I tried to pull a One Piece and have Cliffhanger/anticipation shot as a closing for the Chapter.
To explain, you might have noticed that sometime an issue of few Manga close with the last panel showing the result of something "Important/shocking" happening that took place while we followed other characters and so we "missed", leaving us wonder how things went to reach that point.
There, that is what I did to close this Chapter. And do not worry, it is a "one time deal", an Experiment that won't happen again, just to warn whoever may not like the final result.
Pairing: Naruto/Karin and later Naruto/Karin/Naruko and Minako.
Naruko and Minako are two Ocs, Twin sisters born after Naruto that hold respectively the Yang-Half (Naruko) and Yin-Half (Minako) of Kurama .
"You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu.
"Let's finish this" – dialogue.
" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/Thoughts.
Have you seen how Trafalgar Law was dressed in Punk Hazard Arc? There, Naruto is dressed exactly like that plus the sword, sans the tattoos. Just to be clear.
Disclaimer: I don't own and NEVER will own the material I use/used/will use and I will NEVER take money for this or anything else I write here so leave me alone, lawyers!
Naruto the Thrice Cursed Chapter 3: The Invasion -
Konoha – T&I Department – Morgue -
In the very cold room, normally used to hold the shinobi of Konoha that had fallen in the line of duty and had been bought back for the doctors to 'stitch back' in a presentable manner for the deceased's family members to give them their last good-bye before being brought to the graveyard for the funerals, was now closed under request of Minato.
In fact, the long metallic table in the middle of the room was holding the naked and cleaned-out corpse of a dead ANBU Rank woman that had a perfectly squared hole in the heart area they had found after the Written Exam and that both Hokage and T&I Head Interrogator had decided to re-examine on secret.
"You are late," the almost-bald old man tasked with the medical examinations of the Police Corp of Konoha said calmly, by-now nonplussed by the dead as he kept passing a hand inside the hole to study it with almost child-like curiosity.
"Last-minute preparations for the Finals, Al." Minato answered as he and Ibiki entered the room.
Aruiko "Al" ('Aru') Arusaki simply looked at both Hokage and Head Interrogator from the top of his glasses and gave them a non-committal grunt of acceptance as he grabbed his walking cane to walk his way towards them with a very wide limp in his steps.
"Akane Hoshi, twenty-six-years-old, ANBU for less than six months. She has no other recent wounds on her body except for the big one." the coroner said with a professional tone while passing a gloved hand on the dead woman's hair in a fatherly way.
"We managed to hush everything up easily as it was the night shift to find her. Cause of death?" Ibiki asked while nearing the table with Minato to join Al.
"Heart removal, a perfectly squared hole has been opened on her chest to extract the heart, although the wound in itself is not normal." the old man answered.
"Is that why you asked the body to be took out of the coffin?" Minato asked with narrowed eyes.
"Yes, the guys looking at her had done a bad job dismissing the wound, as soon as I saw it instead I could see there were issues about its origins" Al answered shaking his head in annoyance.
"Why?"
"The cut is smooth. TOO smooth to be normal. And it is not decaying the cause of it." the coroner answered simply while pointing at the hole.
"Smooth?" Ibiki said confused.
"Here, wear those and feel it." the other answered throwing gloves at both men.
"...No edges, no protrusions...As if the body had always had a hole in there." Minato muttered surprised as he moved a finger inside the hole.
"And no blood, I asked the patrols that found her and they confirmed there wasn't blood around her, they understood she was dead only when they turned her face-up and saw the hole in her chest, not even her clothes were dirty." the coroner answered walking towards an iron plate holding a human heart cut in two.
"This instead was found at thirty-five feet from her on a rooftop...Perfect match with her DNA, completely cleaned without even a bruise from the removal and with only the blood flowing from the cut on it. The time of death is around 3 to 3:30 AM and her shift started at 3...This was not a job someone did taking it easy, it was done on the fly, in an instant as there aren't signs of her being tied-down or drugged." Al explained slamming the heart close to the girl's head with a dull Clang!
"She was alive when they did this?" Minato asked shocked.
"A Jutsu?" Ibiki asked at the same time while studying both organ and wound with narrowed eyes.
"In order: Yes she was alive and no it wasn't a jutsu to do this. I saw other deaths caused by "Sharp" jutsu in my years here and I can tell you this: Water and Ice blades tear apart, Fire and Lightning blades leave burn marks, Wind blades leave very sharp edges and Earth Justu simply break everything. This is the work of something different from all that but with the precision of a scalpel. Whatever it is it has erased the flesh around the heart, took out the organ still whole and left a squared nothing in her chest." the coroner answered.
