Chapter-13

-Flashback. (A few months after Chunin Exams)

It had been two months after the two had found Aiko and decided to take her in. She had slowly started to warm up to Naruto and Sasuke. She had started to form a somewhat brotherly bond with Naruto but had little to no interaction with the Uchiha. Something about Naruto had been bugging her lately and she decided to finally ask it today. She headed to the rooftop of their house as she knew that Naruto mostly spends his nights on the roof.

She saw Naruto looking at the stars with his hands behind his head. "Do you need something, Aiko-chan?" He said softly turning his head towards Aiko.

"I wanted to ask you something, Naruto." She said nervously.

"Sure, ask me anything." He said gesturing her to lie down next to him.

"Why do you hate Konoha's Civilian Council and Village elders?" She asks, cutting to the chase."You don't have to answer it, if you don't want to." She added quickly.

A sigh escapes Naruto's lips. He knew that he had to tell her one day."Okay, I'll tell you my whole story." He said getting up. Aiko nodded in agreement.

"Well, I think I will have to tell you everything from the beginning. Growing up, I was an orphan so stayed in the orphanage until I was four. At the age of four, I was kicked out of the orphanage and so the third Hokage gave me an apartment to live in. From the beginning I knew I was different because the whole village hated me. They sometimes beat the crap out of me and trashed my apartment. At that time I used to think it was something that I did when I was really young or something that my parents did, so I did everything I could to grab their attention and make them look at them differently. I started out by being really nice to people but that did not change their opinion about me so I started playing pranks on people. I finally found out why people hated me when I was six years old." Naruto focused his gaze on Aiko. "But before I tell you, promise me that you won't hate me. During the past two months, vie come to think of you as my little sister and I don't want lose you." He said, slightly worried about telling Aiko truth. Over the past two months he had done a pretty good job of hiding Kurama's chakra from her while training as he barely even needed to use it while on missions.

At first Aiko was confused as to why would she hate him, what had Naruto done that would make him think that she would hate him. She could the see the fear in the older boy's eyes and she nodded silently in agreement.

"When I was six, on my birthday, some of the villagers had gathered and had beaten me till I was almost dead. That day I discovered that I was hated because the nine tailed fox was sealed inside me. I hate the civilian council as they were the ones that revealed that about me. The third Hokage had made it an S-Rank secret but the Civilian council went behind his back and announced it to the whole village." He said looking down. Before he could realise he was tackled into a hug.

"You're an idiot if you think I would hate you for that." She said; her voice slightly muffled against Naruto's chest. She knew who jinchurikis were as she had met one of them named Han. She finally understood what that red chakra was that Naruto used to train with. Aiko knew that the nine tails was the most powerful tailed beast out there and was thankful to Naruto for keeping it at bay. "I would never hate you for something that wasn't your fault, Anija. And the Civilian council better watch out, I will make them pay for doing that to you."

Naruto was happy at first when Aiko accepted him for who he was and didn't hate him but after hearing her calling him 'Anija', he became even happier.

"You know, when someone is hugging you, you should hug them back." Aiko said slightly pouting against his chest.

"Sorry, Aiko chan." He said wrapping her in a bear hug and resting his chin on the top of her head. "And, thank you." He now had one more person to protect, one more person to get stronger for. From that day onwards she became his little sister.

(Flashback end)

-The Hokage's office. (Hidden leaf village)

"One of the two accompanying you will be Yamato, one of my personal Anbu." Tsunade says pointing towards a man with brown hair and big black eyes. She had personally picked Yamato as he was one of her most trusted anbu.

"He looks kind of creepy." Kitsune whispers to Suzume who is standing right next to him while Neko is glaring at the window because of a certain someone who is also present.

"Shut up, Anija. We are not here to judge people. We are on a mission." She whisper-scolds him.

"Moving on, you can choose the second member from these." Tsunade says walking towards the five ninja standing there. "Shikamaru Nara, he is the Jonin of the Nara clan and has one of the sharpest minds in The Hidden Leaf." She says pointing to the pineapple head, who is standing with a bored expression. "Or Kiba Inuzuka, Chunin of the Inazuka clan and one of the best trackers of Konoha. He can also handle his own in battle." She says pointing to a brunette boy, who had a smile on his face and was busy petting his dog."Or Neji Hyuga, Jonin and prodigy of the Hyuga clan. He is also one of the best trackers due to his Byakugan and specializes in the Hyuga clan taijutsu." She pointed a boy who had long hair and pale lavender eyes and was standing there with a blank expression on his face. Kitsune nodded his head.

