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Hey everyone ironknucklevash here asking you to be gentle with this chapter I have never been satisfied with being able to write fight scenes well, and this chapter is nothing but fighting so ya again be gentle.

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Chapter 10 wars and warriors recap

Hokage monument base laboratory Ibiki and Anko

"Well well Ibiki Morino and orochimaru's failure it's a pleasure to meet you both." He said as his grin grew into a toothy smile that showed his sharpened teeth. My name is otoshi and you." He said pausing to raise his hand and snap his fingers which caused the doors behind Ibiki and Anko to slam shut. "Are my new test subjects." He growled out as the room started to glow with seals.

The room finished glowing and immediately Anko sprang in action "Hidden shadow snakes!" She yelled as several hidden snakes flew from her sleeves.

As the snakes narrowed in on otoshi, Ibiki started a sequence of hand signs. As he finished he held the last hand sign waiting to see which way the root member would dodge, only to be surprised when otoshi smiled and let the snakes bite his body. Ibiki quickly recovered from his shock and finished the last hand sign. Fire style grand fireball jutsu! he announced as a large cone of fire burst from his mouth engulfing the root member.

As the flames died away there was nothing left and that put them on guard. On the far side of the room the heard clapping. Turning they saw the boy slowly clapping his hands in large sarcastic motions. The snakes from before were still embedded in his body. He slowly pulled each on from his body showing no discomfort at the act. As he pulled the last one. His smile turned sinister. "pretty potent poison girl." he said as he removed his lab coat, revealing a small naked body with several sutures covering his body connecting each of his limbs and appendages together, the bodies veins were dark and easily seen as they pulsating with every heartbeat. Judging by the different pigmentations it was obvious that none of the pieces came from the same body as if he was made of several different people. As the coat hit the floor the root member tensed his right arm and a disgusting green and red liquid started spurting from the many sutures on the arm. He brought his arm up and took a large swing towards the 2 jounin who quickly jumped out of the way as the blood flew in there direction as it impacted the floor there was a faint hissing as the pool of blood began to eat away at the marble floor. The doctor looked on amused at their shock. "shi shi shi shi." he laughed through his pointy teeth. "you seem surprised, for the past 42 years I have been experimenting on artificial bloodline limits and this body of mine is what all those years have led too. A body that feels no pain, immune to all poisons and disease. And the best part." he said pausing for a moment before blurring away and reappearing in front of ibiki who was barely able to move out of the way as otoshi punched threw the wall with little effort. "the best part is even though the skin is that of a child with my bloodline I was able to take the muscles and nerves of a full grown strong adult and compress them into this tiny body. Shi shi shi shi." he laughed as he flexed his arm muscle which stretched impossibly against the skin of his arm. "my body is the ultimate creation that no scientist would ever dream of and once Danzo takes the village we will have an army just like me and within a few days I will be able to do all my experiments several times faster. then Danzo will be able to have all the eyes he wants." he yelled as his tone grew more and more maniacal. "I WILL PROVE ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT I AM FAR GREATER THAN THAT HACK OROCHIMARU! SHI SHI SHI SHI" He cackled.

Anko shook her head grimly and then brought out a mocking smile her eyes half lidded as if she were pitying him. "Let me tell you something junior I hate Orochimaru with every fiber of my being and I want to see him slow roasted over an open flame with a pole shoved through his ass and out his mouth. But even I will admit that Orochimaru was a genius. And as I look at what you have done." she said as she lazily pointed to him. "it's easy to tell that you have no chance of ever equaling him as a psychotic nut job scientist. Really you're the hack that I see." She said as she shrugged nonchalantly

All joy had died from otoshi's demeanor he stood rigidly as his muscles twitched slightly under his skin. His teeth were bared and his voice was that of steel. "you….you…FAILURE!" He screamed as he rushed her. "You dare criticize me?" He yelled as he swung recklessly towards the nimble anko who was only barely able to dodge the blows. "You are nothing but a failure that Orochimaru grew bored with! " He screamed as his assault was quickly driving anko to a wall. "If he had any sense he would have done the world a favor and removed your head!" He quickly did a large round house kick that even though it was blocked anko was sent flying towards Ibiki who had just launched another fireball towards otoshi as he caught anko who arm had been dislocated. Otoshi quickly jumped from the fireball and stalked towards the two leaf ninja. "If something has no value you destroy it. It's a simple principle that needs to be followed by all." he spoke coldly as anko popped her arm back into place and stood up in a fighting stance. "the world is only for those that adapt and grow. All others must die for the greater good." he said with a sneer as he blurred once more and using his palms he launched ibiki and anko to two opposite ends of the room. He went through several hand signs. "Earth style: golem rampage jutsu." he pronounced as two dozen golems rose from the ground and started to attack ibiki some charging with reckless abandon and others launching large boulders.

He then turned to anko who had finished her own hand signs "earth style: tremor disk jutsu!" she exclaimed as several thin disk's made of stone rose from the earth and flew towards the doctor.

Otoshi rolled his eye's and systematically smashed the disk's with hand chops. As he rose his hand to smash the last disk a hissing noise alerted him to the presence of a large snake at his feet that begun to constrict his body as anko went through more hand signs. otoshi quickly brought his hand down and smashed the disk then flexed his body. The snake quickly poofed away as the acid blood seeped from the sutures on his body and he quickly jumped away from the fireball anko just launched. The doctor grew annoyed and moved to finish the fight. "I think its time for this failure to be disposed of." he said as he moved towards an exhausted anko. "what's the matter getting tired already?" he sneered.

Anko was panting hard as she knew her chakra reserves were nearly drained. "how could I be this tired already I have used 5 jutsu's max there is no way I should be this tired." she thought to herself.

Otoshi laughed. "shishishi I see that you are confused, well let me explain." he said as he quickly blurred and slammed anko against the wall holding her by the throat. "You see my dear failure, the moment you stepped into my lab was the moment you sealed your fate. This entire lab is lined wall to wall with seals. Seals that are designed to drain the chakra of anyone in the room and give it to me. I designed them that way for any and all rowdy prisoners. But it also works well for anyone who would interfere with my work. Even danzo refuses to step into here because he know that he wouldn't walk back out. Shishishi." he laughed as he ran his tongue over his lips and teeth. He then rose his hand over anko's chest as she struggled against his grip. "Farewell failure!" he punctuated as he struck his hand deep into her chest as she immediately stopped struggling. Her body went limp and he pulled his bloody hand from her chest. He then tossed the now dead body to the side and turned to ibiki who had finally brought down the final golem but was panting on the wall clutching his side fixing a death glare to the root member. Otoshi smiled at the glare and shook his head. "Impressive to be able to destroy those golems with so little chakra is quite the feat. But not impressive enough to save you." He said as stalked slowly to the downed man. "Time for you to join the failure in hell Morino." He sneered as he drew his arm back to finish ibiki. Only to find his arm wouldn't move. "what the?" he asked himself then noticed four large holes had appeared on his chest and were bleeding. his arms were pinned to the side as he struggled to move. "What did you do to me Morino?!" He demanded of the downed man.

Ibiki smiled and stood up with ease his cuts and bruises disappearing from view. "That perfect body of yours was your downfall. don't get me wrong a lot of things about it is really useful." ibiki admitted. "but there is a reason our bodies feel anything. its to tell us things. Pain is a warning system and if you cant feel the weight of your punches you can be easily fooled by a simple genjutsu." He explained

Ibiki snapped his fingers and a large three headed snake appeared behind the doctor with two head already attached to the doctors abdomen. On the third head stood anko with black snakes spreading across her body. Otoshi's eye's widened as he recognized the markings. "NO! I REFUSE TO LOSE TO HIM!" he screamed as he struggled with all his might.

Anko smirked. "I told you. You're the real hack." she said as the final head of the snake dove down and bit the body right above the abdomen and as one the snakes pulled the body apart and swallowed their pieces. With otoshi dead the seals in the room faded and dimmed. Anko quickly retracted the cursed seals powers and instantly dropped with fatigue. Anko jumped off the snakes head and stumbled over to the wall ibiki was on, She sat with her back to the wall and clenched her fist. "even now he haunts me, even now I still rely on him." she thought to herself.

