Yello one and all! Hope you're havin a good time with my story because I'm getting onto the finall legs of the race here. I'm not gonna say how many chapters are gonna go down but I'm guessing it's in the single digets now. Well hope you enjoy this chapter, I hope I did it well too! Thanks for the reviews and I hope you enjoy!
"Speech"
'Thought'
(Standard Disclaimer)
Chapter 52: Akatsuki VS. Naruto
In seconds six Naruto's popped into existence and they were off in a blur, pushing their trump card Sekkagan at the very beginning of the battle. Each Naruto clone charged a different member of the Akatsuki but thetrue Naruto engaged the Leader, it was time for their long awaited battle to commence.
Naruto charged a Rasengan in his hand effortlessly, pulling it forward with amazing speed he thrust it into the leaders face only to have it blocked with the leaders own arm, covered in a blade of chakra. The two squared off Naruto forcing his Rasengan towards the face of the Leader who had to chakra reinforce his arm so it wouldn't be disintegrated from Rasengan's power.
Naruto smirked, "not bad for a human." The Leader chuckled darkly, "when we attain you I will be far more than a human or demon. I will be a god." The Leader suddenly parried Naruto's Rasengan and it flew into the battle of the swirl masked ninja and the clone it faced.
The Rasengan hit the ground several meters away from the dueling ninja but the second its swirling chakra became unstable it let loose a massive blast of powerful chakrathat knocked the swirl masked ninja far away and the Naruto clone into non-existence.
The Leader glanced at the swath of destruction caused by a simple Rasengan by the nine tailed fox, the stake were now raised. Naruto smirked as he caught the Leaders worried glance, "I see you're admiring my handiwork. I tell yah these nine tails aren't for show."
In a flash that would be invisible for humans the leader produced a total of ten hand seals, "and I am not the leader of this organization for no reason. Haihai Kuragari no jutsu." Naruto watched his mind on edge for any powerful attack but he saw nothing. He expected something large from the leader of the famed Akatsuki.
Naruto's eyes snapped open and he looked down, quickly wrapping around his feet and legs was a pitch black chakra that burnt Naruto with it's mere touch. Naruto formed the tiger seal with his hands and reared back, taking a deep breath, he let loose a massive roar that shattered the black chakra that was covering him.
The Leader leapt away from the defensive wave of chakra, as he suspected the Kyuubi easily broke those bindings without so much as a struggle. "Honestly, are you trying to insult me?" Naruto asked as he breathed out a short jet of flames.
The Leader chuckled darkly as he formed several seal in the blink of an eye, "I wanted to see if you truly are as strong as legends say." Naruto laughed his mere voice and chakra slightly shaking the area, "I'll prove that what the legends say can't hold a candle to what I actually am."
Suddenly Naruto could feel it, the surge of chakra streaming from the ground. His Sekkagan activated instantly and he vanished in a flash of gold just missing being tangled in thick webs of vines and roots. Naruto's activated eyes traced the chakra from the net of plant life through the ground and to its source, Zetsu.
Zetsu had disposed of his clone opponent with some difficulty and sacrifice of chakra but he still managed to gain the upper hand and destroy the clone. His concentration was focused on one point now, the fight between the Leader and the nine tailed fox. He was determined to get hold of the fox no matter what.
Naruto quickly found himself dodging both Zetsu's attempts at wrangling him with his plant based jutsu and the Leaders attempts at striking him down into Zetsu's traps. "Becoming nervous Kyuubi?" the Leader asked as he engaged Naruto in some fast paced Taijutsu battling, forcing Naruto closer and closer to the traps laid by Zetsu.
Naruto merely smirked and said, "no, in fact I feel more excited than when I faced Orochimaru." With that Naruto quickly turned the tables, his Sekkagan activating and allowing him to move at speeds even the Leader had troubles keeping up with.
The Leader felt several strikes hit him in various places, scorching him with fire or shocking him with powerful electricity. Naruto reared back, spreading his hand out so his clawed fingers were facing his target. He would end this right here and now!
Instantly Naruto leapt back and a gigantic wall of wood rose up before him. Naruto's eyes could follow the chakra source; Zetsu had done it to save that bastard. Naruto smirked; well this shouldn't be too much of a problem to destroy. Naruto quickly formed two Rasengan in his hands and took a running leap at the wall.
