REWRITTEN
(Tsunami's household.)
"God damn you traitor!" Shouted the smallest of the men who were to come and take away Kaiza. He was in the kitchen of the house tied to an unconscious large man. The final of the three just leaned against the counter and gave them a sympathetic look.
"Sorry, I just feel that Gatou is going to ruin the country if we help him." He said, pushing his glasses up.
The man tied up laughed, "You've never worked for Gatou then, he tries to gain the wealth of the economy and use it for himself." Greed was evident on his face; "He shares this with all of us! Hell, since I have been working for him, getting food has never been a problem. Just a murder here and there is all it takes!"
A Kunai appeared right next to his neck, "Oh really. I think you wouldn't mind leading us to his hideout, would you?" Kakashi asked, glaring at the man.
"Screw you! If you were sent for-." Kakashi quickly hit him against the neck, knocking him out instantly.
He looked up at the one wearing glasses and stated, "If you're really helping for our cause, I am guessing you wouldn't mind leading us to his base of operations?"
"I wouldn't mind. You can call me Nikku by the way." He readjusted his black coat, attempting to look somewhat formal in front of someone so powerful.
Kakashi nodded, "Well since we have our lead, we just need to wait for my three students to get here with our client."
Tsunami and Tazuna were both in the living room, trying to avoid as much of this as possible. They did not want to be involved in something large that could possibly cause them their lives.
"Is anyone home?" A young voice shouted from the entrance from the house.
Tsunami instantly got up, "That's Inari!" She quickly ran her way and hugged the child when he came into view. She held him tightly, and then asked, "Is Kaiza with you?"
"No," He said, "He told me to go ahead of him. He was with this really weird kid that was a ninja like him who could climb trees and do all kinds of neat tricks!"
"That must be Sasuke." Kakashi said as he came in, "He went to scout around the area so he could get to know the terrain. I guess he ran into Kaiza while he was doing it."
Tsunami kneeled down to the child and asked, "Is there a reason he told you to go ahead of him Inari?"
"Not that I know of," Seeing the worry in her face he quickly began to realize something bad must of happened, "What is going on? Is he hurt?"
"Nope!" Another voice said, coming in from outside. Kaiza walked in looking in pretty good shape, besides the scratch marks and small bruises from the fight he had been in. "I'm fine. I wouldn't be if it weren't for these kids though." He pointed him thumb back towards the children behind him.
"Hey!" Naruto said giving a short wave, a grin pasted on his face.
"No problem." Sakura gave him a kind smile.
Sasuke simply grunted in response.
Kakashi nodded, "That's good. I am glad we were able to save you in a fast manner."
Once everyone was done greeting each other, Kakashi pulled aside Kaiza, Nikku, and his three students outside to begin to discuss the mission at hand. They wandered quite a little way from the house, so the family would not hear anything that was to be said.
"Sakura, put up a jutsu so no sounds will leave within this area, then put up a genjutsu so no one will be able to see us here." Kakashi ordered.
Sakura didn't question him at all – now was not the time to act her physical age. She knew that the situation at hand had just become much more serious than it had been that entire day.
"Kaiza, I understand from your mission that you want us to lead an assassination on a man called Gatou. This is easily within our reach, but we needed to converse with you before the mission began, and we needed a lead to where he was actually located. We have the lead, so all we need to do is gain details from you." Kakashi explained.
Kaiza nodded showing his understand of the situation, "I see. You have the mission correct." He looked down, a look of dismay on his face, "I don't usually use murder to get things on the better path, but this seems to be the only way to save this country. I haven't killed anyone since-"
His eyes got a far off look.
"Kaiza?" Naruto asked, quickly snapping the man out of it.
"Let's just say It's the reason I am not a ninja anymore…"
Everyone nodded, noting that he didn't want to discuss it further.
"Well." Sasuke sighed, "When we were attacked by Gatou's men, most of them were easily genin level thugs. Naruto, Sakura, and I were able to take out all of them. Only one managed to escape, and it's because of this that getting into Gatou's base will not be as easy as originally planned. He happened to be the strongest of all the guys, so if Gatou sees him crawling back, he'll definitely hire some much more powerful people to do work for him."
"That may prove to be quite the problem." Kakashi sighed.
