Thanks to those who reviewed my last chapter, there weren't many and here I ask myself… is it getting boring?… my story that is. Anyway, this chapter tell of the semi-romantic stuff about Naru-Hina and of course the twist in Konoha and how I would handle it now that Sasuke is in the village.

Disclaimer: don't own Naruto or any of its characters except my own Oc's

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Chapter 19: why I fight

"Hinata-san, next time, please don't rush so recklessly" Yamato said with a relieve ton in his voice as he stood behind her with the other members of the search team. Behind the group sat Naruto who looked on perplexed at the turn of events but quickly got over that knowing the enemy they were all facing. Kakashi on the other hand knew the Huuga heiress would be a match for many shinobi so he didn't pay much attention to her. Narrowing his eyes he looked in front of him to analyse the enemy but what he found shocked him… those eyes again.

"I thought you killed the only person with those eyes Naruto" Kakashi stated/asked as he slightly glanced behind him to at least see his previous student but kept a sharp eye for any movement the enemy would do.

"It took me by surprise as well… it's my fight though so why are you here?" Naruto asked intrigued by their presence "I'm not exactly complaining since I saw Hinata bust out some pretty amazing moves but… you shouldn't be here" the blonde stated seriously as he kept looking at Pain who clearly looked annoyed at the sudden appearance of Konoha. Naruto couldn't see but Hinata was blushing a bit at the complement he gave her… she could be cold and emotionless but deep down she's the shy Hinata.

"Well Tsunade-sama knew about you going to finish the battle against the mask-guy of Akatsuki. We already know he's Uchiha Madara so she thought you could need the help so she sent us here" Sakura said glancing backwards to see her former teammate hoping that he didn't turned them down.

"Do whatever you please just don't get in my way" Naruto stated as he continued to gaze at God realm who got the message and jumped backwards while Naruto vanished, leaving behind several astonished shinobi.

"Okay guys listed up, Naruto is gonna fight and we're not in a position to tell him otherwise. We'll have to wait in the sidelines and see an opening… besides the masked-shinobi was here the last time Hinata briefed us so he must be here somewhere" Shikamaru said as he glanced at every member of the "rescue team".

"We have to do something Shikamaru… there's Pain and Madara!" Sakura stated with a slight rise in her tone which had worry and panic in the mix of it all.

"I know how you feel Sakura but Naruto's new comrades are in the fight as well and they're no pushovers" Yamato said as he pointed to where three realms fought with three members of Boshoku.

"You did rather well Hinata-san… to go so far to save Naruto-kun… I'm speechless" Sai stated with a slight smile and eyes closed. His facial features were steady and his tone of voice was rather even so he actually didn't felt a thing… since he doesn't understand.

"Sai, please be quiet" Hinata stated in a polite tone which got the artistic shinobi slightly off guard as he knew she was angry so he decided to leave her alone. Hinata on the other hand channeled chakra to her eyes and activated her blood-line to scan the nearby area for any dangers. Suddenly she saw Naruto and an Akatsuki flaring their chakras at the same time, in her eyes a majestic display of power that inflicted a bit of fear… and to make it scarier… Naruto was losing!

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Naruto vs God realm

"SHINRA TENSEI!!!" two voices exclaimed as the air and ground around them shifted. The two techniques seemed to be in a stalemate as the ground underneath them kept throwing out chunks of rocks at their surroundings, slowly forming a crater. The blonde shinobi furrowed his eyebrows at the amount of chakra he was pulling just to make a stalemate, shifting his eyes so he could make eye contact with his opponent who looked scarily calm. God realm just stared at the blonde with a steady stare as he kept his technique going and was slowly gaining the advantage. Suddenly Naruto slid a few feet backwards, widened his eyes and got pushed. Crashing into the ground, Naruto tumbled and skipped a few times until stopping on a boulder… after crashing into it.

"Ugh… ugh… what the hell?" Naruto mumbled in slight pain as he picked himself up from the boulder and with a slightly opened eye, glared at the incoming Akatsuki. God realm appeared in front of the blond before kicking him in the chin and sending him crashing into the same boulder, this time destroying it completely.

"I told you I gave you limited power… if you try using those techniques at me you'll be like Kakashi going against Itachi… outmatched" God realm stated emotionlessly as he kept staring at the struggling blonde who was getting a rock off of him "I gave you those powers, I can take them back as well so if you don't mind…" he started saying as he bent down to touch the blonde's face, suddenly a strong arm grabbed his wrist and gave a grip almost breaking the bone.