"Sukkou Rasengan Senkouki!" Naruto shouted as he burst through the opposite side of the wall, his body covered in a burning tornado drill. Naruto quickly came out of his spin, his Sekkagan eyes swiftly throwing the entire world into sharp focus.
To bad all of his clones had been dispatched or he might have stood a chance picking them off one by one. Naruto's head turned in all directiong, even he was surprised at the speed that these humans had captured his body. His right arm was completely covered in Zetsu's vines but unlike all of Zetsu's past traps this one had a very special seal branded on it.
On Naruto's left arm was a cast of pure rock, on each of his legs was a mixture of wind and lightning, all of them bared the same symbol as Zetsu's plant trap. Naruto looked around, his Sekkagan tracing the chakra signature to the near by sources finding four of the Akatsuki holding him down with their techniques. Naruto looked around the ground surrounding him until his eyes landed on the Leader standing before him, "you think this'll hold the Kyuubi Hokage of Konoha?"
"Oh not for long," The Leader said calmly as his hands flashed through a couple dozen hand seals in the blink of an eye, "but then again I only need a few moments." The Leader held up his hand, it had becomepitch black with the darkness of his chakra, it reminded Naruto of Sasuke's Dark Chidori. Naruto's eyes gazed upon the dark arm in worry; he didn't like the looks of it.
"Do you like my technique? I call it Reikon Sesshoku. From observation I've come to the conclusion that you don't have your Hoshi no Tama meaning one thing. It's in here," with those words spoken the Leader plunged his black chakra hand into Naruto's stomach, grasping and feeling around for the key to controlling this demon fox.
The Leader had developed this technique a long time ago, to access items and beings within seals without having to break the seal itself. It only worked on minor items and lesser demons but it would be perfect to retrieve the Hoshi no Tama of Kyuubi no Kitsune Naruto. The Leaders eyes opened wide as he felt the inside of the seal, he couldn't feel a thing…the seal was completely empty which meant…
The Leader looked into Naruto's cerulean eyes with the golden edges, "you shouldn't be sticking your hands where they don't belong. Boom, boom." None of the Akatsuki that held Naruto down had a chance to move, the clone had already detonated with such a powerful blast that the light from it could be seen from Suna.
The blast silenced everything; all of fire country froze at the sound and feeling of the explosion. Experienced ninja all over the world felt the gigantic release of chakra, it unnerved them in ways that only a meeting with the infamous Morino Ibiki would. The fires that rose from the explosion could have melted diamond kunai, the winds produced could have torn down the Hokage tower, overall it was a massive destructive force that vaporized all in the area.
As the dust settled and the chunks of dirt fell from the sky a lone figure sat on the very edge of the destruction, a light smirk on his face as he watched the several kilometer crater being slowly cleared. He was lucky he dragged the battle away from the Hokage monument and all of Konoha or else he would be in some serious trouble.
Naruto let out a sighing breath, hopefully that took them all out. He had used a good chunk of his chakra for that technique, how else could he make his Kitsune Kage Bunshin Bakuha convincing? Finding this to be a little down time Naruto began to think, he wondered how Lee was fairing with the advancements he had made to his body. Kitsune magic can only take you so far, the rest is up you andthe way you use it.
His thoughts traveled to Sasuke, the stiff didn't need any help in body modification. He just needed access to the reserves created by Orochimaru's curse seal and by the gods when Sasuke got going there was no way anyone could stop him. Well except Naruto but that was all relative, if everything worked out the way he wanted the Kitsune had just killed off six of the Akatsuki!
Then Gaara's fight invaded his thoughts. He knew Gaara had a personal stake in this battle; he wouldn't rest until the Akatsuki member that had caught him was dead by his own hands. Naruto was somewhat thankful that Deidara wasn't in the fray with the group Naruto faced. He would have to answer to Gaara and like Tsunade, Sakura, and Hinata that was one person he didn't want to see angry.
Zaiaku was the last one he pondered but in his mind it was the one he worried about the most. Zaiaku seemed to have this complex of his, he forgot whether it was superiority or inferiority but Zaiaku saw himself below the group. Naruto got so aggravated with it during the training time in the Kitsune realm that he nearly beat Zaiaku unconscious.
