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Thinking (+ flashbacks, "Naruto speaking to Kurama in her mindscape," etc.)
Emphasis
Bijuu, etc. speaking
Bijuu, etc. thinking
Important A/N: PLEASE CONSIDER THIS PART 1 OF THIS CRAZY CHAPTER. Considering that as I wrote it, I was already on page 25, I had to reconsider making it all just one chapter. At least the next chapter will be coming sooner since it's already written!
Also, the first two sections of this chapter are NSFW - especially the first one. I got some feedback saying that I should warn people. So there ya go!
BTW, also consider part three-on (especially) an extension of the last chapter.
FINALLY, a lot of things in this chapter are happening on top of each other. Note the chapter title.
And thanks for reading! :-D
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Very early that same day -
Kakashi absently ran his fingers through his wife's long hair. Since Sarutobi's "demise," she had changed. –It probably wouldn't be obvious to many but Kakashi saw it. She was a little less playful or silly, a little quieter and he was a little worried. She was also a bit less "volatile" unless she was sparring and then, only the gods could help you. "Which summons are you visiting today?" he asked softly before kissing her crown.
"The toads. Ero-sennin is pretty much living there right now and has me doing some new things." Naru turned on the couch and wrapped one of her legs around one of Kakashi's, snuggling under his chin as she traced her fingers over the lines of his upper arms as he moved. She always liked the little compression tanks he wore. Not only were they skin-tight and showed off his ridiculously defined muscles but the dark, dark blue against his pale skin was beautiful.
She sighed, wondering about what her god/grandfather was going to do. Jiraiya had again been shying away from Tsunade. He was still painfully in love with her and Tsunade seemed to be pursuing HIM, as incredibly weird as that was. "You know: I've still got a- ha: a particularly bad feeling about things."
"Maa, don't have a bad feeling."
"I know you say that," she replied worriedly. She crawled onto his lap, straddling him for a hug. His arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her a little closer so that her chin rested comfortably on his shoulder as she held him. They sat in silence for a little while, comforted by each other's scents and presence.
She pushed her nose into his neck, glad that he kept his attached masks down at home when they were alone.
"It's not like I welcome this anxiety, ya know." Naru let out a sad sound before running her open lips over his neck, working her way toward his jawline. He smelled so good. She noticed that he hadn't yet bothered shaving this morning but enjoyed the roughness of his face. The way his stubble grew in nearly white was so cute! Kakashi's breathing picked up and occasionally hitched as she kissed and licked, nipping him now and again.
He bit her earlobe after moving her hair back, then whispered into it sensually. "Are you using me to take your mind off these weird feelings you have, wife of mine?"
Naruto pulled back and let out a breath she'd been holding. Smiling, she admitted it. "Maybe?" Kakashi had gently grasped the back of her hair and tilted her head so that he had more control. He kissed her deeply and slowly. Sloppily: very Kakashi-like when he's tired or just warming up - making her grin into it.
When he ended their kiss, Naru let out a sad little whine. Biting at and tonguing her neck now, he grasped her ass with his other hand, pulling her into his growing hardness. "Mmmmm. We do have a little time." He made his way to her lips, nipping them until she gasped as he reached under her ass to feel her core.
Naruto shifted up so that she could rub against him more. His tongue plunged into her mouth as he pushed into her while forcing his fingers and thumb into her - as much as the uniform she still had on allowed.
Kami, the way she liked to suck and wrap her soft, plump lips around and up and down his tongue drove him wild. Breathing harder already, he let out a huff of air and grinned. "You're going to need new pants," he sang.
These are getting really wet.
"Shut up," she said in embarrassment - always - kissing him again and taking control. Kakashi was too busy pulling off her clothes to potentially complain about it for now. Bossy man. She whimpered when he pulled his hand away. Both hands went straight to her breasts, though.
She licked her lips and let out a little cry when he pulled her bandages and bra down - and whined when he palmed her breasts before rubbing the pads of his thumbs over her nipples as he massaged her.
"Look at you." Kakashi pulled her up by her ass again so he could more easily suck. Licking, flicking, and sucking her stiff peaks always drove her crazy. –It was insanely erotic to him, too. He let off one with a pop, grinning at how gone she already was. "Now you'll take everything off; got it?"
He gave her other nipple the same attention, only a little harder as she somehow smoothly moved to remove her bandages. When Naru stepped away to take off her pants, looking up at him with a smirk - like some kind of naughty vixen-goddess, he pulled down his pants and grasped his cock. "Hurry up and come get it." He pulled off his compression tank in one fluid motion with his other hand, smirking at the hungry look she was giving him. "My eyes are up here, Nahru- to!"
Naruto let out a little gasp and looked up at him before blushing furiously and averting her eyes from that huge engorged cock as she stepped out of her loose cargos and panties. His breath hitched when she ran her soft palm over its head; her eyes had rolled up into her own. Growling, Kakashi leaned forward and moved her legs apart, gently pressing his thumb into her clit and letting out a hungry snarl.
Naruto squeaked. "S-s-stop! Ah! Don't just… Kak! You can't just…"
"Do that?" Kakashi smirked and began pushing one finger, eventually followed by another and another, inside of her throbbing, hungry hole. "You don't mean it," he knew - saying it in a far deeper voice. He slid forward and pulled her against him, letting out a groan as he stared into her eyes and flicked her nipples. "Need you."