"Tsunade-sensei, aren't you forgetting someone?" A pink haired girl, who was also the reason for the disturbance in Neko's mood asked with an innocent expression, which was fooling no one.

Tsunade let out a long sigh before continuing."The Civilian council has recommended Sakura Haruno, the genin daughter of the current head of the Civilian council, Mebuki Haruno. She is an okay fighter and medic, I guess." Neko scoffed, before anyone could continue, the door of the Hokage Office slammed opened, revealing a platinum blonde Yamanaka.

"Sorry for being late, Shishou." Ino said, bowing her head slightly to Tsunade. Tsunade smiled at her apprentice and Kitsune was barely able to stop himself from kissing her.

"Its fine Ino, I wasn't actually expecting you to accept this mission after the last mission that you had, but I am glad that you are here." Tsunade turned to Team Uzu. "This Ino Yamanaka, recently promoted to Jonin after completing an S-rank mission of the Yamanaka clan. She is my personal student and has already mastered a lot of Yamanaka clan Jutsus and is one of the best, if not the best Earth Style users in Konoha." Tsunade said proudly. "I personally recommend her for this mission."

"Tsunade-sensei, why waste your breath and recommend Ino-pig? We all know that they are going to chose me, after all I am the strongest out of all of these ninja." Sakura said smugly.

"Oh hell no. I'd choose anyone except this pink trash. Plus, you're the only genin out of these and got your ass handed to you by Ino in the Chunin exams." Neko said. 'After all of these years, she still is annoying and useless.' He thought, before continuing. " The Nara is a no, Kitsune can mostly come up with a plan when under pressure but if he fails to, I can come up with one. The Inazuka is a no as my cats are fast trackers and I don't think that we will need the Hyuga." He said with a sigh. He was careful not to use their first names. "We certainly don't need the bubblegum as she is a weak medic and I am better than her in medical Ninjutsu. So, we will take the Yamanaka as she can establish a mind link which will make communicating easier if needed. She also helped us out in the last mission so it will be easier for us to work as a team."

After hearing this, Kitsune was barely able to keep his voice neutral. "Meet us at the gates of the village in an hour!" He exclaimed before jumping out of the window and wandering off to god knows where.

- The gates of the hidden leaf village(an hour later,)

"Hope, I am not late." Ino said arriving at the gates of the leaf village. Neko, Suzume and Yamato were already waiting there.

"Eh, not really. Anija hasn't arrived yet." Suzume said. A few minutes later the blonde of the group arrived.

"You're late, dobe. "

"Sorry, I just got lost in the village." Kitsune said, rubbing the back of his head. He was actually busy talking to Jiraiya, who told Kitsune to send a messenger toad to him if they ran into too much trouble with Orochimaru."Anyways, I got your Onigiri, Okaka and fresh tomatoes." He said throwing a scroll at Neko. "And your Sushi." He said throwing a scroll at Suzume.

"That was a pathetic excuse, but I will let it go because you got me this." Neko said, pocketing his scroll."Now that we are all here, we should leave quickly. We have to reach the meeting point at noon tomorrow." The four simply nodded.

"I will be the front, Ino-chan will be behind me followed by Yamato, followed by Suzume with Neko at the back. Okay? "

The four nodded and left the village in the said formation.

- That Night

"Well, so does anyone have a plan?" Neko asked, resting his hands on the table. They were currently staying the night in a hotel. They were in a room that Kitsune had secured using his barrier.

"I think that Anija should lead and be Henged as Sasori as his Henge is almost perfect and really hard to detect." Suzume said. The three had removed their masks and were currently wearing Kakashi styled masks. "Yamato and Neko will be hidden on the right side, while Ino and I will be hidden on the left. After Anija gives us the signal, we will engage the enemy in combat." She said confidently.

"Sounds good, Suzume." Kitsune said. "Does everyone agree?" He asked to which everyone just shook their heads. "Perfect. Now let's have dinner." He said summoning a few scrolls from the storage seal on his hand and taking down his barrier."Freshen up while I set the table."

"Mind if I help you?" Ino asked, with a smirk on her face.

"Not at all." He said, while the other three left. As soon as the three left Kitsune took his kunai and perfectly slit his mask where his lips were supposed to be so the mask would cover up everything except his lips. Ino was quick to capture his lips with hers, as she pinned him to the wall. The one kiss quickly turned into a make out session. "I've been waiting to kiss you." He said smiling into the kiss.

"I've been waiting too." She said smiling back.

