Chapter 256
Mito could feel two familiar chakra pulling a jutsus, a strong combined jutsus. She was proud of them, as they managed to read her plan, they grew up as a soldier that you can depend on. Mitos smile was there for a short term, her expression becoming serious as she focused on what she needed to do. She slide through the earth with ease, following Sasori chakra, it was easy to follow because he had his chakra strings everywhere.
Sasuke was suprised to feel Narutos flare, he didn't have impression Naruto needed help, so what was it, was there need for distraction. Well either way, he was happy to do this combination attack with him, to prove that they were strong, that they were ready. As he gathered the chakra he determined which spot was best to attack. He looked at Narutos direction, who shifted a little to get better angle. Sasuke sent one more of his flare, indicating the direction of the attack. Naruto responded with his own confirming flare. Naruto and Sasuke learned to send messages with flares, firstly on their own, and then Mito helped them more. Sasuke was ready and he made a fire ball, which wasn't overly big, but the temperature was high. He threw it in direction they planned, it traveled fast, he then proceeded to make a larger less hot one, and also sent it in direction. He could feel breeze pick up. He smirked. Naruto smirked too, as his winds started to pick up, the wind was filled with oxygen and it was warm. Slowly as it picked up, in the center of the attack area, a small tornado formed. The tornado formed, because the night was cold and Mitos tornado earlier cooled it down even more. The moment the first fire ball touched the tornado, inner parts of the ball were swallowed by the tornado, while some were sent as small missiles. Zetsu was first victim of the missiles, the missile was so hot, that it burned through his white cells fast.
The tornado was now flaming and in the middle of zetsus and 10 puppets, were no allied shinobi were actually there. The zetsus tried to either avoid the tornado or to cool it down with watter jutsus. It wasn't working, as the moment they would try to avoid the tornado, a flaming missile would hit them. Then the second, slower, bigger, less heated fire ball came at them. But what was interesting, it didn't combined with the tornado, but rather danced around it, making a fire ring around the tornado. Now it was impossible to cool down the tornado. Sasuke smirked, as he sat down on the ground, putting a seal, that would protect him, similar to him, Naruto did the same. Naruto was still in control of the tornado, and Sasuke was in control the fire surrounding the tornado. This jutsu was special, because it had so many strange hand seals. That people would consider unnecessary, but those handseals allowed Naruto and Sasuke to have control of the jutsu during the whole existence of the jutsu. Imagine controlling wind, fire and nobody could stop you. But such jutsu had to have it negative side, right. Well obviously they needed a lot of chakra for them, they couldn't multitask them, they were unable to defend themselves, unless if it involved seals.
The fire was causing serious damage to the puppets, the wooden tools weren't able to escape it. The fire did accidentally spread on the trees nearby, but at the moment nobody cared about it. Minato had found out what the two boys were doing, and he was proud of them, but he ordered them :“ stop the attack. It will cause chaos on both sides. „ Naruto and Sasuke were bit angry but decided to follow the instructions, slowly, the attack needed time to be stopped, as it would explode if it wasn't properly stopped. The controled chakra mass. Would move fast, igniting the fire with the pure oxygen. Well someone else was there to cool down situation.
Mito hummed as she finally got close enough, readying for the attack, she checked the chakra surroundings just in case. One lack of presence caught her slightly out of breath. But Mito would take this situation. Her hands were eagerly making hand seals. Before anyone noticed, Sasori was trapped in earth type dome. It completely surrounded him and it was impossible to escape from it. Sasori cursed, feeling his chakra strings detach from his fingers. The earth domes walls had cut his connection with the puppets. But the man seemed calm, his scorpion style pupet hiding his true body. His voice was leveled and collected :“ a shinobi of this caliber decided to attack me, how cunning. But I doubt you are my match. „ Mito smiled as she appeared from the ground softly speaking :“ I will destroy your dream, your art, your eternalty. „ Sasori seemed to be caught off gourd with her words, and Mito smirked :“ because I am the only one who can make enternal life. „ Sasori huffed :“ what are you talking about. You crazy woman. „ Mito smiled at him :“ I am talking about you, how you failed to provide enternal life to your friend, to yourself, to your parents. „ Sasori seemed displeased with her words, as he pulled his fathers and mother's puppets, saying :“ you are wrong, they are right here. „ Mito hummed :“ are they alive, the art is supposed to be alive. „ Sasori only then noticed how around Mito ink had spread. It was making weird doodles, it hit him soon enough that those were seals. Sasori launched attack on Mito hopping she would dodge, and move from the centre of the seal. Killing her was an option too, but he doubted she would die by this.
