Chapter Twenty: Damn you Killer B, Here comes Akatsuki.
Tsunade slammed her fist through another group of Zetsu before leaping backwards, 'What the hell?! It's like they're multiplying or something!' she thought as she threw down an explosive tag.
*BOOM*
Tsunade scowled as she looked up, her tag being intercepted by one of Deidara's bombs. 'Dammit! I just gotta clear this field somehow!' she thought as she landed in a gap amongst the Zetsus.
*FLASH*
Tsunade turned in shock as Naruto appeared standing back to back with her, "Hey grandma, you need me?" he asked.
Tsunade blinked in shock for a moment before grinning as she faced the Zetsu army once more, "About time ya damn brat!" she said as she lifted his kunai from its hiding place in her pouch, "Swap with the Raikage! Take down that blonde asshole's wings so we can break in there and save B!" Tsunade ordered.
Naruto grinned as he leapt up high into the air, "Got it!" he answered as he aimed his palms towards the Zetsu army between him and the Raikage, "FLAMETHROWER!" he yelled.
Tsunade smirked as Naruto's technique burned a straight line between herself and the Raikage, burning about fifty of the Zetsu to death in moments and causing the Raikage to turn in shock to look at her.
Tsunade threw Naruto's kunai straight at Deidara, forcing the bomber to take higher to the air to dodge while the Raikage nodded, understanding what the significance of that tri-pronged kunai meant.
*FLASH*
Naruto appeared holding his kunai underneath Deidara while the Raikage shrouded himself in his lightning armour once more, charging towards Tsunade so that they could fight together to break through the army and save his brother.
Deidara looked down and grinned as he saw Naruto flying up towards him, "Well now! If it isn't the nine tails!" he yelled as his bird suddenly picked up speed, flying over to stop in midair above the cave in which the akatsuki were sealing the eight tails.
Naruto smirked as he placed his kunai away while unsealing two of his giant shuriken, chasing after Deidara with his wind funnels propelling him through the air.
Suddenly, Deidara turned, throwing another large bird bomb that flew at Naruto who responded with one of his battle shuriken, the two collided, exploding in the air.
The smoke cleared as Naruto's eyes locked with Deidara's before the two of them suddenly began throwing numerous of the same attacks at each other, seeing who would lose track of their opponent's onslaught first.
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Tsunade's punch cleared a straight line down the middle of the Zetsu which the Raikage sprinted down, "TWIN LARIAT!" he yelled, his electrically charged forearms cutting through heads near the speed of sound.
The Raikage began to slow down when from the thin air appeared a ball covered in explosive tags.
*BOOM*
A was blown backwards from the force but was unharmed thanks to his armour, crashing heavily into another bunch of Zetsus.
Tobi appeared from a swirl of chakra, "Hokage-sama! Raikage-sama! You guys are hurting my friends!" Tobi yelled childishly while gesturing over at the Zetsus.
The Raikage grinded his teeth together, 'Dammit! Just after the kid takes one away now another appears! Just how the hell do we end this?!' A thought angrily.
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Deidara and Naruto stood in the air as the smoke cleared, Deidara chuckling, "Hmhmhm, you know Kyuubi, you should just give up now yeah? There's a reason I'm an S-rank ninja and you don't wanna see it yeah?" Deidara said as he reached into his pouch.
Naruto closed his eyes for a moment, "You know what Deidara the bomber? Ever since I became a ninja of the leaf I have been absorbing those whose powers would help me fulfil my goal and guess what?" Naruto asked.
Deidara scowled, 'Absorb? What the heck does he mean?' he thought before replying, "What?"
Naruto's eyes snapped open, his eyes slitted like the fox's and his Snake Sage mode activating, "You're just not worth it! I'm going all out and I'm gonna end you!" he declared before charging at Deidara with his wind funnels, pulling out Samehada Bocho and a shuriken in the process.
Deidara scoffed at Naruto's words although he knew to take the boy seriously since he managed to take down Kisame, 'No holding back! The moment I get an opportunity I'm going with my C2!' he thought before leaping into the air and throwing a barrage of birds, sending the bird he was standing on to attack Naruto as well.
The barrage of smaller birds was met by Naruto's shuriken, "SHURIKEN SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!"
Naruto lifted Samehada in front of him, using it as a shield from all the explosive debris while flying at the largest bird head on. Naruto sent chakra into the seal on the blade, "WATER STYLE: WATER SHARK BOMB JUTSU!" he yelled as he swung his sword.
The shark came out and devoured the bird before exploding, throwing water everywhere as Deidara began falling to the ground, trying to get space from Naruto as he prepared one of his stronger techniques.
Taking the water from the air around him, Naruto threw Samehada at Deidara before forming hand seals, "WATER STYLE: RAINING SHARKS!" Naruto yelled.
Deidara leapt backwards to dodge the sword before looking up, his scope twisting and focussing to see that every little drop of rain became a miniature shark bomb, "Shit!" Deidara yelled before forming a single hand seal since his other hand was still moulding clay.
Naruto scowled at Deidara sunk into the ground, albeit it a speed that Naruto found weak and slow, so Naruto quickly formed a new plan. He flipped in midair, focussing his strength into his fist as he neared to ground.
"UNIVERSE!"
*BOOOM*
Naruto's punch uplifted the ground around him, launching large chunks of rock, his sword and a shocked Deidara up into the air.
Naruto quickly pointed his finger at Deidara, "BONE BULLET!" he yelled.
Deidara ducked the attack, but the bone painfully ripped his hair free from its ponytail before Naruto began launching more bones from his other hand.
