Chapter 4: The Attack and Orochimaru Battle Part One
Two Years Later
"Ok, one more time, if you can hit me with that technique then I'll buy lunch, Ramen of course," Naruto said preparing for what he knew was coming. Michael ran forward and jumped in the air, he was struck by a shuriken and turned into a log and that hit the floor.
"Well, it seems you've perfected the replacement technique but that's not the one I was counting on," Naruto said looking around for Michael.
"I know," Michael said right behind Naruto startling him and catching him off guard. Michael then grabbed Naruto and threw him into the air and cupped his hands to his side, he charged for a second before yelling 'Hadouken' and pushed a well aimed blast right at Naruto. Naruto saw it coming and dodged out of the way only to have Michael appear behind him again, this time he grabbed Naruto and pulled him down, as they were falling Michael kicked Naruto in the side and then flipped and punched him in the face and finally he raised is left arm and a ball of rapid spinning energy formed in his hand. As they neared the ground Michael put his available hand on Naruto shoulder pushing toward the fast approaching dirt below and at the exact moment that Naruto hit the ground he forced the energy sphere right into the blonde ninja's stomach. He held it there a moment and jumped off of Naruto watching him burrow into the earth with the impact of the technique. Hinata rushed over to her boyfriend and helped him up out of the crevice he was wrenched into; he took a direct hit and hurt pretty bad but had a smile on his face.
"The Rasengan Rendan, it seems you've finally mastered it," Neji said stepping from the shadows. "You're improving extremely quickly; you're a genius among ninja, no among combat period. Well now that you beat Naruto let's see how you do against me," Neji said getting into his trademark soft fist style fighting stance. Michael did the same but his stance was a little different than Neji's. Neji rushed in to strike and before he even noticed Michael had moved two of his chakra holes were already sealed. Wow, that was fast, I didn't even see him mov…, Neji's thought was cut short by Michael sealing two more of his chakra holes. "Well if that's how you want to play it then…" Neji started. He pulled out a couple of kunai from his pouch and threw them at Michael. Michael stood his ground and instead of moving out of the way, he spread his legs and began to spin at a very high velocity all the while pushing out chakra as he spun and yelled out Hakkeshou Kaiten as the kunai were deflected. This surprised Neji, and just as he stopped spinning he yelled out 'Hadouken' and fired the blast at Neji. Neji had no time to react and was hit in the chest with the blast, sending him flying back into a nearby tree. When the smoke cleared, Michael ran over to Neji and helped him up. Naruto and Hinata came down to their position now that the fight was over and they all congratulated Michael on completion of his training.
"Well, I think now its official you are definitely a Jounin, maybe even ANBU, you're skills rock, and I sure as hell didn't expect you to combine the Rasengan with the Lion Combo," Naruto said singing Michaels praises.
"Yes, using the smoke to catch me off guard normally wouldn't work but since you were coming out of the Hakkeshou Kaiten at the same time I couldn't tell that you were charging up your Hadouken," Neji said also praising Michael. Later that day the four of them reported to the Shadow office to tell Kakashi about the completion of Michael's training.
"Well, I am pleased to hear that everything went smoothly during you're studies and training, but we have a minor problem," Kakashi said worriedly. ", the ninja we set out to keep an eye on Orochimaru has been missing for a couple of days, and I fear he has been either captured or killed."
"So… now we don't know when Orochimaru is going to attack, and how he's going to do it, that's just great, so now what," Michael asked worried about the situation.
"Now, all we can do is wait until Orochimaru makes the first move, that's all we can do, just be prepared for anything at anytime, alright you're dismissed," Kakashi finished the meeting and sat back in his chair obviously thinking of something to do. For the next couple of days everything was normal in the village with the exception of people quietly prepared for the worst. Michael decided to change his daily training schedule to the morning time so that he could be fresh for the rest of the day, just in case.
