Demon Eyes
*don't own Naruto or biju would run the world*
"Please pervy sage, can we please stop in Suna? I want to see to how Gaara and his siblings are doing after 2 ½ years" Naruto begged the white-haired Sennin as they were returning from their 2 ½ year training trip and was passing through wind country on their way back to Konoha.
"Gaki, Tsunade will kill me if we decided to visit Suna than Konoha first and something happened to you" Jiraiya growled to his god son who was listening and kept pestering him about going to see Gaara until he finally gave in. "Alright we'll go but you're going to have to send a letter telling her the reason why we're not heading back and gaki I swear if something happens to you I will personally hurt you" Jiraiya sighed as they started to head to the sandy village.
"Don't worry pervy sage, nothing will happen to me because I'm Uzumaki Naruto" the blonde said before he took off toward the sand village gates yelling that he wanted to see Gaara as Jiraiya chuckled, shaking his head before running after the hyperactive blonde before they threw him jail for disturbing the peace or something.
"What do you mean I can't see Gaara?" Naruto asked loudly as the gate keepers didn't allow him to pass while Naruto was looking around him as if the redhead would appear any second.
"Lord Kazekage doesn't allow-"
"Kazekage hey let me see Gaara please. Tell him it's me Uzumaki Naruto" Naruto yelled which made the guards angry as they pushed him back saying for him to go home. Jiraiya walked up then to try and talk the guards when he and Naruto heard voices approaching.
"I know that loud voice anywhere, Naruto what are you doing here?" a voice said as the guards stepped to the side to see Temari and Kankuro approaching them, a frown on their face.
"Hey its Gaara's siblings but wait, where's Gaara? I just wanted to say hi before I headed back to Konoha since I haven't seen him in nearly 3 years. How's he doing anyway?" Naruto said as Kankuro frowned at him while Temari sighed and said that Naruto hadn't changed before telling the guards that they were okay and for the duo to follow her.
"Jeez, Naruto can't you stop being so loud when you visit other places, I mean we was sent to deal with a troublemaker only to learn it's you" Kankuro muttered while Naruto said he was sorry as he scratched his head. "Anyway Gaara's fine, he was in a meeting and didn't hear your crazy hollering" Kankuro grumbled as he went off in one direction toward the Kage Mansion while Naruto and Jiraiya follow Temari to the Tower.
"Meeting, what kind of meeting is Gaara in and who is the new Kazekage?" Naruto asked as they headed for the Kazekage's door as Temari smirked and told him to look for himself. Naruto had enough manners to knock on the Kazekage's door before he heard a voice told him to enter and he did, going to the person behind the door who he noticed was shorter than he expected.
"Kazekage" Naruto said confused as Temari smirked when she went to stand behind the chair as the Kazekage lifted his head for Naruto to look in shock at the teal eyes and 'love' tattoo as the Kage looked up from his paper.
"Oh hello Naruto" Gaara said with a smile, his Kazekage hat covering his red hair while Naruto just stood there in shock.
"No way, you became the Kazekage?" Naruto said still in shock as Temari chuckled and Gaara nodded. Naruto just grew quiet as he looked down while everybody else grew concerned. Naruto just started chuckling saying he was happy for him although a little upset that Gaara beat him to the job. "Don't worry, soon I'll be Hokage alongside you" Naruto said happily as Gaara nodded, the Kazekage hat slipping over his face which made him frown and throw it to the side, grumbling about it getting in the way. Temari smiled at her brother and Naruto who started asking a lot of questions while Jiraiya tried to calm him down and say that Gaara was busy.
"If you want you can stay for a few days" Gaara said as Naruto quickly said yes before Jiraiya could say otherwise.
"Brat, have you forgot about what Tsunade will do to you, or more important, ME, if we don't return soon" Jiraiya said, a vein throbbing as Naruto waved it away saying it was only a couple of days and what could go wrong. A feeling of dread came over Jiraiya as he said fine and asked to send a letter to Konoha in which he did before Temari escorted them out of the room.
"You can talk to Gaara later when he finishes the paperwork" Temari stated while Naruto whined and asked why he couldn't finish it now.
"You will experience the same thing when you become Hokage" Jiraiya said as Naruto paled before he thought and said no he won't. Raising a brow they asked how in which he bought his fingers together and made several clones.
"Hey guys, when we become Hokage want to help me with the paper work so we can go spar afterwards" Naruto asked his clones who said yea before he dispersed them and grinned at the duo who was staring at him.
