Konoha Forests:
The thick cloud of black smoke plummeted into the ground, leaving a large area of forest obscured by rock. The Ichibi let loose a horrific laugh "Yahoo baby, I got them. Now to get back to that town." However the Ichibi was forced to halt its plans when the thick black smoke came streaming towards him, out of the smoke came the four tailed fox, with Naruto riding safely atop its head. Growling the fox swiped its claws at the Ichibi, dodging back the claws sliced through the Ichibi's left shoulder. While that normally wouldn't be enough to sever the shoulder, trailing behind each of the claws was a stream of white hot flames. These flames instantly melted the sand, turning it to glass. This sudden brittleness resulted in the shoulder shattering and the arm that went with it falling off, before dissolving away into loose sand.
The Ichibi let out a mighty roar, for while it could not feel any pain in its artificial sand body, it was angered by the loss of an arm, and the survival of its enemy. In its rage the Ichibi did not attack with a wind ball, but instead summoned the sand from its fallen limb, the sand whirled and whirled, until it finally coalesced into a spear. The second the spear finished forming it shot forwards, straight towards the four tailed fox.
Caught in awe of the Ichibi's control over the sands the fox failed to react to the spears deadly approach. Luckily for Naruto the fox noticed the spear, and its deadly intent, seconds before impact. This allow him to dodge to the left, however due to the delayed nature of this dodge, there was a large gash along the right of the fox, trailing the length of its chest. This injury enraged the fox, who proceeded to yell to Naruto "Uzumaki Naruto, we must deal with this pest now. I will hold him down so you can jump at him. Do not miss."
With the conclusion of its order the fox surged forwards, however the Ichibi was not a dumb as its drunken attitude would lead many to believe. The Ichibi shot to the left, having heard the foxes plan and having absolutely no intent on going back to the broken down prison that was its Jinchuriki's mind. Taking in a deep breath as the fox lunged at it again, the Ichibi brought its remaining arm down towards his stomach, slamming the hand into his gut he yelled "Futon: Renkudan" which sent an air bullet flying towards the fox, who proceeded to dodge out o f the way.
However the Ichibi had expected this, and the sand spear that had merely left floating after its attack on the fox, stabbed into its side. Letting loose a mighty roar of pain the fox drove towards the Ichibi, determined that if it was going down they both were. Despite the immense pain of the spear still lodged in its side the fox latched onto the Ichibi, biting into its stomach and latching onto its shoulders, or what left of its shoulder in the case of the left shoulder.
The Ichibi was not content to let this fox get the better of him, so the Ichibi dissolved its sand spear, into the wound of the fox. Its sand spreading throughout the blood vessels of the fox, each grain acting as a mini razor blade, slicing the insides of the great fox to pieces. It smirked in joy as the fox let out another roar of pain as its sand tore through the foxes kidneys.
However the four tailed fox was resilient, and gave one final command "NOW!" and with that command Naruto launched from the head of the fox straight for the exposed Jinchuriki atop the Ichibi's head. Coming crashing down Naruto landed a mighty punch across the right cheek of the Ichibi's Jinchuriki. While this normally wouldn't have been enough to awaken the Jinchuriki this late in the possession, the wind blade that surrounded his fist was. As the fist made its way down the Jinchuriki's cheek it sliced a deep cut, all the way through the thin film of flesh separating the outside of the cheek with the inside of the mouth. Howling in pain the Ichibi yelled "NO I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK!" Yet driven back it was, as the scribble that the Kazekage called a seal activated forcing the demon down and rousing the Jinchuriki.
The moment it heard the Ichibi's cry of pain the fox knew its master had succeeded, and it collapsed to the ground at the feet of the Ichibi. Its wounds too severe to allow it to return to the summon world. This left the critically wounded and dying fox stranded in the mortal plane. Watching as the Ichibi's body thrashed as the Ichibi was forced down by the Jinchuriki's seal the fox had an idea. It began focusing all its chakra on a last desperate attempt to save its life.
