The Conqueror of The Shinobi World

Chapter 89: A Corpse Should be Left Well Alone



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"Orochimaru!" Hiruzen shouted in surprise as he dodged an attack from the Snake Sannin. The Snake Sannin licked his lips as he slashed through the air with his kunai, but Hiruzen easily dodged the attack before jumping away to gain some distance. The Snake Sannin tried to rush towards him when a voice roared behind him.

"Lariat!" Orochimaru was punched in the chest, his ribcage shattered as blood flew everywhere; his body flew through the air before smashing against the roof tiles, breaking several of them and creating a dirt cloud around him; once it cleared away, revealing Orochimaru lying unmoving, he appeared to be dead.

"And that's the end of it!" A boasted with a wide grin, blue lightning engulfing his body, seeing the Snake Sannin lying dead, he puffed out his chest, knowing he had killed a Sannin with a single punch.

Sarutobi was certain this wasn't the end when suddenly a purple barrier formed around the roof, reaching two hundred meters high in the sky. Sarutobi cursed his luck as he looked around. One of the nearby ANBUs quickly tried to damage the barrier, only for it to burst into flames the moment he touched it. His screams echoed as he moved around in pain before falling from the roof.

"What is this?!" A roared in anger, his lightning armor flaring up, reaching five meters. He looked like his body was burning in lightning, but Hiruzen noticed the four new Sound Shinobis that had created the barrier around their roof.

"Those four Shinobis have created this barrier; they have trapped us in it," Hiruzen concluded. A growled loudly in anger, almost like a bull, before aiming his fist downwards. Hiruzen wondered what he was trying to do when A roared and punched the roof with all his strength, causing a hole to form where he had punched. The wooden beams supporting the roof shook and broke. The roof remained standing, but Hiruzen quickly realized what the Raikage had tried to do.

"Damn it! The barrier has a floor too, we can't climb down!" A snarled as he looked downwards at the hole in the roof he had made, and just five meters below him was the red floor of the barrier. That meant they couldn't climb up, and they couldn't just go down.

"I think they want to keep us here." Hiruzen reasoned as he looked around, trying to study the barrier. A grunted more, with the way he was eyeing the barrier, he seemed as if he wanted to try and use his punch to break it, but Hiruzen stopped him before he could make the situation worse for him.

"Do not punch it, Raikage. This is a Seal Barrier; it cannot be opened through brute strength. I think I can open it, but I need some time," Hiruzen told him, a feeling of anxiety growing in his heart as he pulled out a scroll from a seal on his belt.

"What's the point? Their leader is Dead!" A roared once again, but both he and Hiruzen froze in their places when they heard sinister laughter from behind them.

They both quickly looked behind to see Orochimaru standing on his feet where he had crashed and where his body had been; there was nothing there besides a puddle of yellow acid slowly melting off the tiles and the wood beneath.

"I guess it's true what they say about you, Raikage. You are all muscle but no brain." Orochimaru mocked with a wide grin like a snake; the right side of his face had grown white scales like a snake, and the purple paint around his eyes reached to his jawline, biting the tip of two of his index fingers, a trail of blood rain down his pale hands.

"Lariat!!" A attacked once again with fury, his fist digging deep into Orochimaru's chest, but the Snake merely grinned widely. Suddenly, a white snake burst out from under his sleeve, his mouth wide open with sharp teeth, rushing towards A's neck, but before it could bite him, the head of the Snake was sliced off. A quickly jumped away as Orochimaru suddenly turned into mud that had lost its form, turning into a puddle and forming a mass of mud on the floor that started sliding down through the roof tiles.

"Orochimaru! Come Out, You Coward!" A roared with rage, looking around the roof, trying to catch a glimpse of the Snake Sannin; much to Hiruzen's annoyance, who tried to focus, they suddenly heard a burst of sinister laughter.

"If you insist so badly, then who am I to not fulfill your wish?" Orochimaru's voice came from underneath them. They quickly jumped away as the snake sannin burst out from the rooftop. His lower body looked like a snake, and his legs swirled around as if they lacked any bones.