"...you think you can teach Gaara how to make one or two?" Temari asked slyly while Jiraiya thought how he could get in Tsunade's good graces with this information as Naruto nodded but said they the clones who actually want to do it. Thanking him with a hug, they got settled in the room before Naruto went to go find a ramen stand while Jiraiya stayed inside, the heat too much for him. When night finally hit, Naruto was in Gaara's office catching up with the redhead about they've been doing over the last 2 1/2 years. After a while Temari came to escort (kick) Naruto out of the office so the blonde could get some sleep. Two days later, it was time for Naruto to go back with Jiraiya and was complaining all the way to the gate.
"Aw, can I just stay one more day?" Naruto begged as Jiraiya growled out a no while Temari sighed and followed them, returning to Konoha for the chunnin exams. "Fine, I'll see you later Gaara" Naruto said waving as he was practically dragged away by Jiraiya while Gaara told them to have a safe trip before going back to his desk, a feeling in the air that something big was about to happen.
'What was that look on Naruto's face, maybe he can sense it too' Gaara thought as he returned to his desk, the feeling not leaving him for the rest of the week. On the fourth night after Naruto's departure he heard commotion outside his door before a grunt, thud, and then silence followed before Gaara felt a familiar chakra that made him frown.
"Naruto, what are you doing here?" he said as he opened the door with his sand to show the blonde, covered in sweat and sand, and the body of his guards on the floor before Naruto made some clones and brought them inside.
"Sorry Gaara, but I can't shake this feeling like something big is about to go down tonight, I mean even Kyuubi has been restless in his cage telling me to get back to Suna so that's what I did."
Gaara stood up and made his way to the blonde before he checked his eyes to see they were clear and serious as he nodded and said he had the same feeling too.
"Shukaku even went quiet since you left, I think he's meditating" Gaara said as he sensed the quiet, even breathes of the tanuki who had his eyes closed as if sleeping. Naruto looked at Gaara and asked what did this mean before he sighed and said he didn't know before Gaara asked him how he got back so fast.
"I left when they were sleeping but I left a note, I just couldn't sleep with this feeling and the Kyuubi gave me chakra to come back real quickly so that's what I did. I snuck under Suna using shadow clones, don't worry I filled the hole back up, and came running to your office. I was about to knock when these two spotted me and I didn't want them to raise alarm so I knocked them out quickly-"
Naruto's eyes suddenly changed red as he made two more clones who took the guards into the spare room beside the office while the real Naruto ran to the balcony.
"They're here, I can sense it" Naruto said looking up at the ground while Gaara heard Shukaku growl and felt his eyes change too but without the tanuki taking over which confused Gaara before he too sensed oncoming danger and looked out, not at Suna but at the skies where he saw something black coming toward them.
"NARUTO, GET DOWN!" Gaara cried as he saw the black creature with a white mask coming for them before Naruto looked up and snarled, a chakra cloak forming instantly as part of it went and attacked the thing, making it screech and fly back.
"Well what do you know, 2 biju in the same place, oh and it's the 9 tails too, Leader-sama will be so happy" a voice said from below that made Gaara use his 3rd eye jutsu to see who.
"There are two enemies, the one that sent that black thing at us has 3 more and the other one looks like a shark" Gaara said deactivating his 3rd eye when heard Naruto growl and say he knew what the shark person was.
"It's Kisame and he specializes in water jutsu the other one I don't know but if he has four of the mask creature thing this can't be good. Naruto looked at Gaara and said he would handle Kisame since water made the sand too heavy to use in which he agreed, saying he would back him up as Naruto jumped down from the balcony, creating clones as he fell down toward Kisame who grinned at him. Naruto watched out of the corner of his eye as the other Akatsuki member with green eyes sent his four masked creatures at Naruto's clones, each using a different element.
'Okay so the four masks each uses a different element: earth, fire, wind, and lightning and I'm guessing he is able to use water himself. Damn it the odds are not looking good' Naruto thought as he landed some feet away from the two grinning Akatsuki members as they looked up and asked Gaara to come out and play too.
"Leave Gaara out of this, your battle is with me" Naruto growled feeling the Kyuubi's chakra raging but staying sane as the duo laughed and said they would defeat him first before they got into fighting positions. Naruto was trying to think of a plan that wouldn't involve Suna getting destroyed when he sensed something behind him as he made shadow clones to keep them busy long enough to see Gaara's 3rd eye. Looking up he made hand signs to for Gaara to move the Akatsuki partners out of Suna before making signs on how in which Naruto thought before he grinned and continued to talk via hands in which Gaara nodded and prepared a strong jutsu as the rest of his clones died.
