"DAD/RAIKAGE-SAMA!" the Kumogakure shinobi and kuinochi yelled as they saw the Kage Box explode. Smoke clung to the area, making it impossible to see through it. N leapt to his feet and was about to jump to the Kage box but a hand grabbed his shoulder.
N turned his head around ready to attack the person, his fist stopped when he saw that it was Darui who had stopped him, "sensei what are you doing, dad and brother are in danger!"
"N don't rush off," Darui looked pained, "something isn't right, I think an invasion is going on."
The genin gapped at the man, "an invasion?" Ko questioned in disbelief, "who would attack Konoha?"
"Die!" they all turned around to see a Suna ninja leaping at them, a kunai in his hand and a look of pure anger and blood lust in his eyes. Bee appeared on the man's right side and with a powerful kick sent him into the stands, where he remained either dead or unconscious.
"Sunagakure is attacking!" Yugito said in surprise, "but they are allies with Konoha! Why would they do this?"
"I don't know Yugito-chan," N said grimly as he grabbed one of his many swords, "but I have a feeling that we're going to be fighting."
"Bee! Get over here!" Darui yelled to the younger Jonin who quickly appeared in front of his friend and comrade.
"Darui, what should we do?" Bee asked, for once not in rhymes due to the severity of the situation as he looked at the older and more experienced ninja.
Darui closed his eyes tightly for a moment, trying to figure out what to do, his eyes snapped open as he looked at his comrades with steeled eyes, "we must protect Daimyo-sama, he is without a doubt one of the people the invaders will go after, if they capture him then they can easily weaken or blackmail Kumogakure! Kill anyone who tries to attack you, whether it is Leaf, Sand," he noticed some Oto ninja attacking a Konoha ninja, "or Sound!"
Every saluted their captain, "hai!" they all spread out, Team Bee heading towards the area where the Lightning Daimyo was at, "Ko!" N yelled as he punched an Oto nin into a wall, "go protect Daimyo-sama!" Ko nodded and rushed towards the Daimyo area, quickly taking out a Suna nin sneaking up on Omoi.
As this was happening, in the Kage Box, Sarutobi was calmly sitting in his chair while the smoke swirled around him, "what is the meaning of this, Kazekage-done, Raikage-dono?"
Sarutobi saw the slight confusion in Raizen's eyes, but otherwise the man didn't seem to be emotionally effected, when he looked at the Kazekage all he saw was blood lust. His eyes widened.
Two squads of Konoha ANBU were rushing towards the Kage Box, one team went to protect the Daimyos whilst the other headed towards Kage, before they could reach the box the two Suna bodyguards appeared out of the smoke.
"You're in the way!" the lead ANBU yelled as he appeared in the middle of the two and with two slashes of his sword he sliced the Suna ninja in halves.
They continued to rush towards the box, they stopped when they heard a cry of pain and the sound of metal piercing flesh.
The smoke cleared slightly and you could see the Hokage's bodyguard, Raido, with several kunai in his chest. He staggered against the wall and made eye contact with his Kage, "H-Hokage-sama," he managed to say despite the blood coming out of his mouth, "please…. Flee." He slumped to the ground, dead.
The ANBU heard movements behind them and they saw four figures emerge from the supposively dead Suna bodyguards, they all went to the four corners of the large golden roof. There were three men and one woman.
The Kazekage appeared behind the Third Hokage, a kunai placed on the old man's neck. He grabbed the elderly Kage and jumped onto the top of the large roof.
"Do it!" The Kazekage commanded as he saw the ANBU rushing towards them, "yes sir!" the unknown Oto ninja sai as they formed a single hand seal. "Ninja Art: Four Flames Formation!" they all yelled as one.
A large dark purple barrier formed into existence, completely boxing in the two Kage. One of the dark robed ANBU with purple markings on their mask couldn't change direction in the air, he hit the barrier and with a cry of pain he erupted in flames.
The remaining three ANBU stopped when they saw their comrade fall, "barrier," the leader said with a slight curse, seeing no way to break it.
Suddenly there was a crackle of lighting and someone breaking the sonic barrier. Two large shapes struck the glowing barrier, but instead of catching aflame, that part of the barrier shattered as the two figures entered the closed off part. The barrier quickly fixed the hole, leaving no way in for the others.
The Kazekage and Hokage's eyes widened when they saw just exactly who had broken through an S-Rank barrier with ease. Orochimaru cursed heatedly in his head.
The Third Raikage and future Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure no sato, were standing on the opposite side of the roof from them. They were casually walking, but anyone could see that they were tense and ready for a fight.
"Attacking your own allies," Raizen shook his head, "even I have to admit that's low."
"Why are you doing this, Kazekage-dono?" Sarutobi demanded the man who held a kunai at his neck.
The Wind Shadow looked at the Fire Shadow with the look of a madman, he chuckled deeply, "I'm surprised you didn't figure it out, Sarutobi-sensei!"
The Hokage widened his eyes in shock, Raizen gritted his teeth as he realized that the real Kazekage was probably dead, and this man was…
"Orochimaru!" A roared, his face red with anger as he started to tremble in rage, lighting starting to spark around him, he was about to step forward but the Raikage put an hand on his chest, A looked at his father in confusion but Raizen shook his head, wait.
The Kazekage chuckled again, he grabbed the mask and ripped it off along with his skin. Instead of the tanned skin of the Fourth Kazekage, it revealed pale skin, golden eyes, small purple markings. Orochimaru of the Sanin.
"Dad, brother!" everyone heard a familiar voice. N appeared on the outside of the barrier, Yugito behind him. N and Yugito didn't appear harmed, but both paled when they saw the two in a stand off with Orochimaru of the Sanin.
"N! Yugito!" The Raikage barked, "get out of here!"
"Dad, Suna and Oto are attacking, what do you want us to do?" N asked as he tried to not freak out seeing his brother and father about to be in a pretty hard death match.
Everyone was silent, whatever the Kage said would affect the rest of the battle. Orochimaru chuckled, "tell me Raikage-dono, why fight for Konoha?" he asked, "you are not allied with them in fact your enemies. Why risk having your shinobi being killed for the Leaf. You may lose prominent Chunin, Jonin, your children."
Sarutobi said nothing as Orochimaru listed off the reasons why they should not aid Konoha, he had a sinking feeling knowing that Orochimaru was right.
Raizen pondered his next move, on one hand they had no reason to be in this fight, on the other Orochimaru had created bases in his land,he had kidnapped his subordinates, he had experimented on his people.
"N, Yugito!" Raizen barked at his son and surrogate daughter, "protect Konoha! Attack any Suna or Oto ninja, don't hold back!" and with a bellow the echoed through the entire arena, "KUMOGAKURE! HELP DEFEND KONOHA!" they all heard a multitude of "hai!" as the Cloud ninja fought against the Sound and Sand.
N and Yugito nodded, "hai!" they both yelled.
Orochimaru frowned, "and why would you ally yourselves with the Leaf, they are your enemies."
