Hello again and thanks for reviewing!!! There was a review that made laugh because he says I'm a failure as an author and that the last chapter was crap… one thing dude, IF you're reading this GET OUT! You don't like the story and start to flame stupidity, so leave.

Ok back to business. Some people are a bit angry at the apology Hinata gave… don't worry, she's still cold-hearted and powerful, she's just going to be a bit nicer to them and spend more time with her old friends… people don't change out of nowhere you know! Naruto on the other hand is still the same and if you look back a few chapters, his group didn't kill masses of shinobi, they just killed the ones they came there to get… so there's still a bit of the old stupid kid in there. This chapter: expect fighting and a few things XD

Disclaimer: don't own Naruto in any shape and form which is a shame

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Chapter15: experiments gone strong

There they stood as they looked at one of the abandoned bases of the genius turn psychopath Orochimaru. The place was in ruins, a few pillars stood and some of the places on the inside were a bit intact but the whole place in general looked like someone went in and made a party… a very nasty party which included burning the host's place. Three hours after their meeting, the group of renowned S-rank shinobi raced to some of the nearby bases that Orochimaru had scattered around the Land of Fire. Kabuto led the way as he was the expert in the situation although Kusamaru traveled underground in order to sense incoming threats. Doki had his sensed on par with his pale-green comrade since he's practically made of earth and could sense vibrations and such up to half a mile without pushing it. Kazuru looked alert like he always was and was ready for a fight in any moment. Kirabi looked pumped up and happily humming beats supposedly for the songs he writes while Naruto looked impassive. The leader of their little but powerful group of rouges had many things in mind, one of them was finding the information he needed at the moment, the other things that was on his mind was… could he defeat Uchiha Madara?

The simple yet controversial question struck him hard. Three years ago he struck him several times, almost ripping his arm apart in one occasion but he had to admit that it was pure luck on his part and because he had many tricks up his sleeve. The current problem was that Madara would be expecting all of those techniques plus the Rin'negan and even said bloodline wasn't mastered yet. Madara saw the Hiraishin he did to escape… no powerful tricks up his sleeve now since he dedicated all this time away from Konoha to master all those techniques not create new ones. After he finished his insane training in Moukobuzan he recruited Doki and Kusamaru two weeks later and in a month he met in battle with Kazuru and beating him, Kabuto appeared on his own two months later and after their… short but deathly battle he chose to recruit him.

"This could be my end… he hasn't seen my Rasenshuriken but that's easy to avoid for a shinobi like him. Madara is old, an immortal but he has to have a weakness… the next generation surpasses the last and he's a bit overdue" Naruto pondered in his mind while walking silently in the middle of the ruins of a laboratory.

"Naruto-kun… there's nothing left of this place but I found a clue that should point us to another location near here" Kabuto said as he grabbed a piece of cloth from the ground "This cloth… it looks like the one of the elite cursed seal wearers used… a bit north of here there's a base were this man was located, if this is here that means that he's one of the few responsible for this destruction" he concluded glancing at the blonde jinchuuriki who looked like he didn't listened at all.

"You okay dawg… you look space out or something" Kirabi said as he waved his hand in front of the blond who swatted it away like it was an annoying insect.

"You should go to said base…" Naruto said pointing at Kabuto, Kusamaru and Kazuru "Kirabi and I will visit the man who wants us for decoration" Naruto stated still in his thinking pose. All of the shinobi present looked at him like he grew another head while he kept his impassive yet concerned look on his face.

"You crazy boy!?" Kazuru almost yelled "You saying we take a trip to find some hideout while you and the new guy fight an impossible enemy?" he added monotonously as he stared at the blonde who stared back just as fierce.

"Yes" Naruto said simply and he signaled the ex-Kumo shinobi to move "I need you for another purpose, if we barge in and fight that man… he'll kill you in a second" he added without looking at the veteran shinobi from Suna.

"Don't worry… I'll look out after the fox boyy, if that crazy masked guy appears I'll hit him hight and I'll hit him low and then I'll make him blow!" Kirabi said in a singing rhythm while everyone looked at him with a sweat-drop.

