Raining Darkness

by Crimson ultrafox

Naruto defeats Sasuke in the Valley of the End, but upon returning ends up leaving himself. Dark desires flood his heart as he awakens the Rinnegan, and takes on the alias, Pein. Dark Naruto, Naru/harem, Not quite what you'd expect.

11. Chapter 11

Well sorry for the cliffhanger last chapter…that was my poor attempt at trying to build suspense. Though I won't keep teasing you guys…this is a juicy chapter. It is also the longest damn chapter I have ever written…I don't plan on writing another one this big. TONS of stuff going on in this chapter…and finally the long awaited confrontations that you've all been craving.

I am proud of those of you who identified what a prag was. Well anyways enough of my boring acknowledgements and on with the story!

Chapter 11: Betrayal

Kimimaro, Tayuya, and Sasuke finally arrived at the inn which led to Orochimaru's base. Sasuke looked around as they entered the building and commented, "This village seems deserted…I'm surprised that there weren't even guards around the entrances." Kimimaro looked back at the Uchiha and nodded his head, "That doesn't seem very odd to me…this village was conquered by Amegakure about a year ago, and has been a safe haven for criminals ever since. It doesn't surprise me at all that Orochimaru would have a base here."

"Yeah Kusagakure has always had a lenient policy regarding travelers. This place is known for harboring a lot of missing nin, bounty hunters, and like Kimimaro said, criminals as well." Tayuya added. Sasuke shook his head as they walked down into the basement, "That part I get…but where are all of the people? It seems so strange that almost none of the civilians are out and about."

"You're from a large shinobi village…the largest actually, Sasuke. I can understand that you might not be accustomed to the way the smaller nations live, but the civilians in this village seem to know when and where to avoid trouble. My guess is that they know we're Orochimaru's minions." Kimimaro elaborated. Tayuya shrugged as she looked over at Sasuke, "That hardly seems relevant anyways…what I want to know is what do you plan on telling Orochimaru when you see him, Sasuke?"

The raven haired man scratched his head, "Hmm, I guess I'll tell him the same thing I did the first time I tried to go to him…that I want him to train me to kill my brother." Kimimaro sighed as he looked at the Uchiha, "You do realize that Orochimaru will be in need of another body very soon?" Sasuke smirked at Kimimaro and nodded, "I'm counting on it…that may be a good time for you two to strike."

Tayuya looked at Kimimaro and laughed, "Well if he's willing to be bait I'd be down for that." The white haired man shrugged, "We aren't going to do anything without Guren…" Suddenly, Kimimaro began to cough heavily and fell to his knees. Sasuke and Tayuya ran over and knelt beside him as he puked blood. "I keep forgetting that you're still sick Kimimaro," Tayuya said calmly as she placed a hand on his shoulder. He looked over and sighed, "I'm fine…I just need a moment."

Sasuke shook his head at the man with an unconvinced look, "How did you manage to survive this long anyways? I heard that you were defeated by Gaara and Lee. They said you were dead." Kimimaro stood up with a fierce look on his face and shook his head, "They were worthy opponents, but wouldn't have stood a chance if I was at my prime. They believed me dead after I collapsed during the battle. I suppose I might have been, but Kabuto and Orochimaru saved Tayuya and myself after we failed to retrieve you."

Tayuya nodded her head as she elaborated, "He was pretty pissed about it too…we got to hear this long winded speech about he only saved us so that his investments in training us wouldn't have been a waste. We were both reassigned to guard Otogakure under Guren's command after Kabuto healed us." Sasuke cocked his head with a confused look on his face, "It seems kind of strange to imagine you guys betraying Orochimaru. I mean why are you two more loyal to Naruto over him?"

Kimimaro wiped blood off his mouth and sighed, "They are both the same…the only difference is that Naruto is more powerful and isn't as questionable in his methods." Sasuke gave a questioning look as he crossed his arms, "How exactly are they the same?"

Kimimaro ran a hand through his snowy white hair and closed his eyes, "They both want the same thing…world domination and supreme authority. The only difference between them is that Naruto is doing it so that he can make the world a better place, while Orochimaru seeks to dominate the world and become some kind of god. If you think about it, those two ideals aren't very different…they are just perceived differently through perspective and experience. From our perspective, Naruto is the voice of change and the defining leader we need for a shinobi revolution…although if you consider Konoha's perspective, he is a power-hungry terrorist. So to answer your question, Sasuke, they are both exactly the same."

Tayuya laughed as she pushed Kimimaro, "Okay okay, enough with the deep philosophical shit. I'll put it simply for you Sasuke…Naruto is more powerful that Orochimaru. Does that satisfy your curiosity?" The Uchiha nodded, "I understand…power is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived. My brother told me that once." Kimimaro nodded his head at Sasuke, "Itachi speaks true…I imagine that is why he serves Akatsuki." Sasuke's eyes shot open in shock, "Akatsuki? They were those terrorists that came to Konoha for Naruto over three years ago. What do you know about them?"

