Attack On Kumo! Black Sun Strikes! [Plot]

Lucifer had recieved word from the Raikage to meet him at his tower. This was highly unusual situation as the Raikage knew for a fact that Lucifer would be proctoring the exams this time around. Was something wrong?

In anycase the Jugo would rush up the stairs and bursting through the door to see what was going with the young Raikage.

"Lord Raikage are you okay?"

The Raikage stood in front of his desk, he awaited one of his most promising jounin. He had received dire news and knew he would need to pass on his legacy before his fate befell him. When Lucifer entered he would move to stand in front of him. "Lucifer, good. I have received news that will change many things in the village very quickly." Placing his hand on Lucifers shoulder, he would burn the mark of black lightning into him. "I have been poisoned, my chakra is slowly fading and my body growing weak. I have also been told there will be an assassin coming to finish the job. My personal guard have all turned up missing. So, I called you here to mark you as my heir and aid me in defeating these would-be assassins." As he talked, he would enter a coughing fit, coughing up blood. It wouldn't be long now.


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[ENTER BLACK SUN]

Muko, in disguise as a Kumo jounin would burst into the office, "Raikage-sama! There is a man terrorizing the village! He has destroyed the hospital and a portion of the civilian sector!" He was in a perfect disguise and nothing would tip either man in the room off to know that he wasn't just a normal shinobi of the Lightning village, and he didn't lie. He was sure by now Tetsu had destroyed at least fifty percent of the villages markets and the like.

Tetsu was having the time of his life. The ghoulish man was having a field day, drowning civilians and shinobi alike as he made his way through the village towards the Raikage's tower. He was killing everyone he came into contact with and destroying as many buildings as he could. His initial target had been the hospital, for obvious reasons, but he was more than ready to conjure up a massive tidal wave and wipe out the rest of the village at a moments notice.

Lucifer was relieved to see that the Raikage was okay enough that a smile of relief would cover his face. Lucifer watched as the Raikage quickly approached him as his would place his hand on his left shoulder before the young Jugo boy would feel a deep and burning pain. But before he could react to what the Raikage had done he would be told what exactly was going on. Lucifer had been informed that there was an attack on the Raikage's life. He had first been poisoned by a mysterious assassin and then was sure that they were going to continue the assault...  The very fact that the Raikage had gifted Lucifer with the Black Lightning seal and Kekkai Genkai was evident that this not a joke at all.

Lucifer would watch the Lord Raikage spit up blood as he was talking, that was no good the poison had already spread to far in such a slow amount of time he would need to get to a hospital as soon as possible to stop the poison from taking his life, "Lord Raikage you know that I will stand by you no matter what but we need to get you help from a medical ninja. If you let me Ill personally guard and take you to the nearest hospital and you don't have to worry about any of the assassins I wont let them get past m-"

Before Lucifer could continue his statement the door to the Kage's Office would swing up and a voice would follow after it. Lucifer would immediately activate his S-Rank Sage Mode as his entire body would transform into a white panther like state. His hands and feet would would morph into paw like appendages as his entire body would become covered by a strange white armor that formed as a body suit around him. On his back side where the human tail bone would be, a tail made from the same material as his armor would manifest as his eyes would turn morph into cat like form. His entire body would leak nature energy. He would not be a great deal, faster, stronger, with keenly enhanced senses.

This was Lucifer's full powered Sage Mode and it had been triggered on pure instinct instead of a traditional awakening. Even though it had been a Jounin that had come to warn the Raikage of the man causing trouble around the village Lucifer still entered a combat state just in case it had been the enemy. But the news the Jounin had brought was not good at all. It would seem that the Raikage was right that someone had been making an attack on the village. Not only had they poisoned the Raikage they had made sure to destory the hospital in attempt to stop him from seeking help.

"Dammit who would be stupid enough to attack the entire village. Hey you there, go give your report to the ninja covering the chunnin exams. I shall protect the Raikage and hunt down the person causing this damage."

