From Ramen with Love Chapter 17: No Love From This Ramen, a naruto fanfic

A/N: Happy belated Valentine's Day people XD I would've had this chapter out sooner, but I got caught up in my school work and I was sick for an entire week, which slows the writing as well. That being said, I decided to split the chapter in two parts again, which is good news for you guys since it means I've already worked on chapter 18 and going to continue working on it tonight. I apologize if any part of this chapter seems a bit oddly worded or something, some of it was written while I was bedridden, so... Nonetheless, I don't do rewrite's unless it's entirely necessary, though if anything is realyl unclear or vague in this chapter, don't hesitate to tell me so and I'll try to explain it to you. Anyway, enough about that. Chapter 18 will be out as soon as possible. Enough of that...

Now on with the story!

Chapter 17: No Love From This Ramen

The next morning, Naruto woke up after a night of little sleep. He couldn't catch any sleep for the bigger part of the night, but in the end slumber won over Naruto's slowly fading will to remain awake.

When he pushed himself up from his bed and bright rays of sunshine shined upon his face, he regretted ever deciding that he should stay awake.

"No destruction...no screams...Damn it, Ero-sennin was right..." Naruto muttered as he stared through his window towards the bright blue sky that hovered above the Village of Konoha.

Naruto smiled and turned his head around, finding Temari peacefully asleep beside him and Gaara being on the couch as usual. He froze for a moment and listened intensely to his surroundings.

"Really nothing to be heard, eh?" Naruto said and smiled a moment later. His smile quickly turned into a grin as he started to feel more energetic and glad that everything seemed to be all right.

"Alright!" Naruto cheered as he sat up and threw his fist into the air, "Everyone, wake up! Today's a big day! We've got a lot to do!"

Temari groaned softly and opened a single eye to look at Naruto, "Really...Can't you give me a softer wake-up call?"

Naruto bend over to Temari's face and softly shook her back and forth with one hand as he whispered to her, "Temari...Today's a big day. We've got a lot to do, so get out of bed already."

Temari smiled at him, placed a hand on his head and slipped out of bed. Once her feet touched the cold floor, she shivered for a moment before stretching out.

"Well...I guess it can't be helped, huh?"

Naruto grinned widely at the blonde from Suna and nodded at her, "We don't have all day to prepare this time."

"That's right." Temari nodded once and stared off into space for a moment, "Well, let's not waste time then. I'll quickly go take a shower and leave it up to you to wake Gaara up."

"Eh? Wake him up?" Naruto blinked in surprise at Temari.

"You've got no problem with that, right?" Temari asked as she headed towards the bathroom.

"Eh..." Naruto stared at her for a moment, "N-No...I guess."

"Then, I'll leave it in your hands..." Temari smiled at Naruto before disappearing into the bathroom.

Naruto turned his head towards Gaara and stared at the Kazekage for a moment, "Let's see then...How are we going to do this..."

The blonde shinobi jumped out of his bed and walked over towards his red haired friend.

"Yo, Gaara. It's time to wake up." Naruto said as he stood beside Gaara. However, the Kazekage remained entirely motionless, other than his chest steadily moving slightly up and down as he breathed.

"Maybe I should try a little harder..." Naruto pondered, "Yo Gaara! Time to wake up!"

Again, the red haired Kazekage remained in his same position, not even slightly twitching when Naruto yelled. Naruto twitched, slightly irritated that Gaara wouldn't wake up by that and he had to try again, "GAARA! OI! WAKE UP!"

The blonde frowned when he still didn't get a response from his friend, "Well...Looks like it's come down to this. It worked before...sort of."

Naruto clenched his fist and stared at Gaara's face for a moment, "Sorry, Gaara...But we've got little time to lose today."

He raised his fist up in the air, only to slam it into Gaara's face a split second later. Naruto's stern look cracked and shattered as he twitched, "Th-That...hurts."

"Damn it!" Naruto screamed out as he clenched onto his throbbing hand, "Looks like Gaara worked on his ultimate defence a bit..."

"Alright...I'll get serious too then." Naruto said and grinned wickedly as he dashed off towards the kitchen, returning a moment later with one of the chairs.

"Take this!" Naruto raised the chair above his head and slammed it onto Gaara. The blonde grinned as the sand armor showed a crack, but that grin didn't last long as the next moment his chair fell into pieces, "EH?!"

"Then how about this?!" Naruto exclaimed as he ran to his television and put it on, maximizing the volume of the sound a few moments later. He winced as the loud sound entered his ears and grinned widely when he turned the TV off again.

"That should've done the..." Naruto cut his sentence off as he saw that Gaara was still snoozing like a baby.

"Why you..." Naruto shook his fist at Gaara.

"Very well then...You leave me no choice, Gaara..." Naruto stated as he rose his fist up and narrowed his eyes on the Kazekage. A moment later, Naruto was towering above Gaara and he cracked his fists, "Prepare yourself...Gaara..."

Outside of Naruto's appartment, life was peaceful and going on about it's own business. That was until the windows of Naruto's appartment started to shine brightly as the blonde shouted, "Uzumaki Naruto Ultimate Wake Up Call no Jutsu!"

What followed that line was a big explosion, smoke venting through the windowpanes. Inside Naruto's appartment, Gaara was covered with a million naked female clones of Naruto.

"...Naruto, when are you going to realise that I'm already awake yet merely not wanting to get out of bed yet?"

"Eh?! You've been awake this entire time?!" Naruto let out and then made all his clones vanish into thin air as he returned to his normal self as well.

"Yes. However, I felt the need to lie down and rest some more. Even now, I have not changed my mind about..."

"Gaara, get ready to head out." Temari said as she walked into the living room with a towel wrapped around her.

"Yes." Gaara replied and stood up.

"What the hell?! She just tells you one time and you obey?!" Naruto pointed dramatically towards Gaara, "Why did I go through all that trouble to try and wake you up then?!"

Gaara shrugged, "I fear what Temari might do more than what you'd do..."

Naruto shook his fists and found himself speechless for a moment, only to let his fists drop down a moment later and let out a sigh.

"Well then, I'll take a quick shower while breakfast is being prepared..." Gaara stated and disappeared into the bathroom.

"Oi! Come back here and helps us prepare breakfast first!" Naruto shouted, but to no avail.

"Don't worry. We can make breakfast with just the two of us." Temari said as she walked towards the kitchen.

Naruto followed Temari with his eyes and slightly blushed, "E-Ehm...Temari...Shouldn't you...eh...you know?"

Temari turned around and smiled at Naruto, "I should, shouldn't I? Well...Just for today I won't."

Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head as Temari winked at him before turning back around. The blonde tilted his head and stared at Temari, "Aaaahaa...It's good to be alive."

"You can stare and drool at me while giving me a hand to prepare breakfast as well, you know."

"Eh?! I...I wa...wasn't..." Naruto blushed and sheepishly grinned.

"It doesn't matter, just help me out already." Temari looked over her shoulder towards Naruto and smirked at him.

"A-Alright!" Naruto said as he hurried over to Temari's side.

Naruto blinked when he looked at what Temari had decided to make breakfast with, "Hey, I didn't know we had eggs."

"Well, they're part of the secret ingredients for my soup and we had more than enough left, so I decided we should have tamagoyaki as breakfast today." Temari smiled as she broke one of the eggs and poured it's contents into a pan.

"There are EGGS in your soup?" Naruto asked in surprise.

Temari nodded, "I guess this is one of those cases where you don't want to know the ingredients of something that you find really delicious, eh?"

"N-No...That's not it." Naruto replied and rubbed the back of his head, "I'm just surprised that there are eggs in your soup."

"You'd be even more surprised if you knew every single ingredient." Temari smirked, "Well, either way...Let's make some tamagoyaki." (A/N: It's an egg recipe in case you didn't get it XD)

It didn't take them very long to prepare breakfast, however they had to wait for Gaara to be done showering, so they just left the omelette dish on a low fire to keep it warm. Temari hopped onto the dining table and looked around the room, "You know...I'm going to miss this place..."

"It seems so long ago since the two of you got here..." Naruto stated as he sat down beside Temari.

The wind mistress slightly adjusted the position of her towel, since it was starting to slip off, and smiled at Naruto, "I'm really glad that Nemar-kun send me that letter."

"Hm? Really? Why?" Naruto blinked at Temari.

"Do you even have to ask?" Temari slightly leaned back and leered towards Naruto, "If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have someone to really like and care about."

"You don't really like Gaara and that other guy then?" Naruto blinked at the wind mistress.

Temari smiled and shook her head, "That's different."

"Then...?"

"No matter what today might happen, I'm glad that I have been able to spend all this time with someone like you, Naruto."

Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "Yeah, these past days sure have been something, haven't they?"

Temari nodded once and stared off into space for a few moments. Naruto grabbed onto the back of his neck and looked away from Temari for a moment, "Eh...What should I do now...?"

"You know, Naruto..."

"Hm?" Naruto blinked at Temari.

"Since this is probably one of the last private moments we'll have for a long while...ehm...I was just wondering..." Temari said and looked away from Naruto.

"Wondering about what?" Naruto slightly tilted his head and looked questioningly towards Temari.

"Do...Do you have any last request in this last moment of privacy?" Temari asked and threw a quick glance towards Naruto.

Naruto blinked at the blonde girl and pondered for a moment, "E-Ehm...I don't think so..."

"Ah...I see..."

"Why? Do you have anything in mind, Temari?"

"N-No...Nothing in specific."

After a short moment of silence, Naruto jumped off the table and walked over to the frying pan, "I guess we should take these off the fire now or they'll get burned."

"Y-Yeah." Temari replied as she jumped off the table as well.

"Naruto?"

"Hm?" Naruto managed to let out as he turned around and was embraced by Temari into a passionate kiss.

"Thanks for everything."

Naruto felt a blush crawl onto his face, but he managed to partly hide it behind a smile, "Yeah, you're welcome. Just promise me that, no matter what happens, we'll see each other again."

Temari smirked and looked with gentle eyes at Naruto, "Don't worry. I won't die until I have at least seen you again some day."

"Man, this is already sounding like a goodbye." Naruto smiled faintly as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Except that I won't leave just yet and that I'm standing in front of you in just a towel instead of being fully dressed and carrying my bags." Temari winked at Naruto.

Naruto grinned widely and laughed, "Yeah, seeing you leave while just wearing a towel would be unbearable."

"Well...It's not like you need any more...fond memories of me, right?" Temari grinned and leaned back onto the table. Naruto coughed and looked away, "N-No...I guess not..."

Temari looked around again, "Though...I'd like to take a souvenir with me..."

"Eh? I...I don't think I really have anything to give to you though..."

"Well...We'll see about that later on." Temari smiled at Naruto as she walked back towards their breakfast.

"Alright, I'm done." Gaara stated as he walked into the living room and, unlike Temari, was fully dressed, "Naruto, I suggest you hurry up after breakfast because we need to meet Kankurou at the gates of Konoha."

"Eh?! That guy is coming here too?!" Naruto let out in surprise.

"Don't worry, it's only for today." Gaara closed his eyes, "If it wasn't for my presence here, Suna would have to be present during the 'other' wedding where Hokage-sama and Jiraiya-sama marry again in front of all of the Kage and the feudal lords."

"I...I see." Naruto replied, "Anyone else coming then?"

"Just some shinobi and kunoichi from Suna." Gaara stated.

"Hmmm...Is that so, huh?" Naruto replied and tilted his head, "Something tells me that it's not just going to be 'some'..."

"I told Kankurou to take care of it, so..." Gaara said as he walked towards Temari, who was laying the finishing touches on their omelettes, "We'll see about it after breakfast."

"I guess Naruto's bad feeling must be correct then." Temari replied, "Really...You can't leave something like that up to someone like Kankurou..."

Gaara shrugged as he took a plate and sat down at the dining table. Temari took the other two plates and set them down on the table, "Hm? Where's the third chair?"

"Ah!" Naruto slightly jumped up, "D-Damn it...I broke it when waking up Gaara. E-Ehm..."

"You broke it while waking up Gaara?" Temari blinked at Naruto and then shook her head, "How did you manage to do that?"

Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head as Temari smiled at him and sat down on the last free seat.

"Well, come here. You can sit on my lap instead." Temari tapped on her lap and winked at Naruto. The blonde slightly blushed and rubbed the back of his head, "Are...Are you sure?"

Temari nodded at him and Naruto hesitantly made his way towards her, sitting down on her lap when he had reached her.

"See, it isn't that bad, right?" Temari smiled and reached out to grab her chopsticks and plate.

"Y-Yeah...It's not bad at all." Naruto replied as he started to blush, "Who would complain about having a girl wearing nothing but a towel pressing her chest against your back anyway...?"

Temari smiled at Naruto and whispered to him, "Well, enjoy it while you are still able to."

Naruto smiled back at her as he grabbed his plate and chopsticks and fed Temari a piece of the omelette, "The same goes for you."

After breakfast and sort of rushing to get ready, Naruto, Temari and Gaara headed out to the gates of Konoha to meet up with Kankurou.

"He should be arriving soon, right?" Naruto asked as they headed down the main road of Konoha.

Gaara looked up towards the sky for a moment, "Yes, along with the other visitors from Suna."

"Other visitors?" Naruto asked as he blinked at Gaara.

Temari smiled at the blonde shinobi, "The three of us aren't the only important people in Suna."

"Hm? Really...?" Naruto turned his head around to face Temari, "Come to think of it, I don't really know that much about Sunagakure."

"Well, don't worry." Temari replied and smirked, "It's not like you need to know anything right now to prevent any trouble."

Naruto pondered for a moment and then grinned widely, "Well, it's not like they're all nobles, right?"

"No...Just a few Jounin and the like." Gaara stated, "The feudal lord of the Wind Country and other non-shinobi nobles will attend the other 'wedding'..."

"I see..." Naruto nodded and peer off into the distance, "Hey! It looks like they're here already!"

"Hm, does look like it. They're early." Temari stated as she tilted her head.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's hurry up and greet them." Naruto smiled widely and ran off.

"Oi, Naruto! Wait up!" Temari called after him.

"Temari, let's make haste as well." Gaara stated as he accelerated as well, though decided not to run at full speed.

"What? Y-Yeah." Temari blinked and quickly followed her brother.

By the time they stood in front of the caravan it had come to a stop. A moment later, the cabin's door opened and two pointy ears of a hood along with a paint covered face emerged.

"Yo, Kankurou. It's been a while." Gaara stated as he took a few more steps towards his brother.

"Yo Gaara. How have you been doing?" Kankurou grinned widely.

"Oi, aren't you forgetting about someone?" Temari asked with a smirk on her face.

"Yo Temari." Kankurou waved at his sister.

"Catman!" Naruto pointed towards Kankurou.

"Who are you calling catman, you damned brat?!" Kankurou replied and shook his fist in anger.
"Who are you call a brat, you catman?!"
"Who are you calling catman because I'm calling you a brat?!"
"Why are you making no sense at all?!"
"Who are you to say I'm not making any sense at all?!"

All of a sudden a green and pink haired poofed into existance in front of Kankurou.

"Why are you yelling about him saying that you are making no sense?!" The green haired fairy yelled questioningly.
"Why are you yelling about him yelling about him saying that he is not making any sense?!" The pink haired fairy yelled in reply.
"Why are you two yelling about me yelling about him saying that he isn't making sense?!" Kankurou retorted.
"Why are you...Oh wait! Wrong stage!" The green haired fairy said as he raised his wand to make the two of them pop off. Kankurou blinked at the location of where the fairies just were.

"Kankurou, are you feeling alright?" Gaara raised an eyebrow at his brother.

"Y-Yeah...This was starting to make less and less sense, but to who did you just yell...?" Naruto slightly moved away from Kankurou as his eyes twitched.

The puppet master headed inside the cabin and reappeared with a small plastic bag a moment later.

"That's the last time I'm taking this shit. Seeing fairies is just way too tripping, man." Kankurou muttered as he threw away the plastic bag, "Damned new dealer..."

Temari coughed and looked questioningly at her brother, "Ahem...You're a bit early."

"What?" Kankurou turned towards his siblings and Naruto, "Oh yeah! For a reason though. I was kind of bribed to get here as fast as possible."

"May I inquire by who?" Gaara asked.

"Well...uhm...you see..." Kankurou and scratched his cheek, "Well, just see for yourself."

Gaara raised an eyebrow as Kankurou turned around and yelled, "Oi! Gaara's here! Get out already!"

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Gaara's eyes grew wide as a stampede of young ladies came out of the transportation meant for the extra guests.

Kankurou was knocked into the air as the girls rushed towards the red haired Kazekage. Gaara's sand latched out and grabbed a hold of Kankurou and a moment later, Gaara picked up both Temari and Naruto as well.

"We're going to run." Gaara stated and started to run away.

"Eh? Why?" Naruto asked in wonder as Gaara dashed off.

"Take a good look at them..." Gaara said as he turned Naruto around so he could see the girls that chased them.

"So? They seem to like you a lot." Naruto replied and blinked.

"If they catch me, it will be over for me. Also, I can't hurt them since they're all from Sunagakure." Gaara stated as he kept on running.

"Looks like Gaara gained a whole lot popular when I was training with Ero-sennin...There were some when we last met, but this is ridiculous." Naruto thought as he blinked, "Well, head over to my apartment then."

"We can't unless we ditch them." Gaara stated as they turned around the corner.

"Gaara, just put me down and I'll take care of them." Temari stated calmly as she held onto her fan with one hand.

"You know, Gaara, I'd love to be your kawarimi right now." Kankurou stated with a wide grin on his face.

"No and no...Tell me, Kankurou. Are they any others from Suna that came along with you?" Gaara asked his brother.

"Of course. They were less demanding to see you though." Kankurou scowled, "You damned lucky bastard..."

"Temari, do you think you can send them far out of Konohagakure with a single attack?"

"Heh..." Temari smirked, "If the wind is set right I could probably send them ALL the way back to Suna."

"Then, I have a plan." Gaara stated.

"You do? What is it?" Naruto asked, "And why didn't you just think it up before picking us all up and running away?"

"Temari, prepare yourself to send them out of the village."

"Roger that. Shouldn't be too hard at all."

"Naruto, make as many Kage Bunshin as needed to make a thick barricade in this street here."

"Alright, leave it to me."

"Kankurou..."

"Yeah?"

"You get to do absolutely nothing in this cool plan to get rid of the fangirls you brought upon me."

"...Grrrrr..." Kankurou softly growled, "You unworthy brat...You know I'd be cooler than you if I get to have some action!"

"You have a problem with that?" Gaara looked coldly towards his brother.