Then it finally happened, in the dead of night Orochimaru and his army of evil ninja used a surprise attack on the village. Even though they were ambushed Konoha was ready, and they all fought hard to protect their precious home. Michael also fought hard defeating Chunnin after Chunnin and Jounin after Jounin. He didn't bother himself with any of the Gennin; he left them to the lower ranking ninja in the village. But Michael also went up against many members of Orochimaru's ANBU squad. These opponents were just about twice as difficult to defeat as any Jounin and he had a couple of close calls when he battled them. The main reason was because they would always attack in groups of two or more, and fought extremely dirty, they would deliberately try and attack the innocent bystanders around them and Michael would have to stop what he was currently doing to defend the civilians. Michael also noticed that when he was defending others his power rose to a degree, he thought it was because unconsciously he didn't want to see another event like what happened to his parents. Michael also helped out any nin from Konoha that were in need of aid, he would help them dispatch their enemy or heal an injury that they might have sustained. He learned from Haruno Sakura basic healing techniques and was a natural but not extremely proficient in it like some other ninja were. After about 3 hours of nonstop assault from the forces of Orochimaru. Michael noticed the number of enemy nin decreasing, and he was relieved for a moment until he realized what was going on, the were planning on bringing in something bigger… much bigger. He rushed in the direction of Kakashi who was also easily dispatching ninja and desperately searching for Orochimaru.
"Kakashi-sama, something really big is coming…," Michael started but was cut off mid sentence by a giant rumbling. As if on cue of Michael's warning, 3 insanely large snakes were fast approaching the village.
"Damn, Michael go and tell Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Jaraiya, and Tsunade to report to this location immediately," Kakashi yelled at Michael.. Michael knew what he wanted to the others for and left in the general direction he knew Naruto was in. A few minutes later he reached Naruto, who was fighting off a squad of Jounin with Sakura and Sasuke.
"Good all three of you are here, the Fifth needs you all on the front line for a special task, where are Jaraiya-sama, and Tsunade-sama?" Michael asked and was pointed in the direction of the hospital.
"Wait, what does the Hokage need us for?" asked Sasuke.
"There is a reptile problem he needs you three to handle," with that Michael was off to the hospital. When he arrived he found the two legendary Sennin and delivered them the message, they complied they followed Michael back to where Kakashi was. By now the snakes had reached the front gate and Kakashi was doing his best to keep them at bay. When everyone was gathered Kakashi started to hand out orders, " Jaraiya, summon the Boss Gama, Tsunade, summon Katsuya, Sakura, when I give the signal I need you to create a barrier around this area, Sasuke, me and you will be fighting together, Naruto, I need you to release three tails only, and Michael, I need you to get any ninja, friend or foe, away from this area for about a two acre diameter, and then report back here for further instruction." Michael saluted his leader and set off to accomplish his task, but it didn't take him long due to all the foreign Nin now retreating and the Konoha Nin drawing back into the village for defense and healing. When Michael returned Jaraiya had summoned Boss Gama, Tsunade had summoned Katsuya, Kakashi and Sasuke were charging up their Chidori's, Naruto was transformed into the Kyuubi with three tails, and Sakura was performing a large number of hand seals. Michael went up to Kakashi and then he saw him, Orochimaru. He was standing on top of the middle snakes head and flashed a horrible twisted smile.
"So, this boy is the genius I've heard so much about, well it will be my pleasure in killing him and all of you as well," Orochimaru said laughing evilly. The sight of this man angered Michael, he had been told of the horrible things Orochimaru had done to the village over the years and that he once was going to use Sasuke as his new container. According to Naruto, Sasuke was aware of this but continued to train under Orochimaru to get stronger, and when the day finally came that Orochimaru was going to transfer into his body, Sasuke had other plans and managed to get away from the evil man. Naruto found Sasuke and they battled to decide if Sasuke should come back to the village, with Naruto emerging the victor.
