Here is the next chapter of this fic. I waited a while to see what would happen in the manga which I could use. I think its about time that I updated this.
Sasorimaru, Anko, Jugo, Naruto, and Sasuke arrived at their base and found some of the members in the kitchen. Aradam and Tobi were not amongst them.
"Ah, so you got the other two. About time. So what do we do now?" Zaku asked.
"We train until we can take on the Akatsuki without problems. Where are Aradam and Tobi?" Sasorimaru asked.
"They left together two days ago. Said they will be back around now." Suigetsu said.
"Not to fear, we are here." Tobi said from behind them. Aradam was walking behind him.
"Where did you go?" Anko asked.
"Nowhere that needs an explanation." Aradam replied as he sat down next to Tobi at the table. "Those are the newest recruits?" Aradam asked as he looked at Naruto and Sasuke.
"Yes. But before we continue into the training, I think it is about time to tell us who you really are Aradam. And you too Tobi." Sasorimaru asked.
The two of them did not even look at each other. "What do you mean?" Tobi asked.
"What I mean is that how do you two have the exact same chakra signature." Sasorimaru said.
At this everyone looked at Tobi and Aradam.
"Heh, you finally noticed?" Tobi said.
"No, I knew from the start. I just didn't say anything before the attack on Orochimaru. Now tell us who you really are." Sasorimaru said.
"Fine. We are really the same person, but at the same time, two different people." Tobi said.
"What the hell does that mean?" Zaku asked.
"He means that one of them is the real person while the other is a clone." Sasorimaru replied.
"Yes. But which one is the real one?" Tobi asked.
"You are. Aradam is the copy." Sasorimaru said as he walked closer to Tobi.
"How did you know?" Tobi asked.
"I already told you. You two have different chakra signatures. Then I figured that the real one would be wearing the mask while the copy, who was disposable, would reveal himself. Besides, you two have the same eyes and haircut." Sasorimaru explained.
"Oh? You see my eye?" Tobi asked.
"Yea. Now, are you with the Akatsuki or with us?" Sasorimaru asked. Everyone except for Sasuke and Naruto remained alert. Naruto, who was unusually quiet, was looking at Tobi with red eyes.
"He is with Akatsuki. He is the ringleader of them." Naruto said with a demonic voice. "He was the one who summoned me into that waterfall."
"Heh. Yes I did. And yes, I am with Akatsuki. The only reason I am here was because we needed to get rid of Orochimaru. And now that that is taken care of, there is no reason for us to be here." Tobi said.
At that statement, Naruto charged at Tobi. Aradam intercepted him while Tobi jumped back and ran towards the door.
"You all better not pay attention to me, but to the people outside the base." Tobi said as he dodged the attacks which were lunged at him. Sasorimaru now sensed six people outside the base.
"Shit. There are six…no, seven Akatsuki at our door. Sasuke, help Naruto while the rest of us fight off our intruders. And by no means do you two go outside. They want Naruto and you need to make sure that he doesn't leave." Sasorimaru said as they all chased Tobi out the door. Sasuke ran towards Naruto, who was having trouble against Aradam.
Naruto saw Sasuke charge up his chidori and run towards Aradam. Aradam dodged it with ease but then saw Naruto with rasengan charging towards him. Aradam grabbed Naruto's hand and threw him away. Just as Aradam turned to see what Sasuke was doing, he saw the chidori impale him through the chest. Aradam just smiled as he fell on the floor. It was then that he began to change into someone else. Naruto calmed down seeing that Aradam was dead.
Meanwhile
Tobi ran outside and saw the six members of Akatsuki that he called earlier. Sasorimaru, Anko, Jugo, Suigetsu, Zaku, and Dosu ran outside after Tobi and saw their targets. Itachi and Kisame were standing to the right. Sasori and Deidara were standing to the left while Kakuzu and Dero were standing in the middle. Zetsu emerged next to Tobi and grabbed him.
"Looks like I am out of here. Itachi, you will be pleased to know that your target is inside along with your brother. Lets go Zetsu." Tobi said as the two of them merged with the ground.
"So who gets who, hm?" Deidara asked.
"I think it is obvious who gets who?" Sasori replied.
At that, everyone split into three groups. Itachi and Kisame were being pursued by Suigetsu and Dosu. Deidara and Sasori were followed by Sasorimaru and Anko. Kakuzu and Dero were left with Zaku and Jugo.
(A/N: This is my first time writing three battles like this so forgive me if the quality is terrible.)
Itachi and Kisame stopped when they were in the clear meadow. Suigetsu and Dosu stopped when they saw their targets stop.
"So I guess I get the Hozuki, right Itachi?" Kisame said with a smile. He took his Samehada and pointed it at Suigetsu. "You think you can defeat me? Not even Zabuza could have defeated me and you are weaker than him."
"Don't compare me to him. And besides, I am much different than anyone you have faced before." Suigetsu said as he took out his Zanbato. The two charged at each other and the two swords collided. Kisame was easily overpowering Suigetsu in strength.
"That is all you have? This is no fun." Kisame said as he completely overpowered Suigetsu and cut him in two. Suigetsu turned into water. Kisame walked backwards a bit with a surprised look on his face. "What the hell?"
