A/N: I remembered what that upbeat Naruto song is called! Haha yea sorry anywho, yea that name of the song is " Strong and Strike". Yep. ;p
Warnings: Sorry if this is a spoiler, but a ways down in this chapter when Itachi speaks to Naruto about Three years "marking the end of the time we have to obtain you", he's talking about how Orochimaru can now take Sasuke's body because it's been three years. Remember in the Anime/Manga how Orochimaru had to wait three years to get Sasuke's body because he already transfered? That created time for Akatsuki to obtain all the Biju's so they would have enough power to stop Orochimaru completely, especially if he get's Sasuke's body. So for my fic, during the three years that passed, The Akatsuki obtained all the Biju's except for Naruto.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto series.
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Behind The Smile
Chapter 15: Another Uchiha/Uzumaki Battle.
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The other Shinobi stood their ground, bodies tense as they resisted the wind coming towards them. They had never seen Naruto like this before.
" This chakra." Neji muttered. He still clearly remembered in the chuunin exams, when this same chakra revealed itself. But not to this great amount.
" Shit." Was all Kisame muttered.
(Song: Naruto OST: Strong and Strike)
Sakura had to dig her nails into the ground to prevent herself from sliding back, due to the enormous wind being produced by Naruto's chakra. She looked up at Itachi, who was now in front of her. His huge cloak, and charcoal locks of hair were blowing along with the wind. His body was very stiff, but at the same time he was relaxed, as if this was another battle which he would not need to take very seriously. How strong was this guy?
Itachi threw his hat to the side, the wind picked it up carrying it further along with the many leaves. His Sharingan eyes were trained on Naruto, who was looking straight back at him. The wind had died down now, and the leaves began to fall towards the ground. The hat began its descent towards the ground as well. The wind seemed to stop completely and all went deadly silent as the bell that was attached tothe hatproduced a little chime as it hit the ground.
Naruto charged towards Itachi, seemingly disappearing due to the speed he was traveling at. With that, Itachi seemingly disappeared as well, meeting Naruto fist to fist with a powerful punch. The force crumbled the ground underneath them. They disappeared again, and moved around, creating noticeable ruptures in the sky as they collided again and again.
Kisame decided to move in and assist Itachi, so they could get the job done quickly. He seemingly disappeared, making his way towards the fighting duo. But soon hecame to a sudden halt.
Kisame found himself not able to move any further, it was like he was stopped by some force. He struggled, managing to move his head down to look at his feet. He noticed some kind of shadow underneath him, and he slowly managed to turn his head to the side, his eyes following the shadow that sprouted from behind him. His eyes set on the same guy who had got him before. Nara Shikamaru. He stood, along with the other Konoha shinobi, their eyes focused on him.
Kisame tried to move again.But something about this one was different. It was much stronger, and Kisame found it difficult to move at all whatsoever. His eyes widened as he noticed the shadow of a hand slowly began to creep up towards his neck. He immediately started fighting Shikamaru's shadow technique. The shadow hand struggled, slowly reclining back down.
Shikamaru's hands were shaking as he held the seal, his whole forehead creating beads of sweat.
The Shadow hand slowly began to make it's way back up again. This time is was both traveling up, and traveling back down, as both sides fought to overpower the other.
"Enough of this..Samehada!" Kisame called. He felt the sword vibrate but it did not remove itself from it's position on his shoulder. Surprised, he looked up at it to see the powerful blade covered in tiny bugs. " What is this!" He looked at himself to see the same tiny bugs all over parts of his body as well.
" You said your blade eats chakra…" Shino's deep voice could be heard. " Meaning it must have chakra of it's own for it to be able to move of it's own free accord. But if that chakra were eaten away, would it still be able to move on it's own?" Shino finished, stating the question more than asking it.
Kisame stared in disbelief for a second. But that slowly changed to a challenging glare. " You've already underestimated my power, but don't underestimate my powerful blade, Samehada!" That said, the blade began to vibrate uncontrollably. The bugs seemed to be dying, as they fell off one by one. The blade was managing to eat chakra from the bugs as well.
Shino just stood, still with his hands in his pockets. The bugs that were on Kisame began to travel up to the sword, but soon more replaced Kisame as well. The bugs were starting to eat Kisame's chakra , but there was so much of it, it was barely making an impact.More bugs appeared, making a thick second skin on the Akatsuki member. They were eating more and more chakra.
Kisame noticed this, and decided it was really time to get serious. With a strong battle cry, all the muscles in Kisame body visibly got bigger. He brought his arms up, and proceeded to bring them away from his body slowly. He was trying to overpower Shikamaru's shadow hand.
Shikamaru winced in exhausted pain. He was sweating heavily now.
