Chapter Thirty Four: The Unexpected Eyes and Allies.
Tobi appeared in a swirl of chakra, standing at the base of a table which sat in a small gazebo like area,"Are your men getting ready?" Tobi asked.
Danzo and his new colleague Ao looked up at Tobi's arrival, "My ROOT ninja are ready with the prototype armour, but I've told you that we didn't have all the information for remaking it completely." Danzo explained.
Seemingly ignoring the second part of his statement, Tobi turned to Ao, "And the Mist Ninjas?" Tobi asked.
Ao nodded, "All of our Jonin through to gennin are ready to march at dawn, the Hunter ninjas are locating the Daimyo of the five elemental nations and the ANBU are ready to take the scrolls to the right locations." Ao reported.
Tobi nodded, though Danzo's gaze snapped to Ao as his one visible eye narrowed, "What scrolls are they?" he asked.
Before Ao could reply Tobi cut in, "None of your concern Danzo. Now get to work with the investigations into each of their army's divisions, you have the intelligence reports now form me a real plan." Tobi ordered as his chakra began to swirl around him.
Danzo nearly growled as Tobi disappeared, "It appears he is still hiding things." Ao mumbled to himself, earning a glare from Danzo.
"And you're not? Everyone should keep their ace up their sleeve until it is absolutely necessary," Danzo said before placing a hand on Ao's shoulder, causing the man to look into his visible eye, "You have to realise it now rather than later, Tobi is not on our side with this war, he's just against the Shinobi Alliance." Danzo said before walking past Ao, "Be careful Ao, I feel that we are the only ones each other can trust." Danzo said with obvious promise in his voice, "I will watch your back if you watch mine." Danzo finished as he left.
As Danzo walked around the corner, his expression turned into a dark smirk, 'Better to have these people against Tobi if it comes down to it, and now this Ao will be more likely to share his secrets with me.' Danzo thought with a slight chuckle to himself.
Ao watched Danzo leave and waited for a moment of silence before he sighed, 'Does he really think I'm that stupid? He basically just said I can't trust the so called leader of our own army, and he expects me to trust him?' Ao thought with a shake of his head before a thought occurred to him, 'Could… is Mei-sama alright?' Ao thought, his expression turning hard.
Ao turned in the opposite direction from Danzo's exit, stepping down a small flight of stairs to come to a stop between some of his higher up commanders, "Chojuro." Ao said, getting the younger man's attention.
Chojuro pushed through a meter or so of crowd to get to the captain's side, "Hai Ao-san?" Chojuro asked politely.
Ao glanced around for a moment, seeing a man in a Mist headband standing just a little off, "Come with me a moment." Ao said as he walked around the stairs so that they were mostly hidden.
Chojuro followed along with a worried expression on his face, coming to an abrupt halt as he accidently let his worried thoughts be heard, "I don't know why but I have a bad feeling about Mizukage-sama." he muttered quietly.
Chojuro's eyes widened considerably, 'I knew he'd be the right one to ask.' Ao thought to himself upon seeing Chojuro's facial expression suddenly change to one of dead seriousness.
Ao suppressed the unwanted to shudder of fear upon seeing the expression. A few years earlier before Mei had been officially put as the Mizukage, the enemy forces of the land of water's civil war had kidnapped Mei to try and use her as a bargaining chip.
The died eight minutes later with all of them crushed against the walls around Mei's unconscious form.
"I'll render the target no more." Chojuro said darkly.
Ao nodded, "Good, go." Ao said.
Chojuro took a breath before holding a half Ram seal and disappearing in a mist shunshin.
Ao glanced around, confirming that no one saw his little side-mission, 'So, instead of it being one side versus another, it's three somewhat tied countries against a true alliance... I still don't see us coming out on top of this, if only Orochimaru-sama would show the rest of us what he showed Mei-sama, we might have a little more faith.' Ao thought as he walked back to his place.
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Naruto panted heavily as he leant against the lower part of a tree, his eyes wide as he stared ahead unseeingly, 'How the hell did this happen?' Naruto thought to himself in absolute shock.
"WOOD STYLE: GENESIS CALL!"
The trees plants that had begun to grow around the cave suddenly shot up to become massive trees, breaking the mountaintop around them and causing the mountain to fall in on the cave, causing Naruto to smirk as he looked up, seeing the rocks that had begun to crush the snakes heading towards him.
Naruto looked ahead as Orochimaru and Mei charged at him through the dissipating dust.
*FLASH*
Naruto's smirk stayed in place as he watched the mountain crush Orochimaru and Mei, though Naruto knew that they would probably have acted before they were crushed and they may have been able to make it out unscathed depending on how they did it.
Naruto picked up his tri-pronged kunai and looked at it with both his sharingan eyes.
"Gah!" Naruto shouted in pain as his left eye pulsed with a chunk of power, "What the hell?" Naruto mumbled.
"DUST STYLE: ATOMIC DISMANTLING JUTSU!"
Naruto trusted his instincts and dove behind a tree as he felt a massive pulse of chakra.
Naruto waited for a few seconds of silence before he heard feet landing on the ground, "My my Naruto-kun, are you trying to hide from me?" Naruto heard Orochimaru ask.
Naruto frowned angrily as he rolled out from behind the stump, coming up in a combat stance before he looked at Orochimaru again, "What the..." Naruto muttered as his left eye remained closed.
Naruto realised the reason he only heard the sound of one pair of feet. That was because even though Mei was standing next to him, Orochimaru seemed to be floating weightlessly, even his clothes seemed to be as light as a feather as they fluttered around.
Naruto looked at his enemy's eyes and gasped.
