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A/N: I'm sorry if I brought you guys to tears with the last chapter, I know I was tearing up while writing it. I just hope you all loved it even though it was a tear jerker.
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Melyway: He saves her just, not fully. I'm glad you are enjoying this story.
Chapter Thirty-Six
"Ow, ow, ow, I wrecked my ankle," Naruto says as she winces when Yamato touches her ankle.
"Make sure you exercise more control over your Chakra next time," he tells her as he finishes wrapping her ankle and finishes with a tap. "Okay, let's roll!" Yamato says and they quickly rush out, to see the spiraling waves of energy.
"What the hell was that?" Motoi asked as even he couldn't even fathom what it was.
"That's one of Guy-san's Eight Celestial Gate attacks, the Afternoon Tiger!" Yamato says.
"Afternoon Tiger, that's kind of a weak name for an Youth-obsessed energetic person like Guy-Sensei," Naruto says as she was in awe of the size of the attack.
"This is no time for jokes! The Afternoon Tiger's blast range explodes outward instantly! Brace yourselves!" Yamato says as he starts to bring his arms up to guard his face. They all gather around Guy-sensei as Yamato makes his wood into a stockade to keep him imprisoned.
"You rock, Super-Eyebrows-sensei! You actually beat this guy!" Naruto cheers him on.
"Rainin' down the blows, super eyebrows! Too bad that blue sweat stinks like a thousand cows!" Bee raps out as he points at the man.
"I'm no Inoichi-san, but now we'll finally be able to learn what Akatsuki knows, what their plans are, and who's leading them," he says as he places his hand on the knocked out prisoner. "Here I go!" He says as he places his hand on his own forehead, slipping into the fish man's head. "Okay, here goes nothing," he starts reading his mind and when he gets to the part about Uchiha Madara's true form, Kisame bites his tongue off, shocking everyone. "He-he bit his own tongue! He forced himself conscious so I couldn't get any info!"
'Are you insane?' Kisame burst out laughing, like a mad man as he bunches up his muscles, splintering the stockade to smithereens. Everyone shielded their eyes so the shards of wood wouldn't blind them.
'I reinforced the stocks with wood-element Chakra! How can he still have that much power?' Yamato wonders as he stares at the raging beast.
"You just don't know when to give up!" Guy shouts out.
"Take him alive! We'll never get another chance like this! We can get a lot more info out of him!" Aoba yells out.
"I know!" Guy shouts as he watches Kisame start weaving signs and forms a water prison around him, he punches the prison and his attack is stopped short. 'The water wall's blocking me!' He thought as Kisame finishes weaving more signs and slaps his hand down.
"Summoning Technique!" Kisame summoned huge sharks inside of his water prison.
"That's the water prison technique!" Naruto shouts.
"Don't panic, no matter how strong he is there's nothing he can do in this situation! I'll catch him!" Yamato shouts back as he starts forming wood from his hands. Before the two could do anything, the sharks all take a bite and start tearing Kisame, limb for limb. In the process the water in the ball turned a dark red before it splattered everywhere, dropping the sharks on the ground before they disappeared back to their own places. "He made his own summoned sharks eat him, he was too weakened, he knew he couldn't escape us. To think that this is how Hoshigaki Kisame, the monster of the Hidden Mist and Itachi's partner would meet his end."
"Is he really dead?" Motoi asks them and Samehada growls out a little.
"This poor guy's cryin' like a baby. He's dead this time, and I don't mean maybe," Bee rapped out as he strokes the swords spikes.
"But, he did it so the enemy, us, wouldn't get any info," Naruto said as she remembers Nagato and the other dead Akatsuki members. "Even people in Akatsuki act for the sake of their comrades." She stared at the splattering of blood as she was depressed now, and then Guy pats her on her shoulder.
"He was a worthy opponent! A man who lived and died like a real Shinobi! Hoshigaki Kisame! I'll remember your name for the rest of my life!" He sadly tells her and looks at the scroll in his hands. "And now Akatsuki won't get any of this info."
"It must've been about what we're doing here, we should confirm what he wrote and see exactly what they were trying to learn about us," Aoba says.
"Good thinking!" Guy says as he starts to open the scroll, his eyes widening as soon as he saw the contents. Suddenly, water explodes out of the scroll, trapping them all inside of it.
"All this water pressure – it's the water prison!" Yamato shouts inside of it.
