Through My Lying Eyes

43 - Enemy

"Y-you had a d-daughter?" Minato asked his son, tears streaming down his face as well. Naruto looked back at him for the first time since he impaled him with his arm. "L-look, I know how you f-feel right now. But-" "You don't know, so don't say you do." Naruto cut him off. "You were the one that died that day, not me."

"I still lost you, though." Minato weakly said. "And I regret everything that day, if only I had used my powers, I could have saved us. I could've raised you normally if I hadn't tried to keep my power a secret."

Naruto was silent, and he removed his arm from Minato's chest, letting him hit the ground. One of the black orbs surrounding him flew into his hand and shrunk, fitting into his closed palm, and he held a fist over Minato's head. Minato looked up at the fist, and without warning, the orb expanded into a staff, going straight into the top of Minato's head, but not coming out from the bottom. The end of the staff suddenly, and instantly took shape into an incomplete circle, thus destroying Minato's head into pieces. The staff of the sage of six paths was now in his hand.

Everyone was even more shocked than before somehow, but their fears were slightly alleviated when Minato's body poofed away in a cloud of smoke, and the real body appeared in front of them with a hole still in his chest.

"W-wait Naruto! You don't need to kill anyone!" Kakashi yelled in desperation. "Then how would everyone truly learn from their mistakes? If given the option, people would rather refuse to change themselves because it's easier for them. Simply telling them to change won't do anything, you need to force people's eyes open to see the truth." Naruto said.

"There are other ways to do that besides killing everyone though!" Tobirama yelled. "I'm well aware of that, but nothing will get the point across faster. You all saw what I did to Iwa, right? You remember how fast everyone reacted to that? How fast they all united to fight the threat that eliminated them? I'm doing the same thing just on a larger scale this time. They'll see just what this world created with their hatred." Naruto said with an eerily calm smile on his face.

"I won't let that happen!" Everyone heard from behind the group. They looked back to see Sasuke was back up with the hole that was in his chest patched up with a large scar where it once was. Everyone was shocked that he was up, hell, they were shocked that he was alive.

"Sasuke? This is a surprise, I didn't expect you to be up so soon, I mean it took me a week and a half to heal from the same injury, and that was with Kurama healing me too." Naruto said without a care in the world. 'Something is different about him though. Wait, this chakra I'm feeling from him, is that...six paths chakra?' He thought as he focused on his former team member.

"Eh, it doesn't really matter, you're all gonna die anyway." Naruto said as his sword appeared in his hand out of nowhere. He rushed passed everyone to get to Sasuke in a low stance; ready to swing his sword upwards and diagonally. He got within a few feet of Sasuke until he looked up at his black eyes and noticed that Sasuke was looking directly at him the entire time, tracking his every move. Naruto swung his sword up, but Sasuke dodged by jumping in the air to get above and behind him. Sasuke then took his own sword and swung it towards the back of Naruto's head.

Naruto was able to dodge in time, moving a few more feet ahead to get some space. He looked back at Sasuke, who had just landed with his head down but his body facing him. Sasuke slowly started to look up at Naruto, showing him his new eyes.

A pair of silver rinnegan.

"OK, how the fuck?!" Naruto yelled in confusion. Sasuke didn't give him a lot of time to think, because he dashed forward at impressive speeds and clashed his blade with Naruto's. They continued to try and attack each other, but every swing Sasuke threw was getting parried or blocked by Naruto with ease.