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HikaruOfArrow - you'll find out very soon.

Rhapsody of my souls - that's a unique request. I will honor it in the next chapter.

blazer6 - NaruTem, hmm... that would be very interesting especially w/ what happens in ch 15 and 16.

Monaki-cheung - no actually I'm not canadian (sorry), but I remebered those two names from history.

blaboy - finally someone that sees the huge difficulties w/ NaruHina pairing. You'll see what happens w/ those two in a couple of chapters.

Drekko - You don't have to like him, I don't make that requirement of my readers... As much as I say that this is fiction, I'm also trying to portray a bit of real life in this story. And in real life it's not so clear cut between 'good guys' and 'bad guys.' Also "the shit he's about to do"; you have no idea what's going to happen in the next several chapters.
The Kyuubi is gone, completely merged w/ Naruto

Skuld's Sentaro - NaruTem... I'm jugling that idea in my head.

yourbonesakin - I'll to fit that in somehow. If not this chapter then the next one.

Daniel of Lorien - tragedy... perhaps, but I don't want to reveal anything.

caro8 - yes you will, relatively soon.

Peter Kim - more Inari, probly not. Konohamaru, you'll see in the next chapter.

kodomo - you're right I am a ruthless writer. If a character has to die for the story to continue I don't hesitate to make that desition. As for the elements, I was too lazy to look it up and took what I had lying around. Had a smooth trip moving and thanks.

Heero2001 - Got my laptop here w/ the rest of my stuff and have all the network stuff already set up... I'd die w/o internet access...

Hikaru Tsukiyono - Well the battle and meeting will be interesting... wait why am I telling you all this, just read! its all below. Also pleased that a few ppl saw the logic.

Results:
right guesses - 16
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either/or - 4
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Chapter 15 – Battle for Power

Naruto sat in a tree over-looking the entrance to the underground house. 'I can just smell all the snakes crawling around here… my fox side is going crazy.'

Naruto had quickly made his way northeast, past the Fire Country, into the infamous Sound Country. He first made his way to the Sound Village, but had soon found out that Orochimaru actually spent most of his time outside the village in some sort of secret lair. It didn't take Naruto long to find this secret lair, considering all he had to do all follow the smell of snakes and blood.

Once he had found it, Naruto spent an extra bit of time looking for some sort of back door or alternate entrance, but had found nothing. 'It's going to be a pain going through the front door, but it doesn't look like I have a choice.' Out of habit, Naruto decided to wait till nightfall to attack, 'not that it really matters since they live in darkness anyway, but this way at least I'll fell more comfortable,' mused Naruto.

Naruto decided not to blow up the door with a powerful jutsu, but instead opted for stealth. He snuck up to the door and simply slashed it open with his katana. He was confronted with a dark corridor, Naruto immediately activated his Demon Eyes, which gave him night vision.

He saw that the corridor was absolutely straight and sloped downwards. Naruto quickly followed it and arrived at a door, which he once again sliced through. Inside he was confronted with three doors, 'What the fuck?' Naruto didn't really care though and picked the right one.

A giant snake leaped out at him with its mouth open. Naruto jumped out of the way, kicking the snake in the back of the head. The snake turned around and made to bite Naruto who disappeared, re-appearing right behind the snake and chopped its head off.

"Alright, let's see what's behind door number two," said Naruto holding his katana in a defensive position.

Naruto then opened the middle door and made to defend himself, but quickly stopped himself seeing that there was nothing. Naruto shrugged slightly and went inside, ending up in a large completely open room with another door on the other side. As soon as he got to the middle of the room, the door behind him shut itself and a metals bars fell down from the ceiling in front of both doors, sealing Naruto inside.

'Oh joy..' though Naruto as he saw four ninjas appear out of nowhere.

Naruto decided to entertain himself, "and who might you be?" he asked in a pleasant tone.

"We are the Four Sounds …" they then introduced themselves as the north, south, east or west gates, but Naruto tuned out all of that and openly yawned. This seemed to piss them off as some of the scowled.

