I really should stop making B talk...I can't write his style at ALL.

So yeah, the Konoha attack. I would be very willing to bet money that NOBODY expected that to happen last chapter...mostly because Akari wouldn't know it was going to happen, and I don't talk out of person very often, so we don't hear their dastardly plans before they happen, but whatever.

Chapter 43

It was as if the entirety of Konoha was holding its breath.

And why wouldn't it? Three of the most powerful men to have ever walked her streets had just re-emerged. They each looked around, took in their situation in their own ways, then let their gazes settle on the foreign and evidently-hostile Shinobi. Though, breakign the atmosphere, Minato decided to pipe up with a question. "B, is that you?"

The man's eyebrows rose, presumably his eyes widened behind his goggles. "Yo Yondaime, I heard you gone bye man?" Minato shook his head, though before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Tobirama suddenly disappearing, re-appearing a few steps away from Han, planting a Kunai harshly into his torso, then retreating when he realized Han's armour protected him.

It soon became clear that Han was trying to gather enough steam to blast them all away in one attack, something Tobirama was not going to accept. Wielding his mastery over water, he spewed out more water than could fill a swimming pool, contorting it into the shape of a dragon with a few brief hand-seals, then sending it rocketing towards the Jinchuriki. "Nii-san!"

Akari face-palmed at the same time Tobirama made an aggrieved noise, she had been right about his brother it seemed. "Hey Shodai-sama!" She quickly snatched Hashirama's attention, directing him towards Killer B. "Maybe focus on the guys currently trying their hardest to level your village, you can talk after fighting!" She didn't like having to yell at him, but it seemed to snap him out of his rather ridiculous personality, focusing on Killer B with a good dose of Killing Intent.

Evidently he didn't like people threatening his village. "You should keep a distance from him. Unless you've forgotten, he has the Mokuton." Akari whined a little in her throat but reluctantly backed away from Hashirama a few steps, though her actions confused him a little.

Deciding to clear things up, she channelled a little Chakra, revealing the seal on her body. "Mito-san passed away about a decade ago...my condolences. After another Jinchuriki held him for a time, the torch was passed onto me to hold Kurama." She kept it short and sweet, cleaning up enough that he merely gave her a nod and a smile before turning back towards B.

In the blink of an eye the man flashed through seven hand-seals. She could see each one, but as she got an error message, she knew he was using his Kekkei Genkai, something she couldn't copy. On his right hand, she saw Kanji appear, though not for long as he then charged at Killer B, engaging him in Taijutsu as he attempted to strike the man with his palm, presumably a way to negate B's advantages. "You gonna help them then Minato?"

She rolled her neck just in time to see him grin before he vanished, though he wasn't helping the two Kage's. Truth be told, Tobirama was currently teaching Han why he was so feared despite his efforts to remain under the radar, while Hashirama held Killer B in a Taijutsu and Bukijutsu brawl fast enough to make Akari excited. Frowning, she asked Kurama to figure out where Minato was, getting the response that he was currently...all over the village apparently.

"Oh for fuck sake, I know what he's doing!" Kurama didn't say anything, merely waiting for her to elaborate. "Think about it, this is his village. And what's his most famous technique, something that requires him to have a certain seal inscribed somewhere? The Hiraishin. He has his own personalized Hiraishin seals all over Konoha, so match that with the Shadow Clone Jutsu, he can be literally everywhere at once. Well, means that this secret is well and truly out of the bag, huh?"

As she finished her sentence, Hashirama's palm found an opening, slamming against Killer B's ribs, possibly breaking a few. As he retracted his hand, the Kanji had been transferred to Killer B's side, immediately making him fall to one knee as Gyuki's chakra receded back to his seal. "Oh, okay. I mean, I had this plan for extracting Gyuki and sealing him so he couldn't help, but suppressing him works as well I guess."

Hashirama watched Akari as she pulled a paralysis tag from her pouch and darted over to the fallen Jinchuriki. Without Gyuki backing him up, he wasn't able to stop her from planting the seal on his neck. After a brief exchange where he tried to fight even without Gyuki enhancing him, the seal was placed. Unfortunately for him, she had a ridiculous amount of Agility, so his fastest wasn't really worth mentioning as she casually slipped past his swing to paralyze him.

