Chapter 53: Rescue Fu!

Hello World! In my haste to upload the chapter 52 I noticed I made a mistake, I intended the sealing to be done in 'thirty-two hours' as I put during an explanation, but I noticed that I said 'twenty-eight hours' later in the last chapter. So not to cause confusion I wanted it to be done in 'thirty-two hours'. If some of you noticed it I'm sorry for the confusion.


* Akatsuki Hideout *

The ten Akatsuki members were still going through the process of extracting the Nanabi from Fu's body. Going on their thirtieth hour with only two more hours to go. Hidan was the first to speak in awhile, "So what the hell are we gonna do now? I know we go into hiding, but that doesn't explain a lot." Pain looked at Hidan's holographic form answering his question, "All will return to normal after this. I'll use Zetsu to transport each of you back with your designated partners and everything will go back to how it naturally was, that goes for the jinchuriki you are hunting. We will go into hiding for two monist, until then learn as many jutsu as you can and prep yourselves to attack you jinchuriki."

All of the members agreed and continued with the sealing.


* Land of Swamps Border *

Team Itachi were running almost non stop since they stopped in the little town to get some supplies and Naruto had packed his Gyouten cloak away in his pack to avoid any confusion along the way to where Fu was. Shino and Hinata were running side by side and with Naruto and Itachi following behind them, Hinata had her byakugan activated and Shino's insects were flying as fast as they could ahead of them. They saw that the landscape was changing to a damp swamp and the smell intensified as they gone deeper into the swamp. The group began running on top of the swampy water using the walk on water technique they learned a very long time ago. Itachi stopped again and quickly did the symbol to show the direction they were heading.

They passed up a large tree and Hinata noticed something. She turned to look behind her and saw Naruto and Itachi were still following behind. Naruto asked her, "Something wrong hime?"

Hinata shook it off answering, "I thought I saw something with my byakugan, but it was nothing." Itachi didn't accept that, but chose not to say anything about it. As they trenched deeper into the forest something happened. Coming off of the massive tree Team Itachi passed, Zetsu's body began to appear out of the tree. The black half spoke first, "A Hyuuga girl. This will make things that much more difficult."

The other half spoke next, "Right, if a byakugan user is among them, then she will be able to give the rest of her team an accurate location of where we are." At that moment both halves said at the same time, "We must alert Pain-sama."


* Akatsuki Hideout *

Zetsu's holographic form alerted Pain, "The jinchuriki's team is close by. One of the team members is a byakugan user." All of the members knew what the byakugan was capable of and the power that goes along with it. Tobi said as well, "The team's leader is Itachi of the Uchiha clan." Deidara groaned, "Damn not only do we have to worry about a byakugan, but a sharingan as well."

Hokori teased the young man, "What Deidara? Afraid of the eye users?" Deidara shouted at him, "Shut it! Allow me to take Tobi's place in dealing with them." Pain thought about it carefully, then coming to a conclusion, "I'll allow it, but remember that if you get the chance in wounding the Kyuubi host bring him back here." Hokori, Kisame, and Deidara obeyed and Pain said, "Now from you Kisame I will need thirty percent of your chakra. Hokori I'll need fifteen percent and from you Deidara I need thirteen percent."


* Land of Swamps *

Itachi and his team continued on their long voyage to save their fifth teammate Fu from Akatsuki. They kept running along the water's surface, but came to a screeching halt when both Shino and Hinata stopped dead in their tracks and Shino's insects flew back inside his body. Naruto asked them, "What's wrong you guys?" Shino told his team, "My insects sensed a large chakra source ahead of us." Hinata confirmed this, "It's true I can see three Akatsuki members ahead of us."

Itachi took the lead by going in front of them holding his arm out pointed at his team, "Hinata give us a description." ordered Itachi. Hinata focused her eyes on the three reporting, "Two of them are Iwa nins judging by their headbands and the other is a Kiri nin. The one Kiri is strange, he looks like a shark." Naruto asked Hinata, "What of the other two?"

After looking them over she told them, "One is fairly young with his hair blocking his left eye and on that eye looks to be a scope. The other is a more mature man with his hair tied in a ponytail and thick eyebrows." Itachi summarized, "The mist ninja is Kisame Hoshigaki, the other's I won't be familiar with unless I see them for myself, but judging from the one with the scope I can summarize that he is a long distance type fighter. All of you stay alert."

