-1Sorry for the long wait. I had other ideas and made them into other fics and had a lot of homework. Anyway, here is the next chapter.
"Sa-Sasori?" Deidara said as Sasori stepped out of his new puppet.
"In the flesh. Literally. Since I saw that none of you came to collect me, I waited out until the timer on my scrolls activated. That brought me into a new puppet. And for the past ten years, I had a lot of time to think about my life. And the biggest mistake is when I ran into this organization. Now I will correct my mistakes." Sasori said as he lunged Tobi at the leader. Itachi reacted immediately as he threw a kunai at Sasori. The kunai hit right before Tobi would have impaled the leader.
"Hahaha. Don't humor me Uchiha. I didn't just think about my life, I thought about new ways to make puppets." Sasori said as Tobi transformed into Sasori and Sasori turned into Tobi. Sasori stabbed the leader in his arm while the leader tried to dodge the attack.
"Take care of him." The leader said as he disappeared. Deidara threw some of his art at Sasori, who dodged it and threw Tobi at him. The explosion blew out the wall behind Sasori, which he used to jump out of. Zetsu emerged from the ground where Sasori would have landed but missed at his attack from the interception of another puppet.
This new puppet was covered in a black robe with dark red bandages covering his limbs. Sasori sent his puppet at Zetsu while making Tobi attack Itachi and Kisame. Kakuzu and Hidan jumped out of the window to help Zetsu. Tobi grabbed Kisame and suddenly began to glow.
"I think you will enjoy that jutsu. I found it in his mind to be his best move. Just think of it as a localized version of what we do to the demons we capture." Sasori said as Itachi activated a jutsu to try and stop Tobi. Hidan swung at Sasori with his scythe but missed. Sasori sent his black puppet at Kakuzu and looked back at Tobi. The glowing was getting brighter while Itachi couldn't remove the puppet.
"DO SOMETHING." Kisame screamed trying to break free but to no success. Not even Kisame's huge amount of chakra and strength could break free from the puppet.
Kakuzu dodged the puppet but the puppet did not stop as it continued towards Zetsu. Zetsu began to merge with the ground but was stopped. Behind him was another puppet with a seal on it. Zetsu looked at it and horror began to form on his face. That seal was the same one as the one on the shield which had him pinned down on the road.
"Surprised you didn't notice it Zetsu." Sasori said as he dodged another attack from Hidan.
"Sit still you asshole." Hidan yelled as Kakuzu sent his threads at Sasori. But before contact was made, an explosion erupted and Itachi crashed into Kakuzu. Sasori sent his black puppet into them and one of the arms emerged with a spinning shuriken on it.
"This technique is actually what happened to you before Kakuzu. Am I right?" Sasori said as he began to laugh again. The puppet made contact with Kakuzu and Itachi and another huge explosion appeared form the result. Hidan flew back into a wall with his scythe impaling him into it.
When the dust cleared, Kakuzu was lying on the ground motionless while Itachi was slowly crawling away. Hidan was screaming out in pain but couldn't do anything as the scythe had his arms impaled as well. Zetsu was looking at the fight unable to do anything with the puppet on his back. Kisame was gone along with Tobi.
"Now where did the other three go?" Sasori said as he looked around. A shadow passed over him as he looked up and saw Deidara riding away on one of his birds. The leader and the other member were not seen anywhere. Sasori sent his black puppet to Zetsu and decapitated him. He did the same to Itachi and looked around. Hidan was the only one remaining. Sasori walked over to Hidan.
"Where are they going?" Sasori asked.
"Fuck you asshole. I ain't saying shit." Hidan said
"Hmmm. Very well. Then I guess you wont mind going into another pit." Sasori said as he sent the seal puppet to where Kakuzu was. The puppet began to drill a hole. Sasori meanwhile used his other puppet and sliced Hidan up into countless amounts of pieces. The head was the only thing remaining.
"You fucking dumb ass. This hurts like a bitch." Hidan screamed out. Sasori took the head and snapped the jaw off. "That should shut you up. And without Kakuzu to sew you back together, you will be like this forever." Sasori said as he dropped the head into the pit. Dirt began to cover Hidan and a few moments later, the pit was as good as new.
Meanwhile
"I guess we should be heading out now." Naruto said.
"Yeah." Sakura said.
"Where to then?" Sai asked.
"Back to the Akatsuki village. We need to find out where Sasuke is and how to get back in time." Naruto said.
"How do you plan on getting back in time? It is remarkable how you got here but Kakashi is dead along with his sharingan." Shikamaru said.
"We will figure that out later. For now, Sasuke is the goal." Naruto said. The others nodded their heads slowly and they left the cave towards the Akatsuki village.
Meanwhile
"How is he still alive?"
"I do not know. He did say something about his scrolls." The leader said.
"Did we get all the tailed demons out of there?"
"Yes. Before he came, All of the demons who were in the subjects were sealed back into the stone." The leader replied.
"Now where hm?" Deidara asked.
"To my village." The leader said as the other two members looked at each other. Deidara then made his bird fly faster.
