NARUTO: SECOND GOD OF SHINOBI

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Hiruzen released a huge amount of fire with Fire style: Majestic Destroyer Flame. A blue-colored fire without any hand seals rushed out of Hiruzen's mouth.

The scorching temperature of more than 4000 degrees burned the ground to a crisp and turned it to ashes, while the deeper ground melted soon after.

A wave of fire, like a tsunami, erupted so fast that it reached the first wave of ninjas.

The Takigakure ninjas were caught off guard due to Hiruzen invoking the jutsu without any hand seals.

The Takikage shouted while performing hand seals for Earth Style Wall, "Defend and form the water wall and earth wall!"

Wooooosssh!

But the flames arrived before the ninjas could complete their seals.

Even the Takikage, who had formed the seals and was deploying the wall, was turned to ashes along with the one foot uplifted walls leaving ground molten in its wake.

As the fire surged, the first line of jonins crumbled with no chance of dodging due to the sheer magnitude of heat.

Some of the third or fourth line jonins and chunins invoked the Water Formation Wall and Water Vortex Blast Waves along with Earth Walls, but the walls boiled, and the water evaporated and boiling mist formed.

Soon the mist dissipated from a vast wave of wind from Hiruzen. The ninja, they were all burned to ashes. In one attack, Hiruzen destroyed every line of defense of Takigakure.

More than 3000 ninjas died without even the chance of recovering their corpses.

Over 2 km of the area was scorched and removed from the face of the earth, with molten lava flowing everywhere in the crater.

The five ANBU squads, seeing the destruction from the sidelines, had their words caught in their throats, sweat poured down under their mask.

One of the Hyuga members muttered, "So powerful... Is it the Sarutobi Clan's new bloodline, the blue fire said to be more than 3000 degrees in temperature? Even from here, the shockwave can be felt along with its heat."

Another ANBU of the Aburame Clan spoke, "My insects are reacting aggressively, clearly terrified of the temperature."

The ANBU squad captains then gave orders: "Let's go clean up the miscellaneous ninjas." Soon, they jumped into action.

Meanwhile, at the front gate of the village, Hiruzen was watching for any signs of ninjas.

He spoke, "Is it over already? I didn't even start yet. Such trash villages were given Jinchuriki. Better yet, they should have remained in Konoha."

Soon, Hiruzen's shadow clone arrived. On his shoulder was a middle-aged ninja lying unconscious.

Hiruzen spoke, "Ah, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki. Let's see the King of Flies, Chomei, shall we?"

Soon, his mental power surged, and Hiruzen penetrated the mental space of the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.

The area was very big, in the middle, a tree was erected—a very, very big tree on which the Seven-Tails was pasted flatly on the main trunk highest peak.

Seeing Hiruzen arrive, the Seven-Tails spoke,

"Human, do you desire power? Come here and open that seal, and I swear I will grant you enormous strength. I shall even take revenge on your biggest foes for you."

Hiruzen, amused, spoke, "Oh! Really? Then I want revenge on the Nine-Tails. Can you deal with it? I swear, just give it one slap face-to-face, and I will not ask for anything else."

The Seven-Tails frowned, its thoughts lingering.

"Hmph! What guts... For you to free me, you want me to slap that big fox? Then don't release me. I don't want it at all, but let's get out of here first and promise this man. After that, who knows what happens?"

The Seven-Tails, gloating at the chance to free itself, soon spoke, "Human, I will grant your request. Now free me."

Hiruzen, surprised, asked again, "Really? But I heard that more tails mean more strength. Doesn't that mean you are much weaker than the Nine-Tails?"

The Seven-Tails, hearing this, became agitated and cursed Hiruzen. "Human, how dare you look down on the great Chomei! Release me, and I will show you if I dare slap that big fox or not!"

Hiruzen smiled again. "Really? But I heard that you are the weakest of the Tailed Beasts, even weaker than the One-Tail of Sunagakure. He told me you are pathetically weak, that you were given to the weakest of the villages at the time of distribution."

