Naruto : Saga of Tanya the Kunoichi

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April 14th. Tanzaku Bridge. 

Tsuyu's moniker as the Demon or Devil of Konoha was set in stone.

Facing 700 Kumongrels, Tsuyu deployed Reibi and Nue, sending shadow clones armed with explosives and Rasenbakudan through Flying Raijin, dealing massive wide area damage and killed 112 Kumo shinobi on her own.

Facing her ruthless methods, Kumogakure switched to using guerilla tactics and used sparse formation.

However, Tsuyu devised a plan to counter their method. Marking their shinobi with Flying Raijin, half injuring them and letting them live - she sent a follow up attack to destroy multiple bases, even medic tents through them with a hidden aerial scout following the marked target. Hinata bore witness to Tsuyu's prowess on the battlefield. 

She didn't know if she should feel glad she was with Konoha, or fear someone like her could exist.

On the battlefield, Tsuyu grinned with an evil smile, rushing towards the enemy squad without any hesitation as she glided across the air. Black markings spread all over her body and face, her chakra wings boosted with chakra as she blitzed towards them.

"It's the Demon! Run!" The Kumo shinobi threw smoke bombs on the ground, all trying to scatter. 

Shadow clones summoned and 3 of them went to chase the other three, while her real self caught up with the Jonin commander.

"Damn it… Die!" The older Jonin took out his sword, an arc of lightning flashed throughout the blade.

Lightning Release: Thunder Cutter!

He slashed the sword towards Tsuyu, sending a sharp lightning edge towards her. Seeing this, she used Reibi's chakra within her, dark purple chakra coating her entire arm. She slapped her arm towards the lightning approaching her, the purple giant chakra hand of Reibi's chakra grabbed the lightning blade and exploded on impact.

From the smoke, Tsuyu's figure flashed like a shadow, unharmed and unaffected. She sent a powerful palm right to his abdomen.

"Gah..!" The Jonin was sent flying ten meters back. But as he stood up weakly, ready to fight to his death, he only saw Tsuyu's evil smile as she retreated and disappeared.

He looked down to his stomach, seeing a hole on his clothes and the seal planted on him. His heart was filled with despair.

I wished I could die with dignity… but… the devil wouldn't let me…

Tears of frustration fell in his eyes. He closed his eyes, shakily holding his blade to commit the unthinkable.

Slash! His head was cut off by his own hands. Tsuyu could have killed him, but she let him live, turning him into a weapon.

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"Those who met the Demon and were touched by her! On the order of Raikage, you are to commit suicide for safety of our allies! Your corpses have to be burned to ashes! The mark would never leave even if you are dead!" 

The order sent ripples of shock in the shinobi world.

The moniker Demon was spread, she became widely known for her vicious tactic of turning opponents into a weapon. Even corpses wouldn't be saved.

Some of them who were marked had to keep them a secret, fear of being killed by their own allies and went rogue. And even if they keep it a secret, they were afraid that the Demon would appear at any time, sending explosives out of nowhere. Whether it's when they were with their friends, or alone in their sleep.

In just a matter of few weeks, Tsuyu was given a Run on Sight order. Not because she was skilled like Yellow Flash, no she was far from it in terms of finesse. But she was scarier than Yellow Flash because she would turn you into a weapon and let you live intentionally. 

Perhaps Minato could have done the same, but he never did. 

But Tsuyu did it without any scruple. What's more horrifying was that she never appeared in her real body. It was her shadow clones armed with explosive tags and along with them, the S rank jutsu Rasenbakudan each time. Trapping her was a useless endeavor.

All the 4 Kages, most of the Akatsuki members, and even the shinobi of Konoha themselves felt fear when hearing her vicious tactics. Deidara on the other hand felt in awe. To create living explosives out of living people… What an Art! Deidara felt inspired and attempted to feed explosive clay on Konoha's shinobi they had as prisoners and turn them into explosives much like her method.

One of Konoha's camp turned into ruins from the small event, and even Konoha refuse to accept prisoners coming from Iwagakure after what happened.