At the same time, Tobirama rather violently ended his confrontation with Han by slamming a fist straight through Han's chest, his punching a hole through his armour, eviscerating his internal organs with the blow. "Now that, on the other hand, I think I'm going to have to whip up a containment seal for." Flopping down cross-legged, Akari pulled out some Fuinjutsu supplies and, with Kurama's help, began scrawling a seal which could temporarily hold Kokuo.

She had to work fast, since Han was practically dead already. If he died with Kokuo still within the seal, she would be dispersed into Chakra for ten years before re-emerging, not the end of the world, but there was a slim chance that she would appear within Konoha or one of the surrounding villages and damage, perhaps even destroy a smaller village, entirely on accident. "Shodai-sama, could you perhaps keep your brother's foe alive long enough for me to seal the Gobi? I have to make sure that the Gobi doesn't accidentally destroy something if it 'dies' and disperses."

The man gave her a jaunty wave, hurrying over to Han. A moment later she saw him lay his hands on the man and act as rudimentary life-support, keeping him alive as she wrote, finished, then approached with a seal, placing it over the seal on his arm after ripping away the armour strapped there. He grunted in pain and tried to move, but with two Kage's there, and Akari practically sitting on him, he couldn't do much as Kokuo was pulled from the seal on his arm, through his Chakra Coils, which irreparably damaged them, then shifted to the seal Akari had written.

As the last vestiges of Kokuo's Chakra left him, Hashirama dropped his arms, letting the man die from his wounds. "Okay, can you two please go and help Minato, he's currently fighting all over the village. Tobirama, he uses two of your Jutsu, he managed to finish the Hiraishin, plus he knows how to use Shadow Clones, I'm just warning you now so you aren't as surprised." The man nodded to show his thanks for the warning, then the two Kage were off to defend their village.

Meanwhile, Akari turned her attention towards the paralyzed Killer B, an idea spinning in her head. They'd attacked Konoha, so if she were to remove Gyuki from Killer B, nobody would be able to complain. She sat back down facing him and began scrawling a second, stronger containment seal, taking only a minute to write the entire thing out. As she stood up, she saw B's face tighten, his glasses obscuring his gaze. "Guess this is it for B, no chance for a re. You schooled me with those moves, and I'm all out of grooves."

Groaning at how he spoke, she slapped him with the containment seal. "Sorry B, maybe if you hadn't attacked Konoha we could have been friends." She was remorseless as he writhed in pain for a few moments as the same process occurred to him as had to Han, his coils being torn to shreds as the full might of Gyuki's massive Chakra reverses forced their way through his body.

As the seal finished its work, the man slumped. A brief check with her Mystical Palm revealed that his heart had stopped beating, he was dead. Just to be sure, she planted a knife through his heart, no point risking it after all. He didn't react to the attack in any way, so she withdrew the knife after twisting it once, dropping it into her inventory. She didn't mind him too much, but he'd chosen to side with Kumo as they attacked her village, and he paid the ultimate price for it.

Turning on the spot, she took a breath, then released it slowly. "Akari." Kurama spoke her name, drawing her attention to him. "I hate to suggest this, but...I must do what's best for my siblings. You could hold them both, keep them away from those who would seek to use them." Her eyes widened. Kurama was seriously suggesting she become a Jinchuriki to not one, but three Bijuu?

"...Maybe." Before he could get angry about what bullshit 'Maybe' was, she clarified it for him. "Even if I wanted to do it right now, the sea you use would never hold all three of you. I designed it to hold you, specifically. If I put Gyuki or even Kokuo into the seal with you, the entire thing would tear itself apart, as well as kill me or render my Chakra Coils completely destroyed at minimum. I'll keep their seals with me the entire time, and then...after all this is over, we'll figure out what to do. But...don't worry about them Kurama, I won't let anybody take them away from me."

She could tell Kurama wasn't too happy about anything going on, so while his silence hurt her, she understood it. She pulled on the Hiraishin marker at her home, using it solely for the proximity to the centre of the village, then immediately leaving out the front door after ensuring Naruto's room was still locked up tightly. She went up onto the roof again, looking around with a frown.

