Legacy of Heroes

by Cmartin-Panda Productions

Minato Namikaze. Son Goku. These two are known to be heroes of their own realms, but what happens when the eldest son of Goku and his friend Videl encounter the son of Minato in the world of Shinobi with no way home? (AU. Non-canon mostly. Saiyan Videl. Stronger and slightly smarter Naruto. Stronger and useful Sakura. More confident Gohan. M for Adult Content, language and gore.)

37. Chapter 37: Ice's Ginyu Force

Author's Note from Panda: Yeah, once again, sorry for the long gap between updates. Springtime seems to the be the deadtime for updates. Between me dealing with finals and trying to find an internship, to Cmartin dealing with financial troubles of his own, things fall by the wayside, including fanfictions. As always, we appreciate your patience and love your reviews helping us find the motivation for the chapters to come.

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"Kabuto..." Sakura growled.

"Sakura..." Kabuto nodded casually to his fellow medical ninja. As if they were on any stretch of friendly terms.

Videl couldn't speak. She was shaking in absolute fear of seeing that man again.

"Wow, look at this one. She's cute, but she's shaking like a leaf at the sight of you, Kabuto. She an ex-girlfriend of yours?" The blue skinned youth mocked.

"Give me a good reason why I shouldn't smear you across the floor like a cockroach you are..." Sakura growled in hatred.

"I'll give you a reason, because we need his help." Kakashi spoke up.

"I know I didn't hear that right." Sakura said.

"You did." Kabuto spoke up. "Although to be fair, I approached Kakashi with the idea of working together and convinced him that cooperation was in both of our groups' best interest."

"I wasn't asking you, traitor." Sakura spat.

"So hostile. Would your demeanor soften if I mentioned that I am interested in saving your boyfriend from having his Tailed Beast ripped out of him?" Kabuto inquired.

Sakura folded her arms across her chest. "I would ask what's in it for you?"

"In the short term? Saving this entire world from being snuffed out like a candle by Ice." Kabuto said seriously.

"What does Ice have to do with Naruto? I thought he was only here for Gohan and Videl?" Sakura asked.

"Why don't you both sit down by the fire and I'll explain everything?" Kabuto suggested. It was clear from all of the glares given by the Leaf ninjas that no one was in a hurry to trust him.

Reluctantly, Sakura and Videl sat down on one of the wooden benches. Videl sitting as far away from Kabuto as possible. Suigetsu noticed this and sat forward, thinking that he had found a new babe to torment. "So you must be the bitch who killed Orochimaru. I gotta say, you don't look the part. You look a little too...soft..." Suigetsu smirked, making Videl's skin crawl.

"I'd watch your mouth, creep. Videl here could rip your spine out and make you eat it." Sakura warned. "Hell, I might be itching to try that myself."

"Good luck with that." Suigetsu said as he held up his forearm and let it melt into a puddle of water before being sucked back up his pant leg to let his arm reform.

'He's made of water?' Sakura thought in shock. 'It's not possible.'

"Now, now, Suigetsu. We are allies with these ninjas now. For the foreseeable future, they are our friends." Kabuto said calmly. Suigetsu immediately dropped his act. He knew exactly what was in store for him if he pissed Kabuto off any further.

"I apologize for him. Good subordinates are hard to come by these days, but his bloodline ability makes him just useful enough to tolerate his attitude." Kabuto explained.

"Whatever. What do you know about Ice and why would he be after Naruto?" Sakura demanded.

"Straight to the point, I see." Kabuto adjusted his full moon spectacles. "You truly are the Slug Sannin's apprentice."

"Tell. Me." Sakura hissed, losing her patience.

"Very well. I suppose the best place to start is with the young boy that Tsunade's other apprentice is treating right now." Kabuto nodded his head over to Shizune attending to the young boy, no older than 9, sitting on her makeshift examination table. His hair was a greying brown with purple eyes and an innocent face about him. He didn't look like the type of person that would be in any way associated with Orochimaru without being traumatized.

Standing next to him was a woman that Sakura originally thought was his mother the way she dotted over him, but upon closer inspection she realized that the two had no features in common. She had crazy pineapple style purple hair like Shikamaru's with sharp eyes and ruby red lips. She was also dressed like a rogue ninja. Exactly the type of woman you would expect to be associated with Orochimaru. Except she was acting all concerned for the boy's bumps and bruises like a mother hen. Warm and fuzzy weren't the emotions you expected to feel when you looked at one of Orochimaru's minions either.

"What's he got to do with this?" Sakura asked.

"His name is Yukimaru, and he has the power to summon forth the Three Tailed Beast." Kabuto stated, cementing Sakura and Videl's attention.

"Is he the creature's Jinchuriki, or something?" Videl asked, finally finding the courage to speak.

"No, although I suspect he would make the perfect candidate for that gift." Kabuto said.

"You mean that curse." Sakura spat, having no love for those who would subject an innocent boy to such a horrible burden.

"Oh what? Are you the Leaf's Jinchuriki?" Suigetsu mocked.

"No, she's just sleeping with him." Kabuto said. "Or so my intelligence says."

"I don't have to confirm a damn thing to you." Sakura spat.

"Too right. But back on topic, Yukimaru has a much looser, but no less intimate relationship with the Tailed Beast. For reasons that baffle both myself and Lord Orochimaru, Yukimaru's chakra is highly desirable to the Three Tailed Turtle. To the point that whenever he releases his chakra in great amounts, the Three Tails will appear before him. It will even obey simple commands that Yukimaru gives him. So long as he continues to release his chakra."

"How is that possible?" Sakura asked.

"The most plausible theory I was able to come up with is that when Yukimaru was born, the fourth Mizukage was passing through his small fishing village and was attacked by assassins. The Mizukage happened to be the Three Tail's Jinchuriki, so he unleashed his Beast in order to kill the assassins while destroying Yukimaru's village in the crossfire. During the battle, the Three Tails bled, and it's blood spilt into a nearby pond. In the chaos of trying to survive the battle, Yukimaru's mother dropped him into the small lake. Yukimaru survived and by being bathed in the Three Tails' blood, it's chakra mixed with the boy's own. So whenever Yukimaru unleashes his chakra, the Tailed Beast senses its own chakra and becomes intrigued." Kabuto explained. "Three years later, Lord Orochimaru ordered Yukimaru's village to be slaughtered as an example to other villages."

"What?" Videl growled, her hair flashing yellow.

"Rest assured it was nothing personal." Kabuto stated, as if that made it better. "A few villagers were brought back as test subjects and revealed all about the boy's local legend. It was by the merciful graces of our very own Guren that she did not kill the boy after she killed his mother. Otherwise we would never have had this trump card."

"Wait, back up, who's Guren?" Videl asked, wondering what kind of heartless monster could kill a defenseless mother.

"Her." Kabuto pointed at the woman gently petting Yukimaru's head while the boy smiled at her.

"What?" Sakura hissed, on the verge of scream. "How can she? But she... Does Yukimaru know?"

"What would that matter at the present time? The boy's been devoid of a mother figure for over two thirds of his life. If anything, he's been over the moon ever since Guren took to him like a mother bear to her cub. And better still, he's become a means of controlling Guren. That's one Tailed Beast and the last known bearer of the Crystal bloodline all for one child. A grand deal, wouldn't you say? So why tarnish a good thing with harsh truths?" Kabuto asked.

"You're sick." Videl spat. Between the using of a woman's maternal instincts to control her, to that woman having killed the kid's real mother in the first place, this was all kinds of fucked up. This had Orochimaru's stink all over it.

"I prefer pragmatic." Kabuto said as he adjusted his glasses. "Which finally brings us to the crux of the matter. As you are no doubt aware, the Sound village has been in disarray ever since you killed Orochimaru." Kabuto sneered at Videl who couldn't help but smirk just to piss him off. And it was working. "I sought to ensure new protection from my various foreign enemies by joining the Akatsuki. And what better gift than the most elusive of the nine Tailed Beasts?" Kabuto stated.

"Bastard, you told us you wanted to stabilize the Sound!" Seigetsu cried. "You were gonna leave us all hung out to dry!?"

"Don't act so surprised, Suigetsu. Be grateful I let you out of your test tube in the first place. Once I have achieved my goals you will be free to do whatever it is you do. Melt into a puddle?" Kabuto asked with disinterest.

"I want to take back the sword of Zabuza and reform the Seven Swordsman of the-"

"That's nice, Suigetsu." Kabuto waved off. "As I was saying, my plan was to trade Yukimaru for a seat among the Akatsuki's inner circle and to have a base/lab of my own under the Akatsuki's protection. Things seemed to be going as planned until Ice and his alien army showed up." Kabuto spat. "The true leader of the Akatsuki got word of their arrival and brokered a deal with the Frost Demon almost immediately. Ice and his forces would help the Akatsuki capture the remaining Tailed Beasts to allow the Akatsuki leader to achieve his ultimate plan."

"Why on Earth would Ice possibly agree to that?" Videl demanded. "What does he get out of this?"

"Because of what the true Akatsuki leader's actual plan is." Kabuto said as the fire seemed to grow colder. "The figure head leader of the Akatsuki thinks that they are gathering the Tailed Beasts to create a super weapon whose destructive capabilities will be so great that it will make all of humanity cease hostilities out of fear of that weapon being used."

"Like a nuke?" Videl asked. "Because we had a full on nuclear war back in my world and it didn't make the world peaceful one bit. Maybe in the short term, but that was hundreds of years ago, the Fallout Wars. The memories faded and there are wars and more than our fair share of conflict."

"What is she talking about? Fallout Wars?" Suigetsu asked, confused.

"Videl is from another dimension. Try not to let it distract you." Kabuto said.

"The real plan?" Sakura asked, trying to move things along.