In reality Tsuyu only tagged one out of ten because each seal required preparation and consuming chakra. But as for the rest, she only pretended to mark them with Flying Raijin by mere 'heat' from her palm as she touched them.

In fact, everyone could guess this. It was illogical that she could tag hundreds of people. That was what made her existence even more fearsome, using psychological warfare to an inhumane level, making others commit suicide from a mere tap of her hands. Making allies turn against each other, afraid an explosive would suddenly appeared right next to their ally killing them as well. 

An escaped prisoner of Kumogakure shinobi wrote an account on what he experienced as he waited for his eventual execution by his own people. He swore he was never marked by her, and she said it herself. It was as if the Demon was mocking him, that even if she never marked him, he would die. Her whispers, the sneer in her lips made him unable to sleep.

The man shed tears as he wrote his accounts. The fear, the sleepless nights, the pain from being used as 'chakra' cattle. 

That too was one of the Demon's secret that allowed her to have so much chakra and lasted so long. Their prisoners were herd like animals in a cell, they were well fed with food pills - because they were useful for long term supply of her chakra. They were given books and leisure time in the cells, because it would be good for their spiritual power. He heard the discussion himself, on why they were given such things as prisoners. That to make them produce more chakra, both their physical and spiritual need to be fulfilled. 

She viewed them as mere animals.

The accounts were copied, some versions added the accounts such as Yukihana Massacre and Slaughter of the Valley, that each time she commit slaughter she laughed. The horror of the Demon were spread throughout Shinobi World.

Danzo let it spread and thought it was a good thing they fear Konoha. Let them know Konoha wasn't as soft as they thought.

It was comical in her view how those people even commit suicide just because her shadow clone tapped their shoulder. Her shadow clones didn't even have enough to tag more than one person. But for the enemy villages, they cannot question or guess if they were truly marked or it was a pretense. 

All of them had to be killed, corpses burned to ashes. Those who met the Demon on the battlefield was isolated even if they claimed they weren't touch by her hands. Fear spread throughout the Shinobi World.

Some even called her the God of Death, an even more fearsome title than Hashirama's God of Shinobi. But the moniker was suppressed and was unsaid to stop morale from collapsing.

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Jiraiya read the report, even his scalp tingled reading what she had done. Her achievements were piling up over the months, along with her horror, especially her use of Flying Raijin to turn enemies into living weapons and the use of 'chakra cattle' to supply her self with chakra.

In these 3 months… The enemy villages cannot step any further into the Land of Fire because of Tengu's aerial supremacy and Tsuyu's sole existence.

Raikage, Onoki, Rasa, and Yagura initially thought the Demon of Konoha would eventually tire herself out and refuse to send their jinchuriki and elites to eliminate her, as it was too risky for their own hoping other shinobi village would make their move first. They wouldn't want to sacrifice their own elite facing such a monster and hoping other hidden village take out their weapons to kill her first. They thought it would be unnecessary as she was but one person too.

But it's as if her chakra was limitless. The kages were getting anxious. Protracted war… was no longer viable, not with her existence…

A full blown out war was simmering through multiple defeats on her hands.

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In the 3 months that passed, Naruto didn't know how many people he had killed. His emotions were dull. While the question of when it will end echoed in his mind. He was fighting continuously non stop, moving to defend different fronts with others. 

He finally had some rest after Suna's shinobi retreated and returned to the tent to rest. His 9 tails chakra already healed his body. But in an hour, suddenly Yamato entered the tent with seriousness in his face.

"Everyone… In 3 days we would face an all out assault. Suna send 4500 this time. Both of their jinchuriki, 1 tail and and their Kazekage Rasa were also with them. Iwagakure would launch a full scale attack as well... we had to hold on a little while for reinforcement from her. Tsunade will come to back us up when the time comes. They would have to fight against Iwa first. And there was potential Kumo and Kiri would also make its move. You three… this week would determine Konoha's survival. We only need to hold on until she arrives. Don't lose hope…" Yamato said the last sentence more to convince himself. 

Konoha shinobi had gained a lot of morale through Tsuyu and Tengu's effort that caused all Hidden Village to stop attacking for a while, giving hope for Konoha. But that was calm before the final calamity. Now, the End was truly coming for Konoha.

