"Normal speech"

'Normal thoughts'

"Demon/Summon speech"

'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'

Jutsu name

(author comment)

flashback/memory

~locations and transitions~

Beta-read by: Irusha the Kitsune

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Chapter 39: Deadlock

~bar~

Both Sanin were sitting at the bar table pouring themselves drinks.

Jiraiya poured himself a drink as he began to speak "So... What did he want?"

Tsunade drank her sake "What makes you think that he wanted anything?"

"Come on Tsunade-hime... You know just as well as I do that he wouldn't come to see you if he didn't want something. So what was it?"

Tsunade couldn't help but smirk at the thought of her former teammate's state when she first saw him...

~flashback~

Tsunade and Shizune stood in an empty alley with a young boy named Kabuto and a hooded figure.

Tsunade scowled at the hooded figure before she spoke "What do you want from me, Orochimaru? Did you think that I wouldn't recognize your foul stench!?"

"Kukuku am I not allowed to see my old teammate?" The words came out oily and

If looks could kill Orochimaru would be dead a few times over but unfortunately, Tsunade didn't have this kind of ability... "Don't treat me like a fool! Now tell me what you want before I turn you into a smear on the ground!"

Kabuto lowered himself into a stance, he even channeled chakra into his palm.

Shizune got into her own stance ready to defend her master.

Kabuto was stopped however by Orochimaru's hand on his shoulder.

Orochimaru took a limping step forward "I require your particular... Expertise, Tsunade."

Tsunade noticed the limp and quirked an eyebrow "Why would you need my help? From what I could tell you already have a medic with you. Why can't he heal your limp?"

Orochimaru moved his cloak to reveal his right leg.

Tsunade noticed that the leg looked like it had third-degree burns but what really caught her eye was the foot. It looked like it was the foot of a corpse as some of it was rotting. This made her feel uneasy at the sight so she shifted her gaze back to his eyes "What stupid experiment did this to you?"

"Kuku this is an unforeseen side effect from a jutsu that I have yet to fully understand. And although Kabuto-san here is a good practitioner of his field even he is unable to heal this type of injury. I need this to be healed for me as it is continuing to damage this body."

Tsunade only scowled harder at the man "And why should I help you? Why shouldn't I just let you suffer from that and hope you die from it?"

Orochimaru smirked at this.

~end of Flashback~

Tsunade got out of her thoughts as she took another sip of her drink "...He wants me to heal him."

Jiraiya knew that there was more to this. "So, what did he offer you in return?"

Tsunade seemed to sober up exceptionally as she thought of the deal "It doesn't concern you."

"I beg to differ."

~Shizune~

Shizune had spent some time trying to find out where Naruto had gone. It surprised her that she had lost sight of the boy since he only had a few minute's heads start. Now walking in the forest outside of town she had seen some damaged trees, which she took as a trail to where he would be. After a bit more searching she found him, or at least ...his clones. She was stunned silent as she could see groups of clones that were doing several things. Some were doing to usual tree walking and leaf exercises, but some were doing them in an unconventional way. She saw that some of the clones were using the tree walking exercise but instead of walking up the tree without using their hands, they were going up the tree with just their hands in a way that made them look like they were doing handstands. Some of them were hanging from branches with just their fingertips, which she could see were coated with chakra. There was one that stood out from the rest though. He was in the center of the training area, keeping himself upright from his fingertip that was pressed against the end of a kunai. She realized that this one was the original and he was doing something that no one ever thought about before. To focus chakra into a single point would be an extremely difficult way of chakra control but it would be exceptionally helpful but the way he was doing it was really risky because if he fell, he would most likely have the kunai stabbed into a part of his body. She was pulled from her thoughts when she saw him extend his free hand to his side with the palm face upward. She watched as chakra began to form in his palm that looked like it was the start of the Rasengan but the color was different because instead of being blue, it was red.

