I OWN NOTHING! It's just a story that I like, and has been tickling my brain.
Chapter 8
Yamato and Sakura were watching the clone leap away, then a huge gust of wind blew them back.
"Well, Naruto has come a long way, since the last time we fought." Kabuto said as he stepped up to them.
"Kabuto..." Sakura said his name in a low hiss. He seemed to study them for a second.
"Only Sasori and myself should have known about this meeting. Now, there is no way that you would have been able to torture this out of him. So it came willingly?" He mused aloud.
"That means Sasori-sama was very impressed with someone in your group. that means he is either imprisoned or dead."
"Sorry to say, but it is the latter." Sakura said with a small smile. Kabuto nodded in respect to her.
"I guess it was you that did him in? Well congratulations for knocking off an Akatsuki, I have to say." Then he looked up back at the other side of the gorge. Sakura was about to make a scathing retort when she heard a huge crash on the other side, and looked up in time to see a huge dust cloud explode from the far side of the gorge and then something slammed into their side of the gorge. When the dust cleared there stood a howling, growling, furious monster.
Sakura stared at the Kyuubi-Naruto form.
Is that thing really Naruto? Can it really be the happy go lucky boy i know? That can't be Naruto! It can't! She stared in horror at the creature before her.
Yamato quickly took in the situation. He was watching Kyuubi-Naruto scream and the sword that was poking him. Then, he saw that the Sword of Kusanagi was trying to stab through the black red cloak of the Kyuubi.
It cannot pierce the Nine tails cloak. Jiraiya-sama was right, he has become a miniature Kyuubi. He thought to himself. Then the boy grabbed the blade and threw it aside as if it were an annoying fly. The sword came flying at them at high speeds, adn Yamato grabbed Sakura and leapt back to avoid being struck by the blade. The extended sword hit the bridge with extreme force and caused an explosion. as they touched touched down, they both noticed Kabuto in front of them. Sakura couldn't stop staring at the Kyuubi-Naruto in front of her.
"This is not a battle of ninja. Its more like a batle between monsters." Kabuto said from his vantage point. "He must truly have wanted to save Sasuke-kun so badly he gave himself over to that thing. It's almost sad, he doesn't have any control over his body anymore." He said quietly.
Sakura watched in silent horror, remembering all the times he had smiled for herher, and promised to bring Sasuke back for them. I'll never go back on my word! That's my ninja way! His face and words pierced her to her heart. She felt the hot tears running down her face, and she hardened her resolve. She took off running at him, her best friend. She heard Yamato yell at her from behind, but she kept going, her eyes set on her suffering friend. She screamed to him, trying to reach through his darkness.
"Naruto! NARUTO! It's enough, that's enough! I'll bring Sasuke-kun home! I'll bring him back for us! Just please stop!" She screamed at him, then she stumbled.
The kyuubi-naruto turned as if finally noticing that she was there. she reached for him, and the Kyuubi-Naruto slashed one tail out at her. She felt the tail hit her, it slashed deep and burned her and sent her flying through the air.
Yamato saw Sakura make a run for it and began building up his chakra. Then, he saw her flying back. Shimata! I was too late.
Then he summoned up pillars of wood from beneath Naruto to subdue his tails and bind his legs, protecting Sakura from Naruto's blind rage. He breathed a sigh of relief as he saw the bindings were holding strong. Then, kabuto strode forward walking towards Sakura and Naruto. He summoned up two more pillars to hold Kabuto in place.
"I don't think so." He said.
"Don't jump to conclusions. I don't see the need for us to fight any longer. Just the opposite in fact. Both of our groups have the same goals, to be rid of Akatsuki. If we let you go, you might take down a few more Akatsuki for us." He said it simply and summoned up healing green chakra and sent it flowing at Sakura. It immediately began repairing the slashed on her arms, stopping the bleeding and helping close the wound. Just as the wound began to close up, Naruto began to really fight the wooden pillar bonds. The creaked and cracked and he managed to snap some of them off.
"Gomene, but its time for me to fall back!" Kabuto called over his shoulder, then he poofed.
Then Naruto really began to rip off his wooden bonds.
Crap, I gotta do this now. Yamato thought as he ran forward. Then he flashed through several seals.
"Hokage style Submission technique!" He yelled as he grabbed his right arm and thrust his palm out.
"Kakuan Niiten Suishu! (Kakuan's return to Humanity)." Then he heel palmed Naruto in the chest, right where he knew the Hokage necklace to be. A green glow emanated from his palm and he made a fist as though grabbing something and jumped away pulling out a long string of chakra with him. When he landed, he slammed his hand on the ground causing many spiked pillars of wood to shoot up. Then, he yanked on the chakra thread, as though pulling on a leash. The Kyuubi-Naruto bellowed, but the cloak began to withdraw from Naruto's body. As the red black covering drew away, it showed a Naruto who seemed to have his top layer of skin scraped away, exposing the sensitive parts of the skin. Then, the inhuman Growl suddenly turned to Naruto's screams of pain.
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Yamato's clone watched as the Sword of Kusanagi withdraw back into Orochimaru. Then, Orochimaru suddenly fell to the ground and began to seize. He watched in slight disgust as the Snake Sanin spewed himself out of his own mouth. He just lay there for a while, not doing anything until someone popped into the crater, landing just near him.
Sai..
Yamato watched in careful interest as Sai began to speak to Orochimaru. Then Orochimaru spat out the Sword of Kusanagi, and watched it impale his team mate. Then, Sai dissolved. Yamato breathed out a sigh when he saw Sai pop from the ground, then Sai stood and walked over to Orochimaru and reach towards his pack. Yamato blinked as Sai was slammed to the ground by Kabuto. The three of them spoke to each other and Orochimaru walked up and picked up a letter that had fallen from Sai's pack. He read it for a second then, he motioned for Kabuto to release Sai. Kabuto got off Sai and backed off a ways, then the three of them took off.
What is going on here? Yamato's clone thought as he flashed after them.
Sakura sat up fully as she watched the final spurt of Naruto's transformation back to human. She shook as she heard his screams and she almost cried again when she saw how heavily injured he was. His top layer of skin was gone, and she could see he was in intense pain. When the pillars around him collapsed, Sakura ran forward and began a medical evaluation. He lay whimpering, and she immediately put her hands on his chest and began to send the green chakra into his body. She almost gawked when she realized the full extenet of the damaged done to his body. She realized that his healing was far too slow, the Kyuubi's chakra wasn't healing as fast. So she pumped more healing chakra into him, and desperately tried to ignore the stabbing pain in her arm as she increased her healing power. Then, she saw his skin repair itself, coming up and recreating itself across his body, his hands and his face. She breathed a sigh of relief when his breathing stopped being labored and returned to normal. Then he opened his eyes and sat up.
"Sakura-chan, what happened? I mean I remember going after Orochimaru then...nothing..." He looked up at Sakura.
"Oi! Sakura-chan! have you been crying? It was that jerk Sai! Wasn't it? He called you ugly female or freak nature, HUH!" Naruto said darkly and jumped up to fume. Sakura smiled a small furious smile.
"Sai has never called me a freak of nature." She said quietly. "Don't make up new insults for him!" she shouted while dealing him a blow to the gut. Then she looked up at Yamato.
"Yamato-taichou, Where is Sai?"