Suigetsu began to emerge into himself again. "Told you I wasn't like anyone else you fought. Your water tricks won't work on me. Your sword won't affect me as long as I have mine. And your strength is worthless against water. This will be over before you know it."
Itachi looked at his opponent. Dosu did the same. Dosu was informed about Itachi and his eye jutus. He just hoped that his melody arm would defeat the Uchiha. Itachi pointed his finger at Dosu. Dosu knew that a genjutsu can be activated with just fingers as well, but was as rare as one handed hand seals. Dosu closed off his chakra and released himself from the illusion just in time to see five kunai fly towards him. He dodged and pointed his own finger at Itachi. Itachi, not seeing any hand signs being formed, just thought his opponent was mocking him, until he saw the chakra in the air. Not knowing what that meant, he readied himself for anything. He didn't expect the sound. Itachi dropped to his knees and vomited on the floor. Dosu amplified the intensity of the sound and Itachi was even in more pain. Itachi barely managed to look at Dosu into his eye but Dosu saw this and closed his eye. Dosu then opened his left eye from behind the bandages and saw Itachi and everything else as if it was sonar. (Think Daredevil.)
Itachi couldn't move until he felt water. The sound stopped and he saw that his opponent was struck by a water jutsu. Itachi looked at Kisame and saw him fighting against his opponent. It looked like it was an even fight. Kisame saw his partner look at him and he nodded his head slightly. Itachi did the same.
Suigetsu swung his sword at Kisame but only hit a water clone.
"Don't like it do you? I also can fight with water like you. I have more than enough chakra to match your water trick." Kisame said as he created five more water clones. The clones ran towards Suigetsu. Suigetsu just ran towards the clones and beheaded them all and continued to run for Kisame. They blocked the other's sword and Kisame once again overpowered Suigetsu. And once again, Suigetsu formed into water and emerged as if nothing happened. Kisame and Itachi then regrouped and disappeared.
Deidara was flying in the air with Sasori jumping below him. The two stopped in a small clearing in the forest. They spotted Sasorimaru and Anko and readied themselves.
"Are you prepared Deidara?" Sasori asked.
"Of course Master Sasori. I even brought my greatest masterpiece to date, hm." Deidara replied.
"I will get the leader. You get the girl." Sasori said.
"Why? I will admit that she is beautiful, but I won't get any inspiration from her, hm." Deidara said.
"I have a score to settle with him." Sasori replied as he moved away to separate himself from Deidara. Sasorimaru walked towards Sasori and took out his two hand tails.
"Let us see who the better scorpion is." Sasorimaru said as he lunged one of his tails at Sasori. Sasori blocked with his own tail. The wooden tail pulled and Sasorimaru flew towards Sasori. Sending his other tail towards a tree, Sasorimaru stopped in mid air. He retracted his first tail and landed on the ground. Sasori ripped his mouth cloth and opened his mouth. Hundreds of needles flew towards Sasorimaru.
Forming hand seals, Sasorimaru grew his armor and the needles just bounced off. Sasorimaru charged at Sasori, who sent his tail at his target. Sasorimaru dodged and sent one tail at Sasori. Sasori blocked with his tail but was left exposed from his side and Sasorimaru's other tail pierced Sasori's puppet. Sasori retracted his other tail and formed hand seals with that hand. Acid dripped from the tail which was in Sasori. The Acid began to burn away the entire side of the puppet. Sasori opened the back of the puppet and jumped out before it was too late.
Deidara was flying above when he saw a chain appear out of the trees and head straight for him. Deidara dodged and created some spider bombs. He sent them into the trees and heard the explosions around him. Then a giant gust of wind was heading straight in Deidara's direction. Deidara tried to move out of the way, but it was too late. His bird suffered massive damage and Deidara was forced to jump off. The bird fell down on the ground and Deidara looked around. He could not see the woman anywhere.
Anko summoned a python the size of a two story building and told it to go after Deidara. Deidara saw the snake and created some bird bombs and threw them at the snake, who dodged them. Deidara detonated the bombs and the blast harmed the snake. The snake poofed away, but five more, smaller snakes, appeared in its place and headed for Deidara.
"Shit. This bitch is like Orochimaru, hm." Deidara said as he formed even more bird bombs and threw them at the snakes. The snakes were destroyed and Deidara looked around for Anko but could not find her. Anko then appeared behind Deidara and sent snakes at him from her arm sleeves. Deidara couldn't dodge in time and the snakes bit him. But what the snakes bit turned out to be a clay clone, which Deidara detonated. Anko was thrown back into a tree. Deidara jumped down from a tree and began to create a spider bomb when a scorpion tail grabbed his arm. Deidara looked for the source, but only saw that it came from the direction where Sasorimaru and his partner were fighting. Anko saw her chance and threw a set of kunai and shuriken at Deidara. Deidara couldn't dodge them in time so he took out a kunai and deflected the ones which were aimed for his vital points. The others impaled Deidara in the chest and arm.
