Reborn!

1: The War's Unexpected End

Madara stood atop the still-incomplete Shinju, scowling at the ninja that stood between him and his goal. The reanimated shinobi had realised that he had no chance of extracting Kyūbi from its jinchūriki quite a while back and was racking his head for ideas.

He could not just let all his efforts go to waste like that just because some pitiful excuses of shinobi stood in his way! An idea suddenly sprouted in his head as a proverbial lightbulb lit up in his head.

Madara laughed maniacally as he shouted, "Ha, you pitiful shinobi have no chance of stopping me now!"

"Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei!" Madara shouted out his technique as he completed the hand signs.

A puff of smoke appeared before him as Kinkaku and Ginkaku, the infamous Gold and Silver twins of Kumo were revealed.

The three ninjas, noticing his plan, dashed forward trying to stop the crazed Uchiha.

"Rasenshuriken!" Naruto yelled as he tried to hit Madara with the spinning chakra.

"Amaterasu!" Sasuke shouted at the same time, adding to the blonde's technique with the unstoppable black flames of hell.

Their efforts were for nought as Madara sidestepped the deadly attack and quickly extracted the Kyūbi's chakra from the two confused reanimated ninjas before they could regain their bearings.

This was enough to fully awaken the Shinju into the Jūbi as the massive creature roared loudly enough to shake the very earth.

Noticing this, Uchiha Obito cackled at the look of shock on his opponent, Kakashi's face. He smirked at him, giving the silver-haired male who had once been his comrade a long monologue about how Madara had saved him, how their actions would bring about peace as well as how Kakashi should give up and accept his own weaknesses.

This only caused Kakashi to shake his head sadly at his ex-teammate. This was until a fire suddenly started burning in his eyes.

"I'm not letting you degrade yourself any further, Obito! It's time to open your eyes to the truth!" Kakashi declared before charging at Obito with his Raikiri active, only for him to use Kamui to phase past the attack.

"Kakashi, it's hopeless! Humans are incapable of achieving peace! I have to make sure that you insolent fools see the light in our actions!" Obito stated as he started getting frustrated at the stubbornness of the man he once called his rival.

"There is no need for him now that my goal has been accomplished... He is just a weak fool anyway..." Madara murmured as he started moulding chakra.

"Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku," Madara blew out a wall of flames that rushed at Obito, who was too distracted with Kakashi to dodge the fatal attack.

Obito screamed when he noticed that he was burning, only to be burned to ashes before he could fully process what was going on. Kakashi had noticed the flames rushing toward their direction and used shunshin to quickly move to a safe spot, only being able to look on in horror as his corrupted childhood friend was burned to a crisp. He barely noticed when his chakra began to escape wildly from his body in visible tendrils, in amounts beyond any he had ever unleashed in his entire life.

"I'll kill you!" Kakashi bellowed as he charged Madara while his students were still too stunned by the fact that Madara had killed Obito, who they assumed was Madara's ally, to even try to stop the enraged man.

Madara merely used Hashirama's Mokuton to stab the ninja in his heart before stating cooly, "What a pesky fly."

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura and Naruto wailed as they realised that their old sensei was killed by Madara while Sasuke could only gape as he started to curse his own weakness, blaming himself for not being able to stop the man from charging to his death.