*!Plot!* The Leaf's Last Stand

[;; HYUUGA KANETSU ?!]

Kanetsu looked at Ruby oddly.
"Since when did anyone start calling me Kane?" She mumbled to herself. "Oh well, I shouldn't worry about that right now...I have more important things to think about." And she did. While Ruby handled Ikijigoku, Kanetsu thought. But, once she saw him head for Ruby, Kanetsu sprang into action. She unleashed several Gentle Fist attacks at Ikijigoku.

[Hayate Mochiya]

Hayate lowered his shoulders. He wanted more of a challenge. He was still fighting the followers, but he didn't move his eyes. ((Lmao can you imagine him just looking forward and casually stabbing someone behind him)) "I prefer Kendo more than any Taijutsu." Hayate smirked.

[Okato Ikamatsu]

Caleb looked suddenly as Hayate spoke, but while he was fighting another opponent. He didn't see the kunai in her hands, and fell to the ground, holding his stomach. He became very cold, and everything seemed to slow. He whispered almost silently, "Violet... Hayate... Help..." He began to see memories of his life. One stood out, "Momma?" The woman smiled and nodded. He shook his head, "Momma... I can't come back now... I have to help my clan..." The woman closed her eyes, and nodded. Everything started fading into darkness.

[Scαrιετ]

((Wait...what is Hayate looking at?))

"Caleb!" Violet slashed at the girl, and picked up Caleb, dragging him to a more safe position. She searched her pouch, and brought out a healing pill, and a chakra pill. "Caleb...eat this! It'll heal your wound!" She then looked at Hayate. "He needs to eat this fast...and then the chakra pill, because this medicine pill drains the user's chakra to heal the wound..." She stuffed it in his mouth.
Seeing a few ninja ready to take advantage, she stood ready, with her sword up, "Hayate, lets get rid of this wave, then take him to the hospital...She got him really good..."

Ikijigoku's charge was interrupted by Kanetsu's Gentle Fist. With one swipe of his tail, he lifted her off her feet, and he did a mud bullet at her.

"Ha!" Charging in from behind, Ruby knocked him to the ground hard, and she unleashed a flurry of fireballs.

[Okato Ikamatsu]

((Idk, Caleb just heard him speak...))

Caleb opened his eyes barely, to see a blurry battle. He couldn't hear anything but a few screams and the clashes of metal on metal. He saw a boy look towards him, aiming precisely with a kunai in his hand. Caleb's eyes barely widened, but he fell on his back, and rolled from the boy's range, covering his stomach so it wouldn't get infected. He propped himself against the wall of a building and fainted again.

[Hayate too lazy to log in]

((He's looking at Violet duh))

"Urrgh!" Hayate called as he possessed as many enemy ninja as he could. He immediately made them preform jutsu that overloaded their chakara and each one fell to the ground. "You don't need my help here Violet. There aren't many left, and a pill won't heal him for long." Hayate picked Caleb off the wall and with a bit of struggle, hauled him over one shoulder, and disapeared in the direction of the hospital, two kunai hitting him in the left arm on his way.

[;; HYUUGA KANETSU ?!]

Ikijigoku's mudball was packed with enough power to send her flying. She ended up hitting the borderline wall again, cracking it in several more pieces which fell on her. Kanetsu had also hit her head again, but this time, it was a potential knockout. She could barely move her body now, let alone think. Her head almost felt like it had been hit by a large brick.
Kanetsu heard a voice calling her name. It was a deep voice, currently flowing with worry. But, to Kanetsu, it was the most wonderful voice on Earth. The same voice that always melted her heart, and was music to her ears.

"Kanetsu!" The voice called worriedly.
"...Kakashi." She managed to whisper. Just like always, his voice made Kanetsu's heartbeat faster. She barely brought her head up, and searched the area for any traces of him. Kanetsu did, however, manage to spot him in the distance. His eyes were filled with worry, pain, and something else. Kanetsu had seen it in Kakashi's eyes before. She felt the same way when she looked at him from the wall she had just crashed into. They just continued to look at each other for a little while longer. He had lifted his headband up, revealing his Sharingan. Kanetsu saw the same emotion in Kakashi that she felt when looking at him.

Love.

It's like they were telling each other 'I love you' without using words. All they had to do was look at each other. The feeling of it all was truly amazing.
"Kakashi...I promised you that I would be ok. You believed in me. Because of you I...I..." She thought.
"I will not allow the Zetsumeis to survive!" She finished aloud.

Kanetsu gathered the strength to get up. Suddenly, she shut her eyes, but when she opened them, a different, more powerful Byakugan was there. Was this for real? Yes, it was.

Kanetsu awakened her Mangetsu Byakugan, something only the very first Hyugas have done. Today, the Mangetsu Byakugan was studied in the Hyuga clan. No one knew how to awaken it.
Until now.


Her chakra began to become visible around her body, and in a loud brust, it turned white. In her eyes, the features became a little more appearent.
"This is the much praised Mangetsu Byakugan?" She thought. "Let's see what this can do...