The village was burning, with blazing infernos everywhere. Evidently the hostile shinobi weren't there to capture the town, they were doing what they did to Uzushio...they were trying to burn it to the ground. She knew some Suiton Jutsu, but not enough to make a difference with the amount of fires around. besides, hers were combat-oriented, none of them were very controllable.

She saw a colossal dragon made of water suddenly lunge up into the air, it's jaws snapping shut around something before it came swooping back down. She could see it shedding more and more water every so often. Only two men currently in the village could control such a monumental amount of water, either the Hokage, or Tobirama. As she made to make her way over and help, she suddenly ducked her head, avoiding the palm-strike about to slam into her head. "Oh?"

As she skidded across roof-tiles and spun to face her opponent, she momentarily stalled out. "You!" She growled out at the masked figure in front of her. He was exactly as Inoichi had described, mask, cloak and all. "I'm going to gut you for this." While she wanted to bolt forwards at top speed and slam her fist through his damnable mask, she knew that doing that to a totally unknown enemy, especially one who could sneak up on her so easily, was just asking to get her ass whooped.

"I must admit, you continue to surprise me little Uchiha. A little girl from a forgotten branch of the family growing up to take the place of Konoha's Jinchuriki from who I had planned it to go to, and then you just keep on growing. Killing Orochimaru was an unfortunate setback...but with what you've revealed today, perhaps you'd do well to replace his position." Gritting her teeth, Akari listened to him monologue, trying to decide whether barely charging forwards before he could react at top speed and stabbing him would work.

She just couldn't get a read on him, and that honestly scared her. If he could orchestrate something on this scale, because she had no doubt he was either the mastermind, or one of the ringleaders for this little backstab, then he probably had skills on par with that achievement. Her choice was made for her though as he disappeared in a swirl focused around his singular eye-hole. "After all, anybody will do anything with the right motivation..." He spoke as he vanished from view.

On guard against an attack, she waited...but no attack came. A few more seconds passed before her eyes widened, immediately slamming off all her limitations on speed and strength as she bolted down the roof, through the front door, then straight through the house, slamming into the door to Naruto's room. "Naruto, open the door, it's me!" He didn't respond. "Cub, open the door, please...kit, please!"

...He didn't respond.

After the introduction of the three Kage to the battle, the enemy nin found themselves overmatched entirely.

Whole platoons of foreign Shinobi were blasted with all manners of Jutsu from the three men defending their village. Of course, that didn't mean those still living weren't fighting their hardest, Hiruzen himself was on the front-lines wielding his Adamantine Staff as effectively as ever, beating down enemy Jonin like they were whimpering Academy students.

But all felt it when the final Jinchuriki standing in the village unleashed her power, rage fueling her actions as she smashed her way through every hostile to cross her path. She didn't know where she was going, nor what that bastard parading as Madara had done with Naruto, but she knew if she ever laid eyes on him again, she would tear him to pieces then piece him back together to do it again so many times that she'd truly earn the nickname of Crimson Medic.

She knew part of her rage was being influenced by Kurama's Chakra, even if he didn't want it to. She knew, but she didn't care, such was her fury. By the time she'd come to a stop, Kurama forcibly cutting his Chakra off from her grasp, every hostile nin had surrendered to Konoha, too afraid of the pure malice and hatred she had been emitting across the village.

She shut her eyes, dropping to her knees and, for the first time in years, she let tears of sadness, of anguish, slip from her eyes. She could feel the moment when Minato Hiraishin'd close-by to her and hurried over, when he knelt beside her, asking her what had happened, trying to get her to respond. She knew that right now Konoha could see her breaking, but she didn't care.

"He's gone..." She breathed, making Minato freeze. Before he could ask, she snatched at his Haori with both hands, her crimson eyes glaring right into his surprised sky-blue. "That bastard took him...he took Naruto." She then widened her eyes, focusing on Minato with a new focus. "You have a Hiraishin marker on him, you can bring him back!" Minato shook his head, earning a look which could have frozen a sun.