The Seven-Tails was enraged upon hearing this. Its aura released, and its chakra started to go berserk.

It spoke, "Come again, human. What did you just say? Weak? Me, the weakest of the Tailed Beasts? Even weaker than the One-Tail? Given to the weakest of the villages?"

He roared and continued, "Who said that? Damn tanuki! I will kill him! Aaaahhh! Release me, human, or I will kill you now!"

Hiruzen, standing in the middle of the Seven-Tails' chakra storm, remained unfazed.

His thoughts were elsewhere. "Ah, the chakra quantity and quality of the Seven-Tails is good.

Not comparable to the Nine-Tails, but it is at the super Kage level. Let's absorb some of the chakra from him to test the theory earlier."

Soon, his newly made SS-rank Absorption Art started. The chakra surrounding him started to be slowly absorbed by him.

He then activated skill of assimilation. The chakra absorbed from the Tailed Beast was directly assimilated into his body. His already full chakra reserves began expanding.

Hiruzen thought, "The chakra is perfectly assimilated. Let's take it up a notch."

A storm started to formed, and the chakra was devoured by Hiruzen.

The enraged Seven-Tails was slowly brought to attention due to its released chakra being absorbed by a human.

It spoke, "What is he doing? How can he absorb Tailed Beast chakra and remain unscathed? This isn't possible, is it? How is he doing that?"

Question after question formed inside the Seven-Tails' mind. Soon, he asked Hiruzen, "Human, how can you absorb Tailed Beast chakra?"

Hiruzen replied, "Oh, I am unique. Your chakra is just expanding my reserves. Don't worry; I will reward you by freeing you."

Seeing his chakra being devoured, Seven-Tails then stopped releasing his chakra, but Hiruzen didn't stop.

He began to seep chakra directly from the Seven-Tails as he arrived inside the seal.

The Seven-Tails, seeing the scene, spoke in a terrified voice, "H-how can he absorb my chakra like this?" 

In his rage, he jumped from the tree and attacked Hiruzen with his pincers.

"Die, human! How dare you absorb my chakra without my permission!" He attacked with his pincers erected in chakra toward Hiruzen.

Meanwhile, Hiruzen didn't move. "Why don't you just rest for now? I swear on the First Hokage that I will release you later.

Steel Release: Steel Body Armament."

A metallic sheen erupted from Hiruzen's body. He raised his hand and stopped the Seven-Tails, holding its pincer along with its colossal body right in mid-air.

The Absorption Art began to work more vigorously by coming in direct contact with Seven tails.

The chakra seeped directly into Hiruzen. Its size started to shrink smaller and smaller.

Seven-Tails, terrified of its state of rapidly declining chakra spoke, "Human, let me go. I promise I will not attack."

Hiruzen replied, "Don't worry. When I promised you, I seriously meant it. I will not kill you and will release you afterward. Just relax for now."

As he said, the more than 100-meter tall body of chomei began to shrink rapidly.

Hiruzen, for further experimentation, didn't assimilate the Seven-Tails' chakra. He stored it inside his body for later use.

Soon, the Seven-Tails, like a dried husk, shrunk to 30 meters, devoid of 99% of its chakra barely surviving due to its tenacious body.

Hiruzen, having absorbed almost all of the Seven-Tails' chakra, sighed with happiness.

"Hah! It's amazing. Your chakra reserves will fill up eventually. I didn't take your origin, or it would take up-to 10 years to patch up. Cheer up, Chomei." 

Hiruzen put the Seven-Tails down and continued. He arrived in front of the Tailed Beast and put his hands together on its body.

"Don't be so down. Take my chakra; its purity is just at the same level as yours."

He then channeled his Yang and Yin transformation chakra from his right and left hands into Chomei's body.

The deflated Tailed Beast perked up, soon absorbing the chakra and gradually beginning to expand.

