Several hours later Team 7 were using every ounce of stealth they knew to make their way through and underground cave. Naruto had explained to Team 7 his plan and to say they were shocked was an understatement. Naruto was more fox then anything by proving his trickster side with his plan and so now here they were making their way through a cave.
Around 40 minutes later Naruto who was in front of the group held up his hand and using team 7 hand code told Sakura to move to the right tunnel, Kakashi to the left tunnel and Sasuke to follow him down the middle tunnel.
Each member took one last look at one another and moved down their seperate tunnels.
Back in the elemental village the church bells rang showing it was 3pm. Tsunade sighed and said "Alright everyone, you know the plan and team 7 should be nearing their objective. Remember, time is of the essence. We have one shot on this plan working so everyone move out."
Blurs where all that was left where they once stood as they began heading toward the castle.
15 minutes later Sakura found herself in a torch lighted room made inside of the cave and she noticed on the ground was engraved a seal. She looked at her watch to see what time it was and thought "10 minutes." as she stepped into the middle of the seal.
Kakashi was sitting on a seal reading his book and thought "just 10 minutes."
Naruto and Sasuke came to another fork in the cave and Naruto pointed to the left and Naruto started to go to the right ignoring the center one when Sasuke grabbed his shoulder and signed out "be careful and come back to your family alive."
Naruto nods and mouthed thank you as the 2 men went down thier own tunnel
Soon they both found torch lighted rooms just as Kakashi and Sakura had found and checked thier watches and thought "5 minutes."
Back with Tsunade and the rest of the Konoha shinobi Tsunade saw a group of around 50 ninja heading toward them and before she had a chance to say anything sand shot past her heading toward the group on nins.
The nins heard something heading toward them and saw a large group of ninja heading toward them and got ready to fight when a huge cloud of sand started to fly toward them at increadible speeds.
They started to get out of the way of the sand when a huge fireball came flying through the sand followed by a shout of "Kamaitachi." was heard and the sand instantly parted as wind shot toward the men as well over taking the fireball and causing it to increase 10 times in size killing nearly 30 of the men who were trying to figure out what to do as the sand had started to circle around them.
Just then several shouts of "Bloodrun." was heard and 2 male looking and 6 female looking werewolfs charged toward the remaining nins and sliced through them like a sword through silk.
The main group continued to charge through the carnage that was going on around them.
The shouts of the men had alerted another group of around 15 men who were heading to releave the first group and 2 green blurs shot past Tsunade who was taking point intercepting the men with shout of Springtime of youth echoing from the blurs.
Tsunade thought as her troops continued pass the green blurs and shouts of pain "Thats Hana, Kiba, Tsume, Lee, Gai, Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi. That leaves me with Genma, Iruka, Itachi, Gaara, and Temari. Jiraiya will begin his move soon with his group from the south of the castle."
Inside the cave 4 watches beeped at that exact moment and each member of team 7 cut both thier hands with a kunai and plunged them into the seal they were on while channeling chakra into them.
Orochimaru was sitting on the thrown of the castle and said "So they have began to move." after he heard from one of his subordinates about the attack on the group. He then began to laugh and said "Send out half of our forces to intercept Tsunade and her army."
4 figures blurred out of the room and Orochimaru thought "Soon, soon everything will be mine."
Just then 4 puffs of smoke erupted in the thrown room and all 4 members of Team 7 appeared and Naruto said "So I was right, Orochimaru is here."
Orochimaru shocked at first to see the intruders laughed and said "my, my Narutokun, I see you have grown up and started a family. tell me, when can I give your children thier gifts." as his tongue slithered out of his mouth as he said the last word.
Naruto said "Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura, you know what to do. Orochimaru is mine."
All 3 members nod and took off running toward the wall on each side of the room before using chakra to climb them up to the ceiling and out onto the roof.
Orochimaru watched them go and said "Follow them and stop them."
Several blurs that were concealed in the shadows began to run up the wall following the members of Team 7.
Naruto pulled out the raijin in his hand and activated it and Orochimaru opened his mouth and out popped a snake who spat out the grasscutter. Orchimaru then grabbed it and said "Today you die boy but don't worry, your children will live on...as my next vessels."
Naruto slowly started to circle around Orochimaru who had stepped off the thrown and aslo started to circle when an explosion was heard and both men charged each other.
Up on the roof of the castle several moments before as the 3 remaining members of team 7 ran for the 3 pillars of the castle 6 blurs shot out from behind them and appeared in front of them.
Sakura narrowed her eyes as she looked at the face of 2 root members. She cracked her knuckles and charged at them as they both charged to meet her.
