Chapter 9: Taking the Demons Down A Notch
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Naruto launched his arm forward, bent on blowing the sand raccoon up and getting Gaara out of his current state. This attempt, though, was unsuccessful because a wall of sand emerged in front of the raccoon, nullifying the attack completely. Meanwhile, Sasuke began a duel of lightning based attacks against Rokubi, but he was also unsuccessful. A single strike of lightning hit him right in the chest and he was thrown right into the ground.
After wiping dry blood off of his mouth, Sasuke stood up and withdrew his katana. Rage consumed him and the seal holding in the curse mark on his shoulder shattered. On the other side of the battleground, Naruto had been holding his own with his spirit attacks, but fatigue began to over take him.
"Kit, you need to stop using spirit energy. You could die!" somewhat enthusiastically, yelled Kyuubi.
'Don't worry, Kyuubi. One more attack won't kill me'
Before Kyuubi could continue talking, Naruto blocked him out and began channeling as much spirit energy as possible. He then leapt at Shukaku and dove right through him and the sand raccoon went up in an explosion. Gaara tumbled across the ground as he fell from the sand raccoon and Naruto fell straight to the ground, a bunch of sand falling on top of him. Inside of Naruto's mind, Kyuubi sat in his cage as he stared at the body of Naruto that lay across the sewer floor.
"Damn, kit, what have you done this time?" wondered Kyuubi, aloud.
Black flames covered Sasuke's entire body as he walked towards Rokubi. Several strikes of lightning were launched at Sasuke but Sasuke dodged them with ease. As he walked to Rokubi, a small spark generated in his hand. That spark turned into a full blown chidori and he then ran at Rokubi at full speed. Despite being electrocuted each moment he was nearing incapacitated Waki, Sasuke still managed to lodge the chidori in Waki's chest. A smoldering Sasuke fell to the ground as a single strike of lightning lit up the sky.
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Itachi was beginning to get pissed off as he struck down another sand ninja. He had joined the rest of the Inuzuka's as Hana stayed with Kiba to insure his safety. The onslaught of sand and sound ninja just kept coming and Itachi was getting tired of them. Before he took off again, Itachi noticed a huge lightning strike light up the sky. Then, he began jumping from rooftop to rooftop, scanning for enemy ninja, but instead, he saw a huge cube of dark energy that he couldn't see through. Holding the barrier up were four ninja that Itachi did not recognize.
'They seem to be from the sound and they must be somewhat important since they are holding a barrier this big up,' analyzed Itachi as he stood a far distance away.
After withdrawing his katana, Itachi sprinted towards the ninja he classified as 'the fat one with orange hair.' With one jab, Itachi took the life of the overweight sound ninja and the barrier slightly cracked. The other three ninja holding up the barrier withdrew from it and they approached Itachi as the barrier dropped, revealing a fight between Orochimaru and Sarutobi.
"It seems you can't hold up the barrier any longer, scum," spat Itachi as he wiped blood off of his Katana.
"You will pay, leaf ninja. You murdered Jirobo!" shouted a two bodied ninja named Sakon and Ukon.
"Yeah, you fuck head. That's the last time you'll kill any sound ninja, bitch," dirtily spoke a pink haired ninja named Tayuya.
Before anymore introductions could be made, Itachi activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and used Tsukuyomi to torture the three sound ninja until they fell unconscious.
"Whew, Tsukuyomi sure takes a lot out of me," panted Itachi before rushing to help Sarutobi in his fight, but before he could even enter the parameters of the fight, two figures that resembled the first and second hokages launched him backwards.
Itachi regained his composure by sending chakra to his feet, allowing him to stop in his tracks before he slammed into any walls. In front of Itachi stood two of the greatest figures in Konaha's history, the Shodaime and Nidaime hokages.
'Someone must've used some technique to bring them back so they could keep any other ninja away. I need to think of something and I need to think of it fast. Using Tsukuyomi again would drain me of nearly all of my remaining chakra so that's out. Damn it, I need to think of something!'
Itachi dodged multiple plant and water techniques as he thought of a plan of action, but he ended up resorting to trying to kill these two figures of legend with regular combat. After jumping over a vine launched at him by the Shodaime, Itachi started running up it to reach the Shodaime. The Nidaime shot a huge ice jutsu at Itachi but Itachi used Katon: Karyuu Endan (Fire Style: Swirling Current Round Shot) to melt it and send a little something extra at the Nidaime. He then grasped his katana firmly and slashed at the Shodaime after flipping over a second launched vine. The blow resulted in the Shodaime disappearing in a small spiral of silver vapor.
Right before he fell to the ground from exhaustion, Itachi noticed the same thing happen to the Nidaime. From his position on the floor, Itachi watched a little more of Sarutobi's battle before passing out from chakra exhaustion.
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A green blur sped to the location of the demon fights in the forest and he immediately stopped in his tracks as he arrived.
"YOSH!! The green beast of Konaha has arrived and as it seems, I will be returning you to the village. I will be sure to make it to the village as fast as possible," spoke Lee as loud as he could to what seemed to be himself since everyone else there was incapacitated.
Just as he said, Lee brought each of them back to the village. In fact, he beat his record time of getting back to the village.
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End of chapter 9