Author's Note: Hey guys sorry it took so long to update, I was busy with some other things. Hope you guys like what i have in store.
Shinobi Sentai NaruRanger
Chapter 8
Midnight Sentai Akatsukiger
"So what do we know of the Akatsuki?" Hoshikage asked.
"The Akatsuki are a terrorist organization comprised of ninjas that have defected from thier homelands." Sasuke told him.
"So in short these guys are the worst of the worst." said Akahoshi.
"I'm afraid so." he told the Hoshikage.
"Have you gone up against these men before?" Akahoshi asked.
"This would be my second confrontation with them, but I've never faced the entire corp before." Sasuke told him.
"I see, at current what do you think our chances are of beating them?" he asked.
"Not very good, even with our Ranger powers we had a hard time defeating them as it was." Sasuke told him. The Hoshikage leaned forward in his chair.
"You mean, you four are the Leaf Shinobi Power Rangers I've heard of?" Akahoshi asked.
"Yes we are." Sasuke replied.
"Well lucky for you, we have one of our own." he smirked.
"We're well aware of that, the Hokage informed us before coming here. We were hoping that we might be able to work together to keep the Akatsuki from aquiring the sacred star." Sasuke inteceeded.
"Well unfortunately our Ranger's not too fond of forigners, we'll see if we can work something out." the Hoshikage told Sasuke.
"Hey Sumaru!" Naruto yelled as he ran through the wood.
The Star Ninja looked back and saw him coming up the hill.
"You mind if we talk a minute?" he asked.
"What do you want?" he said annoyed.
"I just wanted to talk for a minute dude. So what was that cool power was yours? I've never seen a ninjitsu like that." the orange ninja asked.
The Star Ninja scoffed and turned facing the cliff.
"It's called Kujaku, it's an art that was developed here in Star Village several decades ago." he told him.
"And I bet that power is derived from the star." Naruto said. The Star Ninja smirked.
"Your not as dumb as you look. Yeah, it's formed through years of extensive training." he told him.
"What makes it so special?" he asked.
"Cant tell you." he said.
"Why not?" he asked.
"Your village have it's secrets, we have ours." Sumaru told him.
"Well I guess that's true. So then what's your story?" he asked.
"My parents were Star Village Jounin who gave thier lives protecting the star from outside forces."
"So that's why he's so hostile." he thought.
"My parents were some of the best ninjas around and I strive to be just like them. And become the next Hoshikage." he said overlooking the cliff.
The orange ninja closed his eyes and nodded.
"Hmm, I know where your coming from. It'll be an honor working with you."
"Huh?"
"Because I plan on being the next Hokage." he smiled. Sumaru smiled and chuckled and bumped fists.
A large explosion erupted in the village catching the two of them offguard, the blast was so great it shook they ground they stood on nearly knocking them off the cliff.
"Let's go!" Naruto said as they took off.
Back in the town the Akatsuki opened fire on the Star Village, as children fled and the area ninja raced to confront them among the ranks were Lee, Sakura and Sasuke. As Naruto and Sumaru raced through the woods they were soon confronted by Kisame Hoshigaki. The fish man smiled at the two ninjas as he stepped out behind a tree to confront them.
"Hey guys." he said.
"It's you!" yelled Naruto.
"Got that right, who's ready to play?" he said grabbing his sword behind him.
The Orange Ranger drew out his morpher.
"You picked the wrong guy to mess with. Ninja Art, Shinobi Change Jutsu!" he yelled.
The shurkin on the morpher spun glowing bright orange and unleashed the fox spirit and quickly swirled around his body taking him into the air morphing him into the Orange Ranger.
Naruto drew his Fox Staff and went after him. Back in town the three Leaf Shinobi raced to intercept the oncoming threat as the Akatsuki laid siege to the Hidden Star Village.
"Destroy them all!" ordered Madara.
"With pleasure." smirked Deidara.
"You guys ready?" Sasuke asked.
"Oh yeah!" said Sakura.
"Bring it!" added Lee.
Sasuke took out his morpher and lead the team in thier chant.
