Chapter 128: For Peace
Everyone stopped fighting, looking at the center of the battlefield.
Red. Black. Purple. The three chakra twisting together. The Curse Mark pattern spread, along with the seal of Gozu Tenno. Black lines and red lines covered her entire body and dissolved, combined into a straight red pattern across her cheeks. Red eye shadow appeared around her eyes.
Twisted horns grew from her head once more, her hair lengthened even reaching her feet, turning into silvery blonde.
Her body levitated from the ground, the injuries were all healed in an instant. An eye with black sclera and bright red slit pupil grew from her empty eye socket from Reibi's chakra.
9 tails chakra fully envelop her. Her shinobi vest spread open, a dark-red chakra cloak covered her body, turning into a chakra robe. Black patterns of 6 tomoe adorned the neck of her robe.
Her body bent, a shout echoed from her mouth as flesh grew from her back, as if they were two large hands spread as wings. In between the monstrous fingers, the slits opened, revealing a large yellow eye with black slits on her left and right.
Onoki trembled in fear. But despite her transformation, he readied a Dust Release in between his hands. The strongest he ever mustered.
Dust Release: Particle Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!
Flash.
His eyes darted to the side where Tsuyu was supposed to flash to. Launching his attack in a straight line. The beam of light hit a mountain, completely disintegrating it.
Though, it didn't hit her. The presence already stood behind him.
As he turned to look at his back. Tsuyu's demonic eyes locked onto him. In the moment, as if time was slowing down for Onoki, he watched as Tsuyu's pitch black hand turned into a blade and swung right towards him, piercing his chest through.
He coughed out blood… looking down at his state, then at her.
Everyone stopped fighting and looked at them. From the moment Tsuyu disappeared to Onoki's predicament, it was a mere 1 second.
"Ah…!"
Dark-red chakra limbs spread from inside her body, piercing through Onoki's body. He screamed as chakra was drained away.
Everyone watched in horror as he screamed for seconds, no one wanted to help him. His old face turned older and older, his hair turned wide and fell. His skin dried, his body shrunk. Until he turned into a shriveled corpse with cracked ashy skin.
Tsuyu swung her arm, tossing the dried corpse into the ground. The blood dripping her arm evaporated, leaving her arm untainted by the unholy.
"Ah… that feels better."
After refilling herself with Kage level chakra, she felt her strength returning. 9 tails chakra was flowing inside of her freely. Kyubi and herself as if sharing a body with no seal in place to differentiate them.
She clasped both her hands together, the earth trembled as surrounding dust and rocks floated. She wasn't the kind to look down on others.
Collapse Release: Abyssal Samsara.
Particles of earth and dust gathered into 6 crystalline pitch black orbs in white chakra orbits which circled her like she was the center of the universe.
The dark orbs surrounding her brimming with the power of gravitation. The eyes on her wings moved and looked over at each of the Kage. Her chakra robe swayed in the air, as if she was God passing judgement.
"Now. Do you want to surrender?"
She said calmly, a smile carved in her lips as if playful. Her magnetic voice echoed to the entire battlefield.
Everyone stopped fighting, weapons were let go as their hands were unable to hold them and dropped to the ground. All the shinobi other than Konoha dropped to their knees.
"I surrender…" Rasa muttered. The gold sands around Tsuyu were retrieved.
Representatives from Iwagakure stood forward and also proclaimed their surrender.
However, A remained silent. He doesn't want to believe Tsuyu could win against him. He had speed… and he only needed one shot!
Seconds passed in silence. The eyes on her wings constantly moving between the Kage. It was as if everyone was waiting for her to pass her judgement.
"Raikage."
"Submit to Konoha, or… kill yourself."
Tsunade gasped at the reversal of the situation. Even Konoha's own shinobi shook with fear but also with awe after hearing her words.
A gritted his teeth.
"I would never submit to a demon like you!"
A shouted. Lightning Chakra mode filled his entire body. His finger pointing turned into one finger.
"Too bad… I disliked killing."
She swung her arm calmly. The 6 orbs orbiting her in its chakra pathway spread out, few floating at her front.
"I will take you down!" Raikage flashes like lightning. His speed reached an inhuman limit as he tried to take her down in this one blow.
But as he dodged and passed by the pitch black orb, his body was uncontrollably pulled to its direction, his direction was altered as he launched himself to stab onto a tall boulder hundred meters away from Tsuyu's location, deviating his path.
Tsuyu had a playful expression.
"Raikage, I am here. Where are you aiming?"
Raikage felt fear crawling in his heart. Each of the orb had a small field of gravity. But inside the field, the attraction force was strong! The moment his body entered the area of effect, his body was attracted to the gravity, changing his trajectory. Even a degree of deviation would cause him to miss due the distance!
He looked forward, seeing black orbs orbiting her, like an unsurpassable shield.
Then I will have to destroy each of them!
Raikage shouted as he rushed forward. He let himself be pulled, and finally his hand destroyed one of the orbs.
5 more to go…!
Raikage turned his gaze to one of them standing in between him and Tsuyu. He rushed forward and stabbed into the core.
Bang!