Meanwhile with atop the Ichibi's head the Ichibi's Jinchuriki's eyes snapped open. 'What happened? Where am I? Why am I still atop Shukaku?' these were the first three thoughts that ran through the head of the newly awakened Jinchuriki. However they wouldn't last more then a fleeting moment, for after that moment something else entered his mind. Something he had never felt before. Pain, unimaginable pain, something the young boy had never felt in his entire life. Crying out the boy yelled "WHAT IS THIS? IS THIS PAIN?" as his hands shot towards the source of the pain, he felt something wet, removing one of his hands from the mind numbing pain he saw they were covered in a red liquid. Blood. His blood. "BLOOD! MY BLOOD!" and with a crazed look he searched for the source of this blood and the pain that came with it. And he found it, in the form of rapidly approaching Naruto. Focusing all his hatred towards this boy, the boy who had caused him this pain, the Ichibi's Jinchuriki raised his right arm in the direction of the boy and as it raised so did the sand around the boy.
Naruto suddenly stopped, or rather was suddenly stopped, as he felt sand wrap around him. Looking up from the sand he saw a murderous Jinchuriki looking straight at him. As soon as their eyes locked the Ichibi's Jinchuriki began closing his hand and while saying "Sabaku soso". At the same time Naruto's life flashed before his eyes, his early childhood, his time with Kakashi, then the times after Sasuke joined, his time on team seven, then a final vision, a vision of Hinata saying just three words "I love you."
'I can't die, I can't let them die, I have to protect them, I have to protect my friends, my village, my home! I won't die, I WONT FAIL THEM!' it was then that Naruto started fighting, even though he was already trapped. Even though he was probably going to die. He wasn't going to give up, there were people counting on him and he wasn't going to let them down, and he knew there was only one way to save them.
'Fox, please?' his small request, that sounded almost like he was begging to the fox, was left unanswered. However, just before the sand constricted, blood red chakra rushed out of his, sending the sand flying. And somewhere deep inside his mind, a gigantic blood red fox smiled.
With his new found strength and speed Naruto shot towards the Ichibi's Jinchuriki, however he was stopped again, this time mere inches from his target, as more sand wrapped around his legs arms. Struggling against the sand restrains he surged all his remaining chakra, along with all of the Kyuubi's and slammed his head down, right into the head of the Ichibi's Jinchuriki. They both stood still for a moment; time itself seemed to pause in anticipation. And as a trickle of blood flowed down the forehead of the Ichibi's Jinchuriki the sand construct on which they stood began to crack. The cracks spread, until the entire construct fell apart. The two boys came crashing down, on the tops of opposite trees. Both of them exhausted, Naruto having used the Kyuubi's charka earlier to heal massive injuries, then summoning a four tailed fox, then his fight with the Ichibi's Jinchuriki, Gaara, having been possessed by the Ichibi for the longest time yet. Yet they both stood up. Both looked each in the eye as if sending an invisible message saying 'one last shot.' And they both leapt towards each other. Naruto, calling upon the very last of his chakra, managing to surge ahead of Gaara, landing the final blow against Gaara's left cheek, sending him crashing to the ground, Naruto right behind him.
As they lay on the ground, Naruto began to wiggle, inching closer and closer to Gaara, who was panicking yelling "NO, I won't let you end my existence, how can you be so strong."
Naruto just continued inching towards Gaara, but this time smiling as he said "I am strong because I have people I wish to protect. People I would give my life for a hundred times over. Only when you are protecting someone who is precious to you can you become truly strong."
However just as he said that Gaara's siblings, having chased him into the forest after he was taken their by the fox, landing next to him. Battle ready, yet Gaara just muttered a "No." they both turned to look to him and he finished by saying "Lets go home."
Not willing to go against their brother Temari and Kankurou just picked him up by the shoulder and headed towards the pre-planned egress point. On the way Gaara looked up and said "Temari, Kankurou, Thank you." This left the two of them stunned, had his battle with that boy really changed him so much?
