Chapter 8: An Open Cage

(In the Grand Hall)

Minato who was expecting something to go wrong, had a few shadow clones disguised as workers in the Grand Hall.

After making sure the Fire Daimyo was only drunk and not under potential harm. The clones undid the jutsu and the memory transferred back to the real body.

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(With Minato and the others)

Minato notes the wariness that Rasa has in his eyes when he looks at the Raikage.

'He is trying to keep his guard up against the Raikage's position just in case I appear there.'

"Give up." Minato says. "It is futile. You can't beat me."

"You dare understimate me Yondaime!?" Ay screams at him and charges towards him.

Minato doesn't even try to dodge and just charges up a rasengan and strikes it towards Ay's stretched fist.

*Boom!

Ay's fist strike the Rasengan head on as he doesn't even attempt to avoid it, thinking he will be able to take it head on if he knows what to expect.

"Huh?" Instead Ay twists and turns mid air and spins like crazy. Minato had made sure to adjust the angle of his Rasengan's striking place such that Raikage would loose his stability on air.

Minato charges up another Rasengan and attempts to take Ay's life as well.

However.

"Magnet Release: Gold Dust Imperial Funeral!"

Rasa who has both of his palm firmly slapped on the ground, summons a huge quantity of Gold Dust. The ground ruptures and from it rises waves of Gold Dust.

The Gold Dust engulf Minato and Ay.

Rasa utilizes the Gold Dust to separate the two. He doesn't attempt to crush Minato within the Gold Dust as Minato has shown to be able to change places with Ay without using hand-sign.

Rasa just wants to make sure that Minato is in his vision when he tries to deliver a fatal blow.

Gold Sand Gathering Assault!

Rasa learns his lesson after seeing what has happened to the Raikage and doesn't scream the names of the techniques.

Gold sand twist, turn and compress into various shapes.

With a flick of his arm, Rasa then starts attacking Minato with the Gold Sand Constructs.

On the other side, Ay looks at his mingled arm with rage. He tears the cloak he was wearing and wraps it around his mangled arm for stability.

'I need Bee here, otherwise, we will all die right here.'

He makes the hand sign for the summoning jutsu while being very careful.

As a Kage, using one handed signs for the summoning jutsu was normal. Normally, he wouldn't do this as he had to be very careful not to mess up the flow of his chakra. This made it slow, and hence it couldn't be used in the middle of a battle.

But, since Rasa was currently occupying Minato's attention, he decided to use one handed sign to perform the summoning jutsu.

His arms were still shaking after getting hit by the huge force of the Rasengan and one of his arm was even mangled.

So, he had to be extra careful.

It took him a while, but he finally finished.

"Summoning Jutsu!"

Killer Bee who appeared with a puff of smoke looked at his brother with a blank face.

He was currently sitting, pooping.

"Brothaaa, what are ya doin'?"

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Over on the other side, Minato has summoned a dozen more kunai and has flung them all over the carved battlefield.

Rasa was doing all he can trying to attack Minato with his constructs but fails horribly every time as his constructs were far too slow compared to Minato's teleportation speed.

In one fluid movement, Minato threw his Flying Thunder God Kunai towards Rasa.

The kunai cut through the air with deadly precision, weaving through the Gold Sand constructs with grace.

Rasa's eyes widened in surprise as the kunai grazed his cheek, drawing a thin line of blood.

The kunai continued its trajectory, landing with a soft thud on the ground behind Rasa.

Minato's body tensed, ready to teleport behind Rasa and deliver a decisive blow.

But just as he was about to activate his technique, a sudden, immense chakra presence filled the battlefield. It was a chakra so powerful and distinctive that it immediately caught Minato's attention.

His eyes widened as he sensed the familiar, overwhelming energy. "That chakra... it can't be..."

A massive figure loomed in the distance, the unmistakable silhouette of the Eight Tails.

'I didn't expect to have to face him here. Damn it! I thought he was the one responsible for taking Naruto under control! If he is here, I cannot find Naruto.'

Seeing that Minato was a bit distracted, Rasa immediately commanded the Gold Sand to attack, the constructs surging forward like living beings.