"N-No...Not at all..."

"Naruto, barricade time." Gaara said as he stopped running and dropped his two siblings and Naruto onto the ground.

"Alright." Naruto slapped his hands in the infamous seal formation, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu."

As a wall of Naruto clones appeared, Gaara nodded, "Good. Operation Uzumaki Naruto Shield has begun."

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" Naruto asked as he looked over his shoulder. The next moment Naruto got his answer when the horde of fangirls ran over him.

"It...It hurts..." Naruto managed to bring out as the marks of footprints were all over his body.

"Operation Uzumaki Naruto Shield complete. Stage 2, Scary Sabaku no Gaara engaged." Gaara stated and took a step forward, staring icily towards the fangirls.

The fangirls froze in their movement and stared at Gaara for a moment. The Kazekage then raised both his arms and pointed the palms of his hands towards the ladies, his fingers in their usual claw-like position. Panic didn't hit the girls until a bunch of hands made out of sand started racing towards them.

"O-Oi! Gaara! You aren't going to...?!" Kankurou let out, afraid of what his brother might do.

"Exactly...There is no other way..." Gaara said in an ice-cold tone.

"Gaara! St-stop it!" Temari called out.

"Gaara-sama! Please don't kill us!" The girls cried as the hands of sand came frighteningly close to them as they tried to crawl away, stumbling into each other along the way.

"Take this..." Gaara said half growling and the girls screamed as the hands of sand grabbed onto them.

"Gaara!" Naruto called out as he could see what was going on, "What are you doing?!"

"Desert...Perversion!" Gaara called out and Naruto, Temari and Kankurou's jaw dropped on the floor.

"Kyaaaaaah! Gaara-sama!" The girls squealed as Gaara's hands of sand started to grope them.

"Boobies...Don't forget about the boobies..." Gaara told his hands as his left eye twitched.

"What the hell are you doing, you perverted brat?!" Temari yelled at Gaara as she smacked him in the face with the back of her fan, knocking the red haired Kazekage back. The wind mistress roared as she snapped her fan open and waved it with all her might once, creating a huge whirlwind.

"Ah! Aaaaaaah!" Naruto let out as he crawled over the ground and quickly clutched onto the nearest pole before the wind swept him away as well.

"Gaara-sama! Daisukiiiii!" The girls squealed before disappearing from the sky like a shooting star.

"You had a better idea of stopping them?" Gaara asked as he rubbed over the crack Temari made in his sand armor.

"I could've just send them flying without you doing something like that!" Temari yelled at Gaara.

"D-Damn you, Gaara...Groping that many girls with your multiple hands of sand...Unforgivable...One day I'll grope those girls too with my puppets..." Kankurou muttered as he shook his fist in anger.

"No, I think they would've gotten to us before you would be able to do that..." Gaara nodded. Temari raised her fist and twitched, but ended up sighing and putting away her fan, "Men..."

"Eh...Ehm..." Naruto let out as he walked back to the group, "Like...Shouldn't we do something right now?"

Gaara blinked at Naruto for a moment, "Yes, escorting the other visitors from Suna and get ready to head for the wedding."

"I see." Naruto nodded, "Then...Mind if I leave that up to you guys and go on ahead?"

"Hm? You have something to do?" Temari raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"Ah...Well...I need to meet up with Ero-Sennin, you see, so..." Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

Temari smiled at him, "Hurry up and go then. We'll see each other again at the altar."

"Eh? At the altar?" Naruto blinked at Temari.

Temari coughed and blushed, "D-Did I say the altar? I meant at the wedding. Jiraiya and Hokage-sama's wedding. Ehehehe..."

"Hehe...Looks like she meant something else." Naruto grinned widely at Temari, "Sure thing."

"Then, see you later." Temari said as she turned around and walked off.

"Yeah! See all of you soon again!" Naruto waved energetically and then ran off. He smiled as he headed towards Jiraiya's hermit shelter, "Temari...If anyone should feel embarrassed, it shouldn't be you but me, right?"

A while later, Naruto reached Jiraiya's doorstep and knocked on the door in wonder if the old hermit was still at his home.

To his great pleasure and surprise, Jiraiya was still home and opened the door, "Yo, Naruto. What are you doing here? I haven't got a whole lot of time, you know."

"Hehehe. Getting ready for the big moment, eh?" Naruto grinned widely at his teacher.

Jiraiya grinned back at his student, "Yeah, I can't go to my own wedding half naked, now can I?"

"I think Tsunade-obachan would kill you for that..." Naruto said nodding.

"Well, that aside..." Jiraiya smiled at Naruto, "Do I even need to ask why you're here?"

"Did something..."

"Nothing happened last night. The only thing that 'happened' was a little girl searching for a cat late at night. In the end they found the cat and brought her home. That's all." Jiraiya shrugged.

"I see..." Naruto smiled softly, "I'm glad nothing happened. Looks like you were right after all..."

Jiraiya grinned widely, "Of course I am. There's no way any of the Akatsuki would expose something like a certain time to execute their attack plan. Especially if it's something that can randomly happen."

"I guess I was worried over nothing then..." Naruto sighed.

"Well, that doesn't really matter. You should be worried about something like that. Anyway, come in already."

"Hm? Why?" Naruto asked as he stepped into the hermit's shelter.

"You need to get ready for the wedding as well." Jiraiya smiled at Naruto.

"Hm? I guess so..." Naruto said as he examined his clothes, "I was thinking of going like this, but..."

"I'm not talking about your clothing, Naruto." Jiraiya replied and grinned widely.

"Huh? Then, what do I need to get ready for?" Naruto tilted his head and looked in wonder at his teacher.

"As who are you going? Yourself or Nemar?" Jiraiya asked as he took a dinner jacket from his closet.

"Ehm..." Naruto pondered for a moment and then raised his finger in the air, "Both."

"Both?" Jiraiya blinked at Naruto as he put on his dinner jacket.

"Yeah, I'll make one Kage Bunshin and just make sure both me and 'Nemar' are present at the wedding." Naruto grinned widely.

"That's a sound plan. Then, who will you be? Nemar or Naruto?"

Naruto pondered again for a moment and then nodded once, "I guess I'll go as Nemar just because Nemar will be getting more attention and I can't have my Kage Bunshin pop off on accident and make people wonder why Nemar suddenly disappeared from sight and didn't come back..."

"Well, it's tricky even when your Kage Bunshin is just you, but I guess you're right." Jiraiya grinned as he put on his bow tie.

"Even if anything goes wrong, today is the last day I need to cover it up. After the wedding, it will finally be over." Naruto smiled softly.

"Have you decided who you want yet?" Jiraiya asked and raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"I think I know, but I don't want hurt the others..." The blonde shinobi slightly frowned and the frog tamer of the legendary Sannin sighed, "I see...Well, that's fine."

"Then, shall we get going? It won't be long now before the wedding starts." Jiraiya stated as he straightened his clothing.

"Yeah." Naruto smiled again, "I still can't believe you're marrying Tsunade-obachan."

Jiraiya chuckled, "And I can't believe you made a whole group of girls fall for you, but it's still a reality. Well, don't worry too much about chosing. Sometimes the choice picks you."

Naruto grinned widely, "That would be easy, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah, yeah...Now, the time for talk is over. Hurry up so we can go already."

"Alright, alright...I know." Naruto grinned widely and quickly created a clone before transforming himself into his alter ego.

"Then, we're all set." Jiraiya grinned, "Take one last deep breath, Naruto. Today your life and mine will change."

"Geez, do you have to make it sound so dramatic?" Naruto grinned widely at his teacher.

"Of course!" Jiraiya smiled at the blonde shinobi, "Let's get going then."

A while later, the three of them reached the location of the wedding.

The wedding was going to be held in a forest, which lay at the top of the Hokage statues. There were a lot of seats, food, flowers and everything that one could possibly imagine at a wedding.

"Wooow...Looks like they really spend a lot of money on this wedding." Naruto said as he looked around.

The priest that was going to do the ceremony was already present as well, but Naruto found the guy looking way too creepy looking with that combed back long platinum-blonde hair of his.

"Ne-Nemar-kun?" Tenten stuttered as she shyly approached Naruto and his Kage Bunshin.

"Hm? Tenten! Hey! How's it going?" Naruto smiled at the weapon's mistress.

"Yo, Tenten! Good to see you again." Naruto's Kage Bunshin grinned widely at the girl.

"H-Hi...Ehm...Nemar-kun...Could I talk to you in private for a moment?"

Naruto looked at his Kage Bunshin, who looked back at him and sighed, "Alright, alright...I get it already."

Naruto grinned widely as his Kage Bunshin walked off with his hands behind his head.

"What's wrong, Tenten?" Naruto asked smiling.

"Ehm...You know...About last night..." Tenten blushed, "I...I'm sorry!"

"Hm? Did you do anything wrong?" Naruto tilted his head and blinked at the girl.

"Yes! N-No! Well...Maybe..." Tenten looked away and gulped, "Don't you remember?"

"Well, I remember some stuff, but nothing that would make me hate you or anything." Naruto grinned widely and rubbed the back of his head.

Tenten smiled slightly and let out a sigh of relief, "I see...Thank goodness...I remember doing some embarrassing stuff and..."

"That's alright, it was because you drank too much sake." Naruto smiled at Tenten, "I remember when E-...Jiraiya-sensei was drunk he'd do all kinds of crazy stuff."

"Well, even so...I feel kind of..." Tenten replied as she looked away from Naruto.

"Don't worry. I can't say I didn't have a good time last night." Naruto chuckled slightly and Tenten blushed brighter.

"So did I, but waking up this morning and remembering a whole lot of stuff made me worry about how you were thinking about me now..." Tenten said as she looked at Naruto. The blonde shinobi smiled at her in return, "Tenten, I still think of you like I did before last night. I don't like you any less because of anything that happened last night."

Tenten smiled at Naruto and wrapped her arms around Naruto's right arm, "Then, mind if we sit together during the wedding?"

"Well, I..."

"Sorry, Tenten, but you won't be able to sit near Nemar-kun." Sakura said with a smirk on her face as she stepped in front of Naruto and Tenten.

"Eh? Why not? Did he promise to sit with you or something, Sakura?" Tenten scowled at the pink-haired medic-nin.

"No, it's just that Nemar-kun is Jiraiya-sama's apprentice and thus he gets to sit on the first row. You, however, are just a ordinary kunoichi that has no special status at all." Sakura explained, "In other words, you won't be able to sit close to Nemar-kun."

"Geez, that's why I hate formal events like these...Always discriminating the more common folk..." Tenten said as she placed her fists at her waist and walked off.

"I'll be still watching you though, Nemar-kun." Tenten smiled and winked at Naruto as she looked over her shoulder at him, "And I'll definitely see you after the wedding again."

Sakura watched Tenten leave for a moment and then turned towards Naruto, whispering to the blonde shinobi, "Well? Are you the real one or the Kage Bunshin?"

"I'm the real one." Naruto replied in a whisper, "I figured that would be for the best."

"Well, it doesn't really matter since both Naruto and Nemar-kun get to sit closer to the front because both of you are Jiraiya-sama's apprentices." Sakura smiled at Naruto, "But at least now I know who I want to sit next to."

Naruto smiled softly at Sakura, "Sakura-chan..."

"Well, let's hurry up and get to our seats." Sakura said as she walked towards the front, "It shouldn't be long before it starts."

"What about...ehm...Naruto?" Naruto asked, "Man, that sounds weird..."

"It looks like Naruto will be sitting next to Hinata." Sakura winked at Naruto and headed on towards the front row.

Naruto looked at the fourth row and saw his clone sitting next to Hinata, the two of them joking and laughing together.

"Geez...Being my clone must be fun as well." Naruto thought smiling as he walked towards the front row.

"Hey, Sakura-chan...Why is Hinata sitting on the fourth row anyway? Isn't she like the Hyuuga clan's next leader or something?" Naruto whispered to Sakura.

"I think she doesn't like being treated like a noble, though. Her father is sitting not too far to the left of us." Sakura replied.

Naruto turned his head towards the left and indeed found Hiashi sitting on the first row as well, even though it was on the other side of the path that lead between the two sides with seats.

"He's looking scary as usual..." Naruto whispered to Sakura as he looked Hiashi from the corners of his eyes.

"He's been sitting like that for over an hour now. Ino and I placed bets on when he'd move again."

Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of head, "That could take a while, I guess."

Sakura giggled a bit and nodded, "We both placed our bets on more than just a few hours from now."

"Where's Ino anyway?" Naruto asked as he looked around.

"Didn't you see her yet? She's taking care of the flowers her family provided for the wedding. Look, she's over there." Sakura said and pointed towards the south-east of them.

Naruto turned around and found Ino indeed arranging more flowers along with some other shinobi.

"Hey, Ino!" Naruto called out and smiled towards the girl. The blonde kunoichi slightly jumped up and quickly turned her head around. She slightly blushed upon seeing Naruto, but that moment quickly faded and she waved energetically at Naruto with a smile on her face.

A while later, everyone was taking their seats as the wedding was about to start. Temari sat down next to Naruto and didn't say a lot, but did hook her arm with his and smiled at him.

Naruto quickly looked around as the priest made his way to the centre of the altar and found out just how many people were attending this wedding. Other than Konoha and Suna's shinobi, there were several shinobi from other villages along with almost all of the villagers of Konoha.

Naruto's eyes met those of Ayame, who was sitting near the path on which Tsunade would walk down a few moments later. Ayame looked at Naruto for a while and then smiled softly at him.

The blonde shinobi grinned widely at her and turned back around, "Hehe, so many people were able to come. I can see a whole lot of people that I know from here already."

After the priest had reached his designated spot, Jiraiya made his way to the front of the altar as well. A moment after Jiraiya turned around and looked down the path in the centre, Tsunade appeared. She was wearing a beautiful white dress, that was, to Jiraiya's great pleasure, also revealing the usual amount of cleavage from Tsunade's chest as her regular outfit. The end of her dress was being held up by Hanabi and Moegi, who quickly hurried to their seats when Tsunade stood next to Jiraiya with a smile on her face.

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to unite these two in holy matrimony..." The priest began and commenced the wedding ceremony.

Tsunade and Jiraiya exchanged their vows and kept smiling the entire time, causing Naruto to smile as well, "Somehow...They look really happy."

"Then if anyone has anything against the marriage for any reason, let him speak now or forever remain silent." The priest said and eyed the crowd, who all remained silent.

Jiraiya coughed, "Actually..."

A gasp escaped the crowd and Tsunade and Jiraiya looked at them, "We have something to let you all know before we seal this deal."

"This is something that might make a certain someone object to our marriage, but Tsunade and I found it fair to let that person know before the marriage." Jiraiya said and turned his head towards Naruto, or rather his Kage Bunshin.

"The truth is, you see...Naruto...After Jiraiya and I are married we want to take you in as our s-..."

"Sorry, but you have no right to do so...He's still mine."

The crowd gasped and turned his head around to face the one who just spoke up out of nothing.

A man with a black robe, which was covered in a red cloud pattern stood in the middle of the path towards the altar. His hat conceiled his face and the small bells ringed as he slowly headed more towards the altar.

"Long time no see...sensei." The man said as he slightly lifted his hat up to reveal his eyes to Jiraiya and Tsunade.

"Y-You are..." Jiraiya managed to let out as his eyes grew wide.

"You didn't know? Shame...You knew ways to get information about my organisation, yet I remained a complete mystery to you?" The man asked as he took another step forward, "Not what I expected from someone like you."

The shinobi present stood up and held themselves ready to attack, however they held back when seven more black robed men joined his side.

"I wouldn't try anything funny..." The Akatsuki leader said and motioned towards the trees, "Unless you want all of your villagers dead at once..."

The shinobi looked towards the trees and found multiple shinobi aiming arrows with explosive tags at the crowd.

"How did you...?" Tsunade asked as she narrowed her eyes at the leader.

"A simple question with a hard answer...Honestly, I've got more important things to attend to."

"Hmph...Looks like I don't have to ask why you came here, however..." Jiraiya smirked at the leader.

"To give presents, of course." The Akatsuki leader said as he and the other 7 Akatsuki members presented gifts.

"Wh-What the...?" Jiraiya let out and then pointed dramatically towards the gift the Akatsuki leader was holding in his hands, "Ah! I bet those are bombs that will explode once opened!"

"Actually, it's a blender." The Akatsuki leader said as he took the blender out of the gift-paper wrapped box, "I guess it could explode though..."

"Do you guys really have to wreck this wedding?" The priest scowled.

"Hidan, what are you doing here anyway?" The Akatsuki Leader asked, "It's not like you to perform 'good' ceremonies."

"Just once I wanted to do a wedding instead of a funeral! Just once!" Hidan replied and shook his fist, "Is that too much to be asked?!"

"Well...Since our plan from the beginning was to stop this wedding..." The Akatsuki Leader replied and tilted his head, "Yes?"

"I have to say, it's quite dumb to try and complete the wedding when you have to end it a while later." Itachi said as he took his hat off and casted it aside, "Yo, long time no see, people of Konoha. How's it going?"

"Itachi-san, it looks like they still hate you..." Kisame replied when he noticed the scornful looks Itachi was getting from multiple shinobi.

"Some things will never change." Itachi shook his head and raised his hands up in the air.

"Hidan...I told you that your ceremonies were a waste of time..." Kakuzu said as he held onto his forehead.

"Gah! Screw you all! Yasin-sama likes slaughter more than weddings anyway!" Hidan yelled and summersaulted towards the other Akatsuki members, changing into his Akatsuki robe mid-air.

"M-Man...What's with those bastards?! They're even crazier than normal!" Naruto thought. The Akatsuki leader searched the crowd and rested his eyes upon Naruto's Kage Bunshin.

"Looks like I've found you." The Akatsuki leader said and smirked at Naruto's Kage Bunshin. The Kage Bunshin clenched his fists and glared at the Akatsuki leader.

"I won't let you take Naruto with you..." Jiraiya stated and took a step forward.

"Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about it." The leader stated, "Naruto-kun, you're coming with me."

"I refuse." Naruto growled at the leader.

"Oh?" The leader replied and then next moment he was holding a kunai against Hinata's throat, "Perhaps spilling the blood of your friends will change your mind."

Naruto's and his Kage Bunshin's eyes went wide and the Kage Bunshin lowered his head after looking at the startled Hinata, "..."

"That's more like it." The leader said as he withdrew his kunai from Hinata's neck, "Come with me."

Tsunade took a step forward, but Jiraiya held her back and shook his head after staring into her eyes for a moment.