Naruto's rescue however came in a different form. A large man with long white hair appeared next to Naruto, smiling, before saying "Good job Naruto." To the semi-unconscious Naruto just as he picked Naruto up however he saw something. A small red fox was running straight towards Naruto. The man stared at the fox before saying "Want to come?" to which the fox responded by jumping on top of Naruto's head. Chuckling slightly the man carried Naruto, with the fox on his head, back to Konoha, all the while thinking 'Well, this will be interesting.'
Konoha: With Hinata and Sasuke:
Hinata glanced at Sasuke before nodding, sending an unspoken message of 'I'll take the left you take the right.' As they separated Hinata was the first one to begin her battle. Fainting a Juken strike at his left Hinata went for a strike to his left shoulder, intending on paralysing him in that arm, however the sand Shinobi was expecting this and grabbed her wrist, before twisting it violently, a sickening snap was heard as Hinata cried out in pain, jumping back her right hand hanging loosely, a clear sign that the wrist was broken, yet Hinata didn't let this deter her, while the sand ninja had greatly weakened her Taijutsu style and completely erased her ability to use the few Jutsu she knew, he did not take her out of the battle. Determined Hinata grabbed three shuriken from her shuriken holster before throwing them at the enemy, as expected he blocked with a kunai, this is when Hinata shot forwards with her own kunai in hand. However just before they clashed she threw her kunai at the Jonin's leg, despite the surprise caused by her unexpected tactics the Jonin managed to dodge, having started to jump backwards when he saw Hinata's arm tensing in the wrong direction for a kunai battle. This caused Hinata to pause momentarily, as she had not been expecting the Jonin to react in time. This paused gave the Jonin time to make up his lost ground, by the time Hinata had awoken from her thoughts of shock the Jonin was in front of her, swinging his kunai down for a strike. Dodging to the right Hinata began to strike with her left hand towards the mans exposed chest, while she did manage to land a strike to the bottom of the mans lung, causing him to start coughing, he had swung around and landed a nasty slice along her left arm.
Jumping back Hinata let out a whimper of pain before throwing a kunai with an explosive tag at ground in front of the sand Jonin, while he did dodge backwards away from the explosion with out receiving any injuries, it did buy Hinata enough time to hastily apply a medical wrap to the cut, while this did mean she wouldn't have to worry about blood loss, at lest not in the near future, it would further reduce her combat efficiency by limiting her range of movement in her left arm. Hinata realized this was bad, she couldn't use her right hand for Juken due to her broken wrist, and she couldn't move her left arm that well, left Hinata in a situation where not only could she not use any Nin or Genjutsu but she could hardly use any Taijutsu. Realizing this Hinata realized there was only one hope for her to actually win this battle, if she could land a strike with her water chakra Juken that she had been experimenting with, it might cause enough damage to take her opponent out of the fight. 'That might work, but I'd need to use all my chakra, as I'm not got at water chakra Juken. I wish Naruto-kun was here, he'd know what to do.' However Hinata managed to put aside her doubts and do what was needed. Diving forwards she tossed three more shuriken at the sand nin before pulling out a kunai, as she reached knife distance she swiped at his kunai, this left the two of them in a blocking position, with her opponent having the advantage due to height. Hinata did something completely unexpected. She let go of her kunai, this caused her opponents kunai to come slicing down, cutting a nasty cut from her collar-bone down to mid stomach area. However this sacrifice was not in vain, as while the kunai was swinging down, and her opponent off balance from the sudden loss of resistance, she managed to land a water chakra strike to the mans right lung. While a Juken strike to the lung wouldn't normally kill a person, leave them injured and unable to breath in that lung yes but kill no, this was water Juken. What was special about Juken using water nature chakra was that the water nature chakra tended to affect water like substances, such as blood. This resulted in a massive explosion of blood both within and without of the mans lung. In mere seconds his right lung began to fill with blood, while he was loosing a large amount into his chest cavity due to the ruptures to the blood vessels on the outside of the lung.
While this was happening Hinata dropped to the ground face first, having suffered to many injuries to remain standing, that last one been quite a deep cut, that would most likely be fatal if she didn't get medical attention shortly. As her vision began to darken, she saw that the sand ninja was raising his kunai, prepared to deliver the death blow, however he suddenly stopped and dropped to the ground with a kunai sticking out of the back of his head, and a man with long white hair carrying a boy with blond hair, stopped next to her, and that was all she saw before passing into unconsciousness.