"Stop wasting our time, you're over-powered and wouldn't dare do anything when there are innocent people around" Kisame said smiling until he noticed Naruto smirk and say he's right before Naruto threw several hand-shaped chakra at their feet, forcing them back. Naruto continued to game until he was near the walls of Suna and created 5 clones that went after the 2 while the duo finished off the clones Kisame didn't realized he was slowly sinking until it was too late, the other Akatsuki member managed to jump out of the way only to meet the same fate when Naruto used a chakra tail to knock him back down in the sand. The duo fought and struggled against Gaara's prison sand burial which acted as a passage way to take the duo out of Suna and out to open desert through the use of the tunnel Naruto had made to enter Suna.
"Let's hurry" Naruto said as Gaara appeared beside him and using the Desert Suspension lifted both of them in the air and over the wall just to dodge a water shark bullet from Kisame. Naruto and Gaara jumped down from the sand just as it got hit by another shark bullet, this time effectively wetting it and making it useless.
"Kisame, why the heck are you here, where is Itachi, and who the heck is this guy?"
"We're here to capture the one tails but you will add a nice bonus, Itachi was being difficult so he was replaced, and this is Kakuzu since you won't be living pass the next week" Kisame grinned as he looked at the two biju before he felt the sand at his felt react and jumped in time to avoid being grabbed. Kisame created a giant wave to ride on before cursing as most of the water was absorbed by the sand while Kakuzu joined him.
"This would have been so much easier if half the Akatsuki didn't have a change of heart" Kisame muttered before he sent the wave at Naruto and Gaara who moved to dodge before they heard it crash into the wall, making Gaara growl as he realized they was still trying to get Suna involved. Frowning, Naruto quickly bit his thumb and summoned Gamakichi who he told to use a flame bullet on the hole while Gaara used sand from the desert to repair the wall. Kakuzu used this time as a distraction to send his lightning mask after them and use the "False Darkness" that was aimed at Gaara.
"Gaara look out" Naruto said as he felt the chakra surge and disappeared in a flash barely grabbing Gaara and moving him out of the way as Gamakichi manage to dodge by jumping up.
"Yo Naruto, what's going on around here?" Gamakichi asked before Naruto said later before he made the same summoning hand signs and called forth Gamatatsu who he asked for their help as Kisame and Kakuzu got ready to attack again. Naruto quickly told them that they needed to take out the lightning mask in which they had Gaara try and trap it with sand before the two frogs and Naruto synced to create Wind Style: Toad Flame Bomb before the mask could have escaped and was destroyed, making Kakuzu very angry.
One mask down, they looked around and realized something before Naruto threw Gaara onto Gamakichi back and told them to jump high in the air in time to avoid Kisame's Earth Style: Underground Shark Jutsu. They were caught however in the wind mask's Wind Style: Pressure Damage which blew all of them back into the wall before they slid down to the earth. Shaking themselves from the pain Naruto looked up to see Kakuzu coming at them at a fast pace, skin darker as he used his the earth's mask Iron Skin, as he punched the two frogs away making them cough before telling Naruto that this was too much.
"Thanks you guys and go home, tell Jiraiya if he summons you what's happening" Naruto said to Gamakichi and his brother as they went back to their world while Kakuzu sent another punch at them while Kisame sent a shark bullet.
'We got to move this battle further away from Suna' Naruto and Gaara thought before Naruto used the Kyuubi's chakra to evaporate the water jutsu before being punched back into the wall by Kakuzu. The two "K" Akatsuki members told them to give up in which Naruto shakily got to his feet and say never before he created about 10 clones that charged at the duo before Naruto, hosting Gaara on his back, used chakra to run further away into the desert where they were happy to see Kisame and Kakuzu following them still battling the clones.
"What do you know about the Akatsuki?" Gaara asked as Naruto kept running, wanting to put as much distance between their battle and the sand village before Naruto answered.
"Kisame is normally Itachi's partner but compared to what he just said, it seems that most of the members are changing their minds so they must be restrained or controlled by somebody. Kisame's sword steals chakra and the reason why I didn't create that many clones. The other I don't know but from what I gathered his mask things each control a single element and attack and can attack on it's on however Kakuzu hasn't used a water jutsu so I don't think he can use them. Thankfully terrain is on our side due to the sand being able to absorb much of Kisame's water jutsus and your use of sa-AH"
Naruto didn't finish as he felt something grab his leg and looked down to see an arm coming from the ground and attached to his leg.
"Rasengan" Naruto said as he created a mass ball of chakra that he brought down on the hand which let go but tried to grab at him before he moved away.
