Naruto stood at the border of the time seal, according to Fumito it only had about a couple of minutes left.
This is going to be fun, Naruto thought uncharacteristically to himself while fingering a tanto strapped to his belt.
You know that if you lose to anyone during this battle I am going to have to personally scorch every last hair of your body with all the time I spent training you, Kyuubi said deep in the depths of Naruto's mind.
Yeah and what else were you going to do in that cage of yours, come on admit it you enjoyed my company. Naruto thought, propelling his thoughts to the demon within.
Yeah right I couldn't have done without trying to painfully drum some knowledge into your minuscule brain, Kyuubi said sarcastically, although I have to admit that torturing you was the most fun since squashing the puny villagers when I attacked your pitiful village.
Kyuubi let out a bone chilling laugh that even scared the shit out of Naruto in his current lapse of psyche.
"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled as she ran towards Naruto, obviously happy to see him once again, she had not seen him since the briefing.
Naruto simply turned to see the pink haired girl bounding towards him, the two ninja caught eye to eye, and Sakura stopped in her tracks, before approaching Naruto a bit more carefully, noticing the lack of warmth and compassion in his eyes.
"What the hell did Fumito do to you!" she exclaimed staring at Naruto's cold demeanour.
"Trained me. What else would he have done?" Naruto scoffed, quite Sasuke used to.
"But you have changed!" Sakura said sadly, hoping that she had not lost her close friend at team mate completely.
"There it goes." Naruto pointed out watching the time seal finally run out of the maintaining charkra, "And here comes the fun." Naruto said with a maniacal laugh that rivalled Kyuubi.
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"Sasuke, how do you feel about attacking your old home?" Orochimaru asked in a serpent like voice.
"I have never classed Konaha as my home, at least since the slaughter of my family. Konaha doesn't care about me so why should I care about it?" Sasuke replied coldly.
Orochimaru simply chuckled, he had done well in manipulating the Sharingan wielder as his own personal weapon.
Ohh how wrong you are, there are some in konaha that still care about you little Sasuke, Orochimaru thought to himself.
"How do you feel about taking out the jinkuriki, if he loses control it could seriously damage our attacking forces as well as Konaha." Orochimaru asked curious of what Sasuke's decision will be.
"Fine I have been thinking about how gaining the Mangekyo Sharingan will compliment my technique, and the fact that Naruto Uzumaki is still my closest friend will gain me the Mangekyo by killing him." Sasuke said in a monosyllabic voice.
"but surely the Mangekyo will only eventually weaken you, with the side effects of blindness, why do you think Itachi has given up pretty much on taijutsu and relies mostly on genjutsu." Orochimaru said, a little worried, as blindness will make Sasuke an unsuitable body to commandeer.
"The blindness can be negated by taking another's Sharingan into the system, I will take Itachi's after I kill him." Sasuke spat out with serious amounts of venom, like he always did when talking about his renegade big brother.
Orochimaru chuckled once again, "I want you to lead the initial attack, remember your main objective is to take out the blond before he can kill too many of our forces."
"Do you really think he is that much of a threat?" Sasuke scoffed.
"The last time you fought he only used a forth of the Kyuubi's power, that he can control anyway. And also I fought against him when he lost control a couple of months back when we crossed paths, I had to retreat to escape my own demise." Orochimaru said to the shocked Uchiha, he had never bettered Orochimaru in head to head combat, and the fact that Naruto had infuriated him.
"We attack at dawn, prepare and get some rest, I don't know how long the attack will last, but prepared for it to stretch out for at least a couple of days." Orochimaru advised, turning to brief his troops before departure.
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"Fumito will you be helping us during the battle?" Tsunade asked the teenage like figure sat in front of her in her office.
"Yes I will be using Toby's body once again to aid you, Toby will go with the villagers, and will act as a last ditch defence to the villagers, my body may be crippled but it is of at least some use." Fumito said with a wise smile.
"Well that's good to hear. What do you suggest I do with Naruto, I have already given Konohamaru Jounin rank like you ordered, but you didn't specify with Naruto, what rank is he at?" Tsunade asked.
"I would say somewhere between Sannin and Kage, I will leave the decision to you what rank to give him." Fumito said calmly, on the verge of boredom.
"Seriously, are we even talking about the same blond here?" Tsunade asked a little taken back with Fumito's pronouncement.
"You haven't seen him since I started training him have you?" Fumito said with an all-knowing smile.
"Why what have you done to him?" Tsunade said anger rising in her voice.
"I did nothing, Kyuubi trapped him in a internal time trap genjutsu, he wanted to train the boy himself so there would be less chance of the both of them dieing in the up coming battle." Fumito said throwing his arms up trying to show Tsunade that Naruto's unstable psyche was nothing to do with him.
Tsunade sighed, "How long was he in there for?"
"About a year." Fumito muttered cringing a bit waiting for Tsunade's reaction.
Tsunade, to the surprise of Fumito just sighed once more, "How long do you think it would take for him to regain a stable psyche?" Tsunade asked supporting her head with her hand.
"I'm not sure that he will completely recover from his experience with Kyuubi, but still Naruto is a lot stronger than before and is one of the strongest shinobi we have at our disposal."
