The hours passed in torturous slowness. The soldiers marched in agonizing unison, and the further they advanced, the more Naruto felt uncomfortable, the more he felt like doing something... doing what, he didn't know.
Constantly he found himself either trapped in his thoughts, or staring at the general further along with the man next to him. They were strangely quiet. At no time did the men look back to check on the convoy, at no time did they say anything since they started marching. In fact, Naruto felt as if they were purposely ignoring the soldiers, as if they didn't care.
At one point in their walk, they came close to a house, a farm, abandoned by the war times. Nothing that really drew attention, so Naruto just ignored it.
But the moment he crossed the farmhouse entrance, a sharp pain formed in his neck in the blink of an eye, as well as the feeling of something heavy on his shoulders, and for a few, measly moments, a melody played.
But just as quickly as those sensations appeared, they were gone. The blond man turned and looked at the farm with alarming eyes, and then he ran his gaze over his fellow soldiers. But none of them, not even Sasuke, seemed to feel what he felt.
Blinking a few times, he shook his head and continued walking. If not even Sasuke felt it, then it was probably just his mind playing tricks on him because of that strong feeling in his chest that something was wrong. Nothing had changed, no one had come forward.
It was nightfall, and they continued to march.
At first Naruto just remained quiet, but as the hours passed, the strange feeling grew that he had been caught in a trap. His ears began to burn, and he felt dizzy.
Scratching his nose, he then realized that it was bleeding. Not so much that it was almost unnoticeable. It was then, when he raised his eyes, that he realized that he had really been caught in a trap. The sky was black, the forest looked dead, the moon had turned red, and the ground was cracked, as if it had been broken by something.
He stopped marching, watching the soldiers continue to walk as if in a trance, their eyes fixed ahead. His nose began to bleed more intensely, and his ears burned more fiercely.
His head spun, and he staggered as he heard a loud melody in the back of his mind, sweet, soft, calm. He was dizzy, his hands immediately going to his ears as the melody increased and became more aggressive to the point of becoming almost deafening.
Gritting his teeth, Naruto growls and brings his hand to the back of his neck after feeling something move behind him. His hand covered by the gauntlet grabbed something, and immediately, he threw whatever the thing was at the ground and stomped heavily.
The sound of something breaking, along with the typical crushing sound, caused the soldiers to stop walking, and confused groans echoed soon after.
Fierce blue eyes stared at the pool of blood beneath his foot, running the entire length of the small body of something resembling a giant parasite crushed into the ground. The thing's tentacles were still moving, even though its body was nothing more than a heap of goo and blood.
His mind raced and his heart beat faster. He had never seen that creature, much less heard of anything like it.
His neck ached, and he brought his hand up to the place previously inhabited by that thing, widening his eyes slightly as he felt a wound, a mark, similar to marks made by red-hot blades, embedded in his flesh.
"Sasuke!" He shouted, turning around and looking for his companion, however, he could not find him. Choji, Sasuke, Sakura, they were no longer near him, only soldiers he had seen once or twice in camp.
Soldiers who, although they seemed to have woken up from some trance, still seemed to be under the effect of something.
Slowly, that same parasite that was on his neck began to appear on the necks of each of the men, as if they were being formed out of pure nothingness, rising from the air. Each parasite was wrapped around their necks with teeth embedded in their flesh.
Naruto immediately picked up his sword and looked at the general, who to his surprise, was no longer in the same place. In fact, he was nowhere to be found, as if he had simply disappeared, swallowed up by the darkness of the place lit only by a few torches.
Grabbing a knife from his waistband, Naruto begins killing all the parasites present on the soldiers' necks. "Oe, Choji! Sakura!" He called out for his companions as he did so, ignoring the confused and pained groans of the soldiers, as well as the questions that came right after they woke up from that trance, so to speak.
A noise similar to a cannon shot caught his attention, and as he turned around, Naruto's eyes widened, and in pure reflex, he dodged a small beam of red colored light that advanced towards him, and hit one of the soldiers standing nearby. In fact, several beams of light streamed through the place, hitting the men in various regions of their bodies.
The ground began to shake, and slowly, the soldiers began to float upwards. Naruto watched this with wide eyes and his hands tightly gripping the handle of his sword.