Orochimaru's yellow Byakugan stared right into Naruto's crimson Sharingan, raising even more questions than answering them, "Kukukuku, did you really think you would be the only one?" Orochimaru asked with a gleeful grin before Naruto's battle shuriken seemed to pull themselves free of the rubble and begin to float around Orochimaru.
Naruto's mind raced at full speed, 'The only living person who knows dust style is Onoki-sama and no way is Orochimaru suddenly from the Hyuuga clan, and the metal manipulation stuff is...' something in Naruto's memory clicked.
From the old Orochimaru's memories, there was the plans of an 'ultimate body', the only explanation or research of any kind that Orochimaru had done into a specific jutsu, a jutsu that Naruto knew all too well.
"No." Naruto gasped after the split second of thought.
Orochimaru's grin just grew before he formed the Hare seal again, "HA!" Orochimaru shouted in effort as the shuriken shot at Naruto again.
Naruto sent fire and wind chakra to his feet funnels and shot up into the air, leaving a flaming push of force that spread out and enveloped the shuriken, melting it on contact as he redirected his flight to go higher, 'It seems he can fly, but the Mizukage can't! Atleast I can separate them.' Naruto thought as he begun to form hand seals.
"SUMMONING JUTSU!"
Naruto looked down and blinked before nearly growling in annoyance, "Come on!" he complained as the smoke of the Mizukage's summon had blown away.
Mei hopped on the large pelican's back and placed a hand on it's head, "Let's boost Tsunamu!" She shouted as the bird began to fly up at Naruto.
Naruto blinked, wait, were was Orochimaru?
"FIRE STYLE: FLAME STREAM!"
Naruto turned as Orochimaru shot a stream of fire from the hole in his hand, though Naruto didn't panic as he simply formed three hand seals, finishing on Tiger before he pointed his joined fingers forward, cutting the fire attack down the middle so that it went around him.
"PELICAN ART: WATER PISTOL TECHNIQUE!"
Naruto looked down to see the pelican spitting head-size balls of water up at him, he closed his eyes as he focussed the fire jutsu to redirect his attack, "FIRE STYLE: FLAME CONTROL!" Naruto announced as he sent more chakra to his Tiger seal.
The fire went from splitting around Naruto's fingers to moving downwards, intercepting Mei's attack before being completely put out. The pelican seemed to store up power before shooting the last attack into the mist caused by the evaporating water.
Mei smirked before Orochimaru threw a shuriken past her, causing her to jump off the pelican.
"RASENGAN!" Naruto shouted as he slammed into the pelican's stomach, dispelling it and flying up after the now airborne Mei.
Naruto thrust his Rasengan up through the dispersion smoke at her, catching her off-guard with the manoeuvre before pushing the Rasengan at her chest.
But she was the Mizukage for a reason.
After taking the initial impact to her guarding right forearm, she managed to use a water-substitution to dodge and appear out of sight before Naruto felt himself get slightly tugged to his right by the ring on his hand, "Tch!" he exclaimed as he spun to confront Orochimaru.
The snake man grinned as he pulled out a kunai out of his leg pouch, licking it creepily to coat it in poison before he threw it at Naruto.
Naruto scowled as without even a seal, Orochimaru used a Shuriken clone jutsu, causing the kunai to change from one to twenty as they soared through the air towards Naruto.
Naruto scowled, 'Just how is he doing this metal stuff? it's like he's using magnetism..' Naruto suddenly blinked in realisation, "Duh." he muttered just as the first kunai hit him.
Orochimaru scowled, his Byakugan veins pulsing as Naruto burst into crows, though the snake man paused as the crows reformed a calmly standing Naruto atop one of the few still standing trees, "Orochimaru!" Naruto yelled angrily.
Orochimaru chuckled, aiming the hole in his palm at Naruto once more, "Yes? are you annoyed that someone managed to do better than you with this jutsu of yours?" he said with another chuckle as all twenty kunai came to float around him defensively, "You shouldn't be." Orochimaru said suddenly serious before he flicked his outstretched fingers, the kunai shooting forward at Naruto.
Naruto smirked, blinking off his Sharingan as he let the nature chakra in his system reach throughout his body, "Funny thing Magnet Style. Known only by those who are selected to be Kazekage," Naruto said with a snicker as his skin turned dark grey, "And you not only killed the Fourth, but you worked alongside a man who had the body of the Third Kazekage, so it's no surprise if you were able to get some DNA and use the reanimation, though that's not all of it." Naruto said, muttering the last part to himself as the kunai casually bounced off of his skin.
Orochimaru chuckled as he begun to form hand seals, the kunai halting in midair as their magnetism held them floating in place, though Naruto barely registered how hard that would be to do before Orochimaru finished his hand seals, "DUST STYLE: ATOMIC CYLINDER!" Orochimaru shouted.
Orochimaru's chakra formed a white semi-circle in the air in front of Orochimaru before he slammed a hand against it, causing a cylinder of the white chakra to fly at Naruto and the floating-kunai-cage, though Naruto rolled his eyes as the grey left his skin, "You don't get it do you?" he asked, trying to act tough even though he was secretly trying to cover his doubts on if he could win this or not.
*FLASH*
The grey-tinged Naruto appeared back next to one of his own tri-pronged kunai.
*SQUELCH*
Mei chuckled as she whispered sensually into Naruto's shoulder, "Miss me boy?" she asked with a chuckle.
Naruto shook as his face took on an expression of confusion before he looked down at his chest.
A sword of water had stabbed through the center of his stomach. He could feel that his spine had been basically disconnected in a masterful display of control. He couldn't help but appreciate the incapacitating blow.
Naruto gasped as the blade was pulled from his chest, his left hand begun to glow green before one of Orochimaru's kunai stabbed his hand to the ground, followed by the other quickly, "AH!" Naruto shouted for a moment of pain before Mei grabbed his hair roughly and forced him to look up at the approaching Orochimaru.
