It's that time again. Enjoy, I demand it.
Team Sharingan had stopped for the night and set up camp. Currently Itachi was sitting beside the fire on watch, while the others slept. He suddenly felt 4 large chakra signatures approaching them. He quickly and quietly woke everyone and had them on guard. He walked a little ways from the camp and called out "We know you are there. Show yourselves."
"I am impressed that you noticed. However it will do no good. We come for the jinchuriki, if you hand him over to us, we will not harm you." Said a hunchbacked man in a deep gruff voice.
"I'm afraid I cannot allow you to take him." Said Itachi.
"Then you leave us no choice. Kill him." Said the man.
"You got it Sasori, my man. Unn." Said the blonde haired man as he reached into a pouch on his side before throwing out 3 small birds that quickly expanded to the size of normal birds.
The birds raced forward at Itachi as he just stood there. All 3 of them collided with him and exploded in a large fireball. Several ravens flew out of the fireball and reformed into Itachi several feet away. Itachi then went through some hand seals and said "Fire style: Grand fireball jutsu." as he blew out a large ball of fire at the 4 attackers. They quickly scattered to avoid it. Itachi once again stood firm as a large spiked metal rod went through his chest.
He once again dissolved into crows and reappeared beside the Sasori who had stabbed him with his tail. He looked at Sasori and said "You do realize that you and your band of rejects stand no chance against me."
"We will kill you. Do not worry about that." Said Sasori as a beam of lightning tore through Itachi. As all the times before he dissolved into ravens and this time appeared behind the most recent attacker. He swiftly pulled a tanto and stabbed the man 5 times, once in each of the masks on his back, and once in the head. Itachi, due to his sharingan, could easily see that there was a beating heart behind each of them. The man dropped to the ground, dead.
"What the hell are you?!" Said another man from behind Itachi. "How could you know of Kakuzu's weakness?!"
"Simple minded fool. I can see everything with these eyes." Said Itachi as the man with sleek gray hair and the three pronged scythe noticed his sharingan for the first time.
"Itachi Uchiha." Said the man with a trace of worry in his voice.
"Yes it would appear that I am." Said Itachi.
"Too bad I'm going to have to kill you!" Yelled the grey haired man as he pulled his scythe and leapt at Itachi. He swept the blades right through him, as Itachi turned into ravens and flew off into the woods.
There was then a voice coming from everywhere at once that said "Perhaps you should pay more attention to your surroundings…" and trailed off to darkness.
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Naruto and the others stood behind Itachi watching as they all stood there talking. The only movement so far had been Itachi as he walked over and stabbed the large man with a mask on his face 4 times in the back and once in the back of the head. Suddenly one of the men, the hunchbacked guy, jumped back from the group. Kakashi simply said "I got this one." and leapt towards the man doing hand seals. As he neared him his hand became coated in lightning and he drove his arm into the man's face before he could react. To Kakashi's surprise there was no blood, only splinters of wood. Shit it was a puppet! Thought Kakashi a moment too late as a fist smashed into the side of his head and knocked him unconscious as a young voice said "Congratulations, it has been a while since I've had to show my true form."
A young red headed man climbed out of the 'man' that Kakashi had just 'killed'. He quickly leapt towards Kakashi as a saw blade came from his wrist. Before he could reach Kakashi he heard a noise to his left side, it sounded like 1000 birds chirping. He turned and looked just as Sasuke's lightning covered hand smashed through his face. He flew backwards and hit the ground unmoving.
By the time Sasuke finished with the puppet man, Naruto decided that they would no longer play games. He held out both arms as a Rasenryukyu (water style: Spiralling torrent) formed in one while a Rasenshuriken formed in the other. He pressed both hands forward as the attacks flew toward the blonde haired man and combined, wrapping him in a water tornado. He awoke from Itachi's genjutsu screaming in pain. After a couple of seconds the screams stopped, followed shortly by the tornado. Once the attack dissipated, pieces of Deidara fell and littered the ground below.
