Summary: Naruto's fight to be Hokage and the fight for Naruto's heart begins. Things aren't as easy as he would like especially when one must make a choice that will affect the rest of his life and many others.
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine. It's his creators' property (Kishimoto Masashi). The only things that are mine are my own made up characters.
A/N: This is my first fic I hope you guy like it and review, if you like it or didn't, you're opinions, etc. well enjoy.
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"Hello" speech
Hello Thoughts
Hello Kyuubi
Hello Kyuubi's thoughts
(Hello) Inner Sakura
- Scene change
-LIFE LONG FIGHT- by ToniMan.
Chapter 18: Burning Soul
A gentle breeze blew raising his hair entangling it across his face, a face that showed a malicious smile a smile that would cause anyone to feel shivers down their spine, he licked his lips as he calmly continued to walk next to his silver haired underling down the streets of Konoha.
"I can't wait." The pale man said in a low voice as he placed the hairs stranded across his face behind his right ear.
"You really think they will let us leave calmly with Sasuke-kun, Orochimaru-sama?" The silver haired young man asked in a skeptic tone as his adjusted his glasses.
"Of course Kabuto, I doubt they would want their village to suffer an attack like before, especially when Sarutobi-sensei isn't around to stop me anymore." Orochimaru stated with a malicious smile on his face.
"What about the remaining Sannins? What will we do if they get violent?" Kabuto asked.
"I'll leave Tsunade and the fool to you." Orochimaru responded.
His words caused Kabuto to stop in his tracks showing shock on his face and as sweat started to form on his forehead.
"I can't fight against two sannins on my own" Kabuto responded in a worried tone.
"I don't need you two fight them, just hold them while I retrieve Sasuke-kun." Orochimaru responded in a calm tone as he also stopped walking, but not facing him while he talked.
"They will kill me" Kabuto stated.
Orochimaru turned toward him. "Perhaps, but at least you would have done something useful" He said just before he started to walk toward the hospital once again.
Kabuto was left in shock; such cold words had been direct toward him, such words that showed nothing for his well being.
Kabuto bit his lip drawing blood. "Yes…Orochimaru-sama" He said as he walked behind his master.
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In the Hokages office Tsunade with a huge grin was calmly talking to Jiraiya, while she took a swing of a sake bottle in between words.
"To be young again" Tsunade mused as she sat on her chair.
"I can't believe that happened to Naruto" Tsunade added as she took a sip of her drink.
"Well believe it! I guess being around me has been for the best" Jiraiya said as he started to laugh uncontrollably.
While Jiraiya laughed Tsunade coldly stared at him, such eyes didn't go unnoticed by the frog hermit, after he noticed her cold eyes he stopped laughing, but this wasn't enough, the cold eyes continued making sweat appeared on the back of Jiraiya's head.
"What?" He asked, still being unnerved by her gaze.
"Nothing good can come from being around you" Tsunade said coldly.
"What? Come on, you have to admit I'm such a great person!" Jiraiya complained.
They traded stares, her gaze still cold, and more sweats appear on the back of Jiraiya's head.
"I guess so…" Tsunade let out in a low voice as she purred some sake and drank it.
A smiled was formed on Jiraiya's face has he stood tall, his head was up and his hands taking a hold of his shirt, such words where never sweeter to him, they had known each other for many years, almost all their entire life, they had been through a lot, and in all those days she had never complimented him, she never had admitted that Jiraiya posses a virtue, and for him this was something he would remember for therest of his life.
"KYAHAHAHA. Yes I'm so great, I have taken Naruto under my wing and he has become such a great young man, even now I gave him advice on how to resolve his girl problem" Jiraiya gloated but his words caused a different reaction that he expected.
"Advice? What kind of advice?" Tsunade abruptly asked.
"Well you know…manly advice…" Jiraiya said calmly as a small trickle of blood ran down his nose making Tsunade turn red.
"BAKA! That kind of advice! If he becomes a pervert like you and does something to does girls I'll kill you!" Tsunade yelled as she grabbed him by his shirt and threaten him with her fist.
"Hokage-sama!" A nin wearing dark sun glasses yelled as he abruptly entered the room , just to whiteness a man being shake down by a petit woman.
Tsunade turns at the man, her face still showing anger, making the nin sweat drop and take a step back.
"What is it Ebisu?" She coldly asked.
"Hokage-sama, Orochimaru has been sighted in the village!" He stated.
"What!" Jiraiya and Tsunade yelled in unison.
"Yes, he entered through the main gate" Ebisu responded.
WhileEbisu explained the situation Tsunade's eyes narrowed, a vein on her forehead was pounding.
"What the hell, where are the guards doing?" She yelled interrupting Ebisu.
Ebiso adjusted his glasses. "Nothing, what can a couple of guards do against an S-class missing-nin"
Tsunade had no choice but accept his answered.
