FR clone: negotiations have begun sir

FR: good. We may live to see another day.

FR clone: what if they fail?

FR: than we press on with what we have

"Normal speech"

'Normal thoughts'

"Demon/Summon speech"

'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'

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flashback/memory

~locations and transitions~

Chapter 33: Battle on 3 Fronts

The multiple fights that were going on suddenly came to a stop when a massive explosion of chakra could be felt by all of them.

The fight between the kage continued despite the burst of chakra as they could not feel it through the barrier. There was only one that could feel it but the situation at hand did not allow him to focus completely on it. 'Stay strong kit'

Jiraiya paused as he felt the chakra but he was in the middle of a horde of shinobi so he had other things to worry about 'hope the gaki is alright'

In the stadium, Kakashi paused in his fight as he felt Naruto's chakra '...oh boy'

Hana finished a Gatsūga with her ninken but as they got to their feet the ninken whimpered at the burst of energy. Hana could feel the hair on the back of her neck stand and she knew what it could mean 'Naruto-Kun…..'. She was brought out of her thoughts when Tsume landed next to her

"Don't worry about the pup. He can handle himself!"

Hana nodded as she lept back into the fight

Anko finished off a group of Oto-nin by throwing them threw a wall that led out of the stadium. She stood at the hole when she felt the chakra from her favorite gaki. "Shit he needs help!" she was about to rush to Naruto but she was blocked by another group of enemy Shinobi. "damn it! You better stay alive Gaki!"

Tenzo was wrapping up another of his captures when he felt something burn in his hand. Looking down at it he saw that a number was being burnt into his hand "oh no!" he was shocked at this but one thing got his attention along with the number. Normally the writing would be simple black but when he looked at it the writing, he noticed that half of the strokes were black while the other half were red. "What could this mean?"

~with Naruto~

"NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

Naruto's body burst out red chakra as it swirled around him. Naruto stumbled back onto his feet and in a flash, his flesh burst from his body to reveal red and black energy underneath. Once this was done he fell forward and held himself up with his single hand and feet. The shape he had began to change, his face began to be pushed forward, his torso began to reshape and his feet became hind legs. His head soon became that of a fox, with his eyes glowing white as well as the inside of his mouth which had jagged teeth much like it did when he was in this form. He looked to the stump of his right arm and a new arm burst from it. Now on all fours, he gave a screeching roar towards the sky as five tails came into sight.

Gaara watched all this in morbid fascination, wanting to see what another monster would be like. He chose that this would finally be a battle of monsters so he called for more sand to envelope him. He soon began to grow in size as the sand started to take the shape of a Tanuki.

Naruto wasn't done with his transformation as a sixth tail came out and soon something white began to come out of his body. Bone structures soon popped out and began to hug on to his energy body. The bones on his arms began to melt onto the arms becoming a sort of white armor, the rib cage wrapped around his torso with the spine growing a long spike in each vertebrae, the skull shrunk to become a helmet and the jaw melted as it moved to cover the ears. Last was six spines come out of the tails and attached to the top of them and ribs came out of each spine to wrap around their respective tail. Naruto began to move causing cracks to show where the joints were and he looked up to the, now, full size of the Ichibi with Gaara in the forehead.

Gaara looked down at Naruto with a mad grin "still think that you aren't a monster UZUMAKI!?"

"Grrrrr ROOOOOOAAAAARRRRR"

"PROVE MY EXISTENCE UZUMAKI!"

Naruto jumped to the side to avoid one of the massive sand claws and landed on top of it as he began to run up the arm aiming for Gaara. He jumped off the arm to avoid the second claw and used one of his tails to swing under the arm he was on, launched himself on the second and jumped off towards Gaara. Swiping at the boy he found that he hit a wall of sand that dispersed from from the blow. Naruto swung one of his tails towards the redhead but met another wall of sand.

Gaara's defenses were able to appear for each blow but unlike what would normally happen, the sand didn't hold against the attack, the sand defense kept getting blown away from claw strike and tail swipe. He brought up his right sand claw to backhand Naruto away.

Naruto flew away further away from the village and deeper into the forest. He crashed down leaving a large crevice in the ground. He got up with no signs of injury and looked up in time to see a large sand fist come down on him.

Gaara slammed the and fist onto Naruto and then brought up the fist and brought the second one to envelope the fist as he now had the sand wrap around Naruto and was squeezing him.

After a few seconds, the sand fists exploded in sand as Naruto burst from it and stretched his arm towards Gaara with the bone armor staying the same size and split into three sections, forearm, bicep and his hand.

Gaara sent out a sand tendril that had a hand at the end to meet up with the stretched out arm of Naruto. The two met in the middle and became locked with each other until Gaara began to swing the sand tendril around bringing Naruto along with it. After spinning Naruto around for a bit he swung Naruto into the ground, creating a crater.