Naruto began to sweat as he found it extremely difficult to separate his demon chakra from his human chakra. He was so used to just letting the two mix for his attacks as they made his jutsu stronger but this time he needed to focus because the jutsu that he was trying now would become something far too dangerous for everyone. He tiled his head to his right to see that he had a Rasengan forming and even if it isn't blue it means that it is possible with both of his chakras. He wanted to see how strong the jutsu us right now but he was right now focusing on how to form the thing correctly. He now knew that with focus, he can separate his chakras. Taking a deep breath to relax a bit, he caught the scent of someone else here in his training area. Dissipating the jutsu, he lowered his legs to the ground and looked towards where the scent came from "You can come out now... I know you're there." All the clones stopped what they were doing and looked in the same direction as the original.

Shizune felt a little unnerved at all the clones looking towards her but she walked out and towards Naruto. "Sorry if I'm interrupting your training."

Naruto sighed as he sat on the floor and dispelled all the clones. This caused him to fall back and laid on the ground "Ow... I hate doing that." He pressed his palms on his forehead. After a few seconds he sat back up, breathing heavily but he looked at the woman that had arrived before noticing the pig that was hiding behind her leg "Relax... I'm not going to eat you." 'I'm just going to have to wait until I go hunting again to eat a pig.'

Tonton, although still wary, slowly came out and stood next to Shizune.

Naruto smiled at the pig before looking up at Shizune "So, what did you want?"

Shizune took a breath before speaking "I wanted to tell you why Lady Tsunade is like this and that you shouldn't accept the necklace that she put on the bet."

Naruto reached into his jacket to pull out a scroll before unsealing a canteen of water. While opening the canteen he spoke to her "I'm not doing this for the necklace, I'm doing this to prove to her that she doesn't have the right to tell me what I can and can't do."

Shizune shook her head "Still you should know why she is like this. When she lived in Konoha….."

~later~

Naruto had heard the story about Tsunade's little brother and her lover and how she lost them both. He did feel bad for the woman, and he could understand the need to grieve... But to him, this still seemed more like running away from her problems. "It still doesn't give her the right to bad mouth the Hokage. They chose to be Hokage, heck Ero-Senin told me that the fourth wasn't aiming for it but was nominated. Her saying that those who want to be Hokage not only insults those who became Hokage but also those who wanted to but never got the chance." Naruto turned away from Shizune, back to the kunai "She even insults the very people that she loved so much... Her little brother wanted to be Hokage, her lover wanted to be Hokage. Now she's given the chance to really honor their memory instead of wallowing in self-pity, but instead, she calls it a fool's job." He pressed his finger to the tip of the kunai blade, focused his chakra in his finger and pushed his legs up in the air.

Shizune sighed as she had understood what Tsunade was doing. She let her master do what she wanted in the hopes that she would move past her grief but so far, that hasn't happened. She decided to move past this subject and asked him something "Anyway I understand that what you are doing is a way of chakra control but why is the jutsu coming out red?"

Naruto lifted his head to look at her before looking back to the kunai "Sorry, that's a secret and due to the fact that you and Baa-chan have met with hebi-teme, I can't trust you completely."

Shizune sat on the grass as she watched him "You don't trust many people, do you?"

"People have never given me a reason to trust them, and there are very few people in the world that I do trust."

Shizune nodded as she understood that the world has people like that. "Well, I would like you to trust me when I say that you shouldn't take the necklace if you win the bet. It could get you killed."

'I died before…..I don't plan on dying again.' "She put that in the bet so I'm going to win that necklace maybe just to prove her wrong." He lifted his free hand and again formed another red Rasengan.

~A week later~

Naruto was sleeping in his bed as he was exhausted from his training session the previous day. He'd spent all his time throughout the week training to get the Rasengan right. He found out that his training went faster when in the middle of the week he had to shift back into his fox form. He figured it was due to being less restrained as a bijuu than he is a human. He wanted to stay a fox for the rest of their time here but with Tsunade and Shizune around, he couldn't risk it so after his free two days of being a fox, he shifted back. He was startled awake when the door swung open. He jolted up with his hands, as a bit of drool came out of his mouth "huh whazza….?"

"Naruto-san! Have you seen Lady Tsunade or Jiraiya!?"

Naruto rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked to the newcomer. After his vision cleared he saw that it was Shizune and Tonton. It took him a second to register the question "Uh, no... I haven't seen them, not since last night when she and Ero-Senin went out for some drinks."