Hinata scanned the area looking for anyone else that could be hiding, "I don't see anyone else in the area just us and them…. They're coming." All of them dropped in their fighting stances ready for the attack. Kisame was the first to appear from the swamp trees followed by Hokori and Deidara. Itachi immediately took notice of the older Iwa saying, "Hokori of Iwagakure, son of the Sandaime Tsuchikage Onoki."

Hokori smirked, "So a kid like you knows who I am and my family." Itachi narrowed his eyes at the man, "No one could forget you Hokori, after all the daily battles between you and Asumaru Sarutobi are still fresh around Konoha as if the battles never stopped." Hokori again smirked looking over everyone one at a time. Kisame chuckled after scanning over everyone as well, "Looks like I'll pick up where I left off three years ago, right Itachi?"

Deidara immediately knew that the girl in the group was a Hyuuga and he also knows from the stories that all Uchiha's had black hair and eyes, but he didn't need it as Itachi's reputation was great. Hokori asked, "Tell me now is that boy the one named Naruto Namikaze?" Naruto took a few steps forward answering, "That'd be me? Don't tell me that your an Iwa that's sore at dad?"

Hokori said truthfully, "Non of the sort, unlike many of the other Iwa ninjas I hold no grudge against a man like him. I'm more worried about the reputation you got behind you boy." Naruto himself was intrigued by this asking, "What have you heard?" Hokori couldn't help but smile, "Where to start? How about the fact that you have the Kyuubi sealed in you, that strange silver chakra you displayed three years ago, advanced taijutsu, a number of vicious ninjutsu, and I recently heard that you made it in and out of Iwagakure without being killed. I consider that to be very impressive."

Kisame pulled his sword from his back and aimed it at Itachi, "Enough talking!" He charged at Itachi with his massive sword swinging at him. Itachi pulled his tanto from his back and blocked Kisame's attack, but Kisame's strength overpowered him and he used his strength to push Itachi back away from his team. Hokori looked to Naruto and the others saying, "Well Naruto show me how much more stronger you are than your father."

Naruto pulled out both Benihime and Shuusui from their sheaths ready to fight against the rouge Iwa nin. However Deidara moved in front of Hokori shouting, "Just stand back daddies boy, I'll capture the jinchuriki on my own." Hokori simply shook his head at his brash actions, "He'll destroy you before you even get the chance."

Deidara held up his hands to reveal mouths in the palms of his hands. Naruto, Hinata, and Shino were very confused by what they were seeing. The blonde Iwa nin's left mouth hand opened up spitting out a lump of clay, Deidara began to mold it into a bird. He tossed the clay bird in the air making a single handed handsign, soon the small clay bird erupted into a puff of smoke revealing a giant clay bird. Deidara quickly jumped on the bird's back and shouted, "Art is a blast isn't it?" The clay bird flew into the air, but Hinata was the first to act, "Naru-kun, Shino-kun I can fight him."

Naruto and Shino were both going to protest, but they were cut off when Hokori ran at the three ready to strike at Naruto. He however countered by kicking at Hokori, Naruto's foot was blocking the punch by holding him in an outstretched position. Hinata acted quick by getting ready to use her jyuuken stance, but soon stopped and saw small birds flying their way with her byakugan. She stopped shouting, "Run now!"

Shino appeared behind Naruto and grabbed him by his vest pulling him away from the man. Hokori leapt back avoiding the two small birds that appeared between the him and the Konoha ninjas and they all saw how the small birds blew up causing a huge explosion. Shino however had drug Naruto away and Hinata was already far from the blast so neither side got caught in the explosion.

Hokori said to himself at that point, "That's why he will always be a kid." He did a few handsigns shouting, "Earth Style: Rumble in the Dirt!" He slammed his foot on the ground causing a large earthquake that shook the entire swamp forest. Team Itachi tried to keep their bearings, but Hinata again saw another bird coming their way, but this one was bigger. She immediately began focusing her byakugan looking high in the sky into a group of clouds shifting the chakra there.

The eagle looking clay bird began to decent to the swamp forest fairly quickly, but something shot out of the clouds at amazing speeds hitting the clay bird cutting it in half making it explode in the air. Deidara was surprised by this and looked around quickly seeing a massive eagle flying circles around him slowly.

