Chapter Twenty Seven: Final Stand

Third Person POV______

Naruto hissed as she stood up and prepared herself for the release of Kurama. "Bee, We will have to go all out." She yelled as she felt the massive amount of chakra leave her chakra system.

Kurama appeared behind her and snarled loudly as his eyes landed on the duo that stood on top of the juubi.

Madara grinned deviously as he saw the form of the Nine-Tails appear.

He let his eyes bleed red as he activated his mangekyo no Sharingan. He hissed in annoyance when he realized that Kurama made sure that he would not be able to see and kept his eyes closed.

With his sensing and his eyesight linked to Naruto, he would be able to move throughout the battlefield.

Naruto, on the other hand, extended her senses and bit her lower lip. Not all of the genin were out of the battlefield. She was trying to buy as much time as possible so that the more injured shinobi could be escorted out of the field.

"Dad, We have to get them away from the juubi." She yelled as she glanced over at her father who began to glow as he activated the Kyubbi coat on his end.

Minato grunted and nodded as he glared at Obito who snarled as he saw his former sensei.

"Tch. Then let's go. Kurama, Please deal with juubi we will try and get to the bastards." Sakura grunted as she fixed her gloves and glared at the Uchiha.

Soundlessly they dashed forward, countless Jutsu were thrown from behind them helping provide support against the few Zetsu that appeared. The Alliance was helping in the defense as Naruto, Minato, and Sakura went on the offense.

Soon there were giant ink constructs providing support from the air and Naruto couldn't help but smirk as she knew it was sai providing support. Team seven was well on its way to fight the battle. Only captain Yamato, Kakashi, and Sasuke were missing and the latter wasn't even that much of a teammate at the moment.

Naruto let out a war cry as she attacked the juubi and tried to get to where Obito and Madara were at but was pushed back by one of its massive limbs.

Giant wooden spikes were aimed at her and she had to skillfully dodge. That was until the earth shook from one of Sakura's punches and the Juubi was thrown out of balance. But the small slip was not enough to give them the upper hand.

The juubi roared as Kurama and Gyuki went on the offensive against the Juubi.

She could hear the massive explosions as the massive beasts fought. She was thrown back from the shockwaves of a tailed beast bomb that came from the juubi and she glanced to see where the bomb was thrown to.

Her skin crawled as she felt herself lose connection with the primary base of intelligence. She could feel panic swell in the pit of her stomach as she steadied herself. Her ears were ringing as she had to dodge a few more wooden spikes.

She was pulled back and Sakura rushed forward swinging with her fists and destroyed the spikes coming forward. "Watch it. Ya okay?" She asked as she placed a hand on Naruto. "Being so close to the beast bomb, it busted my eardrums. So I figured it did the same for you." She stated and Naruto licked her dry lips. "Thanks." she says as they both stood back to back as giant tree roots began coming out of the ground and attacked them.

Naruto hissed as she made sure to destroy the wood spikes as that came towards them. Chakra based attacks were not working on them so they were being forced to use explosive tags and kunai.

Naruto flinched as she felt a familiar presence approached and a small grin spread across her face as she viewed a black figure dropdown. "They drain chakra. Get on." Sai hissed as he used his tanto to cut through a few branches.

They didn't even question it as they hopped on the ink bird and he flew them up.

Naruto grimaced as she saw his state, Sai looked exhausted and was barely holding up.

"Ino managed to set up a small communication system. The intelligence base was bombed. We believe that they were evacuated. We are trying to communicate with the other Kage and are having little luck. I also managed to evacuate ninja out of the red zone." He stated and he looked at both of them with a sharp look.

"Red Zone?" Naruto asked confused and he pointed down.

There was a perimeter where dead bodies littered the floor. It was nearly a perfect circle and the branches seemed to not go past it.

"Where you guys were, it seems not just any ninja is able to get there. The branches suck in the chakra and those cacoons wrap around the victim." He added and Naruto grimaced as she saw the branches wrapping around shinobi as they tried to get away.

Some of Sai's ink birds dove down and would either rip the branches off or pick up ninja and flew them away from the branches. Naruto and Sakura glanced at him, no wonder he was so exhausted. How many ink birds were currently on the battlefield?

