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Rasa felt the blanketing genjutsu start, even though he gave the order to cancel the attack. Why were his orders ignored? Rasa felt Hiruzen's hard eyes pierce into him as soon as the genjutsu struck, the man somehow knowing who was responsible. The Kazekage began to sweat under his massive hat. There was no way he could pull this off with two of the Sannin here. And then there was Itachi to worry about!
"Rasa, my friend, I'm afraid you have some explaining to do," the Hokage said lowly. The old man hadn't moved from his chair, and aside for his hard gaze, he was the image of calm.
"Hiruzen, believe me, I didn't want this," the nervous man started.
"What's going on exactly?" A asked, knowing he was only seconds ahead of the elderly Tsuchikage.
"It seems our friend Rasa here has seen fit to take advantage of both our treaty and my hospitality," Hiruzen said aloud, never breaking his gaze on the masked man.
Onoki laughed even as the rest of the present ninja either noticed what was happening or fell under the genjutsu. "Really, Rasa? Pulling a page from my history and stabbing allies in the back? We all know how well that went for me."
A crossed his arms in indifference. "I will not get my village involved in another war so soon. Do as you all may but leave me and my own out of it," the large man said as he started to walk away.
Just as the Raikage left, Onoki stood as well. "I think I would like to see how this plays out. Hiruzen, do you think you have it in you to keep beating on these young fools?"
The Hokage glanced briefly at the Iwa elder. "Oh, Orochimaru isn't quite as young as he used to be, you know."
Rasa laughed harshly as Onoki adopted a stunned look upon his wrinkled face. "Well, Sensei!" The Kazekage started as he pulled off first his hat, then his mask, and eventually the skin of his face. "It seems that the years have dulled your mind even less than it has your body!"
Those watching could only look on in disgust as Orochimaru revealed himself. The skin of the Kazekage peeled away in a sticky, distasteful showing, and Orochimaru's own pale skin and evil eyes finally saw the light of day.
"What possessed you to go through with this, Orochimaru?" The Hokage asked, still not rising from his seat.
"If I'm being honest, I attempted to cancel the order during my little 'bathroom break'. It appears that my messenger was intercepted."
The Hokage gave a heavy sigh as he finally stood, making a show of how his old bones pained him. "A shame. It would have been much less trouble for all of us if I had to kill just you."
Without warning, Hiruzen was in front of a shocked Orochimaru. A massive blow to the chin sent the Snake Sannin blasting through the ceiling and onto the roof. Hiruzen ripped away his robes and revealed his old set of battle-tested samurai style armor. The old Hokage crouched, gathering chakra to different points in his body even as he prepared a wide-scale fire ninjutsu.
Onoki smirked as he saw his old counterpart fire upwards, spinning as he went and trailing the flaming chakra of his prepared jutsu from the corners of his mouth. "That poor, young man must have never seen Hiruzen truly fight. If he's lucky, the old softie will be hesitant to kill him."
Onoki realized he was talking to himself, but people stopped judging such things years ago. Looking up at the pair of holes in the ceiling, he continued, "Forget that, I'll go around the long way. My damn back would kill me before they did…"
Naruto looked around as the genjutsu was falling, his mood getting worse and worse by the second. "Itachi, wasn't your announcement supposed to stop this kind of thing from happening?"
The older Uchiha shrugged his shoulders, his appearance was completely calm. "It was more to keep the village from focusing solely on you and your actions, but my presence was definitely meant to be a deterrent. If they wish to forfeit their lives, I can only oblige their wishes."
Naruto blinked in surprise. That was quite possibly the most nonchalant badass statement he'd ever heard.
"Naruto, I would like you to send out a pulse of Presence as far as you can, encompass the village if possible," Itachi continued even as he removed his outer cloak.
A wide smile from the blond preceded his response, "I see. We gonna let everyone know just who they're pissing off?"
Itachi looked sideways at the Jinchuriki. "Whatever you wish to tell yourself. I just want the presence of your chakra to interrupt this widescale genjutsu so the genin and chunin and get the civilians to the safe-houses. It's standard procedure."
Naruto was about to defend himself, but he instead walked over to a bored Gaara. Probably better to not argue with that guy. "Gaara, Root should be here for you and your siblings soon."
"Good. All of the coming bloodshed might not be the best place for me to be. I'm still learning to control my old habits."
Naruto dropped a hand on the other boy's shoulder in understanding.
"Well, I take it this is my time to shine? Why don't you pull a few tails out and do what Itachi asked?"