"It was a booby trap! Watch out, shark!" Aoba shouts out as he watches a huge shark grab a hold of the scroll. "Shit, it's headed for the ocean!"
"Aah! Stupid shark! The water's too heavy, I can't move right!" Naruto growls out as she tries to get the shark to release her from his maw.
"Mothafucka!" Bee shouts out as he punches the shark.
"The Eight Gates took too much energy," Guy says as he looks like he's the next meal for the shark in his prison.
"Guy-san, hang on!" Aoba shouts as he grabs the shark inside with him.
"Target's outta sight, he got away. Looks like in the end their spy won the day," Bee raps as his tentacles started to shrink while he floated in the water. One of the sharks was twitching on the ground as Naruto checked over Guy.
"You okay, Guy-sensei? Lemme give you a hand," she says as she pats his chest, making the man scream out in pain.
"Watch it! Don't touch guy-san, the aftereffects of opening the gates are starting to hit him, his muscle fibers have been ripped to shreds. Even the slightest touch will send intense pain racing through his body!" Yamato shouts at her.
"I-I'm sorry!" She says quickly and started to form Chakra over her hands and quickly started using it on the man, the healing is painful to the man and he starts screaming even more.
"Be gentle, be gentle!" He warns Naruto loudly.
"Can't be helped since the healing of muscles is always painful, especially when you have to basically repair rips and tears," she says.
"That water prison trap really delayed us from informing everyone there's been an information leak," Motoi says as he starts ripping off a message from a pad of papers.
"We'd be wise to assume the enemy knows our location by now," Aoba tells him. "This means we need to move Naruto and Bee-san as soon as possible! The enemy will expect it which means they won't be wasting any time!" Aoba says and watches as Motoi forms signs and summons an owl.
"Oh we'll move them, but not with a boat. They must remain on the island," he says and attaches the message to the birds leg. "Bee! How'd it do?"
"No luck-a, mothafucka!" He raps as he lands right next to him.
"What are you talking about? We'll move them, but they have to stay on the island?" Aoba says sounding really confused.
"You won't find this island on any map. They can try to find us, but it won't be as simple as they think. Because this island is a fortress, a moving fortress. A giant tortoise that the Hidden Cloud Village has cared for since ancient times," Motoi tells them with a huge smile on his face, shocking Aoba. "Of course we should assume the enemy knows this, but regardless, moving the island to the Hidden Cloud is much safer than any boat. Besides, the story is Naruto's on a secret mission examining the island's ecology, right? It'd be too suspicious if she were to leave now.
~3~
"I said line up single file! Sheesh!" Naruto grits out as she is trying to get all of the beasts to line up.
"I win again, you can't beat me man!" Bee says as he uses his abilities to fool around with some of the beasts.
"The octopus and the crab, get in line!" Naruto shouts at them as she is tempted to hit the man with her clipboard.
"If there's a chance Akatsuki might attack us here, we have to hide the island's animals inside the giant tortoise's shell," Motoi says as he watches the two Jinchuuriki's fuss at each other.
"It works out, since Naruto thinks she's here to research the island's ecology. He's getting pretty into it, too!" Aoba says as he holds up Guy-sensei.
"It'd be a big problem if Naruto finds out about the war. She'd run straight for the battlefield. We have to keep her in the dark, because this war is to protect her," Yamato says, as the two Jinchuuriki's both started gathering information on the giant beasts on the island. A huge armadillo growls out as it blushes from all the questions.
"Hey Octo-dude, I can't tell if this thing's male or female, it's all rolled up," Naruto says as she runs a hand over the hard pelt of the armadillo who ends up trying to move its head into the ball more.
"This armadillo's always been shy; it won't show their junks so don't even try!" Bee raps out as he stares up at the beast.
"Excuse me! I'm on a top secret S-Rank mission! I'm researching this place's ecology!" She fusses at the man as she waves a pen around.
"It doesn't matter either way, let's call it a female and call it a day," Bee raps.
"But, but, but! It's got 'male' written all over its shell!" She points out.
"That's just a natural shell pattern," he says to the young woman.
"Come on dude, just ask it for me," she prods.
"Well?" He looks up at the armadillo who whispers in his ear, then turns to the girl and raps. "The privates are private."
"Oh really! Goddammit, this is a top secret S-rank mission, but why?!" She screams out at him, losing her patience.
"Male or female, some people dunno, ya know, yo? It's not like knowing what's the ground and what's the sky, mothafucka!" He raps out.