"I need you! I love yo-" Kakashi had stolen her breath away with a ferocious kiss.
He rubbed her ass and reached underneath to finger her more again while working his cock against her slick and clit at the same time. "I… like no pants."
Naruto giggled through her little gasps and so he smacked her cunt, making her jump and curse him. It also allowed him to pull her up by her hips and back down on him. He let out a hiss and bit down on her, wanting to suck at her chakra, too. "...Down you go baby girl. Don't make me spank you again."
Naruto looked up in all kinds of frustration but melted at seeing his face. "You're so… insanely good-looking. Lucky for yoU."
"Ha! Maa, we can't do anything about that. Oh, Gods… Can we?" He tried to refrain from moving his hips as she slowly worked her way down his shaft. "Talk. Tell me what it feels like."
Naruto was stupiding out. "So big and... Soft and um."
"Soft?" Kakashi asked, finding that very insulting but even more hard to believe. He let out an anxious groan at how slowly she was shifting around the head of his cock. Big blue eyes refocused on his gray one.
"I know um… the SKIN's super soft," she gasped and then bit his ear.
"Ah. Keep going: Tell me. OH shit…" She was going this slow on purpose! Bad girl.
"Hard… Head's big," she whined then licked her lips as she grabbed his hair with both hands. Kakashi was right there -softly biting her tongue but smiling hugely. "Feel you. Vein… Oh god - it's good," she gritted out.
Kakashi held her down, his breathing staggered, once she was flush against him. "Real slow, baby. –We're gonna keep doing this real slow. …Fucking hell." He held on to her hips, pushing down and knowing how she could get sometimes. He thrust sharply upward, groaning at how she looked in this state, bouncing on top of him.
He moved her hips around on top of him in a slow circle at the same time, watching her face and body - and enjoying the way she was so riled up and mindlessly half-fighting him - all while gritting his teeth and having his hair pulled or shoulders dug into. Naruto was way past scorching hot and he always found it hard to describe her even in his own mind.
Even when she wasn't like this.
And when she was…
She was HIS.
He rubbed her clit with his thumb again, loving the way she went stiff before letting out little gasps and biting her lower lip. She tried to press the rest of her body against him and move but he, like the asshole he knew he could be, wouldn't let her move much on her own accord. "I've got ya." He kept slowly circling her clit before pushing into it while allowing her to lean forward more and then - unable to control himself - he allowed her to move on top of him. –It made him let out a sound he didn't know he was capable of.
His eyes went wide before closing hard when she came. He could only hold on to her waist and back as she began powerfully riding him, crying out like the… "Oh fuck, my sweet little Bitch. You take it so well! Ride me… You keep fucking riding me…"
It took him God knows how long to get his thoughts together and make any sense.
"No." He grabbed her ass and let out a guttural growl and flipped them over, still thrusting in and out of her, hard but slowing down in an effort to keep that rhythm he'd demanded again after laying her on the couch. Naruto had shouted; granted he still had his Jonin pants around the bandages on his shins so he'd nearly made them both topple off the couch but still. "Love you."
"Love you," she sniffed out as she continued trembling and spasming all over. She caught his eyes and began to almost hyperventilate and cry, overwhelmed by emotion and sensations as he kissed one of her ankles and then the other as he lifted them over his shoulders and moved impossibly deeper.
He was hitting that different something again and raking over her… "there!" she breathed out and gasped before soon breathily hollering his name.
Kakashi let loose a desperate series of curses, moans, and hisses as he kept thrusting into her while she came again.
Going slow went out the window…
"Let's see how long I can keep you coming." His eyes rolled into the top of his head as he made love to her, his brows pinching. If I can last… He snatched a nipple into his mouth and was not gentle.
Naruto's nonsensical words and whimpers only made it more impossible not to cum - but that was alright.
More for later…
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And a while later, Kakashi was attempting to drown in her kisses. "You know what?" He kissed her more rather than let her speak. "You've been such a good girl; when you come home tonight? I'm going to fuck - no, I'm going to make love to you so well you won't be able to think or move. …You'll be mine to do whatever I want! It's going to be great - for me," he teased.
"Hmm. What was that?" Naruto asked, a sly grin growing on her face. She opened her mouth wide and raked her teeth over his chin between kisses to his throat, making him let out a perverted gasp and giggle. He's funny. "I'm sorry; did you say something, Kash? –It's sad that you can't follow through on that threat now, old man."
"Ho? Oh, you asked for it! –Challenge accepted!"
He flipped her over on her face, more than half off the couch before dragging her backward. He laughed at the way she'd shrieked. "I love you, baby. Let's do this right, hmm?"
Naruto whipped her hair over her shoulder and looked back at him as she slowly wiggled her hips. "Only if you'll suck my chakra, baby."
He nodded. "Oh, I can definitely do that."
Naruto whined as she stumbled and tried to stay on her feet while quickly washing in the shower. God, she was sore. Kakashi had turned her every which way, wanting to "better see what I'm doing" and got all weird and mega-horny, saying it was because she smelled different.