The white haired man sighed, "I don't know much beyond the identities of several members. However, Orochimaru used to be a member of it…ask him if you are that curious." The raven haired man sighed and nodded his head, "Hopefully he'll tell me."

"You know Konan is a member of Akatsuki as well…so I don't imagine that Naruto is on good terms with them," Kimimaro said as he looked over to Sasuke. The Uchiha raised a brow, "Really now? Well if that's any indication to how powerful Akatsuki is, then I imagine they are a force to be reckoned with." Tayuya laughed and shook her head, "I wonder what they think about 'Pein?' He seems more than powerful enough to join their ranks…I wonder if they ever thought about recruiting him?"

"That seems unlikely…Naruto is an enemy of Itachi and Kisame after they battled in Wave Country. Zabuza told me about their run in with those two about three years ago. He said that Itachi and Kisame were trying to capture Naruto because he is a jinchuuriki." Kimimaro clarified. "Good! That gives Naruto even more of a reason to want to help me kill Itachi," Sasuke said.

The trio continued together in silence down the long dark passageway to Orochimaru's Lair. After a couple of minutes, they finally reached their destination. Upon entering, the spine-chilling voice of Orochimaru sounded, "Ah, Sasuke-kun, It's a pleasure to see you again! What brings you all the way to my hidden base hmm?"

"I've come to seek your guidance and training so that I can kill my brother," Sasuke answered nonchalantly. The snake sannin was seated in a large chair looking over a map. He placed the piece of paper down and stood up beaming proudly, "Well that would be a good reason for coming here…but I wonder, Why come now, Sasuke?" The Uchiha had a completely emotionless face as Orochimaru started to circle him. "The opportunity never presented itself…I am here now so what does it matter?" he stated plainly.

Orochimaru crossed his arms and looked amused, "The opportunity never presented itself huh? You're telling me that it took you three years to slip out of Konoha?" Sasuke glared at the pale sannin fiercely and shook his head, "I don't have to explain myself to you. Will you teach me or not?" Orochimaru laughed at Sasuke, "You still possess quite the attitude I see…Very well Sasuke-kun, I will accept you back. Now if you would, activate your cursed seal."

Sasuke was taken aback by the request, "What? Why?" The pale man smiled venomously as he placed a hand on Sasuke, "Let's just say, I want proof of your loyalty this time…" Suddenly the cursed seal on Sasuke flared and the black markings began to spread across his body causing him to groan in pain. Orochimaru giggled in delight as he looked at his minions, "You two come initiate Sasuke with me…" Tayuya and Kimimaro traded skeptical glances before they activated their cursed seals. They both placed their hands on opposite ends of the Uchiha. The trio began to glow an ominous dark purple causing intense pain. Tayuya and Kimimaro remained silent since they were quite used to the initiation ceremonies. Sasuke felt his senses become overwhelmed briefly as he shouted in pain. After a minute or so Orochimaru clapped his hands in joy, "Enough, that will suffice you two."

Tayuya and Kimimaro released their hold on Sasuke and reverted back to their normal selves. Sasuke continued to glow however much to his disapproval. Orochimaru went through several hand seals and suddenly Sasuke found the chakra amplified causing another wave of agony to wash over him. Orochimaru literally seemed to be getting off on Sasuke's pain as he laughed devilishly, "I apologize for this Sasuke, but this is necessary in order to ensure your obedience!" Kimimaro and Tayuya remained silent but traded distasteful looks at each other. After a few minutes, the white haired man decided to speak, "Umm, Orochimaru-sama…is this really necessary?" The snake sannin turned to face him with a surprised look on his face, "Why would you ask me something like that? Of course it is necessary! Everything I do is necessary to ensure my survival and my dominance!"

Kimimaro nodded his head and didn't bother responding. Orochimaru continued his torture on Sasuke, "Now Sasuke, there are a few things that I want to ask you if you don't mind answering." Sasuke was groaning in pain and barely voiced a response, "What!"

"I'm going to ask you this again…why did you wait three years to come here? I could have been training you this entire time!" Orochimaru demanded darkly. Sasuke growled at him and replied, "Naruto brought me back to Konoha and the Anbu were assigned to watch me night and day for over a year! Konoha has been in turmoil since the Battle of Amegakure and I slipped out of the west gate several days ago!" Orochimaru cocked his head interested, "Naruto? OH I remember now…he was the Kyuubi kid. Why didn't he stop you this time Sasuke?"

"He's not in Konoha…he's been missing for several years." Sasuke answered much to Tayuya's disappointment. "Missing huh? I wonder if Akatsuki decided to capture him…interesting. Now answer me this Sasuke…were you at the Battle of Amegakure? Tell me what happened!" Orochimaru ordered anxiously. The purple chakra continued to flare painfully across Sasuke's body, but he had finally built a bit of a tolerance for it and stood up, "Tell you what? What exactly do you want to know?"