Ibiki looked at the turmoil of his partner. "you will get him one day anko. Till then we have a job to do. We need to get these people out of here and to a hospital and then….." he stopped as he heard some light snoring. He turned around and saw anko snoozing against the wall. Ibiki's eyebrow twitched as he stalked over to the snake user. "WAKE UP!" he screamed as his fist impacted her skull.

Hokage monument base Yuugao and Hayate armory

Hayate and Yuugao found themselves in a large room that seemed to be the armory for the entire base it was lined from wall to wall with weapons of all kinds. As soon as they entered the room they had to dodge to the sides away from each other as they were attacked from above from the shadows. Looking back there was 6 large gashes that went several inches into the floor as if they were hit by 2 long rending claws. They looked to the back of the armory and there stood back to back, 2 very tall and very thin figures wearing skin tight black suites that was punctuated with blood red oni mask's that covered their faces. The figure on the left had an elongated right arm while the figure on the right had an elongated left arm while their opposite arm was small and even stumpy as there was no hand attached to either. At the end of each of their long arms was an oversized claw that was several sizes too large for either of them but they seemed to be unfazed by the size. Yuugao looked to Hayate and they closed in together shoulder to shoulder and drew their katana and without a word spoken they charged perfectly in synch to the two figures in black.

Just before the 4 could clash in the middle the two figures in black split from each other and jumped to the sides. After their jump they launched themselves at the two leaf ninja who had to turn back to back in order to stop the root members. "damn they got us back to back so we couldn't dodge or we risk each other getting hit. The only thing we can do right now is block." hayate thought to himself as he continued to block each of the attacks coming at him.

Yuugao was frustrated that they fell for such a simple trick. "we underestimated them, I thought because they had only one usable arm each they would stay together and compensate for each others arm. We got to get out of this." she determined. She slowly moved her foot back until she felt the back of Hayate's. She then tapped her foot 3 times the wiggled it left and right signaling to split in three seconds.

Hayate smiled to himself and began to count down as he blocked another strike coming from the left. "1" blocked a thrust "2" ducking under a swipe. "3!" he counted then quickly dived to his right, away from a quick thrust. Just as Yuugao dived to her right avoiding the same attack.

Away from their attackers they quickly settled into their stance and once more rushing towards their foes before they could regroup together. Hayate paused his attack to fall into a stance. "crescent moon style: vorpal cutter." he said as a shadow clone appeared next to him which charged the root assassin. As the shadow clone clashed with the root member Hayate dashed behind him and both attempted to remove the mans head with a horizontal slash. Unable to duck or move to the sides the assassin bent impossibly far backwards and slithered along the ground as he acrobatically leapt to his feet.

Yuugao rushed her foe and quickly settled the fight into her rhythm combining several quick slashes with thrusts but infuriatingly the man was able to dodge every strike not even bothering to block. "It as if I am facing an extreme version of Anko's snake style taijutsu but even Anko couldn't be this flexible. Although if she were….. No cant think about that right now. I need to get him into a spot he cant dodge" she thought trying to fight down her blush. Taking a deep breath she pulled several shuriken from her pouch and flung them towards her foe leaving the only place to dodge was to the air as she surged forward to catch her opponent as he jumped she stopped almost immediately as he jumped forward and span in mid air flying in between the blades and stopping just in front of her he quickly brought his claw forward to strike her with a slash and she was forced to dodge to the side as the blades nearly removed her head from her body. As she dodged she rolled to her feet and jumped forward for a powerful thrust hoping to catch the root member between his claws, but it was for naught as Her opponent jumped backwards and joined its twin who had just scuttled away from hayate.

They once again took their stance side by side but this time they were moving their arms in intricate patterns building momentum as they rushed forward in a whirling duo blade of death. They quickly rushed forward in an attempt to catch hayate in a two on one for a few moments before Yuugao could reach him. Hayate brought his blade forward and quickly summoned another shadow clone to combat the second set of blades that came forward and although the shadow clone wouldn't last long because of Hayate's reserves it should last long enough for Yuugao to reach him. The shadow clone and hayate both didn't last more than a few moments as the tornado of blades rushed forward and instantly cut the shadow clone into pieces not even slowing it down. Hayate was quickly disarmed during the first strike of the claws, sending his blade across the room. The second claw sprang forward and sent him flying into a nearby wall his chest bleed profusely from several deep gashes.

Yuugao froze as she watched her lover instantly lose to the attack. The two root members paused their assault knowing that hayate was no longer a threat and quickly turned towards Yuugao who was still strong and dangerous, Yuugao bared her teeth and growled in anger as she pulled out two seals from her pouch and quickly placing them onto the ground. Not wanting her to finish what she was preparing the twins surged forward once more twirling between each other in the attack pattern that defeated hayate. Yuugao brought her hand up into a hand sign. "release." she pronounced as the seal let loose a burst of dark black mist completely blocking all light in the room. The twins stopped their assault and took up positions next to each other ready to defend. Yuugao moved quickly to where Hayate's blade had landed and picked it up. She stalked forward farther into the darkness and brought both blades up. "dance of the crescent moon: final execution." she announced in a quiet voice there was 5 poofs around here signaling the appearance of her shadow clones. The twins tensed as they heard several sets of foot steps from all around them, their senses screamed at them to dodge as they quickly ducked low to the ground in time to avoid 4 swords that struck forward to remove their heads. They once more had to jump away from each other as 4 more swords came down in hopes of impaling them to the ground. As they landed they brought their blades up to block the last set of blades that had struck at them. The claws came up in time to block the horizontal strike from the first blade but Yuugao and her clone brought Hayate's blade forward into a thrust and struck true between the claws blades. The twins eye's widened as the blade drove into their throats then twisted has the leaf anbu brought the blade outwards quickly removing the heads from the bodies. The tell tale poof of shadow clones vanishing was heard and the darkness powder receded revealing to hayate Yuugao stood above the two headless bodies of the root members, she was holding his blade that was bloodied from the fresh kill. Yuugao moved and began to patch up her boyfriend. "you know you should really try and help me on these missions." she said as she began to wrap up his wounds.

Hayate smiled and coughed into his hand. He reached over and picked up his blade. "I could have sworn I was with you this time." he said motioning to the blade.

Yuugao smiled and kissed him on the forehead. "fine I'll give you this one." she said with a chuckle while she picked him up from the ground and put his arm around her shoulders stumbling towards the exit hoping to reach the hospital without incident.

Hokage monument base underground lake Genma and Tenzo

Genma and Tenzo were led to an indoor lake that was found deep in a large cavernous room the lake was covered in a series of bridges and poles that seemed to be used for acrobatics training. As they moved towards the lake the doors behind them slammed shut and the lake began to rise and cover the dry land they were standing upon. They subconsciously channeled chakra to their feet and stood upon the water they drew their kunai and moved toward the middle of the lake as they reached the middle their senses screamed at them as they were forced to dodge out of the way of a large spout of water that erupted beneath them Genma quickly threw a explosive kunai under the waster were they stood. The explosion blew a figure from the water who flipped in mid air to stand upon the water. The figure was a shirtless woman who's long hair was dark navy blur that reached to the back of her ankles. She smiled to them. "Hello their did you come for a swim?" She asked politely. The answer she got was a quick kunai directed to her forehead by genma. She saw the kunai coming and instead of moving she took it dead on. but instead of instantly killing her , her body exploded into a thick mist that quickly reformed into her previous form. She once more smiled "Now that wasn't necessary I was only making small talk. but if you want to be like that then I can do the same." She said as her hands blurred into a flurry of hand signs. As she finished the water around her gathered like a tornado as she floated atop it high above the two jounin. "I should warn you." She said as the tornado grew in size. her body morphed into a hag like appearance, as her teeth grew into fangs, her claws grew long and sharp and her face grew angular and pointy "Drowning is the worst way to DIE!" She screamed as she flew towards the two jounin.

The two jounin quickly split from each other and dived to the sides avoiding the twister of water that crashed at them. Tenzo quickly flew through several hand signs "water style: great vortex jutsu." he proclaimed as a giant torrent of water flew out in front of him smashing the woman into the wall.