"Zetsu...Take the civilians to the underground sanctum in the Hokage's statues. I don't want to lose any future laborers due to the foolishness of shinobi. Start killing them when they cause trouble, though." The leader ordered and Zetsu nodded in reply.

"Naruto..." Temari growled as she glared at the back of the Akatsuki leader, who was slowly taking his leave with Naruto's Kage Bunshin.

Naruto's Kage Bunshin looked over his shoulder towards the real Naruto for a moment and smirked. Then, all of a sudden, the leader stopped walking and Naruto's Kage Bunshin bumped into him. Though the clone remained in tact, that became the least of Naruto's worries when the Akatsuki leader turned his head to his right.

"Do you think you can betray me?!" The leader roared as he grabbed Ayame by her throat and pulled her up from her seat.

"Wh-What are you talking about...?" Ayame managed to bring out as she clamped her hands onto the leader's wrist.

"Where is he?!" His voice thundered through the area, "I know you're hiding him!"

"G-Gah!" Ayame let out as the leader tightened his grip around her throat.

"Ayame!" Naruto called out as Ayame's hands fell down and she closed her eyes.

At that moment, Naruto felt as if he was hit by lightning as his entire body started to shake. The leader dropped the now unconscious Ayame and slowly turned his head around until his eyes pierced through Naruto's own.

"The blonde young man over there..." The Akatsuki leader pointed towards Naruto, "You're coming along with us as well."

Naruto gritted his teeth and stepped forward onto the path.

"We'll be taking her with us as well...A hostage makes it that much easier to keep you in line..." The Akatsuki leader said as he picked up Ayame and threw her over his shoulder.

"Hurry up and come...You and I have got a lot to...discuss." The Akatsuki leader stated as he headed off with Ayame.

Naruto and his Kage Bunshin quickly followed him, until he stopped for a moment again.

"What are you doing? I thought you wanted to hurry up?" Naruto glared at the leader.

The Akatsuki leader looked over his shoulder and past Naruto and his clone, "Also, stop hiding already. You're being too obvious, you slithering snake bastard."

Naruto looked over his shoulder as he followed the Akatsuki leader and saw an ANBU in a grey robe stand up from the crowd, though he remained silent and motionless afterwards.

Naruto then took one last look at everyone and thought, "Everyone...Don't worry about me...I'll come back soon and help all of you out."

Once Naruto and the Kage Bunshin were out of sigh, the ANBU who just stood up started to laugh manically.

"Kukuku...Kukukukuku!" He laughed before throwing back his hood, "It is I, Orochimaru!"

"Orochimaru?!"

"...Orochimaru?"

"Yesss..." Orochimaru slissed as he kept a wicked grin on his face, "The true evil genius of this story...Orochimaru! My old friends, all your base are belong to me now! Hahahaha!"

"Unfortunately, that's not true." Itachi stated and closed his eyes, "You are vastly outnumbered and thus have no chance of winning."

"Uchiha Itachi-kun...That's where you are mistaken. Since I've just claimed that all your base are belong to me now, my victory is guaranteed." Orochimaru chuckled.

"No, you're wrong. Claiming all your base..."

"All your base." Orochimaru corrected.

"...All our base isn't one three three seven anymore these days." Itachi's glasses sparkled, "Therefor, your victory hasn't been quaranteed."

"Itachi-san..." Kisame looked confused towards Itachi, "When the hell did you get glasses?"

"Amazing, isn't it?" Itachi suddenly held a rose in his hand and talked to it as sparkling points surrounded his face, "By equipping these glasses the ability of my Sharingan is amplified and make me more one three three seven. Well...It does make me look less cool, though..."

"Uchiha...Itachi..."

"That's..." Ino said as she looked with wide eyes at the ANBU-robe wearing person who stood up beside Orochimaru.

"Sa...Sasuke...kun?" Sakura managed to bring out as Sasuke pulled the hood of his ANBU robe down and revealed his face.

"Oh? Long time no see...Sasuke." Itachi said as he was facing towards the back of his brother's head.

Sasuke turned around and pointed at Itachi, "You take those glasses off right now, you god damned son of a bitch!"

"Hm? Why should I?" Itachi raised an eyebrow at his little brother.

"How...How dare you make yourself less of a pretty boy to make it easier for me to gain my revenge!" Sasuke let out as he shook his fist in rage, "I will surpass your looks on my own without you dragging yourself down!"

"Yeah...For your information, Sasuke...You can't avenge our clan by becoming more beautiful than me..." Itachi blinked at his little brother as he paused for a moment, "Also, it's impossible for you to surpass my beauty. Even with these glasses on, I'm the more popular Uchiha."

"Why you..." Sasuke growled and then the ANBU robe wearing person beside Sasuke stood up.

"Uchiha Itachi." The person stated calmly, "This time you've gone too far."

The person pulled down his hood and revealed himself to be none other than Kabuto, Orochimaru's right hand man.

"If it wasn't bad enough for you guys to steal my brilliant idea of wearing ANBU masks and clothing to gain entry to this village, but now you're insulting the beauty of glass wearing people as well?!" Kabuto pointed dramatically towards Itachi, "Unforgivable!"

"If it isn't the glass wearing medic-nin..." Itachi stated, "You have no right to wear an ANBU robe and mask in the first place. After all, I became an ANBU squad leader long before you even entered the chuunin exam for the first time. How pathetic to steal robes instead of making your own..."

"Itachi-san, you didn't make the robes we used either..." Kisame stated.

"Hey! We did! Those robes were my piece of art!" Deidara exclaimed.

"And this morning they exploded in our bathroom..." The only female Akatsuki member stated.

"While you were taking a shower." Kisame grinned widely.

"Keep grinning like that and I'll give you a new definition of blue balls..."

"Well..." Itachi rubbed his chin, "Even so, they're pathetic and we made our own robes...Honestly, they have no chance of winning..."

"Let me at him, let me at him!" Kabuto yelled, but was held back by Orochimaru.

"Oh no, he's mine! I'll make him pay for insulting me! Pay, you hear me!" Sasuke yelled, who was also being held back by Orochimaru.

"Now, now...You two calm down...We came here to have some fun and we can't do that right now..." Orochimaru explained to them and let out a heartily chuckle, "Then, Uchiha Itachi-kun...What are you going to do?"

"Zetsu, take the villagers to the sanctum underground and place enough exploding tags to kill them all if anyone tries to do anything funny." Itachi ordered, "The rest of us will make sure these shinobi won't move a single muscle while our leader is talking to Naruto-kun."

Kisame slightly lifted his Samehada up and the rest of the Akatsuki readied their weapons as well, "Hehe...The fun has begun, it seems..."

Meanwhile, Naruto had arrived at the top of the Hokage statues along with his Kage Bunshin and the Akatsuki leader, who was still carrying Ayame.

"This is far enough..." The Akatsuki leader said as he placed Ayame down on the floor.

Naruto and his clone stopped and readied themselves to be attacked, clenching their fists tightly.

"Now...Would you be so kind to tell?" The Akatsuki leader asked as he turned around, "Which one of you is the real Uzumaki Naruto."

Both Naruto and his clone grinned wickedly at the evil organisation's leader in reply.

"Why don't you come over here..."

"...and find out for yourself?"

"Then..." The Akatsuki leader said as he steadily spread his arms, "It can't be helped..."

The next moment, the Akatsuki leader stood between Naruto and his clone. In the blink of an eye, the back of his fists send both Naruto and his clone flying away from each other. The clone disappeared into thin air and Naruto crashed down onto the ground, but was able to maintain his henge no jutsu.

"You're the real one? Interesting...I didn't think you'd grow up like that..." The Akatsuki leader said, yet didn't even move his head towards Naruto.

"Grow up like what, you bastard?" Naruto asked as he stood up and decided to cancel his henge no jutsu.

"Hm?" The Akatsuki leader let out.

"More importantly, why did you attack Ayame all of a sudden?!" Naruto yelled at the Leader, "She...She isn't even a shinobi, you bastard!"

"Shinobi or not, it doesn't matter to me." The leader said in an ice cold tone, "A traitor is a traitor."

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Naruto yelled, "You still had no reason to..."

"You don't get it?" The Akatsuki Leader interrupted Naruto, "She's a traitor. She betrayed me by misleading us while you were going here disguised."

"Why does that make her a traitor?" Naruto looked confused at the Leader.

"Because she betrayed the entire village of Konoha," The Leader pointed towards Naruto, "She betrayed you, for the Akatsuki by helping us corner you here today."

"That..."

"Unbelievable, isn't it? That people betray the person they hold dearest in order to ensure their own safety..." The Akatsuki leader brought his hand to his hat, revealing the symbol on his ring that said 'nothing', "More importantly, Naruto-kun...Did you ever wonder, 'who the hell is the bastard that thinks of capturing something that's been sealed inside of me by the greatest shinobi that has ever lived?', huh?"

"Like hell if I care about that! No matter what happens, I'll defeat every single of you Akatsuki bastards!" Naruto shouted and stood ready to charge towards the Akatsuki Leader.

"Is that so? Then, let's see how much of your will to fight is left when you know just who you are dealing with..." The leader said and took his hat off.

"Hurry up, Lee!" Gai exclaimed as he ran as fast as he could without opening his gates.

"Yes sir!" Lee replied as he managed to keep up with his teacher.

"We're late for the wedding because of the unyouthful events of last night, however!" Gai exclaimed.

"Today we'll definitely make up for it today with our..." Lee added before exclaiming in unison with Gai, "POWER OF YOUTH!"

"Lee! We're going to head for the wedding by walking up over the Hokage statues!"

"Hai, Gai-sensei! Our burning passion of youth will take us even over the great mountain that carries the faces of all the Hokage!"

"Let's go, Lee!"

"Ossu!"

"The leader of the organisation named Akatsuki is none other than..." The Leader said as he threw his hat away, revealing his spikey red hair and blood red eyes, "Me."

"You..."

"Yes, that's right. The one and only. How does it feel to stand in my presence?" The Akatsuki leader smirked as he slid one hand through his own hair.

"You are..."

"What's wrong? So scared that you can't even say it?"

"Who the hell are you?" Naruto asked as he narrowed his eyes on the leader.

The leader froze and fell into a million pieces for a moment before recollecting himself, "Who the hell am I?! Can't you remember seeing this beautiful face?!"

Naruto shook his head, "I don't think so..."

"This spikey hair?!"

"Yeah, when I look in the mirror in the morning."

"These cool eyes?!"

"I can get those too." Naruto shrugged nonchalant.

"It's me, Arashi!" Arashi yelled at Naruto.

"Who the hell is Arashi?" Naruto asked and tilted his head.

"Yondaime! Yondaime Hokage-sama! That's who I am!" Arashi yelled.

"Hm?" Naruto took another look at Arashi and then start to laugh. A moment later, Naruto was rolling on the floor, crying out of laugher, "Y-Yondaime Hokage?! That's the best you can come up with?! Who the hell do you think I am?! A retard?!"

Arashi twitched and shook his fist in anger, "Actually...yes I do..."

"You know..." Naruto stood up and tried to stop his laughter, Yondaime died when he sealed the Kyuubi inside of me. There's no way he'd be alive."

Arashi straightened up and took a deep breath as he stared straight into Naruto's eyes, "If that is what you believe..."

"You're serious about that, huh?" Naruto asked as he looked more serious towards Arashi than before, "Yondaime wasn't someone who'd try to inflict harm upon the villagers he had sworn to protect."

"And exactly when did I harm..." Arashi cut himself off and smirked, "Hm, the girl huh? Well, you're right about a few things, so let's do this over, shall we?"

Naruto stared Arashi down as a gentle breeze blew over the top of the Hokage Statues. Arashi jumped back, ending near the edge of the mountain and just above the head of the Fourth Hokage.

"My name is Arashi. I am the leader of the organisation called Akatsuki and I was Yondaime Hokage until that faithful day, over 15 years ago..." Arashi stated and stared ice cold towards at Naruto.

"Cut the crap. You didn't drag me all the way out here just to introduce yourself to me." Naruto glared at Arashi and clenched his fists.

"You're right. I've come here to..." Arashi said and the next moment he was gone. Naruto could do only so much as gasp before Arashi appeared only an inch away from him. Arashi leaned over to Naruto's ear and whispered, "...Take what's mine..."

A knee to his stomach send Naruto gasping for air. Another upwards kick and spinning kick after that send Naruto flying over towards a nearby tree.

"What's wrong? Is that all you can do after training for two years with Jiraiya?" Arashi taunted as he turned around.

"For someone claiming to be the Fourth, you sure as hell hit like an academy student." Naruto retorted as he stood back up, "Whether this guy is or isn't Yondaime doesn't matter. I've just got to find a way to distract him and save Ayame."

Arashi smirked at Naruto, "Then, why don't you try this academy student?"

Naruto roared as he dashed towards Arashi. The Akatsuki leader shook his head and closed his eyes, "I could counter a frontal attack even with my eyes closed."

"Heh, we'll see about that." Naruto muttered as he slapped his hands in their usual position, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu!"

Two clones appeared and dashed to the left and right, assaulting Arashi from his sides.

"It's useless." Arashi let out just before Naruto reached him.

Naruto could only see the blur of a single swift movement before his clones were destroyed and Arashi's heel connected with his head. The blonde shinobi rolled over the ground a couple of times before coming to an halt, "Damn, that bastard is fast."

"Well, at least now I'm close to Ayame and can get her to safety soon..." Naruto thought stood back up and looked over his shoulder, "Eh?"

"Are you looking for her?" Arashi asked, holding Ayame in his arms.

"You bastard...When the hell did you...?" Naruto glared at Arashi.

"I told you. I was the Fourth Hokage...Konohagakure no Kiiroi Hirameki. First and last shinobi to completely master Hiraishin no Jutsu." Arashi said as he placed Ayame on the ground again, "My speed is unmatched. You won't save this girl's life simply by running away. Don't worry, though...She'll be safe whether you are defeated or not." (A/N: Kiiroi Hirameki means Yellow Flash, though I don't know the actual words they used in the manga, this should be it according to my dictionary)

"Too bad I don't trust a single word you say. I'll defeat you and save Ayame." Naruto said as he clenched his fists.

"We'll see about that..." Arashi replied as he stared at Naruto. All of a sudden, the ground started to shake tremendously.

"Is this your technique?" Arashi asked as he looked around, "Not quite strong, if you ask me."

"Haha! This is my jutsu! You'll be doomed for sure now!" Naruto exclaimed, "I have no idea what's causing the shaking, but at least he thinks I'm the cause of it..."

"Eh?" Naruto let out when all of a sudden a large dust cloud appeared behind Arashi and was heading towards the forest. For a fraction of a second, Naruto could see two green clad men rushing towards the forest, "Eh?!"

The next moment, both Naruto and Arashi were covered by the cloud of dust. When the smoke cleared up Arashi looked unimpressed at Naruto, "Is that all your jutsu can do?"

Naruto waved dismissively, "No...That jutsu wasn't mine...Why would I cover myself in my own jutsu?"

"Very simple..." Arashi lowered his head and closed his eyes. He then spun around once and slammed the back of his fist against Naruto's throat, "To attack me from behind."

Naruto flew back and crashed down on the ground as Arashi sighed, "Weakling...Such a strategy won't work against someone like me."

"That's something I already knew!" Naruto yelled as his clone popped off and he ran towards Arashi.

The Akatsuki Leader turned around, looking with wide eyes at Naruto, "Did I underestimate him?"

Arashi never got to answer that as Naruto fist smashed into his face and send him flying back. Naruto didn't waste his momentum and charged onward to Ayame.

"We're going, Ayame." Naruto said as he bend over to pick Ayame up.

"Gah!" Naruto let out as a knee slammed into his face and send him tumbling back.

"Let's see how much you really care for this little treacherous bitch!" Arashi thundered as his eyes burned with rage.

He shoved his foot underneath Ayame and kicked her up in the air, before following it up with a spinning kick that send her flying off to the edge of the mountain.

"Ayame!" Naruto called out and pushed himself forward as fast as he could.

"Please...Open yours, Ayame, and call out to me." Naruto thought as he raced towards the girl, who was currently heading too fast to land on the edge of the mountain.

Naruto then did something that he didn't even had to think about. He jumped up from the edge of the mountain and embraced Ayame, holding her in his arms as tight as he could.

"I've got you...Ayame." Naruto whispered to her with a smile on his face. That smile didn't last long, however, as the next moment Naruto's eyes went wide when he could only barely sense the intent to kill that came from behind him. A second later, Naruto fainted from a blow to the back of his head and started falling down the mountain that carried the Hokage's Statues.

Meanwhile, at the wedding site, every shinobi was undone of their weapons and tied up against each other in such a way that they were unable to perform handseals. The villagers had been taken underground and were being guarded by the frightening Zetsu.

"Oi...Gaara." Temari hissed under a breath, "How long are we going to sit like this...Hurry up and do something."

"Temari...It's not time yet..." Gaara replied and stared intensely towards the ground.

"What if something happens to Naruto, huh? What if we'll be too late?" Temari snarled back.

"If we fail to time this properly, it will be over..." Gaara replied.

"I know that, but we can't just..."

"Please, Temari..." Gaara pleaded his sister, "Just a bit longer..."

Temari sighed and let her head fall down, "You understand, right? If this takes too long they might..."

"Yeah...However, they have to take him far away first and those guys over there must leave as well..." Gaara stated as he motioned with his eyes towards the remaining present Akatsuki members.

"Itachi-san, everything looks alright." Kisame reported.

"Yeah...It shouldn't be long now...Prepare yourself." Itachi replied as he eyed all the bound shinobi in front of him.

"Oi...When can we start killing them? I'm getting tired of this waiting." Hidan said to Itachi as he marched back and forth.

"Konoha Gouriki Senpuu!" Lee and Gai exclaimed as they spun through the air and kicked several nameless Akatsuki shinobi, who had joined the Akatsuki members shortly after their succesful capture, out cold.

"They're here..." Itachi stated the obvious as Gai and Lee landed in front of the Akatsuki members.

"Konohagakure's Noble Green Beast!"

"Konohagakure's Beautiful Green Beast!"

"Maito Gai and Rock Lee!" Lee and Gai exclaimed in unison and both of them struck the nice guy pose.

"Th-Those guys..." Kisame growled and twitched upon sight of Gai and Lee.

"This is it for you guys!" Gai exclaimed as he switched into his fighting pose.

"Give up while you can!" Lee exclaimed as he kicked in the air once before assuming his fighting position.

"Heh...You guys are outnumbered...You have no chance to win." Hidan grinned wickedly as he held his scythe ready.