'Huh? Something's approaching rapidly, but it's not a person!' Motoi thought as his head quickly moved to the direction he was feeling the power coming from.
"What's happening?" Yamato asks him and then the island started shaking, scaring all the huge beasts.
"It's an Eaaaaarthquaaaake!" Naruto freaks out as one by one the huge beasts fall over until the whole room seemed to reverse itself and turn upside down, dropping each beast onto the ceiling of the room. Yamato used his wood element to create a forest on the ceiling to cushion their falls. "Owww, what a quake."
"The land and the sky actually switched places, mothafucka!" Bee groans out as Naruto looks back at the now knocked out giant armadillo.
"Well, even if the land and the sky switched places, a male's a male," Naruto says as she chuckles while writing down on the clipboard.
"This is no time to be researching giant animals!" Yamato yells at her.
"Calm down, Yamato-san," Aoba tries to calm the man down.
"Something's going on outside, but we need her convinced it was an earthquake!" Motoi tells them as they watch the two Jinchuuriki's arguing over the rights to hide others sexes. "We can't let them outside under any circumstances! We'll have to handle it ourselves!"
"What the heck is going on outside? Boy, sure are a lot of earthquakes today!" Yamato badly play acts with Aoba.
"Y-you said it!" Aoba stutters, even worse than Yamato.
"Too many if you ask me! And earthquakes can't actually flip the sky and the ground, can they?" Naruto asks the two.
"Oh, you just got tossed around so much it felt like they switched," Yamato practically panics as he lies his ass off.
"You think?" She asks. "I'm gonna go take a look outside!"
"No! Y-you're on a top secret S-rank mission right now, you must complete the task assigned to you!" Yamato yells at her, completely panicked now.
"I was just gonna pop out for a second," Naruto pouts.
"A Ninja must stick to their mission until the bitter end, and you're the only one who can complete this mission! The only one we could send here! So please, we're all counting on you, please, Naruto!" Yamato scolds.
'Even Naruto is realizing something's up, for all that blather about S-rank missions this has turned into 'does it have a penis or not?' Naruto's not that stupid, he's probably figured it-' Aoba was thinking when Naruto interrupts his train of thought.
"Right, I got it! I'll focus on my mission!" Naruto shouts as she grins.
'Or maybe we can make it through this! Thank the lord she's a gullible young lady!' Aoba thought as he stared at the girl.
~3~
"The sky and the ground flipped again, what the heck is up with this island?" Naruto says as she glares at the ceiling that now has trees coming down from it. "Captain Yamato still hasn't come back from checking the outside; he might be trapped under a bunch of debris or something."
"He's just investigating something, nothing you need to worry about," Aoba says as he lands besides Naruto and Motoi.
"Well, I'm done with my mission here. Now I need to head back to the Leaf and wait for Sasuke," she says as she looks at them with determination in her eyes. "I made a promise to him!"
~3~
"How come the animals get to go back outside and I gotta stay cooped up in here?!" Naruto shouts as she complains.
"Naruto's angry, never meek, but sometime's it can make ya weak! You ain't got full control of your beast's Chakra, so it's time for more of my training to rock ya!" Bee raps and sprouts some tentacles from his back. "When we're done, you'll have the illusion in your head that the Chakra's actually your own arms and legs!" He says as he uses his tentacles to break apart some of the floor and throw them up into the air. "Use the Chakra to grab on tight," he says as he grips the different shapes, catching them right in the air. "Stack up the blocks, and use whatcha got," he stacked them almost perfectly since some of them were wobbling.
'Nice one, Bee!' Motoi says as he watches them.
"To get the balance just right!" He says as the stone blocks fall down.
"Okay! I'll do the same with the nine-tail's Chakra!" She flares up the Kyuubi's Chakra so that it covered her. 'I'll just try to stack 'em up so they won't collapse,' she watched as one of the rectangle slabs falls last and stretches her Chakra out. "Here goes!" She says as she grips it and it starts cracking, making her eyes widen and she holds back on the Chakra so that they wouldn't shatter.
"Wow, you didn't get violent, you're in control when it comes to might, but be careful when the touch needs to be light, you're on a roll!" He raps out.
'She almost destroyed the stone, thankfully she controls it so well, I guess holding it is actually more difficult?' Aoba thought as he watched, proud of what she's already accomplishing.