"Yes, the real plan made by the real member of the Akatsuki running the show wants to use the nine Tailed Beasts to combine them all together to form the Ten Tails and the God Tree. Using them, he plans on casting the mother of all Genjutsu on the entire planet. Trapping the population in a state of hypnotic limbo to force peace that way."

The two kunoichi blinked.

"Okay, maybe I'm just the ignorant foreigner who came to this world a few months ago, but what the hell is he saying?" Videl exclaimed. "Ten Tails? God Tree? And what's this about a Genjutsu that is cast on everyone, everywhere, at once? Isn't that impossible?" She asked, remembering Kurenai-sensei's lessons about Genjutsu. How it was better to have it used on one foe at a time because trying to maintain an illusion with two or more psyches was reserved for those who have mastered Genjutsu only.

"I afraid I can't explain the Genjutsu he intends to use, very well. But it might be quicker to ask what do you know about the Sage of Six Paths?" Kabuto asked.

"Um, very little, I think." Videl admitted. "He taught everyone ninjutsu and he had two sons who fought a lot."

"Correct. Very few people know this, but the Sage also had a brother himself. A twin brother in fact, that history tends to overlook. His brother would go on to found among other clans, the Hyuga clan. But that hardly matters. What does matter is that the two of them were not fully human. They were bore from a mother who was once the savior of this world." Kabuto began as he took off his glasses to rub them clean of ash. He put them back on and looked deeply into the fire, inviting Sakura and Videl to do the same.

"Long, long ago, before the age of ninjas, mankind fought many bloody and terrible wars constantly." Kabuto began.

'Some things never change.' Videl thought.

"Throughout these wars, the land was pillaged and villages were razed, yet there was one spot of land that was never defied by either side. No matter what. The land surrounding the God Tree, a massive living organism as tall as the sky and that brought death to all that opposed it even as many considered it to be the nexus of life on Element. And every 1,000 years, this tree bore a special fruit, now known as the Chakra Fruit, that humans were forbidden from touching. Until one day, the Sage's future mother, came down from the stars and ate the sacred fruit."

"Was she an alien?" Videl asked.

"The ancient scrolls refer to her as a goddess with three eyes and rabbit ears." Kabuto answered. "Of course, given Ice's interest in trying to eat the Chakra Fruit himself, it would make sense that she was actually an alien and why her myth has spread throughout the universe."

"Okay, so you're starting to lose me. Ice wants to eat this Chakra Fruit?" Videl asked.

"Perhaps I should summarize. After the Sage's mother ate the fruit, she gained the ability to use chakra that allowed her to become the ruler of this world. When she bore her two sons, they inherited her ability to use chakra. And their lineage spread throughout the world. Every chakra user born today can trace their lineage back to the Sage of Six Paths and his brother." Kabuto said, making every ninja in the world stare at him in awe.

"While negotiations went on inside of a nearby Akatsuki base, I spied on Ice and the true Akatsuki leader having their private conversation. In exchange for helping the Akatsuki capture the Jinchuriki, Ice gets to eat the Chakra Fruit produced by the God Tree once it forms. After that end of the bargain is reached, Madara gets to go ahead with his "Moon-Eye Plan" and Ice will leave our entire planet alone to be enslaved."

All the lifelong Elementians gasped at Kabuto's words, but Videl was left sitting there looking clueless.

"What? What did he say? Moon-Eye Plan?" Videl asked.

"Madara." Kakashi hissed as if this were the equivalent of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named from one of Videl's favorite book series from her childhood.

"He is the Leaf village's equivalent of the boogie man." Sakura said. "His full name was Madara Uchiha and he founded the Leaf village alongside the 1st Hokage. Until he betrayed Lady Tsunade's grandfather, his best friend, and tried to destroy the Leaf village."

Videl shrugged at Sakura, not sure what the big deal was.

"They say that wherever Madara and Hashirama fought, the maps had to be redrawn." Sakura said ominously.

"Why do I get the feeling that this whole thing is going to end horribly?" Videl asked as she shivered like someone splashed ice cold water down her spine.

"It won't if we can buy some time." Kakashi said. "That's why we're here. We need to capture the 3 Tails before the Akatsuki can. The less tailed beasts they have the better it is for the world."

"The less? How about none?" Kabuto asked. "One of the tricks of the gathering the Tailed Beasts is that you must gather them in order."

"Well we have the nine tails and if our assumption is correct, we also have the seven tails." Kakashi said.

"The Seven Tailed Jinchuriki is of the Hidden Waterfall village, how did the Leaf acquire her?" Kabuto asked.

"I think you mean the Hidden Rock village. She's their representative in Gohan's Neo Z Fighters." Videl said.

"No. The Hidden Rock village doesn't have the Seven Tailed Beetle. It has the Four Tailed Monkey and the Five Tailed Water Horse Jinchuriki." Kabuto stated matter-of-factly.

"He's right. They wouldn't have the 7 tails." Kakashi agreed.

"Then that girl was lying about her origin." Sakura deduced.

"It appears so." Kakashi said.

"Then where is the actual Rock liaison?" Videl asked.

"What does it matter? We have bigger things to worry about." Kabuto said. "Right now, Ice's elite team is gathering the Jinchuriki as we speak..."

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Thousands of miles North West of Ridu Lake, the jagged rocky valley was being torn asunder by a stampeding Five Tailed White Stallion with the head of a dolphin. The great beast appeared to be on a rampage but was in fact fleeing a burly bald headed man in Frost Demon armor with a monkey's tail wrapped around his waist.

"Hold still." The Saiyan warrior cackled as he shot a Ki blast at the Tailed Beast's calf muscles. The water horse bucked and tumbled end over end to come to a skidding halt that kicked up whole new hills of earth.

"Had enough?" The bald man sneered as the beast whipped it's head around to spray a jet of boiling water at its attacker. The desperate move failed as the Saiyan flew around the torrent of water before slamming his fist into the poor beast's skull. It's head went limp and the Tailed Beast shrunk until it reformed into its Jinchuriki host. A man covered head to toe in red armor with the Hidden Rock symbol etched on the tip of his hat.

"Heh, one down." The Saiyan reported into his Scouter.

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Hundreds of miles closer towards the Leaf, a much shorter Saiyan warrior with black spiky hair in blue armor was dodging the homing exploding bubbles fired at him from a Rouge Mist ninja wearing a loose yukata and carrying a bubble wand pipe.

"You'll have to do better if you wish to tangle with a Saiyan Elite!" The Saiyan goaded as he made a beeline towards his pray. The Jinchuriki tried to shoot him down, but the Saiyan was too quick and delivered a knockout blow to his exposed neck. The young man went limp and his attacker threw him over his shoulders. "I've got my prey." The proud Saiyan reported.

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Over in the remote outskirts of the Land of Lightning, a few miles outside of the Hidden Cloud village, an impossibly muscular monster of a man with green spiky hair held up a half dead man with seven short swords and broken sunglasses hanging off his ears. His Saiyan hunter was breathing heavily, he could so easily crush the Jinchuriki's chest with one squeeze of his massive hand. Until of course his leader's voice spoke to him through his Scouter.

"Remember Broly, no killing." The Captain calmly spoke into his ear. Broly breathed deeply, but soon his muscle mass decreased and he regained him.

"Target acquired." Broly reported as he threw Killer Bee over his shoulders.

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Finally, back in the Land of Earth, the mountain tops were burning as the gigantic four tailed monkey with red fur spewed lava from its mouth, turning the surrounding countryside into a Hellish wasteland of ash and fire. All the while, the Captain of the Ginyu Force circled around the great beast with little concern. His long spiky onyx hair flapping in the wind as he corkscrewed under another spewing of lava.

"Time to end this." Captain Ginyu said to himself as he shot around the great ape's blind spot and sliced off his four tails.

The beast howled in pain, but did not transform back into an old man.

"Seems you're not an Ozaru after all. A pity, that would have been fascinating." Ginyu said as he flew up the beast's chest and upper cutted it right in the chin. The monster crashed to the ground unconscious and slowly transformed back into a red haired bearded old man with a Rock ninja headband.

"This is Captain Ginyu." The Saiyan reported. "All targets captured. Return to base to receive new orders."

"Got it, boss." Nappa radioed.

"Yes, sir." Broly answered.

"On it." Vegeta said bitterly, decades later and he still couldn't quite stomach taming orders from what once was the lowest class of Saiyan warriors.

"10-4." The brother of this universe's Kakarot spoke, the Saiyan who had taken the honorable position of Captain Ginyu of the Ginyu Force. Captain Raditz.

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Meanwhile, back at the Leaf Ninja base.

"And I know what their elite team is..." Videl said grimly.

"What?" Sakura asked.

"Saiyans. I'm certain of it." Videl stated.

"Oh yeah...Ice did say something about that, didn't he."

"Yes he did. Super Saiyans is what he said." Videl clarified.

"Did he say how many?" Kakashi asked seriously.

"No he didn't. Only that they were all stronger than me." Videl answered.

The temperature in the room fell 20 degrees upon hearing that information.

"Oh...great..." Ino breathed out in defeat.

"And that's not even our worst problem." Gohan said as he and Naruto limped their way inside.

"Oh God! GOHAN!" Videl cried as she rushed to his side.

"I'm fine, Videl...Ice just broke my leg..." Gohan assured.

"Let me see." Sakura demanded as she rushed towards him and immediately started checking out his leg. "Tib-Fib compound fracture...you're done for a while."

"What is he doing here..." Naruto growled when he spotted Kabuto.

"Just two allies sharing relevant Intel with each other." Kabuto smiled.

"I bet..."

"AAAAH!" Gohan cried as Sakura started removing his shoe.

"I know it hurts, but just bear with it for now." Sakura said.

"Mother Feather!" Gohan cursed.