I was not right for Lucifer to speak out for the Raikage but he did not want anyone besides him to know the current state of the Raikage. In fact Lucifer would even go out of his way to hide any blood that might have spilled on the floor by covering it with his pseudo paw foot. He would also position his body in front of the Raikage blocking him from view just in case the man was here for other reasons. Thanks to his Sage Mode state he would be able to sense and feel the chakra in every direction for long distances to see if anyone else was coming. He could see that there was an individual nearing the building who had appeared to be the culprit in the attacks on the village but he of course would have to deal with him if and only if the person would attempt to strike.

So this was the famed Jugo of Kumogakure? Interesting. It would make their task somewhat more difficult, but Muko knew they would manage. "Understood. Though, I will leave a clone to aid you in defending Lord Raikage. It won't be much, but in a time such as this, it could prove useful to have a somewhat human shield, to see your opponent's weaknesses." With that, he would create two clones, that would take up sentinel like positions near the door and window. Muko himself would exit the room and make his way down the stairs. He had already planned ahead for this and had placed explosive tags in every room except the Raikage's office obviously, as well as in the basement area. The clones he left were exploding clones, impossible to tell from normal ones, but he was sure that Lucifer wouldn't attack a kumo shinobi for no reason, especially in a time such as this. When he got outside, he immediately would engage in combat with Tetsu, who took a moment to recognize his teammates chakra signature. Realizing this was a way to communicate and keep his disguise, Tetsu played along. "The poison has taken its hold and he will be dead within the next minute or two. He is currently being guarded by Lucifer Jugo whom is in some animalistic form, meaning he most likely has enhanced senses, strength, and speed. So, we should proceed with some caution. If you completed your task, I will take care of leaving our mark now." Forming a half-ram seal, he would activate his explosive tags and the two clones, causing the Kage office to basically explode, and the entire building to be encompassed in explosions and collapse in and on itself. There were also many explosions throughout the village, all forming the Black Sun insignia.

Lucifer had immediately been suspicious of the Jounin as they ignored his direct order not only that, the same ninja would summon clones one appearing infront of him and behind him to block both possible exits. As soon as the user of the clone jutsu would exit the office, Lucifer would immediately move closer to the Raikage before picking him up in a cradle like position against his will. At this point he could hardly stand anyway whatever poison they had used was acting much faster than an average poison. Something of this level had to had been created by a master, no grand master in medical ninjutsu.

Lucifer would signal the clone to move out the way but as he figured it would not listen in fact moments later with his enhanced sense Lucifer could feel the ground below him shake as he would smell the release of chakra activated gunpowder from an explosive tag using his heightened perception he could also see that the clone standing infront of him would began to distort signalling the activation of the explosive clone technique.

"Shit"

Lucifer would quickly inhale a massive amount of air into his lunges before exhaling a powerful wave of lightning enhanced chakra from his mouth as a powerful sound like shockwave produced from a massive roar, "Sage Art: Roar of the Lion King!!!"

The powerful shockwave would be enough to shield both himself and the Raikage from the oncoming massive explosion what would destory the entire Kage Building. Lucifer would also active his Sage Art: Agile Aerial Step technique to maintain his standing when the floor below him would crumble away from the explosion.

Thanks to his lightning enhanced roar technique, Lucifer was able to force the explosion to move outward away from him and the Raikage. The lightning surging through it was powerful enough to break apart any of the large chunks of debris not damaged by the inital explosion to keep him and the villages leader safe. Using the large cloud of smoke caused by the explosion as cover to escape undetected, Lucifer would move run through the air at his top speed to back away from his original position in case there was a follow up attack.

This was bad, if an enemy assault would continue the Raikage was sure to lose his life. Lucifer would not be able to both protect him and escape to get the leader help without risking both of their lives... Landing in the ground Lucfier would began to make his way towards the destoryed hospital he was sure that some medical ninja would be around by this point to help the injured. If he was to be stopped at this very moment this would be the end of Raikage.

"Please let me make it in time..."

