I DO NOT OWN NARUTO AND/OR THE CHARACTERS

Stirring The Pot

Kakashi was writhing in pain from the poison taking effect, Asuma broke the two man cipher he had with Deidara to aid his fellow Leaf Shinobi.

"Here," he said. "Smoke this."

Asuma gave Kakashi what we'll call his medicinal herb to smoke, it didn't take long for the medicine to cure Kakashi of the poison.

"This stuff really works," Kakashi said through his coughs as he stood up.

"And everyone just thought I was just some waste-oid," Asuma said. "Although I gotta wonder how you were able to smoke it without removing your mask."

"I'll tell you later," Kakashi said. "Puppet bitch is first up on my shitlist."

Kakashi walked up to Deidara with malice in his eyes.

"You got me with that poison but I got your timing now and I'm going to put you down like my old man did your parents."

Two days later, Kakashi reported back to the hokage with Sasori's head in his hands.

"What do you have to report?" Tsunade asked them.

"That's one down," Kakashi said throwing the head on the desk for her to examine.

"One?" she asked confused as she looked Sasori in the eyes.

"It would've been two if the Stinky Green Shinobi here didn't strike a deal with the other one."

"I'm his supplier now," Asuma said counting his money. "He quit the job after he got a sample of my stash, he said he's going to focus on his art so you can count him out of the game."

"That's good," Tsunade said. "There's more good news for you two."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"You can pretty much call your days as a genin team leader over, those three kids are on it and they're pretty much got their classmate's shit together. You should see your team, Asuma."

Kakashi and Asuma looked at each other with a surprised look on their faces.

"That's because we are surprised," Kakashi said.

"Especially with how fucked up my team was," Asuma added.

"Well, while you were getting smoked out," Tsunade said. "Those rookies and Gai's team have already taken down an Akatsuki cell on their on."

Hidan found himself surrounded as ten members of the group that has come to be known as the Leaf Village 12 had just finished off Kakuzu. They all looked at him as if he was prey ripe for the taking while he looked back at all of them, that's when Naruto appeared using The Flying Thunder God Jutsu taught to him by his father with Sasuke using the Body Flicker Jutsu from Shishui's scroll given to him by his father.

"I gotta say," Hidan said. "You kids have a lot going for you with the way you destroyed Kakuzu but I'm in a totally different league."

Sasuke and Naruto just looked at each other then looked at the rest of their friends giving a nod and with that, they pounced on him like a pack of wild beasts. He swung his scythe but it was quickly taken away from him by Lee.

"Son of a bitch!" he exclaimed in surprise.

In his shock, he didn't notice Shikamaru's shadow almost taking hold of him but dodged it at the last second allowing him to retaliate against Shikamaru who proved himself to be the most intelligent of the group and the brains. His plan failed as Sakura was able to grab him with her tremendous strength and that was all was needed as the rest of them converged and began to pummel him.

"Hey, watch it!" Sakura shouted as she took a few accidental shots from Hinata. "Accidental my ass."

"You got that right, bitch," Hinata said with a smile on her face.

"Okay, that's enough," Sasuke said.

The rest of them stopped their assault of the Killer Priest of Jashin and made way for Naruto and Sasuke.

"Is this what you really wanted?" Naruto shouted angrily while holding the beaten but still alive immortal by the head. "This is what you get then, do it."

Naruto moved out of the way and to let his friends resume their dismantling.

"Fang Over Fang!" Kiba shouted as he and Akamaru hit him with their most powerful attack. "Yahoo!"

"Stand him up," Neji said.

Lee and Choji stood him up as Neji and Hinata stood on either side of him with two sets of Eight Trigrams appearing beneath him. "Hyuuga Style Forbidden Jutsu: 16 Trigrams…"

"It sounds like they really shitted on him," Asuma said after hearing Tsunade's story. "They all hit him with their most powerful techniques?"

"Yes," Tsunade confirmed. "From Lee's Lotus to Naruto's Rasengan."

"Is there anything left," Kakashi asked.

"Barely but the children are still having nightmares from when they saw his body as they dragged him back through the village, they've strung him up in front as, what they call, a reminder."

"That's what that was?" Kakashi asked. "I thought somebody had hung up some rotting meat for some odd reason, those kids are all right."

Elsewhere in the village, The Konoha 12 were gathering at their meeting place to revel in their dominance.

"I can't believe this," Neji said. "It's like there's no one that can touch us."

"Yeah, cuz," Hinata agreed with her arms draped around Naruto.

"Cha!" Sakura shouted as her other personality came out. "Get your fucking hands off of him."

She pushed Sasuke aside and immediately began to bicker with Hinata allowing Ino to move in on Sasuke and leaving Naruto to break them up.

"Stop," Naruto shouted. "That's not why we're here."

"Wait," Kiba asked. "Why are we here?"

"We're here," Sasuke interjected. "Because Naruto and I have come to a decision."

"What decision?" Shino asked as he watched his beetles overthrow an ant mound.

"That it's time for us to be running things," Shikamaru said. "It took us ten minutes to do what the other villages couldn't, we're fuckin' geniuses."

"So, we're supposed to stage a coup?" Choji asked.

"If that's what you wanna call it," Sasuke said. "Naruto and prefer to call it…"

"…a revolution," Naruto added.

Unbeknownst to the twelve of them, Zetsu The Cannibals was eavesdropping on their conversation and went back to report to Pain.

"Well, this is interesting," his black side said appearing in Pain's Rain Village stronghold.

"What are you talking about," Pain asked.

"It seems as if those punks that took out Hidan and Kakuzu are looking to stir the pot a little," White Zetsu said. "They're planning to take over the Leaf Village."

"Those cheaky bastards," said Madara said appearing in the room.

"What do you think we should do?" Konan asked.

"I think our best bet is to sit back and pick our spots, we'll no doubt have our chance to strike at each of the jinchuuriki during all of the chaos this is bound to cause."

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