The soldiers who were freed by Naruto groaned and screamed as their bodies floated higher and higher, until they all stopped suspended in the air at least ten feet off the ground.
The blood-red moon began to glow, and black tomes slowly spread across its expanse, forming a kind of design. An eye, similar to Sasuke's sharingan, but with a design of a shuriken, or something similar to that.
"Naruto!" Sasuke's call made Naruto turn around, and he ran towards his companion. His Sharingan was activated, and his eyes stared with a certain amount of fear at a point further ahead.
As Naruto approached, his eyes stared at the same spot as Sasuke. The ground ahead began to crack more and more, forming lines that resembled a giant symbol.
Soon, the ground began to break and rotate as the entire ground sank. A red light and intense heat emanated from the huge hole that was forming. Screams echoed through the place and the smell of sulfur spread.
Naruto felt his throat close up and his chest hurt even more. Screams of pain and agony echoed through his mind with such intensity that it seemed that he was in the middle of the source of the screams... or rather, that he was the reason those poor souls were screaming.
A whirlwind of stone and fire formed, and a red cloud with faces formed in its composition rose up into the dark sky, forming a pillar of faces in pure despair, moaning and screaming.
The two men moved away from the huge pillar that emanated enormous heat to the point of melting the armor of nearby soldiers, who little by little were sucked into the pillar and joined the faces, their screams mingling with the others.
"What the fuck is going on?!" Naruto asked as he saw black hands emerge from the ground and grab the floating soldiers, pulling them down and sinking them into the ground, until shortly after, their faces appeared on the pillar and their screams echoed along with the other souls. "I don't... Sakura!" Sasuke shouted as he saw the woman, who was also floating, being grabbed by one of the black hands.
Naruto widened his eyes and quickly threw his sword towards the black arm, cutting it in half and causing it to return to the ground. Sasuke moved forward soon after, running up to Sakura who had fallen to the ground.
"Sakura! Are you okay?" He asked as he approached, lifting her by the shoulders and propping her upright. The pink girl looked as if she hadn't even heard what he had said, like the other guards, she was in some kind of trance, and her cloudy eyes stared into nothingness.
Gritting his teeth, Sasuke took his knife and killed the parasite that was on the woman's neck, and backing up when she moaned in pain and almost fell again, putting her hands to her ears as if she was close to an extremely loud noise.
"Sakura. Come on, can you hear me now!?" He asked again, rocking her slightly and looking at her face that slowly expressed something other than that empty expression.
The woman's emerald eyes focused on Sasuke, and then on Naruto, to ultimately race around her surroundings and widen in surprise, fear, and confusion. "Sasuke... what...? Where are we? What happened?!"
He helped her straighten her posture and sighed, looking at Naruto for a few moments before looking around. "I don't know. Where is Choji? Have you seen him?!" He asked, and she shook her head.
"No... I don't... what happened? What...? I don't..." She tried to say, but was interrupted when more black arms emerged from the ground, and they all grabbed a part of her body.
Sasuke acted quickly and attacked the arms in front of him, severing them at incredible speed, but the more he attacked, the more arms emerged from the ground and held Sakura's body.
Naruto took the lead and focused on severing the arms in place of Sasuke, who, noticing his friend, put his sword in its sheath and grabbed Sakura by the waist, pulling her towards him.
The pink girl moaned in pain from the strong grip of the arms that mutilated the places of the armor they touched, and her arms entwined Sasuke's neck that was pulling her with all his strength.
Soon, the arms not only grabbed Sakura's body, but also, began to grab Sasuke's legs and arms, lifting them both into the air.
Naruto gritted his teeth and spun his body at great speed, taking on the appearance of a blond hurricane, severing all the surrounding arms that held the bodies of his two companions.
Sasuke used his sword to cut off the arms that were not hit by Naruto, and soon, he found himself falling with Sakura clinging to his neck.
However, still in the air, one of the black hands attacked him. In reflex, Sasuke defended himself with his sword, but his body was violently thrown to the ground.
Naruto ran towards him, but changed his trajectory when he saw a huge hand, much larger than the others, advancing towards Sakura at an incredible speed. Gritting his teeth, Naruto flexed his arm that held his sword, knowing that he would not be able to reach the pink girl before that arm grabbed her.
