A New Way of Ninja, (Naruto)

32: Sasuke's Declaration

Gaara didn't even see the DJ team yet, as he was facing Zetsu.

It seemed all the other shinobi were too far away to help them now. It was just him, a dead guy, and Kakashi, who was already injured but still hanging in there.

Zetsu was taunting them.

"All of this was planned so that Lord Madara would become more powerful in the end," he went on. "Oh, if you could see the looks on your faces. Your demise was inevitable from the start, but--"

Before they could do anything other than set up their next attack, Zetsu was engulfed in blue fire.

Gaara blinked and then turned.

Shine and Dabi were standing a little ways off. They'd just come from behind the ninja, unnoticed by anyone since they didn't emit the chakra.

The fire didn't really do that much damage, though it seared Obito's skin, but it just started to heal with Zetsu in control.

But at least he stopped talking to the kage and turned to the newcomers.

"Hey, I thought you were Kamui-ed out of existence!" he cried.

"Guess again, punk," Dabi said, holding up his hand.

Shine said something low to him, which Gaara didn't hear, but later found out was, "Distract him."

Dabi began to run a half circle around Zetsu, sending more fire out.

It was lucky that the ground had no plants on it, barring the giant evil one, so he couldn't start a forest fire doing that.

Zetsu, not being the brightest bulb in the shack apparently, figured that Dabi was the real threat. He turned after him.

Shine used her sword to vault herself fast over the ground.

"It's pointless, human," Zetsu began to hurl at Dabi. "I can't be killed by your flimsy flames or your cheap jutsu! I am not---"

A sword went through his body.

He stopped and looked down.

Shien was gritting her teeth.

"I--" she said, slicing the sword up along the black line of Zetsu formed over Obito. "--have had enough of you, demon. Go back to hell where you came from."

"I...you..." Zetsu stammered.

Then he peeled off Obito like a skin or like the symbiote from Spiderman.

Dabi held up his hand, and fire spread over the black goo.

"No!" Zetsu cried, howling. "No, this is impossible! You can't harm me! I'm not like them! I'm not one of you--ah--" He suddenly started to cough.

Minato was staring at the two in disbelief.

Kakashi was confused. "Where did they...? They didn't die?"

Gaara smiled oddly. "Of course they didn't," he said, relief washing over him.

Zetsu melted into a kind of puddle.

Shine glanced down at it. "That no killing thing only applies to humans," she said. "Sorry, you're gone."

She put her sword into the goo and stomped on it.

The puddle shuddered, and then it melted away entirely.

"Gosh, that was gross," Dabi said, gagging. "This world makes me sick."

"I've seen worse than that," Shine said. "That reminded me of when we pulled the Grimm out of Salem. Good times."

"Did you just kill Zetsu?" Kakashi asked.