Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-24937485-20161214011750/@comment-24937485-20161221041035

A final eruption of searing white chakra stained the sky in a large pillar that shot up in the shape o a massive crucifix that had left the opponent eradicated. Ikeru stood in front of this menacing product of chakra that with a wave of his hand vanished into nothingness. The flaming aura around his form subsides, and from the way he was breathing and seating heavily it could be seen that the previous assaults had taken a great amount of effort even on this man who boasted immense levels of stamina. The power of that ‘thing’ and that powerful black orb it shot were on a completely different level than the average villain, more along the lines of the power of a tailed beast. “If it was an actual tailed beast, we might not have been this lucky.”. Re-sheathing his gleaming sword the man of renown travelled down into the exposed tunnels of Eito’s underground laboratory where he found a room with a hole in the floor. Something down below was calling for him, waiting for him, he could feel it in the very essence of his core. Bravely leaping down, the Hokage entered a long hallway where he was met by a ROOT shinobi dressed in regular travelers clothing. The shinobi tried to form a hand-seal only to be punched straight through the face by Ikeru’s fist that came out the back end of the man’s skull. Dropping the dead body onto the floor, ikeru turned to the door that was being guarded and upon opening it displayed a facial expression that was never seen on him before: fear.

Before him laid the dead and mutilated corpse of his daughter surrounded by all kinds of medical devices that were nothing short of torturing machines. For the first time in his life Ikeru felt powerless as he dropped to his knees by his daughter’s deathbed and grabbed onto her cold hand, pressing it against his lips as he kissed it and cried the tears he had never allowed himself to shed. He had missed out on so much  because his duty came first, and because he was preparing her for that same duty, only for her to now have died before ever having tasted the fruits of her labor. ‘Unforgivable… Eito… EITO!”. His bellowing echoed through the entire facility and was followed by a final cry of anguish. And then, silence, nothing but silence. And a few minutes later Ikeru was seen walking back out of the tunnels that led him into the ash-covered wasteland: A 100 yard diameter circular area of forest now truly nothing more than ashes and earth, forming a large opening amidst the forest that’d still surround this battlefield.

In a tragic fashion these ashes  were seen falling down from the sky like snow as Ikeru left a trail of tragic footsteps behind him, only a small pace between each slow step as if he was fighting against an invisible wall of gravity manifested from his grief.

He solemnly walked back to Konoha with his head bowed and the corpse of his daughter in his arms.