The muscles in his arm tensed, and he threw his blade toward the huge black arm. But to his surprise, his sword simply bounced against the black skin, being hurled in the opposite direction, and his eyes watched with great disbelief as one of the fingers of the arm pierced Sakura's back, impaling her.
The pinky screamed in pain, not very loudly, but a scream filled with agony as her green eyes watched in terror as the huge black finger pierced her body.
"Sakura!" Naruto shouted, to his surprise, with desperation in his voice. His body moved on its own, and he ran as fast as he could towards the woman, who was being carried towards the pillar of faces.
Naruto gritted his teeth and felt the despair in his chest increase as black arms held him down. They did not pull him to the ground as they did other bodies, but simply held him down, preventing him from advancing toward the woman.
An animalistic roar escaped his throat, and Naruto ripped his arms from the ground, staining the underside of his armor with black blood. The further he advanced, the more of those arms appeared to hold him back, but they were all brutally ripped from the ground, or torn by the blond's incredible brute strength.
Although they weren't enough to stop him, the arms were enough to slow him down.
Sasuke then took advantage of the arms being focused on Naruto and ran towards Sakura as fast as he could. But further ahead, a wall of black arms appeared, impeding his passage. His eyes widened and his sharingan glowed red, his expression reflecting the enormous despair in his chest.
Not far away, Naruto was grabbed by a huge black arm, smaller than the one holding Sakura, but bigger than the others, and was thrown violently away. His body bounced on the ground a few times, until he was supported by Sasuke, who helped him up. "Argh! Fuck!"
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah. Holy shit, anything that eye of yours can do to get through those things?" Naruto looked at the spot where his sword was, now covered by the army of arms emerging from the ground.
"Actually, yes. As soon as it's time, you go after Sakura." Sasuke said, moving away from Naruto quickly and giving the blond no time to respond.
He walked a few feet to the side, and soon, took a deep breath. His sharingan began to glow brightly, and his three tomes began to spin. The air around him became hot and a strong unusual wind gust surrounded him.
Naruto stared in surprise and even awe as the inside of Sasuke's mouth began to glow, like the light of a fire in the middle of the darkness. And to make him even more incredulous, he almost screamed in surprise when Sasuke literally spat a fireball towards the wall of arms, like a bloody dragon.
An explosion of fire happened further ahead where the flames spread across the place after joining with the strong gale, engulfing the other arms in its heat.
Naruto blinked a few times, still surprised that his companion literally spat fire. But, he soon came back to reality when he saw that the affected arms receded to the earth, giving him the necessary passage.
Quickly, he ran towards the huge black arm further ahead, now dangerously close to the face pillar with a weak Sakura still impaled on his finger.
The arms struck by flames began to resurface again, and Naruto gritted his teeth as he found himself increasingly engulfed by the large number of arms.
In a moment, he jumped on one of the open hands emerging from the ground and let himself be lifted up, breaking the fingers of that hand and preventing it from grabbing his legs.
The arm he was on wriggled violently as he broke those black fingers, reacting to the pain, and he was soon thrown to the side. Gritting his teeth again, he recovers still in the air and uses another arm with momentum to throw himself forward, stabbing his knife into the side of the following arms and propelling himself forward, jumping from arm to arm until he was close enough to his goal.
"Sakura!" Naruto roared as he jumped again, now very close to the huge arm that impaled the pink woman. The woman looked at him weakly, blood dripping down the side of her mouth. She extended her arm weakly towards Naruto, who did the same in the hope of being able to grasp her hand.
Before he could reach her, however, still in midair, a creature appeared in front of him. Naruto's eyes widened as he recognized that face, those yellow eyes extremely similar to the ones he saw in that lake while having sex with Tayuya.
An animalistic smile formed on the creature's distorted face. Naruto's cheeks inflated, his eyes widened even more and saliva dripped from his mouth as the creature landed a powerful punch to his stomach, strong enough to throw him violently backwards until he crashed into the twisted trees of the black forest, destroying them and raising a cloud of dust as his body hit the ground.
