The End of the Terrible War

An enemy shinobi infiltrating a Great Hidden Village, all alone?

Releasing their own tail beast free, inside of their own village, to wreak havoc?

Personally killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, using abhorrent means?

Some people couldn't believe it actually happened. However, it really did happen!

Moreover, it was done by the distinguished member of the three legendary Sannins, Orochimaru himself.

The whole world was shocked and appalled, people only now realizing the severity of this war. This war isn't affecting only the shinobi's lives anymore!

Now all options are on the table, therefore, even innocent civilians could horribly suffer.

Kumogakure dejectedly signed a temporary peace treaty with Konoha, as someone already expected.

However, everyone knows, that with the previous gruesome move of Konoha, chances for an everlasting peace between these two villages were truly very minuscule in the future.

That kind of hatred can never be washed away!

Unlesss one of those villages successfully conquers the other one!

Orochimaru single-handily led this whole world towards new and terribly dark times.

However, the severity of this particular move will only truly be felt in the distant future.

- - -

Nevertheless, another event, determining the future of this entire world, was taking place now.

The only remaining war, Konoha waged at the moment, was against the Iwagakure!

After the Konoha's previous sneak attack on the Kananbi bridge, Iwagakure's vital pathway line of supply, they managed to successfully turn the tide of the war in their favor, despite their massive shortage in manpower.

The attack happened around six months ago, shortly after Orochimaru's attack on Kumogakure.

Konoha now managing to focus all of their remaining forces against them, Iwagakure certainly wasn't in a good situation, at the moment.

And, that's what led to the current situation of Konoha's forces, led by Jiraiya the Sannin, laying a really big siege on their main Kusagakure base, on this battlefront!

However, the siege proved to be a little difficult for them. Iwagakure's defense capabilities grew even further since the last Great War. They weren't famous for their Earth Release, the most defensive chakra element in existence, for nothing.

Expecting Konoha's attack in the future, they managed to coat the entirety of their main base, in numerous defense mechanisms of Earth Release and Explosion Seals, combined.

Onoki, the leader of the whole Iwagakure, and Jiraiya, the commander of this attack, stood in the air, on a nearby steep hill, somewhere near the base in question.

They were presently engaged in a very fierce battle!

"You're still twenty years away from being my opponent, young man!" Onoki who was the one currently levitating in the air said seriously to the young man with long white hair, who was standing on the nearby steep hill, instead.

"Haha, don't be so sure, old man!" Jiraiya replied confidently, not fazed in the slightest by Onoki's previous taunting. Two small toads were currently placed on top of his shoulders.

They were producing some kind of weird soundwaves, right from their small throats.

'Not good!' Onoki suddenly realized something while looking at the toads' small opened mouths, on top of his opponent's shoulders, in the distance, and faintly hearing something as well.

"Just what are you planning, boy? You think you'll trap me, Onoki, under a genjutsu?" Onoki suddenly grew a little furious. He promptly clasped his hands together, then swiftly moving them away again, some kind of white light forming in between them now, already.

"Die!" 'Dust Release: Drill!' The shape of white light in between his hands suddenly enlarged, shooting right towards Jiraiya and his two frogs expeditiously.

Dust Release is a nature transformation Kekkei Tota, a combination of earth, wind, and fire. To perform Dust Release, users form a small three-dimensional object out of chakra in their hands.

The object expands once released by the user and moves astonishingly fast at its target, anything that passes through it is disintegrated on a molecular level.

'Bad, he already realized it!' Jiraiya suddenly thought badly. He attempted to use a sound-based genjutsu sung by toads, their most powerful genjutsu, on Onoki, just now!

The song's sheet music has been passed down through the generations of Mount Myoboku, but due to the complexity of the lyrics and melodies, only the Two Great Sage Toads, the frogs currently on his shoulders, have ever been able to successfully perform it.

"Not enough time! Let's do that!" Jiraiya suddenly said loudly to the two toads on top of him. They just nodded solemnly after hearing him.

"Sage Art: Goemon!" Jiraiya suddenly created a large volume of oil from his mouth, followed by one of the frogs performing a large Wind Release technique to propel the oil, and the other one performing a large Fire Release technique to ignite it.

His technique and Onoki's Dust Release suddenly collided in the mid-air.

