Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the related characters, I just am borrowing them for my own delusions.
Chapter 22
"Can we talk about this?" Jiraiya said seeing the monk of the White Lotus Society.
"No." the hat spun through the air making a soft buzzing sound. Jiraiya dropped and rolled, the gleam of the razor edge telling Jiraiya he just save his undertaker of having to make a closed casket.
Kicking up to his feet Jiraiya looked at the man and saw the hat return. "Nice seal work."
Kung Lao smirked. "You think you have the market on them?"
"No, but I always like learning new things." Jiraiya finished his jutsu and spar a wad of mud at the monk who smirked.
"You've gotten faster."
"Or you slower."
The two met in a dizzying display of punches and kicks, the last one sent Jiraiya skidding across the ground, but he rolled and landed on his feet. The buzzing sound again warned and Jiraiya ducked and one of Natas's thugs was decapitated.
"Nice."
"I aim to please."
"Your not still mad about that are you?" Jiraiya asked.
"Yes." A series of kicks and Jiraiya flipped over Kung Lao and kicked him hard.
Lao for his effort spun in the air and sent a fireball at him.
Jiraiya cursed and slapped his sleeve out. "Damn it, do you know how expensive this was?"
"Sorry." Kung Lao said with a grin. He moved to grab his hat again which had reappeared on his head.
"WAIT!" Jiraiya said.
Kung Lao lowered his hand and quirked an eyebrow. "Fine. Here." Jiraiya said and pulled out a gold covered book.
"Icha Icha The Ultimate Final Fantasy Platinum Edition Omnibus." He said and handed it to Kung Lao. "The only edition."
The hat-throwing monk smiled as he took it gently, cradling it like a newborn baby. "Are we square now?"
Kung smiled and whistled.
Forty monks wearing blue robes entered the stadium. "We're square."
Kung Lao took his hat off and threw it, decapitating three of Natas's ninja. "ATTACK!"
The monks swept across the field separating Konoha nin and Oto forces from Natas's and attacking the green clad ninja with the skull marks.
XX
In the Kage booth Orochimaru and Sarutobi looked at the man who had posed as the Kazekage.
"Shang Tsung." Orochimaru said with distaste. "Natas is really scraping the barrel's bottom if you're here."
The Chinese mystic smirked. "Why are you surprised Sannin. All these souls will be mine."
"Not today sorcerer." Sarutobi said as he ripped off his robes showing his battle armor underneath.
"Hm. So the old man has some life in him. I will enjoy taking it from you." Shang said stamping his foot, a staff appeared next to him and he clutched it.
Orochimaru shook his head shedding his robes as well, Grass Cutter was in his hand. "You won't get a chance sorcerer, and your gods won't hear your screams."
Shang snarled and spun, an arc of fireballs flew through the air. Sarutobi a master of combat used a seal less jutsu and a stonewall sprang up blocking the fireballs.
The battle just started when below the tide changed.
Shang cursed. "Damn that monk." He began a summon. "I hope you like this." Shang said finishing the last seal. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
Smoke rose and when it cleared a humanoid figure with four arms, a long topknot of black hair, brownish skin and was eight feet tall.
"Goro…Destroy them!" Shang ordered.
The four armed being roared, and strode forward.
Shang kept lobbing fireballs keeping the former teacher and apprentice off balance until Goro was upon them. Then he chuckled. "IT HAS BEGUN!"
Overhead the sky darkened and thunder and lightening crashed.
XX
Naturo and Anko paused as the blue robed monks evened the field. "Aw. That's no fun." Anko pouted.
Naruto chuckled. "Deal with it nee-chan." He looked around, the monks had separated many of the current fighters, his gaze looked for two certain freaks.
He took a step, but was bowled over and realized it was a battered Gaara atop him.
"What the hell?"
Gaara groaned as he sat up. "New freak."
Naruto looked and saw the shadowy figure. "Shit. Noob Saibot. Not good." Naruto got to his feet. He'd been trained by the Sannin, but the shadow ninja was just that, living shadow. He'd seen him in action from a distance once when he was nine. The nuke nin never stood a chance.
"Where does he keep getting these people?" Gaara muttered as he stood as well, sand rushing to surround him and rebuild his armor and the gourd on his back.
"Rejects, outcasts, distant lands." Anko said. "Ero-pop has a whole dossier on Natas and his people. They've mainly kept to the mountains for the most part, but they have come down and collected bounties on nuke nin's."