"Gather every one, will stop Orochimaru once and for all" Jiraiya interrupted.
"Yes Hokage-sama, Kakashi, Gai and others have been informed and will meet up with you there" Ebisu explained after which he left them to themselves.
There Jiraiya and Tsunade where left alone, Tsunade was grinding her teeth's and holding back screams, while Jiraiya was leaning on the desk while he rubbed the back of his neck.
"I'll take care of this" Jiraiya stated, but a hand in front of him stopped him.
"No, I'll go as well, time to finish what we started" Tsuande stated as memories of her and Naruto's near death experience at the hands of the snake sennin flooded her mind causing her an uncontrollable wish of facing him.
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In the center of Konoha a large number of shinobi faced the snake-sennin, no one moving or even speaking simply forming a wall to denied Orochimaru's advancement. In the wall of shinobi many faces where visible; Kakashi, Gai, Asuma, Kurenai, where just some of the ones visible, members of the Konoha clans also appeared, beast masters, insect users and white eyes ninjas reinforced the lines, all gathered to stop Orochimaru.
"There's more flies than I expected" Orochimaru said to Kabuto in a low voice as he looked through all the shinobi.
"This is odd they should be away on missions" Kabuto answered.
Orochimaru looked at all of them; he was amused by the large number that had blocked his way.
"OROCHIMARU!" Was heard by all as Tsuande and Jiraiya arrived at the scene.
"Tsunade, long time no see" Greeted Orochimaru.
"Are you here for Sasuke?" Jiraiya asked.
Orochimaru took a step forward. "Of course. What other reason could I have to return to this village? So if you give him to me we'll leave without incident"
"BAKA! Do you actually expect us to comply with your demands? After all that you have done to the village you dare to simply walk in like this" Tsunade spat at Orochimaru who wasn't affected by her words and simply looked at her his smile still ever present.
"I was doing this for you Tsuande, I was just trying to solve this in a peaceful way" Orochimaru mocked.
"Peaceful? You must be joking" Tsunad said back..
"I didn't want to taint our reunion in Konoha with blood. But if you give me no choice, Tsunade" Responded Orochimaru as he took out a small mirror and reflected the sunlight toward the north confusing Kabuto along with the rest of the shinobi that had witness his action.
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In the forest, an orange clothed shinobi laid in the ground, a ground that was severely burned, a huge grin on his face and sweat on his forehead. Still he seemed very satisfied with himself, as he stood up panting trying to regain his breath.
There I can use the fire attack…now how about the jutsu you promised…Naruto said in his mind, but got no response.
Hey stupid fox…answered me damn it! He yelled in his mind but still nothing, he was ignored.
"Good work kid, you can finally use it, in a few more days you will use it to its full potential" The nin said to Naruto but he himself was ignored as Naruto simply stared into the void.
The nin walked up to him and placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder making him react.
"Huh? What is it?" Naruto asked.
The nin simply looked at Naruto's expression. "Nothing. You need to keep training"
Naruto nodded at his words and started to mold chakra.
BOOM, BOOM, Multiple large explosions where hear though the woods alerting Naruto and the nin that something was terribly wrong, with out trading words they quickly jumped up to a tree. Smoke and explosions was what they managed to see emanating from Konoha that was visible to them from the tree top.
"We have to go help!" Naruto yelled as he started to remove the weights.
The nin only nodded at his words and took off leaving Naruto a blank.
"Nani? I meant together!" Naruto yelled but was useless the nin was out of view.
"Why was he in such a hurry?" Naruto mumble to himself as he finished removing his weights letting them slam to the ground.
Damn it, what's going on? Naruto thought as he ran toward the village, feeling an intense feeling of anger as he approached the village.
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A strung wind current blew pass the three sannin, a wind created by the explosions that had occurred near by, a wind carrying dust, smoke and debris from Konoha itself, a wind that was amusing to one and infuriating to an other, a wind that only fanned the flames of hatred and war.
"What have you done Orochimaru?" Jiraiya asked.
Orochimaru simply started to laught. "I have done nothing, I just signaled some of my men to destroy Konoha"
"Damn you" Tsunade yelled as all the shinobi's readied themselves for a battle with the legendary snake-sennin.
A small chuckle was heard from Orochimaru. "Are you all going to fight me? Are you all going to fight me instead of protecting Konoha?" He said leaving every one with the realization.
With all of them facing him, who would stop his men that where scattered all around Konoha.
"You can all fight me if you wish but while we fight you can see Konoha become nothing more than rubble before your eyes" Added Orochimaru, as he said those words more explosions where heard around Konoha.
"Damn it" Tsunade said in a low voice as her eyes twitched and her hand tightened.
"Every one! Go and stop Orochimaru's men, Jiraiya and I will stop Orochimaru and Kabuto" Tsunade ordered.