Orochimaru smiled mockingly down at Naruto, a glint of amusement in his eyes, "Well well, is this all that the little Kyuubi boy can do? I thought you'd be more fun than that." Orochimaru said before chuckling darkly as he watched the blood trail down Naruto's shirt.
Naruto looked up as blood seeped from his lips, glaring tiredly as he wheezed out a question for Orochimaru, "Magnet, Dust. Both styles taught only to the Kage line of their village," Naruto began, "The Soul Drain?" he asked weakly.
Orochimaru chuckled, "Oh yes, and a few others that I found necessary as countermeasures to your fighting style," he started with a gesture to his new eyes, "No matter what elemental jutsu or weapon you pull out, my Dust style brings your strongest moves to nothing and my Magnet style will turn all your weapons into my assets. I have a counter attack for every skill you've possessed in the past." Orochimaru said as he lifted his hand, a kunai landing gently in it as it floated free from his waist line.
Naruto took a deep breath as he pulled for Kurama's chakra to heal him.
"Naruto."
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"Huh?" Naruto gasped as a projection of his mind palace took place around the three ninja, though time seemed to slow immensely as he looked ahead of him, looking through Orochimaru, "Dad?"
Minato walked to stand in front of his son, "Everything is done! Kyuubi needed a link to you." Minato said before gesturing behind him at the cage.
Kurama grinned menacingly as his chakra oozed out of the cage, "Are you ready Naruto?" It asked even though it's chakra was already swirling around him.
Naruto grinned as the red chakra began to encase his mind-self slowly, "One thing before that though." Naruto began before raising his arms.
Currently, five doors were already open in Naruto's mind-scape, Hashirama's, Naomi's, Minato, Juugo's and the new door directly behind Naruto that had it's light off.
Naruto turned towards the door at the back of his mind-scape as the red chakra enveloped him, "I'll need to close everyone else off, use only skills that Orochimaru doesn't know I have. And for that I only have two people available." Naruto said as the chakra seemed to compact around him, "Myself..."
"And I."
With his door opening all the way, Itachi Uchiha walked out calmly, his two different Sharingan eyes swirling slowly as he came to a stop next to Naruto.
Naruto smirked, "Ready Kurama? Itachi?" Naruto asked.
"Yes""Yes"
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Naruto's wheezing suddenly stopped before he smirked, "In the past aye?" Naruto asked completely normal all of a sudden.
Orochimaru's eyes narrowed at Naruto's vocal change, thrusting his kunai forward immediately at Naruto's neck.
Naruto swung his head forward, using his headband to block the kunai. Naruto grinned as he became eye level with Orochimaru, "You know about everyone I've absorbed, but you don't know me!" Naruto shouted as his chest seemed to expand with chakra, dislodging the sword from his already half-healed chest.
Orochimaru only just registered his mistake as Naruto's mouth opened, "WIND STYLE: MINI-WIND MISSILE JUTSU!"
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
A sonicboom flung Naruto back onto Mei's sword and the two of them back against a tree as Orochimaru was blown away in the violent wind.
Naruto pushed himself off the blade as red chakra began to swirl around him, he spun and kicked the intensely pained Mei's stomach, using it as a pivot point to flip away from her and land between his two enemies.
There was an intense moment of silence between the three of them as Naruto noticed a few things, his eyes shone as they turned red, "No way you could've seen this coming." Naruto said as his Sharingan eyes glowed red in his one tailed cloak of red chakra.
Orochimaru bared his teeth is anger as he quickly begun to form hand seals, "DUST STYLE: ATOMIC DISMANTLING JUTSU!" Orochimaru shouted as he made a small cube appear between his open palms.
Naruto sent extra chakra to his eyes, feeling it begin to align itself easily in his right eye, though the left was a different story. "Gah!" Naruto muttered in pain as he closed his left eye, though he continued pumping it with chakra, 'Why does this one need so much more?' Naruto thought to himself as he heard Orochimaru shout.
"HA!" Orochimaru shouted in exertion as he threw the cube towards Naruto.
Naruto looked up, Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan spinning quickly. Then he was gone.
Orochimaru smirked as he watched the cube expand, 'Don't tell me that's it...' he thought, about to chuckle, but that stopped when he saw a flock of crows flying towards him, 'Ah, damn.'
The flock of crows split into two groups, one that flew up while the other sped towards Orochimaru. Orochimaru lifted his arm, "MAGNET STYLE: MAGNET LANCE!" He shouted.
Orochimaru thrust forward his arm as Iron Sand began to pour out of his sleeve, covering his arm completely before it formed a sharp fang around his arm, letting a lot of the sand fall to the ground as he thrust the lance at the flock, forcing it to fly around him.
The clone Naruto stopped circling Orochimaru and leapt forward to attack, it's Sharingan-augumented Genjutsu keeping him hidden in the flock of birds.
Orochimaru spotted a change out of the corner of his eye, a crow appeared out of thin air and shot at his side, his blocked it with his lance and it disappeared, but a second later, he was hit in the back of the head by another crow that faded upon contact.
Orochimaru shouted in anger as he span quickly, "IRON SAND: UNLEASH!" He shouted, throwing the lance out in a ring that dispersed the whole flock of crows, meaning the clone Naruto was hit and dispersed.
"GRAND DEMONIC RASEN-NOVA!" Naruto shouted as a flock of birds carried forth an Akimichi-sized sun.
Orochimaru scowled and aimed his palm at Naruto, "SUMMONING JUTSU: MANDA!"