"Naruto!" Sasuke shouted, but soon, his concern for his friend faded as another scream echoed through the place. Turning around, he widened his eyes as he saw Sakura being absorbed into the pillar of faces. The woman's scream seemed to echo even louder than the screams of pain and agony of the faces already present in that pillar.
Sasuke's voice failed, his trembling lips babbled disconnected things, his restless and equally trembling eyes just stared at the weeping, agony-filled face of Sakura, now another of the faces present in that hellish pillar.
"No..." Was all he could whisper, just before he was violently grabbed by the neck and lifted into the air. Sasuke gritted his teeth and groaned in pain, putting his hands on the arm that was holding him and trying to free himself from that grip.
"Oh, Uchiha cub, and to think you caused so much trouble for us." The thick male voice made Sasuke's body shiver as he recognized it, and his eyes went wide.
Ignoring the pain, he faced the man... or rather, the creature that lifted him into the air.
"Kisame." The man smiled, and with great force, hurled Sasuke to the ground.
Sasuke groaned in pain as he felt the ground beneath him, as well as his armor, crack.
"Who knew that the weak little boy in the organization would be the one to disrupt Orochimaru's plans. You've gone a lot further than we thought, I admit." Kisame said, without letting go of his neck, laughing lightly as Sasuke took his sword and stabbed it into his stomach. Something that, to his surprise, didn't seem to have any effect.
"But it's still very weak. Your sharingan is a joke. It's a waste for such a gift to be lodged in your body." Kisame stepped closer, looking deep into Sasuke's red eyes.
"I could kill you now...but Orochimaru won't-" Kisame was violently interrupted by a strong punch that hit him in the side of the face. Sasuke could see the surprise in his expression just before he was thrown brutally to the side.
The brunette coughed a few times, but quickly stood up and looked at Naruto. The blond had the center of his armor destroyed, blood dripping down the side of his mouth, his torso accompanying his heavy breathing. But his eyes glowed with such intensity that they seemed to illuminate the dark places he stared into. They burned in a blue fire so strong that it rivaled the brightness of his sharingan.
His muscles were tensed, showing every fiber of his body beneath the still intact parts of his armor, a way he always looked when he was in a fight that was entertaining him or in a life-and-death battle.
His red eyes then turned to Kisame, who stood up half staggering further ahead, but with a smile still present on his face deformed by Naruto's punch. "Hehehe, they warned me about you. Looks like the rumors of your strength weren't just rumors after all."
After Kisame stood up, to the surprise of both men, instead of him walking toward them, he began to walk away. The torches near him went out, and soon, he was swallowed up by the darkness of the place.
Naruto and Sasuke narrowed their eyes, still staring at the point where he had disappeared, until they widened their eyes when two shadowy entities advanced towards them.
It was as if they were two beings made of shadow, in a blackness as intense as the dark sky itself, and it was impossible to see any features or anything that reminded them of normal humans.
One of the forms was slightly larger than the other, and more corpulent. However, the other was extremely faster to the point of making it difficult for Sasuke, even with his Sharingan activated, to see its movements.
In pure reflex, Sasuke defended himself from an attack by the smaller shadow, gritting his teeth as he felt his body being thrown back a few inches due to the force present in the blow. Although small, it was a strong shadow.
Next to him, Naruto dodged an attack from the larger shadow, which wielded something similar to a huge axe also cloaked in shadows. The power of that axe's swing was so strong that a strong gust of wind emanated from its movement, forcing Naruto to move away as the shadow attempted a vertical attack from top to bottom in his direction, smashing the axe into the ground.
Quickly, Naruto moved toward the shadow and used his arms still holding the axe as momentum to hurl himself toward its head and hit the shadow with a powerful punch to its face.
However, the blow, though clearly strong, seemed to have no effect on the shadow, and it countered by grabbing Naruto by the torso and throwing him to the ground. The shadow raised the huge axe ready to deliver a fatal blow to the blond, but Sasuke was faster and pierced the side of his body with his sword.
The shadow cancelled its attack, and just turned its expressionless head towards Sasuke, attacking him immediately afterwards as if it hadn't had the slightest effect, although, blood dripped from the wound.
The smaller shadow jumped towards him and hit him in the face with a punch, running into the darkness of the forest soon after in order to hide for his next attack.