(Gatou's base)
A fair distance from the village Gatou was planning to take out was a large building. It was about eleven stories tall, and was surrounded by many people working for the man inside. It was recently built, so security had to be tight around it. There was no wall or gate surrounding it, and most of the floors had not been outfitted yet.
Out of all the floors, Gatou resided on the top. A large window was in front of him so he could see the whole country. There was a large chair against the wall opposite of the window, and another door in the room leading to his grand bedroom. The room was decorated with many things that people would die for. Only three men resided in the room with him, his two bodyguards on either side of the chair, and one guarding the only door leading into the room.
Suddenly the door was roughly opened, and the ninja from the forest fighting the three children barged in.
"Gatou sir…" He walked over and kneeled in front of the chair where Gatou sat.
Gatou was a short man, but the ninja in front of him learned not to underestimate people smaller than him. Gatou also wore a black business suit, and some fancy looking glasses. He held a cane in one hand, and had a very displeased look on his face.
"Why is Kaiza not with you?" Gatou asked immediately.
"He hired protection it seems." The man coughed, "he knew you were going to try to kill him, I think he wants you to be the one to go down."
Gatou nodded, processing the information, "I figured the man would do this. Who are his protectors?"
"They were really powerful ninja, if they could even beat me-"
"I asked WHO THEY ARE!" Gatou repeated, definitely not in a joking mood.
The ninja looked down, "Three children, all of them were easily high chunin or low jounin rank. They took out my whole force within minutes."
"It looks like we'll have to up our defenses." Gatou mused, he looked down at the ninja and spat, "Did I say we'll? I meant to say me and the new leader of my forces."
"What!?" The man shot up from the ground, but was hit against the wall from a different force, he felt himself losing consciousness. "Who is this?"
Gatou smiled, "Your death."
The new comer quickly swung his large sword down upon the man, ending his life that moment. Once he pull the sword out he asked, "What do you want me to do?"
"Well, Kisame, I believe our friends will attack tonight, figuring they know that I know they're here now. You need to be up here with me, and if by chance, these three kids break through my forces, they'll die when they get in here to face my guards and you."
Kisame looked up, his shark like teeth curved into a sadistic smile, "Sounds like fun."
"After this assignment, you can head off to join that organization you wanted to go to." Gatou said, waving his hand in dismissal.
"Yes. This will be the last easy mission I take before I join Akatsuki." Kisame said as he looked out across the land.
(Forest near Tsunami's house)
"Nikku. Please, tell us the layout of the base of Gatou." Kakashi asked, giving the man a kunai and kneeling down towards a patch of dirt. Nikku got the idea quickly.
"Well," He kneeled down and began to draw a map, "The building was just recently completed, and he hasn't had time to build any defenses outside of it luckily. Unfortunately, to make up for that he has many people surrounding the area of the building. Again though, he does send most of his new recruits to do this. His men will get tougher and tougher as you advance further up in the building."
"Coward." Naruto sighed, anger easily detectable in his voice.
Sakura quickly grabbed his hand, calming him down. He gave her a small grin before returning to the conversation.
"Anyway, the building is eleven stories tall, and I know he is on the top of the place. I think if I took you guys there, I could convince the new recruits outside that you work for us, but after that the more veteran people will notice something, and we'll have to fight our way up." Nikku concluded.
Sakura grabbed the kunai, "from the looks of it, we could easily climb the building and get to the top without fighting many of the guards, but that could pose only one problem. If we're spotted we'll have a lot of people waiting for us at the top, if we simply fought from the bottom up we could wipe out a floor before another is warned of the danger. However, the floors could have video cameras in them."
"The place was recently built," Naruto popped in, "If I remember Gatou at all, I know he cares more about his luxuries before the men working for him. He probably hasn't set up a decent security system yet."
Kaiza looked up from the map, "You know this guy?"
"You could say that." Naruto said, he shook his head before certain memories could enter it.
"Classified information." Sasuke decided to say.
Kakashi sighed, "Attacking tomorrow morning would be the best for us, considering Gatou wouldn't expect it at all."
"No." Sakura simply said, "If we don't attack tonight he'll send people to come out at us. By then they'll be organized and may actually pose as a problem for us. Tonight however, his men aren't fully alert for us yet, so we can have a somewhat successful surprise attack."
