Abhorrence filled the assassin's eyes as he immediately recognized the voice and quickly retracted the sword back into his gullet. A depraved smile crept onto his face as if the great divine being answered his call for revenge, "My, my, quite the turn of events." Slowly he turned to the right and gazed up into the sun, to see his former associate standing atop a nearby telephone pole, "Right, Sasuke-kun?" Kabuto snickered, "Though I was ordered to take down Naruto-kun, I was hoping I would get an opportunity to kill you first."
Sasuke calmly shunshins behind the eager spy, "Naruto, I'll handle things from here."
Naruto nodded and disappeared in a cloud of smoke, much to the dissatisfaction of Kabuto, "That was a mistake, Sasuke-kun."
The Uchiha scoffed, "You were the one who made the mistake. To think that you were not seen as you infiltrated the village."
The assassin's serpentine eyes grew wide in disbelief then narrowed in contempt, "Always the observant one, aren't you Sasuke-kun." He swiftly spun around to strike, but his target jumped away an instant before.
"You cannot fool these eyes, Kabuto."
Kabuto grinned, "Tsk, that's only true if you see what's coming." From behind, snakes burst out of the ground, only to narrowly miss Sasuke as he leapt into the air. But the uncanny spy had predicted the move and joined him in mid-air with his chakra scalpel ready to strike. With only seconds to spare, Sasuke created his own chakra blade as the two collided. The spy then noticed something was missing and grinned, "No more Cursed seal, eh. Guess Sakura-san was successful in finding a cure for it." He moved face-to-face with Sasuke, "Too bad, without it you are at a major disadvantage."
Sasuke scoffed, "I don't need the cursed seal to deal with you." With all his might he pushed himself away and then quickly rebounded off the wall with a Chidori to Kabuto's heart. The spy stood in shock as he looked down to see Sasuke remove his arm, "It's over."
Blood flowed vigorously out of the wound and the white-haired assassin looked down in disbelief, "No, this can't be." As he tried to move, all he could manage was a couple of staggered steps. Then as the last bit of his life force left him, Kabuto collapsed on the ground.
When Sasuke began walking away to join the battle outside the village, he suddenly felt extreme pain from his ankles and quickly lost his ability to stand, "What the?"
From below, two hands let go and Kabuto emerged from the ground, "Going somewhere, Sasuke-kun?" Sasuke couldn't believe that he saw his enemy still alive, "Surprised?" Kabuto chuckled, "That's one trick I never shown you during your stay at the Sound." He walked around Sasuke while he lay on his side, "A favorite trick of mine. Using corpses to fool my enemies. It's particularly handy when dealing with types that can see chakra. See you can see the chakra, but to you it was a real body." Snakes erupted from the ground and began wrapping around Sasuke, "Now, Sasuke-kun." He charges his chakra scalpels, "Your time has come."
A quick dash towards the entrapped prey and the chakra covered hand impales into the chest of the Uchiha and Sasuke cried in agony, much to Kabuto's satisfaction. But then the Sasuke disappears, "WHAT!" He quickly scanned his surroundings and it finally stuck him, "Genjutsu!" Promptly he brought his hands together and quickly gathered chakra, "KAI!" Then the illusion faded to find Sasuke no where in site.
Hidden in the shadows, Sasuke applauded the effort, "Impressive, Kabuto."
Kabuto knew he had to buy time until he could find Sasuke, so he decided to insult the Uchiha's pride, "I'm surprised they forgave you so easily, after what you have done to them, Sasuke-kun." He turned around, scanning the buildings, "Especially after you killing Naruto-kun."
"Heh, I got tired of him following me," Sasuke responded. "So I agreed to return."
Finally locating Sasuke's hiding spot, he threw a couple of shuriken, which harmlessly impacted against the side of the building. He managed to flush out Sasuke, and the two flew and kunais clanged against one another. Wood splintered around them from missed weapon strikes. Then Kabuto charged his chakra scalpel once more and Sasuke powered up his Chidori and the two clashed, with one scoring a fatal hit and the two shinobi collapsed on the ground.