"Even better," he'd growled.
Now he was just smiling at her like the giant perv he was. "Don't do that!"
- Did he seriously not realize how embarrassing this was?
Naruto knew that he had a "different" and superior sense of smell from even the one the fox unintentionally gifted her with but still…
"Nnnn-ope."
"Jiraiya's gonna kill me; I'm so late!"
"He'd better not." He got down on his knees, grabbing her hips and finding his swollen target - and got a soapy, gray bath puff smushed into his face. "Mou, Naru's so mean." He let go and blinked his eyes open when he felt water being splashed down on him and smiled when Naruto's softly smiling face was below his eye level.
"Sorry. You just had a weird look on your face: like you were going to eat me up or something." Kakashi nodded excitedly and leaned forward. She kissed him again, over and over.
"I really have to go," she whispered reluctantly. "Thank you for this morning."
He helped her stand with him and kept his arms wrapped around her. "Thank YOU." He kissed her again. "You'll come by later? Be my little… 'private secretary?'" He wiggled his eyebrows at her and was gently swatted.
"If I come by, it'll be to train," Naruto said firmly - although she wondered if she'd have the strength to do it at that point. Between… this MORNING and her grandfather's training/undoubted punishment for being so late, she'd probably be lucky to sleep successfully later. The only reason she was mobile now was that she was PUSHING to circulate her chakra through her lower body like crazy. "Probably."
Pain, pain, and more pain: that's what awaits me today.
Boy, was she right.
"So devoted," Kakashi hummed before smirking - and then pouting as he lifted her up so she was looking down on him. She was so short - and he liked holding her up from under her ass in many ways - for many reasons! "Where's your devotion to ME, Naru-chan?"
Naruto laughed. He was too damn cute when he pouted like that or did anything with his lips. Like when they move. Or just sit there on that handsome face or he smiles or kisses me. She sighed: feeling happier than she could've ever imagined and sated.
"My devotion to and love for you overrides my devotion to… Absolutely everything." She was rewarded with kisses as he put her down - and the beginnings of a massage (probably a naughty one if she allowed Kakashi's large hands to keep moving) but worked at wringing out her hair. "It's concerning, really, or should probably be to the village: how much you mean to me."
She was dead serious.
Kakashi shrugged but looked happy about that. "I'm your husband and Alpha. That's the way it is." He smiled at her and tried to dip her, to kiss her one last time but they both ended up slipping and tumbling to the floor.
"Ouch," Naru shrieked - more startled than anything. "Some ninja you are!"
"Hush, woman!" Once they were standing again, Kakashi's handsome features became pinched. He sighed as he looked down at the bite mark he'd "refreshed" on her shoulder. It looked really good. "Naruto."
"Hmm?"
He stroked the pads of his thumbs over her lips, growling and closing his eyes when she licked each before sucking the tip of one into her mouth. His eyes popped open and he felt ready to kneel before her - to forever worship her - when the water running over her face and wet hair allowed her to somehow circle his other thumb all around her lips as she sucked. "Wha Huh."
Naruto blinked at him innocently a couple of times, trying not to laugh. If he didn't want her to do that, he shouldn't have touched her lips. Oh, Kakashi: sometimes you're too easy.
Kakashi cleared his throat and smacked her ass when she laughed at him. "Really. Naruto..."
She could tell he was nervous - and wasn't that something? "What is it, my love?"
"I'd like to try something with you later. –Doesn't have to be today but I have been wanting to try it for a while but - you're… Maa, young and um—"
"I'm 35," she reminded him adamantly. He rolled his eyes. "And there's no need to be wary or nervous about anything. If you want something, I'm willing to at least try it for you, ne? All you ever have to do is ask."
He sucked in a slow breath and nodded, wondering if she'd put up with his perverted ass after tonight…
Kakashi's pupils had blown open and boy did he look excited about that. Naruto soon got out and reached for a towel, one thing echoing in her head repeatedly: Holy shit, what will I be walking into, later?
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Less than an hour after that, the probably pervy things she had to look forward to had completely vacated her mind. Jiraiya was forcing her to go all out in battle with him on Mount Myoboku and she just wanted to LIVE!
"C'mon, Naruto! Let's see who's the GREATEST Toad Sage!"
Naruto squeaked as she dodged another oily fire blast. God, this man's going to kill me! "Gamakichi! Gamatatsu! Move your asses and let's go!"
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Minato had greeted Konan and her guards in his office when one of his seals went off, blinking like a traffic light on his desk. He rubbed the bridge of his nose and felt more than conflicted. He could send Kakashi since he could use his technique but… No: he needed to do this, himself.
He gestured to the seal's flare. "Konan-sama. First I want to assure you that there is no danger to you here." Konan looked somewhat dismayed at the assertion, almost as if she wanted to scoff at him and Minato bobbed his head. "No more than what is normal in a ninja village," he admitted. "However, the seal you see is an indicator of an emergency involving a shinobi I swore to guard when I sent him on a dangerous mission. I need to meet him. –I… vow to be back as soon as I am able. In fact, if you wouldn't mind waiting, you're welcome to make yourself at home here."
