[A/N: Hey guys! So, I just made a P@treon. Though, there isn't any extra content or paid memberships yet but once I have a bit of time to stock up on chapters, I'll be able to get those up. The reason I made it now was to allow for a uniformly best experience as in some of the sites where I upload this fic, I find it difficult to or there simply isn't any way to upload other media.
There will be some illustrations there (though don't expect much from my abysmal editing skills) plus, you can now converse with meeasier.
The link is www.pat reon.com/Zeta_00 (without space). Also, I might make a discord server in the future...
To be honest I was just bored one night so I was like, why not, you know? The other reasons are there too... though that's the main one...
Also, this chapter is a bit.... special..... you'll see ;)
If you consider mass genocide to be special that is.... I don't know about you, but I certainly do.
And, I would like to remind you.... this is anAU. I feel like this warning is going to be necessary for this chapter....
Please don't needlessly comment about the numbers or strength not being accurate. If I make them as such, Kagaku wouldn't have any semblance of a challenge. I gotta make an interesting story over here man
Remember, not only are there many more people and ninja, those ninjas are also much stronger.]
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~Mount Myoboku~
As usual, Gamamaru, The Great Toad Sage, was sleeping leisurely on his chair. What was unusual though, was his expression, unnoticed by anyone, his face was contorted in confusion.
In fact, he was currently in his dreams- no, that wasn't the best way to describe it.... it was more accurate to say that he was seeing one of his visions of the future at the moment.
Although.... it wasn't quite like the usual visions. He didn't purposefully make his prophecies to be riddles, that was just the best way he could describe it as his visions as they were quite vague to him as well.
But, this time, they were quite clear. In fact, he almost thought he was there in person for a moment.
---Gamamaru'sVision--- Konoha Year ██, Kagaku Age: ██.
Many people were standing atop what looked to be the terrace of a building... no.... it was a giant wall. They all seemed to be ninjas from their outfits, but that wasn't what Gamamaru's attention was.
Instead, the first thing he noticed about the people was the striking long red hair most of them had. They.... were Uzumaki.
What truly stunned him to silence however, were two people in particular... Mito Uzumaki and... even more unbelievably... Ashina Uzumaki!
Even with the Uzuamki's absurd vitality, he shouldn't be alive. Ashina Uzumaki was thought to have died of old age long ago at somewhere in his mid 160s. That was already quite unreasonable but, for him to be still alive meant he was probably in his 200s!
While Mito wasn't so astonishing compared to him, nearing the end of her 90s, she was still alive and this was supposed to be the future, so both should be older.
What made even less sense, if that was even possible, was the fact that both of their hair... were red too. Both Mito and Ashina had long lost their vibrant red hair, fading into brown and white.
Not to mention, there skin seemed to quite young as well, as if they were still in their primes.
None of this made any sense to Gamamaru. However, after living for over 2000 years, he was quite experienced and quickly regained his composure.
In an attempt to understand the situation, Gamamaru looked around and saw that everyone, including Ashina and Mito was looking in a particular direction, behind him.
Gamamaru turned around and a figure stood out to him. A tall, lean figure stood at the edge of the wall. He had black hair and wore a full body black coat with black pants and black combat boots. He had two baldrics on either side of his waist with two swords sheathed within their respective scabbards.
[A/N: Picture on P@treon.]
He couldn't see the figure's face as he was facing away from him. Though it seemed that he wouldn't be able to see his face either way as he seemed to be wearing some sort of mask.
He didn't know who the person was, but one thing he knew. He was strong. Extremely strong.
He seemed to be looking over the vast expanse of the ocean and land that should be visible from the massive wall they were standing on.
Gamamaru looked ahead and his eyes widened again..... what he saw wasn't a beautiful scenery filled with beautiful forests stretching a couple hundred meters before an unending sea that was supposed to be seen from somewhere that's close to the Uzumaki Village, but instead....
He saw an army no.... it was much more than that.
It was similar to the expression, 'Wherever you look, there's water.' Except.... instead of water, it was shinobi.
Gamamaru couldn't even guess how many ninja were marching towards their position. On looking around, it seemed he wasn't the only one who was shocked either.
"Report." The man in the coat commanded, his voice deep and unbothered.
An Uzumaki closed his eyes for a second and said after reopening them, "M-More than a hundred thousand sir... I can't sense further than that."
A myriad of exasperated conversations started among some of the people gathered but strangely.... not one seemed to be scared.
'....Perhaps they will be able escape safely? After all, fighting more than a hundred thousand shinobi which would undoubtedly also be led by multiple S ranked shinobi was ludicrous and quite frankly, unfathomable.
I wouldn't even have thought of that option had it not been for their expressions.... they... didn't have the faces that spoke of running away... no. Those are the faces of people who would die before they run away.'
"I see... Ashina?" The man asked casually as if he wasn't talking to a man stronger than even Hashirama and that too about an absurd situation like this.
A voice I could easily identify to be his, Ashina spoke, "About a hundred and twenty thousand in total."
"Composition."
"By normal standards, there are about 1,800 Elite Jounin, 20,000 Jounin, 28,500 Special Jounin, 29,500 Elite Chunin and 40,200 Chunin."
"Commanders."
"The Darkness of Konoha, Danzo Shimura and Orochimaru of the Sanin for.... Konoha, although... it seems like Hiruzen and the others aren't aware of this...."
