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Chapter 7.
Hidan struggled free from where Kakuzu had him in a crushing headlock, cursing colourfully as he tripped and fell on his face in the process.
"Next time keep your fucking hands out of my prayers you fucking prick!" Hidan yelled angrily, brandishing THE (A/N: O: ) finger at Kakuzu.
Kakuzu rolled his eyes and kicked at Hidan contemptuously. He started to walk again.
"Shut up. Your dumb ass ritual was taking too damn long, and we're almost there." He said, pulling his Akatsuki close to him.
"Well I think-"
"You don't think. That's the problem." Kakuzu said bluntly.
"SHUT UP PRICK. I think that this whole thing of trying to find the two-tails is taking too fucking long, but I'm not fucking complaining."
"Saint Hidan huh."
"THAT GOES AGAINST MY RELIGION AND YOU KNOW IT. I'M NOT A SAINT! I'M A SACRIFICING BASTARD WHO WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MY GOD!" Hidan screamed lividly at his zombie twin.
"Shut up already. I've located her now, and you yelling your head off will most probably scare her off." Kakuzu lectured him.
"Good. That fucking bitch. How long did it take you to sew me back together? Hm? How long was it?"
"Half an hour."
"Exactly. Half an hour. Half. A. Fucking. HOUR." Hidan hissed.
Minutes later they entered a clearing in the forest, but they stopped dead in slight astonishment at what they found.
"Hello boys." Yugito said, turning round to face them with a smirk, flicking her blonde hair over her shoulder and winking at them.
"Bitch." Was the only word that left Hidan's mouth.
"Come back for some more?" Yugito simpered, raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"Hidan…"
"…Can I kill her yet?"
"As long as you don't maul her beyond all recognition. I need my money, Hidan. You hear me?" Kakuzu warned.
"Yeah, Yeah. I hear you." Hidan agreed uncaringly.
Then he launched himself at Yugito who waited for his scythe to fall.
"YAHOO!" Hidan yelled gleefully.
The scythe hit the floor, embedding itself in the mud as Yugito side-stepped it at the last second.
Hidan frowned and started to pull it back, but Yugito was faster. With a yowl of triumph, she sliced at his cheek and drew blood, making him yelp in pain.
"Hidan. She'll have you on your ass again in a second." Kakuzu commented in boredom from the side-lines.
"SHUT UP YOU PRICK." Hidan yelled back angrily as his scythe swiped at her with renewed vigour and blurring in a vision of red and sliver as it gained in speed.
Yugito frowned. If they didn't decide to step in soon, then one misjudged second and it could be all over for her.
Hidan noticed the frown and grinned madly, an evil thirst for blood coming over him as he saw red.
Suddenly Naruto, Killer Bee and Gaara threw themselves from their hiding places. Killer Bee had his five katanas drawn, and he slammed into Kakuzu, managing to put one of the katanas through him, making it come out through his back. Kakuzu roared in pain as he went down, his scream filling out across the forest, making birds scatter from their nests and other such animals run for cover.
Naruto made one other shadow clone in case of an emergency and stood guard.
The clone turned its head to see how Gaara and Yugito were getting on as they fought valiantly against the now frenzied Hidan. The sand protecting them as the scythe whipped to and fro, trying to find a weakness in the sand barrier.
"Come in Whiskers, how is it going over there? Out." Utakata's voice came in on the mini radio.
Naruto pressed a button on the microphone to reply.
"Whiskers to Bubbles, everything's ok over here. How is the radius going so far? Out." Naruto answered the call, keeping his eye on Gaara and Yugito as they advanced on Hidan, finally managing to take the offensive.
"Radius is going fine, but I can only hold it for another two, maybe three minutes. If there are any intruders, I shall let you know. Bubbles over and out." Utakata informed him.
"Received and acknowledged Bubbles. Whiskers also over and out." Naruto replied, letting the radio go silent again.
"Yo! Naruto, we have a problem here." Bee said as he unsheathed his Katanas again and stood back to back with Naruto.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Naruto asked, suddenly apprehensive.
"He ain't dead." Killer Bee said gravely.
"You bet I'm not dead. Bet all the money you've got. Because I now only have three remaining hearts." Kakuzu's voice growled.
