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Naruto-Rise of the Uzumakis!! Pt.1 Ch.47

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Naruto Shippuden: Rise of the Uzumakis
  Part: 1

Chapter 47: Sage Mode Activated! Hold the Line!

Draiko and the Leaf Ninjas watched in shock as Mai glared at them from across the vast field of grass. It was now nighttime as the big, bright, full moon shun down upon them as a thin layer of clouds, caused by Mai, began to pass in front of it.

Hinata seemed to be the most shocked one of the group as she couldn’t understand one thing. “I don’t get it…” she said.

“What do you mean?” asked Sakura.

“I made a direct hit on her with my Twin Lion Fists. How is she still able to use her chakra?”

That’s when Draiko stepped in. “It’s because Mai’s using more than just her own chakra. She’s using a combination of her own chakra and Black Magic.”

“Black Magic?” repeated the group of Leaf Ninja as they then turned their attention to Draiko.

“Yes, Mai’s what some would call a Witch Shinobi. They’re notorious for practicing this form of power. I’ve only heard rumors, but apparently it’s some form of power that can greatly increase one’s strength and power. Not to mention Mai’s defense; look at her.”

The Leaf Ninja then turned their attention back towards Mai and examined her. They then noticed small cracks, few in number, scattered around her body and face. These small cracks then proceeded to fix themselves before completely vanishing, making Mai look brand new.

“Wha- What the hell was that?!” exclaimed Sakura.

“That’s Mai’s ultimate defense. She’s able to cover herself in that glass she uses in her attacks. She’s a Glass User.” replied Draiko.

“Glass User? Don’t you mean Crystal User?” asked Hinata.

“No, a Glass User. Although they’re very similar, a Glass User is more powerful, especially if they’re a Witch Shinobi.”

“Well that’s just perfect!” Kiba complained.

“How do we defeat her, then?” Sakura asked.

“He hit her hard!” Draiko replied. “In order for us to break Mai’s armor we have to hit her with a very powerful attack. Naruto’s Tailed-Beast Bomb would’ve done the trick, but Mai sealed away the Nine-Tails in him. So we’re gonna have to be precise.”

“I might be able to do something like that.” said Naruto as he picked himself from the ground.

“Why do you say that? You can’t use your Jinchuriki Powers?”

“I still have one more trick up my sleeve. Sage Mode.”

“Sage Mode? The hell is Sage Mode?” asked the confused Draiko.

“It’s another power up I have. It’s not as strong as my Tailed-Beast Mode, but it should provide me enough power to create an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan.”

Draiko was now in total shock after hearing that Naruto had another power up. This is the second time this has happened to him not knowing that Naruto had yet another form to his power.

“You mean to tell me that you had ANOTHER power up and you never told me?!” Draiko yelled.

Naruto understood Draiko’s anger and began to laugh nervously. “Heheheh, if it’s any consolation, this is the last power up I have left in my arsenal.”

That statement didn’t really calm Draiko any further, but he had no choice but to accept it. He let out a disappointed sigh of relief. “Fine, just… just hurry up and do it.”

“Yeah… about that…” said Naruto.

“What?”

“The thing is, I have to stay absolutely still while I charge up Nature Energy.”

Draiko then had a dumbfounded look on his face. “You’re kidding…”

“Sorry.” Naruto laughed nervously again.

Draiko then examined their situation and realized they had to act fast. He quickly thought up a strategy that could give Naruto the time he needed.

“Alright give me a second.” Draiko said as he turned toward Sakura. “Hey, Pinky!”

“Sakura! My name is Sakura!” yelled the agitated Sakura.

“Whatever! You and Hyuga-Girl get your asses over here and protect Naruto!”

Sakura and Hinata did just that as they approached Naruto.

Naruto had already sat in his meditated position. Sakura then kneeled behind him and began to heal up some of his injuries. Meanwhile, Hinata stood in front of him.

“Don’t worry Naruto, we’ll protect you.” Hinata said as she took a fighting stance.

Although his eyes were closed, Naruto still heard what Hinata said as it brought a smile to his face.

‘Thanks, guys.’ Naruto thought to himself.

Draiko then pointed to Shino, Sai, and Kiba. “You, you, and you on me, I’ll take point. I’m gonna do my best to distract her while you guys try and flank her. Remember, we need to keep her busy enough to give Naruto the time he needs to charge up, got it?” Draiko then unsealed his chakra reserve, putting him back to full strength.

“Got it!” Shino, Sai, and Kiba replied as they and Draiko began their attack run on Mai.

Mai saw them approach and scoffed. “Psh, what fools! Taking me head on? Let me show you the error of your ways!” she yelled before firing another ball of chakra right at them.

