Disclaimer: I don't own 'em. Gimpy (Sori)? And Sora are mine… hehe
Summary: Takes place four years after the rescue for Sasuke. Of course he gets rescued. Everyone is at least Chuunin and Anbu rank/training. Naruto is sent to the future with a jutsu mess up… Created by Kabuto and Orochimaru.
Rating: PG-13 to R. And soon to be rated M for later chapters, but I will get to that eventually.
Pairings: Hinata/Naruto, Sasuke/Sakura…. More pairings to come! Everyone will be a little OOC… Sorry.
' ' Are inner thoughts
" " Spoken
Bold is Kyuubi speaking
ShinobiFighter: Ha Ha! The writer's block is gone and hopefully won't come back. Upped Meds Smiles Wickedly
Chapter 7: Filtered through Time
Gimpy was running through the forest at top speed back to the newly established base camp. Fearful of getting caught and something bad happening to Naruto. He knew something was going down the minute he spied the Sound Nins heavily patrolling the entrance of the Gate. It was like Orochimaru was waiting for him to fall into his lap. Jumping to the next branch Gimpy caught sight of Shikamaru and Hinata.
"Yip!"
The two Konoha Nins looked up as the little kit was flying towards them. He landed right next to Hinata. His ears were laid back and his tail between his legs. Whimpering loudly, Gimpy latched onto Hinata's sleeve and tried to pull her in the direction of the palace. Shikamaru looked at the fox with one brow raised. Hinata looked to him with a look of worry on her face,
"Something's wrong. I bet they were captured."
Shikamaru looked to her with a look of pure horror on his face as he pushed the earpiece into his ear. "Status Naruto. Over." All he heard was static and no response from Ino or Naruto. Hinata quickly checked her equipment and got up to her feet. "Shikamaru, we must go rescue them." Staring at the radio in his hand he clenched his fist. Getting to his feet, "Alright, but take this with you." Shikamaru reached into his pocket and pulled out a small summoning scroll. Hinata looked at the item puzzled. The lazy Chuunin leader noticed her befuddlement, "If you get cornered, open the scroll and spill some blood on it. It will summon a strong genjutsu for your escape. Be careful, it's powerful."
Nodding silently she put it in her jacket pocket roughly and started towards the palace with Shikamaru beside her.
Coming around from her brutal knockout, Ino looked around trying to get a feel for her surroundings. For one thing, she couldn't move. 'But I'm still in the Sound Nin's body?' She was bound head to toe with chakra-laced rope. Wherever she was, it was dark and gloomy. It reminded her of the creepy dungeons in the horror movies she used to watch. It smelled of chemicals and death. Trying to wiggle around so she could sit up she bumped something on the floor. Ino was about to hyperventilate thinking it was a dead body. "Ugh. Who bumped me?" The blonde-haired kunoichi went wide-eyed as a large figure sat up rubbing its head.
"Naruto?" Asked the scared kunoichi.
Rubbing his head he looked up to see the same burly Sound Nin looking at him wide-eyed. Immediately he jumped up into an offensive stance reaching for a kunai. "Who are you?" A vein popped on Ino's forehead, "It's me you baka! Now untie me, this is really uncomfortable!"
Squatting down, Naruto concentrated chakra to his hands as he attempted to drain it from the ropes that were binding the Ino possessed Sound Nin. Finally free from her bindings, Ino began to check her weapons making sure they were securely in place.
Naruto released some of his fox enhanced chakra to check his surroundings. "There's no one within a 5 meter radius and no guards are present outside the chamber door." Thinking to herself, 'this must be a trap of some sort. For one, they didn't even bind Naruto. Of course he could escape if he wanted to. But there has to be some sort of ulterior motive for our capture.'
"Naruto, check for your earpiece." Whispered the Sound Nin possessed Ino.
Squatting back down, Naruto began to dig through his possessions for the earpiece Shikamaru had given him. "Found it!" Placing the device into his ear, he pressed the intercom, "Shikamaru, over." Hearing static for a few seconds a few faint noises came through. Naruto went wide-eyed thinking he made contact. But the voice didn't sound like Shikamaru.