"Get a room, lovebirds!" Suzume said entering the room.

"We plan on getting one later." Kitsune said bluntly.

"Sh-Shut up!" Ino said with a blush on her face, hitting Kitsune on the chest.

"But it's true!" He exclaimed.

"Anyways, Neko and Yamato will be here soon so you better start setting up the table and save the rest for later." Suzume chimed in."I'll help you two because clearly you two have no self control." She said jokingly mocking them.

The three started setting up the table, while Kitsune and Ino sneaked glances at each other. Suzume saw it but didn't stop them as she thought that it was cute. Yamato and Neko entered the room just as the three had finished setting up the table.

"Yamato-san, what do you want for dinner?" Kitsune asked.

"Teriyaki Tofu and Chicken curry with rice." Yamato replied.

"Coming right up!" He said unsealing the Teriyaki Tofu and Chicken curry with rice in front of Yamato. "Careful, the food is really hot!" He warned before moving on. Yamato's mouth watered at this. "Sushi for Suzume and Yaki Onigiri with Okaka for Neko." He said placing the food in front of the two before heading off towards Ino where he simply unsealed fifty bowls of ramen. "And ramen for Ino and me." Neko and Suzume had also slit their masks as a way to allow them to eat.

"Itadakimasu!" The five exclaimed before digging in. Yamato's face was full of delight after eating the food. It was the most delicious food that he had eaten. Neko and Suzume savoured their food while Kitsune and Ino were in a competition of seeing who ate the most ramen. As soon as Yamato noticed this, his eyes widened. He had never seen two people eat ramen so fast. "It's like they-" But before he could continue, Neko took the words right out of his mouth.

"Inhaling it. We know. You'll get used to it after a while." He muttered without even looking up from his plate.

Yamato nodded, before he continued eating his own food, slightly amazed.

The five went to their own personal room after finishing dinner. A while later, when Ino was sure that no one was around, she sneaked up to Kitsune's room. Kitsune opened the room, shirtless but with his mask still on. Ino was barely able to stop herself from having a nosebleed at the sight. As soon as he saw Ino, he pulled her inside closing the door and setting up a barrier around them.

"You ready to continue where we left off, whiskers?" Ino asked seductively.

"Of course." He said before capturing her lips in a passionate kiss.

They didn't have sex as both of them knew that having sex in a hotel before a mission was a bad idea and they didn't want to lose their virginities in a hotel where they could be disturbed. But there was a lot of 'touching.'

- The Next Morning.

The five had left for Tenchi bridge hours ago and were minutes away from it when Kitsune stopped. "I guess this is the part where we split up. But before that could you confirm if my transformation is right, Suzume, Ino-chan?" He asked making a hand sign while the two nodded. "How's this?" He asked transforming into Sasori.

"You definitely look like him, but your voice should be a bit more..." Suzume trailed off thinking of a way to describe Sasori's voice."Constipated!"

"Okay." Kitsune said before changing his voice. "How's this?" He asked in Sasori's voice.

"Perfect!" She exclaimed. "Now Ino and I will go to the left while Neko and Yamato will go to the left and we will act if Anija gives us the signal." She said before leaving with Ino towards the left. Soon after Neko and Yamato also left towards the right. Kitsune sighed before walking away towards the Tenchi Bridge in his disguise.

As he approached the bridge, he saw a hooded figure looking off the bridge.

"It's been a long time, Lord Sasori." The hooded figure said, turning around and lifting up his head revealing Kabuto. Kitsune's eyes widened at this. He knew that if Kabuto was his spy then this was surely a trap, but decided to play along anyway."It's been five years, hasn't it?" He questioned.

As soon as the rest of the caught a glimpse of that face, they knew that something was wrong but decided to wait until Kitsune gave the signal.

"How are you doing?" Kitsune asked in Sasori's constipated voice.

"I've still got the strange sensation from when I remembered who I was after your jutsu broke." He said looking over the bridge again.

"I've got some questions for you."Kitsune said ignoring his previous statement.

"I don't have much time so please keep it short." Kabuto said turning to 'Sasori' again. "I risked my life to get here without Orochimaru finding out."

"I want information on Orochimaru's current hideout and the rest of his active hideouts."

"We are now in a hideout on a small island on a lake to the north." Kabuto lied. "We'll be moving again in three days." Suddenly he turned around in an instant taking out a kunai. "Oh, it's just a wild rabbit." He said turning towards 'Sasori' again, while the paedophilic Snake Sannin was grinning from behind the tree.

