Author's Note Well if you're reading this you know that the name of the Story is The Akatsuki's Revenge and I haven't really brought in any other Akatsuki members. Well fear no more. In the next several chapters the 6 other new Akatsuki members will be brought into this story. If you have any ideas for names, personalities, and abilities of new akatsuki members in your reviews. Remember not to make them to overpowered (1 reason I won't be giving Naruto sage mode(at least not yet)) as they will be fighting normal shinobi.
The Akatsuki's Revenge
Chapter 4 – The Battle Over Konoha
His deep cerulean eyes stared into her hazel eyes from across their makeshift battle arena. The Akasuki man had begun his fight to kill the Gondaime-Hokage. Blow after blow landed on his target but she never seemed to let the hits debilitate her despite their severity and she always managed to counter-attack within a split second of him landing his shot. He knew that if he didn't end this quickly more shinobi would show up and make this even more difficult.
"Why the hell won't you just die, you old hag!" He yelled.
"Because I was chosen to protect this village. And no thug like you is going to change that."
As he began to move in for another charge three shapes appeared alongside their battle. One of them was a silver haired shinobi in standard Jonin attire with his hitai-ate draped over one eye, Another was a lazy looking jonin with his black hair tied back into a short pony tail, and the last was a pink haired chunin that had a look of distress on her face as she watched the battle. "Damn, I thought that more wouldn't show up this quick." He muttered under his breath. "Chozouro get over here and get some of the heat of my back."
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Chozouro had never been known as the most athletic shinobi ever but that was due in part mainly due to his posture. He never stood straight, in fact he was almost constantly crouched. Instead of using this as a handicap he made it into part of his offense. His opponents misjudged him and believed him to be short and stout when in reality he was quite thin and very sinuously muscled. Today was a day when that ability shined. He leapt from target to target most of the time killing them in one shot to their jugular with his special kunai that created a vacuum and literally pulled the blood out of them into vials attached to the blades' handles.
But as he lunged at the three targets they actually dodged him. That was no problem with a few quick hand seals he had begun to radiate a blood tinged aura. He poured two of his many vials into a pair of straight tattoos leading into circles in his palms, and without missing a beat he said aloud "Chishio: Sakura shuriken". As he held out his palms the blood on the tattoos flaked away and began circling his three opponents.
"Sakura-chan, Shikamaru-san watch out for those shuriken." yelled Kakashi as the tiny blades of the glinting blood made its way ever closer towards cutting him. At the last second Kakashi used a substitution and a log was the only thing that was diced into tiny pieces by the jutsu. Sakura and Shikamaru quickly followed suit and appeared right next to Kakashi. "Are you both all right!"
"Ya we'll be fine." Shikamaru responded.
"Good, remember that this guy is an Akatsuki member so don't expect an easy fight."
"You don't know what you're up against fools." Chozouro mockingly saying as he removed two more vials from a pouch on his waist. He began to pour them onto the twin tattoos until the vials were empty. "Now it's time to have some fun."
"Shikamaru now!" Kakashi yelled as he closed the distance between him and the enemy. Shikamarus's shadow flew out from under him right under the Akatsuki member ensnaring him in a Kage Shibari no Jutsu.
"What the hell! What's going on here." Chozouro uttered before his eyes widened in suprise. "Damn it, This has to be your damn shadow jutsu." Surprise turned to horror as he saw lightning forming in the palm of the silver haired ninja in front of him.
"Raikiri."
With a small lunge Kakashi was right in Chozouro's face and his hand resting on his chest. He removed his hand gently, almost cautiously. Copious amounts of blood fell from the body he had just impaled on a blade of pure lightning. He was as good as dead Kakashi thought as he turned and began to look on the other bout on the roof.
Chozouro burst into laughter.
Kakashi wheeled around only to see the face of a man possessed inches from his own and before he knew it he was sailing through the air. "Ha, you can't kill me. Though I must admit I am disappointed that you ruined my cloak and broke all my blood vials. Oh well, I have other methods of obtaining blood for my jutsu." As Chozouro his emaciated form became evident as well as his long limbs. With a slight smirk he revealed two strings hidden on his chest. Kakashi looked on in horror as he yanked both cords. Hundreds of kunai knives shot from his body and the blood from the openings in his body began to pour down even more tattoos criss-crossing his entire body.
"These tattoos are more than just decoration if you haven't figured it out by now. They act as chakra conduits on my body allowing me to more easily access my reserves. It allows me to control blood that I place on the surface due to the blood's latent chakra. And the fresher the blood, the more powerful the jutsu I can perform." Chozouro gloated. With a few quick hand seals a deep red surrounded his emaciated form. "Now lets get this started for real. Shall we."
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They were evenly matched.
No matter what Naruto did, this fight was nothing more than trading equal blows. There was a counter attack for every attack. He knew that with each shot the longer fight drug on, And the longer it was sustained the more shinobi would show up. "That's it! I'm done playing with you." he exclaimed.