In the meantime genma drew 4 senbon from his holder and threw them followed by several hand signs. "ninja art: shadow kunai clone jutsu." he said as his senbon went from 4 to 40 all speeding towards the hag.

The water user was slammed against the wall and looked up at the wave of senbon that flew at her. She smirked and as the senbon hit her, she once more turned into a watery mist before reforming unharmed. "that was a neat attempt but in the end its all quite useless when dealing with me." she said smugly.

Tenzo gave a quick signal to genma "split I go high" genma nodded and rushed the woman drawing 2 kunai as he did, while tenzo rushed to the side of the lake were the walls were. Quickly channeling chakra he ran up the wall and onto the roof while flowing through hand signs. "wood style: wood hammer!" he yelled as several heavy pieces of wood flew from the earth directly at the woman.

The sea hag turned to mist once more as the wood phased through her as she reformed, she quickly blocked Genma's attacks with his kunai before surging the water around her into a small wave which launched him several feet away. As he landed genma looked confused. And signaled tenzo "keep attacking her I think I saw something." he signaled and tenzo nodded.

The woman notice the signs and gather her chakra and forming a large ball of water into her hands. "eat this!" she yelled as the water ball was shot from her hands toward genma who nimbly dodged out of the way.

As tenzo launched more attacks at the woman she simply turned to mist all while batting Genma's attacks away easily. The battle was a stand still as neither side could land until genma had an idea. As the woman turned to mist once more he created a water clone that hid under the water waiting to strike. When she reformed genma rushed her once more drawing a kunai and as he channeled chakra into it he attempted to stab her, but she once more blocked his attacks and pushed him away with water, but this time the water clone that was hidden jumped up from behind her and drove its kunai into her back.

Caught by surprise the woman was stunned for a moment before once more bursting into mist. As she reformed she quickly slashed the water clone and dodged away from the wood assault that flew at her growing annoyed she placed a wall of water around her. "enough!" she yelled glaring at the two jounin. "I have let this go for long enough now I have grown bored and that is one thing I wont allow, its time to end this!" she yelled as she went through several hand signs. "water style: water typhoon!" she proclaimed as the walls of the room started to release more water into the room. The water in the room began to churn and spin flying across the room in a spiral fashion engulfing the room into a typhoon filled with twisters and huge waves to the two jounin it was if they were caught in the middle of the ocean in the worst of hurricanes. "now its time for you to die!" the sea hag creamed as she propelled herself across the water and towards the roof hoping to catch tenzo with an attack.

Tenzo jumped from the roof dodging the hags claws and landed next to genma who was avoiding the waves and twisters. "genma do you have anything?" he asked.

Genma nodded as he and tenzo jumped away from the woman who once again dived at them. "ya I noticed that even though she would just turn to mist for your wood attacks she would always block or dodge mine. At first I thought it was because your were using chakra but then I channeled chakra into my kunai and she still blocked it or rather she had to block it." he explained as they dodged a large blast of water exploded near them.

Tenzo caught on to his thinking. "you think she has to recharge her ability?" he asked.

Genma nodded. "ya and seeing how she went to mist when my clone hit her I'm guessing she only needs about two seconds to recharge." he said.

The heard a chuckle from behind them, they turned to see the woman laughing behind them. "well I didn't expect you to figure that out, but it descent mater even if you know my secret you will never be able to stop me. I wont let you catch me off guard again." she said as she began to expel more chakra from her body causing the storm to become more and more violent. When she finished channeling her chakra as large tidal wave rose in front of her. "water style: blades of the drowned!" she exclaimed as large blades of water started to protrude from the wave leaving no place for the jounin to climb.

Thinking fast tenzo went through several hand signs. "water style: water spout jutsu." he said as he drove his hands down which caused the water below them to rise quickly, the water spout launched them towards the roof of the room where they latched on with their chakra. "ok you said you had a plan?" the wood user asked his partner.

Genma nodded. "ya but I can only do this once and I'll be out of the fight after it so if it don't work I'm pretty much screwed." he said solemnly.

Tenzo nodded "then you better not screw it up then?" he said.

Genma nodded "alright just turn her mist again and I will do the rest." he said as he jumped down to the water.

Tenzo's response was to go through several hand signs and flare his chakra. "wood style: wood hammer barrage!" he yelled as dozens of wooden hammers emerged from all around him flying towards the sea hag.

The woman screeched in anger. "I told you its useless." she yelled as she dodged the attacks "I wont let you hit me again!" she screamed as she brought her water up as a shield while also launching water bullets at the wood user. "take this you bastard!" she said as she brought up a ball of water the size of a boulder and launched it at him.

Tenzo saw it coming and channeled the last bit of his chakra into his next attack. "wood style: Gaia's Crusher!" he yelled as a giant pillar of wood burst from the roof and flew threw the water boulder and smashed the woman, once more turning her into mist.

Seeing the attack happen genma once more drew two kunai and flung one at the woman before she could reform. As she reformed the woman caught the kunai. "as I said you wont catch me off…." she was caught off guard as genma flashed from his location to hers in an instant. He drove his other kunai forward and found his mark as it drove deeply into her heart instantly ending her life and her storm along with her.

Tenzo landed next to genma who was looking queasy. "you ok genma?" he asked.

Genma shook his head and unloaded his lunch into the lake. After he finished he looked up weakly. "as I said I can only do it once. I will still never know how the fourth Hokage was able to do it." he explained while taking deep breaths trying to keep himself from throwing up again.

Tenzo smiled and helped his friend up. "maybe one day." he said as they walked to the exit.

Hokage monument base prison Kakashi and Gai

Gai and Kakashi trekked through a long corridor that led them to a dark and dank prison complex that was sized for over a hundred prisoners. As they moved along they heard the screams of death coming from a lone cell that was separate from the others as they approached it the door of the cell opened and a large man of about 6.5 stepped out of the cell. As he stepped out he was strapping what seemed to be 2 large gauntlets to his arms and they got a good look at him. He stood tall and broad shouldered wearing nothing but torn jail pants. His body was covered in deep scars that were designed as seals to cover his whole body, his hair was black and tied into a pony tail his smile was missing several teeth and his hands were bloodstained. the last defining feature about him was a collar that was tightly wrapped around his neck. As he moved away from the door kakashi and Gai saw the bodies of several root members inside. Kakashi raised his headband and his sharingan sprang to life. "Who are you." the sharingan warrior demanded of the new threat. As he and gai moved into combat positions.

The man looked at the two jounin with a lazy look in his eye as he wondered how long they would last. As he finished he yawned and spoke. "The name is Yoshi, and the old fucker Danzo said that I could earn my freedom from this fuck pit if I kill all you leaf suckers." He said nonchalantly.

Gai and kakashi were ready to react at any moment as the man cracked his neck. "How long have you been here and what are those seals on your body?" gai asked the large man.

The man smiled his toothless smile. And laughed. "Well I have been down here for a good 20 years, and as for the seals?" He said. And clanged his fists together as his body glowed and the seals on his body springing to life. "I think your about to find out!" he yelled as he charged towards the two.

With his sharingan blazing kakashi was able to push himself and gai out of the way at the last second before the mans arms decapitated them as he rushed forwards with his arms wide for a double lariat charge. As he landed kakashi began to flow through a sequence of hand signs as gai quickly rolled to his feet and rushed forward with a wide roundhouse "leaf whirlwind!" he pronounced.

Yoshi stopped his feet and brought his armored arm up and blocked the attack from the side. He quickly repositioned his arm and grabbed Gai's leg. Swinging to the side he threw gai towards kakashi who had to cease his hand signs to stop Gai's momentum. "special delivery!" he yelled with a smile when kakashi caught his friend. "got to say bowl cut. you got some hella strength there." he said cricking his neck to the sides with a loud pop. He lowered his gauntlet and flexed his fingers in a 'bring it on' motion.

Gai smiled wide flashing his teeth. "I believe I have been called out, trust me my foe you haven't seen a thing that the green beast of Konoha can do." he said has he fell into his goken stance. "Kakashi I'm going to buy you some time to study this fight with your sharingan. If I am unable to then you must finish this fight for me." he said as he gave a his famous smile with his thumbs up.

Kakashi sweat dropped and his eye's drooped. "whatever you say Gai." he sighed out.