With the Feline sage carrying the Raikage towards the hospital, it would be simple to allow them to go to the area of the destroyed hospital and look upon their potential rescuers corpses and to watch the hope flee from their eyes, but that would be too boring for Tetsu. Instead, the Hoshigaki demon decided to form a few hand signs and gush monstrous amounts of water from his mouth. It covered an area of the village nearly 200 meters in waves of water that then formed into an enormous dome. Muko had already left to carry out another portion of their plan, but he could handle this on his own. The dome would always function with him as its epicenter, so as he swam at insane speeds, he was able to form the seals and cause five sharks to swim out. These sharks move at a speed of 160, so they were just fast enough to catch up to Lucifer, but they would not attack, just swim around and in front of the man. This would be a fight to behold as no doubt countless civilians who had survived the explosions were drowning right now.

Chakra: 1,380/1,500

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As Lucifer would run towards where the hospital once was he would hear the a very strange sound. He could vividly hear the sound of rushing water, but his even his normal non enhanced hearing would have been able to pick up on the sound of rushing water. As he would turn around he could see a massive water of water quickly gaining on him. His speed had been slowed down by carrying the Raikage, who at this point was just moments away from from his death. Lucifer would not be able to outrun the water and just before it would hit him he would take a large gulp of air before he became completely surrounded by the massive torrent of water.

There was no way he could protect the Raikage from the lack of oxygen due to them being submerged. There was nothing Lucifer could do at all to stop his death. He could only watch as the life would fade from the Raikag- no Apollo Kirigaya's eyes. While he heart would be filled with great sadness Lucifer could not allow himself to grieve. In fact his sadness would be replaced by rage not the kind normally exhibited by the Jugo Clan but a one who had just suffered a great loss.

His very own life was still in danger and that was another reason why he would not be able to grieve. Lucifer of course would be tasked with making the attackers and murders pay. Releasing the Raikage from his grip, the former village leader would fall to the bottom of the village ground surrounded in water. As Lucifer would become surrounded by five sharks made from water release chakra, he would rush towards the location where he would sense where the massive wave of chakra had begun. He would be easily able to out speed the sharks even under water thanks to his Sage Mode speed. What he did not account for was that the water would seem to move and shit as he would so that he would forever remain in the epicenter of the massive sphere that engulfed a large portion of Kumogakure. At this point Lucifer's best option would be remain still.

He had a technique that would allow him to get out of this sphere of water, aiming his hands forward he would form a white ring of storm release chakra in front of him. Not soon after a sphere would appear in the center of the circle and firing a white then beam out and and above the massive dome of water. Lucifer would then cover his entire body in Storm Release chakra before he too would transfer into the white chakra state of the sphere. At this point Lucifer would mix with the beam of energy of the beam that had escape the water dome. In doing so this would also him to travel along the direction of the beam at an untraceable speed. Upon being from the the water and reach the limit of the beam. He would return to a humanoid version of the storm chakra before it would fade returning him to his normal state. He would once again be standing in the air using his senjutsu.

He was now free from the watery and prison. Lucifer without any rest would summon a great mass of white storm release chakra once again, but this time he would release the sphere into the sky above him causing the sphere to explode into a thunder storm surrounding the immediate area. The wild Jugo would then release a powerful roar similar to the jutsu he had done before, but this had not been a jutsu this time. Just the full force of his voice which let out a ferocious roar filled with anger. Using his sensing ability to find the culprit once again. Lucifer would cover his entire body in a mysterious black lightning. This had been from the seal placed on him eariler by the Raikage, the Jugo boy had been gifted the Black Lightning Kekkai and had now enhanced the Lightning Release Armor technique to new heights.

The shimmering black lightning would energize his body now allowing him to move at speeds that would appear as teleportation to most if not everyone watching the fight. Using his newly enhanced Black Lightning Release Armor Lucifer would blitz across half of the village within a few seconds to where he would find the attacker. Upon reaching him the Jugo covered in the Black Lightning Release armor would fire right punch aiming for the attackers mid section. The Jugo would purposefully pull back the strength of his punch enough to not kill the man. He would want him to pay, to suffer just how Apollo had done. The punch however would still move at an untraceable speed of 200 to this opponent making dodging it incredibly difficult to dodge. If the punch would connect it would send him flying high into the sky waiting for Lucifer to continue his attack one which would make sure the man would never see the light of day again...