Orochimaru walked behind Sasuke and wrapped both hands around his neck sticking his tongue out next to Sasuke's ear. "I want to know what happened to Pein and Konan…from your perspective," he whispered enthusiastically. Sasuke felt a chill run down his neck as Orochimaru continued to breathe on him, "I don't know what happened…Pein showed up and protected us from Konan and then the next thing I know they both fly out a window and end up fighting outside of the village. We managed to escape while that was taking place."

The snake sannin backed off and sighed releasing the cloak around Sasuke. The raven haired man fell to his knees in relief as the pain subsided. Orochimaru paced around for a minute as he randomly stared in different directions. Finally after an awkward silence Sasuke stood up and broke it, "Well?" Orochimaru looked at him and sighed, "Well I suppose Guren and Anko might turn up better information." Sasuke nodded his head at the pale man before Orochimaru burst into a wide grin, "You don't seem to find Anko's presence here to be very unsettling Sasuke…have Kimimaro and Tayuya told you then?" The Uchiha was at a loss of words before turning his focus to the two sound nin standing a short distance away. They both traded concerned glances at each other before Kimimaro spoke up, "Yes, we told him that Anko was here."

Orochimaru looked at the pair and placed a hand on his chin as he looked between them, "Now why would you go and do that? You two have been acting rather strange…which reminds me! Tell me why Guren brought you here?" Tayuya decided to answer much to Orochimaru's surprise, "Guren wanted to discuss important matters since Kabuto is now dead. After she learned of his death she wanted to reconvene with you and discuss what to do regarding Pein and several other threats that have been brewing." Orochimaru nodded his head satisfied, "Well that does seem like something she would do…I suppose she brought you two for her own protection Haha!" He shook his head in amusement as he stared at Kimimaro, "She plans on killing me doesn't she? Guren brought you two here in the hopes that you would help her kill me." Kimimaro nodded his head and took a step forward, "Guren has allied herself with Pein…she believed that we were foolish enough to follow. Tayuya and I merely sought to feed her a false sense of security to further boost her assurance so that she may be easily slain."

Tayuya was shocked as she looked at Kimimaro but kept a straight face, 'Fucking traitor! What the hell are you doing Kim?' Sasuke was standing behind the snake sannin with a confused look on his face, 'What the fuck? Did he just sell us all out?' Orochimaru's eyes grew wide and he began to cackle manically, "Yes…now it all makes sense. She was foolish to trust you two with her dirty little secret. When she returns I shall deal with her accordingly. In the mean time, tell me what you know about Pein."

Kimimaro continued, "Pein possesses the Rinnegan…he is the descendant of the Rikudo Sennin." Orochimaru's eyes shot open and a wicked grin plastered his face, "HAHAHAHAHA! The Rinnegan? Yes, Pein will be my next body and I will be Invincible!" After his evil laugh, the snake sannin examined Tayuya closely and asked, "Well now, Tayuya, you have always been very loyal to me…I am curious to know of your involvement with Guren's scheme. Why didn't you answer me honestly hmm?"

She remained stoic and shrugged, "I was watching out for my own neck…I followed her out of sheer necessity to remain alive. I had no intention of betraying you but I saw no reason to tell you until the moment presented itself." The pale sannin placed a hand on her shoulder and nodded, "Very well…it is good to see that you still remember my teachings. You simply decided to play both sides…very interesting." He turned his focus towards the Uchiha and continued, "Well now Sasuke, I find myself in an interesting position regarding you. I won't be needing your body…Pein's will be far more powerful, but you came all this way so I guess it's only fair that I let you stay."

Sasuke smirked at the snake man, "I'm honored by your generosity Lord Orochimaru." The sannin gave Sasuke a dark look and laughed, "You will be very useful to me one way or another."

XXXXX

Mei and the Anbu Commander had left Kirigakure in a blur. The bulk of the Anbu forces were very reluctant about following Mei's orders, but didn't say anything seeing as how she forced their own Commander to literally suck up to her. The Commander sighed as he closely followed the red head along with a small army of Anbu. Mei turned to look over at the masked man and raised a brow, "Something wrong Commander?" He turned his head and sighed again, "I can't help but think that this is a suicide mission. Zabuza and Haku are both Pein's enforcers…they've been with him for years…I can't help but feel slightly nervous about the whole situation."

Mei laughed at him and shook her head, "I thought Anbu Commanders didn't get scared…it's okay honey I'll protect you." He growled in irritation at her playfulness, "I'm not scared! I am just concerned about this situation…Yagura is sending us on a damn suicide mission. Ameyuri had a personal army of his own and was mutilated by those two…and now the only help he sends me with to defeat two of the most dangerous criminals this nation has ever known is some snide, self-absorbed bitch who doesn't deserve to be the Mizukage's apprentice!"

Mei faked a hurt expression, "Are you jealous of me baby? Oh how could you say such a thing? I can understand where you're coming from Commander." The Anbu officer huffed in disbelief, "I doubt it…you don't know shit you psycho." The red head smirked at him and began to laugh, "I get it…you secretly have a huge crush on me and can't quite find the words to ask me if I would give you big wet kiss before you die. Am I right?"

