~Tenshi's POV~
We were in the inner world of Son Goku, the Ape King. We finally managed to get through to him in telling him that we want to help all Tailed Beasts. He said he would help if we could get him out of the chains.
"Just teach me how to stop this, then!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Before that, let me tell you one other thing. I've made a point of not trusting Jinjuuriki…especially not idiots who they want to make friends with the Tailed Beasts…in other words…don't think I'm gonna become your ally, even if you do save me. Unless I trust you," Son Goku told us.
"I'm fine with that as long as I know what to do," Naruto told him. I nodded agreeing with him. We then woke up on Son Goku's mouth. Naruto and I have tried to get him to open his mouth, but Son was stronger than us. I then got an idea and I knew Naruto got the same idea. We then created hundreds of Shadow Clones which made him spit us all out. As soon as Naruto and I were out, we started looking around Son Goku's neck for the chakra stake. Naruto and I were able to find it. I looked at Naruto.
"I'll distract him, you get the chakra stake!" I told him. He nodded and we got to work after we changed into our Bijuu Cloak Forms. As I was distracting the Four Tails, Naruto managed to get to the chakra stake, but he was having trouble getting it out. That was when chains wrapped around me and Naruto both. I grunted in pain from the chains. Tamotsu jumped up and tried to get me out. After a minute or two, Naruto got the chakra stake out. We then jumped away from Son Goku, but we were brought back to his inner world.
"Not bad kids!" Son Goku told us. All the other chains were off of him, but one was still connected to his back.
"Why haven't the chains disappeared?!" Naruto pointed out.
"Heh, so they haven't after all," Son Goku mused.
"Why not, I pulled the stake out!" Naruto shouted.
"That stake was just a temporary way to bind my chakra to the Jinjuuriki's body. My chakra itself is still in the hands of the masked man, through his demonic statue of outer path," Son Goku told us.
"And you knew about it? Then we haven't saved you at all!" I exclaimed.
"You…were being serious?" He asked us.
"Of course we were!" Naruto and I shouted.
"I just told you how to stop me, not how to save me!" Son told us.
"You should have told us everything from the start! So?! How do we save you?!" Naruto shouted at him.
"Before that, there' something I want to give you two. Put your hand out," he said to us. Naruto and I stuck our fists out.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"Something you'll both like, it'll help you out too," he told us. We connected fists with him and we felt a little strength come to us. We were then out of Son Goku and saw him being sucked into a monster like creature, we then found the host of Son Goku. We looked at Madara.
"You only stopped one beast and it looks like you're both knocking on death's door. But I don't intend to be stingy here. You have some very valuable things that belong to me now…and I'm going to take them all," Madara told us. I was then pulled into my inner world with Jinroo. She smiled at me.
"How would you feel about mending our chakra together?" She asked me. I smiled at her.
"I think it would be an honor, Jinroo," I told her while holding out my fist. Hers came out and touched mine, I then felt more powerful. "Alright, let's do this!" I exclaimed. As the power flowed through me, I noticed that my Bijuu Cloak Mode changed. I was now wearing what looked to be a long short kimono and ninja skirt. The light blue designs spread through my whole body that glowed like white fire. I even had golden wolf eyes, and I still had the wolf ears and tail. We were then out of our inner world and I saw the other Tailed Beast doing the Tailed Beast Bomb. We rushed forward feeling even faster than before. Before my father and uncle were attacked, I picked them up. Naruto and I were now standing on the heads of Kurama and Jinroo.
"First, we need to pinpoint exactly where the rods are on each of their bodies!" Naruto told all of us. I smirked.
"Well, as long as we do this together, it should be no problem, wouldn't you say?" I asked him. He smirked back and nodded. While Naruto took care of Saiken and Choumei, I took care of Matatabi and Isobu, Bee and Gyuuki were handling Kokuou. While we were fighting we also looked for the chakra stakes. We had found them all. To make sure the other Tailed Beasts didn't stop us from getting the rods, we used the Tailed Beast Bomb to knock them down. Naruto and I each made chakra hands and made them go to the Tailed Beasts, we then made Clones to get the chakra stakes out. We closed our eyes and opened them to find ourselves in an inner world with all the Tailed Beasts except Shukaku and Son Goku. Even the Host of the Tailed Beasts are here.
"We've been waiting," Isobu said to us. I then realized Naruto and I were out of our Bijuu Modes.
"This is like what happened with Son," Naruto commented. I nodded.
