A new team, different sensei Chapter 18, a naruto fanfic

I don't own anything from the manga/anime Naruto. It is Masashi Kishimoto that owns Naruto. This is a fan fiction based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga and anime: Naruto.

"Ordinary conversation"

'thought'

"Wolf/Kyuubi/demon speech"

'Wolf/Kyuubi thought'

"VERY LOUD YELLING"

Authors note: a comment from me about the story.

-- paragraph and scene change

On the wall surrounding Konoha, there are several watch posts. At one of these posts, two Chuunin were frozen in fear. The reason was a gigantic three headed snake coming towards then, and smashing into the wall.

After the snake broke trough the wall, ninjas from both the hidden village of Sand and Sound came rushing in. Some of them were killed by the Konoha ninjas that had rushed there, but the element of surprise was on their side.

The snake also went into the village, crushing houses where ever it went.

"I will not let you interfere with Orochimaru-sama's plans. Your fight is with me, White Wolf." Kimimaru said, and pulled a bone sword out of his shoulder, while activating his cursed seal. Angled lines appeared on his body, and Tenshi sensed a huge increase in chakra level. Kimimaru held up his hand and bone came out from it, forming a spear.

'What the?' Tenshi thought before he was forced to dodge a stab from the spear. He didn't react fast enough to avoid the sword swipe though, but managed to catch it with two kunai. But Kimimaru just smirked, applied a little more pressure and cut right trough both of the kunai. Tenshi didn't see good enough to see what happened, but he knew that his kunai was broken, and he had a cut across his chest.

'He's too fast and I can see well enough. Right now, seeing only distracts me. But can I fight without being in the meditative state yet? Haku hasn't been able to run circles around me for a while, but still…' Tenshi thought, holding his chest and trying to analyse Kimimaru's strength.

'He is a talented taijutsu user. Being able to move fast enough that I can't see it. His weapon, what ever it is, is sharp enough to cut trough my kunai. At least I think that's what he did. I don't want to use my mask yet. Let's try this guy out a bit first.' Tenshi thought and quickly formed some seals.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu" Tenshi called and shot a large ball of fire towards Kimimaru, who formed seals of his own and thrust his fist towards the ball. A shockwave came and dissipated the fireball. Tenshi didn't know why he was surprised.

'He used sound waves to knock away the air, killing the fire. What about this then?' Tenshi thought and formed seals again.

"Suiton: Daibakufu no jutsu" he called and water particles in the air condensed around him and formed a puddle. From the puddle the water blast shot towards Kimimaru, who dodged to the right, going so fast that Tenshi had problems keeping up with his vision.

'Damn, he's fast. But so am I' Tenshi thought and rushed towards Kimimaru. He jumped clear over Kimimaru and swung around with a roundhouse kick. Kimimaru responded by slashing and stabbing Tenshi at the same time, but was surprised when he popped into smoke.

'Kage bunshin' he managed to think before he felt excruciating pain in his back. Tenshi stood behind him, pushing a Rasengan into Kimimaru's back. Tenshi released his control and the Rasengan shot Kimimaru straight into the wall.

Tenshi didn't relax though. He felt that instead of diminishing, Kimimaru's chakra signature only increased.

'This fight will drag on. If I hold this state for much longer, I'd loose. How could I never realise I become a bit slower when I mediate. Meditating is a calming exercise. This state…dulls me. I have to depend on my radar and chakra sphere.' Tenshi thought, while observing Kimimaru, who emerged from the rubble.

Kimimaru had become very monster-like. His skin had darkened to ash greyish, he had darker lines around his eyes, but most noticeably was the huge bone like spears coming out of his shoulders, the fin like appendages over his spine…and his tail.

'Orochimaru must be behind that. Must not underestimate him. He is from that bone clan, Kaguya or something. To be able to survive my Rasengan like that…I need to be able to break his body open and attack from within. Otherwise his body will be able to break just about any attacks. The Chidori would probably be able to kill him, but unless I can get under his skin, Rasengan will just grind away his skin, leaving his bone and the rest of the body. I need to exit this state, and fight with my radar and sphere.' Tenshi thought and Kimimaru was confused when his body relaxed then tensed. Tenshi made some seals and Kimimaru could feel a faint pulse of chakra.

'What's he up too? Better not wait to find out.' Kimimaru thought, gripped his spine and ripped it out. Tenshi was confused for a moment.

'What the hell was that? He pulled out another bone?' Tenshi thought and another pulse of his radar confirmed it.