The Commander was shocked by her words and replied quickly, "What? Hell NO! I have no interest in you Mei…get that through your thick skull!" She shook her head at him and laughed, "What are you gay? I am offering to give you one last kiss and you turn it down?" He scoffed at her, "Hate to break it to you sweetheart but nobody wants to make out with a fucking freak show like you…that would only encourage you to replicate your bloodline!"

Mei winked at the man and laughed, "It's okay to admit you think about me when you touch yourself at night…maybe I could make some of those fantasies come true Raiga…my warm wet lips around your.."

"ENOUGH! Stop fucking with me Mei!" he yelled at her causing her to laugh at his distress. His men remained silent much to Mei's disappointment. "So you don't like when women fuck you is what you're saying? I always knew you were gay, Raiga…It's good we talked about this." Raiga didn't say another word as the two continued. Mei was certain she had ruined his day and inwardly laughed, 'Fuck you asshole…you're just jealous that I'm way more powerful than you.. Her mind continued to wander at the thought of Zabuza and Haku, 'I'm finally going to get my revenge…this has been a long time coming!'

XXXXX

"Zabuza, do you really think it's a good idea to just dock at the southern port like this?" Haku asked as the two missing nin pulled into port with their commandeered ship. Zabuza shrugged carelessly as he swung his sword around, "Eh, who cares…we're supposed to be drawing attention to ourselves anyways. I say we just take a tour of the town and scare a few people and eventually some hot shot will show up and give an overbearing speech about how he's going to defeat us to prove his worth or some bullshit along those lines."

"You don't seem very concerned about this at all…" Haku began. The masked swordsman waved her off and laughed, "We just took out a damn army back there, you and me might as well just march straight to Kirigakure at the rate we're going." Haku ran a hand through her hair and sighed, "I don't think that's a good idea…you're acting kind of irrational Zabuza."

"Yeah sorry…I'm still a bit pumped up after that last encounter. I'm just finally ready to face Yagura again." he replied anxiously. Haku nodded as the ship finally docked, "We'll see this through …don't lose focus of the plan. Like you said, we still need to take down Yagura's generals before we can move on him personally. By the way, who are his generals, Zabuza?"

The swordsman thought for a moment and answered, "Well Ameyuri was one of them I think…not sure who else…but if I am not mistaken, Mei Terumi is definitely one of them; she is also Yagura's apprentice. She was a barely a teenager when I left Kiri…but possessed two powerful bloodlines. Yagura seemed to consider her the only exception to his hatred against bloodlines…not really sure why though." Haku shook her head in disgust, "Why would a man who hates bloodlines to the point where he persecutes people with them name one as his apprentice and future successor?"

Zabuza shrugged, "I honestly have no idea…maybe Yagura felt sorry for her. At any rate, she's been blinded by Yagura's propaganda for years, so I wouldn't expect any kind of sincerity from her. She also really hates me."

"How well did you know her?" Haku asked. Zabuza sighed and stood up, "That's a story for another time, Haku…let's go." Zabuza and Haku made their way down the ramp off their ship and met the faces of several civilians. They immediately cowered in fear as the two missing nin walked by them without a glance. Mass panic was sweeping though the crowd at the harbor. Every civilian and shinobi present in the area was backing away in fear as the two notorious criminals emotionlessly strolled through.

The occasionally doomsayer would shout random things like, "OH NO THEY'RE HERE!" or "We're all going to die!" After a while, the two stopped in the middle of the town and looked around. "Who will Yagura send this time?" Zabuza demanded as he drew his sword causing the crowd to scream and distance itself further from the two. Immediately answering Zabuza's question, Mei and Commander Raiga both landed in front of them causing the mass panic to turn into full blown chaos. A complete Anbu unit surrounded Zabuza and Haku suddenly and Mei began to laugh, "Well well well…It's been far too long Zabuza…you've seriously got some nerve marching to the village like you own the place!"

"Mei? I'm surprised Yagura lets you leave his office…he wouldn't want his little princess to get hurt." Zabuza chuckled. Mei smirked as she replied in an venomous tone, "I don't know why you're trying to kill Yagura…he's done nothing but good things for you. But I'm glad you're finally giving me the chance to kill you myself!" Haku raised an eyebrow and looked over at Zabuza, "So she's Mei huh?"

The red head answered proudly, "That's right sugar queen, I am the baddest bitch to ever come out of these parts." Haku laughed and shook her head, "No, that that would be me…" Zabuza glared at Mei and crossed his arms, "You still don't know what's going on? Then I guess that means that Yagura hasn't told you the truth yet…he needs to die for everything he's done!" Mei's cocky smile began to dissipate and she began to growl fiercely, "Are you kidding me? Yagura saved me from you when you killed my family!"