It was destroyed. But as he turned to look, Tsuyu was holding a black core. Its shape elongated, turning into a dense pitch black spear of gravity.
"Let's test this."
She swung her arm back, red chakra arms from her robe holding it together with her. Like it was a javelin, she launched it straight towards Raikage!
Raikage tried to step aside, but his body was pulled by the javelin, delaying his retreat.
Spurt! The pitch black javelin pierce right through his lightning chakra armor, piercing into his lungs. Even if it was fundamentally earth release, the nature had transformed that mere lightning release wouldn't be able to defend against it.
The heavy weight of the black core made Raikage unable to stand upright. It was as if his body was constantly being torn inside and pulled into it. His face distorted with pain and unwillingness.
"I will not fall!" Raikage used more of his lightning chakra, filling his entire body as he stood. But Tsuyu arrived in front of him in a flash.
With a clench of her hand, Collapse Release chakra added more to the abyss construct, the weight of the javelin increased multiple times, causing Raikage to kneel, his body to shrivel towards the core.
She raised her arm, controlling the construct to float up. Everyone looked up as Raikage's body floated high in the air. Black chakra arms rushed and pierced through him, draining his chakra away feeding it to herself.
"Brother!" B rushed in, he transformed into Tailed Beast Mode, covering his entire body in a dark red layer of chakra with a pair of horns.
He opened his mouth wide, a bijuudama formed in his mouth.
"Too slow."
An abyss core rushed to her hand, turning it into a javelin and in similar fashion she sent it flying straight towards B.
The bijuudama was pierced through before its completion, creating a miniature explosion killing tens of Kumo shinobi around him.
As B stood up, he saw Raikage had already turned into a dried up ball of corpses.
"BROTHER!"
Darui quickly held him back.
"B. We need to surrender. We can't win…"
"Brother… he…" B clenched his fists. Tears shed from his eyes.
Darui as A's assistant stepped forward, even if his legs were shaky.
"We surrender."
"Anymore?"
Her question hung in the air.
Her entity had surpassed most of the living shinobi. A perfect Kyubi Chakra Mode, coupled with Sage Mode, and chakra added from Reibi and Nue inside of her, combined with her Collapse release that used Senjutsu chakra almost turned her into a God.
Seconds of silence passed.
Tsunade let out a sigh of relief. "It's finally over." She muttered. The people of Konoha all let out a sigh of relief.
But Tsuyu hasn't finished yet. She learned a hard lesson. That without consequences, threat would never work. She summoned a shadow clone, with a similar deity-like appearance like her.
All of sudden multiple black chakra limbs spread from her, piercing into the nearest non-Konoha shinobi. Close to a hundred bodies were pierced through, turned into dry corpses as chakra was sucked dry by her.
Screams and wails of fear and pain filled the air. Every non-Konoha shinobi turned around to run, realising even if they surrendered she never cared to spare them. Everyone can only watch or run in horror, unable to make a move.
Multiple red chakra arms supported her as she raised her hand.
The space rippled, the light dimmed and distorted.
"Tsuyu…! What are you doing…!" Jiraiya shouted, realising what she's going to do.
"Power alone is empty. To change the world, consequences have to be born. This is the truth. A hundred thousand, for Peace."
"Tsuyu! It's already over! They already surrendered!" Jiraiya shouted once more.
Tsunade was silent. She wanted to agree with Jiraiya, because A and Onoki were already dead. This should be enough. But she couldn't say it. A part of her… believed Tsuyu may be right. The shamelessness of them attacking her before made her cold.
Danzo stood among the surviving ROOT operative, looking at the power of nature gathering in her hand without stopping. The hand holding the cane trembling in excitement.
This is it…! From this moment onward, Konoha will reign supreme! Tsuyu! Go forth!
The sphere of abyss formed in her hands. Deidara looked up at her figure, and the black hole in her hand surrounded the ring of light. Tears formed in his eyes seeing such beautiful art once more. Too bad he wouldn't be able to witness its explosion first hand.
"Tsu-chan!"
The dirt and rocks gravitated around her. Her eyes darted to Naruto, her silly brother. The tiredness of his expression, the dullness in his eyes… she forgot the last time she heard him say -dattebayo- with his smile. It must have been difficult.
She smiled warmly at him.
"Brother. We won't have to fight anymore." Her voice was soft, genuine. Even if she was about to murder a hundred thousand.
"You can't… Tsu-chan… we already won. You don't have to do this… Come down…" Naruto realised what Tsuyu was about to do. He took steps forward, reaching his hand out to her.
"This is the only way." Her eyes turned cold, her gaze turning away from him.
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Collapse Release: Spiralling Abyss!
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The shadow clone touched the core of the abyss and teleported itself along with the black hole. A mark of flying raijin had been planted a long time ago at the top of an old building, a kunai sent down by an aerial unit weeks prior.
There was only silence afterwards.
Jiraiya fell to his knees.
After seconds, the ground shook very imperceptibly. The sky turned bright for a few seconds as the light from the destruction and annihilation of Kumogakure reached them.
Everyone seemed to understand what she had done. A hundred thousand lives of Kumogakure, disappeared, turned into nothingness.