The battle was beginning to bleak for the Konoha shinobi as they were heavily out numbered. Smoke and dust from the fighting made it hard to see one another. On the ground bodies from both sides were strewn all over, the shinobi continue their fighting. Kiba shouted while Akamaru jumped on a former Rock Jounin, who that just threw a kunai unsuccessfully at his master, "We can't hold them off much more, we are badly out numbered!"
With a powerful Leaf Hurricane kick from Rock Lee sent two Rain Jounin flying hundreds of feet away, "We will continue to fight, even until we cannot fight any longer!"
Very frustrated, Shikamaru throws a couple of shuriken into a heavy smoke cloud, apparently hitting his target as it screamed in pain, "Heh, easy for you to say." He glances about, "Man, where the hell is Naruto?"
All of a sudden, one of the mercenaries on top of a tree shouted out with all his might, "Retreat! If you value your lives, retreat now!" The Konoha shinobi stood in silence as their enemies began retreating. For a retreat when winning was highly unexpected.
Bewildered Kiba inquired, "Why are they retreating?"
"I have no idea," replied Shikamaru. He too was confused, and was even more puzzled why they left their injured behind.
Something caught Neji's attention with his Byakugan and his eyes widened in horror as he saw inhuman levels of chakra appearing over the horizon. He cried at the top of his lungs, "We need to get out of here, NOW!" Then grabbed an injured shinobi at his feet and proceeded to withdraw.
Lee asked his teammate, "What's wrong?"
Neji turned his head as he lept away, "It's the Demon, it's here and it's about to attack us!" Not questioning Neji's intelligence, everyone grabbed whoever they can help and began following the young Hyuuga. From far away, the demon finished collecting the chakra and Neji knew the inevitable, "We aren't going to make it!"
As the demon fired his massive chakra beam at the defenseless Konoha shinobi, thousands of Naruto's appeared along side everyone and grabbed them. An instant before the beam struck the forest, everyone disappeared. The blast created a colossal explosion that obliterated anything within range and momentarily blinded all who saw it.
When all had seemed lost, thousands of Naruto's safely appeared at the outskirts of the village and unloaded their cargo of Konoha shinobi and injured mercenaries. One by one the shadow clones disappeared. Shikamaru looked up, "Well, about time you appeared!"
The young Rokudaime Hokage was slightly embarrassed, "Sorry, had a little business to take care of." He jumped down alongside his old friend, "Think you can handle things from here?"
A bit battered, Shikamaru shook off the pain, "Yeah, we'll manage."
Naruto turned towards the giant demon and gave a heated stare, "Now is my turn." He performed a seal, then space quickly warped ahead, "Hiraishin no Jutsu!" Then he was gone in an instant.
Kabuto's face was in shock as he looked down to see Sasuke's hand through his chest, "It's not possible." He slowly looked up to see Sasuke smirking at him, "I supposed to be……" Then the last bit of life former spy and it fell lifelessly onto the ground.
An exhausted Sasuke Uchiha sat down on the ground and took a much needed deep breath. He was pleased that what was left of Orochimaru, was finally gone for good.
The clatter of footsteps behind him got his attention and Sakura came running up, "Sasuke-kun, you okay?"
He chortled, "Yeah." The pink-haired kunoichi got on her knees behind Sasuke and begin performing Medical Jutsu and healed the worst of the Uchiha's wounds. After several seconds of healing, "That's enough, Sakura."
She pushed him down as he tried to get up, "Bah, you're not healed yet!"
Stubborn as usual Sasuke persisted, "We got work to do."
The air was becoming thick with the scent of malicious chakra and the two immediately recognized the feeling. Sakura grew frightened and turned to Sasuke in a panic, "Where's Naruto?"
For the first time, Sasuke was genuinely worried, "I don't know."
