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Chapter 26

Jiraiya was not having a good day, skip that he was not having a good week. He knew that it was not going to be an easy mission from the start. This was not even because of Sasuke had following them around there they went. Even if was indeed a slight bit annoying to tell the truth. It was the fact each time something happened past this point that it got slowly worse, though sometimes not by much. If Jiraiya could he would have killed the person that had coined the saying, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

First it was Itachi and his partner showing up while he was out doing some research for his latest book while Naruto stayed at the Hotel room working a new Justu that he had taught him. At first nothing had happened till Naruto struck a fast blow catching the two off guard. A fight quickly started between Kisame, Itachi's partner, and Naruto. Naruto thankfully had been able to hold of Kisame for a few moments before Sasuke had shown up.

Itachi finally at this point stepped in and beat down first Sasuke, before decided to deal with Naruto, but before he could Jiraiya appeared to stop the fight, having noticed Naruto's charka flare a few times already. He was able to force both Itachi and Kisame to flee without any more damage to the hotel or harm to either Naruto or Sasuke. Might Guy had shown up a second later and using one of his more well known moves had ended up catching Jiraiya in the face with a kick.

After some talking and a great many sorry from Guy about kicking him, Jiraiya were on their way again. Guy was heading back to the Village were Sasuke would be receiving medical treatment to try and wake him, from whatever Genjustu Itachi had put him under. He would also be getting money from the Village treasury to pay for the destruction that had been caused to the hotel they had been at. Something Jiraiya was glad he would not be seeing the paper work for just yet.

While they had traveled Naruto figured out the first steps to the Justu he was to be working on, Rasengan, and had started to work on the next step. It took them a few more days of travel even Naruto got the first steps down before they had any luck in their search. To be honest it was indeed luck when they stopped at a bar to get something for dinner when Jiraiya stopped in slight shock, there was Tsunade and her apprentice eating at one of the booths in the bar. A few minutes of talking later Naruto started growing annoyed at Tsunade. Not just the lack of respect she showed towards her old position as head of the medical department or even the fact of her clear disrespect for the Third Hokage. No what got him was the fact she laughed at the fact that people were willing to die daily for the village, calling them idiots and fools.

Naruto could not stand it for long before he finally called her out on this, telling her off for each of things that she said and ending with calling her a "drunken old hag unworthy of her one name, clan, or skills." Tsunade very angry at him for this but did not rise to the bait just yet asking what made her wrong. Naruto growled and continued his rant getting rapidly on Tsunade's nerves and at the rate it was going it was going to turn into an all out fight. Thankfully for Jiraiya, and the village budget it did not, but a Tsunade did indeed challenge Naruto to a fight. Wanting to see this spirit he held and used to protect his loved ones. It would be simple rules he could use anything he wanted to hit her, and should he be able to hit her once then she would lose and he won, but he only had 3 tries to do it.

Jiraiya sighed to himself as he decided to be the judge of the small battle. After ending it he noticed Naruto disappeared for a moment then reappeared a second later back where he had been before looked happy. Jiraiya, though, before he could see what Naruto had done was at this moment covered by a shower or dirt that had come from Tsunade. He looked and saw she had punched the ground were Naruto had likely been barely an eighth a second ago. Looking over at Naruto he noticed that in his hand was the necklace that Tsunade always was wearing.

Jiraiya could not help but stare in shock at this. Naruto's speed was insane alright to be able to get that necklace away and without being harmed in the process. Though if he had realized what had happened he would not have given Naruto so much credit. Naruto using the shadows had reappeared behind Tsunade and took off her necklace. But she had caught him as she felt it move and he was forced to use his speed to get away in time. While it was not an actual injury it did show that he was more than able to do what he said.

Naruto who was smirking a little bit tossed it back calling this his win. He did smile though and complement her on almost perfect skills, even if they were rusty. After this he said his goodbyes and left the group back for the restaurant to actually eat something. Tsunade and the others soon followed and ate the rest of their meals quietly able to act civil for now.

As the meal came to the end Tsunade told them about Orochimaru coming to her about needing someone with skills well beyond a normal medic. He said in return for healing his student that he would bring back from the death, both her love and younger brother. Jiraiya just nodded as he finally told her the reason why he had come all the way out. She just sighed saying she would not return.

Jiraiya looked at her closely before saying she would have no choice in this matter. If she would not return both her and her apprentice would be marked as Rogue Ninja and hunted. Her rights and all privileges would be revoked and redacted. She sighed and glared at him before nodding saying if she that was indeed the other choice she would return. But only long enough to train a replacement before she would retire and leave for good. Jiraiya nodded, after all even if this was not what he had hoped for fully it was better than nothing at all. Soon they were off to their rooms and the Hotels for the night. Over the next day Tsunade got ready to head back to the leaf saying she would deal with Orochimaru the day before they left.