"Most genin and injured are out of the field. I don't think we will be able to get more out from there." He stated as he pointed to the area closer to the juubi. Kurama and Gyuki were currently fighting with the beast and the earth slightly shook as they were fighting and trying to gain ground.

Naruto bit her lip and nodded. "Let me gather some chakra, I'll have to jump back to the fray soon."

Sai hummed and nodded. "I'll be sending reinforcement. But we are not making much progress." He stated and sakura nodded. "We were being overwhelmed back there." She hissed as she looked at the fighting.

She reached into her pouch and pulled out some pills and granola bars. She handed some to Naruto and Sai. "Who knows when we will have another chance to eat or replenish our reserves.

Both ate the granola bars eagerly and drank from their canteens. They watched the chaos below with fear and anxiousness.

They were tired, their chakra coils ached from the amount of nonstop use, their feet throbbed from running and their many bruises and muscles almost made them not want to return. Even if the fighting was still ongoing and they were away from the fighting for mere moments, they knew they would go back and have to continue the never-ending fight.
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The rest of the Hokage arrived at the battlefield. Shinobi cheered as they quickly followed suit with the Fourth Hokage. The Biju were fighting and the earth rumbled from explosions. Wooden constructs were fighting against the shinobi and large branches were attacking as well. They could see team seven fighting in the inner part of the battle.

Jutsu could be seen thrown in the field. Bodies laid through the entire field and the smell of blood filled the air. "I've seen battles, but rarely this bloody."Hashirama grunted. Sasuke hummed as he looked around and was quick to find his team. He could see Kakashi fighting against Obito who was maskless now.

"Let's join in, I can see the Fourth up there, by the Biju and Madara." He grunted. "That is not Madara, but he is." Tobimaru stated as he glared at the figure that appeared. "HAHAHA, Hashirama! Fight me!" A man with wild black hair yelled as he stood on top of a pile of dead bodies. "Madara!" Hashirama yelled angrily. "What have you done." he hissed as he pointed at his former friend.

"I'll deal with you later, first we deal with the Biju." He stated as he turned to see the Biju fighting and the ninja fighting wooden constructs as Minato appeared in front of them in a flash.

"Okay, so I have a bit of information. The Nine and Eight tails are our allies. The Ten tails must be stopped and that goes for Madara and Obito." Minato hissed as he glared at Madara.

"As in Obito Uchiha, your student that passed away in the war?"Hiruzen asked and Minato scowled. "He never died, but he sure as hell killed my wife and I." he hissed out as he glared back at the battlefield.

Through Ino's mental link they were able to organize an attack they were able to trap the Juubi and raise a Four Kage red barrier.

Having Isolated Obito and the Juubi the Shinobi alliance was able to pull back some and lick their wounds.

The Juubi roared furiously for nearly seven hours in the barrier. The small window was used to reorganize the Shinobi and feed the forces. Naruto had been able to get almost six hours of sleep and regain some of her strength.

That was before she was awoken by a chunin. "Naruto-sama, the Kage have requested your presence. The ninja did something with Juubi!" The brown-haired Iwa chunin called out as he ducked underneath the kunai she had thrown.

Naruto groggily got up. Her body aching as she got out of the sleeping bag. How long had it been since she had been able to sleep a solid seven hours?

Her chakra coils ached as she hurried and followed the chunin.

'Kurama what's going on?' she asked as she went to where the red barrier was.

'It's bad, the asshole made himself the Juubi Jinchuriki, the Kage are having trouble keeping him contained. You will have to put him down.' he growled as he was still outside of the seal keeping an eye on the situation.

"Damn! We should have kept him and the Juubi separate." She hissed as she hurried forward.

"Naruto." she noticed Kakashi standing at the ledge of a cliff looking toward the red barrier.

"What is going on?" She asked as she stood beside him. "We thought that we would have enough time to regroup ourselves before we would be forced to fight again." Kakashi stated, his voice was emotionless and his posture was stern.

Naruto frowned, there were a few times she saw her sensei look like this. She missed her aloof sensei who was late and gave her bored eye smiles. He looked worn and exhausted. His once best friend who he had thought was dead was very much alive and causing havoc in the elemental nations and winning. She figured he was suffering.

