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Naruto was studying charts in his office and rubbing his head in frustration. His plans were coming together. All Root operatives were positioned at key places in the village and he had even managed to send word to Mei about the coming invasion, and she had agreed to help if necessary. However none of the Intel he received gave him any indication about who Orochimaru's allies were. Deciding to grab some Ramen and clear his head, he made his way towards Ichiraku's. He was just passing through the center of the village when a loud yelp filled the air. Speeding towards the sound, he observed a makeup wearing ninja, with a Suna forehead protector holding a screaming Konohamaru by the throat. He carried something bulky on his back and his chakra levels were chunin level at least.
"Apologize, brat" ordered the Ninja, who appeared to be enjoying the boy's fear.
"Stop it, Kankuro," said his companion, a beautiful blond girl who looked oddly familiar. She carried a large fan on her back and looked nervous about her friend's actions.
"We don't want any trouble in a foreign village; especially if he notices."
The Suna-nin didn't have a chance to respond as Naruto had had enough and in a burst of speed, had his Kunai against the boy's neck.
"You wouldn't be assaulting a civilian, the Hokage's grandson at that, in an allied village now would you?" he said pleasantly." Now give me one good reason, why I shouldn't make you two a head shorter."
The Suna-nin looked horrified at just who he had been choking.
"I'm Kankuro, this is my sister Temari. We are the children of the Kazekage and we're here for the chunin exams. The boy ran into me, I just wanted him to apologize"
Naruto dug in his Kunai a little harder. "I see. So is this true Konohamaru?"
"Yes Naruto-'niisan.. I was going to say sorry but then he grabbed me."
"Well it sounds like this is just a misunderstanding. So I suppose I can let you two live, that is if your friend in the trees shows himself." He glanced up in the trees, where a read headed boy carrying a large gourd was standing silently. "Kankuro you're an embarrassment to our village…keep it up and brother or not, I'll kill you."
"I'm sorry Gaara," mumbled the boy clearly more afraid of his brother than the Konoha jonin.
"You three just be more careful. If anything like this happens again, then you will die, no matter who your father is, got it?" Two of them nodded fearfully while the red head just stared at him blankly.
Deciding to keep an eye on these three, Naruto picked up Konohamaru and vanished.
Temari slowly broke out of her stupor and breathed a sigh of relief. 'That was close' she thought. She was about to berate Kankuro for his foolishness when another thought hit her,'that jonin looked really familiar. Where have I seen him before?'
"It's ….him," she suddenly exclaimed with surprise.
At the Konoha academy, hidden from all eyes Naruto watched the genin. He had arranged to be a co-proctor with Anko for the second exam. His wolves already littered the forest and his Root were in position. Ibiki had already been ordered to pass the Sound genin no matter what. Extending his senses he quietly assessed the genin. Unlike his own exam, there were few standouts. Gaara of the Desert was certainly one of them: his chakra levels and bloodlust was like a beacon to Naruto's advanced senses, 'Ooh Sasuke-chan's team is here,' he thought. The Uchiha made his way casually into the exam room. Out of all of the rookies, only he and Shikaku's kid, Shikamaru, had any chance of graduating. Sasuke, because Naruto had helped teach him himself, and while he was certainly no genius like his brother, he was certainly very skilled. Shikamaru he knew, from Asuma's bragging, had an IQ over 200, which outshone even his own. The blond watched as the rookie 9 gathered together, and from sheer nerves started bickering. They were approached by an older Konoha genin with silver hair and glasses and Naruto leaned closer to hear what was said.
"I'm Kabuto," said the genin. "You rookies should be careful; you don't want to stand out too much in a place like this." Reaching into his pockets he pulled out a deck of cards." Since you are fellow Konoha-nin, and rookies at that, how about I help you guys out? These are my ninja info cards. They contain information about Ninja from all over the world. Strengths, weaknesses, everything I could dig up."
"What do you have on Naruto Uzumaki," asked Sasuke eagerly.
The older genin looked surprised. "Naruto Uzumaki: S-class ninja and youngest Jonin in Konoha's history. He specializes in speed and Genjutsu, and has a bounty of over 160 million ryo. Hmm this is strange."
"What is?" asked Shikamaru, curious despite himself.
"Well it doesn't really list a reason for the bounty, only that he's wanted alive in Iwa, for the desecration of the Tsuichikage's office. Wonder what he did."
