Chapter 38 The Power of Madara
"You're a Uchiha?" asked Deidara
"Yes, and the true leader of the Akatsuki." said Madara "However at the moment we have more important things to worry about."
"Ya, but soon you will have nothing to worry about." said Sasuke "For soon you will be died."
"I don't think so." said Deidara as he quickly whipped his arms around. Out of the months on his hands came long clay snakes. The teeth cut of the end of the snakes as they flew in the air toward Naruto and the others "Explosion."
With that a huge explosion happened all around the Akatsuki members.
"Never under estimate my art." stated Deidara as he looked at the cloud of dust and smoke.
"Your art is weak." stated Sasuke as the smoke cleared to show him standing there without a mark on him.
"If we weren't demon summers you may prove to be a threat." said Naruto as he appeared out of the smoke. Deidara looked around to see the two girls were also fine.
"Crap, I missed." said Deidara
"And now you die." said Sasuke as he moved to kill Deidara with a single slash from his sword. However a moment before he hit Deidara the sword blade clashed against a metal rod.
"Your speed is great Sasuke." said Madara as he held a war fan in his hands. The metal rod of the war fan was half split opening from the blow.
"You will see what I can do when I kill you." said Sasuke
"Think about what you're doing Sasuke we can work together to destroy the Leaf, you don't know everything about them." said Madara
"I know all about it and when the demon war starts I will destroy the Leaf." said Sasuke with a grin as his Sharingan glared, with that he started pumping demon chakra into his sword. To Madara's amazement the same steal that had stood up to the best attacks from the first Hokage was now being destroyed "So you are not needed."
"If you want to live run Deidara." stated Madara a moment before his war fan broke. Deidara moved out of the way just in time to avoided getting cut in half but some of his blonde hair wasn't as fortunate as his pony tail was cut off.
"YOU BASTERIADS!" yelled Deidara "YOU CUT OFF MY PONY TAIL!"
"I think hair is the last thing you should worry about." stated Sakura as her fist impacted Deidara in his face breaking his jaw even before he was sent flying though the air and into a large rock.
However that hit also let Sakura valuable as Madara spun around as a sword flew out of his akatsuki cloak. As he grabbed the sword he had a clear shot at Sakura's midsection. However his sword was stopped by Naruto's sword before he could touch Sakura.
"You will not harm Sakura." growled Naruto as demon chakra engulfed his body.
Meanwhile back in the Leaf Ino sat in her clan's flower shop looking at another fashion magazine. She had an early shift at the flower shop so she had left home before either one of her parents woke up. Her mom had come in an hour ago to set up on order of flowers for a wedding. Suddenly the sound of the bell over the door rang causing Ino to look up to see an old Sand village council member standing there.
"Can I help you?" asked Ino
"Ya, I need some flowers." said the man looking around at the flowers without even bothering to look up at Ino "for my Wedding Anniversary."
"Ah then may I suggest a dozen red roses." said Ino as she walked around to the front of the store and up to the man. "Nothing save loves like a rose."
"Ah yes, she would like that." said the man as Ino picked up one of the premier bouquet of roses.
"If you want we can personalize it, add a special card or almost anything else you can think of." said Ino as the man finally looked up at Ino. His eyes widened as he looked at Ino. "What?"
"Lys?" asked the man
"No, my name is Ino…Ino Yamanaka." said Ino "My mom is named Lys."
"Is something going on Ino?" asked Lys Yamanaka as she came out from the backroom. Instantly her eyes widened as she saw who was standing in the shop.
"Hello Lys." said the man with a grin
"I am sorry I don't know you?" asked Lys
"Yes, it's Goza." said the man as he pulled a kunai out of his pack and went to stab Lys. However Ino stepped in with her own kunai blocking the attack.
"What is wrong with you?" yelled Ino as she glared at the older Sand Ninja "We are allies."
"Your mother is a missing ninja from the Sand." stated Goza as Ino's eyes widened.