"You two are good, not many been able to destroy one of my hearts" Kakuzu said as he and Kisame stood a few feet away from them an amused look on their faces. Kisame created a water clone that he sent toward Gaara as the real Kisame ran toward Naruto while Kakuzu stood back. Sensing a trap, Naruto made 3 clones that went after the clone while Naruto himself created a large rasengan and sent it at Kisame who just grinned and brought down his sword onto the Naruto who he was surprised to see was a clone. The real Naruto was mixed in with his clones and destroyed the water clone with several shuriken before he turned toward Kakuzu who decided to use his fire + wind combo to attack Naruto and Gaara.
"Ultimate Defense: Shukaku's Shield" Gaara said as he dragged Naruto back with sand before the tanuki shield protected them from the overheated attack which left Kakuzu impressed. Feeling the sand surge again they jumped in the air only to be grabbed by the sand as it wrapped around them before Gaara crushed it but sensed something not right as the sand around Kisame grew weaker and the sand around Kakuzu didn't seem to want to constrict anymore.
"Withdraw the sand from Kisame now" Naruto said as he ran forward creating clones that quickly kicked Kisame in the air and performed a spinning heel drop that he brought down on Kisame's head which made him drop to his knee.
"You'll pay for that" Kisame growled as he grabbed Samehada off his back and once again swung it at Naruto who was prepared this time as he charged forward. Seeing this as reckless Kisame brought his sword down just as Naruto moved out the way and Gaara grabbed it with his sand which yanked the sharkskin sword out of his hand and started to bury it with the Prison Sand Burial as Kisame reached for it but being forced back by tidal ways of sand. Once the sword was buried, Kisame let out a roar of anger as he started to rapidly shot water jutsus at them while Kakuzu backed him up with fire and wind as Naruto and Gaara dodged as best as they could from the attacks.
"We got to do something Gaara" Naruto said Gaara nodded and said he needed a second in which Naruto nodded and created many shadow clones, since the chakra eating sword was buried 200 meters below, which took the hits as Gaara prepared his Sand Tsunami that grab hold Kisame while Kakuzu ran at them.
"Your sand is no use against my rock hard skin" Kakuzu cried as he sent his arm to grab Gaara but grabbed Naruto instead who jumped in the way.
'Gah, Kyuubi attack his mask or hearts or whatever' Naruto cried in his mind as he felt Kakuzu's iron grip trying to choke him as the chakra itself split off him and went for Kakuzu's back and slashing, destroyed the earth mask that was still there.
"Gah" Kakuzu said as he and Naruto felt the grip on him weaken but not letting up. Now being able to breathe just a little, Naruto brought his hands together to make several clones that started to attack him but was quickly destroyed by his other mask. "Do you think I will fall for the same trick twice?" Kakuzu asked while Naruto smirked and said yep right before Kakuzu felt many hands grab his legs while the sand started to sink and looked at Gaara who had Kisame trapped in his own sand cocoon.
"Now Naruto" Gaara said breathing hard as Naruto and his clones held Kakuzu in place as best as they could while four clones, each with a big ball rasengan in their hands as they drove it into Kakuzu's last two hearts.
"Finish Kisame off" Naruto cried as he dodged Kakuzu's lifeless body before he heard a crunching sound behind him and knew Gaara had finished the shark man off. "Wow, what a way to return from a 2 ½ year training trip" Naruto said breathing hard as he slowly made his way over to the redhead Kazekage who was just as tired. Gaara chuckled at Naruto's words as the blonde and lent him a shoulder to lean on as they made their way back to Suna but the biju was still on edge as if they were overlooking something.
"Why does it feel like we're not out of danger yet?" Naruto chuckled as he helped Gaara back until they sensed two chakras behind them before they were jolted back when they were grabbed by Kakuzu's extended arms. "But how-" Naruto asked as he looked up at the hard breathing Akatsuki members as Kisame brought up his sword.
"First rule of a shinobi, always make sure your enemy is dead before you turn your back" Kisame said as he brought his sword to the two of them, absorbing their chakra to the point of dying as he smirked.
"When Gaara covered me in sand, I used the water prison technique to protect myself from the sand thus making your attack useless. You also don't know but my sword won't easily be abandoned and burrowed its way back to me."
"Although you destroyed all my hearts you forgot about the one that rest within my body, my real heart, and didn't finish killing me" Kakuzu said as he delivered two swift punches to their stomach thus making them fall into the black of unconsciousness. "We wasted too much time, we need to get going to the base in river country" Kakuzu said as he picked up Gaara while Kisame tossed Naruto onto Samehada before both Akatsuki members started walking back to their hideout to seal the two biju. As soon as they were out of sight, 5 heads popped out of the sand and started rushing back to Suna to send a message that Naruto and Gaara was captured.
"Nani, what do you mean he escaped?" Tsunade roared at Jiraiya who was currently facing Tsunade's wrath at the news of Naruto's middle of the night trip.