Deidara ducked behind some of the airborne stones for cover while simultaneously retreating, he finally leapt high into the air and began yelling to Naruto, "This is it for you Uzumaki! C2 DRAGON!" Deidara yelled as he lifted up a small clay model before throwing it in front of him.
*POOF*
Naruto shielded his eyes from the huge plume of smoke as it dissipated. When he was clear he looked up only for his eyes to widen, "Well now, maybe you're not so useless after all." He muttered to himself.
The huge white dragon took to the skies as Deidara landed on its head, "Hn! Now let me show you true art!" he yelled before placing his hand on the dragon's head.
Naruto's skin shimmered white and his Snake Sage mode became scaly, showing that Naruto was taking in more nature chakra, 'Okay, that dragon is gonna be a problem. But maybe it's now time to test out my latest Rasengan!' he thought as Deidara launched another winged beast but this time from the dragon's mouth.
Naruto slithered forward to meet the attack as he formed hand seals, "LIGHTNING STYLE: BLACK PANTHER!" he yelled, summoning a panther made completely of black lightning.
The panther leapt up to meet the winged beast at the halfway point between the two ninjas in a huge explosion that managed to kick up enough of a storm that the dragon was pushed back a bit, but Deidara was still able to use his scope to see through the destruction.
His eye widened as four Narutos appeared running through the explosion his lightning armour covering their bodies as the middle-left Naruto changed his legs to take the form of a snake tail so that he could travel even faster towards the bomber.
Deidara launched another two winged beasts at the Narutos, one threw his Hirashin kunai straight up into the air while the snake tailed one moved to the front of the group.
Just before impact, three Narutos flashed up next to the kunai while the snake tailed clone made a Massive Rasengan that destroyed one beast before the second hit it, causing an explosion that destroyed the clone. The three airborne Narutos used their wind funnels to maintain the same height as the real Naruto held his hand above his head in a one handed bird seal, "WATER STYLE: CONDENSATION!" he yelled.
Deidara frowned as the clouds in the area began to grow and become darker above their heads, 'This doesn't look too good. Hn.' He thought as he decided to start creating some of his stronger clay bombs.
It started to rain weakly as Naruto formed a few more seals, 'Twenty should be enough,' Naruto thought before glancing at the Raikage and Tsunade battle against the Zetsu army, 'Then again if I send a couple towards those holes in the ground then the plant men will hopefully stop multiplying.' He thought as he finished his hand seals, "ICE STYLE: FROST BITE!"
Deidara shivered at the sudden cold, 'I don't like this, I'm not giving you the chance to do whatever it is you're planning!' he thought before launching another of the winged beasts from his dragon at Naruto.
Naruto smirked, 'Too late moron.' He thought as he held the last hand seal.
"ICE STYLE: BLACK DRAGON APOCALYPSE!"
A single black dragon shot from the dark clouds, colliding with the winged beast and exploding upon contact before twenty-two more of the same black dragons appeared, twenty barrelling towards Deidara while the other two shot towards the Zetsu's spawn points, covering the sky in Black Dragons and hiding the three Narutos completely from view.
Deidara's eyes widened in shock and slight fear as the dragons barrelled towards him and his strongest weapon before his survival instincts kicked in, "Go! DRAGON BARRAGE!" Deidara yelled as his dragon began to continuously blast the winged beasts from its mouth, reducing its tail to merely a stump and exhausting its supply of projectiles.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Deidara clenched in teeth in anger as all of his bombs were destroyed and a few black dragons continued towards him, 'No choice!' he thought as he pulled out a larger glob of clay from his pocket and quickly formed it into something new.
A giant jelly fish appeared in midair above Deidara, getting hit by all of the remaining black dragons before folding in on itself and exploding completely upwards at Naruto.
Deidara smirked as he saw that his art had lasted. Deidara then saw the smoke from the massive explosion begin to spin oddly, so he activated his scope to see what was happening.
Deidara's eyes widened as he saw the three Naruto's falling towards him, the two on the side channelling chakra into a spiralling ball of green chakra that the real Naruto was holding from the middle of the formation.
The two wood clones dispelled as they channelled the last of their chakra into Naruto's ultimate wind rasengan, making a large shuriken of wind chakra form around the massive green ball of energy.
'That thing…what is it? It's way powerful. Hn.' Deidara thought with a scowl as he turned and leapt off of his dragon, making it fly up at Naruto to intercept.
Naruto grinned as he used his nature chakra and threw downward his jutsu while screaming, "TRUE WIND STYLE: RASENSHURIKEN!"
Deidara smirked, 'I'll just blow it up!' he thought as he held a hand seal to send his dragon on a collision course with the attack.
Unseen by Deidara, Naruto flew back up into his clouds, as the dragon opened its massive mouth to swallow his attack, "Now! Explode!" Naruto yelled with a grin of victory spreading across his face.
The moment the dragon chomped down on the Raenshuriken, it expanded in a giant sphere of wind chakra, completely destroying the dragon before the wind ball dispersed, pushing Deidara far back from the wind chakra with a stunned look on his face, 'He just beat my strongest monster! What the hell is this kid?!' Deidara thought in fear.
From the dispersing cloud of wind chakra Deidara's scope saw movement coming through it, and in just a few seconds, a huge water dragon appeared from where the clouds used to be, sucking all of the water from the clouds above, "ULTIMATE WATER COMBINATION!" Naruto yelled from atop the water jutsu's head.
Deidara's eyes widened before he began forming hand seals for one of the few jutsu he actually knew, "EARTH STYLE: EXPLOSIVE WALL!" Deidara yelled, sending his explosive chakra and earth chakra into the jutsu.