Gai nodded. "very well! You Yoshi shall be the opponent of the mighty green beast of Konoha! MIGHT GAI!" he yelled as several waves crashed behind him.

Yoshi raised an eyebrow and turned to kakashi. "is it too late to fight you instead of him?" he asked in an almost pleading tone. Not getting an answer he shrugged and once more fell into his lazy stance and began to slowly walk towards the jounin as gai did the same. They inched slowly towards each other as if daring the other to rush in carelessly so they were in striking distance but they still refused to be the first to pull the trigger. As the inched closer their front feet finally touched and they stopped, their hands were practically touching as they stared deep into each others eyes scanning for any weakness or flaw. finally they both realized that the man in front of them was an equal master of the art of taijutsu the respect they both saw on each others faces brought both a smile which signaled the beginning of the fight. They both struck at the same time both going for right straights aimed for the head and while Gai's was faster Yoshi's gauntlet gave him the extra reach they both impacted the other's face at the same time sending both their head flying back. But their bodies remained were they were not moving an inch as they both came back for a flurry of strikes that only a sharingan could keep up with. All forms of attacks flew as the exchange continued but after the first strike neither man took a direct hit as all attacks were either blocked partially of dodged with sways as both of the titans refused to back down and move from their entrenchment. As the assault continued yoshi found himself growing more and more excited as his bloodlust grew. "no not yet I cant let the lust consume me yet, this green beast is the best challenge I have ever had not even the third raikage was this honorable. Damn lightning armor. No this man descent use anything but pure blood and sweat. I still have to kill him of course but there is no way ill forget the green beast of konoha." he thought to himself as his toothy smile grew wider the longer the fight went soon growing into full blown maniacal cackling, as he rushed forward bringing his body low grabbing the waist of the jounin. "impressive green beast but I'm not just a PUNCHER!" he yelled as he once more threw gai across the room.

Gai twisted in mid air and landed on his feet once more in his stance. "yes but neither am I!" he yelled as brought his arms to his sides and unleashed his chakra . "GATE OF OPENING!" he yelled as he unleashed the energy from his body his muscles bulging from the burst of strength. Yoshi raised an eyebrow which quickly changed to a full face of shock as gai disappeared from his sight. His face then contorted as a sharp and fast punch came from his left and sent him flying, before he could crash into the wall gai quickly rushed below his opponent unleashed a launching kick which sent his foe flying into the air. Flipping to his hands gai launched himself right behind his opponent, quickly wrapping his arms and legs around his opponent gai began to spin himself and yoshi into a tornado that was aimed directly at the ground. "FRONT LOTUS!" he yelled as he let go at the last second sending his foe deep into the ground.

As gai landed on his feet he breathed slightly heavily at the strain the lotus had taken on his body, he watched as the dust cloud dispersed and showed yoshi was stuck into the ground with his waist sticking out like a daisy. Gai breathed a sigh of relief and wiped his brow but a voice stopped him from celebrating. "gai wait just before he hit the ground one of his seals glowed I don't think he is dead yet." kakashi said from the side his sharingan still watching.

Gai nodded and turned to his enemy and looked on in amazement as yoshi pulled his arms from the ground which were then followed by his torso and finally his head. "hot damn bowl cut what the hell was that?" he asked with a laugh as he dusted himself off. "I have to say I never would have expected something like that." he said ruffling his hair which was now loose from its ponytail and now flowing down his back. "certainly caught me by surprise." he said with a bark of a laugh. "now where were we?" he asked.

Gai shook his head. "how on earth did you survive that I know it has to do with you seals but I still don't understand." he asked with uncertainty.

Yoshi smiled. "heh that would be telling but since you are interested ill just show you." he said as the seal on his chest glowed bright. "up till now I have been using a style that I'm not exactly found of but now that this rune is on, I can finally give into my true style." he said as his arms fell to his side into a very open stance.

Gai looked on questioningly. "give into a style don't you mean switch to?" he asked as he fell into his own stance.

Yoshi's smile vanished as his eye's began to cloud over. "nope." he said simply as he blurred once more and launched himself at gai who quickly dived to the side avoiding the bull rush from the man who kept moving and bulldozed through the wall of rock only stopping to turn around once more aiming to remove Gai's head with his lariat. Gai knew that if he the man was on a berserker rush then he would be easy to strike, so this time as he dodged to the side gai quickly launched a parting kick to the berserkers neck. Yoshi didn't even flinch as the taijutsu masters kick impacted him but he did stop his charge and once more rushed the green beast stopping in front of him and launching a barrage of wide and reckless swings. Gai taking advantage of the wide blows he quickly delivered counter after counter striking all of the softest places on his foes body including the liver and kidneys but still the raging man continued his onslaught never once trying to block the blow that impacted him he just kept swinging and swinging never slowing. The fight continued on like this until the hulk of a man caught gai in the side with a glancing strong hook and as soon as it hit the momentum switched to his favor as more and more blows began to hit until he finally connected with a full body shot in the form of a right hook which launched gai across the room into the wall. Yoshi's seal stopped glowing and his smile returned his eye's no longer glazed over. "and that is what my seal can do." he said proudly as gai fell from the wall panting on his knees. Yoshi turned his head towards the shocked kakashi. "that's one down now for you." he said as he rushed forward.

Kakashi was able to see the blow coming and quickly launched himself over the behemoth and landed on the far side of the room. While mid air he began a sequence of hand signs which finished as he landed. "water style: water bullet jutsu!" he yelled as several globs of water shot from his mouth.

Once more Yoshi's body glowed as a the seal on his left arm glowed bright. Soon after the seal activated the water bullets impacted Yoshi's body with a deep resounding boom but the water quickly fell to the floor and yoshi stood tall not looking any worse for wear. "try again." yoshi said with a grin as he got in front of kakashi going for a strong right hook.

Kakashi Weaved out of the way and drew on his chakra and sealessly blew a wave of fire at yoshi. fire style: fire ball jutsu!" he said as the flames engulfed the prisoner. For a few moments nothing happened but then yoshi barreled through the fire unsigned as the seal on his right arm glowed and the flames were quickly snuffed out. Kakashi ducked under the incoming blow and drew his kunai. He took a swipe towards Yoshi but once more the seal on his chest glowed and the kunai bounced off his skin as if it were steel. Kakashi kicked the man away and narrowed his eyes. "now I get it each seal is a nullifier. Each one has either an element such as water and fire or there is the seal in the middle of your chest which makes your body tougher then steel which protects you from physical harm." he explained out loud.

Yoshi smiled. "yup got it in one but there is a pair of seals you forgot." he said banging his gauntlets together. "you haven't noticed it but seal's in these babies detect any and all threats coming at me and activates the other seals. So even if I'm asleep or if I'm caught unaware I'm still protected. Unless I specifically tell the seal's not to protect me although I only do that with people I respect like your buddy over there" he explained with a wicked smile as he pointed over to the still hurt Gai. " they also protect me from genjutsu and poisons. In my entire life since I have had these seals I have never been wounded in combat except for when I allow it. Hell the only way Danzo asshole got me is he slipped some poison when I was screwing some chick. Although seeing how she took off my gauntlets before we got really into it I can only guess she was working with the bastard." he said bitterly. "but enough talk lets get back to business." he proclaimed and rushed the sharingan warrior.

Kakashi was very careful to weave in between each blow as he studied each of the seals he found 6 in total there was the fire and water on his arms and the steel skin seal on his chest there were 3 more seals on his back which Kakashi figured are for wind earth and lightning. "alright then lets see how he handles this then." he thought to himself. "shadow clone jutsu!" he announced as a copy of himself appeared. Kakashi jumped to the side along while his close jumped to the other side. they both blurred with hand signs. "fire style: fireball jutsu." kakashi announced as fire once more blazed from his position at the same time his clone announced his attack. "lightning style: thunder ball jutsu." it said as a ball of lightning flew from his hand. Both attacks flew quickly towards yoshi and impacted at the same time.