After a brief pause, Ashina continued, "Ah... I apologize. The rest of the factions are....
The Third Raikage for Kumo.
The Third Kazekage, Sasori of the Red Sand, Chio of the Thousand Poisons and Rasa of the Golden Sand for Suna.
The Third Tsuchikage and The Imploding Doom, Daikuro for Iwa.
The Third Mizukage, Kinro Kaguya the Mad Ninja and Kasumi Yuki of the Bloody Ice for Kiri.
The leaders for the Minor Villages are not worth mentioning and the few Rouges that joined don't have a leader."
The man in the coat said once again, "I see."
A white haired man who was standing to the side of the man in the coat said, "So, how many do you think you can wipe out with that attack of yours?"
"....All of them." He replied nonchalantly.
Everyone except the one who asked the question was startled, the same thing was going on in their heads, 'A-All of them!?!?! That's... that's absurd! He's joking right?'
"....Figures, though I do sense a 'but' coming. What's the problem?" The man asked, seemingly unbothered by the fact that the person beside him claimed to be able to kill a hundred and twenty thousand people in a single attack.
He replied, "Indeed. Although I can eliminate them all at once, the aftermath of doing such a thing would cause significant harm to the land and structures, even with the barrier fuinjutsu.
Ashina finally snapped out of it and said, "Y-You! I trusted you because Mito said you could handle it. But, you're just overconfident! And for that matter, who are you anyway? You still haven't told us who you are."
"I am.... nobody."
"What do yo-"
He cut Ashina off, "Though I have a feeling I will gain a name after this...."
Mito interjected, "Ashina... please don't push his identity. He would like it to remain hidden." Looking over to the man wearing a coat, she continued, "But, you shouldn't expect us to simply believe you either. Do you really think you can kill a hundred thousand ninja in a single attack?"
"Well... we'll just have to see."
"Why can't you just te-"
"We'll talk later..... It's time." The man said, cutting off Mito.
The white haired man spoke up again in a child like voice, "Ne~ Can you say the name please?"
"No."
"Come on, just this once! You don't get a chance like this often after all!" The man said, continuing his childish behaviour.
"No."
"Pleeeease?" The white haired man said while seemingly trying to make a cute impression.
The man in the coat sighed and said, ".... fine. I'll say the name...."
"In a cool way?" The white haired man pushed further.
".... in a 'cool' way." He said in resignation.
The white haired man jumped and cheered in joy and said while clapping, "Yay!!!"
The man said in annoyance at the man shaped child, "Calm down."
"....fine." He looked.... genuinely disappointed.... with imaginary dark lines over his head too.
Ashina, like any sane person would in that situation, said, "Are you two serious?! Do you not realize the situation we're in?"
This seemed to do the trick and both of them stopped with their antics.
Although, that may have something to do with the army of ninjas running across water, sprinting towards them.
'Nobody' as Gamamaru decided to address him for now, turned back and said, "Watch." As he had thought, the man was wearing a mask.... a demonic mask with patterns on it.
[A/N: Picture on P@treon. (Forgive my insanely bad editing skills)]
And then.... he did something that was widely considered impossible to do.... he... flew away....!!!
Gamamaru couldn't believe his eyes... no one could. This man who claimed to be able to kill a hundred thousand people with one attack.... just turned around and flew towards the massive army!
After reaching about halfway from the wall and the massive army, which was coincidentally around where the coast line was, he stopped and just stood there..... on nothing but air! Gamamaru's vision shifted along with the man's flight.
With chakra enhancing his voice, he asked in a voice loud enough for every single shinobi to hear, "Why do you come here?" As if that wasn't obvious already.
Everyone though shocked for a moment, quickly recovered as The Third Raikage said in an equally loud voice while releasing his aura, "We've come to destroy the Uzumaki! What's it got to do with you?!"
"Quite the impudent one... And as for destroy the Uzumaki..... I shall not allow that."
Onoki started flying up into the air as well and said, "And who the hell are you to be able to 'allow' us to do anything you snot nosed brat!?"
"Who am I, you ask? I am..... nobody. Now, I'll say this one more time.... go back and I will not kill all of you."
A deafening roar of laughter was heard, along with various things like, "I-Is this guy for real!?!? Hahaha!!! Killing all of us alone! He's gone insane!"
The man slowly raised his hand up into the sky and released his aura. The laughter vanished into thin air and most of the army knelt down or passed out due to the aura of the man hovering in the air.
With his eyes glowing a brilliant blue and chakra surrounding him, he said, "You leave me no choice then."
His eyes' glow slowly turned white and he slowly faded away into nothing. The pressure was gone and there was no trace of him left.
The Kage quickly ordered, "Sensors! Immediately pinpoint his location!"
After a few seconds, all of them replied, "W-we can't sense him at all sir.... there's no trace of him or his chakra.... its as if he never existed in the first place!"
"Never existed? How is that even possible? Was it genjutsu? No, it coul-"
Just as people were starting to become confused, a cold, domineering voice rang out throughout the land and ocean, "Do not fret, for even as you lay your life down here, you shall not be rejected true peace and contentment.
.... You will understand soon enough. But for now, rest in wait of your cherished ones."
"Serious Series: ...
....God's Annihilating Wrath!!!"
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[A/N: Well timed cliffhanger eh? Honestly, I spent way too much time thinking about the logistics of the whole thing, but... end's well, all is well I suppose.
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