17. Invasion And Family Reunions, Just Your Typical Shinobi Day
AN: I'm so sorry for how long this took me. I got caught up watching some old cartoons and practically dropped off the face of the internet during that. On a completely different note, I left a few challenges on my challenge 'story' and I would appreciate it if you guys would look through them, if nothing else than to tell me they're impossible. On yet another note, Prince is next in line for update so expect that sometime this month. Alright, I've wasted enough of your time, on to the show.
Story Start
"Begin!"
Naruto's shout was met with all three people standing in the middle of the arena exploding into action. Naruto quickly joined the slipstream and ran to a spot three hundred feet away before he slipped out and watched as Gaara's sand blasted out of its gourd and rushed to crush Sasuke who in turn was already in motion himself, dashing to the side in order to avoid said sand moving so fast that he was nothing but a blur to the eyes of civilians and genin. As soon as the sand was past him, Sasuke turned and blurred behind Gaara launching a strong kick at Gaara's back. The kick was blocked by a wall of sand that Gaara had left in his gourd before said wall tried to close around Sasuke's foot and crush it. Sasuke quickly pulled his foot out and rushed to Gaara's side trying to get a punch in only to get the same results.
Sasuke quickly darted away before Gaara's sand could try to attempt to catch him again. Taking a few shuriken out of his pouch as he ran, Sasuke used his lightning natured chakra to give the shuriken a charge before he sent all three flying at speeds that would leave a civilian or genin wondering why they were suddenly dead. Gaara's sand reacted to the sparking shuriken and rose up forming a sand clone which casually caught the shuriken. The clone grinned at Sasuke even though some of the sand was dropping to the ground due to the Lightning chakra negating the Earth chakra that made up most of Gaara's unconscious control of the sand. Then the clone threw the shuriken back at Sasuke who quickly jumped to the side to avoid them.
Sasuke tched to himself as he thought 'I was hoping that my Lightning natured chakra would be more effective against his sand. Well if I can't negate it that way then lets try fire.' Sasuke rushed through hand
signs before he drew his head back and shouted "Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" His head shot back forward and a large fireball blazed its way towards Gaara getting bigger the farther it got from Sasuke until it was about ten meters tall. The fireball slammed into Gaara's position with the redhead not even moving an inch as the fireball exploded as soon as it encompassed him.
All of the civilians in the arena let out a collective gasp as the flames continued to burn for a full minute before finally dying down. When they did, everyone saw a dome of glass protecting Gaara whose red hair could be seen inside. Sasuke tch'ed and thought 'Well that was a bust.'
As if reading his opponent's mind, Gaara showed just how effective the fireball was as with a gesture of his hand the entire dome of glass exploded outwards before it drew in on itself and began spinning forming a vortex of sharp glass that swirled around Gaara. Said Jinchuriki allowed a dark smirk to form on his face as he said "You are going to have to do better than that to prove my existence Uchiha." Then he made another gesture and the top of the tornado bent until Sasuke could see the open end of the funnel. He then had exactly one second to curse and jump out of the way as all of the glass was fired at him single file with all the power and speed of a force four hurricane.
The glass shards followed Sasuke all the way to the wall before finally running out leaving Sasuke wondering just what it took to beat the runt who could apparently counter against both of his elements. Lightning wasn't very effective and Fire just had the bust in combustible put in. Looks like he was going to have to use his ace in the hole after all. If only it wasn't before five minutes into the exam. Cursing under his breath about how everyone is going to think he's weak for having to use his new technique so soon, Sasuke began back flipping up the wall until he was only two feet from the rim.
Gaara looked up at Sasuke and wondered what his opponent was going to do next to try and prove his existence. He got his answer as Sasuke ran through three hand seals and then clutched his left wrist with his right hand. For a second, nothing happened. But then Sasuke's hand erupted in sparks before a shell of Lightning natured chakra covered his entire hand with strands of Lightning chakra shooting out at random directions. As the jutsu began growing in power, everyone in the audience began hearing a sound that could only be likened to a large room filled with a thousand birds.
Naruto stared at Sasuke's hand from his spot three hundred feet away from Gaara and thought 'Now that's interesting. You surprise me Uncle Kakashi, I never thought you would teach him your only original technique so soon. Although when you consider that Sasuke is now the only loyal member of our shinobi forces who can use it besides you I shouldn't be so surprised.'
He was brought out of his thoughts by the sight of Sasuke blasting down the wall at high speed carving a ditch in the wall as his jutsu augmented speed brought him back to ground level in little under a second. A small dust cloud erupted and briefly covered Sasuke's form before he blasted out of it and raced towards Gaara's position with his jutsu still carving a ditch through the ground.
As soon as he was within two hundred feet of Gaara, sand began whipping out at him trying to catch him even as Gaara's gourd burst apart into more sand which shot into the ground in front of him before a foot thick wall of densely packed sand surrounded him on all sides. Sasuke dodged all of the sand tendrils with an ease that made it look easy thanks to his Sharingan as he continued to rush Gaara's position confident in the ability of his jutsu.
That confidence seemed to be well grounded as Sasuke reached the wall and shoved his hand straight through it where his Sharingan told him his opponent had last been. Immediately after he penetrated the wall, all of the sand tendrils dropped straight to the ground making Sasuke smirk at the assumption that he had just hit his opponent. That smirk dropped though as the sand wall fell apart to reveal his hand through a sand clone's chest. Sasuke had just a split second for his eyes to widen before all of the sand around him suddenly came to life again as it jumped up and smothered him in a cocoon.
"I expected more." Gaara said from where he was standing ten feet behind where his clone was. Gaara rose his hand and said "Now prove my existence! Sand Burial."
The civilians in the crowd all gasped as the sand cocoon imploded on itself. However, instead of blood shooting out of the sand, there was only a popping sound and a poof of smoke. Gaara's eyes widened as he saw through the mist of sand his opponent standing next to Naruto. Sasuke had a panicked wide eyed look as he realized just how close he was to dieing. Naruto though looked like he had nothing more on his mind than where the best place to cloud watch was. You would have never known that a shadow clone had just replaced the Uchiha heir unless you had caught him lazily making the necessary hand sign for one of the Hidden Leaf village's most prized techniques.
"This fight's over, Gaara wins." Naruto said in a casual voice.
Sasuke glared at Naruto and was about to shout at him when he was beaten to the punch by Gaara's yell.
"NO! The fight continues! I will not let you deny my existence a second time!"
Naruto rose an eyebrow as sand shot towards Gaara even as he became covered in a gold colored shroud of demonic chakra. Feathers began falling all around the arena as Naruto rose his right hand and purple flames appeared on his fingertips before he disappeared. Gaara's eyes widened as he folded over the blonde's hand and lost consciousness as his access to demonic chakra was suddenly shut tight by having an odd numbered seal placed over his even numbered seal which was always used to seal an odd numbered tailed beast.
As he did, enemy nin dropped their disguises only for most of them to be dropped like sacks of potatoes as a ring of mirrors formed around the top of the seating area and a figure shot from mirror to mirror hitting everyone who had a Sand or Sound headband. The Leaf shinobi in the arena were quick to pick off whatever enemies Haku missed. Unfortunately, they didn't get all of them right away.