"I'm fading already. But, as soon as you can, bring me back, we'll get him back." She looked down at his fingertips. Surely enough, Minato was fading, he'd fought using too much Chakra again, just as she needed him once again. As his hands disappeared, he laid one forearm on her shoulder, forcing her into a hug. "Well, get him back, I promise you."

Though she wanted to rant and rave at him, she knew it wasn't his fault, so she wrapped her arms around the man, drying her tears on his shoulder as he disappeared. Hashirama had already vanished, his Mokuton abilities taking far too much Chakra for what Akari's pool of Chakra contained to sustain him for longer than twenty minutes, quickly followed by his brother, though he retained enough knowledge of how Akari's abilities worked to stay around longer, using the most cost-effective Suiton Jutsu he could to put out fires before he faded away amidst loud cheers and praises from the villagers of Konoha.

To them, it was like the spirits of the Kage's had come back to save them in their darkest hour. To a degree, that was surprisingly true, since it was actually the three Kage's fighting. The difference was that they hadn't appeared because Konoha was in trouble, they appeared because Akari willed them to appear. And unfortunately for Akari, even though nobody was there directly, several people had seen her summon those Kage.

Word spread fast, even amongst a battle-scarred village, until by the time that the battle was declared over, more knew than not that Akari was the one responsible for bringing the three Kage back, even temporarily. Many tried to find her, to beg her to bring back their loved ones, some of whom had died in that very attack, some who had been dead since Kurama's attack, and some from even further before. She avoided them all by staying within her home, her seals making the front door nigh-impregnable by Konoha's masses.

Six days, twenty-two hours, thirty-nine minutes and twenty-seven seconds until she could summon Minato. She knew there were going to be serious repercussions of what had happened. Iwa, Kumo and Kiri attacked Konoha, and they weren't going to take that lying down. She knew at any moment the Hokage or, more likely, one of his ANBU would show up at her door demanding her presence so she could lead the charge against the enemy villages. She knew...and she didn't care.

Thirty-nine minutes and twenty-six seconds.

Yep.

Tobi has shown up again. After his clan to crush the Uchiha Clan so they wouldn't be able to control any of the Bijuu failed, he went for a more extreme plan, corralling the three villages, stoking their ire, and pointing them at Konoha, giving them a way to slip inside their Jinchuriki by using Kamui, avoiding Konoha's notice until too late.

And now he has Naruto.

Now, I know some of you may feel that those fights were underwhelming, but I'm trying to make a point here. Akari did none of the fighting, because she didn't need to. Tobirama, Hashirama and Minato are each sufficient to deal with their foes, there's a reason each was feared greatly in their time. This is part of the reason why Akari doesn't use Megami no Mon all the time, because it'd make things boring.

Akari wants to have fun, if she's sat there with her arms crossed as Minato and other summoned spirits win her fights for her, she isn't having fun. Now, that's not to say that if an invasion is going on, she won't pull out all the stops to annihilate her foes, since she obviously will. But if she thinks she can win on her own, she won't use Megami no Mon, she'll have fun instead.

Tobi though...Minato has just as much reason to cut his balls off as Akari does, so she's more than happy to keep him around. She just has to wait for a full week before bringing him out again, since she can't use his tags, otherwise she'd have already leapt to attack him.

She did get experience for this battle, but I won't update her status until she opens her notifications and actually looks at what she got.

Hope you enjoyed, I know this is shorter again, but I think you guys would prefer if I released this today to wrap this battle up, rather than cliff-hanging for two days.

Name: Akari Uchiha

Level: 112

Age: 17

Experience: 73,921/112,000

To Next Level: 40,268

Title: Sannin-slayer - Defeating one of the three legendary sannin is no easy feat, but you managed it. Future opportunities unlocked.

Secondary Title: Jonin - +25% Experience gained working with Genin

Health Points: 25,000 - (100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 4900/m - 81.6*/s - Vit x End - Halted when afflicted with bleed status.

Chakra Points: 41,000 - (100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 5

Regeneration Rate - 8100/m - 135/s - Int x Wis - Halted when continuous chakra drain Jutsu in use.

Strength - 70

Vitality - 70

Endurance - 70

Intelligence - 90

Agility - 296

Wisdom - 90

Luck - 70