"Fine, I know how restless you've been watching me fight alone."
Naruto drew on a full five tails of Kurama's power, his new threshold for not needing to worry about time. The power already pouring from his body was seemingly sucked into him, and with a good deal of concentration Naruto released every ounce of Power he could.
The people asleep or falling asleep in the stands woke up immediately, and all those awake trembled before looking towards the now fiery blond. The defenders of Konoha felt a rush of relief, it appeared that Naruto's speech wasn't for nothing after all.
The attackers all had the same thought at nearly the same time. Why the hell were they still doing this?
Naruto witnessed Itachi vanish in a flock of crows, and the first thought he had was, "There he goes to murder with his crows!"
"Really? That's the best you could come up with?"
"Fuck off, we're getting invaded."
Naruto deactivated his cloak and quickly made his way over to the competitor's area. On his way there, Naruto fired off a kunai backed by Gale Palm to save a pair of genin escorting a family from a Sound nin. First kill of the day.
Naruto arrived to see Kakashi speaking to the other two members of Team 7. "Naruto! How nice of you to join us!"
Naruto smiled grimly, the situation feeling a lot lighter than it actually was. "I couldn't miss out on the fun, could I? What do you want us to do?"
Kakashi nodded to the blond's words, knowing Naruto was ready to cut the banter and get down to business. "Sakura, you're going to be pivotal in healing people, so I want you to make your way to the civilian and genin center, picking up as many as you can. Sasuke, you go with her to defend her and the civilians you find. Naruto, I would like you to give them half a dozen clones to help transport people when needed, and then you have to—" Kakashi cut himself off while holding a hand up to his ear. "Naruto I just got word of a pair of massive snake summons breaking into the South wall, with Sound and Sand shinobi pouring in. You'll head there."
With a round of 'Yes Sir!' Naruto summoned the clones for his friends and even threw in a Toad. Naruto held out a pronged Kunai. "If you really, really need my help, stab this into something. I'll feel the pulse and be there as soon as I can."
And with that Naruto left, making his way to the South wall to back up his comrades and annihilate a few Sound shinobi. Sand too, but they were mostly victims of a bad order. Naruto would try to keep hem alive whenever he could.
Sasuke drew a kunai and a handful of shuriken before activating his Mangekyo. And then he led his small rescue team out of the building.
Kakashi stood in place for a few more seconds, mentally counting down the time. Just as soon as the jonin expected it, a body came flying through the wall behind him. Kakashi spun with a powerful kick, ending the man's life in one loud snap of the neck.
"Ah, my Eternal Rival Kakashi! Come, for we have just started and that was my second kill of the day! You will have to really work now that I have two on you!" Gai exclaimed as he entered the hole in the wall, nunchaku hanging idly in one hand.
"Actually, Gai, I gave the killing blow on this one, so we're 1-1."
"Gah! So HIP! Have it your way, my Rival, but I will come out on top this day!" and the green-clad man sped out of the small room, looking for more enemies to add to his tally.
"Good old Gai," Kakashi gave an invisible, grim smile before following his peer.
Those posted at the south wall had put in for immediate backup as soon as they saw the massive snake burst through their defense. No one present had the kind of firepower to take that thing down, but they could take care of the shinobi trailing in behind the beast.
Forces met in the middle of the streets, streets already devoid of civilians. Being the farthest out, people tended to be ready to bolt at a moment's notice, especially on days when foreigners were present. One could blame the last few wars for that.
For every Leaf ninja taken down, at least two Sound were eliminated. Morale was high and defenders fought viciously for their homes. Things were looking manageable, until the summon snake changed targets from buildings to groups of ninja.
With one clean swipe of its tail, the massive snake could take out roughly a dozen shinobi. The thing killed indiscriminately, but twice as many Leaf died as did Sound. To add on top of that, Suna seemed to join in the fight, but on the wrong side. With their allies attacking the Leaf shinobi from both the inside and with them streaming in along with Sound, the defenders felt their will fading.
Suddenly, there was a deep, powerful Whump! As the massive snake was rocked. Almost immediately after, the surrounding shinobi felt Naruto's incredible sense of Power. Reactions were understandably different for each side.
Naruto saw the massive snake from his chosen rooftop. It was at least twice as big as the one in the forest was and would likely give Gamabunta a fun challenge. It wasn't quite Boss sized, but it was damn close.
"Hey Kurama, would your cloak protect me from a point-blank pressure damage?"
