The demon fox of Konoha

Chapter 6

Of foxes and snakes

I don't own Naruto or anything it crosses with

I'm so sorry for the long wait, forgive me please... I have 4 exams coming...And watch anime on top of it.

Also after the next chapter there might be a timeskip to gennin graduation...

Konoha's streets were crowded, and so were the roofs since the patrols of the village increased. But the tension was all but gone, so it was easy not to notice how tense the ANBU were. There 3 captains and the commander still had not recovered and the Hokage was feeling extremely down. The Sannin were getting recalled in the village and all the jounnin and chunnin were to be as quick as possible in completing missions as possible and always research information about Obito wherever they go. The academy students studies were slightly sped up so they would be ready in case of danger on themselves.

The people of Konoha were back to how they were before, as it had not taken much to stop panicking, as the Uchiha clan was not very liked in general... Heck some even threw a party to the Masked Man ™ for his great deed. Secretly, among those were two girls, though neither could actually be called a small girl: Anko Mitarashi and Akane Okyo. The former, because she was 15 and Orochimaru's apprentice, which could get anyone past childhood fast, and the latter, because she was a fuckin' 400 year old Demon Fox. (Did I just rhyme?) Anko and Akane were some of the ninja who loved parties, and, aside from Itachi, had no love for the Uchiha.

Of course, both were henged, but then again no one should know that they were here when they should be on duty, or at least Anko should since Akane had chakra poisoning. The poisoning thing was actually because she messed with the Mangekyo, a bad thing to do for someone who could get controlled by it.

The two had taken to saying stories of there life, Anko about her training with Orochimaru and Akane with a 'slightly' edited version of her stories with Naruto, Madara and Rikudou. Anko was angry that Orochimaru hadn't visited in two months, though she knew she shouldn't complain since shinobi could stay years on missions, but she was herself. Akane was getting angry at herself for something else entirely: The fact that she was getting too good with humans.

She was supposed to be a goddamn kitsune, yet here she found herself mangled up in more human stuff than most humans. She was the sub-leader of ANBU, girlfriend of the freaking Hokage's son and also sub-leader of ANBU and savior of the last of the Uchiha Clan... Yea waaay too much for her, especially if you count being queen of the Kitsune's and one of the Bijuu that were so wanted... 'How the hell did I end up in this mess?' she wondered to herself 'Oh yeah I took pity on a young boy who now is my summoner, my 'official' mate and cr... I mean undercover boyfriend, I must be getting drunk'

Those were big problems sure, but the biggest one, not counting Naruto, was in front of her right now: The snake summoners. She liked hanging around Anko and had done more than one mission with Orochimaru but damn were the elders angry... Why did she give a crap again?

Naruto was still in a coma and Itachi was somewhere with bandages over his eyes, probably playing 20 questions with Shisui, as he didn't have anything better to do and Kakashi was getting drunk right 10 meters away from them at the bar... What did she do to deserve this?

Minato, Kushina and Mito gulped as they looked at Naruto's files, they were pretty damn huge for someone who has only been a ninja for 5 years. They were sorted out in multiple categories, and were pretty detailed, heck someone would pay millions for all that information, because it was golden, showing every weakness and strength he had and even trauma's and fobia's, the perfect thing if he ran away. The medical records were few but grave, especially those from SS-ranked missions.

His mission report was staggering: 100 D-ranks, 178 C-ranks, 183 B-ranks, 122 A-ranks, 30 S-ranks and 7 SS-ranks. All in just 5 years, over 600 missions. And not one failure among them, although almost a quarter were rated wrongly because of lies... this guy was way to good for a 13 year old.

The SS ranks were what interested the three and they were too shocked after the first three to say anything: 1. Team: Orochimaru, Danzo, Naruto and Itachi, Objective: Bring down the Mizukage, Time took: 1 week. 2. Team: Akane, Naruto, Itachi and Kakashi, Objective: Annihilate the two Rogue Super Battalions of Iwa- each was formed of 50 Ninja with A-rank or higher, all rogue because of a failed experiment. Time took: 2 weeks 3. Team: Akane and Naruto, Objective: Lead an expedition outside the Elemental Countries. Time took: 1 month.

The first had been ultra-shocking, but it had been small in comparison to the second one, which itself faded next to the third: He had explored out of the Elemental Countries, that was Madness!

As they were going over his abilities next, they were shocked by the amount of jutsu he had, and the fact that half sounded like someone was bullshiting them:

"Youki Claw? Fuuton: Rasenshuriken? Demonic Illusion: Demon's way? Kitsune Sage Mode? Time-Space Barrier Field? Eye Seal? Puppet Art: Kunai Performance? Tailed beast Necklace Seal?" Minato read out loud, utterly stunned at this library of Unknown Jutsus, out of which half were S rank, heck the Time-Space Barrier Field could go up to SSS class from what he read!