And indeed, Kakuzu was standing upright, a murderous look in his eyes.
Before either of them could move, Killer Bee was sent flying back with a powerful kick. He hit a tree at the edge of the clearing and slid painfully to the ground with a groan.
"BEE!" Naruto yelled in a panic, his eyes wide in shock. Killer Bee looked up and shook his head as if to clear a headache.
"You next, you pathetic dead last Genin." Kakuzu said emotionlessly.
That was when Kakuzu went flying back.
"No one…EVER…calls ME dead last. I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and you ever forget it! DATTEBAYO!" He yelled as he unclenched his fist and flexed his fingers.
Kakuzu stood up unsteadily from where he had landed on the floor and glared at Naruto.
"I didn't think I'd have to do this. Especially for a Genin. But you have sparked my ire, boy." He snarled.
"I didn't even want to TOUCH your ire, creep." Naruto retorted angrily.
Yugito screeched suddenly as Hidan's scythe caught her shoulder and drew blood, leaving a deep gash near the top of her shoulder.
Gaara was frowning, why hadn't his sand stopped it? Yugito was in radius…Was the sand reacting to her Bijou?
"C'MON BITCH! YOU AIN'T VERY FAST ARE YOU. HAHAHA! JASHIN WILL ENJOY EATING YOUR SOUL AS YOU DIE AT MY HANDS BITCH!YAHOO!" Hidan roared in triumph, laughing madly.
"BUBBLES TO WHISKERS. WE'VE GOT A SITUATION." Utakata yelled through the microphone suddenly, nearly scaring the hell out of Naruto as he watched Kakuzu dodge Killer Bee's katana which was thrown at him, managing to catch and rip a part of Kakuzu's mask.
Naruto's clone also went to help and set about harassing Kakuzu with lots of Kunai and Shurikan, making him focus on dodging them all instead of going on the offensive to attack.
"Whiskers is receiving? What's wrong?"
"The radius has been breached at a fast pace. I repeat the radius has been breached from the far side. I will not be able to get there in time to stop them so whatever happens, you will have to deal with it until I get there."
"What! Great. Just great. How many have breached the area? And where are they headed?" Naruto asked in a panic as he felt his clone get stabbed multiple times and 'poof' away.
"Headed straight to you very quickly. Approximately…Four…I think. I can't tell if it's the Akatsuki or not, but I'm on my way."
"Ok, I'll try to-"
"Don't try anything Naruto, just try and get this finished up before they get there. I'm on my way. Bubbles over and out.
"Right, Whiskers over and out."
Naruto cursed under his breath and turned to see Gaara holding a wall of sand over himself and Yugito as Hidan swore colourfully, trying to hack his way into the sand.
The sand managed to somehow gain a grip onto the scythe, and ripped it out of Hidan's grasp, embedding it in a tree on the side of the clearing.
Hidan jumped away from the advancing sand and flipped it off.
"DAMN CAT. SEE ALL THE FUCKING TROUBLE YOU CAUSE US? BITCH. CATS HAVE NO COURAGE. YOU WILL DIE PITIFULLY BEFORE ME!" Hidan yelled angrily, brandishing his fist in their direction as the sounds of clashing metal from Killer Bee's and Kakuzu's fight raged on behind him.
There was an indignant yowl and Gaara's sand exploded outwards to reveal the two-tailed cat in it's half finished form with the basic demonic cat form with black and blue pulsing fiery chakra like fur.
"Oh shi-" Hidan was suddenly battered with a huge fiery blue paw with extended claws. It sent him flying into the ground some meters away, but he managed to somehow stay intact.
"Fucking cat. I'll turn you into a fucking TEACOSY!" Hidan yelled with a grimace, clutching his side and massaging it as he stood up.
Naruto quickly turned his attention back to Kakuzu as Killer Bee threw an explosive tag at him.
There was a huge bang, and Naruto nearly relaxed, thinking the enemy couldn't have survived that at such a short distance, Akatsuki or not.
That was…
Until the smoke cleared.
Kakuzu was standing there, looking mildly irritated.