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Naruto stood in a defensive stance as he looked around the smoke and dust cloud, ignoring the obliterated corpse of the now late Snake Boss Summon as he glared angrily into the dust cloud, "You killed Manda-sama?!" Naruto shouted as he tried to keep his emotions in control.
'Naruto, you need to stay calm or our connection will be lost.'
Naruto nodded to himself, 'Right, sorry Kurama.' he thought as he took a steadying breath.
Naruto opened his eyes and his Sharingan span as he looked at a chakra signature that was charging him through the smoke, he formed hand seals, "FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!" Naruto shouted.
The massive fireball forced it's way through the smoke and the ground due to it's size, but it only served as a warning to Naruto when the clone he targeted dispelled on impact.
"LAVA STYLE: LAVA MONSTER JUTSU!"
Naruto turned to see a massive glob of lava falling towards him, causing him to smirk as he felt Mei's chakra signature still in midair, "Let's go Kurama!" he said before leaping up at the lava.
Mei's eyes widened when Naruto's chakra tail slashed the lava glob into two halves so that he could get to her, but seeing what else was coming towards her, she brought her hand to her lips to bring out her water whip.
Orochimaru fell down on an intercepting course with Naruto, slashing one of the boy's own shuriken at him at the same time Mei's water whip lashed out.
*CLANG*
Naruto's tail had whipped around, blocking Orochimaru's attack for a moment as Mei's water evaporated against the demonic chakra.
Naruto's pupils rounded out as he channelled all the chakra of the one tailed form into his core, 'Got them now!' Naruto thought as he began to spin at ridiculously high speeds.
"DEMONIC ROTATION!"
Naruto's burning red chakra shell slammed into Orochimaru, throwing him off only to reveal it was a Mud clone as his chakra grinded into Mei before throwing her away, 'I may have lost the chakra shell but there's no way she'll survive that!' Naruto thought to himself before she once more splashed as a clone, 'Aha! Its the silent killing! Which means-!' Naruto thought as he formed a single handed seal.
*POOF*
Naruto's clone appeared back-to-back with the original, swinging a fist to match Mei's straight on as the original sprinted away from his clone and formed another seal, "GREAT CLONE EXPLOSION!"
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Naruto smirked, receiving the memories of his clone and seeing the beginnings of the Mizukage being hit directly with the massive explosion. The only problem was that his now even his chakra chakra shell used the very last of it's energy protecting him from it.
Naruto finished his spin and the red chakra shell dissipated, his Sharingan looking through the rubble as he tried to reconnect with Kurama's chakra, 'Yes! One down!' he thought successfully as the Mizukage was flung limply away.
Naruto leapt back towards the beach, avoiding a few taijutsu strikes from Orochimaru before Naruto blurred in a masterful display of the shunshin and slammed his knee into the snake's face, only for the mud clone to explode in a sticky substance that stuck him still for a few moments. Naruto was just about to send chakra throughout his system to break out, but he realised that four more mud clones were falling towards him.
"One More!" Naruto shouted as he spun again, though this time using fire chakra only, "SOLAR ROTATION!" Naruto shouted as he completely burnt out the area around him.
Naruto came to a stop in his spin and took a moment to admire the glass-crater he had made from super heating the sand on the beach he stood on, but that changed as he looked up to his enemies, only to raise a brow at what he was seeing Orochimaru doing, 'Oooookay...' Naruto thought awkwardly.
From his point of view, Orochimaru was kissing the burnt and near-dead Mizukage mid-fight... how was he supposed to deal with that? Wait? Attack anyway?
Naruto blinked again, realising that he had been successfully distracted for a few seconds, but before he moved to charge, he glanced behind him to the coastal area of the beach and the chakra signature that was flying towards them.
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As Orochimaru sent a mud clone to charge at the leaf child, he caught Mei in his arms and placed her on her back quickly to see if her injuries were too bad, "Mei? Can you fight?" Orochimaru asked as her eyes seemed to focus on him.
"SOLAR ROTATION!"
Orochimaru looked up and his eyes widened as he saw the technique, 'What? There's no intelligence suggesting he absorbed a Hyuuga member.' Orochimaru thought before he felt a soft hand on his cheek.
"Orochi...kun."
Looking down, Orochimaru's eyes widened as Mei's lips encased his own, causing the saliva on his lips to evaporate instantly for the second before she fell weakly.
Orochimaru looked down at Mei before sighing, "Better not be dead." Orochimaru says as he stands, ignoring as her somewhat limp and very much burnt body rolled from his grip.
Naruto's eye hardened as Orochimaru was about to step over her body.
"YOU SLIMY BASTARD!"
Naruto and Orochimaru looked over towards the coast at the same time before a solid wall of chakra appeared and blasted the two of them back much to their shock, throwing them far into the distance.
Naruto flipped around in mid-air, his chakra cloak taking the force from the blow and disappearing for a tense.
Naruto raised a brow as he stared at the man who launched the super-powered attack, "Stumpy Swordsman?" Naruto asked, using his own nickname for the person he saw.
Chojuro fell to his knees next to the Mizukage, tears in his eyes as Hiramakarei fell to the ground next to him, "Mei-sama?" he asked quietly before grabbing her bloody shoulders.
Naruto couldn't help it, his Sharingan zoomed in and refocussed the two of them, allowing him to see them clearly as well as lip read.
Chojuro's face was twisted in an expression of pure fear and pain as he shook her shoulders, "MEI! WAKE UP!" Chojuro screamed.
Naruto's heart broke as he heard the pain in Chojuro's voice, knowing full well what it meant because he had felt the same thing the moment he lost her, "Oh...kid..." Naruto mumbled sadly as he shook his head.
