The Story of Hagami III [Naruto Fanfic | Uchiha] [Completed]

39.1 | Stagnant

Part II

There was nothing Hagami, not to mention the rest of the Allied Shinobi Force, could do as long as Sasuke and Naruto were focused on fighting Obito. However, that didn't mean that she wasn't focused on the fight itself in order to catch any flaw she could between either of them.

At some point though, the Five Kage returned. And as a result, they have begun planning on destroying the Divine Tree, or at least severing it from the ground. Whether or not they're able to do it varied, but so long as there were shinobi of each of the main chakra natures, it was debatable toward possible rather than impossible.

Hagami had loosened her arms back to her side as Shisui unsheathed his tantō. But instead of keeping it to himself, he landed it to Hagami.

"You can wield this better than I can, so take it." He offered it to her. "You'll find an unconventional way to use it too, I'm sure." He grinned and Hagami smirked, not that she had a plan up her sleeve yet. When she turned back, she realized that the Allied Shinobi Force had begun mobilizing back toward the trunk of the tree. It seemed like they're really aiming to cut it down.

It didn't take long for Hagami, Shisui, and Itachi to begin mobilizing either. They darted into the battle as headstrong as the rest.

Hagami flipped the tantō in her hand a few times to regain the feeling of a normal one instead of in her hand. It didn't take long for Hagami to get the feeling in her hand and she also didn't take long to take a thing of trip wire out of her ninja pouch either. She attached it to the end of the hilt and then whisked it ahead of her.

Her Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in her eye and she stopped. When she threw it, she was able to manipulate it with needle like precision around the roots, slicing through parts of it and weakening it enough for it to collapse under its own weight. She only targeted the smaller ones, since she didn't have the ability to slice through the larger ones, but nonetheless, she was able to help.

Suddenly, something shook the ground, knocking many shinobi off their feet and then many out. Hagami was amongst who only fell to her knee. Her eyes searched for the source and her eyes found the large crater in the ground. Without a second thought, she had darted over to it but stopped at the edge. She saw Obito was standing in the center right away, but when she looked lower, she saw Naruto kneeling and out of breath whilst Sasuke was just climbing back to his knees.

"... Or if the Allied Shinobi Force might go back to fighting each other!" She vaguely heard Obito speaking. "And you don't even know if you can defeat me! There is no reason to keep on fighting for a world like this. In a few minutes, this world will be gone anyway. Why do you still fight?!"

Hagami watched patiently as Naruto finally got to his feet. She heard him faintly speaking to Obito, "...my Ninja Way'ttebayo! I never go back on my word!" Hagami saw Sasuke and the guy partnered with him get to their feet as well.

But what unsettled her now, was Obito's eyes. It wasn't limited to his Mangekyō Sharingan any longer, but the sudden narrowing of them, and the look of impatience and annoyance that came with it.

However, Hagami still refused to move; she'd wait in case she needed to intervene but at the right time where she wouldn't be putting any of them in danger.

"I thought I told you to go to sleep." Obito hissed. It was then that both Shisui and Itachi landed beside Hagami, their thoughts the same as her's as they'd wait until they needed to intervene.

Sasuke had gotten to Naruto's side swiftly, his Susanoo surrounding his body as soon as Naruto entered Tailed Beast Mode again. But something was different yet again. Instead of forming separately, they formed as one where Sasuke had become the armor around Kurama's chakra. To say the least but never admitted, Hagami was in awe of their precise chakra control.

"We'll sleep tomorrow, dreaming our own dreams'ttebayo!" Naruto retorted, confident that they wouldn't lose.

The Susanoo built along Kurama's chakra like an impenetrable armor and a katana. What distinguished it was Kurama still were the fox-like eyes still visible.

"Nothing you try now will change anything." Obito had risen into the air. "Look above you," Obito angled his head up as he formed weapons of his own using the Truth-Seeking balls, "what can you see through that hole at the top? The moon.

"The time to enter the moonlit dream world nears. The gaping hold of Hell that has opened will be filled by the moon's dreams. That time is finally here!

"This katana is the divine blade of the Sage of the Six Paths, the Nunoboko. You can no longer defeat me. Strong emotions dwell within the blade. It's the katana of the soul. The Sage created the world with this blade." Obito explained in the air. In Hagami's eyes, it was coiled in a way to resemble a strand of DNA. "My desire will vanquish you all. No matter how much you resist, it's useless. The power of the Sage will stop you!"

Hagami's eyes left Obito, knowing he wouldn't waste his energy on striking first, for fear he'd miss. So she trained her eyes on Naruto and Sasuke down below. They too haven't made a move, probably since they're going to focus everything they possessed into one strike as well.

"Sasuke, let's focus everything on a single blow." Naruto suggested. "I think we're only going to have a tiny window to strike. Don't miss it."

"Hn." Sasuke grunted. Hagami watched the activity the tails were producing. Her eyes faintly caught onto the tiny Rasengan forming in each of them. Then, chakra sources, nine of them began resonating behind the three of them, and a few seconds later, she realized that they're all apart of the group that Sasuke had graduated with.

Each of the shinobi took a tail, their cloaks vanishing only to be replaced by the one Naruto currently possessed. They floated, suspended by sheer chakra that flowed through the tails. Each of them put their hands to the Rasengan they're now in control of. The Rasengan yielded to their will as they pushed out of the tails.

Hagami concluded that they're aiming for the shield, to break it so Obito didn't have a line of defense when the katana slashed through. Naruto and Sasuke charged forward with all of their strength in order to face the Nunoboko head on. The two of them hoped it'd be enough for them to shatter it and then pass through Obito himself, to end this madness.