The SS-rank quality chakra was regularly refined inside him along with natural chakra to fill him up.

Hiruzen spoke at this time,

"Seven-Tails, I have an offer for you. I have destroyed Takigakure village. I would like to invite you to Konoha again, and this time, you will not become a Jinchuriki at all.

You will be free. I will provide you with a natural energy reservoir for you to stay in, along with a safe place where no one will disturb your peace."

The Seven-Tails, listening to this, stared at Hiruzen. "Sure enough, it's all just a lie. You want to take me back to Konoha, huh? I will not go there at all. I would rather die. Who are you trying to fool?"

Hiruzen chuckled with embarrassment and spoke,

"Haha! Don't be so hasty. Not only you, but Three-Tails Isobu also lives in Konoha now. I have even signed three summoning contracts with Matatabi, Isobu, and Kokuō."

Soon, from Hiruzen's side, three big scrolls appeared. He then opened them.

Seeing the contracts with Isobu, Matatabi, and Kokuō, Chomei was surprised. He hadn't thought that Hiruzen was telling the truth.

Chomei spoke, "Is it true, human?"

Hiruzen replied, "Yes, as you can see, the Isobu contract. We agreed upon certain terms, and I provided him with a natural lake for him to reside in Konoha.

Even Matatabi and Kokuō said they would return when they get bored of roaming around.

I will also provide safety for you from other villages, as Tailed Beasts are strategic weapons for villages.

If they knew, they would try to capture you at all costs. Oh, and in return, you will have to sign the contract with me and do some tests, like taking some of your chakra and small amounts of blood cells. That's all I want."

Chomei, the Seven-Tails, seeing the contracts his siblings had signed and hearing Hiruzen's terms, pondered.

Soon, he realized the conditions were good.

He also knew from the Takigakure ninjas that Konoha was the most powerful village, along with the two gods of the ninja world appearing in the village.

If it's them, they might let him live in peace in this ninja world. Soon, he made his decision. "Human, let's do the contract. I am ready."

Hiruzen smiled. "Very well, you will not be disappointed at all."

He took out a summoning contract from his Mirror Shadow Dimension and started writing the contract.

Soon, he drew it up, with his blood, and wrote his name on the scroll.

Chomei, seeing the contract, nodded and also signed it. Hiruzen smiled and said, "Thank you for your cooperation." Chomei nodded.

Soon, Hiruzen's consciousness returned outside. "It's done," he said to his shadow clone. "Let's send him back."

Hiruzen soon marked the Flying Thunder God seal on middle aged man, and the Jinchuriki disappeared to Konoha inside the Hokage Monument training ground.

Seeing the Jinchuriki arrive, along with an influx of memory, one of the clones stood up and soon freed the Seven-Tails and started making arrangements for him.

For the Seven-Tails, he thought of making a large tree at the corner inside the Hokage Mansion, along with an absolute concealment barrier, such that even if Hiruzen is home, it can't disturb the Seven-Tails and will also hide him from prying eyes.

Soon, the arrangements were made along with the barrier.

Meanwhile, inside Takigakure, Hiruzen and the ANBU also finished their work.

The five ANBU squads arrived and knelt before him.

Hiruzen spoke, "Good, all of you. Now return; I will also return too." The ANBU nodded and spoke, "Yes, Hokage-sama," soon vanishing.

As he was also returning, he stopped as he picked up a vast amount of chakra signal 30 km away, rapidly arriving at his location.

He soon thought, "Who is it? The Zetsu I let live earlier was left alive. Is it Madara coming here?

And this direction... it really is Madara. Just as well. I also want to fight him and compare some notes.

Let's take it to the open grounds of the Iwa-Taki border, surrounding the sea." mused Hiruzen.

Soon, he vanished, and shortly after five minutes, he arrived at a place with open ground, a plateau from where you could see the ocean 5 km away, at the Iwa-Taki border.

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