When The Last Tree Dies [P]

A man sat alone in the forest eating something by the fire. The fire was obviously only there to keep the man warm as the thing he ate still dripped red blood. If one looked next to him, they would find the body of a travelling merchant mutilated beyond recognition. It was the man's arm that was being eaten. In the middle of his meal, the man, known as Dante, looked up. He felt something, something odd. The air had changed. suddenly, the fire grew and he could see the masked visage of his Leader leering at him through the flames. His voice came out deep and distorted from the jutsu, but Dante could understand him just fine. "One, you did good with your first assignment. I am assuming you know what to do now?" Dante merely nodded. "Good. Now, Go sharpen your ax. You are to chop down the tree by weeks end." With that, the fire went out completely and Dante was left alone in the darkened forest. "It will be done.. Leader-sama." The man stood and took off into the forest, his mind set and his goal at the front of his thoughts. He was dressed as normal, a long black trench coat covered up his body that was wrapped from neck to toe in white bandages. It had been a couple of weeks since he left the Land of Iron, so he had been ready for his next assignment, though he knew this one would prove to be much more difficult. When he topped the hill, he saw his quarry, glowing with streetlights and the light of the full moon, Konohagakure.

He took off down the hill and leapt over the village wall. He landed on a rooftop with a silent thud. He made his way quickly to the tallest building in the village, the one that housed the Hokage. His target was a man known around the world as a war hero and one of the most powerful people in the world. He of course, was no longer in his prime and as such, it was no longer impossible to defeat him. Dante planned to do just that, to cut this tree out at its core.

Kosuke was sitting at his desk as he always did, doing some paperwork. It had been a difficult transition, but he eventually learned to read braille and he obviously knew how to place his seal as kage to approve or deny legislature. He had learned to gather senjutsu almost passively through the use of seals, and as such he had a highly developed sense to replace his loss of sight. It could be compared to echolocation using waves of natural chakra to map out his surroundings and "see" people by their chakra signatures. It was due to this particular ability that he was able to sense out an unfamiliar chakra signature looming outside of his office building. He did nothing about it, but he was now on high alert as he continued to do paper work, simply waiting for his mysterious visitor to make a move.

It was time. Dante pulled out a kunai with and explosive tag attached and threw it into the side of the building where it lodged itself and exploded. His back extended into two blood red wings that added to his speed. He burst into the kage's office the moment the explosion went off and sent a tendril of his special jutsu to strike the Hokage through the heart. It was a good plan, but the man seemed ready and managed to dodge to the side and he only knicked his arm. It would be enough to slow the old man down though. Sending two more, he hoped to make up for his miss, but the Hokage actually caught the tendrils. He had two red lines coming out from under the headband that covered his eyes. Meaning the Old God had activated his sage mode. This battle was sure to end in Dante having to heal some major injuries, but he still had no worries about failure. Currently though, the Hokage and his assailant were in a bit of a gridlock, neither able to seemingly make a move. It would take intervention of a third party to break this up it would seem, unless Dante had anther plan in mind.

Azir would be standing far away from the Hokage's office in fact where he was he did not need to even see or sense him to cause enough damage to the village of Konoha. Azir main purpose was to cause destruction and chaos and make all of the ninja and even the Hokage himself fall to his knees. The Kimyona male would would be standing behind a massive mountain like structer, in fact this was not just any structure. This was the famous Hokage Mountain in which the current Hokage face had been sculpted into the massive mountain as a way of honoring him...

Azir would activate his clan's special Kekkai Genkai, the Jijugan or Crusader, as a golden almost ghost like humanoid being would appear along side him. Simultaneously he would open his mouth as a strang dust like gold would began leaking from within him. This dust in actuality would not be a dust at all, Azir would be spewing a gold sand from his mouth which would began digging into the massive mountain severing and releasing anything being used to support the weight of the mountain. This would cause the entire village to shake as the mountain would began sliding forward not enough to fall but that would soon be fixed.

The golden humanoid being, upon being directed, would move as far as it could from his user to a different side of the mountain. Upon reaching its limit both the Crusader and Azir would place their hands on the massive mountain as they would send a massive shockwave of chakra throughout the large structure.

"EARTH RELEASE: ULTRA LIGHTWEIGHT ROCK TECHNIQUE!"

The activation of this technique from not only Azir but his Crusader would cause the mountain to become extremely light, mucher lighter than Azir could have accomplished on his own. In fact using the Ultra Lightweight technique twice was enough for both the Azir and his Crusader to lift and raise the entire mountain above them as if it was nothing. The entire village would be able to see the massive structure slightly raised into the air. Without a moments notice Azir and his Crusader would throw the entire Kage Mountain forward aiming to take out the Hokage's office and a large portion of the village surrounding it. Upon release the mountain from his grip he and the Crusader would deactivate the lightweight technique to return the mountain back to its normal weight to cause an even greater degree of destruction than before.

"CATCH THIS YOU FORGOTTEN GOD MUHAHAHA!"

