Naruto was swimming. His mind was swimming. Choji was swimming in his own blood. Everyone was swimming - except Fiddlesticks.
Choji didn't deserve death. He was just trying to help me Naruto thought as he slowed descended down to the lake's sea floor. I can't die here Naruto thought as his eyes started to flutter in the ice cold water.
As Naruto was about to pass out chakra flooded through him and he began to float up to the glassy ice covering the top of the lake. Demonic chakra exploded out from him and flooded the surrounding area, growing far beyond the normal amount he pulls and can control. Feeling bloodlust and vigour beyond what Naruto had ever felt before, he succumb to his temptations and let the kyuubi's chakra wash over him - and the rest of Konoha as well.
Everyone felt it. It had be 20 years since anyone had felt this amount of of killing intent - and the last time they felt this was when the kyuubi had attacked their village.
As the the demonic taint washed over the village, everyone knew the only one who could be responsible for this - Naruto.
"Hokage, kyuubi's chakra is flo-" whispered out a jonin.
"I know damnit! What's happening to Naruto, Shizune said he would be fine!" ground out Tsunade. "ANBU Commander, all chuunin are to evacuate the civilians; all jonin and above are to converge on where Naruto is now! MOVE"
The ANBU in the room nodded and shunshin towards the source of the chakra.
Naruto burst through the ice and rose up ontop of tendrils of red chakra.
Fiddlesticks spun around quickly, knowing this chakra signature anywhere. "Naruto, you have finally reawoke..." Fiddlesticks said as he kneeled low before Naruto. "I didn't mean to push you Lord, I just wished to revive you to your full strength."
"Do not worry Fiddlesticks, You have done well." Naruto responded without looking down "But stand up, we have visitors."
Instantly ANBU, Jonin, and the Hokage converged on the icy lake where Naruto and Fiddlesticks were standing.
"NARUTO! What happened where, what happened to the kyuubi's chakra?" Tsunade said with resolve, but fear in her voice.
"I have reawoken Tsunade, but it is of no concern to you" Naruto responded as he flexed his hands testing his now power. "Now let me introduce you" Naruto began "This is Fiddlesticks"
Elsewhere, in the capital of the Land of Snow, Kakashi, cloaked in a gold trimmed robe enters a bar. Kakashi hands the cloak to the ninja at the coat check, revealing a luxurious suit, a disguise to allow him to fit in, with a matching mask. His hair was not its usual spiky style, but was instead gelled back. He glanced around the room, observing the various patrons while a kunoichi sings infront of a small band on stage. The patrons are silent as the song washes over them. There, he sees a man at the bar flirting with some girl. Kakashi silently approaches the two.
"Uh, is this seat taken?" he loudly says to the girl standing by the seat next to the man "Ugh" the girl says, handing the man a slip of paper and leaving. "W-what did you do that for?" the man was in his early thirties, or so Kakashi thought, with dark brown greasy hair and bright blue eyes.
"Not anymore..." the man said, clearly annoyed. Kakashi chose ignore it instead saying "I'm not one to judge, but I don't think it was you she was after, that or her phone number is 6 digits." The man looked down, shocked to see that the paper did in fact only have 6 numbers on it. "But I'm here to talk to you about something else Fischer-san," Kakashi said turning to the man "How do you know my name?" the man began, but Kakashi cut him off. "My name is Mr. Yagami, you remember me don't you?" The man looked at him intently, clearly confused.
"Mr. Fischer, I specialize in a very specific type of security. Chakra security" Kakashi started to say.
"You talking about Jutsu? You talking about er...genjutsu?" Fischer replied, clearly still trying to figure out what was going on.
"I'm here to protect you in the event someone tries to access your mind through illusions. You're not safe here, do you remember your training?" Kakashi asked, hurriedly. "Y-yes, I'm supposed to... what was it... I'm supposed to stop the flow of chakra in my body and disrupt their chakra right?" The man stated the textbook explanation as though he had only ever read it. "That's right, now I need you to focus" Suddenly the ground began to shake as the walls crumbled around them. The two men closed their eyes simultaneously and focused as the world around them disappeared before collapsing in on them.
The two awoke to find themselves in a warehouse. Fischer looked around, clearly dumbfounded with no idea where he was, but Kakashi stood up and looked for the source of the genjutsu. His eyes searched the warehouse when suddenly, just out of his vision, a door leading outside was slammed. Kakashi immediately stood up and gave chase. The figure dashed into the nearby woods and began jumping between the trees. As Kakashi followed him he grabbed a nearby rock and threw it at the target. Using his newly obtained sharingan ability Kamui to transport the rock to another dimension so that it would remain undetected until it hit his target almost fatally in the back of the head.