A smirked, "that may be true, but you are too." He glared at the Sanin, "you really didn't think we wouldn't find out about you kidnapping our people and experimenting on them, did you?"
"N, Yugito. Get out of here, we have this," the Third Raikage said gruffly.
"Right," N grabbed Yugito's hand, "come on Yugito-chan, lets go kick some invading butt!"
The two dashed off, a couple of cried pains quickly followed as the Suna and Oto ninja found themselves being attacked by the two Jinchuuriki.
"Well then," Raizen cracked his knuckles, a motion followed by A. they each had the same smirk of their face, "shall we get to business?"
Sakura screamed shrilly as an Oto ninja leapt at her with a kunai at the ready, she closed her eyes and held her hands in front of her face, as though that would stop the ninja. There was the sound of flesh hitting flesh and a cry of pain. Kakashi appeared in front of his student, the Oto ninja being kicked into the ground.
"Sakura," Kakashi told his student, "don't worry I won't let anyone hurt you, wake up the others." He motioned towards the passed out Genin who had fallen asleep due to the Genjutsu that had been cast when the Kage Box had exploded.
Sakura nodded and went down to the floor, she quickly crawled over to Choji and Ino, she formed several handseals and whispered "Kai," breaking the Genjutsu and waking up the two thirds of the next Ino-Shika-Cho.
"S-Sakura, whats going on?" Choji asked, as he glanced around the area blinking his eyes blearily, Sakura saw something glint in front of them, "look out!" she cried as she pushed Choji aside, several Kunai struck the wood where Choji had been sitting moments before.
Choji crashed to the floor and backpeddled away from the chair, he didn't realize he was now out of the seats and was in the aisle, completely visable.
"Choji!" Ino and Sakura screamed as a Oto ninja appeared behind Choji, a sword ready to stab the chubby boy.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeee!" a war cry rang across the entire arena, the Oto ninja was immediately punched through the thick concrete wall, and landed in the hallway dead.
It was then revealed that Choji's savior was none of than Killer Bee, he flashed the Akamichi with a grin, "you alright kid? This is a war, ain't no time to fib."
"Yosh!" Guy yelled as he punched a Suna ninja in the face, making him fly twenty meters through the air and crashing to the ground forming a large crater.
"It seems that your youthful Village has decided to help us fend off against these unyoutful attackers!" Guy said with a beaming smile with a usual twinkle shining in his teeth.
The Suna ninja who had appeared in front of Guy staggered back as he was momentarily blinded by the smile, which of course gave Guy enough time to give the poor sap a heavy roundhouse kick.
Killer Bee looked around the area, in the air there were sparks as ninja clashed against each other, all the civilians and low ranking ninja were passed out in their seats, luckily enough that helped them. It would be harder to fight through a crowd of panicking civilians.
Three Suna ninja rushed towards the dark-skinned rapper, Bee formed a couple hand seals, "Raiton: Electric Murder!" he smashed his hands against the ground, a huge crater formed and a large amount of deadly lighting rushed through the ground, turning the compact concrete into rubble, and electrocuting the Sunagakure ninja.
Bee heard a smashing sound behind him, he glanced behind him to see Choji smashing an Oto nin against the wall with a gigantic arm. Bee gave the boy a thumbs up, "Nice!"
N was covered in his Lighting Release Armor, he punched an Oto ninja into the ground before reappearing behind another invader before the ninja meet the same fate as the first.
"DIE!" N saw a Suna ninja running at him with a raised sword, Yugito suddenly appeared kicking the man into the ground, causing a large crater.
"Yugito," N pointed towards a group of Oto ninja, "crisp 'em!"
"Got it!" she yelled, "Katon: Roaring Azul Streams!" instead of the usual orange or redish fire, dark blue fire erupted from her mouth, one of the Oto ninja brought up a water shield, but it did little to no good against Yugito's superior flames.
"Kit!" Kyuubi spoke as N dodged a sword before kicking the man in the chest.
"What Kyu, I'm a little busy here!" N said as he continued to dodge blows. He managed to defeat most of the attackers, whoever he didn't finish off Yugito was quick to aid him.
"You've forgotten something," the great Bjuu said, "think, Suna is attacking. What do you think they are planning to do?"
"I've noticed that they are attacking baka," N responded angrily as he punched a ninja that had been sneaking up on Yugito, but then his posture left his body slack, "Gaara!"
"Shit…" N mumbled, "Yugito, we have to find Gaara! Suna is probably going to use him, and we all know how much damage a Jinchuuriki can make!"
Yugito nodded her head, she closed her eyes and formed a single hand seal as she searched for his chakra, N defending her in case someone tried to attack her when she was vulnerable.
Yugito's slited eyes snapped open, "I found him! He's in the forest with his siblings, there are some other signatures around him, I think they may be Leaf. We need to hurry, Gaara's chakra is increasing by the minute… I think he is trying to transform."
N cursed, "then lets go!" he dashed off towards the direction of their fellow Jinchuuriki.
The two were blurs as they raced through Konoha's forest, they passed Shikamaru who had just finished his battle with some of the Sound ninja, they didn't stop but kept on running towards the area they knew Gaara was in.
They rushed past the battle between Shino and Kankuro, like in the Second Exams Kankuro had been defeated by the bug user, Shino saw them rush past them and gave them a curt nod.
"I sense him," N said curtly as they nearly reached the area where they sensed Gaara, "along with his sister, and…. Wait, is it those two?" N questioned.
The Nibi and Kyubi Jinchuuriki stopped on a large tree branch and examined the scene in front of them, there was Sai, breathing deeply as he clutched at a wound in his side, Sakura who was passed out against a tree being crushed by a large hand made of sand. Temari was at the outskirts of the battlefield, looking at Gaara with fear.
Gaara didn't look the same, half his body was bigger and seemed to be made of sand, his left cold teal eye was now gold with a star and four dots in it, if anyone besides N, Yugito, and Bee saw him, they would think they had stumbled across a monster.
Instead they had stumbled upon a Jinchuuriki out of control. Gaara swirvled his head to the two other Jinchuuriki, a blood thirsy grin formed on his face.
He chuckled deeply, with a small hint of insanity behind the tone, "finaly, I finaly found you!" sand swirled around him protectively but some of it looked ready to attack the two blondes.
"Come on…. Make me feel alive! Let me rip you apart so your blood will stain my sand! Let me prove my existence!"
(With the Kage)
Orochimaru quickly dodged a large fireball, courtesy of his old sensei. He sensed A appear behind him, and was thrown into the ground, creating a rather large crater.
Orochimaru chuckled as he stood up, he looked unharmed, he formed several hand seal, "Edo Tensei!" three coffins appeared in front of him.
"That's!" Sarutobi gasped as he looked at the coffins, the one on the right was labeled First, the other Second, and the final and closest one was labeled Fourth.
"So you managed to complete it, huh?" Sarutobi said as he looked at his student in shame, "you managed to complete the Edo Tensei."
"Edo Tensei?" A questioned as he and his father appeared on either side of the Hokage.
