Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the related characters, I just am borrowing them for my own delusions.
Chapter 23
"AAAAAAHHHH!" Naruto managed to avoid the wind slice from Kitana, but Sonya nicked his shoulder with her sword.
"Ladies, I thought we agreed no rough stuff." He said as he spun away and thanks to Orochimaru and Jiraiya's endless training sessions, formed a one handed seal and an earth spike shot up between him and the two very dangerous women.
"Aw, Naruto-kun." Sonya said with a grin.
"Don't you love us anymore?" Kitana finished resting her fans on her shoulders.
"Didn't love you before." He muttered as he looked at the wound on his shoulder as it closed, the only indication that he'd been hit was the tear in his shit and jacket, and the bloodstain.
"Aw, man. Kaa-san's going to be pissed." He said looking at the two women. "This shirt was brand new."
Neither woman said anything, but he did notice them checking him out. No. No way. I have enough with Haku-chan, Kin-chan, Tayuya-chan and Temari-chan. I don't need more. He thought as he sidestepped Sonya's chakra rings. He watched as they hit a Konoha Anbu and sent him flying.
"Let's get dangerous." He said and threw down a smoke bomb, allowing it to envelope him.
Kitana and Sonya looked around. "Where is he?"
"I don't know Princess, I can't sense him." Sonya answered, bringing her katana up into a defensive position.
Around them the smoke bomb seemed to grow instead of fading away.
"I am the terror that stalks the night." Naruto's voice took an animalistic growl as it seemed to come from everywhere. Both women went back to back.
"I am the wind that fills those perky breasts…"
"This isn't funny anymore Naruto-kun." Sonya muttered looking around, seeing shadows moving in the smoke.
"Highness…use your fans to remove the smoke."
Kitana did, and was frustrated when the smoke stayed where it was. Sonya tried to dispel it, thinking it was a genjutsu, but that didn't work either.
"I am…"
he appeared right next to them and both women screamed as he pinched their bums.
"I am Grandmaster Sexy!!!"
Naruto laughed as he shushined away leaving two very flustered and not to mention highly frustrated dangerous women standing in the middle of a permanent smoke bomb.
Kankuro was a genius when he made those. Naruto thought sadly of the now dead puppet master and his perchance to make useful items while he was developing his puppets. The only way to dispel that smoke bomb is to throw the second concoction. Naruto pocketed the second half of the capsule and smirked hearing the two women in the middle of it swearing.
"Heh, who knew a princess knew those words." He said as he went to help Gaara.
XX
Sarutobi ducked the strike from the four armed lizard skinned creature and lashed out with a kick that didn't do more than make it huff in annoyance.
Orochimaru sent the Snake Hand at it and the serpents fangs sunk into flesh, having more effect and injected their venom in the monster the Chinese sorcerer had called Goro.
"I'll deal with the beast, you deal with its master." Orochimaru said as he ducked and weaved.
"We can take it together." Sarutobi said.
"But that gives the wizard time to plan something more." Orochimaru said as he rolled around the punch from Goro and hit a nerve strike that had no effect.
Sarutobi looked to see Shang Tsung standing where they'd last seen him, but he had a monks staff with rings and he was reading from a scroll.
"What are you doing sorcerer?"
"Ah, the aged monkey professor." Shang said stopping his reading. "Leaving your former student alone is very foolish. He is a prince amongst his kind, warriors born and bred. Your student while one of the Sannin won't win against him alone."
"You're over confident in that beings abilities. Orochimaru might no longer be my student, he might not even be a member of the Leaf, but he is a skilled warrior and should never be taken lightly."
Shang Tsung chuckled. "So then, you wish to fight me?"
Sarutobi nodded and took up a stance.
"Ah, Monkey Style. Appropriate for the man who holds the contract to Enma and his clan."
"Fight me sorcerer." Sarutobi said and lunged.
Shang laughed and waited until the Third Hokage was nearly upon him before he conjured a flaming skull fireball and sent it screaming at Sarutobi, catching him point blank in the chest and tumbling backwards.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Konoha shall burn and my master will have what is rightfully his."
"And (cough) what (cough) is (cough) that? (cough)" Sarutobi asked. His armor was cracked and he found it hard to breath.
"Why, the power of the Demon Lord, the Kyuubi no Kitsune. The Nine Tailed fox." Shang said. "With that power, my master can undo what has gone before and install his world order upon the Elemental Nations." Shang began chanting then, the monks staff glowed and the rings lifted as if carried on a breeze. Shang's hair turned white and he aged rapidly before Sarutobi's eyes. The hair reached to his ankles and was white as snow, age spots appeared and the once strong hands seemed bony and frail.
He's aging before my very eyes. What sorcery is he using? It's costing him his own life.
XX
Jiraiya looked at Kung Lao.
The monk giggled as he turned the page, his eyes absorbing the words from the book in his hands.
"Shouldn't you be in there helping your brethren?" the Toad Sage asked.
