BORUTO ALTER: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS

EPILOGUE

Wind howled. Boruto squinted as black hair sped past a scarred eye. His vision was a blur- but Himawari's body was just ahead- crumpled- wounded-

Above!

Senses twanged. Boruto gathered chakra into the soles of his feet, before spinning into a rotating jump.

The ground below exploded into a cackling spread of onyx ink, devouring all matter it came across. The ink faded away like ash in the wind, leaving behind gaping holes and crevices in the places it missed.

Boruto landed upon a jutting stone, shifting his weight as he shouldered his sister, simultaneously raising a gleaming sword. A black cape billowed behind him, weeping over the ruins of Konoha.

He released Himawari, her eyes shooting open in awareness. She landed beside him, crouching while chakra began flaring around her shoulders.

"Isshiki..." Hima snarled.

Her eyes tensed, veins bulging. Blonde hair parted across her forehead, revealing two Byakugan that glared ahead with raw, white anger.

The young shinobi tapped a pinky against the pommel of his sword. In seconds, a stream of electricity sprouted along the blade's edge.

Laughter- laughter once so familiar to him filled the air.

"Twins of the Cursed Eye.. finally getting serious, are you?"

A snap of light-

Isshiki rose from nothing. Wasting no time, it stabbed its hand for Boruto's torso.

Boruto sidestepped the attack, expanding a web of lighting around him in lethal defense.

His attacker vanished-

"Ningi-Mo-Mikoto!"

Boruto followed the sound of Isshiki's stolen voice. The figure was now in the air, but his jutsu spread about Boruto's feet.

Thousands of hands sprung from the earth, some of them groping for Boruto's legs while others held shining mirrors.

Boruto contorted his free hand into a jutsu sign.

"Hima!"

Himawari nodded- she stopped moving, closing her eyes as the hands covered her.

Boruto emptied his mind. He saw nothing.

Then- he saw his father.

"LIGHTING STYLE: SPEAR OF THE HORNED GOD!" Isshiki screamed almost gleefully.

Isshiki slapped its hands together as it descended in the air.

Boruto watched Isshiki's pale fingers weave against each other-

The fingers around Boruto's legs tightened their grip- he was immobile.

A clap and hoo' of thunder darkened the sky. Chakra- vile, overbearing- cackled in the air. From the heavens, a snake of lighting shot towards the earth. It then split into six parts- each one finding one of the mirrors scattered amongst the field of writhing hands.

The spears of lighting reflected off of the mirrors with a twang, each one hurtling for Boruto as his foe fell from above.

"...Jōgan.."

Sound creased.

Isshiki stopped as lightning crashed into now empty space. It landed amongst its hands, turning about as the limbs melted back into a waiting body.