"I recognize that name, is it that justu?" the Raikage asked the Hokage, being as old as Sarutobi, the Raikage knew about the Second Hokage and the Edo Tensei, though Tobirama had never used the jutsu like Orochimaru was now.
Sarutobi responded by throwing kunai at the Fourth coffin, quickly followed by another Katon Justu. The coffin crumbled and fell to the ground, a person was in the pile of debris, it didn't take any guesses to know that he was dead.
"What the… who is that?" A asked his dad, they didn't know who the man was, but they caught sight of an Oto Hiate-ate, A's eyes narrowed, "you used your own shinobi as sacrifices!"
"Oh calm down brat," Orochimaru said with a smirk, "they are just canon fodder, the only thing they helped me was to use their souls for this!"
The two remaining coffins opened, two figures stepped out. All the Kage and future Kage couldn't help but stare in shock, even the ANBU watching the battle – and doing absolutely nothing to try and aid their leader – gasped as they recognized the two men.
The First and Second Hokage of Konohagakure no sato were staring at the three men with dead black eyes.
(With N and Yugito)
Gaara gripped the tree branch that supported his weight, then he threw himself at N and Yugito, fast! The two thought as they jumped to safety as the branch they had been standing in was smash to a thousand pieces by Gaara.
Damn it, Yugito thought as Gaara's gigantic sand arm chased after her, she threw several kunai with exploding tags on them at the gigantic hand, but even with that much firepower the arm wasn't severely damaged.
"DIE!" Gaara screamed as Yugito found herself backed against a tree, the hand smashed into the tree, Gaara smiled but it disappeared when he realized that the only thing he had crushed was the tree and a log.
Yugito appeared above him, "Katon: Fire Ball Jutsu!" she called out as she exhaled a gigantic ball of fire that headed towards the Ichibi Jinchuuriki.
Gaara's sand shield formed above him protectively, as soon as the jutsu ended long streams of sand shot towards Yugito, who couldn't move as she was falling.
The first stream of strand missed Yugito by an inch, she quickly slid down the sand, and she jumped off it as sharp spikes formed where she had been before. The other streams quickly followed Yugito, there was the sound of a sword slicing though things. The sand that had almost reached Yugito was sliced in half and fell to the forest floor.
Yugito landed on a tree branch as N appeared by her, he was wielding a sword and had been the one to cut the sand, Yugito flashed the boy a small smile, "thanks for the save N-kun."
N smiled back, "no problem Yugito-chan, look out." The two scattered as Gaara shot off towards them, this time he went for N. N noticed that Gaara now had a large tail, as he dodged the gigantic arm Gaara's tail appeared out of no where and hit the blonde Jinchuuriki making him crash through multiple trees.
"Ow," N mumbled as he slowly got up, he saw Gaara's hand rushing towards him. N's chakra flared as his lightning armor appeared around him, he rushed forward and he and the hand connected.
N continued to run, the sand being turned to dust as it hit the crackling red lightning that surrounded our favorite Jinchuuriki. N appeared behind Gaara. Slowly but surely Gaara's entire sand hand lost its form and fell to the ground.
Gaara glared at N with pure rage, he suddenly cried in pain as he clutched his head, Shukaku was demanding he killed them. "I won't lose…" Gaara said darkly as the sand gourd broke up and covered the enraged boy.
The sand formed around him, dark blue veins formed, the sand forming in a certain shape. N and Yugito were soon looking at a miniature Shukaku.
"He's completely lost control," N said to Yugito, both looked alarmed, "do you think this would happen to us?"
"No it wouldn't," Kyubi said, "granted there is always the chance you may lose control, but you won't turn into chibi forms of us, well not like that at least."
"How are we going to take him down? If this keeps up we may be fighting against the actual Shukaku," Yugito stated.
"Ehehe!" Gaara chuckled, N and Yugito both saw spittle spraying out of his mouth, N's nose scrunched up and he held up a hand, "okay dude, you need some breath mints." He said as he waved the smell away from his nose.
Gaara crossed his arms in an X. "Sand Shuriken!" dozens of sand shuriken appeared out of his arms and raced towards the two blonde Jinchuuriki.
N jumped in front of Yugito just in time as the shuriken neared them, all of the sand shuriken that hit N either bounced off or broke as they hit his Raiton no Yoroi.
"Why are you two so persistant," Gaara snarled, "just let me kill you already!"
"Thanks for the offer but I think we'll pass," Yugito said.
Even though Gaara's face was completely covered in sand and in the shape of his Bjuu, the two could see confusion in his features and eyes.
"Why…"
The Kumogakure Genin looked at the red-head in confusion as well, "why do you work together? Why do you protect each other?" Gaara yelled, "why do you care about each other?!"
Gaara fell to his knees, "why aren't you like me," he whispered as he looked at his monstrous looking claws, he looked back up and glared at the two, "why do you care about someone who is not yourself! I saw you protect her from my sand, why is that!"
"There is only one way to be strong," Gaara snarled, "I fight only for myself, I love only myself, I care only for myself…. Why aren't you like me!" he screamed, "you are Jinchuuriki too! Yet I've seen you with each other and those other people from your village, you all care about one another, why! Why aren't you a demon like me!"
"Gaara…" the two said as one, pity filling their tones. They knew that they had an easier life compared to most Jinchuuriki, but what kind of hell did Gaara go through that he believed that he was a demon and didn't need love to survive?
Sai's eyes narrowed, he had been near unconsciousness but he was close enough to the battle he could hear what was going on yet not getting in the way of the firepower. Kumogakure had another Jinchuuriki, besides the Hachibi and Nibi? Lord Danzo needed to know this.
"I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL PROVE MY EXISTENCE!" Gaara yelled, a large tower of sand rose to the air. There was a large cloud of smoke the enveloped the area.
Crap, Yugito and N thought as they now gazed upon the full glory of the Ichibi. The size of the Raikage building (maybe even bigger) the Ichibi looked slightly like a raccoon, its golden eyes glaring down at them, blue markings covering it.
"Uhm Kyu, I don't suppose you know how to take this guy down without you actually appearing, do you?" N asked his Bjuu.
Temari was trembling, he finally did it, the perfect possession. She looked at the form her baby brother had taken with fear, she remembered the last time this had happened. In their village, so many deaths, and Gaara was happy about it. Happy to prove his existence.
"Yugito, we need to use our Bjuu's chakra," N said, Yugito was about to protest, seeing as how many risks they would be taking, when she noticed N was panting slightly. She remembered that the invasion had happened right after his match, and while he wasn't exhausted that coupled on with fighting off invaders and Gaara.
Yugito nodded, she closed her eyes, "Nibi, lets do this!"
"Right Kitten!" chakra formed around Yugito, not enough for a cloak but enough to use the initial state.
N however was covered in a one-tailed state, "get ready Yugito-chan, I'm evening the score." He bit his finger and formed handseals, "Summoning Jutsu!"
A cloud of smoke easily the size of the Ichibi erupted where the two had stood. The smoke cleared to reveal N and Yugito standing on the gigantic head of Gamabunta, the chief toad.
