Strength, Power and Victory
Naruto/Temari fic
Darksider82
"Speech and Jutsu"
"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"
XV
Orochimaru cocked his head and looked at his subordinate "What do you mean?"
"The jutsu you thought she was going to do wasn't going to repair your arms. It was going to kill you…It's a medical-nin sensor trick."
Orochimaru nodded and jumped backwards "So, you've chosen the pathetic village then?"
Tsunade snarled and launched out with a salvo of crater forming punches. "Terrifying strength…yup…Definitely single." Kabuto thought as he saw craters appear just where he had been standing.
Soon enough the fight spilled to the outskirts of the town. Orochimaru smirked as Kabuto rushed for the kill only for red smoke to explode in front of him.
Kabuto fell back coughing "What…was…that."
"Ghost Pepper, Cayenne Chill Powder and Garlic smoke bomb." Naruto said grinning demonically at Kabuto.
"Tsunade, help Jiraiya…This one is mine." With that two blades appeared in his hands.
Kabuto pushed his glasses up "Uzumaki Naruto, not really worth my time."
Naruto smiled coldly "We'll see, traitor." With that he rushed forwards and the distinctive howl of chakra conductive blades being coated in chakra reached Kabuto's ears.
It was Kabuto's experience of being a shinobi that prevented him from becoming parted from his hands. Orochimaru's eyes widened at the use of wind chakra and the near severing of his second in command and healers hand.
Naruto holstered his blades "Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" A torrent of fire roared out of Naruto's mouth.
Kabuto rushed forwards his scalpels and with a firm tap, caught Naruto underneath his sternum. Naruto stopped, coughed up blood and sank to his knees.
Shizune's eyes widened, Tsunade's eyes widened and her body went into shock. One of her shinobi was bleeding, almost definitely fatally and here she was at the mercy of her haemophobia. "Shizune, get him stable. I'll deal with the pest. Jiraiya, take out Orochimaru."
Shizune set to providing battle field first aid to the downed Blonde. Jiraiya rushed forwards, his reactions quickening by the moment but he wasn't moving at the speed, the Sannin were known for fighting at.
Orochimaru lazily dodged, ducked, dipped, dived and weaved around Jiriaya's sluggish but powerful, taijutsu attacks. Orochimaru snarled to himself, if sensei hadn't sealed off his arms then this would have been over quickly.
Kabuto jumped back to Orochimaru, hand going to his mouth. This was followed by the sound of skin being broken and blood being drawn, Kabuto's blood ran over an intricate summoning tattoo on Orochimaru's, purple going blackened arms causing the Snake Sannin to whimper slightly.
"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" Called Orochimaru.
"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" Grunted Jiraiya, he could feel the toad oil in his stomach slowly breaking down the poison that had thrown his chakra control of out whack.
"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" Yelled Tsunade.
Thick plumes of smoke rolled across the field. Shizune, just patched Naruto to stability when the blonde woke up "Wait…" The next aide to the Hokage was about to finish when Naruto slammed his right fist into his left hand and a red shroud enveloped him.
"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" Thundered Naruto.
Orochimaru watched with a raised eyebrow as Naruto Namikaze, he wasn't stupid. It was the worst kept secret in Konoha, aside from Uchiha Itachi sleeping with one of the Daimyo's granddaughters. He, Orochimaru, had made it so for the Uchiha Heir.
Rogue-ninja, yes. Sadistic, definitely so, Jutsu obsesses, definitely. Orochimaru would admit to all of those things but aside from that, he was always up for a laugh at other people's expense. Besides, the young Uchiha needed other things on his record if he was going to infiltrate people like the Akatsuki.
Orochimaru, didn't like the red cloud robed maniacs thank you very much. He had joined them as a means to an end, he wanted to rule Konoha as Kage; nothing would stop him from doing that. He also wanted to live forever, and in some narcissistic way, Orochimaru believed himself to be a shinobi of Konoha; definitely not one of Konoha now but a future Konoha…he'd make sure of it. If anything came between him and that goal, he would defend Konoha.