When this developed he'd never know all he knew was that Itami was probably beating him into the ground for it. Well aside from that Naruto was happy that he was able to make a few modifications to Zaiaku's chakra coils the night before they went off to fight, in Naruto's mind it was a secret seeing as it was done while Zaiaku slept.
Eh he was thinking to much, as he felt a couple spikes of chakra approaching him he didn't pay it much mind. It was probably the guys he was just thinking about…but then why did one chakra signature feel so dark? He turned his eyes only to have them immediately activate into level two Sekkagan as he avoided a powerful strike from a chakra infused hand.
Naruto seemed to blink out of existence and he reappeared several meters away, looking at the form of the Leader of the now demolish Akatsuki with his fist pointing into a gigantic crater in the ground. "Well you're a slimy little eel aren't you?" Naruto asked as the Leader turned to him, his body shaking with restrained rage.
His hands flew into several seals, all of which Naruto couldn't keep up with, and he called out, "Oni Gufuu Tengai!" Naruto, as with the Leaders past jutsu, he couldn't feel a thing but that swiftly changed as a light breeze blew. Suddenly it grew stronger, more persistent, and like that Naruto and the Leader were standing in the very eye of a massive tornado. However the jutsu wasn't over because the tornado drastically began to change. It became shorter and wider, the wind speeds increased athousand fold and at the end Naruto and the Leader were contained in a dome of winds that could tear even the Kyuubi no Kitsune apart.
Naruto stared up at the impressive jutsu; it had the power of being both a shield and an offensive weapon all at once. Still, as impressive at this jutsu was he had a question burning the back of his mind, "how the hell did you escape?" Suddenly the Leader grinned darkly, "Kinjutsu: Kage Heigou, a very useful skill to learn if you have the blood line."
Naruto rose and eyebrow, "oh you have a blood line limit? What is it being psychotic?" The Leader laughed maniacally, "ah what fools demons are. If it comforts you in any way they called me the child of a thousand blood lines. I have endless amounts of power below the surface, you cannot kill me."
Naruto smirked as he rolled his head on his neck, "well let's put your theory to the test huh?" With that Naruto vanished in the blink of an eye as a pillar of the tornado dome's wind came crashing down on where he once stood.
Sasuke was the first to arrive with Rock Lee, both of them rode atop a gigantic snake conjured by Sasuke. When the giant of a snake was summoned Lee nearly fainted thinking Sasuke had betrayed them all but Sasuke calmed Lee down. When Sasuke was under Orochimaru's tutelage the snake allowed Sasuke to sign the contract with the snakes. It did come in handy when you had an injured ally on the field.
"Lee do you remember that blast?" Sasuke asked, sitting atop the massive beasts head while Lee lie down on its scaly skull, his eyes turned to the sky. "Yes I do, why?" Lee asked getting up with a bit of difficulty. His body was still aching. "Look at that," Sasuke said pointing to the crater left by Naruto's exploding double. It was positively massive, stretching several kilometers in diameter.
The massive snake they rode upon flicked its tongue quickly, hissing in only a language Sasuke could understand, "I smell four different bloods." Sasuke nodded, "well the dobe already killed four of them. That leaves two left right?" Lee nodded slowly, still in awe of the massive destruction that Naruto seemed to conjure out of nowhere. So this was why hewas given thetitle of Hokage.
"Hey!" came a call to the side of the duo and the massive snake turned it's head to see Gaara and Zaiaku floating upon a large platform of Gaara's sand. Gaara had a slight smirk on his face, he looked like he was perfectly fine but his clothes were bloody especially his shoulder.
Zaiaku looked battered, beaten, tired, and in pain but it was a plus that he was still alive. "How are you two?" Zaiaku called over, a wide smile on his face for seemingly no reason what so ever. Sasuke didn't bother asking, he had bigger fish to fry, "fine. Where is Naruto?"
Gaara looked out into the distance, "there, on the other edge of the impact zone." Sasuke looked as far as he could but it was hard to focus, that was odd but he shoved it away into the back of his mind. He quickly activated his Sharingan and got a clear picture of the gargantuan dome of spinning winds, "looks like this fight isn't over."