"What the…. Where am I?" Gamabunta rumbled out as he looked around the area, his eyes resting on the Ichibi.
"Boss toad!" N jumped down on his nose.
"Oh its you N, what's going on? Why is the Ichibi in front of us?"
"Konoha is being invaded!" N explained.
Gamabunta's eyes widened, "What! By who?"
"Sunagakure and Otogakure, Orochimaru is in a fight with pops, bro, and the Hokage. Me and Yugito-chan went after Gaara, the Ichibi Jincuuriki, we were doing fine until he completely transformed."
Gamabunta breathed out a puff of smoke from his pipe, "hmmm so Sunagakure has betrayed their allies. Very well brat, I'll help you deal with this guy. Jiraiya wouldn't exactly be pleased if he found out I was summoned during the invasion and didn't help out."
"Speaking of that," Yugito said, "where the hell is the perv? Why isn't he helping? He's one of the Sanin, surely he could help take down the snake freak."
Gamabunta sighed, "according to Gamahiro, Jiraiya left the village a couple days ago, something about needing new research for his books."
Yugito and N looked at each other in disbelief, "he left to go peeking!" Yugito exclaimed with a twitching brow.
"Jeez Pervy Sage," N mumbled.
"Jiraiya's habits aside," Gamabunta unsheated his huge sword and held it at the ready, "I believe we have some Bjuu ass to kick."
Gamabunta jumped up high in the air, N and Yugito only staying on by channeling chakra to their feet, and managed to close the distance between summon and Bjuu in a few mere seconds.
The sword hit the Shukaku's right shoulder, for a second nothing happened, but then Gamabunta jumped again as the entire arm was cut off.
"Interesting," Gaara's voice boomed throughout the forest, "very interesting Yotsuki N!"
"What I don't get any death threats from overgrown raccoons?" Yugito muttered where N and Gamabunta laughed.
Sand swirled on the Ichibi's forehead, the figure of Gaara appeared from within the hand.
Gaara spoke softly, the Jinchuuriki could barely hear him due to the distance, "to thank you for entertaining me up till now, I'll show you the real power of the Sand Spirit!" Gaara's eyes were no longer the ice-cold teal; instead the iris and pupil had disappeared, leaving his eyes to be pure white.
"Anyone else getting a bad feeling about this?" N asked as Gaara formed the ram seal and gritted his teeth in concentration.
Gaara then slunched forward, eyes closed, he was asleep. The Ichibi's pale yellow eyes suddenly changed to bright gold, the star and spots swirled before setting back in its place even bigger.
A shriek of insane laughter echoed throughout the battlefield, the Ichibi, the real Ichibi, had awaken.
(With the Kages)
"This isn't good!" A said to the others as he dodged a kick to the head by the Second Hokage. The Second continued on with an onslaught of fast and deadly punches, but A managed to dodge them easily.
Hokage or not, The Second wasn't known for his taijutsu, that was A's specialty. He didn't underestimate the man though.
A disappeared and reappeared behind the Second, he rammed his elbow into the man's back, sending him flying forward. Right into the arms of the Third Raikage.
Raizen held the man in a choke hold, he jerked his arms and ripped the man's head off. The body fell to the ground, Raizen jumped away as the neck slowly started to grow again, until Tobirama's head was back on his body.
Sarutobi was in a death match with the First Hokage, "Roof Tile Shuriken!" he stomped his foot on the ornate roof. A multitude of tiles rose in the air, spun, before shooting off towards the First Hokage.
Hashirama dodged the first couple of unique shuriken, one appeared in front of him and he punched it, making it shatter.
"Doton: Earth Dragon Jutsu!"
Earth flew out of the elderly man's mouth, quickly forming into a dragon like shape. It raced towards the world reknowned First Hokage, who slapped his hands on the rood, "Mokuton: Wooden Wall!" a wall of solid wood appeared in front of the man, making a sphere around it wielder. The dragon struck the wall and even though there was a loud explosion, the wall was undamaged.
Tobirama formed a single hand seal, "Suiton: Water Shock Wave!" water formed around the white haired man, swirling around him protectively like a whirlpool.
With a strangled cry the Second released the jutsu upon the two Cloud ninja, the cyclone of water rushed towards them, A briefly thought a tsunami was approaching them.
"Doton: Mud Wall!" the Third Hokage's voice rang through the area, a gigantic wall of earth appeared in front of the Raikage, Hokage, and A, keeping them safe from the powerful jutsu.
Despite being safe from the water, the entire roof was now submerged in the water, the barrier keeping it from escaping.
"Thanks for the save," A said to the Hokage who smiled weakly at the young man. Before anyone could react, long tendrils made of condensed water appeared from behind the Hokage and grabbed hold of him and dragging him underneath.
Hiruzen struggled to get out of the Second's iron-hard grip, but couldn't. He sensed a shadow on him and his old sensei, and then his sensei was shot away as the Raikage punched him. Raizen grabbed his fellow Kage by the scruff of the neck and swam up to the surface of the water in the matter of seconds.
A was currently locked in combat with the First Hokage, despite A having an upper hand with taijutsu and his immense strength, he was still struggling as even if he managed to get a hit in, a punch that could normally kill a man in one blow, only created holes in the Hokage's body, before the Edo Tensei healed him again in the matter of seconds.
A kicked the man in the chest, sending him flying through the air. A sensed danger below him and jump into the air and onto the Mud Wall as a beam of condensed water hit where he had been before.
Another couple shots of the beams raced towards A who dodged it, it cut cleanly through the hard rock, showing how even one hit would kill a man.
I have to admit it, A thought as he dodged another beam, the stories about these guys weren't overexagerated. If anything they didn't manage to say all of it.
The three regrouped, "Hokage-sama, these guys were your teachers, do you know any of their weaknesses?" A asked Sarutobi.
Sarutobi chuckled grimly, "I'm afraid my sensei's didn't have any weaknesses, none that I saw."
"How do we end this jutsu? If we end it, then they'll go back to the afterlife?"
Sarutobi closed his eyes in thought, "I'm afraid there may be only one way to get rid of them, and to make sure they can never be summoned again."
A was about to ask what that was when they all heard the tile crack underneath them, they glanced down to see cracks forming… and seedlings appearing and growing before their eyes.
"Mokuton!" A exclaimed as he saw for the first time in his life the legendary bloodline of the First Hokage.
"Mokuton: Deep Forest Emergence," the First Hokage said as he stared at the three, the wood growing bigger and bigger by the second.
Then as soon as it had emerged, the wood sprang up and turned into trees the size of buildings. The three scattered as they dodged the deadly jutsu.
Raizen noticed a branch coming after him, he activated his lightning amour and smashed it into a thousand pieces, but it quickly regrowed so fast it did little difference.
The Third Raikage heard a strangled cry, he noticed through the emerging forest that the Hokage had been caught by a branch and was now completely bound. Before the old man could do anything he saw a flash of lightning as his son appeared by the Kage.
"Hang on!" A said as he tried to rip the branches off the Kage, some of them he managed to break easily, but to his surprise some of the branches took a lot more strength needed to break simple branches.