Konan nodded. As long as he wasn't terribly delayed (or plotting something,) they had time - and she could be plain-spoken. "If what you say is true, that's highly commendable, Hokage-sama. Perhaps my team and I should return to our assigned quarters?"
Minato smiled grimly as he stood. "I don't think I'll be very long." He looked to his envoy. "Please bring Konan-sama and her party any refreshments they may like. If you'll excuse me." He pulled Tsunade aside, whispering in her ear. "If I'm not back within the hour, please feel free to begin working out the treaty details. Tenzo-san, you're with me."
Addressing the Ame nins again, Minato stated that Tsunade-hime had his full confidence and was his second-in-command, although he admitted that he needed to be present for the final treaty's signing. He breathed a sigh of relief when the Slug Sannin sat down in his stead after beginning to tell or perhaps later swap stories with Konan, who looked serious but somewhat amused.
He grabbed further assistance from Genma - just in case - and took off with his men in a series of flashes, cursing Sasuke for his terrible timing.
- Was it you or Orochimaru who decided to destroy that loyalty seal, Sasuke?
While Naru was training and after Minato left, outside the village -
"Yo, Itachi-san," Kisame grinned as he looked his Akatsuki kohai up and down. Whether the Uchiha's face was hidden or not, he knew Itachi's chakra well. Itachi had a new Konoha mask and was in an ANBU uniform. Wasn't that something? He noticed a little fox burying its way into a hole; someone's lost pet, he guessed because of its color. Probably. "So this is where you disappeared to."
Right behind the Uchiha, Kisame noticed creepy Zetsu's black and white face hiding within a tree.
Itachi would've liked to handle this on his own but was still having some "issues" with his new medicine and Shisui's eyes. Plus, this was Kisame AND Pein that he was dealing with. And Obito when he comes back, additionally. "Kisame, don't do this."
"Why not? Maa- hahaha," the blue-skinned shinobi chuckled, "don't tell me those tree-huggers took you back?" It was fairly evident that they had. He leaned against the closest Hashirama tree and glanced at another one, imagining all of the Leaf nins who'd hugged and loved on it over the years. The idea cracked him up.
"I respect you, Kisame-san. Obito-san…" Itachi's entire countenance changed when Kisame suddenly held a kunai at his neck. —Or at least Kisame thought he had managed to do that. In reality, the two were standing a couple of meters apart and Kisame was in his genjutsu. "I see you already know who he truly is."
Kisame didn't move. He respected Itachi - or he had. He certainly respected Itachi-san's abilities, which was why he was staring at his chin, rather than looking the Uchiha in the eyes.
Again, he didn't realize that he'd already been caught.
"Doesn't matter who he is, Uchiha. …Other Uchiha," the blue-skinned man laughed, as he dragged forward his sword. He snarled when Itachi flung a kunai and ducked underneath his sword, finally realizing that Itachi had genjutsu-ed him.
Samehada probably broke my genjutsu, Itachi realized - just as "Madara" began to reappear, sucking the Hiraishin kunai he'd thrown into his visible Sharingan before disappearing altogether again.
Of all the rotten timing! He had to let the Hokage know the Akatsuki was here! Pulsing chakra into his ANBU tattoo, he was alarmed when someone didn't immediately arrive.
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Knowing that the Hokage was already engaged in a high-priority, secured meeting, Kakashi felt the pull of a thrown kunai and Hiraishined to where his subordinate's kunai had landed and found himself in a strange, gray space with equally gray blocks sticking up from the ground around him.
This is what Naru told me about.
The logs he'd Kamui-ed were even here - all piled into a corner.
"Come face me, Obito! –You CHICKEN! —You… TRAITOR!"
When he didn't appear, Kakashi brought out the Big Truth he thought would do the trick despite how sick it made him feel to do so. It's simply the way it is, he told himself, I am not betraying or abusing her memory. And I hope Obito can hear me.
"Rin-chan would despise what you've become!"
Through one of his Paths, Nagato watched the genjutsu battle in the forest unfold uneasily before considering moving further away. He did not come here for this but he also didn't come here to defend Konoha or any of her citizens. Nagato didn't necessarily have family here; his only real family was Konan. His first goal now was to protect her, no matter what. Peace might have to wait for more to experience pain, it seems. "Kisame-san, what's the meaning of this?" he asked through his Deva Path (the deceased Yahiko.) Without much conscious thought, he summoned the three Paths not currently with him.
They were close by.
Unfortunately for Itachi, Nagato's chakra usage/blast was somehow enough to break Kisame out of another, stronger genjutsu.
The sharklike man turned, blinking rapidly a few times. "Good to see you, Leader-sama," Kisame joked. "Forgive me for not greeting you before. Itachi-san and I have a little something we need to work out, don't we, PARTNER?"
And by working something out, Kisame meant that he tried to take off Itachi's head. As Itachi turned toward him and two of the Akatsuki's newest subordinates were thrown forward through Obito's teleportation jutsu, the Uchiha dodged, gasping as a good amount of his chakra was zapped.