With Sasuke:
Sasuke's battle began moments after Hinata's with Sasuke's opponent starting off by charging in and swinging at Sasuke. While it was clear to Sasuke that his opponents strike would clearly miss him, that's what worried him, 'Why would a Jonin attack like that? He can't be that bad and be ranked a Jonin.' That's when Sasuke saw it, a slight haze that extended in front and behind the mans hand. Realizing what it was Sasuke jumped backwards, mentally yelling 'A wind sword!', the second Sasuke touched the ground he jumped again, for his opponent was fast and had already started striking his new position. This happened twice more until on the fifth jump Sasuke that that his opponent was not moving forwards like before, he was going through hand signs, realizing that he had been tricked by the pattern Sasuke knew that there was not much he could do, he couldn't dodge because he was midair, he couldn't use any of his lightning Jutsu as the wind Jutsu would shred right through them. He had but one choice, fire Jutsu, however if his Jutsu wasn't powerful enough the wind would overcome his flames inertia and he would have his Jutsu returned to him, but stronger. This called for his strongest fire Jutsu, beginning his hand signs, Sasuke completed his, skipping a few control hand signs for time, at the same time as the sand Jonin completed his. They both launched their attacks at the same time "Katon: Karyu Endan." "Futon: Renkudan."
The compressed air bullet shot towards the approaching fire dragon tearing into the dragon's head, for a moment it almost seemed like the wind bullet would consume the dragon and press on, yet the dragon with its large size and continued stream of fire provided by Sasuke managed to overwhelm the wind bullet and grow stronger. This strength came at the cost of its former speed. The much more powerful, but slower, dragon was easily dodged by the sand Nin, although the area affects were not so easily dodged. A few embers met with the Jonin's head wrap, igniting it, this forced the Jonin to pause while he pulled it off. This moment pause was enough time to give Sasuke an advantage; however he wasted this advantage by throwing several kunai because he didn't expect the Jonin to be able to dodge. He was wrong, by the time the Jonin had removed his head wrap the kunai were a mere second away from impact, this however was enough time for the experienced sand Jonin to perform a Kawarimi and escape.
Not expecting this Sasuke was surprised by the Jonin sudden replacement with a wooden log and as such was caught unaware by the surprise attack he mounted. This surprise attack resulted in Sasuke receiving two kunai in the back, both to his heart. Luckily for Sasuke however he had a rare medical condition called Dextrocardia where the heart is on the right side of the chest instead of the left. While this saved his life it still resulted in the two kunai puncturing his lung instead, still a potentially deadly wound but not certainly fatal like puncturing your heart. As Sasuke collapsed to the ground, the sand nin assumed that Sasuke was dead, decided to take Sasuke with him as his village could find a way to replicate the Sharingan with his corpse. This would prove fatal to our unwitting sand nin, as the second he picked up Sasuke he received a kunai to the heart. Just before Sasuke's vision faded to black he smiled slightly that he had managed to kill the Jonin.
Just as Sasuke fell into unconsciousness the white haired man with Naruto and Hinata under his arms saw Sasuke on the ground. Groaning slightly he picked up the injured boy and threw him over his shoulder, making sure not to move the kunai, before heading to the villages emergency hospital, used only during invasions.
AN:
Well that's that, a mysterious white haired man has Naruto Sasuke and Hinata and is taking them to the hospital. Who is this mysterious man (kinda obvious), what about that fox? And what happened with Orochi and Sarutobi? Find out next time.
oh and sorry this chapters late, i had a collision with real life, but what can you do? that and i'v been playing out how i want the encounter of Saru and Orochi to go, as Saru is going to survive.