"How…..many times have I gotta tell you…..not to call me that Gaki?"

Shizune and Naruto looked towards the door to see that the one who spoke was Jiraiya and he looked like he was barely holding himself up.

Jiraiya grimaced as he moved a bit "Never expected her to spike my drink... Hey Shizune, you got an antidote for whatever it is she gave me?"

Shizune began to exam him with a medical examination jutsu. When she found out what his symptoms were she was able to pull out one of the antidotes that she had on her "This should help you."

Jiraiya took the antidote quickly and already felt some of the effects of the poison fade. Once he could stand he looked to the two "We need to move. She is most likely meeting with Orochimaru right now!"

Shizune began to panic "That's right! I was looking for you two. If she's already gone then we have to stop her!"

Naruto looked to Jiraiya "Are you going to be able to keep up?"

Jiraiya smirked while holding back a wince "I should ask you that."

With that, the three shinobi and pig ran off to stop Tsunade.

~open field~

The three shinobi were coming up on an open field as Naruto had tracked her down. When they grew closer they saw that Kabuto had Tsunade kneeling in front of him. They saw that Kabuto was pulling back his fist to hit the woman.

Naruto gritted his teeth as he focused on Tsunade. 'Come on come on….yes!' "Shizune get ready to catch Tsunade!"

Shizune was confused at what he meant but a look from Jiraiya told her to just be ready

Kabuto channeled chakra into his fist as he was aiming to send a pulse of chakra into her head to shut the brain down. As his fist was closing in he suddenly found his fist stopped. He was shocked at what was in front of them or rather ...who.

"Surprise...!"

Kabuto felt an impact in his stomach and he was sent back by the force. Once he stopped rolling on the ground he righted himself and saw that it was Naruto with his foot in the air.

Naruto dropped his foot and looked towards Kabuto with a smirk on his face but it dropped when he saw who was standing a few feet behind him. "Hey, hebi-teme. I was really hoping that I wouldn't see you again..." Just as he finished saying this, Jiraiya and Shizune with Tsunade and Tonton in her arms dropped next to him

Orochimaru smiled at the sight of Jiraiya "Well well, it would seem that this reunion is complete... All three sannin are here. It almost brings a tear to my eye."

Jiraiya scowled "Honestly, I wished I never had to see your face again."

Naruto looked to Kabuto and saw that he was wearing an Oto hitai-ate "So I was right... You are working for him."

Kabuto adjusted his glasses "You don't seem surprised Naruto-Kun."

Naruto shrugged "Meh, I kinda figured it out during the exams. I was even the one that warned Hokage-Jiji about Orichimaru-teme's plan and that you were a spy ."

Orochimaru scowled at hearing this "Oh? So it was you who made it harder to kill the old man?"

Naruto gave a mock bow to them "Why yes. As Konoha's resident prank master, it is my duty to cause a headache to anyone and everyone within those lovely walls~." He stood back up and smirked, "And saving Hokage-Jiji was something I would have done either way."

"Naruto..."

Naruto looked behind him to see Jiraiya walking forward.

"Leave Orochimaru to me."

Naruto wanted to argue but he remembered the last time that he faced off with the snake. He nodded and walked back to Tsunade and Shizune

Jiraiya faced off with Orochimaru who had Kabuto by his side. Jiraiya knew he had to use what he could to finish off the snake so he brought his thumb to his mouth.

Orochimaru, seeing this, did the same.

Both did the hand signs and slammed their hands onto the ground while shouting out "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

A large puff of smoke appeared around Orochimaru and Kabuto and they were now standing on two massive brown snakes.

Jiraiya was enveloped by a puff of smoke but unfortunately, instead of the large toad that he was aiming for, Gamakichi appeared.

Gamakichi waved at the people around him "Yo! What's up?"

Jiraiya was in a panic "Gamakichi! Where's your old man?!"

Gamakichi shrugged "Back home. Where else would he be?"

Jiraiya shook his head as he used the blood from his already bleeding thumb to try summoning again"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" He was hoping to summon Gamabunta as he tried to focus more chakra into the jutsu but unfortunately, he was unsuccessful again...