Naruto was just about to attack Hidan as well when he heard a scream from Sasuke. He turned and saw the puppet man who Sasuke had 'killed' with a spike drove through his stomach. Sasuke's scream then broke Itachi's focus and he dropped the genjutsu on the remaining member, who capitalized on the distraction and kicked Itachi in the ribs, knocking him away.
Hidan quickly shot towards Naruto with his scythe cocked back and ready to strike while he was distracted. Just as he got within reach and swung towards Naruto, there was a red flash in front of him before he felt a tremendous pain through his chest. He looked down to see a red lightning-covered arm sticking out of his chest. The next thing he knew he was skipping across the ground from a kick to his head.
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Itachi landed after the blow from Hidan and rolled just in time to avoid a flurry of senbon stabbing into the ground where he was at. He quickly leapt to his feet and started racing through some hand seals as 2 puppets charged at him. Just as the puppets were about to attack, he finished the seals and said "Fire Style: Grand Fireball jutsu." as massive fireball erupted from his mouth and enveloped the puppets.
Sasori quickly reacted and managed to save one of the puppets, but the other was destroyed. He cursed at that, losing one of his favorite puppets.
"Well well, you managed to destroy my father puppet. No biggie though, after I kill you I shall make you his replacement." Said Sasori as he pulled out a scroll and unsealed another puppet, this time in the form of the 3rd Kazekage. He wasted no time having the puppet summon a large mass of his iron sand, before forming it into a massive spear and shooting it towards Itachi at an alarming rate of speed. Itachi saw it coming and realized he didn't have enough time to dodge. Blood started to trickle down from his right eye as the large spear impacted him and made a large cloud of dust.
Once the dust settled, Sasori was surprised to see Itachi standing firm where the spear hit, within a purple ethereal demon soldier.
After the surprise faded, Sasori was actually quite pissed that someone was able to tank his iron sand, but the feeling didn't last long as he was forced to dodge the body of Hidan flying at him. He looked back towards where Hidan came from to see Naruto rushing towards him at a high rate of speed.
Itachi thought it was a good thing that Naruto distracted Sasori, because he chose that moment to fall to one knee from chakra exhaustion. He never did have good stamina, and the Susano'o had completely drained him. He managed to crawl over towards the tree where Sasuke and Kakashi were at before passing out. The last thing he remembered was hoping that Naruto could defeat 2 of them at once.
Sasori jumped sideways to avoid Naruto, who swung out at him. Naruto quickly slowed down and flowed into a spinning backhand which connected with Sasori's face, knocking him away. After Sasori was sent flying Naruto leapt back towards Hidan, who had just regained his footing.
Hidan threw up his scythe to block the punch that Naruto threw at him. Even though he blocked the punch, the force of it drove him back several feet. He then lashed out around the pole with a kick that connected with Naruto's ribcage.
Naruto flew back several feet before he flipped and regained his footing. As soon as he landed he felt a presence behind him and quickly jumped to his side as puppet wielding a sawblade crashed into the ground where he was at. He turned around to face the puppet and was utterly shocked at the sight. He was looking out at what appeared to be 100 puppets standing in front of Sasori.
"Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets." Said Sasori from behind the puppets. "I'm very surprised at your strength, Kyuubi. I once used this technique to destroy an entire village; to think I would have to use is just to beat one kid says a lot."
"Well against anyone else, this would be bad, but numbers mean nothing to me." Said Naruto as 100 shadow clones appeared beside him.
"Impressive, but it will do you no good in the end." Said Sasori as all hell broke loose.
Naruto's clones and Sasori's puppets were going at it full force, and it quickly became clear that the clones were no match for the puppets as their numbers became less and less while only destroying a few of the puppets. While the clones were fighting Naruto called upon the Kurama's chakra as he was covered in the yellow shroud of chakra.