"Orochimaru, why are you doing this? What exactly is your goal?" Hiruzen demanded as he landed far enough away from him, looking at his former student, who smirked as the battle was still raging on outside the barrier. While the barrier didn't allow them to move, they could still hear the cries of people, the death, and the blood. Hiruzen really hoped what happened fourteen years ago wouldn't be repeated, but it seemed bad luck always found its way back to Konoha.

"Kukukukuku, since you asked so nicely, Sensei. I will tell you the truth: What I want is the complete destruction of Konoha." Hiruzen didn't react upon hearing that. He narrowed his eyes towards his former student.

"I can see right through you, Orochimaru. I know you are lying to me, I don't know what you truly want, but I know I can't allow you to have it." Hiruzen spoke firmly as he took his stance, ready to fight and kill his student.

A was really getting annoyed with all the talking; he wished he could attack, but he already remembered what almost happened. Getting poisoned by the Snake Sannin was something he knew he should try to avoid as much as possible.

"Oh, and here I thought I was a good liar, but no matter. I guess we are doing this—" Suddenly, time stopped for all of them. Hiruzen's eyes widened when he heard his words in his ears. Even A seemed furious by what he heard, and Orochimaru, for someone who could control his emotions all the time, seemed caught off guard as time returned to normal.

Hiruzen stumbled a little. The barrier's color wavered a little for a moment before turning back to normal purple, and Hiruzen kept repeating the words he heard in his head over and over again.

"WHAT!! That Bastard! Who does he THINK he is?!" The Raikage shouted, sounding more furious than ever before as his lightning armor flared up even more; as he turned around, glaring at the middle of the stadium where Naruto was standing, Hiruzen, on the other hand, remained speechless. He wanted to say something but whatever he wanted to say was stuck in his throat; he looked back at Naruto over his shoulder when suddenly-

A giant hand burst from the ground. Hiruzen watched in horror as this new Summoning he had never seen before burst out of the ground as if he had risen from hell itself.

The Creature was easily around seventy meters tall. It looked quite strange, but that was nothing when he roared, causing the entire roof to shake violently. He then started his rampage, stepping on shinobis as if they were ants before sending bolts of lightning throughout the Village, many of them striking down Sound and Suna Shinobi. Still, Hiruzen noticed more than once when the bolts of lightning struck even innocent people who had nothing to do with the war going on.

Hiruzen looked away. He couldn't bear to see that sight again—innocent people lying on the streets. He remembered the sight he had seen after Kyuubi was sealed, the sight he had seen after Itachi massacred the Uchiha Clan, and now, if he survived this, he knew he would see that sight once again.

A sight that reminded him that he had failed once again as a Kage; he had failed as the Protector of Konoha, and now, as Naruto's words repeated in his head like a bell, he knew one thing: he needed to make sure that won't happen again.

From the sight alone, Hiruzen knew Naruto wasn't fooling around; he truly meant every word he said. He knew he needed to survive this fight and try every tactic in the book to stop Naruto, even if he needed to use the Reaper Death Seal on him. He needed to make sure the world would stay safe after his death.

"Kukukuku, I will have to give it to you, Sensei; despite your old age, you still manage to surprise me, but I have a feeling this whole thing wasn't exactly part of any plan of yours, since that giant thing is smashing Konoha, it's doing an even better job than my own army." Orochimaru laughed, his long tongue spilling out of his mouth as he laughed; Hiruzen glared at his former student, turning to face him.

"I'm afraid I have to finish this," Hiruzen shouted as he launched a barrage of shurikens toward Orochimaru. He quickly made several more hand signs, causing the shurikens to multiply.

"Ohh, please as if I would fall-" His words interrupted when the Shurikens all glimmered brightly, so brightly that the entire barrier brightened up, looking like a bolt of light that engulfed every corner. Orochimaru screamed in pain as his eyes burned badly before his body was punctured in many different directions by the shurikens, who quickly gleamed red.

Shit

A barrage of small explosions followed, causing the lower half of the roof to burst into flames that quickly engulfed the wooden beams underneath.

"Not Over," Hiruzen shouted as he made several hand signs before rushing forward with his staff, ready to find and kill Orochimaru. But suddenly, a burst of wind hit Hiruzen, causing him to be thrown into the air towards the barrier. A quickly jumped and grabbed him before landing on the roof. Orochimaru burst out of another Orochimaru, the old body now looking like snake skin.

