Hey my guys! thank you for all of the reviews and I really hope you enjoy this chapter, there's some action here so I think you'll enjoy that. Also I hope you guys enjoy the fight scene-before anyone says it I know that in Kurama mode Naruto could 100% kick their asses but remember she wants to hold back and hide how strong she is to keep it as a sort of secret weapon which is why I had the fight go as it did-also she knows very little about her opponents so she would make a few little mistakes.
Itachi release Naruto slowly as Fu surged towards Naruto, and the blonde closed the gap, gripping the girls forearms tightly as Fu grabbed her own.
"You're like me? Really?"
"Yeah." Naruto nodded, "Yeah I am Fu-san."
"That's why you want to help me."
"Yeah, yeah it is." Naruto took a deep breath, "Because I'd hope if I was in your position I'd have people wanting to help me-"
"You're a Jinchuriki?" Jounin 1 had gone extremely pale.
"Yes." Naruto gave them her coldest glare, "And you just pissed me off." she drew on a sliver of Kurama's chakra, enough to make her eyes turn red and slitted, just enough for them to sense it.
Jounin 1 half dragged 2 to his feet, and then he was sprinting away looking terrified, and Fu let out a surprised gasp.
"Oh wow. That's so cool." the girl grinned widely, not even glancing after them as they fled. "I've never met another Jinchuriki before."
"How do they treat you?"
"I... Shibuki isn't so bad." Fu gave a cheery grin, "He's my friend, he cares about me."
"And everyone else?"
"I-" Fu faltered slightly before shrugging, "They're not so happy sometimes but it's okay."
"No one should be treated like that. It's not like you chose to be a Jinchuriki."
"As much as I understand why you're discussing this I don't believe now is the right time." Itachi pointed out as gently as he could, "We don't know how long we have until Kakuzu and Hidan find us."
"Wait if they're hunting down Jinchuriki isn't it dangerous for you to be here Naruto-san?"
"Maybe a little but we'll handle them."
"I can help-"
"We'll see. I'd rather you ran." Naruto admitted, "Better for you to get as far away from them as you can y'know?"
"But I want to help."
"Take this." Naruto bit her thumb, unsealing a Hirashin Kunai from her wrist and handing it to Fu. "If they get to you push your Chakra into this and
I'll be there in an instant if I can."
"I want to help-"
"Fu." Naruto took a deep breath, "I don't know how capable you are okay? I'm not saying this because I think you're weak but Itachi-san and I have a plan."
"We do." Itachi nodded, "I'm afraid you'd likely get in the way, we'd be worrying and trying not to let you get hurt."
Fu hesitated for a long moment before nodding, "Fine, fine I'll stay out of the way bu-"
"Brat! Incoming. While you lot were chatting like old ladies I've been reaching out my senses, two strong chakra signatures are heading this way fast."
"What direction?"
"The same as you came in."
"Thank's fuzzball."
"They're coming." Naruto spoke up, "Kurama sensed them."
"Right." Itachi nodded, "Fu-san, prepare to run."
"I... right." Fu nodded, swallowing hard, suddenly looking more nervous than she had been before, possibly because the grim expressions on their
faces were making the severity of the situation sink in.
It was less than a minute later that Hidan and Kakuzu arrived, both clad in the normal Akatsuki robes, one with silver hair slicked back out of his face and some weapon strapped to his back, the other with a grey hood and black mask concealing his face.
The silver haired man spoke first, his eyes narrowing at the two figures who shifted so that they were standing in front of Fu.
"Uchiha? What the fuck are you doing here?"
"Hidan." Itachi's expression was blank, "You know I left the organization some time ago-"
"You tryin' to get in our way now you bastard?"
"I'm simply trying to do what's right."
"If we must kill you to get to the Jinchuriki then so be it." that was the other one, Kakuzu she'd assume. "At least you have a decent bounty and-" his gaze swung towards Naruto and he raised an eyebrow, "Nohara Naruto. Your bounty is high too... and you're a Jinchuriki."
"Not one who'll go down without a fight." Naruto gave a dangerous smile. "So boys, I think it's time for a bit of fun."
"Jashin will bathe in your blood you fuckers-"
"Ooh, vivid imagery there I like it-"
Itachi snorted as Naruto pointed at Hidan, "I pick you." then she was moving, launching herself towards him, knocking them both off the edge of the path, kicking him in the side even as she did.
The main goal was to get them away from Fu right now.
"You bitch." Hidan snarled the words, managing to catch himself in some trees as Naruto did the same, rushing at her, pulling his weapon, a triple bladed scythe from his back as Naruto leapt backwards, a grin on her lip.
Time to do what she did best and piss him off.
"Such a compliment." she winked at him as she flashed through handsigns before moving her hands to her mouth and exhaling a fireball, which he dodged easily, though that had been a part of her plan and he didn't manage to dodge the kunai that caught him in the side and knocked him off balance.
Then she was right behind him-Hirashin, so very useful, and she was kicking him, knocking him even more off balance and sending him rushing towards the ground.
Naruto followed him of course, leaping down as Hidan landed, managing shift mid air so that he landed in a crouch and came up swinging-and it seemed his blade was literally attached to a cable and Naruto had to leap out of the way to avoid getting caught.
"Whoops, too slow!"
"I'll rip you apart and bath in your blood bitch."
"Pretty sure that's counter intuitive." Naruto tapped her chin thoughtfully, "I'm a Jinchuriki after all, don't you need me alive to extract my fuzzy friend from my gut."