The North-nin attacked Naruto head on with taijutsu, which Naruto had no problem blocking and had soon counter-attacked with a kick to the guy's ribs, sending him into a wall. Naruto then immediately dodged a Fuuiton jutsu from the South-nin. Seeing that the West-nin was going to use a Katon jutsu, Naruto did a dozen hand seals and when his opponent said "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu," Naruto countered with a Karyuu Endan. The West-nin, being immobilized while performing his jutsu, could not avoid the attack and got his torso heavily burned; he fell to the ground screaming in pain, but soon quieted down in death.

While doing the Karyuu Endan, Naruto had been distracted and was unable to block a horde of punches from the South-nin. Naruto was thrown into a wall, but his opponent made a small mistake giving Naruto a bit of time to regain his footing and was rewarded with a kick to the head, immediately followed by a knee to the kidney and a heavy punch that sent her flying back towards her teammates.

Not losing even a second, Naruto did a half dozen hand seals and said "Raiton: Chain Lightning," shooting one large bolt of lightning at the still flying back South-nin. The lightning hit the South-nin as soon as she had landed and immediately broke off and hit her teammates as well. 'Too bad chain lightning divides the damage making each of the target only take a fraction of the actual damage.'

The shock from the lightning had temporarily fazed the Sound-nins and Naruto used this little time to teleport right next to them and chop off the North-nin's head. He was going to stab the East-nin, but he had gone to Cursed Seal Level 1 and managed to get away in time. Naruto wasted no time in immobilizing the South-nin, through a pressure point on the neck and rendered her temporarily paralyzed from the neck down.

The East-nin, meanwhile, had pulled out three bells from his pouch and threw them at Naruto who instinctively dodged. However when the bells hit the ground they made a very loud high-pitched sound that Naruto just couldn't stand. 'God damn, what is that?' Naruto was forced to stop his attack and cover his ears.

The Sound-nin smirked and threw another bell right at Naruto, but this one exploded right after the first bounce. Naruto was thrown back and made a dent on the wall. Naruto then put a palm on the ground and closed his eyes, as if feeling for something. The Sound-nin thought that the high-pitched sound was finally breaking down Naruto, but just as he was about to finish him off with taijutsu he found that his legs were bound.

Looking down he noticed some brown and green vines, with small purple flowers snacking their way up his legs. Suddenly the flowers opened up quickly shooting out a light-purple smoke. The Sound-nin didn't have time to react before the he had already inhaled the smoke. He suddenly felt the world around him spin, he shook his head several times and the spinning stopped. 'Hmm… the poison isn't even that strong…' he thought.

He rushed at Naruto, but out of nowhere a giant red plant jumped out at him and made to bite his head off. The Sound-nin jumped back and threw three shuriken at it. The shuriken passed right through the plant, 'genjutsu… how stupid of me.' He then rushed at Naruto once again and when the plant went to attack he just let it thinking it would pass straight through him. That was not the case, however, as he was swallowed up completely. He thrashed and yelled as he tried to break out of the plant, but was not even able to damage it.

On the outside watched, with a smile, as the Sound-nin randomly waved him arms in the air and yelled something about letting him go, 'hah, it seems the hallucinogenic poison took effect perfectly. That combined with a little genjutsu I put on him, he's gone.' Naruto immediately noticed that the bells had stopped making the noise, 'I was right in assuming that the bells are connected to him.'

Naruto then stood up and threw two throwing knives, covered with poison, at the East-nin. One of the knives hit him in the chest and the other in the stomach; he stopped thrashing around immediately and dropped dead in a minute.

Naruto now focused his attention on the only remaining Sound-nin. Naruto grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into a wall, "is Orochimaru here?" he asked in a fierce voice.

"Ah, ah…"

"Answer me!" he growled.

Suddenly determination flashed through her eyes, "you'll never get to him…" she pulled out her kunai, but before she cold do anything Naruto squeezed harder and squashed her neck. 'I know the time limit on that paralysis a lot better than you.'

"Thank you, that was all I needed to know," he said as he simply dropped the body.

He looked over at the blocked door and smirked. Then charging up a Rasengan, he attached some chakra strings to it and used them to throw it at the wall right next to the door. The wall exploded making a hole just big enough for Naruto to walk through.