"You're so naïve…you're the same little girl you were the day I left. Yagura is your true enemy," Zabuza replied coolly. Mei glared angrily at the swordsman and got into a fighting stance, "How can you say that? You fucking murderer! You won't kill the last person I have left! You're the one that should be dead for killing my clan!" Haku burst out laughing at the woman causing her anger to only worsen, "What's so funny bitch? You're going to die too!"

Haku shook her head with a smirk, "You really aren't that bright are you? It figures…you look like you should be in some back alley giving blowjobs for money, and here you come threatening us after we just skull fucked Ameyuri's unit." Raiga laughed at Haku's comment and shook his head, "I can't believe that you and I agree on something."

Mei turned towards the Commander with a terrifying look on her face, "This is no laughing matter, Raiga…I won't hesitate to kill you either!" He immediately stopped laughing and turned his focus back towards the two criminals.

After a few seconds of silence Raiga began to speak, "We have you two surrounded, if you surrender peacefully then perhaps the Mizukage will grant you a merciful death…or maybe even a chance to redeem yourselves." Zabuza growled at the man, "I don't take orders from school girl pencil pushers like you. Raiga the little bitch! They actually promoted you to Anbu Commander? HAHA! We're not going anywhere…but thanks for saving us the trouble of tracking you down."

"Yōton: Yōkai no Jutsu!" (Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique). Mei launched Lava from her mouth that completely blanketed the area surrounding Zabuza and Haku. Before it hit, a huge wall of ice completely absorbed it. The ice melted into water and created a large puddle around the duo. Mei looked irritated as she glanced at Haku, "I thought that the Yuki Clan was extinct…I can easily correct that issue."

Haku looked over to Zabuza and smiled, "Let me handle her Zabuza…this shit just got personal!" He nodded his head as he swung his sword around began to channel wind chakra around the blade. Zabuza then smashed the sword into the ground causing a huge wave of chakra to blast the surrounding Anbu back. He went through several hand seals, "Suiton: Bakusui Shōha!" (Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave)

A massive amount of water poured out of Zabuza's mouth as he picked up his sword. He an Haku rose up on the fountains of water and traded each other amused glances. "Now you'll see why we are two of the most dangerous missing nin in the world!" Zabuza shouted. Water continued to flood the surrounding area causing Mei and many of the enemy shinobi to stand on rooftops. The unfortunate civilians were floating away on driftwood. "Wow you made a bunch of water…I am so impressed!" She laughed as she went through several hand seals, "Let's see how you handle this!" Mei shot lava out of her mouth into the water causing a massive amount of steam to shroud the area. Raiga yelled to his men, "Kill them now!"

The army of Anbu leaped endlessly upon the two missing nin with their swords drawn. Zabuza easily cleaved through waves of them as he jumped across the rooftops. He made his way towards Mei but was blocked by Raiga, "I am going to be the one to kill you, Demon of the Mist!"

Raiga laughed suddenly as he pulled out a scroll. Zabuza watched curiously as Raiga summoned a large double bladed sword from the scroll. The opposite blades hooked away from each other giving the weapon a very unique appearance. Raiga began to flourish the blade around and slammed it down causing both ends to glow blue before they were enveloped in fire.

Raiga pulled off his mask and threw it to the ground and smirked at Zabuza, "You may be strong Zabuza…but you overestimate yourself. This is Aurorafang, the legendary fire sword!" Zabuza looked shocked as he gazed at the fiery sword, "That thing is a myth…"

Raiga laughed as he swung the blade rhythmically causing a huge pillar of fire to launch at Zabuza. The swordsman barely managed to dodge it in time as the flame violently spread over the surrounding rooftops. Zabuza landed on the water and shook his head, "All right asshole…if that's how you want to play!" Zabuza pierced his blade into the water and began to absorb massive amounts of it. After a few moments, the blade was surrounded by a whirling aura of water over the glowing edges.

The masked swordsman launched a cyclone out of his sword towards Raiga and Mei causing the two to jump off of their current rooftop and onto the water. The cyclone demolished the building and a large group of unfortunate Anbu. Haku went through several hand seals and completely froze over the flooded area capturing Mei and Raiga's feet before Zabuza leaped at them. He swung his blade powerfully only to be parried by Raiga's sword. Raiga slammed the blade down into the water again and melted the ice surrounding himself as he and Zabuza began to duel. Meanwhile, Mei was repeatedly launching lava waves at Haku. The Anbu troops stood back fearfully as the two groups battled.

The ice princess barely blocked the volcanic rain of lava as she relentlessly created ice shields and refroze the melting water. Mei ceased her fire momentarily and began to laugh, "You're not as strong as they said you were…hahaha you can't handle me sugar doll." Haku scowled angrily at the smiling woman and shook her head, "If you don't wipe that smug look off your face I'm going to rip it off!"

Mei smiled and launched another assault of lava at Haku. Before it hit, Haku jumped into the air and froze the wave of magma sliding down towards Mei with her sword drawn. Mei pulled out a curved kunai and managed to deadlock the blade before it slashed into her face. The two women tried to overpower one another staring fiercely into each other's eyes. Haku smirked and spoke up, "I think I know why you smile all the time now…you've had so many cocks shoved in your mouth that your face got stuck that way." Mei's smug look turned into a dark glare causing her to push Haku back harder overpowering the woman, "How dare you! You fucking bitch…I'm going to cut your tongue out and force you to swallow it for that!"