[San Dun Feel like logging in]

San looked around and shook her head at all the young ones being destroyed. It was a sad day when none of these children would ever know anything about being a ninja. Flipping backward she avoided the sword directed at her throat. Deactivating her Sharingan because it wasn't worth the chakra she slammed her Kunai into the genins stomach.

Kaiyou danced out of the way of a genin. Then flipped and spun on her hand as she slammed her bare feet into his wind pipe. She may have been small but she was still stronger then the average academy student.

[Scαrιετ]

"Hayate! W-wait! I...I want to come with you." She said, not wanting him to leave her alone. She kept up with him as he carried Caleb to the hospital, blocking of kunai. She constantly glanced at Hayate....

"Y-y-you...what?!?! How? How is this possible! You awakened the legendary Mangetsu Byakugan?" He yelled. He screeched, and charged at Kanetsu, being foolish, but burned from the fireballs.

Ruby started perfoming a whole series of handsigns. She was preparing her own ultimate justu.

[;; HYUUGA KANETSU ?!]

((Hey Violet. Soon, could you be Kakashi again? To be honest, I love it when your him. You do a better job than me. *gives puppy eyes*))

Kanetsu easily dodged Ikijigoku's sudden attack of anger. She had jumped out of the way, then did a few graceful backflips until she was a good distance away from him. Now was thinking time. Kanetsu had knowledge on the Mangetsu Byakugan. She had studied it during her nine years of intense training. She found out little, however. But, she knew enough. Enough to be able to use it properly.
"Hmm...so...this white Chakra flowing through me and around my body...this is the Chakra of the Mangetsu Byakugan? Great...according to what I have studied, I should be able to use my advanced Chakra control to mold it into anything..." Kanetsu thought.
She looked over to Ruby, who was in her Tatsu form. Kanetsu scanned her more closely.
"Let's see here...wings...tail...claws...sharp teeth...the basic features of a dragon." She smiled at her thoughts. "Sounds good to me."
Kanetsu began focusing her Chakra, until the white Chakra aura around her became shaped like a dragon. She looked at the Chakra surrounding her body, and did that same smirk that you would only find in the Hyuga clan.
"All right then..." Kanetsu began. Suddenly, she used her heightened speed and agilty from the Mangetsu Byakugan to appear behind Ikijigoku. "Are you suprised?" She whispered from behind Ikijigoku. Once again, she appeared in front of him. "You see...some think that I...I twist reality." Kanetsu whispered again. However, she disappeared before he had an opportunity to hit her. This time, she reappeared above him, floating in the air with her Dragon wings made of Chakra. "I have many nicknames...the 'Female Phoenix', the 'Enigmatic Extremist', the 'Queen of Extreme'..." She continued to whisper. "But...that's all because..." Kanetsu didn't finish yet, but instead reappeared once more, standing in front of Ikijigoku. "...I can do things others just can't do."

Right after finishing her sentence, Kanetsu had begun striking Ikijigoku with Gentle Fist palm strikes. She left a trail of white Chakra behind her. Kanetsu attacked quickly from all sides, trying to confuse Ikijigoku. Finally, she landed the final strike of her jutsu.
"Eight Trigrams Ghostly Palm Devastation." She said lightly. It could have been the final blow, but Kanetsu toned it down a little, wanting him to go through a little more torture first.

Because it was Ruby's turn to kick his ass now.

[Scαrιετ]

((Only because of this, I'll be Kakashi: "Because it was Ruby's turn to kick his ass now."))

By the time Kanetsu had finished her attack, Ruby had finished her cycle of handsigns. However, they were for different jutsu's. She activated the first.
"Spirit of the Dragon Jutsu!" And dark red, dragon chakra began to flow around her. She smiled. Her fangs grew longer, her body more dragonlike and powerful.

Ikijigoku collapsed for a moment, but stood back up, not going to let them win.
He performed handsigns, and released a jutsu without speaking.
Electricity formed around him and it created a dragon, and he aimed it right at Kanetsu. It was unavoidable, but with Kanetsu's heightened state, it probably wouldn't do much. He didn't care. He then shot mud bullets at her, and breath of electricity, towards both Ruby and Kanetsu.

Ruby flew up into the air, and activated her next jutsu.
"Sky Dragon Jutsu!" The outermost chakra around her turned into superheated flames, and she dived towards Ikijigoku. He was busy shooting mud bullets at Kanetsu, when Ruby struck him. He was burned and scathed.

"Ikijigoku? Like torture?" She said, mocking him, "Well, here's yours!" She then sped forward and disappeared, due to the great speed she was moving at. She appeared at his right side, and did an aerial roundhouse kick, at his face, disappeared again, and appeared on his other side.
"Earth Shatter Jutsu." And she delivered the punch to his stomach, even more powerful than usual because of her strength boost. She then reappeared behind him, and swung her tail at him, and quickly appeared in front of him, kneeing him in his pelvis area. She continued the cycle, but each time changing the order around and making different moves. But nonetheless, she brutally beat him. And every time she made contact, her chakra burned him.

Ikijigoku was now on the ground. Burnt, bruised, and bleeding. His transformation was released. But then he released Hands of the Devil Jutsu. And a hand each went for Ruby and Kanetsu.
He laughed evilly, still not accepting defeat.