"Now would you please hand over the item we talked about last time. I need to get away before Orochimaru finds out I'm her or I'll be killed." In an instant the snake Sannin appeared behind him, while his snakes wrapped around Kabuto.

"Sounds like an interesting conversation, mind if I join in?" He asked licking his lips as his snakes tightened around Kabuto. Kabuto jumped to 'Sasori's' side escaping all of the snakes and leaving his cloak behind. As soon as he was beside 'Sasori', he took advantage and smashed Kitsune's Henge. Kitsune jumped upwards, avoiding Sasori's strike.

"Multiple Striking Shadow Snake!" Orochimaru yelled sending a number of snakes that grabbed Kitsune. Kitsune instantly substituted himself with a log."A fast substitution. You.. Could it be.." He said looking at the mask of the man that landed in front of him. "Kitsune!" He snarled. He hated Kitsune and his damn team. They had destroyed many of his hideouts. "Why don't you ask your team to come out too?" He said smirking and licking his lips. Kitsune gave a signal and all four appeared behind him.

"You take care of Kabuto while Neko and I handle Orochipedo." He said calmly. Orochimaru snarled at this nickname.

'Kurama, four tails.' He said in his mindscape. Kurama opened one of his eyes and let four tails of his chakra flow immediately. 'Here, kit.' He said before closing his eyes.

"I'd like to see you try" In a flash, Kitsune appeared in front of Orochimaru and before he could even comprehend anything, he was clawed in the face that sent him flying away in the forest. Kitsune and Neko followed him there while the three engaged with Kabuto.

- With Kitsune, Neko and Orochimaru

Orochimaru was on the ground when Kitsune and Neko appeared in front of him. He opened his mouth and thousands of snakes flowed out of it. The snakes opened their mouths and swords started coming out of them.

"Amaterasu!" Neko yelled activating his Mangekyo Sharingan and covering all of the snakes in black flames, burning them away in an instant.

'Kit, let me take over. It's been a long time since I've actually fought someone.'

'Okay Kurama.' He said, handing his body to Kurama.

Kurama started gathering his chakra for his 'Tailed Beast Bomb.' Neko realise what was going on and jumped away to a tree. Orochimaru's eyes widened at this.

"Summoning: Triple Rashomon!" He said summoning three demonic gates to save himself from Kitsune's attack. The Tailed Beast Bomb blew away all of the Demonic Gates. As soon as the smoke cleared, Orochimaru was seen lying face-down on the ground. As Kurama was handing back Kitsune the control. Orochimaru's upper half appeared from the ground with the Kusanagi in his mouth. Neko cut Orochimaru in half before the Kusanagi could attack Kitsune. As soon as he cut Orochimaru, the Snake Sannin turned into mud revealing a mud clone.

'I am too weak to handle them in my current condition. Coming here was a mistake.' He thought before running away to his hideout, but he didn't notice Neko's cats following him.

"You did send one of your cats behind him, didn't you?" Kitsune asked.

"Hn. I sent Kara and Kaito." He said sheathing his Wakizashi again.

"Looks like we will need to head back, Kabuto has company." Kitsune said, before the two headed towards the bridge.

- With Ino, Suzume and Yamato.

As soon as Kitsune and Neko left, Danzo's fifteen Root Anbu surrounded the three. The Anbu had been given the task of capturing Suzume at any cost. Ino and Suzume had taken out four anbu each and Yamato had taken out three. While they were fighting the root anbu who were particularly targeting Suzume, Kabuto escaped. Suddenly, Kitsune and Neko appeared and knocked the rest of the Anbu out.

"Stupid Danzo, I already warned that war hawk." Kitsune muttered, tying off the Root Anbu. Neko immediately reverse summoned them to Sora-ku. Then as they were about to leave, Kara appeared.

"Neko-sama, Kaito and I have located Orochimaru's hideout. Kaito is waiting for us there." She said climbing up and sitting on Neko's shoulder. "I'll lead you there."

"Thank you Kara." The five left for Orochimaru's hideout in the same formation, but Neko and Kitsune changed places.

Orochimaru's hideout was not too far away and the five along with Kara had reached it. Seeing them, Kaito also came out of his hiding place and sat down next to Neko's leg.

" Yamato, stay here with Kaito. You will be our backup." He said, while Yamato nodded. "Kitsune, Ino, Suzume, Kara and I will infiltrate the hideout and gather as much information as we can." With that, the five left.

The four ninjas and the cat split up after finding two paths. Kitsune and Ino headed towards the left while Neko and Suzume headed towards the right.