"Gaara!" Temari yelled out in fear for her brother as she and Kankoru rushed towards the two.
Naruto looked to the side at the two who were in the process of jumping down to the arena floor and took out two kunai from his pouch which he sent spinning end over end at the two. The two kunai reached them just as they landed but seemingly missed them by the barest of margins before swinging around the two sand shinobi and wrapping them in the chakra strings that had been connected to the middle of the throwing knives.
Naruto made a fist and yanked on the strings sending the two flying halfway to the center of the arena before suddenly stopping as Naruto intercepted their flight paths with half fisted hands in their stomachs knocking the two out as well. Naruto then spun around and thrust out his arm sending a huge blast of wind out in a seal less Great Breakthrough which slammed into the sand trio's Jounin sensei who had tried to sneak up on the blond. The man shot across the arena and impacted the far wall before falling over unconscious.
Naruto turned his head to Sasuke who had stood frozen during all this and shouted "Oi, Uchiha! Get your act together and go meet up with Uncle Kakashi for orders!"
Sasuke shook his head clear before jumping up into the arena seating to find his Jounin sensei. As he did, Naruto created four clones which quickly disappeared. An instant later the Kazekage's kids and their Jounin sensei also disappeared as the clones took them to holding cells. They'd make good negotiation tools when this was all over. Naruto wasn't thinking about that though, as soon as he had made his clones, Naruto joined the slipstream and shot into the stands with two kunai in hand ready to take down any of the shinobi that Haku wasn't able to put into a death trance on his first pass through.
Scene Change: Village Walls Time: Ten Seconds After Genjutsu
Jiraiya stood on top of the main gate's sentinel station. On either side of him was a shadow clone of his godson. Standing behind the three was Ibiki and a squad of Chunin with other Chunin squads standing along the rest of the wall with the occasional Jounin mixed in. There was suddenly a loud war cry coming from the woods before three large plumes of smoke erupted a quarter mile into the forest with the middle one positioned just to the right of the main gate and the other two a half mile away from the middle in a triangle formation. The smoke cleared revealing three snakes, with the middle one having three heads. The snakes hissed at the village that they were summoned in front of before they began slithering rapidly towards the wall with the intention of knocking giant holes into the Village's primary defense.
The two clones disappeared from Jiraiya's flanks and reappeared on the wall in front of the two flanking snakes' path. Pulling out a couple of chakra pills and a vial that held the original's blood, the two clones quickly popped the pills into their mouth before they opened the vials and splashed the blood on their hands. As soon as this was done, they jumped off the wall at the same time as Jiraiya did and the three quickly ran through hand signs before they hit the ground and shouted "Summoning Jutsu!"
Three more plumes of smoke appeared in front of the walls before they cleared revealing the Big Three of the toad clan. The snakes all stopped their charge at the sight of the toads who took a moment to look around before their gazes locked onto the snakes in front of them.
Gamabunta took a moment to look upwards at Jiraiya who was standing on his head and said "I see you weren't kidding about the chance to get enough snake skin to make wallets for all of the smaller toads Jiraiya."
Jiraiya chuckled and said "I aim to please Bunta. Now if you'll excuse me, my godson is stealing all the fun."
Indeed, as soon as the other two toads were summoned, the two clones had taken two kunai out of their kunai pouches and joined the slipstream heading into the forest. Already screams of fear were filling the forest as the enemy within the woods were suddenly dropping dead with no sign of who was doing the killing. Jiraiya hopped off of Gamabunta's head and made his way into the woods as well followed by squads of Chunin with Jounin squad leaders ready to make the invaders pay for attempting to invade their home.
Gamabunta watched him go before he brought his attention back to the three headed snake in front of him. Drawing his tanto as he saw his two brothers leap to engage their own opponents, Gamabunta said "Let's see how long you actually last eh?"
Scene Change: Competitor's Booth: Time: Five Seconds After Genjutsu Start
Rico and his teammates narrowed their eyes as they saw feathers falling all throughout the arena. Sensing the Genjutsu trying to take hold, all three stocked the inner fires that was their chakra networks turning them into roiling masses of chaos. The Genjutsu slipped off of them like water off of a duck's back which is probably the only reason why they were fully aware instead of slightly muddled like the others in the booth who were still dispersing the Genjutsu the normal way.
Which was why when a Sound Chunnin rushed through the door to the booth expecting the Gennin in it to only be just now getting over the Genjutsu or even passed out along the floor, he only had a split second for his eyes to widen before a wind lengthened katar went straight through his head.
Rico drew his wind natured chakra back inside of him as his two teammates shot past on either side. The Sound nin behind the first had just enough time to draw a kunai to block Reina's tanto before Rachel's hook sword took off his hand and then his head. Rico was already over the two's heads as he activated his katar's splitting functions and slammed them into the third and final sound nin's chest as he came down.
Rico yanked the blades out of the dead nin's body allowing it to drop as he turned around to face the four Leaf Gennin who were staring at the three in surprise. Rico frowned and said "Why are you just standing there staring? Your village is under attack people! Get your acts in gear and lets go!"
The members of team 9 as well as Neji's cousin all unconsciously snapped into attention before they followed the Whirlpool nin who had turned around and began running down the hallway where the sounds of fighting had already started. As they did, the Leaf nin couldn't help but remember what had happened at the end of the first exam.
Flashback: Ending Of 1st Chunnin Exam
SLAM!
Everyone looked at Rico who had slammed his hand on the desk in front of him as he stood up and glared at Ibiki. Ibiki meanwhile stared right back at him with a frown on his face and his Killing Intent continuing to permeate the room.
Rico snarled at the proctor as he said "You, your dumb rules, and your pathetic attempt at Killing Intent don't scare me, scar face! I don't care if I'm a Gennin 'til the day I die, I'm still going to become the best shinobi of my clan and make everyone on this continent take notice of me! And if ANY of you wimps are still thinking about dropping out then you should just turn in your headbands right now, because you aren't shinobi, you're little kids trying to play it safe. We take risks every time we leave our villages. Why? Because it is our job to defend and support our homes, regardless of the risk involved. Now man up and show this jerk that we're not afraid of him or his stupid questions!"
The rest of the test takers all gained determined looks in their eyes and turned back to face Ibiki silently telling him to give them the final question. In their seats in front of their teammate, Rachel and Reina smirked at each other across the five shinobi that separated them in their row. Their teammate always did have a way of having spectacular moments at just the right time.
End Flashback
A Sand Jounin came barreling down the stairs that led to the spectator stands from up above with a puppet in front of him. Rico let out a snort of disgust at the Jounin and said "What good is that little toy going to do for you? It doesn't even make a good shield."
The Sand nin saw red but before he could shout his anger at the Whirlpool nin, he heard a voice whisper behind him "See?" Then he saw nothing as Rico's katar pierced the back of his head. Rachel and Reina shot past him up the stairs ignoring the piece of tile that was in the spot Rico had been. Rico pulled his blade out of his opponent and said to Team 9 "Go find your sensei, he'll tell you where you need to be."