"Can we really let this guy go with Naruto… he's crazier than he is" everyone, except Naruto though as they watched him write something in a notepad whispering 'that's good' with a grin.

"This guy is crazy and not in a good way, but his fighting power will be needed so I can tolerate this… for now" Naruto thought as he signaled him to get moving. Every shinobi in the ruins got outside to leave to their respective destinations when Kabuto turned around with an amused look on his face.

"It seems that the next base is a few miles away from your own destination Naruto-kun… I'm not saying you're not capable but going there with his only would be a bit reckless" Kabuto stated raising his glasses a bit so that light could reflect on them.

"If you want to come with us that much then so be it… I've never thought you all be mother hens" Naruto replied uncomfortably while the rest only laughed in amusement. The path in front of them looked grim for the blonde jinchuuriki and he didn't want the group to die now that he was a few paces closer to his goal.

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A day later in Konoha

Taking notice to the messenger bird that came flying towards him, Kakashi mentally sighed as he has been doing this for the past several hours an was currently a few hours away from breakfast. After making notice to every available shinobi in the village, Kakashi and the group he led to the failure of bringing back their comrade went to take a long deserved rest. Being waked up by an Anbu wasn't in his list of morning duties but made haste for once since he remembered that an attack would land later this day and made way to the Hokage's office just for her to tell him that he would be posted in the gate to receive the aforementioned birds.

The masked jounin lifted his arm for the bird to land, he took the wrapped message from where it was attached to and said bird disappeared in smoke. Reading the message he cursed as the news got a bit worst, then he turned around when Sasuke landed on his side with a look of annoyance as he tended to relieve him of this job… for now. The masked jounin sped towards the Hokage's tower where he guessed the leader of this village would be up to her neck in work, but the news he received were important and the current work had to wait.

Senju Tsunade sat in her chair as she checked a letter that shook her to no end. The letter was from Iwagakure and it said that the chosen temporary leader of said country were to meet with her to discuss the latest events in the country of earth that concerned the missing blonde she held as a little brother in her heart. Like she didn't had more pressing things in her mind, she knew that in a couple of hours this village would be invated yet again by those inhuman things her ex-teammate an psychopath created and now the temporary leader of Iwa was asking her for a meeting. Also with the letter, there was a copy of a document they had… her thoughts interrupted as the door of her office was knocked.

"Come in" Tsunade said airily as she let a big sigh and folded the important document in hand "What news of those accursed things Kakashi?" she asked intrigued as the masked veteran handed the little piece of paper who contained crucial information based on the serious look on the experienced jounin.

"They're near… it'll take them a mere two hours to be within reach of the north gates" Kakashi reported gravely while Tsunade looked devastated "In my way here I summoned my squad of ninja dogs to alert certain points of the village and prepare for this" he added casually.

"Shit!... damn Akatsuki to hell!!!" Tsunade exclaimed in a sudden fit of rage that slightly startled the lazy jounin "It's just a fifty cursed sealed shinobi coming at us but those techniques they have… we have to stop them before they reach inside the village" she added in a serious tone while Kakashi nodded in agreement.

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Back to the lookout post on the gates, Uchiha Sasuke glanced at the woods that surrounded the village in a calm but lazy mannor and he suddenly asked himself if his teacher's demeanor was rubbing on him. Activating his Sharingan every few times he was able to see if the massive amount of chakra was coming closer every time, said massive chakra signature was a few miles away from his location but he had to guess that they were to proud to at least decrease the output. Sensing something coming he grabbed the hilt of his katana and in a second had it around the neck of someone he didn't expect to see here before him… Hyuuga Hinata.

"Good to see you too Uchiha-san" Hinata commented in a calm but cold tone as the blade was lowered from her neck. She glanced at the man beside her with a calculative glare as he emotionlessly stared back at her.

"What do you want Hyuuga?... don't you have to be ready for the attack?" Sasuke asked calmly as he sheated his katana and returned to watch the wood for any signs of suspicious movement.