However he didn't expect her to completely go uninjured, as the weapons he sent at her went through her. The man cursed, realizing that it was a low level genjutsu. He quickly broke it, only to open his eyes and be completely surprised, here he was, in his human form, hugged by his parents and his heart, or well his chakra storage was in her hands. She softly spoke :“ you were misunderstood at the beginning, but you became the monster everyone saw, I pity you, feel sorry for you. But I cannot forgive you. I hope you can forgive yourself. „ she waited for few seconds, seeing the puppet morf his facial expression in that one of defeats, sadness and understanding. Mito squeezed the chakra storage device, and she could feel the chakra go away. She was still surprised to not feel that man's presence around the area. Right now her dome was protecting her from thousands and thousands of enemy shinobi. The jutsu close to breaking, she stalled for a short second before going back to the ground. She could feel Naruto and Sasuke slowly put down the combination attack. And she froze, that was where the chakra signature she expected to be here was. It was extremely bad. Mito rushed there as quickly as possible, letting the dome fall down, taking few shinobi by surprise and crushing the with mass of earth. She in fact knew that she wasn't dectacted, but attacks were aimed at her. So many earth type attacks went underground, just trying to hit her, they knew she only had the option to hide in the ground. Those that she couldn't dodge, she tried to block by coating her body with earth type chakra. It was mostly successful, she did get hurt, she did have to stay for few seconds, breaking free of the earth around her arms. Mito eventually run away from their range. She poped out of the ground, around the same place where she left her clone, only to realize here was far much more chaos.
Everyone was trying to quickly finish the horde of white zetsus that had appeared while Mito was killing Sasori. But there was more, Kakuza was in centre of the battlefield, fighting with more than ten people at the same time. Naruto and Sasuke were the ones responsible for his involvement in the fight, as he rushed with his water type heart to cool down their flaming tornado. Mito stay rooted for few moments, anyalizing what was the best thing she could do. Her injuries were not anything major, and she was already slowly healing with the help of Isobu. Mito rushed past her teamtaes, taking down few white zetsus. Her goal was to get closer to Kakuzu.
Naruto and Sasuke cursed when they felt the fire tornado cool down faster than it was needed, with this Sasuke was going to lose control. Kakuza was well awere and sent additional lightning attack towards Naruto, sending a lightning attack towards defenseless wind user, or so he thought. Naruto barrier blocked the attack. Kakuza cursed but then he just pured more water on the tornado, the wind was getting heavy with drops of water mixed with it, and was falling down. Naruto quickly let go of his hold on the jutsu seeing it was pointless, letting that little fire mix fully with his oxygen filled wind, an explosion happened but it was too quickly put down. Kakuza didn't wait to attack for long, as his hearts were all in the air and they started attacking in each direction. Pulling more experts in the fight. Moments later Kakuza cursed seeing all the puppets simultaneously fall down. Sasori was dead, or he lost control, the fact that white Zetsu didn't appear to comment this meant he was not dead yet, or that white Zetsu wasn't present during Sasoris death. Which wasn't something that happened a lot, especially since white Zetsu was everywhere. Kakuza though didn't want to bother with it much longer, he was at battle himself. He didn't like Sasori that much either way. And this would only make them move faster. Kakuza stretched his hands to attack directly iwa shinobi, the shinobi was capable enough to dogde and cut the attack, however Kakuza just reattached his hand back. The next moment fire attack could be heard coming towards the iwa shinobi, the attack to precise to be avoided. Naruto was facing the lighting type heart, the attacks were restless, trying to break down his barrier, and Naruto knew that it would eventually work. He was thinking of a way to escape the barrage of the attacks.
Sasuke was in better situation, as his oponent was water type, he could win against it. He let go of his barrier almost immediately, charging his lightning style jutsu in his sword, rushing towards it, dodging the water bullets, balls and other jutsus. But before he could jump and stab the water type heart with his lightning jutsu, he was grabbed by the neck, Kakuza had sent his arms behind Sasuke's back, and caught him of gourd. However he didn't have the best hold to just strangle Sasuke, Sasuke struggled to get free, trying to do it fast because a water type attack was forming in front of him, to kill him.
Seconds later he could feel wet wind, as he was getting carried, by something so fast, for a moment he thought it was Minato as first thing what he saw was blonde hair, but he noticed that the head he was watching wasn't the one who was carrying him, Naruto was in same situation, he seemed to be longer in this situation, as blood rushed to his ears from moving so fast. Sasuke had hard time to coordinate where he was exactly. He saw strand of red hair, next to Naruto blonde one. It was short, but it was there. He slowly turned his up, and confirmed, it was Mito. Although her hair was complete mess, half of it drenched, half of it tourched, and it was cut by something sharp. He saw few strands of hair fall down as she ran. He could feel wetness seep onto his sides. He didn't like being carried like a sack of potatoes. However he was glad Mito was there. Mito stopped after few more seconds not saying anything. Her breath was fast and under no control. Her face was cold, and her hands trembled. Sasuke wondered if she was furious or worried but she never spoke. He wanted to ask her, how she saved them but she was moving again, this time away from him an Naruto, Naruto who seemed to look guilty.