The shadow hand slowly shrunk down, to below Kisame's feet. Kisame noticed that the bugs were eating a lot of his chakra so he needed to get out of this bind fast. With another powerful, triumphant yell, Kisame used all the muscles in his body, and pushed outward, breaking the hold on him. The shadow disappeared back to Shikamaru, who was now on one knee. Kisame grabbbed his blade, and swung it down to the ground. The bugs that were on it all dissapeared.
Wind and dust blew in their faces as Naruto and Itachi collided very close to them. It distracted all their attention to the duo, as they watched them collide over and over again.
" Itachi needs to stop playing around." Kisame muttered, annoyed. Itachi never needed to use his full powers in battle, but if they wanted the job done quick he could at least get a bit more serious. Kisame brought his attention back to the shadow binding him, thinking it would be simple yet again to break out.
Kisame looked ahead to see Rock Lee in front of him.
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Naruto and Itachi collided once again. Naruto aimed another punch, butItachi caught it, tightening his grip. Itachi slowly began to bend Naruto's fist back, causing him tolet out a painful cry. Naruto used his free fist and aimed another punch, managing toland a hit.He flew back a few feet, executing a flip before landing on his feet.TheAkatsuki memberslowly brought a hand up to his face, and used his fingers to wipe the little trickle of blood that began to slide down the corner of his mouth. Itachi looked at the blood for a moment, then right back at Naruto. He threw his hand to the side towards the ground so fast, that the blood slipped off and shot to the ground.
Itachi seemingly dissapeared. He was moving at lightning fast speed. He appeared in front of Naruto, his sharingan eyes more prominent than ever. He lowered down and swiftly punched Naruto in the gut, causing him to hunch over in pain. Itachi didn't stop there as punched him in the gut a few time more, finally kicking him up into the air. Itachi reapeared above Naruto and spun a full 360 degrees, back-handing him towards the ground, where he collided full force, creating a small crater underneath him.
Itachi landed gracefully, and began walking towards Naruto, kunai in hand. Naruto was struggling to get up, heavily impacted from the blow. The orange/red chakra that was once around Naruto was gone. ' What the?' Naruto didn't understand. Itachi's eyes seemed to be glowing with that pericing red, his Sharingan more prominent than ever. He was holding one hand in a sort of seal. Naruto felt the power of the Kyuubi slip away.
" Three years," Itachi spoke. " starting today. The day of our first encounter is it not?" Naruto flashed back to when he opened his door to be greeted with two ominous figures.
Naruto looked at Itachi approaching him. He pushed himself up off the ground, he had scratches and bruises all over his face now.He did a few handseals, trying to bring back the Kyuubi's chakra, but he felt nothing at all. Just like the time Orochimaru put that seal on him. He didn't feel the Kyuubi's chakra at all. Itachi noticed what he was trying to do, he only closed his eyes and shook his head. He seemed to know something that Naruto did not.
"This day holds another importance as well. It marks the end of the time we have to obtain you." With that said Itachi sprinted forward again. Naruto did a backflip, avoiding his first punch.
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Having prepared by unwrapping the bandages on his arms, Lee kicked Kisame into the air, turning him upside down. Lee jumped up after him. Once he was directy behind the Akatsuki member, Lee wrapped his arm bandages around him, and grabbed Kisame in a bear hug. His body was aligned with Kisame and shifted down/up below Kisame shoulder's to avoid impact.
" Omote Renge!" He eniciated a spin with the both of them in the middle, creating a screwdriver effect, and then proceeded to piledrive Kisame headfirst into the ground. Lee jumped off, landing on the ground in a crouched posistion. His face was wincing in pain, due to the overuse of his muscles. His head snapped up as he heard rumbling.
The ground, where Kisame's head was buried into, cracked, breaking up, creating a slight explosion. Dust and smoke from the rocks rose into the air, providing no clear view on Kisame or Lee.
Rock Lee looked all around him, trying to see through the smoke. He sensed something coming down at him, and swiftly rolled to side, just in time to see Kisame's huge blade meet the ground, breaking the rock underneath it. The blade was picked up, and swung again, this time, horizontally. Lee could only drop onto his stomach to avoid it this time. A few strands of his hair floated in the air. Lee forced himself to jump away, and he landed on his hands and knees. He saw the sword coming down on his again. He felt two people near him.
Next thing Lee knew, he felt himself being lifted up by someone. His arm was slung around the person's shoulders. And they both jumped away out of the clearing smoke. The other person stayed with Kisame. Lee looked up to see Tenten who was supporting him. They both made it over to where to where the others were Tenten set him down.
She and everyone else were looking ahead at where Kisame was. Lee looked too, seeing Neji there as well.