Naruto got to his feet in the center of the crater and looked back up at his target. With reckless abandon he charged in again

~Naruto's mindscape~

Naruto opened his eyes to find himself in his mind but he was unsure of how he got there. "What am I doing here? I thought I was in the middle of fighting Gaara and …"

"Finally awake huh?"

Naruto turned around fast as the voice he heard was familiar but different at the same time. What he saw caused his eyes to grow wide. It was a black fox with a red pattern that was the same as his own black ones. "Who are you?!" Naruto asked as he looked into the other foxes eyes which were red pupil-less iris' in a black abyss

The black fox chuckled at the question "I'm you"

Naruto was shocked by the answer but before he could think about it he had to shift his head to the side to avoid a bite from the black fox "Hey! What the hell!?". He was then hit in the side of the head from one of the black one's tails. Naruto, not liking being attacked decided to counter by biting on said tail and swung the Black fox around, slamming him into several trees.

The black fox swung another of his tails into Naruto's head several times, harder and harder but Naruto refused to let go.

Naruto then chose the slam the black fox into the ground hard, causing cracks to appear Once the black fox was on the ground Naruto pounced on him and pressed his paw on his neck "Now! WHO ARE YOU!"

The black fox smile as he looked up at Naruto "I told you, I AM YOU!" he then opened his maw and blew fire into Naruto's face.

Naruto reeled back as he felt the fire burn his face and he had to close his eyes. He then felt something bite him in the neck and bring him down to his side. He cracked open an eye to see the black fox biting down on his neck. He swung his tail to hit him off and Naruto got back on his feet. The black fox rolled on the ground and Naruto opened his maw, and blew his own fire at the black fox.

~with the Kages~

Mei was able to counter a good portion of the first Hokage's wood-style but the sheer size of the Jutsus were enough to keep her on her toes "Yōton: Yōkai no Jutsu". Mei launched her Jutsu at the time Hashirama landed so he was hit with her attack on the leg and arm which caused him to fall to the ground. Mei watched as her Jutsu melted both his arm and leg into nothing. She felt that the fight was over, seeing as how he would not be able to walk or fight efficiently. But she was shocked to see that once her Jutsu melted through, the arm and limb began to reform, in a way that made her think of watching paper burn in reverse but slowly. Mei quickly realized what this could mean and went through her hand signs again and launched her Jutsu again but this time on the whole body 'maybe I can finish this by destroying it all'. She stood there watching the acidic liquid meet its mark and melt the first Hokage into nothing. She turned her head to see that Zabuza was having trouble with his fight so she jumped over to help him out

Zabuza prided himself in his art of silent killing. He also prided himself in his fighting ability and his skill in ninjutsu. He at the moment felt his pride being bruised as he was on the losing end of his fight. Every Jutsu he launched at the second Hokage was redirected or nullified, his skills with a blade was on par with the dead Hokage and the mist Jutsu would be useless as the moisture used would only give the kage another weapon to use. Zabuza cleaved another dragon Jutsu that was bigger than he has ever made before, it was thanks to his use of the same element and his skill with Kubikiribōchō that allowed him to last this long. But the tip of the blade was sliced off from a water Jutsu that was aimed at his head and he was able to dodge only for the Jutsu to cut the tip off. He couldn't even replenish it due to the lack of any blood from the kage "damn it! If this keeps going, I'm going to tire myself out before I can get rid of him!". After he dodged another water dragon, he saw the second Hokage get hit with one of Mei's Jutsu which brought him down. Zabuza looked over to see Mei land next to him

"It looked like you were having a bit of trouble." Mei said as she placed her hand on her hip and smiled at Zabuza "couldn't handle a single opponent could you?"

Zabuza glared at the woman "piss off! This guy has the same element as I do and uses my Jutsu against me. Yeah, I can do the same but he is on a whole different level!"

Mei looked over to the melting second and smirked "well good thing I was able to finish off mine to help you out"

Zabuza then shifted his sight to behind Mei "you sure about that?" he said as he pointed behind her

She shifted her gaze to see the first Hokage slowly reshaping "damn it!" she then looked to the second Hokage to see the same thing happen to him

Meanwhile, with Hiruzen, he and Enma were fending off Minato as best they could but Hiruzen found himself being uppercutted into the air before a kunai flew past him and then a flash to show Minato above him. He was able to right himself and got into a grip-lock with the fourth "anytime now!" he then kicked Minato down close to Hiruzen's Hokage robes. He rolled over them before righting himself. Enma was then in Minato's face and punched him towards Orochimaru

Orochimaru was watching the three fights with extreme interest. He was fascinated with how the new Mizukage had two elemental kekkei Genkais at her disposal: the lava release and the boil. Both with fire half of each. He sidestepped to avoid Minato flying his way. He looked down at the fourth with a condescending smirk "well, I know that you are not at full strength but I had assumed that you would put up a better fight against sensei" he turned his head so he could watch his sensei running towards the two. Not looking back to Minato he smirked but something odd happened that caused him to pause

"Maybe it's because I've been holding back"

Before it could register in the snake sannin's mind he heard the powering up of a Jutsu. He then felt something impact hi back with extreme force and he was launched forward towards Hiruzen.