A normal earth wall appeared in the water of the massive drilling water dragon which is when Naruto smirked and formed another hand seal, "SHARK BOMB ATTACK!" he yelled.
The dragon opened its mouth and spat out a shark bomb that shot at the wall, exploding upon impact and to Naruto's surprise, caused the half of the wall that was facing him to explode outwards.
The water dragon was hit in the jaw by the explosion, destabilizing it and forcing Naruto to take action, "Launch the attack!" he yelled to his numerous water clones surrounding the dragon with their battle shuriken.
The clones all leapt free from the dragon and began throwing their weapons at the wall as the water dragon fell. Naruto was about to follow behind his weapons before he felt a chakra signature appearing behind him.
Naruto leapt back as he held a hand seal just as the first few shuriken stuck into Deidara's wall, "KATSU!" he yelled, exploding the wall and clearing the way for his other shuriken.
Deidara began dodging, giving Naruto a moment to look up to where the chakra signature was coming from, only to see a swirl appearing and a hole being pulled open by two familiar hands.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto shouted with a smile as Kakashi fell through the air and landed heavily on his feet.
Kakashi eye smiled at Naruto, "Hey Naruto, how's it going?" Kakashi asked as he covered his Sharingan eye with his headband, showing how exhausted he was.
Naruto frowned slightly, "Its fine. I've got Deidara on the ropes and Tsunade-Baa-chan is fighting the plants and Tobi with the Raikage." Naruto explained as the water he had used began to calm and Naruto spotted Deidara panting on his knees up on a rock in the distance.
Kakashi shook his head, "No, he's just a clone. That's not the real Tobi." Kakashi said ashamedly, losing to a mere clone.
Naruto scowled but nodded before seeing that Deidara summoned another clay bird and began flying high up, "I think he's retreating, let's go regroup with Baa-chan." Naruto said before grabbing Kakashi's arm and flying towards Tsunade and the Raikage.
As they moved along, Kakashi looked up at Deidara and frowned, 'He wouldn't retreat, what's he planning?' Kakashi thought as he did his best to analyse the situation.
Seeing that Naruto was approaching, Tsunade slammed her fist on the ground, sending the Zetsu around her back with a shockwave and giving Naruto a spot to land.
"Is the bomber gone? And where have you been Kakashi?" Tsunade asked as A appeared and the two Kages stood back to back.
Tobi swirled into existence at the head of the remaining Zetsu battalion, "You four are quite strong, but I'm afraid that it is almost over." Tobi said in his lower voice, his whole body radiating killing intent.
Instantly, A gave a Lariat to Tobi, but phased right through the masked ninja and ended up right in the horde of Zetsu. Tobi glanced at Naruto, suddenly acting more child like, "Heya Kyuubi-san, you should come with me now otherwise you could be in huge trouble!" Tobi said with a laugh.
Naruto scowled, "From you? Hardly." Naruto said as he went to take out Samehada Bocho before realising that he hadn't retrieved it after throwing it at Deidara earlier.
Tobi nodded, "Yeah I know I can't capture you just yet, snd unlike these other guys, I think you'll survive sempai's ultimate attack right?" Tobi asked childishly as he pointed up at the sky.
All of the Konoha ninjas noticed a huge shadow cover the area they were standing on before the three of them looked up, seeing Deidara had just thrown a C3 bomb.
Deidara smirked, "This piece of art nearly destroyed Suna itself! Be ready to see some true art!" he yelled in victory as his masterpiece fell.
Seeing the bomb fall towards them, Kakashi, Naruto, Tsunade and A all began to run.
Naruto's lightning armour sparked into existence, and seeing that Kakashi was the only person running in the same direction he was, Naruto grabbed his arm as he began sprinting, 'Please be ok Baa-chan!' Naruto thought as the explosion began.
A had followed Naruto's lead and blurred away with his lightning armour active.
Tsunade channelled chakra to her feet and leapt with her adamantine strength, pushing herself a fair distance from the impact zone. Unfortunately though, she underestimated it's explosive range and power.
"KATSU!"
******BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM******
Kakashi glanced over his shoulder and his eye widened at what he saw. Even though Naruto's armour protected the two of them and the Raikage was safe, Tsunade was still in the blast radius.
Time seemed to slow down as Kakashi lifted his headband, his Mangekyou instantly appearing as the flames began to completely envelop Tsunade.
Tsunade began to scream as he back was being ripped apart, "KAMUI!" Kakashi yelled.
From the center of the explosion, everything began to get sucked back until the explosion was no longer even there, revealing a nearly dead Tsunade along with multiple Zetsus that had been completely fried.
Kakashi passed out from near complete chakra exhaustion and Naruto turned to catch him, "Sensei!" Naruto shouted in worry before looking up, seeing a perfectly unharmed Tobi standing over an unconscious Tsunade.
Tobi shrugged as he pulled out a kunai, "Oh well, bye bye Hokage-san!" Tobi said before swinging down his kunai.
*CLANG*
Only for Samehada to have leapt in the way of his attack and land on Tsunade's back, accidently sucking some chakra from her.
Tobi frowned under his mask before he felt a presence to his left, lifting his kunai, he blocked Naruto's downward strike with a Battle Shuriken.
Naruto growled as his feet hit the ground, "Get. Away!" Naruto yelled as he pushed Tobi back.
Said ninja became intangible and let Naruto's follow up strike move right through him, but he forgot that Samehada was alive.
Even though Tobi had become intangible, Samehada was able to bite his calf and to Naruto's amazement the grip held strong and forced Tobi to step back in pain and shock.