Ruby landed.
"Ikijigoku...You can't win. You bastard, you won't win! Because...you're dealing with the Queen of Awesome!" She then activated her last jutsu.
"Dragon Fury Jutsu!" Her chakra began flaming up, and it created huge flames that began to form into dragons. It formed three, and they circled Ruby.
(Dragon Fury)
"Ikijigoku, you will pay for what you and your twisted clan have done." She then released the first dragon. "This is for my father!" It ht him, and blasted him to the wall, interrupting his justu.
"For everything you and Barakku have done to Kanetsu!" And the second blasted him.
But what she didn't see, even as she hit him, he was summoning...summoning the reformed body of Barakku.
"And for everything you have done to my village, and my clan!" And the third hit him.

Ikijigoku was almost dead. But with the last few words, he had summoned a coffin that contained the body of Barakku...and Ikijigoku was dead.

Barakku awaited inside...and it was him...soul, and reconstructed body...

[Hayatez]

Hayate was hit by a few kunai knives before Violet joined him. His left arm was hit by two, while his right leg was hit by one and a shuriken. He didn't bother to treat them however. His main priority was Caleb. He was slowly treating him with what he could as he was running. His chakara was slowly flowing into Caleb's body to keep him maintained until they arrived at the hospital.

[;; HYUUGA KANETSU ?!]

((Yay!))

With her Byakugan, Kanetsu could easily see through the summoned coffin. However, what she saw inside almost gave her a heart attack. Her eyes widened in disbelief.
"It can't be...I don't believe this." Kanetsu growled.
"Ikijigoku, that son of a pregnant dog...I can't believe he summoned him." She thought angrily. Kanetsu clenched her fists. But, she took a deep breath, and tried to remain calm.

"No use crying over spilt milk, I guess." And with that thought, she gracefully slipped back into the Gentle Fist position.
"This time, I know what to expect. And I have the Mangetsu on my side, too." She began aloud. "So, it'll be much easier kicking his ass." She smirked, and sent a very focused Eight Trigrams Sky Palm toward the unopened coffin.

[Scαrιετ]

The hospital was right ahead...or...was it?
"Hayate, there's the ho-" Violet stopped dead in her tracks. "That's an illusion!" She yelled out, "Keep running!"
She dispelled the illusion, and a faced a chunin. She quickly killed him, and caught up to Hayate.
Despite the fact Hayate was ignoring all the kunai and shuriken to save Caleb, Violet was worried for him.

The coffin blasted open. Barakku emerged, and seemed to be half pterodactyl, half human. He wasn't fully transformed, and his body was decayed and undead. He had no eyes. Flesh was ripped from parts of his body, revealing bone, and his frame was skinny and hollow.
"Kanetsu...we meet again..." He said, and the voice was sick, twisted, and grumbly. There also was a sick stench. But it was Barakku all right.

Ruby stood in horror. Not at what she saw, as far as looks went, but at the fact that Barakku's body was supposed to be completely gone, ravaged, mangled, melted, and unidentifiable.
"But...How...?" She dropped her look of horror. "The ANBU confirmed he wouldn't ever be able to be reincarnated or anything...let alone put together like this!" She still was surrounded by her dragon chakra.

Barakku took the hit, but to Kanetsu's and Ruby's dismay, it did little. He laughed. It was as if the attack was nothing.
"Death Speak Jutsu!" He said, without any handsigns or anything...

Both Ruby and Kanetsu were put into the genjutsu.
They appeared chained. And they were exposed to their most horrible memories...and only one thing would break the genjutsu...

Ruby muttered the words she thought would work.
"Genjutsu Dispel Jutsu!" And normal chakra surrounded both the girls...then dissipated...it didn't work.

Ruby stood there in horror at the fact it didn't work...and there in front of her she was witnessing her father's death...and the chains broke and she was in front of her father, who was busy reading scrolls...
Ikijigoku silently crept onto her father's compound.
"Father! Hurry! Prepare to defend yourself!" She helplessly said. But he never heard her...and as the building was attacked, she mindlessly tried everything she could to stop the attackers.
She passed right through them like a ghost, but she still persisted, crying, tears streaming heavily. And she finally gave up..and watched Ikijigoku murder her father.
It's all my fault! I should have been there! No...NO!!!

[alat]

Deciding these ninja were just to easy to kill, he abandoned what he was doing. Alastr left where he was, and decided to head toward Ruby. He was worried for her, but at the same time had faith in her. She was a member of the ANBU Black Ops...and a good one.

He found them. But it wasn't what he thought he would find. The borderline wall was destroyed. And he continued to look. There was a stench in the air. He pinpointed where the scent was coming from. Was that Ikijigoku?

He looked around more, and then found what he was looking for...but again, it wasn't what he thought. Ruby was there, on her knees...in some kind of trance. He saw the tears run down her face...and her eyes stared forward, and it looked like she was talking to someone...but no one was there in front of her.

Alastr realized that Ruby was caught in a Genjutsu. But something told him that this wasn't just any genjutsu...this one was powerful. He was sure that she could have broken through it after five minutes or so.

He had to do something, and fast.