Yeah so it's been about 4 months since my last chapter. Sorry guys I just really don't like writing fight scenes, it makes my brain go all mushy. So just to recap:

Previously:

"Uchiha Madara," Itachi took another deep breath. "He is also controlling the Kyuubi with sharingan," he gasped. "You need to stop his control." and the last bit of light left the man's eyes and he slumped over. His body changed to a Suna shinobi and Sasuke stared, his brother still wasn't dead.

"Naruto was kidnapped by the Akatsuki 6 years ago," Sakura calmly explained. "He was tortured non stop for 4 weeks straight. By the end of it he had completely lost his mind. Jiraiya-sama said that he could see that there was nothing there; he was just an empty shell. Jiraiya-sama managed to escape to try and get help, but when the tracking team tried to retrieve him the Akatsuki was gone and there was signs of an explosion. We thought that he was already dead with the biju extracted, but we were wrong. The Akatsuki is controlling him and we have to save him and Gaara. He would never forgive himself if he found out Gaara was dead by his hand."

"We have finally found the Akatsuki!" Hinata exclaimed. "We can finally get him back!"

"Neji, Lee, Ten-Ten, and I will go and find these seals," he pulled out some radios from his backpack. "We can use these to communicate."

"O.K." Kakashi said. "But come right back, we need you support."

"One… Two … Three." And they all pulled of their seal. There was a disturbance in the ground next to them as they saw their mirror image materliaise before their eyes.

"Great," Neji said sarcastically.

Chapter 13: Kyuubi Released.

"There he is," Jiraiya said as they entered the dark cave. A young man was stood in front of the sealing statue; he was looking at them with an emotionless expression that sent a chill down everyone's spine. Just past him they could see the vulnerable form of Gaara floating as his biju was slowly being extracted.

Furious Temari went straight to the offensive and gave her huge fan a giant swing. However this did not have any effect on Naruto as he blocked it with his own wind manipulation. Shikamaru sighed.

"Right guys back to the plan. Don't break formation."

"Right!" They all replied as Kurenai quickly went through a series of hand seals. A heavy genjutsu was placed on the jinchuriki and he was briefly distracted so the others could attack in groups. However he easily shrugged it off.

Temari, Shikamaru and Asuma then took the next attack and Asuma managed to slice him with his chakra blades. However they were quickly forced back. Then Jiraiya, Kakashi, Sasuke and Juugo all came in at once to attack. Yet with a quick set of shadow clones Naruto managed to push them away from the sealing statue, however not before Jiraiya managed to kick his apprentice into the wall. Then team 8 attacked. Hinata was relentless with her Juken strikes but Naruto managed to predict every strike. Shino came from behind screaming uncharacteristically. Little did Naruto know that this was just a distraction technique as the Inuzukas came from the side.

Kiba and Akamaru finally got a hit on the jinchuriki and he fell flat on his back.

"Yes!" Kiba yelled, happy after finally getting some action.

"Kiba," Shino said. "Don't get ahead of yourself." The bug user pointed to the area that the jinchuriki had fallen. He had got back up to his feet, his eyes were shadowed by his bangs and he once again was standing completely still.

"He didn't even flinch," Shino said to his teammate, who scowled at him. Yet Shino was right, every attack that they threw at him didn't get a reaction once. The man just carried on attacking, as though he didn't feel anything.

"Uhh is he growling?"

"No." Juugo said. The blonde was still completely still and another growl came from his direction. It certainly looked like it was him that was growling, but Juugo knew that it was definitely an animal growling. Suddenly a giant fox swiftly jumped up from behind the blonde. It jumped onto his shoulders and landed in front of him.

"Shit," Jiraiya said and he quickly started to go through the hand-seals to summon one of his large toads. He didn't think he was going to make it, and he knew that a fox of that size would be very difficult to fend to off. Sasuke had already had snakes flowing out of his sleeves but they were beaten to the chase by a pair of shadows that rammed the large grey fox to the ground.

"Eldwin, you must stop this," one of the dark figures said.

"What is the meaning of this insolence!" The grey fox named Eldwin said as he struggled against the shadows. He grabbed one if them by the neck and threw it into the light, revealing a black fox with different coloured eyes. Temari gasped as she recognised the fox that was summoned to capture he brother in Suna but Sasuke and Jiraiya stayed silent. The entire group were standing puzzled at the behaviour the summons were showing, including Naruto, who was watching with curious eyes. The others didn't notice this small expression of emotion as they were ignoring him in favor of observing the foxes' confrontation.