Minato jumped and managed to narrowly dodge the construct.

'I need to focus!'

"ORAAH!" The all too familiar scream of the Eight Tails sounded behind him.

The intense chakra that immediately built up behind him made him teleport instantly.

*BOOOOM!

A tailed beast bomb landed right where Minato was a moment ago. The impact sweeping the surrounding with dust and rubbles. What remained of the forest from Onoki's attack was now completely wiped.

"We just dropped a bomb, yeah, that was raw,

But let's show 'em our skills, like a lion with a paw.

Get the fists flying, let the energy flow,

We're the ultimate team, man, they gotta know!

So before we release another tailed beast boom,

Let's dance in the battle, sweep him like a broom.

Throw some hands, Gyuki, show him our might,

We're the kings of the fight, bringin' day from the night!

Oh yeah~" rapped Killer Bee, while his arms danced, his fingers making the horn sign. He had transformed back to a human.

Minato just stared, unsure what exactly Bee was trying achieve.

Killer Bee's chakra flared, a fierce red aura enveloping him as he partially transformed, the silhouette of the Eight Tails' tentacles visible behind him.

Minato's eyes narrowed, his body tense and ready.

Bee was taking a shit when he was summoned so he didn't have his swords with him.

With a roar, he lunged forward, tentacles extending from his body like whips.

He had to make do with the tentacles.

Minato reacted instantly, his form blurring as he used the Flying Thunder God technique to teleport out of harm's way.

The tentacles struck the ground where he had been standing, leaving deep craters.

Reappearing behind Killer Bee, Minato hurled a kunai aimed at Bee's back. But Bee anticipated the move, spinning around with incredible speed and swatting the kunai away with a tentacle. "Nice try, but I'm too fly for that!"

Minato continued to teleport around the battlefield, his movements a series of rapid blurs.

He reappeared briefly to launch precise strikes with his kunai, each one narrowly dodged or deflected by Bee's tentacles.

The two combatants moved with such speed and ferocity that their clash was a blur of motion to any observer.

Bee, who was a perfect jinchuriki was harder to fight against than even the two Kages.

Rasa and Ay who were planning to enter in the battle stopped themselves and just looked on trying to preserve their energy to enter at a critical moment.

And, they still remembered how silently Onoki, the then oldest kage in the world, with perhaps the strongest nature transformation in the world, died.

They neither had the speed to counter Minato, nor Bee's tenacity he has as the jinchuriki which allows him him to keep up against Minato.

They were hesitating.

They feared that after Onoki, it may be them next.

But, Ay found the nerves on his forehead twitching. He felt his brother was just playing around.

He was beyond furious at his idiotic brother.

"BEEE!!!!!! STOP PLAYING AROUND AND TRANSFORM INTO THE EIGHT TAILS!" Ay shouted looking like he was about to vomit blood from anger any moment.

"Oops. Can't waste time anymore. Aight, Transuforumu!" Killer hit a power ranger pose and transformed into the Eight Tails and immediately blasted a tailed beast bomb right at Minato.

'It's too close.' Minato thought but he wasn't worried.

*Chwing!

"DAMN IT," Ay screamed.

He and Minato switched place once again.

*BOOM!

"Sorry brotha!" Killer Bee screamed, it was a mini tailed beast bomb.

He had sacrificed power to to release it faster, he knew something like that wouldn't kill his brother.

So, he kept focusing on Minato.

Rasa who saw the disadvantage the renowned Strongest Tag Team were in decided to quietly retreat.

He knew Minato wasn't an idiot and has certainly informed the village for backup. It was only a matter of time before they arrived.

But just as he is about to turn, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

He turned around to see the masked man from before. But, he wasn't the same.

The black robe he wore was torn and was hanging on his body by a few threads. His upper body was visible and Rasa's face crunched in a frown seeing how deformed the chest was, a few bones were even jutting out.

The stark difference in the color tone on the man's upper body particularly stood out to Rasa.

The man was also missing an arm.

"What the hell happened to you?" Rasa asked incredulously.