Team 9 nodded and dashed after Rico's teammates. Turning to Hinata, Rico said "Stick close to me, we're going to cut a path straight through to Tsunami-sensei." Hinata nodded and the two tore up the stairs after the others.
Scene Change: Stadium Kage Booth: Time: Thirty Seconds Before Invasion
The sound of chirping birds faded out as Sasuke was caught in a cocoon of sand. Seeing Naruto form a clone which quickly replaced itself with Sasuke before he could be killed, Onoki frowned and said "I don't think that Uchiha brat is ready for promotion. He was extremely late showing up with him appearing just in time for his match and apparently can't come up with a plan that doesn't include charging at his enemy at some point."
Sarutobi sighed as he said "I have to agree. Reports say that young Sasuke has a good backing in tactics, but he not really shown any of that today. What do you think Kazekage?"
Hearing nothing but silence as their answer, Onoki and Sarutobi turned and saw the Kazekage looking down at where Naruto was standing next to Sasuke with a look on his face of both disappointment and anger. The two Kages turned back to each other and gave subtle nods that the distracted Kazekage didn't catch.
Onoki stood up and said "I believe I will go relieve myself and place my next bets before the next round begins. Come along Kurotsuchi."
Kurotsuchi nodded and the two left the booth. The Kazekage's eyes flicked at his retreating back for the briefest of instants before they snapped back to the arena as he thought 'It seems that Sasuke is not as strong as I thought. No matter, while it would be in my best interests to have a host be as strong as possible before I take it over, I can get Sasuke's body up to proper standards fast enough when I have him. But that can wait, for right now I need to begin the destruction of the leaf. I still cannot believe that Kabuto lost though. I will have to have words with him when this is over.'
The Kazekage made a quick hand sign and feathers began falling as his body guards rushed at Sarutobi's own body guard. Hayate drew his blade as he stepped in front of Sarutobi and slashed through both of the two Sand nin before he had to duck a kunai as the Kazekage launched himself at him. He was backhanded away as the Kage passed and grabbed Sarutobi before jumping up to the roof.
Hayate got up from where he was slammed into the wall that acted as a backdrop for the Kage chairs and prepared to rush after the two Kages only to have to duck a second time as the 'Sand' nin's body parts turned into four Sound shinobi who quickly rushed at him in a feint with each of them throwing a kunai. The action cleared the four Sound nin's path and they jumped after the two Kages and took positions forming a rectangle around the two Kages before they quickly raised a purple barrier.
Hayate cursed and rushed after them. He was joined by a squad of ANBU who ran beside him. When they were ten feet away, the ANBU captain suddenly recognized the barrier and shouted "Stop, Jiraiya's barrier bashing seals can't break that!"
Hayate and three of the ANBU skidded to a stop, but the one in front who was in the process of taking a shinobi leap and to activate the toad sage's special seal couldn't stop his momentum as he launched his body at the barrier. The ANBU captain could only watch knowing that he was about to lose a squad member before the jumping ANBU was grabbed by the back of his collar and jerked back causing his body to swing forward and his ninja sandals to barely brush the barrier. They erupted in flames and as the ANBU's legs hit the ground, he quickly tore them off before looking at the person who had saved him.
The figure was obviously one of Naruto's clones since it had the Jounin's face and clothes. But it looked like it was around its early twenty's instead of a twelve year old. The gathered ANBU and Hayate blinked as the clone let go of the ANBU and then dropped his transformation that it had utilized to catch the ANBU in time. When the smoke cleared, the clone gave a quick salute and disappeared.
"Well that's something you don't see every day." Hayate said. The ANBU nodded and all five got ready for a long wait.
Scene Change: Hidden Leaf Village Academy Time: Thirty Seconds After Genjutsu
Iruka heard the village wide invasion alarm start wailing and cursed as he shouted "Everyone form up! Follow me and don't lag behind! This is not a drill!"
The students who had been running laps quickly ran over to Iruka and formed two lines like they were taught in drills. Iruka made sure he had all of his class before he turned and prepared to lead his students into the building where there was a secret tunnel to the evacuation centers in the Hokage Mountain. But as he did, twelve shinobi with a music note on their headbands and wearing ski masks suddenly appeared in poofs of smoke ten feet in front of him causing him and the students to stop running.
The Sound shinobi in the front chuckled darkly as he said "Well looky what we have here. Some brats and their wimpy teacher out in the open with no where to run. You guys go on ahead, I'll take care of these weaklings."
The other shinobi all gave dark chuckles as they turned to run to the academy. Iruka gritted his teeth as he pulled out a kunai ready to defend his charges when a shout of "Like hell you well!" suddenly filled the air and all twelve nin dropped with kunai holes in the back of their skulls. All of the kids let out horrified gasps as the bodies hit the floor.
Four blonde figures suddenly appeared in front of the bodies and Konohamaru shouted "Boss!" Everyone could hear the surprise and relief in the Sandaime's grandson's voice.
The clones grinned at Konohamaru before the leader turned to Iruka and said "Our brothers are evacuating the rest of the school as we speak. We're going to start bringing your class to the evacuation point four at a time while two of us stay to guard the rest and then help with the rest of the village defense."
Iruka nodded and two of the clones disappeared as they joined the slipstream and grabbed two of the kids each and rushed to the Hokage Mountain. The rest of the kids Woah'ed before they all began disappearing in ten second increments. Iruka was the last one grabbed and just before he disappeared after his students he thought 'Whoever planned this invasion has made a big mistake.' Then he was gone from the training field, the last person evacuated from the academy leaving the building and surrounding training fields devoid of all life.
Scene Change: Hidden Leaf Hospital
Twelve squads of Sound and Sand nin were standing on the building that stood directly in front of the Hospital's low four foot wall. All of them were looking down at the entrance where a single blond figure was leaning against the wall next to the right side of the double doors. The figure was looking up at all forty eight enemies with a look of absolute boredom on his face as he spun a kunai around each pointer finger in opposite directions.
"Only one shinobi for the entire outside perimeter of a Hospital? No wonder Lord Orochimaru believes this village will fall easily, what arrogance." One of the Sound nin muttered to their leader.
The leader frowned and said "Either the village is extremely stupid thinking that no one will actually attack a hospital or the higher ups are really confident in this guy's skills."
The man next to him snorted and said "Over confident you mean. How can one person completely defend the outside of a building like this? Especially a runt like that brat?"
"By being extremely fast."
All of the ninja stiffened at the voice and looked behind them. Their eyes widened before all of them fell to the ground dead with through and through holes in their chest in both of their lungs and their hearts. The clone cleaned his kunai on the clothes of the closest Sand nin before he went back to his post.
Scene Change: Kage Booth Rooftop Time: Forty Five Seconds After Genjutsu
Inside the barrier, Orochimaru had a hand around Sarutobi's neck and the other holding a kunai close to Sarutobi's chest. Orochimaru let out a happy sigh as he said "Ah, I've been waiting a long time for this."
