III. Ramifications
When Tsunade gains consciousness she looks around and sees that Jiraiya and Orochimaru are nowhere to be found. Taking a second look she realizes that she is no longer in the same place she was previously at, but in a war torn village of fire and brimstone.
Tsunade places her hand on the wound she was given by the mysterious foe before she was taken into the portal when the same demonic voice from before says,
"Today is the day the fifth Fire Shadow loses their life."
Tsunade removes her hand from her shoulder doing all she can to heal the wound, looks up to see a ninja similar to the one she seen before with a yellow color scheme instead of blue.
"Who are you," Tsunade screams as the ninja jumps down to be on the same level as her. As the ninja gets closer he says,
"I am Scorpion, welcome……to HELL!"
Tsunade's facial expression changes in shock as she realizes that she is in their world, or at least one of them. Scorpion disappears in a burst of fire only to appear behind Tsunade and throw her at a remarkable speed.
"What the hell,"
She thinks as Scorpion disappears again and appears behind her giving a devastating kick sending her straight into a fire set building.
"Damn," is what's heard as she tears her way out of the building, only to lose sight of him. As she looks for him a spear can be heard flying in back of her and again Scorpion says, "Get Over Here."
Tsunade turns around with a smile on her face and says, "That's a trick that won't work on me a second time," as she grabs the spear just before it reaches. She swings Scorpion around and slams him into walls, then the ground, and finally the burning house that he just kicked her into.
When he appears to be getting up Tsunade pulls him toward her and clinches her fist as far back as she can get it; delivers a vicious punch directly to his head sending him flying back into the house completely destroying it along with making a 30 foot hole in the wall behind it.
Tsunade, knowing the fight isn't over, waits for confirmation that Scorpion is still there. Suddenly Scorpion appears in front of her and performs a quick slide under her, flipping her on her back. When Tsunade looks up she sees the same ninja but he is unmasked, which reveals a human skeleton.
Tsunade looking in disgusts says, "What are you?" Scorpion's eyes begin to glow as he turns toward her.
"I am your end," he exclaims as his eyes grow more intense and catch on fire. He begins to shoot fire at her, and with a surprised look on her face Tsunade still manages to dodge. Scorpion then begins to teleport, with his trail of fire following him, shoots multiple blast of fire at Tsunade and the only thing she can do is dodge.
Scorpion begins to speed up his attack and with a wave of fire coming toward her all Tsunade dose is drop to her knees and brace for impact. The fire wall hits causing a large cloud of smoke and as Scorpion gets closer to his opponent a large white tail comes out of the smoke and smacks him away.
"Thank you, Katsuyu," Tsunade says while jumping off of the giant white and blue slug as she vanishes back into a puff of smoke.
Scorpion appears in front of Tsunade, but to his surprise she is ready for him and delivers a punch to his stomach. She raises her leg and Scorpion jumps back a little, but when her leg connects with the ground it completely crushes it and brings up both sides of ground around Scorpion. With him enclosed in the rock, Tsunade jumps high in the air and when she starts to come down her body starts glowing like a meteor.
Tsunade then comes in contact where Scorpion is held using all of her force to destroy his prison and apparently end his life. A mysterious glow then appears and makes a portal similar to the one the fighters came from.
Tsunade jumps into it and lands out on the other side where she had left off. Tsunade is relived she got back and says, "Now where has Jiraiya and Orochi….", but she is cut short as she looks down and sees Scorpions spear sticking out of her.
The spear sends her into a nearby tree, pinning her there, with Scorpion laughing behind her saying,
"Fool, how can you kill someone who's already dead?"
Tsunade barley able to turn her head takes a look behind her at Scorpion, as it seems that his whole upper body's skeleton was revealed as well as part of his lower body. Scorpion, still laughing gets closer to her and prepares to strike with his second Spear when he is thrown off of her by a familiar feeling punch but not nearly as strong.
Tsunade turns around and falls to the bottom of the tree, "Are you alright Lady Tsunade," a voice is heard. Sakura then appears next to Tsunade stretching her gloves and looking at Scorpion with hatred for doing this to her sensei.
"I'll be fine, but we must take this guy out he's dangerous," said Tsunade as she got back. "Let's go," Tsunade said as she jumped into Sakura's arms. Scorpion, recovering from the punch inflicted by Sakura, starts teleporting towards the two prepared to attack.
Sakura then spins Tsunade, creating a cyclone, meeting Scorpion half way and hitting him with multiple attacks. Sakura's final attack launches him into the air and throws Tsunade right after. She catches him and throws him down as Sakura holds up her fist he smashes right into her as she throws him down.
Tsunade, still in the sky, says,
"Tsūtenkyaku," while coming down from the sky.
As Tsunade gets closer and closer her strength steady increases until she finally sends her heel into Scorpions body, leveling most of the forest along with sending him to the earth core. When she comes out of the destroyed forest she collapses next to Sakura.