Sakura tried to stifle a snicker. "Really, Gohan?"

"Well it hurts!" Gohan protested.

"I know it does. But until I can get a better look at it I can't give you anything for it yet." Sakura stated.

"Just cut it off! I'll make another pair!" Gohan cried.

"It's already off..." Sakura deadpanned.

"Well then why aren't you looking at it?" Gohan snapped.

"I am... big baby..." Sakura mumbled.

"Hold on a second." Shino spoke. "Remind me, what is the Seven Tails?"

"That would be the 7 tailed beetle." Kakashi answered.

"There is a Seven Tailed Beetle?" Shino said in awe, making his teammates give him a curious look.

"You alright, Shino?" Kiba asked.

"I want to ride it..." Shino said in awe, imagining himself riding atop a gigantic beetle through the sky with childlike abandon.

"Gross..." Ino and Sakura shuddered.

"Hush." Hinata said, coming to her teammate's aid.

"What about the Seven Tails?" Naruto asked.

"We know that she lied about being from the Rock. But that's beside the point. Ice and his goons are after the Jinchuriki now, alongside the Akatsuki." Sakura exclaimed.

"They'll have a tough time getting to Fu then." Gohan said matter-of-factly.

"Wait hold on, if that's the case, then why did Ice let me go?" Naruto asked.

"Because the tailed beasts have to be captured in order for one. Two, he probably didn't realize that you're a Jinchuriki." Kabuto stated.

"Come on, he can't be that stupid, can he?" Naruto asked.

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Over 10 miles away, inside the ship's medical bay, the head scientist was having words with Ice who was getting his cyborg arm attached.

"You do realize that you let one of the Jinchuriki go, right sir?"

Ice just looked at his Head Scientist. "SON OF A-"

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"Perhaps you're right." Kabuto admitted back at the Leaf base.

"Well anyway. Gohan, what makes you think Fu will be safe from these Saiyans?" Kakashi asked.

"Because I have a clone there." Gohan said simply as Sakura started healing his leg.

"I don't care how powerful you are, one Shadow Clone isn't going to be enough." Videl said.

"It's not a Shadow Clone." Gohan stated, making Kakashi perk up and grow serious as well as Asuma, Gai, Yamato and Shizune.

"Gohan...what kind of clone did you make?" Kakashi asked.

Gohan looked around at all of the senior Jounin and opened a mental link to them. 'A Blood Clone.'

'What's a blood clone?' Gai, Asuma, and Yamato asked.

'No, Lady Tsunade didn't teach you that?' Shizune exclaimed.

'Yes she did because she requested that my team stay and guard the village and continue their training. Since I couldn't be at two places at once, she taught me that technique.' Gohan confirmed.

'You're one lucky boy. Not many people survive using that technique. Even after months of preparation training.' Kakashi thought.

'It took me 3 minutes.'

'Again, damn lucky. For that matter, it was extremely foolish for you to try and fight before you could recover.'

'Lady Tsunade fed me a blood pill and I took a senzu bean before I started fighting.'

'Doesn't make it any less foolish.'

'It doesn't matter anyway. Ice is many times stronger than we originally thought. He's like 10 Perfect Cell's stacked. He surpasses my third form and he's got so much more hiding.' Gohan warned.

If they thought the room couldn't get any colder, it did. Much, much colder.

"So then how do we defeat him?" Kakashi asked aloud, bringing everyone else back into the conversation.

"There is only one trump card I can think of, aside from further training that we don't have time to do...Fusion." Gohan answered.

"I don't know what this fusion is, but I think I have a more valid solution to getting you stronger." Kabuto spoke up.

"If it involves altering anyone's DNA, forget it." Sakura said firmly.

"And no curse marks." Naruto added.

"Nothing so complicated. My plan is to poison you Saiyans." Kabuto said as he unveiled a vile of purple liquid from his sleeve.

All of their friends started to gather around Gohan and Videl to protect them.

"I think you better clarify that." Kakashi warned.

"Of course." Kabuto said. "From what intelligence the Sound village has gathered about Saiyans, you have the miraculous ability that every time you are brought to near death and survive, your power levels increase immensely."

Now everyone was more relaxed.

"Oh...that makes more sense." Gohan said.

"I assume you have an antidote." Sakura said.

"Yes, this particular poison is meant to bring a human being to a state of near death over and over. As soon as he is a hair's breath away from leaving his mortal coil, the poison subsides and allows the body to recover before slowly killing him again. Over and over, for as long as the antidote is not administered." Kabuto explained. "If my theory is right, you could make full use of your Saiyan biology once an hour."

"Fine, but not Videl." Gohan said firmly.

"And why not?" Kabuto asked.

"Because she's pregnant with twins." Sakura informed.

"Ah, good plan, wouldn't want to hurt the little ones." Kabuto said with a fake smile.

"And no you're not getting one of them." Videl said firmly.

"That was Lord Orochimaru's plan." Kabuto said with raised hands. "I have no intention of pursuing that plan."

"For your sake, that better be true. Just consider yourself lucky I didn't kill you too. However, I'm still debating on that."

"Do you really wish to threaten me before I administer a precise, non-lethal dose of poison to your baby daddy?" Kabuto asked.

"Why you little..."

"Videl...relax." Gohan said firmly.

"But he-"

"Is helping us right now to save the planet."

Videl gave Gohan the stink eye for interrupting her so much. "I don't like this."

"I'm not asking you to like it. I'm asking you to just go along with it. At least for now."

"How many stupid, reckless things are you planning on doing today?" Videl asked with tears in her eyes.

"Videl...if we don't take a proactive stand here, we're all going to die. I'm not strong enough to beat him as I am." Gohan informed, making those who didn't hear before feel like all hope was lost.

"And this is your solution?! Poisoning yourself?!" Videl cried.

"Videl...we both know that Sakura wouldn't let me die...now please calm down. If it will make you feel any better, I'll have my dad get in mental contact with everyone to learn the Fusion technique. If nothing else, it will be a trump card if we need it." Gohan consoled.

Videl sniffed and wiped away her tears. "F-fine..."

"Alright." Gohan said, giving Videl a reassuring smile before getting in mental contact with his father. 'Dad? Are you there?'

'Hey Gohan! How are things?' Goku asked happily.

'Bad...very bad. We have to face a Frost Demon that's stronger than 10 Perfect Cell's and I need you to teach everyone that Fusion technique you told me about. I'll have Videl maintain an open link to everyone.' Gohan reported.

'Oh boy...well alright. I'll do what I can. Is Videl in the link?'

'I'm here.' Videl said.

'Okay, link me up to everyone else. This is going to be image training.' Goku said.

Videl opened a link to everyone in the room except for Kabuto's team. The less upper hands they have in the long run the better.

'Hey guys. I have Goku on the line so pay attention.' Videl thought to everyone.

Meanwhile, Gohan stuck out his left arm for Kabuto to inject him with the poison.

"Let's get this over with." Gohan sighed.

---

10 miles away, the Ginyu Force of this universe were arriving back at their base.

"Hey Vegeta." Nappa spoke.

"What now..." Vegeta sighed.

"I got a 5 tails..." Nappa said. "How many does yours have?"

"Six Tails." Vegeta answered.

"Aww...you beat me..." Nappa pouted.

"It's not a competition, Nappa." Vegeta said before chuckling. "Although yes, I did beat you."

"What attacks did your Tailed Beast use against you? I bet it was something really deviating. Mine used boiling spit." Nappa said.

Vegeta's eyes went wide before he sighed. "...mine used bubbles..."

Nappa just stared at Vegeta with a goofy grin on his face.

"Hey Vegeta?" Nappa asked.

"What is it, Nappa?" Vegeta sighed.

"Do you know what they call six in Space Germany?"

"No, what?"

"Sex." Nappa said. "It's all because of the metric system. You fought a Sex Tailed Beast, Vegeta." Nappa grinned.

"God dammit, Nappa..." Vegeta growled.

"Will you morons knock it off." Raditz snapped.

"Yes, sir." Nappa quickly said.

"Honestly...of all the Saiyans left in the universe, it has to be you lot. A psychopath, an egotistical jackass, and a complete moron." Raditz ranted.

"You hear that Vegeta? He called you a moron." Nappa said.

"Case in point..." Raditz grumbled.

"I don't like your tone." Broly growled.

"I don't like yours." Raditz stated, making the lumbering giant of a Saiyan keep his silence.

'Damn him...' Vegeta cursed in thought. 'I am the Prince of all Saiyan's. I shouldn't be reduced to a subordinate of a low-level pile of trash...'

As they arrived at the ship, an elite guard stood by the entrance waiting for them.

"Welcome back. Ice has ordered you to deliver the Jinchuriki directly to the holding cells while he is indisposed." The guard stated.

"Very well." Raditz said before he stepped past the guard and headed for the holding cells.

After a short walk, they dumped their prisoners into individual cells and proceeded to leave, but once they got far enough down the hallway, they were confronted by Yu.

"Lord Ice wishes to speak with you regarding the 9 Tails." Yu said.

"We're already on our way." Raditz said as he brushed past Yu without even looking in his direction.

"Very well." Yu said simply.

"Ah, is Captain Raditz still giving you the cold shoulder, Mecha?" Nappa asked. "What do you say I talk to him for you?"

But Yu had already turned and left without acknowledging Nappa's words.

"Our talks are nice." Nappa grinned.

"Shut up, Nappa." Vegeta snapped

"M'kay."

Instead of heading back to the entrance, they made a right turn into the med bay where they saw Ice in a healing tank.

"Ginyu Force, I assume your mission was a complete success?" Ice asked from inside his healing tank.

"It was, my lord. The 4 tails, 5 tails, 6 tails and 8 tails have been captured." Raditz reported.