The chakra signatures of more Leaflings flying toward them from the distance meant that they'd be surrounded soon, Kisame knew. And despite being happy to have fed Samehada some Uchiha chakra, he cocked his head, wanting to know why he wasn't dead or being tortured yet. "I know you could've made a nastier genjutsu than that, Uchiha." Kisame had seen Itachi torture MANY people over the years, completely incapacitating them. He waited for an answer and watched as Itachi coughed up - not blood, but sick this time - and ordered the Chinoike to "see to" Pein-sama.
I hope that you know what you're doing, Obito-san. You'd better hurry. Subduing Pein/Nagato (and taking his eyes) would not be easy; Kisame knew that Pein's Paths would be a bitch to deal with. Pein - no, Nagato…
"Uzumaki Nagato," Kisame laughed to himself sarcastically as he took another swing at Itachi before engaging in taijutsu. -And then made a few more swings of the chakra-gobbling sword.
Hunting his own kin: just like Itachi-san. Maybe that's why they were both so close to Konoha.
Obito, another traitor to Konoha, had warned him of this. Madara's protege or not, Obito ALWAYS knew what would happen next. –That was one reason Kisame respected him so much.
Plus, Uchiha Obito/Madara ended the reign of the damnable Yondaime Mizukage, whether technically dead as a result of suicide or not.
Hell, Kisame considered Obito to be the real Mizukage during those years!
"Damn that Madara and his teleportation; I was busy!" Oyashiro En's angry demeanor changed but his chakra only darkened further. Years ago, (because of his Ketsuryugan dojutsu's abilities,) Orochimaru had forced him into this farce of an alliance with the Akatsuki - but he'd been working on an arms deal when the one-eyed, old Uchiha fuck came a-calling today, grabbing him and his precious daughter. "What's the meaning of this?"
Kisame grinned. "Time's of the essence." He gestured toward the Leaf ANBU and toward a few of Pein's Paths. "This is Uchiha Itachi and the gentleman hiding behind the paper and genjutsu is Uzumaki Nagato."
"Uchiha Itachi? …I was told you were dead, Clan Killer." En looked at his subordinate and shrugged. "His Kekkei-Genkai could be useful in the Coliseum. And that's Leader-sama, huh?"
The small, childlike kunoichi (and En's secret daughter,) Chino, had begun speaking at the same time. "Well, look what we have here. What are your orders, Kisame-senpai?"
"Itachi-san's turned traitor." He ran at his former partner again and attempted to swipe more of his chakra away although he'd tumbled to the ground to avoid his genjutsu. Itachi had earlier been trying to send him a message but Kisame was pissed and didn't want to hear it. And Samehada's a great partner: it's impossible to genjutsu me!
Samehada fed him a burst of chakra every time the sword detected a disturbance in his chakra pathways.
Itachi still got under his radar as more Konoha ANBU finally appeared. Crows flew into the faces of those in the Akatsuki robes just when the newer members thought they'd frozen the iron in Itachi's blood with their dojutsu.
Chino bent down and dropped a seal to the ground, pushing chakra into it. "Fuuin: Kōtsū shudan!" Her comrades - and the others - began arriving to fight beside her in the great forests outside of Konoha.
Using his Chidori, Kakashi was able to graze Obito's side when the rogue teleported others through the Kamui dimension. A strange white, sludge-like material on the floor was evidence that he'd hit him - along with some of Obito's shredded Akatsuki robe. Taking a baggy and packaged swab/sampler from his Jonin vest, he collected the samples his "teammate" had left behind for future analysis.
Kakashi needed to mind his chakra usage so that he could get out of here after he took out the scum who was wearing Obito's skin and eye. Having used his tanto, he walked over to the redheaded male who Obito had used as a meat shield to prevent him from being killed earlier. "Where did you come from, I wonder," he muttered darkly.
The dead redhead had a slashed Whirlpool hitai-ate on. "That is not good." He took a DNA sample from him, too - and took his hitai-ate and a picture. Hauling him out of this space would waste too much energy. I'm sorry, Naru: I pray he's not really your kin.
Obito phased through the far part of this strange dimension in pieces again and Kakashi sped forward, attempting to jab his tanto into his gut. Then he was gone again. "Goddammit." He'd never been here before and didn't know exactly how it worked when INSIDE of it. He had his theories, though. Pulling up his sleeves, a seal his sensei had tattooed on his arm was revealed. He wiped his bloodied thumb over it and the twin swords he'd once taken from Kurosuki Raiga were immediately in his hands.
Kakashi held the Kiba swords up over his head, crossed them, and channeled his lightning chakra through them. "Raikiri: Kiba Nagashi." Lightning crackled and pulsed violently through the entire gray space and Kakashi's masked face lit up with glee as he somehow felt some of Obito's pain - right in his eye! "Suffer like you made us suffer." He did it again when part of Obito appeared next.
He made a shadow clone, regretting the loss of chakra but feeling this was the right strategy, and knew he'd have to channel even more chakra to his Sharingan. He opened his pulsing, scarred eye again and the Mangyeko flared to life. His world slowly spun, dumping him out onto a battlefield in the forest. "Shit." He tossed a Hiraishin kunai and sent lightning wolves out to take down their enemies as he flashed from one spot to another.
Both ninjutsu attacks were sucked away by "Pein." And where did all these other enemy shinobis come from?
And why are the Path puppets only watching for the most part?
