Hmmm… Notes… Not really, except that this chapter is going to be shaking up a lot of facts from the original series. I'm trying to finish the next couple Arcs quick so I can work on other stuff.
Son of the Snake
Chapter 10
Destruction of the Hidden Leaf!
Kabuto meanwhile had slipped silently away and into that ANBU uniform. He was standing behind the crowd waiting for the signal… The whistle that would start the invasion… The one signal that would begin the destruction of the hidden leaf…
Next battle was Garra, and Lee's fight. (Not even going to detail this one at all… It would take about 5000 words… and I don't feel like it… So yea…) they were battling hard, Lee got a hard hit on him, and Garra went into his sand ball to transform- against the plan.
Naruto's eyes hardened as he watched. Dangit, what the heck is he doing?! Well, forget plans- invasion starts now! The blonde stepped onto the rail and whistled, enhancing the sound with chakra. Suddenly everything became chaos.
Naruto went up to the spectator area, as the sound wave reached the outside forces, since he'd heard the snake breaking the wall down. Orochimaru was beginning to fight the Third Hokage, while the sound four got ready to create the shield. Most of the ninja in the crowd had stayed awake, but not all of them. Now he was ready to start throwing around a large majority of his authority.
"Kabuto, Haku both of you pick five ninja, make teams, and secure the area! Aurea; you and I will keep these Jounin off them, I need five Nin down there helping keep those bratty genin under control. Everyone move it!"
There was a flurry of movement as the ninja moved out, not wanting to let their commander get angry, he actually seemed to be in a relatively good mood today… Kakashi meanwhile was sure now that it was Naruto, Asuma as well, since Naruto had often been around his house when he was younger, and his father's office. Kurenai wasn't so sure.
"So, Naruto, long time no see." Kakashi said, Naruto heard it and turned from his battle with Gai, as he found Kakashi more interesting. "You know I have to say, the black is a good color for a ninja, but I think you might have overdone it a bit."
Naruto was charging him, and took a swing with his kunai, while Aurea having finished her fight was fighting Gai now.
"Hm, you seem grumpy, and considering the reactions to your orders you're probably usually grumpy aren't you?" Kakashi asked- jumping from the spectator's box, and letting Naruto follow him; he was hoping to make Naruto angry so he could catch him. "Did you lose your voice while screaming all those orders?"
"Will you shut up already?! You talk too much Hatake!"
"Do I?"
"Dang, it sounds like there's an unfair fight on the roof, see you yappy." He pulled out of the clash, and jumped onto the wall, he stopped for a split second on the way up to warn Aurea, and finished going up to the roof. He whistled some, creating a tear in the barrier, and allowing him to stretch it and enter. He found his father fighting against both the Third, and Jiraiya…
"Ah," Orochimaru said. "There you are… I wasn't sure you'd want to leave that wonder battle you were having with Hatake…"
"I couldn't leave you alone with an unfair fight…" Naruto replied, while Jiraiya and Hiruzen had stopped battling to look at him while they kept a lookout for any threat around them. Naruto grinned taking off his mask for once to show them his face. It was a horribly pale color almost as white as paper; He enjoyed seeing their expressions before he had to put the mask back on to keep from burning in the sunlight.
"Are you surprised, or did someone rat on me?"
"We've had our suspicions for years…" Hiruzen said.
"Naruto, you go ahead and take care of Jiraiya… I'll get sensei..." Orochimaru purred.
"Alright, this'll be fun. Heh, heh; you better be ready, because here I come!" Naruto called charging Jiraiya with a kunai covered in snake sedative. He wanted Jiraiya immobile so he could kill him, not dead or unconscious… Jiraiya jumped back and dodged with not even a single scratch on him. Jiraiya himself only wanted to knock Naruto out, and maybe if at all possible, break the seal on his memories. Once again Naruto charged at him, taking a swing at his arm, and barely making a small nick in the skin, not enough to knock him out or even slow him down. He dipped his kunai back into the sedative, grinding his teeth, he noticed Garra becoming his Shikaku form. He'd heard of it, but never actually seen it.
Unfortunately his momentary lapse of concentration was taken advantage of, and Naruto was caught by surprise as Jiraiya came up behind him, and got a punch into his abdomen. The wind was momentarily knocked out of the blonde as he lay there. But after a second the painful throbbing stopped, and he stood back up, albeit a little bit disoriented, but still able to fight.
Kabuto and Haku stood back to back, fighting off several ANBU; the teams they'd chosen had failed, and they were the only ones left as their final subordinate fell. Haku started her series of hand signs, creating two walls of ice. They swept together, and clapped taking several ANBU out, while Kabuto incapacitated the last of them.
"Now what should we do Kabuto?"
"We should go and do the job those five couldn't it seems Mesuji is doing fine, but the rest seem to have been incapable of this mission."
"Alright… So take out those little genin? Or go and control Shikaku?"
"Hmm… Naruto and Lord Orochimaru might get angry if we did nothing about Shikaku… If he ruins other parts of the plan it could be bad..."
"Point, to the Shikaku we go."
"After you," Kabuto said waving her in front.
"Coward," Haku said, passing him by.
"Well, at least if I'm a coward, I'm a smart coward."
"Also a little too smug for my liking…"
"Well that is my nature…"
"And you talk too much too."
"I'm good at that…"
"Aw, just shut up, and stop with your comebacks…"
"As you wish 'Queen Haku',"
"Shikamaru!" The Boy slid down the tree, and groaned. "I'm ok… Just got a few broken ribs and I think my brain is fried…"
Hinata, the one who had any sort of medical knowledge period, was checking on him.
