yo here's the new chapter. thanks for the revieuws and a merry chrismas.
Kurei, Shinku, and Tsunade jumped off the balcony and onto the roof so they could face Orichimaru head on. And Kurei felt her blood begin to boil as she looked up at snake-obsessed sanin.
"You." She said quietly, gritting her teeth slightly.
"Fufu. Its been a while Tsunade." He said in a creepy voice before turning to Kurei, "Well. What a treat. The last time I saw you little Kurei, I was ending the life of your pathetic brother."
"Orichimaru!" Tsunade shouted feeling her own temper slipping. She could feel the ground beginning to vibrate ever so slightly beneath Kurei.
Orichimaru smirked again as he too felt Kurei's chakra beginning to go haywire.
"Oh, I'm sorry Kurei. Are you still a bit sensitive when it comes to the topic of your brother?" he asked knowing that sensitive was an understatement.
"Damn you." She whispered before her chakra began to make the wood grow from beneath her, "this time. I'll kill you!"
Unable to hold back the years of hate she had against the sanin, Kurei charged.
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Neji sent another senbon towards a sound shinobi. When the opposing ninja blocked the senbon, Neji appeared next to him and cut open his throat. He paused for a moment to look around with his Byakugan.
He saw Kurei charge at a weird looking man with an insane amount of charka. Damn it. I wont be of any help to Kurei-sama. He thought before turning his gaze around. He saw Rei pulling an unsuspecting sound ninja into the ground and letting the poor ninja go. Neji had to look away as the poor man began to blend with the ground.
He looked around some more and saw a sound ninja coming from behind him. Drawing a handful of senbon he sent them flying at the ninja, killing them. With the threat gone he went back to searching for the others.
Yami was pounding another's bones into powder with Ryo. Dana soared above the village tackling the giant snake that somehow managed to come crashing down on the east gate.
He saw Kaira holding off three other sound ninja while Saria and Gaara fought not far off, back-to-back.
Furai shot three arrows, two of which hit their marks while the last embedded itself into a building wall. Naruto and Kiba were with the civilians guiding them to the shelters so they wouldn't get in the way.
Neji looked around the leaf village frantically. Where are Kasai and Hikari? He thought. When he couldn't find them he knew something was wrong. Gritting his teeth, Neji headed over towards Gaara and Saria.
When he was close he found a sound ninja closing in on the weakened Saria, who was on her knees. He noticed that Gaara was busy so he sent three senbon toward the sound ninja, which killed him before they could harm Saria.
"Neji?" Saria said shocked but relieved that she had been saved although she didn't really need to be. Gaara quickly finished off the group of ninja that had separated him from Saria and ran over to her.
"Thank you Neji." Gaara said kneeling down to Saria.
"Gaara I need you to shield me for a few minutes." Neji said before letting loss more senbon to kill another Sound ninja that was coming at the group, "There's no time to explain."
Gaara nodded and turned to face off against another opponent. Saria nodded and faced the group of shinobi to Gaara's back. Neji stood in-between Saria and Gaara and focused chakra to his eyes.
He scanned the village once more looking for the two missing sakura genin. When he couldn't find them in the village he focused even harder to search further away. But what he saw infuriated and horrified him at the same time.
"Shit. This is bad." He said before catching sight of Rei just below them, "Rei!"
The Youma boy came up out of the ground.
"What?" He asked somewhat irritated.
"Naruto is on the Hokage monument. Find him and tell him to at the north gate. Hurry!" Neji instructed before heading towards the area in town masked in Itachi's chakra.
Once within the area Neji found himself in the market place but it was empty and dead silent.
"Itachi-sama! It's me! Neji!" he called knowing if he didn't make himself known as an ally he would end up dead like the others.
"Neji? What are you doing here?" asked the sakura jonin as he materialized out of the ground.
"Come with me! Quickly!" Neji said frantically as he headed in the direction of the north gate. Itachi, curious to know what had upset the usually cool-headed genin, followed.
When they got to the gate Naruto was already there and was finishing off a group of sound ninja.
"Hoi! Neji! Rei told me to meet you here. But what's up?" he asked.
"First off you both must swear you wont go ballistic when I tell you this." Neji said. When the blonde and older Uchiha nodded he continued, "Itachi. Your little brother and Kabuto are about three miles north from here and they are traveling at an incredibly fast pace. If you don't hurry they'll get away."
"That's fine by me. If he thinks going to Orichimaru will give him the strength to beat me then I don't care where my brother goes." Itachi said in the most uncaring way.
"And I don't know anyone named Kabuto so why should I care?" Naruto asked with a look of boredom.
"Because you Baka! Sasuke has Hikari and Kabuto has Kasai!" Neji said trying to get the two to understand, "Now go! Go straight north. There's no one to get in the way."
Neji drew four senbon in each hand and threw them at another sound ninja that had come from the village.
"Get going!" he said before charging back into battle.
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Kurei felt the sharp sting of a sword slashing threw her arm. Damn it. She cursed as Tsunade threw her out of the threatening blade that would have killed her. Flipping in mid-air she landed on her feet and skidded until Shinku came from behind her and help stop her.
"Are you alright Kurei-sama?" Shinku asked concerned.
"Fine" Kurei said as she stood up. She watched as Tsunade and Orichimaru fought each other. There's no way I'll be able to keep up with them at this level. She thought.
"Shinku. Please stand back." Kurei said softly. Shinku looked at her shocked for a moment but she did as she was instructed.
Kurei made several hand signs and Shinku could see Kurei's chakra lashing around her. In every spot that the chakra hit the ground, new plants sprung up and lashed around just like her chakra. Within moments the plants had formed a sort of plant shield around her. Shinku focused her sight and looked into the shield. The plants shot away from Kurei revealing her in her most powerful form.
