I've finally dragged myself to the computer saying, "Must.... Update..." Ahahahaha, u must be waiting for my pathetic excuse of y I haven't updated in forever... well, besides friends inviting me over and my lazy a, none at all ;;; Anyways, here's a warning to you ppl, there probably won't be much humor, just all action, but I'll try to mix in some. Enjoy
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Warning: Erm... there's just a lot of blood, gore, and violence in this chapter. So if you ppl don't lyk that, you can skip it and put in a review if u want me to e-mail u the summary. Don't forget to include ur e-mail address (Or I won't know who to e-mail it to) the subject will be 'Fanfic Summary' so u don't delete it as junk mail.
Anyways, on with the story!
Chapter 15- Attack on Konoha (I've finally thought of a title --;;;)
"You're slowing us down, moron!!" Sasuke called back to Naruto, who was lugging behind him and Neji. "Hurry up! Konoha's under attack!!"
"You think I don't know that!!" the blond snapped back.
"Maybe you shouldn't have had that 5 bowls of Ramen back at the Sound Country!!" Sasuke retorted, "Either that or maybe you're just slow!"
"I'M NOT SLOW YOU BAST- I mean, gomen Sora-chan!!" Naruto said, 'Holy shit, I almost thought she was Sasuke!'
Neji looked at the two with amused eyes (can he even have amused eyes?) 'Those two fight just like Naruto and Sasuke. Or wait a minute....'
They neared Konoha with Naruto having a huge cramp. The village was already halfway destroyed. Many shinobis were desperately fighting for their lives. Corpses littered the blood-stained streets.
"Naruto!! Kamite-san!! Neji!!" a certain pink haired girl was calling to them. "You're finally here!! You're needed at C Gate!!"
"Oi Sakura-chan!!!" Naruto called back gleefully, "Daijobu ka?" Sakura was bleeding on her head and there was a rather nasty gash on her left cheek.
"I'm fine!" she said, "Now go help them!!"
"Hai!" All three of them nodded and set off to C Gate.
"Er... guys?" Naruto spoke up while they were leaping over rooftops. The two looked at him in response. "Where's the C Gate??"
"........." They stared at him.
"What?? Why're you looking at me like that??" Naruto said.
"Just follow Neji." Sasuke replied since he too, did not know where the C Gate was, since he was Sasuke, he would never admit it.
The white eyed shinobi rolled his eyes, 'Why is it always up to me to get idiots anywhere? Stupid Naruto.... stupid Sasuke's clone...' Seriously, if one looked close enough, Sora was the spitting image of Sasuke, only in female form. 'Wait... damn... now there's Sasuke triplets!! Sasuke, Itachi, and Sora!!!'
"Where do you think you three are going??"
Five figures jumped down in front of them, blocking the way. Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji stopped when they appeared.
"Eh? Who are you?" Naruto asked.
"Who do you think??" the tallest of the figures answered, "We're part of the army sent by Orochimaru to attack your village."
"Yeah... that's nice..." Naruto nodded, "Now can you move? We need to get somewhere and we're kinda in a hurry." Everyone stared at him.
"Baka!!" the Sound ninja yelled at him. "We're supposed to ambush you to keep you from getting to that place!! We fight and you loose. That's the way it works!!"
"Honto? But aren't you guys he bad guys? Don't the bad guys always loose and we win?" Naruto scratched his head.
"Ye-no! Wait, no. No, yes-ARGH! Screw it! Attack!" The leader instructed the other Sound shinobis.
"Alright! Sora-chan! You stay back and watch my amazing ninja skills-" Naruto started to say as an extremely fast figures rushed past him. He blinked and two of the enemies were already down
"Heh. Weak." Sasuke had a kunai twirling in his left hand and was smirking at the remaining three. "Is this all the Sound's army is? You guys better be the weakest ones."
"S-Sora-chan..." Naruto said in awe. "Sugoi!! That was awesome! I didn't know you could do that!!"
"Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I'm weak." Sasuke said to Naruto. Hell no, he wasn't just gonna watch from the sidelines like some helpless brat, even if it gave away his identity. Anyways, his mission was just about over since the Sound is already attacking them. But then again, if anyone found out he was cross-dressing, he'd never hear the end of it. "Well idiot? Are you just gonna stand there and watch or are you gonna help me?"