"How long were we able to keep them at bay?" She asked tiredly as she looked at Obito attack the barrier. "Seven hours and thirty-nine minutes. Our troops are exhausted. Our injured are thousands, our dead more and we barely have any seasoned ninja fit to fight. Most are Injured, tired and in the worst cases dead or handicap. This....it's a shit show." He groaned as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"We have lost some divisions and our odds aren't good. Green thumb genin are going to be introduced to the field if he gets out too soon or if we continue to lose ninja at the rate we were. There is no way around it." he stated as he looked off into the distance.

Naruto bit her lower lip and looked up. "It almost seems easier to give up." She muttered as her mind wandered to her kids and Kurama's chakra swirled inside of her angrily.

'There will be no survivors, we will all be dead.' Kurama hissed angrily as he reminded her of the consequences and she let out a sigh. "But that is not an option. Is it." She stated as she wiped her tired face. Kakashi glanced at her, a sympathetic look in his eye.

"No, there is no option other than to fight." He stated as he looked back at the barren battlefield. But more back up arrived. Come." He stated and led her to where the remaining commanders were.

As they arrived the tent went silent. Naruto couldn't help the small tired smile that spread across her face as she saw Garra and Tsunade still alive.

"Brat." Tsunade engulfed her in a hug and Naruto hugged her back tightly.

"I thought you guys were going to die." She muttered as she looked at the kage who looked tired.

"We barely made it. Is it true that the intelligence base was razed to the ground?" Mei asked and Naruto slowly nodded. "I felt as their chakra's disappeared." Naruto stated as she clenched her fists.

"Well, at least the Kage are alive." Naruto looked up to see Karin. The red-haired girl gave her a small smile. "You look exhausted, here have a bite." she held her arm towards Naruto.

"Karin, how are you-" she wasn't able to finish as Karin placed her arm in Naruto's mouth.

"I followed Orochimaru here. But sadly there is trash even among us." She sneered as she glared at someone. Naruto was biting down her chakra coils pain lessened. She glanced to see who Karin was glaring at.

Her eyes widened as her eyes landed on a very familiar face. She always wondered what she would feel when she came face to face with the man she once loved. Her heart ached as she looked at him. She was unsure if it was from longing or of betrayal.

"Darling are you okay. You still look exhausted." Minato pipped upbringing her out of her musing. Naruto pulled away from Karin and glanced at her father. "I'm fine, I was able to recover some." She stated as she looked at her worried father.

"Thanks for worrying, Dad." She smiled softly as she tried to hide her pained expression.

A and Onoki glanced at both Naruto and Minato. "The Fourths kid huh... I sure am glad that we are on the same side as the Namikaze this time." A stated as he looked at the two blondes.

"An Uzumaki mother and the fourth as the father. And kept a secret till now. You konoha nin astound me." Mei stated and Tsunade snorted.

Sasuke looked away, he was now very aware that the fourth was Naruto's dad.

"Karin, whatever happens. Stay alive. I know we have our differences but if anything happens to me..." Naruto trailed off and Karin nodded. "Don't think I'll let you die. I don't want to be made responsible and I am making sure you make good on your promises, but if needed I can step up to the plate so you can count on me." She nodded and Naruto sighed in relief.

Most of the occupants of the room had no idea what the two Uzumaki women were talking about. The ones who did understood the hidden meaning to their short conversation and grimaced at the implication if Naruto died and Karin lived Karin would take care of the three Uchiha- Uzumaki.

"Well. We had a nice reunion. But we have to go over the next course of action. Obito won't wait forever." Shikamaru grunted, he looked like he had aged and had dried tear marks on his face and was a bit pale.

And with that the shinobi began planning.
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Soon the Ninja were back on the battlefield. The amount of ninja that could provide backup were only a few thousand. Ino had helped in making new divisions. This time they varied in their similar elements. They would combine their attacks and send them Obito's way. Earth style users were going to be the ones raising earth barriers if needed to help halt Obito who now seemed to become stronger since his merge with the Juubi.