Orochimaru licked his lips "Let it begin." The cloud near Jiraiya had cleared revealing a small bright orange toad.
"It seems Tsunade's work did a number on you Jiraiya." Cackled Orochimaru.
Naruto looked down, his use of yokai and chakra had resulted in a double summoning. A pale yellow toad and thankfully a massive gargantuan magenta toad "Hey, Niisan can we play?" Asked Gamatatsu.
Naruto sighed "Not now Tatsu…I kinda need the boss."
"What is it kid? Where's Gamakichi? He disappeared when he should have been training." Rumbled the Chief Toad, smoking his pipe.
"I don't know. I…Jiraiya…He was poisoned, tried to summon you…but the cranky bat drugged him…Kichi, he's over by that giant ass purple snake." Pointed Naruto.
Gamabunta looked and his eyes narrowed "Manda and Katsuyu…" With a mighty leap, Gamabunta jumped into the air. A chakra shrouded Naruto clinging on and with a mighty crash, the toad landed, planting himself firmly in front of Jiraiya, who was in turn, in front of Gamakichi.
The Sannin and young Toad jumped onto Gamabunta, with Gamakichi and Tatsu standing on Naruto's chakra shrouded shoulders "Manda, Katsuyu…long time."
"Lord Gamabunta, Lord Manda." Replied Katsuyu courteously.
"Jerky, Slug bitch." Hissed Manda "…Orochimaru, I told you to never summon me unless you had tribute."
"Oh, but Manda wouldn't the summoners of the other two Great Contracts be tribute enough and the summons themselves."
Soon enough Jiraiya stood up, and his chakra began to pulse. He was evidently clean of the poison Tsunade had placed on him. "Let's do this." Jiraiya commented.
"Toad Oil Bullet!" Rumbled Gamabunta as he exhaled a tremendous amount of oil.
"FIRE STYLE: FLAME BOMB!" Thundered Jiraiya as his stomach bulged and he vomited a massive fire orb.
Naruto, Gamakichi and Gamatatsu smirked, they were going to mix this up.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Called Naruto and a second clone materialised.
"TOAD OIL BULLET!" Shouted the twin sons of the Toad boss. The older summon and summoner were impressed as the oil combusted intensifying the already projecting flame attack.
"FIRE STYLE: GREAT FIRE ATTACK!" Shouted the clone exhaling the classic fireball jutsu as a flamethrower.
"WIND STYLE: WIND TUNNEL!" Naruto concentrated on the swirling rotation of the Rasengan, only except he was converting his chakra into wind chakra, he cupped his hands and then stepped forwards thrusting the twisting, thrashing and vicious cyclone of chakra forwards.
The wind and fire attack amplified, it caught the newly nicknamed 'Fire Style: Multi Toad Oil Bomb' jutsu, tore into it and turned it into a spiral of fragmenting tornado of fire bombs.
"Collaboration Jutsu: Toad Oil Peacock!"
Manda, Orochimaru and Kabuto had next to no chance as the attacks landed on them and they were engulfed in the inferno.
The flames died down, only to reveal two crisp outlines. One of Orochimaru and the other of the Manda "SNAKESHEDDIN! BODYSHEDDING!" Shouted Jiraiya and Gamabunta, both in disgust and revulsion. They leapt clear as Orochimaru and Manda erupted from the earth beneath them.
Kabuto meanwhile had managed to replace himself far outside the range of the technique, if the charcoaled remains of a dozen logs were any indication.
Naruto jumped off, kicked of Manda and hit the ground with a roll, coming to feet as Kabuto rushed at him. Shizune, who had been supporting her teacher and friend, charged in. The wide sleeve of her dress peeling back as she discharged eighteen senbon needles in Kabuto's direction, shortly followed up by a purple, fast flowing and slow dissipating gas.
Kabuto dodged back, as he posed to get his breath back he ate two food pills and a chakra pill. He stiffened as the immediate crap tasting food pills dissolved the moment they hit his stomach and the chakra pill exploded with the sensation of a Ghost Pepper.