Kakashi saw his target, holding his eye and wounded but flanked by two other shinobis - one a child, it looked like - all in Akatsuki cloaks. Crows dove down on the other two Akatsuki members. "Obito," he growled as his Sharingan bled. Regardless, Kakashi was on him in an instant, driving a kunai down through his head.
Or so it seemed. The genjutsu battle between the former teammates was on.
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Sasuke held up his hands when he felt the Hokage's presence suddenly appear in the distance. "I'm alone." He sucked in a breath when the Leaf's leader was instantly in his face, furious and holding his forearms to his body.
Minato scowled at him, almost shaking with anger. "Where is Orochimaru? Explain this cloak along with why and HOW your seal was taken off!"
Sasuke nodded and tried to remain calm, hating the Akatsuki cloak even more now. "Orochimaru isn't here but he has a clone nearby. He asked me to wear this." He felt chakra pulse into his arm and through his body - a seal, he realized - and he fell into the Hokage's arms. "Wait."
Minato smiled tightly and heard his comrades cursing as they ran toward him. He was sure they were angry that he'd left them behind even though they were close by. He had needed to flash and get the bag on this little shit, however. "You look sick, Sasuke."
"I'm a clone. And… My original is."
Minato allowed him to fall to the ground. The clone had enough power to right himself, interestingly enough. He's probably not a clone. "I see." He bent down to press his fingers to the ground and felt chakra. He nodded toward his men, sending a silent message for them to stay on guard, directing his eyes toward where he felt that strange presence underground. Orochimaru. "What happened?"
Sasuke sat up, leaning on one knee. "I was sent to deliver a message. I was recently… bitten."
Minato closed his eyes for a second as his grip on his kunai tightened to the point that his knuckles began turning white. "And yet your original has enough stable chakra to make a shadow clone." The Uchiha rolled his eyes, aggravating Minato even more. "Your original can't be that sick. –Go on. You still owe me an explanation. And where is your original now?"
"Orochimaru insists that given enough blood along with their chakra, Uzumakis can summon the Shinigami."
Minato blanked at that for a moment. "What?" He wasn't sure whether he believed that or not. Kushina had never said anything about such a monumental thing being a clan ability but she had known exactly how to summon him - and how to strike a deal with the death gods. She, however, had explained it through forbidden seals. "Where is your original?"
"I cannot say."
Minato sighed and reached into one of the inner pockets of his cloak. He placed a second version of the loyalty seal on the Uchiha clone and a second later, he EXPLODED.
Orochimaru's clone arose from the ground as Minato got up again. Or are you a kage bunshin? Minato had grabbed his men when he sensed a feeling that was just "wrong" and was lucky to have moved them all back and managed to keep them all alive. And any way one looked at it, what just happened should not have. He really hoped he had been wrong about that being the actual Sasuke. He didn't see any of the Uchiha's remains...
"Explain yourself."
"Kukuku. That wasn't smart," the clone jeered. "Ah, Minato," he began with a smirk, "as a jinchuuriki, have you not wondered why we were all - every one of us - resurrected so many years ago?" The Snake Sannin's clone laughed deeply and more genuinely than the chuckles he usually let loose at seeing the way the Hokage's expression changed.
Minato schooled the shock from his face. He knows! "What have you done with Sasuke?"
"You blew him up."
"My seal would do no such thing!"
Orochimaru didn't look bothered in the slightest. "I wonder about that. No matter… Sasuke-kun is or will be well, as I knew he would be. –Sasuke-kun had successfully handled my gift previously, after all."
"You gift?" Minato deadpanned. "Meaning that you bit him, applying the curse seal again?" Orochimaru shrugged. "WHERE. Is. He?"
"I'm not the one who blew him up! -Ah, but surely you don't think I would harm my little apprentice or allow him to fall to someone lesser? Or that I would do something against his wishes?"
Minato would swear the clone was pouting at him. He deeply wanted to move to take him down but he needed a few questions answered first.
The clone tilted his head at the Hokage innocently. "Maa, Hokage. Shinigami-sama is very angry. Did you understand Sasuke-kun's simple message?"
Undoubtedly the death god is unhappy because you should've died or been killed dozens of times if not more by now, Minato thought to himself. He reached out his senses and couldn't feel the pull of Sasuke's Hiraishin marker. So he's not anywhere close.
Either that or without the seals, his chakra has changed so much that I don't recognize it anymore.
"Nothing to say? You NEED me. Just like you needed me in the Fourth War!"
Minato glared at the rogue's clone. "I don't know where you obtained this information but I can sincerely say that I believe Shinigami-sama would be delighted at having you in his stomach for the rest of time."
"My information comes from the source - and from the vaults of Uzushio. You would do well to remember that Kabuto lives."
Minato's expression didn't change but he had to swallow down the bile in his throat. "Leave us," he said to his men - who he could tell wanted to argue against that. Only when they finally stepped away did he continue to talk to this fraud. "Explain."
"Ah, ah, ah! I'm here to request clemency and do believe that we can, once again, work together." Minato just stared at him. The clone blew a short breath out of his nose. "You allow me to continue in my endeavors; to keep Sasuke-kun, and I will explain Shinigami-sama's dilemma."