Surprisingly these two amazing techniques canceled each other out for a while before Onoki's one completely overpowered the other one.

However, just those few seconds of cancellation, allowed Jiraiya to swiftly avoid the deadly attack.

Onoki looked a little surprised after seeing Jiraiya's technique, it's not every day that a ninjutsu could contend with his own Dust Release, even if it was just for a few moments.

Somewhere in the underground earth passage, Jiraiya sighed, feeling a little relieved.

"Jiraiya boy, what should we do, now? If we get hit by his technique, we are done for!" The male toad on Jiraiya's shoulder suddenly exclaimed worriedly. His name was Fukasaku and he was nearly eight hundred years old now, the same as his wife, besides him.

"The only thing we can do now is that thing!" Jiraiya suddenly said a little excitedly and worriedly at the same time.

"No, you're not..."

The female Great Sage Toad, Shima, suddenly opened her eyes wide and said solemnly.

"That's the only way to defeat him!" Jiraiya exclaimed firmly, knowing that he will have to use that untested method now if he wants to achieve a victory for his village here, and finally end this war.

His favorite disciple, Minato, lost both of his students on this front, not too long ago.

Another one of disciples, Yahiko, already died as well, judging by the regrettable information he received from the Amegakure before.

He was referring to the Two Great Sage Toads channeling the natural energy right into him, while he would fight against Onoki again, buying them time to do that. But, this was still only an untested concept they thought about just recently.

"Alright, let's start, already!"

- - -

Another decisive battle was currently being held on these rugged grounds.

On the one side were Konoha's Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze.

After both of them graduated and became shinobi at the same time, Kushina was kidnapped by Kumogakure forces.

Konoha mobilized its ninja to retrieve her, but only Minato noticed the strands of red hair Kushina left behind to mark their path. Minato, acting alone, rescued her from her captors.

On their way back to Konoha, Minato confessed his admiration for her hair and her strength, causing Kushina, who had previously believed Minato unreliable and even girly, to fall in love with him.

They often performed missions together in the past, because Kushina was the current Jinchuriki of Konoha, and if she loses control of her powers for some reason, Minato could always bring her back to sanity, through the power of 'love', or something like that.

Minato was an excellent Konoha's elite jonin, and before some of the younger generations appeared, he was considered as the biggest genius of Konoha, in history.

On the opposing side was only Roshi, the Iwagakure's own Jinchuriki of the Four-Tails.

Roshi had red hair, mustache, and beard which tapered off to a point.

He was wearing a large headpiece consisting of a three-pointed crown-like ridge, bearing both his Iwagakure forehead protector, a ring, and a prominent black piece of armor running across his cheeks and the bridge of his nose.

He wore a long-sleeved magenta kimono shirt and pants, with a mesh-armour shirt and fitted black suit underneath, along with calf-length sandals.

"Minato, be careful, that guy is a Jinchuriki, too!" Kushina suddenly exclaimed solemnly, she wore a blue forehead protector with her hair tied up in a high ponytail and strands at the sides of her face.

Her attire consisted of a standard Konoha flak jacket over a black short-sleeved shirt and black form-fitting pants that reached her calves.

"I know, Kushina," Minato nodded seriously, his attire consisted of a standard Konoha uniform with two bands on both of his sleeves, a green flak jacket, blue forehead protector, and blue sandals.

"You're the Yellow Flash? Be prepared to die today! And, who are you?" Roshi suddenly asked condescendingly from the distance.

Minato was already pretty well-known and establish shinobi, but this red-haired woman was truly unknown to him.

He really wasn't that well-informed, to begin with, he was a very carefree person, only coming to help the Iwagakure when it's urgent and when he got to fight strong opponents, which they promised, that he would get to do right now.

The reason for this was because, due to high risk associated, Konoha didn't dispatch Kushina often onto battlefields. However, now was a really special situation, and they had no choice!

'Minato, I'll try to grab him with my chains, and you'll finish him off!' Kushina suddenly whispered to Minato who was beside her. He just nodded in agreement seriously.

"Get ready, Yellow Flash, for I'm going to kill you right now!" Roshi shouted all of sudden and then launched himself forward.

"Lava Style: Scorching Rocks Jutsu!" He suddenly expelled a large amount of lava from his mouth, which quickly solidified into multiple boulders of molten rock that were fired towards them with tremendous force.

