The three tomoe of my Sharingan spun after one another in a loop, before finally merging into the sophisticated yin-yang pattern, with blades flaring out. The air was tense and strict around us. And Naruto's eyes flared with crimson as his whiskers boldened.
His nails grew like a beast's and he was on all four limbs. I clench my jaw and stare at Naruto with narrowed eyes. Perilously, I dart my eyes to Shisui and inquire, "you're not putting him under Genjutsu are you?", I demanded in a stern voice, earning an intense look from him before he finally replied.
"Nothing of that sort, Hanabi"
I let my gaze linger to the scars I left on his body from my attack that day. I had no choice, but to get my point across one way or another. Though I do genuinely feel bad, and I hope he forgives me for this.
"What's the plan, we're running out of time here...", Itachi informs, putting us on edge from anticipation.
"Even in this state of the transformation, he's still highly dangerous. Whatever it is that triggered the Nine-Tails's chakra to slip, you best believe it'll keep slipping like that until...", Shisui breathes out heavily, not wanting to resume that sentence.
"Tenzo, the Wood Style user was dispatched on this rescue mission as well, he'll track us down using the seeds Itachi and I swallowed earlier. Till then, we'll have to fend off the Nine Tails that's taking over Naruto"
"He's simply warming up in this boiling state", Itachi remarked.
"Stay on alert, we have to fend off the Nine-Tails without hurting Naruto", Shisui ordered.
The three of us took position once we witnessed Naruto's tails adding up to a total of three.
"This is bad", Itachi said.
"No kidding".
"Both of you", Shisui announced, "in short, this terrain might be destroyed due to the Nine-Tails's attack. I've witnessed it first-hand eleven years ago, the impact of the chakra bomb that it generates is destructive and fatal".
"I recall that...", I blurt out in a gasp, "soon he'll lose consciousness, he won't be in control of what he'll do. He can annihilate the entire terrain for goodnesses sake"
"Which is exactly why we have to level up", Shisui declares, earning sternly determined expressions from us.
"You don't say..."
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying", Shisui affirmed, making me breath out exasperatedly.
I look back at the boiling red chakra that encroaches Naruto and feel my heart sink. Obito's words must've left its mark on him. They were harsh after all...
Naruto suddenly glares at us and crumbles a fist in the dirt before lowering his body.
"Itachi, Hanabi, remember, it all depends on what we do to fend him off. Toss your doubts aside, everyone here is at risk", Shisui informs, making me feel uneasy.
"Hanabi, I am sorry for whatever that has happened to you that awakened your Mangekyo, but even Naruto is at risk here", he elaborates, earning a heavy breath from me, "remember? This is something you've wanted"
"I do", I sternly say as I glue my eyes back to the sphere of boiling red chakra.
"So you two are ready to take this leap?", he inquires.
Once again, no words were needed to be exchanged between Itachi and I, because all this time we've spend it risking it all.
"Here goes nothing", Itachi muttered under his breath, and I scrunched my eyes.
There was just too much anticipation that swirled in the air right now. And Naruto's next move was one of them. His expression suggests that he'd given away his consciousness.
"Hanabi, we might be able to survive, but we can't let him destroy the terrain and cause trouble on the borders between the Hidden Grass and the Hidden Rain", Itachi asserted as I reconsidered my options again.
"I understand"
"Well then, on my cue", Shisui announced.
I breathed in heavily and managed to get a hold of my restless heart as I witnessed Naruto conjuring a fourth tail.
"Go ahead!", Shisui barked.
I wasted no second as I clenched my jaw and gritted my geeth together. There was still that unsettling feeling in my stomach surrounding this whole ordeal, but if we don't stop him, there'll be hell to pay.
Instinctively, the three of us put a decent space between one another before we put in all the efforts to conjure the greatest creation that the Mangekyo Sharingan enables the user.
I scrunched my eyes shut for a moment, only to force them open when I feel an immense amount of chakra radiating off of this terrain. I look at myself in shock as my lips part ajar. I'm engulfed in yellow flames that twirls and spirals around me furiously.
Glancing over to my side, I saw the same flames radiating off of Itachi, the exception being that his were crimson. Glancing over to the other side, I could see Shisui with the greenery of his fiery flames. My hair was flailing around in all directions.
I narrowed down my crimson eyes as I automatically knew what I had to do next. And so I sharply grinded my teeth against one another and clasped my hands together in the serpent hand sign.
I tipped my chin low as I kept staring at the Nine-Tails's boiling chakra, which kept advancing further. Naruto's figure and features were gradually being coated with the Nine-Tails's chakra. His flesh started flaking off into ashes, revealing what I presumed to be the crimson skin of a demonic creature.