Enma transformed into Hiruzen's staff which was caught by said man and Hiruzen swiped and the flying sannin's right arm, cutting it off.

Orochimaru fell face first onto the tile roof as his mind tried to figure out what had just happened, he slowly turned his head to see behind him and saw Hiruzen standing with Minato "W-what happened?"

Hiruzen smirked as he remembered how they were able to get Minato on their side

~Flashback~

Hiruzen watched Orochimaru approach the fourth Hokage ready to do the same to him as he did to the first and second. He whispered into his robe "are you able to do anything?"

Within Hiruzen's robs was Kurama who was using his claws to hold on to the cloth "yeah. Be glad that your student likes to brag and that I have spent so much time with my kit". Kurama focused a bit as he was not used to using Jutsu but he was able to create a clone that then henge into the tag they saw hang on the other kunai. He was glad that they were obscured by the Hokage robes and that he remembered how his kit dd these. Kurama peeked out from the robe to see that Orochimaru started putting in the kunai. The henged clone immediately replaced itself with the tag. It was so last second that Orochimaru didn't even notice. Once the tag was in front of Kurama he used a bit of fire to burn it. Kurama felt the memory from the clone and shivered a bit at the feeling the clone got from entering the fourth as well as the whispered order it gave the resurrected kage 'pretend to fight'. He quickly grabbed onto the robes when he noticed Hiruzen grip them and soon felt himself flying away. He hid inside the robes watching the fight and waited for a chance to make a move. It came when Minato rolled on the thirds robes and in a quick motion he was able to make the jump from the thirds robes to the fourth's, and whispered "you have something I want back but for now follow Hiruzen's lead"

Minato nodded slightly. He didn't know who it was that attached to the inside of his robes but if he was helping Hiruzen than it must be an ally.

~flashback end~

Hiruzen looked back to Minato and spoke up "a bit unorthodox but you were able to turn the tide of this battle"

Minato felt something fall off his robe and heard a poof. Out from behind him and walking in front now was a boy wearing a rob similar to his but with nine black flames at the bottom. What caught his attention was the spiky blond hair. From the back, he felt like he was looking at a miniature version of himself. This brought a thought to his head "Naruto-Kun?". Said boy turned around to look at Minato but what the man saw were not the blue eyes he had seen his son had when he was a baby. They were red with black slits

"Sorry but he is in the middle of another fight with my brother"

Before Minato could question what was going on with his son Hiruzen spoke up

"Whatever it is you wish to know will have to wait! Kyuubi do what it is you wanted while we hold Orochimaru off!"

Minato watched as Hiruzen went to fight the sannin and his mind stopped when he caught what Hiruzen said "Kyuubi?!"

Kurama looked up to the man and knew this would be hard if he didn't stop the man from thinking the worst-case scenario "before you say anything, this is merely a clone that Naruto is letting me use. He is alive and well. But let's move on since we don't have a lot of time." Kurama looked back to Hiruzen to see that he and the now transformed back Enma were making sure that Orochimaru did not undo the resurrection Jutsu just yet. Kurama looked back to Minato and spoke again I want my other half back and before you go off on how I might go and destroy this village, know this that the seal you had placed on Naruto has been broken and I am free to do whatever I want. I choose to stay inside Naruto as he is not strong enough for me to leave him without killing him and I will do everything in my power to make sure that doesn't happen! This Jutsu give me the only opportunity to become whole again and I will take it but I also want you to do something else"

Minato was still unsure about what the Kyuubi wanted but asked: "What is it?"

The chakra construct that you had inside Naruto has used most of its chakra and will disappear in a manner of minutes. Will you please add more chakra in order for it to last longer. Naruto would be really happy for that"

This really caught Minato off guard. Here was the strongest of the tailed beasts asking for something that would make Naruto happy. "How can I trust you?". He watched as the Kyuubi controlled clone raised his fist to him

"Bump fists with me"

Minato was confused about this but he slowly brought his fist to meet with the clone's. Once the fists touched Minato felt some chakra that felt like his own enter him and he was bombarded with memories

"Please...save him"

"I want to be angry but….."

"NO! EXPLAIN NOW BEFORE I BEAT THE ANSWER OUT OF YOU!"

"SO CUTE!"