No wonder this guy was so feared, I think I can see why he could contain the Nine-tails.
Sarutobi quickly leapt to his feet as A freed him, "we're even now," A told the old man bluntly.
Despite the situation they were in Sarutobi could help but chuckle, "oh I think we may have to save each other a couple more times for today."
A chuckled as well, "I won't die that easily old man!"
Sarutobi smiled, "I may be an old man but I think I could take a youngster like you."
A's eyebrow twitched, "youngster! Im twenty!" he cried in indignation.
Raizen appeared behind the two and bonked them on the head, making the two fall into the ground, "we can bicker later!" he barked gruffly, "we have a fight to win!"
Hashirama and Tobirama appeared near Orchimaru, both flanking the man. Orochimaru was smirking so much it would make Sasuke look at the creepy pedophile with a bit of respect, not that he would have.
Sarutobi bit his thumb, and did some familiar hand seals, "Summoning: Monkey King Enma!"
There was a poof of smoke, and suddenly the three became four. Enma was tall, even taller than A and Raizen, and was about as broad. His Konoha Hiate-ate shone in the light as a soft wind blew through his snow white fur.
"Orochimaru," Enma said as he looked down on his summoner's old student, "so this day has finaly come, eh Sarutobi?"
Sarutobi nodded grimly, "that it has old friend."
Enma noticed A and Raizen, "Hmm so the Raikage and his brat are helping us out, the times are changing aren't they?"
"I'M NOT A BRAT!" A roared at the monkey, he looked ready to punch the Monkey King into the next millennium.
Enma chuckled, "yep that's defiantly the Raikage's brat, has the same nasty temper."
"Enma transform into the Adamantine Nyoi!" Sarutobi asked his summon.
For the first time in this battle, fear flashed through Orochimaru's eyes as he realized what his old sensei was talking about. He quickly turned to the Hokage, "quickly, kill him! Don't let him transform!" he cried.
The Hokage didn't respond but they followed the Snake Sannin's orders and ran towards the monkey. "Like I would go down that easy!" Enma shouted as he punched the Second through several layers of wood.
The First appeared by the monkey but before he could try to attack the man, Raizen appeared in the blink of an eye and punched the First through the entire field of trees.
Enma struck a pose, "transform!" he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
A black blur shot out of the smoke and into Sarutobi's waiting hands. Sarutobi held the huge pitch black staff at the ready, a smirk etched on his face.
"Hmmm perhaps I should finally partake in this battle, neh sensei?" Orochimar asked his sensei with an oily smirk. He smacked his hand against his stomach and he suddenly looked like he was about to hack something up.
A python's head appeared out of the man's mouth, the snake opened its mouth in the man's mouth and a hilt was revealed. The sword continued to get out of the snake until it reached the tip, Orochimaru grabbed the hilt as the snake tongue retreated back into his insides.
The sword in question seemed to be plain, but anyone could tell by the glinting steel that it looked almost unnaturally sharp. The hilt was pitch black while the blade was long and thin, and looked like it could cut through steel.
"I have this," Raizen said as he cracked his knuckles, "A, Hokage-dono, take care of the Hokage's." his chakra levels increased as he activated his lightning armor, "I'm gonna fry this guy!"
Raizen suddenly appeared on Orochimaru's right, with a single blow the Snake Sanin was thrown around like a rag doll. Orochimaru cringed slightly as Raizen's foot came crashing down on his chest.
For a second nothing happened before Orochimaru chuckled, he slowly got up, he looked at the elderly Kage with a gaze shining with malice. "You may be the Raikage, but you're as old as sensei… let's see if you still have the power to back up your position."
"Bring it on brat!" Raizen roared at the man, Orochimaru formed a hand seal.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough." A huge torrent of wind came from Orochimaru, Raizen shushined away in the blink of an eye, the jutsu destroyed a large section of the forest.
Raizen appeared in front of Orochimaru, he ducked as a dozen deadly snakes sprang out of the man's mouth. Raizen swung upward and easily sliced through the dozen snakes with his bare arm.
Raizen punched the man square in the face, Orochimaru crashed into a tree, forming cracks on the chakra made bark. Orochimaru chuckled, "not bad, but I won't go down so easily."
Snakes, even more snakes than before, sprang from Orochimaru's arms, a dozen went directly towards Raizen while other moved to his side to keep him from fleeing.
Flee Raizen did not. He merely stood there in annoyance as the snakes struck and immediately turned into ash as his armor electrocuted them. "I'm the Third Raikage of Kumogakure no sato!" Raizen growled darkly at the man, "I won't be killed by some snot nosed brat who thinks he can challenge me!"
Orochimaru's legs suddenly disappeared and transformed into a large pure white snake tail, he slithered towards the Kage with surprising speed. But even with Orochimaru's experience and good taijutsu he realized he was severely out matched.
Orochimaru hand landed on the hilt of his sword, Kusangi, and was ready to use it at the ready. Raizen surged forward, Orochimaru flung his hands onto the ground and called out "Doton: Earth Flow River!" the tile underneath Raizen suddenly turned into mud, making the man sink to his broad shoulders.
Orochimaru took this advantage and unsheathed his sword and ran quickly towards the trapped Kage, but as soon as he reached the Lightning Shadow Raizen leapt from the mud and grabbed the man by the neck.
"Lightning Style: Laser Incineration!" Raizen said as the lightning covering him covered Orochimaru who screamed as the lightning started to incinerate him.
Raizen tossed the now dead Orochimaru to the side, he started to walk away as A and Sarutobi saw the dead Orochimaru.
But then Raizen heard something behind him, he turned around just in time to see the supposively dead Orochimaru open his mouth slightly. There was a squishing noise and two hands appeared in the man's mouth, Raizen's eyes widened as a body slithered out of Orochimaru.
The person stood up and they saw with shock a woman whose skin was as pale as Orochimaru's. The woman chuckled, "did you really think you could kill me so easily?" she purred.
Sarutobi stared at the woman in shock and disbelief, for the woman sounded exactly like Orochimaru. The gears started to turn in the man's head, "you actually created it," he whispered.
"You created an immortality jutsu!" Sarutobi looked at the ground ashamed, "I failed you as a sensei."
Orochimaru chuckled, "Kukukuku don't worry sensei you won't have to feel that hopeless failure soon, because I'll finally get to kill you!"
Raizen raced forward once again, his arm clashed against Orochimaru's sword, the sword digging into his protruders slighting. Lightning gathered in the Raikage's palm, forming a deadly point.
There was a flash of light, the sound of flesh being cut, and a thud. Orochimaru was in half, Raizen's signature jutsu Hell Stab fading away as did his lightning armor. Kusangi cluttered on the tile as it rolled away from Orochimaru and rolled in the middle between the two.
Snakes suddenly sprang from the two halves of Orochimaru, they connected and brought the two pieces back together. Orochimaru smirked as he got back up, his finger twitched slightly as Kusangi shot through the air and headed towards Raizen's chest.