Shino saw what happened through an opening in the trees and asked, "I thought you sent Toritatsu home?" Hinata quickly answered while holding onto the tree, "No I didn't, I told her to fly high in the clouds as a look out and back up incase something went wrong." Naruto said to his fiancee, "Great job hime, but I don't think fighting these guys one on one is such a good idea."

The earthquake stopped suddenly and it soon became quite. Hinata looked to Naruto and ran at him grabbing him by the front of his vest and pulling him away from Hokori who shot out of the ground directly underneath him. Naruto began sending chakra into his swords extending their reach, he aimed the tips of the blades at the men and the chakra in the blades shot out and attempted to skewer the man. Hokori shot out of the ground quickly avoiding Naruto's attack. When he jumped away from Naruto's attack he grabbed onto a tree branch pulling himself up into the tree, but Shino was ready and was pretty much already up in the tree waiting for him.

Shino punched the man in his face sending him back down to the ground. Naruto saw him laying on the ground and was ready to slice him in half, but Hinata appeared next to Naruto again pulling him away from where Hokori was avoiding yet another explosion from a small bird. Shino saw the explosion and hid as well to figure out how to approach the situation.

Naruto groaned, him and Hinata were hiding in a thick layer of the swamp forest and he told her, "I could've ended it right there, but that bastard keeps sending those exploding bird things." Hinata looked at her love, "Naru I can beat him. If he continues to use nothing but long range, then that's all he's good at. Toritatsu is fast, faster than his birds seem to be. I just need to get close enough to him to shut down the pathways in his arms and he won't be able to make anymore of those bombs."

Naruto didn't like the idea, but they needed to get this over with quickly if they were to save Fu, so he handed Benihime to Hinata, "Use Benihime instead, just cut the bastards arms off and that will make sure he can't use those arms." Hinata grabbed the sword and kept it in her left hand. Naruto told Hinata, "I can give you a distraction giving you enough time to get to Toritatsu." He immediately put his hands together shouting, "Massive Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Deidara saw from the skies that white smoke began to pour out from the tree tops and once it cleared he saw an army of blonde/silver haired ninjas. Hokori also saw the clones from where he was standing, "Those aren't no illusions, those are the real thing. So he knows the Shadow Clone Jutsu? Man how that technique irritated me." He rushed head in to fight the clones.

Hinata saw with her eyes that the distraction was working. She again focused the chakra around Toritatsu who was flying keeping an eye on Deidara from using his big birds and felt the chakra again shift around her, without a second thought she flew down close to the tree top and hovered their waiting for Hinata.

When she knew Toritatsu was at the tree top she kissed Naruto on the lips and told him to be careful. Charging chakra into her feet she ran up the trees and bursted through the tree tops, Toritatsu saw Hinata and flew into her direction with enough speed to catch her on her back. Hinata told Toritatsu, "I'm sure I don't have to tell you that he uses bombs."

Toritatsu responded, "I saw when I cut that bird in half. They feel like it was made of clay." Hinata informed her, "Looked like it to me too when he first used it. I'm gonna try and cast a genjutsu on him and we will need to get very close to him, I'm counting on you." Toritatsu told Hinata, "You always can Hinata-sama."

Hokori was currently fighting the army of Naruto's, he was dispelling them at a slow rate and the clones themselves got good hits in. Shino took to the offensive as well by henge-ing into Naruto and attacking him by jumping in and out of the clones. Deidara was sitting back watching as Hokori was trying desperately to dispel the Naruto's, but was soon brought out of his enjoyment when a flapping sound rang in his ears. He looked to his left and saw the large bird from before flying at him. He made his bird fly up avoiding the strike, quickly looking at his mouth palms he saw that he still needed some time.

Toritatsu tried to strike again, but Deidara timed each of her strikes and avoided it every time at the last few seconds that presented itself. Deidara saw his right mouth palm was finished and it spit out the clay bomb and he quickly molded it into a centipede, when he expanded it, it was now taller than himself. He waited for Toritatsu to get close enough to spring his trap. Toritatsu was jetting at him at amazing speed again, but Deidara avoided it and kicked his centipede off at the right time letting it land and grasp hold of the bird.