'Um…a bone that acts like a whip? What the…' Tenshi thought and jumped back when Kimimaru whipped his spine towards him. Tenshi didn't hesitate to jump back, finding that he could move good enough even without his sight.

'Haku would be proud.' Tenshi thought while forming seals. He ended in the tiger seal and blasted a shot of fire towards Kimimaru. The ball impacted and exploded, casting up dust.

Kimimaru came out of the dust cloud, a bit singed but okay. He swung his spine and caught Tenshi, who looked surprised at the spine wrapped around him, capturing him and biting into his sides.

"Hana(flower)" Kimimaru called and his hand grew and morphed into a drill like spear. He rushed and trusted the spear into Tenshi. Tenshi coughed, blood flying from his mouth.

"I got you" Kimimaru said, not bragging, just stating a fact.

Naruto pulled his kunai out of a Sound nins back. He grimaced at the sound, but ignored it and turned to see Rin place a green glowing palm on a Sand nins head, and the nin slumped to the ground, obviously dead. Rin looked up and spotted Naruto.

"Naruto, I need you to go after Sasuke. Hurry, he will be killed if you don't. This is a A-rank mission, go now." Rin said and Naruto nodded, before speeding off after the Uchiha. He didn't see the Sound squad that started following.

Sakura and Ino saw Naruto speed of, and both silently wished him luck before turning back to their own battle. A mean looking Sound nin grinned at them. He stopped grinning when Ino announced the jutsu she used without him seeing, due to the fact that she hid her seal making behind Sakura's back.

"Shinheisa suru no jutsu, full power." Ino called and the last thing the Sound felt was a melting feeling and then his mind shut down, permanently.

Kimimaru stared at his kill. Why would Tenshi smirk when he was dead.

'Shit' Kimimaru managed to think before he felt a searing pain in his back. He quickly jumped away from Tenshi, turning to watch a dead Tenshi and a very much alive, although grim looking one. Then the dead one melted into a puddle of something dark and murky.

"Kawarimi." Kimimaru stated. Tenshi didn't acknowledge him, instead he seemed to look around, searching for something.

'He's blind, yet looking around. How can that be?' Kimimaru thought, confusion showing on his face. Tenshi, for one, wasn't confused. He used his radar to sense the area, but turned his head instinctively.

'I need to end this soon.' Tenshi thought, sensing the battle around him, in which many Konoha nin were in trouble. Tenshi turned back to Kimimaru, tensing again.

"Sorry, but I can't let this drag on." Tenshi said, his voice changing, darkening and freezing as more and more of his mask came out. Kimimaru was taken aback by the wolf mask, which seemed to glare at him. When the mask was finished forming, the White wolf flexed his hand.

"Well, then." He said and disappeared. Kimimaru was shocked at the increase in speed. The next thing he knew, he felt a foot in his face, sending him flying backwards.

"Suiton:…" Tenshi called, but Kimimaru didn't hear the name of the jutsu. He did however feel the searing pain that came when something made of water hit his back. It felt like being whipped, only much worse, like salt was added to the whip.

Kimimaru flipped, and shot some bullets made of bone towards Tenshi, who seemingly stood still, but the bones just flew trough him. Kimimaru paused to assess the situation, and involuntaringly he gave a shiver at the sneering wolf in front of him.

Tenshi formed a few seals, and speed up. Kimimaru was only just able to see him, thanks to the cursed seal, but was unable to dodge the punch that hit him. Even having reinforced his bones to be as strong as steel, Kimimaru felt and heard the cracks that appeared from the punch.

'How can he punch that hard?' Kimimaru thought as he staggered back. Again he was unable to dodge and the next punch hit his chest, cracking a rib. Coughing, Kimimaru flipped backwards, but not before making some spikes of bone stick out of his legs. As he flipped, the bone spikes slashed at Tenshi, who didn't dodge. The result were vertical slashes, one on each thigh, two that went from his stomach to his chest, and would have continued to his face if the mask hadn't stopped them.

When Kimimaru landed from his flip, he was immediately greeted by two fists, one to the face and one to the gut. Tenshi had completely ignored his wounds, instead opting to follow Kimimaru and give the same bone cracking punches. Kimimaru coughed up some blood, but managed to make some spikes come out of his upper body. Tenshi seemed to disregard this and punched again. He broke off one of the spikes, but got his hand pierced in the process. Jumping away from Kimimaru, Tenshi calmly grabbed the bone spike that stood out of his hand, and pulled it out.