The Grass Cutter, a sword of immense strength and power, with the ability to cut through metal hit Raizen's unprotected chest. There was a clink and the sword bounched off.
"What!" Orochimaru couldn't help but gasp, Raizen chuckled as he crossed his arms with a smirk, "you seem to have forgotten about my little nick name. I didn't earn the title 'Perfect Shield' by getting cut up, now did I?"
"Tch," Orochimaru scowled as he stood up, "if I can't kill you then I'll just go for my dear sensei, he's the whole reason I'm here."
Sarutobi clapped his hands together, "It's true I will be dead soon, but not by your hands!" he declared shocking the Sanin, "I may have failed you but with my dying breath I will stop your reign of terror once and for all, I owe it to my village and the countless other victims you have experimented on for your selfish means!"
And then suddenly everyone felt a feezing chill creep up their spines as something appeared behind Sarutobi. The figure made even Raizen tense up in fear, the power this thing was giving off was unnatural and very powerful. Having fought the Eight Tails singlehandily, this was a huge compliment.
The thing looked like some kind of demon from the pits of Tatarus, beads were wrapped around the left hand, a blade in the mouth. With white hair that looked like the bones on a skeleton, the figure seemed to be stuck within being a solid being and transparency.
The thing's right hand stuck itself in the Hokage who cringed in pain; the hand went through the Hokage's stomach and latched itself onto the First and Second's chests.
Forgive me, Hashirama-sensei, Tobirama-sensei, Sarutobi thought as the two Hokage's bodies turned pure white as something took some sort of blue energy from the two, they were curiously shaped like a body, but before they could be inspected further they disappeared.
"Fuin!" the Third yelled as the Shinigami took their souls, the First and Second crumbled to dust, but for a brief second they smiled at their student, as though they knew what was happening and accepted it.
A seal formed on the Third's chest. Raizen and A immediately recognized it, for that seal was what was on N's navel, a part of the seal that held the Nine-Tails at bay.
As the First and Second's bodies turned to ash, a figure was soon revealed in each pile, the two people were obviously dead. Staring at the three with pale, glassy, unseeing eyes. Their Oto Hiate-ate glimed in the pale sunlight. One was female while the other was male.
A noticed the surprise and recognization in Sarutobi's eyes, "you know them?" he asked as he looked down at the two dead teenagers. He noticed that they were around N and Yugito's age.
"They were in the Chunin exams, your genin, Omoi, fought against the lad while one of my genin, Shikamaru, fought the girl. I think their names were Zaku and Kin." Sarutobi said with a voice heavy in anger, he looked at his student with rage, tears streaming down his eyes, "how dare you use children for your own selfish means!"
"Oh please," Orochimaru waved off the two's deaths, "they were extendable, cannon foder."
A glared at the man, as did the Kage, "no one is cannon fodder!" A declared, "I would never use my people to further my own selfish means! You're a disgrace!"
"Like I care of your opinion, and this coming from a Cloud shinobi? I'm pretty sure you've gotten your hands dirty," Orochimaru said harshly.
Raizen nodded his head, "It's true that my village and people may have caused people pain, I've killed many people and made many enemies. But I did it all for my family and my people! I would glady die if it meant even a single child lived. I am their leader, their advisor, their protector! I am the Raikage!"
Sarutobi leapt forward, Enma still in staff form, he and Orochimaru traded numerous attacks. Sarutobi gained the advantage when he whacked Kusangi out of Orochimaru's hands.
"Raizen, A hold him down!" Sarutobi yelled over the clashing of weapons. The two did not hesitate and headed into the heated battle, before Orochimaru knew it his arms were pinned to his back, Raizen and A holding an arm. Orochimaru struggled to break free but found it useless against such strong men.
Sarutobi appeared in front of his old student, "It's over!" Sarutobi barked in the man's pale face, the purple hand appeared again and went into Orochimaru's chest.
This is bad, Orochimaru thought in panic as he felt the hand slowly leaving his body and taking something with him. His eyes had dilated and he was trembling.
Orochimaru struggled to lift his hand up enough to form a seal, hoping to summon Kusangi but his fingers were crushed as A squeezed them. "Nice try, but that won't work a second time!"
The transparent hand pulled out of the Sanin's body with the same blue glowing energy it had taken from the First and Second Hokage. It was not the entire thing, more like the edge.
"The Reaper Death seal," Sarutobi began, "for the effectiveness of this jutsu one's own soul is handed over to the Shinigami, the Grim Reaper. It's a jutsu that costs the user their life, both in this world and the next. For anyone who uses this jutsu or is sealed by this jutsu will spend eternity in the Shinigami's stomach. We shall battle for eternity! It's the jutsu that our hero, the Fourth Hokage, used to seal the Kyubi inside a newborn infant. This is the jutsu that will kill you… Orochimaru. Your soul will be dragged out of you… and you will finally die."
What! A thought in awe and disbelief, no wonder N's seal is so powerful, the Death God's power itself is powering it along with N's chakra and his fathers.
"Your soul is already half-way out," Sarutobi declared with a grim smile. The Shinigami raised its dagger, and sliced the souls. Before eating it, the souls screaming in anguish, before being swallowed by the devilish Grim Reaper.
But then Sarutobi started to hack up blood, the soul still in the purplish arm retracted slightly into Orochimaru. Sarutobi smiled bitterly, "but I'm afraid my age is catching up to me, I have no strength left… but even if I can't take your whole soul I'll take something that is more precious to you. Your jutsu!" he turned his attention to the Raikage and A, "I don't suppose you could lend me a little more chakra? Just a little, if you give to much you may lose your soul as well."
Before the two could reply a very, very, very familiar voice rang behind them, "yo old man I heard you needed some chakra on the double, to take care of Snake Face who has caused all this trouble. Don't you worry you big 'ol heart of gold, I won't let lose just cause your old!"
Everyone turned their heads to see a smirking Killer Bee walking up to them, despite a couple scratches on him and his clothing he seemed fine. What really got their attention was how the hell he got into the area.
"Bee!" A yelled shocked, "how the hell did you get in here? This whole place is surrounded by a S-Rank barrier, not even those ANBU," he gestured his hands to the shocked ANBU standing outside the barrier, "could get in."
Bee pointed at something, they all saw with surprise that there was a hole in the floor, they could see the inside of the building from the view point. "You guys realize that this is a roof? It wasn't that hard seeing as I'm living proof. It doesn't matter if there is a barrier on the top and sides, all I had to do was go inside."
A looked at Orochimaru, "…. You used an S-Rank barrier to keep in Kage-level shinobi for a death match… and you forgot to create a barrier on the BOTTOM of the area of said death match!"
If Orochimaru had control of his hands he would have either smacked or strangled himself, "I knew I had forgotten something!"
Bee did some sort of weird dance as he pointed at Orochimaru, "yo you fool and tool, you messed up big and now that everyone knows it's not cool!"
"God damit it Bee, why didn't you come back us up?" A demanded to his younger brother who was still doing that stupid dance he and N liked to do.
