251. Pawn’s pawn’s pawn
251. Pawn’s pawn’s pawn
It didn’t take long for Tomoka and Nozomi to finish their own targets. By the time they were done however their respective jaegers were barely functional. Tomoka’s jaeger was suffering from micro fissures all over the frame as the quick heating and cooling caused the alloys to crystallize and break. Meanwhile Nozomi’s jaeger had its reactor meltdown from the constant energy output.
“Well, that was fun.” Having said that, Tomoka got out of her jaeger’s cockpit before having it sent back to Yggdrasil. That's right, the jaegers hadn’t been sealed inside those small scrolls, that's not how sealing works. Instead they were teleported using a modified version of the fourth Hokage’s jutsu.
“So what now?” Having done the same Nozomi regrouped with her lovers who were looking towards the Gedo statue looking like it was about to finish extracting the chakra from the pair of containers.
“Before anything else-” As she spoke Tomoka turned to look towards the six meat puppets Nagato was controlling. She had a few choice words for the dumbass. Afterall, out of all characters in the Naruto anime Nagato was the one that pissed her off the most.
“-Nagato you man child. I have always wondered if you were just stupid or… actually scratch that you are definitely stupid.” Hearing Tomoka’s words Nagato felt a bit of anger. Yet he didn’t let it show on his puppet’s faces. Afterall, the girl talking to him despite her power was nothing compared to him, afterall, he is a god!
“I won’t waste my time speaking to you. You wouldn’t understand my righteous purpose. You couldn’t understand the mind of a god!” Hearing that Tomoka scoffed. This was one of the things that pissed her off about Nagato the most.
“God my perfectly round behind! You are nothing more than a manchild with a god complex. Boo hoo my best friend got killed. Boo hoo I am too stupid to use my supposed god powers to revive the twerp. Nah, instead I will develop a god complex and turn full emo trying to teach the world peace through pain.” Nagato’s idiocy really pisses her off.
“Really I can’t wait for this little ritual to finish so I can see your face when your idiotic plan fails miserably.” Having said that she completely ignored Nagato raving about how he is a god and how she would understand once his plans come to fruition. Instead she opted for responding to Nozomi’s original question.
“Well, we could go and fight pain, or we could wait and fight whoever takes control of the ten tails… probably Obito. Now that I think about it, where the hell is Madara?” As if hearing her complaint the Gedo statue finished absorbing the chakra going through a quick metamorphosis turning into the ten tails.
“You are too late, now I will unite the world in pa-” Before Nagato could finish speaking through one of his meat puppets Obito disappeared. What followed was the sight of all six puppets falling down lifeless as the rinnegan in their eyes disappeared.
“Nagato!” Instantly Konan became enraged figuring out what had happened. Before she could try and save Nagato however Obito reappeared with Nagato’s emaciated eyeless corpse on his shoulder.
“Damn, I didn’t get to see his face.” Tomoka lamented the fact for a single second before shrugging. Obito for his part looked pained, probably from having an eye ball replaced with the rinnegan. Why not both though… probably something to do with backlash or some such.
“You bastard!” While Tomoka got a little lost in her mind Konan jumped Obito trying to take revenge for Nagato… She failed miserably. Originally the woman had set a trap with millions of paper bombs and she failed, not to mention that Obito didn’t have the rinnegan. Now, well now she got her shit kicked in even harder.
Before Obito could kill Konan by impaling her, Tomoka just waved her hand. Was using Oracle’s power right now necessary? No, did she care? No. Afterall, for all Konan had belonged to Akatsuki, the woman hadn’t done all that much. She could best be described as Nagato’s bodyguard.
To tell the truth, Tomoka felt a bit bad for her. She had lost everything and her life could be best described as miserable. She had to witness the death of Yahiko, someone she considered a brother. She had to live through Nagato’s slow and steady descent into madness. Nagato who she had always had feelings for yet never confessed to. Even worse, just now she had experienced the loss of Nagato and got to see his desecrated corpse.
What Tomoka had just done was send Konan to Yggdrasil while also putting her to sleep. She would deal with the woman later. For now though, she wanted to see what Obito would do now. Would he try and revive Madara or would he try and pull a fast one over the dead man.
“Where did she… no matter. Now that I possess the rinnegan you won’t be able to stop me-” Tomoka couldn’t help but laugh internally. Dude is really delusional if he thought she couldn’t stop him, especially so after what she pulled right in front of him without him any the wiser.
As he talked he held the other rinnegan on his left hand. It was now that Tomoka noticed that he was missing his left eye. The damned drama queen had waited till now to give his little monolough to implant the second rinnegan instead of doing so right away.