'How can he just do that? He acts as if he doesn't care about his body.' Kimimaru thought. He didn't feel to well himself, feeling the cracks in his bones heal. He didn't like fighting someone that could crack his bones from a simple punch.

"This fight is over." Tenshi said, his tone of voice sending chills up Kimimaru's spine.

Naruto realised that he was being trailed and cursed himself for going alone.

'Now what?' he thought, planning furiously for how to deal with the pursuers. He was getting more and more frustrated before his face split into a grin.

"Kage bunshin no jutsu"

Sakura punched another Sound nin, and smiled at the satisfying, although disgusting crunch. She was forced to jump over the now deformed Sound nin when a Sand nin sent a Futon jutsu at her. The result was that the Sound nin was split in two. Sakura grimaced at the sight, before dodging another Futon jutsu.

'Persistent.' Sakura thought. The Sand nin landed in front of her, and was about to launch another Futon jutsu at her when they heard:

"Futon: Dai tei tama (grand air bullet)" and a rather big air bullet hit the Sand nin, killing him instantly. Sakura looked over and saw Asuma wave at her. She nodded gratefully before forming seals.

"Doton: Douryuudan.(earth dragon missile)" Sakura called and a dragon head of mud came up behind her and began to spit mud projectiles towards some Sound and Sand ninjas.

"Katon: Karyuudan.(fire dragon missile)" She called and a quick burst of fire came from her, engulfing the projectiles and turning them into lethal flaming mud balls. Of the six nins that were Sakura's target, only two survived.

Ino wasn't doing so well. She was surrounded by rather unfriendly looking Sound and Sand ninjas.

'Okay, what now? Come on Ino, think. There has to be something I can use to get out of here.' Ino thought and racked her brain for something, anything. But before she could think of something, the enemy ninjas jumped towards her, kunai drawn. Ino gasped and began forming seals for a last ditch effort, when a huge hawk swooped down and grabbed her, lifting her away from the attacking shinobi. Ino blinked in confusion a few times, before she heard a melodious laughter.

"So, you are Ten-san's fledgling student?" a female voice said and Ino looked up from her position in the hawks talons. The first thing that struck Ino was the sheer size of the bird of prey. It was large, about twenty meters from beak to tail feathers. Ino wasn't sure about the wings, but she thought they were around fifty meters. The talons were easily as large as Ino's legs. Then she noticed who had spoken. It was a woman, and she was sitting on the hawks neck. The woman had red hair in a long horsetail that reached almost to her behind. She had red, sharp eyes, a slightly angular face, and was built lightly. She wore a brown cloak with a Jounin outfit under.

"Who are you?" Ino asked and the woman grinned.

"I'm Cara. Nice to meet you, fledgling." Cara said with a grin.

'Fledgling?' Ino thought but before she could say anything, Cara formed seals.

"Katon: Ryuuka no jutsu." she called and a dragon of fire erupted from her and went towards the ninjas below them. Some of them got away, some didn't.

"Hold on, fledgling." Cara said and the hawk soared higher before landing on the roof of the stadium. It release Ino, who hurriedly got up and looked at the hand Cara offered her. Ino smiled and allowed herself to be pulled up on the bird, who took off again.

"Let's show these guys what two kunoichi can do." Cara yelled.

"Yeah." Ino yelled back, the rush of flying affecting her.

A squad of Sound nin were pursuing who they thought were a weak and unskilled Konoha Genin. There were some problems with that, though. One, the Genin was a student of Konoha's strongest Jounin. Two, the Genin was the vessel for the Kyuubi. Three, the Genin was Uzumaki Naruto, Konoha's most hyperactive, surprising ninja.

As such, they walked straight into a trap, consisting of several wires, exploding tags and nets.

And after the resulting explosion and screaming, the three surviving Sound nins looked up and saw five Naruto's, standing on four rather hungry looking foxes. The Naruto's waved before puffing out in a cloud of smoke and the foxes lunged.

Screams came again, before silence.

Naruto grimaced as he heard the screams, knowing he caused them.

"Damn it kit, I wanted to eat them." Kyuubi grumbled, pacing back and forth in his cage.

'Shut up. I have to catch up to Sasuke-teme. I can't stop and summon you, besides, you'll probably get to fight anyway.' Naruto shot back, before speeding off.

"Just drop the weights and get a move on then." Kyuubi growled. Naruto smacked his head, not believing he actually forgot about that. He formed the ram seal and instantly felt the difference. Running much faster and easier, he made good time and was starting to catch up. He sniffed his nose, and caught the scent of two people fighting, neither was Sasuke.