"I'm gonna fight! Hey Sora-chan! Watch my awesome ninja skills!" But before Naruto could take a step, the remaining three were already down.
"Come on, stop wasting time." Neji said calmly, standing behind the fallen ninjas.
"Eh?? Hey!! No fair Neji!!" Naruto pouted. "I didn't even get to break a sweat and you just knocked them down!! Why don't you save some for me?!?"
"They weren't even worth fighting." Neji sighed, "Hurry up, we've wasted enough time." Naruto made a face and they resumed going to Gate C.
"Naruto! Neji! Sora!" Tsunade called to them when they arrived. "About time! I was wondering if you guys got killed along he way here!"
"Gomen Tsunade-baba!" Naruto called, "We were delayed."
"Don't just stand there talking! We're being attacked right now!" She punched a Sound shinobi behind her. Naruto whipped out a kunai as he, Sasuke, and Neji rushed into battle.
It looked like the main battle was over here. Most of the Konoha shinobi were here fighting. However, there was one person Naruto didn't see.
"Kakashi-sensei!" the blond called to his teacher, who was fighting off several ninjas along with his dogs. "Where's Sasuke?!"
"He's behind you. Stop talking!" Kakashi answered, gathering chakra into his hand for a chidori. Naruto looked behind him only to find 'Sora- chan' getting attacked by ten or so Sound ninjas.
"Sora-chan!" he quickly rushed to help 'her'.
Sasuke was having a hell of a time trying to rid of one shinobi after another. Damn Sound ninjas. And the fact most of them were male. Even on battlefield, they STILL won't leave him alone.
Ouch. Sasuke peered at his arm to find it bleeding with a kunai stuck into it. Damn... Screw concealing his identity. He was gonna fight this as Sasuke.
"Sora-chan!"
Dammit. Why does HE have to come and help?!?! Sasuke can handle this on his own. He quickly dug in kunai into the chest of an enemy and then performed several hand seals. Good thing he could still move his fingers even with a broken wrist.
"Katon: Ryuuka no jutsu!!" Fire spewed from his mouth into a large fireball. The Sound ninja Sasuke had just stuck a kunai in was apparently fried considering Sasuke was right in front of him.
"Wahhh! Sora-chan! That almost hit me!" Came the shrilling voice of Naruto somewhere in front of him. The fire dispersed, revealing Naruto about ten feet in front of him, with the cuff of his sleeve burnt.
"You should be able to dodge if you're a ninja." Sasuke said before turning around to attack, but a fist threw him several feet back.
"Sora-chan!" Naruto quickly ran to Sasuke, who was getting to his feet. "Sora-chan! Daijoubu ka? Eh?" Naruto stared at the 'girl.' "Ne, Sora-chan, your eyes-" But Sasuke heard nothing he said. He quickly ran to the guy who punched him, kunai in his only usable hand.
The person who attacked him sneered as Sasuke came closer. He quickly disappeared when Sasuke tried to stab him and appeared in a loud cloud of poof behind the boy, several thin wire strings strung on his hands.
"What the-" Sasuke managed to do Kawarimi No Jutsu just in time as the strings sliced the replaced log into several pieces.
"Like my weapon?" the attacker grinned, "They're Koto strings. With just the right amount of strength and chakra I can use this to slice anything."
"Gyuah!" The strings slithered their way around Sasuke's ankles. Shit, this guy could really slice off his foot!
"Kage Bushin No Jutsu!"
Five Naruto clones grabbed hold of the attacker as the real Naruto swiftly cut the strings. "Daijoubu ka Sora-chan?" he held out his hand for Sasuke.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." Sasuke refused the hand and got up by himself. A strange plucking noise caused him to quickly turn around. It was some kind of foreign song echoing as each note was struck. It seemed so lulling... like he wanted to lie down and sleep.
"Ne, Sora-chan, I'm tired." Naruto mumbled somewhere on his right, "I'm going to sleep now. Wake me up when Kakashi-sensei needs me." A loud snoring told him that Naruto was asleep.
'I want to sleep too...' Sasuke thought groggily. A mental image of soft pillows and a warm blanket almost made him drift right to sleep. 'Wait a minute... this is wrong... I'm in the middle of a battle...' "KAI!"
Sasuke quickly flipped backwards, but a sharp pain on his neck told him it was only a narrow escape. The same guy that attacked them glared at him in disappointment.