"I'll make beautiful art out of you two dispicable excuses of a human being." Deidara stated as he slipped his hand into a pouch he was carrying.

"Let's just see about that." Gaara said and instantly multiple Akatsuki shinobi were caught by Gaara's sand.

"Looks like we underestimated the Kazekage after all..." Itachi stated as he saw one of the henchmen next to him being lifted up into the air.

"Kikaichu no jutsu." Members of the Aburame clan said in unison and more Akatsuki henchmen were lost, this time due to being consumed by a large amount of bugs.

"This is the end for Akatsuki." Jiraiya said as he and Tsunade effortlessly broke free from their restraints.

"Ooh, that's my cue!" Orochimaru said cheerfully and let his tongue slip out of his mouth and all the way down to where they were bound. The snake Sannin wrapped his tongue around the restraints that bound Sasuke, Kabuto and himself together and pulled them free.

"Couldn't you have done that the moment we got tied up?!" Sasuke yelled at Orochimaru.

"Now, now, Sasuke-kun...That would be another case of freeing ourselves and then disappearing." Orochimaru waved dismissively, "This time we get to fight again."

Gaara stood up and pointed with the palm of his hand towards the Akatsuki henchmen who stood near the Akatsuki members, "Konoha and Suna's counter attack has begun."

"Naruto..." A calm and gentle voice called out to Naruto, "Open your eyes, Naruto..."

"A...yame?" Naruto wondered as he slowly opened his eyes, his vision still blurry.

"Don't be ridiculous. Can't you hear I'm a guy?" The voice asked Naruto.

"You're right...then...you...you are..." Naruto said as his vision began to focus on the person in front of him.

"Eh?!" Naruto let out as his vision was sharp once again and he saw that the person in front of him had blonde spikey hair and blue eyes, much like he did himself.

"You're Arashi, aren't you?" Naruto asked as he narrowed his eyes at the blonde, "This is a genjutsu, huh? Sorry, but darkness won't scare me."

"Naruto, calm down. First of all, I'm Arashi, but not the Arashi you think I am. Second of all, this is not a genjutsu, it's your mind." Arashi explained.

"But...If you're Arashi...then who..." Naruto tilted his head.

"I'm Arashi, Yondaime Hokage. The person, who caused your mind to be dark and black like this, is my distorted body 'Arashi'." Yondaime told Naruto.

"W-What?" Naruto looked confused at the Fourth.

"Don't worry, time in your mind is much slower than it is outside. We've got time to talk and I can explain some matters to you...For now, just trust me."

"It's true that you're different...Not just the calmness in your voice, but your presence as well..." Naruto stated and pondered for a moment, "Hmmm...Alright, I'll trust you for now."

"Alright, I'll start from the beginning then." Yondaime nodded at Naruto and closed his eyes for a moment, "Over fifteen years ago, I made a forbidden jutsu that no one should ever use..."

I found a way to summon the Death God. The deity was not pleased with being pulled out from his realm and I had to make amends for him.
The trials I faced were not easy, but in the end I gained the favor of the Death God. He made a pact with me and gave me the key for anyone else I found suited to make a pact with him. Along with the pact, he gave me the knowledge of the ultimate sealing technique.
An improved four seasonal seal along with a technique, which allowed one to seal the soul of someone who has recently departed inside a person or object.
I began to study the seal technique shortly afterwards and soon found a flaw in the technique.
A single four seasonal seal wouldn't restrain powerful souls, the addition of a second would.
Some time passed, during which I had nothing to go with but theory and very short conversations with the Death God.

Then...That faithful day came.
The day that the Kyuubi attacked Konoha at night.
I had read how it had been previously sealed inside people to create Jinchuuriki, humans with strength exceeding all others. There was one problem with the sealing method, and that was that the Kyuubi managed to break free and possess the person, making him or her no longer human but just a mere puppet of the Demon Fox.

It had been written everywhere, 'You can not slay the Kyuubi, it must always be sealed.'

Fifteen years ago, before he broke free, the Kyuubi was sealed away inside a cave no one could easily find. It was supposed to remain there until sealed inside a human for the sake of the Village and Country of Fire.
But the demon somehow broke free and wanted revenge on his captors.

I knew there was little I could do.

If I'd take him with me to my grave, then Konoha would surely fall one day due to the lack of having their guardian, a Jinchuuriki with the Kyuubi sealed inside of his or her body.
That's why I decided at the last moment, to seal away the soul of the Kyuubi inside a little infant. So that he could one day grow up to be the hero and guardian of the Village when they needed him the most.

"I see...But...What does that have to do with you being here and you being...well...out there?" Naruto asked as he looked Yondaime in the eyes.

"Two things went wrong." Yondaime told Naruto, "First off all, I knew my soul would be taken as well, but that wasn't the problem. Kyuubi's soul was violent and powerful even outside his body. He rampaged through me and my body before pulling me out and dragging me into your small body. Thus I died, but my soul was trapped inside of you along with the Kyuubi."

"So...Do I have to guess what else went wrong?" Naruto asked, "Because something tells me it has to do with that other Arashi."

Yondaime nodded at Naruto, "Kyuubi's power left a trace of chakra and evil inside my body. Not only that, but a part of my soul as well. That eh...'little' piece of soul grew corrupt by the Kyuubi's chakra and expanded through-out my body. Thus, my body kept living on, but without a complete soul."

"In other words...he's a walking corpse?" Naruto shivered and slightly twitched.

Yondaime laughed, "I wouldn't like to call my body a corpse, but I guess you're right."

"But you seem to be in one piece..."

"What do you mean?"

"Well...You said that Arashi still had a bit of your soul left, so...I thought something should be missing from you."

"What? Isn't it obvious?" An omnious voice asked, "The other guy is an arrogant dick and you wonder what this one is missing? Pathetic..."

"That is..." Naruto turned around and found another 'Yondaime' standing behind him, though this one had black-red striped hair and a wicked grin on his face, "...Another look-a-like?"

"I preferred this form for the sheer irony, however if you need a reminder..." The person said and large cell bars appeared along with a floor covered in a thing layer of water and walls.

The person had transformed into his true form, the Kyuubi.

"Since when do you take on the form of humans, bastard fox?!" Naruto shouted and pointed at the Kyuubi.

"It makes fighting Yondaime Hokage much more fun..." Kyuubi's eyes flared as they locked with Yondaime's.

"Hmmm...That reminds me of something..." Naruto pondered for a moment before turning towards Yondaime, "But...If you've been here the entire time, how come I've never seen you before?"

"The Kyuubi was overruling me until about two weeks ago." Yondaime smiled at Naruto, "The day you transformed into my younger self, something happened. For some reason I had taken a 'physical' form inside your mind for the first time in 15 years."

"Man, that must be weird..." Naruto stated, "But...could that mean that...?"

"Yeah...Because of that, I found a way to temporarily use your body. However, the Kyuubi found out this way as well." Yondaime stated.

"It was fun to mess up your old sensei. If it wasn't for blondy over there I would have killed him..." The Kyuubi stated with a wicked grin on his face before laughing out loud.

"Y-You bastard..." Naruto shook in anger as he glared at the Kyuubi.

"Calm down, Naruto..." Yondaime said, "Now is not the time to fight him in your mind."

Naruto gritted his teeth and looked back at Yondaime again.

"I managed to slightly influence you. After all, after 15 year I could finally help you out in one way or another. So I did as much as I could, however I could never directly contact you like this until now." Yondaime told Naruto, "The Kyuubi and I even accidentally pulled your sub-conscious into our eternal battle. However, right now...the time for talk has come to an end."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"Now's the time for you to control your greatest weapon and wield it like a burning katana to strike your opponent down."

"Release me, Naruto..."

"Eh?!" Naruto looked at the Kyuubi for a moment and then at Yondaime again.

"Don't listen to him, Naruto!" Yondaime exclaimed, "He must not take controll of you. He is your weapon and you must control him. He has no control over you if you don't allow him to have any."

"Naruto, release me and I'll show you true power."

"Wh-What should I do?" Naruto wondered, "What should I do?!"

"Naruto, calm down. Your body's natural survival instincts are kicking in. Time is running out." Yondaime told Naruto, though by the expression on his face you could tell he wasn't entirely sure if Naruto still heard him, "You are currently falling of the Hokage Statues with a girl you care about in your arms. At the foot of the mountain, my body waits to deliver the final blow to you and suck out the Kyuubi from your body, thus definitely killing you."

"Ayame...Oi...What do I need to do?!" Naruto looked at Yondaime.

"Don't worry, I'll guide you. Now, take the weapon, your weapon, called Kyuubi and defeat my cursed body. Naruto..." Yondaime said and extended his hand towards the blonde, "Only you can defeat my body. I believe in you. And it's not just me. Sandaime, Iruka, Kakashi, everyone you care about believes in you."

"I see...Then, please be my guide." Naruto's eyes sharpened as he grabbed onto Yondaime's hand, "And...Let's defeat your body together."

"As for you..." Naruto turned towards the Kyuubi, extending his free hand towards the demon fox, "Give me your chakra, bastard fox! You are my weapon!"

The Kyuubi grinned wickedly as his red chakra began to flow towards, "Fulfill the grudge I hold against the Fourth Hokage...brat. If you fail to do so, I'll come out and kill you."

"It's over already..." Arashi said as he watched Naruto fall all the way down, "Unfortunate...I wish I could've had more fun."

Arashi pulled his leg back and readied himself to kick out most of the life that was still left inside of Naruto's body. He swept his leg through the air, aiming to kick Naruto against his head.

The kick, however, never connected and Arashi's eyes grew wide as Naruto grabbed onto his leg with a single hand and held himself and Ayame up in the air.

"You..." Arashi narrowed his eyes on Naruto, who began to growl. A loud roar followed the growling and Naruto's body ignited with red chakra, forming a single thick tail at the end.

Naruto tilted his head up and stared straight into Arashi's blood red eyes with his own furious demon eyes. He grinned wickedly, "What's wrong? Thought you had me?"

The blonde dropped down and swept Arashi's other foot of the floor. Before the Akatsuki Leader could hit the floor, Naruto had placed Ayame on the floor and hit Arashi in his stomach with a powerful blow from his knee. The Leader stumbled back as Naruto sat down on all fours and glared at Arashi.

"I see...You surprised me there for a moment." Arashi grinned at Naruto, "First tail release, complete. But, you will need more power than that to defeat me."

"Naruto...Calm down. Control the Kyuubi. Fighting like a beast won't help you defeat my body..." Yondaime told Naruto.

"I know...But...How else should I fight with these powers? I don't know that." Naruto thought as his eyes trembled slightly.

"Fight like how you usually would. Kyuubi's powers are just an extension to your own." Yondaime told Naruto.

Naruto pushed himself up and took a deep breath as he straightened up.

"Oh?" Arashi raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"Heh. Let's see what I'm capable of now." Naruto grinned at Arashi.

"We'll see, indeed." Arashi said as he narrowed his eyes upon Naruto.

Naruto dashed forward and threw a punch at Arashi. The Akatsuki Leader smirked as he grabbed the punch, but just as he was about to counter attack, Naruto grabbed a hold of his other hand.

"He's become faster..." Arashi noted as he continued parrying and countering Naruto's attacks, "Not only that, but he seems to know how I'm going to move and acts accordingly...What's the meaning of this?"

"What's wrong? You seem rather slow all of a sudden." Naruto grinned wicked as he started to rapidly circle around Arashi.

"Those movements...and those attack combinations." Arashi thought as he observed Naruto's movements.

"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto called out and multiple clones appeared. The clones jumped towards Arashi, ready to punch the living daylights out of him.

"Raiton, Raihoukou!" Arashi called out and multiple bolts of lightning coming from his body destroyed the clones, "You aren't the only one with ninjutsu."

"Heh...Looks like your getting more serious." Naruto grinned wickedly at Arashi.

Arashi slightly tilted his head and raised his hand up in the air, "Perhaps you should pay more attention to those close to you instead of your enemy."

Naruto turned his head around, "Ayame!"

Arashi teleported over to Naruto and smacked him away, "Fool...Raiton..."

Naruto quickly dashed over to Ayame and managed to get her and himself out of harm's way just before the lightningbolt hit Ayame's spot.

"That's right, Naruto-kun...Run, run...Haha...Hahahaha...Hahahahahahahha!" Arashi laughed as Naruto started to dodge all the lightning bolts Arashi was firing at him.

Meanwhile, chaos had errupted at the wedding site and it was one big shinobi free for all fight, even though the teams were still quite obvious to recognise.

"Gai! They've got Naruto!" Jiraiya informed the green clad Jounin.

"Then we must hurry and come to his aid!" Gai replied as he punched one of the remaining henchmen away.

"Looks like with these numbers on each side, it won't take too long. However, there's also Orochimaru who we have to take care of." Jiraiya stated.

"You and Tsunade-sama are the ones who need to order us around in this battle. Please, tell us what to do if you have a plan." Gai replied.

"I understand that."

"Gaara, can't we do something?" Temari asked as she fought against a couple of Akatsuki goons.

"Give me a moment." Gaara said as he held his hands pressed against each other.

"Are you kidding me?" Temari said as she blew her opponents away, "Hurry up and take care of these guys."

"Temari...get every single one of our allies out of the area." Gaara commanded as he looked up.

"And who will protect your ass while you're gathering chakra for this technique?" Temari asked.

"Don't worry...I've got enough chakra to perform the jutsu already." Gaara answered as sand around him began to levitate in the air.

Temari stared at Gaara for a moment and then nodded, "Understood. Then, I'll leave it up to you."

"That's my line..." Gaara replied as more sand rose up from the ground. Temari dashed forward, randomly beating up members of the Akatsuki as she passed by them.

"Everyone! Get away from here! Hurry up!" She shouted.

"Eh? Temari-san?" Sakura let out before punching an Akatsuki henchman in his face.

"Hurry up and disappear." Temari called out.

"Why?" Sakura asked as she ran along with Temari.

"Gaara's attacking."

"You know, my little brother..." Itachi said as he easily dodged Sasuke's sword attacks, "You won't defeat me by dancing either..."

"Shut up! Who the hell said I'm trying to do so?!" Sasuke roared as he slashed at his brother.

"No one, I guess...However...Isn't this a sword dance?" Itachi raised an eyebrow at Sasuke.

"Why you..." Sasuke hissed, "It's NOT a dance!"

"So how have you been these past two years?" Itachi asked as he effortlessly dodged Sasuke's attacks and parried some with a single kunai, "You look like you've been lacking sleep..."

"It doesn't matter! Fight me back already, you coward!" Sasuke yelled.

"Being Orochimaru's sex slave must be hard...I hope it doesn't hurt too much when sitting down..."

"Shut the hell up and stop evading my attacks!"

"Very well then..." Itachi said as the ground started to tremble.

Sasuke jumped back and held his sword ready, "Your jutsu, huh?"

"No...It seems like someone else is attacking..." Itachi stated as he looked over his shoulder from the corners of his eyes, "You sure are weak if you couldn't even tell that it wasn't my jutsu."

"Let's see just how weak I am then..." Sasuke said as he readied his sword.

Itachi looked at Sasuke for a moment, "Fine...Let us test our strength through a series of events."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Sasuke gritted his teeth as he glared at Itachi.

"First test...Survive that jutsu." Itachi pointed behind him and Sasuke looked towards the point Itachi was referring to.

"What? That small wave of sand? It isn't even meant to hit us..." Sasuke stated as he looked at Gaara, who was racing through a series of handseals.

Gaara slapped his hands together again, "Ryuusa Bakuryu!"

"Wh-What the hell?!" Sasuke let out as the 'small' wave of sand rose up to be an avalanche of sand that was almost the size of the mountain they were standing on.

"Well...Let's prepare ourselves..." Itachi said as he tilted his head back, waiting for the avalanche of sand to fall upon them.

"D-Damn it!" Sasuke cursed and lifted his sword up into the air, a field of electricity surrounding him and the blade.

"Interesting..." Orochimaru said half chuckling and as the avalanche of sand hung above his head, he quickly performed a couple of seals, "Kuchiyose...Edo Tensei!"

In the chaos that followed, some shinobi and kunoichi decided to run away from Gaara's attack while others figured they wouldn't make it in time and prepared their best counter against the wall of sand that would soon collapse on them.

What had previously been the location of a beautiful wedding, had now become a field mostly covered by a thick layer of sand. Several explosions followed, revealing those who were able to counter the jutsu in one way or another.

Sasuke's sword of Kusanagi and Chidori combination broke him free from the sand, while Itachi blew a way through the sand using his Amaterasu. Neji and Hiashi used their Kaiten to break free and Lee and Gai punched their way through. It seemed like everyone who decided to defend themselves against the jutsu had managed to survive.

"Not so fast..." Gaara said as he slapped his hands onto the thick layer of sand, "Sabaku..."

"Mai..." Gaara's eyes grew wide when he heard a familiar voice coming from underneath the sand, "Sawarabi no Mai!"

Gaara barely managed to dodge the small forest of piercing bones that erupted from the sand, but remained unharmed nonetheless.

"Long time no see...Sabaku no Gaara."

"You're..."

Temari's eyes quickly darted over the battlefield as the battles had continued. She bit her lip and cursed, "Damn it..."

"Listen up, everyone!" Temari said to all the shinobi and kunoichi at the edge of the battlefield, "This isn't the time to just sit around and do nothing. We must engage the enemy with full force in order to guarantee a victory."

"Yes ma'am!" Lee exclaimed and headed onto the battlefield.

"Let's go, Akamaru!" Kiba shouted as he and Akamaru charged towards the nearest enemy.

"We'll definitely defeat them." Sakura nodded along with the other girls.

"Let's go!" Temari announced and pointed towards the battles that were going on.

As the rest of the shinobi and kunoichi rushed towards the battle, Temari grabbed onto Hinata's sleeve and pulled her back, "Hold it, Hinata."

"Eh? W-What's wrong, Temari-san?" Hinata asked, slightly startled by the sudden pull on her sleeve.

"You're not going to fight here."

"Why not?"

"Geez, haven't you noticed? Naruto isn't..."

"Here. I know that...but, I believe in Naruto-kun!"

Temari sighed, "I do too, but I'm also worried about him. I might be the best type of person to aid him in a battle, but right now they could be any where and my attacks are more needed here...Please go find Naruto and help him win."

Hinata stared into Temari's eyes for a moment, "I understand. Leave it to me."

"I'll track you down if things go well here and help out as well if it's needed." Temari said as Hinata ran off.

The Hyuuga heiress looked over her shoulder towards the blonde from Suna one more time before nodding and disappearing from sight.