"Kit, you're in danger." A low growl was the response that could be heard to his pleas. The blonde kitsune starting looking left and right looking for the voice he just heard. "Ino, did you hear that?" Asked the shocked shinobi? Ino looked as if Naruto grew 3 heads and shook her head no. 'Now I' losing my mind at a time like this' shrieked the blonde shinobi mentally.
"The lower left wall of this prison cell is weakened to where you can escape."
Instead of questioning the voice inside of his head Naruto immediately began to walk to the lower left wall of his cell. He began knocking on it until he heard a hollow sound. "Ino, I think we can break free over here, the wall has deteriorated to where we can punch through and escape."
Jumping through the treetops, the reconnaissance group was about to head to Ino's and Naruto's whereabouts. "Hinata, use your Byukyuugan to locate their location." Hinata gave a grunt of acknowledgment and began her sequence of seals. As soon as it was activated, she could see past the Gate and into the entrance of Orochimaru's Palace. Scanning deeper she found Ino's and Naruto's chakra signatures. "They are attempting to break down a wall to escape out of the west wall of the cell." Stated the Hyuuga heiress. "I would say 15 meters inside through 2 winding hallways is their location. Ino still possesses the Sound Nin." With another yip from Naruto's fox companion, they jumped off the nearest branch and down by the bushes. Gimpy had located Ino's body; luckily nothing has happened to it.
Meanwhile, Orochimaru was making his last minute preparations for his jutsu. "Kabuto, ready the Kyuubi, I want this to go through successfully. No time for mistakes, understood?" Kabuto adjusted his glasses and replied, "Yes, Orochimaru-sama." Turning on his heel he left his Master's chambers and went into the direction of the cell that housed the Kyuubi.
"Ino, do you know how to concentrate enough chakra into a punch like Sakura-chan does?" Nodding at his question, Ino began to concentrate and focus the remaining of her chakra for a strength-crushing blow to the weakened wall. Naruto stepped back and began to watch her execute her blow. Naruto's senses perked as he heard footsteps and felt a strong chakra signature on their way towards their cell. He didn't have enough time to stop Ino, but with her ground crushing punch she made a small enough hole to where she could escape. Naruto was a little too big to fit through the hole. Without thinking of himself, Naruto shoved Ino through the manmade hole and cast a strong genjutsu on it. Hoping whoever it was wouldn't have the ability to see through his jutsu.
"Click." The sound of the door being unlocked. Naruto panicked as he began to sweat bullets hoping Ino would be able to escape out of their predicament. The door slowly opened with a creak revealing what little light he could see. It was a tall lean figure with the hint of glasses reflecting what remaining candlelight into the dungeon. The blonde shinobi squinted his eyes until a familiar outline of a person he despised came into view. Smirking to himself, he saw the Kyuubi container crouched into a defensive stance as he walked into the darkened cell.
"Kabuto, you heartless son of a bitch!" Yelled an enraged leaf shinobi. "What the fuck do you want with me?" Pushing up his glasses, Kabuto gave his prisoner a sneer and leaned against the doorway.
"Orochimaru-sama has plans for you little fox." Mocking him as he said this. Naruto tried to call upon the powers of the Kyuubi so he could rip that two-faced traitor to bits, but was unable. Nodding his head nonchalantly, "It's useless to try to mold that amount of chakra within these walls Naruto-kun. A barrier has been set up to drain you of your demonic powers to prevent your transformation." Leaning against the door, Kabuto began to size up Naruto to see if he the room has in fact drained all if not most of the Nine-Tailed Fox inside of him. Of course he would require most of the chakra in order to perform the jutsu that Orochimaru wished to obtain.
Stepping behind him, he pulled out a tray of food for Naruto to consume, but unbeknownst to him; Ino was hiding in the wall covered by the genjutsu watching the whole scenario taking place between Naruto and the Leaf traitor turned Sound Nin.
'If I can reach into range, maybe I can take over Kabuto and let Naruto out. Then maybe we can escape this godforsaken prison.' Gathering up what was left of her chakra she began to concentrate making seals for her signature jutsu. As Kabuto was leaning down to place the tray of food on the floor all that could be heard was, "Kage Mane no Jutsu!" Kabuto was immediately affected by Shikamaru's jutsu and held still so Ino could come out of her hiding place. Hinata came barreling through the cell door and immediately went to Naruto's side as he was panting and sweating heavily. Hinata took a look through her Byukuugan to see how Naruto's chakra circulatory system was holding out. With a gasp of shock she reached out to him as he fell over into the awaiting arms of his beloved.