"Kushi-chan, Naruto…..it's almost time"

"Can't you stay longer?! Why do you have to go so soon?!"

"I don't want you to go."

"We will see each other again"

Minato smiled as he got those memories and looked down at the Kyuubi "thank you for taking care of him" he then brought his free hand to his stomach and did a twisting motion to unlock the seal. Red chakra flowed from his stomach, up his body, and through his arm into Naruto's arm. After the transfer was done Minato sent a large amount of his own chakra into the boy and smiled down "before anything else happens let me say this: keep looking after…..our son"

Kyuubi nodded his head "of course"

They dropped their arms to look back and see that the others needed help. They both nodded at each other and went to help

~back with Naruto and Gaara~

Naruto was running across the forests at top speed and around Gaara who kept shooting sand bullets at him.

Gaara was watching him run and was getting annoyed at how Naruto kept dodging the attacks "YOU WILL PROVE MY EXISTENCE AND GIVE YOUR BLOOD TO MOTHER!". He placed his hands in a seal "Feigning Sleep Jutsu!". He then slumped as the Jutsu took hold.

The giant sand Tanuki that was made of sand began to move on it's on "hahaha I'm FRRREEEE!". The Ichibi was free and looked behind him to see Naruto running on his back. He smirked as he made his move

Naruto was halfway across the Ichibi's back when a hand made of sand came out and grab him before lifting him into the air and tossing him back down to the forest "hahahahaha so much for the damn fox"

Naruto got out of the crater he was in before charging at the Ichibi

The Ichibi see something coming towards him at great speeds channeled chakra and swung it's tail sending a massive gust of wind

Naruto saw this coming stopped in his tracks, opened his mouth and unleashed his demonic fire. The fire made contact with the wind but since the wind was of greater size the flames were still sent at Naruto who was enveloped in them but he didn't stop the stream of fire. After a few seconds, the flames that enveloped Naruto began to rebound back towards the Ichibi which hit in its arm causing a good portion of it to turn into glass. Naruto bolted towards the Ichibi again and began spewing flames at different parts of its body, causing more of it to turn to glass.

The Ichibi shot out a ball of sand in front of Naruto causing him to fly into the air, which the Ichibi used to grab him from the air. Ichibi began to slam Naruto into the ground multiple times and once that was done he squeezed his hand in order to crush Naruto

Naruto burst from the hand, flew in the direction of the Ichibi's head and with his arm pulled back swiped at the prone form of Gaara on the Ichibi's forehead but a sand tendril came out and swatted Naruto away. Once Naruto landed, he stared at the distant form if the Ichibi and growled. He moved his six tails so each of the tips were above him. Lifting his head several balls of small blue and dark red orbs burst from his body but he didn't change his position. The orbs began to collect into one spot between the tips of his tails.

The Ichibi saw this and grinned "so you wanna play like that huh? Then we can play like that". He then opened his mouth as a small purple orb began to form within it.

All the orbs that floated around Naruto had fused into a purple ball the size of his torso and began to compress. As the orb shrank, the ground around Naruto gave in due to the density and power coming from the orb. Naruto lifted his head and opened his maw and reached up to eat the orb. Steam began to pour out of between Naruto's teeth and his body began to bloat until it became round and his cheeks puffed up a bit

The Ichibi internally smirked, "time to play chicken!". He then launched his Bijuu dama at Naruto as it moved a great speeds

At the same time, Naruto opened his mouth and a large beam of power was launched from his mouth

Both the beam and ball of energy created massive trenches, destroying anything living that was in their path from trees, plants and any animal that had not left yet as well as creating massive gusts of wind that uprooted trees. The two impacted in-between the two, tailed beasts and were competing with each other.

Naruto kept up the stream, pushing the Bijuu Dama back as best he could.

The Ichibi sat there watching the struggle with a smirk on its face. An idea came to his mind and he began to channel chakra into his mouth and sent out a blast of wind towards his Bijuu dama

Once the blast of wind impacted the Bijuu dama, the orb destabilized and in the blink of an eye it detonated, creating a blinding light that was followed by a massive explosion that shook the earth that was felt by everyone in the village

~Meanwhile in Naruto's mindscape~

Rain began to pour down as the grass began to wilt due to his mind being in such turmoil, with him and Yami fighting/ flames engulf the trees from the bursts of fire that were launched from the two foxes

Naruto bit down on Yami's neck, with his paws holding down his body. He couldn't stop Yami's tails from hitting him in the head and body, which caused grunts of pain to escape his mouth but he held him down

Yami knew he was losing the fight but he came up with a way to turn this around "so tell me...how does it feel?". He saw Naruto's eyes shift to him "how does it feel to finally get rid of those two?"