Kosuke had dodged slightly to the side after the explosion had hit, his sage mode activating at just the right time. He then had to quickly catch two more tendrils before he was impaled. It would seem this was an attempt on his life, he wasn't too surprised to see that the man he was holding back was pretty strong, but with sage mode, he was far stronger. He would activate a sealless body replacement, switching with a book that was nearby. It was then that he felt it. Something Massive falling down onto the building. He had to think fast, as this was something that would no doubt cause untold destruction to the area. Forming a handsign, he would will six clones into existance. One would drop kick The first assailant back through the hole he had come in through and then make chase to fight him a bit. The remaining clones and Kosuke himself would all form Light Release: Rasenshuriken. They would then all push their sage chakra into the Rasenshuriken making them all double in size. This would be one of the most powerful jutsu Kosuke himself had ever used. The six Uchiha would then combine their Rasenshuriken, quintupling the size yet again until it had eaten away the top of the tower and was actually equal in size to the mountain coming down on top of him. He would need to act fast to get things under control. Throwing the massive light shuriken, he would then do his best to create a protective layer of wood out of the top of the tower that would at the very least shield the buildings below it within a 100 meter radius, but the rest of the village within at least another 100 meters was going to be crushed in the potential rubble from the jutsu. When it hit, the flash of light was bright enough that Kosuke was sure, if he could see it, he would be blinded again. The sound following it sounded like three earthquakes happening in the air all at once, and the top floor of the kage tower was reduced to rubble. This was sure to be a battle that went down in history.

This man was surely living up to his reputation. He was blind, but was making quick work of two S-class shinobi. Once he was dropkicked out of the room by a clone of the man, he saw the issue here. It would seem Azir was trying to kill them both with the Hokage Mountain. The clone engaged him in combat, but he was able to make a shield out of his red chakra. It did well enough in blocking the powerful blows, the man definitelywas trying to kill him. Thats when he felt and saw the massive chakra construct that looked to be made of pure light. It distracted him just long enough that he was hit in the face with enough force to break his jaw and send him carreening into the side of a building. When the explosion shook the village, he thought surely he was going to get buried alive in the rubble, but looking outside, the Hokage had made a canopy of wood to protect the village itself. His jaw finished healing just as the clone made it to him. He made ten tendrils of red chakra and managed to finally impale the clone with one of them. It was time to get done with this foolishness once and for all.

Azir was shocked by the power and the fight the old man still had left in him. While the former Sunagakure ninja did not do as much damaged as he had hoped he had still destoryed a great bit of the village the Hokage was not able to protect with his wood release jutsu. Using his Gold Sand to stop the light of the Rasengan from blinding him Azir would wait until the intense beams would stop as he used the remaining dust clouds from the massive mountain falling to cover his tracks.

Jumping of the remaining flat part of the mountain the Kimyona boy along side his Crusader would slide down the remainder of the destoryed mountain and as they reach the bottom, Azir would direct his Crusader to rush towards the Kage close enough to activate the Swamp of the Underworld technique in hopes of stopping the Uchiha and his clones from moving forward any more.

The swamp technique would turn the entire ground under Kosuke into an almost inescapable quick sand pit that would slowly swallow both him and his clones if they were caught but the Kimyona man did not intend on letting his opponent live that much longer anyhow.

Azir positioned a few meters his Jijugan would call his golden sand to hover directly above the Uchiha surrounded by tree branches as his golden sand would form what seem to be hundreds of large golden needle like spears to rain down upon the Hokage. These spears would be both powerful enough yo easily tear through the wood and pierce through the Hokage if he did not dodge but even if they were to miss it would still cause no problem for the demented attacker.

Azir would yell across to the other side of the field as his eyes could see his colleague Dante dispatching a simple clone, "Oi, Dante what do you think your doing were supposed to be killing him why are you just sitting there?" Of course Azir knew why Dante was there but he just couldn't resist throwing it in face that he also threw a mountain at him as well, but Azir did not care he knew Dante would survive and even if he didnt that just proved he was to weak to be here in the first place.

All but one of his clones had burst from using up their reserves of chakra, and the initial attacker had dispatched his clone. It was something to be said, the devestation these two had cased to his home, but he wouldn't let it stand any longer. Feeling a jutsu activate, he instinctively jumped away seeing the swamp of the underworld technique take form. He managed to get out of its apparent range, but he sensed the attack forming above him, hundreds of different chakra connected constructs that definitely seemed to be aimed at him. He didn't have much time to think though as they seemed to begin fallign towards him. He formed a handseal and turned himself into light to travel a short distance away, but what was out of the range of the attack. When he reformed, he coughed blood. It would seem that even he had his limits in his old age. He needed to act though, aiming his hands at the one who had cast the jutsu, he would send a "Water Release: Tearing Torrent" at him and then enhance it to a powerful, deadly, S-rank technique using the "Lightning Release: Thunderbolt" Technique. Once the technique had been cast, he realized he had run out of sage mode and coughed another glob of blood. It seemed it was time for him to go and be with Izuna, finally. He dropped to his knees, bleeding from under his headband where his eyes would be. He also bled from his mouth, as he coughed more blood. He just hoped his final attack hit its mark, as it was the last technique he would ever preform.

Dante grimaced as Azir approached. What did he do to deserve this? He watched as the Hokage deftly avoided the attack, instead allowing his clone to be captured and destroyed. It pissed Dante off to no end to hear Azir poke and prod him, as he always did. So, he decided, after seeing the Hokage cough blood, fire a jutsu at Azir and fall to his knees that he would finish what he came there to finish. But, he knew this could be a trap, so he would come prepared. Forming a handseal he made twenty clones of himself and they all formed two tendrils out of their backs and rushed the kneeling Kage at full speed, all forty tendrils pierced the aged and dying man. It was the last thing he ever felt as his soul left his body. Allowing his clones to dissipate, Dante would immediately get to work eating the man, regardless of what his business associate thought of it. He didn't really care. Once he finished his meal, he used the leftover blood to draw the seal of the Black Sun, before he left the village the same way he came in. He did not care if Azir followed him, he needed to report this success to their Leader.

[Hokage = DEAD]