Without warning, the sound of a million sweetly chirruping birds pierced the air, followed by a streak of silver and a tremendous crash, and Kakuzu's eyes went wide in surprise and pain.
"Got him Kakashi-Sensei!" A girl's voice cried out happily.
"Way to go Hatake-San!" Another called out.
"That's revenge…for Asuma Sensei." Another murmured.
Naruto's eyes went wide and he stopped Killer Bee from moving to attack.
"Ino…? Choji…? Shikamaru…?" Naruto called out uncertainly.
The three named people came out from their hiding places and stared in shock at Naruto.
"N-N-Naruto? W-What are you doing here? We thought you'd left to go and…well…" Ino trailed off.
"Hah, still the gossip monger Ino? And don't tell me, you all thought I'd gone to join or take down Sasuke. Is that what they told you?" Naruto said with a hint of bitterness.
"Naruto? Who are these guys, they don't look friendly to ma eyes." Bee rapped as he stepped towards them once, making the three of them take a slight step back.
"They're fine. They're…friends." Naruto said haltingly.
"H-H-How did you…know that…l-l-lightning…" Kakuzu asked stuttering, coughing up more blood.
"I guess you just got matched with the wrong guy, seeing as you're an earth user." A familiar voice said from behind Kakuzu.
Naruto grimaced as Kakuzu went to the floor.
"He's not dead." Naruto muttered.
"What?" Shikamaru asked, turning to Naruto in disbelief. "But, it was a clean shot…I saw it! We all did!"
"Yeah, but this guy has five hearts. He's now two down. He has three left. We need to get to those before he's dead. But at the moment, Yugito and Gaara are handling that…Hidan guy over there." Naruto explained, looking at the floor.
"Naruto."
Naruto refused to look up.
"Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto gritted his teeth.
"For god's sake boy. NARUTO. Look at me."
Naruto looked up and met the glaring eyes of his Sensei.
Kakashi looked at Naruto. Properly looked, taking in the state of his student. The messed up hair, the tired eyes from the sleepless nights, the tattered battle worn now dull orange and black clothes.
He narrowed his eyes.
"When we get back, you and I are going to have a long and close one to one talk. Do you hear me?" He ordered.
"Hai Sensei." Naruto mumbled.
'It's a good thing you are not going back eh brat?'
'Just what I was thinking you fur ball. Well…Not until all this is over anyway.'
'You call me fur ball ONE more time…I dare you…'
'Why? What you gonna do to me?…Fur ball.'
'…You did NOT just go there. Now feel the ULTIMATE PAIN OF…MIGRAINE!'
Naruto yelled out in pain and clutched at the left side of his head.
"YOU FUCKING ORANGE FUZZ BUSH! CUT IT OUT YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH WHILST BURNING IN THE FUCKING FEIRY PITS OF HELL AS YOUR NON-EXISTANT MOTHER CASTRATES YOUR NON EXISTANT FOX LIKE BOLLOCKS!" Naruto screamed as he fell to his knees.
Everything stopped around them and turned to stare.
The migraine stopped immediately.
'Nice one genius.'
'I SO blame you for this.'
Yugito, Killer Bee and Gaara started chuckling as the others looked on in utter confusion.
"What the hell…Is there something you're not telling us Naruto?" Choji asked.
"You didn't know? Oh wait, it's the S-class secret of your village…Isn't it…?" Kakuzu asked as he stood up behind them.
"Don't you dare…" Kakashi threatened, starting to fire up another Raikiri.
"You mean the S-class secret of where I am the Jinchuuriki to the Nine-tailed demon fox-"
'That's me.'
"-where people treated me like a…like a…whatever. They treated me badly. But I didn't care. I'll fight for them all the same. Because I'll prove them wrong."
"And I'll start by taking you down." Naruto finished with a determined glare.
He summoned a clone.
Hidan launched himself at Yugito with renewed fury, but something caught him before he could.
"Shadow possession technique, success." Shikamaru smirked. Finally, he could take revenge.
"Good job Shikamaru!" Ino called out with a smile.
"I'm going to take this murderer for a walk. He won't be back, I promise." Shikamaru said as he started to sprint off, and poor, evil Hidan could do nothing but follow and curse abusively in his wake.
