'Thoughts' "Speaking" Author's Notes "Bijuu Speaking" "Telepathic Talking"
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=Chapter 27: Attack on Konoha!=
Three cloaked figures walked along the path towards Konoha, alerting the guards there immediately. The guards around the gate moved about their shifts, suddenly spotting the three sticking out like a sore thumb and sounding the alarm.
The gate, opened to Konoha, clanked and started closing with the ground shaking. Kunai were instantly drawn as they ran towards the Orange Flames..
"Halt!" Kunai were held to the necks, but were rendered useless by a sudden push back of gravity, only making them attack. The three Orange Flames barely moved as the ANBU slowed down and ice formed all over them.
They dropped down their weapons, lifeless to the ground, as ice grew all over the body and made a safe passage for the three to run towards the closing gates.
"Attack them!" called out the ANBU leader, only to be frozen along with their squadron with ice and smiled inside as the gates slammed shut. He sneered but was knocked to the ground, frozen as a massive hole was burnt into the gate and the three intruders jumped straight into the village.
The ice soon melted in the blaring sun with the ANBU jumping through the gate where chaos was brewing thanks to frightened citizens. Sirens sounded as civilians screamed for cover as the three started destroying key facilities in the village. ANBU ran across the rooftops along with Jonin level ninja in their first protocol: eliminate the enemy.
Lava and ice rose up and across as steam filled the sky with an eerie green glow. Clouds started to form out of nowhere, filling up the clear-blue sky one chunk at a time.
An explosion rocked the village's foundations as part of the village walls began tumbling down into the crater the village lay in. Buildings were caught in the falling rubble and torn up from their foundations, civilians almost getting stranded in the chaos.
As predicted, ANBU moved away from the centre of the village to the two spots of attack. Water crackled with electricity stunned multiple targets with rising pillars and barriers appearing out of the ground for containment. Bugs filled the sky, a few patches of purple inside the multitude, buzzed all around three figures faintly in the smoke.
"Fire Style: Fire Dragon Jutsu!"
"Lightning Style: Thunderbolt!" The joint jutsu fizzled out with a bang, causing more harm than 'good' as their targets were unharmed and running along the village walls, causing the ANBU to chase them down.
Monkey scaled the wall, jumping from building to building, dodging attacks left and right before bringing out a staff that seemed bigger than their cloak and started wielding it. Kunai and shuriken clanked to the ground, being deflected by the spinning blur as the ANBU were taken down by multiple shadow clones springing out from nowhere.
"Lightning Style: Electro-Burst!" called out Rat, jumping up behind Monkey and taking out the ANBU behind them with a large explosion of electric orbs. The two jumped away from each other as the hand reached out of the roof to grab at least one but failed to capture any and quickly retreated back into the roof.
"Below us!" Monkey jumped higher to avoid a wave crashing into the building they were on as it crumbled into pieces showing some more attackers beneath it. "Jonin to your left!"
"Got them!" Rat ducked under a water dragon and jumped up to dodge the house falling beneath them. They drew out a small katana on their waist and used it to block kunai heading for his body and returning a blow of shuriken. "Lightning Style: Positive Charges!"
ANBU moved to the side, dodging the slightly magnetic orbs of electricity and were knocked all in the same direction like dominoes with a sharp wind, followed by Monkey calling out their attack. "Fire Style: Burning Ash!"
Gunpowder filled the air, clouding vision and creating an extremely dangerous situation for everyone in the close vicinity.
"Bye bye. Spark!" Lightning crackled as the gunpowder in the sky exploded, tearing down everything inside the main cloud and creating a decent-sized crater in the slanted ground.
"This part is clear!"
"Not yet it isn't, rogue scum!" Rat and Monkey jumped out of the way as massive fists swung left and right with bugs mixing in between attacks attempt to latch onto their targets and drain chakra.
Ram looked at her two teammates and sent a large gust of water their way, making a path to flee as they ran across the wall and not taking any attention on the pursuing Akimichi and Aburame. They looked at each other and jumped into the crater the village lay as four shadows leapt through the broken wall and into the chaotic village.
They hid under rooftops and jumped into abandoned houses, slowly making their way to the village centre as ninja swarmed the rooftops. Only the keenest eyes could see, if they focused, shadows jumping through alleys and only the smartest could sense a Genjutsu shielding something in their midst.