Sasuke groaned slightly as he recovered from the blow, and then threw himself backwards, dodging an axe blow from the larger shadow.
The shadow, seeing that it had missed, prepared to strike again, but Naruto jumped on its back and stabbed his knife into the side of the shadow's neck, which staggered sideways with Naruto still on its back as it roared something that sounded like a distorted cry of pain.
The blond pulled out his knife and leaped away as the smaller stature shadow advanced toward him. The moment Naruto dodged the small shadow's attack, however, Sasuke hurled his sword at the dark being, its hilt wrapped in chains of fire attached to the forearm of his armor, piercing the shadow's body still in the air and pulling it toward him.
Quickly, Naruto moves towards the small shadow that managed to free itself from the sword, and with a powerful hook, Naruto throws it upwards.
Sasuke also advanced towards him and leaped upwards, striking a sharp blow at the shadow still in the air.
To the surprise of both men, although the shadow was hit by the blow, it grabbed Sasuke's sword with one of its arms, and with the other, pointed its hand towards Naruto. Soon, its arm lengthened rapidly, as if it were made of rubber, and strongly grabbed Naruto by the neck.
Turning its body, the shadow threw the two men against each other, which was enough to stun them for a few moments, long enough for the larger shadow to attack them both with its axe.
Sasuke's eyes widened and he took the lead, his Sharingan glowing brightly and the tomes spinning at an incredible speed. His hand was on the hilt of his sword, and his eyes watched the rapid movement of the axe toward him.
With a swing as fast as the shadow, Sasuke uses his sword, taking advantage of his opponent's strength against himself, and deflecting the attack, making the axe go upwards and preventing both him and Naruto from being cut in half.
For him, it was all done in slow motion, but for Naruto, it was just a blink of an eye. That was not the speed that Sasuke normally demonstrated on the battlefield. It was too fast for his eyes to keep up.
The small shadow attacked again, aiming precisely at Sasuke's face. However, Naruto acted faster and grabbed the small creature still in the air, holding it firmly by the neck. Sharp attacks seemed to have no effect, and he doubted that simple punches and kicks would do any damage.
Naruto clicked his tongue, and with great force, hurled the creature toward the larger shadow, causing it to cancel its axe attack and stagger back a few steps from the impact.
Sasuke acted quickly, jumping and spinning his body in the air. In one swift and precise movement, he severed the head of the larger shadow, watching with fixed eyes as the huge body fell to the ground next to his huge axe.
Naruto grabbed the smaller stature shadow again, and with enough force and brutality, broke the shadow's neck to the point where it turned its head the other way. The sound of breaking bones echoed through his ears, and the shadow fell to the ground.
Both men stared slightly breathlessly at the shadows, wondering what those things were, until reality hit them, and they turned to the pillar of face that had already finished sucking in all the soldiers there.
Their eyes fell on Sakura's face, and they both stood still, staring at her with a certain amount of regret, Sasuke being the most affected. His fists were clenched and he gritted his teeth hard, anger in a mixture of sadness.
"Oh... Sakura..." Naruto whispered her name, looking away soon after, feeling strangely concerned about a person in which was not Ryuzetsu. "What the fuck is that?" He asked, looking at Sasuke hoping for an answer.
"...What you see there, that hole in the ground, is the world of demons, the world of the supernatural." Naruto stared at the hole through which the pillar of faces stood with narrowed eyes.
"Or rather, a part of that world. As I explained to you, there are portals, ways to make the two worlds interfere with each other." Sasuke continued, looking away from Sakura's expression in agony, unable to face her any longer.
"Right, okay, so... does that mean that... thing did that?"
"No... I know him, his name is Kisame, one of Orochimaru's trusted men. He-"
"I don't care who he is, what he does, what he doesn't do, whether he's human or a fucking demon. Why is this shit happening?!" Naruto growled, feeling anger instead of sorrow as he looked at Sakura's face on the pillar.
Sasuke beside him closed his eyes with some force, his body was shaking and his fists were clenched with great strength.