"A normal pressure damage, even at full power? Oh yeah. But one using my chakra as well? You'd need six tails to come out unscathed."
"Works for me!"
Naruto allowed the six tails of his cloak to manifest before forming a pair of Rasengan in his hands. Rocketing forward, Naruto almost laughed at the sensation of speeding through the air at a target, just like a hyper-deadly arrow or kunai.
Naruto hit the snake in the side of its massive neck, his impact rocking the beast and alerting everyone to his arrival. Naruto let a blast of Power emanate from him even as his Rasengan finished carving out a five-by-five cavern in the flesh of the snake. It wasn't enough to dispel the beast since the scale of damage was closer to a splinter or at best a senbon, but Naruto's next attack wouldn't give it time to go home.
Naruto breathed in the rancid, bloody air, actually managing to get a good bit of the pouring blood into his mouth. Holding his breath long enough to condense and combine chakra, Naruto turned away from the entrance hole he had punched… and fired off the biggest Pressure Damage he had ever attempted.
The technique buried itself into the flesh of the snake another two feet or so before detonating, doing so before Naruto had even finished his next inhale to simply breathe. The resulting explosion was amazing.
Naruto was flung back as the red-laced explosion rocked his world, eviscerating the neck of the poor snake. Naruto was flung out of his hole, and he clearly saw the state his jutsu caused.
Clearly dead, the snake was somehow standing with its head attached by a pair of skin and flesh flaps on either side of a massive hole in the middle of its neck. As Naruto was rocketing away from his blast wave, he let out a powerful vacuum wave that sliced through the rest of the snake's neck, causing its head to fall onto a pile of its own flesh.
Naruto landed heavily on another rooftop and flicked his arms free of what blood he could. The explosion blew away much of the blood on him, but what was left was still repulsive. Naruto dropped down to five tails, saving the time in six tails for when he needed it.
"Couldn't have done it better myself, brat," a female voice purred from behind him.
Naruto turned and smiled, "Anko! You're back from your mission!"
"Just in time too," she looked Naruto up and down. "It looks like you've started the party without me! You look good in red."
Naruto was wearing a black shirt, but he had to admit the flesh and blood of the snake made it awfully red. "Anko, this is all the lifeblood of a monster snake summon."
Anko shivered before hurling a pair of kunai into the skulls of passing Suna shinobi. "Stop, please, Naruto! I can only become so aroused."
The pair then started their own small massacre. Naruto cut through two to three shinobi with the utmost ease, Kurama's chakra claws giving him an edge no swords could match. He spun with ferocious intensity, completely ignoring the severed limbs that crashed into his body as well as the dying screams of several men. Oddly enough, Suna seemed to make a decision to fall back, leaving their new allies of Sound to die at the hands of Naruto, Anko, and whatever remained of the original defensive force.
"Uzumaki," a masked ANBU said as he approached the blond.
Naruto turned to the man.
"You are requested to provide assistance at the Western Gate. A secondary summon has arrived, and Jiraiya has been recalled to assist the Hokage."
Naruto nodded, then turned to Anko. "I assume you can take it from here?"
Anko scoffed before dispatching three more Sound shinobi. The woman really was one hell of a combat specialist, and she killed with an uncanny efficiency. One man, she had stood on the foot of while driving a chakra powered kick into the underside of his jaw, snapping his head back while forcing him to remain rooted to the ground. Dead. As she did so, she bent over backwards to avoid a sword, cut open its wielder from hip to neck, and then launched the bloody kunai into a woman off to her right. Yeah, she could probably handle it.
Sasuke had killed seven enemy men and women so far, and Naruto's clones had located two families that needed help. Sakura really proved to be invaluable to the mission, saving the lives of two children and one mother as they made their way to the safehouses.
Sasuke stood on rooftops as Sakura and the clones worked their way through the street below. Two clones stayed with Sakura and the two families as the other three swept houses ahead of them for trapped survivors. They had only lost one clone this way.
Sasuke looked at his girlfriend protectively a little longer than he probably should have. She… she was really good with kids. Was that a sign for something? Not now, of course, but someday?
Out of the corner of his eye, Sasuke saw an incoming trio of shuriken. Granted, seeing it with his Mangekyo meant that there was plenty of time to dodge them. "Sakura I've got one up top, huddle down and protect the civilians! Recall the clones!"
Sasuke turned to see who he was up against. Yet another masked Sound ninja, but this one had an odd, purple belt rope thing like Orochimaru had. A jonin, then.