High above them, Naruto stifled a laugh. 'Looks like that old goat still hasn't forgiven me.'
Suddenly a deep pulse coursed through his arm looking down in surprise he noticed his Uzumaki Seal was glowing a bright red. 'There must be an Uzumaki here,' he thought. Extending his sensor abilities, he began searching for the distinctive Uzumaki vitality.
Finally he noticed a pretty red headed girl, with deep red eyes covered by thin glasses.
She was wearing a hidden grass forehead protector and was looking around frantically as if searching for something. 'Can she sense me?' the blond wondered before masking his presence even further. Ibiki soon showed up and began the first exam, so Naruto was prepared to relax when he felt it: malicious chakra, extremely well-hidden but still emitting a small presence. It appeared to be coming from one of the female grass genin. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the woman was emitting two different chakra signatures, and possessed chakra levels much higher than that of even a jonin.
Deciding to keep an eye on the woman, he remained hidden when Anko made her big entrance. Luckily the purple haired woman was a professional and showed no surprise when her partner didn't show up.
She lead the genin to the forest of death and Naruto slipped in once the second exam had begun. He began following the grass genin, but to his shock the woman sunk into the ground and disappeared. The blond cursed and was making his way through the forest following the rapidly fading chakra signature, when suddenly the seal on his arm heated up. He stopped his trek and glanced down and noticed that the seal was now flickering green, which meant that an Uzumaki was nearby and in serious danger. Cursing again, he extended his senses and in a flash of yellow appeared next to a screaming Karin who was running from an enormous bear. Naruto summoned his sword and in one smooth motion, sliced the bear in half.
"Are you ok?" he asked the crying girl, who suddenly launched herself into his arms. "It's ok, you're safe now," he reassured her. "What's your name?"
"Karin. Karin Uzumaki. Who are you?"
"Naruto Uzumaki, head of the Uzumaki clan," he grinned at her shock. "This seal on my arm, notifies me whenever an Uzumaki is nearby and in trouble. It's a good thing I was close by; a pretty girl like you would be wasted as bear food."
Karin blushed. "So what happens now?"
"Well, I'm looking to rebuild the Uzumaki clan," he paused when Karin turned scarlet and began poking her fingers together. "But seeing as you're in the middle of the chunin exams, perhaps we should talk later."
Karin was about to agree when a large wolf suddenly appeared in the trees. Karin was about to ready a kunai and throw it, when the beast talked. "Naruto-sama we have a problem, the wolves you sent to watch Sasuke Uchiha have been dispelled. Apparently they were attacked by several snakes."
"Damn! Orochimaru must be in the forest. Fine. Shin, stay with Karin and guide her back to her team. She is an Uzumaki so keep her safe. I'll take care of Orochimaru."
Karin looked stunned at the casual way the blonde spoke about defeating the snake sannin, and was about to protest, when she felt his hand on her head. "Don't worry Karin-chan, everything will be fine." He smiled at her, causing the girl to blush yet again, before vanishing in a flash of yellow.
He reappeared on a tree branch a few yards away from where he sensed Sasuke's location. 'Good thing I had the forethought to litter the forest with Hirashin seals.'
He bounded towards Sasuke, just in time to see the female grass ninja he was following earlier, escape from Sasuke's fire dragon and peel off her face to reveal a smirking snake sannin. An unconscious Sai was slumped against a nearby tree, while Sasuke's pink haired teammate seemed to be trembling next to him
"Such a pity, Sasuke-kun," taunted the Sannin. "Itachi was so much stronger at your age."
Sasuke gritted his teeth and launched a series of kunai at the grinning man, which were batted away easily.
Orochimaru extended his head to give Sasuke the cursed seal, when suddenly a sword arced through the air and sliced off the Sannin's tongue. The man nearly screamed in outrage, but as his tongue grew back, he merely looked around for his attacker. Sensing something he twisted to the left, avoiding a fire dragon that barely grazed his neck, but receiving a spin kick to the head that slammed him into a tree. Uninjured he righted himself easily and glared at his opponent. Tall, blonde, and with a familiar sardonic grin. "Minato Namikaze? No it can't be, you must be the kyuubi container… Naruto."
"Naruto Uzumaki at your service. Nice to meet you Orochi-chan… now die," in a burst of speed, Naruto punched the sannin in the stomach and in a continuous motion attempted to cut the traitor's head off.