Out of the smoke game another small toad but this time it was a yellow toad with some orange highlights. This toad wore a deep blue vest and looked more jovial than Gamakichi "Hi everyone."

Jiraiya slumped as he realized that this was not going to be of any help

Gamakichi hopped to the other toad and waved "hey Gamatatsu. Where's pop?"

Gamatatsu smiled at "Oh, hey Gamakichi. I dunno."

Orochimaru was smirking at the sight "It would seem that Tsunade did something to him... Well, that should make this easier!" With a silent command, the snakes coiled up and lunged at the group.

Everyone saw the coming attack and jumped out of the way with Jiraiya grabbing the toads and Shizune grabbing Tsunade and Tonton.

The snake's attack caused a large plume of dirt to fly in the air as well as chunks of earth.

Each of the shinobi used the chunks of earth to maneuver in the air.

Naruto pushed off one and was in the middle of the air until out of the dust cloud came the open mouth of one of the snakes. He looked at the open mouth with a deadpan expression "I'm going to kill that teme." He then found himself being eaten by the snake.

Jiraiya saw this happen and grew worried "NARUTO!" he landed on the ground, putting Gamakichi and Gamatatsu down before he went through another set of hand signs "Doton: Yomi Numa"

Orochimaru stumbled and looked down to see that both of his summoned snakes were stuck in a mud pit

Jiraiya grimaced as he jumped onto the midsection of the snake "Damn it, I still can't focus my chakra!" Before he could do anything else he felt the snake begin to inflate. Sensing danger he jumped off.

The snake screeched in pain as he inflated more. As it screeched, flames could be seen spewing out of its mouth. It continued to inflate until it finally exploded in blood, guts, and flames.

Jumping out of the gore was Naruto who was now covered in snake remains "I am no one's lunch and I never want to see the inside of another animal EVER again!"

Tsunade who was still in shock due to her blood phobia started to get out of her haze and stared at the boy that was making his way to them. 'He shows no fear of being in a battle with them ...why?'

Orochimaru turned to Kabuto who had jumped from his snake to his and gave his order "Dispose of that boy, Kabuto. He's already a risk at this age and I don't want him to become an even bigger problem later." 'It would be unwise to let him live for the Akatsuki to get their hands on him...'

Kabuto nodded and jumped down towards Naruto.

Jiraiya saw Kabuto and knew where he was going but he honestly had faith that Naruto would be able to pull out of this fight well enough. Right now he needed to focus on Orochimaru.

Orochimaru smirked as he turned to look at Jiraiya who was standing on the midsection of the remaining snake. "Well, my old friend...shall we get down to business?"

Jiraiya got into his stance "Fine with me!"

~with Naruto~

Naruto saw Kabuto heading his way. He smiled as he wanted to beat Kabuto ever since he met him during the Chunin exams. But before he could make a move he saw Shizune jump in front of him.

Shizune pulled her sleeve up to reveal a senbon shooter on her forearm. Pulling the wire to fire, she sent a few senbon needles towards Kabuto

Kabuto merely sidestepped the senbon and channeled chakra into his palm. He moved forward and struck Shizune in the stomach.

Shizune gritted her teeth from the impact but chose not to let this opportunity slip by. She opened her mouth and spoke "Dokugiri!" Out of her mouth came a purple mist of poison that enveloped Kabuto.

Naruto was impressed at what Shizune could do, but he shook himself out of it as he began to remove his bracers and greaves. He was glad he got them off as he saw Kabuto jump out of the cloud and kick Shizune away. "My turn!" He summoned a clone that went to catch Shizune while he charged Kabuto.

Kabuto saw Naruto coming and smirked. He landed on the ground and ducked under Naruto's kick but what he did not expect was a clone to be behind him and give him a rising kick. Kabuto felt his jaw crack from the force of the kick but he didn't get to think of it much as he was suddenly kicked in the stomach as another clone that was behind the first clone used the first clone as a springboard and while Kabuto started to rise from the first kick, he was kicked in the stomach by the second clone

Naruto watched as Kabuto was sent flying until he righted himself. "I thought you would be tougher. Guess you're all talk aren't ya?"