Holding out his palm an intense chakra began to become visible and began to rotate. Swirling and churning in choreographed chaos contained in an invisible chakra sphere. "Time to end this! Rasengan!" He lunged holding the swirling mass in front of him praying that it would make contact with and kill the old woman that stood exhausted in front of him. Opening his eyes he saw not the body of the Hokage in front of him but that of a brunet blocking his jutsu with a massive hilt-less sword. The eyes that looked back into his were none other than those of an Uchiha. The Sharingan.
With a shifting movement Sasuke was able to redirect the swirling mass of chakra into the ground and simultaneously wheeling his foot around clocking Naruto in the head causing the wide brimmed hat that had masked his identity to fall to the ground. Sasuke, Tsunade, and the others on the roof stared in disbelief at the blonde. The three whisker marks on either side of his visage as well as a long diagonal scar deepened as a sadistic smile began to spread across his lips.
"So I see the Hokage has a new lapdog. I never thought it would be you." Naruto said, obviously directing the insult at the Uchiha.
"I thought that... that you were… dead."
"Well I guess I'm not."
"Why are you doing this?" Uchiha asked concern wavered behind his voice.
"I'm just doing it for fun." Naruto burst out laughing. His emotionless pits that used to be his eyes focused in on the Uchiha. He was afraid of what Naruto had become. "I want to watch Konoha burn to the ground."
Sasuke flinched at these words. He can't relly mean that. Can he? I gotta stop him but... I don't know if I can bring myself to kill him? While he was lost in thought he didn't notice Naruto getting closer with a kunai in his hand.
"I hope you're life has been nice because it's about to end."
"Shut up!" Sasuke shouted shoving his kusanagi sword into Naruto's chest. Hot tears filled his eyes. "I'm sorry." he muttered.
"For what?" said a voice behind him. He wheeled around and saw Naruto standing but five feet away and on his blade was just a shadow clone. Substitution, He's gotten better at that alright. Dropping his sword began to prepare his own powerful jutsu
"Chidori!" was all Sasuke said in reply.
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Blood trickled down from the cuts on his face as Kakashi stared down his oppenent. The longer he dragged the stronger it seemed his opponents was; even with all those holes in his body. He had enough chakra for one more attack and if that didn't work he knew he wouldn't win. His Mangekyo Sharingan had pushed his body to the brink.
Chozouro knew he had to finish this fast. He was already light headed and was beginning to lose his vision due to blood loss. He could only get in one more powerful strike if he wanted to have enough chakra left to mend his wounds and stop the blood loss. "This is it." a series of handseals flew in front of him and all the tattoos glowed a deep, brilliant crimson.
Mustering all the strength he had left Kakashi prepared another raikiri.
Both charged at each other. As two jutsus met in battle, enormous amounts of power were expelled from the epicenter. Finally a large explosion erupted from both combatants.
When the smoke cleared both stood staring at each other, knowing that the first to buckle would lose. Chozouro hit the ground still barely conscious despite the amount of blood he had lost.
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The explosion rocked the entire battlefield. Naruto and Sasuke simply stopped to see who emerged as victor. As the smoke that obscured their vision cleared Naruto saw that Chozouro was defeated.
"Damn him. He got in over his head." Naruto muttered. Turning to Sasuke he said. "We'll have to finish our little fight later." In a split second he appeared right next to his partner. "And as for you. I don't think that you belong with Akatsuki anymore." Emotionless pits that had been eyes stared down at the limp body still gasping for breath.
Leaning down Naruto picked up Chozouro's hand that bore his Akatsuki signet. With a swift strike from his kunai the arm fell limply back to earth as Naruto removed the ring from the severed hand. "Well I'll be back to exact my revenge on this little shithole of a village and don't you all forget that."
Naruto made a break for the outside. Unfortunately Sasuke was in hot pursuit. They made it into the forest surrounding the village. And they went for seemingly miles until they reached a valley. The Valley of End. "Well I guess I should try to get you off my trail here." Naruto had stopped and said.
"I'm going to bring you back Naruto!" Sasuke yelled.
"Well doesn't that sound familiar. But unfortunately you can't back that tough talk up. Let's finish this."
Final Note Well here we are folks the Sasuke retrieval fight redux. I'm even excited about the next chapter so I hope you like. And I apologize for killing of Chozouro in such a bitch way but I didn't feel his character going anywhere. OK I'm going to be needing 6 more akatsuki members to fill out the 10. Feel free to suggest names, personalities, abilities and villages in reviews. If I like what I see I may use your ideas in some of the future chapters in the second half of the story.
Glossary
hitai-ate --- forehead protector
Chishio: Sakura shuriken --- Blood style: cherry blossom shuriken
Kage Shibari no Jutsu --- Shadow Possession Jutsu
Raikiri --- Lightning Blade