His sword was parried by Orochimaru's own blade, which was lodged in his throat. Summoning a mass of snakes to attack the blond, the sannin used the seconds before the blond eviscerated the snakes with wind blades, to draw the kusanagi from his mouth.
"Sasuke, take your teammates and get out of here," said Naruto before reaching into his flak jacket and a scroll to the Uchiha. "That's an earth scroll. Head to the tower, while I make myself a new snakeskin wallet." Sasuke nodded and grabbed Sai and Sakura and left.
"You'll pay for interfering in my plans boy." Naruto merely smirked before shooting forward. The two ninjas' blades crashed into each other, clashing and parrying back and forth. Suddenly a series of fireballs launched towards the sannin, followed by several spears of earth and several dozen water bullets. Orochimaru weaved through the attacks; his body achieving a near boneless state as he easily dodged the attacks. He retaliated by shooting hundreds of snakes from his arms, each wielding a miniature Kusanagi in their mouths. "Wind blade whirlwind," called Naruto cutting the snakes into pieces before twisting and blocking a sneak attack from behind. He punched the sannin in the face and launched a brutal series of punches that disfigured the snake sannin's body grotesquely. The snake sannin merely shrugged off the vicious assault and launched a wave of fire at Naruto he merely dodged it with a body flicker and resumed his taijutsu assault. It was clear that the blond was both faster and more skilled in taijutsu and he pummeled and punted Orochimaru into several trees. The sannin had extraordinary resilience and was able to shrug off even the strongest physical attacks. Raising the Kusanagi the two ninjas' blades clashed together again.
"Mumyo Jinpu Ryu, Satsujin Ken" Said Naruto. The boy's sword glowed a pale blue and with a shout parried against the Kusanagi, "Shin."
Orochimaru braced himself when he heard the boy's words, but when nothing happened he merely grinned and slammed his sword towards the blonde again. To his surprise however, his sword cut straight through the boy. He felt a brief moment of elation, before his foe dissolved into a flurry of cherry blossoms.
A form appeared behind him and with a grin he sliced through his enemy, cursing when, yet again, he dissolved into cherry blossoms. Suspecting a genjutsu he formed a seal, "Kai," he yelled. Nothing happened at first, but then to his horror his own face appeared. Ancient and rotted with age. He formed the dispelling technique again and again to no avail but each time it merely made the figure come closer.
The sannin screamed in horror and pain as a sword cut through his arm and pierced his chest. The figure before him disappeared and he realized with shock that he was bleeding profusely from his chest and his severed right arm lay next to him.
"What happened?" He screamed at the blonde.
Naruto merely glanced at him, blue eyes cold.
"You saw it too didn't you?" he asked, sheathing his sword. "The Red Mirage."
Orochimaru's body started to bulge and, to Naruto's disgust, the man spit up another Orochimaru, fully healed and panting wildly. "You'll pay for this," the man vowed before sinking into the ground and vanishing.
Naruto sighed, and sensing the sannin had left the forest, vanished as well
Naruto left his office where the bodies of the three sound genin lay twisted and broken. Unfortunately the three knew nothing of value, and thus were disposed of accordingly.
He informed the Sandaime about his driving off of Orochimaru as well as the sannin's intended target, before doubling the guard on Sasuke and Mikoto. He then left to check in on Karin, who was ecstatic to see him. The two spent hours talking, getting to know family that they never had. Naruto hugged the girl hard and promised to come see her again soon, before heading to his next appointment. The full moon hung gloriously in the air, as Naruto bound across the Konoha rooftops, heading towards his rendezvous with Fenrir. The wolf sage had decided that Naruto was now ready to undergo the difficult training to be a sage, and with a month remaining before the chunin exam finals. The boy was ready to dive into training with full gusto. Suddenly a loud scream filled the air and Naruto was stunned to see Gaara of the Sand crushing a hapless Mist genin.
The redhead's eyes were filled with bloodlust and when he saw the blond, he grinned maniacally. "Naruto Uzumaki" he said, madness nearly slurring his words. "Are you here to kill me as well? I will prove my existence by slaughtering you. I will not cease to exist." A torrent of sand shot towards the surprised blond who dodged easily. Sand pooled out of the Suna ninja's gourd and formed waves that launched at incredible speeds towards Naruto who was barely able to cut through the dense sand with his sword.