Kabuto wiped the blood from his chin as he smirked and adjusted his glasses "I'm impressed... I wasn't expecting that, but then again, from what I've seen during the exams, I shouldn't be. You are just full of surprises..." He channeled chakra into both his palms and got ready.

Naruto stood straight and extended his nails into claws as his two clones stood at his side a bit more than an arms-length away "And I have a few more tricks I want to use!"

"Oh? I doubt you have anything that could surprise me."

"HOW ABOUT THIS!" He channeled wind chakra into his claws and lifted both hands in the air while his clones took a deep breath. Both clones let out their demon fire while he Brought his claws down in an X formation and sent blades of wind forward. The blades of wind caught the fire and now instead of blades of wind, they became fast-moving blades of fire.

Kabuto's eyes shot open at the attack and had to use all his strength to jump out of the way. He was fortunate to avoid it and was astonished at what the attack did. It created a trench in its path and it kept going until it impacted a boulder, which exploded in flames... The cuts in the ground were glowing red hot from the heat. He focused forward as Naruto popped up in front of him. He avoided a few punches and grabbed the kick aimed at him. He gritted his teeth from the force but smirked as he pressed his palm on the thigh and Achilles tendon. He then kicked Naruto away and landed on the ground as he shook his hand 'The force behind his attacks is impressive but nothing I can't handle...' He looked to the fallen Naruto and smirked as he saw him holding his leg "I have severed the nerves and tendons in that leg. You won't be able to use that anytime soon."

"You are way too cocky."

Kabuto felt a kick to the back of his head that was hard enough to crack his skull. 'Danmn it! I forgot about his clones. I was careless..' He was able to turn and land on his feet but he was shocked again when he saw that the Naruto he crippled went up in smoke.

"Stop looking away!"

Kabuto found himself being hugged from both sides by two clones of the boy

The clone on Kabuto's right smiled "You're so sure of yourself that you make it easy to surprise you..."

Kabuto channeled chakra into both palms and was about to dispell them, but he didn't get the chance as both clones took a deep breath and sent out a sonic roar, point-blank, into his ears "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

The original Naruto watch with a smile on his face "Since he joined Oto and likes sound so much I gave him a sound he will never forget." He wanted to finish this fight and get rid of Kabuto so he brought up both palms.

Tsunade was getting out of her fear and was now stunned at the skill Naruto was showing. Her eyes grew wider as she saw what he was doing.

Kabuto thrashed around from the sonic roar and threw off both clones as he clutched his bleeding ears. He could feel a good amount pouring passed his hands and down his face. Due to losing his hearing he spoke in a loud shout. "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!" He was focusing his energy on healing his wounds and shattered eardrums. He squinted as he lifted his head but he saw nothing but blue and red

"GO TO HELL!" Naruto slammed both a normal blue orb made from his human chakra, in his left hand, and a red ord made form his demon chakra, in his right, into Kabuto "DOUBLE RASENGAN!"

Kabuto was blasted away from the attacks and once his back hit a boulder he was pushed so hard that it shattered and he continued to fly for a bit. Once he stopped, he didn't get up.

Naruto smirked as he stood up straight and began to walk back to Tsunade and Shizune.

Tsunade was speechless at what she had seen. This boy had shown skill beyond his years. She didn't know what to say as she looked up to him from her kneeling position.

Naruto lifted a finger and brought it to her chest. Extending a finger he pressed it to the necklace and looked her in the eye with a cheeky grin on his face "Looks like I win the bet, Baa-chan."

For a brief second Naruto was replaced with an image of Nawaki. She couldn't help but smile at the boy "Looks like it, gaki..."

Orochimaru had witnessed what had happened and he was not pleased. 'He shows such skill at this age? He cannot be allowed to continue on. So if I kill him….right NOW' He pushed Jiraiya's next punch to the side and flew (honestly it looks like he flys on the damn snake but I'm guessing it's just a low jump) off the side of the snake towards the boy.