Kakashi wanted to argue with the girl, but knew she was right. "Ok. Kaiza you head home to your family, us five will do this by ourselves."
"No! I want to help." Kaiza said walking up to them, "I made a mistake as a ninja in the past, but tonight if I may become a ninja one last time, I can amend my past action."
Everyone present looked at him, wondering if they should really bring him or not. Finally Sasuke laughed, "If he wants to come fight, I say let him, we need all the help we can get."
"Fine." Naruto agreed quickly.
Knowing Kakashi couldn't argue with them he sighed and said, "Ok. We'll split into two forces. The first group will consist of four. Two of the four will be Kaiza and Nikku. Their objective is to get to the bottom floor and purposely begin fighting upward. This way if word gets out that fighting has occurred, the people will head downward. Group two will consist of two of us, one of them including me. We'll begin climbing up the wall of the building when the fighting has occurred and go to Gatou's room and kill him on the spot."
"Now we just need to split us up." Sakura concluded.
"I'll go up with Kakashi." Sasuke instantly said, "Sakura and Naruto can easily handle the thugs below by themselves without the assistance of us."
Sakura shook her head, "No, it's logical if Naruto goes up with Kakashi. He can fight one opponent one on one easily, but against multiple people he couldn't do it so easily. You could say he can use Kage Bunshin, but in reality he can only send them few worded commands, unless if he's got enough control to give each of them a different one."
"Sakura-chan," Naruto began to protest, "I think I can fight with you easily enough."
"No. I insist that you go up with Kakashi." She still noted his hesitation, so she went over and kissed him on the lips, "For me, please?"
"O- Ok." Naruto nodded, his mind a little dazed.
Everyone nodded and proceeded on, following Nikku for the time being.
"Sakura." Sasuke said sharply glaring at her, "Why'd you do that?" They both were near the back of the group as they walked through the trees of the forest.
"Naruto is more powerful than you," She said giving him a glare of her own, "Of the two of you, I trust Naruto to do the more dangerous part of the mission. Like I said, he's better in those kinds of situations."
"Are you saying you don't trust me?" Sasuke asked.
"I don't know yet." She admitted looking downcast, "You helped us a lot, but there are all those years when Naruto and I were looking for you. There were times you even came out and fought us so we wouldn't capture you."
"I apologize." Sasuke said immediately.
"I know you do, and I appreciate that, but it just takes time for the wounds to heal. I still find it odd that you switched sides so quickly when before you resisted it all. Did you know that Tsunade was pressured to mark you as a missing-nin? For years it was because of Naruto and I that you were never listed as one, but no matter what we did to try and help you, it didn't matter."
"I switched that moment because I realized my mistake." He simply said.
"Yeah," Sakura said bitterly, "At the very end where it couldn't possibly get worse."
"I killed Itachi, who I just learned at the time was not responsible for killing off my whole clan. The people who were responsible were gaining control of Konoha, and Orochimaru had a short leash on me. It couldn't have gotten any worse for me either."
"I know, just, give it a little bit more time." She said, and attempted to smile at him.
Sasuke could feel anger rising within him, but quickly shot it down. My friends don't trust me at all. I thought I've made some progress…. He was about to talk to her some more, but she moved ahead of him to be next to Naruto.
Before Sasuke could brood on the subject any longer, Kaiza slowed his pace so he could stand next to the child for the duration. The sky had considerably darkened, and only in the distance could you see an orange hue in the sky.
"Sasuke," Kaiza began, "I don't believe I have said my thanks for saving me back in the woods."
Sasuke shook his head, "It's my job."
Silence reigned once more, before Kaiza broke it again, "You know, your two teammates remind me of mine. One was an incredibly smart girl, and the other who didn't have care in the world when it comes to danger."
"Oh Really?" Sasuke said, very annoyed and uninterested in what the man next to him was saying. For good measures he quickly shot him a glare, "I'm not in the mood to talk right now."
"Sasuke." Kaiza sighed, "When I was a ninja, just out of the academy, I was a lot like you really, I acted cool and silent. Though, I quickly stopped the act when I had to communicate with my allies."