Naruto saw it all happen, his barrier was breaking down fast, he tried to use earth style jutsu to escape from the upcoming lighting, he was barely able to see the blurry motion of something fast approaching him, it wasn't big nor person. It struck his barrier and it immediately broke, Naruto couldn't finish his jutsu in time, he was going to die. Until he was in warm embrace of his aunt, the aunt barring her own teath in pain, he never saw her move so fast, she didn't seem to be stopping anytime soon, he could feel the smell of burn on her, and she did in fact hiss when he felt her embrace him. Her movements were coordinated, calculated, she had to dodge barrage of upcoming attacks, from the blurry image Naruto saw moments ago, it was Kakuza hand, holding down sharp kunai. Before Naruto could realize what was happening, he saw a part of Mitos hair fly off, he was getting manhandled at the moment, Mito was now carrying him pressed by her side the other hand ready to grab something. It turned to be the kunai Kakuza had threw at her. She took it, jumped and dodged Kakuzas hand that was aiming for her throat. Cut the arm apart, and run, throwing the kunai mere seconds later, Naruto realized what drove her to use so much strength. Both him and Sasuke were near death. As the kunai tore a part of the strings that connected Kakuzas other hand, Sasuke fell on the ground and Mito rushed, shielding both of them from the water jutsu. There was definitely a barrier that stopped the most of the attack, but it still hit her. Mito never spoke a word during the run, Naruto understood that this happened because they weren't ready, that they were simply out matched, that they should have just run away when they saw Kakuza arrive, Mito said to them that their lives were most important ones.
Mito felt pain, her back was stinging was freezing, it was very uncomfortable, she was scared to death, she rushed out there, she felt weak right now, but she had to fight him. He was going to slaughter them all. Only few people could match with him, but most of them were tired right now, after all they fought for 7 hours, while Kakuza only entered the fight now. She had to fight him, go all out she should not worry about her chakra reserves, she was going low anywayw, she was injured she didn't have much choice. She looked to her left, noticing that Shisui was still alive and well, she sent a message through a seal, straight to him. He replied with worried if it has to be done. Mito then run towards Kakuza head on. Pulling Rose out again, this time letting the barrier fully form, not like last time when it didn't have enough time. She took out Jisoo and Jennie was flying above her. Lisa appeared next to her and rushed with Mito. Mito carefully putting the crown on her own head. Mito infused Isobu's chakra into her arms and legs, leaving only enough to let her injuries slowly heal.
She was bit faster than when she grabbed Sasuke and Naruto, probably due to the lack of weight on her. Her movements were unpredictable, she was dodging the weapons Kakuza keeps throwing at her with ease. As three out of four hearts were actually fighting other people, people that she didn't know, but could see they had a knack for survival, as they rarely were hit by the attacks. She focused on the water one and Kakuza himself. Scratching the earth with Jisoo lifting a thin layer of dust in the air, before putting on a genjutsu she rushed in, limiting the eye sight with the genjutsu that appeared like a small dust storm coming straight at Kakuza. The mans attacks intensified the closer she got, however due to genjutsu and Mitos dodging skills none of them actually hit. Mito had already came in close distance of Kakuza without him knowing. She tried to finish this quickly, going straight for his head. But that was mistake, as Kakuza somehow felt that, probably due to his old age and insane survival instics. Kakuza only had enough time to barely dodge the attack and then try to counter attack, stopped by the barrier, Mito used her arms to quickly change direction off Jisoo, by pulling out chakra from Jisoo, making the sword lighter, she cut off Kakuzas hand slightly above his elbow. Lisa was close behind and she used a fire attack to get rid of the hand, making sure that Kakuza wouldn't simply reattach it later. This angered Kakuza who tried with his strings to quickly strangle Lisa but his attack did zero damage as Lisa just continued to burn the strings that attached themselves on her. Mito was attacking him again, making sure that Jisoo would do enough damage. The water type heart attacked her from behind, Mito dodged easily, but letting herself not able to attack immediately. She then looked at the water heart and smirked. It was done. Jennie cut through the middle of it, straight through the heart, breaking the mask, making it fall down. Mito let Jennie earlier to wait in position hopping that a heart would eventually come in its range of attack, and kill it with ease, she had a genius idea to hide Jennie on the ground. Kakuza realized Lisa was not alive at all and stopped his attacks, jumping backwards to avoid new attacks from her.
Mito sent Jennie to other hearts, while she turned to Lisa and they moved together towards Kakuza. Kakuza had already noticed how his advantage was completely gone. He could feel the forces from the camp rush in here, as they knew Sasori was dead and Kakuza was in fight, Akatuski loved to fight desperately. Their beginning was like that, the reason so many joined this war was because they felt desperate, they expirenced inequality for so long. However even with those numbers there was no way they would win. Even if the four great countries shinobi were tired it still didn't mean they would won. Kakuza had no choice but to go all out, hoping to take as much enemies down with him.
Mito noticed the shift in his chakra, and rushed to fight him, not letting him do any jutsu. Rose held out the next attack that came from Kakuza. Making Mito able to counter. Kakuza however smirked, as suddenly all three remaining hearts were aiming at Mito. Mito cursed, as her attack was caught by Kakuza who was waiting for her to get hit.