"Ninja Art, Shinobi Change Jutsu!" they yelled.
The three of them morphed into Power Rangers and called on thier weapons as they went to take on the Akatsuki. Back in the woods Naruto and Sumaru were locked in battle with Kisame as he blocked the Fox Staff with his sword and began absorbing chakra. Sumaru threw himself in the air using his Kujaku technique. Kisame saw him coming and blocked the young ninja's attack with his free hand grabbing the shinobi by the shirt he threw him into some trees. The Star ninja flipped and shot off a tree back at Kisame. Agian the shark man anticipated this and threw Naruto straight at him. The orange shinobi crashed into him plowing them to the ground. The Akatsuki member chuckled as he turned to face them.
"Is that the best you got?" he asked.
"Not even close!" the Orange Ranger yelled getting to his feet.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he yelled and a slew of Ranger clones appeared behind him.
Kisame looked at the 30 some odd clones that filled the south edge of the forest and chuckled as they came towards him.
"Not bad kid, let me show you a little trick of my own!" he said slashing at several of the clones.
"Water Style, Drowning Pool Jutsu!" he said making a hand sign.
Huge pools of water appear out of the ground in a swirling torrent and wash away our heroes. The guys scream as thier hurdled down the hill through the woods missing trees by inches until Naruto finally grabbed ahold of one and then grabbed Sumaru as he came by, the clones vanish one by one as thier swept down the massive hill.Kisame smirked as he powered the torrent of power hoping to drown our heroes. Naruto pulled Sumaru up to the tree and ordered him to climb. The orange ninja started to follow him but was swept back by a surge of water and slammed backwards into a nearby tree as the flood started to exert it's pressure on him threatening to crush him.
"Naruto!" Sumaru yelled.
Kisame looked up and smiled seeing him in the tree.
"There you are!" he said making another hand sign and forced the water upward knocking him from the tree and was swept down the mountainside.
"Sumaru!" the Orange Ranger yelled as he watched him slip away.
The Orange ninja growled as his whisker marks under his helmet turned into black stripes and his eyes changed from blue to red. Naruto let out a savage yell as fought back. With his fangs and claws present Naruto summoned his energy and split the torrent that was washing over him in half. Kisame look on in shock as the rift grew in size and made it's way out to him. Once free Naruto propelled himself from the tree and flew towards Kisame at breakneck speed and punched the assassin in the face knocking him in the water. The flood waters succeeded as he let loose a barrage of punches on Kisame's face driving him back with each hit. And did a sweeping kick knocking him on his back in the shallow water and made a sledgehammer with his hands and slammed Kisame's chest driving him under setting off a watery explosion. Sumaru washed out of the edge of the forest on his stomach into a clearing. The star ninja coughed as he tried to get up. Naruto growled like a wild fox as he held Kisame's unconcious body in his claws and looked off in the distance.
"Sumaru." he growled dropping Kisame and went to check on his friend.
Naruto reverted to normal when he reached the clearing where he lay and knelt down beside him.
"Are you ok?"
"A little waterlogged but I'll survive." he said getting up.
"Come on!" Naruto said helping him up.
Back in town the others held thier own against the Akatsuki. Sasuke was slashed across the chest by his brother Itachi and hit the ground while Sakura held her ground against Madara. Since damaging her Tiger Tail weapon Sakura replied on a more sturdy weapon.
"Tiger Claws!" she yelled as she thrust her weapon at Madara's chest.
The Tiger Claws were guantlets with three blades that slipped over the top of her hand with a handlebar inbetween. The Pink Ranger threw a couple of well placed jabs at the leader of the Akatsuki, Madara dodged them and stabbed her in the stomach with a sword. The Pink Ranger staggered back as Madara wielded his blade upsidedown over his right shoulder and lunged at her. Sakura held her ground against the eldest Uchiha as he pushed towards her. Sakura blocked the attack with her claws, the blade wedged inbetween and struggled to maintain control. He freed it and slashed her across the stomach knocking her to the ground, but Sakura wasnt out of it yet knocking him off his feet with a well placed kick to the thigh. Madara stabbed at the ground missing her hand at the last second as she tumbled back to her feet.