Neji sprinted closer to the Akatsuki member, his Byakagun activated.A sort of seal, enclosed in a huge round circle, appeared underneath the two. It was blue and glowed brightly.
"Hakke Rokujuyon Sho!" Neji's hands were angled in the familiar deadly point, his fingers poised and ready to strike. He stabbed his hands forwards into Kisame, in a series of two heavy strikes, followed by two more, followed by four, followed by eight, followed by sixteen, followed by a dazzling thirty-two consecutive pinpoint-precision strikes.
"Hakke Hyaku Nijuhachi Sho!" Neji continued stabbing his hands forward. Executing sixty-four consecutive pin-point precision strikes, followed by a whopping one hundred-twenty-eight strikes. Each one was meant to close certain chara points in his body, proving to be lethal, if not fatal.
Kisame spit out blood, and dropped down on one knee.He seemed to be breathing heavily. " You ..little brat." Neji was still in battle posistion, breathing heavily as well. A smirk slowly appeared on his face. Kisame managed to swing his blade, but it was rather slow, letting Neji dodge easily. Kisame was nearly out of chakra.
" Kuso..Samehada!" Kisame did a few seals, seemingly using his chakra this time. The monstrous blade started glowing a bright red, and it was shaking uncontrollably. The sword seperated itself from it's weilder, shaking even more. The curved spikes on the sword grew larger and longer, making the capacity of it's blows very lethal if not fatal. The great blade was in berzerker mode.
With great speed, it swung at Neji, who was barely able to dodge. The next swing, Nej had to meet with his own kunai. He was already being overpowered.
TenTen ran towards them, jumping into the air.
" Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" Tenten took out a scroll, running a thumb, which she had already bit, along the inscriptions. It left behind a line of blood, which instantly glowed. Many weapons appeared. Ranging from Kunai and shuriken, to other daily tools. She guided them towards Kisame, who was unguarded.
Sameha immediately dissapeared and reapeared in front of Kisame, swinging all over the place as if deflected the weapons. The weapons came back at the group. Hinata, who had many practice with a technique she was about to use, stepped forwards in front of the group.
With a deep breath, she lowered into a crouched posistion. With pointed hands she began moving them in a pattern in front of her, reaching as far out as she could. Chakra appeared along the path her hands were going, but seemingly dissapeared as soon as they appeared. She went faster and faster, the lines becoming more prominent and chakra filled. Just as the weapons were in front of her, they hit a sort of invisible wall and were deflected to the ground.
Tenten clicked her tongue in annoyance. " Well if you gonna dodge all those.." She ran closer to Kisame and his blade, stopping herself when she was at an angle towards him. She jumped into the air again, spinning so she was upside down, still at an angle to the Akatsuki. She brought out a scroll, and very gracefully, and flashily moved back to a normal upright posistion, twirling the scroll with her. She kept spinning, and the sroll twirled all around her. She ran her hand along the scroll, and more weapons, appeared, in a much greater number. They were all deflected again.
When Tenten landed to the ground, she took out two nicely decorated scrolls. She placed one on each side of her. She crouched down, and preformed a series of handseals. With one final seal, she crossed her arm across eachother.
" Soushouryu!" Tenten and the area around her was submersed in smoke creating a huge wind. Kisame brought a hand up to his face to cover his eyes. Two smokey forms of dragons shot up from the smoke and traveled high into the sky, intertwining with eachother, reducing themselves into the two outstretched scrolls that Tenten had taken out earlier. Most of the smoke subsided and Tenten shot up inbetween the two scrolls, with were still spinning around. She grabbed weapons from each scroll and kept throwing them at Kisame. But again his big blade kept defelecting them.
" Ha, even if you increase the number, it's still the same. My Samehada is impossible to decieve." Tenten still kept throwing many weapons, still having a long time until she was done. She knew someone would get the hint and take action.
" Let's go,Akamaru!" With a bark, the almost fully grow dog jumped into the air, it's silverish coat gleaming in the sun. Kiba did a few handseals.
" Jujin Bunshin!" Akamaru transformed into a replica of Kiba, landing next to him. They were completley identical. They began running towards Kisame.
" Jinju Konbi Henge!" Both " Kiba's" swirled their bodies so fast they looked like compressed tornado's, or like a spinning torpedo. They both intertwined in and out of eachother, making their way towards Kisame. Kisame noticed something coming at him from the side, his eyes widened.His blade was still busy defelcting the tons of weapons coming at them.
" Gatsuuga!" The two spinning comrades split and them came together with Kisame in the middle. It lifted him up into the air, as the two hit him over and over again.
The two jumped away, and let Kisame fall to the ground. All the Konoha shinobi waited, waiting for the smoke to reside. Was this it? Had they defeated Hoshigaki Kisame?
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