Deidara made a one handed handsign again activating the clay explosive. The bird blew up, but he felt something that he hadn't noticed before in his haste to avoid the jutsu. He quickly put his hands together and shouted, "Kai!" When he dispelled the genjutsu it was to late. Hinata was now in front of him after jumping off of the real Toritatsu, she swung Benihime with her right arm and sliced both his arms off when he brought them up to defend himself.

He jumped off his bird and Hinata did the same letting Toritatsu catch her. Deidara fell to the floor landing into the swampy waters and Hinata charged her lighting chakra into her finger tips, Toritatsu commented on Hinata's plan, "It worked out excellent. Using the byakugan to cast the genjutsu from that distance is amazing."

Hinata learned to cast genjutsus without the enemy looking at you at all. All she needs to do is disrupt the chakra around the enemy and focus it basically around the eyes successfully casting the genjutsu, she thanked Kurenai for teaching her this amazing way to cast genjutsu. Hinata found him wading through the water and acted quick by putting Benihime in her sash around her waist, she jumped off Toritatsu and was in a free fall going through a few handsigns she shouted, "Lighting Style: Lighting Pellet!" The lighting around her fingertips shot out shooting small pellets of lighting at the ground. Toritatsu flew under Hinata catching her in the air again.

Deidara was hip deep in water and cursing that he didn't notice the air change soon whenever the massive bird flew by him, finally taking notice when he didn't feel the force of the explosion when he used his centipede. A cracking sound caught his attention and he turned around to late to see a tiny ball of lightning hit the water he was currently in and the next thing he felt was electricity shocking his body making him shake violently. His muscles contracted and he couldn't move after the attack.

Hinata jumped down on top of the water and did a series of spins shouting, "Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists!" After completing her spins Deidara saw two lion heads next to her arms, Hinata thrusted her arms forward hitting him dead center in his chest, the chakra lion heads hit Deidara in his chest completely destroying his insides and Hinata also saw that he had two large indents in his chest caused by her technique.

Deidara's body shot back and was lodged deep into one of the trees. Toritatsu found an opening in one of the trees and landed in the water close to where Hinata was asking, "Is he dead?" Hinata checked his life signs and found none, but something began to happen that she couldn't understand. She shouted to Toritatsu, "Head back home and I'll summon you when I need you again." Toritatsu did not argue and simply vanished going back to her world. Hinata ran off trying to find Naruto and Shino and tell them what she saw.

Naruto's clones were still numerous fighting Hokori successfully. The Iwa nin found himself over ruined and out matched right now since the real Naruto and the disguised Shino how moved in and out between the clone Narutos. The two ninjas decided to end the battle now.

Shino turned back into himself and saw Hokori evading more Naruto clones and they wouldn't let him get off a good jutsu. Shino instructed two clones to rush him and to let him handle the rest and the two clones did as they were instructed. Hokori made one more clone vanish by kneeing it in it's face, he was taken by surprise when two clones emerged from the smoke both trying to punch him in the face.

Hokori countered by grabbing both clones at the wrist, pulling them forward, and in a quick succession he grabbed them by their heads and slammed them into each other. Immediately Shino appeared out of the smoke covered in his rocks from using his Stone Skin Jutsu. He punched and hit Hokori in his gut sending him flying back.

The real Naruto saw Hokori flying in his direction and took his opportunity to kick the man straight into the air. The clones moved as well by tossing one another up into the air each one going higher than the next. Every clone that was sent into the air either punched or kicked Hokori even higher in the air. Naruto ran at one of his clones that were on the ground with him and the two made a head nod to one another and the clone grabbed Naruto and flung him in the air.

The falling clones saw Naruto coming in the air and each one grabbed Naruto and tossed him up higher toward Hokori. Once the last clone tossed him in the air it vanished in the puff of smoke. Naruto was tossed up higher than Hokori, he began to smirk and he pulled his knee to his chest shouting, "Taijutsu Style:" Naruto stomped down on Hokori in his gut watching the man wince when he was hit him dead on. Naruto pulled his leg back up and did again and again in the extreme rapid pace jus one stomp to the man's gut at an amazing pace. The two were falling closer and closer to the ground with Naruto doing the same thing over and over and once they got close to the trees Naruto spun his body in the air using the momentum he punches Hokori in his chest with a devastating right punch shouting, "Devastating Fox Combo!" The punch sent the man flying straight into the ground beneath them.