'I'll have to take a longer way. Don't want to end up in the fight.' Naruto thought. He could have sworn he heard Kyuubi whine in disappointment.

'Shut up, fur ball. You'll get to fight soon.' Naruto sighed and redirected his route so that he passed the combatants at a safe distance.

Sasuke stared in horror at the monstrosity in front of him. Gaara had transformed into some sort of racoon made from hardened sand.

'What is he? He took three Chidori and is still standing.' Sasuke thought, horrified. He gasped and just managed to dodge out of the way when Gaara sent a huge sand claw at him.

'Without the Sharingan, I would have been dead already.' Sasuke pointed out to himself, suddenly very glad for his bloodred eyes. But that burst of chakra it took for Sasuke to activate the Sharingan, made the cursed seal spread, and he stiffened in pain, falling down on a branch in the tree he had been standing in.

'The seal…' Sasuke thought, and grunted in pain as the seal spread and covered half of his body.

'My body… won't move.' Sasuke thought and could do nothing except look at Gaara, who was flying towards him, ready to crush him. The monster that was Gaara had a ecstatic look on his face, while slobbering all over the place. That, along with his crazed eyes, made him look very dangerous, and very insane.

Right before Gaara hit Sasuke, Gaara was introduced to Naruto's foot.

"Heh, I've caught up." Naruto said while panting slightly. He glanced at Sasuke and formed a kage bunshin that went and checked him over.

"You all right, Sasuke?" Naruto asked. Sasuke grunted as the clone leaned him against the trunk of the tree they were in.

'What is he?' Naruto thought, looking at Gaara.

"He's like you, kit. Only his demon, Shukaku, has made him insane. che. that damn racoon always was a nutcase." Kyuubi replied.

'But he doesn't look like a human at all.' Naruto shot back.

"He's transformed. He's using Shukaku's chakra and sand to make himself that body." Kyuubi replied.

'Is he strong?' Naruto asked. He got the impression that Kyuubi was rolling his eyes.

"Shukaku is the one tailed demon. I am the nine tailed demon. You know the tails represent how much power we have. You do the math." Kyuubi replied.

'I meant…oh, never mind. Let's just go wild.' Naruto thought¨

"Finally!" Kyuubi said.

Naruto formed the seal for Kage bunshin, and six clones came to life. They jumped towards Gaara, who used his huge claw-like hands to grab them.

"Now." the clones called. The real Naruto had snuck behind Gaara using clones as stepping boards, and trusted a Rasengan under Gaara's tail, while calling out: "Konoha's supreme taijutsu move: thousand years of pain, Rasengan version"

The result was that Gaara's tail was ripped off, and he was sent spinning into a tree. Naruto grinned but was forced to dodge sand projectiles that Gaara sent towards him.

"Suna shuriken (sand shuriken)" Gaara called and shot more sand projectiles towards Naruto, who was forced to use some clones as shields.

"Sasuke, close your eyes!" Naruto called while forming seals. Sasuke was quick to comply.

"Furasshu no jutsu." Naruto called, and the blinding flash came. Gaara, who had jumped towards Naruto, roared in pain, and crashed into the tree Naruto had stood on. Temari, who had been observing from the sidelines, was amazed.

'He's winning against Gaara's transformed form. What is he?' she thought.

Gaara was not happy. His ass was sore, luckily the sand had absorbed most of the impact of whatever jutsu the annoying blonde had used. Still he was sore, and his eyes were hurting, and he had trouble seeing.

"I'll kill you!" Gaara roared. When his eyes stopped hurting, and he opened them, he was surprised to see clones. Lots and lots of clones.

"Tajuu Kage Bunshin no jutsu" the Narutos called. It had to be at least a thousand of them.

"Time to beat the crap out of you. Let's go. U-ZU-MAKI NARUTO RENDAN two thousand version." The Narutos called, while kicking Gaara up into the air, and hitting him two times each. After they were done, Gaara fell limp to the ground, his sand body all but destroyed.

"Now we will use our feet and give you a four thousand version." The Narutos called.

'How is he so strong…?' Gaara thought before calling on more of Shukaku's chakra.

"Kit, look out. You feel that?" Kyuubi asked.

'Yeah, I know. He's calling on more chakra.' Naruto answered and prepared himself. Just in time, too, since not a moment later, a huge claw shot up and destroyed all the clones, sending Naruto flying towards a tree. His fall was cushioned by Sasuke, who had managed to move just enough to help him.

"Sasuke." Naruto said, clearly surprised.

