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Chapter 6

"Sensei!" Jiraiya yelled as he watched the Kazekage jump from the box toward a nearby roof top with the Toad Sage hot on his heels.

It all happened far too quickly and despite his skills Jiraiya had been caught slightly off-guard. He had never thought Suna would attempt to kidnap the Hokage in the midst of the Konoha! Rather than being focused on protecting his teach his mind had been working much too on the subject of his godson.

Jiraiya cursed himself for letting his guard slip even for a moment as he landed seconds behind the Kazekage on the roof of the nearby administrative building. Just seconds were the difference between him standing with his sensei and watching a purple barrier raise between him and the now revealed Orochimaru.

Now Jiraiya was stuck watching helplessly as his teacher was forced to fight alone against the man who had once been his best friend and teammate. Thousands of thoughts flew through his mind as he studied the purple barrier. Nothing physical could pass through it and the only way to breach it would be an immensely powerful attack. Anyone attempting to break through with physical force would find themselves burned to ashes. But perhaps it could be bypassed instead.

It was then Jiraiya had a thought, it was devious and would place in danger the person he cared for most in the world, but it could work.

"Stay here, I'm getting help!" he yelled to the nearby ANBU before taking off back into the stadium.

The ANBU simply stared at the spot Jiraya the toad sage had been a moment before. The only thought being Who the hell could one of the Legendary Three need to get help from!?

With Naruto

When the feathers began to fall Naruto immediately looked around to see the stadium becoming a battlefield. It was so strange though, almost surreal. His mindscape kept up with every movement of the shinobi around him, he could feel their chakra all around him stretching out growing fainter as the distance grew. But the strangest thing was watching the chakra that ran through everyone's bodies.

The shinobi appeared as small miniature models in a three dimensional landscape in his mind overlaid with the world as his eyes saw it. He could tell which shinobi were about to use jutsu and in what direction and how powerful the attacks were just by glancing at it. It would be beautiful if it wasn't so deadly.

Naruto groaned under the stress of his mind as it attempted to process the massive influx of data. He saw every battle, every move, as if they were small models in his mind. Placing a hand on his head he tried to reconcile what his eyes saw in front of them and what his mind showed him.

"Naruto!" Jiraiya called as he landed beside his godson. He could tell Naruto was not entirely there and frowned in concern. As he placed a hand on his shoulder to shake him out of whatever stupor his godson was in before noticing his eyes seemed to glow slightly before dimming.

Naruto shook his head and felt slightly dizzy from the experience. His headache began to fade quickly now that he was no longer attempting to process everything but what was in front of him. Looking up at the concerned face of Jiraiya, "Godfather, what's happened?!"

"We're being attacked and I need your help. Think you're up to it?," he told him without explanation.

Naruto nodded before answering, "Yeah! I just had a bit of a headache from everything."

Jiraiya nodded slowly remember when his father was first attempting the Hirashin technique and said something very similar. Putting it to the back of his mind he placed a hand on his godson and the two vanished in a swirl of leaves before appearing before the barrier.

In the short time they had left Orochimaru had already summoned the First and Second Hokage's with the dreaded Edo Tensei and was engaging an obviously hard pressed Hiruzen. Despite his age the Third Hokage showed why he was still revered by holding back his predecessor's, it was an impressive battle but one that was obviously a defensive action and quickly becoming a war of attrition and not in the Third's favor.

If it was just Orochimaru Jiraiya was confident that even despite his age the Third would have been able to win but against the summoned and indestructible forms of the First and Second there was almost no hope of victory for his teacher. It only served to cement his decision to seek his godson's help.

"Old Man!" Naruto yelled as he rushed toward the barrier only to be grabbed from behind and yanked back to safety by Jiraiya.

"What the hell! We have to help him!" Naruto turned an angry glare at his godfather.

"And we will but that barrier would turn you to a pile of ash if you touched it," he told him as Naruto's eyes widened realizing how close he had come to causing his own death. "Listen, I remember your father once told me he had the ability to take things with him when he teleported. Can you use your bloodline to get inside and get sensei and bring you both outside the barrier safely?"

Naruto stopped for a moment when he realized how important a task this was. He was supposed to rescue the Hokage and bring him to safety! Seeing the grave look on his godfather's face caused Naruto to pause a moment to seriously consider how important this mission was. He was being charged with the rescue of the Hokage. He knew inside he had no choice but to agree.