"So, you managed to get in this deep this time? It's just like the Four Tails told us," A blond girl said. She was sitting on the Two Tails, Matatabi.
"This isn't the same place the Four Tails was," Kurama said from behind Naruto.
"We're completely linked now, so we're further down in the Tailed Beasts' minds and the Jinjuuriki themselves are here as well," Jinroo smiled. She was standing right behind me.
"Also, the Four Tails was bound by chakra chains," Kurama told Naruto. Jinroo growled a little, I guess she hates having all her children just being known by their tails.
"I don't understand what you saying, but…everyone's here and the stakes are gone, so we can relax more this time," Naruto said to him. I nodded.
"Yeah, Madara or whoever he is can't get in here either, so in a way, we're safe," I told them.
"Thanks for coming," we heard someone say. We then looked at the man with grey hair who had a stitch like pattern under his eye. "As the representative of the Jinjuuriki and Tailed Beasts, I thank you. Honestly, I've been wanting to meet you both, Naruto Uzumaki and Ookami no Tenshi Hatake," he said to us. Naruto was crying…a lot.
"Wow, your smaller than me, you look even weaker and look like a kid. You really must have had it rough as a Jinjuuriki. And on top of that…you've even left this plane of reality now…just thinking about that…it's too much…without knowing what good ramen tastes like…or a kiss from a girl tastes like," Naruto bawled. I sighed and shook my head.
"Hey…you've never been kissed by a girl either! You haven't even kissed a girl, yet you kissed Sasuke a while back," Kurama snickered. Naruto started gagging.
"I don't want to remember stuff like that!" Naruto shouted at him. I rolled my eyes.
"Neither do it, to think he kissed my fiancée!" I lightly growled. "Anyways, this man is Yagura a former Mizukage," I told Naruto. Yagura was shocked.
"How did you know that?" He asked me. I smirked.
"I'm a Senju, Ookami no, and Hatake. People of those names tend to learn a lot," I told him. He nodded with an impressed look. I then looked around. "So, was Son Goku here too?" I asked. It was then that Son Goku and his host appeared.
"Do you remember the last words the ol' Sage of the Six Paths said? These kids are probably who he was talking about. That's what I felt," Son Goku told his Tailed Beast siblings. "'They'll probably come down here to save you, look after them. I'm being pulled away by the Mazou now, see ya,'" Son Goku recited.
"Four Tails, it might just be me, but I think maybe…we might have had the option to go down the same path as them," the red haired man said to Son Goku.
"Heh, that's funny coming from you. You're more hard headed that the Tsuchikage's axe! Maybe, if you had remembered my name when you became my Jinjuuriki," Son Goku said to him.
"I haven't become soft enough over these forty years to say your name, but I haven't forgotten it," he told him.
"Then say it out loud for me," Son Goku told him.
"Is 'Son' ok?" The redhead asked.
"The Four Tails urged us to gather here. We promised to stay here to tell you some things," the host on the Saiken said to me and Naruto.
"Wow…he did all of that? Hehe, anyway, I'm glad you're all here hanging out together!" Naruto grinned. I chuckled.
"That was after the Four Tails and Roushi disappeared though. Naruto, Tenshi, it's thanks to you," said the man on Kokuou.
"Naruto, Tenshi, come before me and put out your hand…it's time to keep my promise to the Four Tails…no, to Son Goku," Matatabi said. Jinroo smiled a little.
"Finally, I was hoping you would all use your real names," she said to them. They nodded at her.
"My name is Matatabi," the Two Tails told us.
"Nii Yugito," Matatabi's host told us. Isobu placed his hand on Matatabi's.
"I'm Isobu," said the Three Tails.
"I'm the ex-Fourth Mizukage, Yagura," Yagura said next. Kokuou came up next.
"I am Kokuou," he said placing a hand on Isobu's.
"Han," his host told us.
"I'm Saiken, alright?" The Six Tails told us coming up next.
"Utakata," the host introduced.
"Lucky Seven Choumei," said the Seven Tails playing a hand on top.
"Fuu!" The girl said. Naruto and I had our hands touching Matatabi's…it was then that we felt power coursing through us. We were then back in our world. We let go of the fellow Tailed Beasts and looked at Madara.
"I can't believe they'd be able to control the Nine Tails and Ten Tails as well. Although, it looks like they won't last long. This changes nothing," Madara mused. Naruto and I landed in front of dad and Uncle Guy who were one the ground. We were now out of our Bijuu forms.