Naruto's eyes widened as he knew who he was talking about and in that moment of hesitation, he loosened his bit, which gave Yami the opportunity to slip out and slash at his face. "Argh!" he didn't get a chance to retaliate as he was hit by a stream of fire that pushed him against a tree

Yami dropped his stream of fire "you finally got what you wanted: their death!"

Naruto's eyes shot open in rage as he got back to his feet and charged at Yami "I NEVER WANTED THEM DEAD!"

Yami dodged the feral attacks as he continued to taunt Naruto "yes you did. You wanted them to pay for what they did to you, just like you want to kill the old man for keeping all these things a secret from you." he lept back to avoid a tail slam "just like you want to kill everyone in the village for what they did to you!" he saw Naruto charged forward with his head down and he did the same. They met in between with a headbutt as they pushed against each other "admit it! You hate them all because you know that they will betray you! All of them will turn their backs on you when they learn the truth about you!"

Naruto was furious at everything Yami said. He wanted to claw at Yami's face off for saying all that about the people he cared about. 'What does he know?! He doesn't know a thing about me! I never hated them! I know that the one's important to me would accept me if they found out so why would he…..'. Something clicked in Naruto's mind and this made him even more furious. He began to push back against Yami who became wide-eyed at being pushed back

Yami dug his paws into the ground and stopped his movement

Naruto pulled back, causing Yami to fall to the ground as Naruto sidestepped. Naruto focused a bit and he changed into his human form

Yami got to his paws and turned around, only to be punched in the side of the head. He then found himself being pulled by the tails before he was spinning in the air and thrown into a tree

"Your afraid"

Yami, who was just getting back up looked to Naruto

"Your afraid that they will hurt us again ...that's why you hate them. Because if you hate them, it won't hurt so much if they do betray us. But you remember about the time ….Hinata-chan left us when we first became friends. You remember when….Ino-chan…...and I had that fight and we stopped becoming friends ..."

"Shut up..."

"You remember every beating the villagers did to us and them saying that I don't deserve friends, family or to be happy"

"Shut up!"

"You remember how it hurt to hear that Jiji kept all of those secrets from us. How Minato-tou-chan sealed Rama-tou-chan in us, which is why the villagers hate us so much. How Rama-tou-chan left us when we were younger…."

"I SAID SHUT UP!"

Yami lunged at Naruto with his maw open and went to bite Naruto's head off

Naruto brought his hands up and grabbed the top of his maw with his right hand and his left grabbing the lower. Naruto fell on his back while trying to keep Yamin from biting him

"THEY ALL HURT US! BEAT US! THEY KILLED US! WHY SHOULDN'T WE HATE THEM?! WHY SHOULDN'T WE GET REVENGE ON THEM?! WHY SHOULDN'T WE GET PAYBACK!? WE DESERVE TO GET IT!"

Naruto kicked Yami off before jumping at the black fox and pinned him down "and what would that do? What would that make us? It would make us the same as them. Do you think we should do what they did? To beat them because we hate them?" he pushed Yami's head harder into the ground "you seem to make it sound like you are the only one that holds hate for the people. I may not like them but I will make sure that I don't become the monsters they were. I am a tailed BEAST! Not a monster". Naruto took a deep breath to calm his anger and let go of Yami before getting up "I'm done here". He turned around and walked away from Yami

"DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON ME!"

Naruto looked over his shoulder "I wanna thank you actually"

This caught Yami by surprise.

"It's because of you that I can keep going. You take in most of my anger, hatred, sorrow, every negative emotion I have, you take most of it. I hope you continue to do this for a bit more"

Yami's eyes were now wide "y...you aren't going to try and get rid of me?"

Naruto shook his head "no. if I had to guess, the only way to get rid of you, I would need to accept all of you and even if I acknowledge you….I can't accept you ...not yet."

"But why?"

Naruto looked down with a sigh "because if I do accept you, it would mean that I accept all the crap that the villagers have done to me and I can't do that. Not yet anyway."

Yami just looked shocked and didn't know what to say. He expected that Naruto would try to get rid of him by trying to destroy him but here he was just walking away. he got up to his paws as he watched Naruto disappear from the mindscape

~meanwhile with the Kage~

Orochimaru was at the moment seething at how this fight had gone. He had expected the three resurrected kage that he summoned would push his sensei into a corner before killing him, sure the addition of Mei and Zabuza was not in the realm of his expectations but he did not consider them to be a major game-changer compared to the kages. What he did not expect was that lose control of the fourth and for the demon brat to appear and cause more problems. The body he had taken over, did not have anything that could be used as it was merely a placeholder for when he takes over Sasuke. not only that but he needed to avoid the flames the young jinchuriki was spewing out since it was these very flames that caused so much damage to his previous body. He knew that if he were to change bodies so soon, he would have to wait more before he can take young Sasuke's body. He thought about canceling the reanimation Jutsu in order to remove Minato but if he did, it would do the same with the first and second Hokage since he has not completely mastered the Jutsu, only the aspect of resurrecting. This would put him at a major disadvantage as he was heavily damaged already. He was brought out of his musing as he had to jump back in order to avoid another stream of fire

Kurama and Hiruzen stood side by side as they faced off with Orochimaru. It was decided that these two would face the snake as Hiruzen felt it was his responsibility to take care of him and Kurama because his demonic flames were the ones that caused the corrosion of Orochimaru's previous body. Hiruzen would make sure that Naruto's clone did not dispel and would attack Hiruzen when he could.