"Now..." Temari snapped her fan open and glared towards the Akatsuki members present on the battlefield, "Time to settle this once and for all."

"So how do you like this fight, Naruto-kun?" Arashi grinned wickedly as he was sending lightning bolts after Naruto in the main street of Konoha, "Simply electrifying, isn't it?"

"I guess your humor died fifteen years ago along with the rest of you." Naruto retorted as he managed to jump away before the lightning struck the place he was standing on.

"On the contrary...My humor has never been this great! Also, you seem to acknowledge that I'm the former Fourth Hokage...Good, I'll reward you with my humorous wit." Arashi said as he charged the next lightning attack, "Two shinobi are engaged in combat with one another. The one says to the other 'Raiton'...What does the other reply?"

"Oh crap." Naruto said as he dove into a nearby alley.

"Correct!" Arashi announced as his lightning struck the corner of the alley, "Though...it wasn't quite the response I had hoped for..."

"Your humor sucks and so does your aim!" Naruto yelled at the Akatsuki leader.

"Is that so...?" Arashi muttered and, as lightning ran between his fingers, he grinned widely.

"N...Naruto...?" Ayame slowly opened her eyes.

"Ayame!" Naruto let out and smiled at the girl he was holding in his arms this entire time. He placed her down against the wall and quickly looked if Arashi was coming for him yet.

"Naruto...why are you...?"

"Don't worry, I'll get us out of here." Naruto grinned widely.

"Why?" Ayame asked as she hung her head down.

"Eh? What do you mean?" Naruto slightly tilted his head.

"I'm sure he already told you by now...Yet, why..." Ayame said and trembled, "Why do you want to save me?"

Naruto blinked at Ayame as she held onto her arms, "I betrayed you, Naruto. I betrayed everyone...Because I was scared...and weak...I...don't deserve to be saved..."

"You know..." Naruto grinned widely at Ayame, "I never believed a single word that guy said."

"Now, I know you really did betray Konoha, but I also know that you didn't want to do it. Also..." Naruto said as Ayame looked up at him with tears in her eyes as the blonde continued, "Ayame is one of my precious friends. I won't let anyone hurt you."

"Ah, you're breaking my heart...but this emotional reunion has come to an end now." Arashi said as he stepped in front of the entrance of the alley.

"For once I agree with you!" Naruto let out as he dashed towards Arashi. The Akatsuki leader simply side stepped out of the way and Naruto instantly tried to stop his dash.

"You won't let anyone hurt her, right?" Arashi said as he looked at Ayame and charged lightning in his hand, "Let's see about that. Raiton..."

"Ayame, run!" Naruto yelled as he ran as fast as he could towards Arashi.

"Fetters of Lightning!" Arashi exclaimed as he turned around and pointed his hand towards Naruto.

"Naruto!" Ayame let out as lightning shot up from the ground towards Naruto from various locations through-out the street.

"A...ya...me...r...un..." Naruto managed to bring out as the lightning relentlessly struck his body and held him chained to his current spot, "Gaaah!"

Arashi smirked, "You didn't think I was missing you all this time and just wasting chakra, right?"

Naruto glared at Arashi, but was more worried about the shocked Ayame who sat behind the Akatsuki leader.

"Run!" Naruto yelled as he tried his best to move forward. Ayame stood up and started to run, looking with tearful eyes at Naruto before getting out of his sight.

"Now...with the little lady gone, I suppose we can start to truly fight." Arashi grinned at Naruto, "Hurry up and release more of the Kyuubi's powers...I'm getting anxious to see it."

Deep down inside, Naruto felt something blaze and rush through his body. Chakra bursted out of him and formed a second tail as the chains of lightning were shattered.

"Amazing...You broke my jutsu with chakra just alone. Second tail release, complete..." Arashi said as he looked at Naruto, "Now let's see how you fare in this form..."

"Naruto...Listen to me..." Yondaime said inside of Naruto's head, "Why are you still afraid to use the weapon I've granted you?"

"Because...If I lose control of this power, everything will end." Naruto replied as he narrowed his eyes on Arashi.

"That's why you must control this weapon. A swordsman who loses control of his swings will die. Naruto, you're the swordsman and Kyuubi is your sword. Use it to strike down my body." Yondaime told Naruto, "And believe me when I say that you won't be able to do that while holding back..."

"You're right...As long as I stay in control, this power will lead me to victory. I shall go to my limit..." Naruto thought and took a deep breath.

"Oi...Want to see something truly amazing?" Naruto asked Arashi as he sat down on all fours.

"Hm?" Arashi raised an eyebrow at Naruto, "What was that?"

"I'm telling you...To shut the hell up and watch me..." Naruto growled, "And regret everything you have done up until now while you still can..."

Chakra began to flow more violently out of Naruto's body and started to fill up the surrounding area.

"That's right..." Arashi grinned, "Show me your strength, Jinchuuriki."

"My name...is...Uzumaki Naruto, you bastard!" Naruto roared before his eyes turned bright white and chakra errupted with more than just a bit of force from Naruto's body.

"Third tail release...complete..." Arashi stated and smirked, "Now...it's time to get more serious with you."

Naruto roared again, and this time send a wave of chakra towards Arashi. The Akatsuki Leader was taken by surprise and was knocked back by the impact of the chakra. He slightly laughed when he stood back up, "Looks like the beast inside of you finally awakened."

Naruto rose up from the ground and his eyes turned from white back to their bright blue color, "Sorry to disappoint you, but you won't be wrestling some wild animal."

"Enough talk, brat. Come and show me your strength." Arashi taunted as he readied himself for battle.

"Took the words right out my mouth!" Naruto roared and slammed both his fists onto the ground, sending a shockwave of chakra towards Arashi.

The Akatsuki leader flashed away and reappeared a bit further ahead, "Impressive, but just try to keep up with me."

"Naruto...I'm not sure if you can keep up with him like this, but..." Yondaime said inside Naruto's head, "Together, we'll win."

"Yeah...We'll win, no matter what..." Naruto thought as he glared at Arashi, before looking questioningly at him, "Come to think of it, does he have a certain weakness?"

"What is up...with that weird expression on his face all of a sudden?" Arashi raised an eyebrow at Naruto, "Did he just figure something out...? If so, what is it...?"

Yondaime's left eye twitched for a moment, "Kick him in the nuts..."

"Eh? Isn't that a bit too cruel?" Naruto wondered, "Why would you want me to do that to your former body...I wouldn't want that to happen to me in the same situation as this, you know..."

"It's because this guy over here no longer has his manhood." The Kyuubi stated and laughed inside of Naruto.

Naruto grinned widely and wiped tear out of the corner of his eyes as he softly snickered.

"Something funny?" Arashi asked the blonde.

"Y-Yeah..." Naruto said, still half snickering, "Just a funny fact that crossed my thoughts."

"Well, if you're that nervous, I guess I'd better finish this as fast as possible as an act of 'kindness'." Arashi replied and flashed away.

Naruto slightly tilted his head back and threw his arm crossed in front of his chest, blocking a kunai that has aimed at one of his vital points.

"How did you...?" Arashi let out as he stood in front of Naruto, holding onto the kunai with a single hand and standing in a slightly crouched position.

"It's the orange clothing and blonde hair. It makes you insanely strong." Naruto grinned at Arashi.

The Akatsuki leader smirked at the blonde, "Joke as much you want, victory is mine."

Arashi flung a kunai from his kunai pouch into his free hand thrusted forward with it. As Naruto roared, a sphere of chakra surrounded him and pushed Arashi's attack back with a lot of force. When the Akatsuki leader was at an adequate distance away from Naruto, the blonde casted his arms to his side and send the wave of chakra towards Arashi.

"How naive..." Arashi commented as the two kunai he wielded were infused with lightning chakra. Two slashes from each kunai and the wave of chakra Naruto send towards him was destroyed, "Such petty attacks won't even..."

Before Arashi could finish his line, Naruto was only a few inches away from him and aimed a punch at Arashi's face.

"He's fast, but at this level..." Arashi thought before disappearing from Naruto's sight and reappearing a bit to the side a moment later, "You won't be able to keep up with me."

"We'll see about that." Naruto said and this time, he was the one that disappeared into thin air.

"He increased his speed on a whim? I see...It's been a while since my eyes last needed to see something this fast while I'm standing still...However..." Arashi thought and then called out, "Your speed still doesn't compare to mine!"

"I already know that!" Naruto called out.

"What the?!" Arashi tilted his head back and gasped as Naruto came crashing down on him, "From above?!"

Naruto's heel met Arashi's face and send the Akatsuki leader down to the ground. Arashi gritted his teeth as he crashed onto the ground and grabbed onto Naruto's leg.

"What the?!" Naruto let out as he found himself soaring through the air. He was slammed into a wall across the street and gasped for air as Arashi's elbow hit his stomach, "Suffer...you despicable beast..."

Arashi disappeared again and a moment later reappeared, this time heading at high speed towards Naruto with a kunai in his hands. This time, however, Naruto was prepared to counter attack and send his three tails towards Arashi.

"The tails?!" Arashi thought and flashed away before the tails pierced into the ground. Naruto's tails retracted to their normal length and Naruto fell down on all fours, "Let's go."

Naruto vanished and Arashi dashed all over the place with his high speed, "I'll spot you and finish you off."

Arashi gasped and dodged to the left when Naruto appeared only a few feet away from him and send his tails towards the Akatsuki leader, "He's able to see my movements?!"

"Damn it..." Naruto cursed softly and disappeared again.

"If he's able to keep up with me at this level of speed, then I have no choice but to go a step further." Arashi thought and increased his speed.

"For someone who is supposed to be Konoha's legendary Yellow Flash, you're slow!" Naruto taunted and send his tails towards Arashi as he appeared in front of him again.

"Impossible...How does he keep up with me? It's different from Hiraishin...Just what the hell is he doing?"

"The number of points and locations he can jump has a limit...That's his weakness..." Yondaime told Naruto as the chase continued.

"But, why hasn't he attacked yet? I'm sure he could if he wanted to..." Naruto thought.

"It's because his eyes can't see you...yet."

"Huh? How come? And...I can barely see him as well, but I still attack."

"He probably hasn't moved this fast since a long time ago. I guess you could say he is vast asleep and slowly waking up."

"I bet he won't be very happy when he wakes up. As a matter of fact, I don't think he'll be happy at all."

Yondaime slightly laughed, "I think you're wrong. He'll be very happy when he wakes up. After all, that's when this battle takes a turn in his favor and we're forced to change our strategy."

"Something's wrong here..." Arashi thought as he yet again dodged one of Naruto's attacks.

"This kid isn't using his chakra to accelerate, nor is he using Hiraishin no jutsu. Yet somehow, he manages to keep up with me..." Arashi thought as he moved from one point to another, "What's your secret, Uzumaki Naruto?"

During the next attack, Naruto send his tails into three different directions. Arashi took no risk and decided to flash upwards.

"We got him..." Naruto whispered and smiled.

"No matter how hard you try, it will be a while before you've noticed I've gone up and when you do..." Arashi gasped as Naruto disappeared and reappeared in front of him.

"This is the end, Arashi!" Naruto called out.

Arashi's eyes met Naruto's and as he narrowed his eyes, he muttered, "You..."

"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto called out and 4 clones popped into existence.

"U!"

"Zu!"

"Ma!"

"Ki!"

After the fourth one had kicked Arashi up, Naruto flashed above the Akatsuki leader and dived towards him.

"Naruto Kyuubi Rendan!" Naruto called out as his fist hit Arashi's stomach with immense power just before the tails of Naruto and his clones hit the Akatsuki leader as well.

As they fell back down towards the ground, Arashi smirked and closed his eyes for a moment, "Hiraishin no jutsu..."

Naruto's eyes went wide just before Arashi disappeared. The blonde was knocked back up into the air and his clones let out a few screams before they popped off in the blink of an eye.

"A...mazing...I couldn't even feel the second attack..." Naruto thought as he fell down, placing a hand on the kunai that was sticking out of his chest, "This is...Hiraishin no jutsu's power...?"

He gritted his teeth as he pulled the kunai out of his chest and threw it into the wall of the nearest building, "How the hell am I going to stop that technique...?"

A moment later, Naruto landed face down onto the ground and remained motionless there as Arashi stepped closer towards his body.

"Splendid..." Arashi said as Naruto gritted his teeth and looked him in the eye. The Akatsuki Leader held a small piece of paper between his index and middle finger, "You planted this tag on me unnoticed during your first attack and then used it as a tool to determine my postion and attack accordingly."

Naruto tried to stand up, but the impact of the fall had hurt his body more than he thought.

"Futher more, you teleported near my location without the use handseals and only used your will...Who would've thought you had cleared the first stage of using Hiraishin no jutsu?" Arashi grinned wickedly at Naruto, "Well...looks like playtime is finally over. And since you're my most important ingredient to my plan, I guess I have no choice but to summon that over to this world..."

Arashi turned around and started to walk away from Naruto at a slow pace.

"D-Damn it..." Naruto cursed as he pushed himself up from the ground, his injuries healing insanely fast with the help of the Kyuubi's chakra.

Arashi paid no heed to the boy and bit his thumb.

"Naruto. Listen to me. You must stop him before it's too late!" Yondaime called out.

"Release the seal, Naruto."

"Damn it..." Naruto let out as he stood straight up. Arashi calmly begun to form a series of handseals as he kept on walking away from Naruto.

"Hurry, Naruto!"

"Release me and I'll kill all who oppose you..."

"Damn it!" Naruto yelled and ran towards Arashi, who stopped walking as a gentle breeze made the edge of his Akatsuki robe wave.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu." Arashi let out just mere seconds before Naruto threw a punch at him.

"This time, we'll really settle the score, Orochimaru..." Jiraiya said as he stood on top of Gamabunta.

"Geez, Jiraiya...It's only been almost three years since you've last summoned me. Give me a break already, oi." Gamabunta replied.

"Baka...How often do you get a chance to fight along side with Katsuyu and beat the crap out of Manda?" Jiraiya asked with a grin on his face.

"Not many, so I have to ask you now...Where the hell are they?" Gamabunta asked and blew out a puff of smoke.

"Hm?" Jiraiya peered over to Tsunade and Orochimaru, "W-What the?"

"Oi! Where's Katsuyu?!" Tsunade yelled at her large cyan-colored slug.

"Ts-Tsunade-sama...I...I don't know."

"What's the meaning of this?" Orochimaru raised an eyebrow at the cobra he was currently standing on, "Did Manda decide to take a tea-party or something?"

"Manda-sssssama isss over therrre..." The cobra turned his head around and showed Orochimaru where his strongest summon was.

"Ah...I see..." Orochimaru said nodding and took a deep breath, "Sasuke-kun! Could you lend me Manda for a moment?! You can have this cobra until I'm done playing my epic legendary Sannin battle with Jiraiya and Tsunade!"

"I refuse!" Sasuke called back.

"What?! No dinner for you then!" Orochimaru peered at Sasuke and blinked as Sasuke suddenly bend over, "What's he doing now...?"

"Kiss my ass!" Sasuke yelled as he dropped his trousers and spanked himself.

Orochimaru twitched and shook his fist in anger at Sasuke, "Oh, I'll do something to your ass, alright!"

"Ey! Sakura! What are you doing summoning Katsuyu?!" Tsunade yelled.

"Sorry, Tsunade-sama, but I have to stop Sasuke-kun!"

"How are you going to stop him by wasting most of your chakra on summoning Katsuyu?!"

"Don't worry, I came prepared!"

"And what am I supposed to do without Katsuyu?!"

"I'm sure Tsunade-sama can win! Do your best, Tsunade-sama!"

Tsunade shook her fist in anger, "Who the hell does she think I am?"

Jiraiya sat down on Gamabunta's head and took out his own pipe, which he always carried with him.

"So, Bunta...Do you think we'll win this?" Jiraiya asked as he lit his pipe.

Gamabunta sat down on the ground and let out a puff of smoke, "I guess we won't even have to fight. Let's just sit here and enjoy the fresh outdoor air."

"I couldn't agree more with you, my old friend. I couldn't agree more..." Jiraiya said nodding and let out a puff of smoke, "Though I have the srange feeling I'm forgetting something really, really important right now..."

"Who gives a pile of snake crap? Just shut up and let's see how Tsunade and Orochimaru settle this thing." Gamabunta replied.

"If they start fighting I'll have to get involved, you know." Jiraiya stated.

"The snail is supposed to beat the snake, right? She'll be fine. If she isn't you can always jump in."

"That's right, isn't it?"

"That's right."

"Hey you..." The cobra turned his head to the cyan-colored snail.

"Y-Yes?"

"Our massstersss don't ssseem very pleasssed with usss..."

"It does look li-like th-that, r-right? B-But..."

"How about we turn on our massstersss and get cosssy sssomewhere elssse..." The cobra slissed and winked at the snail.

"I...I'll ne-never betray Tsunade-sama!"

"Isss that ssso? It isss not betrayal...But perhapsss...our mastersss...need to sssee that we are ssstrong enough for their battlesss...It will be fun..." The cobra smirked, "And after that I will give you sssome sssnake loving..."

"W-Well, I...E-ehm..." The snail seemed to blush.

"Oi, Orochimaru." Tsunade said and raised an eyebrow, "Did you hear that? Our summons are planning to turn on us..."

"Hahahaha! Nonsense, my dear Tsunade. My little cobra here will never turn on me." Orochimaru chuckled.

"Oi, have you gone deaf or something? They were talking about it just now..." Tsunade motioned towards the summoned animals.

"I was consumed in my own thoughts about my Sasuke-kun, but I shall tell you why he won't turn on me." Orochimaru replied and cleared his throat.

"I am the tamer and master of every snake in the world. None hesitate a single moment to bend to my will. When I need to take a piss in the wild, they open their mouths and gladly accept my body's dispossed fluids! They fulfill my pleasures when I..." Before Orochimaru could finish his sentence, the cobra threw him off his head.

"It isss your turn now..." The cobra slissed as he looked at the snail.

"Oi! You're not really going to...?!" Tsunade asked the snail.

"F-Forgive me, Ts-Tsunade-sama, but..." The snail let out before slime appeared beneath Tsunade's feet and caused her to slide down.

"Why you, why you, why you!" Tsunade let out as she pulled her dress up and tried to run back on top, but it was no use and the Fifth Hokage slipped down on the ground.

The cobra made his way over to the snail and gently wrapped his tail around her, "Now then...I hope you don't live up to the reputation of snailsss moving kind of...sssluggish."

"E-Eh? Wh-Why's that?"