Tetsu, or his clone rather, was being given a ringing. At the least, he had succeeded in his mission and the Raikage was dead. Now he just needed to sew the seed. The moment Lucifer went to deliver his strike, Tetsu would look at him in his eyes, "Our shadow has already started to encroach upon your world. The Lightning and Fire Shadows have been snuffed out, your world is ending. A Black Sun will rise into the sky." He would then be knocked into the air and pummeled. He wondered briefly just how strong this man was, but it didnt matter. Whenever this body died, it would dissolve, revealing a dead Kumo Genin.

Utter and complete chaos was through the streets as buildings exploded. People lay injured or dead. Once proud buildings now stood but rubble. Whoever did this was going to pay for this chaos. No, not pay they were going to die. It had been the first time he felt this much pure hate. He ran through the streets as he saw a huge dome of water encompass the hospital. But by the time he arrived the dome dispersed. the jutsu had ended. What he saw next though crushed him. He watched as the corpse of someone land atop of him. He was crunched beneath the large body and carefully pulled himself out from under it. his hands gently cradling the soaked dead body. Kumos once proud kage now lay in his arms dead.

He began to hyperventilate his eyes swimming in tears. He shook his head and let out an anguished scream with all his might, a saddened howl of pain and regret and sadness filled the air with a childs voice. This once proud strong man now dead. He had been a great comfort to him after the death of his father. The pain he felt in his heart as this was the first time he had found a comrade dead. It was almost overwhelming as he hugged the body of the raikage. He took out a kunai and gently set the raikages head down on the ground and shut his eyes and folded his arms across his chest. He took a defensive stance as he proceeded to guard the body waiting for hopeful reinforcements. For today kumo lost a great shinobi. The raikages office had been destroyed along with much of the villages major buildings of operation. He sniffed tears still swelling down his face slightly less and he wiped them away with his right hand. He tried to move the raikages body but he was not quite strong enough. "SOmeone anyone HELP ME we must move the Raikage immediatly!"

Lucifer would listen to the world the disgusting man had to say, it would appear that this was a calculated attack and he could only at this point assume that the Hokage was deceased based on the fiend's words. This was not good. How could none of the major villiages know of such a major organization capable of causing so much damage to a village and take out two prominent leaders such as Kage. The death of the Hokage which he wont be able to confirm it was true out not was certainly a shock to him. Even without the Rinnegan or the Sharingan the Hokage would easily be able to take out most ninja by himself, Lucifer could only imagine what foes he had to face. In any case Lucifer would need to handle this man in front of him there was no way he could allow this man to escape with his life after the crime he had committed.

Lucifer would raise his right arm covered in the shimmering black lightning in the sky. Moments the blue traditional lightning would replace the the magnificent aura around his right hand. It would seem he was not capable of using a Black Lightning enhanced Kirin just yet but that was something he would certainly fix in the future... In any case the blue lightning his hand would release a continous beam of lightning into the thunder clouds covering the immediate area as sparks would began to flash throughout the thunder clouds as loud thunderous roars would cover the entire village. A massive build up of lightning could be see manifesting in the sky and taking the form of a large dragon like creature.

"You may have snuffed out the light of two villages at the same time but it will never truly fade. Both the Raikage and Hokage have raised, groomed, and taught the villages to fight and continue if something had ever happened to the them. Yes we shall grieve and be sad momentarily but when we raise our heads once again we shall find and destroy all of the darkest that has tried to corrupt our hearts! This black lightning surrounding my body is a vow I made with the Raikage to forever protect the village of Kumogakure, it is a testament to becoming the next Raikage, to lead the village through the darkness and show everyone that even in troubling or painful times that there is someone who will protect them a light that will never fade!"

Tears would fall from Lucifer's eyes at he said that speech, he of course would yell it throughout the entire village of Kumogakure, he truly meant every word he had said. He would be the new light to guide the village in the upcoming hard times. Theres was nothing more he would have to say and it was time for this monster to disappear with rain of thunder. Lucifer would quickly swipe his hand forward pointing it towards his opponent, as he would do so the lightning dragon mass in the sky would release a loud thundering roar before striking downward at an untraceable speed striking engulfing his opponent from its mouth and instantly killing him with a quick and almost never ending torrent of lightning.

