The Future: Naruto Fanfiction

Chapter 12-BATTLING A COLONEL

Hashirama and Peterson's Battlefield

Hashirama gazes down at the man below, stood atop a wood golem he just used one of his most powerful attacks, a full force punch straight towards Peterson. Despite this Peterson had shown his true power, instantly having created a shield of lightning he blocked the punch from Hashirama's wood golem as if it were nothing.

'This is the power of a colonel' Hashirama lets the situation sink in.

Previously Hashirama had been in a position like Naruto, they had reached a level above any others. In their respective eras both the 1st Hokage and 7th Hokage were considered god-like for their talents and their powers. Having seen Boruto fight a captain once before, Hashirama had realised that the average strength of the enemy they were facing was great, though it's not until this moment that he truly appreciates just how terrible an enemy they are facing.

Hashirama motions with his hands to control the wood golem beneath his feet. Swinging his palm one way then the other, he manipulates the golem to do his bidding, to throw a punch around the lightning shield that Peterson has constructed.

Peterson continues to hold his palm out before him, maintaining the lightning shield with small helpings of electricity, arcing from the edge of his fingers. Spotting Hashirama's new angle of attack he swings his outstretched arm to his side, the shield maintaining a constant distance from his palm.

Thud!

The newly positioned shield blocks Hashirama's second attack, just as easily as the first.

'So you can move that shield, that surely is a strong technique' the 1st Hokage offers this silent praise to his opponent, not daring to waste his breath on communicating with such a man. 'But you cannot defend from every angle at once'.

Adopting this new ethos of attacking from multiple angles, Hashirama pushes his hands apart, causing the wood golem to raise its arms, revealing its full wingspan to Peterson. Suddenly Hashirama slams his hands together, forcing the golem to do the same.

The Colonel retains his complacent expression as he raises his other arm out to his side. As electricity flickers on this hand too, a second lightning shield appears on his opposite side. Both to his left and to his right he summons mighty defensive barriers.

A huge boom rocks the surrounding area as the wood golem's hands crash onto the shields. The shields block the attack. Hashirama's two-pronged strike had not worked.

"What about this!" Hashirama shouts as the wood surrounding him begins to shift.

The wooden dragon unfurls itself, separating from the golem and launching straight towards Peterson. 'You may be able to do godly things with those hands' Hashirama notes, 'But you still only have two of them'.

"You just don't seem to get it" Peterson muses, interrupting his opponent's thoughts.

The colonel pushes his lips together as if to whistle. Then out from his mouth fires a single bolt of lightning. Unlike most lightning it does not arc or curve. The path of this lightning is not in the least bit jagged, it is a perfect straight line. Straight through the centre wood dragon.

The wood dragon is cut in half.

Hashirama's eyes widen as he realises what has just happened. The wood dragon is one of his mightiest techniques, something he used to fight all throughout the feudal wars. Something he used to train the jonin of the hidden leaf village. Something he used to fight Uchiha Madara himself, yet this man had split it in half just like that.