"That's it Naruto Uzumaki. Show me your power. Mother will have your blood."
The sand suddenly sped up and Naruto was forced on the defensive dodging wave after wave of sand.
In a burst of speed he appeared before the genin and punched him hard across the face, cracking his sand armor and sending him flying into a nearby water tower.
The red head shuddered at the pain. "What's this feeling?" he screamed. "It hurts, mother. Is that my blood?" A surge of demonic energy coursed through the boy and his body was incased in a ball of sand. Sensing great danger from the ball, Naruto sped forward and grabbed it before disappearing in a flash of yellow, Gaara in tow.
They landed in a large sandy field outside of the village, and Naruto summoned a rasengan and tried to pierce the sand ball. His attack began to grind through it, until spears of sand formed all over the ball and shot towards him, lightly grazing his side.
Gaara reappeared from the sand ball, his face and right armed covered in sand and forming the shape of a tanuki and the pupil of his right eye had turned yellow.
"Be careful brat," said Kurama suddenly."This Boy is the container of Shukaku, the sand spirit."
"Hey Kurama,"greeted the blond mentally while dodging a flurry of sand shuriken."Haven't spoken to you in a long time. I thought you'd sleep forever at the rate you were going."
"Can the reunion speech, and dodge. The more of Shukaku's chakra this boy absorbs the harder it will be to attack him."
Naruto merely grinned before flipping out of the way of more sand spears, and in a burst of speed launched a furious set of punches and kicks that left his fellow jinchuriki stunned. He attempted to finish things with a rasengan to the stomach. However, a wave of demonic chakra sent him flying.
"You continue to impress me Naruto Uzumaki," grinned the mad genin. He began gathering more and more sand and demonic chakra. The sand formed behind him until he took on the form of an enormous 60ft raccoon. The redhead slowly rose out of the sand and formed seals. "False sleep technique," the boy's eyes rolled in the back of his head, to be replaced with the black eyes and yellow pupils of Shukaku. "I'm finally free," beamed the demon, before using his enormous tail to slap Naruto away.
He sent several large wind bullets shooting after the blond, who summoned some of Kurama's chakra and blocked them with enormous water bullets. "Wow that takes a lot out of me," said Naruto to Kurama. "Any advice for breaking through his attacks?"
"In this form, Shukaku will recover from any physical attack… your only chance is to wake up the jinchuriki, that should end the technique."
"Easier said and done." cursed the blond as he dodged another set of wind bullets that ripped apart several trees behind him. "Wind style:wind blade whirlwind," he called.
And the hundreds of wind blades managed to sever one of the tanuki's arms before it regenerated. Naruto summoned dragons of water and fire and used the combined elemental pressure to form a giant steam attack. The scalding water tore a hole through the giant demon, but like the arm it regenerated. Summoning his sword, he tossed several hirashin kunai towards Shukaku and appeared in a flash of yellow on top if the tanuki's body. The very sand beneath him surged forth to attack him, but with a wind chakra enhanced blade he was able to cut away the dense sand.
"Mumyo Jinpu Ryu, Satsujin Ken," he said and his sword glowed blue. "Mizuchi Shin."
Shukaku found himself immersed in a world of white. Empty. An endless void that threatened to consume the demon's mind. In the outside world a large blade of wind arced through the demon's body and cut it in half, sending it falling towards the ground. Normally the demon would merely regenerate but trapped in the red mirage he wasn't conscious enough to control his own chakra.
The sleeping form of Gaara appeared out of the demon's fallen body and with a hard punch that shook Shukaku out of the mirage, Gaara began to wake up.
"Nooo," screamed the demon. "I just got out here."
"You heard it too, didn't you?" asked Naruto, sheathing his sword. "The voice of the Wind." With a groan Gaara returned and looked at the blond in horror.
"I will not die," he groaned. "I will not cease to exist. Father's assassins have failed to end my existence and so will you." With a scream he launched his sand towards Naruto; who vanished in a flash of yellow and landed a spin kick that sent Gaara crashing into a tree.
"Gaara, I'm sure your life has been hell," said the blond walking slowly towards the fallen genin "I sympathize with you. However, as future Hokage I cannot allow you to harm the people of my village."
"I do not understand," mumbled the redhead. "Why would someone as strong as you care about anyone's existence other than your own?"