"All that, and he just got right back up. What are you going to do, Naruto?" Sasuke asked. Naruto replied by looking at Gaara. He had transformed to look like the demon sealed inside him. The demon shape was huge, just as tall as Gamabunta, which was somewhere between twice and three times as tall as the trees. A huge tail swished behind the demon.

'Oh no, it came out. The perfect form. I have to get out of here.' Temari thought and started to run away.

"You forced me to do this. Die!" Gaara's voice came from the demon, and sand started to gather around Naruto, preparing to crush him. Had not Naruto managed to throw Sasuke away, the sand would have caught him too.

'Only have time for one try.' Naruto thought, and started to frantically form seals before swiping some blood that had trickled out of his mouth.

"Die. Sabaku…" Gaara began, but Naruto interrupted with a cry of:

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!"

A huge puff of smoke came, where the sand around Naruto was blown away, and a crash as trees were destroyed. When the smoke cleared, Naruto stood on top of Kyuubi, who looked around and grinned, his nine tails swishing happily.

"Ah, out at last. Better late than never, right, kit?" Kyuubi said and Naruto snorted.

Gaara and Sasuke stared at the huge fox, which easily stood three times the height of the trees of the forest they were in.

'Kyuubi? But it was killed. Naruto can summon it? Just how strong is he?' Sasuke thought. Gaara had a different opinion.

"Interesting. You are interesting, Uzumaki Naruto." He roared. Gaara then appeared on top of the sand demon's head, and formed some seals.

"This is for entertaining me. Forced sleep no jutsu" he said and slumped forward. The eyes of the sand demon spun and changed from the pale yellow they used to be, to bright yellow, and the demon laughed, a high shrill laughter.

"And that's Shukaku. The medium fell asleep." Kyuubi said.

"Huh?" Naruto asked.

"Shukaku's vessel can't sleep, since Shukaku comes out when they do. Also he eats their soul. The vessel tends to become insane because of that. Well, Shukaku, long time no see." Kyuubi called and the sand demon looked at the fox demon.

"Kyuubi? I heard you were defeated. Pathetic foxy-chan." The tanuki said and Kyuubi growled.

"Instead of chatting, perhaps we should fight." Naruto said and Kyuubi rolled his eyes.

"Sure, whatever. Let's roll, baka-tanuki." Kyuubi called and rushed towards the sand demon. Kyuubi moved so fast, Naruto almost fell off. Shukaku moved one of his arms to grab Kyuubi, but the fox moved away, bit into the arm, and ripped it clean off. Kyuubi threw the arm away, while whipping Shukaku with his tails, the hair on the tails standing out, forming needles. Shukaku tried to retreat and fire off a huge air bullet, but Kyuubi simply destroyed the jutsu with his tail and continued the whipping. Each strike removed huge chunks of compressed sand from Shukaku's body. Shukaku tried to strike back with his remaining arm, but the nimble fox slipped away.

"Oy, Kyuubi! Stop playing, and defeat that thing." Naruto called. Kyuubi almost looked disappointed.

"Oh well, I guess I shouldn't play any longer. Kit, listen. When I say so, jump up on Shukaku and punch that kid awake. That should force Shukaku back into the kid." Kyuubi said, and Naruto nodded.

"Sure." He said. Kyuubi opened his mouth and roared, fire erupting from his mouth, striking Shukaku, who had managed to raise a shield of sand. The sand was instantly turned into glass, and the flames reached the sand demon. Kyuubi then rushed towards Shukaku, jumped behind him and bit onto the sand demon's neck.

"Now, kit!" Kyuubi called and Naruto jumped towards Gaara. Sand rushed towards him, but a quick burst of fire from Kyuubi stopped the fire, giving Naruto clear way.

"Wake up, already!" Naruto yelled and hit Gaara in the face, the hit strong enough to wake the sleeping demon vessel.

Gaara blinked as he was snapped out of his sleep, and just heard Shukaku roar in anger at being shut inside the seal again.

"Kit, beat that bastard up. I'm out of here." Kyuubi said and vanished back into the seal.

"Sure thing, fur ball." Naruto replied and rushed towards the still recovering Gaara. Gaara managed to use some sand to stop Naruto from reaching him.

"Damn it. I have to stop him." Naruto told himself, fighting the sand that threatened to crush his wrists. Then he remembered the jutsu Jiraiya taught him.

'Shunshin. But I don't have a focus point, and I can't form seals. How am I supposed to use the jutsu then?' Naruto asked himself.

"Idiot! When did you ever follow the rules?" Kyuubi asked and Naruto grinned for a moment.