Back on the battlefield Naruto ran though hand signs "Air style air bullet." stated Naruto as a tornado of air shot forward. Madara dodged the attack as he and Deidara fought for their lives.
"Take this!" yelled Deidara as he threw a bunch of clay spiders into the air.
Get down!" yelled Sakura as she talked Naruto a moment before a spider was going to land on his shoulder.
"Chidori Sendon." stated Sasuke as dozens of lightening needles shot out of Sasuke's arm hitting all the clay spiders before they exploded.
"If you two are done being cowards we can go back to killing these two." said Sasuke
"Well your girlfriend isn't here." said Sakura
"Karin is not go in battle she finds them I kill them." said Sasuke
"Thank you for not paying attention." said Deidara as Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke looked up to see Deidara and Madara high above them on a giant clay bird. "Now we can get away."
"I don't think so." said Sasuke as a spear of lightening shot up hitting the bird in the wing.
"Crap!" yelled Deidara as they stared falling down. While them where still in the air Madara jumped off landing in a nearby tree.
"Dead last you and your bitch can take care of the clay man, I want Madara." said Sasuke as he glared at Madara.
"Fine by me." said Naruto as he and Sakura took off leaving Madara and Sasuke alone on the battle field.
"Now it is just the two of us." said Sasuke as scales started to appear on his body.
"So it seems." said Madara
"I will enjoy killing you." said Sasuke as his human teeth were replaced by two long poison tipped snake fangs.
Back in the Leaf Ino, her parents along with Gaara his siblings and the council member of the sand stood before the Hokage.
"So what is going on?" asked Hokage
"You have a missing ninja inside your village and we demand her back." stated Councilman Goza
"Lys is this true?" asked Tsunade
"Yes." said Lys as Ino's eyes widened "My father was a spy sent in before the war as a trader and he meet my mother."
"So you were born in the Sand?" asked Tsunade
"Yes." said Lys
"That makes her a member of the sand village and a traitor." said Goza
"I grew up in the sand and when I became a genin I was assigned to guard the records and then one night I knocked out my fellow guard and stole the records." said Lys "Once I had the records my parents and I returned to the Leaf and I lived here ever sense."
"And how did you know she was the Lys from your village?" asked Tsunade
"I was the second guard the one she knocked out." stated Goza "And since she admitted being a spy so she needs to die."
"That was almost 35 years ago." stated Tsunade "That is ancient history."
"It is about the honor of the village." Stated Goza
"Please shut up Goza, you know full well what is really going on." Said Temari as Goza glared at the Kazekage's sister.
"What is going on?" asked Inoichi
"We knew full well that Lys's father was a spy from the Leaf and that her mom had betrayed the village. We wanted her to get away with false information." said Temari as Tsunade leaned back in her chair. "She was a double agent and didn't even know it."
"So I am guessing we can let this issue drop?" asked Tsunade
"Of course that was a time of war and now we are allies." said Gaara as Goza glared at the Kazekage. "Let it go Goza, we have more important things to worry about an ancient spy case."
"Besides this means that Ino is our second cousin." said Kankura with a laugh.
"What?" asked Ino
"My mom, your grandma was the older sister to Gaara's father." said Lys
"What?" asked Ino as she looked at the sand siblings "That would make me a second cousins to them."
"Ya, it would." said Temari "Where do you think I get blonde hair."
"Ok, this is weird." Said Ino
Unknown to her on a far off battle field something stranger than anything she had ever seen was happening. Madara jumped back just in time to avoided Sasuke's new snake tail, his tail smashed though a tree trunk bringing it down. Madara jumped out of the way before running though hand signs.
"Fire style fire ball justu." said Madara as he moved his mask aside a bit before breathing out a giant fireball. Sasuke didn't even bother to move the flames were not powerful enoth to burn his new scaled skin.
"Is that all you have?" asked Sasuke
"No I have so much more." stated Madara
Across the battlefield Deidara crawled out from under the remains of his clay bird. He had just cleared himself from the remains and Sakura and Naruto showed up.