They hopped past the rumbling crowds and hid in the trees surrounding the Hokage Mansion and made their way round the back of it. ANBU stood guard and were quickly dispatched of from above, their bodies being hidden behind some crates and barrels. The door they were guarding clanked open with a quick touch of an ANBU's hand, the four cloaked figures ran inside as it slammed shut behind them.
A maze now awaited them deep underground the village with now the remaining three getting a signal and leaping on top of the Hokage Mansion and engaging a fight with the guards up there and swiftly dodging shadows leaping to paralyse.
"Plasma Style: Lion's Beam!" The ninja not belonging to Danzo gasped, having seen the Jonin Exam and turned into a blubbering mess of confusion. They eyed down Tiger and jumped towards them to avoid a large gust of wind beneath them.
"Sunagakure's invading?" questioned one before choking out blood and slamming head first into the roof with Dog being stopped by a shadow in mid air.
"Not quite." She turned to restrainer and saw Horse kicking them into one of the pillars standing up and releasing the shadow. One ninja whistled and the three Orange Flames were surrounded with more of the Nara Clan appearing.
"State your reasoning!" demanded one Jonin, holding their hand up and poised ready to give the command of fire.
"We can do this two ways, one better than the other!" shouted Horse for everyone to hear.
"You're not in a state to argue, you're surrounded!"
"Are we? I- no, we can always... resort to other measures," replied Horse, sending out a large flare of chilling killer intent. "You probably won't believe us but we aren't after you lot. We only want to face your leader, and of course, get ours back. Your teammates we knocked out? They'll survive. The ANBU we knocked out? The ones belonging to Danzo won't, that's for sure.
"So how about you tell us where Danzo is? I'm sure most of you would want Danzo to be gone too, am I right?"
"What you're saying is treason against our village!"
"How can a corpse talk?"
The ninja still froze, trying to get rid of the killer intent feeling in their mind and could only process what was happening as the three Orange Flames got ready to jump out.
"Well, let's leave you to think, oh and one more thing. We aren't from Sunagakure. Ja ne!"
The three ran off the building, paper streaming up as multiple white hawks circled around the village, the remaining two scaling down the tower to wherever, ignoring the chaos happening near the outskirts.
The remaining thoughts in the frozen minds were one word now. One word that struck fear.
Akatsuki.
=Danzo's Lair=
Deep underground, sirens echoed through empty corridors, the only other sounds were machinery and the sounds of footsteps and a cane tapping on the floor.
A beep of a button and some doors opening.
The sound of doors closing and a whirr as a platform was raised up slowly by a multiple metal chains, guards swarming around the centre target.
"Send a message. Bring up subject code 212621. Maximum security for the Uzumaki, I expect them to stay inside their cell, understood?" spoke Danzo to no one in particular. A guard dropped down and saluted before flickering off to relay the orders of their leader. The elevator stopped at the top and Danzo stepped out, walking along the corridors through his maze again.
=Konohagakure=
"Ice Style: Icicle Blizzard!" Steam puffed up and expanded outwards with a deathly cold chill, preventing any defending ninja from coming closer to the three Orange Flames who had their own share of Konoha's defence.
"Lava Style: Scorching Stream Rocks!" Through the steam, the three silhouettes disappeared running into the centre of the village leaving behind three rocky statues, quickly distracting the defending ninja and raising questions about what was actually happening here.
"Where the hell's Kakashi and Gai?" shouted out Ebisu, relieved that he wasn't being attacked anymore.
"What's more, why aren't they attacking us? This is an invasion, right?" asked another ninja awkwardly looking around at the destruction. The village had been in a better state but the whole village should've been buried under its rubble... again, in this invasion.
"Nothing's match up. Absolute nothing in this damn village," commented an ANBU not under Danzo's influence. He pointed at the centre of the village. "Somethings up."
"We aren't late, are we?" spoke an all-too familiar voice with three pairs of feet landing on the destroyed building.
"What took you so long? We could've died!" complained Ebisu, gaining sighs in response.
"We had our own... problems," said Kurenai, looking around. "You've noticed, haven't you?"
"Noticed what?"
"The Orange Flames. They aren't interested and only take out Danzo's ANBU, defending themselves if necessary."