"Because the leaf village is my home. My friends are here." He let out a mischievous grin. "Plus the women are simply gorgeous." Gaara looked confused and simply stared when the Blond picked him up. "Are you going to kill me," he asked calmly.
Naruto laughed, "Nah. Guys like us should stick together. We'll fight again sometime. You're pretty strong for someone your age."
Naruto carried the genin to the hospital and was about to leave when Gaara stopped him.
"Naruto Uzumaki," he asked hesitantly. "Can we be friends?"
Naruto Grinned. "Sure." With a silent wave he vanished. Gaara stared after him for a moment, before his lips curved into a small smile.
The rest of the month passed by quickly. Naruto threw himself into his senjutsu training and after a month was able to use it for a full five minutes before his natural chakra ran out. However he discovered that his clones could gather nature chakra as well, which allowed him to fight as hard as he wanted without having to pause and gather the special chakra. He had finished his preparations for the invasion, as he finally knew who Orochimaru's allies were. After Gaara had gotten out of the hospital he informed his new friend of the approaching attack. Naruto couldn't believe his luck as apparently Gaara was meant to be used as a sort of trump card during the invasion and he was now on his side. With his men in position, there was nothing else but to wait, and he spent his spare time growing closer to Karin and visiting his other lovers.
To his great shock, Gaara's sister Temari had cornered him at Ichiraku's a week before the finals and kissed him ravenously. After a few minutes of her and Ayame's blushes, as well as Temari's prodding, he finally remembered that Temari was the girl he met in Suna all those years ago. Ayame poured some sake and joined them as the two caught up, and a few hours later, Naruto was trying frantically to open his apartment door while kissing the two girls. The next day he grinned and thanked Kami as he made his way to the hot springs to relax. When he got there he spotted an old man with silver hair and a giant scroll on his back, peeping through a hole into the women's side of the springs. This would not be unusual, except the man was sitting on the head of a large toad. Exhausted, Naruto ignored the pangs in his head that told him he should recognize the man, and with an evil grin and a flash of yellow kicked the man off the toad and sent him flying into the women's hot springs. He laughed uncontrollably as a great surge of killing intent seeped into the air, followed by shouts of feminine fury and screams of male pain.
"Life is good,' thought the blond.
Naruto wiped his blurry eyes. He was in an extravagant hotel room, lying in a huge bed. To his right was the beautiful red haired and voluptuous figure of Mei. To his left was the familiar raven hair of her bodyguard, Haku. The two had gotten into town the night before and happy to see their favorite blond as they dragged him to their room.
Knowing his lovers were exhausted, the blond quietly made his way from the hotel and headed to the arena where the Chunin exam finals were well underway.
He watched as Shikamaru, defeated Temari, and then gave up. When it was Gaara's turn to fight, Naruto was instantly impressed. It looked like his fellow demon container had trained hard over the last month. He batted Sasuke's attacks away with ease and with a quick switch with a sand clone, managed to avoid being skewered by the boy's Chidori.
Suddenly a wide scale genjutsu attempted to encase the audience. Naruto broke it with nary a thought and fired the signal to begin in the air.
All around the village, teams of Anbu attacked the surprised forces of Suna and Oto. Root tore through attackers with extreme ease as the enemy ninja were so caught off guard that their enemy was prepared for them, that it was nearly a complete rout.
Scores of chunin and jonin emerged from hidden areas to attack enemy summoning teams. A large purple barrier appeared around the Hokage's box and Naruto noticed that the Kazekage was actually Orochimaru in disguise. Knowing the old man could take care of himself; Naruto gathered his chakra and summoned a small army of his wolves. "You guys go and help out anyone you see struggling. Kill any enemy stragglers you see."
When the wolves left, he vanished in a burst of speed into the stands where the genin were waiting with their sensei. The Konoha jonin were easily slaughtering the attacking Oto jonin despite being out numbered, however Naruto decided to speed things up and in a burst of yellow slaughtered all 40 of the attacking jonin in seconds.
"Everyone ok here?" he asked.
"Yosh," said Gai excitedly. "Naruto-sama's flame of youth is simply exploding."
"We are good," said Kakashi, covering his Sharingan eye back up. "Was that the Hirashin?"
Naruto merely Grinned. "Ok, send your genin to help guard the remainder of the evacuating civilians. Kakashi, you and Gai team up and head over to the west entrance. Asuma, you join Ibiki and help take care of the summoned snakes in the east district. Kurenai I need you with me."