"I'll kill you!" Gaara growled. Naruto looked up, and into Gaara's eyes.

"Why?" he simply asked.

"Why what?" Gaara asked back.

"Why do you kill?" Naruto asked.

"I'm a weapon. My father sealed this demon into me before I was even born. I am a relic of the past which the old geezers want to get rid of. Killing is my purpose as a weapon. As long as there are people in this world to kill, my life will hold meaning." Gaara said. Naruto shook his head.

"You sound almost like my sensei. He is a weapon as well. He was raised as a weapon, and has lived as a weapon. But he formed himself a life, a life to be proud of. He has precious people, whom he fights for. You just use your weapon status as a excuse to kill." Naruto said and almost broke the sand restraints. Gaara stared at him.

"Why, why do you fight so much?" Gaara asked.

"You and I are the same. We both have a great burden, placed on us by our fathers. The solitude, the hate. It's hell, isn't it. A hell my precious people saved me from. My girlfriends, my sensei, Rin-nee-san, Haku-chan, ero-sennin, bachan, jiichan, Iruka-sensei. They all saved me from that hell. That is why I fight. I will protect them. I love them, and they love me. That gives me the strength to go on!" Naruto said and focused all his willpower on Gaara and the Shunshin.

"SHUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" Naruto yelled and he disappeared from within the sand restraints and reappeared in front of Gaara, hitting him with his own head, forehead to forehead. Gaara's eyes were wide in shock, while blood trickled down between them. The sand they were standing on, still in the shape of Shukaku, crumbled and they fell to the ground, trees breaking their fall.

On the ground, Gaara found himself unable to move. He was totally drained, hurt, and his head was reeling with what Naruto had told him. He heard movements towards him, and managed to tilt his head to see Naruto crawling towards him.

'Why'"Why…why are you so strong?" Gaara asked weakly. Naruto glanced up at him, and Gaara was surprised to see tears in his eyes.

"That hell…of being alone, it's so cold isn't it? I…can understand your feelings so much it hurts. But thanks to my precious people, the few people who acknowledge me, I can live on, protecting them." Naruto said weakly, and Gaara found himself thinking of his brother and sister.

'If I…fought to protect someone, would I…would they…' he thought, but was interrupted by the arrival of Sasuke, who landed next to Naruto.

"That's enough, Naruto. You fought well." Sasuke said and glanced up as Temari and Kankurou landed next to Gaara. They looked like they were contemplating fighting, before Gaara spoke.

"Enough. Let's stop." He said and his two siblings looked at him in surprise, before lifting him up. Gaara took one last look at Naruto before he and his siblings jumped away.

Naruto fell into blissful darkness.

Gaara was still thinking over Naruto's words while being carried by Kankurou. He decided to give it a shot.

"Temari…Kankurou…I'm sorry." He said weakly, but both heard it. Neither of them could believe their ears though.

"That's…okay." Kankurou said, too surprised to say anything else.

'This fight is over?' Kimimaru thought, jumping slightly back to judge what his opponent would do now.

'So, Cara is here. Time to end this. First gate: KAI!' Tenshi thought, releasing the restraints on his muscles. He pulled out several three tipped kunais, and started throwing them towards Kimimaru, who dodged. When he had dodged them all, Kimimaru noticed something. One, Tenshi was holding an explosive tag. Two, the kunai he had dodged were scattered around him at regular intervals, some closer to him than others. Three, he could no longer see Tenshi. Looking frantically around for any sign, Kimimaru suddenly felt something being smacked on his face. He managed to rip the explosive tag off and destroy it before it blew. What he didn't notice, was the tag Tenshi had placed on his left thigh. It blew up, ripping Kimimaru's leg clean off. As he started falling down, Kimimaru caught a shimmer to the right. Shooting some bone bullets towards where the shimmer was, he was caught completely off guard by the hand that suddenly came out of nowhere and grabbed his lower jaw. Had Kimimaru been able to see trough his body, he would have noticed that he had fallen backwards so that his body was above one of Tenshi's Hirashin kunai.

Tenshi didn't waste a moment executing his plan. After grabbing hold of Kimimaru's jaw, he punched said Sound nin's head as hard as he could, while pulling on his jaw, again as hard as he could. The result was a sickening sound as the jaw was pulled out of it's socket. Kimimaru would have yelled in pain, had he been able to, but Tenshi's next move didn't allow him.