Jiraiya righted himself and saw that Orochimaru was heading their way "Damn it!" He went after Orochimaru as fast as he could in order to stop him. Unfortunately, Orochimaru spat out his tongue and wrapped it around his ankle. "Shit!" He was sent flying into the ground, creating a Jiraiya shaped crater.

Orochimaru made his way toward the boy, opening his mouth as a snakehead came out and spat out a blade, aiming at Naruto's heart from the back.

Tsunade was unaware of this as she could not see Orochimaru coming past Naruto, however, Shizune did notice it...

"Look out!"

Naruto's face grew serious as he had felt the greed and killing intent heading his way. He turned to see Orochimaru coming his way with a blade coming out of his mouth.

Tsunade, once seeing this, acted on instinct and pushed Naruto out of the way. She gritted her teeth as she took the blade in the stomach.

Orochimaru was stunned to see Tsunade take the attack that was aimed for the boy.

Tsunade gritted her teeth from the blade in her stomach but more than anything she felt anger. She felt angry at the pale Orochimaru for attacking Naruto... Something about the boy reminded her of her younger brother Nawaki, and she couldn't help but feel somewhat protective of that little reminder. She lifted her head to glare at Orochimaru as she undid the seal on her forehead. The purple diamond that was in the middle of her forehead disappeared and black markings began to show on her face. "Don't you dare touch him!" Pulling back her fist with a roar of rage, she punched Orochimaru hard enough to send him flying.

Orochimaru flipped in the air and landed on his feet close to his remaining snake. Unfortunately, he had to jump to his right when Jiraiya came down with a Rasengan.

Jiraiya looked up as he saw Orochimaru get away from him. He felt that it was time to end this fight. He was about to bite his thumb and do his summoning but Naruto dropped next to him and spoke up

"Why don't you let me do it? That poison is still messing up your control."

Jiraiya hated this, but he felt that he would need the chakra for the upcoming battle so he nodded his head.

Naruto looked over to Tsunade who was looking at him curiously. While looking at her he bit his thumb and she gained a look of understanding as she did the same.

Orochimaru had seen what was coming and although he did not expect much from the boy, he did not want to risk being underprepared. He bit his own thumb ready for what was to come...

Naruto, Tsunade, and Orochimaru did their hand signs before slamming their hands on the ground as they shouted: "KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" Three massive puffs of smoke appeared at the brown snake that Orochimaru summoned before was flattened as the new summons came into view: Gamabunta the Toad boss, Katsuya the boss summon of the slugs, and Manda the boss summons of the snakes.

Naruto jumped off the toad boss and landed in between Gamabunta and Katsuya. "Ok, Ero-sennin and Baa-chan can deal with the snake now. But….."

Gamabunta looked to his left to see Katsuya and before glaring at the snake in front of him "Well, never thought I would see all three of us together again...I think I'm gonna cry."

Jiraiya chuckled at this "A little shocking to me as well but this is just a going away party. Let's make it one to remember."

Tsunade glared at the snake and his summons "Katsuya! This is a fight to the death, can I count on you?"

"Of course, Tsunade-sama"

Manda was not happy at being summoned as he always considered it to be a waste of his time "you've got a lot of nerve summoning me! You better have my sacrifices ready when this is over!"

"Kukuku you shall have two hundred sacrifices as I will be in a more generous mood once this battle is over as I shall be removing a few nuisances."

Shizune was awestruck at seeing the three-way deadlock of titans. "These three haven't been summoned together in years and now here they are, facing off against each other..."

"Oink oink oink!"

"Hey whats Naruto doing?" spoke Gamakichi as he pointed at Naruto who had not moved from in between the toad and slug summons.

Gamatatsu smiled as he waved "Oh. hey Naruto!"

Shizune looked down at the toads and pig and saw that they were gesturing to Naruto. She panicked as she saw him in the middle of the battle zone "Naruto-Kun!"

Naruto held up the tiger hand sign as he channeled his chakra. He lowered the hand sign until it was in front of his stomach. "Well, here goes nothing!" his hand glowed with red chakra as he slammed it on the ground causing a large poof of smoke to appear

The three Sanin looked on in curiosity at the new poof of smoke.

