a/n: Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed that cliffhanger! This battle will be the climax of the story. Death of character…. who will it be????

Chapter 34: Fury of the Kages

"And now the real fight begins!" Orochimaru snarled, ordering his platoon of Kages forwards. Shodaime and Nidaime took the flanks. Sandaime was forming a flash of seals, and Yondaime took point, with lightning fast speed and a rasengan charged. Sasuke proceeded to copy Sandaime's jutsu, Sai drew out a three-headed dog, Yamato formed a mokuton seal, and Naruto formed his own rasengan. Immediately, Shodaime performed Birth of Trees, Nidaime summoned a water cyclone, Sandaime performed the Earth Dragon, and Yondaime used his Body Flicker to come face to face with Naruto. Yamato formed his own Birth of Trees, Sai's dog stood in front of the cyclone, and Naruto summoned his Kyuubi chakra.

"Sorry about this son." Yondaime said with a gentle smile. Naruto's eyes widened as his father's rasengan penetrated his body. Yamato matched Shodaime's tree attacks with his own. Sai's dog took the brunt of the force from the water attack. Sasuke copied Sandaime's Earth Dragon and countered its attack. Naruto disappeared in a cloud of smoke and appeared from the ground with an OniMari aimed at his father's abdomen. Yondaime caught his hand and held it there looking into his son's eyes. The battle droned on around the father and son as the mokuton users used their trees to attack each other. Sai's ink drawings, surprisingly, contained the water attacks instead of liquefying. Sasuke panted as he continuously canceled out more and more of Sandaime's attacks. Naruto's eyes were wide as his father looked into his own with an empty and dead stare.

Minato's ice blue eyes pierced into the identical pair that belonged to his only son. Though he saw that his father was alive once more, Naruto could not help but soften at the knowledge that he was not truly alive. Minato was walking for one reason: to kill the ANBU squad.

"Dad…" Naruto choked out.

"Hello son," Yondaime whispered, "I'm sorry about being a burden." The Kyuubi container shook his head.

"It's not your fault dad, it's that bastard snake." He said the last part with a snarl. Yondaime smiled.

"You're pretty strong kid." Naruto grinned.

"I'll show you how strong I really am dad." He focused his kyuubi chakra and shoved his arm into his father's chest. The OniMari cut through his sternum and shred his heart and lungs. The 4th flew back and landed on his back. Naruto's eyes widened as particles of chakra returned to the hole in his father's chest and regenerated the lost organs and skin. Orochimaru gave a sinister laugh.

"You cannot kill the dead, kyuubi boy." He hissed in his snake like tone. Naruto growled and darted towards the Sannin. Orochi bit his thumb, formed a few seals, and slammed his palm into the ground. "Kuchiyosen no jutsu!" A large cloud of smoke formed, and Manda the snake king emerged. He shot his head towards Naruto who dodged the fangs by an inch. Naruto bit his own thumbs and performed the designated seals. "Kuchiyosen no jutsu!" Gamabunta poofed into the battlefield, carrying the Kyuubi container on his head.

"What do ya want, boy?" The toad king roared.

"Gamabunta, I need you to lend me your strength against Orochimaru." The giant amphibian inhaled his pipe, and then blew the smoke out of his nostrils.

"Understood." He said drawing his dagger from its sheath. Manda stared into the eyes of the Toad King.

"One more time, Frog-boy?" He hissed.

"Bring it on, lizard breath." Gamabunta snarled, leaping into the air and holding the dagger above his head. Manda bared his fangs and prepared to launch his head at the toad.

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"What?!" Jiraiya yelled in disbelief standing up form his seat. Tsunade sat shocked, feet planted firmly on the floor, hands gripping the material of her pants. Kakashi had his eye closed and his arms crossed over his chest. He was in his full ANBU gear, minus his mask. Sakura stood next to him in her battle gear.

"I've recognized Orochimaru's chakra signature outside of Konoha," Kakashi began, "It was faint, but it was there same. My guess is that he's about 16 kilometers outside of Konoha. That isn't the problem though." Jiraiya tensed slightly. "I believe he has already used Edo-Tesei, and now our ANBU squad is up against four more opponents…specifically, the past four Hokages." Tsunade's eyes widened while Jiraiya grit his teeth. "I've called you two to join me as back-up. Those four are strong but not against four kages and a sannin."

"Kakashi, if you go, who's going to cover for you here?" Pop! Out of the cloud of smoke emerged Hyuuga Neji in his traditional white robes.

"You called Hokage-sama?" He asked bowing his head.

"Neji," Kakashi said in a low, authoritative tone, "I am appointing you acting Hokage as of now. Certain circumstances has called me away from my office." Neji's eyes widened slightly.

"Hai." He said simply, regaining his composure. "May I ask what?" Kakashi sighed.