"Very good, then only the 3 tails, 7 tails, and 9 tails still elude us. Once they have been captured then I shall receive my Chakra Fruit." Ice stated.

"Except...we cannot locate the 7 tails. She was not at the location provided to us." Raditz informed.

"We have solved this. An Elementian that the Akatsuki agent interrogated told us that the 7 Tail Jinchuriki is hiding in the city known as the Village Hidden in the Leaves." Ice said.

"I see. Then we will capture her."

"No. Not yet." Ice ordered.

"Sire?" Raditz asked.

"The seven tails is of no concern to us. I want you five to focus your efforts on capturing the Nine Tails. I have fought with him and he has proven himself to be a threat worth considering." Ice praised.

"If he's still nearby, we'll deal with him." Raditz said.

"Oh, he is nearby. Our newest ally has confirmed that for me." Ice said.

"And who would that be?" Raditz asked.

"Bring her in." Ice ordered one of his guards.

"Yes, my lord." A guard said before he left to fetch her.

"She has decided to give up her comrades in exchange for her freedom. You will use her to track down the Nine Tails and bring it back to the ship. Same as the rest of the Jinchuriki." Ice ordered.

"Yes my lord." Raditz bowed.

"If she gives you any trouble on the way to finding the Jinchuriki. Kill her once you're done."

"Yes, my lord."

"And another thing..." Ice growled in absolute hatred. "Bring him to me...alive...I have a score to settle with him."

"Weren't we going to do that anyway because he is a Jinchuriki?" Nappa pointed out.

Ice just glared at the bald Saiyan. "Captain...I suggest you teach that man to keep his mouth shut."

"I try sir, but he throws a tantrum later if he doesn't get to speak." Raditz said.

"Then maybe you need to find someone else to join your team...and I have the perfect candidate." Ice smirked, having a really great idea. "One of the half breed Saiyan's here is quite possibly stronger than all of you. He gave me a good challenge for a brief moment. Interestingly enough...he's a spitting image of your nephew."

Raditz's eyes narrowed. "My nephew is dead." He growled.

"I know..." Ice grinned evilly. "But these two half breeds are from an alternate universe according to my Cyborg subordinate."

"Are we really going to believe a robot when he tells us there are alternate dimensions?" Raditz asked.

"Are you doubting me, Captain?" Ice asked. "Because you know what happened last time."

"No, sir. I am doubting my second-in-command. The enemy could simply say that they are from another universe and he being mere nuts and bolts would believe them." Raditz clarified.

"Well, I would agree with you...if the memories of that spikey haired brat didn't confirm it."

"Very well then." Raditz nodded. 'Another universe where Gohan is alive...'

"The other half breed is a female and evidently his mate...it would seem that she carries their offspring. Do as you wish with her."

Raditz's eyes flashed wide before he regained his composure. "Yes, sir."

"Where the Hell is the damn guard anyway?" Ice snapped.

"Right here, sir." The guard responded as he pulled in the red headed ally.

All eyes turned on the red headed former prisoner with matching glasses. "So, my bargain is being accepted?" Karin asked.

"So long as you continue to cooperate and don't do anything to infuriate me, then yes." Ice responded.

"I take you to my team and the brat who can summon the Three Tails and you let me go?" Karin clarified.

"Change of plans, you will be assisting in the capture of the Nine Tails first, then the brat, then maybe we will think about letting you go." Ice stated.

"But that wasn't part of the deal!" Karin protested.

"I have altered the deal...Pray I don't alter it anymore." Ice sneered.

"You heard the boss. Let's go, Lando." Nappa sneered as he shoved Karin out into the hallway.

"Watch it!" Karin protested as the Saiyan's and Karin made their way outside.

---

Meanwhile back at the underground Leaf base.

Gohan was sweating and shivering from the poison as Kabuto watched over him while the others were busy learning the Fusion dance. Most of them sweat dropping at the mere look of it.

"You can't seriously expect me to do that..." Kiba stated.

'It looks ridiculous...But this will help greatly, right?' Sakura thought.

'I taught Goten and Trunks Fusion and the results were incredible. Trust me, it's worth trying.' Goku assured.

Sakura sighed. 'Alright...It looks simple enough.'

'Remember, your energy must be completely in sync with your partner and so must your movements or it won't work properly.' Goku reminded.

'How will this work with Me and Kurama?' Naruto asked.

'I don't know for certain...But because he's already a part of you, I'd imagine his strength will be added to your Fusion.'

'How about it, Pig? Wanna give it a shot?' Sakura asked.

'I suppose...It's not like we have many other options.' Ino replied.

'Wait.' Naruto thought as he sensed five evil presences fast approaching their base. 'We've got company.'

"Stall them while we try this." Sakura called out as she and Ino got into position.

"Alright. Come on, guys." Naruto ordered as he ran outside, followed by Kiba, Shino, and Asuma. They quickly made it topside and looked up at the specks flying directly towards them.

"So... someone correct me if I'm wrong, but all those guys coming at us are as strong as Gohan, right?" Shino asked.

"Two of them are stronger." Naruto said.

"Great." Kiba said as Akamaru barked.

"Perhaps we would be better off fleeing and hiding from them for a couple of days? We can't just keep up this constant string of battles." Asuma said.

"We can't. Gohan is poisoned, Shikamaru is critical and Choji is missing a leg." Shino stated

"We can move them while they are injured. We did so back in wartime." Asuma said.

"Too late." Naruto said as the airborne group descended upon them.

The four Saiyan warriors plus one Cyborg and one Elementian landed in front of the group, making Naruto go wide eyed.

"Vegeta?" Naruto exclaimed, recognizing the man from his counterpart's visit to King Kai's planet.

"Oh, I see my name has spread far and wide amongst the cosmos." Vegeta gloated. "As expected of the Prince of all Saiyans."

"Um, no. I know your counterpart from another dimension. He's an arrogant prick, but he's also a good guy and a father." Naruto said. All four Saiyans blinked at Naruto like he just said he wanted to give each of them a great big hug.

"Pfft...yeah right!" Nappa laughed. "Vegeta a daddy? He's gay so he can't have kids."

"Shut up, Nappa! You're the one who tried to be a male model!" Vegeta snapped.

"Well my Child Psychology degree wasn't going to pay for itself!" Nappa defended, before snickering to himself. "Plus, you were a Prison Bitch." Nappa added.

"Twenty-five years! Twenty-five years you've been making that joke! Are you ever going to stop?!" Vegeta cried.

"Are you ever going to stop being a bitch?" Nappa replied.

"You're both bitches." Broly said.

"All three of you are my bitches, now shut up!" Raditz ordered, silencing the lot of them.

"How about you all shut up." Kiba snapped.

All eyes then turned on Kiba and he felt himself drowning in an overwhelming amount of killing intent.

"And what are you going to do if we don't?" Broly sneered.

"Broly. Knock it off. This isn't productive." Raditz ordered.

Naruto felt his blood chill. "Broly? The Legendary Super Saiyan?"

"Yes? Don't tell me that I was good in your weakling alternative dimension as well?" Broly sneered.

"No, I'm just surprised you would work for a Frost Demon. From what Gohan told me, you're supposed to be a mindless brute that was more powerful than any Frost Demon." Naruto said.

"A man's got to eat. And the Frost Demons pay handsomely for men of talent." Broly smirked.

"Wait, didn't Goku kill him?" Kiba asked.

"I don't know. Gohan kept saying that he kept coming back." Naruto said.

"Goku?" Raditz spoke.

"Surely you don't mean Kakarot." Vegeta stated.

"What's that weakling doing killing Broly?" Raditz spoke.

"Oh, the one we know is no weakling." Naruto smirked. "He could turn you into a mop and wash the floor with your blood."

The Saiyan's all burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Yo-you've got to be kidding! Raditz here beat him and a Namekian once!" Nappa laughed. "And we used to grow Cybermen who were as strong as he was!"

"Fine. Don't believe me. Just so you know." Naruto started before bursting into golden flames. "I'm almost as strong as he is..."

"Then you might give Vegeta here a run for his money." Raditz said dismissively.

"Okay, then who are you? I don't remember hearing any stories about you?" Naruto asked.

"Ah, so Gohan never told you, did he? It's relatively simple...I'm his uncle." Raditz sneered.

"His uncle? But Chichi didn't have a- Oh wait, you said you fought Piccolo? You're Raditz." Naruto said.

"Correct."

"Fucking how? You were the first person Gohan ever fought...kind of. How are you so strong? What the Hell happened?" Naruto exclaimed.

"We're not here to talk about the past. We are here for you, Jinchuriki." Raditz stated.

"Wait, one quick thing." Naruto said when he spied the young woman standing behind Raditz. "Are you an Uzumaki?"

"Um...yes I am. Why?" Karin questioned.

"I am too." Naruto said.

"Y-you're...an Uzumaki...?" Karin gasped. After years of searching for members of her clan, she finally found one.

"Yeah, I've never met another living Uzumaki. I wish the circumstances were different." Naruto admitted.

"Same here. I might not have sold you out, then." Karin replied as she threw up her arm and shot white glowing chains out of her wrist. At first, Naruto didn't move, thinking they were just regular ninja tools, but as soon as the spiked chains wrapped around his arms he felt Kurama's chakra and his own being suppressed.

"What the?" Naruto cried as he fell to the ground, the chains having wrapped around his entire figure, immobilizing him.

"You bitch!" Kiba cried as he tried to step forward, only to be deterred by a Ki beam at his feet, fired by Raditz.

"I wouldn't if I were you." Nappa warned.

"Good work, girl. Ice remembers all that assist his men. And so do I." Raditz praised.

"Why are you doing this..." Naruto growled.

"Just following our clan tradition of doing whatever I have to in order to survive." Karin said coldly.

Naruto tried to summon up his energy, but found he could just as easily will himself into transforming into a snake.