Minato had changed to flow of the fight with the other kage. He would assist Mei by telling her to aim for his tri pronged kunai and Minato would teleport Hashirama and Tobirama to it so they would be hit by her Jutsu. After they had gotten them both it was only a matter of attacking before they completely regenerate.

Orochimaru noticed this and knew that he had lost. It was his ambition that was keeping him from retreating as he had expected his soldiers as well as his Suna Pawns taking out many of the Konoha shinobi.

Hiruzen and Kurama landed in front of him as Hiruzen began to speak "you have failed my foolish student. All of your plans have been neutralized and your forces are being taken care of as we speak."

Orochimaru gave a wide smile at this "oh, and what makes you believe that my plans have been foiled?"

"We have known about your spy for a while now, even before the exams. Thanks to one of our genin, we gained valuable information that allowed us to prepare for any contingency. As we speak, my Anbu should just about be finished with taking care of your forces."

Orochimaru frown as he looked out to the village through the barrier, and he noticed that his summons that he allowed a few of his subordinates to use with summon scrolls are no longer going through the village. The only summon he could see were toads, which meant that the pervert Jiraiya was here. 'Damn it! They prepared far better than I assumed they would. Even with the little warning I gave them, they should not have set up this many precautions' as he finished this thought, he recalled the part where Hiruzen said a "genin". Turning his glared to Naruto, he scowled 'this boy has become more trouble than I originally thought'

As this was going on an explosion was heard by them all and they felt the whole building shake from the force of the shockwave.

While everyone was trying to regain their balance, Orochimaru took this opportunity to jump back to the edge of the barrier. He signaled his sound four to drop the barrier and they gathered around him. "The plan has failed! We must retreat at once!"

Hiruzen regained his balance and notice Orochimaru begin his retreat. He was about to jump in but something beat him to it as he saw the Kyuubi jump into the air

Kurama saw the snake trying to leave but he still felt the need to punish him for hurting his kit. Gathering all the chakra the clone had left and adding a good bit of his own, he took in a deep breath, puffed up his chest and let out a large wave of fire towards the Oto-nin and Orochimaru

The five enemy shinobi saw the flames and did their best to jump out of the way. The four Oto-nin were lucky enough to get out of the blast range with only their clothing being burnt. Orochimaru was not so fortunate as the edge of his foot was burnt. "Damn you boy!" Once he landed the largest of the four landed next to him, picked him up and carried him off.

Hiruzen walk up to the Kyuubi, who landed on the ground before falling to his knee. "Are you alright?"

Kurama looked up to Hiruzen "heh that was punishment for what he did to my kit in the forest. I used most of the chakra this clone had, so I won't last much longer." he looked back to the other fight going on as the shaking of the explosion allowed Hashirama and Tobirama to regain enough to start to fight back but with Minato on their side then they just needed to subdue the two so the Jutsu would either cancel out or they would need to find a way to destroy them. He got up and began making his way to said fight "they still need our help, so move!"

Hiruzen looked back in the direction his traitorous student left but he knew that his assistance is needed on the other kage. He turned back to the fight and jumped in to help.

Minato was in the middle of a taijutsu fight with Hashirama and he couldn't help but be impressed with himself at being able to hold his own with someone who went toe to toe with Madara Uchiha. He had faced someone who claimed to be him but in a weakened state. This, however, was different as at the moment he was not at full strength. Getting into a deadlock with his predecessor he was surprised to see Kurama come in and kick Hashirama in the side of the head. He looked down at Kurama and smiled "thanks for the help"

Kurama nodded before speaking "just to let you know, this clone won't last any longer. Hell, it's a miracle that it lasted this long. So before we continue, do you have anything you want to say to Naruto?"

Minato smiled as he thought back to the memories he got from Kurama. He looked to the first Hokage who was getting back up and pulled out a small blank tag "yeah. Tell him: I'm proud of him"

Kurama nodded as both he and Minato charged at Hashirama

Hiruzen had given Zabuza and Mei an edge at fight Tobirama as it was now three against one. They made sure not to give the second Hokage a chance to use any Jutsu so they kept up an assault.