In response to the questions I'm going to certainly get, or maybe not after you read this,
Naruto's fight: yes his fight was harder then the one with Gaara in cannon, despite Naruto been both stronger and summoning a more powerful summon, (A four tailed fox has to trump bunta) but think of it like this, Shukaku was out for the entire battle, as well as ten or so minutes before hand, and if you pay attention during the battle in cannon you'll notice not only is Shukaku getting stronger as the battle wears on, but bunta even comments on that. I reasoned that the longer Gaara is asleep the more control Shukaku gains and the easier it is to control his body, the more chakra he has available, and generally the smarter he is, you can think of his sealed state as kinda like been asleep, your not (majority here) ready to fight the second you wake up, it takes time to awaken properly and start thinking.
Hinata and Sasuke's fight: These are Sand Jonin they are fighting, Sand Shinobi are the most elite of the five villages, they have to be. Sand live under the harshest conditions (Lets see, Kumo is up a mountain, Konoha is in the open, Kiri is on an island surrounded by water and mist, and Iwa is surrounded by rocks.) none of the other villages are in an environment where every minute is life and death, well cept kiri cus of their civil war but their weak cus of the in fighting kills their strongest. On top of this Sand is restricted in the number of Shinobi they are allowed to have, both by environment and their own Daimyos restrictions. The limited number of Shinobi and harsh environment they live in means they have to be the best if they hope to compete with the other villages.
While Hinata and Sasuke have fought Jonin level opponents before, they were not only low Jonin level, but they won under special circumstances (Hinata blood lust + surprise and Sasuke unlocked the fourth level of the Sharingan (doesn't know he did that yet or how he did that) and Haku was only Jonin level thanks to his high speed (only a Jonin should be able to fight against that speed level)
Water chakra Juken: the principle is simple, magnetism. Kinda, the way it works is when the Juken strike is landed the water chakra is dispersed through the chakra system around the strike location, while it is dispersing it acts just like a magnet to the water in blood, this tears the blood out of the blood vessels resulted in massive ruptures around the path the chakra took. While this is in a limited area as not only is the chakra dispersing through the network in the area, but it is losing power as it pulls out the blood. In a area like the arms or the legs it wouldn't cause that much damage, but the chakra network around organs is much denser resulting in a much greater damage, plus the area around the organs is more vulnerable to damage in general.
Elemental physics:
This is my general explanation on the physics of element chakra. This section has to do with the strengths and weakness between them.
While you can say Fire Wind Lightning Earth Water Fire it doesn't quite work that way.
Yes fire is stronger then wind, because wind makes fire stronger by adding more oxygen to burn. However as anyone who has breathed near a candle can tell you, wind can affect the fires course. So in a direct confrontation unless the fire possesses more inertia then the wind it will be thrown back at the user. If a fireball is going much faster then a wind ball the fireball will overpower the wind ball and keep going, but if that wind ball is much bigger then the fireball it will cancel out the fire. However even if one wins it will inevitably travel slower, think of it this way, if there is a ball rolling on a flat surface and I tap it, it might over come the force of my tap, but will slow down. What this means if that when fire meets wind it either cancels, or slows down and gets stronger with the chance of direction change.
Wind when it meets lightning disperses the lightning. The thing about lightning is its just a concentrated stream of electrons. Same concept with lightning chakra, its just highly concentrated electrons, and the wind flows in between the electrons and separates them. If you break apart the lightning it weakens, that's why Raiton Jutsu are small and concentrated, while you can get large Raiton Jutsu, they require massive chakra, as they need massive amounts of electrons to be concentrated enough to maintain the same damage as the smaller Jutsu while increasing in size.
The concentrated nature of lightning Jutsu explains why It beats earth. The lighting Jutsu slices through the earth due to its concentrated nature. While both lightning and wind are blade like in nature wind is much more dispersed, allowing it to be used for other things, while lightning is concentrated and can only is used like a blade. This concentration is what gives it the strength that wind lacks, the strength to cut straight through the earth. While some of its energy is absorbed by the earth the majority of it gets through as its slicing through the earth.
The reason earth beats water is really simple, earth acts like a sponge to water. It absorbs the water.
Same with water beating fire, water puts out fire.
I hope you've all enjoyed your delve into the explanation of why different elemental chakra's act differently. There may possibly be more refinement or minor alterations, but that's my general explanation.