"Crap! Lemme try again!" She says as the stone slowly cracked and fell to pieces. 'Easy does it,' she thought as she clutches the next stone and gently placed it on top of a square stone. "Aww come on! One more try!" Naruto growls out as the stack of stones came tumbling down.
'Almost, that was only because the turtle moved. Which means we've arrived,' Motoi thought as he looked towards the temple entrance, he turned back when he hears a cheer of success.
"I did it!" Naruto does a little dance that made Bee chuckle as it was cute.
"Sweet, sis," he says as he feels proud of her quick accomplishment. "Now it's time for the final part, it's gonna be sad, you're gonna feel helpless, but don't get mad, 'cuz it's time to start!" He raps to her and she stares at him with confused eyes.
~3~
"So that room connects here too, huh? And now it's an eight-tails statue, this is getting really annoying," Naruto says as she sticks her head in the statues mouth to look for the switch.
"This is the entrance to a different place! Where the final stage of your training will resume! So shut up and get in the room!" He raps to her and walks through the door that opens. "Now I'mma teach you the strongest move a Jinchuuriki can learn aight? You good to go?"
"Yup! I have to learn to have complete control over this power, to make it my own! So what's the first step?" Naruto asks as she followed him.
"You turn into the beast itself while in tailed beast mode! That's the first step down the road!" Bee tells her as he starts sprouting his tentacles and growing horns. "Now it's your turn, time to explode!"
"It's not dangerous at all? To be honest, I'm kinda scared to turn into the fox," she admits.
"Mothafucka I know you got this! You pull out the pure Chakra and it won't go wild, you can't miss!" He tells her getting impatient with her uncertainty.
"Okay," she says and starts to concentrate on pulling out the pure Chakra.
"Keep going, picture the beast and explode!" He raps really loud and her whole body starts, changing while she roars loudly. Suddenly, Naruto's body changed into a cute little fox, making Bee speechless before Naruto changes back and falls back on her rump, groaning. "That, uh…really blows. Since you're not actually friendly with the nine-tails, the transformation just implodes."
"How're you gonna teach her the tailed beast bomb now? That's the first thing a Jinchuuriki learns when they transform into their tailed beast, Bee,"the eight-tails asks him inside their inner sanctum.
"Hrrrmmm," Bee hums out, wondering that same thing.
"Man, I'm beat, I used a ton of the nine-tail's Chakra too and it was still no good," she pants out as she falls back.
"Besides, shouldn't you tell her about the risks of tailed beast mode? There are fundamental differences between what you and Naruto have to worry about. Look, I'll explain it. Let me out front,"the eight-tails suggests.
"Aight, teacher's taggin' out! I'll chill, you be the blabber-mouth," Bee says as he gave his control over.
"Hey, Naruto! This is the Eight-tails talking now, not Bee. I've got a lot to say so pay attention!" He tells her and she winces as she looks up at him.
"Something tells me this's gonna be complicated, but maybe the lack of raps will make up for it," she says as she starts to sit up.
"First things first – you put yourself in danger by using the Nine-tail's chakra," he warns her.
"Wait, what? There are risks with using that mode?" She asks as her eyes widen.
"Huge risks! While you're in basic tailed beast Chakra mode, the Nine-tails is sucking away your Chakra! You're temporarily shelving your "Naruto-Chakra" to use "Nine-tails-Chakra" instead. If she absorbs the "Naruto-Chakra" for long enough it'll run out, and you get your ticket to the afterlife," the Eight-tails warns her.
"Whaaaaaaat! How come Octo-dude doesn't have to worry about this?!" Naruto shouts out as her eyes practically bulge from its sockets.
"Just because you took the Nine-tail's Chakra doesn't mean you've completely tamed her. Bee and I used to be the same way – we went through the whole "Chakra trade" phase. Oh, and you shouldn't use Shadow Clones while you're in Tailed Beast Chakra Mode if you know what's good for you. For every clone you make she'll be absorbing a portion of your Naruto-Chakra, you'd run out and die in an instant," he explains.
"Heheh, but I've got plenty of Chakra, so even if we're doing some kinda 'exchange' or whatever…" Naruto says as she crosses her arms behind her head.
"You idiot! Don't take the Nine-tails power lightly, she'll devour every bit of Chakra you have!" The Eight-tail's nags. "It'll take time to recover any Naruto-Chakra she gets from you! Be vigilant! If you're constantly using the fox's Chakra whenever you're in battle, you will die! Mark my words! Normally you'd negotiate with the beast as to how much Chakra you'd both give, but the Nine-tail's isn't the type to sit down and talk things out, and there's a limit to the Chakra you manage to pull away from her."