"Don't even think of struggling. These Chakra Chains are unique to the women of our clan. They are the chains that bind demons. The very presence of foreign Chakra strengthens them. The more you struggle, the stronger they get." Karin explained.

"Well I think that's enough of a family reunion." Raditz said. "Broly, grab the boy."

The men all watched as the lumbering brute swaggered over to Naruto. They felt completely helpless in his presence, he was just too strong. All of them were.

---

A few minutes ago...

'Okay…' Goku said for the fifth time. 'Let's try this again. Remember, one mind, one body, one soul.' Goku advised the girls.

'Right.' Both girls thought.

Sakura and Ino charged their energies to their max, Sakura being of course stronger.

'Sakura, pull back a little to match Ino.' Goku instructed.

'Huh? How are you stronger than me?' Ino protested.

'Where have you been the past few months? I've overtaken you by leaps and bounds.' Sakura thought.

'For now...' Ino grumbled as Sakura lowered her power to match Ino's. Fortunately, it wasn't by a large margin.

'Perfect, you're both in sync.' Goku thought, allowing them to continue.

Sakura and Ino stood opposite to one another, their arms outstretched away from their center.

'Begin.' Goku ordered.

"Fuuuuu..." They both chanted as this tip toed closer to each other. "Sion!" They turned away from each other quickly, their arms outstretched. "HA!" They cried as they arched their torsos and touched fingertips together.

Their bodies started to glow with their individual auras. Sakura's being pink and Ino's purple. The two auras that were shaped like their bodies merged inward until they were completely merged together, causing a huge burst of blinding light.

"I think it's working!" Videl shouted as the light began to dim and a massive energy signature started to present itself.

Shizune, Kakashi, Kabuto, and the others all shielded their eyes. When they looked again, they saw a new woman standing before them. One with long strawberry blond hair dressed in purple and red robes with black gloves and fishnet stocking. A purple diamond seal also adorned her forehead that seemed to have shrunk in size. She looked like she could be Sakura and Ino's sister. And the way she smiled.

"Awwwwwwe YEEEEAAAAHHH!" Ino/Sakura hollered.

"Hooooly shit...do you guys sense that power?" Videl said in awe.

"Incredible...I never thought something like this was possible..." Kakashi said in awe.

"Believe it, Cyclops!" Sakura and Ino said with one voice. "Now where is Naruto-kun and Choji-kun? I've got an itch that only their fused dicks could possible scratch." The woman said as she swaggered over to the medical corner of the room to find a mirror.

"Wait! Naruto is outside fighting the other Saiyan's. He's going to need help." Videl exclaimed.

"On it. One second." The kunoichi declared as she looked at herself in the mirror. "Hot damn I look good! Too good for either man." She smirked. "And I see we've reduced Forehead's forehead in size. Now it won't get caught in powerlines."

"What do we call you?" Shizune asked.

The woman paused in thought. "We're thinking Sakino. Or maybe Inura?"

"I like the first one better." Shizune said.

"Same." The others responded.

"Sakino it is. Now we think someone mentioned one of our hubby's being in danger?" Sakino asked.

"Yeah, up top." Videl said.

Sakino then unceremoniously burst through the ceiling and 20 feet of earth before shooting out of the ground at the scene before her. All the guys just standing around while her boyfriend/her best friend's boyfriend was chained up helplessly in front of five alien warriors and one girl her age.

"Oh, I don't fucking think so!" Sakino bellowed.

Naruto turned to look at the source of the new voice and was completely stunned at what he saw.

"And just who are you?" Raditz asked.

"I'm Sakino! The smartest, sexiest, and most powerful kunoichi in existence!" Sakino declared.

"S-sakura-chan...?" Naruto stammered in awe. "It...actually worked?"

"Naruto-kun!" Sakino cheered, sighting her love.

"Who...are you fused with?"

"Why? Who are you hoping for?" Sakino winked flirtatiously.

"I uh...well it's not that...I thought you'd fuse with Videl, honestly."

"She ain't got nothing on me!" Sakino declared proudly.

"Okay, enough of this..." Raditz growled. "Vegeta, get rid of her."

"Ch." Vegeta scoffed at being ordered. He looked over at Sakino's direction, only to be kicked in the face and sent flying through a 100 yards of thick forest.

"Ain't none of you touching my man!" Sakino shouted.

"FUCKING BITCH!" Vegeta shouted as he flew right back at her, delivering a punch to her face.

"Thank you, sir...can I have another?" Sakino smirked, Vegeta's fist still connected to her cheek.

Sakino then grabbed Vegeta's wrist and kneed him in the gut before smacking Vegeta against the ground over and over again like laundry against a rock.

She lifted him up and smirked at his broken state. "Had enough, bitch?"

"Y-you...bi..." Vegeta coughed before Sakino punched his face into unconsciousness.

"Who's next?" Sakino smirked.

"Me, me, me!" Nappa cried as he flew at Sakino.

"Nappa, no." Raditz ordered, stopping Nappa in midair.

"Aw...but it's my turn..." Nappa whined.

"And you would get destroyed. She is a hair's breadth beneath my power right now. Broly, take her." Raditz ordered.

"Gladly..." Broly sneered as he stepped forward.

Sakino then immediately flash stepped forward and punched Broly straight in the face, making his neck snap back.

"IS that all you've got...?" Broly grinned evilly. "Because you just push my RAGE BUTTON!"

Sakino then leaned back her leg and swung it up to kick Broly square in the dick. Making the Legendary Super Saiyan see and hear white for a second. All the men instinctively covered themselves.

"And what button was that?" Sakino asked.

"You kicked me in the dick...why...why did you kick me in the dick..." Broly squeaked in such a high pitched tone that none of his teammates had ever heard.

"Walk it off man! Don't be a pussy!" Nappa called out.

"Nappa, quit screwing around and grab Vegeta. Mecha, grab the Jinchuriki." Raditz ordered.

"Right, boss." Nappa said as he flew off to grab Vegeta's broken body.

Mecha Yu nodded before flying after Naruto who was still tied up.

"Don't you dare!" Sakino shouted as she flew after Yu, only to be stopped when her leg was grabbed by Broly.

"You're not going anywhere, bitch." Broly snarled.

"You know...normally I find bulging muscles irresistible...BUT IN YOUR CASE!" Sakino shouted before twisting her body to kick Broly in the head and knock him away.

Broly stopped in midair and felt his control leaving him. "My power...its OVERFLOWING! RAAAAAAaaaaAAAAAAHHH!" Broly screamed, causing his power to explode with rage. The entire area was bathed in a bright green light, blinding all those who could see it as Broly screamed to the heavens.

Sakino had to brace herself against the massive gale storm being kicked up.

"HOLY SHIT! CAN YOU FEEL THAT?!" Kiba yelled as he tried to keep his ground.

"(I TASTE THAT)!" Akamaru barked.

'Hey you two. You're going to need my power if you want to stand a chance.' Inner Sakura thought to both Sakura and Ino's mental projections.

'What the...' Ino thought.

'Inner...right, let's do it.' Sakura nodded.

Sakino then dug her heel into the dirt and started screaming against the massive brute's own screaming.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!" Sakino shouted.

In an instant, Sakino was completely bathed in red, but then something changed. The red glow that covered her entire body receded till only her hair was red and so were the irises of her eyes. But her power was well beyond what Naruto could've ever imagined.

"Let's enjoy this..." Broly growled menacingly as he finished his transformation.

Sakino then pulled out Ino's jagged trench knives and scraped them together to make that infamous spine tingling noise. "You'll think differently after I hand you back your penis."

"RAAAAAAHH!" Broly yelled before charging Sakino and clotheslining her in the throat with his gigantic arm, slamming her into several trees then finally into a large cliff. Sakino meanwhile stabbed him in the arm with her knives and kneed him in the side. The two tumbled over one another as they fought viciously across the dewy marsh.

---

Down below in what was the underground base, Gohan caught a brief reprieve of the poison and was brought up to speed on what was happening.

"How many cycles has this poison gone through?" Gohan asked seriously.

"One." Kabuto answered. "The next one should be hitting you any second now."

Gohan sighed. "I just hope Sakura and Ino can pull it off...Broly is a maniac of a killing machine. he will never stop, never rest until everyone around him is dead."

"Have faith in them. They can handle themselves." Shizune said.

"Broly and Sakino are evenly matched power wise. The one advantage they have over him is a wide arsenal of skills." Kakashi said.

"Plus, Sakura knows the Kaio Ken and I do believe Choji has been training Ino to use it as well." Videl added.

"But no one ever uses the Kaio Ken." Hinata pointed out.

"I did." Videl stated.

"So long as they remember...we may have a chance." Gohan said just as the second cycle of the poison hit him.

"SUPER KAIO KEN!" They heard Sakino cry out before sensing a major boost in power from her.

"Ah, God!" Gohan hissed as he gripped at his heart. "That's my girl..." He said as his consciousness began to fade.

"What the...I'm his girl!" Videl protested.

"Didn't...mean it...like THAT!" Gohan cried as he felt his heart being strangled by the poison.

Videl let out a moan of concern and worry. "How much longer will this take?"

"Based on how much his power increased after only one transformation...3 days. Maybe more." Shizune said grimly.

"Dammit...Where's a full moon when you need it."

"For what? The Ozaru transformation is weaker than the Super Saiyan transformation." Kakashi pointed out.

'That's not what she means.' Goku spoke to them. 'King Kai has a theory that a tailed Super Saiyan may be able to achieve what he calls Super Saiyan 4. But since Vegeta and I no longer have tails, we can't confirm it.'

"We can't rely on you Saiyans forever." Kakashi said as he keyed his radio. "Team Gai, move in. Get Naruto back."

"Understood." Gai responded.