"So you guys noticed too?" said another arriving platoon, the previous Hokage's bodyguards: Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raido and Tatami Iwashi. "Although hellbent on destruction, they're not paying that much attention to us, although dragging us away from the Hokage Mansion."
"So you think they're planning something big, right?" asked Kakashi.
"It's probably safe for us to stay here and see what's going on. We can't tell what the future currently holds."
"Gai, Kurenai, let's go-"
"Wait, Kakashi!" The one-eyed ninja sighed at the disruption and looked at the 'normal' ANBU currently kneeling in front of them.
"What is it, Neko?"
"Akatsuki, your orders, captain!"
=Danzo's Lair=
Danzo's minions buzzed about deep inside the lair, bringing up screens and adjusting things to the absolute perfection, monitoring the red-shrouded figure inside the green, bubbly fluid. They watched as it was carried into the air on its platform before being moved along a conveyor and into the transports deep underground, making its way to the surface.
The workers in that room continued monitoring the subject labelled '212621' as it travelled through the lair on higher security, not taking notice of four figures peeking in and disappearing down the corridors, trying to make their way through the maze.
Only the slight movement of a vent showed the pathing of the 'impostors' moving from room to room and trying to find their specific target.
One of them watched as a pair of guards marched through the corridor, before signalling the safe coast and scaling the ceiling, the other three transforming into guards and following the one scaling on the ceiling with '赤' on their cloak.
To the naked, untrained eye, it would merely look like the three 'ANBU' weren't following anything and doing their patrols. They wouldn't see the person casting a Genjutsu to shield themselves scaling the ceiling and walls.
They paused their travel at a crossroad and looked the three directions before heading left, activating their Dojutsu and scanning the floor for a trace of a particular chakra. They definitely sensed the one with Dojutsu and sent their own slightly wave of chakra in confirmation.
They were close.
So close to their goal.
But one thing they did know.
This was too easy to be true.
=Konohagakure=
"Akatsuki, your orders, captain!"
Kakashi froze up instantly, as well as everyone else there with this warning. "What's the status?"
"Working with the Orange Flames, sir! Target is Konan of Amegakure, paper user!"
"You mean those white birds in the sky?"
"Yes, captain!"
Kakashi looked up, seeing the birds circling around the village and looking down every so often at the chaos happening below them. "Neko, these are my orders. Tell every ninja to move away from the centre of the village. Do not engage in combat, understood?"
"Kakashi are you sure-"
"As you say, captain." With that, Neko flickered away to relay orders, not question the previous captain's orders. She herself thought these were probably the wisest choices that could apply to this particular situation but they could only wait and see how this would turn out.
"Let's go and find out what's happening." Kakashi pulled up his headband, revealing the red spiralling eye and leapt from roof to roof with his small group following, not wanting to be left behind in the open.
Jumping over the buildings, they spotted Dragon, Hare and Bird along the rooftops, somehow managing to catch up to them as if they never moved in the first place and landed a block behind them. Hare turned around at the footsteps and cursed under her breath, and unsheathing her weapons.
"I thought you were smart!" With a swift movement of her hand, a wall of ice followed suit with Hare speaking behind it. "Get out of here if you fear your lives, plus, I thought you were warned about this!"
The other ninja looked at Kakashi who sighed at the nature of the invaders. "It's true. A couple of days before now, we were warned that something like this would happen by none other than them, although different people."
"So, what do you want? I thought you'd have worked out the message by now-"
"Hare, calm down. You can't blame them," spoke Bird from behind the wall. "You're here to watch the lights, right?"
"Lights?"
As if on cue, the wall exploded again with smoke pummelling into the air with a faint silhouette forming in its midst. A bright yellow light shone, the silhouette disappearing and more explosions sent shockwaves through the village.
"It looks like they found something..." mused Dragon, sitting down and taking their hood off, since they already knew what he looked like.
"You're saying this so casually like your not putting thousands of lives at risk here. What is your plan anyways, you're not even interested in us!" complained Kurenai.
"Exactly. Let's go you two. The party's starting," said Dragon, leaping off towards the explosions. His two teammates nodded and instantly followed, leaving behind shocked Konoha ninja.
=Hokage Mansion=
Lightning crackled in the sky, followed by the white birds flocking together and smoke rising back up again.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Blast Barrage!" Sharp moving channels of air charged into the sky and all around, flickers being seen and a massive figure rising up out of the ground. Red chakra streamed up from the ground, forming the outline of something Danzo had studied well.