The explosive ball of chakra streaked through the air at incredible speed, but Draiko countered by using his Almighty Push to blow the chakra ball back at Mai. This time, the chakra ball was traveling a lot faster, but just before it could even reach her Mai casually side-stepped, dodging her own attack.

The chakra ball whizzed by her and landed across the field creating a large explosion.

Kiba and Akamaru then proceeded to leap above Draiko as they began their Fang Over Fang attack, transforming into two swirling vortexes hurtling straight at Mai.

However, Mai countered by creating a glass shield, immediately stopping their attack. Mai then flew at lightning speed towards Kiba and Akamaru and delivered two very powerful blows, sending them crashing towards the ground. Upon impact, the two of them were immediately knocked out.

“Kiba!” yelled Hinata as she motioned to go assist him, but she was stopped by Sakura.

“Hinata, stop!” yelled Sakura. “We need to stay here and protect Naruto. He’s the main priority at the moment. Let the others do their job. Once Naruto’s in the fight then we can assist them.”

Hinata completely understood Sakura’s words and realized that her current place was right there with Naruto so as to help him reach his Sage Mode.

Meanwhile, Shino and Sai proceeded to use their own attacks at Mai; attacking her from the side.

Shino blasted Mai with a swarm of his insects while Sai created a pride of Ink-Lions as they rushed at her.

But Mai proved once more to be the superior one as she pointed both her hands at the oncoming attacks and fired two more chakra blasts, not only blowing away Shino and Sai’s attacks, but they also hit in their general area, creating two more large explosions. The force of the blasts quickly dispatched both Shino and Sai as they both fell to the ground unconscious.

Draiko was shocked to see how quickly Mai dispatched the Leaf Ninjas so quickly, but knew he had to keep giving Naruto more time.

‘Damn it all!’ thought Draiko. ‘I was certain these Leaf Ninja would prove more useful, but against Mai in her current power, it’s just not enough. I have to be careful with my next moves. If I use too much chakra, I won’t be able to assist Naruto in his Sage Mode. But if I don’t use enough here it might not be enough to hold Mai off.’

Draiko then turned towards where Naruto was and noticed he was still in his meditative pose. ‘You’ve got to be kidding me! He’s still charging up? You better hurry up Naruto! I have only one more move that could stall Mai, but I don’t know for how long.’

Draiko then smiled as he looked up at Mai. “I must say, Mai, you’ve really outdone yourself! Seeing you like this is really making me change my mind about this fight.”

Mai chuckled in response. “Do you now understand the mistake that you’ve made, Draiko? None of you has what it takes to defeat me!”

“Oh, you don’t have to tell me twice.” Draiko said with a smooth tone. “I just know we all don’t stand a chance against you at all.”

Mai smirked in reply. “Nice of you to see the truth before you, Draiko! Once I’m done with you and your friends, I’ll show the whole world my amazing power!”

“Oh? And just how are you gonna do that?” asked Draiko, obviously acting sarcastic.

Mai then began to talk about her plans to continue Tobi’s work to control the world. Meanwhile, Draiko stood there looking up at Mai with a smug look on his face.

‘Excellent.’ Draiko thought to himself. ‘My plan worked perfectly! I’ve got her monologuing! Hopefully this will give Naruto the time he needs to charge up.’

Draiko then looked back to where Naruto was and saw that he was still in his meditative position, charging up Nature Energy. ‘Damn, how long does it take him to charge up?’ thought Draiko with an annoyed look on his face.

Mai, on the other hand, was still monologuing about her quest for world domination until she finally realized what was going on. “Wait a second! You sly little bastard! You got me monologuing again, didn’t you?”

Draiko pretended to look shocked. “Oh, what ever do you mean?”

Mai could now tell that Draiko was being sarcastic and didn’t take it too kindly. She only responded by swooping in at lightning speed, catching Draiko off-guard, and delivering a powerful knee to his gut.

Draiko grunted in pain from Mai’s attack before falling to his knees and bending over in pain.

Mai looked down on him with disgust. She always hated being bested by Draiko, even by a lousy trick like getting her to monologue about her plans. But she knew he only did it to buy some time, but for what?

Mai then began to look around trying to figure out what Draiko was buying time for. That’s when she noticed Naruto in his meditative pose as her chakra sense sensed him gathering his Nature Energy.

“Ah, so that’s it, isn’t it?” asked Mai. “It seems Naruto has one more trick up his sleeve to hold me off. But according to my senses it’s not as strong as his Nine-Tails chakra!”

“Dammit!” grunted Draiko as he tried to get up.