Hokori's body hit the ground hard causing dirt and rocks to fly everywhere. A few of the Naruto clones that were still left on the ground jumped into the air and caught Naruto while he was falling. Shino met up with Naruto and watched as he dispelled the rest of his clones leaving only them and the Akatsuki member. Naruto was going to investigate, but they turned around and saw Hinata running to them.

She landed next to Naruto who quickly began to check her over for any kind of injury. Hinata giggled at Naruto being to worried about her fighting on her own. She put his mind to rest telling him, "Don't worry I didn't suffer any kind of wound at all. I'm fine Naru." Naruto breathed a sigh of relief and they both heard Shino tell them, "Naruto, Hinata. Check this out."

Both the ninjas walked over to where the Akatsuki ninja was and saw someone entirely different in the ground. Naruto said out loud, "What the hell? Who is he?" Hinata used her byakugan to check him out to be sure it was no trick. After she was done she said, "I don't know who he is, but the same thing happened with the ninja I killed, it was a woman though not a man."

Naruto told his team, "We have to find sensei now." Both agreed and Hinata began searching for their sensei using her byakugan. She didn't look far and found him immediately, "This way!" They ran off quick to find Itachi, Shino however stopped and let loose his insects to have them track down these unknown bodies scents at the source of where they came from and had the other half search for Fu's scent.

Itachi was running over swamp water avoiding water sharks that shot out of the water trying to eat him. Another shark shot out of the water and bit Itachi in his arm, a second shark came out and bit Itachi in his midsection, but Itachi's body turned into a piece of wood instead. Kisame wasn't surprised and slammed his hand on the water's surface sending chakra through it. After scanning the water he turned around and ran around a few trees and found Itachi preparing a jutsu.

Itachi finished shouting, "Fire Style: Excessive Heat!" He leapt into the air and shot out a fan spread fire blast that hit the water evaporating some of the liquid turning it into steam. Kisame was inside the steam cloud and could feel some water at his feet, but knew it wouldn't be enough. He heard water move and used his massive blade to block a weapon going into his head. When he tried to retaliate there was no one there.

He kept on his toes waiting for Itachi to make his move, the sound of wind slicing caught his attention coming from his right. He again used his sword to block, but held it so that it protected his whole body and felt a few tremor impacts with his sword hinting that it was possibly shurikens or kunais that hit his sword. The steam was slightly letting up and his vision improved and he saw a black figure jump at him.

Kisame attacked and swung straight down on the attacker. The force of his attack picked up wind blowing away the rest of the steam giving him a clear view of Itachi who blocked Kisame's attack. He put more pressure on his sword pushing Itachi further on his knees, but a smile spread across Itachi's lips and the next thing he knew Itachi exploded. Kisame got rocked by the explosion and saw Itachi fly at Kisame and it was to late for Kisame to avoid or block and he felt Itachi stab his weapon through his heart.

The shark man was surprised at how well Itachi fought and he smiled showing his razor sharp teeth. Itachi pulled his tanto out of Kisame's body and watched him fall face first into the water, he turned around when he heard footsteps running on water and saw his team running toward him. Naruto saw the dead Akatsuki member on the floor and ran over to him flipping him over to see his face.

Soon they all saw Kisame begin to change. His blue skin was turning to a normal skin color, his hair changed as well, and his facial features did too. Both Hinata and Itachi had their kekkei genkais watching the body as it began to shift and change into a man with messy brown hair, light skin color, and smooth facial features. After they all saw the man's transformation Itachi told his team, "We don't have time to figure out what happened so we will collect the bodies once we rescue Fu." None of them argued with that and they continued in the direction they were going up until they got attacked. When they left and Hinata could no longer see the dead bodies of those strange Akatsuki members Zetsu appeared yet again over the body Kisame was using.


* Akatsuki Hideout *

Zetsu again looked at Pain telling him the news, "The Konoha ninjas are advancing. They killed off the drones." Sasori was a little irritated once he heard Zetsu tell Pain that saying, "Those were my drones Pain, what are you going to do about this now?" Pain didn't answer his question as he asked, "Hokori, Deidara, Kisame, tell me of their skills…"

All three took turns telling their leader about how they fought, the jutsu they used, and how strong they were. After awhile Tobi spoke up, "Pain-sama when are we going to be done?" Each of the members looked at Fu's body that was still inside the chakra sphere and the Nanabi was still coming out of her, but at a slow pace. Pain knew why it was doing that telling his followers, "Two minutes…"


* ??????? *

Fu was standing alone surrounded by nothing. There was no sky, ground, grass, clouds, trees, nothing, just emptiness, not even her shadow was there. She walked away from where she was standing only to find that there was still nothing around her, but she kept going despite that letting her legs take her. After awhile she came to a stop and saw something just laying there.