"Kukukuku! You know this is not really fair, two against one, so how about we make it fair? For me, of course. Edo Tensei." Orochimaru slammed his hands on the rooftop. Suddenly, three coffins rose from the rooftop, one after the other, with the names of the people carved into the wooden coffins.

"Hashirama Senju."

"Tobirama Senju."

"Ay Yotsuki."

"FATHER!" A roar echoed, fury pulsating through A as the cover slid off, revealing his father emerging from the coffin. His eyes, once white as snow, now darkened to the color of coal, with fissures spreading across his body like shattered glass.

Ay stood tall, his ebony skin glistening with muscle and definition. His snow-white hair cascaded down his back, trailing into a flowing beard. His gaze held an enigmatic quality with green irises, dark sclerae, and no visible pupils. Sharp cheekbones, dark undereye troughs, and a crease etched across his forehead framed his face, accentuated by a mole above the right eyebrow. A slight discoloration on his upper lip contrasted with the lower, and his canine teeth hinted at elongation. Adorning his right shoulder was a tattoo of the kanji symbol for "lightning," while a jagged scar in the shape of a lightning bolt streaked across his chest.

Clad in Kumogakure's signature single-strap attire, a black bandanna, and a stout rope cinching his waist, he paired the ensemble with dark blue sweatpants.

"SENSEI!" Hiruzen intoned solemnly as Hashirama and Tobirama emerged from their coffins. Once the legendary figures stepped outside, the coffins seamlessly melded back into the earth as if they never existed. Tobirama had fair skin, silver shaggy hair, and red eyes. He bore three red markings on his face: one below each eye and one on his chin. Clothed in blue armor with a distinctive white fur collar over a plain black suit, the armor was crafted from many metal plates, fashioned into protective guards across his body. Additional shoulder guards adorned each arm beneath his shoulder armor, and he opted for sandals instead of the traditional footwear. Initially engraved with the Senju emblem, the happuri completed his attire.

Hashirama, on the other hand, was a tall man with tanned skin and dark eyes. He sported waist-length black hair styled in a center-parted fringe that framed his face. His typical shinobi dress of the time featured dark red armor over a simple black suit, worn with sandals. The armor incorporated multiple metal plates formed into protective guards along his body, each shoulder guard collar adorned with the Senju symbol. Additionally, he wore the Konoha Shinobi emblem on his forehead.

Damn you, Orochimaru, Hiruzen thought with rage while A seemed ready to explode with anger. The Third Raikage looked around in confusion before his eyes settled on A.

"What is happening? Why am I-A? Is that you? Why am I back?" Ay questioned in confusion, recognizing his son, who had grown up since the last time he saw him over two decades ago.

"Yeah, blame the Snake behind you. He used Edo Tensei to resurrect you," A explained, flexing his knuckles in readiness to confront his father once more. It had been a while since their last battle, and he would not allow his father to endure this situation.

"Do you mean to say I've been outdone?" Tobirama paused, eyebrows raised as he observed the young ninja behind him. His sentence hung unfinished as he glanced down at his hands, struggling to articulate his next words clearly. "Your summoning may have brought us forth, but our power is but a fraction," Tobirama remarked with a subtle grin, aware that the child's Edo Tensei abilities paled in comparison to his prime. 

Orochimaru, however, appeared unfazed by the comment, his expression tinged with amusement. "I am no brute seeking the God of Shinobi's full might to dispatch an elderly foe. What need have I to unleash your full strength when it is simpler to exert my will over you in this manner?" Orochimaru retorted, a malevolent smirk playing on his lips.

Orochimaru knew that if he tried to summon the two at full strength, he would face two very big problems. Someone like Hashirama could overrule his contract seal with his immense chakra. If that happened, Orochimaru knew he was done. Second, summoning them at full strength would mean using all his chakra. At that point, even someone like Kakashi would easily kill him if somehow the two Kages were sealed away. But he wanted to keep the Kages for some time; since hearing Naruto's words in his head, Orochimaru wanted to have that Rinnegan of his; if he couldn't take it from Pain, he would take it from Naruto. With the Rinnegan in his hands, Orochimaru knew he would finally achieve his dream.