"...It's one of Orochimaru's plans. He wants to make the two worlds coexist. He and his army are accustomed and strong enough to deal with demons. If these creatures inhabit the world of humans, no place outside the kingdom of sound will be safe." Naruto stared at him with wide eyes and a paralyzed body, feeling his voice fade as Sasuke's words echoed through his mind.
"Do you understand now? Under normal conditions, the country of fire would beat the country of sound without any problem, but they didn't count on using chakra, and - "Sasuke was interrupted when Naruto was brutally thrown far away, so fast that he barely had time to react.
He tried to grab his sword, however, he was soon grabbed by the neck and thrown forward.
A huge circle formed between the black arms, and Sasuke groaned as his arms were pressed behind his back.
Beside him, Naruto was being thrown to the ground, with chains holding him down over most of his body, being forced to his knees by men familiar but whom Sasuke didn't want to remember.
"Heh, you guys got rid of our friends faster than I thought." Kisame said with his typical animalistic grin, glancing at Naruto, who was recovering from the heavy blow he received.
Just behind the man, the bodies of the shadows were sloppily thrown to the ground, and some people spread out, apparently standing in a predetermined position.
"But it was long enough." Kisame approached Sasuke and punched him hard in the stomach, glaring at the brunette who was bowing from the blow.
"Enough of this shit, Kisame. I want to get this over with." The general's characteristic voice made itself present behind Kisame, who just backed away while still looking at Sasuke.
Both men looked at the general, who now, had a different expression, as did his hair. A crimson red painted his messy strands.
"Hehehe, I've heard quite a bit, you know? Stories about how brave you are, how you were able to break a chain with your bare hands. You possess a strength capable of splitting men in full armor in half." Kisame turned to Naruto, forcing him to look him in the eye as he held him firmly by the hair.
"But looking at you, now, I think-" Kisame was interrupted when Naruto headbutted him in the face, and quickly threw himself in his direction.
The blond couldn't use his arms, but he could use his teeth, and with one strong bite, he violently ripped the side of Kisame's neck off. Blood gushed from his new wound, and his hand immediately went to his neck as Naruto was knocked to the ground again, just after spitting the flesh out of his mouth.
"Idiot, I told you to stop that." The general complained, shaking his head as he faced Kisame with a hard stare. "Hehe, I guess it was my fault." Kisame replied, pulling a bottle of water from his pocket and dumping the liquid on his neck.
Naruto widened his eyes, hardly believing it when the wound on Kisame's neck healed almost instantly with the pouring of the water.
Kisame noticed and his smile widened. His hand massaged his neck smugly. "Brand new. Hehe."
Kisame turned away and stood beside the general, who just sighed and crossed his arms as his eyes stared at both Sasuke and Naruto, pausing on the blond for a while.
"... The resemblance really is remarkable." He said, causing Naruto to stare at him with burning, slightly confused eyes. "Tayuya wasn't lying." The mention of the woman's name made Naruto stand up suddenly and widen his eyes, ignoring the men forcing him to his knees.
"Where is she?! What you-" He was interrupted by a sharp punch to his face from one of the men beside him, soon after having his hair grabbed.
"I didn't do anything to Tayuya. Why would I do something to my own sister?" The man said, and again, Naruto's eyes widened. His mouth went ajar and every muscle in his body tensed. His gaze alternated between the general and Kisame, the question clear in the blue of his stare.
"What... what do you mean by that?" The question made the general just sigh and Kisame chuckle lightly as he looked at a specific spot, just behind Naruto.
Soon, the blond felt a hand squeeze his shoulder, and as he turned around, he is confused, relieved and slightly suspicious to see the said woman right next to him.
However, the confusion soon faded, the relief soon went away as well, and the distrust grew to the point where it became confirmed. Naruto was speechless when Tayuya's body changed, her skin became darker and horns grew on her head.
His voice was gone, his previously tense body simply collapsed and his trembling eyes would not leave the woman's demonic face.
Seeing him, Tayuya just smiled, patting him on the shoulder a few times just before walking towards Sasori.
"Tayuya... you... you were behind this?" His voice came out low, but the woman seemed to listen, as she soon turned and smiled in his direction, confirming something he already knew. Soon, Naruto's mind was flooded with the conversations, the touches, and all the moments they had spent together, which even though they had only lasted a month, were already part of an important place in his mind and in his heart.