"Jennifer!" He exclaimed before throwing off her brother. "Peter!"

"Please Eldwin, don't attack them," the female said.

"Why are you disobeying master's orders?" The large fox jumped towards the twins and pinned them to the floor. The siblings tried to break free and were biting hard on his paws. "Do you understand what you have done? You have brought disgrace on the name of fox summoning!"

"Shhhh Eldwin. They are here to try and take Master Naruto away from the control of Master Tobi," she scolded. "You know this is wrong, Master Naruto has just rounded up one of his own kind for the slaughter."

"Yeah that's right!" Kiba butted in from the distance. "He's just been forced to capture one of his own friends!"

"Kiba," Hinata scolded. "Quiet!"

"No Hinata," Sasuke said. "Let him shout, look." The Uchiha gestured to the blonde jinchuriki as he noticed a change in his demeanor. He was stood frozen wide-eyed staring of into space. It was the first sign of emotion that the Konoha ninja had seen since the fight had began.

"Naruto?" Hinata asked, but Sasori butted in rage.

"BOY! What do you think you are doing? Destroy them! You know the consequences if you fail!" The young blonde nodded as he snapped out of his trance and once again ran towards the 'enemy'. His emotionless mask was back on and he cruelly disposed of his foxes that were hesitating between him and the other shinobi. They were kicked against the nearby wall and when the foxes got back to their feet they fearfully scuttled to the darkness. However the fox, Eldwin, ran towards Sasori with the intent to kill.

For you see the foxes communicated in a completely different manner to humans. Unlike most of the other summons the foxes had a direct mental link to their summoner and in the silence the three foxes heard the internal conflict going on in Naruto's head.

"What? The Kazekage's is my friend? Why? I don't understand… help" It broke the foxes heart when they saw their master like this. They had only sent their master break out of his emotionless personality once before and that was when he was screaming out… in pain.

However when Sasori bellowed his order everything changed back to how he normally was. Cold and Empty. His thoughts changed as he ran towards the foxes in his way.

"I will deal with you later you disobeying scum."

When the fox hit the wall he was not hurt, he was angry… at the puppet man. He pulled himself off the floor and weaved through the crowd heading straight for the masked man. He had no doubt now that the Akatsuki were the ones in the wrong, why had he not seen it before? Take out the Akatsuki and the foxes would be free from their oppression.

Yet all of the fox's efforts were in vain as Sasori's large poison tipped tail impaled him before tossing him aside. The toad that had been summoned to attack Eldwin had now gone to catch him and take him to the Medics that were at the back of the pack. Chiyo quickly treated the wound with antidote in an attempt save the foxes life. However, she also had the big gaping wound on the torso of the fox to tend to.

Meanwhile Naruto did not notice the actions of his summon whilst running back towards the 'enemy'. Kakashi and Asuma were at the front of the group ready to fight. Hopefully sheer numbers would take advantage. They took a defensive stance as the jinchuriki came at them with his twin blades laced with wind chakra. Kakashi blocked his oncoming attack and kicked the blonde in the gut, sending him reeling into Asuma's arms. Asuma managed to get hold of his arms and with the help of Juugo they held him in place.

Unhappy about this Naruto stomped his heel down before swiftly twisting his foot around to kick Juugo in the shoulder.

"Argh!" Juugo screamed. Naruto withdrew his foot to show a bloodstained blade sticking out of his boot. Juugo loosened his grip allowing Naruto to get free.

"Ohh that sneaky bastard!" Kiba bellowed, which got the blonde's attention. "Oh shit!" Kiba said as he and Akamaru took a defensive stance. However, upon seeing the danger that the Inuzuka was in Shino and Shikamaru attempted to restrain the jinchuriki once again. Shikamaru's shadow bind was not fast enough and Shino's bugs did very little to deplete his chakra reserves, however it did give Kiba enough time to prepare for his newest jutsu. Akamaru let out an almighty howl that was so high pitched that even the humans were flinching. The blonde doubled over as his oversensitive demon fox hearing was thrown into overdrive. This allowed the shadow bind to take effect as Naruto tried to nullify the effects of the jutsu.

Shikamaru was getting frustrated, sheer numbers were not having any effect in defeating Naruto. It wasn't that Naruto had fantastic skill. True enough his skills as a shinobi were much above average, but he was not much better than Master Jiraiya. No one was this untouchable. The problem lied with the jinchuriki's inability to feel pain, or so it seemed. No matter how many times the Konoha shinobi got a hit, no matter how severe the damage was, he just got back up again and kept on fighting. Shikamaru needed to change tactics. He wasn't Konoha's head tactician for no reason, yet Shikamaru's didn't know what to so without trying to kill his brainwashed friend.

