The Little Sannin
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the related characters, I just am borrowing them for my own delusions.
Chapter 4
"KAA-SAN!"
Naruto watched as the strangers with black outfits and silver devil masks entered the camp and took out his Kaa-san.
"Naruto, Anko, stay here." Shizune ordered and they watched as she pulled her sleeve up revealing the senbon launchers.
Anko loved the weapon their aunt made. The figures turned towards them and advanced, still not making a sound.
"Stay back." Shizune warned.
The attackers kept coming, one of them pulling a curved sword. Shizune wasted not time as she sent a hail of poison covered needles flying at the attackers. The one with the weird sword swatted them aside. Shizune was right behind it and her scalpels tearing into the person's armor, before she flipped backwards to avoid the reverse swing of the curved sword.
Anko and Naruto both stood back, the kunai in their hands.
"We need to help." Little Naruto said his blue eyes wide as they went to the still form of their mother.
Anko slapped a hand on his shoulder. "Aunt Shizune said we need to stay here."
Blue eyes looked up at her in disbelief. Both children turned hearing Shizune scream and watched her fall.
"AUNT SHIZI!" Naruto yelled and again Anko's hand kept him in place. "Don't." she said, her hand tightening on the kunai in her other hand.
The strange nin approached again, Naruto felt fear, not for himself, but for his mother and aunt.
Anko snarled and lunged as the masked nin got with in range. A black gloved hand caught her wrist and she dangled in the air, her legs flailing about as she tried to hit the man that hurt her adopted mother and aunt.
"Let me go! Let me go so I can kill you!" she struggled to break free, managing to pull herself up and sink her teeth into the gloved hand that held her.
"AGH!" the man snarled and backhanded her hard sending her several feet away where she lay not moving!
"NEE-SAN!!" Naruto screamed. He rushed to his sisters side and saw her unresponsive. He cried as he heard the man chuckle.
"No Kyuubi, has being a human weakened you so?" the voice was deep, inhuman sounding.
"I am Naruto, not the dumb fox." Naruto said. as soon as he was old enough to understand words, his mother had sat him down and with Jiraiya and Orochimaru explained to him the night the Kyuubi had been sealed. They said he was the jailer, not the prisoner.
"And if you want him, you can't have him."
The masked man chuckled again. "And why is that?"
"Because my dad was a seal master, and if you try and remove the fox, it will not only kill me, but the fox will die as well."
"Impossible." The masked man said as he motioned the others behind him to hold steady. "Your father was a fool. No one can kill a demon lord."
"Yeah? Well no one could seal one or stop one on a rampage either, and my real dad did that."
"He's lying milord." A nin said.
the silver masked figure slipped the curved sword away and approached Naruto.
Naruto swung and kicked as the man picked him up by the back of his shirt and had him dangling. The man reached out and Naruto smacked the hand away, he got slapped hard.
"Don't make this more difficult boy." He ripped Naruto's shirt.
"Hmm." Naruto watched as the man's hand was engulfed in red chakra and placed it over his belly.
The seal appeared.
"Hmmm. Crude."
Naruto used a word he heard his mother say once. "FUCK YOU TEME!"
The masked man laughed.
"Milord, we lost contact with the base." A nin reported.
"Hm, it seems the Sannin live up to their reputation." The masked man said.
Naruto while the man was distracted, pulled out his kunai and rammed it into the man's wrist.
Naruto fell to the ground as the strange man clutched his wounded arm to him.
"Kill the women, bag the boy." He said stepping back.
Kill..
Naruto felt a white hot rage overcome him at the thought of his mother, sister and aunt being hurt.
One of the ninja wearing his katana at his side reached for him and in explosion of power Naruto was in motion, red chakra engulfing him as he snatched the sword and in a single motion cut the ninja in half.
"What?" the man said watching as one of his men fell to the boy. "Kyuubi?" he inquired and saw the boy's eyes were pulsing with red energy.
Hm, he moves like a seasoned swordsman. But, who is in control?
Naruto shimmered and appeared before a nin that was about to stab Tsunade, the nin looked shocked as Naruto speared him on the stolen katana up from the groin.
The masked leader grabbed Anko and held a dagger to her neck.
"Hold it boy." He said watched a third of his men fall leaving himself and one other.
The red vortex of power around the boy kept flaring, but the boy stopped moving.
"Who are you?"
"Naruto." Came the deep voice.