Tomoka didn’t bother to stop him. Especially so after feeling a few different things happening all at once. Somewhere a little further away a coffin had appeared from the ground. As it opened a figure clad in red samurai looking armor dashed in an instant. Before Obito could react, the rinnegan he held was stolen by none other than Madara.
“What!?” Yup, looks like this wasn’t part of Obito’s plan. It took but a moment for Madara to implant his rinnegan before giving those present a wide grin, one Tomoka easily matched.
Elsewhere far away, another of Tomoka’s pawns had half his body covered in black. Black Zetsu having taken control of his body forcing him to use the edo tensei to revive Madara. All according to keikaku.
“Should we interfere or…” Hinata asked, watching as zombie Madara stared down Obito. To tell the truth she could feel her blood boil with excitement. She wanted to see how she fared against a legend like Madara.
“Nah, let them sort their shit out. We will get involved after.” Tomoka for her part wanted to see how this played out. Will Obito win or will Madara do so. The tension was thick in the air as both prepared to fight, that is until Zetsu made his move.
“Fuck, what is this.” Before Obito could react Zetsu attached itself to half his body. Of course this Obito was still in perfect shape and could have easily held Zetsu’s control at bay. Unfortunately for him, a single moment was all Madara needed to make his move.
In a blur Madara appears right next to Obito mercilessly punching him in the gut. Out of breath and hurting, Obito lost control of his body and Zetsu quickly took over. In mere moments both made hand signs resulting in the invocation of the rinne tensei.
Tomoka could see the Horror on the visible half of Obito’s face as his life force was sucked out of him and into Madara who began to steam lightly as his broken and gray skin fixed itself before turning a rosy color, that of the living. That done, Madara moved his hand in a blur quickly taking the second rinnegan before implanting it on his empty eye socket.
“At last. I must thank you for your patience.” Having said that Madara opened his eyes letting the purple eyes with concentric circles be seen by the world.
“Well, now he will try to absorb the ten tails, becoming its jinchuriki and gaining a massive power boost. So if either of you feels like fighting him, now would be the time.” Having said that, Tomoka turned to see if either of them felt like having a go at it. Before she could fully turn her head she saw two blurs speed past her.
“Should have expected as much.” Tomoka thought about joining them for a moment before shrugging. She would let them have their fun. Afterall, once Madara took the nine tails in she would pull all the stops as well. She didn’t give a shit about Madara nor fighting him. Her chakra had been steadily recuperating and by now she was sure she could curb stomp him even with the ten tails without the need for Oracle. Instead she would just wave her hand and disable him so Zetsu could bring Kaguya back.
Having said that, Tomoka didn’t want Madara ruining her girl’s fun by absorbing the ten tails before they had said fun. By this time the ten tail’s metamorphosis had finished and it was about to start rampaging. Before it could do so however, Tomoka gently tapped the floor with her right foot.
A moment after a ripple that seemed to travel through reality itself began to spread from that point. It didn’t seem to do all that much until it passed over the ten tails which instantly stopped moving. Tomoka had just broken the concept of space and time where the biju was. It wouldn’t be able to do absolutely nothing until the world fixed itself. Normally that would only take a few seconds if that. Due to Tomoka’s involvement however it would take however long she felt like it should take.
“That should keep it contained for the next fifteen minutes or so you two, so have fun!” Madara for his part could only watch with awe at what had just happened. The rinnegan gave him this feeling of connection to the ten tails. With it he could absorb the ten tails at any time. Now this feeling was gone meaning he wouldn’t be able to absorb the biju.
From the looks of things even if he were to attack the girl that had somehow sealed the biju the sealing would remain. At least it would only last fifteen minutes. In that time he should defeat the other two before completing his plan, and then the world would know peace.
Having made his mind Madara focused back on his two foes. A pair of girls, one clearly Uchiha the other clearly Hyuga. He could sense their strength and he had to admit they might have given him some trouble before. Now however, he was back at his peak with his rinnegan and all. They could have had a chance at defeating him before he was fully revived. Now however, they had no chance.
With a slight flex of his will a gigantic blue susanoo formed around him with four arms and four katanas. As the susanoo swong it's blade another one appeared. This one a magenta color with an oni mask holding a tachi with both hands stopping his own blade.
“Well, this should be entertaining if nothing else.” Madara’s aloof disposition crumbled as a grin formed on his face. He longed for combat, it would have been thoroughly disappointing if his plan had gone without a hitch. Now however, facing a foe of his own kin, one with fully evolved eyes like the ones he once had. He had to admit, at least to himself, that he would enjoy this.