"I do mind" Naruto stated as he jerked the arm and used it as an impulse to get out of the rubble and punched God realm… or wanted to anyway. He got pushed backward yet again as the Akatsuki released another Shinra Tensei, sending crashing to the ground a few meters away from the position of the hidden Konoha shinobi.

"I told you it was pointless" God realm stated as he walked towards where the blonde jinchuuriki landed on the ground. A thin but large black rod came out of the Akatsuki's sleeve as he approached Naruto, who was picking himself up, and pierced his right leg.

"Dammit!... I thought I was gonna have an edge since we both have the Rin'negan but it seems what he said is true… it's limited" Naruto thought as he fought the pain in his leg "My only option is to pull out that jutsu but since my chakra control is not perfect is gonna be a hassle" he thought with a grunt as he saw the Akatsuki pull out another rod, he was about to stab him again when a yell interrupted them.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!!" Hinata roared as she practically flew from her hiding spot that nobody got time to react. Palm open, the Hyuuga heir deflected the rod and made a thrust towards the head of the Akatsuki who grabbed the attack by the wrist. Producing another rod, God realm made a stabbing motion towards Hinata who deflected it yet again with a palm strike. The Hyuuga kunoichi suddenly pressed a finger into the Akatsuki's arm, making him release her and that left the enemy open for an attack…

"Shinra Tensei" God realm muttered and sent the kunoichi backwards along with Naruto. The Akatsuki calmly walked towards the fallen shinobi and produced two rods "You told me that you loved him… let's see if he has the same feelings" he stated emotionlessly as he stopped in front of her. He suddenly made to stab the kunoichi and made contact with flesh before feeling a kick in the head sending him flying towards a small boulder on the ground.

"Dammit!!" Naruto grunted as he fell to the ground, holding his left side of his abdomen… where the rod had pierced him. Hinata saw the scene and was frozen in place as he saw the Akatsuki stab her beloved but her beloved used the momentum to kick the enemy away. She snapped out of it and made way to check on the man she had fell in love with three years ago. (AN: when she was twelve it was more of a crush than love… kids don't love anything at that age)

"Naruto-kun!!... please don't struggle to much… I'll help you" Hinata said in slight panic as she neared him and saw the wound bleeding profusely "He took the attack for me… why?" she thought as she caught the rod by one end and started healing the other "Why Naruto-kun… I need you" she whispered to herself but the blonde heard her.

"I need you too Hinata… I need you alive!" Naruto exclaimed as he pushed her and sent her flying a few feet and then… a disturbing sound… metal piercing flesh "AAGGHH!!!" Naruto lay on the ground with rods sticking out of various parts his body.

"You took another attack for her… it seems you do at least care for her" God realm stated as he appeared in front of the jinchuuriki with triumphant look on his eyes. Suddenly he couldn't move his body and saw a trail of shadow coming from a shinobi standing near a bush. God realm also took in mind the destruction of yet another body, this time Animal realm, by the eight-tails jinchuuriki who slashed the body in four. The destruction of the body left a small opening for the Copy-Nin to appear out of nowhere with a full Raikiri in hand and plunge it in the Akatsuki's chest… but a hand sucked the technique. Hungry Ghost realm appeared holding Kakashi's hand and then kicked the Konoha ninja in the gut.

"So close… they protect that body like a God" Kakashi thought as he got up from the ground. His blood turned cold as the body that was trapped by Shikamaru suddenly lifted his arm and the shadow-ninja came out of the bush with an alarmed look in his eyes. Suddenly two weird colored beasts came out of the same bush and attacked but Hungry realm put a stop to them easily. Wood suddenly surrounded Shikamaru and pulled him out of the technique, at the same time Shikamaru landed on the ground, pillars started to surround the two Akatsuki's in an attempt to capture them.

"It won't hold when that shockwave attack comes… get out of here" Yamato shouted as he narrowed his eyes and waited for the worst. The wood pillars suddenly cracked and broke in an instant and everyone near them suddenly got pushed back as well as the main body of the Akatsuki stood with arms stretched.

"Useless…" God realm stated as he glanced at the surroundings and saw the shinobi on the ground grunting in pain. He saw the jinchuuriki still struggling near the annoying kuniochi and made his way towards them.