Unknown to Naruto, Kabuto had been watching him since he had entered the compound. 'This guy is good to be able to fight off the Four Sounds,' thought Kabuto contemplating whether he should go and fight him. Then just as Naruto was doing his lightning jutsu, the screen Kabuto was watching went black, 'what the?' The electrical interference had knocked out the camera, leaving Kabuto in the dark about how the battle was progressing. Several minutes passed before Kabuto finally heard was an explosion that managed to knock out the camera in the next room. 'Damn it! Looks like I will have to fight him.'

"Kabuto, what is going on?" asked Orochimaru as he walked into the control room.

"We have an intruder, Orochimaru-sama" replied Kabuto.

"Then deal with him!" he commanded.

"Yes Orochimaru-sama," said Kabuto and left.

Naruto, meanwhile, found himself in a large arena-type room, the ceiling was high enough to be able to do a large summon, and it was all made out of a yellow brick that had blood sloshed all over it. 'This must be some sort of battle arena that Orochimaru uses for training and god knows what else.'

Suddenly his sense picked up another presence in the room, he turned his head and saw a figure on the opposite side.

"Well, well, you've made it thus far, but this will be the end of your journey," the figure said.

"Confident as ever, Kabuto," said Naruto coldly.

Kabuto tilted his head and a small smirk grazed his lips, "Naruto-kun, never though I'd see you again."

"You thought wrong… or didn't think enough," sneered Naruto, "but it doesn't matter, I didn't come here for you."

"My, my and why would you be after Orochimaru-sama?" asked Kabuto.

"None of your damn business," snarled Naruto getting into a loose fighting stance. 'I've had it with this guy, he always seems to get on my nerves.'

"Naruto-kun, why do you want to fight me?" said Kabuto calmly. "We are so much alike."

"How do you figure that?"

"We both left that horrible Village, sided with the enemy and betrayed the trust out former comrades," answered Kabuto.

Naruto could not find any way to argue against that, 'and here I am, putting myself in the righteous seat. I'm exactly like him… betrayed people that I used to call friends, even killed some of them; and why? for what? Because I was pissed off at them; so that I could complete my mission…? My own selfish gains.' Naruto's resolute face expression was faltering, but his darker side kicked in once more and Naruto remembered his original purpose here, 'Forget this shit he's feeding you! You have a different purpose here and he's just in the way.'

Naruto shook his head, the coldness returning to his eyes as got ready for battle.

"Naruto-kun, surely you remember what happened the last time we fought?"

"Yeah I kicked your ass."

"When I was taking it easy on you… but this time you won't walk away, since you don't have that legendary…" Naruto cut him off by throwing three shuriken at him.

Kabuto dodged and attacked Naruto in close combat. Naruto dodged and blocked Kabuto's strikes and counter-attacked too, but was unable to get anything through Kabuto's defense.

"You've gotten better Naruto-kun," remarked Kabuto.

"And you've gotten worse," taunted Naruto.

Kabuto grimaced, did a few hand seals and his hand began to glow a greenish color. "Gotten worse, have I?" said Kabuto and charged at Naruto.

Naruto remembered that medical technique and knew what he had to do to be able to counter it. He also did several seals and thought, 'Demonic: Fire Wave,' however unlike regularly, Naruto made his armor be skintight.

Kabuto attacked aiming for Naruto's vital points, but was surprised when his attack didn't do anything, 'did he block it? Didn't look like it… he must have gathered chakra to that one vital point,' concluded Kabuto. He then assaulted Naruto again aiming all over body, Naruto blocked some but wasn't really worried about the rest. Kabuto started getting frustrated and put more effort into his attacks, thus leaving himself open. Naruto did not miss the opportunity and punched Kabuto in the lower ribs and face, throwing him back slightly.

'How is he able to dodge my attacks?' wondered Kabuto he failed to see Naruto doing some hand seals.

"Doton: Spike" said Naruto tapping his foot on the ground several times. Several spike shot up from under Kabuto, who was barely able to dodge them with a few scratches on his shins. Meanwhile Naruto was already preparing to use another jutsu at the same time, "Fuuiton: Wind Tunnel." Kabuto had enough trouble escaping from the spikes that seemed to know exactly where he was going to land and now Naruto had thrown in a wind attack.