Minato knew that the man was disgusting and nuts but coming here dressed in an Akatsuki cloak was just idiotic on top of it. –Something he had never considered Orochimaru to be in the slightest. "You're working with the Akatsuki. You attacked Konoha!"
"Ah, that was before your dear child killed me. Or rather," he began and looked at himself, pulling his cloak out around him. "Or rather not! Or at least not for long. And I plan to make Sasuke-kun my heir."
"So that you will have the Sharingan."
"Oh, Minato," the clone laughed, rolling his eyes, "I have LOADS of Sharingans."
Great. Minato was surprised the snake admitted such a horrible thing. "But you need an Uchiha body to inhabit to use them."
Orochimaru's clone hummed, considering that. "I see that you will force Sasuke-kun to tell you the truth about his wishes, himself. You will allow him to stay with me; agree not to hunt me - and let it be known that I - or my original, rather - is only using the Akatsuki. They are funding some of my pet projects. In turn, I will provide information and Kabuto."
"This is getting us nowhere."
"Good luck back in Konoha then and…" The rest of the clone's words weren't heard as he tried to sink back into the ground. Minato had just put a Rasengan through him.
The Hokage jogged over to his men after searching for nearby chakra signatures. "Obviously he was only a shadow clone but I don't feel either one of them in the area." He looked around, realizing how close he was to enemy territory. There was also no evidence of "Sasuke's" death other than the crater in the ground. "We need to get back."
"Sir," Tenzo began, "a loyalty seal or Hiraishin marker: can it be used by a clone? -You did feel his presence to bring him here." He was worried about his infinitely-bratty former student and didn't want to more closely examine the things Orochimaru had been going on about at the moment. Plus, few knew better about what kind of liar and snake Orochimaru was than Tenzo did. "Shouldn't the seals you applied have allowed you to find Sasuke? –The real Sasuke from anywhere?"
Minato didn't answer the question, he just raised his eyebrows in an expression that just screamed "I wonder," grabbed their shoulders, and began flashing them back toward Konoha.
Kakashi hadn't been counting at first, but since the time they'd started, he and Obito had killed each other in each other's genjutsus half a dozen times. "Aren't you tired of this, Obito?"
"I have nothing else, Kakashi. And it's not like we haven't done this before. –This time, however, will end quite differently."
Kakashi dashed forward while Obito pulled out of his sleeve a very hefty, long kusarigama. He dodged, ducked, then jumped as the weight and chain whipped around them both. "That's a defensive weapon, Obito: you shouldn't use it with your comrades close by - not that you'd care or keep them close. Or maybe you should've listened in class more?"
The second time he whipped it toward him, Obito's eye widened as Kakashi allowed the chain to pull him into Obito with it. Kakashi dislodged lightning chakra at the moment of impact. Feeling himself about to phase through, Obito instead, hocked up blood all over him and Kakashi began beating the shit out of him with blow after blow. His shadow clone on the other side of the Kamui dimension was working to do the same thing there.
Obito pulled out a tagged kunai and Kakashi grabbed his hand. Both of them looked shocked for a moment and then the flash-tag went off. Someone behind him rammed into him and Obito used the momentum to thrust the kunai into Kakashi's gut.
Obito landed on Kakashi's kunai and began gurgling blood - he was hit in the chest - before someone hauled him up. That son of a bitch, Kakashi, managed to stand. Obito narrowed his eyes, not understanding what he was seeing: both of Kakashi's eyes were open and they were red.
Kakashi struggled desperately. All this power and I can't move - I can't breathe!
After a drawn-out time of stillness, Obito's nemesis fell - as did all of the shinobis around him. Zetsu finally showed himself and grabbed him as White Zetsu laughed about the power of the Ketsuryūgan: the dojutsu that was said could freeze blood.
Black Zetsu was disgusted that Obito had fallen in battle so quickly - after all the work they'd put into him! His eyes trained on Oyashiro En and Chino. "Nagato and Konan are traitors to the cause. You will be paid handsomely for their deaths. Do what you must - and before ours are lost. Save Kisame!"
En kept his dojutsu open and focused on the Leaf nins (and the others who were in their midst) while his daughter cried and tried to either revive or assure that her senpai and little friends lived. Now she knew that he had lied to her - and that he'd had the same ability she had all of these years. "Hurry up, Chino: you heard the man. Wake up the shark first."
Konan breathed deeply through her nose. She'd not only felt Nagato's chakra - which she should NOT have if everything was okay - but she'd seen the traffic of ninjas hopping roofs in the distance begin heading in his direction, rather than every which way in the village as they had been earlier.
Tsunade got up as if to bring over more tea. She looked out the large window and wondered what was going on. Konan soon joined her.
"Tsunade-hime, it's been a pleasure but I'm afraid that I need to attend to something."
"Is there anything I can do?" Tsunade asked, keeping the cynicism out of her voice. She was definitely suspicious, though. The Ame envoys were already getting up.
"No, thank you. –We can reconvene when Hokage-sama returns?"
"Of course," Tsunade said tightly. As they left the room, she signaled for additional ANBU to follow them. "What the hell's going on?" she asked Iwashi once the door to Minato's office was closed again. Iwashi shook his head, unsure, but followed the Slug Sannin outside and up to the roof, signaling for yet more operatives to follow him there.