Hiruzen knew that they would not be able to keep this up and he came up with a way to subdue the resurrected Hokage "Mei, you must cover him in your lava Jutsu! Zabuza, once he is covered used a water Jutsu to cool it down

Both nodded, getting an idea of what he wanted

Hiruzen moved forward to engage in a taijutsu fight, with Knma in his bo staff form, and waited for a moment before he kicked him away. Hiruzen went through a few hand signs and shouted "Roof Tile shuriken". Tile from the roof they were fighting on floated into the air and were sent whirling at Tobirama which were deflected and dodged.

Mei used this opportunity to go through her own hand signs "Yōton: Yōkai no Jutsu" and launched a glob of lava at the still distracted kage. The lava completely covered Tobirama who tried to remove it.

Zabuza immediately launched his own Jutsu "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu". His water dragon Jutsu spun around the clump of lava and began to evaporate as well as cool the lava. The lava began to solidify and become a tomb for the second Hokage much to the relief of the others

Minato had slapped on a gravity tag on the back of Hashirama and with the help of Kurama they had placed one on each of his limbs and by pushing as much chakra as Minato could, they had been able to subdue the first.

The battle had ended and they were all exhausted

Kurama knew that the clone was about to disappear but he had one last thing to do so he looked towards Hiruzen "hey old monkey! I need a favor from you" he then turned to Minato "and you too"

~with Naruto and Gaara~

The Ichibi was getting tired of being turned to sand by a little nat that was hard to pin down and right now both his arms were right now turned to glass. Shattering them he began to reform the arms and sent sand tendrils at the charging Naruto who kept dodging. What was odd was that throughout the battle, the fox seemed to be getting faster and faster. So much so that now it was hard to even hit him

Naruto zig-zagged through Ichibi's attacks and was determined to get to the redhead. Leaping up into the air, like a bullet, he made his way towards Gaara, this time swiping at all the sand tendrils that were aimed at him.

Ichibi tried to reform his arms faster but it took a large amount of sand and chakra to do this. He saw the fox coming in and brought up a wall of sand to block Naruto.

Naruto blew a small stream of fire at the wall at such heat that a bit of it became glass quickly, which he went through.

The Ichibi's eyes widened at this and began to move back but the speed Naruto was going he knew he would make it "no no NO!"

Naruto was upon Gaara and in a quick motion, to fast for the defensive sand swiped at Gaara so hard that the redhead was sent flying down to the ground

"NOOOO I JUST GOT MY FREEDOM! DAMN YOU KURAMA!" the sand construct of the Ichibi began to sag and clumps of him began to fall to the ground as he soon became a giant pile of sand

Gaara had woken up from his Jutsu and found himself in a crater, bleeding profusely from all over his body. He heard something land hard onto the ground close by and moved his eyes to see the bone armored chakra form of Naruto "n...no...sta….stay away from me! You can't erase my existence!" he tried to move but his body wouldn't even move a finger

Naruto stalked towards Gaara as if prey coming in to finish off a kill. Once he stood above Gaara, he slowly raised his claw, ready to finish Gaara off

Gaara had felt something that he had not felt in years: fear. He closed his eyes waiting for the strike. But after a few seconds, he didn't feel anything. He heard something hit the ground and it sounded like wood hitting the ground. He slowly opened his eyes to see the fox with his left arm still raised but the bone armor that covered them began to break apart before falling to the ground.

Piece after piece of the bone began to fall off his body. Soon the only remaining armor that remained was the one on his right arm that seemed to melt into the arm. The red energy began to pull back, starting from the lifted arm and slowly pulled away from the rest of his body. As it was being pulled back it revealed orange fur underneath and once it reached his torso the black pattern became visible. The head was the last to be revealed.

Gaara saw the white lights that were the eyes soon became replaced by azure blue slitted eyes

Naruto slowly lowered his claw and looked down at Gaara a sad look "no…..I won't erase your existence. As much as I want to make you pay for what you did …...I won't become like you. Or like the villagers that hate me" (just to let you know he is talking like Kurama. Opening his mouth but not really moving his lips)

Gaara was confused at this "why? Why do you still fight for them if you are like me?"

Naruto shook his head "that's just it Gaara, I'm not like you but…..I could have been"

"What?"

