Daze
Chapter four: Akatsuki versus Sound
A/N: Ice Here, Here's chapter four; big thanks to everyone who followed, fav'd, and reviewed.
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Naruto awoke in a barrel.
He could feel he was being carried at a rapid pace, most likely by shinobi.
All of a sudden he heard a whooshing noise and he felt himself falling to the ground, the barrel breaking.
He tumbled out and looked up.
He saw two men with black cloaks with red cloud patterns fighting the group that had captured him minus Tayuya.
The red-haired man had a puppet with a bladed arm and long shaggy black hair.
The two-headed blue-haired man and large orange-haired men were fighting it, dodging it's blade and waves of black sand.
The red-haired man smirked.
"You are both interesting specimens, after I defeat you, you will join my collection."
The man with six arms was fighting a ranged battle with a blonde man who was chuckling while tossing clay birds at him.
"I'll show you my art, you six armed freak."
Naruto tried to climb to his feet when he was lifted into the air by his shirt collar.
He turned and saw a dark man with pink and green eyes tossing him over his shoulder.
"Don't struggle gaki or I'll steal your heart."
The man began to run off later being joined by a man with gray-hair.
"Did you deal with that bone-freak Hidan?"
The scythe-wielding man growled.
"No you stupid heathen I couldn't get past his fucking thick bones!"
Kakuzu looked annoyed.
"And you led him here, you idiot!"
Kimimaro rushed the men spinning with his bones, they hopped away.
"Give the Kyuubi back, he belongs to Orochimaru-sama!"
Kakuzu glared at him coldly.
"Sorry gaki, he belongs to us now, although it would be nice if you called your master out here, he has a pricey bounty on his head that I would like to collect."
Kakuzu shot his arm at the boy threads stretching from his severed bicep.
Kimimaro tried to slash the threads with his bone blade only to end up wrapped in them.
Hidan smirked.
"That won't work, Kakuzu's threads are made of a near unbreakable material."
Kimimaro paled as Kakuzu's mask tore off of his face, his hair flowing upward and threads flying from his mouth.
"I apologize normally I would take my time but Pain will dock my pay if we take too long."
Three masked beasts shot off of his back and opened their mouths, fire wind and lightning crackling in their jaws.
"It's over; Fire Style: Severely Searing Migraine!"
The fire and lightning mixed before crashing into the wind and exploding in a gust of flames and sparks.
Earth and dust shot from the impact zone obscuring their vision.
Hidan turned to Kakuzu.
"Do you think you got him?"
Kakuzu looked at him annoyed.
"You doubt me Hidan, do you wanna die?"
Hidan sighed.
"We've been over this Kakuzu you can't kill me, I'm immortal."
The dust began to clear and their eyes widened as they saw he was still standing, the skin on his chest and arms burned away to reveal muscle and bone.
A tail began to grow from his back, his eyes turning yellow as bone spikes grew from his back.
He roared and charged the grey-haired man.
"Give me the Kyuubi!"
Hidan smirked and stood still letting the man's bone lance pierce his chest. Kimimaro looked at him confused.
"You didn't dodge it?"
Hidan swung his scythe, scratching Kimimaro's cheek.
"Why would I, you can't kill me, like I told my partner Kakuzu here, I'm immortal."
He pulled himself off of the lance flipping back to the ground.
"I on the other hand can kill you with this; Jashin-sama, I hope I make you proud with this sacrifice!"
Hidan tossed blood from his chest onto the grass turning it into a circle with an upside down triangle around himself.
Licking the blood on his scythe he smiled his eyes shining with crazed glee.
"The ritual is complete. Now die!"
He pulled a steel stake from his leg stabbing himself in the kidney.
Kimimaro fell onto his stomach coughing up blood.
Hidan laughed maniacally.
"What do you think, the pain is exquisite, is it not; Jashin-sama will congratulate me for this!"
His eyes fluttered with gleams of pleasure seeing his enemy like this.
"Let's explore a new pain together."
He turned to his partner, looking him dead in the eye.
"Kakuzu use that jutsu."
Kakuzu smirked.
"You don't have to tell me twice."
He shot a fourth masked beast from his back two of them returned to his chest.
"Water Style: Tonal Sever!"
The new masked beast shot a jet of water the wind east striking it with a blade of wind.
Kimimaro tried to crawl away holding his kidney and coughing up blood.
Hidan laughed maniacally.
"Yes let me feel that pain that wonderful pain!"
The blade of pressurized water struck Hidan in the chest bisecting him diagonally.
Kimimaro grabbed his chest in pain as a large slash appeared across it. His curse mark receded as he let out a labored breath.
"My apologies Orochimaru-Sama I can't-"
He let out a long breath, his eyes closing.
Hidan crawled with his arms towards his lower half.
"Alright Kakuzu stitch me back together already."
Kakuzu nodded.
"Hold still."
Threads shot out of his arms and began to pull his two halves together crudely stitching them in place.
"We need to go, Leader-sama will get impatient soon."
Hidan nodded and followed him, through the trees.
Hideout Interior, Same Time...
Jiraiya and co. entered the hideout only to see it in total disarray.
Kakashi turned to the Sannin.
"Where is everybody? This place is a ghost town."
Jiraiya looked around, sending chakra to his nose to get a better sense of smell.
"It smells like death here, I don't think anyone's left."
Jiraiya checked for any traps the motioned for them to proceed.
They crossed a corner and arrived at a prison block, Sound ninja were strewn about the room some shredded to pieces other's burned alive.
Kakashi paled.
"This was the work of Itachi and Kisame."
Jiraiya nodded.
"Then that means..."