That then led to today, which was turning out to be by far the worse of the trip. First Tsunade had poisoned him the day before as payback for the threat. It was not an overly dangerous poisons by any standers just messed with charka control for a day or so. And if was not for this fight it just meant his normal ways of researching for his book would be the worst thing he had to deal with. Then Naruto and Shizune had dragged him out and into a fight with Orochimaru, since Shizune was sure that Orochimaru would not take kindly to 'No' for an answer. And now he found himself facing off against Orochimaru with only half his full strength because of Tsunami slowly weakening poison messing with his Charka control. While this was going on Naruto and Shizune were facing off against Kabuto, well more correctly Naruto was while Shizune was protecting Tsunami. Tsunade had a great fear of blood, and Orochimaru had made full use of that splashing some on her to render her almost helpless currently.

Naruto was having a tough time trying to get even hurt Kabuto, because while the medical spy was not every fast in terms of moving about, he could dodge at a great speed thanks to his training. Kabuto was constantly analyzing Naruto attacks for weakness and patterns and then adjust to them. It showed as Naruto had to dodge completely from an attack from Kabuto Charka Scalps. Naruto tried as again to injure Kabuto again but was either forced to block or dodge himself after taking a swing.

Kabuto was having a slightly hard time though thanks to him underestimating Naruto he had allowed Naruto to activate his sword. But even then he was still able to stay clear of all Naruto's attack even if his head was almost removed a few times. He kept it up slowly staying clear of each attack till finally he saw an opening. It was a small one but he had no choice and used it striking at the seal on Naruto's belly. Naruto though used this opening Kabuto had made to strike and remove Kabuto's head.

The affect were seen at once, the body of Kabuto feel over dead as his head was removed from his body. Naruto though hunched over in pain as the seal flared a few times on his stomach. The seal had weakened a great deal. He could feel the charka of his friends pulsing almost getting out. He sunk to one knee trying to use his own charka so the seal would not break. Naruto could feel his strength leaving him but still he knew that he would live through this, and his seal would be fine soon. But this thought ended as he saw Kabuto rise up beside him his Charka Scalp at the ready.

"But how I removed your head," Naruto asked unable to move thanks to the pain he was feeling and trying to keep the seal intact.

"Blood clones are so useful," Kabuto said before striking with his scalp. He struck Naruto in the head hitting his brain, killing him. Naruto slumped over as his body could no long control itself, Kabuto smirked at this. Naruto, the Genin of The Hidden Leaf Village was dead. "Good bye Naruto too bad you had to die."

With that he turned to leave the now dead Genin and help finish off Jiraiya, after which Kabuto and Orochimaru would deal Tsunade and Shizune. But as he moved away something happened that he did not think would happen. From Naruto body a doom of crimson charka erupted and quickly moved outwards till the dome was about two hundred feet in diameter. Kabuto as he saw the wall of approaching Charka retreated to Orochimaru. Jiraiya seeing this moved over by Tsunade and Shizune just in case anything happened. All of the people watched worried looked on wondering what was going to happen and what Kabuto had brought upon them all.

Inside the large doom of Charka things were a lot different than one would have expected considering they were in a maelstrom of demon Charka. To Naruto though it was rather calm were he stood, looking over his own body in shock. But the calm was not something he like the feeling of, it was eerie calm one would normal find in a graveyard in the middle of a full moon night. It was scared him to be truly honest.

He shivered as his friends who had been sealed into him formed all of which looked worried and sad. At least until they noticed his ghostly form hovering over his dead body at which point hope and a slight happiness before it was replaced with fear and worry. Naruto looked at them and could not help but ask, "What… what happened?"

"To put it simply, you died my young friend," A voice said causing them all to spin and look around. They spotted a figure, no two figures walking towards them through the maelstrom of Charka. A Blue sphere was around both of them, protecting each from the demonic charka that raced about.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked looking at them in shock. They were both dressed in long black robes while over this they were wearing what looked to be a large white coat over this. One was a female with long black hair that was braided hanging down in front of her, calm seem to radiate from her. While the other person had long blond shoulder length hair that covered most of his head. He though looked to be in his twenties while the female looked to be in her forties.

"We do not have time for talking," She said moving over and grabbing Naruto, "We need to get you back into your body before it is too late."