Naruto's eyes sparkled, 'That's it! Samehada absorbs the chakra from his intangibility technique! That means Samehada can hit him anyway!' Naruto thought as he ducked, hugging Tsunade and grabbing Samehada's handle in the process.
*FLASH*
Naruto appeared back next to the unconscious Kakashi as A appeared behind the unsuspecting Tobi, 'And since his technique is disrupted!' Naruto thought with a huge grin.
Tobi turned with a wide eye as A gripped his shoulders, "LIGER BOMB!" A yelled as he flipped Tobi, slamming him head first into the ground and instantly breaking his neck, revealing some dead stranger in his place.
Naruto nodded in victory before looking down at Tsunade, running a green glowing hand over her body, "Raikage-sama! Hold off-"
*BOOM*
A appeared shielding Naruto and the others with his body from one of Deidara's smaller birds, "I got it brat." The Raikage said with a grin.
Naruto nodded and did his best to ignore the explosions as he checked over Tsunade, his eyes widened, 'Her spine is completely destroyed! And there is too much internal bleeding! I doubt that I can even heal this!' he thought as he formed hand seals.
The moment Naruto placed his medical chakra covered hands on Tsunade, the seal on her forehead activated and began healing everything physical.
Naruto sighed in relief, "Thank the Log." Naruto whispered to himself in relief before turning to Kakashi.
Naruto placed a hand on Kakashi's chest, 'Okay, it's only chakra exhaustion.' He thought relieved before sending his own medical chakra to help replenish Kakashi's system, 'Now to Deidara.' He thought as he stood up.
Naruto was about to step forward before a huge burst of chakra came from the cave in which the Akatsuki were sealing Killer B, "Shit!" Naruto yelled in panic before lifting into the air.
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"What the hell Orochimaru?!" the woman yelled.
The snake sannin shook his head, "No, it wasn't me." He said with a scowl.
The leader frowned as his eyes narrowed at B's unconscious form, "It's.."
*POOF*
"A clone." Pein finished as B was replaced with an octopus tentacle.
The real Tobi opened his eyes, "I was killed." He said with barely restrained anger.
Pein nodded as he ended his jutsu, he quickly began with new orders, "Those of us transmitting finish now. Tobi, take Orochimaru to water country. Orochimaru, you find what you need at that place. Zetsu, confirm the location of the Seven Tails." He ordered before he and Konan faded from existence.
The others faded away until only Orochimaru and Tobi were left. The statue disappeared in a puff of smoke and the two landed next to each other, looking at where the octopus tentacle was moments before.
Tobi's chakra began to swirl and Orochimaru raised an eyebrow, "What about your partner?" he asked.
Tobi chuckled darkly, "Deidara is of no use to me anymore. He already retrieved the one tail." Tobi said before placing a hand on Orochimaru's shoulder, the two disappearing seconds later.
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"KATSU!"
Naruto spun out of the way of the little birds before he continued towards the cave. For some reason, Naruto realised the barrage had stopped and turned to see what was happening.
Deidara was looking up at the sky with a shocked and pissed off expression, "You're fucking kidding me?!" he yelled out.
Naruto frowned before looking down, seeing A take out the last few Zetsu on his way to get inside the cave, 'What's he talking about?' Naruto thought with a frown before deciding to take advantage of the situation.
Naruto waved his arm up to the last of his self made clouds, sending water chakra into it while also pulling water from the seal on his blade.
Naruto smirked as Deidara finally looked at him once more, "WATER STYLE: SUPER WATER SHARK BOMB JUTSU!" Naruto yelled while launching the chakra consuming attack at the bomber.
Deidara scowled, 'Those bastards leave me behind?! I'll show them! I'll destroy these four and ruin their plans! You're mine Uzumaki!' he decided angrily before jumping off his bird, launching it at Naruto as he fell safely to the ground with a smirk on his face.
The water shark ate the bird and the resulting explosion before continuing after Deidara, causing the bomber to take drastic action, "EXPLOSIVE STYLE: SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION!" he yelled, forming a few hand seals.
Right at the center of the shark a small explosion occurred, but the explosion was enough to rupture the technique to Naruto's complete shock.
Deidara turned and ran, causing Naruto to scowl before realising Deidara's target, "Baa-chan! Sensei!" he yelled before sending out his chakra to the kunai that he left between Kakashi and Tsunade.
*FLASH*
He appeared right as Deidara's swallow bird came near his face, "KATSU!"
*BOOM*
Naruto barely lifted his arm gauntlet in time to protect his face as the bomb launched him back holding his kunai. Naruto finally got control of his momentum and landed in a crouch, stabbing his kunai into the ground to come to a stop.
Deidara smirked, "Now Jinchuuriki! Either you surrender or I kill these two! Yeah!" Deidara yelled with confidence.
Naruto looked up with slitted eyes as his eye seal glowed, Naruto barely registered the Raikage disappearing into the cave as he faced Deidara. The blonde Shinobi was practically growling, "Get away from my family." He growled, his eyes flickering between blue and red.
Deidara smirked, "Hell no you idiot! Knock yourself out or chop off your own limbs or something I don't give a shit yeah! You have five seconds before these two are done for!" he yelled before holding a hand over each of his captive's chests, the mouths on his hands opening up and their tongues lolling in preparation.
Naruto breathing began to speed up in fear, his panic overcoming his common sense as he tried to think of a solution, 'I can stop this, I can save them.' he thought in panic, trying to think of a way he could but coming up with no ideas before taking a deep breath.
"You mean we can save them." Kurama's voice rang through his mind.