"Hiruzen, do you have any idea how to do this? I heard those reanimated have unlimited chakra, so how can we even fight them if they can use their most powerful Jutsus all the time?" A questioned a little anxiously. He knew his father was stronger than him, and now that he was reanimated, he was dealing with his father, who could heal himself all the time and had an infinite amount of chakra.

"We need to seal them with my Reaper Death Seal, but they don't exactly have unlimited chakra when they are like this." Hiruzen informed him as he grabbed a scroll from his waist and unrolled it on the ground, ready to summon Enma to help him, while keeping his eyes on them all the time.

"What do you mean?"

"You know how our body produces chakra when we sleep, and eat food, and even when we fight. Our cells produce chakra everytime we are missing some, and through chakra training, we are able to expand how much chakra we can have in our body."

"I know that, what are you trying to say."

"Those who are reanimated don't have unlimited chakra; they simply can produce chakra much faster than we can. This might give the illusion that their chakra is unlimited, but it's not. They simply can produce chakra at least ten times faster than we can." Hiruzen informed him.

Hashirama observed the ruined stadium and village from above. "Konohagakure," he uttered, his voice strained as he navigated his new body's relearning of speech and movement. Surveying the landscape, he mentally gauged the heights of the trees and the angles of the mountains. "It must have been fifty years since I last beheld this place," he remarked, casting a glance at Ay.

"Who are you?" 

"I was the Third Raikage. And you two must be Tobirama and Hashirama of the Senju Clan. I would have attacked you, but my body seems to have a mind of its own."

"This is the consequence of resurrection; our actions are not entirely our own," Tobirama remarked, brushing off the fact that Ay was not truly their ally.

"Indeed, your actions are under my influence," stated Orochimaru as he intervened between the Hokage, resting his hand on Tobirama's shoulder. The silver-haired Hokage winced but lacked the strength to retaliate. "Welcome back to your village, Lord Hokage."

"I remember your chakra," Tobirama stated grimly. "You were the pale boy from the academy. Orochimaru, isn't it? Hiruzen had considered taking you as a student."

"Ah, as sharp as ever, Lord Second," responded Orochimaru gleefully. "I'm pleased that your perceptions and memories are intact."

"So, Orochimaru, are you responsible for Konoha's destruction?" Ay demanded, his tone edged with anger.

"I can't take all the credit," Orochimaru stated. "Remember Sunagakure? They are my allies in this conflict, though it seems you are not in favor of it. I thought you despised Konoha, considering your attempt to take the Jinchuuriki." Orochimaru voiced, sounding intrigued—Ay winced at the mention of the failed Kyuubi acquisition.

"Oh, I hate Konoha. I simply wish to have been the one to destroy it, instead of someone else doing it." Ay answered, earning a glare from the other two Kages.

"Oh, well, this is as close as it's going to get to the real experience, since you're dead and stuff." Orochimaru said with a wicked smile.

"Hiruzen, I implore you, intervene before we bring ruin upon the Village," Hashirama pleaded as he clasped his hands together.

Hashirama summoned a powerful gale, unleashing a destructive wind that swept across the Rooftop. Debris swirled into the air, and sections of the stadium began to crumble.

"Hiruzen countered with 'Shatter Wind!'" His massive wind hurricane erupted from his mouth, clashing with Hashirama's onslaught. Unlike Hashirama's technique, Hiruzen's jutsu sent razor-sharp wind blades in all directions. Orochimaru narrowly dodged a blade that almost cleaved him in two. Three blades hurtled towards Hashirama, but Tobirama swiftly intervened, completing his hand seals.

In a swift move, Tobirama exhaled a blue mist, dispelling the wind blades and calming the hurricanes. Despite this, Hiruzen sensed the battle was far from over as Ay materialized above him, crackling with lightning energy, poised to strike.

"Dodge!" Suddenly, A materialized in front of Hiruzen, intercepting Ay's lightning-charged finger with a powerful Lariat, diverting the attack trajectory before hauling Hiruzen away to safety.

Observing A's injured hand, Hiruzen noted the damage sustained whilst defending against Ay's assault—bloody knuckles and significant swelling. Despite the injury, A remained unfazed, his determined eyes fixed on the adversaries.