"Ah, the baby Uchiha! Orochimaru has been asking us to gather your eyes or body for him," the man said as his eyes narrowed.
"Orochimaru? We killed him like, three times in the Forest of Death!" Sasuke shouted back angrily.
The jonin laughed. "Foolish child, you could kill my master a thousand times and he would only come back stronger."
Not good. Sasuke would have to tell a clone that the bastard was still alive so Naruto knew.
"That's not the same for you though, is it?" and Sasuke attacked ferociously. He fired off a Great Fireball to hide his movements and ducked behind a wall.
Sasuke saw the shadow of the man and knew that he had jumped over the jutsu, but he had left himself exposed. Sasuke spun around the corner, hurling his own shuriken as he did the seals for his favorite mass of tie fireballs with his free hand.
The airborne man smirked, saw the projectiles, and simply clapped.
By clap, he smashed his hands together with the speed only a jonin would have, and Sasuke could see the waves of sound and chakra fly at him. His shuriken were useless, and the waves hit him before he could get his jutsu off.
Sasuke fell to his knees. His ears were throbbing in pain, and the shockwave had coursed through his entire body. The Sound jonin landed and made his way calmly towards Sasuke. That attack incapacitated anyone it hit, and that foolish boy had left himself wide open for it.
"I've been waiting to catch you for a long time, boy."
Sasuke felt himself regain a little mobility and knew he had to make the next strike count. Sasuke mumbled softly.
"What was that? I'm surprised you can talk at all!"
Sasuke mumbled again, still not giving away the fact he could move.
The man leaned in to both pick up and listen to the Uchiha.
"You should have killed me."
A kunai found its way into the jonin's throat, even as Sasuke struggled to stand.
Sasuke would need a few minutes to regain his strength and he moved to tell Sakura just that. He was on the lowest level of roofing, and he leaned heavily against the wall he had previously taken shelter behind.
Sasuke leaned down and saw something that made his heart stop.
A woman from Sound, leaning over his teammate and the civilians from another rooftop, halfway through the seals for a Great Fireball. Sasuke couldn't make it in time. He couldn't yell loud enough to alert them. He was powerless.
The woman exhaled in slow motion. Sasuke saw the flames licking at her tongue, the flames set to separate him from Sakura. Sasuke reached an arm out in defiance of the inevitable.
The fire was stopped by a purple, ethereal, skeletal hand. Everyone looked up the bony arm in fear, and a few of the witnesses sighed in relief when they saw it was Sasuke.
One female of those who saw the arm went pale. The hand then moved quickly, too fast to avoid, and grabbed her by the middle. She knew it was over. A quick squeeze and her organs met one another in a gruesome fashion, leaving her to die on the rooftop.
Sasuke smiled even as his vision blurred and he tasted the blood run from his eye to his lips. The metallic taste was the only sensation he felt as he fell from the rooftop, utterly spent. The next thing he saw was a clone of a certain teammate catching him, and his worried girlfriend checking him over.
Naruto landed in the streets, his knee digging into the back of a Sound shinobi at the same time his blue chakra claws buried themselves into the man's neck. Naruto had the cloak off so he could travel indiscreetly, but he still made good time to the Western gate.
There was indeed a second giant snake, but it had the markings of damage on its head already. Jiraiya must have started testing its defenses before he was called back to the Hokage. Nothing Naruto couldn't handle. Naruto was about to form the cloak once more, but he was interrupted by the loud sounds of dying snake.
Black fire ate away at the head of the reptile, and the beast thrashed in agony. Several building were destroyed, and more than a few ninja were killed. Black flames? Hadn't Sasuke said something about that?
"Naruto, hello," Itachi said calmly as he walked up to the blond. He was wearing nothing out of the ordinary, a black shirt with his clan crest emblazoned on the back along with dark blue flak pants. He looked like nothing was wrong, and nothing except his hands were sporting any blood at all.
"I see you beat me here. How are things going?" Naruto asked, sending out clones to clean up any stragglers.
"Remarkably well. We've lost maybe a hundred altogether, and structural damage has been kept to a minimum. I heard you took out a snake yourself already?"
"Yeah, couldn't let you take all the glory from this you know."
Naruto was hit with a powerful memory, a signal from his clone that it was important. It really was, too. Sasuke had found out that Orochimaru was still alive, and the youngest Uchiha was now out of commission after fighting a Sound jonin and utilizing one of his Mangekyo's powers while low on strength.