"So what do you suggest?" Tsunade said wearily.
"Put him in charge of the main forces, the Kyuubi did more than just train his body, he trained his mind as well, from what I have seen his tactical capabilities are on a level with even those of the Nara clan."
"Fine. Were do you want me to station Konohamaru?" Tsunade asked, thinking that worrying about this situation now will only bring even more instability amongst both her self and those she commands.
"Place him with his old team, and have them on the right wing, Orochimaru is likely to split his forces to run our forces thin as he has more troops than we have. And also I want his old sensei to see exactly how far he has come under the tutoring of me, because of the things he said about Konohamaru when I told him I would be teaching him" Fumito said with a smile that pretty much said that Ebisu is in for the shock of his life.
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Seven hours later (Dawn) main gate
Naruto stood in front of a group of fifty Anbu black ops, the first line of defence.
Naruto was rather shocked when Jiraiya had told him he was promoted to the third Sannin, with Orochimaru no longer being apart of Konaha the position was open.
The first wave of sound ninja could be seen through the trees.
"GET READY MEN. REMEMBER AIM TO KILL AS SOON AS POSIBLE DON'T GIVE THEM THE CHANCE TO ACTIVATE THE CURSE SEALS!" Naruto yelled to the men under his command.
All the Anbu drew and readied their weapons, all ready for the battle ahead.
Naruto drew his two kodachis from their sheaths on his back, he was itching for some bloodshed.
The fastest of the enemy ninja were piling through the main gate, that was left open at Naruto's request so he could have more fun.
Naruto smiled evilly at a sound ninja that threw a kunai knife at his face, only to be caught in between his teeth, and bitten in half with his charkra enhanced teeth.
The ninja who threw the kunai paled dramatically as Naruto, seemingly disappeared and appeared right in front of him kodachis raised for the kill, the ninja cowered away and closed his eyes waiting for the pain, and it came.
Naruto swung the kodachi in his left arm and brutally removed the ninja's right hand that was holding another kunai weakly, blood spurted out of the dismembered stump, spraying over his allies and enemies around him.
Naruto laughed at the ninja's pain ridden face and swung and removed both his legs from the knee, he would let him bleed out, a very slow and painful death.
Naruto stepped over the dying man to reach is next victim, all the Anbu around him shuddered at the masses of killing intent rolling of the blood drenched blond, one thought crossed all their minds simultaneously, I'm glad I'm not a sound ninja!
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Sasuke stood just behind the first wave of troops, he watched emotionlessly as they were butchered by the one man army he once knew as Naruto, I see what Orochimaru meant, he's not even using the foxes charkra against them, or his own for that matter, just taijutsu and ninjutsu, he has improved a lot since we last met. Sasuke thought to himself as he activated his Sharingan and charged towards the battle, or more specifically towards Naruto.
Naruto was laughing hysterically as he severed yet another important bit from another unexpecting sound ninja with his back to him.
Naruto looked up to see the sound ninja separating in their charge, as if to let some one pass.
Naruto eyes sparkled as he saw Sasuke, ooooh someone skilled I can cut up! Naruto thought as he left a small group of sound ninja alive, to their utter surprise.
Watch out brat, the Sharingan can repel limited amounts of demonic charkra, some of your low level attacks with my charkra may not work against him. Kyuubi advised as Naruto closed the gap between the two.
The two shinobi stood feet from each other, both completely calm, and both with a crazed look in their eyes, both oblivious to everything but each other.
"I am going to correct the mistake I made three years ago in the valley of death, I am going to completely destroy our bond so that I can become more powerful!" Sasuke said pretentiously.
"That bond we had was long destroyed, there is no point me bringing you back, because you will only be given the death penalty, I might as well have my fun with you little Sasuke." Naruto said icily emitting killer intent that rivalled the Kyuubi.
Sasuke looked shocked at Naruto, he was not the bubbling idiotic moron he once team mates with.
"So I see I'm not the only one that has changed since our last encounter, I complement you on your power, I watched you fight the pawns before I decided to move, this will be a good fight." Sasuke said, truly thinking he was superior to the blond stood in front of him.
"It better be, if not I am going to have to go and torch your boss, I am in the mood for blood and these small fry give me no challenge at all. I would activate that curse seal of yours now if I was you, you are going to need it." Naruto said.
Sasuke laughed, "For you weakling, I won't need to activate my curse seal for you!"
"still as pompous as ever, but trust me when I say thinking that I am anything like I used to be will be the end of you." Naruto warned, but it didn't seem to falter Sasuke's confidence, or ignorance.
Sasuke drew his ninjato from his back faster than the human eye could comprehend. Naruto seeing this just smiled and stored his two kodachis away in their sheaths and retrieved his own ninjato.
The two shinobi sped towards each other at neck breaking speeds, and clashed ninjatos sending pulse waves around the battlefield.
Naruto and Sasuke both smiled, this is going to be an interesting fight, they both thought at the same time.
so what did you think, thats the longest chapter i have done yet i a kinda happy with myself.
the next chapter will be the battle between naruto and sasuke.
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