The jonin did as they were told. Naruto and Kurenai body flickered to the top of the Hokage monument. Hundreds of shinobi battled down below. Naruto handed Kurenai a bunch of his special kunai. "Here. Toss these at the enemy as fast as you can."
A few seconds later hundreds of the kunai flew over the battlefield and in a series of yellow flashes; Naruto cut a bloody swathe throw the attacking ninja, cutting and stabbing, until every inch of his orange jacket was covered in blood. In less than five minutes over two hundred enemy shinobi were dead. This scene repeated itself twice more, and it by the time Jiraiya arrived and defeated the snake summons with a giant toad, the blond Uzumaki was exhausted and out of chakra. The Suna ninja sounded the retreat, and ran as if the very hounds of hell were after them all the while screaming about the yellow flash's return
Orochimaru cursed as he dodged the staff of Enma wielded by his former teacher. He had used the impure resurrection technique to summon the first and second Hokages, and with their combined strength, was sure he could crush the Hokage. However Hiruzen was not as old and tired as he had thought, and it took all of his considerable skill not to be fried by his sensei's combination jutsu or beaten too a pulp by his enemy. The Senju brothers worked with incredible teamwork and managed to keep the old man on the ropes. Hashirama summoned droves of trees to attack the venerable third Hokage while his brother launched powerful water jutsu that flooded the entire battlefield. The second Hokage managed to capture Hiruzen in his bringer of darkness jutsu. However his successor's well-honed instincts allowed him to block the simultaneous strikes the two brothers made. Finally he summoned two shadow clones and using the reaper death seal, managed to seal the souls of the men inside of his shadow clones. He then renewed his attacks on Orocimaru, batting away the Kusanagi's strikes with Enma, and launching deadly jutsu that kept his ex-student on the ropes.
A giant fire dragon shot towards Orochimaru, who twisted out of the way, only to curse as hundreds of shuriken shot towards him. Blocking them with the Kusanagi he was forced to replace himself with an earth clone, when a huge black staff sunk into his head.
Suddenly strong hands grabbed him from behind and slammed him into the ground, and stripping the Kusanagi from his hands. He gazed into the determined eyes of his teacher and cursed when he was unable to move his arms.
"Your foolishness is unparalleled my disciple," said the old man sadly. "This is a justu even you haven't seen before."
"Let me go you foolish old man. I'll kill you."
"You won't be killing anyone again, my foolish student. It all ends here." He smiled down at the snarling snake Sannin. "I'm grateful you have come; I can remove my final regret, of not killing you years ago when I had a chance. All of the lives you have twisted since then fall on my head."
"Curse you, you feeble old man."
"Farewell my student, may we meet again in the next world." With a surge of chakra the death god removed Orochimaru's soul and sealed it into the Sandaime's body.
The backlash shattered the purple barrier and knocked the members of the sound 4 unconscious.
Enma reformed into his ape form and sadly picked up the fallen Kage. "A fitting end for the god of shinobi." He smiled and set the Hokage's hat on the man's head. "Farewell old friend."
Hour's later scores of Leaf ninja gathered sadly around their fallen Hokage. Naruto bowed deeply to his mentor and surrogate grandfather, picking up the Hokage's hat he placed it on his head. Koharu and Homura, the Sandaime's teammates bowed deeply. "Hail Naruto Uzumaki, Godaime Hokage."
The gathered Ninja all bowed deeply. "Bury the dead and light a great pyre to send a message to the elemental nations. The Great Tree still stands. The bark may have been bruised, a few branches lost, But our roots are deep, and we will grow bigger and stronger than ever."
The crowd burst into cheers and slowly they left, carrying the third Hokage's body to its final resting place. Unseen a figure with silver hair and glasses appeared out of the shadows. Picking up the forgotten Kusanagi blade, he stood over Orochimaru's remains and with an evil grin merged them into his body before vanishing.
A.N. This chapter was difficult to write so hope you guys enjoyed it.
Next chapters some secrets are revealed and bonds forged through battle will be tested.
Orochimaru is dead. I never understood in canon how he could use his arms in canon. Sarutobi didn't cut his arms off, he sealed their soul. There's no healing that no matter what body you jump into.
The sword techniques Naruto used are from Samurai Deeper Kyo, and I thought they would fit well here.