An ANBU with a Skunk mask appeared before her. "Reportedly, the Akatsuki is a few clicks outside of the village."
Tsunade couldn't see much from where she was. "What does that even mean?" she asked in frustration. "Konan refuses to give up the cloak or Akatsuki name and considers herself and her partner the 'Real Akatsuki' and has demanded that the name be used as Ame's Army of Peace. –The only reason the 'Angel of Ame' didn't wear that damn red cloud-filled cloak in the village is that Minato wouldn't allow it!" The whole thing pissed her off. "Is the Akatsuki outside of the village attacking?"
"Not that we know of. But forces are investigating."
"Good. Let's check with and ready the Barrier Division. –See if they've detected anything and ensure that we've got all seals up and active." Tsunade feared that if Nagato were out there and had been seen and ATTACKED, the treaty they wanted to sign would go up in smoke - as could the peace that would hopefully come with it.
Uzumaki Nagato was supposed to be in an inn in a nearby village which she would meet him at later, though. From her understanding, he was the only other Ame General/supposed future Daimyo that was loyal to Konan's cause. What the hell was going on out there?
Minato should've insisted that Ame give up those cloaks so there is no confusion!
Konan made a paper clone to fool her ANBU escorts and moved stealthily to ensure that Nagato was alright. Once she sensed Madara- No, Obito's chakra, she gave up the game, immediately turning into hundreds of paper shurikens that rocketed toward her lifelong friend.
She arrived just in time to see a slew of shinobis on the ground and Kisame's sword fly through the paper barrier she'd built for Nagato. Her blood froze - literally, as a result of Chino's Ketsuryugan - and a tanto was rammed through her abdomen.
Nagato saw the whole thing. It was like Yahiko all over again. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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As Tsunade waited for news on the roof, the entire village shook. In the far distance, when the clouds and smoke disappeared, she could see that an enormous statue had flattened a great deal of the forest her grandfather had built and could be seen over the tall trees. THAT statue. "No."
"Sound the alarms. We are under attack."
Jiraiya frowned at his granddaughter. "Are you alright, Naruto?"
"Yeah," Naruto laughed unconvincingly. "That spar really wore me out." She turned her head and bent over, pretending to toss and retie her hair - and winced at the pain in her lower abdomen. It fucking HURT on and off in a weird way! –Right down near her leg. Maybe she'd torn something?
If anything, it's probably a hernia! Damn this old man hurling stone frogs and making me catch them - and Gamabunta after that, too. The whole thing was like, sacrilegious to toads or something.
For the record, Gamabunta had kicked Jiraiya's ass, sending him running and screaming, after the Toad Sage surprise-tossed him on her like that. Good for him. Gamabunta was HEAVY.
"If you're sure," Jiraiya said, still looking at her suspiciously. She gave him the most deadpan of looks so he guessed that he was imagining things. Not. "I've got good news for you, kid. It's a surprise but maybe we can stop by and see them later."
"What is it?" Naruto let out a little grunt and adjusted the way she was sitting. She was REALLY... Oh, it's cramps: what a drag! Normally she didn't really get cramps - and she'd never ever gotten them like this before. She'd had friends that said they did, though. Bummer. I need to find a place where I can take care of this… Why did her cycle have to be so crazily irregular and spread out?
"Konan-chan is back in Konoha to sign the final peace treaty."
"WHAT?! NO WAY!" That was amazing news!
"Aaaaaand," Jiraiya admitted somewhat hesitantly (but with a hint of fanfare,) "Tsunade's going to see if there's anything she can do for Nagato." He smiled more when he saw how touched Naruto was. Her eyes had even clouded over with tears.
"That's wonderful. –I really hope that she can help him." She looked toward the sun with a soft smile. "Imagine if his life can be made better." Naruto withstood the pain as long as she could before bending over at the waist. "I need to wrap this up, Ero-sennin. Can you take us back to the village - outside the house?"
"Why can't you do it?"
"Ugh. I've got cramps."
"Oh um… Eww: TMI."
"You are RIDICULOUS! How's a Super Pervert unaware of female reproductiv–" Her voice was drowned out as she poofed outside of the barrier to her home. Jiraiya sent her by herself! "I can't believe he… Kashi?"
She fell on her face when unfathomable pain ripped through her body.
…
And then it was gone.
She blinked up when Kakashi helped her to her feet. Shisui waved at her, grinning, and… "Bastard, what are you doing here?!" Naruto hadn't seen that bastard in a long time!
Sasuke gave her a look of loathing. –So the norm then, Naru felt. Except that it was pretty dark. And where were they?
The younger Uchiha rubbed his face, groaning, and looked around at the nothingness that surrounded them. "Hn. I think I got myself blown up."
Shisui shook his head. "That doesn't sound right. I got blown up or got something dropped on me," he drawled.
He sounded just fine with such a thing!
"What is happening and why is everyone getting blown up?" Naruto asked. "You don't look blown up!" Kakashi reached his gloved hand out to her and smiled at her sadly.
"Kakashi?" She reached out to him as he faded away. "NO! Kash! –Wait!"