"Raikage, focus on protecting yourself. I'll handle the First and the Second. Ensure you protect our father. Can you handle that?" Hiruzen's somber tone was met with a wild grin from A as he enveloped himself in crackling Lightning armor, disregarding the pain throbbing in his injured hand."Damn it, Old Man. All that training, and you're still stronger. This situation is messed up," A muttered under his breath as his father and the other two Kages approached them, but A noticed something. His father's hand was missing a chunk, slowly healing.

"Wood Style: World of Trees!" Trees burst from the rooftop around Hiruzen and Ay. They navigated through spreading roots and branches, avoiding getting crushed, but the trees kept multiplying, surrounding them in Hashirama's dense forest.

The trees continued to spread on the rooftop. An extending root grabbed Hiruzen's ankle, and another constricted his arm. Ay was ensnared by a thorny branch around the waist and pulled down.

Hashirama's wood style began to sap their chakra as Hiruzen and Ay struggled to break free.

"Hiruzen," Hashirama declared. "You must overcome us!"

"I will!" Hiruzen bellowed as he used his strength to free himself from the roots. A quickly followed suit, heating up the roots with lightning until they ignited.

"Father, I will liberate you and Orochimaru. I will be the one to defeat you," A roared in anger, unleashing a punch at his father, sending him flying into the barrier wall. Despite being engulfed in flames, A pressed on; he knew this was just the beginning.

A charged at him, but Ay evaded swiftly, landing a forceful blow on A's face, breaking his nose. Ay then grabbed A's head, smashing his forehead against A's, fracturing numerous bones. However, A retaliated with a punch to the jaw and a kick to the stomach. His face burned as his father rose nonchalantly, gazing at him sternly as he habitually did. Despite not seeing his father for nearly twenty years, A vividly recalled the way he had scrutinized him. 

"Do you recall the commitment you made to me, A?" Ay inquired, a hint of a smile playing on his lips as he breathed heavily.

' "Let me come with you," A pleaded as his father kept walking forward through the large Kumo camp; all the other Shinobis were evacuating. A could hear them rushing past them, many leading the horses away, some carrying the weapons; he could hear many wanting to stay and keep fighting, some still chasing glory, some wanting revenge for their loved ones.

"No." Ay said strictly, his voice making it clear that he wouldn't change his mind. A stumped the ground angrily, glaring at his father's back, who kept walking away, not caring that A was shedding tears.

"Why? I did everything you ever asked of ME, I trained until MY bones cracked. Otara left me because of this, and now you want me to leave you TOO! I tried. EVERYTHING. Why can't I come with you? I can watch your back and protect you." A begged, his legs turning wobbly as he cried. He knew he shouldn't. He had not cried for Kassa's death, not even for Momoke's death, even when every set of his eyes around him had cried for Momoke; he had been the only one there to keep his emotions in check, his father had taught him that a good warrior can always keep their emotions on check, and he had done that too, even when his friends called him emotionless, he had refused, but now. It all Felt TOO MUCH. He Couldn't handle it Anymore.

"A." He looked up to see his father had stopped walking away, but his back was still facing him. "As you are right now, you will be nothing but a huge liability. How do you think I can fight, when I have to make sure my son doesn't lose his head during the fight. You are going away with the others, End of Disccusion." A sank on his knees, tears rolling down his face, dripping down into the dried ground.

"Am I a failure?" A didn't want to hear the answer, but he knew he had failed his father again.

"If you come with me and die. Yes. You will die a failure. Right now, you are not a failure, you are simply young, and you have yet to reach your full potential. If you come with me and die. You won't be able to reach that potential, if you can't. Then you will be a failure." A didn't have anything to say; he could still hear the sound of people running around and the tents being abandoned. The sound of footsteps echoed in the distance, appearing over the mountaintops; the Enemy was coming.

"Reach your full Potential, son, surpass me." As he started walking away, A looked up at his father, who kept walking away.

"I Will Reach My Full Potential, Father. I promise." '

A wiped away the blood from his nose as he let out a roar; his blue lightning cracked and grew, slowly changing color, turning into red lightning.

"I will defeat you. Father!" A roared in fury as he rushed towards him with all his speed.

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