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Chapter 6: All According to Plan

Heavy breathing was all you could hear on the men's side of the spa. Erza and Naruto stood across from one another catching their breaths. As Erza questioned before, the two of them always came out in awkward positions after wrestling around. The blonde closed his eyes and this is where Erza had her chance. She lunged at him, which caused him to be pinned against the edge. The mage didn't realize they moved so much from wrestling in one spot. She thought they would've remained in the same area. Now, the red head found herself pressed up against him keeping him trapped between her and the wall. A blush came upon both their faces. Naruto had his mouth partly opened feeling quite tired. His head was leaned back, slightly resting on the ground above the water. This had him looking up at the red head with his eyes being halfway opened. Erza felt his chest press against hers every time he exhaled. Since it was quiet, she looked down at his chest hearing his heart beat. Her hands were softly lying against his stomach. All this rough play had got to both of them, and by the looks of it, it would seem that Erza had won. The red head looked at him eye-to-eye with a calmer expression on her face.

"I just want to know. It'll be between just the two of us if you'd talk."

Naruto yawned, "Why?"

Erza blinked, "You need to realize that you're not alone. We'd like to know what's going on so we can help in any way."

The blonde closed his eyes, but instantly shot wide open after feeling his… groin poking the red head's thigh. He looked at her face and saw that she showed no reaction since she still waited for his answers. Removing himself from the wall, the two went back in the spa so they'd have more room. Erza saw the sad look forming on his face and couldn't help but feel the same.

"What you heard earlier was true. But…" He drew back to his thoughts thinking just what Madara could have planned besides the one he was informed of. Erza noticed the break and saw that it seemed as if he was thinking of something. So, she wrapped her arms around his stomach, ruining his train of thoughts. The blonde looked at her with a puzzled look, but felt her finger tracing a line on his back.

"How'd you get this?" She asked.

Naruto semi-closed his eyes and looked down. Erza noticed his gaze was aimed down at her breast, but she knew he wasn't thinking anything perverted. Or was he?

"I got this when I returned from a mission."

"Returned? So did it happen in…"

"I came back to my village and some of the villagers still held a grudge on me. When I was walking to the Hokage's building, a villager came up behind me and slashed his sword deep across my back." Erza's eyes widened to see that after such an incident that occurred years ago, they would still attempt to kill him, "This was even after I saved the village from a powerful enemy. Sure it looked like the entire village admired me, but there were still those people that just couldn't move on."

"Wait, you saved them all?"

"Yes. There was this guy named…" Naruto stopped in thought that it'd be best not mention Nagato, so he went with, "Pain. This guy had tremendous power." Erza's eyes widened seeing his blue eyes turning into the purple ones, "He had these eyes as well. But he could use them a whole lot better than I can. But anyway, he destroyed the village and I showed up late to prevent him for doing so."

Erza shook her head, "Hang on. Why did he attack your village?"

"Just like Obito and Madara, he was after me. I won't go into talking about the fight, but after I defeated him, he realized his mistakes and used a Jutsu to bring the dead back to life. But anyway, even after saving them, some of them still held onto the past and would wait for an opportunity to strike."

The red head couldn't help but feel sad for him. Growing up having the villagers hate you, try to kill you, then you save the village later in life, and still people try to get a chance to kill him. Now he was here in this world after hearing about everyone in his dimension are dead. Just as he was about to speak again, he felt his head being pulled down. His eyes slightly widened realizing that Erza had rested him on her breast. The red head remained hugging his head and closed her eyes, "You didn't deserve to be treated like that." Naruto was in heaven right now. This was no accident to be resting his head on her breast, but she had brought his head to them instead. He felt like he was resting on a couple pillows.

He was getting distracted and had to get back to the topic. Placing his hands on her hips, he saw that she took notice by removing her embrace on his head. He stood up straight, "Now, as to why Madara might see this plan through… it's still fishy to where I can't fully register it."

Erza blinked and wrapped her arms around his neck this time, making him completely stunned. They stared into each other's eyes, "When all this is over, do you want to come back with us? We can talk to our master about you joining us."