He would have gone through many more shocks if he had time to read that the boy was trained by Danzo and Ibiki, but he was stopped by someone entering by window. Unluckily for whoever it was, there was an ANBU behind Minato and a certain white haired pervert found himself with a sword at his neck. It didn't stay there for long though because the ANBU was blew through the wall by a flying door, courtesy of an angry Senju. Trying to escape from the madness, Mito stepped back, only to feel something cold behind her. Slowly looking to the left, she noticed a long tongue. In the next second she was hanging on to Kushina like a Koala.

"So the Sannin have gathered..." said Minato as he looked at the three. Jiraya was stealing glances at Tsunade, who was hitting her palm with her punch like preparing for battle... or to beat perverts, and Orochimaru stood with his arms folded smirking evilly at Mito. The Yondaime didn't exactly feel safe around Orochimaru for some reason, but he was needed to help in case anything happened. Even Danzo and Sarutobi were on active duty, so they were not pulling any punches. Danzo had been healed by a joint effort of Tsunade, Orochimaru, Naruto and Akane, though the latter 2 were in secret.

Orochimaru and Naruto were a very interesting combination, when combined further with Danzo they were the Horror Team. Nothing could stay up against them, not even a country could resist much, as proved on Yagura. It was said that if those three wanted to take over the world, they might just be able to.

Minato had special reasons for calling all of them to Konoha: Jiraya was needed to help with defenses and possibly find info on Obito, Tsunade was needed to help with the ones who had been harmed in missions so they could have more ninja and Orochimaru was there to help with researching new security shield and so on.

Orochimaru had become very suspicious lately, often disappearing and many were wary of him. The fact that many kids were disappearing was also troubling, and many had connected those with Orochimaru's experiments.

"I have summoned you all here to ask you to return to Konoha's defenses. I'm sure some of you heard of the Uchiha massacre..." He said, stopping to make sure they all nodded which they did. "Tsunade, I want you to help with healing as many men as possible, Jiraya-sensei, you need to help check for enemies and secure the breaches in our defenses. Orochimaru, we need you to give us any edge you can, as well as a counter for the Mangekyo Sharingan." he added in his business voice.

Orochimaru nodded and left via Shunshin with Snakes, which scared Mito, probably because of the Kyuubi too.

Tsunade and Jiraya brought questions about what happened and made their own theories. Mito and Kushina just watched everything happen, sometimes sneaking an eye at Naruto's dossier. They were discussing lightly for an emergency, but then again this was Minato and Jiraya so unless it had something to do with Icha Icha, Ramen, Mito and/or learning techniques it was unimportant, heck he once spent one day during the war talking with the guys in the canteen! Mito was already trying to escape through the window because it was too boring, god knows the girl wanted to be Hokage someday, just because it was cool.

The peace had lasted for 10 minutes: "Hokage-sama!" shouted a voice at the door. "It's an emergency... and it involves Orochimaru!" finished the alarmed voice.

In a second the two Sannin and Minato had taken the man in. He was battered and bruised and his breathing was hitched, not to mention shaking. He could barely move so they carried him to a chair.

"Breath, drink some water and tell us what is happening" said Minato quickly, with a swift order. As he gave the man a bottle of water, which he accepted thankfully.

"H-hai. Our patrol heard a scream inside a building, and went to see what it was. Apparently, Orochimaru had some labs in which he experimented on several innocent civilians, mostly orphans and beggars." the man said barely breathing, clearly traumatised.

Of course, they had forgot about Mito, who, when hearing about being experimented on, almost fainted from terror. Kushina managed to get the girl to breath although she was equally horrified.

"Is someone on there way there?" Asked Jiraya, in disbelief 'Orochimaru would never do that! But still, how did this happen?' He thought angry.

"Y-yes Sarutobi, Danzo and Akane are on their way there!" the man responded stammering, but causing quite a reaction in the others: Jiraya paled completely, knowing that she had the Fox contract (she is technically a summon but oh well Jiraya doesn't know..) and that such a combination was devastating. Minato, Kushina and Mito were scared, because if Naruto woke up to be told Akane died... not even the Shinigami could save them. And Tsunade... Well she was currently praying for Orochimaru and Manda's souls for she knew that Akane was more powerful than Naruto, Itachi and the Sannin combined at full power, so the Snake had no chance

"We are going too!" said Minato, taking a kunai from his pouch. "We are going to arrest the Rogue Sannin! This is an SS-ranked mission! Understood?" he asked and all nodded except Mito. "Let's go! You! Give us information on the address!" he ordered

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"Are you sure you should be coming?" asked Sarutobi. Akane sighed and nodded, she was a damn ANBU captain, not a pretty little gennin! As they closed in on the coordinates, they could see some people stationed outside, along with some small snakes.

"Let's beat this guys and you will see why I'm coming!" she answered before charging at the enemies. They never stood a chance to recover.

The first got hit by a kunai with an exploding tag, blowing him up. The second turned around to look at his friend, but got hit by a Fireball. The next one tried to throw kunai, but his three kunai didn't stand a chance against 30 shurikens with wind chakra. A fourth one got his legs taken from him from the front, and a chop to his neck instantly killed him. The last one tried to punch her, but she leaned on the right, caught his fist and threw him over her shoulder in the ground. "Only chunnins? Orochimaru should know better!" she declared looking at the dead bodies.