It was now getting desperate. Naruto has severely injured Shino, Hinata, Juugo and Asuma and they were loosing blood at an alarming rate. Kakashi had revealed his sharingan and was still struggling. Now Sasuke and Asuma were fighting with him. The battle of blades was rather impressive but Sasuke was at a disadvantage as Naruto and Asuma used wind element. But even so Asuma and Sasuke were doing a good job at keeping Sasuke busy. Naruto was now covered in deep cuts, but they were quickly healing.

Jiraiya, seeing that Naruto was occupied, decided to try and get to the Kazekage. However he was quickly faced with a shadow clone, and so was Asuma, leaving them all one on one.

That was when something unexpected happened.

It all happened so quickly and none of the strategies in Shikamaru's head lead to this.

The original Naruto was against Sasuke and he had taken advantage of Asuma's absence. With a quick slash against the chest Sasuke was sent flying. Naruto appeared above the Uchiha and was ready to make the final blow, until Sasuke turned to face him. The blonde froze when his eyes met the deep crimson of Sasuke's sharingan.

"Are you going to kill me brother?" Sasuke said causing Naruto to frown in confusion. At the same instance he heard a scream to his left. Naruto's expression changed form one of confusion to one of pure horror. Jiraiya had been relentless in trying to reach the Kazekage and Sasori had grown impatient at the fight directly below him. He had withdrawn his tail and it went straight through the clone and impaled Jiraiya in the gut.

"Master Jiraiya," Sakura screamed as she quickly retrieved him and brought him back to Chiyo to be treated, before going back to treating Shino. She looked back to the fight and noticed something was off.

"He's beginning to remember!" She yelled. "Sasuke now!" However, Sasuke couldn't move, so instead an injured Hinata ran toward them.

"Naruto-kun why are you doing this?" She pleaded. "You always used to fight for your friends, you never gave up. That's why I love you. Why did you give up to them?" she spat out the last word with complete venom in her tone.

"What about Gaara?" Temari shouted.

"And your dream of being Hokage," Jiraiya gasped.

"And bringing me back to Konoha," Sasuke whispered in his ear, causing him to fall to his knees silently.

"It's working," Shikamaru said.

"Indeed," sneered Pein from his position on the statue. Ignoring the glares he was getting from the shinobi below he turned to Sasori and Deidara. "You know what to do."

"BOY!" Sasori bellowed. Naruto instantly got to his feet and spun on his heels towards the voice. His emotionless mask was once again back on but it did falter slightly when he caught a glimpse of Gaara.

"You have not managed to complete your orders," Deidara said. "You know what happens when you fail. He will have to do the job instead." Smirking Deidara carried out a set of hand seals only to make Naruto look back in abject horror. His tattoos began to glow all over his body and he fell back onto his knees whilst grabbing his hair. Bright red chakra began to leak from his skin.

That was when the screaming started. It was the most unbearable thing that the shinobi had heard in their life.

"Oh no," Jiraiya said as he got back onto his feet. One tail had started to form on the jinchuriki and his eyes were blood red.

"That's the Sharingan in his eyes," Sasuke gasped.

Two tails.

"What!" Sakura screamed.

Three tails.

"What's happening?" Hinata asked.

Four tails.

Naruto's skin started to peel making him look more fox like by the second. Deidara giggled.

"He never shows any pain. What could possible cause that much pain to scream to scream out like that?"

Five tails.

"He failed to comply to his orders so he needs to be punished."

Six tails.

An exoskeleton began to form.

"And the Akatsuki now has full control over the Kyuubi inside him."

Seven tails.

"You'll kill him!" Screamed Jiraiya.

Eight tails.

Muscles began to cover the exoskeleton.

"Well we wouldn't make such a good weapon now if that were true," Deidara replied.

Finally the ninth tail appeared and a fully formed Kyuubi was stood before them.

"Kyuubi, kill them," ordered Deidara.

"Everyone back!" Kakashi bellowed as the fox lunged at them. "Jiraiya what are we going to do?"

"We have to get this seal onto him," Jiraiya said as he pulled out a paper seal. The antidote had now taken effect and he was ready to fight again. "Can you distract it?" Kakashi nodded and they both set off. Jiraiya created a few shadow clones and tried to get near the demon fox. It took a few tries but he managed to get near the Kyuubi and place the seal on it but it had no effect.

"Uhhh Sasuke," Kakashi said. "I think we can class this as an emergency."

