Uuugghh,” The King groaned, “What was that?”

“I don’t know,” Imikamaru stated, “But I think I’ll call it Tailed Beast Bomb: Rasen-Shuriken. A little wordy but it will do.” Just as Imikamaru landed the king was flying back at him with a scythe made out of his blood. The king was closing in fast and Imikamaru had no other thought but to throw the unconscious kaze at him. “What will this puny human do to me,” the king stated. As Imikamaru let go he sent some chakra into kaze activating his power. Kaze had turned into a flaming acid bomb hurdling at the king.

Crossing his scythes the King braced himself for the impact; just about when the human bomb Kaze made it’s hit, in a sudden near invisible blur of speed, Kaze was struck face down into the ground causing the chakra charged acid bomb to blasted backwards exploding into many pieces. The King chuckled, “Ah, thank you very much, Arroth.” Imikamaru was jumping around the King, hitting him with high speed blows to the stomach. The King had no way to see Imikamaru except the afterimage of his figure.

The king was starting to get dizzy but then out of pure luck he managed to hit him through the wall. Just then kaze was revived and Ikkus became conscious. Battered and bruised, Ikkus struggled to stand taking in what little their blurry eyes could; all they could see was a mountainous man before them. That’s all they need to see before they launched themself blindly at the man, claws and teeth bared. “Ok,” Imikamaru said, “It’s time to go into Sage Mode.” He let Ikkus distract the King while he quickly gathered Nature chakra. The only thing is that he forgot he was in Nine-tails mode. The two forms combined to make a new form called the Six Paths which was unknown to Imikamaru. This form increases every human aspect, even healing. “Welp, guess this is cool,” Imikamaru muttered as all of his wounds rapidly healed. He bolted at the King faster than before with no after Image. This time he was basically invisible. “SHADOW CLONE JUTSU,” Imikamaru yelled. Hundreds of clones used the Tailed Beast Bomb all at once on the King. Striking him into the ground where he had a gaping hole in his stomach. But before he could finish him he used his scythe to throw a piece of Sky Stone at Imikamaru causing him to lose focus and his powers. Imikamaru stumbled, his clones dissipating and missing the last few hits, yet the damage was already done; The King knelt there, blood soaked him thoroughly oozing out numerous gashes and wounds, and yet, he let out a bombing laugh. “YOU MAY HAVE KILLED ME,” the King said, “BUT YOU HAVEN’T KILLED MY SPIRIT! I MAY NOT HAVE KILLED YOU IN THIS LIFE, BUT I WILL IN THE NEXT! At that point his blood was all over the floor and walls. The blood began to vibrate, becoming swords as sharp and sturdy as diamond. These swords were flying around killing everyone in sight, but ikkus and Imikamaru were dodging the swords, but kaze wasn't as lucky.

The few crimson blades that made their mark struck straight into Kaze’s troso, and while the others slowly lost their magic and reverted to blood these stuck solid. Kaze hissed in pain, "OI! Ikkus, mind helping me here?" The battered imp turned their head carefully towards the sound, their gaze unusually cold and blank then usual. Imikamaru was out of chakra and exhausted from the form he was in, but at least the King was finally dead. With him gone, Jerrysville was safe from harm. No more hurt, for now Ikkus, Imikamaru, and Kaze we’re safe and healed.

Epilogue:

“He failed, The King, he died fighting The Friends of Chaos. Those three…”, the blond boy reported, head bowed and kneeling, “They killed someone as powerful as a 4th rank in a matter of minutes…”

“I’m not surprised,” A dark figure said in a chair, “He was fighting the Nine-Tails. I’m very familiar with the creature. They thought I died and went ahead and took him from me, but I will get my revenge. I will get Kurama back.”

- The End -

5/20/2022