"Looks like there is no escape for you this time." said Naruto
"I don't need to escape." said Deidara as he reached into his clay pouch. After a few seconds a clay figure appeared. Deidara formed a hand sign as the clay grew into two large clay swords appeared in his arms. "I may not like to but I can fight close up."
"Clay can't stop this." stated Sakura as she charged forward with her fist raised. Deidara simply smiled as he swung his sword at Sakura. Sakura's fist smashed into the clay and instantly went into the clay however the chakra laced clay quickly wrapped itself around Sakura's arm trapping it.
"I hope you enjoy being dead." stated Deidara as he let go of the clay sword before raising his hand forming a hand sign. "Have fun exploding!"
There was nothing Naruto could do as an explosion rocked the area around Sakura.
"Sakura-chan!" yelled Naruto as the smoke filled the air. To his amazement Sakura as still standing there only real difference was her arm. The lower part of arm that had punched the clay sword had changed. It was now covered with black fur and her finger nails where now sharp black claws. It was also longer length wise and her muscle tone had increased.
"Thank God Sage mode must have taken most of the blast." thought Naruto as Sakura just looked at her arm. She couldn't take her eyes off it, it felt so strange to see her arm and to see it totally changed.
"Sage mode?" thought Sakura "But how?"
"Self pervasion must have forced us into sage mode." said Inner Sakura
"What sort of freak are you?" asked Deidara as he looked at Sakura's arm.
"Freak?" thought Sakura as she looked at her fox arm before falling to her knees shaking "Does this make me a freak?"
"Never call Sakura-chan a freak." ordered Naruto as his sword went though Deidara's chest. With one quick move he pulled his sword out before turning his attention back to Sakura. He quickly went up to and held her.
"It's ok Sakura-chan I freaked out too when I first felt Sage mode." said Naruto as he held Sakura. Sakura who was just busy looking at her arm.
"It feels so weird. For me it felt it but it did feel real if that makes any sense." said Sakura as Naruto placed his hand on top of Sakura's fur.
"You can feel my hand just like any time before but in your mind it doesn't feel real." said Naruto "It feels like a dream."
"Ya." said Sakura
"It gets better in time and practice Sakura-chan now just channel some demon chakra down your arm and leave Sage mode." Explained Naruto as Sakura's arm was encased in demon chakra. She watched as the fur retreated back into her body as her skin returned, her claws pulled back into normal human finger nails. Finally her arm returned to normal.
"Better Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto
"Better." Said Sakura back as suddenly the sound of laughter filled the air. Both of them looked up to see Deidara sitting there with a chest wound, blood pouring off the wound.
"You return to normal just before you die." Said Deidara as Sakura and Naruto noticed that there on his chest was another moth.
"What did you do?" asked Naruto
"I feed clay into my body for my ultimate work of art. I will destroy myself in a giant explosion that will take everything in 10 kilometers" said Deidara with a smile as Sakura's and Naruto's eyes widened. Deidara grinned as skin started to fade away as black veins appeared on his body. "You should be glad you get to die in each other's arms while inside my perfect work of art and better yet I am in range to kill the boy who killed my most hated enemy Itachi Uchiha."
"Sakura we need to run." said Naruto as he and Sakura took off at top speed.
"Go ahead and run for there is now running from my art." Said Deidara as the black veins ran into a single spot in his chest. "For now my Art is an explosion!"
With that Deidara detonated in a huge explosion that expended at high speed. It took less than 2 seconds to reach Sakura and Naruto. Seven seconds and Madara and Sasuke were also captured inside the explosion. Miles away the only thing people could see was a giant exploitation that covered everything. Even at the main gate at the Leaf village a flash of light could be seen. While the wall guards rushed to report to the Hokage about what they had seen, Ino was sitting at her dining room table just looking at her parents.
"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Ino
"We didn't think it was needed." said Inoichi
"If he hadn't spotted me then we would have never told you." stated Lys being totally honest with her daughter.