"You'll be fine, that's just going to bruise a bit later… And that one too… Though I think that one is broken," She said, gently touching a few ribs.
"Ow, yea; I'm not meant for up close battles."
Shikamaru groaned, and pushed himself up into a sitting position. "…Alright… Ino, I want you to go into tomato head's mind and see if you can stop this from there, Choji, Kiba, Akamaru, Neji, attack Tomato head once Ino's out. Shino, Hinata, you go ahead and get puppet boy over there. Sasuke, Sakura you help me. Tenten you keep a good eye on your teammate there!" Sakura was over quickly, while Sasuke begrudgingly listened and got near to them.
"How can we help?"
"You will distract her while I catch her in my shadow binding technique. After that you'll at the very least knock her out when she's unable to move."
"Fine…"
Naruto and Jiraiya were locked in a heated battle, and neither of them seemed to be gaining any sort of ground at all. Jiraiya was getting tired, but so was Naruto; just at a slower pace.
"Hey kid… how much do you train?"
"Eight hours a day,"
"Ah… That would be it then…" He said backing out of the battle for a second to catch his breath. He barely had two seconds before Naruto was upon him again; and attacking with a new fury. "You ever do anything for fun, like read, play games…?"
"I read, play with birds, and sometimes sensei has our team do tag around the base for fun raining…" Naruto said, trying to be vague."
"Ah, interesting sensei. She's pretty too…"
"No you perverted idiot! That's my sister; so stop giving her googly eyes!" Naruto yelled, finally getting a decent cut on the old man's arm. "Our sensei is someone different."
"Fine then, what's their name?"
"Not telling you."
"Humph; fine then…"
They continued to fight, Naruto mostly getting injured, but not badly. He finally managed to get a solid blow as the sedative slowed the old man down some more. He dipped a new kunai in it, disposing of the last one, and charging Jiraiya again. But the man dodged, and tripped him; actually tripped him.
"What the heck was tha- Ugh!" He found that the sedative covered kunai was embedded deep into his side. "Dangit… Heh… I guess that's what I get for dipping a new kunai in… Dang there's a lot of blood coming out… Congrats old man… You're the third person to hurt me this badly… Not bad…" He muttered, falling silent as his own sedative filtered through his system, it dulled feeling, and senses, but he was still awake, and could see everything.
"Dangit kid… I hadn't wanted to hurt you this badly!" Jiraiya said, getting down beside him, and trying to slow the blood flow- gosh there was a lot of it… Now he saw why Tsunade had her phobia.
Their plan was working; it was going great in fact. Soon both Kankuro, and Temari were out cold, and they could put all their efforts into taking care of Garra; whom Ino had informed them was sleeping so if they could wake him up then they'd be fine… Easier said than done…
"I wonder…" Sasuke mused, he then got down and charged his Chidori, Kakashi had seen a threat in their wake, and taught it to him so he'd be prepared.
He charged forward towards the sand monster and ran up its leg, then its front and finally he made it to the top where he found the redhead out cold and slumped over. Sasuke determined his next course of action within a second and with all his speed shoved the Chidori through an area of his side, eliciting a scream of pain, waking his siblings, Garra, and causing the sand monster to disappear. Sasuke jumped back, and panted while clutching his curse mark.
Kabuto and Haku stopped, noticing the disintegrating sand monster...
"Looks like someone did the job for us." Kabuto said.
Haku sighed. "Yea, but that also means we might have issues getting the Shikaku back into the battle when it is the right time to have him there..."
"Alright, for now we should split up and go find areas to help with."
"Alright. We meet back at the arena, or - if things go really bad - on the borders got it?"
"See you in about an hour."
Orochimaru stood satisfied as he watched his sensei slowly die. He had admittedly lost his arms in the struggle, but he could fix those when he got his new body. Easy fix; meanwhile that was not the case with Naruto; Jiraiya had him and he had no way to get him back. Not even the sound four would be able to at this point in time; so he settled for the next best thing, he had his snake walky-talky tell Naruto's walky-talky snake that he'd send the sound four to get him and Sasuke within the next couple months. And he decided that if he had to, then Kabuto could reseal his memories, but he didn't think that Naruto would turn that easily, even with his sealed memories.
Naruto was sitting/standing/floating (?) in a sea of black, watching the outside world through what seemed to be the window of a prison cell; of some twisted kind… He found he couldn't move, or hear, or feel, just think-talk, and see…
"Why is dad leaving without me…?" He thought to himself. He looked closer, and found why, he was injured. Naruto knew the plans, and knew enough of them to assume that when he got Sasuke, he'd have him rescued and that there would be nothing to worry about.
Heh, heh, heh; I was in a live classroom session, and I was writing on this while I waited for the rest of the class to answer the questions (it was a review), and I got musing about time… And this is what I thought of~
Time is a never end thing, but then it never has a beginning either does it? Perhaps the beginning is the end and the end the beginning, as one moment of time ends it is the beginning of another moment- Time is ever flowing, and doesn't stop or reverse for anyone. Time flows on despite the decay it causes, and creates a new world… It destroys life, and it brings life, it creates and destroys, and it keeps the balance… A never ending tide of creation and destruction, ending and beginning… Balance, and moments…
Didn't think I could think like that did you? I'm pretty proud of it. I then started doodling on the words, it was fun! Anyways, I hope that the chapter was good, please R&R! ^.^