Sasuke: Chronicles of an Uchiha

Chapter 13: Alchemy

Last Chapter –

Kazima explained how he had gotten to be the Kage of the Grass, and team up with Orochimaru to destroy the leaf. Meanwhile, Kidomaru and Tayuya fought the rookie nine. Kidomaru attempted to attack but Neji Hyuuga arrived and held him off for a bit, but he ended up dead, as he sacrificed himself to save Kiba. And Sasuke runs through Konoha when he bumps into Kimmimaru who attacks him. Sasuke was able to hold his own for a bit until Kimmimaru unleashed his full curse mark form, nearly killing Sasuke. But Lee got there just in time, fresh from surgery, and saved Sasuke. But what'll happen now?

Kimmimaru clutched the side of his bleeding face.

"You have greatly angered this Kimmimaru," said the sound ninja, "You are not going to live past this night."

Sasuke now realized that the sun was about halfway up on the horizon.

This had been a long night… I just gotta survive it!

"Die, fools!" cried Kimmimaru, shooting bones out of his hand.

Lee knocked Sasuke aside and leapt up, landing upon the slender bone. He ran down it, while Kimmimaru shot another bone out of his other hand. Lee leapt onto the other one and jumped at Kimmimaru.

"Face my taijutsu!" he cried, kicking Kimmimaru straight in the face, and knocking him on his back. Lee jumped back a few yards and watched the tall sound ninja.

"Sasuke, are you okay?" asked the green-clad genin.

"Yeah," answered the small Uchiha, "I think so…."

Meanwhile…

Arashi charged at Kazima with his Rasengan. Kimmimaru stepped aside and hit Arashi in the gut causing the Rasengan to explode, barely hurting Kazima, but hurting Arashi a bit more.

Arashi stumbled back, coughing.

This guy… he isn't too strong…Me and Tsunade can definitely take him down… but if he shows any new techniques… techniques I've never even seen or heard of... and they take me by surprise…

Kazima cracked his knuckles and looked at the sannin and the previous hokage.

"I think now would be a good time to show you a power that fuses charka with science: alchemy."

"What!?" said Arashi, utterly confused. He had never learned about chakra been used for scientific methods before… what was Kazima talking about?

"Alchemy," spat Tsunade, "that's a dangerous art."

"What is it?" asked Arashi.

"It follows the principles of equivalent exchange… you can transmute items into other things, giving up charka and something equivalent in return. Many have lost limbs or their lives from practicing alchemy. His own technique will be his downfall."

Kazima cackled. "My downfall? Don't be ridiculous! I've always had such a talent for science, and the Grass ninja thought it was perfect for me to use alchemy. With my powers, I haven't got to worry about such trivial things as equivalent exchange! I'm part of the Sarutobi bloodline! We have the power of un-equivalent alchemy! I was the first to figure it out!"

"So the Third Hokage could have used Alchemy, as could his son and grandson?" asked Tsunade.

"Exactly!" cried Kazima, "now my technique, will be your downfall!"

Kidomaru grunted, "You're going to die, brats."

Kidomaru began to charge himself up for his ultimate attack.

"You're using that?" asked Tayuya casually.

"Exactly," said Kidomaru.

Kiba frowned, "I don't like this."

With in the last hour, many ninjas had died, including Neji, and Akamaru had been critically injured. And Konoha's rookie nine were going to be slaughtered at the hands of the Sound Four. This was not a good day for Kiba Inuzaku.

Well, thinking on the bright side, at least Akamaru isn't dead… he thought, but… well we're basically dead…

Kidomaru stood overflowing with charka, readying himself for his ultimate attack, while Tayuya stood with her many summoned beasts.

"I think I might as well smash them up a bit with my beautiful creatures, " she said, holding up her hand. She faltered for a second, looked slightly shocked, but went back to normal in a second.

"So Neji's dead?" asked Tayuya.

"What!?" cried Kiba, "I… how do you… what's going on here!?"

Tayuya laughed.

"Okay, creatures kill Kidomaru."

The beasts lunged, and Kidomaru shrieked.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" he cried. The beasts got to him... and ripped him to pieces.

"Good," said Tayuya, "Well, ninja's of Konoha, I'm Ino Yamanaka, inhbiting this ninja's body."

Shikamaru nodded, smiling a bit.

"Now my dear creatures," said Tayuya, "Destroy me, and leave Konoha forever."

The obeyed and left. The Sound Four had been defeated.

Sakura, Hinata and Ino walked up to the four leaf ninja who had battled the four sound ninja.

"Well done," said Sakura, "Let's get out of here."

Agreement rose around the group, but Sakura ran off alone, looking for Sasuke.

Kazima clapped his hands together.

"Stop him, Arashi!" barked Tsunade.

Arashi stumbled a bit and nodded, but Kazima was faster. He threw his palms to the ground, and blue jolts of lightning burst up. Arashi sensed danger and leapt away from where he stood. A huge spike shot up where he had stood only a second before. He gaped at it.

"What you see now is only a taste of what I have in store for you," said Kazima with a laugh.

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Next chapter –

The Kage level battle rages on, Sakura arrives while Lee and

Sasuke finish the battle with Kimmimaru. The war between the sound and the grass against Konoha and the sand hit the beginning of the end in this chapter, so what will happen in the next chapter? Find out soon.

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Well, the war's ending. But that is definitely not the end of the story yet. Sasuke still has to get his old body back, and what about the Akatsuki? Continue to Read and Review.