"I was busy taking care of the sound and sand, I couldn't really tend to this matter at hand. I had to watch out for my students and Daimyo, but man can my students fight yo." Bee said with his normal care-free smile.
Sarutobi smiled even though the Grim Reaper had his hand stuck inside him holding onto the remainder of his soul, Bee jumped towards the four and placed a hand on his back, his hand glowed bright blue as he channeled enough chakra into the elderly kage. He made sure not to give too much, or he may have found himself in the Death God's belly.
Orochimaru yelled in pain as his hands stopped trembling and they turned a nasty gray, as though they had turned to stone. "You can't use your hands or arms, you can never form another hand seal again, never cast a jutsu again. You may live another day my foolish old student but your dream has died." Sarutobi said as he fell to the ground.
Raizen and A let go of him, seeing there was no danger and ran towards the downed Kage. Orochimaru fled with his four followers, ANBU chasing after them, not that they would catch the elusive Snake Sanin.
Sarutobi chuckled, "so this is how it ends, dying for my village despite my old age, this is the way I would have wanted it to go." He looked at the dark-skinned men in front of him, "I want to thank you, not only as Hokage but also a stubborn old man, I doubt my village could have survived without your help, thank you… You take care of yourselves, our world is a world of hatred and anger, it is not hard to lose someone important and to become part of the cycle…. Also tell N that I have faith that he will become one of the strongest shinobi this world has ever seen, maybe Jiraiya is right, maybe he is the Chosen One."
"The Chosen One?" A asked.
"Ask Jiraiya, I don't have much time left. Please protect N, he is my successor's heir, I never had the chance to protect him as a child, but it warms this old heart to see you have protected him even better than I ever could," the man's voice grew weaker, "well it seems I'll get to see Minato again, he'll be happy to know about his son, he'll be proud." Sarutobi gave one last gentle smile as his eyes closed, he looked peaceful, as though he was sleeping.
The three Kumogakure ninja sensed some people behind them, they saw it was Jiraiya whose eyes were shining brightly as he saw the still form of his sensei. Tears trailed down the red marks on his cheeks, "sensei."
(With N and Yugito)
"I'm free! I'm free!" Shukaku cackled as he jumped into the air in giddiness.
Shukaku noticed the gigantic toad and the two Jinchuuriki on his back; he pointed a clawed hand at them, "Right away! The guy I wanna kill, you!" he cackled. "And would you look at this, Kyubi and Nibi! Ahahahaha oh I am going to enjoy eating your containers! Your stuck in those puny humans while I'm fully formed, whose the tough guy now!? AHAHAHAHA!"
"Kyubi your brother is a dick," N said to his tenant.
Kyubi sighed, "many of us agree with you, be careful Kit."
"I'm going to jump, get ready," Gamabunta said to the two.
Shukaku's belly grew bigger, "Futon: Air Bullets!" he slapped his belly and an air bullet the size of a building sped towards the huge toad who jumped into the air in the nick of time.
Gamabunta formed a hand seal, "Suiton: Water Bullets!" he spat out a water that was equaly the size of the air bullet.
Shukaku shot out another air bullet, it hit the water bullet and the two destructive jutsu were canceled out as the other jutsu destroyed the other. While the forest below them was suddenly covered in water as though a hurricane had happened, Shukaku saw Gamabunta was still in the air.
"Futon: Air Bullets!" Shukaku set off at least four bullets at the red toad, who quickly spat out several water bullets in retaliation. The forest floor was drenched from the two jutsu.
"Yugito-chan, any idea on how to get the gender-confused Bjuu to get lost?" N asked his best friend.
"He showed up when Gaara fell asleep, I think we have to wake him up, he just needs a good 'ol punch in the face."
N smirked, "punching people in the face? That's my specialty." He jumped down on Gamabunta's nose and looked at the gigantic toad in the eye, "Boss Toad! You got to get me and Yugito near Gaara, we gotta wake him up! Its either that or be swallowed!" N said in his usual rhymes.
"Got it!" Gamabunta quickly jumped towards Shukaku, their heads clashed and Yugito and N leapt off the Chief Toad's head, N was ahead and with a cocked back hand punched Gaara in the face, instantly waking him up and flying off Shukaku's head.
Yugito jumped off the head and formed several hand seals, Nibi's chakra pouring through her, "Katon: Flaming Tornado!" a huge wave of fire came out and swirled around viciously as it struck Shukaku, for a couple of brief seconds there was a scream before Shukaku's conscious returned to Gaara. The fire cleared to see what used to be the sand Bjuu now completely made of glass. The glass shattered into a million pieces, N picked up Gaara as he fell and the three left the area.
Gaara fell to the ground floor, completely exhausted, he lifted his head weakly as N and Yugito walked forward, both were tired but not as exhausted as Gaara.
Fear shined in Gaara's teal eyes, he scrambled backwards weakly, "s-stay away from me!" when he saw the two ignore him and continue walking towards him he tried to escape but he had no energy left.
"I won't die, I won't lose my existence!" Gaara cried.
"Gaara… you asked us before why we were fought together, why we cared for each other, you told us that the only way to be strong was to hate everything around you besides you," Yugito said as she gestured to her and N, "but we've beaten you. How can you be stronger than us?"
Gaara didn't say anything, N spoke next, "Gaara we're like you, we're Jinchuuriki. That creates a bond that nothing can break, we're family, brothers and sisters, friends."
Gaara's eyes widened, "I know that you've been through pain, more pain than me and Yugito-chan, but like we told you a month ago, we want to help you." N's eyes were shining (his shades having broken off during the battle) but he wasn't crying.
"I'm sorry you had to have been alone for all those years, I wish you could have been born in Kumo, sure the villagers hate us but we have family and friends who love and support us. And one day we'll show the villagers that we are just containers not the Bjuu inside us. Despite our life being easier we have still felt that pain, my dad couldn't stop the name-calling and the whispers. Despite us trying to ignore it we still heard them, we saw the hatred and fear in their eyes. Eyes that wished we were gone and never coming back, but we didn't let them get to us. All three of us swore that we would tame our beasts and protect our Village. No one would see us as monsters, but protectors!" N said with a voice filled with passion, Gaara listening to every word.
"If we didn't have important in our lives, people who loved and cared about us, people who we would die for, we wouldn't be as strong as we were now. We may have been like you, we may have hated and cursed them," Yugito spoke softly.
Gaara was having flashbacks of his life, his childhood, the pain, Yashimaru talking about love and how it could cure his hurting heart, Yashimaru trying to kill him, him becoming the monster everyone thought him as.
Is this why they are so strong, Yashimaru? Gaara thought weakly as he thought of his dead uncle.
Kankuro and Temari appeared by their fallen brother, both looked ready to fight N and Yugito, they were fearful of the two. Who wouldn't after they had seen them battle the One-Tailed Shukaku and still looked ready to dish out more pain?
"Temari…. Kankuro, lets go." Gaara said weakly.
"B-But Gaara," Kankuro stopped and decided to listen to his brother, he picked the red-head up. This has to be the first time I've touched him without his sand trying to kill me, he thought. Gaara gave one last look at the two before he disappeared with his siblings.