But once more yoshi stood undamaged as the seal on his arm and one of the seals on his back glowed bright. "please do you really think I would have lasted this long if I couldn't protect myself from multiple elements?" he asked in annoyance. "hell I can even take hits from elemental bloodlines like ice because of my water and wind seals." he explained. "face it sharingan user you have no chance against me." he announced.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes and quickly tried to think of a strategy. "he is entirely immune to any and all elements and not only that but all physical attacks do nothing. But those seals have to come with a price he has to be running out of chakra." he rationalized only to realize that despite the fact that kakashi was breathing slightly hard from the use of the shadow clone yoshi looked as pristine as he did at the beginning of the fight. "wait. The bruise on his face from when gai hit earlier is gone. But how can that…no it cant be!" he thought to himself. "those seals don't just stop the attacks they absorb them and heals him." kakashi deduced. "shit this just got a whole lot worse. He is immune to elements poison genjutsu and physical harm. He is like the perfect tank." he thought grimly and looked over to gai who was able to get to his wobbly feet. "gai still needs some more time to recover. But I think I have a way to beat this guy but I'll need gai to step it up a little more than I would like." he thought and tapped his side five times In quick succession followed by a small circle. Gai widened his eye's for a moment and nodded grim that this foe had forced them this far into a corner.

Kakashi gave the tiniest of nods and once again rushed through several hand signs. Yoshi rolled his eye's and shook his head. "I guess that's it then I had hoped that you too might push me a bit but I was obviously wrong and now I'm bored." he said activating his chest seal once more lowering himself into his wide and reckless stance. "so lets end this then move onto the Hokage." He said as he blurred forward his fist moving towards an unmoving kakashi.

To kakashi this was his final chance, do or die. As he watched with his sharingan yoshi slowly made it to kakashi and threw his fist forward. Not wasting anytime he placed his fate in Gai's hands, and bent forward bringing his hand forward in a cupping motion and began to gather his chakra for his final attack. As yoshi cam e closer and closer kakashi still didn't move concentrating fully on his hand and the chakra within him. Yoshi's fist drove forward then suddenly stopped half and inch from kakashi's forehead protector as a hand had grabbed Yoshi's arm before it connected . Yoshi's eye's widened and looked to his right there he saw a bruised and bloody gai, his muscles bulging with mighty strength gai locked eye's with the prisoner and spoke in a low tone. "gate of opening: open." he said calmly as his grip grew stronger. "gate of healing: open." he said once more as his voice grew deeper and more strained his body glowing with chakra. Yoshi shook out of his shock and tried to swing his other fist at gai trying to stop him, but stood firm and grabbed the fist with his palm and squeezed down refusing to let it go. "gate of life: open." he said once more betraying no emotion.

Yoshi slowly began to panic. "shit let go of me you fucker!" he yelled as he began jerk and twisting trying to free his arms.

Gai kept his hold strong and continued. "gate of pain: open." he droned as his voice began to scratch as the strain of the gates began to cause his body to shake and quiver, his blood vessels growing dramatically as his skin tone changed to that of a deep orange brown color. Finally he gathered his strength and bodily threw yoshi across the room before crouching low to the ground his voice no longer quiet and deep. "GATE OF CLOSING: OPEN!" he screamed as he flashed over to the prisoner leaving a deep trench below him. Quickly flashing underneath the convict he launched the man deep into the air but he didn't stop there as he bounced wall to wall and ceiling to the ground, each time impacting yoshi with his body, slowly gaining momentum until yoshi himself was flashing around with him. Gai continued his assault until it was time to deliver the final strike flashing in front of his foe for the last time gathering all his strength into his fist he drove it forward launching yoshi with all his might. REVERSE LOTUS he yelled rocketing yoshi away.

Yoshi had never been in a situation such as this. "what the hell is this guy made of I have never seen anyone move this fast its just an impossibility it cant happen." he rationalized. "even if he keeps this up he still cant hurt me I was worried at first he might be able to break trough my skin but my seal is holding strong. But what is his strategy?" he wondered as gai once more flashed in front of him but this time gai finished his assault with his strongest blow yet sending the man flying towards the ground. "was that it?" yoshi thought as he shot downward. As he fell he saw a flashing light below him. "wait what's that?" he asked himself as he squinted and saw kakashi gathering his chakra into his palm. "what is… wait now I remember, some of the root fuckers said something about some kakashi having a lightning attack that's a thrust. Is he that stupid? Whatever my seal will take care of that and ill just pound him as I land." he thought with a large smile bringing his arm back to squash Kakashi's head as he landed. "eat this you….is that a sphere?" he asked. Before his thoughts ended as pain filled his mind.

Kakashi listened to the sounds of gai opening the gates and destroying the room as he bounced yoshi across the battlefield. "focus….focus." he told himself gathering the energy into his hand and condensing it into a ball while forcing it to spiral around. As the orb began to condense he heard the ending of Gai's attack and looked up with his sharingan blazing. "this is it." he said as he watched yoshi descend towards him. Using the momentum that gai had launched yoshi with kakashi brought his palm forward and drove the orb into directly into the mans face sheering and grinding away at the man while also flinging the man across the room spinning like a tornado until he finally impacted the wall were he stayed unmoving as his life left him.

Kakashi lowered his hand which he could feel had broke from that final attack as a loud crash came from his right. Bringing his headband back to cover his sharingan he moved over to the crater where his best friend and eternal rival had just crashed. "you ok in there gai?" he asked both in a slightly concerned voice.

A thumbs up rose from the crater as he heard the loud yet obviously hurt voice of gai. "do not worry my eternal rival I shall be just fine. If I am not out of the hospital in a week then I shall escape and run thought the village with a boulder on my back." he proclaimed.

Kakashi shook his head as without looking he knew gai was doing that stupid pose of his. "just do everyone a favor and change out of the hospital gown this time." he said as he lowered himself into the crater to grab his closest ally.

As Kakashi and Gai hobbled to the exit Gai turned to Kakashi. "Kakashi my friend I have to ask, how did you know that the rasengan would work?" he asked.

Kakashi shrugged. "to be fair I didn't know. All I noticed was that he had seals for the elements but not for chakra its self I took a gamble on it and it worked. Nothing much else to it." he explained in a relaxed tone.

Gai was quiet for a few moments before his head slumped. "damn you Kakashi and your hip luck." he said in a defeated tone

Hokage monument base Naruto

"Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto yelled as 20 clones shot forward and intercepted the wolves allowing the hokage to rush past the root member. The boy attempted to follow but found himself blocked as 4 kunai embedded themselves into the doorway all with explosive notes ready to be set off with a hand sign. "Don't even think it your fight is with me you bastard." Naruto growled out.

The boy paused and turned to the demon holder. "Very well." He said and with a flick of his brush several more wolves appeared in front of him. "Then I will simply have to finish what Hijumi started. But before I do you seem to hold a grudge against me why is that?" He asked naruto.

Naruto narrowed his eyes and scowled at him. "I didn't know it before but the Kyuubi recognizes your smell and the chakra in your ink." He said pointing to the ink constructs. "This entire day you were following me and Hanabi." He said as his scowl was full of loathing. "You're the one that told danzo and Hijumi where and what we were doing .you're the reason Hanabi was TORTURED" He screamed as his chakra began to fluctuate around him.

The boy blinked and smiled once more. "That is correct I am the one who gave Danzo-sama your location and i am the one who helped hijumi kidnap the Hyuuga." He said calmly.

Naruto glared at the boy. "And also I can smell blood on that blade you have." He said pointing the to sword on his back. "It's mine." He said as he rubbed his neck as he felt the phantom pain of his near death ambush "Do me a favor and tell me your name and favorite flower." He asked as he slipped into his stance.

The boy once more blinked confused. "I have no name but I have gone as sai and my favorite flower is anything poisonous. Why?" He asked.

Naruto smirked and summoned a dozen clones. "Because." He said as his body glowed green as he entered sage mode. "I need to know what to put on your grave!" He yelled as he and his clones charged.

Sai quickly brought his paint brush up in a swishing motion which commanded his remaining ink beast's forward to block the clones then quickly brought his brush across his book. Super beast imitation technique. he said as 6 more large tiger monsters appeared. He quickly attached exploding notes to the tigers and had them rush into the middle of the clones and beasts, once they were in position he brought up a hand sign and set off the 6 large explosions.

Naruto was blasted from the middle of the battlefield but righted himself mid air and landed on his feet. He looked up and glared at the root agent. "you bastard!" he yelled as he surged forward summoning a dozen more clones to rush with him.