Only for him to know that they were nothing but lies.
"You... you betrayed us!?" Sasuke shouted, looking at the woman in a mixture of anger and disbelief. "After all our years together! Fuck, Sakura's fucking dead! She was your best friend!" He shouted again, struggling against the men holding him back and staring at the unchanged face of Tayuya, who just crossed her arms at the general's side.
"It seems you have misunderstood. Sakura considered me her friend, but at no time did I consider her the same. She was bearable at best." She said in a cold voice, a huge contrast in a place so close to fire.
Sasuke's eyes widened and he became quiet. His voice wouldn't come out and in his mind, he remembered all the moments they had spent together since meeting the woman.
"All that..." This time, Naruto who started to say. "All that time... was that a lie? All that?" His blue eyes stared into the woman's yellow eyes with sadness. Sure, there was sadness, he had really enjoyed and appreciated that time they had spent together, not just the sex. The woman's company made him feel good, made him feel like he had something worth having. Something he had never felt since Temari died, or with anyone other than Ryuzetsu.
However, there was also anger. Anger that was slowly growing in his chest, accompanied by the characteristic voice that always accompanied him in the back of his mind. A voice that he thought had disappeared after so long of not hearing it.
"Oww, don't be like that. If it's any consolation, our sex really did have meaning. You are a great partner. One of the best I've had in all these decades." Tayuya smiled as she saw Naruto's expression become darker with her words, and especially when Kisame grabbed her ass without any delicacy. And even though the woman didn't like him doing something like that in public, she allowed it.
"You didn't think you were the only one fucking her, did you? Hehe, you're not that special. A woman like this wouldn't just stay with only one man." Kisame said, running his hand down Tayuya's breast, before turning away from her after hearing the general's grumbling. "Come on, Sasori, you should have gotten used to it by now, hehehe."
The one Sasori just shook his head, and again, sighed. "Can we just wait for Orochimaru's arrival quietly? I hate waiting, and my patience is almost at an end." Those words sounded like threats, and Kisame raised his arms as he slowly walked away from the woman, although his expression did not show an ounce of fear.
"I don't like to wait either. That's why I'd like to do something more... interesting." Kisame approached Naruto, smiling as he saw the blond's head lowered. "I've had to watch my girl get fucked by another man for the entire month... nothing fairer than for him to have to see the same."
Kisame said in clear provocation, but to his surprise, Naruto just laughed. The blond man raised his head as he laughed scornfully, looking with complete disdain and cockiness into Kisame's yellow eyes.
"Is that so? You were forced to watch me fuck your woman? Hahahaha, how did you feel? You saw me make her moan my name. You watched me make her feel like a woman and at no point remember you. And you still feel the courage to call yourself a man? Pff. You... are pathetic." Just after he finished saying those words, Naruto was violently thrown backwards by another punch coming from Kisame, hitting him hard in the stomach, breaking the chains by the heavy impact of the blow as the blond's body was thrown towards the wall of black arms.
"Argh, you idiot! What do you think you're doing?!" Sasori complained, looking harshly at Kisame, who just continued with his expression unchanged. "Really, Kisame? Damn, you asked for it, I told you to stop. What are you going to do about Orochimaru if you've killed him?"
Kisame just snorted. "If he's as strong as we heard, he's not going to die for it. Not to mention, he was begging for a punch."
"No, you idiot, you're the one who was asking for a humiliation. If anyone's to blame, it's you."
Kisame grumbled, turning to Sasori with an annoyed look on his face.
"I can't control myself when someone weaker than me teases me. And I don't need to hear from some random guy how much he-" Kisame, this time, was the one who was interrupted after being violently thrown backwards by a powerful punch coming from Naruto, now free of his chains, to the surprise of everyone there.
Nobody saw when he moved to attack Kisame.
The man was brutally thrown back, but before he could get too far, Naruto grabbed him by the arm and pulled him towards him, landing another punch to his face, followed by a knee to his stomach.
Grabbing his knife, Naruto plunged his blade into Kisame's chest, taking the opportunity to grab another vial of water he had and throw it away. In one swift motion, Kisame tries to counterattack, but Naruto dodges, grabs his arm and in one swift, brutal motion, breaks Kisame's arm.