When Kimimaru's jaw had been dislocated, Tenshi plunged his hand into the Sound nin's mouth and made a Rasengan. The result came instantly. Kimimaru didn't have time to register anything other than something entering his mouth, before he died.

Tenshi didn't show any sign of disgust at what he had done as he let the limp body go. Instead he focused and used his chakra sphere to find all of his kunai. When he had collected them, he turned towards where he sensed Tsunade's chakra signature. But he didn't sense Sandaime's, and Orochimaru's was fading. Tenshi quickly jumped towards where he had been originally headed, and reached the ANBU standing there just in time to hear the barrier go down, and someone try to escape.

"Go after them now!" Tenshi ordered the ANBU and went into what appeared to be a forest on the roof. In there he found a tired Tsunade, and a dead Sandaime. If Tenshi had been able to see, he would have smiled at the peaceful look Sandaime had on his face.

Konoha was in ruins. The invasion had destroyed a lot of buildings, and a lot of ninjas had been killed in action. Miraculously, all of the rookie nine had survived, mostly unharmed. Tenshi was relieved that Rin, Haku, Naruto, Sakura and Ino didn't have any lasting injuries.

It was the day of the Sandaime's funeral, a cloudy, sad day. Tenshi arrived together with Rin, Haku and team 7. They took up their spots next to Kujaki, Sandaime's widow. She was taking it surprisingly well. Tenshi thought it was because of their old age.

"The funeral for the Sandaime Hokage, as well as all those that fell in battle, will now start." One of the advisors, who had been a team mate of Sandaime, said, and a bell struck several times, telling the whole village the start of the funeral of one of the greatest ninjas the world had seen.

As they each went up one and one, or in Tenshi and Rin's case, two and two, and laid down a white flower in front of Sandaime's picture, they each remembered fond moments with the wise man. When Tenshi remembered his conversation with his superior about Rin, he squeezed her hand, not wanting to let go for anything. Rin squeezed back.

Naruto looked on in sadness as Iruka hugged a crying Konohamaru. He was a bit startled by two hands sneaking into his own, but gave his girlfriends a weak smile, which they returned.

After the funeral, everyone began the work with rebuilding the village. Working together, putting differences aside to accomplish a common goal. Tsunade smiled as she saw that, knowing Sandaime would have been proud of his village. Shizune stood with her at the Hokage monument, smiling along her mentor. Their smile widened when they saw a big hawk take off from Tenshi's house. Tsunade and Shizune thought they could see a blonde speck on the hawk, and rightfully assumed it was Ino who was the summoner.

'That Cara. Always so carefree.' Tsunade thought, before she turned to where she sensed the approaching advisors and Jiraiya. Briefly bowing, Tsunade straightened herself and wondered why they approached her.

"What do the advisors want with me?" Tsunade asked, mirroring Jiraiya's words from earlier, although she didn't know that.

"You should already know without us telling you." Homura, the old man out of the two advisors, said.

"Konoha is in a bad situation now. Suna has officially stated that Orochimaru set them up, and has surrendered to us." He continued.

"With Konoha in the state it is in now, we had no choice but to accept the surrender. Our power has declined enormously. First with the loss of the White Wolf, and now with this invasion." Koharu, the female advisor, joined in. Tsunade looked at her, wondering what she meant.

"What are you talking about? I realise the council think of Tenshi as their little weapon of mass destruction, but he isn't dead. From what I heard, he took on a very powerful opponent, even before resuming full active duty." Tsunade said and the advisors sighed, amazingly at the same time.

"Before becoming blind, White Wolf would have torn that Sound ninja to bits. Now it took him way too long to defeat him. His power has declined, and he has lost his edge." Koharu said.

"We can't help but wonder if Haruno Rin is responsible for taking his edge of. But that is not the topic at hand here." Homura said, cutting off Tsunade's angry reply.

"We just got back from meeting with the feudal lord. We don't know if a neighbouring country will do something radical. During the meeting, it was agreed that Konoha needs a trustworthy and strong leader." Koharu said and Tsunade got a sense of dread.

"We need a Godaime Hokage as soon as possible. Tsunade, you were chosen." Homura said. Tsunade was stunned. She vaguely heard Shizune's gasp, but ignored it.

"You want me to be Hokage? Why?" she asked

"You, who are praised as one of the Sannin, are the only one strong enough to do this. Jiraiya advised that you would make a better leader than him anyway." Koharu said and Tsunade glared at a paling Jiraiya.

"Konoha needs you, Tsunade." Homura said, but Tsunade wasn't listening. Instead she saw flashbacks of three people she held dear.