"Look." Sasuke said a little loudly, "Is there a point in all that you're saying or are you purposely trying to annoy me?"
The on coming silence was awkward for both of them, Sasuke had never really been one to snap at people, but from what he had just heard from Sakura, and now this man here was trying to teach him a life lesson or something, he was just in an incredibly bad mood.
"Just know, Sasuke, never lose the trust of your teammates. On my last mission before I quit being a ninja myself, I was trusted to do an important duty." Kaiza got a far away look in his eyes, "Let's just say, it could have gone much better."
The irony was too horrible for Sasuke to stand, "Heh, too late there." He muttered just below a whisper. He looked up, "Oh, did you happen to leave to join an enemy that you all were fighting, and screw them both over when they believed you were stronger than that?"
"Not exactly," Kaiza sighed, "Are you getting what I am trying to tell you?"
"All too well," Sasuke sighed, "I have a lot of things on the subject I could go on about, but it's all classified information. I could write a two hundred paged report on what to do to earn trust and what not to do. Listen Kaiza; trust me when I say I know exactly how you feel."
The awkwardness of the situation once more returned.
"Guys!" Nikku called from the front, just loud enough so the group could hear it, "We're almost there."
It was true; they all could see the building from where they were standing. Naruto and Kakashi began to walk into the forest, but before Naruto disappeared in them, he gave all his friends thumbs up, "Good luck all of you."
Sasuke simply nodded; still somewhat in a bad mood at what was revealed to him during the time they were walking here. Sakura smiled at him and showed him a peace sign with her hands. Kaiza returned the gesture, and lastly Nikku nodded, in a very serious mood.
"Ok you guys, when I walk you through here, do not act suspicious. That means don't look in wonder at this place, or interact with anyone out here. If they find even one thing wrong with us, they'll report us to Gatou without our knowledge." Nikku explained. Once everyone nodded at him, they proceeded to walk forth towards the building.
Sasuke and Sakura quickly took off their Konoha forehead protectors and stuffed them into their pockets.
Nikku lead them through a dirt path until they were in front of the building, many people were walking around, some even having a drink of alcohol. They saw behind them a group of mercenaries emerge from the forest they were just in.
"You two kids," One of them said, "Why are you here?"
Of course, it must have looked odd to everyone that two nine year olds were going into Gatou's base of all things.
"They both are actually ninja, both trained very well. I'm here to see if Gatou would like to hire them. You know, hire them while they're still young and all." Nikku said shrugging.
"I see…" The guard smiled and asked, "May I see some sort of proof that you're ninja?" He asked both of the children.
Sakura could feel her anger bubbling inside of her, but knew to keep it in check for such an important task they were responsible of doing. She simply looked up and held her hand out in front of her. In it green chakra became visible. Sasuke deciding to help her out grabbed a kunai and made a long but shallow cut along the top of his arm. She quickly swept her hand over his arm and it was all healed.
"Impressive, a healer." He muttered, "I see why Gatou wanted you here now. Go on." He allowed them forth into the building.
Once inside, they saw how there was practically nothing in there. Only several men standing near the door. They looked at the people and threw each other a questioning glance before getting off the wall they were leaning on and grabbing out their katana's.
"Who are you people?" One of the two asked, holding his katana out in front of him.
Sasuke grabbed the same kunai from before and threw it at his arm, the force made the man go against the wall as the kunai pierced right through his arm. When the man dropped his sword and began to scream bloody murder, the other quickly grabbed his radio and yelled into it, "We have intruder! We need assistance at once!"
Kaiza punched the man in the face right when he was finished sending out the transmission to the floors above them.
Sakura grabbed some gloves and put them on, and quickly cracked her neck before saying, "I hope Naruto and Kakashi know when to go."
(Outside Gatou's base)
Both Naruto and Kakashi were within the trees outside the base. They had knocked several people out that had wandered into the forest hearing some noises from them, but otherwise they were bored and doing basically nothing.
"Hey Kakashi," Naruto whispered, "When will we go in?"
Kakashi noticed a lot of men beginning to yell and head inside the place. "I guess that's our cue."
"Heh," Naruto got up, "To think we'll finish this mission within one day of getting here."