Danzo smirked as he looked, trying really hard not to try to invite the girl into ROOT. He was really impressed by this one. Sarutobi was trying to dispel whatever this illusion was, a 13 year old beat 5 chunnins in 2 seconds? What happened to the epic long battles from before?

As Akane was trying to get the bodies in scrolls, a hissing sound was heard before a snake about the size of Akane approached them. Flipping to Sarutobi's left, Akane signaled the two older shinobi in ANBU signs about a collaboration technique. This was going to damage a lot:

"Katon: Karyudan!/ Fuuton: Daitoppa (Fire style: Fire Dragon Bullet/ Wind style: Great Breakthrough)." Shouted the three, launching their jutsus: Akane and Danzo for wind and Sarutobi for fire.

The snake was roasted before long and, at the same time, a yellow flash announced the arrive of reinforcement: Minato and Jiraya. Tsunade was at the hospital healing the team and Kushina was getting Mito home so the backup was kind of low.

As if on a cue, before of a status report, three giant snakes appeared, each about half as big as Manda. The three charged at the initial group who were forced to jump away because of exploding tags activating under them.

"We'll hold them off!" shouted Jiraya, Danzo and Sarutobi, each attacking one of the snakes, of course not succeding. "Go! You must stop Orochimaru before it's too late!" The three said again in unison as they summoned a Toad, a Monkey and An Elephant.

Minato would have complained all day about this if it wasn't for Akane throwing him out of the way of a trap he stepped on. Seeing he had no option, he followed Akane through the building.

It was apparently underground, something normal for a hidden place, but not so normal were the corpses that were hanging on the walls. He was disgusted so much, he could puke, but if he did that he may miss Orochimaru, something he didn't want to happen.

As he was thinking he was hit by a wind jutsu courtesy of Akane. HE would have shouted at her as he crashed into the wall if he wouldn't have seen Manda pass right through the place where he stood a second ago. Raising, he gave thank you nod to the girl as he prepared to fight, but was forced to use his kunai to Hiraishin out of Manda's way. He was in no way out of danger though, as the Snake Summon followed him in the air and somehow threw a bunch of snakes at him. Minato easily countered with a Rasengan, before having to avoid an extremely long snake, that gave him a scratch on the cheek.

Luckly he was saved by Akane with a Great Breakthrough. As Manda tried to attack him again, Akane jumped in front of him and blocked his Fangs. "Go!" she shouted annoyed. "You must defeat Orochimaru! I can take care of this giant leather bag!"

He had no power to negate such a statement and decided to run deeper inside the hideout.

He ran as his mind raced, barely noticing the corpses. He ran like a predator. He would not allow Orochimaru to do as he pleases, neither now nor ever. He would stop the Snake!

As he ran, he suddenly stepped on air, and found himself falling on top of a... pool? But this didn't look like water, it smelt like...chakra-ink eraser? What would he use that for unless...

Oh yea right, his Hirashin kunai had that in them... as he thought of this he looked up and noticed the walls around were purple. As he threw a normal kunai at them it disintegrated. 'So I can't spam Hirashin... What else can I do? Tch, I only have the Rasengan and maybe a dozen good jutsus... Not good at all." he thought as he looked around, had he really depended on Hirashin that much? Oh well it was technically it kind of was what allowed him to become Hokage, and since then he only got worse, and Orochimaru got better...'I'm doomed!' he thought as he looked around.

HE didn't have anymore time to think because he was punched from behind by Orochimaru, who continued with another punch and finally a kick at the side of the head.

He skid on top of the liquid and then he got kicked right in the face, sent flying on his back. 'Is there really this much of a difference? Impossible!' thought Minato as he got beaten around like a ragdoll. Trying to regain his space, he sent a Rasengan, but he missed to the left, and got his feet taken from under him, letting him fall on his face.

"Kuku, Did you really think I'd be unprepared? I have plotted this for 3 years! I will finally show you I'm better than you! Without that Hirashin of yours you are useless! Even a gennin could beat you now! Of course the venom is causing some of it, but you can't blame that for such a weak battle!"

'Venom? Then that scratch... That damn Snake!' he thought, unable to stand. For someone who was always considered a genius this was a new level of shame.

As he was about to be one head shorter, he heard an explosion and, looking up, noticed a figure looking at Orochimaru.

"Backup round two had arrived, Hokage-sama" the figure said.

The Yondaime nodded dumbly and fell unconcious

Orochimaru sneered at him and shouted: "So your gonna let your son deal with your business? I always knew you were weak!"

The figure took out a sword and entered a battle stance:

Round Two had begun indeed.

To be continued

A cliffhanger after two weeks of waiting... I'm such a bastard I should give myself a Medal :)*

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Anyway there will be reinforcements indeed for each of the parts: 3 for the old ones, 1 for Akane and 1 for Minato