Meanwhile Lee was taking on Deidara and Sasori by himself the Green Ranger flipped through the air as the rock ninja hurled his bird grenades at him. Lee came out him with his arms stretched out and knocked the two assassins back with his broadarm strike. Deidara drew a sword and swiped at Lee's chest but the Green Ranger jumped back and did a roundhouse kick knocking it away before punching him in the chest and sent Deidara flying. Next he had to take on the gigantic Sasori. Lee pummeled the man's chest with his boxing gloves but seemed to do little damage as Sasori grabbed his head and threw him on his back. The Green Ranger landed with a thud as the massive thug came at him. Lee flipped backwards getting to his feet as Sasori sent a wooden puppet his way. Lee jumped in the air to retailiate.
"Leaf Hurricane!" the Green Ranger kicked the puppet in the side of the head knocking it into some trees as Sasori went on the offensive.
The assassin drew a poison tipped sword and swung his weapon at Lee. The green shinobi jumped back and to the side as the assassin's blade pierced the tree instantly withering it.
"Unreal!" he yelled as Sasori came at him again.
Lee did a backflip with his gloves avoiding the blade and countered with a backhand to the face. The assassin didnt show any injury and glared at the young ninja.
"Oh boy!" Lee said as the ninja went to grab him and threw him into a tree.
Lee slammed into the tree trunk with his back and side nearly upside and hit the ground. The green shinobi struggled to get up as Sasori used one of his techniques.
"Ninja Art, Deadly Mist!" he said as a cloud of red smoke slithered across the ground.
"Gorilla Quake!" he yelled and punched the ground with his glove launching a shockwave that sent Lee into the air.
The Akatsuki member looked up as he saw Lee spiraling towards him. The Green Ranger let him have it with a thunderous barrel roll of punches to the face and body. Sasori blocked them as best he could as Lee spun sideways to the ground leaving him wide open for another attack.
"Leaf Power Punch!" he yelled and unleashed a flurry of emerald lit power punches to the assassin's stomach.
The Green Ranger flipped and kicked his opponet's jaw with devistating fury as he staggered back. Lee landed a considerable distance away and readied his next attack. Using the Gorilla Quake once again he pounded the earth with both gloves causing it to crumble and sent a large rift towards Sasori that quickly swallowed the assassin up to his waist. Lee launched himself into the air one last time to finish the job and delivered a savage Leaf Hurricane kick to the face that knocked the assassin out, the earth behind him gave way as he fell back unconcious while Lee landed safely. The young chunin smiled under his helmet and gave a victorious thumbs up with acompanied cheesy smile underneath.
Both sides looked up in shock having fell the massive monstrosity.
"You got to be kidding me!" Madara said.
"All right Lee!" Sakura yelled.
"That bastard!" Deidara growled laying in the brush after being sidelined by him.
"You'll pay for that!" he roared as he went after the Green Ranger.
Meanwhile Sasuke was having problems of his own against his brother. The Blue Ranger held his chest as he retreated back.
"Tsunade I need a weapon, my blaster's not cutting it." he said.
Back at her office the Hokage was watching the battle from her laptop computer.
"Dont worry I have just the thing, sending Dragon Saber and Dragon Shield." she said typing in the commands.
A second later Sasuke's chest glowed light blue as a silver shield with the Uchiha family symbol in the middle and a pair of small gold dragon heads with blue beads in thier mouth above the sterling shoulder pads. In his hand appeared a short sword with a dragon's head on the hilt and a slender blade. The Blue Ranger raised his weapon and raced towards his brother. Their blades clashed as Itachi landed a few savage blows on Sasuke's chest but did no damage as the Blue Ranger pressed on against his brother for a while he was on level ground with his elder brother as thier swords flashed back and forth. Itachi lashed out at Sasuke's leg as he flipped out of range as Itachi summoned an energy ball in his hand and launched it at Sasuke.
