Strength, Power and Victory

Naruto/Temari fic

Darksider82

"Speech and Jutsu"

"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"

XVII

"KATON: RYUKA NO JUTSU!" Executed Sasuke expelling a dragon head of flame at his sensei. Kakashi swiftly replaced himself with a log which combusted into charcoal.

Sasuke, jumped to his feet and he took off. His path was clear if his teacher wasn't going to help him get strong enough to defeat Him, then he'd find someone else. His eyes bled red and the dreaded tomoe emerged. He landed on a building when his Sharingan alerted him to four concealed signatures.

"Come out…I can see you."

The four reluctantly came out of the shadows. Sasuke observed them. One of them looked like an Akimichi, another had an ungodly growth growing out of its back and another had six arms and the other was the most human looking alongside the fat one "Who are you?"

"Tayuya of the Sound Ninja Four, of the North Gate. Got a problem with that you lump of shit?" Stated girl.

"That wasn't a womanly thing to say Tayuya. I'm Jirobo of the same, of the South Gate."

"All right love birds. This isn't a romance game. Kidomaru, of the same, the East Gate." Stated the six armed teen.

"I'm Sakon of the same and the West Gate. Now we'll inform you on the way but we need to hurry Lord Sasuke. Your reckless attack on your teacher will lead to some unpredicted factors."

Sasuke nodded "What do you want with me?"

"Orochimaru-Sama has offered to train you. He can give you power and training unlike any other. All you need to do is cut ties with this village, activate your curse seal and we shall take it from there." Explained Jirobo.

Sasuke smirked "Let's go." With that the flame like markings erupted across his face and with that he took off running towards the gates with the Sound Four following.

Naruto had a bottle of sake and was sitting with Jiraiya and Hari on top of the Hokage Tower. Right now the young Chunin was spilling his guts about Temari. "That Naruto-chan, is what is called a crush." Hari said as he pulled on the bottle and handed to the blonde.

"The first is always the weirdest. Some people think that the first crush IS the one. Don't worry about it. My first one happened to be a spy."

Jiraiya turned curiously "How'd that go?"

"Rather fulfilling interrogation, loud and exhausting." Naruto shook his head and Jiraiya chuckled a belly rolling laugh. They saw five people running across the rooftops, Jiraiya pulled out his spyglass, went to have a look through and shrugged. "Probably Genin on rotation practising late night travelling and en route for outcropping duty."

Little did he know that if he had looked would have spared a lot of chasing around, Naruto got up, swayed slightly before utilising the shunshin he vanished. "He does know not to drink and shunshin?"

Jiraiya smirked "If he doesn't he will soon."

(Next morning)

Tsunade was attacking the massive pile of paperwork, half tempted to open a bottle of Sake when her door slammed open when three Shinobi entered.

"Yes?"

Two of them were Kotetsu and Izumo, Gate Guards of the Northern Gate of Konoha and members of the T&I department. "Uchiha Sasuke and four unknown Shinobi were seen leaving the village. Hattori Hana and Hunter tried to apprehend them but the four unknown quickly revealed themselves to be Jonin-level opponents.

Tsunade nodded "Kakashi?"

Kakashi looked rather sheepish "I took Uchiha Sasuke out of solitary. We began to talk and then he launched an impressive salvo of Katon at me. I had to replace myself several times and then took a circuitous route to catch up with him. I then saw him with these shinobi as described by my two colleagues. However, I saw their headbands Oto. I am…"

"Denied. Kakashi, I need you to do this SS-ranked mission. Here's the scroll, Team Inu will brief you. I need you set off now. Rest assured I will send whoever I can after them."

Kakashi nodded "Tora…Get me…Nara Shikamaru and Uzumaki Naruto. B-rank mission."

Naruto woke in his toilet. He was still dressed, his skin was clammy and he felt shaky. He remembered drinking rather heavily, thankfully the malevolent chakra entity in his gut who was pleased with his process was clearing up the toxins. It was one of the many side benefits of making this deal.

"You are my representative in the world. You are me. I am you. The stronger you are, the stronger I am. DO NOT FAIL ME." The Kyuubi rumbled deep within his mind set.

There was a knocking on his door and Naruto, fresh from a shower wearing boxers and grabbing a kunai, opened it. He stopped it was one of the ANBU "Hokage-Sama needs you in her office as soon as possible."

Naruto nodded and was flying out of his apartment black trousers on, a clone shoving a shirt over the original's head with another with the flak vest and another with his kit. The ANBU snapped a picture of Naruto running into his door and falling over the railing onto the street below. This would earn him drinks in the department, the Prankster getting caught off guard.

Naruto staggered ungracefully into Tsunade's office, hair still damp and looking utterly dishevelled "Uzumaki Naruto, reporting for duty." He called snapping to attention. Tsunade set him at ease.

"Late yesterday, Uchiha Sasuke left the village with persons unknown. Highly skilled, very dangerous and have already killed three of our own and brutally wounded two more. Utilising all of the Genin at your disposal you are to retrieve Uchiha Sasuke."

Shikamaru nodded "Naruto, I'll gather our squad."

Naruto nodded and he turned to Tsunade "This is going to be messy…Are there limitations to how this is to be done?"

Tsunade looked at him "If Sasuke Uchiha is not going to come back willingly, consider him a nuke-nin. Uzumaki Naruto, destroy his eyes."

Naruto nodded. He had his orders, now to find his team. He met up with three of his clones, one of which had oiled and sharpened his specialist blades, kunai, shuriken, two tanto and his stack of bomb tags, paper bombs and various smoke bombs and variant. Another had brought him an immediate bag of reserve shinobi kit.

He and Kiba were the last two to arrive "You're late."

"I'm on time…Anyway, I needed to get kitted for the fight ahead."

Shikamaru nodded "Okay. Gear assessment and then we'll brief you."

"We're working as a rescue team. Kiba and Akamaru are on point. I'm second so I can give orders more effectively when things go side ways. Naruto, you're the middle and of equal rank, plus you have the Kage-bunshin and other tricks up your sleeves making you the important middle man. Choji is behind you, as he's slowest but probably delivers some of the strongest hits in this team and finally, you Neji, with your Byakugan you can ensure no weaknesses appear but you're the rear lookout."

Everyone nodded "Our gear?" The amount of kunai, shuriken and ninja wire everyone was packing was enough to comfortably start a war. Naruto presented his blades and began to speak.

"This is a B-Rank mission with a very, very high chance of escalating further. I can't guarantee reinforcements but Godaime-Sama has informed us that should we have a chance to stop Uchiha Sasuke from reaching Otogakure and Orochimaru by killing him, you are authorised to take that shot."

Everyone gulped this would be the scariest mission yet.

Meanwhile up ahead Sasuke had been shoved screaming into a barrel carved with elaborate fuuinjutsu, the clock was ticking very much in Orochimaru's favour.