1Chapter Four: The Battle Begins...
Two years. It had been two long, anger-filled years since he had last let this power out. But at this point he was left with no other options, he had knocked Kisame out, but Itachi's genjutsus were starting to take their toll on Naruto. Naruto couldn't hold back any longer, hi strongest abilities could only be used with the Kyuubi's help and chakra. So Naruto did what he had sworn to save for Pein, he decided to release the Kyuubi and relinquish control.
He sped through a series of hand seals, while Itachi recovered from a failed Amaterasu attack. He called out a jutsu he had created based on Gaara and Sasuke's fight in the Chuunin exams, "Earth Style: Earth Cocoon Jutsu!" Itachi groaned in aggravation as hard minerals, soil, and rock broke apart at Naruto's feet, before surrounding said opponent and coming together to form a near perfect sphere of some of the hardest naturally occurring elements and substances on earth. Itachi could sense Naruto channeling chakra for another jutsu, but his cocoon prevented Itachi from hearing the name of this jutsu, or even what type of jutsu it was. Needless to say, Itachi was shocked as wooden pillars shot toward the cocoon from several angles, coming out of both the ground (these seemed to be more like roots than hard wood) and nearby trees, hoisting Naruto's Mineral Cocoon up several feet into the air.
IT was only then that Itachi realized that some very strong people, ones he knew very well, were approaching. And they weren't far off at this point. Itachi smirked as he bit his thumb, and proceeded to blur through a fairly short hand seal sequence, before slamming his opened hand flat onto the ground, causing a series of kanji to shoot out from the epicenter of his strike, six lines coming out from said spot, while a ring of kanji formed a circle about halfway up the lines. As soon as the kanji had stopped forming and moving, which happened to take only a few milliseconds, Itachi called out his jutsu, "Summoning Jutsu!" As the smoke cleared from his summoning, Itachi was revealed to be surrounded by his Akatsuki comrades, and the form of a large rock statue (well, more like monument) could be seen, as a silhouette, rising up from the ground. Once it had stopped rising and the smoke had finally completely cleared, several of the statue/monument's nine eyes opened. (A/N: If someone can give me a bit more insight onto how to describe the statue you should all know I'm talking about, I would greatly appreciate it).
Itachi's teammates, after analyzing their environment, which happened to be a remote forest with a large Naruto-made clearing, or should I say wasteland, the rest of Akatsuki slightly smirked at Itachi's plan. Konan, the only woman in Akatsuki, walked over to Kisame's unconscious form and dematerialized her left hand as it stretched out toward Kisame. The paper-like substance that was removed from Konan flew onto Kisame and glowed a light, innocent violet. After nearly a minute of this, Kisame awoke, and Konan's paper substance detached itself from Kisame and returned to Konan, reforming her left hand. Now Akatsuki was back to full strength, although Kisame and Itachi were slightly chakra deprived at this point. This was all that Akatsuki needed, as they each leapt to their positions on the statue/monument, preparing to seal away the Kyuubi before it burst out of its Mineral Cocoon. Their plans were interrupted, however, by that very event.
Akatsuki looked up from their not quite started sealing, as they heard wood and roots moving, and felt a large tremor as Naruto's cocoon slammed into the ground. Soon after, said cocoon developed a large crack along its vertical middle, and a killing intent that was strong enough to humble every member of Akatsuki leaked out. Before Akatsuki could react to this threat, the cocoon burst into billions upon billions of shards of mineral and earth, as red Demonic Chakra surged out from the being that had been residing inside. Akatsuki groaned as they had missed their opportunity, and Itachi promptly dismissed the statue/monument (A/N: If someone can give me it's name I'd be grateful, I don't feel like looking it up :P). Akatsuki regrouped on the ground, surrounding their soon to be pray. It was then that Konan chose to scold Pein, much to the rest of the organization's irratance, "Pein, I told you you should have brought all six bodies, now your Rin'negan is practically useless!"
The man addressed as Pein scowled at Konan for her idiocy, "And just why did you feel the need to inform our opponent of this?"
Konan was taken aback, 'How could I have been so stupid? Peins right, I just gave away his one and only weakness, one that most of Akatsuki doesn't even know about!' She ended her self-criticism by answering her leader, "I... I'm sorry Pein-sama, I don't have any idea why I let something like that slip..."
Pein, emotionlessness as ever with his voice, decided to let the matter go, and reassured Konan, as he knew she would not be at her best if she was doubting in herself, "Well, considering the fact that I was about to deactivate it anyway, I suppose there is no real harm done. Do NOT let it happen again, though. You know full well what will become of you if you do." He received only a nod in response from Konan, and so he turned his attention back to their adversary.
It was now that the being's form came to the attention of Akatsuki. Naruto was apparently no more, all that could be seen was a mass of treacherously dense red chakra, the density making it mostly black. The chakra seemed to be covering a body, and the body must've been Naruto's, considering the size and shape the chakra seemed to adhere to. The only thing that didn't seem to be liquid were the claws on the beings hands and feet, and the pair of menacing red eyes that seemed to float like air in the chakra being's head. Akatsuki assumed that Naruto had given in to the Kyuubi and that the Kyuubi had killed Naruto and taken over his body. They were right, to some degree.