"Shit." Was all he could think of saying. Now he was offered a second time of going home with a group. He didn't know what to think of this. It was going to be tough on him, but then again, he still thought about going back to his world to sacrifice himself to bring everyone back to life. His eyes went bug eyed after feeling a huge amount of chakra coming from a distance.

The red head took notice, "What's wrong?" Erza narrowed her eyes and cupped his cheeks with her hands, "Naruto?"

"I-I have to go." He said and quickly turned, making his way to the steps.

Erza was astonished from the sudden dismissal but shook it off, "Naruto!" She shouted and went after him.

People were running away screaming from the site they saw just now. Kurama was knocked to the air by a wooden beam that came out from the ground beneath him. The Kyuubi glared down at the ancient shinobi and held out his arm. A purplish black sphere of energy formed in his hand and hurled it down at him. Madara remained staring up at the sphere come shooting down at him. He held his arm up just as the chakra bomb had ended up hitting some sort of barrier. Madara bend his arm back and shot it forward, causing the chakra bomb to go right back up at him. Kurama quickly vanished to let the ball of chakra soar higher to the sky.

The Kyuubi appeared right behind the ancient shinobi and twist himself to deliver a deadly kick right to his head. Madara was sent soaring and quickly crashed through the doors to the sandwich shop. Izaya managed to get away earlier, but he only gained a safe distance so he could stay and watch. His hands were buried in his pockets as he watched in amusement. He turned to the sound of footsteps coming from behind him and saw Ichigo in his soul reaper form, "I'd stay out of this if I were you."

The teen slowly came to a stop and looked at Izaya, "Why? Kurama needs help." A bolt of lightning struck his mind, "Wait… you can see me?!"

Izaya shook his head, "Yes and no. We don't need to let the whole town know of you all. Kurama and Madara have already exposed themselves. Not to mention…" The crafty man looked back at Kurama's direction, "Naruto's about to show up and expose himself as well."

"So what? I don't care about drawing attention. I'm going to go help him!" Ichigo shouted and ran after Kurama.

A sigh escaped Izaya and said, "This is going to cause a major war between the Yellow Scarves and the Dollars. The yellow scarves will most likely recruit them and deceive them into fighting against the other."

Kurama stood his ground and watched as Madara came walking out of the shop, "Well. Well Kyuubi. Why don't you just be a good demon and allow me to take you?"

Kurama growled, "Fuck you!" The Kyuubi held both his hands out, each with a chakra bomb in hand. Madara clapped his hands together to where two wooden pillars came out of the ground in front of him and began to extend towards the Kyuubi.

"Getsuga Tensho!" Madara looked up to see an energy blast come down and cancel his attack by cutting it up.

"Ichigo…"

"Where are you looking at?!"

The ancient shinobi quickly looked back at Kurama closing in on him. Quickly, Madara held out his arm in front, "Shinra Tensei."

The Kyuubi's eyes widened as he felt himself being blown back. Ichigo came down at the ancient shinobi and was forced to back away to see a large blue flaming-like warrior trap him inside, "W-What the hell is that?"

Madara blinked once and looked up at the soul reaper, "This is Susanoo."

"Damn it." Ichigo covered his face with his hand and swiped it down to bring forth his hollow mask. He vanished out of sight to avoid being hit by Susanoo's sword. The ancient shinobi looked around.

CLANG

Madara turned around and saw Ichigo swinging his katana at the back of Susanoo, "You're fast." Wooden pillars shot out from the ground around Ichigo. The soul reaper vanished once more just before the wooden pillars came crashing down where he once stood. The ancient shinobi narrowed his eyes in annoyance, "Are you going to keep running?" He asked as Susanoo swung its sword down in front at the teen that just appeared in front of him.

"Shit." Ichigo vanished again from being completely smashed.