"Naruto isn't here, we need to go and check the surrounding forest; Tenzo you and Hawk continue to search the hideout just in case."
They nodded and ran off to look.
Jiraiya grimaced.
"First Orochimaru and now the Akatsuki, this is a huge mess. This mission just got a lot more difficult..."
Edge of the forest, thirty minutes later...
Kakuzu and Hidan arrived at the rendezvous point just as the rest of the members did.
Pain turned to face them.
"Deidara, Sasori report?
Sasori sighed.
"We couldn't find Orochimaru, only some lackies of his, we dealt with them."
Pain nodded.
"Kakuzu, Hidan?"
Kakuzu tossed Naruto onto the ground at his feet.
"Mission accomplished."
Pain cracked his knuckles and began to gather chakra.
"Very well Sasori, Deidara continue to search the surrounding area for the snake; Hidan, Kakuzu, take the jinchuriki back to the base,"
The man's ringed eyes glew with power.
"- Itachi, and Kisame will meet you there and begin preparation for the sealing."
Kakuzu nodded.
"What about you and Konan?"
He began to levitate into the air and she floated above him with wings of paper.
"We will level this forest and ensure that nothing breathing remains now go."
They nodded with a series of hai's and vanished.
Pain began to strain his eyes tossing a black orb of dense chakra into the air.
"Planetary Devastation!"
The trees were uprooted and the ground cracked as everything began to fly toward the calamity.
Back w/ the squad of Leaf Ninja...
Jiraiya paled.
Kakashi turned to him.
"What is that?!"
Jiraiya pulled a scroll from his pouch.
"There's no time we need to reverse summon out of here everyone grab on!"
He bit his finger and slammed his palm onto the scroll, a massive purple frog appearing.
"Kuchiyose No Jutsu!"
The squad fell in each grabbing part of the frog.
Jiraiya made a one handed seal and they vanished in a cloud of smoke, just as the area around them shattered and flew towards the sky.
Center of Calamity, a few moments later...
Konan turned to her leader.
"Well Nagato what now."
The man stared at the orb of stone and felt blood leak from his nose as he paled.
"I used too much chakra."
He released it and it crashed into the earth with a mighty thud as shattered trees, earth, and wreckage from the hideout filled the area.
Dust flew into the sky for miles as birds flew away from the sound.
"Let's go Konan… we need to begin the ritual."
She nodded, putting a hand on his shoulder and they vanished amid a swirl of paper.
Five minutes later, Konoha...
Jiraiya and co. arrived back at the leaf village after a second reverse summoning this time one of Kakashi's dogs who happened to be in the vet at the time.
"Thanks Bull you really saved our skin."
The large dog barked, licking Kakashi's face.
Jiraiya turned to him sighing.
"We need to report back to Tsunade, so prepare yourself."
Kakashi shrugged.
"I think my luck's finally run out and I've accepted my fate… it's been a pleasure serving with you."
Jiraiya nodded, wiping a dramatic tear from his eye.
"And you."
They left for the Hokage tower as the rest of the squad followed, hugging and crying amongst themselves.
Five hours later, Unknown location...
Naruto woke up and moved his hands, feeling bindings on his wrists.
He sighed in frustration.
"Damn it! Can people stop tying me up already?!"
He looked up and saw a statue with several cloaked figures standing on the fingers. As he gazed up he saw two holograms appear.
"Now that we're all here, let's begin the extraction."
Naruto raised his hands and began thrashing around.
"Let me go, you bastards, I'll rip your throats out with my teeth if I have to!"
Obito sighed atop the statue.
"Kakuzu, restrain him further."
Kakuzu nodded sighing as well.
"Yes Madara-Sama."
He hopped down from the finger of the statue and shot his arms around Naruto, the threads entangling his neck.
Naruto began to bite and claw at the threads struggling for air.
"Just go to sleep Gaki it'll all be over soon."
Naruto paled as he felt his mind begin to cloud his eyes rolling back as he fell unconscious.
Pain nodded.
"Let us resume."
Kakuzu hopped back onto his finger and made a hand sign.
The other figures nodded and raised their hands in matching hand signs lights appearing on the statue's fingers.
"Sealing Jutsu: Nine Phantom Dragons!"
The statue's mouth opened and nine ghostly dragons shot out crashing into Naruto's chest and pulling the chakra out of him.
Deidara turned to Pain.
"How long do you think it'll take us to extract the Kyuubi?"
Pain stared down indifferently.
"The Nanabi took three days so I'd assume anywhere between four and five days."
The blonde man sighed.
"This is so exhausting."
Hidan echoed his sentiment groaning.
"Jashin-sama won't be happy I'm wasting so much time, I could be killing someone right now..."
"Shut up Hidan, you're always going on and on about killing… you're fucked up in the head, you know that?"
Deidara barked out.
Both men kept on bickering to everyone else's annoyance.
Itachi was merely watching passively the whole time, internally he didn't support this, at all.
He was merely supposed to infiltrate the Akatsuki and spy for the Leaf; Things don't always go as planned though.
He was hoping that Naruto would be able to survive the unsealing, He'd heard tales about the Uzumaki being able to survive this type of thing but he wasn't sure.
Mito Uzumaki was able to seal the Kyuubi into herself even after having developed chakra coils.
The Uzumaki's life force was second to none.
She was also able to seal it into Kushina Uzumaki at the age of 78 years and be able to live another 6 years, dying at the age of 84 years old.
He was hoping that would be the case with Naruto.
To be able to survive.
If Naruto did survive he would take it upon himself to protect him no matter what; He had already failed his brother's best friend once, he wouldn't fail him again.
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2/2/21: Chapter four revised.