"I just came here to help you since you cannot see as far away as I can… also to talk about your hypocrisy" Hinata stated coldly as she activated her Byakugan to look at the distance "You spoke of me being a traitor to my friends but have you looked in the mirror lately… you, who put Naruto-kun in incredible pain when you defected the village?" she added with defiant and fierce voice. The Uchiha at her side merely smiled and she grew angrier at the calmness he displayed.

"You may call me a traitor if you want but I don't ask for forgiveness like that… very degrading" Sasuke stated with a smile that made the Hyuuga heir seeing red "The reason I told you that, even with hypocrisy, was to give you awareness of how he handles his precious people… I can't take back what I did but I understand how he felt with my actions" he added calmly as he remembered the betrayal of his brother even if it was for the good of the village.

"So?" Hinata asked "What if you understand what he felt in the past… he's not here right now thanks to you and so many others" she added, her emotions beginning to resurface as angry tears flushed from her eyes.

"I didn't want him to suffer anymore, that's why I asked you to change... indirectly of course" Sasuke stated in a monotone voice "He felt betrayal when I did what I did to you all… imagine how he must feel if you did the same?" he added the question with an eyebrow raised.

Hinata looked at the man in front of her with shock; never in her life would she've imagined the stoic Uchiha to talk like this… to appear so humble. She of course knew what he did and what he believed Konoha did to his brother and she saw how her Naruto changed his perspective slowly but as Naruto changed his friend… he changed as well and not for the better. She never would've guessed that there was another one in the village with the same pain of loss as she but then she remembered Tsunade and the fierce look in her eyes as she tried to put more retrieval missions to try and find him. She also saw how hollow Sakura looked as she wandered the village with no blonde to annoy her and Sasuke who looked out of place without the loud yet friendly face of Naruto at his side asking for a challenge. Of course she hasn't forgotten her dog of a teammate who judged Naruto because of the demon and she hasn't forgotten the village for treating him like trash but she also had forgotten that some people cared for the blonde jinchuuriki but the village came first and most were distract by its rebuilding.

"I wonder what you would have done if he said yes to your pleading" Sasuke stated as he smiled but suddenly narrowed his eyes at something he saw in the forest. Hinata lost her focus and looked at him in shock, she was a mile away from the fight but the Uchiha saw and heard their conversation?

"How did you…" Hinata started but she also saw something in the forest and suddenly disappeared. The Hyuga heir appeared in front of the cursed seal-enhanced shinobi only to see his monstrous head fall to the ground.

"Hinata, you may be powerful in close combat but I'm still faster that you… I hear your conversation with him, heck, I knew he sensed me arrive and leave" Sasuke said as he sensed a few more shinobi nearing the gate but the massive chakra signature was still a few miles away.

"Four of those things are coming… it seems they sent out a stealth team first while they distracted us with the bunch on the back" Hinata said as she scanned the area with her bloodline and her eyes widened. She prepared to fight but Sasuke flared his chakra to alert the village of the situation at hand.

"It seems they tricked us… I sense a lot of ninja in the forest a few meters away from here" Sasuke said as he glared at the darkened space in the forest "There's an Akatsuki in the back with a few of the strongest experiments while the rest rushed here" he added in his theory.

"You're right, there's at least forty shinobi nearby while a group of eleven are a few miles away" Hinata said confirming the Uchiha's analysis and suddenly four monstrous figures jumped from the forest. Two of which rushed to attack the Hyuuga heiress who glared at them and at the same time activating her Byakugan. One of the shinobi had a huge fist prepared to pulverize anything that it touched while the other was made of green spikes coming out of his body. Hinata focused chakra on her palms and moved but deathly precision as she advanced both of her enemies, the shinobi with the huge fist made a swing but the deathly kunoichi stopped it with her palms and started to hit it quickly, working her way to the torso where she stopped her "dance" with a palm to the heart.