Chojuro's glasses were fogged up as he cried, giving up shaking the still woman's shoulders as he fell face first into her chest, his eyes streaming tears as he cried, "Mei-chan...Please don't die...please..." he cried, whispering the last part to himself.
"...Chojuro-kun?"
Chojuro looked at the weak Kage as her one good arm came up to remove his foggy glasses, "Don't...cry for me...Cho..." Mei said weakly before her arm fell again.
Chojuro's eyes welled up with more tears as his glasses shattered on the ground, "MEI-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" He yelled in anger and frustration.
Naruto was pulled from his observation as he felt an intense amount of heat behind him, causing him to turn in midair and see a massive Fireball Jutsu flying at him. Naruto scowled as he held a hand forward towards the ball.
*BOOM*
The smoke cleared to show Naruto's chakra cloak was back in place, throwing the flames away instead of burning to death. Naruto nodded to himself, before he felt his left Sharingan eye seem to settle, 'Perfect timing.' Naruto thought calmly as he glared forward at Orochimaru.
Naruto opened his left eye and gasped, "HOLY SHIT!" Naruto said in shock.
Orochimaru ignored Naruto's outburst as he got inside the boy's guard. He threw forward a punch that he knew Naruto was unfamiliar with as it was part of the black mamba style.
Naruto caught his fist.
Orochimaru barely paused as his mouth opened and a snake dove forward to bite at Naruto's neck, 'Yesss!' Orochimaru hissed in victory in his mind.
*BOOOOOOOOOM*
*BAM*
Orochimaru wheezed out in pain as he began to register that he had been embedded into a rock wall, 'What just happened?' Orochimaru thought to himself before looking up at his enemy.
Naruto's chakra cloak began to wrap around him, changing from red to gold slowly before it suddenly snapped into place, showing Naruto in a golden chakra cloak just like when he fought Pein, though Naruto reached up and pulled the right side of his headband down.
Orochimaru's eyes narrowed at the movement, 'Why would he cover up the one eye he's had open this whole time? What's the difference between them?' he thought as his mind raced, though he brought up his sound gauntlet just in case.
*FLASH*
Orochimaru's enhanced eyes strained as they barely registered the golden streak of chakra that rushed up to him before Naruto placed his hands on either side of the sound gauntlet, "RASENGAN!" Naruto exclaimed quickly.
"AAAHHH!" with a pained shout, Orochimaru's arm was ripped off.
Naruto smirked as he grabbed the arm and flashed away with the pure speed given to him by the chakra cloak, "Hm, need a hand Snake?" Naruto said mockingly as he let his hair keep his left eye hidden.
Orochimaru scowled angrily before a new arm burst forth, though this time it looked like a completely normal arm if you ignored the slime, "Stupid child..." Orochimaru began before he began to feel a source of heat coming into existence in front of him.
Naruto looked up with the Eternal Mangekyou Eye gifted to him by the combination of Shisui and Itachi's Mangekyou eyes, seeing not only his enemy's chakra, but the way the nature chakra around him seemed to be getting slowly pulled towards his enemy's chest, 'Well, better place to target then any,' Naruto thought as his EMS span, "AMATERASU!" Naruto shouted.
Luckily for Orochimaru, they had disregarded Chojuro.
A giant hammer of chakra slammed into Orochimaru, literally throwing him out of the way of the black flames mere milliseconds before it ignited the man, though the glasses-wearing young adult didn't let up, "I'LL KILL YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!" Chojuro screamed as he leapt over the black fire to once more attack at Orochimaru.
Orochimaru rolled his eyes as if the blow had done no damage, "Don't get in the way of a real fight child." Orochimaru said as he weaved around the attack with ease, using the Anaconda Style to disarm Chojuro and move behind him with his hand in a stabbing motion.
Naruto's eyes widened, recognising the movement instantaneously.
And then, Chojuro was decapitated.
Naruto stared in shock as Chojuro's head rolled to the ground, 'This...' he thought before seeing the now discarded Hiramakarei, '...Is the perfect chance.' Naruto thought with a smirk.
And then he coughed up blood.
Naruto turned with wide eyes to see that Mei had thrown the kunai that was now sticking into his right lung from behind, 'Damn this chick is resilient.' Naruto thought as with a pulse of chakra, the kunai was forced free.
Mei's eyes once more fluttered shut, though Naruto ignored that in favour of letting medical chakra move throughout his body and centralise on his back and seeping into the torn flesh. He forced a single hard cough and spat out a mouthful of blood as his opponent came to a stop facing him, "What now Orochimaru? Your girl is of no use and I've got friends incoming." Naruto said with a smirk.
Orochimaru shook his head as he casually kicked Chojuro's head out of his way, "Actually, now I don't have to hold back." Orochimaru said with a wide grin as his breathing increased exponentially.
Naruto's eye narrowed as his EMS span at high speed, "AMATERASU!" Naruto shouted.
Orochimaru disappeared from his sight before he noticed a white blur to his left, a blur that now sported four horns, "SAGE ART: VENOM FOG!" Orochimaru shouted as he began to spit out a thick putrid green fog cloud, similar to the poison fog jutsu.
Naruto's eye narrowed as he felt a spark of instinct from his new eye.
Orochimaru smirked as he saw Naruto become enveloped in the fog without the sign of a yellow flash, 'Finally!' Orochimaru thought as he dove into the fog...
...Only to come out the other side with no trouble.
"Tch!" Orochimaru semi-hissed before turning to look back through the now fading cloud.
Naruto smirked as he appeared from the lightning fast Shunshin - tricking Orochimaru by dropping the golden cloak to disappear in the mist - and kicked downwards onto the tip of Hiramakarei and causing it to flip up so that he could catch one of the handles of the blade. Naruto looked at it for a moment and smirked, "Huh, you're a little bit alive too aren't you?" Naruto asked the 'sword'.