"Shichibi? This is interesting..."
An orange glow marked the eyes inside of a grey, blue, helmet-like skull. The shoulder rose up, spiked growing and a large shoulder pad forming itself out of red chakra, a large curl protruding out from the back as the body continued growing.
"Fu, Torune, distract it!" commanded Danzo with his two most powerful subjects known to us ran up to the beast and started circling around and hacking with their tanto at the armour surrounding the bijuu.
"Die!" rang out a voice, with Tiger jumping down from the shoulder and charging up an attack in their hands, landing behind Fu. "Plasma Style: Lion's Beam!" Tiger thrusted his hands forward, the red/yellow orb releasing itself in a beam and hitting straight into the ANBU.
Tiger turned around seeing a swarm of purple bugs surrounded him and Fu crawling away, Torune helping their teammate.
"Little help down here!"
The bijuu roared, the sound echoing past Konoha's walls with all bugs freezing in place. Tiger sighed, turning to Torune and giving a smirk under the hood. Torune paled and tried to command his bugs but to no avail as they stood still in the air.
Tiger pointed up, Torune followed the finger and saw paper wrap around him and Fu, their vision leaking away with the rays of light disappearing.
"Akatsuki? Attack, and get Kakashi and Gai here!" seethed Danzo seeing that his protectors were falling down. Out of nowhere, waves of Danzo's ANBU attacked the bijuu from all directions, Dog releasing the two elites to dodge a raging wave of water. A dozen ninja surrounded Danzo as he undid the bolts surrounded the gold binds around his right arm, the three Orange Flames seeing this.
"Lightning Style: Four Pillar Bind!" The familiar four pillars appeared again out of the ground, shooting lightning at each other and cornering the Shichibi, getting electrocuted at a slight touch, although it didn't hurt much.
ANBU jumped onto the bijuu's arms, swarming on it and trying to bring down the beast while fighting their own battles on it with Tiger and Dog. From a distance, it would look like the beast was firing randomly into space, trying to get rid of annoying gnats on its skin.
The beast shook itself and fell to the ground, the ANBU beneath it being squashed to death as it folded back into its head, revealing Horse stumbling out and ANBU once again attacking.
"Butterfly Mode!" called out Choza, running into fight and rearing back their right arm. Wings emerged from the back made of concentrated chakra, before surrounding the arm. "Butterfly Bombing!" They punched the ground, each ANBU jumping back as it cracked beneath their feet, causing the Orange Flames to lose balance and leave an opening to attack.
"Ninja Art: Shadow Stitching Jutsu!" Out of the broken ground and buildings, black lines wrapped all around each Orange Flame with kunai at the tip of the stitch, an explosive tag attached to the hilt of it. "Well, this was simple."
"No it isn't!" Horse released her killer intent, radiating around her and reaching into the minds of their surroundings. She and her teammates took this opportunity to escape and sent a fireball into the sky.
"Come here!" yelled Dog, charging at Danzo with paper swirling all around her arm and forming a single blade, aching to strike. She drew it back and swung forward, only missing and choking blood. "What the hell?"
She could tell she wasn't the only one shocked as the other ninja that were their enemies dropped their mouths, even her teammates stopped attacking. She looked at Danzo again, then to his side seeing they were late. She watched the last golden lock fall to the ground, showing the sickly white arm with multiple red eyes imbedded in it. She then looked behind Danzo and looked in shock.
"Invaders must go." It raised its hand and the hair behind started waving, rising up even. "That is my order, that is my purpose. My name... is Subject Code 212621, but can you figure out the meaning?"
=Danzo's Lair=
Alarms blared. The roof shook. The floor rumbled. Inside the crumbling base where the foundations were collapsing in on themselves, five people continually fought.
Standing in a pool of blood.
Tired with grime on their cloaks.
Losing their senses being stuck underground.
Desperate to see light again.
"So I suspect that it's gone into motion, am I right?"
"Yes, although something doesn't seem right. I feel it," said Aka, looking round. "I've never seen so many dead bodies in one place."
"It was fight or die, wasn't it?"
"I guess so."
"Really, it's so stuffy down here! How can people stay underground for this long?" complained Snake, kicking a table to the side.