Kakashi looked ahead and saw Danzo himself but but notice that Danzo seemed to be healthier then before as well as recovered his arm said "Well this should be interesting." as he pulled up his hiate and began making handsigns as both Danzo and the other root member who was with him began making their own.
Sasuke looked bored as he looked onto the face of Sai and another root member and flared his sharingan to life and said "Today is the day your die traitor."
Sai said "bring it dickless." as he quickly drew a tiger. Sasuke threw a kunai in his hand that barely missed the tiger but had and exploding tag on it which exploded destroying the painting. He then began flashing through handsigns and grabbed his wrist as a chidori appeared before charging the unknown root member and stabbing him through the heart only to be stabbed in the back by Sai.
Sasuke smirked and said "Say boom." as he exploded and Sai burst into paint.
The real Sai and Sasuke met each other in a taijutsu fight.
Naruto dodged the fireball Orochimaru spat at him as he shot air balls at Orochimaru. Both of thier swords lay on the ground on the other side of the room.
Naruto appeared behind Orochimaru who shifted his body to avoid the claw strike from Naruto to his back.
Orochimaru then elbowed Naruto in the ribs only for Naruto to burst into a puddle of water.
Just then the water took the shape of a shark and attacked Orochimaru point blank tearing him in half only for Orochimaru to melt into mud. The sound of flesh meeting flesh echoed across the room as Naruto and Orochimaru fought each other head to head.
Tsunade was nearly to the castle when a siren went off inside the castle and suddenly she could scence several chakra signatures heading out of the castle.
She took a deep breath and thought "please Jiraiya, be on time." as she continued to head toward the castle.
Gaara said "Should I begin now Tsunade."
Tsunade shook her head no and Gaara frowned having scenced the chakra signatures as well.
Jiraiya and his group were shadowing Tsunade running across the ice bridges Naruto had shown them when they first arrived at the castle coming from the south. Each member of his team had a seal tag on them hiding their chakra from everyone. Jiraiya frowned as he heard the Hyuuga reports on Tsunade group each time they encounter group after group and then he felt the chakra signatures in the castle begin to leave and he said "Alright, its time." as each of the Hyuuga each summoned a falcon the size of a horse jumping on the birds back except for Hinata Instead of her jumping on the birds back it was Tenten and all 3 birds took flight into the air. Jiraiya saw the castle getting closer and saw explosions on top of the castle as well and he thought "I hope your plan works gaki."
Tsunade group had just broke through the treeline of the forest seeing men charging toward her group with already close to 100 nins across the bridge and she said "Gaara, now."
Gaara sand shot out again this time making a huge wave heading toward the men forcing them to stop thier charge.
Just then exploding tags rained down just away from the group of men who were charging to the north to attack Tsunade and everyone looked up and notice 3 birds basically gliding in a spot in air as kunais rained down with tags making any chance to escape that way a death trap. Seeing the sand charging toward them and the exploding death cutting off their escape route the men had no choice but to start running back inside of the castle.
At that moment hearing from Hinata what is happening Jiraiya instantly summons Gambunta and the remaining Konoha nins with him jump onto the toads head and they charge toward the castle.
On top of the castle the roof has been mostly destroyed thanks to Sakura super punches of death as she sliced the head off of her last enemy with her fathers sword.
She then ran toward her objective of one of the 3 turrets towers.
Sasuke coughed up blood as he removed the sword in his rib that Sai had ran through him as he finished the boy off with a chidori. It took a suicide run into the sword to be able to hit the boy and Sasuke could feel the blood entering his lunges so he used one of the few medical jutsu he had copied from Kabuto to heal the wound enough to stop the blood flowing in but he would be sick and weakend until he could get proper medical care as he ran for his tower he had to get to.
Kakashi was having a field day. He sliced the root nin up no problem and then cut off both Danzo arms and legs and now he was sitting in the tower with Danzo body watching as Sasuke and Sakura headed for their tower cutting off Danzo limbs every time they started to grow back and Danzo screamed "I hate you Kakashi."
Kakashi said "The feelings mutual but I must say, this is almost better then Icha Icha paradise. Its a great stress reliever." as he chopped the regrowing arms and legs again.
Gaaras sand formed a wall on the bridge slowly pushing toward the castle gates and the enemy nins were backing away from it having no way to jump over it or around it since it blocked them. As it became flush with the gates of the palace Tsunade ran over and kicked the bridge with all her might destroying it as she jumped back away from the falling slabs of brick that fell into the chasm below.
Inside the palace naruto and Orochimaru were trading justu like it was free music downloads on the internet. Anyone unlucky enough to get near them died. This was nothing more then a contest to see who had the most jutsu.
Orochimaru said "I must say boy, I am impressed. If it were not for the Kyuubi I would take you as my vessel." as he shot a mud dragon at naruto.