"Becoming Hokage is my dream."

Three people, saying exactly the same phrase, having the same dream, all of them a big part of her life. Tsunade smiled grimly and looked out over the village.

'So, I will be the one to realise that dream, huh Nawaki, Dan?' Tsunade thought, before turning to the two in front of her.

"Alright. Godaime Hokage. Doesn't sound too bad." Tsunade said and smiled.

Shizune looked at her mentor, smiling too.

'Sandaime-sama would have been proud.' She thought.

"Damn my blindness. That would have been so nice, seeing Tsunade stand there, proclaiming herself as the Godaime. Damn." Tenshi cursed. Rin grinned, knowing he wasn't completely sincere.

"I just took off a huge hat and said "this village is mine now!". Nothing too big." Tsunade said and Tenshi chuckled.

"Sure, sure. And Jiraiya is a mild pervert." He said, making said man huff in annoyance.

"So, Jiraiya, when are you taking Naruto-kun on your training trip?" Haku asked, thinking the plans had been changed with the invasion.

"After the village is rebuilt a bit more, we'll go. I don't want to wait too long. How about your plans, Tenshi?" Jiraiya asked, chugging some sake.

"Same. I was thinking of leaving when you do. Less goodbyes." Tenshi replied, making Rin sigh.

"It's going to be boring here again. I can't believe you're leaving again, so soon after coming home." She said.

"At least he won't be gone six years this time." Tsunade said with a grin.

"Still, no one better become pregnant on this trip, you hear me?" Rin growled to Tenshi, who almost choked on his drink. Haku looked like she was boiling. After coughing for a few moments, Tenshi turned towards Rin, expression showing annoyance, and a badly concealed grin.

"Of course not. We'll wait until we come back before we do that." He replied. Poor Haku looked like all her blood had rushed to her head. Moments later, the room was filled with laughter.

"So this is Konoha. Itachi-sama, are you sure you'll be alright? Last time you were almost…" someone in a black cloak with red clouds said. The persons companion, Uchiha Itachi didn't answer right away.

"Let's just go." He finally said, and the two of them entered Konoha.

Yo, Kin-Ryu Chikara here. 18 chap finished. Damn, that was a huge writer's block. But hopefully I'm over that now. Sorry this chapter took so very long, hopefully the next will be faster to write. I actually managed to write the whole invasion into one chapter. And I think I did well too. Tenshi's fight was tricky to write though. Anyway, enjoy the new chapter.

The translation page I use for my original jutsus: www. freedict. com/ onldict/ jap. html (minus the spaces.)

Tenshi is Katon/Suiton while Rin is Doton/Futon.

Jutsu list: Jutsus that team 7 now knows (not counting the basics):

Naruto: preferred element: Katon/Raiton

Knows:

Rasengan (spiral ball)

Kage Bunshin no jutsu

Kage Shuriken no jutsu

Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu

Katon: Housenka no jutsu

Katon: Ryuuka no jutsu (dragonfire technique)

Doton: Doryuuheki

Raiton: Dageki Tesaki no jutsu (shock fingers)

Raiton: Raikyuu no jutsu (Lightning Ball)

Raiton: Raiden no atemi no jutsu (thunder and lightning strike)

Kuchiyose no jutsu, frogs and foxes

Mikazuki no mai (dance of the crescent moon)

Tsubaki no mai. (dance of the camellia)

Ninpou: Fukashi no jutsu (ninja arts: invisibility technique)

Shunshin no jutsu (body flicker) not perfected.

Furasshu no jutsu (sun flash)

Sakura: preferred element: Katon/Doton

Knows:

Kage Shuriken no jutsu

Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu

Katon: Housenka no jutsu (Phoenix fire technique)

Katon: Karyuu Endan (fire dragon flame missile)"

Katon: Karyuudan.(fire dragon missile)

Doton: Doryuuheki

Doton: Shinjuuzanshu no jutsu (suicidal beheading technique)

Douryuudan.(earth dragon missile)

Kuchiyose no jutsu, wolves and slugs

Ino: preferred element: Futon/Suiton

Knows:

Kage Bunshin no jutsu

Kage Shuriken no jutsu

Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu

Doton: Doryuuheki

Futon: Tei tama (air bullet)

Suiton: Sujinheki (water barrier)

Shintenshin no jutsu

Shinranshin no jutsu

Shinheisa suru no jutsu (mind close down)

Kuchiyose no jutsu, wolves and hawks

Furasshu no jutsu. (Sun Flash)

Hirashin no jutsu (flying thunder god) not perfected.