"Shit!... he's getting closer… Hinata is still in danger!" Naruto thought with desperation as he couldn't move very well with all of the rods implanted on his body and the foreign chakra of Pain in his system.

"I'll show you, junchuuriki, the pain of losing someone precious in front of your eyes" God realm stated coldly as he stopped in front of Hinata who was trying to get up from being thrown backward yet again by the Akatsuki's attack. Emotionless eyes stare at fierce cold eyes before the emotionless ones move to strike and the fierce ones get struck.

"Ugh!" Hinata grunted as she was stabbed in the abdomen, near a lung. She was shocked; she felt cold and most of all she felt afraid of failing to get her beloved back. She also felt ashamed that she got killed right in front of him… proving that she was weak even when she needed to be strong "I failed… again… why do… I even… bother… to fight… anymore" the injured kunoichi thought as she felt her body going numb and the darkness to conquer her vision.

Naruto felt something he hadn't felt since he was told his master, Jiraiya, was killed in action… he felt a cold emptiness that nothing could warmed it up. The jinchuuriki felt rage, uncontrollable, blinding rage. Rage because she had to get killed after everything he did to save her, rage at the man who killed her in her weakened state… rage at his own weakness. He had the power but he had hold back since he was saving chakra for his fight against Madara but this guy had to go and do that… in front of him… a crazy action will have a crazy coincidence.

"NOOO!!!!!" Naruto roared as he exploded with red-blood chakra, making a shockwave that sent the Akatsuki backwards and miraculously didn't affect the body of the kunoichi. Another thunderous roar and the jinchuuriki stood in a mighty seven-tailed mode. Bones of a fox clearly visible out of the body covered in chakra but the bones were already mending with the chakra and bits of flesh was starting to show around various parts of the body. The miniature demon lunged at the Akatsuki who retreated backwards to have more space but the incoming demonic figure didn't allowed that and before he had a chance to activate his technique he was sent backwards by a shockwave of chakra and they entered the forest, leaving behind several injured Konoha shinobi. (AN: I know in the canon he was 6-tails and the bones were not perfectly connected to the body so I made 7-tail have the bones already merged in the body and bits of flesh already in place since 8-tail had flesh but no fur)

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Minutes earlier with Boshoku

"That girl is quite something eh?" Doki asked/said clearly impressed at how the unexpected kunochi handled both realms at the same time "I have to say… I rather disappointed at how Naruto is handling the situation" he stated, this time narrowing his eyes at his opponents.

"Pissing me off is what he's doing… isn't the masked-ninja the one who really a threat?" Kazuru asked as he appeared besides the earth-user, blades out "He should've take care of that one already and search for the bigger prey" he stated as he looked at the three figures in front of him and knew that mistakes like the one he made before were not acceptable so he would take on one of them.

Clapping his hands Animal realm put them on the ground and summoned the two realms that Hinata took down. Human realm didn't seemed dead just a few broken bones but Demon realm was sporting a hole the size of a small hand that went through the body and random destruction around it, in other words the body was useless. Hell realm gathered the damaged bodies while Hungry realm stood to guard him. Animal realm suddenly summoned a giant bull that instantly charged at the two member of Boshoku who immediately backed away from the rampaging summon. The bull suddenly fell to the ground as a giant snake connected its tail with a leg, the snake quickly advanced to bite the neck of the bull but its head was suddenly grabbed by a pincer belonging to a crab.

"My, my… it seems we're going at it in a stalemate" Kabuto wondered out loud with an amusing tone of voice as his summon dispersed. The new snake-tamer saw his disadvantage as the crab and bull kept attacking his comrades who had nothing to do but keep dodging until they could get a nice spot to counter.

"This is getting a bit difficult… huge animals and now two more of those realms joined the party" Kazuru thought as he kept dodging the frantic attacks of the summons. He suddenly saw a small chance and jumped towards an opening that left him separated from the frenzy of the attacks and there he channeled chakra into his blades and positioned himself "Kenjutsu: Wind Slash Gate Opener" he yelled and vanished only to appear tow steps behind Doki with a concentrated look on his face. Sheathing his sword, the bull summon was ripped apart in two while the crab sported two slash marks since the shell was hard to penetrate.

"Heh, you're always the one to show off" Doki stated as he parried with both Hungry and Animal realm. Pushing them away with great strength the earth-master made a couple of hand-signs and smirked "Earth style: Swamp of the Underworld" he stated as he placed a hand on the ground and it instantly turned a very large area into a muddy swamp. The realms were about to sink when the swamp, suddenly, started to dry. Hungry realm was sucking the chakra of the ninjutsu and the technique was reaching its end before doing any real damage.