"You're pretty smart." He said to Sasuke. "If you only didn't find out what I was doing just in time, you'd be dead right now. 'Guess it won't be that easy killing you"
"What was that?" Sasuke placed a hand on the bleeding wound on his neck. Looked like the guy tried to behead him when he was about to drop off to sleep.
"These are Koto strings." He replied as if it was obvious, "You play them you know? But when I play these, the music does a sort of Genjutsu, that makes you want to sleep."
"What? How?" Sasuke stealthily reached into a pouch strapped on his leg.
"Well, I AM Yutame the Koto wielder." He sneered, "And this move you be your death!" Yutame began charging at Sasuke at high speed, the Koto strings flashing in the sunlight. Sasuke squinted his eyes at the approaching figure and disappeared just as the strings were just inched from slicing him to pieces.
A Fuumi Shuriken was whipped out and there was a clang as the two weapons clashed into each other. Sasuke quickly flipped backwards and threw the evil wind shuriken at Yutame. It grazed the skin on his cheek. Yutame snarled as he turned to face Sasuke, only to find the Leaf shinobi with his right hand gripping his left wrist (the best he could with his broken wrist), directed to the ground.
"What are you up to now?" Yutame asked as he quickly strung the wires on both his hands. His eyes widened as chakra began to gather in Sasuke's hand like little sizzles of lightening. Yutame took several fearful steps back, only to trip over the unconscious body of Naruto.
"Eh?" Naruto quickly woke up and looked around frantically, "What's going on?" Then to Yutame, "That hurt! You could apologize to me you know!" The blond suddenly turned to Sasuke, who was almost complete with his technique. "Eh? Sora-cha? How do you know Chidori? Did I miss something?" Then as if he had just realized, "Oh!! I see!! We're in the middle of a battle here, I see! ...Then why was I asleep?"
A smirk of confidence suddenly grew on Yutame's face. "I may not be able to kill you," he called to Sasuke, raising his voice over the "chattering of a thousand birds" to be heard. "But your friend right here will die instead!"
'Chikuso!' Sasuke widened his eyes. Naruto oblivious to what was going on, was saying something to him he couldn't hear. But Sasuke wasn't trying to hear what the idiot was saying. It was the flash of silver as Yutame got his hand in a ready position to rips Naruto to bits.
A yell came out of his mouth as Sasuke ripped across the battlefield to where Naruto was, Chidori crackling radiantly in his hand, this time not using it on Tsunade or Kakashi.
"Hey Sora-chan! You're excited to see me aren't you? Want to go out for Ramen next-" Naruto was saying just as Sasuke rushed past him. "Eh? Sora- chan doesn't want to talk to me?" He felt something wet hit his cheek. Naruto felt it and looked at his fingers. Blood. "What? Sora-chan!" Naruto whipped around to find a site that made him fall shakily to the ground.
Sasuke coughed out blood from his mouth. His left hand was plunged deep into Yutame's chest, who in turn was also spewing blood out of his mouth. But Sasuke was in no better shape than Yutame. There were strings through Sasuke's chest, sides, arms, and neck. The large puddle of blood gradually grew bigger as each drop hit the ground.
Yutame lowered his arms and pulled out the Koto wires. Sasuke quickly wretched out his hand and took several steps back.
"Heh..." Yutame coughed, with a small smile on his face, "You won." He took a few staggered steps back and then fell dead onto the bloodstained ground as his last breath left his lungs.
Sasuke gasped for breath as he fell into the awaiting arms of Naruto.
"Come on, we need to get you to Tsunade-baba. She will heal you. I'll fight now, you don't need to worry." Naruto said soothingly to him.
'That's exactly why I worry.' Sasuke thought bitterly.
"Well, well, if that isn't so touching."
There was a guy with a pale face with the look of a snake and dead arms hanging at his sides standing right in front of them.
"Orochimaru." Naruto hissed, holding 'Sora' protectively close to him with a kunai in one hand. "What can you do now? You can't do any techniques."
"I know I can't." the snake smirked, "But I still desire the body that will allow me to do a least something without my useless arms. A body with the Sharingan!"
"Sasuke isn't here right now, so sod off!" Naruto snapped. 'Come to think of it, I haven't seen him at all since me, Sora-chan, and Neji got here.'