Kabuto knew that he could only dodge one of them so he opted to avoid the wind attack, just as Naruto had predicted. 'I knew it… that's why I didn't pump a lot of chakra into it,' Naruto chuckled mentally. Naruto then disappeared, re-appearing right behind Kabuto and kicked him in the stomach, making him land in a wall. Before Kabuto had a chance to fall down to the ground, two Earth Spikes came out of the ground in front of him, curved towards him and pinned him through his thighs into the wall.

Naruto walked over to Kabuto, "you're wondering why your attacks were useless?" he asked his struggling prisoner. Naruto then un-tightened his Fire Wave, letting all the nine chakra tails be clearly visible. "This is a little shield that I cooked up for myself. Though it has some offensive abilities too…" explained Naruto calmly.

He got even closer to Kabuto, his tails swinging furiously behind him. He mentally picked out Kabuto's eight critical points and aimed the tails at each one. Then once he was in range he pushed his tails straight through Kabuto. Blood sprayed everywhere, on Naruto's clothes, hair, and face; there was a giant puddle right beneath Naruto's feet. Naruto then released both Doton and Demonic jutsus and let what was left of Kabuto's body fall down to the ground. With a satisfied smile, Naruto licked some of the blood of his lips.

"Naruto-kun... I have been expecting you to come visit me," said Orochimaru in a calm voice. Naruto turned around and just glared at him. "I want to make you a proposition..."

"A proposition? You're not pissed that I just killed your personal slave?" asked Naruto.

"No, he served his purpose..." answered Orochimaru with a sly grin.

"What is this proposition of yours?"

"Oh it's very simple. I know that you hate Konoha and you know that I hate Konoha, so I thought we'd help each other out."

'So he wants to use me to destroy Konoha... and he actually thinks I'll trust him?'

"Nope sorry that won't do," simply replied Naruto.

"Naruto, we are exactly the same, don't you see?" he said with malicious smile. "We have both devoted our lives to destroying that accursed place we grew up in."

'That's true... a part of me does want to destroy the Leaf Village. Completely erasing the history of my youth... Am I running away from it...?' wondered Naruto.

"You came here now to kill me," it was more of a statement than a question. "You're obviously doing this to test yourself." Naruto's head perked up a little; Orochimaru's grin widened.

"Surprised that I know this, Naruto? It's easily seen actually," continued Orochimaru. "And there's only one reason that could possibly be motivating you... you want to kill your childhood teacher... just like I did," he licked his lips at the fond memory.

Naruto grimaced, 'he's right... and afterwards I'll be liking my lips just like him...' A sudden sadness washed over Naruto, 'All these years I've hated Orochimaru and Kabuto, but actually... I'm exactly like them...' Naruto was hit hard by this revelation, 'What have I become...?'

He suddenly remembered the past few months in the Sand, 'is this why Kankuro and Temari were wary of me? Because I reminded them of how Gaara was like... Would I even hesitate to kill any of them?' His thoughts when to all the people he had left behind in Konoha and he realized that he could easily kill everyone without even a second's pause. It scared him.

"No Orochimaru, I won't join forces with you!" said Naruto forcefully. 'I won't be like this anymore... this part of me will die with him, and that's a promise!'

"Naruto-kun, I could grant you unimaginable power..." Orochimaru was sharply cut off.

"Don't tempt me with power, I have plenty of my own..." said Naruto. 'And it had instantly managed to corrupt me,' Naruto concluded sadly.

"Naruto-kun, you're making this difficult then."

"I don't need your Cursed Seal, I already have enough dark power. Actually more than any stupid seal could ever provide," sneered Naruto.

At this Orochimaru's face darkened and the smile fell, "then I shall kill you for refusing my generous gift and offer."

Orochimaru then activated his Kanashibari no Jutsu (Body Freeze Technique) and tried to stare down Naruto. However Naruto simply activated his Demon Eyes and glared right back. 'If he keeps glaring like this I'll just use Hell and end it,' thought Naruto, amused at the slightly surprised look on Orochimaru's face, 'a lot of things have changed since we fought last.'

Orochimaru, unsatisfied with his jutsu's result, charged at Naruto, but at the last second disappeared and instead made a fireball fly right at Naruto's back. Naruto didn't have time to dodge and took it head on; Orochimaru smirked, that is until a poof was heard and he realized that that had been a clone.