"Orochimaru." The Copy Nin responded simply. Neji nodded his head slowly.

"Understood."

"Report back here in 2 hours. Dismissed."

"Hai!" Neji replied, poofing out of the room. Kakashi turned his attention back to the two sannin.

"We must leave immediately. Are you in?" The Copy Nin asked. They nodded their head.

"Hmph!" Jiraiya replied.

"You got it kiddo." Tsunade said with a smile. Kakashi nodded once and attached his pouch.

"Right. Let's go then." All four shinobi poofed from the office room.

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"Water bullet!" Gamabunta called, shooting out two giant water spheres at the snake king. Manda slapped them away with his tail and burrowed himself underground.

"Kuso." Naruto hissed, focusing his chakra. His eyes shot open. "Beneath!" Naruto called. The Toad Kind jumped out of the way of the snake fangs aimed for his lower abdomen. Bunta slashed at the snake, managing to wound the purple reptile. Manda jumped back and raised his head higher, Orochimaru still rested on top of his head. Bunta sat on his hind legs dagger in one hand, the other forming a tiger seal in front of his face.

"Do it Manda." Orochi hissed. The snake king spit out three large eggs. Each of them hatched and produced more giant snakes. They weren't as big as Manda, but they were trouble all the same.

"What the-" Naruto was cut off as Gamabunta desperately tried to dodge his new opponents. The Kyuubi container focused his chakra and performed a few seals. "Swamp of the Underworld!" He called, the ground beneath the snakes turned into a hell swamp, catching the snakes easily. "Swallow them whole." Naruto ordered. As the snakes went down, they all spit up two eggs. The eggs hatched and formed into snakes their size. Naruto grit his teeth and Bunta gripped his dagger harder.

"Looks like we're going to have to use that jutsu, boy." Bunta roared. Naruto nodded his head and began to form a long series of seals. He finished with a tiger seal.

Sasuke dodged Sandaime's shuriken while forming quick seals. The metal projectile weapons flew by his head, some bouncing off of his porcelain armor. He finished with a tiger seal.

"Katon: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" a ball of fire erupted from the Uchiha's mouth and flew over to the Third. Sandaime flashed 4 seals and a pillar of earth flew up and protected him. Sasuke growled and flashed right next to the undead hokage, chidori charged. He thrusted his palm into his chest. Sasuke pulled his arm back watching the Third fall on his back. To his horror, the wound started to close up and go back to new. During the ANBU's momentary pause, the Third was able to summon Enma. The Monkey king appeared and slammed his fists into Sasuke. The Uchiha had enough time to lift up his arms to block the majority of the attack. Sasuke slid back, his arms throbbing from the blow from the giant monkey. Enma ran forward, pulling back his arm for another shot. Quickly, Sasuke bit his thumb and performed a few seals.

"Kuchiyosen no jutsu!" Three boa constricters appeared and wrapped themselves around Enma, causing him to fall on his face. He struggled to move under the death grip of the killer snakes. Sasuke stood up and focused his chakra. Maybe that jutsu will come in handy now. He formed a few seals, ending with a tiger seal.

Sai and Yamato both were starting to have trouble facing their opponents. Shodaime and Nidaime drove them to a point where they were back to back. Yamato's mokuton was nothing compared to the power of the first Hokage's. Sai's drawings were doing nothing against the amount and sheer power of the Second's water.

"Any ideas Taichou?" Sai asked his commanding officer, between attacks.

"That jutsu?" Yamato suggested.

"Agreed." Sai said, quickly forming seals that matched Yamato's. They both ended on a tiger seal.

"Ready Naruto?" Gamabunta asked.

"Sasuke?"

"Hai."

"Sai? Yamato?"

"Hai."

"Hmph."

"Do it!" There was a blast of chakra that erupted from all four ANBU members. Specific elemental chakra came from each ninja. Naruto let of wind chakra, Sasuke let off fire chakra, Yamato let off earth chakra, and Sai let off water chakra. The four charkas mixed into the center forming a giant ball of white chakra.

"Not enough! We need one more chakra force!" Yamato screamed over the howling of chakra. There were four poofs of smoke. Jiraiya appeared next to Naruto, Sakura next to Sasuke, Kakashi next to Yamato, and Tsunade next to Sai.

"What the hell?" Naruto yelled out.

"Baka! Focus your energy!" Jiraiya sent his own chakra along with Sakura and Tsunade.

"We need one more element to complete the jutsu!" Yamato yelled out. Throughout this whole time, the four undead hokage and the snake sannin stared in awe at the sight before them. The ball of chakra was growing bigger and bigger. Kakashi charged a raikiri and ran towards the ball. He jumped and thrusted his hand into it.

"RAIKIRI!" He yelled out as his palm hit the chakra surface. The ball quickly absorbed the lightning based chakra and roared louder. It began to spin rapidly. Kakashi hopped off and landed next to Yamato.