---

As Yu made his way over to Naruto, who could only crawl away on his belly thanks to the chains. Yu was in no rush, his target was immobilized and the only being who could stop him was engaging in a fight with Broly.

That's when a metal hook on the end of metal chains shot out of the forest and grabbed ahold of Naruto and dragged him back into the forest.

"YOUTH!" Lee and Gai cried as they and Neji leapt out of the forest and charged at Yu.

Yu detected the incoming attack and simply side stepped out of the way.

Lee rolled after his kick failed and charged at Yu again. "Kaio Ken!"

"Registering power level." Yu analyzed as he tried to acquire a lock on his target.

Lee threw three punches at Yu who dodged them all before he threw a fourth punch that just grazed his helmet, then he felt a wooden smacked him against his head. He stumbled back while Lee held his nunchuck in his hand.

"Energy sensor damaged. Unable to detect power level." Yu said.

"From one blow to the head?" Lee asked.

"You hit my sensor pallet, disrupting the connection to my neural net." Yu informed.

"Oh...well you tried to hurt my friend. I'm not sorry." Lee said as he charged at Yu, his nunchucks swinging wildly.

"Resistance is useless." Yu said before taking a Ki enhanced nunchuck to his visor.

"Resist that!" Lee said before he was kicked in the gut and sent flying.

"RAAAAH!" Broly screamed as he backhanded Sakino to the ground. "Struggle all you want. In the end you'll still die." He sneered before shooting a ki blast at her that seemed to be minor.

"Oh please." Sakino scoffed before firing a beam from her hand. As soon as her beam connected with Broly's ki blast, the blast increased in size by a very large amount, growing to a size bigger than an asteroid.

"SHIT!" Sakino exclaimed before bringing her other hand up to reinforce her beam while Broly laughed maniacally.

"BROLY YOU INSANE IDIOT! YOU'LL DESTROY THE PLANET!" Raditz yelled.

"WHO CARES?! I WILL NOT LET THIS ONE BEAT ME!" Broly cried as he continued his attack. Sakino dug her heels into the dirt, but she was losing ground. She couldn't hold it!

Raditz then flew past her and kicked their beam struggle into the air. Sending it flying past the stratosphere before exploding like a second sun.

"YOU FUCKING FOOL! YOU DARE STAND BETWEEN ME AND MY PREY!?" Broly roared. Raditz merely looked at him before exploding with golden aura into Super Saiyan 2. Faster than even Broly could react, Raditz had his fist lodged deep in the Legendary Super Saiyan's ribs. Broly spat out blood and felt his power revert back to normal before he slumped against Raditz's fist.

"This is what happens when you don't follow my orders." Raditz whispered to his subordinate before he passed out.

"What the Hell just happened?" Sakino asked, not even realizing Raditz's power.

Raditz then turned towards her and fired a Ki blast that would have taken her head off if Sakino's fusion hadn't run out at that exact moment and she split back into Sakura and Ino.

Raditz just looked at the two with stoic curiosity. "You got lucky."

"Shit, our fusion." Ino cursed, now feeling extremely vulnerable in the face of the Saiyan with hair down past his knees.

"Doesn't matter, we can still fight." Sakura said as she transformed into her Kami mode.

"So you learned the Metemorese art of Fusion. I don't know how you managed that, but it won't save you now." Raditz stated.

"Who was it we had on the ropes for the last 30 minutes?" Sakura pointed out.

"Doesn't help you now. Your fusion ran out."

Sakura charged at Raditz in hopes to deal a devastating blow, but she was batted away like a common house fly. She slammed hard into Ino, causing the both of them to get sent flying.

"The fuck?" Sakura exclaimed. No one just battered her aside like that.

"It's futile, little girl. Just give up. I'd hate to kill a couple of pretty ladies." Raditz said.

"You think we're gonna give up just because of your fake chivalry?" Sakura snarled.

"Believe what you want. But if you think you can take me in your current forms then just try." Raditz said.

"Oh we will." Ino stated. 'Sakura, can you keep him standing still and focused on you?'

"Sure. Just don't waste any time." Sakura said.

"I think I have proven that you don't stand a chance." Raditz stated.

"Oh please, you only took out one of your own goons." Sakura scoffed.

"Then let me give you a reminder." Raditz said before vanishing and reappearing in front of her faster than she could even blink.

Sakura threw up her arms in a meager defense, but it hardly mattered. Raditz struck her, quick as a cobra, punching right at her face and making her hit herself with her own forearms.

He quickly followed up with a leg sweep, causing Sakura to trip. He then finished by slamming his elbow into her abdomen and driving her into the ground.

Sakura coughed so hard she lost her Kami mode transformation. Her thoughts turned white and the next thing she knew she was laying on her back. Who was this guy? Not even Goku hit that hard.

"Pathetic..." Raditz scoffed.

Sakura just coughed. Something about the way Raditz had hit her was making it hard to breath. She was losing consciousness; her vision began to tunnel. Raditz just ignored her and turned his attention to Ino, who stood frozen after seeing how effortlessly he defeated Sakura.

"Uh-Mind Transfer-UGH!" Ino cried as Raditz stepped past the Yamanaka heiress and grabbed her by the throat. She looked up into his uncaring eyes before he slammed his fist into her temple, knocking her clear out.

"Truly pathetic." Raditz added, noting Broly still laying in a crumpled mess a few feet away. He ignored his subordinate and checked his scouter.

'Now where is the Jinchuriki...?' BEEP BEEP BEEP 'There he is.'

Raditz blasted off towards his quarry, Sakura could only summon the strength to keep her head facing his direction as he disappeared over the tree line.

'No…' She thought defiantly as the darkness took her.

---

Meanwhile, deeper in the forest, Tenten was kneeling over Naruto, trying desperately to free him with bolt cutters.

"What the Hell is taking so long?" Naruto cried.

"I'm trying, damn it!" Tenten shouted before a white chain shot out of the bushes and nearly impaled her, only her gravity training allowed her to dodge in time.

Tenten threw kunai from where the chain came from and another chain shot out from a different location, which Tenten deflected.

"I know you're hiding so come out!" Tenten ordered.

"Give up my clansman and I won't harm you." Karin countered from behind cover. Her advanced sensor abilities allowed her to sense exactly where Tenten was and what she was doing without even looking at her opponent.

"Karin...is this really what you want?" Naruto asked.

"It's the only way I will survive!" Karin replied.

"No it's not..." Naruto said seriously.

"You don't get it at all, do you? Ice will be more powerful than a God when he eats the Chakra Fruit. Even now he could destroy our entire planet with a backwards glance." Karin argued. "I'd say join him, but you're going to be killed when the Nine Tails is extracted from you. I can understand you wanting to struggle until the end."

"No...you don't get it." Naruto argued back. "I...along with my friends who have trained long and hard for months...will stop him before that even happens. The world will be safe from him and anyone else who tries to threaten our world."

"Cousin...I can sense your power levels. If this is all you and your friends can muster after months of training, you should just surrender now and spare your friends." Karin said seriously.

"Is that all that matters in this? Who has the highest power level? Ice is overconfident of his powers and that is going to be his biggest mistake. Power means nothing if you don't have the skills and a sound strategy. I can assure you...no matter what it takes, Ice WILL fall to us. And that...is a promise."

"H-how can you be so sure?" Karin asked, a glimmer of hope in her tone.

"If I had thrown in the towel against every impossibly strong opponent I've faced, I wouldn't be here right now."

Karin looked at her kin, that glimmer of hope swimming around her head before her cynicism swallowed it whole. "And I wouldn't be standing here without trusting my own choices. I won't stop now." Karin said just as Tenten flash stepped past the tree Karin was hiding behind and tried to stab her.

Karin threw up her arms, but felt nothing. She opened her eyes and saw that Captain Raditz had appeared and was holding Tenten's kunai arm by her elbow.

"Sorry, I still need her." Raditz said before he raised up Tenten by her elbow and kicked her in the ribs, sending her flying back 300 yards.

"TENTEN!" Naruto shouted before he saw the latter smack against a rock.

"Good choice." Raditz praised Karin as he lowered his leg to the ground and stood over her. "Now grab the Jinchuriki. We are leaving."

That was when Raditz felt something crawling on his arm. He looked at it and saw that it was some kind of strange looking spider, almost like it had been a drawing come to life.

"What in the Space Christ is this?" Raditz asked as he tried to shake off the stylized spider. The spider wouldn't leave. Raditz tried to smack it, but as soon as he did, it exploded into an inky mess.

"The Hell kind of bugs do you have on this planet?" Raditz asked Karin as he tried to wipe away the ink.

"I don't know what that was. I've never seen a bug like that." Karin answered truthfully.

Her eyes then went wide and her eyes shot up to the sky. "There!" She pointed at a white bird with black outline flying high in the sky. If she wasn't seeing it with her own eyes, Karin would swear that it was a cartoon bird rotoscoped against real life footage.

Naruto looked up and smirked when he realized who it was. 'Sai.' He thought.

Raditz then looked up at the cartoon bird and fired a Ki Blast directly at the creature, making it explode in midair.

Naruto wanted to scream out in horror before he noticed two figures falling away from the bird at the last second. At first, Naruto couldn't tell if the two figures were alive or dead. Then they both flipped around as they fell and Naruto could just make out the larger figure moving his arms as they both fell to the earth.

The land by the horizon then shook when an explosion kicked up a Chunin Exam stadium sized wall of a smoke. Then, a toad the size of Hokage Tower with a sword at his size and a pipe in his mouth leapt out of the smoke.

"W-what the Hell?!" Raditz exclaimed.

The massive toad and his two passengers leapt over leagues of forest floor with each kick from the beast's mighty legs. He finally came crashing down to earth standing in between Naruto and his two would-be captors.