"What's wrong? You're spaced out a bit," Itachi commented.
"Sasuke was leading a civilian rescue group, and he and Sakura are stranded halfway to the safe houses. He is out of chakra and weakened, my clones are requesting backup."
"I will follow your clones."
Naruto shouldn't have been surprised in the slightest. "Take this when you go," Naruto pulled out a blank tag and transferred his last chakra seal onto it. "Slap it on Sasuke when you get there."
Naruto made two more clones, both with much more chakra than his original six, and they led Itachi away. Naruto stood alone, facing a monster-sized hold I the wall. The snake summons had by now burned to ash in the powerful black flames.
Naruto made his way to the hole, and, with the help of four more clones, erected a thick Earth Wall in its place.
Naruto turned and saw three teams of Root ANBU coming his way, likely his backup. "Uzumaki, please may your way over to the Hokage's position, there is a predicament that you may be able to help with."
Naruto was about to comply when his wall was broken down, but not by a giant snake this time. A small horde of Mist shinobi came pouring in the smaller hole, and Naruto internally groaned.
"We will handle this breach, you just go to the Hokage. He is in the arena."
Naruto turned and fired off a single Vacuum Wave before he left. Half of the crowd pouring in fell, cut nearly in half by the wind jutsu.
Naruto gave a quick salute before Flashing away to one of his kunai littered in the arena from his fight with Gaara.
Jiraiya stood shaking, alone on the rooftop watching his Sensei fight for his life. Bodies lay strewn about him, the bodies of those who stood in his way. Now though, all he could do was shift his glare between his old teammate and the four assholes holding up this barrier.
For the life of him, Jiraiya couldn't figure out why his Sensei was holding back so much. He didn't still want to keep Orochimaru alive, did he?
Naruto jumped onto the roof from the arena floor, his face as stoney as Jiraiya's.
"Sensei, what's the situation?" Naruto's voice was calm and direct, the same way it was back when Jiraiya was training him.
"Orochimaru has the Hokage trapped in this barrier, which is being held up by four of his bodyguards. We can't bust through it, go over it, or get under it. Orochimaru has completed his Edo Tensei and has summoned the first and second Hokage, making things even harder. We have to either take out a guard somehow, or hope the Hokage can pull through."
Jiraiya had analyzed the situation from every angle he had. The barrier was too high level for even him, and the guards were encased in it as well. He had hoped that Naruto or Kurama might have a new idea, though.
"Hmm, let me check something," Naruto said as he closed his eyes. They reopened with a fanatic gleam in them. "Grab onto my back, I have an idea."
Jiraiya was confused but did so anyway. Naruto then extended his wind blades form both sets of knuckles and took an offensive stance, even though he was outside of the barrier.
"Hold on tight, Sensei."
Flash.
Naruto was right next to a startled Orochimaru, and his right hand removed his arm once again. He must have been getting annoyed with that by now. Naruto's left hand dug into the Sannin's gut before slashing upwards, leaving three long gashes all the way up through the man's head. The claws were long enough to protrude through the whole time, and he should have been dead by all means.
Naruto and Jiraiya quickly made their way to a struggling Hokage. Hiruzen was entangled in a deathmatch with both of his predecessors and teachers. It was a heart-wrenching fight, but one he was holding his own in regardless.
Naruto kicked the First hard enough to send him flying, and Jiraiya did so with the Second.
"Sensei," Jiraiya started, "Naruto and I will distract these two, you find a way to make sure Orochimaru stays dead."
Sure enough, Orochimaru had crawled out of his corpse, fresh and pissed to all hell.
The current Hokage nodded. Jiraiya parted with, "And If you don't kill him, I will. I don't care if you feel that it should fall to you. If you refuse to do it, Naruto or I will."
With his eyes filled with a new resolve, Hiruzen nodded and turned. His entire demeanor had shifted at Jiraiya's words, and Naruto felt that he was about to see the real God of Shinobi.
Ma and Pa ended up on Jiraiya's shoulders, and the man started gathering Nature chakra. "Naruto, Kurama won't be able to help you against Hashirama. How far along are you with Sage Mode?"
Naruto smiled, held up his arm, absorbed one of his four seals, and showed his sensei his perfect Sage Mode. "I have a collective twenty minutes in this mode."
Jiraiya cursed. "I should have figured you'd perfect it. I do think the seals are cheating though. Genius, but cheating!"