"Now now, don't complain, I've been here longer than you!" said Naruto, awkwardly rubbing the back of their head.
"Let's get out of here already, now where's the exit?"
"We destroyed it, obviously. Also, we have no clue where we are," said Ox.
Snake sighed. This was going to take ages. "Oi Naruto."
"What?"
"You have a quicker way out, right?"
It took him a few seconds to get the gist of the question and he smirked. "Really?"
"It's not like we have any quicker method, unless it involves speeding through this wreck of a place," said Boar, walking towards Naruto. "You know you want to do it. You've been cooped up for so long, and I'm sure you're bored-"
"You asked for it!"
"Wait, what's happening-" said Aka, before being cut off by Snake dragging him towards Naruto as golden-yellow chakra started to cover his body.
"Brace yourself for a wild ride!"
The golden chakra covered the room they were in, seeping out into the hallways with black marks spreading across the surface. It started bubbling calmly at first, then faster with an orange haze flowing through it.
"Let's go!"
Chakra rose up all around Naruto and his team, turning into a fox face and vaporising rocks, slowly making its way to the surface. The red eyes emerged from nowhere, teeth grew as they climbed higher, the soil around them changing.
"We're here!"
The fox head roared and burst through the surface, the complete body emerging with the tails flattening trees and buildings. Hands crushed everything beneath them as a deathly roar echoed.
"Woah, this place looks... wow. I didn't expect you guys to do this much damage."
"Well, it was half you, but what is going on?" muttered Aka. His eyelid twitched and he looked towards the mountain. "Over there!"
"Let's go!" The fox avatar faded away and they all jumped out, running towards the field of battle where something didn't seem right. Naruto's quick reaction allowed him to dodge a random swipe from above, him suddenly hearing the sounds of fighting. "What the-"
Naruto ducked under another invisible blow, caught a hand flying through the air and sent chakra into whatever body there was. The being revealed itself and Naruto looked in shock, as well with the other people around him.
"Invisibility?" He looked at the girl in front of him, emotionless eyes. Their appearance was familiar but definitely new. Long red hair, not changing a bit. Light blue eyes. Naruto backed off. "W-who are you?" 'I need to confirm something.'
"Subject Code 212621, and my mission is to keep you in check."
"No, I'm good." Naruto whizzed off, continuing his travel and looked around, seeing the girl chasing him. 'She looks familiar...' He held his hands in the '+' sign and the rubble around where he stood turned back into their clones and charged towards the girl.
She held up her hand in a half hand seal and the revelation came. Red chains sprouted from her back and impaled Naruto's clones, them poofing away and Naruto continuing to run.
"How is this possible?"
Then, he heard Danzo's voice. He looked forward and snapped out of his pondering seeing Danzo without the braces on his arm, the eyes looking all around. He saw the red eye in the right eye socket, the four-pointed shuriken glaring at him.
"Die!"
Naruto unsheathed his sword, enhanced with golden chakra and impaled it through Danzo's heart, only for him to reappear somewhere else with no injuries. 'Genjutsu? No, it's something more advanced.'
The slightest whisper of wind and Naruto brought his sword back around to block a strike from the unnamed girl. He then proceeded to kick them back, only for the girl to replace themselves with a rock and appear elsewhere, casting her hand signs.
Naruto looked towards the girl, then she ran off where he could see Horse, Tiger and Dog fighting themselves against someone in the distance. Naruto turned around back to Danzo, sword in hand and froze. In between them stood four coffins.
In between them stood four coffins.
Four.
Inscribed on each one were symbols, each unique to their own:
初代
二代
三代
四代
Shodai, Nidai, Sandai and last but definitely not least, Yondai.
The coffin doors opened and seconds later, four pairs of feet stepped out.
Naruto stepped back. This couldn't be happening, could it?
One of them looked straight at Naruto, and his heart stopped.
"What's going on... Naruto?"
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*chuckles* Yes, you read correctly. Sorry for late update, school is trash especially in lockdown and homework gets the better of you. Also, I've been watching some more anime so don't mind me. Hopefully, I'll update quicker next time, and yeah, this happened. Boy, this is insane.
If you have any suggestions, let me know and I'll incorporate them if I like them!
And that's all for now!
See you later: Ja ne!