Sai merely shook his head. And summoned more tigers to block Naruto and the clones. "you have no chance against me jinchuuriki. You may be able to summon an army but so can I, and my army is stronger then yours." he said punctuating his words by drawing his tanto and slashing two clones that snuck past his tigers.

Naruto soon found himself surrounded by 5 tigers. "shit how did he kill all my clones?" he asked himself.

"YOU FOOL!" Naruto heard inside his head. " WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING RUSHING IN LIKE THAT" the Kyuubi asked. "I KNOW THIS ASS HOLE HURT YOU AND YOUR MATE BUT YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN. YOU NEED TO REMEMBER THAT YOU ONLY RECENTLY LEARNED TO USE YOUR SAGE MODE, YOUR SAGE MODE IS ALREADY RUNNING OUT, YOU HAVE MAYBE THIRTY SECONDS LEFT OF IT AND IF YOU KEEP SPAMMING CLONES LIKE THAT THEN IT WILL RUN OUT EVEN FASTER. MY ADVICE IS TO USE IT TO GET AWAY FROM THE TIGERS THEN REGROUP AND THINK OF A NEW PLAN." the Kyuubi advised.

Naruto nodded his head and drew his kukri, seeing the movement the tigers leapt at the blonde who was able to dodge to the side while also striking 2 of the tigers returning them to ink. He followed up by jumping over another tiger and landed behind it he once more swung his blade through its side. He was then forced to dodge as the last 2tigers jumped him as one. He was kept on the defensive unable to attack back until one of the tigers leapt at him. He took this chance and grabbed the tigers claws and rolled onto his back using the momentum he kicked the tiger into the other dispersing them both. He quickly jumped to his feet and jumped to the other side of the room right when his sage mode had run out his features returning to normal. "damn I really am out of sage mode time. But why am I this tired?" he asked as he panted heavily.

The Kyuubi explained it to him. "while it was noble and maybe a little smart to let the Hokage go on ahead it was also rather suicidal you still haven't fully recovered from not only all those traps in the root base earlier but also right after that you fought that Hyuuga chunin not to mention that you have been using sage mode constantly today to either fight or track." the Kyuubi said.

Naruto grimaced as he realized the situation he was in he looked over at sai who hadn't moved since Naruto escaped his tiger's. Naruto moved forward towards sai at and even pace hoping to hide his exhaustion from his opponent. As he moved closer sai once more flicked his brush and another half dozen of tigers were unleashed. "No matter how many times you do this the result will stay the same. You charge in and my art rip you and your clones apart. And now that you don't have that green glow you seem to be more sluggish. Should I take that as a sign of your eminent death?" he asked in a flat tone.

Naruto glared at his enemy than stopped moving as the tigers prowled around him waiting to strike. Naruto took a deep breath and focused his mind. "remember what bushy brow's said. 'stay in striking distance and don't block, always dodge and counter.' I can do that even if they out number me these tigers are easy to predict I just need to be aware of which direction they come from." he rationalized. His thoughts were interrupted by 2 of the tigers at either side of him rushing forward as they leaped to pounce on him, he quickly twisted his body I between them while swinging his blades through them. He had no time to rest as two more tigers attacked from behind him trying to bite his legs. He reacted by diving backward over them flipping to his feet to land at their backs, with another pair of slashes they were defeated. Not wasting time he dashed forward spinning in between the last two tigers cutting them in half in one fluid motion without stopping or losing momentum he continued his rush forward trying to catch sai by surprise

Sai was amazed that the demon holder was able to hold his own against the tigers and was even more shocked when he did it without any viable effort, because of this shock sai was barely able to bring his tanto up in time to block Naruto's first blade and he was also barely able to dodge out of the way of the second kukri. After Naruto's initial charge ended sai began to go on the offensive this proved hazardous as anytime sai tried to strike him he simply bended out of the way. "I knew he was learning to use these things but he shouldn't be this proficient." sai thought to himself. "He is still an amateur but this style is really annoying." he mused. Sai decided that he had to be more cautious around the demon container and body flickered across the room away from Naruto's reach. Not wasting his chance sai flicked his brush to the side and this time several tigers were accompanied by several falcons snakes and spider constructs. super beast imitation flood of nature." he spoke as he urged the animals forward in a stampede.

Naruto was caught by surprise as he stood in awe of how many animals were charging at him. "oh kami…. There's just too many." he said in a weak voice. "no I wont give up I wont lose HERE!" he yelled as he stepped forward slashing the constructs as he slowly trudged through them all.

Step by step a slash and another construct destroyed but it was quickly replaced. Step by step a construct slashed into Naruto's skin which wasn't healing as fast as needed. Step by step sai watched as the demon holder tried to reach him tried to gain his revenge. Sai shook his head almost feeling pity for the boy. Sai was no longer taking any liberties with the blonde, for as soon as Naruto would fell one beast sai would summon another one. Its pointless my constructs are limitless and your strength is not. You will die here this day Uzumaki." he proclaimed.

Naruto was nearly done his strength was leaving him and no matter what he did the numbers wouldn't thin. Then he remembered something from early in the fight, he dodged the latest beast attack but instead of striking back he pulled out 4 explosive notes from his pack and stuck them into the floor in front of him. The Kyuubi's eyes widened as he noticed Naruto's plan. "YOU STUPID BRAT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!?" He asked the boy.

Naruto merely smiled and spoke a single word. "Boom"

As he spoke the word Naruto's seals detonated point blank completely erupting the room in a large explosion. the ink beasts were all destroyed in the blast and sai was sent sailing into the nearest wall as Naruto skidded across the floor stopping just short of the opposite wall as sai. For a few moments no one moved until Naruto pulled himself up and sat himself against the wall panting heavily as he inspected the damage to his body. His entire face was covered in blood as there was a large gash on his head that was leaking a large amount of blood. His chest was nearly concaved and he knew several ribs were broken. Finally his breath stopped as he looked down at his legs. His right leg was twisted at an odd angle but what stopped him, was that from the thigh down his left leg was completely gone. He grimaced in pain as the fox helped his bloodline to seal off the wounds so that he wouldn't bleed out. A noise from across the room alerted him to danger as he looked up. Sai stood up from his location and cradled what seemed to be a broke left arm. He was bruised but otherwise seemed to be fine. "I will admit Uzumaki that caught me by surprise I would have never thought you would blow yourself up in order to destroy my beasts but." He said as he flicked his brush for the last time as his army emerged once more. "It was all for naught. You see the moment you faced me in this room your fat was sealed. The ink that surrounds us is coated deeply with my chakra, it took me years to make this much but it would make me nearly invincible in here. It takes almost no chakra for me to make this army, I could fight here for days while you were still recovering from your fight with Hijumi. Now jinchuuriki it is time for you to die. Any last words" he asked.

Naruto smiled and nodded. "Ya I got one." He said bringing his hand into a hand sign. "boom" He said

Sai looked down as he heard a hissing noise. There a few feet from him was one last seal that was about to blow. "NO!" He said bringing his hands up defensively. There was a loud poof as the seal released a large plum of smoke. "What a smoke seal? He tricked me?" He asked out loud. "Rush him!" he commanded as he and his beasts rushed out of the smoke towards Naruto, but stopped as he saw Naruto finish a sequence of hand signs. "what are you…" he said but was quickly answered.

"SUMMONING JUTSU!" Naruto yelled from his sitting position.

A cloud of smoke surrounded Naruto and when it dispersed, there standing as large as a horse the Kyuubi in its horrific glory as it snarled and thrashed the three tails it had. Sai stood in shock and horror at the fact that Naruto could bring forth his demon. Sai quickly sent his force forward. "Kill it kill it now!" He commanded fear entering his voice for the first time since his root training.