The duo separated towards their respective fights, Naruto trying to devise a plan as he did so.
"What do you know of the Edo Tensei?"
"Not much. Last I heard, the Second was trying to finish it. It is supposed to reanimate the dead in such a way that they can't be killed, nor will they run out of chakra."
"Shit, okay. Plan?"
Before Kurama could answer, Naruto engaged his opponent.
"I'm sorry, son, but who are you?" The first asked Naruto even as he came in with a wooden spear for an arm.
"I'm going to be the Fifth Hokage," Naruto answered, severing the wooden weapon with his claws.
Even as Naruto slashed through the First's middle, Hashirama smiled at him. "Wonderful! I am happy to meet my Village's next protector!"
"So, they aren't doing this of their own will."
"I take it you don't have a way to let me beat you right?" Naruto asked as he avoided various roots that attempted to impale him.
"The only foreseeable method I could imagine would be fuuinjutsu. My wife would be perfect in this situation, but I'm sure that by now even she has passed."
"Do you have a strong enough paralysis seal?"
"No, but I do have an idea."
Naruto formed a clone to occupy the Wood style user, and focused a seal onto his fingertips. It was the same seal that was used on Gaara, but this time it would be for different purposes. On top of that seal, Naruto placed the Four Symbol seal and didn't allow them to align. Hopefully the imperfect alignment of seals would disrupt Hashirama's chakra control enough to where he wouldn't be able to break a paralysis seal.
Naruto saw the wood spear set to impale his clone, and he swapped places. This would hurt.
The wooden hand sunk into his abdomen, doubling Naruto over it. The First let out a sound of dismay, and Naruto slapped the improvised double seal onto the man's stomach. The wood inside Naruto turned back into undead flesh, and Naruto placed his strongest paralysis seal on the Hokage.
It worked.
Both fighters fell back; Naruto due to injury and Hashirama due to paralysis.
"I'm pleased that you managed to stop me, but you should not have traded your life."
Naruto simply activated a three-tailed cloak, and the gaping wound shut quickly. "Jinchuriki."
The Senju smiled happily at that. "Ahh! Splendid! Would you do me a favor and turn me to watch little Hiru fight?"
Naruto smiled at the nickname and was reminded of just how old everyone here (besides him) was. Naruto turned the First Hokage, and he himself looked for his own Sensei. Naruto did manage to catch Hiruzen's use of an absolutely massive Fire Dragon Bullet.
Jiraiya had managed much the same feat, and he was carrying a paralyzed Tobirama over.
"Good job, Naruto! You even beat me to the capture!" Jiraiya complimented.
Naruto smiled back, but he was unnerved. "This doesn't mean we're stronger than them, right?" They WERE legendary Hokage, after all.
All three men laughed, making Naruto pout a bit.
"Naruto, was it? You are very impressive indeed, but we were reincarnated at about a quarter strength. Any stronger and we may have broken this jutsu on our own."
Hashirama's statement made Naruto balk. The very thought was insane.
"Naruto, I'll handle the rest of this with Sensei, you go back out and start cleaning up anyone still attacking."
Naruto nodded before vanishing in a flash of gold.
Back on the arena floor, Naruto saw something that he didn't expect. Bodies of Kumo and Iwa ninja, cut nearly in half. Naruto was worried that Konoha would get blamed, so he moved to hunt down the culprit. The trail of blood and bodies led to the stands, and from the stands into a hallway that led outside.
Naruto took in the scene with increasing panic and anger. His little group, his family, who had shown up to support him were in this room. Zabuza was surrounded by a dozen different jonin and chunin, from both Iwa and Kumo. There were kunai and senbon and shuriken sticking out of various points in his body, and a short tanto shoved through his gut.
Haku sat sobbing, Zabuza's grimacing head in her lap as she pulled the various weapons from his flesh. There was already a pile next to her, blood covering much of the metal. Karin was helping her, eyes just as watery, with her sleeve rolled up and ready to allow Zabuza to bite her arm. Naruto knew that when he did he would survive.
Naruto fell to his knees hyperventilating. His fists clenched and his eyes turned watery, and then red. Kurama's voice came from far away, too jumbled to make out any words. There was another small pile of bodies off to the side, except there weren't any sword cuts. They were killed by Jyuken.
And in the middle of the ring of bodies lay Hinata. Unmoving, blooded, and her eyes missing. If Karin wasn't trying to heal her… that could only mean one of two things. She was fine or…
Naruto's vision blurred, and then he saw black.