Jiraiya was intrigued at this "Wonder who he summoned. Gamaken or Gamahiro? Either one will help end this fight."

As the smoke cleared everyone was scared stiff

"RRRRROOOOAAAARRRRR" Nine red tails swung around, clearing the smoke and soon appeared the Kyuubi, in all its might and glory with Naruto standing on his head.

Naruto took a deep breath to try and relax "*gulp* Ok... glad that it worked."

"Whether it worked or not, we can't keep this up so we are going to end this quickly."

Naruto nodded as he already felt weak and was sweating a bit "Ok Rama-tou-chan." Taking another deep breath, he got ready.

Jiraiya was scared stiff at the sight of the Kyuubi so close to him. He would have told Gamabunta to jump away but he saw Naruto standing on the head to the Kyuubi and after he remembered that he was told that they have a good relationship, he calmed himself down a bit. He could feel Gamabunta tense up but he looked down at him "Easy Gamabunta, focus on the snake for now. I think the Kyuubi will be on our side for now."

"You must be out of your mind! You want me to work alongside that fox!?"

Kurama growled as he looked towards the toad "Right now you are not my enemy, so you will help my kit in finishing off this snake. After that, I don't want to fight alongside you again!"

Naruto sat down and patted his father on the head "Easy Tou-chan we don't have time for this so play nice…...please?"

Kurama grumbled as he focused back on the snake. 'Why does my kit have to be so damn persuasive?'

Tsunade was shocked at the sight in front of her. Here was the strongest of the bijuu and Naruto was standing on top of it like it was a normal summon and showing no fear whatsoever. What shocked her more was what she had heard him say 'Tou-chan? What does he mean tou-chan!?' She looked towards Orochimaru and could see not only shock but fear as well. From the distance, she was sure that he had not heard what Naruto said since she could barely hear it and she was much closer than Orochimaru was.

Before anything else could be said Kurama roared again and charged forward.

Orochimaru didn't even have to give a command as Manda had swerved out of the way of the claw coming down at him. He then wrapped around the fox's torso and went to bite on its head.

Kurama grabbed the snake's head stopping its advance and roared in its face before squeezing tight.

Getting out of their shock Gamabunta pulled out his blade and charged at Manda, he pulled back ready to swipe at the snake just above the Kyuubi's hand.

Out of the corner of his eye, Manda saw the incoming attack and moved his tail to swipe the toad off course.

Gamabunta took the hit but shifted his blade for an overhead strike

Manda knew that if he didn't do anything he would die, so he uncurled himself from the Kyuubi and maneuvered his body to avoid the overhead strike. Now he had to get out of the grip of the fox so he swung his tail at its head.

Kurama seeing this, turned his head and bit down on the tail hard.

Naruto took this chance to breathe out his demonic flame at the head of the snake.

Orochimaru jumped back a bit to avoid the flames and watched as the flames left a slight burn on the snake but it was superficial damage.

Kurama let the tail go and threw the snake away before breathing out his own flame at the snake.

Naruto gave a deadpan expression at seeing the size difference between his flame and Kurama's "...Show off." No, he was not pouting...!

Kurama smirk at this and looked to the flame. He saw the silhouette of the snake but once the flames parted he saw it was the snakeskin "Slippery little serpent...!" Looking down he saw the earth begin to rumble and something shoot out. Grabbing it he saw that it was the tail. For a second he smirked at seeing the bite holes he left behind but when he heard something burst from the ground behind him.

Manda went for another bite at the fox and felt that he had the chance of getting a strike in but he had to stop his attack as a spray of acid flew between him and the fox. Turning to look, he saw Katsuya readying another spray, but he was suddenly hit in the face by one of the fox's tails.

Katsuya waited until Manda was sent away from the Kyuubi before spraying another glob of acid.

Manda unable to fully dodge the acid was hit on the side "ARGH!"

Orochimaru felt that he was in the middle of a losing battle. He was not only facing against his two teammates but the damn Kyuubi as well! Seeing a shadow from above, he looked up and jumped away from Manda just in time to avoid Gamabunta landing on the snakes neck and thrusting his sword through Manda's mouth

Gamabunta jumped off the snake and landed next to Kyuubi and Katsuya.