“Too bad it’ll be all for nothing!” exclaimed Mai as she then flew straight for Naruto.

“Oh no!” yelled Draiko.

Mai began to cackle as she got closer and closer to Naruto, but Hinata saw her coming towards them and stood in Mai’s way.

“Stupid girl!” yelled Mai as she fired a chakra blast at Hinata. But Hinata was more than ready as she fired an Air Palm straight at Mai’s chakra blast.

The two blasts collided with each other creating a large explosion that created a cloud of smoke and dust. Mai then flew straight up out of the dust could and fired a barrage of glass shards at Naruto. But Hinata countered again by using her Protective Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to deflect the shards, protecting Naruto yet again.

“Naruto, hurry up!” yelled Sakura.

‘Hold on, almost done.’ thought Naruto.

Mai then began to fly straight down towards them, planning to stab Naruto with a glass blade.

Hinata tried to keep Mai at a distance by firing multiple Air Palms at her, but Mai created a glass shield that protected her from Hinata’s attacks.

“She’s getting closer!” yelled Hinata.

“Keep doing your best to keep her away!” yelled back Sakura.

“I’m trying, but she keeps deflecting my attacks!”

“You’re all mine!” yelled the maniacal Mai.

Hinata watched as Mai was within mere feet of Hinata’s face.

Suddenly, Naruto eyes opened, revealing the yellow frog-like look to them with an orange pigmentation surrounding the outside of his eyes. “I’m ready!” he boasted before rushing towards Mai, and hitting her glass shield with a large Rasengan.

Although it wasn’t enough to shatter it, the sheer force from it was enough to stop Mai in her tracks and push her back away from Hinata.

Naruto’s Rasengan threw Mai several yards away from them. Mai was fixing to charge again, when suddenly, Draiko rushed in behind her and attempted to hit her with another Tiger Claw attack. But Mai sensed his presence this time and wouldn’t fall for the same trick twice.

She quickly threw her arm out and used it to block Draiko’s attack.  “Do you honestly expect me to fall for that lousy attack move twice?” asked Mai.

Suddenly Draiko grinned at Mai before turning into a puff of white smoke.

“A Shadow Clone?!” exclaimed Mai.

“Did you honestly expect me to be that stupid, Mai?!” yelled Draiko from above as he dove in towards Mai, Tiger Claws at the ready.

“Shit!” yelled Mai as she couldn’t react in time and took Draiko’s hit, causing her to fall to the ground as Draiko landed a few feet away from her.

But Mai quickly got up and rushed at Draiko, but was then hit by one of Naruto’s Rasengans, pushing her further away from the two.

Draiko and Naruto were back to fighting side-by-side as they faced down the agitated Shinobi Witch.

“So this is your Sage Mode?” asked Draiko.

“Yep. Impressed?” asked Naruto.

Draiko took a quick look at Naruto. “Meh, it’s alright. I liked your Tailed-Beast Mode better. It was flashier.”

The two of them shared a quick chuckle.

“Your Sage Mode has about the same strength as my Awakened Byakugan. Mai still has the more power in this fight, so we have to be precise about our hits.”

“Got it!”

Mai and the two Uzumakis then charged at each other as they exchanged many punches and kicks at each other. Draiko and Naruto were doing their best to keep Mai at bay, but Mai’s superior strength and speed was slowly taking its toll on them.

Meanwhile Sakura and Hinata had already brought Kiba, Akamaru, Shino, and Sai together as they treated to their wounds.

“I can’t believe Mai was able to do this much damage so quickly.” Hinata said in a worried tone.

“Tell me about it.” replied Sakura as she began healing the others. “I just hope their injuries aren’t too bad. I’m gonna need the rest of my chakra to heal Naruto and Draiko when they’re done with their fight.”

The two girls then looked over to see Naruto and Draiko slowly losing their fight against Mai.

“They’re not winning! They need our help!” exclaimed Hinata. “I’m going over there to help them.”

“Hinata, wait!” exclaimed Sakura. “We need to take care of these guys first. Naruto and Draiko can handle Mai on their own.”

As much as Hinata wanted to help Naruto, she realized Sakura was right. If Mai was able to defeat Kiba, Shino, and Sai so quickly, she knew that she’d only get in the way of Naruto and Draiko’s fight with Mai.

Meanwhile, Mai was able to push Naruto and Draiko away from her once more. Now both Naruto and Draiko were bruised and out of breath.

“Man! She just won’t give up!” yelled Naruto.

“I never thought that Mai’s power could ever exceed my own.” replied Draiko. “We have to find some way to get a good enough hit on her.”