"That was a bit easy" Hinata commented lightly as she saw her other opponent throw a barrage of green spikes at her but she quickly deflected them with a Rotation. The cursed enemy saw a slight opening coming when she stopped rotating and created two large spikes and went to strike in close combat. Hinata saw her opponent rushing at her and smirked; she twisted her body so that the spikes couldn't hit her and sent a palmed uppercut to the chin, sending him into the air. Hinata jumped after her opponent and gave a Heavenly Palm to the chest of her opponent sending him crashing to the ground dead. All of this happening in under a minute.

Sasuke on the other hand lazily watched his two opponents rushing at him and he truly wondered if they were that smart. Grabbing his Kusanagi, the Uchiha prodigy flickered and slashed through both of them like butter, quickly disposing the pathetic lives of the weaklings that came first. Sasuke calmly looked at the forest and saw many chakra signals but one stood above the others and he tensed when it moved rapidly under the ground. He signaled to his temporary partner and watched as she nodded and tracked the signal but something was coming from the ground and it looked like a plant.

"Well done Sasuke… Madara would be impressed if he wasn't mad first" a chilly mocking voice came from inside the Venus fly-trap like shape that came from the ground. Suddenly the "mouth" of said fly-trap opened revealing a half-white, half-black man with yellows eyes and a sickening smirk.

"Zetsu" Sasuke stated calmly but you could see his eyes were producing venom. Seeing an Akatsuki for the first time since he "defected" produced almost the same hatred that he once felt towards his brother and the same village he was protecting now. He owed a lot to the blonde dumbass that left the village and trying to bring him back was part of the immense gratitude he felt.

"Strong indeed… he wasn't kidding when he said that we would need a few big shots to take this place down" the white part said "Indeed but they won't last for long… many shinobi have left for missions and the only ones in here at the most are ten elites" the darker side said with a small chuckled.

"So you chose this day because you know you can't take us down when we're united?" Hinata asked emotionlessly as she stood in the Juken stance "You're just a bunch of weak cowards and I'll kill you all for trying to take an innocent person like Naruto away" she said loudly as she jumped to attack the aloe-vera man. Zetsu just smirked a the chakra infused palm connected with his chest but the body turned into a pile of rubble.

"KILL THEM!!" a strong yet cold voice commanded suddenly and thirty five shinobi jumped into the night, their main objective… break the wall. The only word to describe the shinobi that came from the forest was: monsters. One by one each of them neared the wall, some preparing a part of their bodies to attack while some just stayed a bit behind to let out a long-range technique. Sasuke and Hinata prepared to fight but bothe knew it was going to be difficult to destroy them all without getting killed in the process.

Suddenly hundreds of kunai and shurikens appeared in the sky and connecting with the incoming beast that seemed to not felt them at all. Konoha forces were on top of the wall and in front of the gate. Some of the Konoha shinobi managed to throw ninjutsu before a huge wave of concentrated wind connected to the wall. Sasuke made some hand-signs and threw a Grand Fireball at the incoming group of monsters while others went inside the group to fight in close-combat just like Hinata and a few other Hyuugas. Suddenly a huge cursed-sealed shinobi shouted and started to run towards the wall like a bull chasing a clown in the rodeo, a Hyuuga tried to stop him with a palm on a few parts of the ironically bull like body but the "monster" backhanded him, making him crash to the ground. The bull like shinobi connected with the wall, making a hole. A shinobi who was inside the wall of the village meant to attack him but was swatted like a bug and sent sprawling to the ground.

"Stupid puny ninjaaahgghg…" the bull like shinobi started saying but was suddenly hit by a massive fist. The massive fist suddenly shrunk and a tall, chubby armor-wearing shinobi stood by the fallen enemy with a serious face.

