What You Wish For [Complete]

Dust to Dust

Ansei cocked his head. "You should stay out of this," he growled at Boruto.

"I actually agree with him," Naruto muttered.

Boruto sighed deeply. "Can't you two work this out without trying to kill one another?"

Ansei shrugged and relaxed his tails, but didn't drop his chakra cloak. He felt that Naruto didn't either. He didn't know Boruto's father. They had only one encounter prior to this mess and all Ansei really remembered about it was a lot of yelling. He also remembered that Boruto had been angry at his father, and had thought poorly about him. Through their two encounters, Ansei couldn't say he blamed his friend for hating his father. He seemed like a power-hunger, control freak that seemed to have a god-complex.

Like we don't have a god complex? Ansei scoffed.

"Well, this has to end," Naruto said. Had Ansei been able to see, he would have seen the control freak with a god complex reach out his hand in a truce, mostly for the sake of their shared interest standing in the middle of their landscape-changing battle. However, Ansei could not see because his eyes had been taken and given to Akuryo, and in that very moment, that shared interest stumbled back and collapsed onto Ansei due to the blood loss from the amputation that Ansei didn't know had happened. In that moment, with Naruto's poor choice of words, and the concerned tone that Ansei mistook as annoyance with his son for lack of experience with concern, Ansei believed that Naruto had gone through his child in order to attack the black-chakra Jinchuuriki.

Ansei gripped Boruto's unconscious form in his arms and turned his eyeless gaze to Naruto. "You monster!" Ansei shouted, holding Boruto to his chest.

"Wa-wait! What?!" Naruto gasped. Ansei kicked Naruto away from them and backed away from the flames he had created. He only had a moment before Naruto came back. He placed Boruto near a tree and gently handled him so that he would wake up and be able to get out of there. He lifted his head and howled, morphing as he did so.

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Naruto hit his head on a tree and rubbed it. "What the heck just happened?" he moaned. Ansei's sudden change in demeanor had completely caught him off guard. "I thought we were ending this."

He is blind, Kurama pointed out.

I didn't do anything! Naruto snapped as he stood. The howl rang through the forest and Naruto lifted his head as a black and white Kyuubi appeared, slightly transparent. "Are you kidding me?! He can do that?"

Well, this just got interesting.

Interesting isn't the word I would use here. Naruto wasn't eager to figure out what else that child could do. Guess we have no choice. You ready?

It is about time, Kurama growled. Naruto sighed and clapped his palms together. Suddenly he was engulfed in a giant yellow fox, matching Ansei's black and white one. He honed in on Boruto's chakra.

We have to move this away from here! He created a shadow clone to go after Boruto and get him away from this battle and to inform the other children to get as far away as they could. He and the fox turned to their opponent once the clone vanished with Boruto. Naruto swallowed hard. Often he had faced an opponent that he could imagine himself becoming had he made the wrong choices in life, but this was the first time he was truly facing himself.

Naruto directed the fox to make several large strides away from the base where he had left the kids before spinning around. Ansei had taken the bait and was running at him at top speed. Kurama stood on his hind legs and grabbed Ansei's fox as he lunged at them. He was lifted off the ground and rolled. Don't cause too much damage! Naruto berated Kurama.