"You've been waiting to build a village of your own only to waste the lives of everyone who looked to you for guidance and protection as they participate in a suicide battle alongside the Sand?" Sarutobi asked with a growl in his voice. You did not need to know Sarutobi well to see that he was beyond pissed at the waste of lives that Orochimaru was bringing about today.
Orochimaru laughed as he said "This village will burn one way or another sensei. Whether it be from my army crushing this village like the leaf it's named after or by myself once I finally kill you today. Either way is perfectly fine by me."
"Too bad I'm not going to let you." Sarutobi growled before he seemed to burst apart in an explosion of wind as he used the body flicker technique to move at high speed out of Orochimaru's grasp and to a spot thirty feet to Orochimaru's right.
Orochimaru blinked as he looked over his shoulder at where his sensei had stopped. Turning to face him with a frown on his face, he said "That was not your usual shunshin sensei."
Sarutobi grinned as he said "Actually it is, even though I rarely use it anymore. Oh, and by the way, I'm not your sensei."
'Sarutobi' suddenly exploded in smoke before a whirlwind of wind blew it away revealing a figure in a sleeveless shirt that made Orochimaru's eyes bulge out.
Scene Change: Hidden Leaf Village War Room
Sarutobi took off the radio headset that he had been wearing and walked over to the map of the village and its surrounding area that his Jounin commander, Shikaku Nara was looking around as the other two members of the original Ino-Shika-Cho team waited for orders. Stepping up to one of the best tactical minds in the village, Sarutobi said "How is it going?"
"Everything is running smoothly Lord Hokage. Naruto's clones have already evacuated the academy and the toad summons have already defeated the three snakes that were summoned. Everywhere around the village we're holding this village off easily with the help of Naruto's clone squads."
Sarutobi nodded and said "Good. Shikaku, I want you and your team to join me. We're going to go help speed things up a bit."
The three Jounin nodded and followed Sarutobi as he left the war room leaving the coordination of the fights to the people who actually worked in the war room for a living. On their way out, they grabbed four radios that were already set to the proper battle frequency. It wouldn't do for the village leader not to know what was going on while he was fighting after all.
Scene Change: Arena Roof
Naruto had to smirk at the gob smacked look on Orochimaru's face as he pulled the small radio bud out of his ear. That look quickly turned to one of anger as Orochimaru shouted "You! Where is Sarutobi-sensei?"
Naruto shrugged and said "Somewhere out in the village where he can help more than in here I imagine. My turn for a question, how are you able to move around so easily? Those fourth degree burns I placed on your arms and upper body should have made it impossible for you to use your upper body at all."
Orochimaru let out a chilling laugh as he said "Wouldn't you like to know brat." Then his face turned serious as he said in a low tone almost as if he was talking to himself "I was planning on Kabuto summoning her but since he is currently indisposed, I'll just bring her here as well."
Naruto frowned and said "What the hell are you muttering about you traitorous snake?"
Orochimaru grinned before he pulled a piece of paper with a seal out of his pocket. Naruto's eyes narrowed as he recognized the seal as one that allowed a person to use a jutsu without hand signs but looked far more complex than anything his god father had shown him so far. But before he could even think about trying to analyze the seal, it glowed blue almost as soon as the entire paper hit open air. It was as if the mixture of gases in the air was activating the seal.
Before Naruto could figure out how that worked, four coffins suddenly burst out of the roof and Naruto's eyes narrowed in confusion at the numbers and whirlpool symbol that were on the front. Then the coffin lids fell forward and hit the roof tiles with resounding thuds and his eyes widened at the four figures who slowly walked out. His eyes locked onto Orochimaru's own eyes which showed the ultimate level of smugness and growled as he said "You slimy-no-good-grave-robbing-mother-fucking-bastard! When I get through with you, there won't be a shred of useable DNA left to make even a tentative ID of your body!"
Orochimaru tilted his back and laughed before he gave Naruto the slimiest smile in the history of the world as he said "Oh come now, brat. Appreciate the large amount of work it took to get DNA samples for these people."
"How about I appreciate all the plans I now have of turning your entire world into nothing but pain before I finally end your existence?" Naruto asked in a deadly voice.
"This is bad." The ANBU captain said from where he and his squad plus Hayate were watching the confrontation taking place outside the barrier.
"Sir, who are those two people next to the Yondaime and the Red Death? I don't recognize them at all." The newest member of the ANBU squad asked.
"The first and second Hokage." Hayate said answering for the squad leader. 'Young Uzumaki is good, but how can he possibly stand up to three of the past Hokages and his mother?'
Said Hokages were looking around while Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki had their gazes on the blond in front of them with what could only be horror in their eyes.
"Well now, this is certainly a change from the norm. It seems we were summoned back into the world of the living. And by such a sapling as well." Hashirama Senju said as his gaze took in his surroundings including the man standing behind him.
"Indeed brother. Although to have my own jutsu used to bring us here is quite unsettling. And to have us fight a boy of all things just screams overkill." Tobirama said as his gaze quickly darted towards Orochimaru before they focused on Naruto whose own eyes quickly flicked over to the first two Hokages before flicking back to his parents.
"Naruto? Is that you?" Kushina asked in a horrified whisper.
"Hey mom. Bet you were hoping to not see me for a lot longer eh? And I wasn't expecting to see you until even longer dad. Something about your soul being eaten by the Shinigami as a price for sealing Kyuubi in me?" Naruto asked with a sad smile on his face.
All four ANBU's jaws dropped past the bottom of their mask's as the similarities between the two blonde's was suddenly shown to be more than just similarities between distant relatives like most of the village had forced themselves to believe. Hayate's eyes were almost out of his skull as he too realized that the village's resident jinchuriki was directly related to the man who had made him what he was.
Orochimaru himself stiffened in shock at the new information since he himself thought that Naruto was only a nephew to the fourth Hokage. He gained an even more evil grin as Minato sighed and said "Orochimaru made a deal with the Shinigami. He allowed Orochimaru to summon me to take part against the invasion, and in turn, he got all of the souls of the people who died today, whether they be Leaf, Sound, or Sand."
Naruto's hair began moving around as if in a breeze as he said "Well then it's a good thing only those from the Sound and Sand are going to die today. My clones are making sure of that." Three clones suddenly poofed into existence as Naruto's hair began moving around even faster and his body began being covered by a thin multi-colored shell of chakra that moved in a boiling rage that reflected his anger. Then an instant later Naruto's presence fully flared into existence and everyone in the arena paused in their fights as they felt like they were suddenly dropped in the middle of the ocean with it and the sky in the middle of a war with each other. Tsunami's head snapped over to the barrier as she thought 'This presence. I haven't felt a presence so powerful since Master Umi killed that gang leader who dared to say he'd rape his wife when he was done with him. What could have set off Naruto so much?'
Kushina's eyes gained a proud look in them, but before she could say something, Orochimaru said "Well now, it seems that the talking is over. Now if you four would please kill this annoyance then I will be able to get on to the important stuff like killing sensei." Right after he finished speaking, Naruto saw all four stiffen before their eyes became dull.