"But why then there wasn't blood? And why the heart was so far away from her?" Minato asked taking away the gloves.
"That is why I am saying that whatever did this is not normal." Al answered shrugging helpless.
"So no culprit, no chakra signature to follow, no weapon and no motivation?" Ibiki said growling.
"None of that, the only motivation I can give is that maybe this poor girl stumbled on somebody that didn't want ANBU sniffing around." the old man answered.
"...Where did they find the heart?" Minato asked looking at the report of the Autopsy.
"One of our Inns we are using for the Exams, the Golden Arch if I am not mistaken. It has the delegations of Sound, Grass and Mist Village sleeping there." Al answered.
"Mist...The culprit was close to Naruto?" the Hokage thought worried.
"And I guess nobody saw a thing?" Ibiki asked rhetorically.
"They had other things to worry about, a man from Suna had decided to slit his throat right in the middle of the hallway so they didn't notice what was happening outside."
"Yes, I received Suna's excuses about the issue just this morning, but why killing himself there?" the Hokage confirmed nodding.
"I can't tell because Suna's own ANBU carted the man away, but I could sneak a peak at their own reports and saw something peculiar."
"Which is?"
"That man had signs of having been tied-up at both wrist and ankles...Ah! And around the neck too, but the markings were too thin even for normal ninja wire to leave them, as if strings had been used." Al answered.
"How thin?" Minato asked.
"I had to offer several drinks to the Coroner of Suna to take a peek as we are old acquaintances so I couldn't measure it properly...But by eye I can guess it was around that of a human hair or a just a fraction thicker."
"...That I know of there isn't wire that small in any weapon shop one can normally find in a Ninja Village or the Capital...Could it be one Custom-made?" Ibiki growled annoyed.
"It would snap too easily, and yet this one bounded a full-grown man weighting more than 90 kilograms, of Jounin Rank and an expert in close-range hand-to-hand combat renowned for his physical strength. He must have killed himself to not sell information to somebody questioning him in that hallway. The problem is if the suicide happened before or somehow after the killer tied-him up." Al tried saying.
"So whoever killed our ANBU was questioning that man, and once the Suna guy killed himself our ANBU spotted him on that rooftop as he tried to escape, so our mystery assassin added an ANBU to the body count in retaliation before leaving."
"So it seems, Ibiki-san." Al answered.
"…."
"Minato-sama?" the Coroner asked curious looking at the silent Hokage.
"It was strange, Minato. It was as if I was no longer the one controlling my body, something was telling me to not move, I could only tell something was touching my neck, something thin..." Kushina's words after the incident in the Forest of Death resounded in Minato's head.
"Were there any signs on the man's neck? At the base of the head, near the hairline on the back?" the blond man asked.
"Well, I can't be sure but-KABOOOOOM!" as the Coroner was about to answer the whole underground facility of the T&I Department shook violently making the lights flicker and almost throwing Al down the floor had not Ibiki caught him.
"What the?!" the Head Interrogator yelled as the door went opened in great hurry by Anko.
"IBIKI! Someone or something blew a hole in the weapon storage!" the woman yelled with wide eyes.
"That is the second deepest room of this place! How did they get here unnoticed?!" Minato answered as both him and Ibiki followed Anko outside.
"Well, it is not so deep anymore! Now you can actually see the sky from there!" she replied in disbelief as they kept running downwards through ramps and ramps of damaged stairs.
"And the outside guards saw nothing?!" Ibiki asked.
"We found them just like we found the ANBU in the Forest of Death, disassembled and mixed together! Some of the guys at the Hospital are putting them together as we speak." Anko replied.
"The same guy that killed our ANBU, bodies cut perfectly without blood, but contrary to her if you put the right pieces together they heal-up and do not fall apart." Minato said.
"I think so myself, he used a bomb?" Ibiki answered nodding.
"We don't know. They couldn't see his face, we only know he is a male from the body-shape and voice...He just punched the ground and opened a hole, we know for certain the whole Village shook like in an earthquake since we have news of buildings damaged and windows exploded." the woman answered.
"Punching a hole from ground-level and reach a room seven floors underground, this is insane no matter from which angle you look at it." Ibiki answered as the three reached the group of ANBU already stationed outside.