"I mean that gaki left a clone and snuck back to Suna sometime in the night. We didn't know it was a clone until we got here. The brat was even smart enough to create several clones that went ahead and hid just in case something happened to the one disguised as him. When did he get that smart?"
Tsunade rubbed her temples before she turned toward Temari who seemed to be deep in thought. The busty Hokage asked her what she thought the reason for Naruto's midnight voyage when she voiced her suspicion on Naruto and Gaara's behavior.
"Gaara's been distant lately, eating less, mediating a lot, and even using his 3rd eye to scout in the distance like he is expecting something big to happen. I think it has something to do with the biju because Naruto was trying really hard to stay...oh no, maybe something is going to happen to Gaara and Naruto."
Temari eyes grew big as the Sennin cursed as they started to write a letter to Suna when a messenger hawk came through the window, straight to Temari. Taking the letter from the hawk, she began to read, paling each second before she cursed and took off out of the room. Confused and concerned Jiraiya picked up the letter Temari dropped before cursing and handing the letter to Tsunade before he took off after the blonde Sand nin. Tsunade quickly read it before she hollered for Shizune to get in there and get every available team ready to go to Suna.
"What's the matter?" Shizune asked as she watched the Hokage jump up from her desk and jump out the window, making Shizune run after her with Tonton in tow.
"Kazekage Gaara and Naruto had been kidnapped by the Akatsuki and we know they are headed to a hidden base in river country thanks to 5 of Naruto's clones" Tsunade said before she ran to the hospital and yelled for Sakura who came in a flash. Asking what's wrong she asked her to go round up the rest and within 5 minutes all the teams were there and in another 10 after the explanation, they were ready and roaring to go. With the whole Konoha 11 and their sensei, the large group sped out of Konoha and straight for river country while Kankuro, who was awoken by the clones when they broke into the Kazekage Mansion to tell him the news, said he would meet them half-way as they sprinted to their destination.
*River Country, hidden base*
"So you managed not only to capture the 1 tailed Ichibi but the 9 tailed Kyuubi too, congratulations, now Itachi and Nagato watch as one of your precious comrades die before your eyes" Madara said as he looked at the tied up duo along with Konan and Deidara who struggling to escape and calling Madara every insult he could think of which mostly consisted of Uchiha bastard and fucking sharingan. "Now let's prepare for the extraction" Madara said as Kisame and Kakuzu dropped the two biju and walked over to the others as Madara summoned the biju extracting monster after controlling one of Pain's s body to summon it, seeing as he needed the rinnengan. Kisame, Hidan, Kakuzu, and Sasori grabbed the four bound ex-Akatsuki members before throwing them in place as the machine started to steal their chakra.
'Wait for it, wait for it' someone thought as the beast's mouth opened to show blue dragons coming down on the two victims before Naruto's eyes shot opened and he cried, kage bushin no jutsu before many clones of him was hit by the ten dragons and absorbed as Naruto grabbed Gaara and ran from the direction of the dragons, hearing shouting as the spirits turned and tried to grab them while Naruto, using the Kyuubi's chakra, avoided them as best as he could until Gaara woke up. Looking around, he heard Naruto yell out something about a scroll and he took it from his pocket before he summoned a tanto. Naruto used the tanto to slice Itachi's bindings, who thanked him and took the short sword to go help the others just as the dragons, 9 now, reached their victims.
"Gah" they both cried out as they felt the intense pain of the biju being ripped from their bodies while Itachi was busy cutting Deidara, Konan, and Yahiko's body free before they used the rings to move the boulder and quickly escape just as it was brought back down, Madara deactivating their rings to stop them from escaping.
"What are we to do now" Kisame asked as he saw that only 6 of the dragons were left since four of their chakra sources had just fled.
"Continue, it will take at least four days for us to fully extract them but by the time they get help it will be too late."
The rest of the Akatsuki members focused on the task at hand while the group made their way to Nagato's real body to figure out a plan on how to save Naruto and Gaara.
*hidden rain village*
"So wait, you mean that this is leader-sama's real body?" Deidara asked as he looked at Nagato before Konan smacked him upside the head and told him to focus which made him grumble. Sighing, Nagato told them that they would have to get in touch with Konoha when a voice said he already did and they looked to see a Naruto clone approaching them.
"How-"
"I hid behind one of the statue's fingers, snuck out with you, henged into a bird, and followed you here" the clone said before he said quickly that he didn't have much time and explained how Konoha and Suna was on their way and that they would need some help getting in.