As his father began pulling out a set of tri pronged kunai and his mother reached up to the sword that poked over his right shoulder, Naruto's clone's right arms suddenly shot to the side as they snapped their fingers. Sparks were instantly created from the friction and the blondes' arms became coated in swirling twisters of fire as the sparks ignited spinning funnels of wind chakra that surrounded their arms. The original's multicolored chakra shell settled down leaving just a thin sheen as he prepared to move at his fastest possible speed.
"Leave dad to me." was the only thing the original said before all four joined the slipstream and rushed at their opponents.
Clone 1 vs. Hashirama
Naruto's clone shot right at Hashirama before he jumped and slammed a Lariat into the first Hokage's throat going clean through and leaving flames licking at the top of the torso and bottom of the head. Naruto's clone landed and looked at the body as it collapsed and the head hit the ground with a wet thud sound.
"Well that was easy." The clone said before the body burst into dust and shot at the head lifting it up as the body reformed. "Or not." He said now frowning. As the first Hokage's body continued to slowly reform, the clone crossed the two feet separating them and placed his hand on the head. The head began to catch on fire before the clone shot wind chakra into it causing the fire to roar into an inferno. The head and body disintegrated back into dust as the seal inside the Hokage's head was burnt to ash.
Naruto's clone turned to help with the other fights before he felt a hand on his shoulder. Spinning around expecting to have to fight some more, the clone gaped at the astral figure hanging in front of him. Hashirama's soul grinned as he said "Thanks sapling." Then it faded out of existence causing the clone to blink before it shook its head and went to help his brother clone that was fighting the original's mother.
Clone 2 vs. Tobirama
Naruto's second clone wasn't planning on dawdling during his fight. If the original's memories of his fight with Kuroda were any indication, his brother fighting Kushina would need some serious backup. Especially considering the fact that they didn't have a massive dome of ice to freeze the reanimated Uzumaki in. He appeared right in the second Hokage's face with his hand already through the undead's heart. The zombie didn't even twitch as the clone put a hand on its shoulder and pushed it away and pulled his other hand out in the same motion, it just fell to the floor.
With his own fight taken care of, the clone turned and began walking towards his brother's fight taking note of how his soon to be second opponent was fighting. Then he caught sight of his opponent's upper torso rising thanks to the chakra field that the original had started before the fights had even begun and casually side stepped the Rock Splitter jutsu that was aimed at his head.
Turning back around and seeing the wound begin healing, the clone said "So one instant kill spot won't do the job eh? What about all eight at the same time?" The clone joined the slipstream and rushed back at the former Hokage which had taken the time the clone had spent talking to get back up. It fell down again though when the clone stabbed a wind sword through the throat, spinal column, lungs, liver, the jugular vein, the subclavian artery, kidney, and finally the heart for a second time. Then for good measure, the clone spun the wind sword in his hand and stabbed the blade straight down into the zombie's brain. The figure burst apart into dust and the clone saw that he had stabbed some kind of seal that had been somehow buried in the brain.
Picking up the remains of the seal and looking at it in curiosity, the clone suddenly jumped as a voice said "That's what you need to aim for to stop the others." Looking up, the clone's mouth dropped as the astral form of the zombie he just killed gave a merry wave before he faded away. The clone frowned as he looked back at the seal before he 'saw' his brother run towards Kushina and his other brother's fight. Dropping the seal as he joined his first brother he thought 'This should be interesting.'
Clone 3 vs. Kushina
The final clone rushed at Kushina hoping to take her out before she got her sword out. The fight would be a lot harder if he had to fight an opponent with a blade in her hands. No such luck, as soon as one of the mimicries of life had disappeared from most people's vision, the other became coated in multi-colored chakra and yanked the sword out and easily blocked the kunai stab to the head with the flat of her blade. The clone grit his teeth and shot his still flaming right hand forward even as he dropped his kunai a couple of inches in an attempt to get it under the sword's edge and swing it way out of position.
Again no such luck as Kushina's other arm shot out and nearly took him out of the fight right then and there as he quickly spun out of the way. The clone dismissed the swirling vortex of fire around his arm in favor of using the hand to push off of Kushina's shoulder to add to the power of his jump backward which saved him from the blade of Kushina's sword that had not been idle when Kushina had tried to slam her other hand into him. Hitting the ground ten feet away, the clone dropped his kunai and blitzed through hand signs and shouted "Wind Style: Wind Senbon Jutsu!"
The clone took in a deep breath before he let it all out in one massive exhale sending a hundred invisible and very sharp pointy things at his zombie opponent. Said zombie spun to the side and let loose with a horizontal swing of her sword which sent a blast of wind towards Naruto which blew the senbon away before blowing past where the clone had once been.
The clone saw the wind erupt into flames as it hit the barrier even as he ran parallel to said barrier for five steps before he pulled out two other kunai as he thought 'Well jutsu are out, they just take too long to reach us. Old school style it is then.'
The clone dashed at his stationary target ready to begin another dangerous game of try to poke the other person without getting poked yourself. As he did, the clone found himself wondering just how Kushina and Kuroda could have gotten their eyesight so good that they could keep up with those who could join the slipstream. That thought was immediately shelved as soon as it formed in favor of the clone going into a baseball slide less than two feet from his opponent hoping to knock the zombie down since it couldn't move its legs properly with the multicolored chakra.
Kushina however simply jumped over the sliding tackle while bringing her sword down on the clone. The clone quickly blocked with his right kunai even as he slapped his left hand on the ground lifting his body up in a spin which he used to get level with Kushina's feet again and slashed straight through her right leg with the wind blade formed on the left kunai. He then pushed off to avoid the follow up swing from Kushina's sword even as the right leg fell to the ground. Coming out of his spin and landing on all fours five feet away, the clone saw Kushina land and instantly go down.
He was just about to launch himself at Kushina while she was still down when a chain of multi-colored chakra shot out of Kushina's chest and the clone had to quickly duck and roll to avoid having its head cut off. He ended up rolling right next to one of his brothers' feet as the other jumped over the chain and let loose with a miniature wind dragon.
Kushina rolled to avoid the dragon even as her cut off leg burst into dust and returned to her body to slowly reform. The dragon left a crater in the roof revealing the fact that the purple barrier surrounding them also went through the roof as well. Clone 1 sent a burst of wind chakra out of his hands launching himself at Kushina hoping to get her while she was still on the floor, only to have to do the same thing to avoid the vertical sword swing sent his way.
"We need to take out the head. There's a seal in it that's controlling her." Clone 2 said to his brother who was now on his feet again.
Clone 3 nodded and said "Jutsu are out, they just take too long to reach our opponent in this kind of fight."
Clone 2 frowned and said "Or maybe you're just not using them right."
Clone 3 looked at his brother in confusion as he began running through a quick chain of improvised hand signs. They weren't anything the clone recognized although it seemed similar to the water condensation jutsu Reina used in the preliminaries. But it was extremely different at the same time, seeming to be a condensation jutsu for the air instead of water.
"I'm going to have to thank Rachel for showing the boss her Fullmetal Alchemist manga after this." Clone 2 said as the air around Kushina began becoming wavy and mostly invisible tendrils began to rapidly snake toward different points along the barrier.