The Blue Ranger spun through the air avoiding the blast, Itachi looked up as he hovered over him. The Dragon Saber powered up as decended upon him. Itachi got out of the way as Sasuke came at him with an energy sweep, striking the earth. As soon as he turned around he was kicked in the chest by Itachi and sent into a tree. The older Uchiha summoned an energy ball in the palm of his hand and fired it at Sasuke. The Blue Ranger hit the dirt as the tree went up. Naruto was finally back in the battle racing into the village with his Fox Staff in hand and went to battle Itachi. The Orange Ranger dropped in on the Akatsuki member as Itachi blocked the attack with his sword.
"Naruto!" Sasuke yelled.
"This is getting us nowhere, we got to retreat!" Deidara said as he battled Lee.
The Rock Ninja fired a series a clay bird grenades at Lee. The Green Ninja croched down as the explosions went off all around him and ambushed with a kick to the face by Deidara. Madara slashed at Sakura's stomach knocking her to the ground.
"Mangekyo Sharingan!" Itachi said as his eyes changed into the second stage Sharingan.
"Look out!" Sasuke yelled as the Genjutsu took effect.
In the next instant Naruto and Sasuke were frozen as Itachi lashed out at them with a series of high speed attacks, sparks flew from thier bodies as he went past. The Orange and Blue Shinobis groaned as they were powerless to stop him. Itachi powered up his blade and sent an energy slash thier way. The blue energy blade went through them diagonally as a massive explosion issued from their chests. The force of the attack was so great it knocked them out of Ranger mode as they fell to the ground. Lee and Sakura were just as easily dispatched by thier opponets as the Green and Pink Rangers fell to the ground but remained morphed.
"Leave them." Itachi said as his eyes reverted to normal and the Akatsuki fled.
"Stop!" Naruto yelled reaching out for them before falling on his face.
"Naruto!" Sakura said kneeling down next to her leader.
"Are you ok?" she asked.
"Yeah I'm fine, no big deal." he told her.
Lee knelt down next to Sasuke to see he's all right as Sumaru came into the clearing.
"Power down." Lee said as he and Sakura returned to normal.
"What happened?" he asked.
"They kicked our asses." Naruto said.
"Come on we got to catch them." he said getting up.
"Wait up!" Naruto said as he tried to get up.
As Sumaru raced forward Naruto and the others rushed to keep up with him, until the Orange Rnager took out of his morpher.
"Ninja Bikes, on line!" he yelled.
As the fox head zoomed through the woods and materalized the rest of his bike, jumping on the vehicle he raced to catch up with Sumaru. The other bikes materialized infront of them. Popping a wheelie Naruto rushed by Sumaru throwing him on the back of his bike in an attempt to head off the Akatsuki.
"Where's the star being held at?" Naruto asked.
"Straight ahead, you cant miss it." he said.
As they raced through the forest with engines revving several members of the Akatsuki saw them coming. Deidara elected to finish them off. The Stone Ninja stopped dead in his tracks as they came towards him.
"You guys just dont know when to give up do you?" he said launching several bird bombs at the team.
The grenades landed in the midst of the bikes and sent them flying through the air. Naruto's bike flung forward with it's tail in the air and nearly hit a low lying tree branch, as Sumaru flipped over the branch. The tail of the bike took out of large branch snapping it in two as the Orange Ranger plummeted and landed hard on his front tire and shifting making Naruto faceplant. The Blue and Pink Ranger bikes were thrown in the air as well but landed more gracefully than Naruto and kept going while Lee took a spill and his bike skidded out from under him.
Sasuke and Sakura raced towards him while at the same time Sumaru used his Kujaku energy to attack the assassin from above. Deidara smirked as he summoned a large clay bird out of the dirt and threw it at the team. The Rangers gasped as it flew at them and destroyed thier bikes. The Pink and Blue Rangers kicked out thier bikes only seconds earlier as they went off in miniature explosions throwing the two of them to the earth. While Sumaru was thrown into a tree trunk upside down. With the Ranger team dispatched Deidara went to rejoin the others. As they started to get up Sasuke growled and hit the earth with his fist.