Narutos watch started to beep and Naruto smirked and said "Guess what Hebi. Times up." as made a sword of wind cutting the dragon in half and he took off running back toward the thrown room where the fight had ventured from.
Up in the towers the watches of team 7 started to go off and Kakashi said "Damn. Playtimes over." as he cut off the head of Danzo with his sword and saw that the body was not growing back since the talisment was destroyed. He stood up and grabbed the bell that was in the tower and struck it with the ringer.
Sakura took that moment to struck hers and it sounded different then Kakashi. After Sakura rang Sasuke hit his also making a unique sound and then when silence took over all 3 bells rang together one last time making a very unique sound.
Gambuta who had landed at what was left of the bridge entrance took a deep breath and shot out as much water as he could toward the castle.
As the soundwaves from the bells hit the water everyone could see what appearred to be a dome starting to appear grabbing the water and shaping it.
Haku who was ontop of Gambunta began using her bloodline to change the water into ice as it continued to form a dome as more and more water was added.
Jiraiya screamed "If you know any suiton jutsu, use them now and aim for the castle."
Across the island as the bells sounded in the castle Queen Yukie sighed and said "And so winter returns." as she removed the hexeganal crystal from the generator. As she did so a cold wind took hold and started blowing across the land as snow began appearing on the ground. Just like when she started the generator all those years before and it instantly warmed the island it now reclaimed the island in the same fashion.
Naruto ran as fast as he could into the thrown room with Orochimaru slithering as fast as he could after him. Up the walls Naruto ran and onto the roof as Orochimaru burst through the cealing cutting off his escape route.
circling the tower the 3 giant falcons swooped down by each of the towers as Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura all jumped onto the summon taking flight.
Orochimaru said "Why retreat now boy. Scared of me." as he tried to figure out what is going on.
Naruto took off running toward the edge of the castle only for Orochimaru to cut him off agian.
Naruto thought "shit, I got to get out of here before its to late." as he glanced across the island and saw the snow reclaiming the island.
Orochimaru who had retrieved the grasscutter while chasing Naruto pulled it back out of his mouth and said "now boy. I don't know what you have planned but it will fail and you will die here today."
Naruto who was backing up said "You will die here today Orochimaru and nothing you say or do will stop it." as he continued to back up.
Orochimaru saw something change real fast in the corner of his eye and saw the land changing to snow and asked "What is that boy."
Naruto smirked and said "The cold hand of death Snake." as he turned and ran as fast as he could leaping into the air over the chasm. Orochimaru gave chase but stopped before jumping off the roof and looked at Naruto who had put his hands out beside him and was now falling straight into his death in the chasm below.
Orochimaru thought "foolish." as he turned to try and figure out what was happening.
Just then a whinning noise was heard and Orochimaru turned to look and saw Naruto in somekind of black armor with 2 rocket wings on his back and he smirked before flipping Orochimaru off as the wave that was reclaiming the island hit the castle and everyone could who was outside of the castle could see that the dome that was making around the castle was now falling into the chasm below as it stopped moving.
Orochimaru shot out a snake from his sleave at Naruto and Naruto dodged out of the way watching as the ice dome fell into the canyon below and Naruto said "Hey snake, ever wonder why this country was always winter no matter what in the past before spring came here a few years back."
Orochimaru began making handsigns ignoring Naruto and Naruto said "Because the entire lsland is nothing but one gaint self contained freezer." as he flew high into the air.
The moment the ice dome impacted with the chasm floor a seal appeared glowing and the the rocks that held the castle up began being covered in ice as it made its way up the walls going all the way up.
Inside the castle as the wall of ice passed by the floor the castle walls all began to glow with seals that were hidden began appearing and all the men inside began to scream as they were incased in blocks of ice.
One the roof Orochimaru summoned a gaint snake and was sitting on the snakes head as Naruto dodged the snake as it tried to bite him and Naruto saw the ice wave hit the roof and then move to where the summon was and move up the summon making it scream in pain as Orochimaru noticing what was happening for the first time jumped off the head of the snake as it was frozen solid and using his tongue grabbed ahold of Naruto leg and said with his tongue out "Now boy, I will kill you." as a snake came out of his mouth and started to climb his tongue toward Naruto who began flying higher and higher into the air.
The snake got close enough to strike Naruto as he continued to go higher and it set up on Orochimaru tongue and opened its mouth and the grasscutter popped out and it dove toward Naruto.
In that instand Orochimaru heard a voice in his head of Kabuto say "now I have my revenge master, your mind has been getting weaker and weaker making you overlook obvious things and now you die by my hands."
Instant clarity hit Orochimaru as Kabuto spirit faded away and he realised how he ignored the danger. It was at that moment he saw the snake strike toward naruto heart and...