Haku grabbed Mei's wrist causing the two to become enveloped in water before Mei was frozen over up to her neck. Haku reared back to stab with her sword but was unsuccessful as Mei exploded out of the prison of ice. Steam began to swirl around the two women causing the heat to rise and the ice to rapidly melt. Mei's body began to glow blue and she went through several hand seals. Out of nowhere, rocks began form around her creating a second skin of armor.

Haku formed water over her sword and created her whip lashing at the woman as she transformed. The whip wrapped around Mei as she launched lava out of her mouth. Haku watched in awe as the lava formed around her creating molten armor. Mei laughed as she absorbed the surrounding steam and evaporated the water from the whip, "I'll give you a taste of true power!" Suddenly, the mist was released in a huge explosion completely melting everything surrounding her. "It is done…" Mei spoke cockily as she examined the aftermath. After the steam subsided, Mei saw a huge sphere of ice floating in the air towards her.

Suddenly it exploded launching thousands of ice shards in all directions. Mei's armor was demolished by the attack causing it crumble. Many of the surrounding Anbu were impaled from the blast and fell over dead. The brunette then landed in front of the woman and froze the surrounding water once again. Haku began to channel chakra into her arm causing a spiral to swirl around her finger tips. Mei shot a huge wave of lava at her as she did so, but it came up short when Haku fired a powerful ice beam. The beam flew through the wave and completely enveloped Mei. Haku smiled as she walked slowly towards the red head continuing to channel the beam. Mei groaned as she tried to melt the ice but was unsuccessful. Haku brought up her sword and held it to Mei's throat as she continued to channel the attack.

"See you in hell bitch!" Haku yelled as she reared her arm back to slice Mei's throat. Unfortunately for her, Mei spit lava at her arm causing Haku to shout in pain and the beam to subside. Mei's burst out of the icy tomb and delivered a powerful kick to Haku sending the girl flying into a demolished building. Mei roared proudly as she glanced over to Zabuza and Raiga.

The Anbu Commander and Zabuza were viciously thrashing their elemental blades at one another. Zabuza managed to negate all of Raiga's fire attacks through his water cyclones. They left the surrounding harbor in devastation as fire and water clashed. Mei made a dash towards Zabuza and launched a huge wave of lava at his blind side catching him by surprise. Before he had time to react, he was desperately flailing his blade to protect himself from the inferno caused by Raiga and Mei. He looked around for Haku as he began to waver under the pressure put upon him by the two enemies.

To his relief, Haku ambushed Raiga and froze his leg in place. Zabuza cleaved his sword at the man creating a whirlpool around the Anbu Commander sucking him further down into the water. Haku completely enveloped him in ice before Mei smashed down in front of the two and forged a huge hand made of magma slapping them back. Raiga managed to bust out of the ice and shook his head in relief as he looked over at Mei, "I can't believe I'm saying it…but thanks."

Mei laughed as she turned towards the man and smiled. Before he had a chance to react, Mei was standing behind him with her curved kunai held to his throat. Zabuza and Haku exchanged shocked glances as Mei began to speak, "Thanks for the sword, Raiga…I'll put it to much better use than you will. It's a shame you had to pass up that goodbye kiss…because now you die!" Mei slashed the man's throat afterwards causing him to fall over and sink into the water as blood sprayed from his neck. Mei picked up Aurorafang and turned back towards Zabuza and Haku.

Haku began to laugh as Mei sheathed her kunai and flourished her new weapon, "You sure you know how to handle one of those babe? I'm surprised you can lift anything bigger than a tube of lipstick." She glared at Haku as she shook her head, "I'm getting really sick of you two!" Mei gripped the blade tightly causing her body to glow blue before she was suddenly enveloped completely in fire. Zabuza sighed, "Shit…"

Mei spit a massive amount of lava from her mouth down into the water causing it to steam up and creating a huge fountain of lava. She rose up from the fountain and began to laugh darkly, "Your pathetic siege ends now!" The lava formed into a massive tsunami flowing towards the duo. Zabuza immediately reacted, "Suiton: Bakusui Shōha!" (Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave) Water and Lava then clashed in a huge double sided tsunami wreaking massive destruction and completely obliterating the harbor. Several unfortunate civilians were caught in the crossfire. Mei dived towards Zabuza and swirled her fiery blade at him launching lava at the swordsman. He created a massive cyclone to counter the attack causing the water and lava to swirl and turning the remnants of the two waves into a massive maelstrom. Both channeled their chakra furiously adding more and more of their elements into the whirlpool.

Much to both of their surprise, Haku froze the entire thing allowing the water to immerse the lava. Mei did a triple somersault as she flurried her blade at Zabuza. Wild lashes of lava made contact with him, but were unsuccessful in their endeavor as his body turned to water revealing it to be a water clone.