"You are not my real target but getting in my way is a mistake" Hungry realm stated as he jumped backwards at the same time the newly repaired bodies of Human and Demon realm lunged at Doki and Kazuru. With wide eyes, the two members of Boshoku, block the simultaneous attacks but didn't expect Hell realm to appear behind them, grabbed them by the back of their necks and throw them backwards. Hell realm turned to see the damage but an unexpected kick to the gut sent him clashing with Human realm.

"You idiots just don't quit" Kirabi stated as he stood tall against the smaller Demon realm "Shit… the fat one got away and now it's helping the other with gravity techniques. What da hell are you doing jinchuu-bro… you'll get killed if you hold back any longer" the former lightning ninja thought as he glared at his opponent. He suddenly charged at Demon realm and parried with him blow for blow, skipping in the area that was a swamp just a few seconds ago.

Demon realm suddenly jumped backwards, took off his cloak and quickly attacked the jinchuuriki with missiles. Kirabi saw the whole process and was rather disappointed in the level of power of this body; he decided to end the fight quickly seeing that his partner was in trouble as various rods pierced different parts of his body. Dodging the missiles by jumping sideways and in distances (to not receive damage from the blows) he clearly separated from the enemy and judging the growing smile on his enemy's face, he was lured into his current position. Glancing up, Kirabi saw a huge pincer coming straight at him, not having time to dodge he channeled chakra and took the hit that shook the ground and cracked it.

"My type of summon is a mismatch with his summons… this crab has a very hard shell and my snakes fangs can't penetrate it" Kabuto thought as he tried to analyze the situation "I should kill the guy in close-range since he can always have the rough shell of the crab protecting him" he concluded and went ahead to try his plan. He summoned another snake to distract the giant crab while he disappeared in the mystic dance the snake was causing in order to wrap its prey. Animal realm suddenly ducked as a punch was directed in his direction and had to dodge sideways as four snakes with blades coming out of their mouths came at him. The Akatsuki produced a black rod and parried each blade while slashing away the snakes. Kabuto appeared in front of his opponent with his Kusanagi in hand, parrying their weapons against eachother, the rod breaks and the Kusanagi makes contact with flesh as it pierces Animal realm's torso.

"That was easy… didn't expect that huh?" Kabuto says with a smirk but suddenly sees a blast of red chakra a little ways of his position. Adjusting his vision he saw a miniature Kyuubi like the last time he was working with Orochimaru but knew that this one was much stronger. Hearing a demonic roar he snapped back to reality to sense another spike of chakra this time near him, glancing to his right he saw the other jinchuuriki surrounded in maroon chakra but he was more controlled having spotted only four tails.

"Oi, snake-man… help the others… I'm going wild up'n here" Kirabi stated as he squatted down like he was about to start a race, the ground around him suddenly cracked and with loud crash he sprinted, leaving a trail of broken ground on his wake. Nearing where the other three realms where, Kirabi extended his arms and tackled Human realm who's left side practically exploded, leaving the body with just half of his torso. Continuing his rampage, even though he was conscious, Kirabi kept running towards the scene where his jinchuuriki companion was going berserk. Suddenly he saw the Akatsuki being blown away and the possessed boy on his tail "Shit!... I hope I'll make it in time… the 9-tails out in the open will be next to impossible to defeat"

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Konoha… Root HQ

"What should we do now Danzou-sama?" a Anbu from the Root division asked as he kneeled in front of the bandages man who was sitting rather comfortably in a couch.

"We wait until tomorrow… the office will be mine tomorrow, so there's no need to hurry the inevitable. More importantly a squad has already been dispatched to eliminate Uzumaki's group after the fight…" Danzou said in his cold demeanor as he took a sip of sake.

"A squad is already targeting member of the Konoha 12 and handing them instructions to meet tomorrow with the Hokage, namely you" another Anbu stated as he appeared out of nowhere.

"Very good… dispatch a letter to the squad in charge of the elimination of "Boshoku"… tell them to kill everyone except Sai" Danzou stated with a smile that sent shivers to everyone present in the room.

"But master… they're shinobi that could benefit our cause…" one started but was cut-off by the Hokage to-be.