"How do we do that?" Konan asked before the clone growled in frustration and said that there were 3 smart people and a freaking genius in the room and that they should be able to figure it out. "Okay, okay" Konan said as she heard the clone say good luck before he disappeared. Sighing they looked at each other before looking at Itachi, asking if he had any ideas.
"We're going to have to alert them of the exact position of the hideout" Itachi said calmly while Deidara muttered how they were to do that when he heard a 'caw' sound as Itachi summoned a crow.
"This is how, we send a note and leave traces of our cloak for them to find since Kakashi will be using his ninja dogs and lead them straight here."
"How do we know they will follow the trail and not believe it's a trap, un?" Deidara asked in which Itachi said they would follow any trail that would show signs that Naruto and Gaara was nearby.
"Alright Konan and Itachi, you will set that up, Deidara I want you to scout around and see how long until the Konoha and Suna nin get here" Nagato ordered in which they all nodded before going off. "I bet Madara knows I'm still watching" Nagato muttered as he looked through the hidden body only he and Konan knew about that was left at the base as he watched Naruto and Gaara being slowly killed as the biju was being extracted. 3 days later, the three former Akatsuki members reported back to Nagato with news that the trail was set and that they would be here with a day.
"So what do we do now?" Konan asked as she looked around at the others who were quiet as they didn't know what to do.
"Maybe we should go help them since it's partially our fault that the biju vessels-"
"Naruto and Gaara, that's their names"
"Okay, Naruto and Gaara are being killed (although I never wanted to join in the first place)" Deidara said (and thought) before the room went quiet again the only sound heard was the rain falling outside over Ame.
"I believe that Deidara is right, they don't know nothing about the other Akatsuki members and would be going in blind, we can at least give them a slight advantage if they know what they're going up against" Itachi said finally as Nagato sighed and said they would have to before he looked at Konan.
"Oh no, you're not going Nagato" Konan said in a sisterly way as Nagato said he wasn't going to let someone who was part of his clan die and he just stood there. "No and that's final" Konan said putting her foot down which resulted in a heated debate between the two rain nin while Deidara and Itachi just watched from the side. In the end, Nagato won but Konan told him to stay out of the battle in which he nodded and said he would before Konan, grumbling throughout the whole process, unhooked him from the machine in which Deidara and Itachi helped him around. Calling forth his Pain bodies, he stopped the rain for Deidara to create a clay bird and they all hopped on, flying toward the river country and the rescue teams.
*river country, hidden base*
"Damn, these two are fucking stubborn as hell" Hidan muttered as they realized that the process would take longer because Shukaku and Kurama was not eager to go back into the statue and was fighting it every step of the way.
'Ow, Kurama, what are you doing?' Naruto thought angrily as his eyes kept seeing red and he felt the red-hot chakra of the 9 tails coursing through his body, making his chakra reserves skyrocket as he added his chakra.
"Quiet brat, I'm concentrating" Kurama said, meditating as he set his plan in motion along with Shukaku who was doing the same with Gaara, who was happy for the quietness in his head.
'If I'm going to die than at least it will be a quiet, peaceful death' Gaara thought as he basked in the silence of his mind.
*river country, 5 miles from the hidden base*
"Hinata, slow down" the group tried to call but to no such luck as Hinata didn't slowed down, her byakugan activated as she propelled herself further and further ahead with Neji and Tenten close on her heels.
"NO, every second we waste is a second that Gaara-san and Naruto-kun are closer to-"
Hinata couldn't finish that sentence as the tears began to fall before she shook her head and urged herself to go faster. The rest of the teams were being held up by clones of the remaining Akatsuki as Hinata manage to avoid them when she took to the trees.
"Hinata-sama slow down before we run into a trap" Neji yelled before his heart went cold as he told everybody to stop in which Hinata growled and kept going straight for Itachi, Konan, Deidara, and Nagato who was being supported by his pain bodies.
"Move out of my way, I need to go save Naruto and Gaara-"
"We know but you will only get yourself killed if you go in there recklessly" Itachi stated simply making Hinata blink and calm down before she asked them what they were doing when Neji and Tenten caught up, getting into fighting positions. "We're not here to fight but to help you" Itachi said calmly which only made the duo tense more while Hinata asked why.
"We're the few Akatsuki members who had a change of heart (mostly due to Naruto and his actions over the years) and are the ones who left the trail to find the base" Konan said to Hinata who she knew would go over everything and battle everyone for the blonde.
"Hinata-sama they're not to be trusted-"
"What do we need to do?" Hinata asked, cutting off Neji's words as she looked up at Itachi, a look that promised torture if they were lying. Itachi would have found the look funny under different circumstances but knew that Hinata was serious and quickly explained to them their plan. Hinata agreed and jumped on the clay bird Deidara had created along with Neji and Tenten who thought Hinata was being controlled and wanted to make sure she would be safe. They had just flown out of sight when the rest of the team showed up with Pakkun sniffing around for the trio's scent.