Naruto smirked, "Yes we can!" he yelled as his eyes flashed crimson red and his skin turned a little grey from nature chakra.
Deidara shuddered in sudden fear as Zabuza's demonic essence formed around Naruto, but entirely of demonic chakra, 'What the hell?' Deidara thought, his body shaking at the violent killing intent.
Naruto focussed a combination of demonic chakra and nature chakra to the wind funnels in his legs, "You won't harm them!"Naruto yelled before his lightning armour kicked in.
Deidara blinked.
*CRUNCH*
Deidara leant over, coughing up blood as Naruto's fist buried into Deidara's chest, crushing his ribs and tearing something under the Akatsuki member's robe.
Deidara was launched far back as Naruto crouched over his family, 'Uncle Kakashi, Tsunade baa-chan… I will protect you.' he promised as Deidara slid to a stop, holding his chest in pain.
Deidara scowled as he looked at Naruto, "You just started something you won't like Jinchuuriki, and now it'll mean both our ends!" Deidara yelled before ripping his cloak off.
Naruto's eyes widened as he saw what had ripped open, 'Is that a face?' Naruto asked as he looked at the weird stitching on Deidara's chest.
Deidara began laughing as he walked calmly toward Naruto, "This is my ultimate art! An ultimate flash of beauty!" he yelled in victory as he fed all of his remaining clay to the mouth on his chest.
Naruto's eyes widened as Deidara began to turn black, his mad laughing beginning to echo around the whole area just as a seemingly pissed of Raikage stepped out of the cave, "A! RUN NOW!" Naruto yelled.
The Raikage looked up in shock at his name being shouted before seeing Deidara's transformation, "What the fuck?" A asked in shock.
Naruto went to grab Tsunade and Kakashi before Deidara ran at him, jumping the distance to land within a meter of Naruto, "THIS IS IT!" Deidara shouted with a deranged smile before leaping at Naruto as he began to glow white.
Time seemed to slow down as Deidara came at him, 'I can flash myself to safety, but I'll leave the other two behind. And if this is gonna be bigger than his other bombs even the Raikage could get hurt from all the way over there. So if I can't remove us I have to remove the threat.' He thought as the analytical skills of Hiruzen began to start off.
'The threat is the explosion, can't remove that. The explosion comes from the bomb, which is his body. I only have time for one move so I can't get his body far enough from us to make sure we aren't…wait a sec, I only have to get rid of the body…that's it!' Naruto thought as Deidara came within arm's reach.
Naruto reached out his arm as Deidara's body became explosive, the skin on Naruto's hand was beginning to sear off as his hand grasped Deidara's forehead.
"NINJA ART: SOUL DRAIN!" Naruto yelled, all of this taking less than a second for Naruto to use his chakra to compress Deidara's chakra and soul into his palm.
Naruto gritted his teeth, "AAAAAAAHHHHH!" he yelled as an explosion occurred within his mind, knocking him unconscious painfully before he fell to the ground.
The Raikage stared in shock as he walked over, arriving at the three downed Konoha ninjas in about three minutes to see Deidara's clothes blowing away in the breeze and Samehada seemingly force feeding Naruto some of it's chakra.
A blinked for a moment before sighing, "What the fuck was all this for if B's not even here? Dammit B…" he muttered before looking around, "Another thing, where are we?" he asked himself as he looked around hopelessly.
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Five days later
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"Yeah I woke up yesterday, just need another day of rest before I'm good."
Naruto groaned as he tried to hear the conversation happening nearby, 'That sounds like…Kakashi-sensei?' he thought as he tried to open his eyes.
"Naruto-kun!"
'Hinata-chan?' he thought as he finally managed to open his eyes and see Hinata leaning over him, a worried look on her face.
The nurse Kakashi was talking to turned to see Naruto stirring, "Oh! You're awake! I better go get Ino-sama." She said before leaving.
Naruto smiled weakly as he realised he was in Konoha hospital, "What happened?" Naruto asked as Hinata helped him into a sitting position.
"That's what we want to know." Sasuke said before taking a bite out of the apple in his hand.
Naruto looked around the room to see that there were three other beds, each of them filled with one of his comrades. Sasuke was between Naruto and the window on the left side of the room while on the right was Jiraiya and Kakashi, the Toad Sage being the one opposite Naruto.
Naruto smiled as Hinata sat next to him on the bed, leaning into his hold and hugging him around the chest in the process, "Well, good to see you're ok Kakashi-sensei, and I'm guessing you two ran into some trouble on your mission?" Naruto asked.
Jiraiya nodded before gesturing to his lack of arm, "Yeah but we made it, If only barely." He said with a sad smile.
Naruto's eyes widened, "What the hell?! Ero-sensei what happened to your arm?!" Naruto shouted.
Sasuke's apple hit Naruto in the side of the head, "Shut up Otouto, we almost died fighting against the leader of the Akatsuki. It's late too, I was about to nod off when you started yapping." Sasuke grumbled.
Naruto nodded slowly, trying to take in all of the information and choosing to ignore Sasuke's jab until Ino walked in the room, "Oh good, you're up." She said to Naruto with a smile.
Naruto nodded back and Ino continued talking to Naruto and Kakashi, "You two just got in the day before yesterday. You have been unconscious for a few days and even though Kakashi-sensei's was chakra exhaustion, we couldn't find your problem Naruto." She said before forming a few quick hand seals and placing them on Naruto's head.
Naruto's eyes lit up as his whole body jolted at the sudden memory.
Flashback.
Naruto opened his eyes to see Deidara exploding right on top of the building that Naruto had constructed within his mindscape.