"They may be strong but they're too fond of the blonde fool… we kill him they'll rebel. Even if we fail in killing him, which I doubt, they're potential deserters of the village and we can't have that" the Root founder stated strongly and forcefully to get the point into their head. One of the Anbu vanished to write the extra instruction to the already deployed squad while the other stayed behind awaiting further orders from his leader.

"You're one of my best soldiers… I have a very important mission for you" Danzou said calmly as he slightly opened his left eye to stare at the remaining Anbu "Go to the hospital and eliminate Uchiha Sasuke" he added with a smirk. The Anbu nodded and vanished to complete his new goal "With that damn brat out of the picture no one should pose a threat… since I'll take care of Tsunade myself" he thought with a sinister smile but didn't noticed a scaly figure retreating to one of the many pillar holding the underground headquarters. The snake slowly retreated into the darkness, its two red eyes glowing in its wake… the Sharingan's eyes.

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7-tails vs God realm

A powerful shockwave shook the ground and destroyed the landmark as dozens or maybe hundreds of trees were suddenly blasted away of ripped apart by the two impending forces that collided in the forest. The forest shouldn't be called a forest anymore as its once lustrous trees were scattered or simply obliterated from the ground, leaving a plain of nothingness in its place. The area that was practically blown held a radius of 3 kilometers with nothing on it… except a raging beast and a madman in its center.

"This beast actually repelled my Shinra Tensei with almost no effort and its attacks of pure chakra burn everything it touches… got to be careful or I'll fail" God realm thought as he and the raging mini-kitsune had a glare contest in which one didn't know if it was a glare or enjoyment of the moment.

"GHAAAAAAAA!!!!" the 7-tailed kitsune roared as it lounged at the Akatsuki who seems stunned at the sudden attack but quickly go over it and jumped backward to avoid direct contact. The miniature demon didn't want any of that since he threw a paw of chakra forward that extended to where God realm was. Surprise at the extent and speed the chakra claw was nearing him God realm used a small Shinra Tensei to see if at least it work in only one claw and not the whole body. The attack worked but not as effectively as he hoped as the claw was still near him and it seemed another claw sprouted making two arm in the same line, producing a black rod he tried to stab the chakra claw to see if it could disperse but it didn't pierce the chakra… in fact the rod cracked.

"This is bad… at any rate I'll have to use my final technique and capture it" God realm thought as he placed his two palms together and began gathering chakra "It's a good thing I have enough chakra to keep the other realms working… the 8-tails seems to be causing trouble…" he bagan to think before he saw through the point of view of one of the realms the other jinchuuriki sprinting towards their direction "In which case I'll create two of them then" he thought as he had a blck sphere in the center of his palms, he was about to throw it to the berserk jinchuuriki when…

Out of nowhere a figure came falling from the sky and crashed with the jinchuuriki. A medium size cloud of dust covered the scene from the Akatsuki but from his Rin'negan he could see another high chakra capacity although smaller in comparison to the freak of nature that was beside it. The cloud dispersed and God realm saw the 8-tailed jinchuuriki covered in maroon chakra holding an angrier-by-the-minute 9-tails.

"DAMMIT CONTROL YOURSELF!" Kirabi yelled at the enraged mini-kyuubi who was wildly trashing to get the strongman off "At this rate I'll summon you…" he told his tenant via mental link as he felt his chakra going up and knew it was now of never.

"Transform now idiot… the Kyuubi is coming out any second" Hachibi told its container as it itself began to give power to stop the threatening menace that was approaching "I can't sense any consciousness in him… the Kyuubi has already reach him"

Kirabi's skin suddenly began to peel itself and chakra flared like nothing before. God realm felt even more chakra coming from the new threat than in the 7 going 8-tails Kyuubi which meant that the jinchuuriki was going to attempt a "full possession". Thinking that the situation escalated from difficult to really dangerous he threw out his trump card…

"Chibaku Tensei!!!"

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I know what you're going to say… Naruto being portrayed as a weakling as well as Kirabi. Well they were holding back to fight the biggest threat that suddenly disappeared when Pain interrupted their fight. I have no more explanations XD….. there is a reason for all of this though and you'll find out next chapter.

DANZOU HAS THE FREAKING SHARINGAN!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME… EVERYONE HAS IT NOW… WHO'S NEXT?? SAKURA?? DON'T BELIEVE ME? SEE CHAPTER 455 OF THE MANGA..... DAMN YOU KISHIMOTO!!!!!!!

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