"Don't attack my comrades" Chouji stated with venom as he too prepared to fight. Many more shinobi started to attack but the sudden power boost of the enemy was having its effects. Hinata was getting tired of having to dodge every few seconds since she was surrounded by at least five of them and the other Hyuugas were badly beaten since some of the enemies were faster that they were. Sasuke was using jutsu after jutsu in order to repel them back, so far half of the enemy's forces were dead but the ones that were alive had incredible stamina and endurance. Not even his variants of Chidori were doing much damage, it seems that Madara knew how to train them well enough to not die easily and he could see the drastic improvement of each and every one of the experiments. Seventeen shinobi suddenly fell back and a huge dragon shape fireball came from out of nowhere and connected the wall. Sasuke, Hinata, Chouji and a few others got out of the way in time to not get incinerated as the wall was destroyed and the Konoha shinobi were either dead or badly wounded. Suddenly all seventeen of the cursed sealed shinobi rushed towards the destroyed wall, Sasuke flickered and slashed through the first two and Hinata appeared at his side after slashing another two's necks. The other Konoha shinobi that survived the fire attack got behind them and prepared to fight until more forces joined them.

Suddenly the ground in front of the incoming "monsters" exploded and spikes made out of wood came out, successfully blocking the path. Yamato stood behind the group of survivors smiling at them for the good job so far, suddenly an enemy shinobi jumped from the blocked path and made a few hand-signs but he was suddenly kicked in the gut and sent into the spikes, impaling him.

"They're so hasty today huh?" Kakashi said lazily as he landed in front of Sasuke who looked relieved to see him "Good job all of you… reinforcements are on the way but it seems that those little numbers can be taken out in a second or two" he added as he unveiled his Sharingan.

"Don't be underestimating them Kakashi-sempai… they're incredible resistant" Hinata said panting a bit from earlier. Even though she had perfect chakra control, she didn't have that much chakra capacity and her way of fighting was to end the enemy as fast as possible.

The wall of spikes Yamato created suddenly exploded and a few shinobi rushed in first but were quickly engaged by Kakashi and Yamato. The other cursed sealed shinobi got pushed back with a huge gust of wind and a kunoichi wielding a big fan stood by with Shikamaru and ten others. The Konoha shinobi had a huge air of relieve as they quickly joined the fight, the enemy was getting up and Sasuke suddenly flickered in front of them… Mangekyou Sharingan visible.

"What the hell are you doing Sasuke!" Kakashi yelled as he saw his once most talented student confront and obvious death. Sasuke kept quiet as he focused chakra into his left eye and opened it as much as possible.

"I'm almost out of chakra, all of those jutsu to repel them and not much happened" Sasuke thought as he kept focusing on the self-imposed task "Life sure is weird, I came back to destroy this place and now I'm saving it with the same technique… Amateratsu!!!" he thought fiercely as the enemy approached and was almost on top of him. He realized that he didn't have enough chakra for the massive technique and started to feel faint but suddenly heard a joyous but chilling yell.

"Uzumaki Extravaganza" eight of the attacking shinobi suddenly got slashed and left a swirl like trail made of blood in the air for a moment. Sasuke felt like he was being held by the waist and looked up to see someone he didn't expect carrying him. Five more crashes were heard and suddenly every enemy shinobi were completely destroyed. Shock was the primary feeling that came to not just Sasuke but every Konoha shinobi present as they saw the last person they thought would help them in front of them.

"Don't take it the wrong way Sasuke. I just save you because you had good intentions… for once" Naruto stated with a big cocky grin as he dropped the shocked Uchiha to the ground not to gently. Behind said blonde stood his group of shinobi, each on top of the opponent they took down. Kazuru stood next to his with a lazy but alert expression, Kabuto smirked while adjusting his glasses as he observed his victim. Doki and Kirabi stood in similar stances glancing at one another… clearly in a competition. Kusamaru had a sweat-drop as he watched the two but still remained calm and deathly "It seems I'm back... Konoha" the blonde thought as he looked on.

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I know the ending sucked a bit but I just had to include them in here. Like I said before, people don't chance out of nowhere so don't expect Naruto to work for the Leaf. Hope you like the Hinata bit, I told you she was still cold (especially to Sasuke) and powerful to her enemies. I know some of you may think that the fighting was pretty bad but I wanted to get it over with besides… ten of them are still far away with an Akatsuki XD.

Next: face to face… again