Lucifer would use his powerful weapon Tenjin to absorb the remaining lightning of the Kirin to assure that none of the scattered lightning would strike the ground covered in lwater to harm the village or the villagers anymore. He would be succesful in gathering the lightning and as the last of the lightning he abosrbed entered his weapon, the storm clouds in the sky would fade as well revealing a bright and warm sun that would temporarily cover the village of Kumo before the natural storm clouds would cover the village once again in its all to familar darkness.

Lucifer would look downwards towards the direction of where his opponents corpse should have been but all he would see is a false body, it would appear that body capturing jutsu had been used on one of the village genin and disguised as his opponent. Lucifer's heart would almost break, not only did he truly fail to take out his opponent but he had tortured the deceased corpse of one of his very own comrades, how could those people do something like this... It was not long after Lucifer released his Kirin that he could hear someone crying out for help to move the Raikage, using his blurring speeds he would move to the location of the young man and his deceased leader as he stared in disbelief that Apollo was gone. Lucifer would deactivate both his Black Lightning and Sage Mode before moving to help the boy if he would allow him. Around him he could see several ninja and bystanders from the village start to approach and see the lifeless corpse of the once proud leader.

"Hey Kid, here let me take care of him..."

With the young mans permission Lucifer would lift the Raikage before placing him on a flat giant slab of rubble right next to the growing group. This was not something he would want to display to the village but he would have no choice, with the hospital destroyed and the remaining medical ninja helping out the village he had no where to take the Raikage's corpse. All he could do was stand and take guard over Apollo until he was able to receive help from any of the other people who managed to survive the attack on the village. It was then Lucifer had remembered that he informed the man who had originally blown up the Kages Office of the on going Chunnin Exams. He would need to warn the proctor there but he would not be able to leave. He would need some help but he didnt know who he could turn to, if the person who had initially attacked was capable of fooling both him and the Raikage there was no on that Lucifer could trust right now...

"Dammit... What do I do..."

((Not gonna bother to post stats and chakra since the fighting is over.))

The sound of thunder cracked through the sky as rain fell from the sky. giving a fitting setting for this sad moment. The hidden cloud had been decimated and the Raikage had been killed. However, what transpired next hit him in his core. He heard the speech of the man who was fighting against the other unknown shinobi. he recognized him as one of the higher up shinobi of the village. He felt new hot tears stream down his face not in sadness but in pride and he nodded his head as the enemy fell to the ground dead and defeated. However, the enemy's form suddenly changed to that of one of the clouds genin. What kind of madness was this, what kind of jutsu had the enemy used.

It was definitely some kind of substitution or perhaps a clone type ninjutsu. either way, the enemy was gone now. He looked upwards as he heard a voice address him. It was the man who had made the stirring speech from before and defeated the enemy. He looked into his eyes and shook his head as he looked down at the Raikage's face and gently placed his small left hand over the Raikage's eyes and closed them. "I can help it's the least I can do after all that work you did." With that, he would grab the legs of the Raikage and assist in carrying him over to the giant flat slab of rubble and sniffled as he gently helped lay him down atop of it.

He wiped away the tears in his eyes and gently folded the Raikage's arms over his chest and gently patted them. Giving a silent farewell to the first Raikage of the cloud village. He sniffled and cleared his throat and looked towards the jounin. "Sir... someone needs to go to the chunnin exams and warn them, If you would like I would volunteer to go myself, or if you would prefer to go yourself then I will gladly stay behind and protect lord firsts body in your stead." Either way he would help out the man known as Lucifer he would be more than happy to at this point. He just wanted to feel useful he felt so powerless during the invasion fear had taken hold of him, but never again never again will he stand by and watch his comrades die in front of him this he swore upon the first raikges body.

Lucifer brain was going out of control with a thousand questions and concerns he now had the weight of the entire village looking towards him on what to do and at this moment he had no clue, he had no time to prepare or strategist, while he did mean the words he said earlier he did not truly think about what the meant until now. As he looked forward to see the the sad and broken faces of quickly multiplying villagers and ninja that now appeared to be in a large ground of at least two hundred at this point, he would know that he needed to at least make steps to move into the right direction and he would truly have up into his inauguration to come up with a real plan of action.