Kakashi nodded and went out when the place was clear. Both ran swiftly, in case this was a false alarm, and once they reached the bottom of the building, both hid in the shadows for several minutes before they decided to begin heading up the building.
Both of them ran as quickly as they could to the top, where they saw a large glass window that they could go through. Kakashi made some hand signals to Naruto clearly instructing him to break through the glass when they reach it.
Naruto smiled at the order, and raced up as quickly as his legs could take him, but unfortunately for him, Kakashi was the taller and faster of the two, so he made it to the glass and broke through it first.
"Oh? Who do we have here?" Gatou asked in an amused voice, "Two ninja? How cute, one of them is even a little baby."
Naruto glared at him, but kept his cool, he knew Gatou was only trying to make him screw up and do something stupid. "Gatou." Naruto spoke, "We've come for your head."
"I know." He said as he quickly stood up and yelled, "Now!"
Kakashi heard something above both Naruto and him, so he did the first thing to come to his mind and grabbed Naruto and jumped out of the way. He let go of Naruto and turned to face their new opponent that had arrived. "Is this the guy from earlier Naruto?" Kakashi asked.
"No!" Naruto said as his eyes widened towards the new comer.
The man in front of them wore a chest plate made of some metal, and wore a belt holding all kinds of scrolls and explosive material on it. His eyes were simply two small dots on his head it seemed, and his teeth were sharpened. What made him so different from other humans was the fact that he was blue, and had gills on both sides of his face.
"Kisame…" Naruto muttered. His eyes wide from shock.
Kakashi noted Naruto's surprise and was about to charge before Naruto shouted, "STOP!"
"What is it, Naruto?" Kakashi asked, "I take it this isn't the guy from before?"
Naruto shook his head, "No! It's worse than that. He's Kisame, a member of Akatsuki!" Kakashi's eyes widened by that revelation, the three children had told him all about Akatsuki, "He focuses mainly on water jutsu's, his sword can drain chakra, and will only allow him to wield it, so don't even try to take it." He swallowed hard, "He easily out powers both of us."
"Naruto," Kakashi whispered, "I'll hold him off, and you try to take Gatou out yourself."
Three men stood in front of Gatou at that moment, as if hearing Kakashi. All of them had a katana in their hands, but unlike the others, they looked much more skilled with the blade, and had determination in their eyes. "You won't get to him." One of the three said.
Naruto glared as he grabbed out two Kunai. "Oh, we'll see about that."
"How'd you know all that about me kid?" Kisame asked, pointing his large sword at Naruto, "Tell me, and I may allow myself to entertain the thought of leaving you alive."
"Screw you." Naruto said and charged at the Gatou, holding out two kunai in front of him. Kisame was about to go intercept him, and Kakashi got in the way and held him off long enough.
Kakashi glared at Kisame, "Your opponent is me." Kakashi lifted the headband hiding his Sharingan, knowing he'd need it in this fight. He threw a kunai right at Kisame who simply sidestepped it, and charged at the man.
Kakashi was about to parry with a kunai, but remembered quickly what Naruto said about the sword, and simply rolled to the side inside of hitting the blade. He began to make some seals and shouted, "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" A huge fireball roared towards Kisame, destroying the floor right below it as it passed.
Kisame seeing the flame charge at him did hand seals and shouted, "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" It looked as though Kisame suddenly spat out a large dragon made of water to charge straight at the fireball heading towards him. When the two collided, mist filled the room.
"Impossible! How can he do those techniques without any available water?" Kakashi muttered to himself as he looked to the left and right in a quick session, looking for his opponent.
"Only the strongest of ninja can do it." Kisame said from behind Kakashi. Kakashi eyes widened and turned to see a huge sword about to slice him in two. Kakashi quickly brought his kunai in front of it, even though he held it off long enough to get out of the way, he felt some of his chakra being pulled from his body.
Kakashi shakily stood up, "That's a nice weapon you have there," He sighed, "Maybe I can get one like it sometimes."
Meanwhile, Naruto was busy holding off the three guards. They were much tougher than he had first thought. No wonder Gatou has these guys protecting him. Naruto thought to himself as he stood in front of them all. He quickly put his hands together and said, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Three clones of Naruto popped into existence.