"HOKAGE-SAMA! NO!" one of them yelled grabbing Minato's arm to stop him from entering.
"What?" the blond man asked confused.
"Some kind of trap is in there, one of us tried to enter and has lost his hand as a result," the ANBU answered pointing at one of his colleagues whimpering on the floor while holding the bloody stump of his left arm Medics were hurrying to patch-up.
"What kind of trap?" the Hokage asked.
"Strings it seems, Hokage-sama. You have to squint and look at the right angle to see them, but they are damn sharp and tough as we can't cut them." another masked shinobi answered as his kunai kept trying to cut something only to get part of the blade 'peeled off' as a result.
"This is the third kunai I ruin..." the same man then muttered dejected as he threw away the weapon.
"Strings again...We must have a maniac running around." Ibiki hissed making the ANBU in there scamper with a glare so to check the room and trap himself.
"What has been stolen?" Minato asked.
"We still can't enter to have a proper list, but at first sight we may have lost several scrolls of weapons, the books containing several lists of spies in other Villages we had amassed from spying attempt on us and probably the few Missing-nin we were secretly keeping here in stasis to cash the bounty on their heads." another ANBU answered with her voice sounding unsure.
"I see." Minato answered as the edge of his vision was locked on the mysterious figure standing hidden in the room's shadows that was looking directly at him from behind the featureless mask he was wearing and wearing a clearly-stolen Konoha ANBU suit.
"Why letting me spot him?" The Hokage thought confused as the figure pointed upwards and then nodding slowly before melting back in the shadows.
"W-W-Wha?! T-The strings are gone!" Ibiki said in surprise as he could feel the string he was trying to cut disappear.
"Whatever it was it was only a temporary way to slow us down to let the thief escape. Ibiki, Anko: help the ANBU secure this hole, right down our T&I is seriously compromised so I want that hole closed immediately. And someone get to work to give me a precise list of what has been stolen! Everything! Even should it be a cheap paperweight or your favourite pencil you think you left here last time you came in this room, got it?!" the Hokage ordered with a barking scream.
"Yes, Hokage-sama!" the assembled shinobi with him answered as one.
"Good! In the meantime I will personally check the area around the crater, be careful, we do not down if other walls may come down because of all those damages." the blond man said entering the room and rapidly climbing the hole by jumping from a floor to the other.
Outside – area of the attack -
It was total destruction, a deep crater like the impact area of a meteorite spanning for hundreds of feet, whatever it was even if it had been 'precise' enough to drill a hole all the way down to the storage room it was not clean enough to not be noticed or not leave behind collateral damages.
"You can still feel the after-shocks, like in a real earthquake." Minato mused aloud as he walked towards the closest patch of trees to the impact area.
"Come out! You wanted to talk, right?" the blond man asked rising his voice.
"Talk? Yes. Come out?...I would prefer not to." a metallic and distorted voice answered from the trees.
"Figures, not even his real voice...What do you want? You committed a serious crime by attacking us and stealing from our storage!"
"I will need that stuff one of these days, you would have used those spies and money for your own reasons, but I have MY OWN to follow, and from my point of view...My reasons are more important than yours." the voice answered with a cold chuckle.
"And the weapons?" Minato asked growling.
"Mere curiosity, I will add them to my collection...A pity your son will never recover one of Mist Village swords though, but I won't part from the centerpiece of my showroom!" the mysterious man answered mockingly.
"THERE!" finally pin-pointing the position of the speaker Minato threw one of his signature Hiraishin kunais towards the voice and flashing right behind it with a sphere of chakra already formed in his hand.
"RASENGAN!/ROOM!" To Minato's surprise as soon as the jutsu connected the man went rapidly switched with one of the many trees uprooted by the explosion reducing the damage to his body to the minimum.
"Tch! I wasn't cautious enough...You are worthy your Hype, Dear Hokage! Next time you won't be this lucky though!" the man hissed while holding his stomach.
"What is this?" The still airborne blond asked as he was held up in the air by an invisible force.
"...This is my Room, everything in here is mine to manipulate as I wish. More I won't say. Goodbye." the figure answered disappearing with a shunshin and letting Minato fall down on the ground.
"Room...What a strange technique, truly dangerous." Minato commented looking around himself and at the tree his Rasengan had reduced to a mass of splinters.