"It ends here but I smell Itachi and three other scents along with those that took Naruto put its extremely weak but that means we're close" Pakkun said as he took off again on the scent while Kurenai and the teams was worried on what happened to the trio if they up and disappeared along with Itachi and the other three scents.
'Please let's not get there too late' all the teams thought as they sped off through the forest, eating up the last 5 miles or so to the base while Hinata and the rest just made it there.
"In here" Itachi said as Hinata and Neji both used byakugan and saw Naruto and Gaara floating in the air as the biju was supposedly ripped from them.
"Naruto-kun" Hinata said near tears before she became angry and asked them how they were to move the boulder in which said they wouldn't but the teams would.
"What do you mean?" Tenten asked reaching for a scroll as Konan explained.
"If we go through the trouble of removing all 5 tags, battling our clones, and rushing back here to battle the Akatsuki, we don't stand a chance. If we let the other teams break open the boulder, there will be enough people to keep the Akatsuki busy while we save your friends from dying."
"So we are to just to stand here and wait for the others to join?" Hinata asked angrily but calmed when she saw them shaking their head, saying there wasn't time. They quickly and quietly explained their plan until Nagato growled saying their time was nearly up which made the group began their jobs. Konan went to weaken the extra precaution on the seals then wrote a quick note explaining the seal on the boulder while Neji and Hinata kept track of the teams and the duo slowly dying inside. Itachi then had Tenten used her weapons on the side of the wall to find its weakest spot which was near the statue and the place they needed to strike. Itachi further weakened the spot using a combination of his Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu and Water Style: Water Fang Bullet from the nearby river to create cracks against the spot before he motioned for Deidara and Nagato to get ready.
*inside the cave*
"Heh, they won't make it in time to save these two" Sasori said with a smirk as the Akatsuki was pleased to see that the biju was losing the battle to stay inside their host and was slowly giving in.
"This is futile, there's no way we can give it all to them in time Kurama" Shukaku said telepathically which surprised the duo, especially when the fox answered back.
"You're right and I'll be damn if I got back to being part of the 10 tails" Kyuubi growled before he and Shukaku went quiet, both thinking as the statue quickly sucked away their remaining chakra. "Looks like we're going to have to do it then, at least it will ruin their plans and piss Madara off. Heh, they're bodies has already started to accept our gift anyway" Kyuubi said, happy to get one last crack at the masked Uchiha as Shukaku agreed before he and Kyuubi started to create some ancient signs neither vessel have ever seen before.
'What are you to talking about?' Naruto and Gaara asked before they felt the pain in their bodies lessen with every sign as the biju smirked and explained.
"This is our parting gift to you two, we're leaving you will all our powers and chakra, basically our abilities. We already tested to see if your body would accept and it did when your eyes changed. If we're forced to leave against our will then we might as well go out like the demon we are and go powerless since that's what they needed the biju for" Kyuubi and Shukaku said as they continued to create hand seals as they felt their soul leave their physical bodies and head out as their powers and abilities started to seep through their seals before covering Naruto and Gaara until a shake in the earth caused a bit of power to lapse out and silently hit 7 unsuspecting bodies.
"Crap, oh well, at least it's those seven and not anybody else...good luck" the biju said before their cages was ripped open and their bodies was forced out of their vessel's bodies and into the machine.
*outside just before the biju's sacrifice*
"Alright now it's time to show that damn puppet what true art is, un" Deidara said with a smirk as he and the rest jumped onto the clay dragon Deidara made when the rest did their part before he activated the dragon and a smaller clay dragon appeared from the bigger one's mouth and shot toward the crack in the side. "Hang on" Deidara yelled as he forced the dragon high in the air in time to avoid the large explosion that shook the earth itself before diving into the hole before the smoke had even cleared. As soon as they had entered they felt a surge of chakra hit them that nearly took their breath away before it receded and Itachi turned to look at Nagato and Yahiko's body.
"Now Nagato" Itachi said as he watched as the redhead Uzumaki call forth his Animal Path which then summoned several summoning creatures that ran into the statue forcing the members to fall off the fingers and thus end the sealing in time to save Naruto and Gaara's life. The remaining Akatsuki managed to move out of the way in time as the rhino and multi-headed dog rammed into the statue, making it tilt just as Deidara sent a large dragon clay bomb at it, destroying for it good.