"That doesn't mean I can't tear off a few limbs-"
"Ooh, promises promises." Naruto ducked a swing of the scythe, twirling as she did, hands flying, and then three blades of wind chakra were speeding through the air towards the bloodthirsty member of the Akatsuki.
He managed to dodge most of them-almost prancing backwards-which, sadly for him was something she'd planned for, the sight of his foot on a familiar white slip of paper was extremely pleasing, as she focused her chakra, and the paper exploded beneath his foot.
It wasn't a huge explosion, but the force of it was enough to blow the bastards foot off.
She expected screaming and cursing.
She didn't expect manic laughter-that was disturbing as hell, but he was on the ground and Naruto rushed him, Rasengan in hand.
Still she was impressed when he managed to dive to the side, scythe swinging through the air towards her.
Naruto ducked and rolled towards him, forcing back a hiss of pain as the scythe sliced her arm open, a deep thick gash all along her right forearm.
She grimaced, forcing herself to ignore the blood pouring out of her arm even as Hidan yanked his scythe back towards him-her arm would heal soon anyway, what did a little blood matter? Other than the fact that it was a bitch to get out of her coat-thankfully her mom had sent her a few new altered ones each year for her birthday so even if one was ruined it wasn't the end of the world.
Still it annoyed her, this was her original coat, she'd managed to keep it from being irreparably damage until now but she got the feeling that the sheer amount of blood would be impossible to wash off.
"Hey." She called out. "You ruined my coat! You're gonna pay for that shit-" she frowned in confusion as the man licked the blade of his scythe before slicing his own arm open.
"No bitch, you're gonna pay."
"What?" Naruto blinked, "What the fuck?" his skin was changing, turning black and white-it was almost skeletal looking as he sliced his own arm open.
Naruto's skin was crawling.
"I might not be able to kill you, but Jashin will have your blood." he was drawing something on the ground with his foot in the blood.
Something was wrong Something was very wrong.
Naruto was flying towards him, running-but whatever he was drawing was simple, and he was laughing, and then he had a black cylinder in his hand, and he was pressing it to his shoulder and pressing a button.
Naruto screamed as something ripped through her shoulder, faltering and stumbling, dropping to her knees blood pouring from the sudden wound, and Hidan was laughing again.
"Whatever I feel you feel. And I like pain." He was drawing the cylinder out of his shoulder and she could see the blade now, even as he slammed it into his stomach.
Naruto let out a pained yell, unable to force it back.
Fuck. Fuck she needed to finish this fast or she wouldn't be able to finish it at all.
She swallowed hard, dispelling one of her clones, and she felt the rush of the energy flowing into her, felt the heightened awareness of sage mode, felt it boosting her already excellent healing.
Oh the wounds still hurt like a bitch, but she was standing and moving even as Hidan jabbed the spear into his thigh and her own started pouring with blood.
As she moved her hand slipped into her pocket and she pulled out the square of transfer paper she had in her pocket. It would seal Hidan into a scroll she had sealed away already, the corresponding seal had been drawn hours earlier.
He seemed surprised that she was still moving towards him, and he stabbed again and again, laughing manically.
"Oh you're a fun one bitch! You're going to die in agony!"
"Fuck you!" Naruto collided with him, and she slapped the seal to the skin of his cheek.
"What's that supposed to be bit-" he didn't ever finish his sentence, because in a puff of smoke he was gone, sucked into the scroll with the corresponding seal.
Then Naruto let herself drop to her knees, panting heavily and taking a long moment.
What the fuck even was that technique he'd used? She'd never seen anything quite like it.
With his healing... it was a real dangerous technique for anyone fighting against him if, like her, they had no idea it was coming.
But she couldn't stop for long.
Naruto took a deep breath, standing up, ignoring the pain from her currently healing wounds as she Hirashined to the Kunai she'd given Fu.
The green haired Jinchuriki was running up the path on the cliff, clearly having listened to their orders.
She let out a scream when Naruto appeared right next to her, leaping back, and if Naruto was any slower she might have toppled over the edge of the path but her arm lashed out and caught the fabric of her shirt. "Fu-san!"
"Naruto-san!" Fu's expression was panicked, "What happened."
"I took out Hidan he's sealed away."
"You're hurt."
"I'm healing. Are you okay?"
"I am. Itachi-san took off with Kakuzu to take the fighting away from me and I ran."
"Good. That's good."
"You... thank you." there was a gleam of something Naruto didn't have the energy to decipher in the girls eyes. "You risked your life to protect me."
"It was the least I could do."
"No, no it really wasn't." Fu grabbed Naruto's hand, "Thank you. For everything. Really."
"Don't mention it. Please." she shook her head, "It's no big deal."
"If you say so." Fu shook her head, "Will Itachi-san be long?"
"I don't know." Naruto frowned, "I should check up on him. I'll be back soon."
"Okay." Fu nodded, a determined look on her face, "I'll wait here."
Naruto gave a small smile before Hirashining to the seal she'd placed on the back of Itachi's neck, arriving behind him-and her eyes widened in a mix of shock and horror at the sight that met her.
Itachi was bleeding badly, in the middle of a coughing fit that made the one he'd suffered before look minor in comparison.
His Sharingan was active, but he could hardly use it when he couldn't even stand and his eyes were bleeding, he was on his knees, one hand pressed to a wound in his chest.
If she didn't do something he was going to lose and die.