Jiraiya looked to Naruto and the Kyuubi "Mind giving us some fire you two?"

Naruto nodded as Kurama grunted, "Don't think you can give me orders!"

Jiraiya chuckled as he looked down "Time for some oil Bunta!"

"You got it!" Gamabunta began to inflate and prepare to fire.

Naruto looked down at Kurama "*pant pant* *wheeze* O-one last attack tou-chan..." He began to channel chakra into his throat and took a deep breath.

"Good cause you can't handle any more." Kurama took a deep breath of his own and waited for a second.

On an unspoken command, all three launched their attack. Gamabunta spewing out toad oil, Kurama breathing out his demonic flame along with Naruto's. Once the three connected it was like all sound had disappeared and suddenly a massive wall of flame appeared and exploded as it flew towards Manda.

Everyone covered their eyes at the brightness of the fire.

Once the attack was done, a massive trench was the only thing left along with some scattered fires and Gamabunta's sword that was glowing from the heat.

Jiraiya noticed the lack of ashes or any sign of Manda "He must have gone back to his own realm before the attack hit." looking around he also noticed that Orochimaru was nowhere to be seen, along with Kabuto's body "Damn it! He got away..."

Shizune, Tonton, Gamakichi, and Gamatatsu were stunned at the battle they had just witnessed.

Naruto was wobbling on top of Kurama's head "Tou…..chan…..I don't think I can handle…...anymore."

Kurama grew extremely worried as he lowered his head to the ground and picked up his kit with his hand and put him on the ground "Stay strong kit." and with that, Kurama disappeared back into Naruto.

Naruto felt slightly better now that Kurama was back in him but he still felt extremely tired.

Tsunade jumped off Katsuya and went over to Naruto. She pressed her head to his chest and was thankful to hear a heartbeat, albeit a little slow. She channeled medical chakra into her palms and became to work on healing him.

Shizune slowly made her way to the two as she was still stunned at what happened.

Jiraiya made his way to them as Gamabunta was looking at his sword and thinking of a way to cool it down. Once Jiraiya made it to them he got a glare from Tsunade and he put his hands up in surrender.

"You better start talking!"

Jiraiya felt like he might die if he doesn't answer soon but knew that it would need to wait until later "W-we can talk once we get back to town!"

End of chapter

Now before anyone says anything this does not mean that Naruto is getting a fox summons as a secondary. He just pulled Kurama out to fight. I WILL explain how in a later chapter but for those who have seen the show and movies, you should know that this was possible to do as it was done before

I need to address a few reviewers

Guest (Tarask): that would have been a very good summon for her as I could see her use it. However, in an earlier chapter, I have given Ino a phobia of swarms in general and what gave her that phobia was a beehive. So, unfortunately, she would not be able to use it at all and would avoid summoning them, although I think it would be cool to see Ino ride into battle on a massive Bee….give me some time and I might do that…..maybe. It sounds amazing

Redan01: although I am the master of this fic( :P ) I won't be doing that as it would be kinda out of nowhere. Interesting Idea though

Dragon man 180: yes they don't. Right NOW they don't.

SkylerHollow: I had the flaw already in my head for its usage on other people. I understood that without it, it would be so op and not considered a basic jutsu. You can kinda see hints of the flaw in earlier chapters like with Zabuza. Why else would it take a while for him to use it on the nin if it was an easy switch? I just never got the chance to really explain my thoughts without spoilers.

Now for the summons for Ino and Hinata. I have had MANY suggestions on what they should get and damn me cause I can picture them all in my head. Hinata has a lot of large feline summons, which makes sense since later in life she gets chakra lion strikes, and a few random ones. Ino has a bunch of insect summons, a plant one and interestingly a couple of boar requests. So I must make a poll cause I honestly can't decide this poll will also have the choice for Naruto's secondary summon (already have an idea on how they get the scroll so I just need the animal). By the time you read this part…..the poll will already be up on my profile. Please select ONE for each (maximum 3) and if you have any more suggestions for Naruto let me know and I will add it as soon as I read the review (most likely).

Please read, favorite, follow and review…...and VOTE