Naruto took a deep breath and felt in his mind for the trigger and immediately his mind was filled with a 3D model the surrounding area colored in greys and blues as his bloodline activated. Opening his eyes he saw the barrier seemed to have no effect on the field but he also felt his own Chakra reserves were terribly low, despite the Kyubi's work to replenish them.

"I believe I can get past the barrier but I don't know if I have the chakra to get us back out," he told Jiraiya honestly.

Nodding his godfather pressed a pill in his hand, "That's a soldier pill, it will replenish your chakra temporarily, take it and get the Hokage out of there and to us. I'll be waiting to escort both of you back to a safe location."

Naruto nodded as he popped the pill into his mouth and swallowed. Almost immediately he felt his chakra reserves begin to fill and the previous exhaustion lift from his body.

With his chakra restored the blonde turned his attentions to the task at hand and focused on the third who was currently engaged in a taijutsu battle with the second. Not knowing how he knew but he aware that he would only get one chance at this and it had to be timed perfectly. He needed an opening to get the third out of the barrier without the First, Second, or Orochimaru interfering. Easier said than done.

Orochimaru

The snake was grinned in anticipation as he watched his former teacher fight for his life against his precious mentors. It was thrilling to know that in mere minutes he would finally obtain his dream of ending the life of his sensei and destroying the village that had spurned his genius! He barely noticed that the buffoon of an ex-teammate had returned although part of his mind did note the appearance of the Kyubi brat.

Orochimaru shrugged it off. His barrier should be more than enough to hold back both of them despite the appearance of the new bloodline. Confident in his victory he focused his attention once more on the battle in front of him and savoring every moment of the fall of the Third Hokage at his hands.

Hiruzen

For a man pushing past 60 he could easily feel every old wound, ache, and pain he had ever experienced. Despite being in impressive shape for his age and reinforcing his body with chakra Hiruzen knew he wasn't long for this world if something didn't change and quickly.

The Second was easier to fight than the First. As his former student he knew his battle forms and attack patterns as well as his own. But together the Senju brothers were simply unstoppable and his only plan was a delaying action. The Second would engage while the First would attack him with a jutsu or ranged weapons giving the Second openings to take advantage of before swapping off and doing it again from a different direction.

That they couldn't die and regenerated after his attacks was just icing on the cake that seemed to have his own funeral spelled out on it.

But he was not done yet and he refused to go down without a fight. Narrowing his eyes he again dodged a number of mokuton spikes as he back flipped striking the Second in the chin with a kick before throwing a number of shuriken at the First who easily dodged.

"Saru, you'll have to do better than that if you hope to defeat us," the Second said.

"Your student has done well to hold us off this long at his age brother," the First spoke.

Receiving a nod and a proud glance at the Third Hokage they made to resume their attack only to blink as their opponent suddenly vanished in a flash of yellow light.

Hiruzen would later describe that moment as what had to be the most surreal and out of body experience he had ever felt. One moment he was contemplating on summoning the Shinigami and the next he saw a flash, felt a pair of hand latch onto him, and he became nothing. He was simply nothing, no feeling of his old body, no aches, no pains, just nothing. And then he felt everything again and found he knew he was no longer trapped inside the barrier.

Blinking stupidly and shaking his head he would later consider the experience as closest to death he had felt before. He heard the cry of rage from Orochimaru as he grinned up at the white hair of his last and most loyal student.

"Get the Hokage to a secure location! I'll take my godson, you carry the Hokage, make sure to have medical personnel available on arrival!" Jiraiya ordered as he took the bundle that had collapsed next to Hiruzen in his arms. The old Kage only just now realizing what had happened.

Naruto had saved him. He leaned against the ANBU who helped him leap away from the building as more troops swarmed the platform waiting for Orochimaru to lower his barrier and launch a counter-attack against the traitor.

"He got me out didn't he," he asked quietly as the last of the newly installed cobwebs finally clearing out.

Jiraiya nodded with a small, proud smile, "Yep, the kid managed to grab you and teleport you out to us. Now let's get you somewhere safe sensei and throw the snake and his friends out of our village!"

Hiruzen grinned and took off with his student and ANBU escort, they had a village to defend.