"Lady Tsunade," Sakura screamed running toward the fallen Hokage,
"I'll be fine Sakura, but what I am really worried about is what happened to those other two fighters and where they would take Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
"RASENGAN," Jiraiya says as he is charging the nimble Reptile. He misses and gets kicked back to where Orochimaru is standing with a grim look on his face.
"Idiot," Orochimaru said,
"Well you're not doing too good yourself" Jiraiya replied.
Orochimaru cut his eyes at him and said, "Yes, this is beginning to be a bit of a nuisance. What do you suggest we do about it?"
"I say we switch because I may be better suited to fight the guy in the blue," Jiraiya said as Sub-Zero and Reptile stood there with serious looks on their face.
Orochimaru agrees to the switch but says,
"Then what do you propose we do," and without a moment's hesitation Jiraiya says, "Divide and conquer."
Jiraiya moves in quickly followed by Orochimaru as he makes a shadow clone and attacks Reptile while Orochimaru takes Sub-Zero. Jiraiya powers up a rasengan while his clone attacks Reptile and gets him in his direction he grabs his head and throws him while turning around. Orochimaru throws his Kusanagi at Sub-Zero, but he dodges only to get caught by Orochimaru's tongue and thrown toward Jiraiya.
Jiraiya hits Sub-Zero with his rasengan sending him off the cliff as he follows while Orochimaru picks up his Kusanagi and attacks the falling Reptile with it. As Jiraiya and Sub-Zero fall off the mountain, Jiraiya delivers a kick to him sending him straight to the ground below. When Jiraiya lands he sees a blue ball of what looks like chakra coming towards him he dodges as his scroll on his back is turned to ice.
Jiraiya hurries and takes it off then is punched into a field of trees. Sub-Zero begins shooting ice at him in an attempt to freeze him but Jiraiya retaliates with his own flame bullets. Sub-Zeros hands begin to glow as Jiraiya prepares to counter again but he fails to notice the ice block above him and it smashes him into the ground below the surface.
"I'm going to have to handle this quick, he can't be taken lightly," Jiraiya says while extending the markings on his face then being perfectly still.
Meanwhile with Orochimaru, he and Reptile are fighting at the ground above Jiraiya and Sub-Zero. Reptile screeches and makes Orochimaru drop his sword and hold his ears while he runs under him making Orochimaru flip on his back. Orochimaru gets up and dust himself off and with an evil smile,
"Many Hidden Shadow Snake Hands," he says while sending a wave of snakes towards his opponent. Reptile dodges but they are too quick so he takes a deep breath and spews acid all over the battleground. As the acid is reaching Orochimaru, so he bites his thumbs and screams,
"Summoning Jutsu: Rashomon: Three-Gate Deadlock," as three giant gates emerge from the ground.
Orochimaru stands behind the gates as he thinks he is safe, but the acid instantly melts the walls; along with Orochimaru. Reptile doesn't see any sign of his enemy so he leaves to join his partner not noticing the ground sink in where Orochimaru was covered with white snakes.
Once Jiraiya emerges from the mixture of ice and rock he is in sage mode and quickly delivers a couple quick blows to Sub-Zero. When he gets the upper hand however, Reptile comes in and attacks with Sub-Zero sliding underneath Jiraiya.
Once Jiraiya gets up he notices something the other two haven't then turns his attention back to his enemies and along with the elder toads on his shoulder says,
"Sage Art: Bath of Boiling Oil," engulfing most of the field in flames.
When the fire clears Jiraiya is nowhere to be found, then he appears in front of them in the distance. Appearing to be charging up a jutsu the two enemies rush him and suddenly Reptile is grabbed by a mass amount of snakes and is thrown into Sub-Zero.
Reptile still struggling with the snakes looks as his partner flees into a recently open portal and as he turns he sees Jiraiya in the air.
"Chō Ōdama Rasengan,"
is all that can be heard as Jiraiya is seen crashing into Reptile and causing a huge explosion. When all the dust clears he and Orochimaru meet up,
"We must find Tsunade so we can continue to the meet," says Jiraiya.
Orochimaru turns his back and continues to walk while saying, "It seems she has found us" as Tsunade and Sakura can be seen walking in the distance.
As they all continue to their destination the portal that Sub-Zero escaped into opens with him saying, "So these are the Sannin, we will meet again."
Back in the mountains Naruto is still searching for Pain when he suddenly stops in front of a wall saying, "This can't possibly be it."
Naruto begins to examine the wall curious to if this can be where Pain is. Suddenly the wall collapses and disperses into paper that surrounds Naruto.
A blue haired woman can be seen coming from outside of the uproar with wings also made of paper. As Naruto enters sage mode and prepared his attack a voice can be heard from the shadows
"That's enough Konan; the boy is here to see me."
Konan stops her attack and a sickly looking man with red hair comes from the cave what looks like a wheelchair with feet and more black rods sticking in his back. "Is this Pain," Naruto says as the red haired man smiles and says, "I've been expecting you…..Nine Tailed Fox."