"Hm…I don't think so." The masked man said. he felt two powerful chakra signatures coming closer. Blast, I don't have time for this.
"I'm letting the girl go, and me and my servant will leave you for now."
"Who are you?" Naruto asked.
"An old friend of the Kyuubi's. if you talk to the fox, tell him Natas says hello." The masked man shoved Anko towards Naruto. He took a moment to see if the girl would be harmed and watched as the chakra around the boy vanished and he dropped the katana and caught the girl, falling under her weight taking them both to the ground.
"Let's go." Natas ordered and they vanished in black wisps of smoke just as Jiraiya and Orochimaru reached the camp.
XX
"Shit!" Jiraiya said as he and Orochimaru saw the nin vanish. They saw Tsunade, Shizune and Anko, but no Naruto.
"NARUTO!" Jiraiya called.
"There!" Orochimaru said noticing movement under Anko. The Snake Sannin was at his nieces side and rolled her off Naruto who looked dazed, but unharmed.
"Naruto?" Jiraiya asked dropping to his knees.
"I…I'm okay." Naruto said. "Aunt Shizi was hurt…she screamed…and…"
"Stay here with Orochi and Anko, I'll check on Shizune and Tsunade." Jiraiya said and rushed to the women's side.
Naruto say up and looked at Orochimaru. "Is Anko-nee-chan allright?"
Orochimaru nodded. "She just got knock out." He said tracing a hand over the bruised cheek of his niece.
"Who did this?"
"H-He called him Natas. He said he was…he was a friend of the fox."
Orochimaru put a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Are you okay?" the Snake sannin asked.
Naruto nodded. "Uncle?" he said hesitating.
"Yes?" Orochimaru took the role of uncle and the children called Jiraiya father or as Anko and Naruto really called him Ero-pop.
"I…the fox…" Naruto looked at him, his big eyes shining. "Something's wrong." He said, his hand going to his stomach.
"What do you mean Naru-kun?" he asked the young blond.
"W-When Natas…when he ordered his men to kill Anko-nee-chan, kaa-san and Aunt Shizi…"
Naruto lowered his chin to his chest and was talking so low that even Orochimaru's hearing couldn't make it out.
Reaching out a hand he raised the boy's head up.
"Now, what was that. Your mother told you never to be afraid to tell us anything Naru-kun." He said giving him a soft smile to encourage the boy.
"He said I was the Kyuubi…and when I felt mad…it wasn't my own anger…I was too afraid…"
Orochimaru pulled Naruto into a hug. The bad ass Snake Sannin hugged the little blond boy that had become family to him as much as his niece in his lap.
"Can't breath."
Both sprang apart to see Anko awake.
"Hey little serpent." Orochimaru said. "You got tagged pretty good."
XX
Jiraiya checked on Shizune, and while she was wounded it wasn't bad. He saw it was a shallow cut. The sleep tag on the back of her neck he ripped off and she opened her eyes right away.
"Naruto! Anko!" she said sitting up with a wince, her hand going to the slice across her belly.
"Both are fine if not a little roughed up." Jiraiya assured her. "Heal yourself and go check. I'll get Tsu-hime."
The toad sage had be relieved that Shizune was alright, he got to Tsunade and saw a senbon needle in her neck and he panicked when he pulled the tag off her and she didn't move, here eyes stared lifelessly ahead.
"SHIZUNE!" he yelled and the apprentice was there. "I pulled the tag off, but…"
he was panicking.
"Jiraiya?" Orochimaru said with the children.
"Stay back!" Jiraiya called out. "Keep the kids back."
"MOM!" Naruto yelled and only Orochimaru picking him up kept the blond from running to his mothers side.
"Oh sweet Kami no. not like this." Jiraiya muttered as Shizune ran a diagnostic.
"She's alive." She said after several heart stopping minutes. "here it is." She muttered pulling a second senbon out from a place in her spine.
Tsunade's gasp of air was drowned out by Jiraiya's whoop of joy as he pulled her into a bone cracking hug as he babbled "You're alive!" over and over again. The two Sannin were tackled by a blond missile and soon joined by a purple haired one as Anko joined Naruto in hugging Tsunade. Jiraiya was silent, as it could have been he was enjoying the hug that Tsunade was alive, but to those watching it was due to his face being buried in Tsunade's large chest.
AN: Well the villain is Natas. Him and his clan will be around more in future installments. Not all the time as he is going to watch from the shadows and plan.
Yay, they all live so far.