And, due to their composition, these boulders can melt through most objects with ease, and because a considerable number are dispersed over a wide range in quick succession, they are also difficult to avoid.

But, as those dangerous molten rocks were about to hit them, from Kushina's back some kind of chains popped out, unexpectedly, quickly pushing them away.

'Wait what are those chains...? Could it be?' Roshi suddenly thought and looked at this scene incredibly. The only person he knew that could use those kinds of chains, was actually Yoshi Uzumaki, the Crimson Blast.

The most of Yoshi's notorious reputation, in fact, surprisingly came from his famed battle with the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, before in the Tanigakure!

That was the first time he actually showed the world his ingenious and peculiar explosive shadow clones, and that was also the day when he managed to come to a stand-still with an actual Kage!

So even Roshi, from Iwagakure, actually learned about that battle.

"...Red hair as well, are you maybe Yoshi Uzumaki's sister?" He suddenly asked unexpectedly, while looking at Kushina seriously.

"Eh?" Kushina suddenly felt surprised, it seems that her younger clansman's reputation already exceeded her own completely.

'That pretentious little guy was already this famous?' Kushina thought, feeling annoyed. She tried many times before to get closer to him while she was younger, after all, he was maybe her only kin left in this world.

But, he was always very aloof and distant to her, sometimes even going as far as to show some clear signs of animosity towards her!

At first, she thought that he is just too young and that it was just a phase, but even as he got older, he showed no intention of wanting to get closer to her, whatsoever!

She really couldn't understand him at all!

"Who is his sister!? That's not your problem!" Kushina shouted angrily all of a sudden. She always somehow had a really quick temper. So, she immediately attacked him with her chains, as well.

"You should work on your temper woman!" Roshi replied also irritated.

"I'll show you what you get for irritating me!" He said badly as his entire body suddenly started getting enveloped in a coating of lava that enhances the damage of his physical attacks, 'Lava Release: Chakra Mode!'

Due to the extreme heat generated by the lava, he is also capable of burning the target without coming into direct contact with them, in this state.

In addition, it can also be used for defensive purposes, as it acts as a deterrent towards those who wish to attack the user physically.

He lunged towards them once again, but this time a little faster than before, thanks to using a little bit of his tailed-beast chakra now, as well.

"Kushina, try to envelop him with your chains fast and drain a little bit of his chakra armor, too. And, I'll try to finish him with my Rasengan!" Minato looked at this scene alarmingly, so he quickly whispered to Kushina, forming a battle plan already, in an instant.

"Okay, but please be careful!" Kushina nodded solemnly, already starting to circle with her chains around the upcoming Roshi's onslaught.

But Roshi proved to be a little too fast for her current ability, so after a few more moments of dodging her chain attacks successfully, he already appeared pretty near her.

But suddenly, two more yellow chakra chains suddenly popped up from the ground up, catching his legs swiftly. Kushina not wasting any time, controlled her other chains to grab him as well promptly.

"Damn, why am I getting weaker, ahh!" Roshi suddenly yelled annoyedly, his other leg and both arms already completely caught by Kushina's chains.

"What are you doing to me, woman!?" But, just as he shouted indignantly again, he suddenly felt a really sharp and intense pain on his now exposed back, chakra armor already dissipating a little there, which Minato gladly exploited swiftly.

He was holding some kind of a small rotating blue orb in his right hand, drilling it into Roshi's back effectively. The name of this technique is Rasengan.

It was personally created by him, and he based it on the Tailed Beast Bomb, he saw before during one of the many missions he performed together with Kushina, before the war.

He also had to spend three whole years creating it before, and he intended it to be the highest form of shape transformation mastery.

Roshi felt as if this attack could pierce through his back at any moment, the pain also radiated from his back towards his whole body.

Looking at the now happy and contented red-haired woman in front of himself who was entrapping him firmly, making him feel all that torturing pain from his back, he suddenly yelled madly, "Ahh, even If I have to die, I'll still kill you, bi*ch!!"

"Flower-Fruit Mountain!"

He gathered all of his remaining strength, stealing even more from his tailed-beast, then his whole body suddenly transformed into a large volcano.

Kushina and Minato both looked at this gravely, their previous happy faces gone.