The clearing was quiet, "you think we got to him?" Yugito asked her friend. N nodded, "yeah I think we did." He broke out into a broad smile and gave his fellow blonde a huge bear huge, crushing the poor girl, "we fought the Ichibi! We're so awesome!"
Yugito smiled as she hugged the broad boy back, "that we did, look out Turtle Island here we come."
N dropped her back to the ground, "guess we should go check on pinkie and that Sai guy." Yugito nodded her head in agreement and the two shushined away.
They appeared on a tree branch to find a still exhausted Sai, and the hand made of sand slowly crumbling away, it finally fell apart and the unconscious Sakura fell to her death.
N sighed, "now I have to save the fangirl!" he jumped down after her and in a second appeared cradling the pink haired girl. Sakura's eyes fluttered open, the colors around her mixing up her vision, she managed to see spiky hair and immediately jumped to a conclusion.
"Oh Sasuke-kun," she swooned, "you saved me! You really do love me!" she leaned her head upwards, lips puckered. Yugito saw red as she saw the fangirl almost touching N's lips. N was too surprised to do anything. She did what any best friend would do in that situation; she punched the pink haired girl in the face, hard.
"OWWW!" Sakura screamed her vision cleared and she saw with surprise and confusion a blushing N and an angry Yugito. She pointed at the male, "how dare you try to take advantage of me!" she screeched at the blonde.
"What?" N asked, "You were the one who tried to kiss me! I wonder what your precious Sasuke-kun will do when you tried to kiss the guy who kicked his ass.
"Shut up!" she screeched in anger and alarm, "Sasuke-kun is a thousand times better than you, and it was you who instigated the whole thing, I know I'm pretty and amazing but my true love is Sasuke-kun! And he won't believe you over me!"
"Yeah sure he is," N said sarcastically. "I'm sure he even listens to you."
"Dickless is right," Sai added, "and I don't think you are soul mates, seeing as he has shown a large amount of annoyance whenever you are within a hundred meter distance of him."
"Shut up Sai!" Sakura would have tried to hit the boy, excepts she was tired and was being held by N. "Hey where did that monster go?" she asked before she gasped as N's grip tightened around her, strangling the girl.
"Do not, and I repeat, do not call Gaara a monster in front of me!" N snarled while Yugito held up her hand and her fingernails turned into razor sharp claws. Sakura gulped as she got the memo.
"Especially since we were the ones who took him down, Gaara defeated and knocked you unconscious in what, like one hit?" Yugito said. "We should head back, I don't hear anymore fighting," Yugito turned to Sai, "do you need any help."
Sai smiled fakely at the girl, "no I'm fine."
The collection of Genin headed back towards the Village. What they found was not good, bodies were scattered around the streets and buildings. Fire was everywhere and buildings had been smashed by jutsu. So this is what war is like, N thought grimly as the stared at the scene.
N perked his head up when he felt Bee's chakra flare up, "come on!" he said worriedly, wondering if his brother was in trouble. He quickly headed towards the arena, Yugito hot on his heels.
They arrived in the arena just as the enemy fled, N immediately noticed his brothers and father and immediately dropped Sakura on the ground and raced towards his family, Yugito following him.
"I still can't believe the ANBU never thought of getting in using the roof," Raizen was saying in disbelief to his eldest sons when all of a sudden something crashed into him, course being the complete badass he was he didn't move or stumble.
"You guys are okay," N mumbled into his father's chest, hugging him tightly, tears of relief and joy streaming down in his face.
Yugito crashed into A and gave him a tight hug, which he heartily returned.
Bee looked at the scene, "hey what about me? Kirabi? Or as people call me the Mighty Killer Bee!" he said using a dance to help his rhymes.
A and Yugito looked at one another, in perfect synchronization they both yelled, "Shut up Bee!" and punched the teenager in the face, making him crash into a wall.
"Jeez tough crowd, why is it that everyone who hates my rhyme is from the Cloud?" Bee mumbled to himself as he fell out of the hole.
Raizen smiled at his youngest child, he hugged him back tightly, "I think I had to worry more about you, did you really think that bastard could defeat me and A?"
N sniffled, something completely out of his character but if he had spent a good hour knowing that your eldest brother and father were in a death match while Bee was fighting in the invasion he had reason to worry. "Still you never know."
Raizen chuckled, "sorry kiddo but you're stuck with me for a little longer."
N grinned, before noticing something behind his fathers shoulder. His eyes widened when he saw Pervy Sage holding the Hokage, who he realized with shock that he was dead. The arena went silent the Konoha ninja staring at their beloved dead leader in disbelief.
The village was in mourning, their Hokage had died, died with a smile on his face as he protected them with his dying breath. The funerals for all the deaths took place a couple days later, Raizen had decided for them to attend, no one argued seeing as they had helpled during the invasion.
N was waiting in the kitchen of their temporary home, he was wearing a black muscle shirt and black ANBU style pants. He had forgone his shades so that one could see his bright blue eyes. His headband was placed on his forhead like usual.
The door opened to reveal Yugito in a black dress, "everyone else is outside, let's go."
N nodded his head and they both got up, Samui and Karui were wearing the same dress as Yugito while the men were wearing the same thing as N. "Lets go."
The funeral was long, as every person who had lost their life was told and identified, the Hokage's casket was in the front, a picture of the old man stationed behind it.
N heard sniffling and saw that Konohamaru was trying to not burst into tears as he stood at his Jiji's funeral. He placed his hand on the kids head and shook it, Konohamaru looked at the sad N before bursting into tears and hugging his 'boss' as he liked to call N.
N felt something hit his spiky hair, glancing up he saw the sky had turned dark grew, rain soon came roaring down, as though the sky was mourning the deaths.
Is this what war does? N wondered, does it just take those precious to us away, make us bitter and sad. He glanced down at the sobbing Konohamaru, I don't like it. What good was accomplished? Nothing, all it does is spread pain and hate. He looked at Jiraiya who was staring at his sensei's casket with a blank and emotionless face, Pervy Sage is right, it is a cycle. A cycle of hate and pain.
The rain continued to pour down on the esembled mourners. At the memorial stone Kakashi was staring at the stone with a blank face, not caring about the freezing rain.
Kakashi felt the guilt tearing inside him, why was it that everyone dear and close to him died? No matter how hard he tried, no matter how much stronger he got, his loved ones and friends always died while he could do nothing to save them.
Sensei, Obito, Rin, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, I failed the Leaf I couldn't protect Lord Sarutobi, I'm still just as much a failure as I was back then on that day.
N watched as everyone placed white roses on the casket, he had a flashback when he had placed the flowers on his parent's grave marker. A cycle. It has always been a cycle.
Well the Chunin Exams are over, and before anyone complains, yes I know that the reason Gaara and his siblings were in the forest was because Gaara's chakra was low when fighting Sasuke, but I don't care. Also am I the only one who thought during the Kage battle, why don't they just brake the roof? Come on ANBU you just stood there.