"What now?" asked Naruto.
"You guys go on, we'll continue from the tree branches." Sasuke told them.
"Right." Lee nodded as he and Naruto got on bikes and went after them.
"Let's move." Sasuke said.
"All right." nodded Sakura as they leaped into the trees above. Sumaru disappeared as he went ahead of the team.
A few miles ahead the Akatsuki were at the temple of the fallen star. Pouring on the gas Lee and Naruto raced through the village to intercept them, on the way across they saw the trail of devistation the Akatsuki left behind, scores of men lay on the ground. It wasnt clear how many of them were living or deceased, the Rangers had no time for such sympathies as much as it pained them and rushed towards the temple. Inside the children of the village were in a star training session when the Akatsuki opened the door. Jumping to thier feet the young chunins were ready to guard the precious star with thier very lives. The Akatsuki werent above killing children instead they had an alternative in mind.
"Tell us, where do you keep the Savage Crystals?" Madara asked.
The ninjas strengthed thier guard and stood closely together.
"We're not telling you anything!" said a 12 year old boy.
Itachi stepped forward.
"We're not going to ask again, where do you keep the Savage Crystals?" he asked more determined.
"We're Star Shinobi, and we're not about to betray our village to the likes of you." Hokito told him.
Just as Itachi was about to respond Sumaru appeared infront of the ninja and delivered a powerful uppercut only to be blocked by Itachi and knocked the star ninja back with a swift strike to the ribs. Sumaru skidded back on his feet and was about to iniatiate his Kujaku technique infront of them.
"I wouldnt do that if I were you. If you unleash that power this close to the star we'll all be destroyed and I dont think you want to sacrifice your little classmates." Madara said cooly.
The Star Ninja stood frozen gritting his teeth as he scanned his friends' faces. Hokito stepped forward and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"A ninja is willing to sacrifice anything, in service to thier nation." she proclaimed.
"Hokito..." he thought.
"Right well in anycase, Master Sasori if you would." Deidara said as the Sand Ninja stepped forth and conjured up a sleeping mist that quickly enveloped the Star Shinobi.
"Now for this, Ninja Art; Mental Probing!" Itachi said as he used a varient of his Shariengan.
Probing the minds of the young ninjas, he uncovered the location of the crystals.
"Got it!" he said.
"All right then let's move!" Kisame told them.
Lee and Naruto arrived at the sanctuary awhile later and raced inside.
"Oh man, what happened? Are any of them alive?" Naruto asked holding up Hokito.
"Yes they are, their breathing is very shallow but they are alive." Lee said.
"They must have used some kind of genjutsu on them. But the star's still here...then what were they after?" the Orange Ranger asked.
"I do not know. The star is suppose to be the most important thing in this village but they do not take it. This is very strange." pondered Lee.
Sasuke and Sakura appeared at the shrine a moment later and made thier way inside.
"What happened?" he asked.
"The Akatsuki knocked them out." the Orange Ranger said.
"But the star's still here." noted Sakura.
"We know, I just cant figure out what they were after." he replied.
"The Savage Stones..." groaned Sumaru. The team gasped.
"They're...going after the crystals...oh!" he struggled to remain concious.
"Savage Stones?" asked Naru.
"What crystals are you talking about?" Sakura asked.
"There's a valley not far from here that houses five precious stones of tremendous power, even greater than the Star. If they get to the power source first, then it's all over." Sumaru fainted.
"Hey hold on!" said Naruto.
"Where do we find the valley?" asked Sakura.
"Forget it, he's too far gone. We'll have to find it on our own." Sasuke said standing up.
"Guess your right." she said standing with him.
"But how are we suppose to find this place?" asked Lee.
"Follow the trail of destruction they leave, should be easy enough." he noted.
"It's worth a shot. Come on!" Naruto yelled.