"NO, MY STATUE, MY PLANS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Madara screamed at the smirking group above before he turned and looked at the former biju vessels. "YOU'RE TOO LATE, THEY'RE DEAD!" Madara yelled, laughing at their failure until he felt a large amount of chakra behind him and turned in time to be met with a red and tan tail that crushed his mask as the rest noticed Naruto and Gaara slightly floating as if being controlled before collapsing to the ground, back to normal.
"Naruto-kun, Gaara-san" Hinata cried out until she saw something beside her and turned to see Neji and Tenten on a clay bird in which she joined them as they descended down toward the fallen duo and got them on the bird as the rest of the Akatsuki was about to attack. Before any of them could move, there was a loud explosion from behind as they saw the rock crumbled and the rest of the teams have made it.
"Hinata, Neji, Tenten" they cried out before they seen the destruction around them and asked what happened in which the trio took this time to fly back up toward the main dragon and landed on its head. They all looked in shock at the Akatsuki members before they heard Hinata and the rest say there were good now and the ones in front was the ones to be worried about. Wondering if it was a trick, they ran toward the group in front while some of the sensei tried to reach those higher up. Neji, Hinata, and Tenten checked on Naruto and Gaara who groaned and sat up rubbing their heads, eyes still closed as they sensed people around them until they growled saying danger was approaching.
"You destroyed my plans now I'm going to destroy YOU" Madara cried before he warped up there to the group while Deidara cursed and tried to shake him off without success. The group above heard their names being called but ignored it as they felt a strange power come over them and their chakra flare up. They all began to snarl and growl at Madara who froze when he noticed something about them before he pulled out a kama and headed straight for Nagato. "I will have the rinnengan even if I have to take your whole head" he said as he warped right behind the redhead.
"No Nagato" Konan said before they all grew quiet in shock as they watched Madara suddenly go flying off the dragon and down toward the ground before he warped over to the remains of the statue, a look of shock and disbelief on his face as he stared up at Yahiko whose eyes now blue but the rings of the rinnengan in them looked around in surprise as he put his hand down.
"Konan...Nagato...where am I?" Yahiko asked, definitely alive as Konan and Nagato stared at him in shock before there was a huge jolt as Deidara maneuvered the large dragon to barely dodge the fire ball that came from Madara.
"Hang on, we're going to have to get out of here, un" Deidara said as he sent another dragon toward the statue that was soon nothing but rubble now before he flew back through the hole, tucking in its wings, and out to the outside world.
"You will have to catch up later Konan, now we need to go help the teams" Itachi said as Konan nodded before Deidara created a clay bird that Konan had Yahiko and Nagato get on the back of.
"Konan come back to us safe" Nagato said while Yahiko was asking what was happening until they both saw the look on Konan's face that screamed she might not come back. "Konan don't you dare" Nagato said as he quickly, too his surprise, moved to jump off the bird but it suddenly flew high in the air, too high to jump down as it made its way back to rain country with two screaming rain nin on the back.
"Let's go" Konan said, spots forming in front of her and all their faces before they nodded and sluggishly made their way to the cave entrance and some intense battling.
"Kisame specialize in water jutsus, his sword stills chakra and can return it to him. Take the sword and you have a chance" Itachi screamed before he quickly dodged a water shark bullet aimed at him from said Akatsuki member.
"Gr, I knew I should have killed you the first chance I had" Kisame said as he tightened his grip on Samehada and continued to attack Kakashi, Gai, Sakura, and Lee. Not knowing why but these words angered Itachi as he felt the weird chakra inside him spread and his eyes changed before he ran at Kisame and in a second found him behind the shark who started to turn in surprise just as his sword was yanked from his hands. Before Kisame could fully turn around, Itachi was already back over with the others, sword in his hands which started to make chattering sounds as it attached itself to Itachi, clearly liking him now.
While Kisame was in shock, Kakashi took this time to strike him with a chidori that killed the shark man as it went through his heart. Kisame coughed just once before he fell to the ground, dead, as the team turned to look around to see if anybody else needed any help. Naruto and Gaara's group continued to described the other Akatsuki members abilities and attacks (avoiding some too) until the rest of the Akatsuki was brought down and Kankuro got a new puppet for his collection. Madara was high on the wall, glaring at Naruto and his group before he ran at them all, a large blade in his hand that he brought down at the group before they all looked up at him and he froze inside as he saw red and tan blurs come at him from all directions before he coughed up blood, dying quickly as his heart was punctured by a blood-red and sandy tail.
"Wha-how" Tsunade was saying as she saw the changes in the group who saw the dots again before they're bodies gave out on them and they blacked out, the last thing seeing was the biju's eyes reflecting in Madara's before he died.