Zabuza cleaved his massive sword at the woman from behind almost decapitating her, but she ducked just in time and sent a fiery kick at the man. As he went flying she flourished Aurorafang creating multiple flamethrowers after him. Before they made their mark however, Haku created a massive ice wall to block the flames and jumped in front of Mei with her short sword held high. Haku laughed as she shook her head, "You'll have to do better than that. Try this on for size…Makyō Hyōshō!" (Demonic Ice Crystal Mirrors)

Twenty one massive ice mirrors formed around the fiery woman causing her to look around in confusion as Haku's reflection appeared in all of them. Mei leaped towards the nearest mirror and attempted to smash it with her sword, but was immediately stopped in her tracks as hundreds of ice spikes shot out of the mirrors and the frozen ground causing her to back flip from them. Mei shot a pillar of fire from the weapon and attempted to melt several of the mirrors, but it had no effect much to her complete shock. The fire around Mei's body began to dissipate slowly causing her to look around questioningly, "What the fuck is this?"

Before Haku had a chance to answer, Zabuza landed in front of Mei and shook his head, "Haku's ice mirrors are her most powerful attack. They are so cold that they are as hard as diamonds." Mei shrugged annoyed as she gripped her sword tighter, "Yeah right…I'll break those thing easily!" Snow then began to fall causing Mei to look up in the sky, "Why is it snowing?"

"Those mirrors are so cold that they create snow! Haku's ice mirrors are draining your heat! You stand no chance against us both in here. We're unstoppable for a reason!" Zabuza shouted as he slashed his blade towards Mei. She began to rapidly parry Zabuza's cleaver which created a glorious elemental clash once again. Out of nowhere, ice rained from all directions at the two much to Mei's surprise, completely imbedding herself and Zabuza in the crossfire. Mei was shocked as the swordsman dissipated into another water clone. She tried to melt the ice lances sticking out of her but to no avail they remained. Then, the falling snow began to whirl around her in a blizzard created by Zabuza. He laughed at the red head as she was unable to see a thing while getting blasted from all sides by ice lances.

Mei tried to create another wave of lava but before she could, Zabuza kicked her in the throat and caused her to start coughing up blood. She barely countered another wave of cleaves from the masked swordsman as she tried to recover. Aurorafang began to glow red then and Mei shot a powerful wave of fire at Zabuza. The swordsman negated the fire as he swung his glowing sword powerfully causing the fire to condense into a flaming vortex. Zabuza then launched another wave of water from his mouth putting the flames out and smashing Mei off balance.

As she stood up, the woman noticed the ice mirrors surrounding her slowly beginning to convex completely combining into a huge dome. She ran full speed and tried to break the ice with her sword but was held still as Zabuza burst from the ice beneath her feet and held her in place. Mei writhed as the mirror dome completely enveloped her in a sphere. Zabuza got out of the water and looked over at Haku who held the woman suspended in the icy sphere. Mei looked defeated and sighed, "Well played you two…my life is forfeit."

"There's something I think that you should know Mei…your precious godfather is the one who ordered the purge of bloodlines. That's why I turned against him…I don't know what the hell he's been telling you for all these years, but he's responsible for your clan getting wiped out." The red head shook her head in disbelief, "What the fuck? No…he wouldn't do that. You're a damn liar! Yagura has always done everything in his power to shield me from the fear and hatred the village shows me." Haku sighed in irritation and responded, "Oh get over yourself! Yagura isn't the saint you think he is!"

"Just hear me out for a minute, Mei…back when I was a Swordsman of Mist, Yagura commanded me to kill your clan, but I refused. He personally murdered your entire family…you were the only survivor because I protected you…but after I did so, he and I had a huge battle that ended in my allies turning against me and causing me to flee. I learned later from several informants that Yagura pinned the blame on me so that he could manipulate you."

Mei looked horrified as she replied, "I…I don't know what to say. How can I be sure that you aren't just making this up?" Zabuza shook his head with a callous look on his face, "Believe what you will, but that's the truth. Think about it for a minute…If I truly hated bloodlines then why would I have taken Haku in? Or for that matter why would I have decided to follow Pein?"

Mei managed to force another smile as she looked over to Zabuza, "Part of me thinks you're lying…but I can't deny the logic behind your reasoning. Still though…how can I be sure that this isn't some kind of trick to turn me against him?" Mei was staring fiercely at Zabuza awaiting an answer. He sighed as he walked closer towards her, "Listen Mei…why would I lie to you now? If I truly killed your family I wouldn't have bothered telling you all of this. It doesn't have to be this way…I don't want to kill you all because of some misunderstanding built upon years of lies."

"Maybe you are right…I can't believe how stupid I've been. Why would Yagura do that though? And why would he take care of me all these years?" Mei asked Zabuza as she shook her head conflicted.

"Come with us and you can ask him yourself…I know that you are sensible enough to see the truth in my words. I don't want to kill you," Zabuza said.