Suddenly a mist swept right through them, confusing both Naruto and the swordsmen in front of him. Naruto secretly smiled, Thank god this came, it will give me the advantage!
"Here I come!" Naruto's clone shouted, he charged at one of the men and tried to stab him in the face with his kunai, but the man who grinned at the display stabbed his clone. Suddenly he felt a blade go right through his spine, he screamed as he fell down, dying on the floor. "And then there were two." Naruto said.
The last two men got back to back. The only reason their ally fell like that was because they had not seen the real Naruto go through the mist to stab him. They both stood near Gatou, so that Naruto still couldn't get a good hit in at the man.
They braced themselves as they saw the three Narutos in front of them charge at them.
(Several floors below)
Nikku had just sliced through another one of his old comrade when he heard some commotion from the above few floors, out of the corners of his eye he could see Sasuke and Sakura giving him a questioning look, "No clue what that is!" He shouted to them.
Once the room was clear, and it was obvious that no more men were coming down to face them, they all grouped up. "Well, I guess that's all of them here. I don't know if there'll be more further up or not."
"We're on the eighth floor right now, I doubt there's anymore." Sakura said as she looked around at the chaos.
It was impossible to tell exactly how many people were in the room; in fact it was hard to tell who was even alive or dead. The four could hear groaning coming from several people, and could smell blood from all directions, no matter if they put some cloth in front of their nose they would still be able to smell it. Having stains on their clothes probably had something to do with it as well.
"Ok." Sasuke said, "We need to hurry up to help Naruto out."
"This was too easy," Kaiza said shortly, "I mean; didn't these people seem too unskilled to be working here? I don't like Gatou, but even I know he's not a complete idiot."
Sakura nodded, he was definitely right. "Be careful."
Sasuke suddenly turned around and deflected two shuriken with a kunai. "Come out now!" He shouted out, and suddenly two figures materialized seemingly out of nothingness. "I know you guys!"
"Die!" They both shouted. They wore full body armor that covered everything, and both wore mask that had two horns on them. Their hands were covered with huge claws, and they both were connected with a long sharp chain by the hands.
The chain flew towards Sasuke, intending to wrap around him, but he quickly flipped out of it and threw a Kunai at the chain pinning it in the wall, "The memories," He sighed, "Demon brothers, I suggest you run away now while you can still live."
The brothers laughed, and one of them quickly tore the kunai out from their chain, "You think a kid can scare us?"
"We get that a lot." Sakura sighed as she ran at them. "Sasuke!" She shouted turning to him, "Remember that their claws are poisoned, try not to get hit, extracting poison is a lot tougher than healing a scratch!"
The brothers looked at her with surprise, "How the hell did you know tha-." The one speaking could finish for, Sasuke had managed to get in range and kick him in the head sending him flying.
"Bastard!" The other shouted and tried to strike Sasuke several times, but failed. Suddenly the chain picked up, and began to make its way around Sasuke, but Sakura luckily threw two kunai at the brothers making them have to cancel the attack.
"Kaiza! Nikku! You two go up and see if Naruto and Kakashi-sensei need help!" Sakura shouted to them as she punched at one, narrowly missing and making a huge hole in the floor.
Both men nodded at the child, and rushed upstairs to see if they could help.
"And of course, Naruto is of no use again when we fight these two." Sasuke said, chuckling slightly.
"Well," Sakura was going to say, but decided against it, "Yeah." She settled on.
The demon brothers stayed away from the two kids, "Looks like we can't use this chain, it limits our movements."
"Here, let me detach it now." The other said, "Use it to your advantage."
When both brothers went away, one of them began to use the chain like a whip. He lashed it out at Sakura, keeping her strength at bay, "I don't know how a little girl like you can go and do that, but this way you won't be able to get to us!"
Sasuke was attempting to stay away from the claws that the man he was fighting against was using. He couldn't get any hits in because of the speed."Ok bastard!" Sasuke shouted, "I hope you won't regret this!" Sasuke quickly activated his Sharingan, and noted it hardly hurt him anymore to keep it activated, but it still was a large chakra drain. Got to do this quick!
He was able to see the slowed movement, and when the brother slashed, he ducked right under it and swept the man off his feet, then he quickly jumped up and twisted in the air, slamming his leg right into the mans chest, knocking him out instantly.