Later that day
"What happened here?" Ino asked as they arrived at the Akatsuki village.
"The whole place is in ruins." Choji said as they entered the destroyed village.
"Sakura, is this a genjutsu?" Naruto asked.
Sakura did some seals and shook her head.
"Then, everyone be on guard. Shout out if you see anything." Naruto said as they all split up.
Meanwhile
"Well, what do you say Orochimaru?" Sasori asked.
"Fine. Get me out of this place and take me to my village." Orochimaru said as Sasori released him. Sasori then smiled. "Looks like we have company. Let's go see who it is." Sasori said as they left the room.
Shikamaru was walking along the street when he saw a shadow move to his side. He jumped back and saw Orochimaru and a red haired teen walk out of a building. Shikamaru screamed out to the others and shortly after, the other five ninja appeared.
"Orochimaru? Sasori?" Sakura asked in disbelief.
"My my, you know them Sasori?" Orochimaru asked.
"Yes. That pink haired girl is the one who defeated me. Allow me to thank you for that." Sasori said as Sakura was now confused.
"Why are you thanking me?" Sakura asked.
"Because you helped me see the truth. But now, I must present you with a choice. Either help us finish off Akatsuki or die here. I have no problem taking you out. I just took out this entire village by myself. The only survivors are Deidara, the leader and his partner." Sasori said.
"Why should we help you?" Naruto asked.
"Because we can help you get back to your timeline." Orochimaru said.
"Oh yeah, how?" Sakura asked.
"Well I do possess a very unique sharingan. You should know it Naruto, you have seen it before when facing Deidara." Orochimaru said as his left eye turned into a sharingan.
"…No." Ino said.
"You have Kakashi's body?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yes. The body which you found was a spare which Kabuto created before he died. Kakashi never committed suicide. I just took over. And as a last parting gift, Kabuto figured out how to extend my stay in a body." Orochimaru said.
"So what is your answer?" Sasori asked.
The six ninja looked at each other and finally Naruto agreed.
"Good. Now, we are going to the Sound village first to figure out where the other three Akatsuki are." Sasori said. And with that, the eight ninja disappeared.
The next day after getting to the Sound village, the eight ninja were sitting in a room discussing where they were going to attack.
"While we were in Akatsuki, we used many different locations to meet up. But none of them are operational now because of me." Orochimaru said.
"There is one place where they could have gone." Sasori said. Everyone looked at him. Even Orochimaru was a little shocked that he knew where they were.
"The leader's village." Sasori said.
"Yeah but do you know which one it is?" Orochimaru asked.
"Actually no, that is the problem. And that is why they would go there. The leader knew that we didn't know the location so he would have gone there." Sasori said.
"How do we figure out his village?" Naruto asked.
"We can't. The only way is to follow their tracks but they were flying for one, and we don't have anything which could track their movements." Sasori said.
"What about you Orochimaru? You have Kakashi's body. He could summon dogs, so go summon them." Sakura said.
"I can't. Whenever I transfer bodies, I make sure to drain the blood out of the body and put in my own so that I can summon my snakes. I did not even keep the blood from Kakashi." Orochimaru said.
"So now what?" Shikamaru asked.
"We do it the old fashioned way. We look for them. They eventually will come out of hiding and then we will take them down. We don't even have to worry about new members since I took the rings from the corpses." Sasori said.
"Okay." Said Naruto. They then left the room and began to search for the Akatsuki in their own special way. Naruto used his clones to look everywhere while Orochimaru summoned snakes to go in every direction to look for them. Shikamaru, Choji and Ino used their contacts from other villages to get any information about their whereabouts. Sakura, Sai and Sasori couldn't do anything so they began to form battle plans to take out the last three members.
After days of searching, a message came from one of Shikamaru's contacts. It said that they saw a giant bird go into a direction east of his village a couple of days ago. The eight ninja decided to go there and search from there.
Two days later, they arrived at the small village and Shikamaru talked with his client. He confirmed that it was Deidara and they continued on their way. While they were traveling, Sasori and Orochimaru talked with the other six and they actually got closer. More with Sasori than with Orochimaru. Naruto and the gang did not trust none of the two but were actually beginning to accept Sasori.
The eight ninja arrived a the ocean and knew that they had to cross it to one of the islands. Choji got a small boat for them and they sailed east. After three days and two storms, they arrived at an island. They got off and saw in the distance a city unlike others. They carefully went towards it and saw that it was more modern than the other villages that they were at. Sasori sent in a puppet disguised as a civilian and began to scout. Naruto did the same with a number of clones. Then, one of the clones informed Naruto that it spotted a large bird next to a statue. The eight members carefully sneaked into the village and went towards the statue.
After a while, they finally got to it and saw the bird land on top of it. They climbed up and when they got to the top, they saw three people standing there.
"Good of you to join us. Let this begin." The leader said.
A/N: That's it. I think there will be one more chapter to finish this fic off. Once again, sorry for the long wait but I had no time for this. Hopefully, the last chapter will be up by the end of the month.
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to me as much as my pet cat can fly. None at all.