"Well, it makesss a chase lessss interessting if they have no problem at all at ssstaying ahead of usss..." The cobra said as he looked at Orochimaru and Tsunade.

"I...I see...W-We aren't going to hurt them, are we?" The snail looked concerned at the cobra.

"No, no...not much..." The cobra slissed, "Well then...remember to look ssscary."

"Scary? I...I don't know if I can do that..."

"Ah, yesss...Sssomething asss beautifull asss you mussst have a hard time inducccing fear..." The cobra flirted and shiny sparkling points surrounded his face as he looked at the snail.

"Oi, Orochimaru...Is your snake flirting with my snail?" Tsunade slightly twitched.

"Well..." Orochimaru placed a hand on his chin and sparkling points surrounded his face as well, "He is a beautifull specimen. I guess he takes after me in terms of beauty."

"But..." Orochimaru closed his eyes for a moment and then pointed at the cobra, "How dare you defy the beautiful evil mastermind that is me, Orochimaru?!"

The cobra laid down on the ground and moved his head towards Orochimaru, "Sssimple, I'm a sssnake...Treachery isss in my blood. Now...ssstart running."

"Bite me!"

"Well then...Don't mind if I do." The cobra smirked, pulled back and hissed as he opened his mouth wide.

"Oh...There's only one thing an evil mastermind, such as myself, can do in situations like these where his minion turns on him..." Orochimaru closed his eyes and nodded to himself.

"Find some way to instantly kill the minion before turning back towards his original target, the heroes?" Tsunade asked as she placed a hand on her hip.

"No..." Orochimaru replied as he slowly opened his eyes, "The only option is..."

"To run like hell!" Orochimaru turned around and started running as fast as he could.

"It hasss begun! Let'sss go, my dear!" The cobra slissed and gave the snail one last look before darting after Orochimaru.

"Hah...You're pathetic, Orochimaru..." Tsunade crossed her arms and closed her eyes, "There's no way one of my previous snails would turn on me in the end..."

Tsunade then heard something lie down behind her. In surprise she opened her eyes and turned around, finding herself facing the snail she had previously summoned.

"I-If I w-were you, Ts-Tsunade-sama...I...I'd st-start running."

"Eh?"

"Here I go then!" The snail let out. Tsunade picked up her dress started to run as fast as possible, the snail following closely behind.

Within a mere few seconds, Tsunade had passed Orochimaru and she yelled, "How the hell did it turn out this way?! Jiraiya! Do something!"

"Ugh...Maybe I shouldn't have put on that g-string this morning...It's riding up my..." Orochimaru stated.

"Keep the unwanted information to yourself, Orochimaru!" Tsunade yelled at him.

"Honestly, how do women run in these things? It's cutting off the blood circulation to my snake eggs as we speak..."

Tsunade turned around and punched Orochimaru in his face, "I said keep it to yourself! Also, we carry a whole lot less down there and some of us kunoichi prefer to go commando!"

"Tsunade goes commando...?" Orochimaru wondered out loud as he recovered from Tsunade's punch and quickly kept on running away from the gigantic cobra that chased him.

"Tsunade goes commando." Gamabunta repeated and let out a puff of smoke as he raised a non-existing eyebrow.

"Tsunade goes commando?!" Jiraiya let out in surprise and sat up straight out of shock, his eyes being as wide as they could possibly be as he coughed a bit.

"I didn't say that, you perverts!" Tsunade yelled.

"Looks like you've improved since your death..." Gaara said taking a few deep breaths to regain his breath, "Kimimaro."

"The same goes for you." Kimimaro replied as he held his bone katana ready, "However, in my case it's just that I no longer have an illness restricting my combat potency."

"You should know already..." Gaara crossed his arms, "There's no way you could defeat me."

"If it wasn't for my illness, you would've been dead long ago..." Kimimaro slightly lowered his head and reached with his free hand for his spinal cord.

"This time will be different. I know all of your moves and how to deal with them. This time, I won't deplete all of my chakra in an attempt to kill you."

"We'll see about that..." Kimimaro said as the skin above his spinal cord start to rip apart from each other.

He then froze and blinked for a moment before pointing behind Gaara with his katana, "B-B-Big snake!"

"Such a trick won't work on me..." Gaara sighed, "I'm not going to turn around so you can backstab me..."

"It really is a big snake!" Kimimaro and jumped out of the way.

Gaara felt the earth slightly tremble underneath him and he decided to look over his shoulder.

"Ah...It is a big snake..." Gaara stated as he looked at the cobra and the snail that were chasing after Orochimaru and Tsunade, "And he's heading this way..."

"Kazekage-sama, move out of the way!" Tsunade yelled, "You'll be crushed!"

"Kimimaro! Do something to stop this snake!" Orochimaru commanded.

"B-But it's a b-bi-big snake!" Kimimaro let out as he trembled.

Gaara waited until the very last moment to take a side step and avoid the rampaging cobra and snail. He then just stood there as the wind blew some of the sand away, "You used to live with a guy that's obsessed with snakes and you're scared of them?"

"I do not fear them..." Kimimaro said as he stood up, his body still shaking slightly.

"Oh, look..." Gaara pointed behind Kimimaro, "They're coming back...along with the big snake..."

"Waaah!" Kimimaru dived away again, this time hiding behind some of the bone trees he created during his initial attack against Gaara, "Is...Is it gone?"

"Not scared of them, eh...?" Gaara raised an eyebrow at Kimimaro.

"That's not it...I love snakes...but I hate the big ones..." Kimimaro stated as he walked out into the open again.

"Really?" Gaara sat down on the ground, "Why's that?"

Kimimaro sat down on the ground as well and placed his fists on top of his thighs, "It all started when I was a little boy and had my own pet snake, Fluffy, which I got for my birthday from Orochimaru-sama..."

"...You named your snake Fluffy?" Gaara questioned and crossed his arms.

"It's a nice name for a snake, isn't it?" Kimimaro narrowed his eyes at Gaara.

"Well...Any name you like is nice..." Gaara stated before softly adding, "Probably..."

"Well, one day I was allowed to feed Orochimaru-sama's..." Kimimaro paused for a moment, "This isn't some trick to pull me underground with your sand, evade my second Sawarabi no Mai and counter attack my ultimate killing move that would other wise kill you, is it?"

Gaara blinked at Kimimaro and let out a small cough, "No...It isn't..."

"Suspicious behaviour...However, it is not often that I can tell someone about my life...or rather, what was my life..." Kimimaro stated as he narrowed his eyes at Gaara.

"Please, continue..." Gaara said and closed his eyes, "...It is time to form plan B..."

"So I got to feed Orochimaru's pet snakes...Including the big ones...That day, is when my fear started, I guess..." Kimimaro stated as Gaara stood up and created a bench and chair out of sand.

"Please, feel free to lie down there..." Gaara motioned to the bench as he sat down on the chair of sand.

"..." Kimimaro lied down on the couch and coughed once, "Everything was fine until...until..."

"Until what?" Gaara raised an eyebrow.

Kimimaro's lower lip trembled for a moment and then he started to cry and stab Gaara's sand couch with his bone katana, "One of the bigger ones ate Fluffy! Why?! Why did he have to eat Fluffy?! He was so young and innocent! He didn't do anything wrong to that big snake!"

"Wow...this guy...is probably more mentally screwed up than I was when I still hosted the Shukaku..." Gaara blinked at Kimimaro, "Please, continue...And don't cry me a river...It messes up the sand."

Kimimaro nodded and lied back down, "And then..."

Kankurou leaned back and inhaled more of his joint, "Ah...This is the shit..."

"Yeah...It is, isn't it?" Zetsu asked nodding as he let out a puff of smoke.

"You got some nice shit here, man..." Kankurou nodded.

"Finest shit your sorry ass will ever have." Zetsu grinned and raised his joint up in the air, "That should be ma slogan..."

"True, true..." Kankurou blew out some more smoke.

"Ya know...Life ain't so hard when you can kick back and relax while on the job..." Zetsu said before putting the joint between his lips again.

"Speaking of which...We should be fighting right now, shouldn't we?" Kankurou raised an eyebrow at Zetsu.

"What? No man...That's too much trouble when your fucking high..." Zetsu laughed.

"But the villagers, ya know..." Kankurou motioned with his head towards the door behind them.

"Ah, don't worry..." Zetsu said as he reached into his robe and pulled out some more of 'the good stuff', "We won't hurt them and they'll go free when we win."

"I'm placing my bets on my friends though..." Kankurou nodded towards the battlefield, "We got you outnumbered, ya know."

"True, true..." Zetsu said as he rolled another joint, "But we got like these insane skills and abilities, man...We ain't no fuckers to mess with, if ya know what I'm saying."

"God, no..." Kankurou stretched out, "But you know what...That shit doesn't matter, dude...As long as we're sitting here with your stack of marihuana, everything's going to be just fine."

"Amen to that...Amen to that..." Zetsu nodded.

"Ya know, I'm just wondering...Where did you get this shit? It's like the best I've ever had..." Kankurou asked as he looked at the joint he was holding.

"From my head, from my head..." Zetsu said nodding a couple of times.

"Wow...I must be damned high...I thought I heard you say you got this shit from your head, man..."

"I do."

"No way! How the hell do you grow marihuana on your head?" Kankurou asked as he looked at Zetsu.

"This guy here provides me with all the good stuff..." Zetsu said and knocked twice against the giant plant.

"Without me, you'd be a poor mother fucker, man."

"Wow, man..." Kankurou let out, "I must be tripping way too much right now, because I'm starting to hear voices."

"You're not hearing voices, man, you're hearing me."

Zetsu knocked against the venus-fly trap part of his body again, "This is what you're hearing, man...It's my bro."

"Wow...Your bro is a marihuana plant? Dude, that makes you like...half-marihuana." Kankurou stated.

"No man, we're just twin brothers that are merged together. You see, our mom..." Zetsu paused to take another smoke, "She fucked up while we were still in her womb. Starting doing PCP and shit. In the end we came out like this and learned to roll joints while going on the potty."

"But we're a freaking gold mine now."

"Ah, that's like cool and not cool at the same time, man..." Kankurou said nodding as he took the joint Zetsu was offering, "My mom was pretty cool too. Real nice and stuff. Too bad she died while giving birth to my younger brother."

"Ah, that sucks man..." Zetsu nodded, "Our mom died of doing all the bad stuff...Ya know, cocain, heroin..."

"Bad stuff, that..." Kankurou said as he lighted his joint.

"Yeah...but who gives a shit about her anyway?" Zetsu shrugged and grinned widely.

"We don't, that's for sure..."

"So like...How did you become an S-ranked criminal anyway?" Kankurou asked as he laid down on the floor.

"Ah shit man...that's a long story..." Zetsu said and then laughed, "Oh wait, it isn't."

Kankurou exhaled a puff of smoke, "Well?"

Zetsu imitated Kankurou's actions, tilted his head and looked towards the horizon, "Basically, for dealing..."

"I didn't know you get an S-rank status for dealing this stuff..." Kankurou said as he looked at his joint.

"No, man...They found my huge stack of marihuana in ma backyard. Took all of it and burned it." Zetsu grinned, "Man, those mother fuckers were high as hell when they died."

"How the hell did they die? Over-dosis of marihuana?" Kankurou asked.

"No man...I was so pissed off about them stealing and burning my stack that I ate every single one of them fuckers." Zetsu said nodding.

"Wow, man...You eat people?"

"Yeah, man...They're quite tasty...Esspecially when they're high." Zetsu said nodding.

Kankurou laughed, "Good thing for me then that you aren't having the munchies right now..."

"Shit man, even if I did I wouldn't eat you..." Zetsu said as he laid back, "You've got so much marihuana in you right now that you'd give me a stomachache for like a month or two..."

"Wow...That's some nasty shit...You must've had that a long time after eating those fuckers..." Kankurou said nodding.

"Two years, man, two years...Nothing but stomachaches and digestive problems..." Zetsu raised an eyebrow, "Though that last one was mainly because of the high amount of bones in my belly than it was because of the marihuana."

"You know, man..." Kankurou raised his joint up in the air, "You're pretty damn cool...Why the heck did you have to join the Akatsuki?"

"You kidding me, man?" Zetsu looked surprised at Kankurou, "They're going to dominate the world and I'm going to monopolise the dealing business. They're going to make me filthy rich and all I have to do is kill a person or two every now and then, eat a couple of corpses and smoke some of the good stuff."

"Ah shit, that sounds cool...I like the stuff too much to sell it though..." Kankurou said as he brought the joint back to his lips.

"Yeah...You know...You're cool too."

"Think so?"

"Yeah, man...Unlike those fuckers in Akatsuki you actually smoke some with me...Last time I offered Itachi-san some he was all like 'If you have time to smoke that stuff, capture a jinchuuriki so we can become all powerful and I can fuck my little brother's mind even more'..."

"Idiot..." Kankurou shook his head.

"And you know what Kisame did?"

"What?"

"When I asked him to come chill with me and he agreed, I told him to take some of his stuff with him if he had some because I wasn't sure if what I had on me right now was enough for the two of us..." Zetsu took another smoke, "You know what he did? He brought seaweed, man...seaweed..."

"Wow...Was he like...drunk or something?"

"No, man...And I'm tellin' ya...Don't smoke seaweed...Makes fishermen taste aweful and your pubes turn green for a week."

"Oh no, man, no...That must've been one bad trip..." Kankurou said as he sat up, "So...What the heck should we do now?"

"I don't know, man...Kick back...relax...Watch the Hokage and Orochimaru run another lap around the battlefield...?" Zetsu shrugged.

"True, true..." Kankurou replied nodding, "Ya know...Your brother would probably make a good smoke, man..."

"What are you talk about, you shitfaced shit?"

"Now that you mention it..." Zetsu blew out a puff of smoke, "If we take those leaves of his, they'll grow back eventually."

"Hey! Zetsu! What are you doing?! Get those hands away from there! No! Nooooo!"

Naruto's fist hit something made out of thick wood, or at least it felt like wood, because Naruto couldn't see yet what Arashi had summoned. As the smoke cleared up, Naruto could see a gigantic statue made out of black wood.

"Genryuu Kyuu Fuujin." Arashi said as he stood on top of the statue.

"What in the...?" Naruto let out as he backed away from the statue.

"Naruto." The Akatsuki leader called out a strong wind blew through the main street of Konoha, "This statue will be the last thing you'll see in your life. I guarantee it..."

"What the hell is that thing?!" Naruto wondered as he looked up the statue, which apparently had nine eyes of which several were open and the others remained closed.

"Looks like this battle just got a time limit..." Yondaime told Naruto, "That statue has to be..."

"I'll explain it to you." Arashi said as he jumped off the statue and landed several feet away from Naruto.

"This statue has the ability to seal away the power of the Bijuu. In other words, it is used to extract Bijuu from the Jinchuuriki and store their souls inside it." Arashi closed his eyes for a moment and then stared coldly at Naruto, "Even though it's usually something that lasts for about more than 3 days or until the sealing process is completed, this time it's different."

"What do you mean...?" Naruto narrowed his eyes at Arashi.

"This time it has been part of a summoning technique instead of a sealing technique in order to guarantee that we're able to seal away the most powerful Bijuu that exists."

"In other words..." Naruto gritted his teeth and prepared to charge towards Arashi.

"What has been sealed inside of you up until now..." Arashi pointed at Naruto, "The mighty demon fox, Kyuubi!"

"Sorry, but your not going to get the old bastard fox that easily." Naruto grinned wickedly at Arashi.

"I knew that from the very beginning. That's why..." Arashi closed his eyes and smirked, "I'm explaining this to you."

"Just as I thought. Naruto...I don't know how much time we have left, but that thing is going to try and extract the Kyuubi soon." Yondaime told Naruto.

"You're biding your time, aren't you?" Naruto smirked at Arashi.

The Akatsuki leader raised his hand and looked intensely at the ring that sat on his thumb, "Exactly...Normally it takes three days to extract a demon. This time, the extraction will just take an extremely small fraction of that, but there's a waiting time..."

"Then I'll just have to stop you before that time comes." Naruto grinned and Arashi.

"Let's see if you are capable that..." Arashi said as he lowered his hand and spread his arms ever so slightly. He stretched his fingers as Naruto roared and charged towards him.

Arashi dashed forward, heading on a collision course with Naruto.

"He's going to try and slice you with a kunai in his right hand, Naruto." Yondaime said.

"Thanks for the heads up. Guess it's really good to have someone inside you who knows all your opponents moves, eh?" Naruto grinned and dashed to the right, grabbing onto Arashi's wrist as he came within range.

The Akatsuki leader was surprised to see his attack being prevented and slightly turned his head around to look in Naruto's eyes, "How did he...?"

Naruto gritted his teeth and raised his fist as he pulled Arashi back towards him, slamming his fist with full force in his face a moment later. A small cloud of dust blew up as Arashi tried to stop himself from hitting the wall behind him. A bit of blood seeped down from the corner of his mouth, which he wiped away with the back of his hand.

"Something's wrong...Why isn't he using Hiraishin no jutsu to counter attack?" Naruto wondered as they momentarily paused to stare each other down.

"You said it yourself, he's trying to stall until that statue is ready to extract the Kyuubi. He won't get serious until you start to form a threat to him."

"Then what should I do?"

"I think I have an idea..."

"How did foresee my attack...? Jiraiya should have little to no knowledge of my fighting style, let alone being able to teach it to someone else..." Arashi mused as he narrowed his eyes at Naruto.

"Man...It's been a while..." Naruto grinned and clutched his fist, "But I guess I've got no choice then."

"Hm?" Arashi raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"Just watch, Arashi..." Naruto said and a smirk formed on his face, "I'll show you something you never even dared to dream off."

"Let's go." Naruto said and dashed towards Arashi.

"His movement has changed..." Arashi noted, but didn't move away just yet.

Naruto threw a left punch at Arashi, who simply dodged it and grabbed onto Naruto's arm. As he pulled him closer, he tried to bring his knee to Naruto's stomach, but Naruto used his own knee to block the attack.

The blonde shinobi then slammed his right fist against Arashi's chest, sending the Akatsuki leader tumbling back far enough for Naruto to throw a kick at him. Arashi had little trouble catching Naruto's leg, though he was surprised when Naruto partly spun around, placed his hands on the floor and slammed the heel of his other foot into Arashi's face.

The Akatsuki leader had no choice but to lose the grip he had on Naruto leg and Naruto wasted no time to slam his other foot against the side of Arashi's head.

"That move..." Arashi thought as he placed his hand on the ground and pushed himself away from Naruto.