Meanwhile, the real Naruto had actually witnessed the entire conversation from the shadows on the far side of the room. As soon as his clone was eliminated, he did a few quick seals and tapped his foot softly, "Doton: Explosion" he whispered. The ground under Orochimaru rumbled lightly and exploded, sending him into a wall, but he also disappeared in a cloud of smoke. However Naruto knew exactly where he was, 'you smell too much like snake my friend…and foxes hate snakes.'

Naruto instantly used Split and had the clone run straight toward Orochimaru. Orochimaru thought that he had forced Naruto to come out and so went forward to fight him. Naruto went to kick Orochimaru in the head, but he blocked counter-attacking with a punch to Naruto's side. Naruto twisted his body making Orochimaru miss and used that momentum for a sideways kick.

The snake-sannin saw through this and jumped back. He held his palm upwards and blew out a fireball at Naruto. Naruto had already seen this move before and knew what was going to happen, so by the time that the fireball was coming at him, Naruto's clone had already prepared a Kawarimi and re-appeared right behind Orochimaru punching him in the kidneys. After two punches this Orochimaru dissolved into mud and the clone was killed by a shuriken to the back.

'Damn it!' cursed Naruto, 'I'll see if can find him another way then.' Naruto put his palm on the wall and began creating vines, 'good the floor isn't thick enough to stop them, so can also track him.'

Suddenly Naruto sensed danger and barely managed to avoid a snakebite. The snake chased after Naruto, but he kept avoiding it. Naruto finally Split into three clones and while the snake was distracted with the clones he doubled back, took out his katana and chopped off the snake's head.

However, as soon as he had done that he received a fierce kick to the side and flew into the wall. Naruto looked up to see the Kusanagi no Tsurugi (Grasscutter Blade) coming out of Orochimaru's mouth, and knew he was in for a sword fight.

As soon as the sword was completely out, Orochimaru then made it fly straight at Naruto, who was able to block with his own. On the next strike, Naruto not only had to block the Kusanagi, but also avoid a Doton Explosion that Orochimaru had done. 'Shit, I can't counter-attack a sword… I'll have to go straight for the controller,' concluded Naruto. He then parried another attack while doing a dozen one-handed seals, "Raiton: Nova." Electricity went flying in a ring around Naruto hitting everything in its path and also illuminating the entire room.

So even though Orochimaru managed to dodge it by jumping over it, Naruto instantly made his position. "Fuuiton: Hurricane Winds" said Naruto as he directed the attack at the mid-air Orochimaru, who countered by calling his sword and using it to alter the direction of the winds; even so his left arm and right leg were cut.

Unrelenting in his attack, Naruto put away his katana and did several more hand seals, "Fuuiton: Wind Tunnel." Naruto poured in more chakra than normal into the attack making sure that Orochimaru couldn't just use his sword. As soon as the beginning of the attack hit, Orochimaru realized that his sword trick won't work this time, so he quickly un-summoned it and did several hand seals, "Fuuiton: Wind Barrier," he whispered. The wind attack and defense collided nullifying each other completely.

Orochimaru landed safely not far from where Naruto was standing, he immediately noticed that that last attack had taken a lot out of Naruto and seized the opportunity. He the charged Naruto and kicked him hard in the face, followed up by a kick to the gut that sent him into a wall. Before Naruto could get up a horde of punches was thrown at him, and only stopped when he began falling face forward to the ground.

However at the last moment, Naruto put his hands out in front of him, pushed up and kicked Orochimaru while doing a front flip. One foot kicking him in the chest the other in the face; both throwing him back a little.

While in the handstand, Naruto generated chakra to his hands, 'Doton: Spike' and a spike appeared right under Orochimaru who barely had enough time to jump away with only a small scratch on his ankle. However he did not notice the second spike that came up right behind him until he was right now to it, 'Doton: Spike Explosion' thought Naruto while flipping himself over. The spike exploded and sent Orochimaru tumbling along the ground.