"Hai!" They al yelled disappearing from sight, no one objected to her decision for they knew it was for the best.
"Jiraiya. I don't want a buffoon like you to bother me so I'll give you something to play with" Orochimaru mocked as he bit his thumb and started to for hand seals.
PUFF A large cloud of smoke was raised, and from it multiple giant smakes appeared, the snakes did not attacked Tsuande and Jiraiya, but instead they dispersed into the village.
"Nani?" Jiraiya asked confuse.
"Jiraiya-sama, you can either fight us or stop the giant snakes, we both know that no other shinobi would be able to stop Orochimaru-sama's summons" Kabuto said with a smile on his face.
"Damn it" Jiraiya yelled as he was about to attack Kabuto but Tsuande's hand stopped him.
"He's right Jiaiya. You have to stop the snakes" Tsunade ordered.
Jiraiya simply looked at Tsunade with an skeptic face.. "You can't be serious Tsunade. You can't face them both on your own"
"I can and I will. Now go before I make you gomy self" Threaten Tsunade with a smile on her face.
A reluctant Jiraiya nodded and went after the snakes. Leaving Tsunade alone, but still couldn't shake away a bad feeling he had on the back of his mind.
"It's time you paid for all you have done Orochimaru" Tsuande said as she removed her jacket and readied herself for the fight.
Orochimaru simply stared at her as he smiled. Tsunade also looked at him but her eyes were cold and calculating.
"I'll be your opponent Tsunade-sama" Kabuto said as he stepped in between Tsunade and Orochimaru.
As he said those words Orochimaru ran passed Kabuto, but Tsunade wasn't about to simply let him run away. "Orochimaru!" She yelled as she threw a punch toward him, but Kabuto managed to block it, in that instant Orochimaru and Tsunade traded gazes as he run pass her and toward the hospital.
"I won't let you get away!" She yelled once more as she ran after him but was stopped almost immediately as Kabuto jumped in front of her.
There the two medical nins stood facing each other, one with a small smile on his face while the other didn't even try hiding her anger, there they stood reading themselves for a rematch, each one still remembering that day where Tsunade faced her fears.
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CLANG, SLAM, CRASH, The sounds of a fierce battle echoed as a huge snake caused chaos around Konoha, this particular snake has chosen as prey a young weapon user that had the bad luck of encountering it.
Oh man this can't be good. She thought as she looked around her, managing to see a building with a huge hole leading into it, rubble around her as well as smoke and dust flying all around.
"Ha!" She yelled as she threw multiple kunai's at the snake, but it was futile as with a swing if its tail the snake managed to block the attack, after it the snake quickly lunged itself toward Ten-Ten, who in the last second jumped out of the way letting the snake slam into the ground.
In mid air Ten-Ten saw as the snake swung its tail toward her, unable to evade the attack in mid air she had no choice but to brace herself for the attack.
SLAM, CRASH. Ten-Ten was slammed against a building leaving her dazed and an easy target for it.
"AH!" Ten-Ten yelled as she view the serpent launched itself toward her hissing and showing its long poison drenched fangs at her.
"RASENGAN!" Echoed through the streets as TenTen witnessed a blue sphere impact itself on the snaked head, the snake hissing in pain as the blue spheres shredded through its head, the snake was slammed to the ground dead raising a cloud of dust from the impact.
That jutsu. Te-Ten mused as she looked toward the cloud formed of dust, only making out a small silhouette.
As the smoke cleared the image became clearer and it was none other than the orange wearing, foxy grin flashing Naruto, who simply turned and walked up to Ten-Ten who still, was on the ground.
"Are you okay Ten-chan" Naruto asked as he helped the young girl up.
"Baka! Where have you been I was worried" She said as she weakly slammed her fist against Naruto's chest.
"I'm sorry Ten-chan, I was training" Naruto answered as he noticed TenTen was starting to tear up.
"Baka, that's something Neji would say!" She said in an angry tone as she again slammed her fist against Naruto's chest multiple times.
"I'm sorry Ten-chan. I didn't wanted to train, I was sort of forced to" Naruto tried to explain.
"Really?" Ten-Ten weakly asked.
Naruto nodded at her words, giving her a gentle smile still not letting her go from when she helped her up.
"But while I was away training Ten-Ten, I didn't for get about what happened before I left, I was thinking every day about that day" Naruto managed to say in a low voice.
"What day Naruto-kun?" She asked.
"About the day you kissed me and said all that stuff you thought about me, when I hear all the explosions, I thought about you, I was afraid you might get hurt" Naruto said in a low voice trying to avoid eye contact.
"What are you saying Naruto-kun?" Ten-Ten asked.
"I like you Ten-Ten, I like you a lot, and I'm sorry it took me a while to realize it…everything that happened those days made it difficult for me to be sure about my feeling…but while I was away I had time to think" Said Naruto with a blush across his face.