Kakashi watched as the figure fall from the trees, landing harshly in the snow below. Blood was visible from where he was, so Kakashi rushed next to the body and turned the man over to reveal Sasuke. "So then, it was your genjutsu? That man was a major political figure in Konoha, who hired you to get information from him?" Kakashi asked "So, you were able to stop it then? Huh, impressive." Sasuke said, coughing up blood.
"Sasuke, when will you learn, I trained you, you may be powerful, but I will always be able to stop you." Kakashi said calmly. Sasuke growled, quickly doing a backflip out of the cloak he had been wearing and kicking Kakashi into a nearby tree dazing him and throwing 3 kunai that hit his hand, leg, and right shoulder blade respectively. Sasuke smiled wearily saying "Y-you too, Kakashi-sensei" He turned around revealing that he had been wearing a backwards forehead protector as blood dripped from his hand, not his face which he had used to trick Kakashi into thinking he had landed a direct hit.
Kakashi recovered, but was too badly injured to give chase, so he approached the cloak Sasuke had left behind and aside from some light supplies, found a small piece of paper, the contract Sasuke had been given to extract information from that man without his knowledge. But who was it from?
Sasuke fell to his knees in the forest, basic survival training taught him sweating in the cold could cause him death, he needed shelter and he needed it soon. His body was still sore from hours of running and his belly hungry from days without food. He face-planted into the snowy ground. Suddenly he felt a surge of power, like an electric shock that left goose-bumps on his skin. He squinted with his special eyes into the distance and saw the source of the eruption.
Chakra.
It was Naruto's chakra signature, without a doubt. He clenched his fist and gritted his teeth. Now the hunt began. He wiped the snow from his ninja-beard and pushed his aching body up, but before he could continue he was interrupted "Oy, Gwailo." Echoed a metallic voice from above. He looked into the trees and saw an unfamiliar face, a man with a metallic arm and half a metallic skull was perched upon a thick branch of oak. "You are in wrong territory, go no further." Sasuke grinned. "Lets tussle, cholo." And bounced into the air, drawing his blade and slicing at the man, he felt the metal of his blade bite flesh. The man back flipped swinging his arm at Sasuke but missed his strike and then landed on the ground below. "HA!" Taunted Sasuke like an arrogant, spoiled, bratty, insolent child. "I cut your arm! And you missed me completely!" he said, gigglesqueeing.
The metal man raised his head slowly, smirking.
"Did I?"
Sasuke felt panic within him and looked down to see three live Arges type HG 84 fragmentation hand grenades stuck to his lower-body. "Son of a-" The ensuing split-second explosion ripped the old oak tree apart launching splinters of wood in all directions, the gory detonation shredded apart Sasukes' body, sending stringy sinew and blood-coated muscle flying wildly into the air, the top of the once-pleasant oak tree was now home to a splinted crater and was covered by a bloody mist of smoke, ash and gore where Sasuke had stood moments earlier. The Metallic man cackled to himself, "THINK YOU CAN JUST WALK INTO OUR TERRITORY? PRENTY OF WORKA BEES COME OUT OF THE TREES TO STOP YOU." He yelled, satisfied with the silence, he turned to walk away.
There was a quiet chuckle behind him. The metallic man's jaw dropped and he had kind of 'oh no you di-n't' kind expression on his face, "No..." He looked over to see the mangled, disjointed body of Sasuke laughing in the snow. "Hahaha" Sasuke laughed, coughing up blood, "i-is that al-all you g-g-got!" Sasuke tried to stand up, but the shredded gory stumps of snapped bone and bloodied rag were all that constituted as the the remains of his legs. The metallic man sighed and drew his Katana from his back, the blade singing as it was unsheathed. "Brave, but pitiful." The metallic man strutted over to Sasuke, he looked down at the disgusting, chaotic mess that was Sasuke's body and raised his blade for the killing blow. Sasuke laughed once more, angering the metallic humanoid. "Unafraid to meet your death? Noble." Muttered the glimmering not-not-made-of-metal man. "Of course I am" Smirked Sasuke "But its not me that's going to die."
The Metalic man's eyes grew wide as he heard a great creaking of wood behind him, he turned his head in time to have it met by a giant log that shattered itself upon his forehead knocking him hard onto his shining buttocks, blinded by the splinters piercing his eyes, the man could hardly make out the great shape lumbering towards him, knocking over trees as he charged at the helpless cyborg "I MANAGED TO DISPERSE MY CHAKRA ONE LAST TIME BEFORE THOSE ARGES TYPE HG 84 FRAGMENTATION HAND GRENADES WENT OFF!" Yelled Sasuke over the earth-shaking noise of the charging giant, "MEET MY NEW FRIEND."
"DEADWOOD".
The man opened his bloody eyes just in time to see the tree, the same oak tree he had just decimated part of with several grenades, lift its mighty trunk-fist, just before it obliterated him with a punch that impacted so loudly it echoed throughout the forest for miles.