Orochimaru stood up to see a giant fireball coming at him, he quickly ran through several dozen seals and said, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu: Edo Tensei." A portal appeared under his feet and out of it came a coffin,

'Shit! I've heard about this technique,' thought Naruto, 'he's raising the dead and using the coffin as a shield… I sure as hell don't want to know who it's going to be. But how to stop it?' Naruto had to think fast, but fortunately quickly noticed that Orochimaru was maintaining the summoning, 'that's it… it'll drain a bunch of chakra, but affect him directly.'

Naruto quickly went through quite a bit of hand seals and said "Kinjutsu-Katon: Lake of Fire." Naruto made the fire start right under Orochimaru and extend out over half the arena; he especially made sure that the coffin was burned. Orochimaru managed to jump up on the wall and out of the fire, but was shocked that Naruto could make fire appear out of nowhere, 'a Kinjutsu that I do not know… perhaps I shouldn't kill him just yet,' he mused.

After making sure the summoning of the dead wasn't a problem, Naruto crouched down and put his palm on the floor. He knew exactly where Orochimaru was hiding out from the fire and instantly directed his vines there, making them burst straight through the wall around Orochimaru who climbed even higher to avoid them. 'Damn it, I can't maintain both jutsus…' cursed Naruto and released the Lake of Fire, but put more effort into the vines directing them down to the ground knowing that Orochimaru would come down off the wall.

Just as predicted, once the fire was extinguished Orochimaru jumped down off the wall and was instantly surrounded by the vines. He then decided to fight them by using a Katon jutsu to burn them, Naruto saw this and had the vines release their poison. Orochimaru saw the poison surrounding him through the fire and knew the only out was up. He knew he couldn't fly so he did the next best thing, he bit his thumb ran it down the tattoo on his arm and said "Kuchiyose no Jutsu."

Orochimaru appeared on top of a mid-sized snake, which crushed all the vines. He then noticed Naruto also biting his thumb, "toads are useless in enclosed areas, don't you know?"

"Oh really..." Naruto then did four hand seals and said "Kuchiyose."

As the smoke was starting to clear Orochimaru could see something swaying in the back of the summoning, but figured it was just the swords. Then suddenly a loud menacing growl was heard from inside the clouds. "Yes, Kitchi... we're having snake tonight," said Naruto in a low voice.

When the clouds finally cleared, there was Naruto on top of a silver fox slightly larger than Orochimaru's snake; its tail was swaying furiously behind it, "you were saying something about toads?" asked Naruto sarcastically and Orochimaru scowled.

Kitchi did not even wait for a command and instantly jumped at the snake, which managed to avoid the claws and teeth, but was slammed into the wall by the fox's tail. The snake recovered quickly and made a strike at Kitchi, which the fox easily dodged, but instantly saw the opening and clawed the snake in the lower belly. Naruto also used that opportunity to direct a dozen fireballs at Orochimaru and his snake, he quickly Kage Bushined them making it several hundred. Orochimaru managed to raise a barrier for himself, but the snake took the fireballs head on.

It hissed in pain and lunged itself into a reckless attack against the fox. Kitchi, being well trained against snakes, found the desired opening and while pining the snake down with his paw bit into its throat, then thrashed it around for a few moments making sure it was dead.

Orochimaru had long since jumped down from the snake's head and watched the death of his summoning from the shadows. As soon as Naruto had un-summoned the fox, Orochimaru attacked, "Doton: Mud Slide" he said making a mud wave crash into the Doton Barrier that Naruto had put up. Orochimaru did not relent there and circled around Naruto doing Katon: Karyuu Endan. Naruto once again put up the Doton Barrier, unknowingly playing right into Orochimaru's trap.

Once Orochimaru saw this he made a clone, while he jumped up and over the Doton Barrier. The clone did a few quick hand seals and slammed its palms into the ground saying, "Doton: Quicksand," and a moment later the real Orochimaru attacked from about saying, "Katon: Karyuu Endan."

Naruto found himself trapped by the Quicksand Jutsu, but before he could get out of it another attack rained down from above. His clothes, hair and skin were slightly burned before the finally activated his demonic technique "Fire Wave." Thankfully Kyuubi's chakra recovered him within a minute, unfortunately as soon as he came out of the Fire Wave his opponent was right there ready to beat him to a pulp.