"Besides why is it important?" asked Inoichi "You are still the same person."
"It matters because I am partly from the Sand village." stated Ino "What if I had gone there and they had spotted me there? They would have killed me."
"We are sorry Ino but we had to do it." said Inoichi
"I need to get out of here." said Ino as she stormed out of her house.
"Ino come back here." stated Inoichi only to have his wife grab his arm.
"It's ok." said Lys "Just give her some time. She is like me, she needs time."
"Alright." said Inoichi
Meanwhile on the edge of the explosion Naruto and appeared in a flash of yellow light his arms wrapped around Sakura.
"Are you alright Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto as he let Sakura out of his arms.
"What happened?" asked Sakura "How did we make it?"
"The flying Thunder God Technique." explained Naruto
"Your dad's justu?" asked Sakura
"Ya." said Naruto as he grabbed his stomach
"What is it Naruto?" asked Sakura fearing he was hurt, however suddenly he bolted toward a tree. He hid behind there as he threw up. After about a minute Naruto returned
"My body isn't used to it yet." said Naruto
"And it made you sick?" asked Sakura
"Ya." answered Naruto "I am just glad my dad's theory was right."
"What theory?" asked Sakura
"The technique is only suppose to transport one person but my dad theorized that if a person applied more chakra another person could be transported along with the user." said Naruto as he leaned against a tree before sliding down onto his but "Lets how we both got out."
"Thank God your dad was right." answered Sakura as she sat down beside him. "But I thought you need to leave a chakra mark, like a seal or something in order to do the justu."
"Ya, I placed a few marks as we traveled so that we can make a getaway if needed." said Naruto
"Good move Naruto-kun." said Sakura as she nuzzled into Naruto.
"For once I agree with Sakura." said a voice as they looked up to see Sasuke and Karin standing in a tree.
"How did you make it?" asked Sakura "That blast should have killed you."
"You can thank me." said Karin "Once the battle began I moved off and just monitored Sasuke-kun chakra and waited. Once I saw he was in trouble a simple reverse summon brought him to safely."
"So what do we do now?" asked Naruto
"Nothing." said Sasuke "Madara is dead and that is all I wanted."
"How can you be sure?" asked Naruto
"Simply unless he had an escape plan like us, there is no way he could survive that." stated Karin "And I can't scene him anymore, so he is dead."
"Just like our alliance dead last, now until we meet on the battlefield in four years." said Sasuke as he and Karin disappeared.
"Just like Sasuke, takes what he wants and then leaves." stated Sakura
"Just like a snake." said Naruto
"So Naruto are you going to go after the rest of the Akatsuki?" asked Sakura
"Na." said Naruto "The Akatsuki is down to what two or three people they are likely not the great of threat."
"Also their leader is dead." said Sakura
"If Madara is dead?" said Naruto as the two of them just lied there looking out at the giant hole in the ground.
Miles away sitting on top of a hug skyscraper sat a man with bright orange hair and with a black cloak with red clouds on it. The rain poured over the village giving its name, the village hidden in the rain a literal meaning.
"Pain, he is here." said a woman also dressed in the same cloak appeared beside him.
"Ah." said Pain as he stood up and walked out of the rain and into the covers.
There sitting and panting was Madara Uchiha his skin on his hands where burned and his cloak was shreds.
"Deidara's perfect art?" asked Pain
"Yes, I just got away." said Madara "But I have learned a lot."
"What is your plan?" asked Konan as the only female member of the Akatsuki spoke up.
"We will gain a power above even the Kyuubi but it will take time." Said Madara
"What do you want us to do?" asked Pain
"I want you to go after the six and eight tailed beasts." said Pain
"What of the nine tails?" asked Konan
"He is no longer inside Naruto Namikaze." stated Madara "And the fact that Naruto and Sasuke are working together and that they are summoner to the Kyuubi and the demon snakes means that a legendary demon war is coming. All six demon lords, each as strong as the Kyuubi will appear and we will capture all of them."
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