A sigh escaped the ancient shinobi, but was drawn out of being bored to see Susanoo take an explosive hit from one of the chakra bombs that Kurama had thrown. This forced Madara to take a step back and his Susanoo to cross its swords to block any oncoming attack. Another chakra bomb made contact against Susanoo's defense. The ball of energy exploded to make an enormous cloud of smoke. Madara looked around and all he could see was the smoke and debris. The ground below his feet began to crack and drew his attention. He caused Susanoo to vanish and quickly jumped back to avoid being punched up along his chin from Kurama coming out of the ground. Madara's eyes widened to see five tails form from the Kyuubi. He looked to see that his eyes were a deep crimson color.

Kurama raised his arm up to the air, which a chakra arm extended higher. The chakra arm came slamming down at the ancient shinobi. Madara shifted to the side, avoiding from being completely flattened. He took in a deep breath and exhaled shortly after to shoot out a giant wall of fire. Ichigo quickly appeared in front of Kurama and swung his katana to release a Getsuga Tensho at the fire. Once the attacks collided with each other, both Ichigo and Madara added more on their side to try and overpower the other. Both attacks seemed to remain in tack with one another. That was until Kurama appeared above the ancient shinobi with a bigger chakra bomb that would fit the size of Naruto's Odama Rasengan in his hand. Madara was forced to cancel his attack. Both Kurama's attack and Ichigo's came into contact, but the attacks were quickly stopped by a barrier. Madara crossed his arms with his hands facing out to the sides and shot his arms out to blow Kurama away. It also managed to make Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho to completely relinquish.

Madara cursed at himself, "Damn. I don't have much time left."

The eyes on Madara widened after feeling a blade slash his back, "You're finished." Ichigo said in a hollow-like tone. But the human soul reaper was confused as to why there was no blood coming out.

"Madara!" The ancient shinobi looked up to see the Kyuubi coming from above once again with two chakra bombs in hand. Ichigo vanished just in time as Kurama slammed the bombs down on Madara's face. The bombs exploded and caused another large smokescreen. The Kyuubi stood a small distance from where he had landed his attack on Madara. Once the smoke cleared he saw, there lying on the ground was a wooden clone that shortly disappeared after, "Damn it! He was a clone this whole time."

"What's that?"

Kurama sighed and rubbed his forehead, "It was just a clone of him. A wooden one at that." The Kyuubi closed his eyes while his tails withdrew, "Yes. The real Madara is elsewhere. But since that clone is done for, he'll gain the memories of what that clone experienced."

"Do you think it heard us earlier?" Kurama and Ichigo turned to the voice to see Izaya joining in.

"I don't know. I didn't feel its presence beforehand, which is weird."

"If he did hear us, don't you think that he'll go for Obito?" Izaya asked.

Kurama growled, "He will. It seems that Obito was telling the truth…"

"That's good, isn't it?" Ichigo questioned.

The Kyuubi sighed, "Yes and no." Ichigo had a confused look on his face wondering what the 'no' part was about, "Yes because he's still an enemy. No… because he would fight alongside with us to stop Madara, which I'd much rather see him die by Madara."

"What? He would?!"

Kurama sighed now that he had to explain everything to the teen, "Yes. He came to Naruto this morning. He told me about the plan before the two of them went for a walk."

Again, Ichigo had another confused look on his face, "What plan?"

A tick mark struck the forehead of the Kyuubi. His patience with the boy was getting thin. His face began to twitch with his eyes closed to where his teeth would show a little, "You're… starting to… get on my…"

"Kurama!" The trio turned to the voice and saw Naruto with Erza coming to them. They slowed down as they stopped to join in, "I felt Madara's chakra earlier."

The Kyuubi sighed after seeing his host having the Rinnegan active, "You did. But we've taken care of the blasted clone."

"A clone? So what happened?" The blonde asked.

Kurama folded his arms against his chest, "Izaya and I were talking while having lunch. We were discussing of what Madara's real plan was behind all this. It turns out that he…" The Kyuubi examined Naruto carefully and saw his host nod at him, "That he plans to hop dimensions and destroy every single one of them."

Ichigo and Erza's eyes widened. Both Naruto and Izaya closed their eyes since they were already aware of the gist behind Madara's plan, "That's what I was thinking when I was at the spa." Naruto replied.