Later that night – Minato's residence – Minako's room – (Adult Contents Beware) -
"Onii-sama! ONII-SAMA!" Minako screamed and screamed with her voice dull and muffed as she forcefully pressed her face down on her cushion while thrusting her hips back in hunger.
"...While I can understand the need of relieving yourself of the pent-up stress of the Chuunin Exams..."
"EEEEEEK!" the girl shrieked as she hastily covered herself with her bed's sheets.
"And as I can accept just as well your will to use our brother as a theme for masturbation, thing that I too do whenever the need arise..." Naruko added as she sat near her sister.
"I-I-I was just..."
"I feel myself forced to remember you of our plan, one YOU yourself came-up with. We need our brother help once done AND we need our parents (especially mom waiting in the living room right under us by the way) to not suspect a thing until the very end. So please control yourself." the girl finished saying peeking under the sheets to meet her sister's eyes.
Sigh! "You are right." Minako conceded as her head finally came out from the cocoon of sheets.
"Consider this: Dad and Jiraiya have finally caved and as soon as the Exams are over we will go on a three-years-long Training trip to the Toad's mountain for Sage Training. We are THIS CLOSE at reaching our goal. Tomorrow there will be the Finals and then we will start our training and in three years we will be done. Just hold-on until then." Naruko said her sister's shoulders in an iron grip.
"Since when you are the voice of reason between us?" the girl's twin asked chuckling.
"If you get to be the hormonal one, then I have to be the stoic one for once...I too would just love rubbing one or use a Shadow Clone henged like Onii-san, but you told me that I needed to keep myself in control until we reached your so-called 'Turning Point' in our plan."
"You are right...Sorry." Minako admitted deflating.
"Huhuhu! And there is a bonus, if we keep ourselves pent-up enough, when the time comes we will be able to ride him dry." Naruko answered smirking.
"He doesn't have a Biju inside, Uzumaki blood or not we will make him sore to the point of death...And he has a girlfriend already." the other said turning bitter at mentioning Karin.
"Tch! And you fear her? We are prettier AND we are twins! We have the Twin Fetish Factor on our side...And the secret weapon,"
"Secret Weapon?"
"We are twin sisters, HIS twin sisters! The dark power of "Wrongness" in screwing us is an even greater advantage against that stupid Karin! Sexy Glasses or not we have TWO Fetishes on our backs!" Naruko said smiling deviously.
"And with our own Uzumaki Life Force/natural healing and his Enhanced Healing from Orochimaru's experiments we wouldn't even need to worry about problems when it will come to babies..." Minako said thoughtful.
"Yep!"
"...I call dibs on 'Himawari' if mine is a girl!" Naruko said rapidly.
"Fuck!...Okay, okay!" the other conceded bitterly.
"You think we will be able to go through this crazy plan of yours, Minako?"
"We are strong, Sister. We will become even stronger training together and Naruto-niisan has those three powers and the training the Snake Sannin gave him, the three of us should be able to keep whoever will try stopping us at bay if we work together..." she answered sighing unsure.
"I hope you are right...Otherwise there is always Plan B."
"I hate your plan B, Naruko."
"Me too, that is why we are keeping it as a last measure."
"True."
Unknown to them and Kushina though Minato was no longer in his Office finishing the last touches for the Finals hold the next day (and so being late for dinner), but was instead at the other side of Konoha talking with the missing member of the Namikaze Family.
At the same time – rooftops of Konoha – Uchiha District -
Minato was jumping silently from a rooftop to another in complete silence while trying to force his eyes to better focus and see through the absolute darkness surrounding him; cursing himself for blindly refusing to consider the option of his son ever attacking him.
"Okay, I admit that implying you were the thief breaking into our T&I Department was a dick move, but why the hostility?" Minato asked whispering as he kept his senses as much sharp as he could.
"You also subtly asked me if I still work for Orochimaru, Hokage-ya." the disembodied voice of the man's son answered seemingly from all around him.
"Okay, I am forced admit (in the privacy of my thoughts), that Orochimaru DOES KNOW how to train somebody." the man thought as he was finding hard to pin-point his son's location.
"That was a bad idea as well, even if it still fails to explain why you are attacking me."
"...We are being watched, Minato. That much you should be able to tell." Naruto whispered right in the man's ears as the pommel of his sword went slammed on the man's back.
"Argh! OOOOORRAA!" the Hokage growled, answering to the attack by grabbing the younger blond's collar to throw him down the floor and then circling his neck with an arm.
