- Naruto Chronicles Rewrite

Chapter 16

Gozu vs. Naruto

Author's notes: Thanks to all those who reviewed. Hope everyone is enjoying the story thus far.

Hinata woke up a few minutes later, realizing she was bound and in trouble she started to work the ropes around her wrists. She shot chakra out of her fingers, sharpening it and cutting through the rope. She kicked off of the man driving him into the ground and jumping back.

The man got up and grinned, "Good, I was hoping for a little fight from you."

Hinata grimaced, the man was nasty, very creepy. She got into her fighting stance and the man charged her with a giant metal claw on his hand. She dodged the first couple attacks, but when she tried to counter he slashed at her, she backed away but the claw still grazed her arm. Jumped back and grabbed her arm, gasping. The cut hurt more than it should.

"W-what is on those claws?" Hinata asked the man grimacing.

The man laughed, "My name is Gozu, my brother and I are the Demon Brothers of the bloody mist, we use our own poisons to take down our targets, and right now it will course through your body. You will feel blinding pain and your body will start to slow down. Eventually it will cause you temporary paralysis."

Hinata grimaced, her arm was already on fire, she charged the man, but she was being far more reckless, she had to finish this before she could no longer move. She threw palm strike after palm strike but he only punished her. Her next palm strike was an over extension, he grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him, firing his knee into her abdomen. He then punched her in the face. She stumbled and fell to the ground. He kicked her in the ribs, and launched her into a tree.

Hinata hit the tree hard and slid down, she was in a considerable amount of pain, her arm and into her chest was hurting from the poison now she had a couple broken ribs. Now, she groaned trying to get up, Gozu grinned and walked towards her. She finally got to her feet for him to grab her and throw her into a tree, when she hit the tree she rebounded right into the kunai he threw at her. The kunai hit her one in each shoulder pinning her to the tree as she screamed in agony. The poison flowing through her even more freely now.

Gozu grinned and cast a genjutsu over her so he could continue taking her to the cloud.

Hinata gasped as everything changed around her, she screamed again as a blade slid into her stomach. This continued in the genjutsu, her body becoming more and more paralyzed she was unable to exit the genjutsu.

Naruto was pissed, Janshi was strong, Hinata was getting further and further away, he could not let this happen, he brought his hand up and yelled, "Kai" his weight seals immediately disappearing and his body felt weightless. He then started to pump an incredible amount of chakra into his muscles in his legs and arms. Naruto disappeared from sigh. He crashed into Janshi, but the man blocked and laughed at him, "Is that all you got?"

Naruto jumped back and yelled into his mindscape, "Kurama, Now!"

Kurama nodded and pumped her chakra into Naruto, "This is going to tear you to pieces your body isn't going to be able to take this very long. Your body is not ready for this."

Naruto's chakra output skyrocketed again as he pushed the 9 tails chakra into his body. He rushed Janshi smashing his foot into the man's head. He grabbed the man and threw him into a tree. Naruto was on top of the man again and then punching him multiple times, he broke the man's ribs.

"Naruto leave him he is done, go after Hinata." Kakashi yelled out.

Naruto nodded, "Okay, I will, I don't have much left in the tank, I will most likely need your help. I will stall him."

Naruto took off in a blur, pumping chakra into his muscles trying to catch up with Gozu.

He finally got to the clearing, he saw Hinata Naked, pinned to a tree, her body was beat to hell. Suddenly he saw a Kunai thrown at her hard. The kunai hit her square in the head. Naruto's eyes went wide, he thought she was dead. Blood rolled down her forehead as she slumped over lifelessly.

"Hinata!" Naruto screamed. Tears running down his face. He stared at her as she stared down at the ground lifelessly.

"Naruto!" Kurama screamed, "It's a genjutsu, snap out of it."

Naruto shook his head, "KAI" but it didn't work, he watched as Hinata was skewered with more kunai.

Kurama sent out her own chakra pulsing it into Naruto's body. Unfortunately that cut off her chakra going into his body.