The sword seemed to shudder in Naruto's hand, "Giigiiiii gi!" It said in a slighter deeper voice than Samehada. That's when Naruto noticed something else and his smirk turned to a grin, 'Yes! It's not made of metal! It really is a Ceramic chakra blade!' Naruto thought to himself as he brought to sword up to his face, looking through the hole to see Orochimaru was facing him once more, "Hiramekarei, please, work with me here." Naruto whispered.
Orochimaru growled as he pulled back his oddly scaly arm, "SAGE STYLE: KING COBRA STRIKE!"
Naruto's gaze sharpened as a single massive King Cobra shot from Orochimaru's sleeve, but Naruto sent his chakra into his new sword, "HAAA!" Naruto shouted as he slashed through the air.
The chakra shot forth from the blade adding a ridiculous amount of length to the blade as he slashed down at the Cobra.
Orochimaru shouted in pain as his other modified arm was hacked through at the elbow, though that didn't deter Orochimaru as he spat out a new body from his mouth, both arms back and functioning, but without their additional enhancements as scales cracked along the skin of his entire body.
Naruto grinned, "Yeah!" Naruto shouted before throwing himself towards Orochimaru as he channelled chakra into the heavy weapon.
Orochimaru's cheeks bulged as Naruto came at him, "WIND STYLE: GREAT BREAKTHROUGH!" Orochimaru shouted before spewing forth a massively powerful wall of wind.
Naruto shared his thoughts with the mind in his new sword and the blue chakra formed the long blade of chakra again, which he used to try and stab through the wind technique at the snake user.
Only for the snake to fall to the ground as a Mud Clone.
Naruto groaned in annoyance as he used chakra to stick himself to the ground as the wind hit him, it wasn't even painful, but it was powerful. The jutsu moved past and Naruto turned around to face Mei again as he felt his enemy's signature.
Orochimaru placed a hand on the side of Mei's cheeks as her eyes fluttered, 'Good, even if her brain isn't working it's her chakra network I'm focussed on.' Orochimaru said as he formed three hand seals.
Naruto's eye widened in recognition of the seals, "NO!" Naruto shouted as his cloak reignited thanks to Kurama and let him shoot at Orochimaru at maximum speed.
"NINJA ART: SOUL DRAIN!"
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Ao closed his eyes as he felt the seal in his pocket stop releasing chakra, 'Mei-sama is dead,' he thought before smiling softly, 'Finally, now that I'm in charge I can rule with an eyes unclouded.' he thought as half of his face was suddenly bulging with veins.
Ao moved silently through the group of ninja, placing a hand lightly on the back of a handful of his mist ninjas who nodded in response and began to move as well so that they were heading towards the outskirts of the army of white Zetsu and ROOT ninja.
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The ninja armies clashed.
Tobi looked down at the insects from his place atop a large rock formation. ROOT versus Leaf, Zetsu versus Cloud, Mist versus Stone and Sand sealing the reanimated. War was here, his war.
And he controlled all the pieces.
Tobi's Rinnegan eye flashed as six shadowy figures stood up behind him, "The Six Paths of Pein, Reborn." Tobi said to himself before gesturing forward with his Ganbai, "GO!" he ordered.
The group leapt forward, the four ex Jinchuuriki letting the fifth person take the lead as the redheaded woman slammed her hands on the ground at the time of impact.
Kushina Uzumaki looked up with one Sharingan and one Rinnegan eye, "CHAKRA CHAINS: PIERCE!"
In a single moment, ninety ninja from either side were cut through from the red chakra chains that came up from the ground, and Tobi's laughter echoed menacingly.
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Orochimaru opened his eyes as his hair gained a dark auburn tinge to the end of it, "Hmhmhm, I thought so," he said with a chuckle as he raised his left hand above his head, "My sage mode let's my mind handle the stress so that I won't be weakened, and now." He said as his raised hand formed a one handed Ram seal, "HIDDEN MIST JUTSU!"
Orochimaru formed a thick mist that caused Naruto to raise his brow before grinning, 'Wow, he's just signed his own death warrant.' Naruto said as he raised his headband to show both eyes.
Placing Hiramakarei on his back, Naruto knelt into a crouch and closed his eyes, 'He can see me with Sage mode and his mind will be focussed on his newest absorption, therefore he'll strike using the Silent Killing.' Naruto thought before he threw his hands out to the side.
"EXPLOSIVE WAVE!"
*BOOOOOOOOOM*
Naruto blew a gap in the mist around him while simultaneously forcing Orochimaru to halt in his charge as Naruto looked up and opened his mouth, "FIRE STYLE: PHOENIX FLOWER JUTSU!" Naruto shouted as he began to spit forth the balls of flame.
But Orochimaru was ready as he spewed forth his own technique, "LAVA STYLE: LAVA BALL JUTSU!"
Naruto disappeared in a golden blur as his small fireballs were destroyed easily, appearing behind Orochimaru as the man was already mid spin to attack him as he appeared. Naruto raised his arm in a block before lashing out with a kick to the snake's legs.
Orochimaru shifted his leg to block the hit before throwing a punch at Naruto, who in a very Uchiha like movement spun along the extending arm of his enemy and elbowed him in the face, only for Orochimaru to splatter as another mud clone.
Naruto sighed as the mist once more seeped in and Orochimaru was gone, though Naruto turned quickly as he heard a familiar sound of one of his shuriken tearing through the air, he turned as he swung his left hand on a collision course with the shuriken.
*POOF*
Naruto smirked as he resealed the shuriken in his ring, taking Orochimaru's weapon away and clearing the way for him to notice a bright light following the weapon, "LAVA STYLE: LAVA MONSTER JUTSU!"