Sasuke quickly shut his Sharingan off afterwards, still feeling pretty good.
Sakura was not having a good time; quite frankly, this was beginning to piss her off. The man was using the damn chain as a whip, and she knew it was poison, so she couldn't touch it, and when she almost got close enough he'd just bring the chain right back.
I am sick of that chain! Finally when it passed her, instead of jumping away from it to dodge it, she grabbed it with both hands and yanked it, pulling the man right off his feet to her. She could see his shocked face, and smiled slightly. When he got close enough, she punched him right in the face as hard as she could possibly do, and couldn't help but laugh as he flew across the room, and made a huge crater in the wall.
She looked down at her hands and worked quickly. She focused chakra to her hands as fast as possible so the poison couldn't work its way into her body, and watched as it slowly came out of both hands, very slowly. It was slightly painful, but she was used to that by now. When it was all out, she simply shook her hands and got it all over the floor.
"Sasuke," Sakura called, "You doing all right?"
Sasuke nodded, "Yep. Let's head up."
Sakura nodded, and they went up to see the fights occurring.
(Top of Gatou's base)
"You can run now, I won't think any less of you." Naruto said to the last man standing in front of him.
Naruto's last opponent's hands were shaking and his face had lost the determination they held only minutes ago. Both of his allies were dead on the ground around his feet. He collapsed and said, "Please, Don't kill me! I don't want to give my life for Gatou anymore!"
"Coward!" Gatou shouted at the man, but pushed himself further back into his seat as Naruto glared at him.
Naruto shook his head, "Ok, go now, or I'll have to reconsider my decision."
The man wasted no time in running away from the scene. Kaiza and Nikku were surprised to find a man screaming his way down the stairs because of a nine year old, and then they reconsidered their thoughts, if they had been fighting one of the three they knew were here, they'd probably swallow their pride and run as well.
"Naruto!" Kaiza shouted as he ran towards the boy, "It's good to see that you're all right!"
Naruto nodded and walked up to Gatou, he grabbed a kunai and planted it against Gatou's neck and yelled out, "Kisame! I have Gatou's life in my hands right now! Stop fighting Kakashi right now and leave! Gatou will be dead shortly, and it'll be worthless to keep fighting!"
The mist in the room cleared up shortly after, Kisame just smirked, "You think you're so smart, kid?"
Naruto began to curse at what he saw. Kisame held Kakashi by his throat, he could easily crush it and end the ANBU's life, but what fun would that be. "Back away from Gatou, and give Kaiza to me, then I'll spare this miserable life I am holding in my hand."
Naruto glared at the man, but knew that it was pointless. If only Kakashi could have held out a little longer than this. What am I going to do?
"We can do this all day kid; I still have a lot of energy to keep me going." Kisame smiled, licking his teeth. "By the way, you think I don't see you?" Kisame turned around and quickly stabbed Nikku right through his torso, making him scream out in pain.
"NIKKU!" Naruto shouted as he was raised into the air. He couldn't do a damn thing either; he could feel some tears leaving his eyes.
Kisame once again smiled, "Hah, don't make this Kakashi guy be the next I kill!"
"If you kill him Gatou goes down…" Naruto said weakly, he truly didn't know if even that would stop Kisame at all.
Gatou smirked at the whole situation, it was perfect, he would be safe, and his only threat would be gone. Of course he'd have to pay Kisame a huge amount of money, but even then, he reckoned a lot of his work force must have died from what he had been hearing, so he'd have enough funds, and with the country under his grasp, he could do anything.
Kisame threw the body of the wounded man out of the window that Naruto had broken in through, "Say goodbye to Nikku!" Kisame shouted and dropped the man outside.
Naruto closed his eyes so he didn't have to see it. He could suddenly feel rage filling up inside of him. He looked up and his normal blue eyes were blood red, "You bastard…" He slowly said, "I'm going to kill you!"
Naruto's hands were shaking uncontrollably, so it forced him to drop the kunai holding Gatou in place, instead he stabbed his arm right through the man, and the hand sent a wave of power straight at Kisame, who quickly jumped out of the way.