I was in shock, but my stern expression never gave it away. His entire facial features altered into a form of a demonic entity.
I stood rooted to my ground, which slightly caved in beneath my feet when my hair began flailing around furiously as I mustered up the right amount of chakra to generate the protective ribs of the Susano'o around myself.
"It's okay", Shisui assured me, "the more you use the Susano'o, the more advanced you'll get with it".
Except I don't have the time to further advance with it, not when the Nine-Tails is breaking loose.
I tuned out everyone for a mere moment to give my Susano'o more focus and concentration. Itachi and Shisui's Susano'os are a bit more advanced than mine, they clearly haven't reached the full potential of the humanoid as well.
I create a virtual focal point in my mind, there, despite the ongoing spiraling void outside, I take lead to steady the rhythm of my breathing. Naruto had roared out loud, slightly taking me off the balance of concentration, but I still managed to remain unshakable.
I sensed Itachi and Shisui getting into position for fighting as they shielded me.
The void was spiralling everywhere as Naruto's four tails began flailing and flaring around him.
I'd kept my eyes narrowed as I deliberately send chakra into the skeletal that surrounded me. The skeletal ribs responded by siphoning away the masses of my chakra and deliberately I began feeling it...
I'd found my bright yellow flames spiralling around me in a hurricane fashion, where I stood in the center of the eye. This was my cue to conjure up a burst of chakra that'd finally generate the arms of the humanoid.
Sweat began dripping down my face as I finally released the breath after completing the development of the arms.
"That's better", I remarked as I panted slightly from the toll it took to generate the skeletal of this humanoid.
"Hanabi you can't level up the humanoid any further or otherwise you'll end up tiring yourself out quickly", Itachi advised me, and I gave him a stern nod.
Shisui's Susano'o was remarkable for having a red tomoe on the puffed chest of the humanoid.
I'm a hybrid between the Namikaze and the Uchiha, it'll only make sense if I could master the talents of one of the clans at a time.
If I'd known about my Uchiha heritage earlier on in my life, I could've honed my skills as a proud hybrid of the two clans.
I've clearly spend the majority of my life perfecting my Wind and Lightning techniques, and despite knowing that I have Fire release, I never thought I'd master it like I did the other two.
"Segregate", I growl out as I lunged to stand tall right in front of Naruto.
Shisui and Itachi take the either side of him as we somehow show him that we're a barrier.
In response, Naruto growls out and roars in irritation. His voice was menacing enough to set the weak heart out of pulse, but the three of us remained steady and unscathed.
"There it comes!", I yell out, "be wary!"
Naruto's raises his arms firmly from the ground with a flamboyant roar, before plunging his hands back into the ground with a remarkable thud.
With a clenched heart, I felt my sensory skills kick in simultaneously as my eyes widened at the realization. My mind went furious, trying to pinpoint the emanation source of the chakra he dispersed underground.
This all happened very fast and rapid, almost too fast for me to even skip a single heartbeat. Next thing I knew, I'd shouted out Shisui's name in terror when my sensory skills finally paid off.
From my tone of voice, Shisui got the instant clue to move away from his standing ground, subsequently, leading him to burst up a leap in the air just as Naruto's chakra arms thrusted out of the ground Shisui previously stood on, missing his legs by a few inches.
I began cursing myself for the lack of sensory concentration. If I keep up this slow pace, we might end up dying or having to use other means in order to stop Naruto from commencing a destruction.
When Shisui landed on the ground again, he'd made sure that his humanoid was intact and that he was a decent distance away from his original location.
Our lack of action might just be to our utter disadvantage. Neither one of us can bring themselves to hurt the cheerful boy, who was despised by his own village.
He deserved better...
The three of us bunched closer together and Itachi informed, "this won't cut it, we can't just stand back like this"
His somewhat firm words clawed at my heart but I knew he was absolutely right. Naruto had roared again as his tails elongated and began flaring around, damaging the greenery of the terrain mercilessly.
"This amount of chakra is overwhelming for him, it's clearly out of his league. He can't control it properly", I refuted, feeling my stomach go unsettle.
The movement of his tails was fiery and simultaneous, sending out pressuring whirls of wind along the damaged trees.
The ground began to cave in and the void simply progressed in spiralling all around, rendering the three of us to contemplate whether we should forget that this demon fox was once upon a time a cheerful boy who wanted to become Hokage.
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A/N:- Do I need to keep reminding you that the end is very near? Well scratch that for now, there's something I wanna know.
*takes in deep breath*
DOES ANYONE PLAY GENSHIN IMPACT??? IF YES, THEN WHAT IF YOUR ADVENTURE RANK WAS YOUR AGE, HOW OLD WOULD YOU BE?
CURRENTLY I'LL BE EIGHTEEN
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