"Yes sensei." Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura replied. 

The atmosphere grew heavy. Naruto returned to his makeshift bed in the tent, secretly reading the small book that appeared in his bag out of nowhere.

The book was titled... "The Demon Who Let Us Live". An account of various people meeting her. He didn't know why it's in his bag. He don't want to read it. But... but he couldn't shake his curiosity. But as he reads them, his heart were filled with pain and despair. An account of a civilian losing their children in Yukihana Massacre. An account of a shinobi from Kumo witnessing Slaughter of the Valley. 

A lot of them were about her deeds. Turning others as living weapons. Sending living prisoners from the air back to their camps so her enemies would have to kill them with their own hands.

One account state that among the ten prisoners she sent, only one was marked. At the time, she tapped all then of them. from behind, and all of them had burn on their back. They didn't know which one was fake which one was real. Everyone fought, and in the end 4 committed suicide. While their commander asked them to commit suicide eventually.

Tsuyu's methods to collapse enemy morale worked too brilliantly, causing the book to exist. As if she had become a myth.

Naruto turned the pages with tears in his eyes, his fingers trembling as he read the 12th account, from a prisoner of Kirigakure.

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No. 12

"I am a shinobi of Kirigakure. I was caught when we had just managed to create a stronghold in Uzushiogakure."

"She didn't beat us. She didn't interrogate us. We weren't tortured not in the way you'd expect. We were... farmed."

"We were given a lot of food pills. The bed was not bad either. They even give us books, and let us talk to each other. She left cards and board games for us. I made some closer friends, gambled together and played around. You know, I thought Konoha treated their prisoners too kindly to let them be like this."

"But the next day, she stood in front of us. Black things come out of her body, and they start taking our chakra. It hurts like hell. It felt like needles were pricking all over my body, deep into my bones and I was sucked dry until I couldn't stand up. She smiled as she did it as we were drained for few minutes straight."

"But afterwards she just left. More fool pills were given after each sessions."

"The pain made me feel anxious each time she appeared. I had a hard time sleeping."

"I heard the warden discussing late in the light. The reasons she gave so much food pills and even the leisure aspect of their prison. That chakra was mixture of physical and spiritual. That it would make them a better chakra cattle. Yes... chakra cattle. That was what she called us. We were mere animals... I stayed for a month, I was drained every few days whenever she appeared." 

"And now, I finally was let out. But she simply told us to go back where we originated from. I know my own people would kill me. Even if she never marked me... she marked only half of us. She always did. Her reasoning was, so they know they are killing people that may not have been marked at all. She wanted us, everyone, to collapse mentally. As a shinobi born from the bloody mist, I thought nothing could make me feel fear. But... she did. She is evil. She was bloodier than bloody mist could ever be."

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Tobi turned to look at the camp with an amused expression as he stood on a cliff. He hoped to create some ruckus and a potential ally. That Tsuyu was too strong. And he had observed Naruto from afar this month. He was affected by the war deeply more than anyone else, and as a soft person in his perception, Naruto would surely turn against her.

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Suna Defense Force gathered together, totalling merely 800 combatants. It was almost a losing battle. The only reliance they had were in fact Tsuyu.

Suna could simply divide their troops to fight at different fronts and take Land of Fire slowly, piece by piece, little by little. This was how other hidden villages fought on all their fronts. A few lands, towns and villages were already occupied by Iwa, Kumo and Kiri.

And yet none of them sent their jinchuriki or kage out as they were going for a protracted battle against Konoha's already weak numbers, and constantly sending letters and terms of surrender, pressuring Konoha to give up without fighting. 

However, this plan was challenged by the existence of a demon from Konoha. Suna was too desperate and needed Konoha to surrender at the moment.

Tsunade read the letter asking for Konoha's surrender in 72 hours prior to a full all out assault, along with the notes on what Suna wanted. Even Iwa sent a letter. That they would want to wage full scale war at the same time. This must have been planned together. Iwa and Suna were closer geographically.