"Indeed," Gaara said, his floating bed of sand moving directly across the crater while Sasuke's massive snake slithered quickly across the crater floor. They had to see the end of this fight; it was going to be epic.
Naruto was dodging left and right, the pillars of vicious wind just kept coming and when they were down they stayed meaning he was running out of less and less room to move. He tested the walls once with his tail, needless to say he'll have to have a few hair implants later.
"How do you like my jutsu Hokage-sama? When used with one of my many bloodlines it can be quite deadly," The Leader said, his hands moving in lightning fast seals. Naruto didn't have time for a snappy come back, he was in to much trouble to be splitting his attention around.
Unfortunately for Naruto the Leader wasn't giving him a chance to get the upper hand, he smirked wide as he called out his next jutsu, "Kinjutsu: Kage Kaisen!" Suddenly, from the shadows produced by the massive dome, demons made of pure darkness arose. With the swiftness of cracks speeding through ice they attached to Naruto, biting into his flesh calling blood to the surface.
Naruto winced in pain, these things were painful little buggers. He reached out to grab one that was attached to his arm but his hand just passed through the being as if it were nothing but a shadow. "Oh damn it all," Naruto said with an angry growl as he formed a single hand seal.
"Kitsune Daitoppa!" Naruto inhaled a great amount of air, then with a great roar he released the pent up air with some of his own powerful chakra. The blast of air and chakra combined was so powerful that it completely nullified the tearing winds of the demon tornado dome. As the dome was made null and void light began to stream into the battle zone, striking the creatures as if it were holy water to a Kitsune. In seconds the little demons became nothingness and Naruto was left with a few cuts and holes in his body.
The Leader growled angrily, "damn you Kitsune. Damn you to he-" That was all that he was able to say, at that moment a layer of sand wrapped itself tightly around his mouth and the rest of his body trapping him in the clutches of Sabaku no Gaara, Kazekage of Suna.
Gaara had a positively evil grin on his face as he floated above the battlefield with the Leader in his sands clutches, "you have no idea how wonderful this feels." Zaiaku cast wary glances at Gaara then to the ground below and decided to take his chances ditching here. He landed on the ground just as Sasuke and Lee were let off the massive snake that vanished in a puff of smoke.
Gaara was the last to land, his concentration split between maintaining his floating plot of sand and the coffin holding the Akatsuki leader still. "Hey!" Naruto called cheerfully, "all of your guys lived! You beat'em?" All of them nodded except for Gaara who was having a flashback to when he still had Shukaku within him.
"Uh Gaara…you can let his mouth go, I want to have a few words with him," Naruto said standing and stretching as if he hadn't even worked up a sweat. "Ah it feels good to be a Kyuubi no Kitsune. I'm just a little sleepy from that, I swear it was a joke!" Naruto laughed while Gaara let the Leaders mouth free.
"You demon…" the Leader hissed with anger in his voice, "you can't kill me without your allies helping you can you?" Naruto looked at him with crossed arms and said, "who was the one who brought his entire evil organization to capture me?" The Leader glared at the remark, "you do not know to what depths I hate you right now."
Naruto raised an eyebrow with a smirk, "what? Just because I treated you and your entire gang as amateurs? What did you expect; it was going to be easy?" The Leader was caught but Naruto continued, "well let's take into account your crimes. You took several Jinchuuriki and killed them for their demons, one of whom was the Kazekage of Suna."
Gaara produced a glare that could kill but Naruto continued, "you attempted to capture me on several occasions even threatening Konoha to do so. On top of it all you gave me the most anti-climactic fight of my life. I can only find these offenses punishable by death and since you have been caught on Konoha ground it's my pleasure to administer that punishment."
Suddenly Naruto held up his clawed hand and at the very center of it all appeared a normal Rasengan. It grew and grew with power and wind but suddenly it shrunk, it was getting more and more compact. Suddenly it began to become charged with different energy.He added the special energy of each of his nine Kitsune scrolls making it rapidly flash different colors. Naruto continued this process until he had a marble sized, multicolored, swirling sphere of pure destruction.