"Heh, is he." Orochimaru asked, more as a statement rather than a question, leering at 'Sora.'
Naruto glanced at him as if he was insane while Sasuke was sweating and thinking 'Shit! He knows! How the hell does he know?!'
"It seems that Sasuke-kun forgot to hide his chakra again." Orochimaru smirked. "Kukukukukuku..."
"........." Sasuke glared at him.
"Eh?" Naruto cocked his head in confusion.
"Now, it's finally time to take the body I've been waiting for!" Orochimaru took a step toward them, his dad arms swinging limply.
"You're not gonna take Sasuke again!" Naruto growled as he gently laid 'Sora' on the ground, "I'll kill you before you can rip out your own soul!" And started to the snake at top speed. Orochimaru looked at him, bored, and made several steps to avoid the kunai's slash.
"Is that all you can do, Kyuubi?" Orochimaru asked, ducking another slash.
"I'm not Kyuubi!" Naruto yelled, throwing seven shuriken at him, which the Sannin easily dodged. Orochimaru stuck out his leg and Naruto tripped and fell to the ground.
"What's the matter? You were a better opponent last time we met." Orochimaru caught the kunai Naruto dropped with his teeth.
"Shi ne!" Naruto put his hands in his signature seal, "Kage Bushin No Jutsu!" Fifteen Naruto clones appeared and began to attack Orochimaru.
Sasuke spat out a mouthful of blood as he slowly got to his feet. He looked up to see Naruto fighting Orochimaru. Oh well, Naruto can handle himself.
Seven of the clones were already destroyed as Orochimaru kicked Naruto to the ground with ease. Naruto quickly got to his feet, wiping blood from his mouth.
"You're distracted." Orochimaru said, "Its not much fun when your mind is off somewhere else. Looking for Sasuke are you?" He sneered. So Naruto didn't know who that 'girl' was?
"Shut up." Naruto hissed, whipping out another kunai.
"I might as well kill you now and get it over with." the snake leered. He appeared behind the blond and slashed at his neck. Naruto managed to get away by doing Kawarimi No Jutsu.
"Nice, nice." Orochimaru said, "Now how will you escape this?"
Naruto was ready this time. A swirling sphere was already going in his left hand and his right hand was frantically urging the chakra to spin. Closing his eyes to concentrate more, he listened for a while. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open and Rasengan was thrust into the stomach of Orochimaru, who had appeared behind him.
"Wha-" Orochimaru was thrown back, blood spilling out of his mouth. Naruto drew in several sharp breaths as he watched his enemy whither and suddenly disappear with a poof.
"A clone?!" Naruto gasped.
"Yes, indeed." Orochimaru sneered, already in striking range of the blonde's neck.
"Wha-?!"
But the attack never made it.
Naruto turned to see who his rescuer was. 'Sasuke?' he thought hopefully. But it wasn't so.
"Sora-chan!" Naruto cried out. Sasuke had blocked the attack with the kunai that was aimed for Naruto buried deep into his chest. Meanwhile, Sasuke had also plunged his second Chidori right into the neck of the snake.
"Heh," Orochimaru yanked out the kunai, apparently the attack still allowed his to breath and talk, "Protecting your boyfriend here, are you?"
"Shut up and die." Sasuke spat, staggering backwards.
"Sora-chan, your eyes..." Naruto stared, "They're red..."
Shit, he had Sharingan on. The huge amount of loss blood was making his head spin and his breath came out short and ragged.
"Sora-chan?" Naruto said in concern, 'you saved me again... you're always saving me... just like Sasuke... where is that bastard anyways?'
His vision was starting to grow darker. The world was turning darker and darker. Dammit! HE can't pass out in the middle of a battle! Not yet...
"Sora-chan? Sora-chan!"
Stupid Naruto, calling his name. Sasuke tried to keep his eyes open, but the dizziness almost knocked him out right there. He needed to finish off Orochimaru at least... Stupid Yutame and his Koto strings... They were the reason for his excess amount of blood loss.
All he could see was black.
"Sora-chan!"
The voice seemed very far away. Shit. He was losing. He struggled and tried, but his vision stayed in darkness. It seemed like forever before another wave of dizziness overtook him again and he knew no more after that.
Here is answer to the frequently asked question: What's tanakata? Ahahaha, it's supposed to be Katakana. Me and my stupid typing skills --;;;