Fu ran to it and saw a tiny version of the Nanabi just laying there. She kneeled down and picked it up and his was small enough to fit in her hands, "Nanabi?… Wake up…" Nanabi moved slightly and she saw the changes in him aside from his size, he didn't have any of his tails. She shook her hands a little bit to try and get a reaction out of him, but nothing happened.

Her eyes widened in shock when she saw that where his abdomen is it began to crumble away like he was made of ash. Finally coming from the small insects mouth he said in a weak voice, "I HAVE…. TO…. GO NOW…. FU…." She quickly asked him, "Please tell me where am I?" Nanabi didn't have to look around and he let out a chuckle, he caught his breath and told her, "INSIDE…. YOUR MINDSCAPE…. BUT I AM BEING EXTRACTED FROM…. YOU, SO WHEN I GO…. YOU DIE…." Fu fell back on her butt, though she kept him in her hands.

Half of the Nanabi's body was now gone and he said, "YOU REALLY…. WERE USELESS…. I KNEW TRAINING YOU WOULDN'T…. HAVE CHANGED ANYTHING…." There was a long pause between the two before he said again, "BUT YOU HAD…. YOUR MOMENTS OF GLORY…." Now only his head was visible and he told her, "I MAY DIE,…. BUT I DON'T BELONG IN…. WHAT YOU HUMANS CALL…. HEAVEN AND HELL…. GOODBYE…. FU……." With that last breath his head disappeared from her hands.

She stood up and felt herself begin to fade and she looked at her hand to see that it was see through except for the rest of her body. She fell down and brought her knees to her face and began to cry.


* Real World: Akatsuki Hideout *

The last of the chakra was expelled out of Fu's body and the Akatsuki members watched as one of the eyes of the Gedo Mazo opened up and revealed another eye. Pain told the other members, "Sealing of the Nanabi complete. You may all take your leave." Almost all of the holograms faded except for Pain and Konan. Tobi and Kakuzu watched as the nine dragons unraveled themselves from Fu and retracted into the statues mouth. Fu's body fell from floating in the air to falling to the ground, but her body never hit it as Kakuzu appeared under where she fell and caught her in his arms. Pain ignored what Kakuzu did thinking that he thought highly of her and thought it proper.

Tobi jumped down next to his partner and Pain appeared next to them saying, "You won't be able to get away from them, so I want you to fight and try and capture the Kyuubi jinchuriki and bring him to Amegakure. I'll be waiting if you are able to capture him." Both men agreed and watched as both Konan and Pain's holograms disappeared and soon the Gedo erupted into a blanket of smoke disappearing as well.

Tobi sat down crossing his legs asking Kakuzu, "What will you do now?" Kakuzu kept Fu in his arms and told him, "I'll be back…" Tobi watched as Kakuzu went to the farthest corner of the room and laid Fu down on the ground. Kakuzu looked at his daughter's face and how peaceful she slept, the front of Kakuzu's body under his shirt began to move and threads burst out of his chest moving to Fu.

The threads cut into her shirt and in her skin. The threads dug around inside her chest and then pulled out her heart, it was entangled in the threads and her heart went inside his body. Kakuzu wasn't done however as something wrapped up completely in his threads came out of his chest and he seemed to have a pained look on his face. The large ball of thread moved inside Fu's body and the threads began to mess with her again and came out slowly and stitched the wound in her chest back up.

Kakuzu held his chest and felt a great pain, but his body began to shake and soon his Bull mask separated from his body and then fell to the ground as if it just lost life. Tobi watched the whole thing and was greatly confused about what happened. Kakuzu took out a kunai and one of his threads wrapped around the loop hole of the handle and he gently drove the kunai a little bit into Fu's chest. The kunai was at least three millimeters in her. Lighting soon went from his thread and shot through the kunai into Fu's chest and Tobi saw that Kakuzu turned himself into a kind of defibrillator. Kakuzu jolted lighting through the kunai a few more times.