The Kyuubi scanned the army that came forward and scoffed. He took one step forwards and thrashed his tails around him like whips, quickly decimating any and all ink constructs that got within range. The fox effortlessly walked through the hoard as sai stood stock still in fright, not even refreshing the beasts that were destroyed. Soon the entire force was destroyed and the fox stood face to face with the frozen root member. The Kyuubi wrapped its tails around the boy and jerked him closer. Sai was half an inch away from the face of the monster that leveled the entire village. as he looked into its eye he stared transfixed as it morphed from dark red to pure black as the fox spoke. "kintsune technique: true hell viewing." He said in his deep voice. As soon as the words left the foxes mouth, sai began to scream as vision's of hellish fire erupted around him, his village and root members savagely burned to crisps. His master Danzo strung up by his own innards and his brother being mauled by demons of all kinds. But then all was gone and replaced by pitch blackness. As sai's mind and heart had both shut down for good.

The fox walked away from the dead root member and moved towards his container. Naruto was breathing heavily and grimaced with pain every few seconds. The fox shook its head and curled around Naruto feeding him his chakra and continued his task of closing the boys wounds. Naruto breathed a little easier patted the fox in thanks. "I'm sorry Kurama I should have been able to beat him without you." He said grimly.

The fox scoffed. "what's the point of being able to summon me if you don't do it when your about to die?" He asked. As he fed Naruto more chakra.

Naruto shook his head. "You were right. I was being stupid, I let my personal feelings almost get me killed, I should have let the old man kill him instead of facing him with nothing left. I'm not sorry about summoning you I'm sorry that I had to because I was a moron." He said as he clenched his fists.

The Kyuubi smiled and chuckled. "Just shut up and rest, you need to have your strength for when you tell your sister and mate that you lost a leg by being an idiot." He said chuckling deeper.

Naruto paled and panicked. "Hey Kurama do you think you could stop healing me and let me die?"

Hokage monument base Hiruzen

The third dashed quickly up the several flights of stairs that were before him, intent on cleansing his village of the corruption that the root had brought forth. He grew more and more focused on this goal the farther up he went. All too soon he found himself in front of a large red and ornate wood door, he pushed the door forward and stepped in cautiously. He scanned the room which was a complete mess as folders and papers were flung all across the room as Danzo gathered what information he deemed needed and others deemed useless. Hiruzen looked beyond the mess and past the large desk and saw a large door which led farther up and into the mountain. Narrowing his eye's the Hokage dashed into the door and down the hall. He quickly reached a ladder that led deep underground. The third hopped down the ladder and found himself in a large room seemed to be fashioned into a large stadium like room there was a podium at the back of it. "this seems to be where danzo gives his declarations and mass orders." the Hokage mused as he scanned the room, looking around the hokage noticed another door that wasn't hidden from view. "that must be the normal entrance and danzo has the hidden entrance in his office." he thought. As he looked around he heard quiet chanting coming from behind the podium, he silently moved across the room and found danzo speaking softly in font of a door with several seals on it. Hiruzen quickly went through several hand signs and breathed deeply while silently launching a large wave of flame toward the root leader.

Danzo stopped his chant sensing danger, and jumped out of the way of the impending fire and turned around, his eye widened at the sight of his old ally and then turned to a glare. "Hiruzen. I see that sai wasn't even able to slow you down. I figured he would be able to stall for a few minutes at the least." he said while moving away from the wall.

Hiruzen watched danzo move into a better position. "the boy stalled me for a few moments before I left one of my allies to take care of him." he explained.

Danzo sneered. "I hope they are up for the challenge, sai maybe only low chunin strength normally but in that room all but the strongest of jounin are worthless to his horde." he said with a small smile as he noticed the hokage pale slightly.

The third forced calmed himself. "Naruto has the fox he will be fine, and if I'm really worried ill just beat danzo quickly and get back to him." he thought. "it doesn't matter danzo as it is time for you to pay for all your past crimes." the third said with conviction as he brought his hands down. "summoning jutsu: Enma the monkey king!" he cried as a poof of smoke revealed a large and ferocious monkey.

The large beast turned to his partner. "why have you called me hiruzen?" he asked while spotting danzo. "ahh I see, I always got a dark vibe from him." he said motioning to the bandaged man. "he decided to betray the leaf then?" he asked the aged Kage.

Hiruzen nodded. "yes my old friend and it is time to bring him to justice." the kage explained. Enma simply nodded and transformed into his staff form. "now then danzo let us begin." he said rushing forward.

Danzo nodded his agreement and brought his bandaged arm out from inside his robes. He brought his arms forward and pointed them at the charging hokage. "wood style: nativity spear!" he yelled as a sharpened log of wood blasted from his bandaged arm and rushed towards hiruzen. He then followed that with several hand signs. wind style: gale blade!" he announced as a large blade of wind raced through the air behind the wood spear.

Hiruzen stopped his rush brought his staff down smashing the log into the ground while also propelling himself above the wind blade. While mid air he blurred through several hand signs. fire style: grand fireball jutsu!" he said as he launched a torrent of flame towards the root leader. Danzo dodged the fire and brought out several kunai with explosive notes launching them towards the thirds landing zone. Hiruzen seeing this quickly preformed a substitution jutsu with a nearby chair and formed several hand signs. "earth style: mantle of titans." he said bringing his foot down making several slabs or rock rise from below Danzo and surrounding him. "this is the end!" he yelled as he blurred forward driving his staff forward with a powerful thrust aiming for Danzo's neck. His aim was true as the staff drove into his neck and impacted the wall on the other side as Danzo's body went slack with a loud snap as Danzo's spine separated. "Farwell old friend." he said solemnly.

As he moved away from Danzo's body he never noticed it disappear. "HIRUZEN MOVE!" Enma yelled.

The third's eye's widened and he jumped to the side, but not quickly enough as several bullets of wind ripped through the air tearing into the Hokage's arms as he leaped away. The hokage landed and turned to the source of the bullets. His eye's fell upon his former ally. Danzo had released the bandages on his right side, his uneven skin showing off the 3 sharingan eye's on his arm and a final sharingan in his eye socket. As the hokage looked on with shock. "danzo what have you done to yourself." he asked.

Danzo didn't answer as he bit his thumb and pressed it to his palm. "summoning jutsu!" he said as a large orange red tapir appeared. "go baku." he said as the large tapir began to inhale through its trunk creating a large vortex that tried to suck in the hokage. Hiruzen quickly jammed his staff into the ground to keep himself from being sucked in. as the hokage held on for survival danzo pulled out two shuriken from his robe and channeled his chakra through them extending their blades and making them larger than a windmill shuriken. He launched both towards the helpless hokage in hoes of slicing him into pieces.

Hiruzen spotted the giant shuriken flying towards him and quickly latched onto Enma with his feet and went through several hand signs and inhaled. fire style: mass conflagration bomb!" he yelled as a large ball of fire launched from his mouth and impacted the large tapir with a huge explosion. As the tapir poofed away the hokage jumped from his staff to avoid the shuriken and to launch himself towards danzo. As he flew he noticed one of the sharingan eye's had closed.

Danzo dodge to the side allowing the hokage to fly past as he brought his arms forward again. "wood style: nativity entrapment!" he yelled as several root burst from his arm to encircle the hokage.

Hiruzen saw the root's coming and went through several hand signs. "earth style: tremor tower." he yelled as a tower of earth shot from the roof of the room and launched the Kage out of the way of the roots. As he landed he rushed over to Enma and grabbed him without stopping.

Danzo saw his foe move towards him and brought his arms forward. "wood style: nativity hammer." he said as a huge block of wood shot from his arm towards the kage.

The third jumped and landed on the wood and used it to propel himself across the battle field. While mid air he created a shadow clone and then started several hand signs. "earth style: earth mud bomb!" he yelled as a large glob of mud shot from his mouth which was immediately followed by his clones jutsu. fire style: blazing fire bomb!" it announced as he launched a large ball of fire that sped behind the mud bomb and combined into a ball of molten mud that went directly at danzo. As he landed he threw his staff towards danzo and continued with his hand signs. water style: drilling water bullets!" he yelled as several globs of water shot from his mouth spiraling towards his foe.

Danzo's sharingan spun as he watched the hokage cycle through all his attacks. "such quick succession of jutsu. This is why you were known as the professor." danzo thought to himself with spite and jealousy as he went through his own hand signs. "wind style: vacuum wall!" he yelled as a bust of spinning wind launched from his hand and blasted the flaming mud ball to pieces. He then ducked under the flying staff then got ready to jump away from the rapid fire bullets that sped towards him. When he tried to jump he found his body unable to move as Enma had transformed from his staff form back to his monkey form and latched onto the root leader not allowing him to move as the water bullets drilled into the body of the leaf traitor.