A few minutes later the Akatsuki stood at a cave at the edge of the valley next to a waterfall and made thier way inside. While the Leaf Village Ninjas raced through the forest leading through the Forbidden Valley. On the other side the Akatsuki encountered a trap where walls of stagmites closed in on the group. But this would provide little security as Sasori spread out his arms and turned the massive spikes into sand while Deidara absorbed it into his hands giving them an easy passage. With each trap they come across each member would disable said trap with ease until nothing stood in thier way to total power. The Rangers finally made it to the entrance and rushed in, at least now there were no booby traps for Naruto to set off.
The Akatsuki finally arrived in the inner most sanctum of the temple before them were the statues of five animals. The Lion, Ram, Sawfish, Scorpion and Eagle. In the midst of them was a small circular base with the crystals in a star formation, one that earily resembled a pentagram.
"Stop!" Naruto yelled.
The team whipped around as the Leaf Shinobi flipped through the air.
"Ninja Art, Shinobi Change Jutsu!" they yelled morphing into the Power Rangers.
"Dont even think about it!" Naruto growled.
"Oh we intend to do alot more than that." Deidara said as the Rock Shinobi punched the ground rippling the earth beneath the Rangers' feet.
As the temple shook the crystals activated and glowed in brillance shooting rays of light into the air. The two teams looked up as they reached the ceiling activating a pentagram that glowed in the spectrum of colors of the crytals. As the light spread wall engravings of the five great warriors appeared on the wall and showne in colors simular to the jewels. Back at the rock base the Savage Crystals started to shake and rattle in thier place.
"What's happening?" Sakura yelled.
"The crystals are coming to life!" Deidara answered.
Soon they launched from their resting place with silver bands at thier base and attached themselves to the wrists of the Akatsuki members and morphed blowing the Rangers clear back against the rock wall. The Shinobi Rangers groaned laying sprawled out on the ground. In the smoke thier enemies could be heard laughing as they came to the forefront and were dressed in Ranger uniforms simular to there's but at the same time were completely different.
"Ahh!" Lee gasped.
"No!" yelled Sakura.
Sasuke growled in displeasure.
"You got to be kidding me." Naruto said.
The new Rangers wore colored uniforms with black mesh sleeves and gold belts .
"Madara Uchiha, Akatsuki Red!" yelled the leader.
Madara's uniform was dark red with a hollowed out, line drawn image of a lion on it's rear legs and it's claws outstretched across the chest from the lower left to the upper right and had a black tear graphic along the lower right side of his torso with a 3D image of a lion's eyes looking through the tear. His sleeves were black with a red blade like "A" symbol minus bridge in the middle and had red guantlets and white gloves. His left arm had a pair of Akatsuki clouds on top of of the other for his other arm symbol. The boots were red with black bands. His helmet featured a saber toothed lion with a yellow spiked main and had a rectangular visor with the fangs going down the sides.
"Kisame Hoshigaki, Akatsuki Blue!"
Kisame's uniform was light blue with a simular design to Madara's and featured two red tears along the right side of his uniform and had an image of the sawfish on his chest. His helmet had a fin on top along with the shark's face but didnt really include the sawblade.
"Itachi Uchiha, Akatsuki Black!"
Itachi's uniform was predominatly dark offering little highlight with the exception of a red imprint of the ram spirit and three red stripes on his uniform and also had gold trim on the rims of his sleeves towards the shoulders and featured the silver horns inbedded in the sides of the helmet with a white ram's face.
"Deidara, Akatsuki Green!"
Deidara's costume was emerald green and had the spirit of the eagle with four red stripes . Deidara's helmet had red eyes and a large gray beak protruding from the top of his visor.
"Sasori, Akatsuki Yellow!"
The final Ranger had the spirit of the scorpion in the center of his uniform with three red stripes on the right and two on the left. Sasori's helmet was the most bizarre featuring claws along the jaw of the helmet and a scorpion tail projecting from the back.
"Meet your worst nightmares." said Madara.
"Call us Power Rangers Death Squad." said Deidara.
Author's Note: All right what did you think of that? Hope you guys liked it. Again I apologise for taking so long, I got tied up in other matters and the writing process for this chater took alot longer than I thought. Let me know what you think.
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