"Naruto-kun" Ten-Ten said I a soft voice as she placed her hands on Naruto's face, brought him close and kissed him.
There they stayed trapped in the moment of the kissed, consumed by it ignoring all around them, simply enjoying the kiss as Ten-Ten shifted her hands and placed them around Naruto's neck pulling closer, the same Naruto as he placed his hand around Ten-Ten waist holding her gently.
BOOM another snake emerged from a near by building causing them to end the kiss abruptly. Naruto hold Ten-Ten tightly as he jumped with her evading the snakes charge letting it smash against a building with a gaping hole in its wall.
"Hinata!" Ten-Ten yelled surprising Naruto.
"Nani?" Naruto asked still confused by her words.
Ten-Ten pulled her hands close. "Hinata was thrown into that building by the other snake, I'm sorry I completely forgot about her, we have to help her"
"I'll go help her, you keep the snake busy" Naruto yelled as he ran to the building evading a snake bitein the process.
Inside the building Naruto searched high and low for the Hyuuga heiress, but the severe damage made it pretty difficult, Naruto continued to hear the battle outside, still worried for Ten-Ten, as he looked he managed to see a hand under a pile of rubble.
"Hinata-chan!" He yelled as he removed the rubble, as he finished removing it, he saw Hinata who was unconscious, he quickly took her pulse and after verifying she was fine she picked her up and headed for the way out.
Once outside Naruto looked for Ten-Ten and spotted her a few blocks away from where he left her, it appeared her fight against the snake made her change locations. In a quick move the snake head butted Ten-Ten leaving her dazed after a hard hit to the ground.
"Ten-chan!" Naruto yelled as he ran toward her, but there fight had taken her too far for him to reach in time, Naruto could only see as the snaked attacked her.
"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU" Was yelled and in a second something that appeared to be a tongue wrapped itself around Ten-Ten pulling her away from the snake letting it hit nothing but dirt.
Naruto turned toward the origin of the sound, and managed to see a white haired man on top of a toad with Ten-Ten over his shoulder.
"RASENGAN!" Jiraiya yelled as he jumped of the frog and slammed his attack against the snake tearing it apart and forcing it to disappeared in a puff of smoke, all of this while still carrying Ten-Ten on his shoulder.
"Ero-sennin" Naruto said as he approached Jiraiya.
"Naruto, are you okay?" Jitaiya asked as he let a now waking Ten-Ten down.
Naruto turned around looking at all the damaged caused just by a pair of snakes. "Ero-sennin. What's going on? Why are there's snakes in konoha again?"
"Naruto. Orochimaru has come for Sasuke, he is causing all this chaos so no one will interfere in his plans" Jiraiya explained.
Naruto left Hinata down next to Ten-Ten. "Orochimaru is going after Sasuke again. Where's Sasuke?"
"Sasuke is in the hospital, but Tsunade is fighting against Orochimaru right now" Jiraiya explained but only saw Naruto ran away has he finished.
"NARUTO! Where are you going?" Jiraiya screamed.
"To the hospital! I have to make sure Sasuke is okay! Take care of Ten-Ten and Hinata. Ero-sennin" Naruto yelled as he ran toward the hospital.
Jiraiya simply was left looking as Naruto ran full speed toward the hospital and Sasuke.
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In front of the Hospital, many shinobi where scattered, as the snake sennin walked over them, the smile still ever present on his face.
Soon I will posses the Sharingan and I'll be closer to obtaining what I want. Orochimaru thought as he grows even more excited with every step he takes.
I'm so close. I can feel Sasuke's presence. Orochimaru thought once again as he was in front of the hospital main doors.
"RASENGAN!" Was heard as a blue sphere past in front of Orochimaru's face and crashed against the ground, creating a gust of wind that raised dust and debris, that would envelop Orochimaru leaving him covered with it, such action didn't impressed Orochimaru as he saw the attacker jump in front of him and has he saw the young shinobi only one thought came to mind.
How annoying.
"Your not getting pass me you pale, snake loving freak!" The new comer yelled.
Orochimaru eyes widen. "It's been a while Naruto-kun, this time Tsuande and Jiraiya aren't around to save you KUKUKUKUKU" Orochimaru said as he started to laugh uncontrollably.
END CHAPTER
A/N: Well thats it man theres the chap, i'll explain more on the why and how he picked her, so dont forget to review and get your opinion. OK. Something else did any of you read a review saying these are the finals chapters? well it isnt true. Narutofan is wrong i dont know where he got all his wrong info. These arent the finals chap where about half way thru this fic, i still have a lot to write a lot.since i'm not planing of doing a sequel i'm going to end it with this one.
Well thast all, hope to hear from you Read and Review i would like to hear from you.