Clone 3 suddenly knew what his brother was planning and beat his brother in warning their other one as he shouted to Clone 1 "Brother! Get out of there!"
Clone 1 looked over from where he currently had Kushina's sword caught in an x guard with both kunai and one foot raised blocking a kick. He 'saw' the 'streams' of changed air hit the barrier and instantly catch fire and his eyes widened as he shouted "Whoa!" Clone 1 jumped out of the way and all three clones watched as six streams of fire shot down the paths of changed air almost as fast as they could run and slam into Kushina's form turning it into a raging bonfire.
Clone 1 appeared next to his brothers and said "Thanks for the warning."
Clone 3 gave a nod and said "No problem. You think that did the trick?"
"No way in all nine circles of hell." Clone 2 said as he ran through more hand signs as the burning figure silently turned towards them and began walking in their direction. They could see the body in constant flux as it tried to regenerate and the regenerated flesh being burned again. Finishing on Rooster, Clone 2 said "Let's make that fire a little hotter. Wind Style: Demon Windmill Shuriken Jutsu!" The clone thrust his hand to the side and a demon windmill shuriken made out of wind formed in his hands. Both of his brothers jumped out of the way as he began spinning it around his hand creating a screeching bell like sound. Then the clone spun around in a full circle and hurled the shuriken at their opponent.
As the shrieking disk of wind chakra shot at her reanimated corpse, Kushina's sword came up and slashed straight trough the shuriken. Said weapon burst apart into a massive burst of wind that made the fire erupt into white hot flames. The three clones watched as the body finally completely burned away leaving nothing left but the smallest of ashes.
"That's how you really kill a zombie, you burn it to nothing." Clone 2 said as he crossed his arms in front of him. His two brothers could only nod as Clone 1 thought 'Boss and Haku had so much trouble with Kuroda. I guess this just shows you that a dead opponent, even an undead one, is no match for the living equivalent.'
An astral projection of Kushina slowly rose out of the flames and she smiled as she said "Well done boys, you make a mother proud." Kushina's face turned serious as she said "Now go take care of your father and then make that traitorous snake pay."
The clones gave a salute to the woman as she faded away before they turned and launched themselves into the fight between the original and his other maker.
Original vs. Minato
The instant Minato started throwing kunai in a spread as he rushed at his son Naruto was throwing out his own kunai knocking those off their course making sure that their wasn't a proper chakra field for his father's corpse to properly use. Fortunately for him, Naruto didn't need any special kunai as his own chakra field had been slowly filing the area inside the barrier ever since Orochimaru had 'caught' him. When he had revealed who he really was he had turned the slight chakra 'mist' that had formed into the invisible fog that he was used to working with. His father, not so much.
Naruto easily sidestepped the punch that was thrown at him and grabbed the fist as it passed by pulling it forward causing the zombie to stumble before Naruto's charka packed kick to the back sent the clone flying ten feet away. The clone tucked and rolled and turned around faster than most opponents could take advantage of his ill placement but Naruto already was on top of him with a kunai slamming against the tri pronged kunai his father had grabbed during his roll.
Grinning as he poured wind chakra into his kunai, Naruto said "Like I'm going to let you actually use one of those!" The kunai sheared straight through the blade juncture of the custom kunai of his opponent and sliced through the seal on the handle that was revealed as Minato let go of the kunai in order to perform a quick side step and slam a round house kick at Naruto's right ribs. Naruto grunted as the kick made contact before he slapped his arm down and caught the leg between his body and arm before he spun putting Minato off balance as he came out of his spin with a viscous backhand that sent the zombie stumbling backwards a few steps.
"Come on, that can't really be all you got." Naruto said as he ran at his father's reanimated body and launched a viscous haymaker at its jaw. Minato shifted his head back and allowed the fist to pass harmlessly by even as he let loose with a punch with his right fist. Naruto caught the fist with his left hand, and in a move similar to the one used in the earlier fight between the two Hyugas, used the force from the punch to spin in a circle and slam his elbow into Minato's chest. However, instead of sending Minato flying, Naruto only sent him back a step which was just fine as Naruto dropped to a knee to avoid the retaliatory horizontal swing as he performed a leg sweep that was jumped over.
Naruto jumped back avoiding the axe kick that was proceeded by a front flip before he landed and shot right back into the fray with a wind coated hand that was held as a knife edge. Minato's body spun out of the lunge but wound up running right into a kick to the side of the head for his troubles. This kick was augmented by both wind and normal chakra so sent Minato's corpse flying a good thirty feet away. The clone seemed to recover fairly easily although when it landed it paused as if analyzing the situation.
Naruto snapped into a ready stance waiting for round two as his opponent's eyes narrowed the barest of millimeters. Then the zombie did something that Naruto wasn't expecting. Minato took out a tri pronged kunai and stuck it in his mouth before he formed two spiraling spheres of chakra in his hands. As the kunai began glowing a solid yellow with a sphere of chakra beginning to surround his opponent, Naruto frowned as he said "Well that can't be good."
As if to punctuate his statement, Minato rushed at him and shoved his right arm at Naruto's chest. Naruto let out a startled "Whoa!" As he quickly sidestepped. He wasn't quite fast enough as the rapid movement caused his shirt to flutter a little and Naruto's eyes widened as the spinning orb shredded the hanging cloth to little pieces that went flying.
'That's got to be dad's Rasengan!' Naruto thought before his eyes widened even further as he took a quick step back to avoid the follow up from the left hand. He couldn't avoid the kick that was slammed into his chest that followed though and he went flying over the roof before he crashed thirty feet away. Naruto hit the ground painfully but was able to turn the land into a backwards summersault leaving him in a crouch as his father blasted across the roof and slammed the Rasengan in his right hand down on Naruto's position in an over head swing. Naruto quickly rolled to the left so that way he could stay out of the way of the left Rasengan and used a quickly formed wind sword to slash at his father's legs. The clone jumped over the slash though and kicked out with the right leg catching Naruto squarely in the jaw.
Naruto felt his body unwillingly leave the tiled roof that had been less than a millionth second ago firmly under his feet. As it did, Naruto tried to swing his wind sword in an upward arc hoping to slice his father into halves only for a Rasengan to hit the blade and to send Naruto's form spinning with his head aiming for the other Rasengan. Naruto's eyes widened before the Rasengan hit and his skull exploded in a shower of blood, bone, and grey matter. Then in the next instant, his form erupted in smoke and the pieces of a completely shattered roof tile fell to the floor.
Minato's eyes darted to the floor before he was suddenly gone as a spear of multicolored chakra shot past where his chest had been a minute ago. Twenty feet behind his former position, Naruto growled as he slapped the underside of his father's right hand away safely diverting the Rasengan away from him as he said "You know, you're really starting to PISS ME OFF!" Naruto's form erupted in a bonfire of multi-
colored chakra which slammed into Minato's form and sent him flying.