"Kid! Damn it! You just killed my money! I just did all of this for nothing then!" He began to squeeze Kakashi's neck and watched as Naruto charged at him, but blinked when he didn't see the child anymore. "What the?" He said as he looked around the room.
He suddenly felt his arm being crushed, and looked over and released Kakashi out of pain and swung his arm violently to get the child to let go of his arm. "Get off me kid!" He shouted as he swung, he then grabbed his sword and shot it at the kid, only to have him disappear again.
Kisame wasn't an S-rank criminal for nothing, so he quickly anticipated Naruto's next attack and deflected it with his sword, "You're good!" He quickly swung Naruto away from him. "Since you've killed my profit, and you'd be a troublesome fight, I think I'll just take my leave now."
"HELL NO!" Naruto shouted and charged at the man again, but went straight through smoke as Kisame left, he could almost hear a mocking laugh within his mind and it cause him to scream, "DAMN YOU KISAME! I'LL KILL YOU!"
He slammed his fist into the floor, and screamed as loud as he could, which was scaring the hell out of Kaiza, who stood with his back against the wall. He could never in his life, say he had heard such a demonic sound as this one.
Suddenly Sasuke and Sakura came into the room, both of them were in defensive stance, for they had heard the sound as well, but were surprised when all they saw was a screaming Naruto using Kyuubi's power. Sakura rushed towards the boy as fast as she and embraced him.
"Naruto!" She said, "It's all right!" She continued to whisper such messages into his ears until he completely stopped using the power of Kyuubi, and calmed down completely.
Sasuke looked around the room, what was once a nice looking place was completely torn up. The floor boards were completely destroyed, the window was shattered, blood splattered the ground, expensive stuff was all over the ground in ruins, it was all destroyed, and lastly a dead Gatou sat in his seat of power. Such a fitting ending. Sasuke thought as he looked at the figure.
"What happened?" Sasuke asked Kaiza.
Kaiza looked at the damaged and replied, "Well, Naruto had Gatou by the throat, ready to kill him, and the other ninja had Kakashi by the throat, suddenly Nikku tried to kill the guy, but he was stabbed and thrown out the window." Kaiza looked down, "And Naruto got mad, as you can see, and tried to kill the guy, but he was so strong that he got away when he knew Gatou was dead, and here we are."
"Nikku's dead?" Sasuke muttered, "That guy couldn't have killed Nikku! I mean, sure he was an okay ninja, but I could have easily killed him!" Sasuke shouted.
Kaiza shook his head, "No… it was a different guy."
"Who?" Sasuke asked, "If it was someone who was powerful to beat Naruto.." In kyuubi state of all things.
"Naruto yelled out Kisame at the end, so that's my best guess." Kaiza muttered.
Sasuke's eyes widened at their revelation, "Kisame?" Does that mean Itachi is here as well?! Sasuke marched straight to Naruto and calmly asked, "Naruto. Is it true that Kisame did all of this?"
Naruto shook his head, "Y- yeah…" He said from Sakura's grasp, still exhausted from all that had happened, "It was unexpected, I didn't think Gatou would go to such lengths to protect himself. Is Kakashi ok?" He asked, letting go of Sakura, and slowly getting up.
Sakura ran to Kakashi, mentally hitting herself for letting her emotions get in the way of duty and examined Kakashi. "He's good." She sighed, "He's suffering chakra exhaustion though, and will have to be in bed for about a week."
"As expected from someone of Akatsuki." Naruto sighed.
Sasuke grabbed Naruto and turned him around to face himself, "Naruto, answer this." Naruto nodded, "Was Itachi with him at all?"
Naruto shook his head negatively, "No. Actually, he wasn't even wearing his Akatsuki clothes; I think we're simply a couple of months away of Kisame joining Akatsuki." Naruto groaned, "I wish I could have stopped him, but I just didn't have enough strength! Unless if I relied on…" Sakura and Sasuke shook their heads, understanding what Naruto was going to say.
"We should get out of here." Sasuke said finally, "I'll carry Kakashi."
Kaiza walked up and picked Kakashi up and swung him on his shoulders, "No worry, I'll carry him."
Sasuke nodded as they made their way out of the building. Countless corpses filled it, and out of them all, only one was taken out.
"I'm sorry, Nikku…" Naruto said, as he carried him away from the ruins.
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