A puppet then appeared and was about to strike Anko when the tail, which was holding Deidara, threw Deidara into the puppet. The puppet and Deidara fell on the floor. Sasorimaru appeared next to Anko and retracted his tail. The puppet got up and grabbed Deidara and carried it into the trees.
"Thanks." Anko said.
"Yeah, no problem. How you handling him?" Sasorimaru asked.
"It was sort of a stalemate until he blew up his clone. I wasn't expecting that." Anko replied. "You?"
"The same. I got rid of his armor puppet but he sent out two puppets which worked as a pair. I managed to cripple one of them but he sent the other in your direction." Sasorimaru said.
"Oi, Master Sasori, what gives, hm?" Deidara asked as he was approached to his partner. It was then that Deidara saw that his partner was not the same. Sasori was no longer the small hunchbacked man he always saw. Now he saw a red haired teenager.
"Is that you, Master Sasori?" Deidara asked.
"I had to get you out of there. And yes. This is my real body." Sasori replied.
"Why did you need me to get out of there, hm?" Deidara asked.
"I just got a message from Pein telling us all to retreat. Konan captured her target and it takes priority." Sasori replied.
"Why didn't I get the message, hm?" Deidara asked.
"You did. You just didn't realize it. It came at the same time as one of your bombs exploded." Sasori replied.
"Do we regroup or just go there?" Deidara asked.
"Just go there. Dero was already defeated." Sasori said as Deidara formed two birds. They got on and flew away.
Kakuzu and Dero saw their opponents in front of them.
"I will get the tall one." Dero said as he threw kunai at Jugo.
Zaku shot out a powerful sound blast at the kunai, which were sent back at their owner. Dero and Kakuzu jumped away from each other. Dero ran towards Jugo, who by now formed two claws and charged at Dero. Jugo punched Dero, who in response kicked Jugo in the ribs. Dero flew back as Jugo was getting even more pumped up. Dero got up and formed hand seals.
"Ninja Art: Metal Spike Tower." Dero yelled as metal spikes appeared from the ground with a bigger one behind Dero. Dero got on and put his hands down onto his tower. The spikes on the floor then began to move at surround Jugo. Jugo began to swing his arms at the metal spikes, but nothing happened.
Zaku shot out more blasts at Kakuzu, who shot out a powerful wind attack at Zaku. The wind attack overpowered the sound blast and Zaku jumped out of the way. Kakuzu then appeared behind Zaku and was about to kill Zaku in one punch when a metal spike appeared in front of him and was blown to bits from the punch. Zaku saw this and jumped away from Kakuzu, who was now getting pissed at his partner.
Kakuzu saw his partner on his tower. Kakuzu used his fire justu. Zaku dodged out of the way but some of the fire was still heading his way, so Zaku blew the fire away. The remaining fire was heading towards Jugo and Dero. Jugo saw the fire and formed his cursed seal into armor which surrounded his body. Dero was caught off guard and was incinerated. Kakuzu saw what he did and was a bit happy inside. He was about to continue when he got the message from Pein. He was a bit angry that he had to stop his fight, but obeyed and disappeared.
The six members of Hakubo regrouped at the base.
"Where did they go?" Suigetsu asked.
"They must have all retreated for something. Most likely, one of the other members caught their biju." Sasorimaru said. "Let's go see how our other two members did."
They entered their base and saw Naruto and Sasuke next to the body of what was Aradam. They all approached the body and saw that it wasn't Aradam.
"Who is this guy? And where is Aradam?" Anko asked.
"That guy was Aradam. He was a clone remember. This was probably the sacrifice used. I heard of this technique from when I was with Orochimaru." Sasorimaru said. "The Akatsuki leader uses this technique."
"So now what?" Jugo asked.
"Well, we each saw how we did. By the looks of things, we did much better than I thought we would do. But still, we need to train. Jugo, help Sasuke use his cursed seal. I will train with Naruto. Anko, try to get in contact with the other two we had in mind. See if they will join us." Sasorimaru said. Anko nodded her head.
Meanwhile
The nine members of Akatsuki appeared in a cave.
"How was the attack?" Pein asked.
"They were far stronger than we thought." Replied Itachi.
"Any casualties?" Pein asked.
"Dero died." Kakuzu said.
"You killed him, didn't you?" Kisame asked.
"He got in my way." Kakuzu said firmly.
"Don't worry, I found the perfect partner for you. I will send you there after this sealing." Pein said.
"Yes sir." Kakuzu said.
Pein formed hand seals and summoned the giant sealing statue. Everyone then focused and began the ritual.
Three days Later
"We are finished. I have new assignments for you all. Kakuzu, go to the Ill Omen Tavern in Marsh Country and meet your new partner. His name is Hidan. Sasori and Deidara, begin tracking your bijus. Deidara's should be somewhere in the Sand Village. Itachi and Kisame, you two go search for Kisame's biju. The Kyubi is still too early for capture. Zetsu, track down your Orochimaru's ring and keep an eye out for this group, Hakubo. Me and Konan will take over the Rain Village. Dismissed." Pein said as all the members vanished.
That's it for now. I hope the update will be soon.
Please review. I beg of you.