"He's being drained of all his chakra, both sources. We need to take him out of this place, its like one big vacuum."
Naruto was fading in and out of consciousness as he heard a billowing voice throughout his head. "Kit, you must get out of here. I feel grave danger for you and your comrades if you stay a moment longer." Gimpy jumped out of Hinata's pack and immediately began sniffing and licking his Master.
Deciding to pump a bit of her laden chakra into his body to bring him back to consciousness, Hinata began to go through a different set of hand seals taught by Godaime herself. Ino and Shikamaru looked on in curiosity as Gimpy was jumping all over his Master licking him, trying to wake him up.
'Naruto, wake up! The Snake Sannin is coming! This is really bad!' Screamed the little fox into his head. 'I can feel his evil aura, Gimpy, I'm trying but this chamber has sucked me dry. I knew you could read minds, you little shit. I think Hinata gave me enough chakra to get me out of here, tell her, and with no yips and whimpers. I know you can speak words.'
A small voice could be heard speaking quietly to the Hyuuga Heiress. Hinata went wide-eyed and nearly passed out, but Gimpy bit her pinky finger to bring her out of her stagger ness.
"Hinata, I have a link with Naruto. It was no mistaking him finding me. Actually it took a lot to find him. But I was attacked by a nearby white dog, the owner thought it was funny, but it took all of my self control from transforming and eating him alive. I didn't think Naruto would like that."
Nodding silently to herself, 'I'm listening to a talking fox. This is soooo cute! I knew there was something more to this fox than meets the eye. His chakra circulatory system was so complex I was barely able to understand how it worked, but said nothing, so it wouldn't scare Naruto. After all he loved the little guy.'
"Anyway, we need to get going NOW if we want to live to see tomorrow. Naruto says he's good to go, just help him up a bit while I transform into something we can put him on." Said the cute little fox.
Ino and Shikamaru had dinner saucers for eyes watching the exchange between Hinata and Naruto's pet fox. Shikamaru thought, 'I knew he was hiding something.' While Ino still in the possessed Sound Nin, 'Kawaiiiiiii!' "Ne, Shikamaru did you find my body okay? Because I am all kinds of drained here." Looking over at the ugly burly Sound Nin, he gave a grunt of acknowledgement and told her they moved her to a safer location closer to base camp.
"First things first, we need to subdue Kabuto before he alerts that snake bastard," stated the lazy Chuunin. Taking her cue, Hinata stood over to Kabuto and activated her byukuugan, "You are within my range of Hakke. Taking her Hyuuga stance she spoke quietly while Shikamaru deactivated his Kage Mane, "Shugo Hakke Rokujyuu Yonshou!" At that moment she started to shoot chakra needles into Kabuto's tenketsu to warp them. After her 64th strike he fell over unconscious.
Panting heavily, Hinata sat on the ground with a thud. Reaching into her pack she pulled out a soldier' pills and dispensed them to her, Ino, Naruto and Gimpy. Cause they were going to need it to get out of there alive. Nodding to the red fox, he began to emit a red aura like when Naruto fox's out. Concentrating he started to grow larger about the size of very large dog. Gimpy's color changed to a darker red and his features were more defined just like Naruto. Tips of black were seen on his paws and tail instead of having yellow eyes they were red just like Naruto. It felt like Gimpy was more of an extension of himself more than anything.
Naruto got up on his knees and pulled onto Gimpy's fur and straddled the enlarged fox. The fox began his mental connection with Naruto, 'now start to channel the nine tails chakra into me, it will increase my power 10 fold.' The blonde shinobi did as he was told and began to fox out just like Gimpy did but only on a smaller scale. The two fox like creatures were emitting such a high chakra burst it almost burned their comrades, 'now I know Kyuubi told you to damage the weakest point of the wall, I see Ino tried but could not. She didn't have the strength to do it. We will finish what she started.' Stated the enlarged fox.