Kung Lao looked over the edge of the book and shook his head. "Nah. They have it hand." Another giggle and Jiraiya sighed. "I see what Tsunade means." He muttered and looked on to see if he could find Naruto in the chaos.
XX
Natas shook his head as the three Uchiha assaulted the very unconscious Kakashi Hatake.
"The famous Sharingan Kakashi Hatake. What a disappointment for someone who claims to see underneath the underneath." He looked on as Anko and the holder of the one tail fought Saibot. He watched as the shadow ninja dissolved and split into two.
"Impressive, don't' you think Tsunade?" he turned to see the slug sannin walking towards him. "And here I thought Jade would have given you a challenge."
Tsunade flipped her hair. "That girl while she had some skills, talked too much and expected whatever power you gave her to save her."
Natas shrugged. "They all have their uses Tsunade. Each one a piece on the board, they live and die it matters nothing."
"It matters. You will lose." Tsunade said clenching her fist, ready to charge.
"I might, but this is just a minor test in the grand scheme of things." She saw the skull mask turn and she watched as Naruto looked from where Anko and Gaara were fighting Saibot to where Kimimaro was being dragged towards Scorpion, to where the girls where having issues with Sub-Zero.
"Chose Naruto." She heard Natas say. "You can't save them all."
"You bastard." She said. "You expect him to chose who of his family should die."
Natas shrugged and turned. "As I said, in the end it doesn't matter about the pawns. The king and queen are the important parts of the board." Natas saw Anko use Snake hand on Saibot, but the shadow ninja dissolved. "You did well in raising them, despite all that's happened to them over the years."
Tsunade paused, it was something in the masked man's tone. "Who are you?"
Laughter, hollow laughter came from the mask. "Beat me and find out, daughter of a hokage, granddaughter of another. Adoptive mother to the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune." Here the laugh was bitter. "Take him Tsunade. Leave Konoha to its fate. I will let you and yours leave. My word."
"Your word is shit, and I'm going to be the street sweeper that puts you in the trash." Tsunade snarled and lunged.
XX
Naruto looked and saw that Gaara and Anko were dealing with the slippery shadow ninja. And while the girls were suffering from the chilling effects of Sub Zero's aura he saw they were going to beat the freak as Kin hit Sub Zero with a series of senbon with bells and he smiled as she used her flute, which gave Haku a moment to go on the offensive and trap Sub Zero in her dome of mirrors.
His blue eyes turned to see Kimimaro being dragged like a fish on a line back to Scorpion, who was now holding a flaming sword.
He then caught his mother fighting Natas and his blood went even colder. "What do I do?" he formed the cross seal and created ten kage bunshins. "Five of you help Anko and Gaara, you five help Kimimaro. I'm helping Kaa-san."
"RIGHT!" the clones yelled and rushed off.
Naruto gathered his chakra and leapt.
XX
Kimimaro resigned himself to death. It had been delayed by Tsunade-sama and Naruto-sama. It is time. He thought as he was dragged backwards, the harpoon keeping him from able to turn and cut the line.
He lay there as Scorpion stood over him and raised the flaming broad sword over his head.
"I give your soul to Shang Tsung. Know that it is an honor." Scorpion lowered the blade and intoned. "Fatality!"
The sword was stopped by a bone sword and Kimimaro turned to see five Naruto's standing there, two of them holding the bone blades he dropped.
"I don't think so freak." The Naruto-clone said.
"Yeah, boss would hate to get a new friend and protector now." another said.
Three of them attacked, the sword knocked from Scorpion's hand. He was forced on the defensive as two of the clones kicked from opposite sides, and the last wielding a bone sword drove him back.
The last two clones cut the harpoon and pulled it out, the one with the bone sword stood guard while the last clone performed field healing.
"Relax Kimimaro-san. The boss has it all scoped out." The clone said using the green chakra to heal the wounds. "Here's a blood pill, and take this, it will help. Kaa-san will be busy when this is over, but she will patch you up one hundred percent."
Kimimaro nodded and allowed the clones to fight, his eyes searching for the original.
XX
Natas smirked as he ducked and avoided Tsunade's attacks. "Age catching up to you princess?"
Tsunade back flipped away as he tried a roundhouse kick. She smirked. "Nope. Just making room." She said.
"Making room?"
The boot to his spine sent him rolling as Naruto landed. "She was giving me room to kick your ass."
Natas stood, his spine aching. "Ah, Naruto-kun. So nice to see you coming to play. Decided to leave your family and friends to die?"
"Nah. They are taken care of."
Natas looked to see clones. "Ah. Yes you famous shadow clones. Sarutobi shared that with you, I am impressed."
"Your going to be more so when I'm done with you." Naruto said taking on a new stance.
"I don't know that style." Natas said.
Naruto grinned, "Let me show it to you…in detail."
AN: Another chapter and some more conflict and info tossed around. Next time Naruto vs. Natas, be there or be square.