"This is so dangerous, and if I can't do it I can't use the Jinchuuriki's ultimate move?" She asks as she slumps over.
"Right, forget about the tailed beast bomb. Your time would be better spent honing your own techniques," Eight-tail's tells her.
"Tailed Beast Bomb? What kind of move is that?" She asks.
"Huh? Simple, you gather your Chakra, use shape manipulation to form it into a sphere, compress it in your mouth, and let it rip," he explains.
'It's that…' she thought as she remembers the attack that the fox tried using when she was trying to take the fox's energy.
"It kinda feels like you're throwing up, actually," he says to her.
"I'll try it in this mode!" She shouts and then shoves her fingers down her throat. 'Like this?' She almost throws up as she was basically tickling her gag reflexes.
"You can't do it if you're not in Full Beast Mode. Anyway, I said what I had to say, here's Bee again," he says and gave control back to his host who changes back.
"Well that's it, gotta give it up. We'll practice your own moves in Beast Chakra Mode, see if they level up," he tells her as he waves his tentacles around.
"But I can't do Rasengan's without Shadow clones; I can't use it in this mode. To release all the Chakra and do the shape manipulation to rotate and compress it, I need two sets of hands," she explains.
"You'll have the illusion in your head that the Chakra's actually your own arms and legs!" He tells her.
"Ohhh yeah," she smiles. "Like this?" She asks as maneuvers her Chakra into hands.
"Not bad, you're in the zone! Now let's see how much you've grown!" Bee tells her with a huge grin.
"Here goes!" She shouts as she starts forming the Rasengan that starts looking very different than normal, a black ball that is gathering Chakra just like a Beast Bomb. "Huh?"
'That's-!' Bee thought as his eyes widen.
"Whoa!" Naruto shouts as it blew up.
'Your technique is exactly like the Tailed Beast Bomb, Mothafucka! The shape manipulation to rotate and compress it,' Bee thought. "Hey, Naruto, that technique, who the hell taught you that, you crazy cracker?!"
"Huh? Oh, the perverted hermit…I mean, Jiraiya-sensei, and the original creator's the Fourth Hokage," she tells him as she winces from being flung back from the Chakra exploding. Bee starts shaking as his eyes widen behind his sunglasses.
'The Fourth Hokage! What a coincidence or maybe fate! It's a miracle!' Bee practically shouted as he remembers his fight against the man. "Rasengan! It's the same process as the Tailed Beast Bomb, in full! A technique made from observing the tailed beast's own special attack! That's what Rasengan is!" He shouts as he is really astonished. "It's like it was made just to pass the Tailed Beast Bomb on to you! Lucky! It's easy enough to do when you're transformed, but the shape manipulation's too hard to do in human form, but add the rotation and you stabilize the storm!"
"I dunno, it doesn't feel like a normal Rasengan works in this mode," she says as she stares down at her hand.
"Tailed Beast Chakra consists of positive 'black' Chakra and negative 'white' Chakra, they need to be balanced! When you compress it, keep an 8:2 ratio of black to white and the ball will form! Go for it!"
"Right!" She shouts back at him. She starts creating the Rasengan again, not even gathering it into a ball before it blew, and throwing her back with a grunt.
"Still missin' the mark, that was 9.5 black and 0.5 white. It sounds easy at first but it's a hard fight!" He tells her as he still continues to watch her.
"All this crap about plus and minus and black and white and numbers came outta nowhere and I don't get it! I'm the kinda girl that learns through experience, you know?" She tells him as she drops the Kyuubi Mode. "And this new Rasengan's so heavy I can barely hold it up, I don't have time to sweat all these little details!" She tells him as she waves her smoking hand. "I'm just gonna have to practice this 'Tailed Beast Rasengan' over and over and over until I get it right!" She says and groans in pain as her hands are still burning.
"There's only so much you can do in human form, your hands are paying the price, I say take a break, that's Killer Bee's advice," he raps.
"Didn't I just say there's no time to sweat the little details?" She says as she looks up at him through one eye as sweat pours down her face. "You just tell me when I hit the 8:2 ratio, Eight-dude! Once I learn how it feels I'll be all set!"
"Aight tough girl, I got your back! We'll do it your way, and I won't talk smack!" He smiles at her as he raps.
