Saruto Hyuga: The Last Generation

54.) A Battle Unwinnable Without Consequences

"Saruto?" Hinata shakes the frozen still boy. Suddenly, with a white flash, Saruto disappears, leaving a white trail through a tear in the medical tent to the direction of the battle. 

"Where'd he go?!" Sakura stars at the white trail.

"I'll follow him. You stay here." Hinata says, activating her Byakagan and running out of the tent.

...

"What is that?" Sarada gasps, trapped under rubble from Isshiki's hits.

"Saruto?" Boruto says, pulling a chakra-absorbing rod out of his side. In the sky was Saruto, the nine tailed beasts' chakra looming over his body as a white cloud of shakra. His byakagan and sharingan is also activated with his snake sage crusted around his eyes. 

Isshiki covers his eyes from the bright light and tosses the broken body of the first hokage to the ground. 

"I'm your opponent here." Saruto's voice booms loudly, an effect of his ultimate powers no doubt. Isshiki smiles. 

"Right. Let's get this over with so I can turn myself into the chakra tre-" Before Isshiki could finish what he was saying, the white flash hits him hard and lands him into the floor, creating a crater dozens of meters down. Isshiki grinds his teeth and floats back in the air, only to be instantly hit with a wave of a lightning and fire mix jutsu. "You inferior creature!" Isshiki gasps.

"Your otsutsukian powers are limited, aren't they? They're being blocked from the ten tails form. You can't shrink anything or summon anything out of thin air, can you?" Isshiki narrows his eyes and yells as he tries to hit the boy who dodges quickly and hits him with a wave of tailed beast chakra. "It's almost as if the ten tails is actually breaking down your otsutsukian body even if you have perfect control of the powers... it's because the ten tails was supposed to eat an otsutsukian body to harvest a fruit and you're purely otsutsukian." Isshiki stares at the boy in realization and fear. 

"You know exactly."

"You were going to die anyways and when you die, the other two otsutsukians can take over the ten tails and grow a tree and eventually harvest a fruit. I guess the only thing to do is keep you alive and sealed." Saruto activates four clones and gate seals Isshiki who fails to escape due to his weakness. 

"Saruto, what are you planning on doing?" Naruto asks, his body only consisting of half of his body due to the ten tails chakra's effects on those reanimated.

"Saruto, don't do anything unrational." Sarada pleads. Saruto only looks at his family and rushes off towards the other two otsutsukians, putting them into the seal with Isshiki.

"Saruto, what are you planning on doing?" Momoshiki says as he hits the wall in attempt to break it down. 

"That's not going to work," Saruto laughs. 

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"Thank you everyone." Saruto's voice booms throughout the connection.

"At your service, Saruto Uzumaki, grandchild of Naruto Uzumaki." Saiken says.

"Kid, you did good. Now make us proud." Kurama adds, pushing the boy out of the connection room.

---

Saruto's chakra coat disappears but the seal keeping the Otsutsukians inside still stood tall and strong. In front of the seal, he starts his hands signs. Seal. Boar. Rabbit.

"No. No stop it!" The fourth hokage's eyes widen as he realizes it. 

"What is it grandfather?" Boruto asks worried.

"He's performing the reaper death seal!" Minato races to reach his great-grandson but it was too late. Saruto's hands clap close as a demonic entity attaches to his back.

"Why?" Sarada, who was getting lifted from under the rubble asks. "There were other ways I'm sure. There were other ways!" The mother cried.

"You know this was the only way. I owe it to the world and I owe it to my family. Being a shinobi requires sacrifice and honestly with all this power, I wasn't going to survive for much longer." Saruto explains deeply but with a slight smile.

"Saruto!" Asuma enters the battlefield through a portal. "You lost me, I can't lose you!"

"Asuma, it's far too late. The time portals are crashing upon each other and there's no way to kill three otsutsukians without killing everyone else. And I know... I knew a while ago." Saruto looks towards his mother. "That there's another to take care of the legacy." Sarada rubs her stomach.

"Then do what you must. It's too late and I'm just happy we had the chance to say goodbye." Sarada responds, a tear falling from her eye. Saruto nods and deactivates the four-wall seal, instantly sealing the three otsutsukians into separated rock seals. He nods towards Sasuke.

The two go through dimensions to separate the seals. Isshiki, they put in limbo. They arrived back on the battle field and Saruto looks towards everyone before the demon reaper laughs and takes Saruto's life, leaving the battlefield quiet.