Naruto growled as his special chakra coalesced down his arms into four inch wide saw blades that spun in front of his palms. Holding his arms carefully at his sides, Naruto said "You aren't the only one who knows how to spin your chakra to make offensive jutsu." Minato's corpse didn't say anything, it just picked itself up and recreated its two Rasengans before it ran back at Naruto who ran towards his opponent as well.
As soon as the two were in range, Minato's right arm swung at Naruto's head. But Naruto was now able to properly defend and chakra sparks flew through the air as his left arm arched up and his spinning chakra disk intercepted the Rasengan. As Naruto blocked the first attack, he initiated the second by bringing his right arm up from down low at an angle hoping to cut his father's left hand off. The disk danced off a descending sphere but his rising foot coated in wind chakra did manage to slice through the area right above his father's right foot.
Minato began falling to the side and Naruto flicked his right elbow up hoping to get a good hit in on Minato's chest as he went down before his eyes widened and he suddenly took a leap back as far as he could as a pillar of flame suddenly slammed down from the top of the barrier into his father's form. He took five more hops back before he felt he was safe and he stared at the fading pillar of flames as his father's form continued to burn even as it seemed to somehow regenerate.
"Alright, it's official, I love that combo."
Naruto didn't so much as twitch as his three clones suddenly appeared by his side. Instead he simply said "Status."
"First Hokage dealt with via rapid incineration. Chakra usage was minimal."
"Second Hokage dealt with via Eight Killing Points technique plus a stab through the brain. This revealed a special seal tag hidden in the brain which controls the corpses. Chakra usage was minimal."
"Kushina Uzumaki dealt with thanks to help from my brothers. Clone21 initiated a combination similar to the technique used by Roy Mustang from Rachel's Fullmetal Alchemist manga to ignite the zombie and used a wind Demon Windmill Shuriken to increase the blaze. Chakra usage was minimal due to other jutsu being too slow to be effective."
Naruto nodded before the four suddenly split apart as a still flaming Minato appeared in front of them and tried to light the original on fire as well with a punch. It seemed that even though the clones and original could converse amazingly fast amongst themselves thanks to the slipstream, Minato wasn't interested in allowing the four to come up with a proper strategy. Naruto sighed and dismissed his chakra saw blades in order to run through a quick set of hand seals as he said "I've had enough of this. Wind Style: Compress."
The air molecules inside a twenty foot cube surrounding the fighters suddenly all shot together forming a barrier of sorts that usually prevented the trapped person from being able to move properly due to the feeling of being in a plus thirty g environment with all of the air molecules pressing down on you. The effect on Minato was turning his Slipstream established speed into something more along the lines of a recently promoted Jounin. The compressed air also had the effect of causing the fire to flare as it burned up more oxygen greedily.
Knowing that he had to act quickly as the now considerably slower zombie continued running at the original, said blond formed a wind sword and said "Lets finish this." His three clones each formed a wind sword as well and they disappeared using their wind manipulation skills to pass through the condensed air pocket unimpeded before they each appeared on a different side of Minato with a wind blade sticking into Minato's head that quickly caught fire.
The four blondes quickly pulled out the swords but took no action to put out the flames since they could keep them from their hands. Minato's corpse finally began to burn without regenerating and it wasn't long before the astral aspect of the Fourth Hokage rose up out of the body. He smiled at them, but before he even had the chance to open his mouth, his eyes widened and he snapped his gaze to just over Naruto's head.
Naruto and his clones instantly followed suit but saw nothing but empty air that was quickly returning to its regular density as the original released his now unneeded jutsu. Looking back at Minato, they saw him nod at whatever he was seeing before he turned his gaze to the original.
"Naruto, you don't know how proud I am at how you turned out. I wish I could say more, but the Shinigami has come to take me back. He has an interesting deal for you however. Orochimaru's attempts at gaining immortality are beginning to extremely annoy the Shinigami. If you can put a permanent end to those ambitions, he's willing to release my soul."
'Read kill the snake freak.' Naruto thought before he looked up to the empty air above his head and gave a simple nod. He was going to kill the snake anyway, but this got his father's soul free as well so he wasn't saying anything.
Minato's form faded and Naruto noticed that while he and his clones had been fighting completely focused on taking out their undead opponents, Orochimaru had taken the chance to order his barrier dropped and he and his guard were currently In the air with the Sound nin with six arms shooting what looked like a spider web out of his mouth at them.
Inwardly scolding himself about allowing his focus to slip so badly, Naruto said "Scatter and go help your brothers defend this village. I'll take care of Orochimaru and his guard by myself."
The clones blinked but nodded at the order before they disappeared, flaming swords and all.
Time Skip: During The Uzumaki/Hokage Fights
Orochimaru's grin slipped a little as he saw both the First and Second Hokage's astral forms appear less than fifteen seconds into their fights with the blond nuisance's clones. He wasn't too worried though since he knew the brat had extreme speed on his side and wasn't expecting those two to be very effective anyway.
The other two fights were obviously going to last much longer, and Orochimaru was sure that those two would get rid of the brat for him. He just wished he could see how poorly that nuisance was doing in those fights. The only thing he could clearly catch from the fights were the occasional glimpse of Kushina's legs and that was simply because she wasn't moving around the battle field much. Everything else of her body was nothing more than a multicolored blur that looked more like a fog than a human being. And good luck to anyone trying to follow the fight between the two users of the Slipstream, although he did not know that was what they were using. The only thing he could see of that fight were the shattered remains of a roof tile signifying that one of the two had for some reason used substitution for their fight.
His small grin turned into a frown when five streams of fire made their way from the barrier to where Kushina's legs were at impossible to follow speeds. His frown deepened when he saw the streams converge and the younger Uzumaki's clones all appeared side by side and one of them used a wind jutsu to turn the resulting bonfire into a white hot inferno. His frown gained a touch of fear as he saw Kushina's astral form appear and say something to the clones who each nodded and disappeared.
Deciding that he'd rather be alive than die trying to see what happened between the brat and his damn father while there were three more of said brats getting ready to do who knows what, Orochimaru shouted "Drop the barrier! We're leaving!"
His four body guards turned their heads toward him in confusion but did as instructed. Dropping the inner barriers surrounding them first, the four took greatly enhanced chakra jumps back to Orochimaru's position causing the outside barrier to fall since they were no longer in position. Orochimaru was already in a crouch to jump as the barrier disappeared. All five jumped off the roof with massive jumps thanks to nearly overloading the chakra coils in their legs to get the necessary distance needed.
The four ANBU and one Leaf Jounin who were forced to only watch as they were on the outside of the barrier launched themselves into their own leaps hoping to intercept them. Kidomaru scoffed at their rising forms before he spat a web of spider silk which caught their pursuers and made them drop like a stone.
Orochimaru smirked at their descent before he heard a voice shout "You're not getting away that easily! Transform!" All five Sound nin's eyes snapped to just in front of them as a two hundred foot tall pillar of smoke erupted in front of them on top of the roof they were just on. Two massive arms shot out of the smoke cloud and closed around the group immediately stopping their angled ascent. When the smoke cleared it revealed those giant arms were attached to an equally giant and extremely pissed off blond.