"Things have changed," I smirked at him.
"Because we just learned a whole bunch of difficult names all at once," Naruto grinned.
"Difficult names? What are you talking about?" Madara asked. I chuckled.
"You don't know about them, do you?" I taunted
"Heh! Like hell we're going to tell you!" Naruto stuck his tongue out. Naruto and I just smirked at Madara with confidence. It started raining but Naruto and I didn't seem to notice too much.
"This war will make all pasts, all futures, and all existences completely irrelevant," Madara told us. We just kept out smirks. I took a step up.
"That's where you're wrong. The thing, is look around you, where are your comrades? Your teams? I don't see any. Naruto and I, we have the biggest team there is, all of them are our comrades and friends. We know they'll fight to keep us safe just as we will do the same for them. When we need them, they're just a call way," I told him. I could see Madara glaring at me through the holes in his mask.
'We're on our way, sis!' Tori thought to me. I smirked.
'We were wondering when the cavalry would come,' I thought back. I heard her chuckle.
'We were just given the message that you were fighting Madara and were told to help. You didn't expect you and Naruto to do this alone, did you?' She asked me.
'We were never alone in this, it was all of you who gave us the strength to make it as far as we did, little sister,' I thought to her. I knew she was smiling. Now we just wait for them to show up.
~Sasuke's POV~
We've been moving through the forest trying to sense where the user for the Edo Tensei was. It was rather difficult and with how long we've been going, I keep wondering if Tenshi was alright. I've been trying to communicate with her, but her Taiingan hasn't been activated.
"I know your worried," I heard Itachi say. I looked at him. "I'm worried about Tenshi too, but we both know she's stronger than she looks," he told me. I sighed and nodded.
"I know, but I can't help but worry. I mean, this is Madara we're talking about," I told him. He nodded.
"Yeah, that also makes me worry about Aya, from what I gathered, some of the teams are heading to help Tenshi and Naruto. That means everyone will be helping Naruto and Tenshi take down Madara," he told me. I smirked.
"And they're leaving us out of the fun," I joked. He chuckled with a smirk of his own.
"Indeed they are, little brother. Let's hurry and stop the Edo Tenshi then we can go help as well as keep our girls safe," he told me. My smirk widened.
"That's the best thing I've heard you say all day, big brother," I said to him. We then sped up to the cave we sensed the Edo Tenshi coming from. We walked in a saw a guy dressed in a cloak.
"So, some ninjas having come to stop the Edo Tenshi…just so you know, the Edo Tenshi Jutsu won't stop even if I'm killed, only I can stop it…hehe, how my luck has finally turned," the man hissed. I got a closer look and my eyes widened.
"Orochimaru?!" I exclaimed.
"Hehe, not exactly," he answered. I had recognized that voice.
"That voice…Kabuto?" I asked. He smirked letting me know it was him. How the hell is this possible?
"I wasn't expecting my compensation for helping with this war to come here of its own accord at this timing…this is lucky," he hissed. I glared at him.
"What does that mean? Why are you here?" I asked him. How did he become so different?
"It's a bit complex, I'll try to make it simple," Kabuto told us.
"Feel free to explain. I'll stop your Edo Tenshi in the mean while," Itachi told him with a monotone voice.
"This Jutsu has no weakness…and no risks," Kabuto told us. I smirked.
"Every Jutsu as a weakness, and we will find the weakness to this one, Kabuto," I told him. He raised an eyebrow.
"What makes you so sure?" He asked me.
"Being around two very optimistic people was bound to rub off on me," I told him. Itachi was at my side.
"Let's defeat him first without killing him," he told me. I raised an eyebrow at him. "If you kill the one who performed the Edo Tenshi, the Jutsu will continue forever. First of all I will use my Tsukuyomi on him to understand how to stop it," he told me. I knew where this was going.
"Then while he's still under the effect of Tsukuyomi, you'll control him and stop the Jutsu," I concluded. He nodded at me. Kabuto grinned.
"You explain very well how you plan to defeat me. I hope it works as perfectly as it sounds, but as I said earlier, this Jutsu has no weakness nor risks," Kabuto told us.
"And as Sasuke said earlier, every Jutsu has a weakness. This Jutsu's weak point and risk are me and Sasuke," he told him as he activated the Mangekyou Sharingan. I followed pursuit and glared at Kabuto. "Ready, Sasuke?" Itachi asked me. I nodded.