"Huh, like I would die by the hand of someone as insane as you are, but if you would like to test you're luck try me," Michael laughed at the man and brought a hand up and told him to bring it. All the while doing this Michael's anger was slowly rising and a golden aura was appearing around him. All the ninja looked in amazement as Michael's chakra level continued to increase tremendously. Michael then looked at Kakashi and asked,
"You're orders Hokage." Kakashi was reluctant to answer seeing as Michael's power was steadily growing, but he eventually came up with a good idea.
"Sakura, make the barrier,' Kakashi yelled over to her. She nodded and then performed one more seal and over the top of them, the snakes and Orochimaru was a barrier about 2 acres in diameter. "Now, Jaraiya and Tsunade, you take the snake on the right, Naruto, you take the one in the middle, me and Sasuke will take the one of the left, Sakura, keep the barrier up, and Michael, I want you to take on Orochimaru," Kakashi said mostly out of curiosity.
"But Kakashi, I know the boy is good, but he doesn't really stand a chance against Orochimaru, he'll be kil…" Tsunade was cut off by a massive surge of chakra from Michael. After seeing this Tsunade took back her words and prepared for the battle with the snake. Orochimaru heard all of this and jumped off his snake and prepared for one-on-one combat, Michael did the same. The first person to move was Naruto who charged with amazing speed at his designated snake. He slashed upward with his newly formed claws and landed a direct blow to the snake. The next to go on an offense was Jaraiya, Boss Gama leapt forward and unsheathed his massive sword simultaneously intending to impale the snake put he missed and hit he ground. After dodging the giant frogs attack the snake lashed out to bite the Boss but Tsunade and Katsuya and blocked the attack with a wall of acid.
Kakashi and Sasuke were now airborne moving in separate directions. They both at the same time jumped of the barrier and came crashing at their snake Chidori's extended in front of them. Sasuke managed to graze the snake cutting it open a little and Kakashi landed a full blown direct hit. The snake screamed in pain and twirled around trying to shake Kakashi loose, but it failed and only succeeded in giving Sasuke a chance to hit it between the eyes with another Chidori. Sasuke hung from the massive reptile and was preparing to place an explosive tag on the snake when he was thrust into the air by the snake. Sasuke flipped and twisted in the air and while he was coming down he noticed the snake wide gaping mouth beneath him. Sasuke began to perform some hand seals and when Kakashi realized what he was doing HE removed his hand from the snake and jumped back just in time to hear Sasuke yell, "Katon, Goukakyu no Jutsu". Sasuke spewed an immense flame from his mouth straight into the snake's throat. As the snaked insides began to broil Kakashi used one last Chidori and aimed straight for the snake's neck. Kakashi went straight threw the monster beheading it in the process.
Tsunade jumped on of Katsuya and punched the snake in the head sending it flying down into the ground, and before it could get back up it was stabbed through by the Gama's sword locking it to the ground. It was stuck in the ground but not dead so Jaraiya finished the beast of with a Rasengan right to he head burrowing right through it and then jumping out from the snakes cranium to wipe the snakes brain matter from his clothing. "Aw, it's going to take forever to clean this out," he said looking at Tsunade and she smiled.
Naruto had just dodged a series of strikes from the snakes tail and was flipping back to put some distance between him and the snake. Naruto then thrust his arm forward and a giant arm of red chakra erupted and grabbed the snake just below the head. Naruto then pulled his arm back and prepared a Rasengan. As the snake was pulled toward Naruto it opened it's mouth and swallowed Naruto. But, the Naruto the snake swallowed was just a shadow clone and the real Naruto was descending on the snake with Rasengan in hand. Before the snake knew what had happened it was hit with the Rasengan in the head and was squirming wildly to throw Naruto off before the attack burrowed through its head. It succeeded in throwing Naruto back but didn't notice that it had multiple little tags hanging from its body. As Naruto was flying back he threw a lit tag at one of the other unlit tags and they all exploded in a series of small explosions on the monster. When the smoke cleared half of the snake had been incinerated in the explosion and fell to the ground dead.