This theory of theirs went out the window when the being's clawed hands began to move. Faster than anyone's eyes, be it Itachi's Mangekyou, Tobi's Sharingan, Kakuzu's...er...fucked up eyes, or Pein's Rin'negan, no one could make out just what the being's hands were doing. However, being ninja, they all sensed the immense chakra flow that had just started, and they immediately knew that this long series of hand movements were really a very long sequence of hand seals being executed unbelievably quickly. They all knew, due to the length of this hand seal sequence, what jutsu the being was going to cast. That is, they knew the nature of the jutsu, as every Jinchuuriki could, if they were close enough with their bijuu and both the person and the bijuu held immense respect for one another, perform a combination jutsu that not even the Sharingan could copy. The nature of the Nine Tailed Jinchuuriki's jutsu was about to be revealed to all those present.
"Demonic Arts: Jinchuuriki Style: Barrier of the Nine Jutsu!" Akatsuki cringed both at the jutsu they recognized, and at the voice that was unmistakably that of the Kyuubi. What happened next, however, completely surprised them, as they had never seen a Jinchuuriki and a Bijuu work together enough to actually attempt, or even know of this unique jutsu. Some of Akatsuki had been expecting the being to clone itself, or even absorb its host's naturally occurring chakra. The latter was somewhat true in this case, but had that been the case, they would have fared far better than they inevitably would.
The chakra surrounding the being's head seemed to migrate down Naruto's body, as it merged with the chakra surrounding the body's neck. A blue orb of chakra then enveloped Naruto's revealed face, which had apparently had several layers of peeled off, but it was still clearly Naruto's face. Naruto's eyes then began to swirl and glow many different colors, finally opting to flicker between red slitted eyes and Naruto's natural blue eyes. But the eyes did not stop once the flickering had slowed down enough to trick many into believing the changes to have been complete. Naruto's eyes had taken on a strange look, his left eye was the red slitted eye of the Kyuubi while his right eye was what most people remembered Naruto's eyes as, blue orbs of determination. However, just as Akatsuki began to brace themselves, Naruto's eyes underwent one final change in appearance. Naruto's eyes seemed to have finally decided on a color to use, as they both slowly faded from their red and blue, respectively, color into a deep violet.
Inside Naruto's mindscape, Naruto stood at the bars holding back the Kyuubi, and it was apparent that the two were engaged in a conversation.(A/N: I will take this opportunity to point out that, for the most part, from now on any dialogue that is in bold will be the Kyuubi speaking, while anything else will be a mortal speaking, said mortal should be identifiable easily. However, aside from this note, italics will represent a person thinking, and I will also use ' instead of " outside of the person(or, if its bold, the Kyuubi's)'s strain of thought(s).
"Kyuubi-sama, it seems we finally managed to pull off our jutsu." Spoke an unnaturally calm Naruto.
"Yes, kit, it seems we have. I am grateful for this, as I believe if I had retained control for the duration this fight will likely escalate to, your body would have been utterly destroyed, and we both would have perished, regardless of who won the day."
"Yes, I must agree. And that really would have put a hampering on the rest of my life's goals... I'm still a virgin for Kami's sake!"
"Yes, I have been meaning to talk to you about that, Naruto..." the Kyuubi was cut off by Naruto.
"Whoah, whoah, whoah. Save it for a different time and a different place, Kyuubi-sama!"
"Yes, that might actually be a good idea, considering the circumstances..." And with that, Naruto exited his mind, and prepared to end Akatsuki's crusade once and for all.
Naruto didn't even bother wasting his breath on his opponents, as he blurred through an obscure, even by Akatsuki's standards, series of hand seals and movements. They were all surprised to no end when Naruto's hands separated and then continued the seal sequence, both his hands forming one-handed hand seals completely independently of each other. They swore loudly when they heard Naruto's merged voice as he ended the series of hand seals by joining his hands together in his most familiar hand sign, and his voice rang out as a thundering boom, "Demonic Arts: Jinchuuriki Style: Demonic Chakra Clone Jutsu!"
A large plume of smoke and dust obscured Akatsuki's vision of their opponent, and when it finally cleared, not a person on the planet could determine which of the now nine Naruto-headed chakra beings were the original. Strangely, each being had a different number of tails, and, assuming each one represented each of the Jinchuuriki/Bijuu that are, or had been, alive, had a slightly differently colored Demonic Chakra enveloping them. The 'clones' then began to morph there heads into people that Akatsuki had known much too well, the faces of the other Jinchuuriki of the world, with their respective Bijuu's colored Demonic Chakra enveloping them similarly to how Naruto was, however, like Naruto, they had their own chakra (with its own color) shielding their face and head from their Bijuu's Demonic Chakra.
If anyone wants to be my Beta, I'd appreciate it. While I may not mess up on grammar much, if at all, the fact is that the version of Word I'm using to type this is outdated (it didn't have some of the words, other than the Japanese ones (it strangely let Kanji slide...), in its Dictionary tool :/ so I'm unsure of a few spellings), and that some things just don't seem to be worded as good as I want them to be. If anyone can help me with this and/or the translating of my english jutsu into Japanese ones (heh, its a way to get up the words per chapter at the end :D), drop me a PM.
~Darth