Hiruzen watched as his bullets impacted danzo and his body went slack once more. Not taking any chances again hiruzen scanned the room once more hoping to find his enemy before he could unleash another sneak attack. He heard several swishing noises from his side and then dodged away. This time he was fast enough to move out of the way as several large shuriken and wind bullets zoomed past him. He righted his body mid air and quickly blurred through his hand signs. "earth style: earth tile shuriken." he said as seven shuriken made of stone rose from the ground and shot towards danzo. As soon as the shuriken launched themselves he continued with another set of hand signs. "shadow shuriken jutsu!" he yelled as the shuriken multiplied from seven to seventy.

Danzo brought his arm up and a giant tree burst from his arm blocking the shuriken. He then rushed from the side of the tree and unleashed several of his own shuriken which grew in size as they grew into large wind enhanced saw blades. As they flew danzo went through several hand signs and brought his arms forward. "wind style: vacuum wall!" he yelled as a large gust of wind pushed his shuriken to near untraceable speeds. Hiruzen had no time to use another jutsu so he quickly jumped backward while throwing a kunai with an explosive note on it to the ground. he then activated it to blow the wind saw blades off course. After the explosion he jumped to the side over by his partner who transformed back into a staff. He grabbed Enma and rushed the root leader. Who by this time was openly snarling at the hokage. The root leader once more brought his arms forward and launched another wave of wind that sliced through the air. "wind style: vacuum blade!" he yelled in desperation.

The hokage narrowed his eyes and focused chakra through Enma sweeping his staff downward he crushed the blade of wind and powered forward towards danzo. Stopping just short of danzo he swiped his staff across and Enma grew in size to the point that hiruzen was swinging what looked to be a large support beam. Danzo jumped to the air escaping the staff but his eyes widened as hiruzen launched himself off the ground with his staff and flew towards the root leader. "you wont escape!" he yelled as she charged his fist with earth chakra.

Danzo snarled as he brought his right arm forward growing a large tree from his arm which sped towards the hokage. "you wont stop me hiruzen!" he yelled.

The third hokage didn't stop instead he channeled more earth chakra into his fist and drove it through the tree breaking all the way to danzo who looked on in shock as hiruzen's fist impacted his face breaking it in several places and concaving his skull. Danzo's body sped across the room and imbedded into the wall were it stayed unmoving. Hiruzen walked over to enma and picked him up once more and pointed him to the side of the room. "you out of sharingan on your arms danzo you wont be able to fake your death any more." he proclaimed as danzo reappeared in front of the wall.

Danzo glared at his rival. "so you figured it out then?" he asked with contempt.

Hiruzen nodded. "I noticed that every time you faked your death one of those eyes would close it wasn't that hard to figure out as long as I was watchful." he explained.

Danzo glared even harder and snarled. "never the less you will not walk away from this fight alive Hiruzen I wont." he started to say until he was stopped as a staff popped out of his chest. "what?" he asked as he looked around and saw another Hiruzen wielding another Enma standing behind him. "how did you?" he gasped out his breath fading.

The kage in front of him poofed away revealing it to be a shadow clone and the staff it held also vanishing with it. And the kage behind him spoke. "you were so focused on my chain jutsu casting you never noticed my clone from earlier hiding in the shadows and after the last time you faked your death It switched with me and gave me the chance to strike you from behind." he explained.

Danzo dropped his head in defeat. "you were lucky hiruzen. In a few days I would have implanted even more eyes into my arm." he said.

The kage shook his head. "no matter how many eyes you had danzo the end would be the same I would never have let you destroy the leaf village." he said with conviction.

Danzo snarled. "everything I have done was to save the village and I will still do so!" he said as several seals on his body glowed. "I will kill you and bring this mountain down on you soft hearted followers!" he exclaimed as the mountain began to shake and quake.

Hiruzen's eyes widened as he jumped away just before Danzo's chakra exploded outward trying to suck him into his body. After landing the kage looked for any escape he could take and looked up. He turned to Enma and pointed up. "we need an exit Enma and now. I only hope the others can escape as well." he said as he jammed Enma down into the ground and extending upward while also growing in size. He burst through floor after floor when he finally reached the top of the mountain. He breathed a sigh of relief as he escaped the crumbling tomb. He then looked over the side and his breath hitched as the faces of the mountain had broke and crumbled into itself. He quickly body flickered to the bottom of the mountain where there was a gathering of the jounin who followed him into the mountain. He looked around and found a wobbly Kakashi. "is everyone accounted for?" he asked as even more people began to crowed around. The council minus Hiashi, Hinata sakura and Hanabi, all came from the hokage tower after noticing the mountains destruction and gathered with hokage.

Kakashi nodded. "everyone that went with us is alive and accounted for the last ones were you and….naruto." he said uncertainly as he didn't see his student with the hokage.

Sakura and Hanabi both gasped. "what happened where is he where is my brother?" Sakura yelled.

The hokage turned to the rubble of the mountain sadly. "we split up a little further in he should have escaped by now." he said.

Hanabi snarled at the hokage with tears in her eyes. "what? You left him alone in there? He's a genin how could you leave him in base filled with assassins by himself?" she yelled struggling against the iron grip of her mother who was keeping her daughter from attacking their leader.

Hiruzen was about to reply when the rubble began to shift and move. He quickly brought his guard up as the last of the rubble moved. His eyes widened and he gasped and a large three tailed fox crawled out of the rubble with naruto wrapped in his tails. The fox calmly walked over to the group ignoring the heated and fearful whispers of the civilians. He stopped in front of the hokage and deposited naruto to the group. "Who the hell dropped a mountain on me?" He asked in annoyance as if was a minor inconvenience, he then poofed back into his seal.

Sakura and Hanabi immediately pounced onto naruto in a tearful embrace. "oh kami thank god your still alive naruto your all right!" sakura yelled as she squeezed her brother.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and gulped. "well I'm alive and that's what's important right?" He said lightly chuckling as sweat started to form.

Hanabi stopped squeezing him and lightly glared at him what do you mean by…" she said but stopped as she noticed something was missing. She looked down and screamed as she finally noticed the stump where Naruto's leg was supposed to be.

Naruto grimaced as the two girls glared at him. "Damn it fox I told you to let me die." he wined into his head as the fox bellowed in laughter

Authors note

And done. Hey everybody again be gentle with this chapter, it kicked my ass every moment I was writing it each fight was rewritten at least 3 times each. (the second fight with Anko had them fighting in a giant snake that one was weird). My friends told me to be happy with just the first version of each but I was a little to stubborn for it. Please tell me which fight was your favorite and which you thought was the worst and why that way I can try and do something similar for future chapters.

Anyway I hope you all enjoyed it. As I'm going to take a break from this fic for awhile and get back to akahana Uzumaki and my new story. Speaking of which

VOTING POLL.

Ok then I need to explain this one. Just recently I found myself a girl who was willing to be with me. (I know shocking lol.) and I found out she reads fanfics but she doesn't read Naruto fanfics. (she not even a fan of Naruto the show, sad face.) but she loves Harry potter fanfics and asked me to write a story for that. So here is the premise she wants me to write a romance Harry potter story with moaning myrtle as the main female (odd choice but whatever). Now I had received a lot of private messages to write a harem, so I asked her for the compromise and she agreed, so the pairing is going to be.

Harry/Myrtle/Hermione/?

The last girl is what I'll let you guys vote on. So here is the list of available girls for Harry.

POLL

Harry's year

Pansy Parkinson: Slytherin

Susan bones: Hufflepuff

Su li: Ravenclaw

Lavender brown: Gryffindor

One year older

Cho Chang: Ravenclaw

Katie bell: Gryffindor

One year younger

Luna love good: Ravenclaw

If you have any other girl that you want in vote for them and explain why. But Ginny, and Tonks are off limits I have plans for them otherwise.

Well there ya go please vote for Harry's girl. In the case of a tie I'll let my girlfriend do the tie breaker.

Well that is it hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I hope you will review it those always make me smile.

Ironknucklevash out