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"Enel, shut up." Naruto's attention was brought from the Kumo nuke-nin and onto the shadow-like being as he spoke, who was staring at him with unrelenting hatred while subconsciously releasing massive waves of killing intent. "He's mine, just stay out of the way and deal with the rest of his team when they arrive."
"Tch, from their chakra levels I can already tell they won't even be able to put up a decent fight. Why can't I play around with him a little Zetsu?"
Naruto's eyes widened to epic proportions as he heard what the man, Enel if he remembered correctly, called the pure black being. Zetsu was the manifestation of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's will that she created just before she was fully sealed. As for why he was created in the first place, Naruto hadn't had the slightest idea.
All that he knew was that Ace had spent countless years tracking him and chasing him down until his prime past him and he became unsure if he would be able to deal with opponents of such a high caliber as he once had. That was why he originally decided to reincarnate the fruit and set up so many fail-safes.
Though, Ace had never actually fought Zetsu head-on, the being had always managed to escape at the first chance he found. From what Naruto was aware, Zetsu wasn't a front-line fighter and would have easily been killed all those centuries ago, but he couldn't be sure if that still held true after so many centuries had passed.
'To think that I would have run into him so soon...Wait! This Akatsuki is going after Jinchūriki for their Bijū, and he was created by Kaguya, who was the progenitor of all chakra, so he's well aware of what collecting all nine of them could do once extracted...' Naruto's eyes widened in realization after piecing everything together. 'He's trying to revive the Juubi and later resurrect Kaguya!'
Naruto braced himself as best he could and focused his presence purely on Zetsu as Enel moved off to the side and the being of black mass slowly began to walk forward into the middle of the street. He couldn't worry about how the rest of his team were doing at the moment or even how far out they were from here, Naruto knew that things were going downhill fast judging from the malicious smirk that made its way onto Zetsu's face.
"I'll enjoy eradicating your existence from the face of this world...You were always her favorite, she had always tried so hard to make things right, even going so far as to create the Mugen Tsukuyomi for the purpose of creating a world where you and her could exist together alone, in harmony." It wasn't difficult to realize the feelings of utter loathing that laced each and every one of Zetsu's words. "She couldn't see it, but I can. Your existence would only bring more pain and suffering to her, I will not let her suffer anymore. Then it will be just me and her together. Only then will I be worthy of Okaa-sama's love."
Naruto didn't fully understand what Zetsu was rambling about, but he managed to comprehend that it was related to Kaguya and that Zetsu had more of an interest in killing him than going after the jinchūriki here in town like a member of this Akatsuki should have. The fact that his partner was completely dismissive that they weren't going after jinchūriki was also a cause for concern.
He needed to make the first move.
"Hiken (Fire Fist)!" Rearing his fist back while turning it into fire, Naruto launched a column of flames forward with power and size that would be able to pierce through a majority of the buildings in the southern sector that would be taken down along with Zetsu. The lone Konoha-nin put as much power into it as he could without destabilizing his favored technique - calling it a jutsu just didn't feel right - with the intent to vaporize Zetsu with this first move, he couldn't risk giving the being a chance to counterstrike.
However, that plan was never meant to come true as with a single motion of his hand, Zetsu created an equally large vortex of black mist that seemingly absorbed Naruto's prior attack, leaving the ravenette stunned for a moment as he ceased his futile attempt on Zetsu's life.
Seeing the boy's confused expression, Zetsu thought to rub salt in the wounds. "This ability has chosen me! With it, I have become the strongest of this generation and so many before! Even among the Logias it's unique!...Your body is fire right? I am...Darkness!"
With those words said, Zetsu produced a spiraling vortex of darkness from his back that rose into the air causing the brightness of the cloudless day to dim with its presence.
"Darkness...?" Naruto questioned, not having ever recalled a chakra fruit of that nature. There should only be five fruits which represent the five natural elements, those being fire, water, earth, lightning, and wind. Though the darkness being emanated from the 'person' before him was undoubtedly a chakra fruit ability, easily noticeable by any wielder of a chakra fruit.
"That's right, you can't touch me." The arrogance in Zetsu's voice was not a small amount in any sense of the word, but with the amount of power he was releasing, he had the right to be. "Out of all the chakra fruits grown by the Shinju tree, the one with this power is known as the most evil of them all...It cannot be found the same as all the other fruits, I was born with this power when Okaa-sama created me while she was still merged with the Shinju. She knew all the Shinju's secrets and gave me the greatest of them all!"
Naruto had not known any of this. His knowledge of the history of Kaguya and the Shinju tree was limited to what Ace knew, meaning that since Ace was unaware that such a fruit existed and that Zetsu had possession of it, Naruto could not have possibly known such a fact. He was traveling in uncharted territory at the moment, the influence of darkness could possibly be limitless.
"Why don't I give you a little demonstration, killing you won't be entertaining unless you struggle." Zetsu spoke as the darkness emanating from his body increased tenfold, blocking off most of the light given off by the sun and leaving most of the area as if it were night. "Don't worry, I'm not going after you...yet. Just stand there and take a good look at the town."
"Black Hole!" Channeling all the darkness that he had released into the atmosphere already back towards his body, Zetsu thrust his palm towards the ground and spread his darkness across it, mimicking the motion of waves of water crashing onto that shore. The Darkness quickly began to flow and spread across the earthen ground as if it had a mind of its own until it covered the entire area of the southern sector.
With one final push, the ground began to shake with a similar intensity of an earthquake as the pull of darkness became more intense, swallowing up everything in its path. Buildings, houses, trees, monuments, everything was swallowed up by the darkness and crushed by its influence until it simply ceased to exist as it re-converged with Zetsu and the technique subsided.
The only remaining structure in what remained of the southern sector was the small shop that Naruto was perched atop of.