"But how is that possible," Naruto asked but before he could knew what was happening she had moved his body around and soon he was laying on top of his dead body. The male then moved forward and held out something that the female grabbed and put onto of Naruto's chest. A glow then covered her hand and into the object that than transferred energy and power into Naruto.

Naruto shivered as the energy hit him and slowly his body sank into his dead form. It was the weirdest sensation Naruto had ever felt to be honest. As his ghostly body fused fully with his dead body he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and the seal causing him to gasp and yell out in pain. Benihime and the others moved forward to try and help him but they were restrained suddenly by what looked to be spikes of light.

The female then moved her other hand over Naruto's chest and soon the pain vanished completely before focusing on the seal, where the pain then vanished as well. Naruto slowly blinked in surprise at the fact as he realized he was alive again. Though he was not sure how it was possible he was truly alive again. The female slowly stood up and smiled at him, "Well my boy you are alive again. But do not think yourself lucky, at least not till you have learned the price."

Naruto blinked breathing semi raggedly as he looked at her, "what… happened. Who are you?"

"I cannot tell you right now Naruto. But we will be back later to talk with you," The female said with a small smile before she nodded the male. She got up and started to walk away.

"But why can we not talk now?" Naruto asked then noticed that the red charka that was surrounding had started to thin out as it got pulled back into his seal.

"Because we don't have enough time to talk before the dome falls, plus you are needed to finish this fight," the male said before vanishing. The female nodded in agreement before she vanished as well.

Naruto blinked and looked at Cynder, Spyro, Benihime, and Toothless who all shrugged not sure what to think. Then a second later they began to fade their forms flowing back into the seal. But Benihime and Toothless instead of being drawn were turned into pure energy. One of the sphere's of energy was black as night while the other was redder than blood. Then both of the balls of energy split in half, part of it heading back into the seal, while the other half started forming into a tube like shape.

Naruto was not sure quite what was going on but he had an idea. Reaching forward he grabbed at the base of each of the tubes of light and energy. Pulling his hands away but still holding on to them he drew out from the energy two swords, one he recognized at a glance but the other one was truly different. But before he could get a good look at it the charka sphere pulsed one time brightly blinding him before it collapsed in on him revealing him to the world of the living once again.

Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shizune were all watching worriedly. While Orochimaru and Kabuto watched nearby wonder if they could use this, but also ready to flee. The dome' charka output well beyond anything they had ever felt and that alone was cause for worry. But then for no reason the sphere started too collapsed in on itself. Then without anyway warning there was a blinding flash of light that came from the dome.

When they could see again they all started in shock, and worry. In front of them stood Naruto looked completely unharmed and putting out more charka than anyone they had ever seen before. This was enough reason for them to worry, since they knew that Naruto had died. And in the ninja world when someone came back alive it normally ended badly for anyone who was nearby. Then they noticed in his hands he was holding not one but two swords, which a smirk on his face as he turned to face both Orochimaru and Kabuto.

"Let's see what I can do now," Naruto said before letting lose his killer intent Orochimaru flinched at it while Kabuto was sweating a little bit. It did not take someone of his or Orochimaru's brain power to realize it was time to leave. This was all they warning got before Naruto appeared by them and swung his blade to remove both of their heads at the same time. They barely dodged the sudden assault only surviving by year of training and luck.

Naruto laughed evilly as from both blades came balls of energy fly at each of them. Orochimaru was able to duck in time while Kabuto replaced himself with some nearby rocks. The explosion caused by the balls hitting the ground and rocks caused them both get increasingly worried at the power displayed. The blast size was well beyond anything they had found out in reports.

Naruto smirked as he turned and charged towards Kabuto wanting to finish him first. Kabuto shivered from the look that he was seeing. It was the same look a blood crazed warrior whose only wish was to cause pain and destruction. Dodging away he started studying Naruto again knowing if he did not think of a way out of this he would probably die. He at once noticed Naruto's eyes as he studied him; the white of the eyes was pure black while the iris was a dark creepy yellow, while what looked to be white bones ringed Naruto's eyes. He dodged away again as Naruto smashed into the ground causing a cloud of smoke to form knowing one thing. Something was wrong with Naruto right now, something very wrong and he did not want to be around to find out what.

"Orochimaru we need to leave now," He called out before sinking into the ground escaping.

Orochimaru nodded and quickly made his escape as well. Naruto seeing his pray had vanished turned towards the three remaining ninja and licked his lips hungry. But before he moved a foot he fell forward out cold. Jiraiya very carefully made his way over just in case Naruto was faking this. But as he saw that Naruto was indeed out cold he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. He was not sure what happened but as he walked back over to Tsunade he knew he had to get to the bottom of it at once.