"Whenever you are, Itachi," I replied. Kabuto pulled his hood down more.
"As a shy person, I'm not used to being stared at by other people," he told us. Snakes were beside him hissing.
"To prevent our Genjutsu," I murmured.
"Watch out for those snakes. They seem to be able to clearly sense our existence," Itachi told me. I nodded.
"Snakes can sense things through temperature and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth," I told him.
"You've learnt a lot, Dr. Snakes," Itachi said sarcastically. I smirked.
"I did plenty of research in order to beat Orochimaru," I told him.
"But you won't defeat me by becoming Dr. Snakes! This is my field, nature will be on my side," Kabuto told us. That's when the snakes grew.
"The locational advantage…it might be a trap, Sasuke," Itachi told me.
"A trap...? I don't think so," Kabuto told him. The snakes came after us, but we used our Susanoos to dodge and block the attacks. I saw snake tail about to sneak up, so I drew my katana and threw it pinning the snake tail. But it pulled its tail away causing the tail to split at the end. I smirked.
"You can't be that shy. You're hiding your body now, not just your head. Are you trying to escape by sloughing off your skin? Looks like your nothing more than a piece of crap left by Orochimaru," I taunted.
"Sasuke, don't underestimate me. Although, it's true that the bounty money for catching me in the Bingo Book is way less than yours was, not to mention compared to Lord Orochimaru," Kabuto told me. I activated my newest level of the Mangekyou Sharingan.
"Right. It doesn't make much sense if you hide for this reason," I told him. Using the eyes I could see the snakes like an x-ray.
"Be careful, Sasuke. I see chakra everywhere, I can't figure out which is the real one," Itachi told me.
"It's an ability to transform the body into a liquid form. I use my body fluid to perform it…so it looks like I'm sloughing off my skin. It's a technique that I created after researching and altering the transformation ability of the Houzuki clan. Don't you know him too? It's Suigetsu. He can transform into water from a human and turn back into a human from water….Besides, I have an amazingly impressive recovery power which I got from the woman of the Uzumaki Clan after I studied her body. I believe her name is Karin. Well, you may want to know I did study that other friend of yours, Juugo, was it? Anyway, since you selected those three people, you really had good taste. If only I could have studied that other girl, what was her name…Tenshi?" He asked. I growled at the thought of him getting his hands on her. "Her powers would have indeed proved useful. In the world of ninjas, if one doesn't have any talent, even his existence will be totally denied. Just go take it from others and make it yours," Kabuto hissed. I glared harder wishing I could rip him to shreds.
"It seems you possess the same ability as Juugo. Were you attracted by Orochimaru's Cursed Seal?" I asked him.
"No…that's just a pretension trick. Only that kind of ability can be gained by self-training…at the Ryuchidou," he told us. Itachi's eyes widened.
"Ryuchidou?! No way…" Itachi murmured.
"I'm finally found it! That's the legendary place equally famous as Myouboku Mountain, Eisei Peak, and Shikkotsu Forest! Under the guidance of the Sage of White Snake, I trained myself and gained that ability! I finally surpassed Lord Orochimaru!" Kabuto told us. Snakes came after us, but I attacked the snakes with my Susanoo who used an arrow.
"Hurry, Sasuke!" Itachi shouted. We looked at the snakes and saw…
"My arrow…he dodged it?!" I exclaimed.
"The perceptual ability has been so much upgraded…I always have the force of nature to help me. Let me tell you something…people from the Jyugo Clan have special bodies. They can absorb the force of nature. That's the reason he went berserk…the answer to why his power always went out of control all of a sudden. Lord Orochimaru didn't only care why Juugo went berserk. He also kept on paying attention to the source of the Clan's abilities and making investigation on that. He finally found the source where that ability came from…that's Ryuchidou. Lord Orochimaru tried to gain that ability immediately, but he hadn't found the right body that could bear that ability," Kabuto told us. He then removed his cloak and he…looked even more different surprising Itachi and I both. "Even he couldn't become a true Sage in the end just like me!" He hissed.
"…I see, I was right indeed," Itachi whispered.
"Hn, he's the same as Orochimaru, an imperfect snake," I glared.
"If you're Dr. Snakes, I hope you keep that in your mind…I'm no longer a snake…the perfect force of Sage helped me shed my snake skin. I'm a dragon now!" Kabuto grinned maniacally. Tenshi, I hope you and Naruto are having more luck than we are.