"Look at me Gaara. This is what I am. This isn't a henge or anything. This is what I have become because the villagers killed me but thanks to someone important to me, I was saved by becoming this. But I won't become the monster they think I am. That is why I said I am a 'beast', not a 'monster'. Monsters are the ones that hurt me and you, the ones that hate us for something we didn't have a choice in. I could have ended up like you but the same could be said about you. You could have become like me, not like becoming a beast but by the way I live my life. I have people that are important to me. I get stronger so I can protect them and it hurts when I lose them" a tear fell from his eye but he continued "I try as best I can to enjoy the time I have with them because if I am not strong enough, I might never see them again and that thought scares me. I am strong for them because I want to be with them. You only fought for yourself and it has left you alone without anything to look forward to, but you could because you have people already that care about you" Naruto looked up from Gaara to the newcomer that came

Gaara turned his head and his eyes widened when he saw Temari with her hand on her fan look warily at the fox

"Get away from him!" Temari tried to sound brave but it was clear she was scared of the multi tailed fox standing over Gaara

Naruto looked down at Gaara as he smiled "having people you care about around you is better than being alone. It gives you something to look forward to" Naruto turned around and began to walk away from the two Suna-nin

Temari got closer to Gaara, with her gaze on the retreating fox. Once she lost sight of the fox, she took her hand off her fan and knelt down to Gaara "Gaara, you are going to be fine. We are going to get you help"

Gaara turned his head to look in the direction of Naruto. He thought about what was said to him and what it would be like "I'm sorry"

Temari stopped looking over Gaara and looked to his face

"I'm sorry for everything"

Temari sat there stunned at hearing Gaara apologize to her for the first time in a very long time. After a minute she smiled at her brother "it's fine."

~with Naruto~

Naruto had walked deeper into the forest and made it to a small clearing that wasn't destroyed from the battle. He stood in the middle, with his gaze forward but not really looking at anything. For a few minutes, he stood there not moving but soon tears began to fall down his face. Like streams, they fell as his breathing began to become heavy and frantic. He began to bare his teeth as his fur began to stand up. He brought his two paws up, balled them into fists and brought them down hard "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!". The force of it shook the ground a bit and he began to slam his fist into the ground over and over again "damn it! Damn it! DAMN IT! I'm sorry…...I'm sorry I couldn't save you two! I was too weak! What good is all my strength if I can't save anyone *hic*. I was right there and I couldn't do anything". He was hunched over as he let his sorrow out. After a few minutes, he heard a noise behind him but he didn't move at all. Right now he didn't care about anything else right now.

"Naruto-Kun?"

Naruto's eyes shot open as he had recognized the voice. He quickly shifted his head to look behind him and his eyes were as wide as they could be as more tears fell from his eyes. There standing in front of him was Ino and Hinata, looking at him with apprehension but he didn't notice that. He slowly got to his paws and made his way slowly to the two who also moved closer to him. Naruto was standing in front of the two, with Ino to his right and Hinata to his left. He had not lost his look of utter shock as he slowly brought up his right paw as if thinking that if he made any sudden movement they would disappear. He sat down as he placed his right paw on Ino's left cheek and he brought up his left paw to be on Hinata's right cheek. The tears increased as he suddenly brought the two into a hug with his head in their chests "you're here *sob*! You're here! You're alive! *hic* you're alive…..."

Ino and Hinata hugged Naruto as they also began to cry along with Naruto. They smiled at how despite him being a fox, he was still the Naruto they knew. They fell to their knees still hugging Naruto and they stayed there for a minute before they heard him say quietly

"Don't wake me up."

Both Ino and Hinata were confused at why he would say this but he continued softly

"I don't care if this is a dream or a genjutsu, just…..don't go away…..please"

Hinata and Ino hugged Naruto tighter as Ino spoke up "it's ok Naruto, we're here…" Ino smiled as she hugged him "we're here."

End of chapter

Yeah you knew I wouldn't really kill them off after all I did with the three

Now for those who want to know how they survived, it will be in the next chapter

Speaking of the next chapter. It is one I have been waiting for, for a very long time. I am looking forward to it and you should too

Now for this chapter. It was damn hard for me as there are three fights going on at the same time and my mind kept going back and forth with them.

Ok someone asked me to do this and I guess I should have clarified this sooner. I was asked what was still organic in Naruto and I was hoping that It would have been somewhat obvious but I guess not. Anyway, as of now the only thing that is organic in Naruto is now just his heart since I have just removed his organic bones

Speaking of which, I wanted to do a variation of the six tailed form. The bone aspect is still there but I made it as a suit of armor he wore instead of a floating exoskeleton that floated around him and instead of a foxified human form it's his fox form just the red chakra energy instead of his fur

Check out my other stories if you have the chance. Who knows you might like them too.

notice: I am going to my early chapter to fix them up and put them into the format that I have moved to. this is mostly to get those naggers, who keep saying I should take an English class or stop because the grammar is bad, to shut up. I know that my earlier chapters had so many mistakes but instead of telling me what to fix they just say that I should stop writing. Well, I'm going to keep writing because I WANT TO. I am not being paid, I am not commissioned and there is no one telling me to write. I am doing this because I want to and to those who have gotten passed my poor grammar, gotten this far and enjoyed the story, thank you and hope to hear from you readers in the reviews

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