"Yugito, Choji, Gaara. Can you go with him to make sure he's alright please? Just in case. Don't interfere unless you need to…" Naruto asked of them.
Yugito and Gaara nodded, but Choji looked uncertain.
"B-But Naruto…What about you guys?"
"We'll be fine. We can handle it here." Kakashi answered for him. Choji bit his lip and nodded, and the three of them started to track down where Shikamaru and Hidan had headed off to.
Kakuzu abruptly threw off his Akatsuki cloak to reveal his stitched up back which had four faces in it, two of which were broken. They all started to move as if they were alive, trying to break free from his back, pulsing and stretching, making him grunt with the force of their struggling.
Then, with an almighty roar, the faces broke free from him, a slimy blackness erupting from within him and filling out into four very odd forms behind him.
Two of them immediately started howling and they fell to the floor with desperate moans of pain as they started dying.
"What the-"
"That must have been where he was injured earlier…When Bee stabbed him and when Kaka-Sensei got him in the back with that Raikiri…"
"That's clever of you to figure that out, but you won't be able to keep it up. Now all of you…die." Kakuzu said in a monotone.
More hand signs were made and the two remaining black demonic things opened their mouths to reveal the dark abysses within.
"Die…now." Kakuzu said, his red and green eyes glinting with evil.
Fire and Wind erupted from deep within the creatures and they joined to create a huge great explosion which hurtled towards Killer Bee, Naruto, Kakashi and Ino.
Suddenly there were three soft 'pop's.
"Sorry I'm late. I seem to have that effect." Utakata smiled as the explosion was contained in the bubble, as were the two demonic creatures of the abyss.
Utakata suddenly put his pipe to his mouth and blew a small lilting melody which rose and fell on it.
The bubble with the explosion inside it soared up into the sky and released it's contents, letting the explosion burn itself out high up above their heads.
Whereas the creatures' bubbles expanded once, and then contracted swiftly. Their dying screams were not heard as the bubble contained their noise as they disappeared from existence.
"Get the hell out of my way you-AAHH!" Kakuzu screamed and fell to the floor, holding his heart.
"Seems Shikamaru managed to get that blood vial to work…I took your blood sample earlier on and gave it to Shikamaru before he took your little zombie twin off. Obviously he is a devout Jashinist an he must have tried the ritual on Master Nara. But instead, he cleverly used your blood. In effect, you just killed one another." Kakashi explained.
Kakuzu's eyes went wide before closing completely.
Kakuzu then collapsed and died before he even hit the ground, all five of his hearts permanently stopped.
"Well that was easy." Utakata said as everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Uhh…and you are?" Ino asked as she blinked, focusing on the…hot…dude…
"UTAKATA! YOU SCARED THE HELL OUTTA ME. I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA DIE!" Naruto yelled, clutching his heart in relief.
'YOU STUPID SLUG! CAN'T YOU GO ANY FASTER? I COULD HAVE DIED!' The Kyuubi roared.
'YEAH! TRY THIS THING CALLED AN AUTO-BOOST BAKA!' The Ox joined in angrily.
'…No.' The Slug replied after a few slow seconds.
"Naruto, don't yell at strangers." Kakashi reprimanded him.
"I'm no stranger…I promise. I'm here to help a family member." Utakata said with another smile and a loyal bow.
"We'd do anything to help our other brother. Beyond your trust his soul was hurled, now we're helping him save the world. Yo." Killer Bee rapped.
Kakashi raised his eyebrows in astonishment.
"F-F-Family…?" He stuttered.
Shikamaru, Choji, Yugito and Gaara suddenly broke from the trees and came to stand with them. Shikamaru looking completely calm.
Kakashi studied them all.
"Y-You are all…Jinchuuriki?" He stuttered, feeling it suddenly sink in.
"Yes. We are the last." Yugito confirmed.
Kakashi nodded to himself.
"Naruto. You're coming with me. Ino, stay here a second. Wait til Choji and Shikamaru return."
"Hai." Ino nodded.
Kakashi then dragged a reluctant Naruto by the ear to the side of the clearing and folded his arms.
Waiting…expectantly.
'Oh crap.' Naruto thought with an inward grimace.
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