"Any last words?" Naruto asked as a hole opened up in the sand where the Leaders stomach was. "You will not see the last of-" Without warning Naruto plunged his hand into the Leaders stomach cutting off his speech. "Kyuubi no Kitsune Kyuukyoku Fukushuu," Naruto said with a grin as the Leader's bright red eyes snapped open in surprise. Naruto quickly pulled his hand back and turned to the others, "run, fast."
It didn't take long for the five ninja to get several kilometers away, just as they turned to see if the jutsu had taken effect they were greeted by a great explosion that turned the rest of the battle field into a massive crater. This explosion was just the same size if not larger than the explosive double Naruto had tricked the Akatsuki with earlier.
All the ninja stared in awe at the destruction, then they turned to a VERY smug Naruto who had his arms crossed and a grin on his face. Lee was the first to speak, "Hokage-sama-" "Naruto." "Sorry, Naruto that was amazing!"
Naruto's ego seemed to inflate a thousand fold as he rubbed his claws against his clothed chest, "why thank you, it was nothing." "Naruto aren't you tired?" Zaiaku asked, his golden gaze questioning Naruto's physical health. Naruto laughed, "me? The great Hokage of Konoha tired after defeating six of the Akatsuki? Don't make me…zzz"
All present sweat dropped as Naruto began to snore on his feet. Suddenly he jumped awake, a smile masking his tiring face, "just kidding. Yeah I'm fine, just a little drained is all. I suppose all of you guys took care of the rest of them?" After reciving an affirmative nod he grinned wide, "I expect a full report on my desk in the morning."
From Sasuke's, Zaiaku's, and even Lee's glares he held up his hands, "I'm kidding! Good job guys, I want stories when all of you are well rested." Naruto turned to Gaara, "and I'd like to thank you Kazekage for aiding us in the fight against the Akatsuki."
Gaara smirked, "my pleasure Hokage. Now if you don't mind I should be getting back to Suna." Gaara and Naruto shook hands, much like that had after Gaara was resurrected, and like that Gaara was gone in a swirl of sand, reappearing some ways away on his floating sand.
Naruto turned to the three remaining Konoha Shinobi. Sasuke looked the best of them all, only minor scraps here and there and he didn't look to be tired in the least. Lee and Zaiaku were on pretty fair levels. Both had cuts all over their clothing proving that they once had large gashes here and there.
Naruto smirked, "how are you guys holding up?" Sasuke smirked, "just fine dobe just fine." Lee weakly pumped his fist in the air, "the shadow of the Akatsuki couldn't extinguish my flames of youth!" Zaiaku smirked weakly, "I'm ok…thank you Naruto."
Naruto raised and eyebrow, "why are you thanking me?" Zaiaku smiled lightly and reached up to his head, holding out a strand of perfectly silver hair. "Itami is going to go nuts when she finds out Koumansa's effect has been cancelled out," Zaiaku said which raised eyebrows in both Sasuke and Lee while eliciting a gigantic grin from Naruto.
"Don't thank me, I should be thanking you guys. You didn't have to help me but you did and hell I'd say you did a great job!" Naruto shouted, his old energy leaking through the cracks of his exhaustion. "Three cheers for victory!" "Hip, hip hooray! Hip, hip hooray! Hip, hip, HOORAY!" Despite the exhaustion each of the ninja felt they couldn't help but have Naruto's infectious energy get to them. Spirits were high as they began the long road back to Konoha, it was a great day for Konoha and Suna.
End chapter
Well that was fun! Time for some Q and A I think!
Q: Gold eyes?
A: (rings bell) We have a winner! I was wondering if someone was going to notice that, thank you for being that someone!
Q: Zaiaku's coins and life?
A: Ok, here's the short version. Zaiaku had lost the ability to use his coins because Bakemono literaly drained the ability out of him. Noting that Naruto messed with Zaiaku's chakra coils in this chapter, when Zaiaku used Koumansa it didn't take his life and since the effect was nullified so was his past usage of Koumansa. Hence Zaiaku won't die until he is supposed to, not earlier. Wow that was confusing to write. I gotta think on that one cause even I got confused.
Well that's the end of this shot. Thank you for reading and I'll be back soon with a new chapter...I hope! Later!