Chapter 3: The Legendary Sannin duke it out! Deidara versus Gaara, Round Two!
Orochimaru stared at his former teammates with an evil grin on his face, giggling then laughing out loud. "You two expect to defeat me? The Sandaime Hokage couldn't do it…what makes you two think you can?" "Orochimaru, we will defeat you at the cost of our lives, Tsunade and I are sick and tired of your schemes to attack Konoha, even using our own ANBU forces against us, that was the worst." "Jiraiya is right! As the Godaime Hokage of Konoha, I personally will give the defeating blow to your sick a twisted heart!" "Hahaha! Now, enough with the talking, let's see what you two can really do, I wanted to attack you using Sasuke's body, but this will be of equal worth! Kabuto!" "Yes sir!" Kabuto replied his master. "I want you to take care of Tsunade, Jiraiya and I have a long history when it comes to us fighting." Kabuto understood his master's orders and replied, "Yes sir!" "Jiraiya, you heard him, I'll be okay, and you take care of Orochimaru" Tsunade shouted. "I understand" Jiraiya replied his teammate.
Jiraiya began his attack against his old teammate with a simple fire technique. Orochimaru easily dodged the attack and performed his own water technique to blast his old pal away. Jiraiya took the hit as he fell to the ground. Orochimaru was standing over him now and pulled out his sword he used on the third and stabbed Jiraiya, except Jiraiya had turned into mud using a simple earth style jutsu. Orochimaru stood kind of surprised that Jiraiya knew so many techniques and with that, he attempted to summon the one person who Jiraiya couldn't fight, the Yondaime Hokage. "Ninpou, Kuchiyose Edo Tensei." Jiraiya saw the technique and stopped the seals by using a paralysis jutsu on Orochimaru. "Jiraiya, this won't last very long, you know." "Of course I know! This is to stop you from summoning him to this fight; he doesn't need to be here nor does anyone else." "Fine then, I won't summon him. It wouldn't be fair if I had his powers on my side." "Orochimaru, you would go that far as to summon him, I'll definitely kill you."
Tsunade stood in front of her opponent, a crazy kid who thinks that he is favored by Orochimaru because of his ability to regenerate cells. "Tsunade-sama, I looked up to you since the day I learned medical ninjutsu, I was hoping that this day would come and it finally has" Kabuto said to his opponent. "Well then, shall I kill you quickly or slowly? Cause I should really be helping Jiraiya take care of Orochimaru." With that remark, Kabuto charged at his opponent with his chakra blade technique and attempted to cut parts of Tsunade's body. Tsunade easily dodged the hit as if they were nothing and punched Kabuto when there was an opening with her super strength. Tsunade charged in quickly at Kabuto to attack with her own chakra blade. Kabuto took the hit and regenerated the wounded area. "I've told you this before, I can regenerate my cell as if they were new; a chakra blade of that strength is nothing to me." "Then I guess I have to use a technique that I personally developed while being the Hokage of Konoha." Kabuto replied like he knew everything, "Show me!"
The fight with Jiraiya lasted much longer than Orochimaru expected it to. He thought Jiraiya hadn't changed at all, thinking he was still the idiot he knew so long ago. Jiraiya had used many techniques that Orochimaru didn't even know he could use but he didn't care as they were all easy to counter. Orochimaru had enough fun and decided to get some help. "Kuchiyose no jutsu" Orochimaru had summoned the great snake Manda to the field. Jiraiya had seen this and summoned his own friend to fight, "Kuchiyose no jutsu" and the frog boss rose out of the smoke. Manda had questioned Orochimaru for summoning him again to a troublesome situation but Orochimaru told him he needed some strength on his side and Jiraiya had gotten a lot better since the last time they fought. Manda demanded three hundred human sacrifices after they were done; Orochimaru simply replied that he'll get Kabuto to whip up something good for him to eat later. The frog boss again asked Jiraiya why he was there and said that he was getting too old for these kinds of fights. Jiraiya said this will be the last one as they were going to kill Orochimaru today and finish this once and for all.
Tsunade had tempted Kabuto and decided to show him her new technique that she personally developed. In awe, Kabuto saw that it was simply a combination of techniques, a combination of the chakra blade, a kunai, and elemental techniques. It was nothing special. "Tsunade-sama, is that your new technique? Because if it is, I've already figured out was you're going to do. First you're going to charge head on with the kunai as it has chakra flowing around it and is like a huge sword. Then you'll attempt to hit me and I'll regenerate, you'll continue to cut me and I'll continue to regenerate, it will be an endless cycle and is completely pointless! Hahaha." "You better not underestimate this technique, because there's more to it than meets the eye."
