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Grinning in euphoria, Hidan watched the Uzumaki's blood stain his scythe. At last, he had finally gotten rid of him.
"This sacrifice is for you, Jashin-sama!" He planted a foot on the teenager's 'body' and stood victoriously over him. After savoring every second of the moment, the rogue ninja looked over his shoulder at his fallen partner. "Hey, Kakuzu, you bastard, get up. I don't want to have to drag your ass around tonight."
Hidan called to his partner and walked toward him. However, Kakuzu did not answer. Frowning, Hidan moved closer to touch him.
But before he could, the Akatsuki treasurer's body exploded into a flock of dark, red-eyed crows. Time seemed to stop for Hidan. He whipped his head toward where the Uzumaki's body should have been, only to find Kakuzu's motionless form. Then everything around him began to shatter like a mirror.
"..." Naruto stood before the stunned Akatsuki member, face-to-face with the paralyzed silver-haired man. A complex seal beneath Hidan's feet glowed red.
"Genjutsu..." Reaching the obvious conclusion, Hidan tried desperately to move, but it was useless. His fate had already been decided. Powerless to do anything, he watched the teenager raise his right palm. A spiraling sphere of blue chakra formed above it and grew to the size of a basketball. "Damn you, Uzu—!"
His scream was silenced when the Rasengan slammed into his chest.
Hidan entered a new world of pain as the sphere of pure chakra destroyed his chest, cracking his ribs before reducing them to dust. His flesh was consumed until almost nothing remained of a large part of the immortal's torso. Naruto's attack continued to grow until it exploded with wind and tore Hidan's body apart. Blood and flesh flew in every direction. Only a few pieces remained intact, including Hidan's head, which dropped to the ground.
With his hair hiding his eyes, Naruto lowered his arm and staggered a few steps before falling to his knees, the unpleasant taste of blood filling his mouth. The shinobi assessed his condition: seven broken ribs, muscle strain, fatigue, and possible exhaustion. His right arm had gone numb, and he had to close his right eye to rest the Dōjutsu he had already used far more than he should have.
"Did I win?" Naruto asked blankly as he sat on the ground. He looked around and watched the barrier he had raised fall apart.
"You're a bastard..." Hidan's severed head growled. Naruto turned toward him; the head lay only a few meters away. "If we'd fought with the intention of killing from the beginning... you'd be dead," Hidan continued hatefully as the blond shinobi rose and slowly approached him.
"That was your mistake." With a few final, heavy steps, Naruto looked down at the head of perhaps the person he hated most in the world, now lying at his feet. "You don't know how many times I dreamed of this moment—of seeing you like this, finished at my feet. Pain isn't here to save you now, Hidan..."
His expression darkened as he bent down, picked up the Jashin follower's head, and stared directly into his eyes. "For years, I had to resist the urge to kill you... but now Akatsuki won't stop me from doing this."
"Huuuuu." Hidan grinned mockingly, completely unaffected by the blond brat's glare. "That look of hatred... is this revenge?" He simply stared back at Naruto. "You're still bitter because I killed that useless veteran, the black brat, and the little whore you had on your team. I still remember their faces... filled with fear and despair, the most basic emotions you can feel before the cold embrace of death..."
Every word from the immortal ninja made Naruto's expression darker.
"You never learned to shut your mouth..." Tightening his grip on the severed head, Naruto dug his fingers into Hidan's skull, making him groan in pain.
"Come on, Naruto! What are you waiting for?! Try it, you piece of shit! I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm immortal. I'll never die..." Smiling madly, Hidan spat blood into the teenager's face. "This is Jashin-sama's gift! It's the blessing I received for being his faithful servant! So don't come to me with your pathetic revenge for those pathetic brats!"
"..."
"You're just a nobody! A miserable failure! A coward who ran away and came to this shitty world!" As the teenager's hands pressed harder against his head, Hidan glared even more furiously at the Uzumaki. "May Jashin-sama curse you! May you suffer for the rest of your pathetic days, and when the day you finally die arrives, you and I will meet in hell! Then I'll torture you myself until the end of time!" Breathing heavily, Hidan wore a dark smile and stared at the shinobi with hatred.
"..." Naruto silently stopped squeezing the silver-haired man's head. "You spent your entire life believing in a being that doesn't exist, Hidan. Your immortality is nothing more than an accident created by cultists who played with fūinjutsu they didn't understand. Where do you think the Shinigami mask, which can summon the god of death himself, came from? If my clan was capable of creating something like that, why wouldn't your twisted cult use Uzumaki fūinjutsu to create you...?"
"You..." Hidan was disgusted by those words, hatred pouring from him. How dare Naruto mock his faith? How dare he say that the great Jashin-sama was... a being that did not exist? "You damned son of a bitch! I'll kill you, do you hear me?! No matter where you are or how long it takes, I'll find you and kill you!"
Hidan swore to kill Naruto, but the teenager silenced his screams by covering his mouth with one hand.
"Some say a god is a being who holds the lives of others in his hands..." Naruto stared darkly at his enemy's head as memories of his time with Team 4 passed through his mind. He could clearly remember his fallen comrades. "Right now, Hidan..."
The blond's hands began to tighten around the Akatsuki member's head until muffled cries of agony escaped him. As his skull deformed, all Hidan could see was the teenager's grim, almost cruel stare. Naruto spoke once more.
"I am your god..."
Crack!
It was the wet, unpleasant sound of Hidan's skull breaking. Blood and brain matter splattered across Naruto's hands, but he remained standing, watching the scarlet blood run down his fingers. For years, he had dreamed of this moment, of this exact scene in which he finally accomplished his goal...
However, why did he feel so empty?
"Naruto-o?"
The soft, quiet voice pulled Naruto's mind back to reality. Dazed, he turned around.
"Ibara..."
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