"That should do it!" Yamato yelled. From the ball emerged a white dragon.

"Five Elemental Dragon!" The four ANBU members called. The dragon stared down at thefFour undead Hokages and the snake sannin. Kakashi directed the dragon towards Orochimaru. He bit both of thumbs and summoned three demon walls. Sandaime formed a mud wall, Nidaime a waterwall, Shodaime a large tree, and Yondaime a wind wall. The dragon pummeled through the Kage's defenses like they were nothing. To Orochimaru's horror the demon walls were pulverized as well. He tried to evade the dragon, but something held onto his leg. He looked down to find his foot stuck in the Swamp of the Underworld. Naruto's fangs bore as he grinned madly at the sannin. The dragon hit Orochimaru and exploded, causing debris and the formed trees to fly about. All of the Nins put their arms up to avoid being hit by the flying debris. After a few minutes the dust settled and the Konoha Nin took their arms from their faces. There was a crater the size of town center where the dragon struck Orochimaru. The undead Kages were nowhere to be found. Naruto pumped his fist into the air.

"Shannaro! We got em!" He yelled out. Jiraiya smiled along with Tsunade and Yamato. Sai exhaled, letting a small smirk escape his lips. Sakura and Kakashi crashed into each other's arms. Sakura stood on her toes and passionately kissed her boyfriend through his mask.

Nothing mattered right there. It was all so perfect. The two were so relieved that the battle was over, and now their nemesis was finally dealt with. They broke off the kiss and stood there looking at each other's eyes (Kakashi's headband had been up).

"Huh?" Jiraiya said, breaking the silence.

"No way…" Tsunade added. Yamato looked dumbfounded. Sai looked indifferent. Sakura's smile fell. Oh no. She thought to herself. She looked at Kakashi with pleading eyes. Tsunade walked over to the couple. Sakura bowed her head in apology.

"Tsunade-sama I-" Kakashi cut her off by stepping in front of her, his own head bowed.

"It's my fault." He said, head still bowed. "I should've been more responsible. Please do not punish her. I am not just toying with this girl, we are deeply in love-"

"Enough!" Tsunade roared. Sakura winced, but Kakashi still held his head. The Sannin rubbed her temples. "For the love of God, are you two stupid?" Kakashi held his eyes shut tight. I knew this would happen some day. "You know that I'm not the hokage anymore!" I'll never see her again. We will never…Wait, what??? Kakashi looked up at the sannin. She had a smile on her face.

"I beg your pardon?" He asked. Sakura was equally as dumbfounded.

"It doesn't matter to me. I'm just another shinobi now. Plus, it looked like my plan worked out after all." Kakashi's eyes widened.

"Plan?" the couple said together. Tsunade nodded her head.

"After the death of Sakura's parents, I didn't want her to be alone. Over the years I've been part of this village, and known your father, I've seen that you don't like to be alone either Kakashi. I see how lonely you look sometimes. So what perfect opportunity but to slap my two favorite ninja together?" If it weren't for Kakashi's mask, his mouth would've hit the floor. Sakura had beat him to it.

"But I was her guardian!" Tsunade shrugged.

"It was the only way to get you two close enough together for a long period of time." Both Sakura and Kakashi's heads were spinning. Jiraiya was depressed.

"Sakura's taken now," he sobbed, "now I can no longer think about her perfect, petite body with those perfect little breasts…OW!" Naruto and punched his old teacher on the head.

"ERO-SENNIN!" He screamed, sticking a finger under his nose. Sasuke smiled. Finally those two can be at ease.

"So do we have your approval Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked.

"I told you, I'm not hokage anymore," He smiled, "but yes, you have my blessing." Sakura and Kakashi were ecstatic. Sakura threw herself into Kakashi's arms, enjoying the forest green smell and the warm embrace of his muscular arms.

"I love you." She whispered.

"I love you more." He whispered back. Naruto put his hands behind his head.

"This has been a great day."

"THINK AGAIN!" An evil voice hissed. A white sword plunged through Naruto's heart. Chakra ran through it, intensifying the damage. The kyuubi container fell limp on the sword. Orochimaru appeared behind Naruto's corpse, half of his face ripped off to reveal a brand new face. His clothes were torn out of proportion, and his hair in a mess. "Get em now!" He ordered. The four hokage appeared once again. Shodaime grabbed hold of Tsunade, Nidaime grabbed hold of Sakura, Sandaime grabbed hold of Sasuke, and Yondaime grabbed a hold of Kakashi. Orochimaru created a copy of each hokage. The copies grabbed Jiraiya, Yamato and Sai.

"Shiki-fujin!" All six undead figures cried. The Death God appeared taking hold of all six souls.

"It ends now." The Sannin hissed.