In other parts of the battlefield, Kisame was having too much fun playing blow the little ninjas up in the air, when all of the sudden he get's hit by Lee in the face and is send flying. Kiba and Akamaru had followed up with a Gatsuuga (Double Fang) as well as Shino sending swarms of bugs to attack Kisame. Kisame is getting pissed and activates a water jutsu never seen by the Konoha ninja; he summoned water out of nowhere as there weren't any sources of water nearby. The attack proved to work as it blasted Kiba, Akamaru and Shino away. Lee had stepped back and as Kisame was landing, he was caught by Shikamaru's kage mane no jutsu. Chouji followed up with multiple hits using the meat tank attack while Ino tried to use his manipulation but Kisame fought out of it. Tenten threw multiple bombs and weapons which cut Kisame barely; after the smoke from the bombs cleared, Neji attack again use the Hakke Rokujyuu Yonshou technique and pierced Kisame's rough skin. Sakura then entered and used her super strength to punch Kisame down into the ground. Kisame was blasted downwards but soon stood up quickly. He told the little kiddies that play time was really over, with that he used another water jutsu which turned the ground into a huge lake. With Kisame balancing on top of the water, "Kuchiyose no jutsu" Kisame summoned the legendary shark from the hidden village of mist; and with everyone in the water, they were all its prey!
Deidara and Gaara had been fighting for quite some time now and they were evenly matched. Gaara used the surrounding rocks and crushed them to make more sand. Deidara was playing around making clay birds and bugs to attack Gaara but Gaara's sand shield protected him from the blasts. "Good for you Gaara, you dodged most of my bombs, but you missed one!" After another one of Deidara's clay bugs exploded, it created a huge pit which Gaara fell into. Gaara wasn't badly hurt but was trapped. "Damn it, I fell into this pit of his, what to do now…I know!" Deidara set up one more clay bird that flew right into the pit and exploded on contact. Deidara claimed even with the sand shield, Gaara would either be dead or badly hurt in which it was easy to kill him after. When the smoke cleared, Deidara noticed that Gaara had tunneled himself a new path and got away from the blast. Gaara appeared behind him and used his sand to push Deidara into the pit. "It's my turn Deidara!" Deidara knowing there was a tunnel used it but was cut off by Gaara's sand. Deidara was trapped. Gaara then buried Deidara 200 feet underground with the quicksand technique. Gaara could hear soft booms coming from the pit but eventually it stopped. Gaara had successfully defeated Deidara but was badly injured due to the fight. Naruto stopped by Gaara and asked what happened. "I won, Naruto, you take care of the rest, my job here is done." Naruto with a smile told Gaara to return to the hidden village of sand to heal up and thanks for helping them. With that, Gaara took his leave.
Jiraiya with the frog boss stared down his opponent Orochimaru with Manda. "Jiraiya, there is no point in you fighting any more; you're at your limit while I am no where near it." "Orochimaru, you've always underestimated my abilities and it's about time that I show you my full potential and the reason why I was named a Sannin just like you."
Meanwhile, Tsunade using her blades continued to cut through Kabuto and as Kabuto stated earlier, he'll regenerate as many time as he needed to. Tsunade then used the kage bushin no jutsu and made several Tsunade clones with the same blade. The clones attacked and once again Kabuto regenerated. "Tsunade-sama, this is pointless, I already told you that I can regenerate as many times as I need to." "Well then, we'll all have to cut you into pieces then, after that, you can't regenerate for sure!" For several minutes, the fight between Tsunade and Kabuto was going back and forth with no winner in sight. Tsunade had sliced the chakra circulatory system flow to kabuto's heart and Kabuto fell to the ground on his knees. Kabuto regenerated once more but used up more chakra has it been a vital area that needed healing. Kabuto then felt a sharp pain within him and realized what Tsunade had been doing all this time. She purposely made him waste his chakra regenerating and now he was at his limit. Tsunade approached her opponent and told him now it was pointless, with that Tsunade, using as much chakra as she could generate at the time, sent it all into the blade and chopped off kabuto's head and severing every other vital area in the human body.
Orochimaru noticed that his prize experiment patient was now dead. Tsunade had joined Jiraiya on top of the frog boss' head and told him that Kabuto was dead. However, Orochimaru told them Kabuto wasn't quite done yet and Tsunade turned around to see that Kabuto had mutated into a huge snake similar to Manda. "Tsunade-sama, this is my true form, I'll kill you now with everything I have. Kabuto began to glow when all of the sudden he stopped. Orochimaru wondered what was going on and it turned out that Naruto using the kage bushin no jutsu; charged up several Rasengans and attacked Kabuto. Kabuto fell over and Tsunade jumped over and used the chakra blade once more, slicing Kabuto completely in half with no chance of regenerating.
Orochimaru said that Kabuto was now dead, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Naruto were surprised by the fact that Orochimaru was now laughing. "I don't have to worry myself with such a weak subordinate now; I can use all my full power to kill you all!" "Kuchiyose no jutsu" and with that Tsunade had summon Katsui the slug to the battle and once again, the three Legendary Sannin were locked in a 3-way death battle.
A/N: Kabuto is dead along with Deidara. Kisame has summoned the fierce beast of the mist and is now planning to use it to eat the Konoha ninja. Will Jiraiya and Tsunade be able to defeat and kill their former teammate? Also, Sasuke and Itachi are still locked in a battle between brothers, who will prevail out of that fight. What is Jiraiya's secret jutsu? Will he use it against Orochimaru? Keep reading for the next installment.