"No time to explain. We need to get out of here. A whole battalion from Konoha are about to arrive here."

Rasa nodded immediately and said, "Let me get the Raikage for you."

"No need, I can get him. Your sand's movement can notify the Yondaime."

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After explaining the situation to the Raikage, the masked man then teleported behind the Eight Tails.

"BEEE! Revert! We're strategically repositioning!" Ay screamed.

Hearing that, Killer Bee shot a few tailed beast bomb in quick succession to divert Minato's focus and reverted back to his human form.

"Brothaa, you can just tell me that we're escaping, ya know?" Killer Bee said what Ay was too embarrassed to scream while falling from the sky.

Ay immediately smacked Bee as soon as he landed and barked at him. "Shut up!"

The masked man started using his technique to teleport when Minato suddenly appeared in front of them.

The teleportation stopped and Bee partially transformed into Eight Tails to hit another tailed beast bomb.

However, Minato simply raised his hand and took it head on. Just as the tailed beast bomb touched his hand, he teleported it a far away distance.

'FUCK!'

*BOOOM!

"I won't attack." Minato assured. "I just want to talk with the Raikage."

Minato turned to Ay and started talking while the others just stared with their guards up.

"Raikage, you do remember that I can switch places with you right? Know this, I can have you switch place with anything other than myself as well. You can leave, but I'm still taking you hostage. You get me back my son or I'm teleporting you straight to the sun. And I won't stop with you. I will come to village and, with my very own hands, I will give every single member of your village a free ticket to the outer space."

The masked man started the teleportation technique again.

He regretted stopping.

The body of Ay twisted and turned as he was sucked away. The rage in his eyes was evident. "Damn you, you yellow headed bastard!"

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The masked man teleported each of the Kages to their respective village and talked about regrouping later to talk about how to proceed later.

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(The Raikage's Office)

As soon as Ay got back to his village, he started to bark orders immediately.

"It doesn't matter if I'm teleported to the sun. I don't give a shit! With the combined effort of the village, we can take him down. Get the scientists ready, and our sealing experts ready as well. We'll break down Yondaime's son to atoms and assemble a thousand of him! Get our sleeper agents in the other village awakened, we'll have to capture the tailed beast and weaponize the kid!"

Mabui looked at the Raikage nervously, unsure about how to give him the news, and ended up saying, "Sir, we don't have the technology to clone someone..."

Raikage immediately swelled up in anger, "That's why I said get the god damn scientists ready! They will build the technology!!! The existence of this fucking village is on the line!"

"L-Lo-Lord Raikage, there is o-one problem though."

"WHAT IS IT?"

"We...we don't have the kid."

Ay felt his brain stop for a second. "What do you mean?" His voice was suddenly calm.

Mabui felt even more scared. "The kid is gone..."

Ay punched the wall pulverizing it and sending ruptures throughout the building with the force of the impact.

From the huge hole just created Ay could see the whole village. A few of the villagers down were starting to gather to see what was going on in the Raikage's office.

Ay didn't care if the people below could hear him, he was too angry to pay attention to that.

"The people accompanying him were the 600 of this village's best in detecting everything while remaining undetected themselves! Are you trying to say that they couldn't stop 1 kid from escaping? A FIVE fucking years old kid!?"

"Tha-That isn't the case, Lord Raikage."

Ay grabbed Mabui by the shoulder and stared deep at her eyes. With a quiet voice he said, "Then stop hesitating and tell me what the case is to my fucking face, Mabui."

"They....the 600 shinobi that were stationed on the border just in case we might need to invade and also secure Naruto Uzumaki...they...they are all dead."

"What?"

"They have all been cut to pieces!"

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A/N:

Just found out that if I don't start making money, I might end up homeless soon. A big fat debt just piled up on my shoulders. So, help this brother out.

p.a.t.r.e.o.n / MyMumCallsMePig

I didn't plan for this, so there's only 1 additional chapter available right now. But I will slowly build up the chapters to ensure they are ahead by a month.

Next chapter, we'll see what our boy has been cooking all this while.