Kurei had a vine tattoo that ran all along her body and the very plants that had shielded her were now connected to her forearms and were imbedding into her hands until they too looked like they were part of the tattoo.
"No… no way." Shinku whispered sensing the huge amount of chakra that pulsed along the vines and throughout her body.
Kurei turned to look back at Shinku's shocked face and smiled kindly.
"What did you expect, Shinku? I am the Sakurakage." She said mockingly before turning back to glare at Orichimaru.
Orichimaru jumped away from Tsunade and felt a huge pulse of chakra. Surprised, he looked over at the source and was even more shocked when he saw the vines fuse into Kurei's hands.
Tsunade frowned as she looked over at Kurei. This wont end good for Kurei. She thought before looking back at he old comrade. She couldn't help but smirk at Orichimaru's shocked look.
"What do you think she's been doing all these years? Twiddling her thumbs?" Tsunade asked mockingly. Orichimaru looked over at her and smirked.
"Your student is impressive as ever." Orichimaru said as he made more hand signs.
Kurei saw Orichimaru make hand signs and knew he was making a big move. She quickly threw her arm out at the snake sanin. Two thin vines flew off her arm and flew at blinding speeds at Orichimaru.
Orichimaru felt something pierce threw his shoulder. He looked over and was shocked to see it was a rose vine. He followed it down to Kurei who was smirking. Orichimaru then felt a build of chakra coming at him and turned just in time to see Tsunade's punch before it crashed into his face.
He flew off the rose vine and was in the air.
"Shinku. Clip his wings." Kurei said. Shinku smiled tiredly.
"Hai, Kurei-sama." She said before drawing two kunai and slashing both her wrists. With her wrists cut open she dropped the blades and swept her hand towards Orichimaru's flying body.
What looked like a crimson red blade flew at the snake sanin and slashed his back open when it came in contact. Orichimaru gritted his teeth as pain ran through his body again and he had to smile. He opened his mouth and shed his skin.
Healed from his other wounds he charged at Tsunade. If I take down the strongest first then the other two will be easy to kill. He thought as a sword sprung from his mouth and towards Tsunade.
Seeing the attack Tsunade jumped away, avoiding the attack. But she was shocked when Orichimaru sent a spray of kunai and shuriken at her. Damn it! She thought as she crossed her arms over her face and chest to protect the more vulnerable spots off her neck and face.
But both sanin were surprised when a crimson wall came up from bellow and blocked the weapons.
"Don't underestimate the power of the Chishio clan." Shinku said sending another crimson blade at the snake sanin. Orichimaru smirked and shed his skin once more so his odd one was caught in the attack. But before he knew it, there were several vines wrapping around his body.
"Stop struggling." Kurei said glaring, "together we out power you."
Orichimaru began to chuckle as his chakra began to lash around him.
"I didn't really think." He said as his skin got paler and his body began to jerk unnaturally, "I didn't think I would have to use this power to destroy you all."
The three woman's eyes widened as Orichimaru transformed into a giant white snake but it was not his transformation that shocked them. It was the red and purple pillars of chakra coming from the north gate.
Kurei, immediately recognizing the chakra, felt a shiver run down her spine. Oh, shit. She thought before hearing the sound of plants being up rooted. Looking back at the snake sanin, she went to pin him again.
Orichimaru slithered away from the vines and went after Shinku, who was still recovering from the massive pulse of chakra.
"Shinku!" Kurei shouted. The said woman snapped into reality and threw up a shield.
"This is quite the interesting ability. What is it?" the white snake asked.
"It's the Chishio clan blood limit." Shinku said, "It allows me to control my blood and use it as a weapon."
"Oh, really? Interesting. I'll have to run some experiments on your corpse later."
"Keep dreaming." Shinku said sending another blood blade at the snake sanin. Orichimaru dodged the blade and went to kill the Chishio clan leader when several vines stabbed into his body and pinned him to the ground.
"If you think I was going to let you take one of my shinobi's, you're dead wrong." Kurei said before she clenched her chest with a look of pain. Shit. I'm at my limit. She thought.
"You little bitch." Orichimaru said sensing his minions being killed off rapidly.
"Its over. We win and your followers are being killed off." Tsunade said, her fingers itching to go heal Kurei from whatever injuries her transformation was giving her.
"Fufu. I guess I did loss, this time. The next time we meet I will destroy the leaf and then I'll come after your little pets, Kurei. I'll make them do my bidding." Orichimaru said with a crazed look as he began to seep into the ground.
"You'll never have them." Kurei panted feeling her body beginning to break down, "I wont let you."
Orichimaru smirked as he completely dissolved into the ground and with him gone Kurei devolved to her normal form and begin to cough up blood.
"Kurei!" Tsunade shouted worried before running over to her old student to heal her.
"Kurei-sama." Shinku said worried as she stood back so Tsunade could do her work.
I won't let you harm them, you bastard. Kurei thought as white began to form around her vision. I will protect everyone in our home. I will protect the citizens on Sakuragakura. She thought before passing out completely.
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Naruto looked out to the world that was only colored red. He didn't know who this Kabuto guy was but he was going to rip him into tiny pieces and then kick the bastard's soul to hell.
No mercy! Just death! He thought repeatedly in his head as he charged in the direction that Neji had told him to go, Itachi not far behind him. His Sharingan glowed with the same hatred as much as his demonic red eyes and purple chakra swirling around him like the red chakra making a fox shape around his.
"This time. I'll kill that Emo Bastard!" Naruto shouted running faster.
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