Chakra pills were disgusting. Food pills weren't much better. The pair of them together, everyone was greatful for the fast action but despised the after taste due to the fact they were the one thing in all shinobi ration packs that were edible by all dieters.
There were a few shinobi, aka Anko who ate them continuously and used her ration packs for when she had over compensated on dango and sake…which was often.
Naruto charged through the smoke, shroud forsaken and in his hand was glowing orb of chakra "RASENGAN!"
Kabuto's eyes widened, the air was driven from his lungs as the orb of chakra slammed into his gut sending him backwards and through a pile of rock.
As Kabuto hit the rock, Manda vanished, shortly followed by the other summons. Manda, it looked like had at some point had Gamabunta's sword driven through both the upper and lower jaw. Orochimaru, watched slightly fretful but let out a small sigh as Kabuto got up.
"Impressive, attack Naruto-kun. If I hadn't consumed those pills then that attack would certainly have killed me…Anyway, I must go. I have a feeling we'll be seeing each other very, very soon."
With that the two nuke-nin vanished in a body flicker technique. Naruto sheathed his blades "Next time…I'm walking away, that much I am certain."
Jiraiya, Shizune and Naruto turned to Tsunade. Naruto stood at attention, Jiraiya slouched by his team mates side and Shizune stiffened "Genin Uzumaki, at ease…I, Senju Tsunade accept the position of Godaime Hokage and swear to uphold all the laws and treaties of Konohagakure no Sato and Hi no Kuni to the best of my abilities…Now, we must head back as soon as possible but not too strenuously."
It took just over three days at a decent speed to head back to Konoha. All the while, Naruto learnt little tricks from Jiraiya and Tsunade; mainly from Jiraiya they were ways on how to improve seal speed and how to try and mask his chakra usage for a jutsu, Jiraiya had worked with Uchiha and this technique worked more often than not.
Temari was waiting at the gates as Jiraiya, Naruto, Shizune and Tsunade checked in "Mission successful?"
"Not yet fully debriefed…I'll see you in a bit. If not probably because they want to rake my bollocks over not bringing back any of Konoha's traitors."
"You're a genin." Temari stated.
"They're cunts…Plus they don't like me." Naruto responded, he then fell into step beside Jiraiya and they headed up to the Hokage's tower. In the tower were the three elders of the village, the hang overs from the two reigns of the Sandaime and the Yondaime.
Tsunade felt the tension rise as Naruto entered "Genin Uzumaki, report the Jiraiya for debriefing within three days." Naruto bowed deeply to the Hokage, nodded to the elders and walked out deliberately doing it in such away that it offended the elder's sensibilities of protocol but adhering to respect of a commanding officer.
Naruto headed back to the Front Gate, where Temari was waiting with surprisingly Team 8 of all teams "How'd the mission go?"
Naruto grinned "Okay. Went to shit slightly, thankfully my arse got pulled out the situation alright. Got to see a Sannin showdown and we got a knew Kage. So can't complain. You finished?"
Kiba shrugged "We're here as her escort, parole terms not been accepted. Being a Kage-less state puts dampener on the proceedings." Kiba said.
Naruto nodded "What's the plan Shino?"
"We were planning to test her capabilities in one on one fights against us, Naruto-san. Would care to accompany us?" Asked the quiet Aburame.
Naruto nodded "That would be a pleasure and an honour. Especially if Temari-san, agrees. I mean she is after all…"
"Daughter of a Kage, and deserves the respect of that station." Shino replied before turning to her.
Temari nodded. Inside she was grinning, being a prisoner was annoying but it had it upsides especially when her guards were her age. It made her feel less like a prisoner and more of an honoured guest.
Kankuro was enjoying a similar treatment. He had found himself at home, working in the lumber yard with various genin teams, giving the timber merchant shinobi advice on good timber and wood for puppetry, carpentry, flooring etc. It was nothing to do with village secrets or secrets of the corps but rather identifying the would most suitable for shinobi and civilians.
So, life in Konoha went along smoothly if what somewhat sporadic as the new Chunin hopefuls entered into the rotation.