Naruto didn't have time to react as just before the blast hit him, a huge red tail wrapped around Naruto's entire body, smothering him while lifting him through the air.
After some shaking of his mind and intense heat, the tail unwrapped and set Naruto back on his feet, gulping for air as he fell to his knees.
"Hey kid, you better grab that soul already." Kurama said with a scowl, the furr on its tails blackened and burnt.
Naruto looked on in shock, "Kurama, you saved me?" Naruto asked.
The large fox rolled it's eyes, "Don't make such a big deal out of it. Grab your soul and get ready, cause this one is gonna hurt." The nine tails said as Naruto stood to his shaky feet.
Naruto sighed as he walked from between the bars of the massive cage, sliding down into the massive crater, "Y'know Kurama, I have to say it's kind of a shame that Deidara's 'Ultimate Art' was appreciated by no one since no one got to actually see it." Naruto said as he continued sliding downwards.
The fox's chuckle echoed down to Naruto, "You're wrong. I got to see it and if I was an art fanatic I must say, he had the right idea." Kurama replied.
Naruto just rolled his eyes, "You just liked the explosion didn't ya?" he asked rhetorically as he came to a stop, placing his hand on the small blue ball in front of him.
"Naruto, I think you should wait." Kurama said.
Naruto waved his hand dismissively, "It's okay Kurama, the dangers are dealt with and I gotta absorb this guy fully now. Might gain some important information about the Akatsuki." Naruto said before placing his other hand on the ball.
"SOUL DRAIN COMPLETE!" Naruto yelled, absorbing the last of the soul.
Suddenly, Naruto grabbed his head, woke up, screamed and passed out, causing the Nine tails to sigh, "I told you so ya damn brat."
Flashback end.
Naruto nodded as he swallowed, "Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Just got to experience the muscle memory of having my entire body blown to bits. Put a bit of shock on my senses." Naruto explained.
Ino sighed, "I don't wanna know, just heal yourself okay? Lord Hokage wants to see you asap." She said with a sneer when she said 'Lord'.
Naruto raised a brow for a moment as he seemed to think about something before he smirked, "So, Danzo is in charge?" Naruto asked.
Jiraiya frowned as everyone else looked at him in confusion, "Yeah he is, how did you know that Danzo would be the one to stand in for Tsu-hime?" Jiraiya asked.
Naruto shrugged, "Baa-chan would still be in hospital after what happened to her. I actually saw her go down in that explosion, I'm amazed she's alive at all." Naruto said, half answering the question while dodging the important part with a small smile of happiness.
Jiraiya tilted his head as he watched Naruto's explanation and following questions about Tsunade to Ino, 'He seemed far too confident that Danzo was in charge, and the ROOT leader is his representative for his clan thus making his clan the only one allowed to look at the Hokage's scrolls and mission records and the like…is this part of that plan Naruto always talked about?' Jiraiya asked himself as he watched Naruto like a hawk.
Ino was done checking over Naruto so she walked over to Jiraiya to check on him, "Ok Jiraiya-sama, just roll onto your side so that I can have another look." She said as she formed a basic medical Ninjutsu.
Jiraiya rolled towards Ino after making sure that Naruto was distracted by Hinata and Kakashi was talking with Sasuke, after Ino began using her analysis technique on his shoulder, Jiraiya began whispering, "Ino-chan, I need you to contact that cousin of yours that works for Danzo, see if you can get any information out of him about what Danzo's plan is and see if Naruto has anything to do with it." Jiraiya said softly.
Ino was a little shocked at the pervert sannin's orders but after a moment she nodded, "Is he really a bad guy? I mean I know that when I talked to Danzo he was a real dick but I didn't think he was like dangerous or something." She replied quietly.
"He's not a bad guy."
Ino and Jiraiya looked over at Naruto with wide eyes, not realising he had overheard them, "He just wants what Sarutobi-Jiji wanted, for Konoha to prosper and grow." Naruto said with a smile.
Kakashi scoffed, surprising the others in the room with his blatant disagreement, "Those were the words of the Nindaime Hokage. Sarutobi-sama actually agreed and followed those words while Danzo perverted them into an excuse to kidnap young ninjas and-"
Naruto cut him off, "Train them to their full potential." Naruto said sternly.
Kakashi and Jiraiya were both shocked at the way in which Naruto talked at them rather than to them, "Although his methods have been deemed wrong by some people, his results are nothing less than exactly what he planned for them to be." Naruto said with a nod of confidence.
Sasuke spoke up, "One of Naruto's Wood Clones and Danzo have been spending many hours together finishing and improving all of Orochimaru's legal experiments. I'd say out of anyone, Naruto knows the man the best since the others he keeps around him are his subordinates." Sasuke explained, defending his brother and at the same time fishing for more information on Naruto's own private experiments.
Naruto smiled as he turned to his brother, feeling a way to ease out of the Danzo-related discussion, "Are you trying get more information about my little puppet experiment?" Naruto asked with a chuckle.
Kakashi's interest was piqued instantly, "Puppetry?" Kakashi asked.
Sasuke smirked, "Naruto has near perfect chakra control so he decided to attempt the Puppet Arts. But all I've seen is his chakra string manipulation with those few puppets he keeps in the basement." Sasuke said.
Naruto chuckled, "And that's all you're gonna see for a while Nii-san." Naruto said with a grin.
Hinata chose this moment to get Naruto's attention. Leaning up to whisper in his ear, she whispered, "Naruto-kun, do you remember what you said we'd do after you get back?" she asked.