"Yeah, I'd figured you would've thought the same thing."

The group remained silent until Naruto sighed in defeat seeing what he needs to do even though he doesn't like it one bit, "…As much as I hate to say this, I think we should talk to Obito before Madara gets to him."

Kurama had his fangs showing and growled, "No. That Obito bitch can die by him. Therefore we don't have to get our hands dirty."

Naruto shook his head, "Think about it though, he could help us defeat Madara. I'm sure if we had him along side with us that we'd win for sure without having anyone getting hurt."

The Kyuubi cocked an eyebrow and walked up to his host with a frustrated expression on his face, "So are you doubting of what we're capable of isn't enough to take on Madara?"

The blonde saw Kurama get right in his face and decided to lean back from the fox, "No. I'm saying that the more help we have, the less the risk of anyone getting hurt."

Kurama clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "We're fine without him! We can't trust him!"

"Kurama… I know. I hate this idea as much as you do, but we…"

The Kyuubi grabbed his host by the neck with both his hands and lifted him off his feet. His nails extended and lightly stabbed into his skin. The eyes of Kurama turned to a much darker crimson color, "No! We will NOT even consider it! Do you not remember what he did twenty years ago?! When he took control of me and used me to destroy your village? When he made your parents sacrifice themselves in order for you to live on?!" Naruto's eyes were as wide as they could be seeing Kurama act like this. The minor sharp pain around his neck would sting here and there, but it did manage to draw blood, "You want that kind of person to join us?! A man that can't be trusted?!"

Naruto closed his eyes and knew what he had to say would only piss him off even further, "Didn't you trust him this morning?" The blonde mentally cursed at himself seeing that he was right. Kurama's eyes widened, "The way you're acting now is how I acted this morning. I trusted him because you told me that I'll be fine. Meaning you 'trusted' him." Naruto winced in pain after feeling the grip Kurama had on him tightened.

"So answer me this…" Naruto saw a serious look on his face and behind that look was anger, "Do you trust Obito to where you're going to go to his rescue and have him fight alongside with us?" Naruto remained silent and closed his eyes. Kurama gave the blonde a disappointed look and dropped him. He turned his back to his host and began walking away, "I'll be parting myself from you for a while. Don't even think about chasing me."

Naruto just sat there on the ground and placed his hand against his neck. Izaya watched Kurama dismiss himself and couldn't help but shake his head. Ichigo wanted to chase after him, but he knew that he'd wind up getting himself killed. Erza was knelt down beside the blonde and had her focus on his neck. She saw blood all around it and thank god the punctures weren't deep at all. But once she looked at his face, she looked at him with a confused look, "Naruto."

The blonde looked at the red head, "What?" He saw Erza point at him and noticed that she was pointing at his nose. Placing his hand against his nostrils, he brought forth his hand in front of his sight to see blood. His eyes widened slightly and did it again to see more blood this time, "What the hell?"

Ichigo and Izaya turned to look at the blonde and noticed blood seep out of his nose, "Are you okay?" Ichigo asked.

Izaya placed his hands in his pockets and wondered what happened. It couldn't have been Kurama since he didn't punch the blonde's nose or anything. He saw Naruto's eyes revert back to his normal blue ones and noticed the bleeding was stopping, "I see. His body is still unable to control such a power. Even if he forces it to activate, it'll cost him."

Just above the group

Madara stood on a roof and had watched everything that transpired. He had a smirk on his face seeing how the Kyuubi left his host. This was all going according to his plan and it was going along quite easily. By the looks of it, his plan for having the Kyuubi fight Naruto might come 'a lot' sooner than he had thought. He didn't think that arguing about having Obito join them or not would do the trick, but much to his surprise, it did. The ancient shinobi closed his eyes as he heard a swirling sound behind him.

"I take it everything's going well?"

"Upupu, it must be."

Madara smirked, "Yes. Obito, you've done well."

"So, when should we make our move on the Kyuubi?"