Madara had not made any moves and this caused more ninja to be on edge. They all patiently waited, even Kurama did not know how they would deal the final blow.

The barrier was soon breached after 14 hours of Obito bashing it. By then most of the available ninja were rested enough and healed enough to join the fray.

Naruto stood alongside Sai, Sakura, and Sasuke. "Lady Sakura, most of the ninja have been stabilized. Shizune-sama is now leading the medics and Genin." Umi, the medic that had been with Sakura stated.

Sakura grunted and gave a nod. "Umi-chan, the fighting is going to get worse from here on out. I order you to go back to the medical area and stay there. It would be a shame if you were cut down." Sakura stated and the medic paled.

"I can fight, I can use my kinjutsu. I won't run away." The young medic stated as she clenched her fists and shook her head, her light brown hair moving back and forth.

"I would be distraught if you were to get hurt. Please, stand in the back lines." Sakura stated as she looked over at the medic tiredly and placed a hand on her head.

"As strong as we are I'm not sure if even we will make it out alive." She gave the girl a sad smile and Sai snorted. "Just go ahead and kiss her while we are at it. Chances that we even make it out alive from this one are slim, Hag." Sai grunted and Sakura snorted and laughed coldly as her eyes trailed back to the fading red barrier which was barely containing Obito.

"Hopefully this isn't our last goodbye."Sakura stated as she gave the Iwa medic sad smile and placed a small kiss on the girl's lips. Naruto and Sasuke's eyes widened slightly at the exchange.

"Okay. I will." The medic nodded and sped away.

"Honestly, you two acted like the entirety of the Shinobi alliance didn't realize you two had something going on." Sai stated and Sakura snorted. "We are at war, there is no time for romance." She stated as she turned back to the weakening barrier with a cold glare.

"You're right about that." Naruto grunted glancing at her teammates then locking eyes with Sasuke before looking at the breaking red barrier with an icy cold glare.

"War has no time for love." She muttered as the barrier finally broke and the ground shook as the shockwaves leveled the area by the reanimated Hokage.

With that, the small quiet peace broke into screams and sounds of war.

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Once the fighting broke out they were quick to try to reach Obito.

It as harder now since he was controlling the tentails power. Yet  Naruto fought with all of her might.

"You don't have to do this! A genjutsu will not change reality. No matter how good it is!" Naruto yelled as she fought Obito. Even without her knowing she was slowly chipping away at his cold exterior.

That was until Madara jumped back into the fray. He calculated everything.

He waited until the wore down Obito before betraying the young Uchiha. As the Juubi was ripped out of Obito he took the chance to take Kurama from Naruto's seal. It happened so fast that Naruto had not been able to counter him in time.

All her mind registered was the sudden cold and darkness that surrounded her.

Naruto POV______

The world around me was dark. I felt light, my body no longer ached. My muscles no longer hurt and although I was sleepy I was no longer overwhelmed in pain.

The world was quiet and my ears were no longer ringing. I felt at peace.

"Child, awaken." a voice boomed and suddenly I was alert. my body regained its senses and the grogginess in mind finally cleared.

I stood in front of a pale man, there were deep wrinkles on his face and he held a black staff and was floating. But what caught my attention was the dark purple rinnegan eyes he had.

"Who are you." I stammer out as I looked at the man and his gaze softened. " I am the sage of six paths."

I couldn't help but become confused. The sage of six paths? Who was that? Who was he?

"I'm not surprised you don't know who I am exactly. But it seems you have inherited my son's feud, so let's start at the beginning."

With that, he told me of Kaguya, the goddess who ruled and of how they defeated her and then of his two sons.

Senju and Uchiha.

We were descendants of them and due to our strong ties to the clan, we inherited a bit do their chakra and hence the feud that had been ongoing for centuries.

I was taken back to hear how Indra had decided to let a bit of himself merge with his descendants and continue to cause mayhem and how it was all fueled by Kaguya's will.

As he told me the story I had almost forgotten that the war was still ongoing.

"In a way. Madara and Sasuke are connected and somewhat similar due to the chakra that came from Indra." I muttered and the sage nodded.

"It's not complete reincarnation but they share portions of the same soul." The sage stated and I nodded.