"Behold, evildoers!" A man proclaimed like the hero of some grand opera. "Your worst nightmare! The man whose voice can woo the coldest heart and silence a newborn! The Legendary Toad Sage Sannin of the Hidden Leaf! Lord Jiraiya, that's me!" Jiraiya smiled as he struck a heroic pose atop his Toad summon's head.

Naruto sweat dropped. "Really, Pervy Sage..."

Raditz and Karin just looked up at the man to make sure he wasn't some theme park mascot.

"I believe the books I have read on social situations would call this display of yours...lame." Sai stated emotionlessly.

"Oh the both of you can just shut up! Neither of you wet behind the ears brats could understand a true shinobi's art of showmanship." Jiraiya stated.

"We are ninjas. Are we not supposed to be as least noticeable as possible?" Sai asked.

"Do you wanna just get on with it, Pervy Sage?!" Naruto exclaimed.

"And I really wish you would stop calling me that in public, brat!" Jiraiya shouted, making the Toad Chief Gamabunta laugh.

"Ha, a perfect nickname for Jiraiya as ever, brat." Gamabunta chuckled.

"Excuse me?" Captain Raditz spoke up. "What do you think you're doing?"

"I could ask you the same question. What nerve do you have to try and kidnap my apprentice while he is on a mission? You got some kind of death wish, or do you just work for the Akatsuki?" Jiraiya growled.

"I serve Lord Ice, who has partnered with the Akatsuki to fulfill a mutual goal." Raditz answered.

"So, Princess Tsunade's intel was right on the money." Jiraiya mused. "But I'm afraid I can't let you take Naruto. So why don't you take your..." Jiraiya looked at Karin who was wearing Elementian clothes and looked out of place next to Raditz in his space armor. "Hostage? And scram. But leave the hostage."

"Karin Uzumaki." Naruto informed.

That made Jiraiya's eyes go wide. "I shouldn't be surprised. Her hair color is exactly the same as your mother's."

"True." Naruto said fondly.

"You're mother? Who was she?" Karin asked.

"Save it. That's not-"

"Kushina Uzumaki." Naruto said, interrupting Raditz.

Karin paused in thought. "Never heard of her, but my mom always told me that our clan loves female names that begin with K."

"Listen. How about I capture the Jinchuriki and then you two can chat all you want before we hand him over to the Akatsuki?" Raditz suggested as he dashed towards Naruto, only to be blocked by a sword wider than he was.

"You want the brat? You have to go through me." Gamabunta snarled.

Raditz smirked. "A simple matter." He said before he grabbed a hold of the sword and snapped it in two.

"What?!" Gamabunta exclaimed. That was the sword of his ancestors. Forged before the time of Kaguya. It was supposed to be unbreakable.

"Sai! Grab Naruto and the girl with the hair buns and flee!" Jiraiya ordered as he clapped his hands together.

"Understood." Sai nodded.

"Be careful! He's a full blooded Saiyan and a Super Saiyan at that!" Naruto warned.

"He's a deadman!" Gamabunta shouted as he brought his blade down on Raditz, intending to slice him in half.

As if he was just catching a ball, Raditz caught the sword with his bare hand. "Is that all you got frog face?" He smirked.

"Cheeky little punk!" Gamabunta roared as he puffed out his cheeks. He spat chakra enhanced water point blank at Raditz like a cannonball. Raditz charged through the stream of water and punched Gamabunta hard in the jaw, knocking him back a fair distance.

"Chief!" Naruto cried as he saw his old friend crashing end over end through the trees. Jiraiya then landed next to Naruto with his hands still clapped together, standing between Naruto and Raditz.

"Impressive." Jiraiya praised. "I'd say your strength with give Princess Tsunade a run for her money."

"If that's the best this world has to offer than this is just a waste of time." Raditz scoffed.

"By all means. Pack up your ship and leave our galaxy forever. We won't pursue you." Jiraiya promised.

"It's not my call, unfortunately. So you'll just have to entertain me for a while."

"Well if it's entertainment you want, just wait a minute. I'll give you the fight of your life." Jiraiya smiled.

"We'll see about that." Raditz smirked.

Jiraiya just stood there with his hands clapped together, not moving an inch.

"What are you doing?" Naruto asked.

"Using a very special technique. One that will help me defeat this so called Super Saiyan." Jiraiya declared.

"Really? Can you teach me?"

"You haven't even seen it yet, brat." Jiraiya said.

"So? I still wanna learn it whatever it is."

"Brat, just watch and be impressed later."

Jiraiya finally released his hands and bit both of his thumbs to make then bleed. He flashed through his hand signs and slammed them both on the ground. Releasing two small puffs of smoke.

"Little Jiraiya, what in the Hell are you doing? Summoning the both of us? And in the middle of supper time too." A shrill old woman's voice croaked.

"Oh lay off of him, Ma. The boy seems to be in a bit of a pickle and we are sworn to help him." An old man croaked back as he leapt atop Jiraiya's shoulder, followed by the old lady toad leaping aboard Jiraiya's other shoulder.

"Gamabunta is down." Jiraiya stated.

"WHAT?!" The two old toads croaked.

"We've got an incredibly powerful Ki user to fight against. One who hasn't even shown his true strength yet." Jiraiya said, pointing at Raditz.

"A Ki user? One of those half aliens from another dimension you keep going on about?" Ma croaked.

"No, this one is from our dimension, and is apparently a full Saiyan." Jiraiya stated.

"Great..." The old man toad sighed. "I heard a story from the elder about these Saiyan's. Apparently there were a group of Saiyan's who arrived here over a thousand years ago and tried to take it over. But the Sage of Six Paths wiped them out before they did too much damage."

"Which means that the Sage's chakra should make short work of him." Jiraiya smirked.

"However, the power I'm sensing from this one is beyond anything I've ever felt. Be cautious, Jiraiya boy."

"I will, but I need both of your help." Jiraiya said as he removed his red wooden sandals.

"Very well." Ma said before she looked over her should and saw Naruto laying in the mud, tied up by chakra chains.

"Uh...hey." Naruto said sheepishly.

"And who is this, lad? Is he your apprentice? Why is he chained up?"

"He is my apprentice. He's also the son of my student." Jiraiya said.

"Little Naruto? This is him? All grown up." Ma exclaimed.

"Yes, Ma. But focus, we need to help Jiraiya-boy." Pa reminded her.

"Alright, alright. I know that." Ma snapped. She clapped her hands together and Pa did the same.

"Are you ever going to make me stop waiting?" Raditz asked. "Cause every second I don't have the boy is another second my Second spends killing his friends."

"Keep your pants on." Jiraiya grumbled.

"I will not. I've wasted enough time indulging the Jinchuriki and now you with your silly praying. Now either get on with it or I'll go back and blow up your base with all your wounded hiding underground." Raditz threatened.

"I wouldn't do that." Naruto warned as Sai got to his side.

"Kid, you wanna make threats? Make them when you aren't chained up and more helpless than a newborn." Raditz stated.

"Oh don't worry, we're almost done." Jiraiya stated as he fell forward onto all fours. His muscles bulged slightly and his feet elongated into frog like flippers, as did his hands. His nose puffed up, he grew warts, and his pupils became rectangular and his eyes turned yellow.

He looked horrifying to Naruto and amusing to Raditz as he completed his transformation.

"Alright, Saiyan, I hear your kind like to transform. Let's see how you deal with the final transformation of the Toad Sage!" Jiraiya declared.

"Ahahahaha!" Raditz threw his head back and laughed.

"Y-you expect to fight me? In that ridiculous form?" Raditz continued to laugh. "You're even weaker than before."

"You think so, do you?" The Toad Sage smirked. He kicked his legs out and shot after him faster than the Saiyan could blink. The only way he registered that Jiraiya had moved was the sensation of his fist slamming through his chest, sending him flying. Coughing out bile.

"You FILTH!" Raditz barked before landing on a rock and blasting back towards Jiraiya, kicking him hard in the gut. His abs felt like Raditz was kicking iron. Even as Jiraiya was sent sailing back like a skipping stone he quickly righted himself and landed on his webbed feet before hopping back at Raditz.

'How did he get so strong?' Raditz thought.

His thoughts were cut off by Jiraiya's fist slamming into the Saiyan's cheek, snapping his neck to the side. He twirled around and kicked Jiraiya in the sides, which the Sage blocked. The two began trading blocks, like hammers against anvils. Neither one giving an inch, yet Raditz could tell this was not a fight he could win.

'I may have to ascend just to get the upper hand.' Raditz thought.

Jiraiya then kicked Raditz through a knotted old tree.

Raditz snarled at the old man. "Alright...now you're asking for it..."

"Still think I'm weaker?" Jiraiya asked as he flashed behind Raditz and kicked him in his lower back.

The kick didn't even phase the Saiyan as rocks started to float next to him. "Now you're dead..." Raditz smirked before transforming into a Super Saiyan.

Jiraiya jumped away from Raditz with a concerned look on his face.

"He might pose a threat now." Pa Toad croaked.

"We should flee and take the boy with us." Ma added.

"No. Not while my godson's life is at stake. We're going to throw this bastard back at his master empty handed." Jiraiya stated with a fury.

"Let me explain to you how utterly fucked you are now..." Raditz smirked. "I can push myself one more level if I have to."

"Then I suggest you do it now. I gain strength from nature itself." Jiraiya bragged. "I do not tire and my strength will only increase as time passes."

"If I need to I will." Raditz said before he flashed out of sight. He reappeared behind Jiraiya and kicked him hard in the back.

Jiraiya stumbled, but quickly recovered. He sent three punches at Raditz's face, raising his guard up, thus opening his belly to Jiraiya's knee. Raditz used his tail to block the attack before punching him square in the nose, making him stumble. Jiraiya then flashed through hand signs faster than even a Super Saiyan could keep track of.

