Saruto | The Celestial War (Part 2)

Chapter 30: Triple Uchiha Susanoo Blockade

As thunder clouds begin to form above us, we look to the Four General's incomplete and malicious form. It was like the titan, Gashadokuro. As a child my father told me a story about the Gashadokuro. The poor, unfortunate bones of those who've perished on the battlefield turn into Gashadokuro, or the starving skeleton. These yokai form in places where masses of normal skeletons lie, such as in villages after famine or disease has wiped out the population. Because they died without a proper burial or funeral rites, the souls and bones come together and create one giant skeleton, 15 times the size of an average person. The skeleton specters feed on lone travelers, biting their heads off, feasting on their bones and drinking their blood

Looking the corner of my eye, I realize that my mother had created the thunderclouds from the heat of his Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique along with the heat of my grandfather's inextinguishable Amaterasu.

Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire allowed my mother to compress a large amount of chakra built up inside her body and change it into a dragon head-shaped fireball. She then skillfully manipulates that great fire, and attacks the Gashadokuro. Even outside of the attack range, I felt the heat touch my skin.

The flames have a high temperature, which can create an upward movement of air currents which in turn can give rise to thunderclouds. A master of this technique, like my mother, can fire off several flames in succession and anyone caught in the technique could potentially be reduced to ashes.

Proceeding to fire the barrage of flames at the Gashadokuro, my grandfather uses he cover to harness the lighting in the clouds with his chakra, using his signature jutsu, Kirin, in attempt to kill the Gashadokuro, but instead ends up obliterating the terrain around us.

Kirin draws natural lighting directly from thunder clouds to supplement the power of the strike, allowing my grandfather to control it. Unlike most techniques, which are based on the user's chakra, this one uses natural lightning which reaches the ground in 1/1000th of a second. However, the preparation time required also decreases the technique's efficiency. If there are not active thunder clouds, the user must create them by using powerful fire techniques to produce the necessary storm conditions. With techniques such as my grandfather's Amaterasu and mother's fire release, they were able to achieve such feats.

Watching the terrain erupt in an enormous glow produced by Sasuke's Kirin, I smile, ignorantly believing we had won with one attack pattern.

"This is not over, Saruto," my grandfather narrows.

Widening my eyes, I look to the dust settling to see Gashadokuro standing up, having survived Kirin's attack due to their white chakra cloak.

Suddenly its eyes begin to glow a seering white as it runs at us, I spin around my grandfather and dissipate my swords into hands, holding them out in front of me to take the blow. Feeling a surge of energy flow through me, I involuntarily activate my Chaos Release: Eight Gods Technique. Suddenly, eight celestial-like figures with skin of glass burst out of my body.

The blow instantly crumbles one of the Gashadokuro's eight hands, causing five malicious insect-like monsters to escape the wound. Occupied with holding back the Gashadokuro, I see the insect monsters begin to charge at me in an inhuman manner.

"Saruto!" I hear my mother call out as she runs towards in her Full body susanoo form behind me.

I watch as she pulls out her scythe and swings at the insect mutants. Her scythe has the ability to seal any soul and trap it forever in a genjutsu. It was a similar technique she had inherited from her uncle, Itachi Uchiha, who could accomplish such a powerful move through his own Susanoo's Sword of Totsuka. My mother manages to decapitate four of the five insect mutants and manages to seal the last one causing the Gashadokuro first arm to be rendering useless as it crumbles into the wind.

"No!" It screams out distortedly with four voices being heard behind it.

Smiling at my mother, she returns it with a smug grin acknowledging my thanks. Suddenly, we see a figure leap over us as my grandfather pulls out his sword to go for the head of the Gashadokuro.

"Finish it!" I yelled at him.

Scanning his face, all I can see is his determined gaze as he aims for the Gashadokuro throat.

As my mother and I note my grandfather's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Sasuke attacks, but the Gashadokuro is able to withstand his attack, surprising us.
Strengthening my own Mangekyo Sharingan with chaos chakra, I feel it begin to change its form. Like it was becoming something else, but I couldn't quite understand what.

Looking at the Gashadokuro, we see it start to charge up a mass attack. Glancing at the shinobi a few kilometers away, I deduced that the attack would wipe out the entire Land of Wind. Understanding Gashadokuro's motives as well, my grandfather and mother joined me. In unisense we enact the same jutsu.

"Susanoo: Tsukumo!" we yelled out.

On queue, each of our Susanoo's rib cages open to expose the inner chest before launching a barrage of large purple, crimson, and red-violet-colored chakra needles at an incredible speed. Blocking the attacks with our Tsukumo, we manage to not allow a single bullet pass us into the battlefield where our comrades fought.

"Sarada, now!" my grandfather calls out

Pulling away from us, my mother enacts hand signals drawing chakra stored in her Byakugou, her susanoo begins to glow in a sea green haze on top of the crimson light of her chakra. Slapping her hands together, sliding on the ground as she enters Gashadokuro's blind spot.

"Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!" she yells out.

Looking at her with shock over the fact that only members of the Senju clan have been able to achieve such a powerful jutsu, I glance at her Byakugou on her forehead in the shape of a rhombus, which is signature of the healing jutsu of the Senju clan, tattoos begin to stretch out of it extending over the entirety of her face and body. It was a testament to both its power and the user's confidence in its healing prowess. I then begin to think about how she must've mastered it while mastering her Byakugou.

The Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousands Hands was a technique which created a titanic, many-handed wooden statue that could be freely controlled by the user. After entering Sage Mode, my mother creates a wooden statue of titanic proportions. Thousands of hands originate from the statue's back in countless concentric rows, while its two main hands are clasped, as if in prayer. The statue can serve a variety of purposes in battle, from fighting on the user's behalf to defending and even using other techniques. The sheer size of this technique makes it almost impossible to attack my mother in her Susanoo armor.

It can also detach itself from its main arsenal, which my mother proceeded to do, to increase its mobility to adapt to a situation that requires more speed. With its immense strength, she uses it to grab the Gashadokuro with ease and hold it in place, leaving it unable to move. My mother then mirrors the teaching of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, using the Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique: Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands in conjunction with the Wood Human on the statue;s head to surprise and remove any direct control that the Four Generals have together on the Gashadokuro.

Seeing the Gashadokuro bonded together, my grandfather exchanged a look between one another, impressed with my mother's abilities.

With the dust settled, my mother holds her hands together to keep the Gashadokuro bonded, panting hard. She looks back to us with a smile and we return it thinking the being on the defensive was over.

"Now, we just have to cut its he-" I speak before the ground begins to rumble.

My mothers eyes then widened as she went back to the Gashadokuro. Suddenly, a white chakra infused sword pierces here Susanoo. My heart drops as I see the protective cloak of her Susanoo armor begin to disappear, causing her to fall from where she was suspended in the air.

"Mom!" I scream out.