"We have to stop them. Before Kaguya is released." I stated as I was filled with horror at the thought of the Moon Goddess breaking free and causing havoc.

The sage reached out and grabbed my hand. "If needed here is some of my power. If she should be released you will be able to seal her away again with this." He stated as he looked at me.

"Both you and Sasuke have a piece of the seal. You must bring them together to complete it." He stated and I slowly nodded.

"How do I go back?" I asked as I remembered we were still battling and I that I had no idea where I was.

The sage was quiet for a moment. "You are between life and death. If your friends on the outside are able to revive you then you will be able to live. Otherwise, you will pass away." The sage stated and I froze in horror.

I bit my lip and sat down processing everything. I tried to think of what I could do. Maybe we could seal Obito away with these seals and Madara as well. It would create another moon but that was fine.

I sighed as I felt hours tick by and I felt surrounded by darkness. The sage floated silently behind me and I couldn't help but ask. "How are you aware of everything?" I asked and he chuckled.

"My physical body passed away but it turns out being the son of a goddess made my spiritual self almost immortal. My soul and my brothers roam the earth and moon. We watch over you and although we cannot intervene we have been able to keep the nature chakra balanced. At rare times we have been able to intervene and give out gifts." The sage chuckled.

"As a child, Hashirama nearly died of an illness. I was glad to see the small bits of my son's soul engraved in the boy. So I gave him a gift to wield. When he recovered and was well again, the Senju clan was astounded to see that he had gained what you ninja call a kekkei Genkai." The old man chuckled and my eyes widened.

No wonder it was not genetically passed down to granny tsunade.

"Then how can captain Yamato use it?" I asked confused.

"The boy from the experiments? He too nearly passed away. His body was not able to handle Hashirama's cells so I allowed him to adjust. He lived and was able to wield some of the mokuto. " he stated and my eyes widened.

"Naruto!" I heard a yelled muffled scream come from the pitch darkness around me. "I see, you are awakening. Naruto make sure to save the world from Kaguya." He stated.

I gasped for air as the world around me became clear.

It was like I had been underwater and holding my breath. Once again my body ached, I grimaced as my body ached from the bruises from the previous battles.

"W-what happened." I managed to say as I felt my head spin from the attack.

"Naruto... I thought." Sakura let out a sigh as she placed her hand on my shoulder. "That was close, I thought we were going to lose you." She muttered as she pulled me into my hug.

"You okay?" My dad asked placing a hand on my shoulder and I nodded. " I think I am. Do y'all know if he got Sasuke as well?" I asked as I felt phantom pains on my chest.

'Kit, Do you not realize what happened' Kurama's voice rang inside my head making me grimace a little.

"My other half was ripped out of you. You shouldn't even be alive right now." Kurama hissed out and I bit my lower lip.

"I met the sage of six paths." I mutter internally and I could feel Kurama pause for a moment. Even his chakra spiked a bit.

" What did he say?" He asked and I hissed slightly as I got up. "That Sasuke and I have bits of Indra and Ashura's chakra. He also said that if we ever needed to help. we could use some of the last bits of his powers."'

I could hear Kurama hum. 'Well, then we have to stop him before he can do any more damage.' Kurama grumbled as the earth beneath us began to shake. I quickly pulled out a kunai when something appeared behind me.

I could see that Sai was carrying Sasuke who was bleeding out. Sakura was quick to begin treating his wounds and she snickered. He was impaled through the chest but he's still alive and I can heal him."

I nod as Sai glanced over at me. "She's still alive you know, the Uzumaki girl. She refused to heal him."He stated and I grimaced, that sounded like Karin, I doubt she'd even try to heal him."

"Who the hell is that?" Kakashi muttered as a hand impaled Madara through the chest.
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(Imma deadass skip the Kaguya part since it is long and well not much changed from cannon ain't nobody)

This chapter finna be hella short cause it would make no sense if I place the time skip here so I think the last chapter will be up soon and the epilogue and YES y'all will find out if Naruto and Sasuke make up lol.

Comment how wack you think this is cause I ain't do 8,000 words minimum and only did 4,500 lol

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