Naruto didn't stop there. The muscles of his body were all tensed, showing every fiber of his body, and his blue eyes radiated fiery blue flames. Slipping Kisame, Naruto grabs one of his legs and also breaks it to the point of making the tip of the bone go through his flesh.
One of the men tries to attack him at incredible speed. So fast, that Naruto only had time to turn around and protect himself with his arms before he was thrown again. But to the surprise of his attacker, this was part of his plan.
Ducking, Naruto picks up his sword and lunges towards the man, just as fast as before. His opponent's eyes widen in surprise and he tries to attack him, but Naruto easily dodges and with one swift vertical movement, cuts his opponent in half.
Taking advantage of his momentum, he spins his body around while lifting his sword upwards, attacking Kisame with a diagonal slash from top to bottom.
Kisame's eyes widened at such speed, and he just stared at the huge blade approaching his body.
However, to the surprise of everyone there, Naruto's sword was deflected by another blade, also of colossal size. The blond was surprised by this, especially as he felt his body being thrown to the ground, and the extremely familiar blade being pressed against his chest.
"As far as I know, Kisame, Tayuya warned you about your opponent's abilities. And yet, you were almost killed. This is the second time I have saved your life." The thick male voice made Naruto glare fiercely at the man, looking away from the sword against his chest.
Long dark hair, stiff features, a scar on his chin... but what caught the attention, were the eyes similar to Sasuke's, but that instead of tomes, there was a drawing and black of three magatamas running sticking to each other.
"Mister Madara... Mister Orochimaru." He heard Sasori say, but his mind just ignored those words, alternating his gaze between those eyes, and the sword.
That, just before another man appeared in his line of sight. Pale skin, dark hair, thin pointed teeth, and yellow viper-like eyes.
Eyes that stared at him critically and analytically, intense to the point where Naruto felt completely exposed.
"So that's Minato's son...the resemblance is astonishing." Orochimaru said, his rough voice making Naruto's body protest in disgust.
The man moved a few steps closer, and crouched down next to Naruto, never looking away.
"Hm... hardly any resemblance to his mother. Unlike Tayuya." He said, already getting up, being followed by Naruto's fierce, and confused look.
"... What?" he asked a little breathlessly, and Orochimaru stared at him for a while longer.
"I suppose Tayuya didn't tell you... disgusting as usual." He looked at the woman, who only smiled slightly and feigned innocence. "What do you know about your mother?" Orochimaru asked, looking back at Naruto.
"... Nothing. It doesn't matter." He said in a growl, causing Orochimaru to snort in amusement.
"It doesn't matter, you say. But I think otherwise. Your mother, Kushina, was a pretty special woman." Orochimaru put his hands behind his body, looking at Naruto with eyes in a strange... almost sickening amusement.
Naruto couldn't look away, both from staring at Orochimaru angrily, as if he were prey, and from curiosity. What did he know about his parents? Even if they had died a long time ago, in a way, that was part of his history, a hint of curiosity, however small, was inevitable.
"I met her when she was still a child. A very resistant child. Too resistant. Different. Born from a woman who contracted the plague. A hair of unique color, red as blood. So I decided to take her with me. Later, her body became my source of knowledge."
Naruto grimaced, not understanding where Orochimaru was going with that.
"Kushina was one of the first women to be able to give birth to children capable of using chakra." Orochimaru smiled as Naruto's eyes widened, knowing what that meant, and with memories of the blood prison invading his mind.
His throat closed and his lips became dry. His body began to tremble and his fists clenched.
"No..." He whispered.
"Oh, yes. And you know what?" Orochimaru crouched down beside him, still staring him in the eye. "Your father, Minato, wasn't the only one to have a child with her."
Naruto stopped breathing as he stared at Orochimaru with trembling eyes, those words repeating over and over in his mind, and the sickening smile of the man in front of him causing every cell in his body to feel uncomfortable.
It didn't take a genius to understand. And the answer was in the red.
Crimson red... the color of blood.
The color of Kushina's hair.
The color of Tayuya's hair.
"Was it good to fuck your own sister?"
Shit just went from 0 to 100 really fucking quick. Next chapter, the end.