"Orochimaru, for your crimes against the village, you will be executed. But before that, I'm going to make you beg for the tortures of hell. And your followers will get the same."
The tone of cold fury in Naruto's voice made Orochimaru's guards shiver, but Orochimaru only gave Naruto his sick grin as he said "Ah, but first you have to find the original, and he is not even in this country at the moment." Confusion quickly made itself known in Naruto's eyes. But before he could ask what the snake was talking about, all five bodies burst apart in explosions of blood.
Naruto stared at his blood covered hands for a moment before he snapped back into focus and dropped his transformation. Once back to his usual height, he quickly ran over to the trapped ANBU team and Hayate and proceeded to cut the webbing to ribbons with a wind enhanced kunai.
Once they were free, Naruto reached into his pocket for his ear bud radio and turned it on as he placed it in his ear. Turning it to the battle frequency the Leaf village was currently using, Naruto said "I sure hope the Old Man kept his radio with him."
Scene Change: Block Near North Gate
Sarutobi smashed Emma's staff form into the face of a Sand Jounin as she tried to stab him in the back with a kunai. Around him the original Ino-Shika-Cho trio were demonstrating just why they were currently the best team in the village when it came to teamwork as they helped the defenders beat back the enemy that had breached the gate. As he spun to slam Emma into a Sound nin's sternum, he heard his radio crackle as his radio was pinged by the war room.
Tapping it with a free hand while the other slammed Emma into yet another enemy, he said "Sarutobi."
"Sir, Jounin Uzumaki is asking to have a direct line with you. He's saying it's urgent."
"Put him through." Sarutobi said as he spun Emma deflecting a bunch of kunai before he leapt at the Sand nin who had thrown the kunai and sent him through a building.
"Sir, Orochimaru's no longer in the village. In fact, I don't think he has been since the second exam. The one I fought and the four guards he had with him were actually some kind of clone I had never seen before. They seemed to have been made out of blood."
Sarutobi blinked in surprise as he muttered to himself "Blood clones. Orochimaru must have been in really bad shape to have to use those." Louder he said "Blood clones are extremely draining, I would imagine that Orochimaru and these guards of his would have been out of commission for at least a week after making them since they take about ninety percent of the person's chakra to make. But from what you told me happened in the forest it would be the best type of clone to use since it can be slightly modified without dispelling it and can also use most of the jutsu the original can use."
"That would explain how the clone could move around so easily when I had made the original's upper body practically useless with those fourth degree burns. That also explains why he used a jutsu seal instead of the hand signs for that jutsu that brought people back to life. Even if this clone took the majority of the user's chakra, I gathered that this one took a lot more chakra than most to use. He probably made the tag before the clone."
Sarutobi went stock still as a chill went down his back at his Jounin's words. A Sand nin saw this and tried to take advantage of it but ended up getting back handed in the face as Sarutobi's instincts took over shaking him out of his thoughts.
"Who did he bring back?" Sarutobi asked, dreading the answer. With a mind as twisted as his former student's, he could think of a few people that he would have raised but he hoped to Kami that he was wrong.
"Orochimaru brought back four people." Sarutobi flinched at the cold fury in Naruto's voice. It reminded him of a dormant volcano, one that was waiting for just the right time to unleash its fury and destroy everything around it. He understood why when Naruto continued and said "He brought back the first and second Hokage as well as both of my parents."
Sarutobi flinched again as he asked "How are you holding up?" It was obvious the fight was over and Naruto had 'won' it but he had just had the first and last encounter with his parents that he would actually be able to remember and that encounter was those two being brought back from the dead to fight him. He wondered how Orochimaru summoned Minato but put that thought on the back burner until he could have the blond in front of him.
"I'll be having a breakdown tomorrow I'm sure but for now I'm still in this fight sir."
Sarutobi nodded even though Naruto couldn't see it and said "Good. I'm expecting a thorough report tomorrow but for now just help out the rest of the village.""Yes sir. Talk to you then." The line burst into quick static as Naruto cut the link on his end. Sarutobi brought all of his focus back onto the battle around him. He slammed Emma into a roof digging the staff in so that way it stayed standing as he let go and began making hand signs to launch a jutsu at a group of enemy nin who were running towards his group when all of the enemy nin's bodies suddenly toppled forward off their legs. All of the Leaf nin who saw it happen blinked and then flinched when as one, both halves of the bodies suddenly ignited into roaring flames.
A shadow clone appeared next to Sarutobi with a flaming wind sword held in his right hand. Sarutobi kept himself from jumping having sensed the ambient chakra in the air even as he focused on fighting the enemy in front of him. The clone admired his handy work for a moment before it suddenly shouted "Hit the deck!" Immediately after it put action to words and threw himself forward.
Trusting in one of their own, all of the Leaf nin in the area quickly hit the floor. The reason for the shout became apparent as multiple miniature wind dragons shot down the street below them in a row and tore into the enemy nin on the street before rising to the roofs to do the same there. The clone glanced back over his shoulder and saw four of his brothers standing further down the street next to Asuma Sarutobi. As the former member of the Twelve Guardian ninja ran over, the clones disappeared and all of the shinobi who had survived the attack quickly fell to the ground with kunai holes in their skulls.
"You alright there pops?" Asuma asked as he came beside his father.
Sarutobi nodded and said "I may be old, but I can still hold my own."
Asuma gave a nod of his own as all of the Leaf shinobi began moving towards the gate where there were still shinobi trying to get through.
Scene Change: Forrest Outside The Village
Jiraiya looked around the forest before turning to the clone beside him on their perch in one of the tree branches and gave a mock pout as he said "How come you guys never leave any for me?" He gestured to the view around him which involved Sound and Sand nin thrown all over the place including in the trees. Some were groaning in pain but most of them were silent. Some even were smoking in certain places with their clothes still on fire. Standing around the bodies were a couple of Leaf ninja teams who were sealing the chakra of those still alive and taking forehead protectors from those who weren't.
A snort coming from another tree drew the two's attention to where the second clone was leaning against the trunk while standing on another branch. Looking across at their creator's god father with amusement in his eyes, the clone said "Because you're so slow old man. Besides, we left you fifty of them."
"Fifty out of over a thousand. And the other teams took out another hundred of their own." Jiraiya grumbled under his breath causing the two clones to chuckle.
They were brought out of their amusement by the distinct sounds of fireworks shooting up in the sky. Trading looks of confusion, the three males shot up the trees they were standing in. When they reached the top they saw multiple red fireworks going off about a quarter mile further in the forest.
"That looks like a retreat symbol." The clone next to Jiraiya said.
"It is." The other clone said as he pointed to where they could see the main road. Sound and Sand nin were limping down the road as fast as they could while avoiding potshot jutsu that were sent after them.
The first clone frowned and looked at Jiraiya as he asked "Should we pursue them?"
"No. Let them go, we've got more important things to do now that the fighting's over." Jiraiya said as he turned and headed back to the village main gates. The clones gave one last look at the retreating forces before they followed knowing that Jiraiya was right. The Leaf had defended itself from its enemies. Now it had to heal the wounds that had came from the battle.