After a few more jolts he saw that what he tried was successful, Fu began to move and she was breathing normally, but she didn't wake up. Kakuzu was pleased with the results and he quickly walked away from Fu and joined Tobi who was facing the entrance waiting for their guests. Tobi was going to ask what he did, but felt that Kakuzu wouldn't have told him.

* Akatsuki Hideout *

Shino's bugs showed them the way to this abandoned building and Hinata saw with her byakugan the two Akatsuki members sitting underground, but they were to far underground for her eyes to see through so they came out as blurs. When they got to the entrance Itachi told his team, "When we get down there expect a fight. If one of you gets the chance grab Fu and run."

Naruto told Itachi, "I won't be able to use my Hirameku underground since I can't pass through solid dirt, if there are passage ways then I can use it, but if the electrons are cut off then I can't use it to grab Fu and teleport up on the surface." Hinata added, "Since this is a base I'm sure they will cut off escape routes so we won't be able to leave." Itachi told both of them, "Be that as it may stick to snatch and grab. Non of us are in a great condition to fight. Now let's go."

Shino was the first at the door and he pushed the two doors open. Hinata walked in second and saw the entrance to the underground room, she pointed it out to Naruto and he quickly began to form the Rasengan in his hand. Naruto fully formed the Rasengan and dashed at the area Hinata pointed to and destroyed that entire area of the room. Itachi rushed in next and jumped onto the stairwell to back Naruto up incase anything happened. Shino and Hinata joined both Naruto and Itachi on the stairs and they descended the stairs quickly, but cautiously. They reached the end of the hall and saw that there was no door leading into the next room. Hinata told everyone, "I can see them, they are just sitting there waiting for us."

Itachi made a cough so his students looked at him, he made a few hand signs and they immediately got what he meant and they all jumped out of the hallway and into the large open room. Naruto and Shino were to the front, Itachi behind them, and Hinata in the back. Tobi didn't talk and immediately launched himself at Naruto.

Naruto reacted quick and the two locked hands staring down the other. Tobi tried to cast a genjutsu on Naruto, but Hinata saw the change of chakra around Naruto and disrupted that chakra and freed Naruto from his genjutsu immediately. Naruto smirked telling Tobi, "Genjutsu won't work against someone like me." Itachi appeared behind Tobi with his tanto drawn trying to slice his head clean off, but Kakuzu grabbed Itachi's wrist and held him where he was.

Shino was about to attack as well, but Hinata stopped him and pointed to where she saw Fu lying down at. Naruto kicked out at Tobi, but since Tobi had his sharingan activated he copied Naruto and they both kicked each other knocking both back. Kakuzu tried to punch at Itachi, but Naruto vanished using his Hirameku and appeared behind Kakuzu and grabbed his arm and did a judo throw tossing him across the room. Itachi freed himself from Kakuzu's grip and saw Naruto throw him across the room.

He managed to recover in the air after getting thrown and landed on his feet, Tobi jumped next to Kakuzu and they stared down Naruto and Itachi.

Meanwhile Shino got to Fu and was holding her in his arms, Hinata watched the battle and the two ran for the way they came out. Kakuzu saw them make a run for it, but made no attempt to try and stop them neither did Tobi. Hinata stopped and looked at Naruto, but Naruto made a hand gesture for Hinata to go. Not one to argue, but not like it either she left following Shino out of the underground room.

Naruto slammed his hands on the ground and two summoning seals appeared as well as the smoke that follows. Gamakichi and Gamatatsu appeared out of the smoke and took their positions around Naruto. Itachi took the front and stood ahead of the two massive toads.

Kakuzu told Tobi, "Remember we are to take the Kyuubi jinchuriki alive." Tobi nodded saying to his partner, "Don't worry, Tobi remembers…"


Okay if some of you can guess what happens next please don't put it in the reviews. Oh I was kicking around a story in my head and I wrote it immediately after I got done writing this chapter and I will post it after I post this chapter, it may not be popular as this story, but I felt like writing it. It's called, 'Raised a Criminal'. I'm not gonna say anything about it in this Author's note though. Any way if I have time I'll update this story first as this one is my first priority. Anyway R&R, Stay Gold, Goodbye World!!!