But before he could address the crow he would turn to the young genin standing next to him as the young man would began to talk. Lucifer had temporarily forgotten about the Chunnin Exams. The higher up certainly needed to know what was going on, as far as the safety of the children Lucifer knew that the event itself would be mostly okay, the exams where the most guarded and protected place at the moment and he would hope that someone would catch on to the ruse of the man. With this in mind he would decide to trust the young man next to him to inform the all of the tragedy. Even if the young man was the member of that evil group that had destroyed the Kage office he had faith in the rest of this village to protect the kids. Lucifer needed to protect the Raikage at all costs and address the villagers question and concerns.

"Kid, I appreciate you for offering your help with the Raikage, but I feel it would be best if you went to check on the exams hopefully it wont be to late to prevent any harm to the children there."

Lucifer would then return his attention back to the crowd as an Elder would be standing in front of him and looking into his eyes as tears flowed from theirs, "Young Jugo, I thank you for protecting our village and your Kage in his time of need. It is for that reason that the rest of us elders and the Raikage himself has chosen you to be the next leader of our village. We will need you to guide the village through this hard time. This job shall start now and become official so please offer up a few words to the young spirits of this village."

Lucifer would place his hand on the elderly woman shoulder as he would release a smile to calm her and anyone paying attention to him. While he his heart ached and his mind wanted nothing better to shut down he would push through the pain to do as he was asked. His entire life he had wanted nothing more to have this opportunity so he wasn't going to waste it wondering what he should do, "People of Kumogakure, rest assured that we will find out who have done this, but for now I will need any ninja of any rank to step forward and help me at this time. I would ask for several ninja and villagers help to create a temporary hospital and find any ninja capable of preforming medical ninjutsu to help the injured, second of all I would like the remainder of the ninja to seek and find anyone that needs help... Villagers I would please also ask that you assist us in helping rebuild the village if possible. I know you were expecting words of encouragement and strength but at the moment this is not possible. I need to assure that we help anyone is struggling anyone who is going through the darkness alone before I address the village publicly, this and only this is my main concern right now..."

Lucifer was true he needed to immediately get the village back on track before he worried about the happenings of the other world. But first he would need to take care of the Raikage and allow him to peacefully rest. He would when he get a chance move the Raikage to the secret mausoleum of the deceased kage for his final resting. He of course wouldn't let that sit around for long, he needed to know about the rest of the world specifically Konoha and the Hokage, he however knew that was something was wrong and off. In any case he would focus his attention to helping and rebuilding the village, he would use his official inauguration to discuss what to do with the village.

[EXIT TOPIC]

He would remain silent. As he had spoken his questions. The cries of injured people rang out in the air like a chorus. It was heartbreaking to his young heart but he endured it. he was a shinobi of the cloud village and he had to act like it. He sniffled as his mind raced with the image of the raikages who had been so kind to him. Then the image of his father's dead corpse took over and he dug his fingers into the palm of his skin tightly. he had to keep himself composed no matter how hard it hurt him.

He looked up as the man who had defeated the attacker or well his duplicate of the attacker addressed him. He smiled and bit his lip nervously then was surprised by the man's words. He actually wanted him to go out and do something less than menial work and gather up the citizens and the injured. He would not forget this chance in all his life. He nodded his head gratefully at Lucifer. "Of course ill move at my fullest speed to alert the examiners and my fellow genin." He let out a labored sigh and bowed towards the man and the elder of the village with respect.

Just as he was about to take off when he heard the stirring speech behind him. He paused in his tracks and listened to it as well as the command of the elder to make Lucifer the next Raikage. It seemed most appropriate since he had the vigor and leadership skills necessary for the mantle of raikage. He turned his head and would narrow his eyes. He had an important job to do and he was going to go and do it. He sighed and would sprint across the village heading towards the chunnin exam area. Praying silently that he would make it in time.

(Mugen Exit)