Sasuke nodded and reactivated his Sharingan. With most of the team to back him up Sasuke managed to the kyuubi's mindscape pretty easily. Although he didn't expect to find two huge fox eyes staring straight at him.

"So the treacherous Uchiha returned to Konoha?" the Kyuubi bellowed.

"You're the Kyuubi?"

"It is impressive that you could get in here."

"Where is Naruto?" Sasuke asked.

"He's not here," the Kyuubi scowled.

"Then where is he?"

"That accursed Uchiha Madara has hidden him."

"Why?"

"Because I can corrupt the boy," the Kyuubi answered.

"But he controls you."

"He only has control of my body, not my mind. Naruto can regain control, not that it would make any difference, those accursed seal give Akatsuki complete control," he paused and began to grin sinisterly. "You can control me to."

"But I don't want to control you. I just want you to go back into the seal," Sasuke replied.

"No."

"Excuse me?"

"I'm not going to follow the orders of a weakling. I would rather follow that bastard Madara."

"Just get back into your cage, your hurting Naruto."

"So? Once I am free of the Akatsuki I can finally free myself from this pathetic human body."

"But you are being controlled by Uchiha Madara," Sasuke argued.

"If you haven't already noticed, I know and I would rather be controlled by him than a weakling like you! You can't even find your brother, let alone defeat him."

That was the last straw for Sasuke,

"Return back to your cage, NOW!" He bellowed as the figure of the Kyuubi burst into thousands of bubbles.

"Heh heh," Laugher echoed in the mindscape. "That's more like it. You do have power, and your chakra… so like Madara's. Only now can you override the Akatsuki seal."

"Then go back!"

"Only if you promise me one thing, make sure that Madara dies before this is over, or you'll end up regretting it."

"Only if you promise not to try and kill Naruto after this is over," Sasuke demanded.

"Heh, we'll see," the biju replied as it faded back into the seal, leaving only his eyes and his grin behind, "I will be free from this prison."

Sasuke returned from Naruto's inner consciousness to find that the whole room had gone silent. Naruto fell to the floor unconscious as his body returned to its normal state as the Kyuubi was forced back into the seal. His whole body was severely burned but the regeneration was so fast that it wasn't before long that he was completely healed. But there was still something not right. It was too quiet, that was until Temari screamed.

"No!"

In front of them were Sasori and Deidara sitting on Gaara, looking smug. They had used the Kyuubi as a distraction to complete the sealing and the Kazekage now lay on the floor dead.

"Shit!" Kiba said. "What do we do now?"

"We have to get the Kazekage back," Kakashi said. "We may still be able to resuscitate him."

"Oh you want this?" Deidara said pointing at the dead form of the Kazekage. "Well you are just going to come get him then." In a large plume of smoke a huge clay bird formed next to the blonde ninja and it picked up Gaara before taking off with Deidara.

"Gai," Kakashi said through his headpiece. "We really could use your team's help. What's taking you so long?"

"We have our own problems at the moment Kakashi. These seals were booby trapped!" Gai's voice said down the speakers.

"Bugger, looks like the backup will have to wait. Sakura, Chiyo and team 8 stay behind and try and stop Sasori. Sasuke, stay with Naruto. Everyone else is coming with me."

They large group of shinobi then split up to fight off the Akatsuki. Sasori revealed the ferocity of his puppets, even resorting to his most lethal, the missing Kazekage. Luckily Sakura had made enough antidote for all members present he was finally defeated. However, Chiyo was hit after her antidote had worn off and she was suffering severely with the effects of the poison. Sasuke stayed behind and watched as he was constantly trying to keep Naruto unconscious with the Sharingan. He needed to stay incapacitated until Lady Tsunade had seen to him.

Team Gai had managed to defeat themselves after some encouraging words from Lee, and they quickly went to aid Kakashi and the others. Deidara didn't stand a chance. He couldn't make enough explosives to keep up with the sheer volume of opponents he had. By this point Deidara was missing an arm as Kakashi used Mangekyo sharingan to open up a tran dimensional portal and take his arm with it. Temari could easily fend of the blast of the explosions with her wind attacks, but she was injured when an explosive landed on her shoulder. With the success of the attack the blonde let his guard down for a split second and didn't noticed Gai's team arrive behind him. Ten-ten had pulled a long katana from a seal on her belt and swung down on his neck.

Two down ... Seven to go.

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Next time: The death of the Kage?

A/N: So yeah, sorry I didn't go into much detail about the final fights but you can fill in the blanks, it's based on the Manga chapters 262 to 277.

Anyway hope you like.