Naruto broke out of the genjutsu but he was already exhausted, now without Kurama's chakra flowing into him, his tank was on empty. He sighed as he saw Hinata was no longer dead. She was not in great shape, but it was much better than she was in the vision. She was pinned to a tree by kunai and was in some kind of genjutsu. Naruto looked around and found Gozu.

The blond shinobi jumped down in front of Hinata, he checked her vitals and sent a small pulse of chakra into her, bringing her out of the genjutsu. She opened her eyes, grimaced in pain, but relief washed over her when she saw Naruto, she passed out from the pain before they could start fighting.

Naruto was breathing heavy, Gozu attacked and Naruto dodged his strike, being very weary of his opponent's claw, he could smell the poison coming off of the man's weapons. Naruto took out his Katana blocking the swipes and pushing them away. Naruto was breathing hard though.

Gozu jumped back and went through hand signs, "Fire style: Great abyssal flare jutsu" He shot out a purple flame from his hand streaming at Naruto, it expanded and flew at Naruto.

Naruto cursed, that was an A rank jutsu, he did not have a chance to escape this, he threw his arms up in front of his face and cast out chakra from his arms trying to block as much as he could of the jutsu. The flare hit him and blasted him back. He fell to a knee his entire body sporting burns.

"Fuck that hurt." The blonde stated as he stood shakily. Gozu charged him he blocked the first punch, but was too slow to stop the claw that plunged into his stomach. He coughed up blood but Gozu was not done, he ripped the claw out and kicked Naruto into a tree. Naruto slammed into the tree and dropped to his knees. He coughed up more blood and stood. Wiping the blood off of his chin with his sleeve. His sword had been disintegrated in the attack. Naruto made a note to himself that if he lived to learn that jutsu, it was badass.

He swore, he didn't know how much longer he could keep this up, he was slowing with this poison running through his body, add in the wounds and he was in deep shit.

He still stood waiting for the demon brother, standing in front of Hinata, making sure she would not be hurt any more. He would protect her with his life.

Gozu charged at him throwing a right punch, Naruto swept it to the side, but Gozu dipped into a leg sweep and knocked Naruto to the ground, before Naruto could do anything, Gozu stomped on his chest. Naruto cried out in pain, at this point too weak to get the man off of him, but he struggled anyways. Gozu just laughed as he continued to crush the boy under his foot. Naruto felt several ribs crack and he was again sent into agony.

Naruto let go of the man's foot reached back and pulled his tanto out, he stabbed it into the man's ankle and twisted it. Naruto pushed it up as well. Gozu screamed in pain and yanked away. Naruto's tanto snapped from the handle. Naruto weakly stood up as Gozu drew a sword.

Naruto grimaced, he was going to take a loss here, this was going to hurt a lot, but it was the only way he could win, possibly live and save Hinata. Naruto charged with everything he had left. Gozu stabbed at him and Naruto let the blade slide into his stomach, giving Gozu a determined look. Gozu was terrified, he started twisting the blade, but Naruto grabbed his throat and released a pulse of chakra into his gauntlets. One blade shot out into Gozu's throat and up into his head, the other into his heart.

Gozu died within seconds, Naruto watched as the life left Gozu's eyes. Gozu fell away from Naruto taking his sword with him. Naruto dropped to a knee again, coughing up blood. He stood again, limping over to Hinata. He leaned against the tree and pulled the kunai out of her shoulders, he let her fall into his arms, he lowered her to the ground gently before coughing up more blood and falling over next to her. He tried to get up but it was no use. Naruto passed out thinking to himself, "I can't go on, too much damage to my body, it is shutting down, hopefully back up will get here soon and save Hinata and myself. I have to place my trust in Kakashi to beat Zabuza.

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What will happen to Naruto? And Hinata? Will she still be there when Kakashi can get there to help. Next chapter will be Zabuza vs Kakashi, and Anko vs Haku, and Shikamaru vs the last demon brother. Thank you all for your continued support