Naruto hesitated for barely a second before he remembered. He rolled to embrace her in a hug and she started giggling at Naruto's expression, "We're getting married!" he yelled with a loud laugh, causing Hinata to laugh even more before the two disappeared in a yellow flash.
*FLASH*
Ino jumped in shock at the flash and ended up dropping the needle she was holding, it stabbed into Kakashi's leg and after a few seconds of silence, the man collapsed unconscious.
Sasuke's eyes widened, "Kakashi-sensei!" he shouted.
A nurse was inside mere seconds later as Ino used her medical skills to half the dosage that was meant for Kakashi to help numb the pain in his chakra coils that had instead forced him to pass out.
Jiraiya chuckled, momentarily forgetting about his sudden suspicions against Naruto and Danzo, 'As funny as this is, I wish they'd let Shizune do the surgery for me soon so I can go see Tsunade-hime.' He thought with a sigh, worrying about his comatose life partner.
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*FLASH*
Hinata opened her eyes to find herself sitting with Naruto on top of the Fourth Hokage's head, looking over the night-lit village, she turned to Naruto and was surprised as he suddenly kissed her deeply.
When he pulled back a few moments later, Naruto grinned down at his fiancé, "Hina-chan, what do we need to do to prepare for the wedding?" he asked.
Hinata blushed a little bit, "Well actually, Tayuya-chan, Fuu-chan, Tenten-chan and I took care of the plans before Fuu-chan and I had to come to the Cloud village. Then I think Tayuya-chan just had to select the food and Tenten-chan was picking up our dresses today after we had them fitted." Hinata explained as she leaned on Naruto's chest.
Naruto nodded as he laid back, letting Hinata practically use him as a bed as he held her to his chest, "Wow, so is there really anything I need to do Hina-chan?" he asked, feeling a bit useless.
Suddenly, the sound of a flute echoed and Naruto and Hinata turned to their right to see Tayuya floating up to them with her legs crossed, a small smile on her face.
Naruto's jaw hit the floor, "Tayu-chan?! You're flying?!" he yelled/asked.
Tayuya played a few notes on her flute, causing her to turn in midair before landing next to the two of them, "Sure, not even a 'hi' or 'how have you been' just questioning my abilities from the second you come back." She said with an overly dramatic sigh.
Naruto rolled his eyes as he sat up, keeping Hinata on his lap while reaching out and grabbing Tayuya's hand, "Sorry Tayu-chan, I was just really shocked. I didn't expect to see you floating up here like that." Naruto said with a sheepish smile.
Tayuya smirked, leaning onto his arm and kissing his cheek she said, "That's okay Naru-kun, I've just been studying up on the Uzumaki seals, there were a couple that correspond with sound manipulation so I've started learning them, this one uses the vibration in the sound to vibrate the air between me and the ground so that I can hover." She said, holding up her flute with her free hand, showing the seal on its underside along with a few others.
Naruto nodded slowly, "That's awesome Tayu-chan!" he said loudly.
Tayuya nodded, before turning to Hinata, "Hey Hinata-chan, have you told him the date of our big day yet?" she asked with a smirk.
Hinata bit her lip and shook her head, causing Naruto to raise a brow, "What? It's gonna be soon right? Like a month or something?" Naruto asked.
Hinata shook her head causing Tayuya to smirk, "It's in two days knucklehead." Tayuya said.
Naruto's eyes widened, "Two…days? As in, forty eight hours from now?" he asked.
Hinata giggled at Naruto's reaction while Tayuya jokingly took out her a pocket watch, "Thirty five hours from now actually."
Naruto slowly nodded, "Okay then, so…eleven in the morning?" he asked.
"Eleven-thirty." Hinata corrected.
Naruto once more nodded, "Wow…ok." he said, clearing shell shocked at the new information.
Tayuya chuckled before standing up, pulling Hinata to her feet as well and hugging the girl, "C'mon Naru-kun! Let's go home, it's late." Tayuya said before she and Hinata leapt high off the cliff side.
Naruto smiled, snapping out of his shock as he realised the facts, 'I'm going to be married…to four beautiful women.' He thought with a slight chuckle before leaping forward, catching the two girls in a midair hug.
*FLASH*
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"Hello Naruto-kun." Danzo said with a smile to the Wood Clone that just came in through the Hokage's window.
Naruto smirked, "So, you managed to get here without me huh? Does that mean you're gonna step forward with your old plan?" Naruto asked as he fell into a seat opposite the stand in Hokage.
Danzo shook his head, "No, after your wedding I will proceed with your plan. I will call for the five Kage meeting and ask for an alliance against the Akatsuki and then you can do your bit." Danzo said calmly.
Naruto grinned, "Are you sure? Cause this way could still kill you, even with the regenerative power of Hashirama's cells." Naruto said.
Danzo nodded, "I know. But that doesn't change the fact that it's too late to change now. Orochimaru still thinks I'm on his side in the upcoming attack after all." Danzo explained.
Naruto raised a brow, "Attacking already? Doesn't that kinda conflict with the Akatsuki's plans?" Naruto asked.
Danzo shook his head, "Not that attack. When we turn all of the five great nations against Akatsuki, Orochimaru will fight on their side and summon his new undead ninjas. He still expects for ROOT to take out as many of Konoha's ninjas at that point, but my men won't attack. They will be the ones protecting Fuu as per your request." Danzo said.
Naruto nodded, "Sounds great, looks like you have it all under control here." Naruto said with a small smile.
Danzo nodded as Naruto stood to leave, "One last thing, how far have you gotten with the Kyuubi's chakra?" Danzo asked.
Naruto smirked, "I've got a little plan for that thanks to B. Speaking of which, do you know where he is?" Naruto asked.