"What's wrong?" Naruto smirked as he charged towards Arashi again, "You seem to be surprised."

"You can't kill me with such attacks." Arashi replied and readied himself, "Looks like he learned some of my moves from Jiraiya after all and plans to take me out with them...However, if that's the case..."

Naruto roared a battle cry as he neared Arashi and slightly leaped up into the air when he was a few feet away from the Akatsuki leader.

"No doubt about it...This movement is that kick..." Arashi thought for a split second and slightly crouched down to counter the kick he predicted.

"I've got you!" Naruto roared as his fist met Arashi's face, sending the Akatsuki leader flying back.

"Impossible! I was sure..." Arashi thought as he landed on the ground and slid on for a bit.

"Hehe...You sure as hell look weak now, don't you Arashi?!" Naruto exclaimed with a grin on his face as he raised his hands over his head. A moment later, he slammed them in a fast downward movement, sending a wave of red chakra towards Arashi.

The Akatsuki leader rolled out of the way and jumped up, only to have to dodge a pair of red claws that were heading his way.

"His attack pattern is completely different...He uses the Kyuubi's chakra to attack from long range and in close range he uses a mix of his own moves and my more basic moves..." Arashi realised and smirked, "Impressive...Looks like you're utilizing three completely different styles and alternate them depending on my movements. Further more, you recognise some of my movements and counter accordingly."

Naruto smirked back at Arashi, "Well...Something like that..."

"Unfortunately for you...That trick will no longer work on me." Arashi said and flashed away.

"Hiraishin?!" Naruto thought just a second before Arashi's elbow hit his stomach.

Arashi quickly moved his arm upwards and slammed the back of his fist in Naruto's face. A smirk spread across Arashi's face as he took out two kunai with his other hand and aimed to stab them in the upper part of Naruto's left arm, "Looks like the more advanced moves are something he isn't able to counter..."

A smile crossed Naruto's face just a split second before he grabbed onto the arm that was still right in front of his face and spun around, kicking Arashi in his side. The Akatsuki leader dropped the kunai and staggered back, his eyes twitching at Naruto as he hunched slightly over, "This guy..."

"What's wrong? Don't tell my you've drained all of your strength when you summoned that thing to this world?" Naruto asked with a smirk on his face.

Arashi closed his eyes and took a deep breath as he stood straight up again, "Looks like I've underestimated you...However, that's not going to happen again."

"That's fine...Come at me with all you've got." Naruto grinned wickedly at Arashi.

"How..." Arashi thought as the fight continued.

"How can this boy..." Arashi gritted his teeth as he flashed away to gain some distance from Naruto chakra attack.

"See through everything I throw at him?!" The Akatsuki leader glared at Naruto as the blonde managed to parry an attack that was aimed for a spot where Naruto's defense was open.

Arashi tried his next combination of attacks to take Naruto out, but it failed as well and Naruto's counter attack had the Akatsuki leader down on his knees.

"I see..." Arashi said as he slowly stood up.

"Hm? Oi...You aren't planning to give up are you?" Naruto raised an eyebrow at the Akatsuki leader, "It's kind of lame if the bad guys give up without getting a beating of a lifetime."

"No..." Arashi grinned, "Now that I've figured it out, there's no way I'll lose this fight."

"Figured what out?" Naruto blinked at Arashi and smirked, "Don't tell me you think you know my fighting style now."

"That's not it." Arashi stood up straight and looked at Naruto with crazed wide eyes, "I've figured out why it is that you are able to counter my every move..."

"Really now...?" Naruto blinked at Arashi, "If you're going to say because I'm beyond the level of any Hokage, then I'll just die of laughter."

Arashi chuckled, "It's so obvious, I should have realised it from the very beginning...He is inside of you as well, isn't he?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Naruto narrowed his eyes at Arashi and clutched his fists.

"He...My former self. Yondaime Hokage, who died over 15 years ago is trapped inside your body and wants to see me defeated by your hands." Arashi laughed slightly, "I can see it now!"

Naruto slightly lowered his head, but never moved his eyes away from Arashi's, "And how do you plan on defeating me, Arashi?"

"Listen, you piece of crap." Arashi grinned wickedly at Naruto, "If you think you have the advantage because you're residing in the Kyuubi's Jinchuuriki, you are wrong! I've become far more powerful than you ever were!"

"Oi...This guy has just gone completely crazy...hasn't he?" Naruto asked no one in specific, though he knew that the former Fourth Hokage, both soul and body, could hear him.

Arashi laughed and tilted his head back, "This is the best...I'll show you the power I've gained in death."

"The power you've gained in death?" Naruto asked and narrowed his eyes at Arashi.

"The legacy of the strongest demon that ever existed before he got sealed away!" Arashi exclaimed and red chakra burned around his body, "The chakra of the Kyuubi!"

"The Kyuubi's chakra?!" Naruto let out in surprise and slightly leaned back, "What the?!"

The chakra that surrounded Arashi's body rushed to the palms of his hands as he stretched his arms out to his side.
"Now...Naruto...Yondaime..." Arashi said as he stared into Naruto's eyes, "I'll show you the strength of the single person in the world who obtained demonic chakra without having a demon inside of him."

Naruto braced himself as Arashi leaned forward and the chakra in his hands turned into lightning.

"Now...let's go." Arashi grinned wickedly at Naruto before rushing towards him.

Naruto dodged to the right, just seconds before lightning struck the spot he was previously standing on. A second lightning bolt soon followed and Naruto could feel the heat of it near his feet.

The blonde shinobi ran in circles around the Akatsuki leader, hoping to find an opening to attack, but the attacks were too fast and Naruto had little choice but to keep on dodging them.

"Hahahaha! What's wrong?!" Arashi yelled as he raised his hands above his head, "You don't seem to be talking crap now, eh?!"

"How the hell did he get that bastard fox's chakra?!" Naruto thought as he dived away to evade the multiple lightning bolts Arashi shot at once.

"I don't know. Something else must've happened when my soul and Kyuubi's soul were rushed out through my body." Yondaime replied as Naruto kept on running and dodging.

"Hehehehe...I hate to say it, but your body is impressive...Yondaime Hokage..." The Kyuubi grinned widely inside of Naruto's mind.

"Thank you, though I'm not quite sure if hearing that now is a good thing..." Yondaime scowled as Arashi rose up from the ground and let a field of lightning bolts run over the ground.

Naruto groaned in agony as he was hit by the attack, but he could move again by the time the next attacks came.

"First of all, he survived my chakra rushing through his body...My chakra is probably the most agonizing venom in the world when it enters a wound, let alone your entire body. Not only that, but he managed to transmute his own chakra with the residue of my chakra into a mix between my chakra and his own." The Kyuubi stated and chuckled some more, "It's a good fake demonic chakra..."

"Fake?! Then, does that mean..." Naruto thought as he tried to get closer to Arashi. A lightning bolt send him back instantly, however.

"That chakra is not infinite...And it is just partly my great chakra..." The Kyuubi grinned widely, "He wouldn't last as long against me in this state as the others would..."

The lightning attacks stopped, but Naruto's trouble didn't as Arashi flashed over towards him and started to assault him with physical attacks. Naruto managed to counter some and throw in some attacks, but Arashi's moves were almost entirely different from before.

"Damn it...Damn it. Damn it!" Naruto thought as he tried his best to take on the Akatsuki leader, "How am I going to take him on now?!"

"You still have the advantage, Naruto...Even though his chakra might be part of Kyuubi's, you've got the real thing to wield." Yondaime stated.

"That's right...Release the seal, Naruto...I'll show him my grudge..." The Kyuubi replied and grinned widely.

"Shut up, bastard fox! I'll never release the seal!" Naruto replied.

"Calm down, Naruto...Lose your temper and you'll lose control." Yondaime told Naruto.

"I know that, but...!" Naruto replied, "What am I supposed to do now?"

"Perhaps we're approaching this the wrong way..." Yondaime thought as Naruto tried his best to fend off Arashi's attacks.

"Well, what's the right way then?" Naruto wondered as he blocked the knee that Arashi send for his stomach.

"Right now, you're fighting like you would and like how I would..." Yondaime stated.

"Oi...Do you have to do those lame punches and kicks here? It looks ridiculous when you fall down and no one is actually kicking your ass..."

"At least I can move around..." Yondaime retorted.

"And I could kick your ass with all my nine tails tied to my back, what's the difference?"

"Hey, I'm not the one who decided to take on the most powerful nation in the world only to be sealed inside an infant, mister I'm-too-big-for-my-prison."

"At least I can still pleasure the ladies with more than just my paws, unlike a certain soul present here..."

"You take that back right now! Just because I don't have one with me now doesn't mean I don't have one at all!"

"Sure...Believe what you want to believe..."

"Why you..."

"Will you two stop acting like an old married couple and help your host out?!" Naruto yelled in his mind as he tried as hard as he could to fight the Akatsuki leader, who relentlessly attacked him.

"Hey, don't look at me. I paid the rent already."

"I think I already know what you should do..." Yondaime told Naruto after pondering for a moment.

"Really?! Hurry up and tell me then!"

"Right now, you're fighting like yourself and me combined, but your forgetting about the things you can do with this guy's chakra." Yondaime motioned towards the Kyuubi.

"Oi...Don't 'this guy' me!"

"So what should I do?" Naruto wondered as he kept on fighting.

"Remember what I've told you...The Kyuubi is your weapon, so control it. Tap into his instincts and use his power under your control." Yondaime replied.

"That's right, brat...Let me take control of you and do the fighting...Just let your instincts slip away and mine take over..."

"Naruto, tap into his instincts but stay in control. You are his master and there's nothing he can do but to obey you."

"Hah! Hahahahaaaa! Nothing but obey him...? You must be joking..."

Naruto gritted his teeth and closed his eyes as there was finally a bit of a gap between him and Arashi.

"How naive..." Arashi said and grinned wickedly at Naruto, "Even with this distance, it's a mistake to close your eyes..."

Arashi flashed over towards Naruto and threw a punch at him, which Naruto caught effortlessly. He slightly turned his head so that he could face Arashi and opened his eyes, revealing slit pupils and blood red irises.

"I see...You let the demon take control of you, huh?"

"No...That bastard isn't controlling me one bit." Naruto said as the chakra that surrounded his body flared up.

Arashi threw another punch at Naruto, but the blonde effortlessly dodged it and countered with a punch that send the Akatsuki leader a couple of meters back. Naruto clutched his fists and let out a roar as his chakra flared up even more, this time resembling the demon fox way more than it did before.

"This guy..." Arashi muttered and grinned widely as Naruto went down on all fours and began to run towards him.

Halfway through the run, Naruto raised his left hand and a red claw lashed out towards Arashi. The Akatsuki leader managed to dodge it, but by the time he did, Naruto was already within range for his next attack.

Naruto slashed with his hands, which seemed more like claws at the moment due to the longer and sharper nails, and the Arashi dodged it along with the second attack that came from the chakra claws around Naruto's hands.

"Looks like he's combining the Kyuubi's chakra in his attacks now...Interesting guy...He keeps improving during the battle...But at this rate, he still won't be able to win in time..." Arashi threw a quick look at his ring before jumping up to evade Naruto's chakra arms.

Hinata dashed towards the gigantic black wooden statue she saw as fast as she could while remaining hidden from plain sight.

"Naruto-kun...Please be safe..." The Hyuuga heiress thought, "Don't let my inability to quickly take out some shinobi that followed me be your downfall..."

As she was nearing the statue, the sounds of battle became louder and clearer.

"I should wait until I see an opening to strike Naruto-kun's opponent..." Hinata nodded to herself, "Except when Naruto-kun is in real trouble. It doesn't matter what happens to me then...I'll put my life at stake for Naruto-kun's sake."

A few jumps and dashes later, Hinata was in an alley not too far from the statue. She took a deep breath as she didn't hear any sounds that indicated that they were still fighting.

Hinata leaned back against the wall and slid over to the centre of the alley, where she'd remain out of sight but still would be able to see a whole lot more.

"Byakugan." She whispered and a second later her improved sight allowed her to see what was going on, on the battlefield.

Hinata's mouth dropped open as she let out a gasp before pushing herself off the wall and running towards the street.

"Naruto-kun! Watch out for that jutsu!" Hinata called out the instance she saw Naruto with her normal sight.

"Eh...? Hinata?" Naruto turned his head around and blinked at the Hyuuga heiress, only to be hit by a lightning bolt the next second.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata let out as Naruto flashed between an x-ray image of himself and his normal looks before collapsing on the ground.

"Ooh...Now that's a rather shocking turn of events..." Arashi said as he looked at the hand he used to fire the lightning bolt.

"That was a cheap shot." Naruto stated as he stood up.

"Naruto-kun, are you all right?" Hinata asked, worrying about Naruto's condition.

"Yeah, I've taken harder hits than that..." Naruto replied, "But why are you here?"

"I...I've come to help you." Hinata nodded at Naruto.

"I see..." Naruto said as he turned around, "Then, get away from here as fast as possible."

"Eh?" Hinata gasped, "W-Why?"

"Little lady, don't misunderstand..." Arashi grinned wickedly, "This guy could use all the help in the world if he wishes to defeat me."

"I'll take you out with my own hands." Naruto replied and narrowed his eyes at Arashi.

Hinata bit her lip for a second and then struck her battle pose, "Naruto-kun, I won't leave you behind."

Naruto blinked at the Hyuuga girl and then let out, "Hinata, don't you understand?! This guy is at a completely different level from you. I don't have a lot of time to tell you, but this guy is at the level, if not beyond, of a Hokage."

"I already knew he was strong when I got here." Hinata replied and bit her lip again, "That red chakra that's covering you...It's because of a jutsu of his, isn't it?"

"Well...I guess you could say that." Arashi shrugged and smirked.

"No." Naruto replied, "This chakra is my weapon. It's an ancient, powerful and evil weapon that's been sealed inside of me. I try not to use it because it's hard to stay in control of myself when I actually use it, but this time I had no choice."

Hinata's eyes widened slightly as she looked at Naruto, "Naruto-kun's...weapon?"

"I'll explain it later. For now, head back and get back up from Tsunade-obachan or Ero-sennin. We've got to kill this guy before that black statue or whatever wakes up." Naruto told Hinata.

Hinata lowered her head, "Naruto-kun, what happens when that statue awakens?"

"...I will be killed...probably." Naruto narrowed his eyes at Arashi and readied himself to charge back into battle.

"I see." Hinata said just as Naruto was about to dash off, making him hesitate for a moment, "Then I have all the reason I need to not go back."

"If I'd go back to get more help for you and then return to find you..." Hinata gulped and took a few steps forward, "I...I would never forgive myself."

"Hinata...You..."

"That's why...I'm going to stay here and fight by your side, Naruto-kun." Hinata said as she entered her battle stance, "Naruto-kun, please watch me..."

The Hyuuga heiress tilted her head back and glared towards Arashi, "As I protect your life with everything I've got! Byakugan!"

As her bloodline trait activated and chakra enhanced her sight, Hinata let out a battle cry as she ran towards the Akatsuki leader.

"It's been a long while since I've last fought anyone with the Byakugan...However, at this level of skill and speed you're just a foolish girl rushing to your own death." Arashi said as Hinata rushed towards him.

"That guy..." Naruto's eyes widened momentarily before he hurried over towards Arashi and Hinata.

"Jyuuken!" Hinata let out as she thrusted her palm forward, aiming for Arashi's chest.

"Too naive." Arashi let out as he punched forward with a single kunai sticking out of his hand and a moment later, Hinata's face was partly covered in blood.

Hinata's eyes went wide and they slightly trembled, "N...Naruto-kun..."

Naruto pushed his hand further over the kunai and grabbed onto Arashi's fist, "You said it yourself, didn't you...?"

"This guy..." Arashi thought as he tried to get his hand out of Naruto's grip.

Naruto slightly turned his head, his crimson red eye meeting Hinata's silver ones, "You're going to stay here and fight by my side. Don't go off and rush into battle on your own then, silly girl."

"How did you know that I was aiming for her hand instead of a vital point?" Arashi asked Naruto coldly.

Naruto grinned wickedly at Arashi, "I'm already used to your thinking. You just want to disable her ability to fight and have her watch me fight you all by myself as she's unable to do so. Am I right?"

Arashi smirked, "Exactly."

"You bastard...You want to assault Hinata mentally like that...I'll never forgive you for that." Naruto's grip fastened on Arashi's fist.

"Foolish..." Arashi replied and his eyes then widened as he noticed chakra in Naruto's free hand, which started to spin around, "Rasengan?!"

Arashi rose his free hand and shot lightning at Naruto's arm, causing the blonde to let go of Arashi's hand just before he managed to reach him with the Rasengan. The Akatsuki leader quickly kicked Naruto's hand towards the ground and the impact the Rasengan made on the ground caused both sides to fly back a few meters.

"Hinata, are you alright?" Naruto asked as he stood up.

Hinata nodded in reply, "But, Naruto-kun..."

Naruto looked at the kunai stuck in his hand for a moment and winced as he pulled it out, "Yeah...Don't worry about me...A small wound such as this won't even face me."

"But, you're hand..." Hinata let out and then looked with wide eyes at Naruto's hand as the wound seemed to recover faster than the time it took for them to stand back up again.

"This isn't the time for talk. Right now we need to kill this guy." Naruto clutched his fist as he glared at Arashi, "And...please don't forget about my feelings either."

"N-Na-Naruto-kun's feelings?" Hinata blushed bright red, even though she knew that it probably wasn't the best of times to think about matters like this.

"If something were to happen to you, I'd never forgive myself." Naruto smiled at Hinata, "That's a promise that counts for the both us, right Hinata?"

Hinata smiled at Naruto and nodded once before turning her head back towards Arashi and glaring at him.

"My, my...And they say the bad guys talk until their demise...Well, for all I care you two go see a movie or something." Arashi shrugged, "Heck, why not make it an entire date? The more time you give me, the happier I am."

"Heh! I doubt you'll be that laid back when we're both fighting you!" Naruto stated and grinned at Arashi.

"We'll see about that..."

"Naruto...We're running out of time. Release the power of the fourth tail or you'll won't be able to make it in time." Yondaime told Naruto.

"That's right, Naruto...Unleash my fourth tail...Embrace yourself with my power...Fall into my grasp...I'll kill that person for you..." The Kyuubi stated and laughed maniacally.

"Yondaime...Sorry, but I can't do that...Ero-Sennin told me that three tails was my limit if I ever should fight with the Kyuubi's power. Going beyond that is something I can't control..."