She pointed to where the three Uchiha were standing amidst the carnage. "It seems they've made a collection on Uchiha."
Naruto shook his head. "We'll worry about the Uchiha later. We need to get the freaks out of here. Saibot, Scorpion and Sub Zero are the biggest threats."
"Aw, don't you love us any more Naruto-kun?"
The blond turned. "Princess Kitana, Sonya." He said greeting the women. One held a slender sword, the princess in blue held a pair of battle fans that would have made Temari drool.
"You've gotten even more handsome Naruto-kun." Princess Kitana said with a smile before pulling her mask up covering the lower half of her face. "It's a shame we won't have time to sample you."
"Anko, Gaara, we need to split up. Anko-nee-chan help Gaara with Saibot. I'll hold off the Princess and her personal guard."
Gaara looked like he wanted to protest, but Anko knew her brother was trained enough to do as he said.
"Don't die gaki, you have to decide which girl your going to date." Anko said and turned to face the shadow ninja.
Gaara paused. "It better be Temari." He said in that cold dead tone he used to have before he came to Otogakure and his seal had been fixed.
Naruto gulped and then turned back to the two women. "Ladies."
He dodged the sword and used a kunai to block Kitana's fans.
XX
Jade cartwheeled out of the way of a Tsunade punch and winced watching the crater in the wall. Jade pulled out her collapsible bo-staff and swung with all her might at the blonds head, but Tsunade caught her weapon and held her immobile.
"Why is it," Tsunade began, "That whenever my little Naru-kun is happy and things are just starting to go his way, you freaks show up?"
Jade tried to kick her, but Tsunade blocked it with a kick of her own, neither woman let go of the staff. "Because he belongs with us." She said.
"Cold day in hell." Tsunade said and pulled the staff hard. Jade, surprised by that hadn't let go, and was dragged into a chakra enhanced punch that sent her sailing into the air and out of the stadium, where she landed only her and Kami knew.
XX
Haku was getting tired blocking Sub Zero's attacks she wanted nothing more than to go on the offensive with the others, but she couldn't. that would leave the others open to the cryomancer's attacks.
Hinata's attacks seemed to affect him the most while Kin and Tayuya were suffering from frostbite from an earlier attack. Their sound attacks had proven ineffective against the ice user.
She used the ice mirrors of her bloodline to block Sub Zero's attacks, the taijutsu was handled by the other three, but even they were getting tired as the freak's aura was sapping their strength as if they stood in the middle of blizzard. The cold effect was dulling their senses and they had to do something about soon.
XX
Scorpion and Kimimaro were at a standoff. Neither got the edge of the other, their uniforms were slashed and burned. Scorpion's symbiotic spear had been decapitated twice and regenerated its head. Kimimaro had bone blades running down his forearms and bones were sprouting along his legs like wicked blade spikes. Their punches and kicks met with bone cracking force, neither showed it. Monks tried to get between them and died violently at the hands of a fireball from Scorpion.
Kimimaro used that and shushined behind him and rammed both forearm bone blades in Scorpions back and out his chest. Still the orange and black clad nin didn't make a sound.
Kimimaro pushed him off is blades and used a moment to gather himself, his eyes looking for Naruto. He saw him fighting Kitana and her guard. He took a step before stopping as Scorpion's spear exploded out his chest from behind.
"GET OVER HERE!"
Kimimaro felt himself yanked back, the kick sent him into the air and he looked to see Scorpion materialize above him and with an axe kick send him rocketing back to the ground where he impacted leaving a crater.
XX
Kakashi slit the throat of the skull marked ninja in green and black. He turned and saw the three Uchiha standing there. Rushing across the field he grabbed his prized student.
"Sasuke. Sasuke, your back. Answer me." The one-eye jonin said, but The Uchiha made no response. Kakashi felt a presence behind him and turned to face the skull mask of Natas.
"Sharigan Kakashi Hatake, the copy-cat ninja." The skull masked nin said, his tone cold.
"I believe its time we talked."
"Who are you?"
A dark chuckle came from Natas. "You're not ready for that Kakashi." He snapped his fingers and Kakashi's word went out as he was struck from behind.
How? Only Sasuke was behind me. Kakashi remembered thinking before nothingness set in.
AN: Boo-ya.