Both of them demanded almost a quarter of land from Land of Fire, and even an unreasonable amount of money. As well as a pact and terms regarding tariffs and trade between the nations. Naturally, she wouldn't agree. The daimyo wouldn't agree either. It's too unreasonable. Land of Fire would disappear if they agree.

They are too desperate… The spies noted that the Land of Wind was facing famine, plague and even rebellion… and this pushed them to launch a full scale war this early… and this dragged Iwa into launching a full scale war as well.

She wrote a letter quickly, asking Tsuyu to prepare. This time, Konoha would reveal the full extent of their trump card to the world.

A full scale war against Suna and Iwa… they wouldn't want to let her live. Akatsuki would be backing Iwagakure, I am not sure how many Onoki hired. And once the two attacked, Kumo and Kiri would take this time to also launch a full scale attack as well.

"Hah… they called her a demon… but… she is Konoha's hero to us…" Tsunade chuckled to herself. But she felt worried. She wasn't confident. Her gaze looked up at the portrait of Minato in her office.

Minato, would you feel proud of her achievements, and that now she had become Konoha's pillar? Or would you feel disappointed that she turned out to be as cold as she is? Would you approve of her methods? She is known for her Flying Raijin like you… but… they are terrified of her more than they were of you… they called you the Yellow Flash. While her, a Demon.

Tsunade took out from her cabinet a pill in a glass bottle that glowed in dark red colour. This was the result of their research. Jugo's tissues were very compatible with Hashirama's cells. Perhaps it was due to its ability to disperse excess natural energy. 

Splicing the cells together to find the most stable cells. And splicing them further with Katsuyu's cells that further stabilise the absorption and excess dispersal of nature energy and stable generation of Senjutsu chakra. And the final stage of splicing using Tsuyu's own cells - the result was surprising. It was as if her body cells had already become very compatible with natural energy, and the last step went smoothly. Finally leading to the creation of the pill.

The one pill cost close to 20 million Ryo. Most of them came from Danzo's funding from who knew where he got that from.

I need to secure Konoha's strength. She couldn't possibly fight all Jinchuriki, and even other Kages on her own at current state. I am a medic most of all. Naruto only mastered up to 2 tails worth of chakra. As for Jiraiya, Might Guy and Kakashi, the three were strong… but not enough against many jinchuriki's and Kage level opponents out there.

They would wage all out war at the same time to make sure even if Tsuyu could win against one village, but they would win in another. She won through dirty tactics so far. But her actual strength… 

Tsunade couldn't exactly predict how strong she was if it was in direct combat. Against Kage level opponents, her dirty tactic wouldn't mean much. She was worried Tsuyu would fall and along with her, the entire Konoha.

"Tsuyu, I hope this little power could help you save Konoha."

Tsunade sent one of her shadow guards to personally send the pill to her to unlock the Curse Mark to its full potential. The pill didn't unlock Stage 2 of Cursed Mark. 

No… it was a qualitative change, directly to Stage 3 that even Orochimaru never would have achieved. Because no one in this world - except Tsuyu - could have accepted such power without killing herself. She had been baptised by various things throughout her life that turned her body into that of a non-human. 

The ten tails flesh inside her current Curse Mark and Reibi's own, Nue that had hashirama cells, and Kurama's chakra that was quarter of ten tails chakra and all of them mixed through the special 4 Symbol Seal left by Minato, integrating the cocktails into her own chakra and body. It was a series of overlapping coincidences, creating a vessel suited for a God… as if they were hands behind the shadow deliberately constructing a body to accept such power.

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Gasped.

The Great Toad Sage woke up with sweat in his back. He saw a massacre. A hundred thousand corpses piled up until it reached the bloody sky. Rivers of blood flowed among them. The sky was red with blood, the world was filled with fear. Giant bloody black eyes with red slit were hanging in the sky like multiple blood moons, as if they were death looming over the world, constantly watching and hanging like a guillotine. 

They were a metaphorical prophecy of the future…

"Call Jiraiya-boy… it's…it's…" The Great Toad Sage trembled in fear. He didn't know what the prophecy meant. It was different compared to before. But what he knew was, the world was filled with fear in the end.

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