"Where?" Minato asked while secretly looking around them.
"Here and there. I still have a leash around my neck, they just made the chain longer." the man's son answered before breaking free and scampering away.
"Here and there...And his eyes looked in three different places, I got it." Minato thought in realization while creating three copies of himself.
As the clones disappeared to hunt-down the men spying on his son, the Original Hokage took-out two kunai with three-pronged tips.
"Using the Hiraishin already? And you want me to believe you are not hostile?" Naruto said with a tiny smile and taking a step back with his body 'melting' once again in the shadows of the near houses disappearing instantly.
"Is time to be serious, Naruto...It was you or NOT?" Minato asked again, but contrary to before glaring intensely towards where he thought the young man was.
"...Room." the other answered paralyzing the Hokage.
"Mes!" (Knife not Scalpel. as ElementalMaster16 pointed out XD)
"GUH!?" Minato muttered in surprise as he felt something slid out of his chest.
"Does this answer your question?" Naruto answered walking to stand in front of his father while holding the transparent squared case holding the man's heart.
"What are you-ARGH!" the man asked before gasping in pain as soon as his son squeezed the cube.
"Orochimaru..." Naruto said lifting his empty hand.
"...Me." he then said putting the heart in the 'Orochimaru' hand while looking at Minato with a meaningful look.
"...If he squeezes, you die." Minato answered in horror after a short pause of thought.
"Taking distance didn't work, the Seal has not a limitation in range." the young man said putting the man's heart back in its right place.
"So he asked you to attack our T&I department?"
"He wanted the names of his spies away from you people's hands...That Rasenganhurts by the way." he answered smirking.
"But you recovered pretty well," Minato answered sadly.
"I know my way around Medical Jutsu."
"And you stole Zabuza Momochi's sword."
"Recovered, not Stolen. It belongs to Mist and you know it, Mei Terumi-ya wants the Seven to be reborn and I am still a shinobi of her Village."
"Technically I should arrest you; for the stealing, the attack in itself to the T&I Department AND your working for Orochimaru." Minato said taking a fighting stance.
"I am sorry for Itachi's little brother, but that was just like what it was with the attack today and my past jobs for the Snake Sannin...It was all a matter of either obeying or dying. And I have still too much to do before getting killed."
"Then let me, your mother and Jiraiya study that Seal! We can change it! Even if removing it would be lethal to you, we can make it permanent and stop everybody from influencing it and you!"
"Huhuhu!...Aren't you a dreamer?..." the young man answered with a mirthless chuckle as he walked away and stopping after few steps.
"Ginguruwa. (Silver Enclosure)" Naruto then rising a hand and making the moon reflect on the thin strings shooting from his fingertips towards three seemingly random directions.
"Your clones got three spies of Orochimaru from Oto, but they missed the ones from Suna." he said as Minato could see the strings slowly turn red and dripping.
"...A cocoon of strings, the more you move the more you get cut with the vibration making the blood reach me. I can either wait for them to bleed to death...Or do this..." he finished saying closing his fist and moving down his arm with a fast slashing motion.
"Chigarami. (Blood Tangle)" The result was seeing a chaotic flow of thin strings returning inside the young man's hand and shining in white under the moon soon followed (to Minato's Horror) by a short, thin rain of dark red blood.
"Be worried about Oto and Suna and the Finals...Then you will be free to worry about me." Naruto said turning to look at his father.
"Just be sure Minako and Naruko will come out unscathed, or I will put Konoha too on my 'Hit List'." he said glaring at the Hokage.
"W-WAIT! I-"
"Shambles." the young man answered disappearing while a small pebble fell down once appeared in his place.
"NARUTO!" Minato yelled helpless to the dark sky.
"Oto, Suna and the Finals? Orochimaru's spies coming from Suna? What does all of this mean?" the man muttered confused.
Not far away – With Naruto -
"Karin." the young man said making said girl walk out from the shadows near his arriving point.
"Was it really necessary? Telling him that?" Karin asked.
"I never had the intention of hiding EVERYTHING from them, I DO need them to 'save me' from Orochimaru's control, as long as I have this Seal on my skin I will have the right 'excuse' to move forward our agenda as it will all seem like the Sannin ordered me to do what I do." Naruto explained as he started walking.
"You think they will really be able to modify the Seal without killing you?" Karin asked worried as she stopped him by hugging him.
"Honestly? I doubt it, I fear it will need Orochimaru's death for my and everybody else Seal to stop working..."