"Yeah! I want to see those two kill each other!" Monobear went dead silent and had completely forgotten about his revenge, "I mean… I want to see Naruto kill that Kurama guy. That way the boy will be at a weaken state to where I can get my revenge! Upupu."

Madara shook his head and opened his eyes to see the group down below had begun to leave. In a distance, he could hear the faint sound of sirens, "We're not quite there yet. I managed to hear something about two gang groups in this city. One of them is some sort of… online gang?"

"Upupu. Since you don't know what online is and everything. Allow me to explain." Monobear cleared its throat, if it really could and brought its arms behind its back, "The Dollars is an online group. The way others would join is if they've gotten an invitation. Those that got one are given a password to enter on their website." Monobear saw that Madara had turned around earlier to listen carefully and had a deadpan look on his face, "Oh, right… you don't know what a website is."

"None of us do." Obito said.

"Right. Well, a website is a location that's connected to the internet." Again, Monobear saw the same look on Madara, "Damn it. The internet is pretty much a way to keep in touch with people worldwide. Devices such as phones, computers, and tablets all have the capability of using the internet. That is if you have access to a connection. Phones can use up data on whatever plans a person has and can set-up a hotspot which is like an internet connection."

Madara had grown impatient, "Okay. We don't need a full lesson on such a thing, just continue explaining the gangs."

"Fine! Anyway, where was I?" Monobear walked back and forth with its stuffed paw pressed against its mouth. It stopped and shot its arm in the air, "Oh yeah! Anyway, those who received an invitation are given a password to enter on the gang's website. When they do, they become a member and all those who become a member are all known to be 'invisible'. This gang is very secretive about their members. They all have contact with each other and can be quite clever."

"Sounds like a weak gang if anyone can join. What about the other one?" Madara questioned.

"The Yellow Scarves. They are completely rough, yet not a very intelligent group. Unlike the Dollars, these guys always roam around in small groups. They don't keep in contact 'secretly' since they always wear a yellow bandana around their neck or on their head. But it doesn't have to be a bandana; it could be a scarf, shirt, and hat, whatever. Anyway, they all carry a weapon on them at all times. They pick on the innocent by beating them, stealing, or sometimes… even kill."

Madara blinked and chuckled lightly, "That sounds perfect for…"

"Then there was the Blue Squares. They used to be a great rivalry against the Yellow Scarves. However, it turns out that the Blue Squares never existed and turned out to be just a gang without such a name."

"That doesn't matter. The Yellow Scarves… we just need to get the Kyuubi to join them somehow. And as for Naruto, we need to get him to join the Dollars. Is there a way you can do that bear?"

"Upupu. Of course! The leaders of the gangs are actually friends without even knowing. The leader of the Yellow Scarves is Masaomi Kida. And the leader of the Dollars is a wimpy kid named Mikado Ryugamine. They both go to school together and are best friends, yet… they don't even know that they're the leaders of the gangs."

"This sounds… rather familiar in such a way." Obito thought.

"Oh! There's one more thing. This girl named Anri Sonohara is in possession of a sword named Saika. The Saika is known as 'the slasher'. It's a demonic blade notable for its obsessive love for humanity. It has the ability to possess humans by cutting them. The girl Anri also goes to school with the two boys I mentioned earlier. She's currently stuck in the middle of it all."

Madara had a huge satisfied grin on his face, "This… all sounds perfect. Right now, we just need to get the Kyuubi into the Yellow Scarves and get Naruto in the Dollars."

"Upupu. I can easily take care of that."

The ancient shinobi chuckled and turned back to look down at the streets to see several police vehicles speed towards the direction Naruto went, "It seems that the boy will be known to everyone soon enough."

A/N: End! A small little fight for Kurama and Ichigo, but you got to take into note that it was a wooden clone. Anyway, the buildup of the separation between Naruto and Kurama has begun. And not only has that, the gangs and everyone else have finally been mentioned. Meaning they will be entering the story fairly soon.

That is all. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I apologize for any grammar mistakes and for having this chapter rather short.

Until next time!