"Earth Style: Dark Swamp Jutsu!" Jiraiya cried making a black swamp appear right below Raditz's feet to swallow him up to his knees. To a lesser warrior, this would be an endgame trap, but the Captain of the Ginyu Force looked unimpressed.

"Really...is that your best..." Raditz deadpanned. Mama Toad just looked offended at the Saiyan's cheek.

"No. This boy is tougher than he looks." Ma declared. "I'll have to cook him up something nice. Jiraiya-boy, get a fire going; Pa, you fan the flames; I'll bring the oil." Ma said as she and the two other Toad Sages flashed through hand signs.

"Toad Style: Oil Burst Jutsu!" Ma shouted before spewing out a concentrated burst of highly flammable, highly sticky oil directly at the trapped Saiyan.

"Wind Style: Torrent Breath Jutsu!" Pa shouted, unleashing a tornado directed at Raditz.

"Fire Style: Inferno Stream Jutsu!" Jiraiya shouted, unleashing a stream of red hot flames at the alien invader.

All three streams collided together at their target. The wind jutsu enhancing the fire jutsu beyond its capabilities, which when colliding with the oil created an inferno stronger than napalm. Raditz screamed as he was consumed by the flames, the oil searing his skin and melting his armor. His screams soon turned into laughter, which made their blood run cold. In an instant, Raditz created a dome of energy and blew away the flames and oil.

Jiraiya shielded himself and looked on as Raditz stood with his skin only slightly sunburned and his armor melted away.

"Jiraiya-boy. I think we're in over our heads." Ma said.

"Not yet, there is still that one technique to gain the upper hand." Jiraiya said.

"You don't mean..." Pa gasped.

"I do..."

"Well I refuse to do it!" Ma snapped.

"Ma, be reasonable. We have to do it if we want a chance at beating this Saiyan." Pa begged.

"Hell no, I hate having to harmonize with you. It's embarrassing when I try to sing." Ma stated.

"DOUBLE SUNDAY!" Raditz shouted, firing two purple beams directly at them.

Jiraiya sidestepped in between both beams, dodging them by a hair's breadth. "The fuck kind of name for an attack is Double Sunday? And we don't have a choice." Jiraiya argued.

Ma grumbled. "How do you know this will even work?"

"Saiyan's have very acute hearing. If my assumption is correct, this should disorient him enough to land a devastating blow." Jiraiya stated.

"Fine..." Ma grumbled. She hated using this technique above all else because it was embarrassing, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

She and Pa both took a deep breath, their throats inflating to twice their size as they filled their lungs with air. Raditz tried to fire more Ki beams at Jiraiya, but he nimbly dodged all of them. Finally, the toad couple began to sing a haunting melody at the Saiyan. At first he thought he could power through the two concentrated sound waves, but then he fell to his knees. It wasn't just that his equilibrium was distorted, all of his senses were failing him.

He fired a Ki blast wildly into the air and missed. He fell on his hands and knees, not knowing up from down. His lunch spewed out over the ground as his ears began to bleed.

"Damn you...huh?" Raditz asked as he looked up from the ground and couldn't see Jiraiya anymore. Instead he saw a little boy, with a tail, dark hair, and a bright smile on his face; running towards Raditz with reckless abandon.

The Captain's higher brain knew that this had to be some kind of trick, a way to distract him, but he didn't care. He held out his arms to embrace the young boy as he ran towards Raditz as a son would to his father.

He got all the way to the Saiyan's reach before the boy was replaced with the Toad Sage who delivered a skull rattling punch to Raditz's nose. The Saiyan was sent flying back through five trees and slammed against a rock, splitting it in half. He slumped against the broken rock, his face broken and his eyes dropping as his Super Saiyan transformation faded. He was slipping into unconsciousness.

"And that's Jenga." Jiraiya smirked.

As Jiraiya stood over Raditz triumphantly, a hundred yards away, Yu was holding his own against Lee and Neji, both of whom were reaching their limits. All other fighters were exhausted and only those two remained standing between Yu and the Leaf's underground base.

"Neji, how are you fairing?" Lee asked.

"Honestly..." Neji huffed. "We need to end this quick..."

"I agree. But Gohan is out of commission and Videl is too fragile right now." Lee stated before looking at him seriously. "I think it's time we use maneuver 14."

Neji looked at his longtime teammate. "Lee, we aren't supposed to do that unless we are desperate."

"And it is that time. My Kaioken is exhausted and you're Chakra levels are depleting fast, are they not?"

"Alright..." Neji said as he dashed towards Lee. He twirled his sleeves to wrap around his arms tightly. He held out his arm which Lee grabbed and started twirling him around like a shot put.

"Wait." Yu said out of the blue, holding up his hand.

Neji stopped dead in his tracks and Lee kept his guard up while Yu looked up to the sky.

'Alert: Captain Ginyu is down.' A computer voice spoke inside Yu's helmet. 'Heartrate and brain activity is falling. Ginyu Force member 5: Broly, and Ginyu Force member 3: Vegeta, are also unconscious. Suggested battle tactic: Recover fallen members and retreat.'

"What is he doing?" Neji asked to no one.

Without saying a word, Yu charged up his Ki and rocketed off towards the horizon.

"Um...What just happened?" Lee asked.

Neji activated his Byakugan and followed Yu's trail. "He's headed towards Tenten and Naruto!"

"We have to follow him!" Lee declared.

"Right." Neji nodded as the both of them flash stepped after him.

They sprinted through the forest until they came across an unconscious pair of kunoichi.

"It's Sakura and Ino." Neji said as they came to a stop to check them out.

Neji knelt down and check to see of Sakura had a carotid pulse. "Sakura is alive, but she's out cold."

"Same with Ino...It seems their fusion wasn't enough." Lee stated.

"It's possible. The most logical choice should've been with Videl. But at any rate, we need to catch up to Yu." Negi stated.

"Even still, Sakino was more powerful than Gohan. I could sense it. What kind of monsters are we fighting if their fusion wasn't enough?" Lee asked.

"If Gohan's memories are anything to go by...they are unlike anything this world has, or will, ever see." Neji stated.

"Why don't we fuse?" Lee asked.

"Because I would rather die again than do that ridiculous dance with you." Neji stated.

"But you've seen the results. Our combined power and skills would be unreal." Lee argued.

"We'll discuss it another time, let's go!" Neji exclaimed as he took off after Yu.

"Right!" Lee agreed as he took off behind Neji. They made it 100 yards north before they ran into Lord Jiraiya and that Root kid named Sai. The latter had Tenten unconscious in his arms while Jiraiya knelt over Naruto trying to undo the Chakra Chains still binding him.

"Lord Jiraiya?" Lee exclaimed.

"What happened?" Neji asked.

"I believe I've read about this before. Naruto got into some kinky bondage with his cousin." Sai smiled.

Neji and Lee sweat dropped while Jiraiya just smirked.

"No you idiot!" Naruto snapped. "They tried to capture me!"

"That too, I suppose." Sai shrugged.

"Hold on. What's this about Naruto having a cousin?" Lee asked.

"Remember how Kushina talked to you all about her clan, the Uzumaki? Well it turns out we ran into one of Naruto's nomad clansmen. A female at that." Jiraiya said as he tried to remember the jutsu he developed to break out of Kushina's Chakra Chains.

"Then what's with the chains?" Lee asked.

"Uzumaki Kekkei Genkai. Mostly, the women of the clan can use it." Jiraiya replied.

"Then what do the males of the clan get?" Naruto asked.

"A little bit longer lifespan than the woman. So you could in theory live till you're 150." Jiraiya answered as he finally got the hand signs right and the chains dissolved.

"Does that mean...I'll outlive Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked, afraid of the answer.

Jiraiya sighed. "It's very possible. I don't know much about the Haruno clan, but I know their life spans are typically between average and just under average."

"I think we have more pressing matters." Neji said.

"Not really." Sai stated.

"We just got our asses kicked and barely survived thanks to the both of your stepping in. Now we are extremely vulnerable to attack." Neji pointed out.

"He's right, we need to regroup at your base and plan our next move." Jiraiya stated.

"Not much of the base left. Kiba, Shino, Asuma, Gai-sensei, Kakashi, Ino and Sakura are out of the fight." Neji reported.

"I don't think this one is looking any better." Sai said, looking down at Tenten.

"And Captain Yamato is out as well." Neji added.

"What happened to Sakura-chan!" Naruto demanded.

"She got injured in the fight. She's alive, but out cold." Neji reported.

"Damn it..." Naruto swore.

"Who's left?" Jiraiya asked.

"Just us and Videl, but she won't leave Gohan's side." Neji reported.

"And Hinata." Lee added. "And Kabuto's team. Which would amount of himself, that blue kid, and that woman who can fight."

"Don't forget about me." Naruto stood up. "I can still...ugh..." He flinched as a wave of pain washed over his body.

"So we're screwed then." Jiraiya mused.

The young ninjas all looked at him curiously. "Um...Lord Jiraiya, shouldn't you be encouraging us not to give up?" Lee asked.

"Why? We're all equals here. And we truly are screwed." Jiraiya said. "Let's get back to the base. We need to plan our next move."

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Author's Note from Panda: So am I clever with Ice's Ginyu Force? My favorite part has to be Raditz being the leader and the strongest among them. Something that I'll be sure to have us explain in the later chapter. Is this original or am I not as clever as I think I am? Tell us so in the review below.

I don't want to promise anything, but chapters 38 and 39 are "done." I am super excited for chapter 39, as you will see. Without wishing to spoil it was one of the most fun chapters me and Cmartin have ever written (in my opinion). But as I said at the beginning, the road of life is being bumpy right now for the both of us. Delays happen. They suck, but they do. So thanks again for your patience and all your support.