Facing your Evils

The voice seemed to come from all around the void like space

"Who are you??"

The voice just laughed

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

Suddenly the world distorted, everything rippling like some sort of pool of water

From the source stepped a man, who looked sort of like Black Zetsu, but the same body type and features as I

I slowly examined the thing

'So kurama is going to pull this on me, is he? Fine...'

"I'm supposed to face my negative emotions deep down inside of me, right?"

The thing just laughed "That's half of it.."

I cocked my head to the side "What's the other half?"

It gave me a sadistic grin "You'll have to fight me"

My face didn't change but inside I was having an internal crisis

'I'm going to have to fight myself?!?! Fuck!!!'

We stood there staring for a bit before I broke the silence

"...So uhhh, how are we going to start this?"

It simply smiled "Yes, tell me how we should start this out?"

My eyebrow twitched at that "That's what I'm asking you..."

Its smile grew wider and I suddenly coughed up blood, looking down at the fist in my chest

The Zetsu came up close and whispered into my ear

"Oh, how about we start with those 'friends' who never talked to you.."

Another fist in the face

"Perhaps we can start with the girlfriend you never had?!"

I was hit straight in the nose, sending me flying

"Or maybe we start with all of those times you never stepped up for yourself all those times you got bullied?"

"..."

"What? Can't say anything?"

"..."

It Humphed "That was qui-"

He was cut off by a small noise in my direction

"What?"

It got louder and louder ever second. At first it sounded like crying, but eventually it turned into laughter, and then it transitioned straight into hysterical knee slapping laughter

"hehehehee... HAAHAHAAAHAHA!!!"

It just rose an eyebrow "Did I break you?"

I just laughed harder at that

It eventually got annoyed "Why the hell are you laughing?!?!"

I calmed down and looked at him with a hard look in my eye

"You.."

"Are not me"

It's eyes widened and it stepped back a little

I got up and slowly walked towards him

"I don't care about any of that.."

"Don't give me that shit!! You care about everything I just said!!!"

My face didn't change

"If you really knew what I cared about..."

I charged forward and punched him in the gut, sending him flying back

"THEN YOU WOULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT BASTARD OF A 'GOD'!!!"

I ran at him again, running through a few handseals

I took a deep breath

"Sage Art Scorch Release : Dragons Core!"

I put my hand up to my mouth and sent a flamethrower of a deep emerald black towards the Zetsu creature, visibly evaporating the water in the air

I stood there for a few minutes after I scorched him, and began to walk off

But he popped out of the ground and kicked me right in the torso, sending me flying

I flipped and landed on my feet using a half handseal to make a forest grow l around us

With the cover, I began another set, consisting of hundreds of different signs

I eventually stopped after a few seconds

"SAGE ART HIDDEN TECHNIQUE : TRUE THOUSAND HANDS!!"

Wood started to grow all around me, non stopping, forming into a Buddha like figure, hands growing up around me like a sunset falling

"I'm not holding back, you bastard" I growled out

My EMS activated

"Susanoo!"

The wooden Buddha was covered by a green chakra cloak, hands each grabbing onto a matching sword, while a gourd formed at the hip

It just looked at the Susanoo covered golem, before it's own eyes turned into an EMS

"Susanoo!"

It's own Susanoo formed around it. It's color was a dark brown, a gauntlet and matagama necklace clutched in its hands

I grinned and the wooden hands swung at the opposing chakra structure

The Susanoo turned out to be very fast, as it easily dodged all of the swords, running straight up to me and punching me straight in the wooden gut

..Which I shook off easily

"Yknow.. one thing about solid wood?"

"It's very hard"

The Susanoo's hand cracked and broke off from its arm, falling to the ground and disintegrating

The Zetsu jumped back and took up a defensive stance

'Since I can't come to him..'

I made 25 wood Clones from the base of the Thousand hands and grinned

"Here's a page from Madara's book"

Every clone activated an EMS of their own

"""SUSANOO!!!""" They all shouted at the same time, and each of them formed the exact same perfect avatar

The Clones split up and charged at him

The thing just ran from the sight, which I laughed at

I got out of the wooden avatar, keeping my own green one activated

"Kamui"

Hopping into my pocket dimension, sensing for my opponent moving

I hopped out right in front of it and stabbed his Susanoo with my Sealing Sword

Only the chakra got sealed inside, the creature falling out of the thing just before he was sealed

I deactivated my EMS, falling to the ground, engaging the thing with taijutsu

*Pow* *Pow*

He was very fast, maybe 15% faster than my max

I sighed internally

"Gate of Opening : Open!"

A green glow enveloped my body, and I became much faster

Sending a kick towards his chin, I sent him flying

He landed almost 100 meters away, and I ran up to him

"Don't ever try and impersonate me again, asshole"

The thing was stabbed with my Totsuka blade, screaming as it was sealed into my mini gourd

As soon as the last bit of him was sealed, the world distorted again, the black melting away into a bright white

"You passed the test..." I heard from in front of me

Squinting my eyes from the sudden change in colors, I tried to make out who was speaking

The figure that spoke was over the horizon, getting closer

It took a few minutes, but I finally saw who it was

It was a floating man, nine or ten baseball sized black spheres underneath him, along with a black staff. He was wearing a white kimono, with matagamas printed on it. His skin was pale as a sheet, and his hair was silver, similar to Tobirama's. His eyes were a lavender color, rings spiraling out from the center and his face was wrinkled, like Hiruzen's

I gasped

"Hagoromo..."

He just smiled

"I haven't been called by that name in a very long time boy.."

"I assume you know my history?"

I nodded slowly

"Good, then you know that the Otsutsuki must be stopped. If you need the help of my mother, then let it be your last resort.. Give me your hands"

My eyes widened and I looked straight to my palms

'He's going to give me those??? What?!?'

I immediately gave him my hands and he placed his palms upon mine

Suddenly my body became warm and fuzzy, but also cold and hard at the same time

He let go and on top of both of my palms was a symbol of an orange sun and a purple moon

"I gave you all of my chakra, young one. Use it well, and pass on some of it to those you deem worthy.. Farewell"

Hagoromo suddenly started disintegrating from the bottom up, like he was just snapped by Thanos

"Wait wait!! I still have questions!!!"

He shook his head "You'll have to figure the answers to those out by yourself, forgive me..."

The rest of him blew away and I was left in the white world by myself

"How am I supposed to get out of here...?"