Suddenly, the whole volcano erupted violently, sending man large molten rocks flying straight at Kushina's directions, the effects of which resembled a giant fiery flower.

The lava produced looked like it would be able to melt anything in its path.

'No!!' Kushina suddenly turned really frightened and overwhelmed, feeling the most danger of her life at this moment.

Minato also looked at this scene aghast, his soul almost leaving his body in despair.

'No, I must help her, I must get there!'

At this moment of life and death, he suddenly felt as if he wanted to trade his place with Kushina's and get hit with that scary upcoming attack himself instead of her.

Some kind of rare insights started gradually filling up his brain unexpectedly, the insights of space!

One of the most mysterious aspects of human existence.

He suddenly felt some kind of precious connection with it.

And before he knew it, he suddenly dropped a strangely-decorated peculiar kunai on the ground, and astonishingly disappeared from his current position, out of blue.

A second passed, Kushina looked at the sea of magma coming right towards her, ready to swallow her completely, until nothing of her remains.

But, just as it was about to happen, Kushina suddenly felt a really gentle arm picking her up by her waist fast, and before she knew it, she suddenly appeared on the ground behind the volcano's eruption! 'Minato!'

Minato obviously already left a Flying Thunder God mark on her before, he finally just used it.

"Minato, you finally mastered it!" Kushina shouted happily while hugging him a little.

Minato just nodded after which he started smiling contentedly.

Roshi was already decapitated by his own jutsu, lying on the ground weakly.

- - -

In the distance, another battle was still fiercely raging.

After a period of careful delaying, Jiraiya finally managed to enter his imperfect Sage Mode with the help of the two elder frogs on his shoulders, in which state he looked quite frog-like himself.

The battle finally became more even.

"That bastard Hiruzen really has good disciples!" Onoki was very impressed with Jiraiya's performance today, he must admit.

"Oh, no!" But the next second, his face suddenly turned grave, he heard and noticed a large volcano-like eruption happening in the distance.

He immediately adjusted his entire body weight to the lightest one possible, quickly flying towards the direction of the epicenter of the loud sound.

Jiraiya promptly responded as well, following him closely, albeit he was still a little slower than him, even when using his imperfect Sage Mode.

Back there, before Kushina attempted to seal Roshi's body away, she noticed another decently strong figure approaching their direction while using some kind of Earth Release jutsu, creating a large crack in the ground efficiently, separating them away from the Roshi's body.

The Third Tsuchikage's own son, Kitsuchi, noticed the commotion there as well and quickly came here to secure their Jinchuriki's body!

He also grew really mature and strong during those five years of peace before this war.

"Kushina, leave this one to me!" Minato who was now looking at Kitsuchi's resolute face across the large crater suddenly said.

But, before another fight erupted here, they all noticed a pretty short man flying quickly in the air towards them.

Onoki already arrived at the scene and landed near Kitsuchi. Looking at him gently, he sincerely praised him, "Great job, Kitsuchi, you truly saved our village this time!"

Kitsuchi just nodded seriously but feeling a little happy for his father's sincere praise.

After a while, another figure arrived at the scene, it was precisely Jiraiya, in his frog-like form still.

Kushina and Minato looked at him both stunned and curious.

"Haha, I'll explain it later, Kushina!" Jiraiya scratched his hair embarrassingly, thinking that this form was just too ugly to be seen by other people.

"Did you finally master it just now, Minato?" He turned towards Minato and looked at him seriously while asking.

Seeing him nodding promptly, he felt as if a heavy stone was suddenly lifted from his heart, replaced with pure ecstasy.

He turned towards Onoki afterward, confidently exclaiming.

"Onoki, you lost today!"

- - -

And just as he predicted, Onoki and the Iwagakure, truly lost the battle, and even the whole war, on that day!

And, Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash finally got the reputation and fame that he deserved!

Understandably so, after all, he successfully killed one thousand enemy shinobi by himself!

Onoki was truly powerless on that day!

He was hopelessly forced to end the battle on that day to cut his losses.

Later he even signed a new peace treaty with Konoha, after all, who is crazy to go against the Flying Thunder God in a war?

Konoha finally ended this plaguing war,

But. another fierce battle soon awaited it instead!

It was an internal type of battle!

And, worst of all, no one could even remotely guess who the winner will be!

- - -

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