"BUT THAT WOULD MEAN YOU WOULD DIE AS WELL!" she yelled forcing him to turn around and look at her.
"Huhuhu! It never was something fixable, but I can at least make sure you, Moegi and my sisters will have a maniac less to worry about before I die...What I am doing, I am doing it to give you four a peaceful life away from...This..." he answered moving a hand towards the Village while showing an expression of disdain.
"I want a peaceful life, but with you!" Karin answered shaking him.
"Then what?" he asked with a sad smile.
"We ask your father for help and-"
"I breached their T&I Department." the other pointed-out amused.
"Yes, but-"
"I stole secret documents and several weapons and money." he added.
"B-But-"
"I pretty much confirmed that if needed I would work for a Missing-Nin."
"But I don't want to lose you!"
"...Then we'll find a way to have only Orochimaru die instead of the two of us." he replied smirking.
"T-T-That's...it?"
"I am sure that we'll be able to find something around Orochimaru's labs and hidden bases. For now leave it at that, we'll deal with the details later. Let's go, Karin!" the blond man answered hurrying away.
"W-W-Wait for me!" Karin answered hurrying to follow him with a more relieved expression.
"It's a fool plan, a suicide, a stupid idea...That is why you are going to make it work! WE are going to make it work!" the girl thought unable to stop herself from smiling.
"Moegi did what I asked?" Naruto asked.
BOOM!
In answer a small girl landed near the two forming a paw-shaped crater and then rapidly jumping on the blond's back to be hold in a piggy-back ride.
"Moegi moved the bad men Naruto-chan didn't like away!" Moegi said proudly.
"And where exactly?" he asked.
"Inside one of the active Volcanoes near Iwa...Right in their core." Karin supplied adjusting her glasses.
"Good. Tomorrow there will be the Finals, have you organized the anonymous notes for Hiruzen-san to find?"
"Yes, your father will be notified first thing tomorrow."
"And the temporary Summoning Circles?"
"That Jiraiya will find the marked map outside his room tomorrow morning as well," Karin answered.
"Good, unfortunately those will be prepared tomorrow to be used at the last moment otherwise they would have been found-out sooner." Naruto answered pleased.
"Moegi already moved the stuff Naru-chan wanted in the secret house," Moegi said.
"Good, they won't find what I stole at least thanks to your Paw Curse."
"You killed every other spy?" Karin asked.
"Left a couple of Shadow Clones around to hunt the Oto ones down, my String Clones took care of the Suna ones...What about Kumo?"
"Moegi took the men entering the Pale Eyes House and moved them in the cages," Moegi answered.
"She means the Hyuga Clan Compound. Once she did that I knocked them down to seal them in the special scrolls we prepared." Karin added.
"Very well, the bargain chirp for Kumo too is in place...Suna too will be open to help us once done here and Mist was already a given...What about Iwa?" Naruto asked.
"They are not remaining for the Finals since no Team of theirs lasted until then. Onoki has already left with most of his Entourage whilehe kept whining about Konoha cheating just to have Iwa lose," Karin answered.
"Figures...So We'll be forced to 'Use' Kurotsuchi for Iwa, eh?"
Sigh! "I would prefer not to...But yes."
"We have no other choice."
"Other than that, everything else too went just as planned, luckily the Jinchuuriki of Suna had a small tantrum that caught the attention of both ANBU and Tsunade-san, she and Jiraiya-san stopped that boy from killing one of their Jonin, but other than some threats the thing went hushed under the rug to stop a scandal from spreading and ruin Suna and Konoha's relationship." Karin finished reporting.
"Suna especially NEEDS this Village to trust them...At least until the Finals are interrupted and the Invasion starts, in the end drawing my father out into a small fight had its use as you said, it distracted him and nobody saw you two enter his office," the blond man said smirking.
"But why the Uchiha Compound?"
"It was isolated enough. Exception made for Sasuke-san, nobody ever goes there."
"We did everything we could to prepare...Everything's ready." Karin said somberly.
"Everything is ready." Naruto replied with narrowed eyes.
The next day – Chuunin Exam Finals – Arena -
In the deafening roar of the audience cheering for Sasuke's fight versus Gaara nobody heard one of the personal guards of the Kazekage lean closer to whisper in the man's ears.
"Orochimaru-sama?" the man said coldly.
"Yes?" the masked Sannin replied without looking away.