Flaring up his chakra, Gimpy began to gather it into his mouth as a small rasengan could be seen forming into his mouth. Giving Gimpy a boost, the fox let the flaming ball go into the weak point of the wall smashing the whole place. Everyone in the group grabbed a hold of fur, as Hinata was grabbed by Naruto jumping through all the debris in the dungeon cell. But on the other side of it was what scared them all.
It was a rather large room with complex seals drawn on all four corners and one large one on the floor where a Snake like bastard stood smirking. Kabuto stood up from the debris mess and dusted himself off and switched to another pair of glasses as the other ones were damaged of course. Naruto forgot about Kabuto's amazing ability to rebuild his cells at an alarming rate.
"I have brought you the Kyuubi and his counterpart, Orochimaru-sama. And gathered quite a bit of information as I played dead, while they were planning their escape." Nodding silently and running his fingers through his long black hair. "Sori, so long since I've seen you. How have you been all these years?" Asked the Snake Sannin. Gimpy bellowed and tried to claw at the unpleasant being standing before him. Freezing in place, 'shit, he knows more than he should.'
"Your name is Sori? But I like Gimpy better." Naruto patted Gimpy on the head. "Call me what you wish, but I prefer Sori, my given name." Naruto pouted and jumped off with Hinata so Sori could transform back. Given the cue, in a red burst of chakra Sori transformed back into the cute little fox he was before and leaped onto Naruto's shoulder; staring at Orochimaru. Speaking in a mocked voice he asked, "To what do I owe the pleasure?" Snorted Sori.
Turning on his heal, Orochimaru walked back to a vacant corner where his chair stood and sat down, "I want Naruto and you gone. And to do that I have invented a jutsu that took a lot of time to figure out."
Rolling his eyes, "Pfft, I don't think so, you can't even open one inner demon gate let alone a dimension unless you've been bribing the animal summons and I don't think any of them are fond of you right now, especially Manda. You were humiliated by 2 of the Sannin with no arms to use, what a joke you are." Listening to the conversation between his pet and one of the Sannin, 'wow, he knows a lot.'
Listening to the little fox was definitely amusing because he has succeeded in opening 2 inner demon gates and one small dimensional rift. He figured he could somehow take them back to the past and dump both foxes into the dimensional rift and hope they die a horrible death. He knew there was no way in Hell he could do anything to them now, esp. now that Sori has revealed himself to Naruto, he would be unstoppable.
"I'll have you know, I have a lot in store for you Kyuubi brat and Sori. If you don't cooperate, I'll kill your comrades' right in front of you." Shikamaru thinking quickly went through his signature jutsu to try and hold the Snake Sannin. Freezing him a bit, he leaned over to Ino and spoke hushed quick words. Ino brought her fingers together and spoke "Kai" watching his body drop; Shikamaru quickly pulled out a kunai and slit his throat knowing he'd be a danger to them all. Trying as he could, Shikamaru couldn't hold the Snake Bastard for long, he yelled "Get out, everyone esp. you Hinata, we need you."
Sori and Naruto knew they couldn't leave because of the seals instead, Naruto pulled Hinata close and kissed her deeply as he saw her eyes getting wet knowing what was in for her beloved. She whispered on his whiskered cheek, "Come back to me, I'll be waiting." "I promise, beloved." Naruto whispered quietly. Deactivating his jutsu, Shikamaru reached into his pack and pulled a flash bomb so he and Hinata could escape. Streams of tears were flowing endlessly as they made their way through the palace corridors.
Trying to calm down the crying kunoichi, "You know he can get out of anything, believe in him as do I," he said with an awkward smile. Thinking of how Naruto would do it she stopped her tears and nodded towards him; speeding their way through the evil abode.
"Now that your comrades' have abandoned you, now we can get to business. Snarling and growling, Sori jumped onto the floor and transformed into his other self. "I'm not going down without a fight!" Yelled an enraged blonde shinobi. Kyuubi's chakra was leaking out of him and encasing himself and his fox. Going through a complex set of seals Orochimaru blasted both fox like creatures back 10 feet. "You are going to obey me, Naruto-kun." Hissed the Sannin.