Danzo raised a brow in questioning, "The Eight Tails? I wasn't aware he was important nor an ally so I didn't try to keep tabs on him." Danzo explained.
Naruto nodded, but before he could speak Danzo clapped his hands together, summoning a ROOT ANBU from the shadows of the office, "We will find Killer B and ask him if he could respond to a wedding invitation letter that Naruto here will write now." Danzo said as he passed a piece of paper and a pen to the Wood Clone.
Naruto smirked at Danzo's quick thinking before writing a quick letter of invitation to B, asking him to come and visit Konoha for his wedding, "How are you planning on finding him Danzo?" Naruto asked curiously as he finished the letter.
Danzo smirked, "Orochimaru's jutsu expansion technique that you and I fixed. If I connect my wood chakra to the Hokage's All Seeing Eye ball, it's abilities will increase to be able to see from nearly any tree within Fire country and the outskirts of Wind. And since the conduit of the technique is the orb, I just need to place it onto the seal specification point that I designed for the technique." Danzo said causing the clone to nod.
"Which means if you focus the distance, you can find something that matches the person viewing in some way across at least three of the Five Great Nations, but what do you have in common with Killer B?" Naruto asked curiously but confidently in his assumption.
Danzo nodded once more, "Not me, you." Danzo said.
Naruto's eyes widened in realisation, "I get it, so we'll use my wood chakra to enhance the orb, you can modulate the seal without worry since I'll do the harder part of chakra control and then my demonic chakra will naturally reach out to find any similar sources." Naruto said with a grin before nodding to himself, "Nice!"
Danzo chuckled as he turned to his ROOT ANBU, "Go to lab sixteen and prepare the seal." He ordered before turning to Naruto, "We will do this tomorrow morning and then you can focus on your seal nearest to his location and go there personally."
Naruto smirked confidently, "Sounds good since my father left some of his seals placed all over Fire, Water, Iron and a few in the smaller countries." Naruto said with a nod as he stood up.
Danzo coughed lightly, "You are a Wood Clone correct?" he asked as he himself stood.
Naruto raised a brow before nodding, "Yeah I am, why do you ask?" it asked.
"Have you come to an exact plan for when you try to absorb the Kyuubi? I know it has a live feed to the real you's life and as you've said before-" Danzo said before he was cut off by the clone's words.
The clone was smirking, "And since I was made with pure wood chakra, the Kyuubi's chakra won't be receptive to my memories. Therefore he doesn't know what I'm planning." The clone explained.
Danzo nodded, "Expected time?" he asked as the two walked to the open window.
The clone shrugged, "Once I can control his chakra enough and I have some kind of edge over him," he started as he climbed onto the windowsill before glancing at Danzo, "Which I haven't exactly found yet, then I will give it a go." It said as it stood up on the rooftop outside.
Danzo corrected him, "Give it The go. You only have one chance at this remember."
The clone nodded again, "Yeah I know, see you at the wedding?" it asked.
Danzo smirked as he flipped the Hokage hat onto his head, "Who else is going to wed you five?" he rhetorically asked with a chuckle.
The clone grinned, "Sweet, alright I'll catch you later then Hokage-sama." It said with a chuckle before leaping off the building.
Danzo looked out the window and smirked as the clone dissipated into a falling pile of leaves that fluttered to the ground, "He's a good kid with S-ranked skills and the genius mind of two Kages. If he gets the chakra capacity of a demon…who could even hope to stop him?" Danzo asked himself before closing the window and going back to his desk, making minor adjustments to a few seemingly insignificant laws that would favour him in the future.
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"Go."
Six Rinnegan wielding individuals began sparring in taijutsu as a red haired man and a blue haired woman watched on for a few minutes.
Nagato nodded, his left eye closed as he watched through the eyes of his weapons, "These are good. Thank you for helping Deva find them Konan." Nagato said.
Konan frowned, 'His name is Yahiko.' She thought as she watched said corpse spar against another.
Nagato frowned slightly as he was shown through Deva path's eyes a quick glance at Konan, 'Is part of him still there? Is he proud of the way our dream is coming along?' Nagato thought before yelling out.
"Stage two!" Nagato yelled as he gave the order to test their techniques and jutsus.
"Pein-sama."
Nagato didn't turn to the new arrival but Konan did, "What is it Zetsu?" she asked.
Since White Zetsu had addressed them, black Zetsu replied to Konan, "We have confirmed that the Seven Tailed Beetle's Jinchuuriki is in Konoha. First hand sight confirmed." White Zetsu finished with a smile.
Nagato sighed, "Good work. Go find the Eight Tails." He ordered as suddenly his six paths stopped.
Konan frowned slightly as she looked over the seven Rinnegan wielders as Zetsu lowered into the ground, "So this makes it definite doesn't it?" she asked.
Nagato nodded, "Indeed. The two of us will be attacking Konoha ourselves. We leave at dawn." He decided before waving his arm, dispelling five of the paths as Yahiko's body stayed for a few moments longer, staring at Konan with a strained look on his face before he also dispelled.
Nagato lifted into the air with his gravity manipulation as Konan did the same with her paper wings, the two of them flying back towards the large tower where the two of them stayed during the nights.
Nagato blinked as he looked over his village, 'Soon, the other people of this world will know pain like we do. Soon, the world will be like us in the rain.' He thought before closing his eyes, letting the water flow down like tears.
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Hi, this is my latest chapter, tell me what ya'll think n stuff.
P.s. sorry once again for the delay, just had the most hectic fortnight of my life haha.
Catch ya all later.