“Well, I’m tired of waiting. It’s time I go in full force!” yelled Naruto as he created an army of Shadow Clones before charging Mai.

“Naruto, wait!” yelled Draiko as he reached his hand out to him. But before he could do anything else, Draiko suddenly heard another voice call out his name.

‘Draiko! Sire, can you hear me?’ asked the voice in Draiko’s head as he responded with his thoughts.

‘Kahn? Is that you?’

‘Oh, thank God! I’ve finally got a hold of you!’ replied Kahn through Draiko’s thoughts. ‘What on earth is going on over there? I’ve been picking up weird chakra signals coming from your position; both good and bad chakra.’

‘Naruto and I bumped into an old friend of mine back in my days working for Tobi. The bad chakra you’re feeling is hers.’

‘That would make sense, but what happened to you and Naruto? Both of your chakra has been reduced greatly. Do you require any assistance?’

Suddenly Draiko’s eyes widened after hearing Kahn’s request. ‘NO! Absolutely not! You and the others stay right there at the camp!’

Kahn stuttered in surprise. ‘But sire, both you and the Leaf Ninjas are dangerously low on chakra. If we’re there we can hel-’

‘I said no! That’s an order! I understand you want to help, but I can’t afford you guys to get hurt out here. Mai’s power is beyond my own, and I don’t know what else she’s capable of. I don’t want to take that risk!’

Suddenly another voice came into Draiko’s head. A voice that made his heart sink with emotion.

‘Draiko? It’s Ayane. Is everything alright?’ said Ayane’s voice with a worried tone. She was communicating through Kahn to talk to Draiko.

‘Ayane…’ Draiko thought. ‘Y-Yes, everything’s just fine, babe.’

‘Are you sure? Kahn seemed worried about something. Do you need us to help you out? We can be there within the hour or so.’

‘That’s… that’s not necessary, my dear.’ Draiko said trying to keep a calm face.

‘Are you sure?’

‘Yes, Ayane. I’m… I’m sure. Just stay there with the others and keep them safe, okay?’

‘Um… okay… Well, just be sure to come back safely, okay? You will come back, right?’

Draiko gritted his teeth as a tear rolled down his cheek. ‘Yes… I promise.’

‘Don’t make a girl a promise if you know you can’t keep it.’ Ayane said.

‘Don’t worry, Ayane… I won’t. I’ll be there when I’m done here.’

Draiko then looked up to see that Naruto and his clones were getting beat and fast. ‘I got to go now, my dear. I’ll talk to you when I get back.’

‘Oh, okay. I love you.’

‘I love you too.’

The telepathic connection ended as Draiko charged up his chakra and went to assist Naruto.

Meanwhile, back at the Uzumaki camp, Ayane released her hand from Kahn’s shoulder as her own tear ran down her cheek.

“Ayane… I…” said Kahn as he turned to her, but she had already turned her back to him as she now faced the other Uzumakis, waiting to hear an answer.

“So?” asked Sergei. “What did he say? Does Draiko need our help or not?”

Ayane wiped the tear off her cheek as she looked at them. “Draiko wants us all to remain here and wait for his return.”

“What?!” exclaimed the Uzumakis.

“But Kahn said there was a large, dark power source coming from his position greater than his own.” said Ichigo.

“I know… But Draiko wishes us to stay here and not risk losing our lives to this opponent.” Ayane replied. Turns out she had heard the conversation between Draiko and Kahn. “And as much as I really want to go out there and help him… I’m afraid he’s right. We’ve lived this long only because of Draiko’s plan, and this sudden attack from this new enemy was not part of his plan.”

“So what the hell do we do?!” asked Takashi.

“We have faith in Draiko, and pray that he gets back okay.” Ayane then began to walk into her tent to collect her thoughts and feelings about Draiko’s decision. ‘Draiko you jerk…’ she thought to herself. ‘You better come back alive.’
:iconsagenarutoplz::iconsaysplz: Draiko, this is just getting more worse by the minute! How are we going to beat her.

:icondraikouzumakiplz::iconsaysplz: Just hang in there, my dear cousin. I'll do my best to distract her. Just try and use as much of your chakra to make that giant Rasengan you were talking about.

:iconsagenarutoplz::iconsaysplz: You think you can hold out 'til then?

:icondraikouzumakiplz::iconsaysplz: Heh, just watch me! This bitch is gonna have to do more than hit me with a few lucky punches to bring me down.

:iconsagenarutoplz::iconsaysplz: Alright! Let's get this show on the road!

Next Time: Naruto's Final Attack! A Vision Comes True!

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Chapter 48: [link]
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Heh...I love ink lions.