"Everything is ready."
"Very well, Jirobo. Give to Naruto-kun and Kabuto-kun the command." he answered with a sickening smile spreading on his face.
Just as Sasuke's Chidori jutsu pierced Gaara's giant sand dome feathers started falling on the arena while the demonic scream of the Jinchuuriki of Suna erupted with all its inhuman fury in tandem with his half-transformed hand bursting out nailing the Uchiha boy in the chest shooting the Genin of Konoha against the wall and then through it unconscious,
"What is happening!?" Minato roared while glaring at Orochimaru.
"Simple, Minato-kun...Just a matter of revenge, MY Revenge!" the Snake Sannin answered as the whole booth they were occupying collapsed making the other dignitaries scatter as Orochimaru took distance to Hunt-down Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"Wait!"
"You have other things to worry about, Mina-kun! Hahahahaha!" the Sannin replied as soldiers flooded the streets and the shinobi hidden between the crowd in the arena started attacking.
"Other things?" Minato muttered unsure.
"Hokage-sama!" a near ANBU yelled as a wooden spear went inches from beheading the blond only for him to disappear in a yellow burst of light.
"...Other things indeed..." the Hokage muttered with narrowed eyes as Hashirama and Tobirama Senju themselves appeared to attack him.
"Edo Tensei (Impure World Resurrection)...Just like him to use something like that as a distraction, I will help you, Minato!" Tsunade said joining the fight.
"You sure?" he asked.
"It's a matter of family honor, that bastard is using them to attack us, it is my duty to return them to their deserved rest!" the woman answered tightening her fists in determination.
"Then I'll leave Hashirama to you."
"Fine by me, where is the pervert?" Tsunade answered as a tidal wave courtesy of the revived Second Hokage forced them to split up momentarily.
"Snake Hunting, an anonymous friend gave us the location of summoning circles made by the enemy, Sensei and Gamabunta are taking care of them."
"Anonymous?" the woman asked smirking.
"Who else could have done that? He may be forced to work for the wrong side, but I knew he was still a good boy at heart!"
"Another good reason to free him!" she answered punching a Wooden Dragon to splinters making Hashirama smile in satisfaction no matter the mind control he was under.
"Will Minako and Naruko be fine? I saw them with Kakashi giving chase to that half-transformed Jinchuuriki of Suna!" the busty woman asked worried.
"We all trained them well, as for Suna...I am going to chew them alive once done here!" Minato answered furious.
It was in that moment that the fight stopped in that area and around it, in the arena especially as the ones fighting in the stands (like Minato and Tsunade against the revived Hokages) and on the various rooftops had the curious feeling of lacking ground to stand on as somehow the arena and several houses went cut in half and slightly launched in the air along a soul-crushing feeling of pure Rage washing over everybody.
"What the..." Minato said confused as a huge Tanuki was seen floating in the air cut in two perfect halves, but contrary to the trees and the houses (and arena) of Konoha, it remained floating instead of slamming back down on the awaiting lower halves.
"Someone got mad enough to cut a Biju in half, AND a great deal of Konoha as collateral damage." Tsunade commented as she watched Hashirama and Tobirama heal from the damages her punches and Minato's Rasengan did to them.
"And I think I know WHO is the perpetrator..." Minato commented.
At the other side of Konoah – outside the Village – With Minako and Naruko -
"Room: Shima Katta." Naruto growled as his sword shined ominously still covered by an eerie electricity-like green aura. (Island-cutter)
"O-O-Oniisan..." Minako said shocked while holding the barely-conscious and heavily-wounded Naruko up.
"GUAAAAAAH!" Gaara gurgled in agony with the very deep gash that had been opened on his chest spraying thick spurts of blood in great quantity.
What happened? When it happened? And what WILL happen next now that the cursed Ninja joined the fight? Next Chapter will hold the answers so stay tuned as the Invasion is just begun!
Chapter 3 is over!
As I said, I tried to pull a One Piece and have Cliffhanger/anticipation shot as a closing for the Chapter.
To explain, you might have noticed that sometime an issue of few Manga close with the last panel showing the result of something "Important" happening that took place while we followed other characters, leaving us wonder how things went to reach that point.
There, that is what I did, I tried to create some hype and failed miserably XD.
By the way, next chapter will cover the Finals properly, following the Twins and Naruto's point of view along a "PROPER" fight against Gaara.
Sorry for the experimental final part of the Chapter.
Tr230.