Naruto stood to his feet shakily while Sori were already on his burning his chakra towards his mouth for a blast. Naruto put both his hands at his sides at he began concentrating the fox's chakra into a spinning vortex known as his late Father's jutsu. Spinning wildly, he jumped on top of Sori as they began their attack. As he screamed his last battle cry, "Hijutsu: Combi beast triples Rasengan!" As he said this all three blasts went off into the direction of said Sannin. Smirking as he went through another complex set of hand seals a purple wall appeared in front of him to take the impact. The wall took most of the damage but a little of their attack did get through as it singed his skin, Orochimaru cried out in pain.
Kabuto raced over to his Master and immediately began to heal whatever damage it did to his organs. The silver haired Sound Nin sneered at the glowing fox and applied more chakra. "No use doing that Kabuto, his insides will erode out and he will have to change bodies (again). Even I know the 3 years aren't up yet and he can't do it, so he will die," said a tired large red fox.
"What the fuck do you know? You stupid fox! Orochimaru-sama will live, you'll see," smirking as he said this. Taking his hands from the Sannin's he began to go through another set of medical seals and a purple chakra started to glow around his hands. As he touched his Master, it began to repair all his eroded organs and bring life back to the Konoha traitor. "I invented this jutsu while I was a Genin in Konoha, my life giving jutsu. It takes the user's life but he will live and his ambition will not die by the hands of a dead last.
Naruto gritted his teeth and clenched his fist at being called a dead last by this Konoha traitor. With his mental connection in place he commanded Sori to make one final blast at Kabuto before he completed his jutsu. Nodding silently, Naruto began to channel his chakra into the fox as he began his Rasengan blast. Taking no notice of Naruto's retaliation, Kabuto was about to be finished as he felt his life slip away. "Rasengan!" Was all he heard before Kabuto was basted to bits? His organs and limbs were all over the walls and ceiling over the seals Orochimaru scrawled himself.
Sori slumped to the ground and poofed to his smaller self as Naruto panted on the floor. Slowly opening his eyes, Orochimaru could barely lift anything, but at least he could make hand seals, his plan has been set. The Kyuubi brat had been drained and Sori exhausted in both forms. He could still feel death breathing down his neck; he knew death was coming soon so he should hurry up and fulfill his ambition. The Kyuubi will be gone and I will have the last Uchiha. With all the Kyuubi's chakra absorbed by the seals and the self sacrifice his right hand did, he could complete his mission.
Pulling out a complex seal scroll, he unrolled it and began using an odd combination of hand seals as he bit his finger and strews blood across it. The seals all over the walls especially the large one where the foxes lay started to glow. The sealed Kyuubi chakra started to whirl in a vortex into the scroll in Orochimaru's hands; the scroll grew hot with all the chakra getting sealed inside. As he lay it down on the ground he heard rustling, "What the fuck are you doing?" Was all that was said from a blonde haired shinobi? The half-dead Snake bastard looked toward them and cackled. "Why, I'm fulfilling my ambition of course."
"He's opening 2 of the demon gates and is about to take you and Sori back in time to seal you into a dimensional rift." Was all Naruto heard bellowing through his mind? 'It's fucking bad enough having two foxes in your head, man this blows. Well he's not going to get me down; I'm going to kill that son of a bitch now!' As Orochimaru starts his last set of complex seals, out of the corner of his eye, he sees Naruto no longer restrained by the seals in the room. Now that it has started, he is left open for attack. Trying to hurry the hand seals Naruto clenches his right fist concentrating his normal chakra to it (Like Tsunade); running like a madman Orochimaru panics and starts to go faster.
Within 2 feet of each other Naruto recognizes some of the seals; tiger, boar, ox, bird, ram and 2 unknowns. As Orochimaru was about to finish the third unknown seal, Naruto uses the chakra laden punch to the Snake Sannin killing him instantly. But instead of using the last unknown seal, Naruto sees him form the tiger seal instead and everything went white as he dove for Sori.
After a wonderful nap, Naruto wakes up to feel Sori resting next to his head on the grass. Yawning loudly, "Man that was a fucked up dream, eh Sori?" The fox opened his eyes and looked around. "Naruto, could you not be so damn loud?" Said the disgruntled fox and rolled over.
Naruto looked around, he knew he was in the fire country, but something felt strange. "Where the fuck is here?"
(A/N: Dun, dun cliffy XD)
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