With the new power boost, Naruto flashed through a set of hand seals and held and arm out as a massive tornado shot out of his arm and formed into a dragon. "Wind style: Wind Dragon Jutsu." he said as the dragon rampaged through the crowd of puppets. He managed to take out about 10 more of the puppets with it, but had no time to celebrate as he had to dodge Hidan's scythe.
No sooner than he landed he had to dodge again as one of the puppets crashed down on him. He had to figure something out fast or he wouldn't make it out of this alive. He remained on the defensive, running from the puppets and Hidan, until one of them finally clipped his leg. He fell to the ground on one knee as it felt like someone injected fire into his veins from the cut.
"It's over for you now Kyuubi." Said Sasori as he stepped towards the front of his puppet army. "That is the most powerful poison known to man, It causes paralysis for 3 days before death; and I'm the only one who has the antidote for it."
"That's where you are wrong." Grunted Naruto. "Thanks to the Kyuubi, I am immune to all poisons. Though it does say a lot that it is affecting me this much."
"Very well then, I need you to be alive anyways, but I'm not through having fun yet. You will pay for destroying so many of my puppets."
"Hn." Said Naruto as 2 of Sasori's puppets came and grabbed his arms and picked him up.
"Looks like it really is over for me, this poison is messing me up big time." Thought Naruto as the 3rd Kazekage puppet stepped in front of him.
About this time, Sasuke regained consciousness, though he was in excruciating pain and couldn't move his body. Most likely due to some kind of poison, he figured. It was then that he noticed Naruto's predicament. He tried to will himself to stand, to do anything to help him out, but couldn't. He could only sit and watch as a large spear of what looked like black sand formed in front of one of the puppets and launched at Naruto.
The spear reached it's target and there was a large cloud of dust as Naruto screamed out in apparent pain. At the same time Sasuke's eyes felt like they had been set on fire, before the pain became too great and he passed out.
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From Naruto's POV
The 3rd Kazekage summoned up a large amount of his iron sand before it transformed into a large spear, and flew towards him. The last thing he could remember is excruciating pain from his eyes, as everything became blurry.
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Sasori POV
He could only smirk as he heard the Kyuubi container cry out in pain. He deserved as much for being so troublesome, though he hoped he hadn't went overboard and killed the brat. That thought, however didn't last long as the iron spear he shot at Naruto found itself impaled through his chest, hitting the only organic part of his body, the heart. As the world faded to darkness, he wondered just what had happened as the dust cleared and the boy was standing there unharmed. He was confused momentarily before he met eyes with the boy. He had seen those eyes before, on the leader of their organization. It was then that he realized what happened, and then he was no more.
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Normal again.
Hidan had stopped to let Sasori finish the job, but was now shocked seeing the large iron spear fly back away from Naruto, and hit Sasori. He quickly looked to the now clearing dust cloud to see the boy standing there without a scratch on him.
"What the fuck are you?!" Hidan shouted out.
"Bansho Tenin." Was the only reply he got as Naruto held up an arm and he could feel a pull on his body, before he was jerked off his feet towards Naruto. As he came closer, red lighting started dancing around Naruto's arm, shooting arcs off in every direction. He tried to stop but could do nothing as the arm shot through his head, and everything went dark.
With Hidan now dead, or as dead as he could be, Naruto's chakra cloak faded away, and he dropped to one knee again as the world was spinning around him. He could see his team in bad shaped several feet away. He knew that he had to stay conscious long enough to get them all back to Konoha. He dug through his equipment pouch and found a bottle of pills that he was looking for. He pulled one out and swallowed it as he made his way over to his fallen team. He reached them and made 4 shadow clones. 2 of the clones grabbed Kakashi and Itachi while Naruto grabbed Sasuke, and they disappeared in 3 red flashes of light; while the other 2 cleaned up and sealed the bodies of the Akatsuki before they too flashed away.
Hope you all enjoyed. You know the routine, this is the part where i say "Hey. Review my story, because for every person that reads my story and doesnt review, i lose a year off of my lifespan." or something along those lines.