"Naruto, this is the first time in a long while I've seen you doubt your own ability...If you really want to refrain from using it, then I suggest you use every single bit of power these three tails give you before it's too late..."

"Yeah...That's what I plan on doing now..."

"The fourth tail...it should be your last resort..."

"Yeah."

"Hinata..." Naruto whispered to the Hyuuga heiress.

"Yes?" Hinata replied, not taking her eyes of the opponent, "Naruto-kun, you have a strategy?"

Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head, "N-No, not at all. Unless you count just giving it everything you've got and beat the crap out of the opponent a real Shikamaru level strategy."

Hinata smiled at Naruto, "I like that plan."

"But...that's not what I wanted to tell you..." Naruto whispered and looked towards Arashi again, "This power...this weapon of mine...It has another release. But, I'm almost sure I'll be consumed by it so I'm saving it as a last resort. If I were to need to use that power...please, I beg of you, run away and don't look back until you've reached Ero-sennin and Tsunade-obachan."

Hinata looked with wide eyes at Naruto for a moment and then lowered her head and smiled softly, "Don't worry, Naruto-kun...We'll get through this together..."

"Oh come on! At least entertain me while making me wait a freaking hour..." Arashi announced.

Naruto smirked, "Sorry for the wait."

"Naruto-kun, let's go!"

"Yeah!"

Arashi smirked as the two Konoha shinobi rushed towards him, "A frontal attack carried out by two people is still a frontal attack..."

"The possibility of me getting hit is..." He narrowed his eyes as they came closer, "None."

"We'll see about that!" Naruto said as he dashed towards the right, "Let's go, Arashi!"

Naruto's tails darted towards the Akatsuki leader as Hinata dashed to the left. Arashi flipped back in order to evade the tails, only to end up within Hinata's attack range.

"Haaa!" The Hyuuga girl let out as she aimed at two pressure points in Arashi's back.

Arashi jumped up and formed a single hand seal, "Hitting me won't be that easy. Katon!"

Hinata quickly changed her stance as Arashi aimed at her, "Goukakyou no jutsu!"

"That jutsu is..." Naruto let out before pointing at Arashi with his hands. As the huge fireball headed down towards Hinata, the Hyuuga heiress started to rapidly spin around, creating a sphere of chakra around her, "Hakkeshou Kaiten!"

"Impressive...Hyuuga's main family jutsu...Could that girl be..." Arashi said as he slowly descended.

"Hurry up and get down here!" Naruto let out as his chakra arms reached out and grabbed onto Arashi's legs.

"Shit! I forgot about the abilities of his chakra!" Arashi thought as Naruto pulled him down, slamming him face first on the ground a moment later.

"Gotcha!" Naruto grinned as he held onto Arashi's legs with his chakra arms.

"Raiton..." Arashi muttered and next thing Naruto knew, lightning was running over his arms.

"D-Damn it..." Naruto said between gritted teeth as he tried his best to hold onto Arashi, but in the end he lost control over his chakra manipulation due to the high current of electricity.

Hinata didn't waste a single moment as she leaped towads Arashi and thursted her palm downwards, aiming for Arashi's chest. The Akatsuk leader quickly rolled out of the way and rose back up with a sweeping kick, sending the Hyuuga heiress to the floor.

Hinata pushed herself off the ground and leaped away from Arashi as Naruto's tails assaulted the Akatsuki leader again.

"Looks like I have to step my game up a bit while fighting two people at the same time...Very well then..." Arashi thought as he dodged Naruto's tail attacks.

As Arashi flashed away, Naruto's eyes went wide and he ran towards Hinata, "Hinata! Hurry up and move!"

"Eh?" Hinata turned towards Naruto for a moment and then jumped back. Naruto suddenly stopped in his tracks and when Arashi appeared in front of him with a fist against Naruto's stomach, it became appartent why.

"Understand my ways of thought, you said huh? Looks like you only grasped half of it." Arashi stated without so much as looking at Naruto.

"You really are an evil bastard." Naruto grinned slightly.

"That's right...Though you forgot the beautiful part." Arashi smirked as he shoved Naruto out of the way, "You did not do bad yourself, however."

"What are you talking about? This battle isn't over just yet..." Naruto replied as he stood up again.

"That's not what I was talking about." Arashi replied before he swiftly kicked a charging Hinata away, "Little lady, you should know the limits of your kekkei genkai. You aren't able to counter an attack that is faster than your eyes can see and happens within an instant."

"Why you..." Naruto said as he ran towards Arashi again. However, the Akatsuki leader had little trouble stopping him and tied his arms behind his back for a moment, "Look at that girl."

Naruto gritted his teeth and looked at Hinata as she slowly stood up.

"That perfect body, those nice legs, that soft silky hair and that insanely large rack of hers. You did quite well, if I say so myself. You can be proud to call yourself to man!"

Naruto mouth dropped open and looked in disbelief at Arashi, "O-Oi...What's up with the sudden change of personality?"

"What change? I'm just being me. So tell me, my boy...How is it to do it with her?" Arashi raised an eyebrow.

Naruto twitched for a moment and then tried to wrestle his way out of Arashi's grip, "Who the hell is telling you that I'm having sex with Hinata?!"

Hinata, who was trying to come to the blonde's aid, tripped over her own feet and fell back down on the ground when she heard those words.

"You aren't...?" Arashi blinked at Naruto. The blonde shinobi broke free from Arashi's grip and ran a bit towards Hinata before turning around.

"I'm not even of legal age yet! Besides, I know Hinata that thinks the same about that!"

"N-Naruto-kun..." Hinata blushed crimson, "I...I-I..."

"So?" Arashi tilted his head slightly.

"So?! Don't 'so' me!" Naruto let out.

"Then...Why in the world are you getting all fired up about?" Arashi looked questioningly at Naruto.

"Don't talk about Hinata like she's one of those cheap women Ero-Sennin pays to get his thing on!"

"My, my...I didn't do that. These days it's only normal for kids your age to start doing stuff." Arashi shook his head and looked at Naruto, "Also, I doubt she's cheap. Those implants must've cost quite the bundle."

Something inside Hinata's mind snapped just then, though it didn't become apparent to neither Arashi or Naruto.

"Why you..." Naruto let out before he let out a roar and send a wave of chakra towards Arashi. He had no trouble jumping over it and the Akatsuki leader shrugged as he landed.

"Honestly though...There's a small chance that a girl her age would have boobs that are that big. The chance for a Hyuuga to have them is non-existent. Besides, the Hyuuga are quite rich, so..."

"How...How dare you try to embarrass Naruto-kun and ridicule me and my family..." Hinata let out as a dark blue aura covered her.

"Hi-Hinata?" Naruto let out as he took a step back, "Aren't I supposed to be the one with the demon and all that stuff, oi?!"

"Yes, yes...I'm a prick, I know...That joke is becoming quite lame." Arashi sighed, "And? What can a pissed off girl possibly do to me?"

"Let's go, Naruto-kun!" Hinata let out.

"Y-Yes ma'am!" Naruto let out and before he realised it, Hinata had picked him up by the back of his vest.

"Eh?! Hinata! What are you...?!" Naruto yelled before Hinata threw Naruto towards Arashi with an insane amount of power, "Waaaah!"

"More importantly, how the hell did she become so strong?" Naruto wondered for a moment as he soared through the air.

"Reach out with your hands, Naruto-kun!" Hinata commanded.

"Oh, right!" Naruto pointed the palms of his hands at Arashi, "Rawr!"

Arashi blinked and jumped to the side, evading Naruto's attack, "Ehm...You know...Could you refrain from saying rawr? It sounds a bit..."

The Akatsuki leader stopped mid sentence and widened his eyes for a moment as Naruto hit the statue with his attack. An unholy roar emitted from the statue for a moment as a small bit of the wood was damaged from Naruto's attack.

"This..." Naruto looked at the statue for a moment and then at the small amount of damage his claws caused to the statue.

"Could it be that..." Hinata said and then flinched from a searing pain in her hands. She looked at them and her eyes trembled as she saw the burnmarks on her hands, "Naruto-kun's power does this much damage in only a few seconds...?"

Naruto raised his hands up and behind his head before swinging them down, sending a wave of chakra against the statue. Another roar came from the statue and Naruto grinned widely.

"This is bad..." Arashi muttered before flashing towards Naruto, who started to relentlessly assault the statue with everything he had.

Sadly for Naruto, he couldn't continue his assault when Arashi's leg connected with his face and send him flying back towards Hinata. Naruto quickly jumped up, "Hinata...I've got a plan. We're going to destroy that statue."

"A-Alright." Hinata nodded, "Na...Naruto-kun...I...I am sorry for throwing you just now..."

Naruto grinned widely, "That's alright, that guy can seriously piss off even someone as kind as you. Don't worry about it."

"But..." Hinata flinched and gritted her teeth.

Naruto glanced towards Hinata with slightly wide eyes, "Hinata...your hands..."

"I did something reckless, but don't worry...I can still fight on." Hinata said as she glared at Arashi.

Naruto nodded at the girl and then looked at his own hands, "Alright, but don't get too close to me."

"I understand..." Hinata said as she unzipped her jacket and took it off a moment later, "From here on out, there will be no mistakes."

"Oi! As much as I love a stripshow from a big breasted woman as the next guy, you're still underage, aren't you?" Arashi raised an eyebrow at Hinata, "That's just a bit too wrong for me."

Both Hinata and Naruto glared at the Akatsuki leader and Naruto clutched his fist, "This guy is really starting to piss me off."

Naruto's eyes widened and he just stared off into space for a moment before grinning widely, "I see...That's your plan, isn't it?"

"What are you talking about?" Arashi smirked at Naruto.

"Hinata, if it looks like I'm about to lose my temper...Please, try to calm me down." Naruto said as he kept his eyes locked on Arashi.

"Eh?" Hinata looked up in surprise at Naruto as she wrapped some of the fabric she had cut from her jacket around her hands.

"This guy is trying to piss me off and make me lose control of this power. So I'll try my best to ignore his taunting, but I want you to keep me in check just in case, alright?" Naruto explained.

Arashi shrugged, "You know, if I wanted it to get hotter here I'd gather some babes that are better looking than that girl and have them strip to their undies instead of trying to piss you off."

Hinata narrowed her eyes, "Naruto-kun...Our victory has almost been decided already."

"And what makes you say that, little girl?" Arashi grinned wickedly at Hinata.

"You fear Naruto-kun's power when he's in control of it. Now that Naruto-kun has figured it out that he needs to remain calm, you won't get to him." Hinata stated and then smiled at Naruto, "Isn't that right, Naruto-kun?"

"Yeah." Naruto smiled back at her, "She's like a totally different girl from the Hinata I knew two and a half years ago."

"So many assumptions, so little time to make all the witty remarks." Arashi sighed, "Life is hard when you're the bad guy whose purpose is to stall for as long as it's needed."

"Ready, Hinata?" Naruto threw a quick glance at the Hyuuga heiress, who nodded in reply, "Three, two, one..."

"Let's go." Hinata let out before she dashed together with Naruto towards Arashi.

"Make some noise! Oh wait..." Arashi frowned, "They said it in the wrong order...Also, all of this would be the next season...However, technically this is an altered timeline so it could have the same intro...Then again, do we even have an intro?"

The Akatsuki leader scowled as he crossed his arms, "Unfortunate that I won't find out until after all of this is done...Oh well..."

"I don't know what you're blabbering about, but if you want to make this easy for us, keep on doing it!" Naruto let out as he tried to punch Arashi.

"You're underestimating me, Naruto-kun." Arashi said as he simply tilted his head to avoid Naruto's punch.

"You reall think so, huh?" Naruto grinned at Arashi. The Akatsuki leader's eyes widened as he quickly turned his head around and found Naruto's chakra arm rushing towards the statue, "Shit..."

Arashi quickly formed a blade of chakra in his hands and flashed over towards the statue in order to parry the attack from Naruto's chakra arm.

"Now, Hinata!" Naruto called out as Naruto's chakra claw increased in size and grabbed onto Arashi.

"Haaa!" Hinata let out as she thrusted her palm forward when she neared the Akatsuki.

"Damn it, I got tricked..." Arashi thought as he tried his best to evade Hinata's attack. His best attempt failed however and Hinata struck his waist with her open palm.

Arashi gritted his teeth and quickly focussed more chakra into his chakra blade and cut through Naruto's chakra arm.

"Damn it." Naruto cursed as pain shot through his arm when the chakra reformed around it.

Hinata didn't waste her momentum when Arashi raised his blade up to pierce it through her and hit a pressure point on Arashi's wrist. The chakra blade disappeared almost immediately and Hinata continued her assault.

The Akatsuki leader staggered back, trying to get out of Hinata's range and form a counter attack, but Hinata kept on him. To further Arashi's troubles, Naruto was heading for him now as well.

"Foolish brats!" Arashi thundered as his eyes blazed momentarily with pure red chakra and an blast of chakra knocked Hinata and Naruto back.

The Akatsuki leader flashed away and a moment later reappeared in front of Hinata, bringing a knee to her stomach and followed that attack up with a punch in her face that send the girl flying away even further.

"Hinata!" Naruto called out as he managed to stop himself from flying away furhter by the previous blast wave.

"D-Damn..." Naruto muttered as he quickly turned and dashed towards Arashi.

The former fourth Hokage simply vanished again and reappeared behind Naruto, delivering a powerful kick to the blonde's ribs. Naruto groaned as he fell down onto his knees. He swiped around with his chakra claws, but the Akatsuki leader was too fast and send Naruto flying back with a kick to his face.

Arashi then flashed over towards Hinata and kicked her up from the ground, grabbing her by the collar of her shirt when she was within reach.

"You useless bitch." Arashi glared at Hinata before bringing a knee to her stomach. Hinata gasped for air and coughed up some blood.

"You think those weak Jyuuken style attacks..." The Akatsuki leader mercilessly punched Hinata in her face.

"Will work against somehow who knows how to control his tenketsu?!" He yelled at her as he let loose of her collar and brought a swift kick to the side of her head. The Hyuuga girl flew a few feet away and landed on the ground, where she coughed up come more blood.

"You son of a...!" Naruto roared as he send a fast and destructive wave of chakra towards Arashi and began charging towards him as well.

The Akatsuki leader's eyes met Naruto's for a moment before he flashed over to Naruto's position and kicked him towards Hinata.

"Go join her in the dirt, Jinchuuriki." Arashi growled at Naruto as he fell face down on the ground.

"I'll never forgive you for this..." Naruto said as he stood up again, "I'm your target, am I not? There was no need for you to attack Hinata like that, you cowardly bastard..."

Arashi took a few deep breaths and narrowed his eyes at Naruto, "I don't care about such a thing. The arrogance of you two annoyed me..."

"I'm going to tear you limb from limb and then shred those limbs into pieces small enough to be blown away by the wind..." Naruto stated as the chakra around his body started to turn into bubbles.

"Just try that, you pathetic shinobi."

Naruto looked at Hinata for a moment, "Hinata...Hang in there. For your sake, I'll kill this guy with everything I've got."

"Naruto...You're..." Yondaime said to Naruto.

"Yeah...I'll try...I can't make any promises about this though..." Naruto thought and heard the Kyuubi's laughter echo through his mind.

The Kyuubi's red chakra flared up around Naruto's body, the pressure of the air around Naruto slightly increasing as cracks appeared in the earth beneath his feet.

Naruto hunched over, the chakra claws around his hands extended as the bubbles of red chakra gathered next to Naruto's tails, slowly forming a fourth one.

His hair became more feral and had a tint of red around the edges as pieces of his skin started to rip off from his body and blend into the crimson red chakra surrounding his body.

"Looks like the fourth release is different from the others..." Arashi thought and threw a quick glance at the ring around his thumb, "It's almost time..."

Naruto clutched his fists and narrowed his eyes at Arashi as he forced his skin to repair it self. The fourth tail took it's complete form on and with it brought Naruto's strength to a whole new level.

"I'll definitely kill you...Arashi!" Naruto roared as his tails swept violently through the air.

"You did it, Naruto! You're controlling it." Yondaime told Naruto.

"Don't. talk. to. me. now." Naruto thought as he narrowed his eyes at the Akatsuki leader, who seemed to take something out of the sleeve of his robe.

Arashi revealed a kunai and smirked at Naruto, "Naruto-kun...This is my last kunai. This kunai will guarantee your defeat."

"Just try to cut me." Naruto growled before he slammed his fists, or rather claws onto the ground sending a blast of chakra towards Arashi and crumbling the earth beneath the path of chakra.

"I won't even have to cut you..." Arashi thought as he quickly dodged Naruto's attack.

A clone of the chakra that surrounded Naruto's body came from that chakra and raced towards the Akatsuki leader.

Arashi placed his hands against the blade of the kunai and pressed slightly before he pulled the kunai back by using his teeth. The Akatsuki leader threw the blood soaked kunai towards Naruto, slapped his hands together and managed to escape Naruto's other attack, the chakra clone, just in time. Naruto dodged the kunai and charged towards Arashi.

"If that kunai was your last chance at defeating me, then you just lost everything, Arashi!" Naruto roared as he crossed his arms in front of his chest, palms pointing towards the Akatsuki leader.

"That's where..." Arashi formed a single hand seal, "You are wrong."

Naruto froze on the spot, unable to move onward even though his body fought as hard as it could to press forward towards Naruto's target.

"A paralysis technique, huh? You won't stop me for long..." Naruto growled.

"You're mistaken again." Arashi formed another handseal, a sharp pain shooting through Naruto's body.

"Gaaah!" Naruto let out in agony as Arashi formed the next handseal, a burning sensation rushing through his body.

The Akatsuki leader formed six more handseals and each time a stronger, more agonizing pain shot through Naruto's body.

"This is your end...Naruto-kun..." Arashi said as he slowly changed his current handseal into another one, "Say goodbye to your life."

"I won't die..." Naruto growled and narrowed his eyes at Arashi, "I'll break free from this jutsu and make you meet your end..."

"The chance of your survival right now is smaller than you could possibly imagine...If you haven't realized it yet, this final seal will seal your fate." Arashi stated and closed his eyes.

Naruto laughed slightly, "Sorry, but I don't belief that fate can be sealed. I won't go back on my word. I'll definitely kill you."

"Sayonara...Naruto-kun..." Arashi said as he opened his eyes, staring straight into Naruto's angry eyes as he said the words that would complete the jutsu, "Shiki Fuujin...Kai!"

Naruto's eyes went wide when he heard those words. He could hear the Akatsuki leader laugh as chakra errupted from his body and created a vortex of crimson red chakra around him. Naruto's current sight faded away until he saw nothing but an endless space of white.