-With Neko and Suzume.

Neko and Suzume were checking all the rooms on their way to find Orochimaru and Information. Meanwhile Orochimaru was resting in a room due to his last fight.

"That damn geezer. Due to him I lost all of my jutsu and my rebirth has been postponed. Losing my next vessel, Sasuke was another price I had to pay."He said coughing up blood." Kabuto, prepare my next vessel!" He ordered and Kabuto just nodded in agreement. Soon after he left the room.

"My rebirth should come soon." He muttered to himself coughing up some more blood. "My rebirth shall make up for this pain" He said clutching his chest. In an instant a beam of lightning chakra pierced the door and was sent towards his heart. Orochimaru used his hands to stop the chakra beam from piercing him.. The door was then cut down by Neko's Wakizashi. 'Such chakra shape manipulation...' Orochimaru's eyes widened.

"It seems that your time to die has now com." He said walking towards Orochimaru. "Stand back Suzume, this is my fight." He said after he noticed that Suzume had unsheathed her blade."You are weaker than me, Orochimaru. I guess there was no point in leaving Konoha for you. You only wanted the Sharingan, but Itachi was much more powerful than you, so you sought me out. Guess you were wrong, Mister 'Genius of the Sannin'." He said walking towards Orochimaru and climbing up the bed Orochimaru was sleeping on. "Perhaps the world did consider you a genius but you could never reach the level of an Uchiha." Suzume rolled her eyes at this. "Your methods of obtaining the power of an Uchiha are laughable at best." He mocked Orochimaru. "But you see, I don't need you to become powerful." At this Orochimaru let out a bitter laugh. "You disgust me." He said cutting Orochimaru.

After Orochimaru was cut down, a huge snake made up of a thousand other snakes came out of the Sannin's mouth and appeared behind Neko. 'Ku Ku Ku, I finally get the Uchiha.' He thought.

"You've experimented so much, but in the end this is how you turned out?" Neko said facing Orochimaru.

"Sasuke!" The snake yelled, dozens of snakes tried to bite him but before they could, he cut them down with his Wakizashi. He then tried to cut down the giant snake but as soon as his Wakizashi came in contact with Orochimaru's skin, his sword broke. He swore under his breath. "Chidori: Senbon. Chidori: Spear." He said cutting down the giant snake. "You disappoint me ,Orochimaru." As soon as his Mangekyo Sharingan made contact with Orochimaru's snake eye, he was pulled into Orochimaru's dimension.

"Where am I." Neko asked to no one in particular.

"This is where the Rebirth Ritual takes place." Orochimaru said appearing from under the ground. Within seconds Neko was surrounded by snakes. "The power of those eyes will be mine!" In an instant, Neko shot out his lightning chakra towards all of the snakes changing their colour from white to purple. "Impossible! This is my dimension!" The snake Sannin said while Neko's chakra snakes took the shape of a big purple cat. Neko fully absorbed Orochimaru and killed him. Outside, Suzume and Kara were busy fighting Kabuto. Suddenly they heard Neko dropping to his knees. Suzume and Kara rushed to help him and Kabuto took this chance to escape. Suzume had damaged him badly without getting a scratch on herself.

"Neko. You okay?" She asked providing him support and helping him stand.

"Hn... Orochimaru...is... dead." He said between pants. "Damn bastard broke my Chakra Wakizashi. I need a new blade." He said getting upto his feet.

They walked towards the end of the corridor where they found a training room. The training room was pretty mediocre but it had a one handed Katana with a black scabbard handle. Neko immediately picked up the sword. "I guess this will do." He said replacing the cover of his old Wakizashi with this new Katana. The two then headed

- With Ino and Kitsune.

They had searched almost the entire left side of the hideout except the room at the end of the corridor. As soon as they entered the room their eyes widened in shock at the sight before them.

"Holy crap!" both of them said in unison.

A/N:

Another chapter down. Sorry for the cliff-hanger and I killed off Orochimaru temporarily as I have much greater plans for him. I really want him to be as powerful and creepy like he was in 'Naruto: Chunin Exams Arc' so if you have any ideas on that please send me a Private Message...

Also if I have used the word flash, it does not mean that Naruto has mastered the Hirashin. If you are wondering what Sasuke had for dinner, he had Fried Rice balls. This chapter turned out to be more than double the size of the last one. Let me know how it was. Vote if you liked it and comment if you loved it.

Let me know if you were satisfied with this chapter and thanks to everyone commenting on the chapter as it gives me ideas to write and saves me from 'Writer's Block.'

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