Naruto nearly panicked before he blurred out of the way in a streak of gold, the heat from the technique actually managing to burn him slightly from just proximity alone. But Naruto felt his skin heal underneath his chakra cloak in only a few seconds.
Naruto smirked as he felt Orochimaru begin to move towards him in the mist, 'This is my chance, before he fully assimilates her techniques I can end this with a single glance.' he thought as he channelled chakra into his left eye.
Naruto dove towards the beach and began sprinting towards the water as if he was sdesperate, "I WON'T LET YOU!" He heard Orochimaru shout before the impending chakra signature lunged at his back.
Naruto span as his EMS span, letting orochimaru stab a hand through his right shoulder so that he could look into Orochimaru's eyes, "KOTOATSUKAMI!"
Orochimaru limply fell to the ground in front of Naruto as he fell back and Orochimaru's hand pulled free of his body. There was a few moments of silence before the two rolled away from each other.
Naruto smirked and stood as his golden cloak dissipated, causing Orochimaru to suddenly snap into realisation with a slightly blank look on his face, "Orochimaru... what do you want to do?" Naruto asked, hoping that his technique worked again like it had with Itachi.
Orochimaru looked at Naruto with a curious expression, "What I've always done, protect the Leaf village and it's interests with my life." Orochimaru promised with a smirk and a chuckle.
Naruto couldn't help the grin that grew on his face before he fell back in pain, but in a moment he had grabbed his shoulder with his other hand and began to heal himself, "You're strong y'know, any last minute tricks you want to whip out before we head off to help Tsunade-Baachan?" Naruto asked.
Orochimaru smirked slightly before his eyes rolled back into his head. He stepped forward as if shedding his skin and in a single moment, Naruto realised that his arms were back to their powered-up state. Naruto raised a brow as orochimaru pulled out another scroll, unsealing a Sound Gauntlet for his arm and another scroll, "What's that for?" Naruto asked again.
Orochimaru looked down at the scroll, "It's my newest theoretical Reanimation Scroll, I planned to use it to bring back my theorised ultimate team." Orochimaru explained before coming a to stop next to Naruto while he placed the scroll back into his pouch.
Naruto smirked and accepted the help up as Orochimaru then glanced out over the small sea between them and the main battlefield.
"So... the Snake Sannin returns along with the Sixth Hokage!" Naruto exclaimed, earning an exasperated sigh from Orochimaru who formed a few hand seals.
Naruto glanced behind him as five Battle Shuriken and ten or so tri-pronged Kunai flew at them, but they stopped easily in the air as Orochimaru let Naruto begin to seal them, "Oh yeah, I have a question for you Orochimaru." Naruto said curiously.
Orochimaru raised a brow at his new companion, "And that would be?" he asked.
"How did you go into sage mode while moving?" Naruto asked as he sealed the last Shuriken into his pants seal and began on the kunai.
Orochimaru chuckled as he lifted lifted his shirt up and over his head, leaving him in nothing but a mesh belly-top and revealing something on his stomach.
Naruto nearly barfed.
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"Move out!" Danzo ordered as all of his army began to take formation.
"SEALING ART!"
Everyone turned suddenly at Ao's voice as he slammed a seal onto the ground along with a handful of other ninjas.
Ao smiled, knowing that the seal he was about to use would ensnare the whole army until he could tell that the Mist village was to stop it's assault.
"LIGHTNING BARRI-"
*SQUELSH*
Ao gasped as Danzo held him up, "Too bad, you would've been useful." he whispered into Ao's ear before ripping his kunai out of the man's throat.
The army looked up at Danzo in shock before the man turned to the army and held up a fake 'Shinobi' headband, "He worked for the enemy! See how they try to manipulate everyone!" Danzo shouted, earning an angered shout from the Mist ninjas before one of the Clan Heads stepped up.
"Danzo-sama! What do we do?!" He shouted, secretly under a Genjutsu to make him have that reaction upon Ao's death.
Danzo stood tall, "I wish... that we stop those monsters from taking anyone else we care for from us! We march now and we win this in a day!" Danzo shouted, earning an enthusiastic shout in return as his ROOT ninjas shot off in a blur to lead the first strike against the main army.
Danzo hid the smile that grew across his face.
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"This generation is such a let down." The Uchiha man said as he easily disarmed a katana user and took the sword for himself.
He threw himself into the fold in enemy ninja, cutting through the neck of one ninja before seeing a ninja with an axe. Chopping off the axe-wielder's arm at the elbow, he grabbed the axe with his free hand and spun, decapitating two ninja before he kicked the headless bodies back to give him room. He couldn't hold back to grin as he sent fire chakra to the sword and wind chakra to the wide side of the axe, "FLAME CONTROL SWORD!"
The katana was melted and replaced with a ridiculously large flame sword that was thrown towards the centre of the ninja formation before swinging the axe, "WIND WALL!"
The wind chakra picked up the firs and spread it over a group of ninjas and ignited their explosive tags, causing a massive explosion that the Uchiha leapt towards.
Madara landed in the middle of his small flaming crater and chuckled as he looked around, "That's four hundred and twenty-two down, only an army left to go." Madara said before he began to laugh maniacally.
"WIND STYLE: HURRICANE BARRIER!"
Madara's laughing stopped as a hurricane formed around the large circle he stood in, though his eyes narrowed as the jutsu seemed to be perfectly regulated up to a level that he hadn't seen before, "Finally, someone that might be a challenge." Madara muttered to himself before noticing shadows on the ground around him.
Hearing the sound of a few sets of feet landing behind him, Madara turned with a wide grin, "Don't tell me this welcoming part is just for me?" He asked with a chuckle.
