Naruto: Dream To Immortality - Chapter 141

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The Raikage immediately ordered the retreat of his soldiers. He might not be a match anymore for the monster in front of him, but he can hold him back…

He looks at his son, Unruly A, and their eyes meet each other. His son wouldn’t be useful in a battle against Yami, so he had gone to fight against the other Konoha Ninja. Whereas he is still an S rank ninja, he killed a lot of them.

As the 3rd Raikage’s and his son’s eyes meet the Raikage, even with his arm ripped off of his torso he smiles at his son.

‘It would be shameful and sad, for his last memory to be of me fearing for my life…’ Thought the Raikage. ‘I took a gamble and lost… now I will pay the price…!’

He simply says something to his son, who is far away and can’t hear him, but from reading his lips he can tell what his father said:

“It’s your turn next…!!”

The Raikage’s son… No… the new Raikage… tears came out of his eyes, but his face hardened as he screamed at his soldiers.

“RETREAT…!!!”

Ordering them… he followed his father’s wishes. The 3rd Raikage was a little relieved at this.

This all happened in a split second and he then turned towards Yami who had a calm look on his face.

‘To hold him back long enough I need to put some distance between us.’ -Contemplated the Raikage, using all of his vast life experience to try and use the best possible move.

The Raikage jumped back in blinking speeds.

Yami just looked at this calmly and asked…

“Why are you putting so much distance between us?… If you want to make sure it hits me, then you should get up close and fire… Or is it that you’re afraid of letting even a part of me out of your field of vision by getting close…?

If that’s the case, then it is a foolish thought. Distance only has meaning in a fight between equals…

With you and me, distance holds no meaning at all…!

Watch!”

**Fwosh**

In a black flash, Yami appeared in front of the Raikage and placed his hand on the Raikage’s c.h.e.s.t, right above his heart.

“If I do this, my hand is almost instantly at your heart.” Said Yami with an absolute calmness to his voice. He wasn’t bragging or anything… He was simply stating a fact…

When he hit the Raikage’s back, he had already marked him with the Hiraishin Formula. The Raikage was already dead…. he just didn’t know it…

Yami’s hand easily went through the Raikage’s defenses, and with a simple Wind Scalpel, he touched his heart…

**Cough!**

The Raikage coughed blood… His eyes slowly got hollow as his body started falling on the ground… Yami as a medical ninja is terrifyingly powerful, even with him simply touching his victim is a death sentence to his enemies.  The Raikage, except for his missing arm, no other outward injuries were on his body during the time of its death.

Immediately when the Konoha ninja saw the Raikage fall… they cheered…

From the couple of thousands of ninja from before… there are now only around five hundred… That is with counting the injured too…

Today they lost comrades, friends, and family…. they fell in the pit of despair earlier when they saw Yami hit by the Bijudama… But now….. they see Yami as their undefeated champion…

Kumogakure didn’t lose that many of its ninja members, due to their large numbers and the now de facto 4th Raikage helping them…

Yami just simply raised his fist in victory and screamed:

“THE BATTLE IS WON…!!!”

Even while saying this, he had a bright smile on his face… But what no one had noticed were the black tendrils going towards the Raikage’s heart… Ripping it out and healing back the injury so no one would notice that the still-beating was heart gone…

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After the battle ended, Kurenai looked to be a little shaken as she saw all of the dead bodies around her… It smelled horrible… She watched some Kunoichi who had her eyes wide open in shock, as half of her face was gone…

The whole place was covered in blood and mutilated body parts lying around…

She would have thrown up if Yami hadn’t taught his students techniques on how to handle situations like this. Plus, team 13 already had their first kills a long time ago.

“Ahhhhh…!!”

Kurenai heard a scream in a bundle of different bodies that seemed to have fallen on top of each other. She went to help but suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder…

“That is just a desperate Kumo ninja…” Said someone behind her, she turned around and said:

“Yami-sensei…”

Immediately the vision of Yami almost dying by the Bijudama appeared in her mind… She almost cried from this as she went to hug Yami desperately.

“Y-Yami… -sensei… I am glad you are okay…!” Sniffled Kurenai as she tugged on Yami’s tattered shirt…

She felt Yami hug her and say. “I am only Yami’s shadow clones, we were ordered by him to collect all of the bodies… He wants the soldiers to rest and relax now that the fighting is over…

He will take care of the rest, like healing the injured and cleaning up the battlefield…”

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Yami’s clone crouched down to her level and pinched her cheeks into a forced smile.

“Shenshei shtop pleash!” -Complained Kurenai in her childish voice.

“Hmm. A girl like you should smile more often… Overcast skies blot out the sun, and that always brings people’s spirits down. So why not let the sun shine… even if just a while longer… ne?”

Said shadow clone Yami, with a tender smile on his face while he lightly patted Kurenai’s head.

He looked like a gentle and caring older brother looking out for his cute little sister…

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After some time it had gotten dark outside, as Yami (well more like his clones) ‘buried’ the bodies. Coincidentally, a  dozen Uchiha and Hyuga clan members’ remains had been ‘destroyed’ during the battle…

It was actually very useful for Yami that Killer B had used the Hachibi’s Bijudama so freely… The thought of something being wrong with the disappearance of so many Clansmen with dojutsu, would never cross anyone’s mind…

Two hours later, and Yami’s thousands of clones had taken care of everything that he wanted.

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The remaining Jonin from Yami’s army came into his tent. Now, there were only 20 Jonin alive. Two of them having to retire due to one losing his kidneys, and the other’s eyes getting slashed with a kunai, leaving him blind…

They all sat down, they looked a little nervously towards the head of the table where Yami was sitting on his slightly decorated chair. His hair had turned back to coal-black since his body was back to producing black pigment.

He looked fresh and vigorous as if nothing had happened in the last few hours…

Yami smiled mildly to all of the Jonin in the room. They were holding their breaths for what Yami would do next…

Would he give chase to the now-weakened Kumo shinobi?

Would he order a full invasion into the Land Of Lightning?

Or would he rather let them lick their wounds while they waited for the reinforcements to arrive…?

Yami could see what they were all thinking. His smile was still on his face as he got up from his chair and went to the side of the table, where there was a floating teapot with weird seals all around it.

“Good evening Konoha Jonin. Please, relax…”

“We will talk about what happened and what comes next… But before addressing that… let us drink some tea…”

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A/N: Yami… he really is a sc.u.mbag… and I love him.

ANNOUNCEMENT: For every 1000 Power Stones in this story, this will get +1 extra chapter that day.