'Shit I'm running low on chakra,' cursed Naruto while dodging. 'Wait… those are estimates for a series... but... what about one attack?' Naruto mentally recalculated how much chakra he had available. 'Great! So if I can get that attack to stick and get it halfway or more, I'll be fine,' Naruto prepared himself mentally and physically.

Naruto managed to pause the attack by hitting Orochimaru in the stomach and throwing him back out of reach. He then quickly went through two-dozen hand seals and focused the chakra to his fingertips and had soon started moving them slightly.

Meanwhile, Orochimaru recovered and was ready to charge at Naruto again, but found that his limbs wouldn't move. 'What the hell? It's as is all my muscles are numb..' Orochimaru wondered what had happened. He looked up at Naruto who was smirking.

"Can't move can you?" he asked tauntingly, Orochimaru scowled. "Now… you will feel a sharp pain in your right arm," said Naruto and twitched one finger. Instantly afterwards Orochimaru screamed out in pain as he felt as if his right arm was being burnt from the inside out. Another scream of pain came out of the snake-sannin as his left arm was now feeling the same thing.

After several minutes Naruto spoke again, "now that your arms are disabled… what shall I do with you?" Orochimaru looked up to see that Naruto's eyes had changed to red and began to glow; he was also radiating inhuman amounts of killer intent. Seeing the discomfort on Orochimaru's face he continued, "perhaps I should burn all your insides, finally ending with the heart…"

Naruto noticed the confusion and absolute fear on his opponent's face and decided to explain his technique. "I simply attached chakra strings to you and using electricity numbed the places where the chakra strings are attached so that you had no idea they were there. Once attached I can send chakra through the strings, which on contact with the your skin changes into electricity and I can direct it anywhere in the your body. If shot at the brain, the nervous system will get screwed up and the person won't be able to move; as you can see right now. I call it, 'Kinjutsu-Raiton: Electric Wave,' however there is a compliment to this jutsu, how about we try that one out?" an evil look covered his face.

Naruto then brought his hand forward and started closing it slowly; Orochimaru felt his chest getting hotter and hotter. "Electric Funeral," said Naruto evilly and tightly closed his fist. Orochimaru felt an incredible pain in the left part of his chest. Smoke soon started rising out of Orochimaru's chest, a few moments later Naruto opened his fist and Orochimaru's body fell dead; face permanently twisted in a horrifying expression. "Electric Funeral, directs all or most of the electricity straight to the heart or brain and that part is then fried to a crisp… Beautiful, no?" concluded Naruto with a sadistic smile.

He then walked up to Orochimaru and chopped off his head putting in his bag for later; for exactly what, he wasn't sure yet. As soon as he had done that, the world blurred and he fell down unconscious from over using his chakra.

Several hours later he woke up in darkness to an unfamiliar ceiling, 'where the hell am I?' Turning his head a little he saw the headless body of Orochimaru, 'oh right… now I remember…' thought Naruto as he slowly got up and silently thanked the Kyuubi for its regenerative capabilities. He picked up the bag with the head and made his way out the darkness of Orochimaru's lair and into the bright sunlight of the forest.

Naruto looked down at the head in his bag, "I should at least tell his village that they are free from him." He then regained his bearings and went off in the direction of the Sound Village, all the while contemplating his revenge on Jiraiya. 'Is it selfish of me to want to get him back for killing Itachi?' wondered Naruto. 'I really don't want to be like Orochimaru… respected out of fear. I want people to respect and recognize me for who I am, not the image that I carry around… Itachi tried to carry an image not his own,' mused Naruto getting angry after the last part, 'for that bastard with a one-track mind, who can't even take the fucking hint!' Naruto growled wanting to beat the shit out of him again.

He sat in on a tree branch over-looking the Sound Village, it looked so peaceful, 'kinda like the Leaf... where the hell did that come from?' wondered Naruto. 'Then again it wouldn't have such a bad reputation if it wasn't for Orochimaru. Well he's gone now and with him the old me.'

Naruto looked back out at the village, 'to think that an entire village could be hounded by just the Kage.' He looked back and forth between the bag in his hand and the Sound Village, '… I wonder…'

A/N: classes started today (i only have labs, so i didnt have anything) anyway, I'm just saying that updating will be harder. so plz dont get mad