The Fourth Raikage, A, let his Lightning Armour spark into overdrive and got straight into a fighting stance, not letting there be time for discussion.
The Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, merely cracked her knuckles before glaring at Madara in determination.
The Sixth Kazekage, Light, stood on the wall of his Hurricane as if it was no big deal, glaring down at Madara from above.
The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, floated behind A and Tsunade as if he weighed nothing, "Madara Uchiha, it'll take at least the might of us four to take him down." Onoki said.
Tsunade smirked, "That's why we're not alone." she said.
"ALMIGHTY PULL!"
Madara's eyes widened as he was suddenly yanked towards the Kage, barely managing to slide under A's Lariat before he was pulled into the wall of the Hurricane and was pulled up into the winds.
""TOAD FLAME BOMB!""
Madara looked up through the wind chakra vortex and grinned, 'Good plan.' he thought as a stream of toad oil was ignited with an explosive tag before it hit the Hurricane.
The giant flaming tornado began to burn everything inside it into non-existence for a solid twenty seconds, nothing would've been able to survive it.
*BOOOM*
The flame tornado exploded outwards as Madara landed harmlessly on his feet, showing that the top half of his outfit had been destroyed and the burns that were nearly finished healing, "Good technique." Madara said as he raised his Eternal Mangekyou eyes to face Yahiko, Jiraiya and Konan, "That's technically five Kage and two S-rank ninjas that are gonna be fighting me," he said with a chuckle as the four Major Kage landed behind him, "Let's see if it can measure up." He said as he spun and parried A's punch, somehow not getting electrocuted from the attack.
A growled, "Onoki!" A shouted as his armour seemed to nearly glow.
"EARTH GOLEM FIST!"
Madara looked to the side as a fist of rock came flying at him and A.
*BOOM*
A stood unharmed thanks to his armour as the dust cloud cleared to show that Madara wasn't in the area, only for Light to see him charging at Tsunade from behind, "WHIRLWIND!" Light shouted as he spun aimed his hand at Tsunade.
The medic's eyes widened as she felt wind chakra suddenly move her in a circle and back towards her original spot, giving her a half-second to aim a punch at Madara's back.
Madara ducked in the half second of time he had before trying to sweep-kick Tsunade, but Light's wind chakra carried her out of the way by making the wind reverse her path to once more come at Madara's back.
This time though, she was ready.
"HEAVEN'S KICK OF PAIN!"
Madara grinned.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
Jiraiya leapt up and caught the airborne Tsunade, landing behind Yahiko as his part-rinnegan eyes narrowed at the dust cloud, "Uh-oh." Yahiko muttered as he saw a chakra construct had formed around Madara, "That's the..."
"SUSANO'O!"
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"SUSANO'O!"
Sasuke's voice carried across the field as the torso of a large purple being came into existence just as Sakura shouted, "Get back!"
The ninja from the Shinobi Alliance all leapt back as they threw forward jutsu, ensuring that the White Zetsu and Sound Shinobi were kept in front of Sasuke as he raised his arm, causing Amaterasu flames to be conjured in the right hand of his chakra construct, "INFERNO STYLE: FLAME CONTROL!" Sasuke shouted.
The Susano'o swung it's fire wielding hand as the Amaterasu flames formed a burning one hundred meter long-sword that literally wiped out every enemy he could see.
The Shinobi Alliance army was dead quiet before a Hyuuga member gasped, "Below!" he shouted at the same time a few Rock village ninjas looked down suddenly.
The majority of the alliance leapt up into the air or disappeared into the trees with a substitution as Sakura spun with her Executioner's blade, seeing as the top of the horde of White Zetsu begun to grow out of the ground, "STREAK!" she shouted.
By the time the Zetsu had popped out of the ground, Sakura had blurred twice across the field, bisecting more then twenty of the Zetsu while leaving 'Phoenix Flames' behind her with every step, coming to a stop next to Sasuke as the black flame sword turned into an Umbrella, "INFERNO STYLE: GREAT BREAKTHROUGH!" Sasuke said, mimicking one of his seals with his EMS.
The wind jutsu spread a black wide blade through most of the remaining Zetsu while blowing Sakura's fire across the field, killing the remaining Zetsu before the strong wind blew all the fire away.
All of the ninjas that had leapt up landed and looked around in shock as the battlefield was changed and their enemy completely gone. There was a moment of silence as everyone watched Sasuke's Susano'o fade and Sakura's blade and boots fade.
"...Holy shit." A random Shinobi whispered from the centre of the battalion.
Sasuke and Sakura shared a smirk with each other before they both turned towards the north.
*POOF*
Everyone went back on guard as a giant smoke cloud appeared, summoning a group of Arctic Wolves that were each the size of houses. That's when they all felt the incoming Mist Ninja Chakra Signatures.
Sakura scowled and looked over to the captain, "Sensei?" She asked.
Kakashi's Sharingan was covered, but his White Chakra Aura was resonating around him, "It's time like this I wish we had enough chakra to waster big attacks." Kakashi mumbled.
*Thunk*
Kakashi and the few around him looked down at the tri-pronged kunai that had landed in front of them.
*FLASH*
Naruto appeared in a flash of golden light and stood up tall as he aimed one hand at the enemy and one at the Shinobi alliance, "Ready for this?" Naruto asked with a grin.
Everyone gasped as they recognised Orochimaru taking the same position, standing back to back with Naruto with his arms outstretched, he lips his lips creepily as he chuckled, "Most definitely."
The area was quiet as Naruto and Orochimaru were enshrouded with green Nature Chakra, syncing the signatures together as the channelled the chakra.
""SNAKE STYLE: TWIN BURNING BOAS!""
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Chapter end.
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