Haku squeezed her hand tighter and the sphere began to condense causing Mei to shout in pain, "Forget it Zabuza…why bother wasting time with this bitch?" The swordsman looked over and glared at Haku and waved his hand down, "Stop Haku…I'm trying to make Mei understand!" The ice user reluctantly loosened her grip causing Mei to pant in relief. "Fine…but you better convince her soon if you don't want her to die of hypothermia in that sphere."

Mei began to shiver uncontrollably as she felt her body become soaked inside the ice sphere. Zabuza face palmed at Haku and sighed, "Seriously, Haku…relax. And here I thought you were the merciful one…"

Mei looked over at her sword a short distance away and back to Zabuza, "Well…what happens now?" The swordsman walked over and picked up Aurorafang and looked at the red head, "Here's the deal Mei…we'll let you live if you help us kill Yagura." Mei's eyes shot open in surprise and she began to laugh between shivers, "Are you asking me to join your little group? What the hell would your leader Pein say about that?"

"Zabuza, you've got to be kidding me…we can't trust this slut. We've already seen how loyal she is to her allies." The swordsman laughed and replied, "Why do you think I'm making this offer in the first place?" Haku scowled at the red head and shook her head, "She wouldn't do it anyways, she doesn't have the spine to become a missing nin!"

"I accept your offer, Zabuza!" Mei exclaimed as she shot a nasty smirk towards Haku. The ice princess made a gagging sound in disapproval, "Zabuza…no! This bitch is going to betray us the moment I let her go!" The swordsman looked at Mei and crossed his arms nodding his head, "Look Mei, I've already dealt with my fair share of betrayal…if you decide to turn against us then you won't just have me and Haku to worry about. We will personally have Pein deal with you."

Mei nodded her head and smiled, "I won't turn on you guys…If you wanted to kill me you already would have." Zabuza turned to Haku and nodded his head at her causing the woman to growl in irritation as she released the the sphere's hold. It melted back down to water and Mei fell to the frozen ground shivering. Zabuza walked over towards the woman and offered her a hand up which she immediately took.

"Thanks for making me understand, Zabuza…you're nothing like Yagura said you were. That's the real reason why I believe you," Mei explained as she began to warm herself up and examine her injuries. The swordsman nodded and replied, "Here's your sword Mei…for your sake I hope you don't decide to use it against us ever again." Mei nodded as she gripped her weapon and shook her head, "No, you've made your point. I just hope when we confront Yagura that you try to show a little mercy…he may have killed my family, but he's a jinchuuriki so I don't want to rule out certain circumstances."

Zabuza nodded his head, "We have experience with jinchuuriki…our leader Pein is one. He contains the Kyuubi." Mei's eyes shot open wide, "What? Pein's a jinchuurki and he has the Rinnegan?"

Haku was glaring daggers at the red head and paced around her slowly, "How do you know about the Rinnegan? Just how much do you know about our leader?" Zabuza looked over to his former apprentice and added, "Yeah Haku's got a point…not many people know about the Rinnegan."

"Yagura told me about a week ago…he said an Anbu unit sent to kill you three had an eyewitness survivor claiming Pein to have purple eyes." Mei answered casually. Zabuza laughed and shook his head, "I guess you were right Haku…we should have killed that guy. Oh well not like it matters anymore…Pein is extremely powerful, Mei. You're doing yourself a favor by allying with us and him."

"So Pein is the jinchuuriki of the nine tails? Where is he from? Who is he and is Pein his real name?" Mei began to question enthusiastically much to Haku's disapproval. She shook her head and looked to Zabuza, "I say we keep that on the down low until she proves just how loyal she really is."

The swordsman shrugged and said, "You'll find out for yourself when you meet him. All I'm going to tell you is that Pein isn't his real name." Mei nodded with interest sparking in her eyes, "Don't tease me with shit like that…I've been curious about him for years!"

"We're wasting time, so let's go." Haku impatiently stated causing Mei and Zabuza to nod. "We'll introduce you to Pein after we deal with Yagura." Zabuza said much to Haku's annoyance. Mei nodded her head and a sharp look plastered her features, "Good, I want answers from Yagura."

Without another word, the trio left in a dash leaving behind a frozen crater that used to be a harbor. Many of the surviving civilians were holding onto driftwood or washed against the beach. They cowered as the three shinobi ran by.

XXXXX

Kisame and Deidara were flying cheerfully over a nearby town on a large clay bird. The shark nin laughed as they swooped down towards it, "So you're telling me that Sasori didn't enjoy blowing towns up with you?"

Deidara laughed and nodded his head, "Yeah he was all super serious and said I was drawing too much attention to us. I just wish he would have truly appreciated the art!" Deidara threw several bombs down around the edges of the town and created several massive explosions. The villagers ran away in fear as fires began to spread around the forest and outer houses.

Kisame laughed as he watched the chaos unfold, "Very impressive…so you create a ring of explosions around the town to trap the villagers?" The blonde haired man nodded as he formed clay with his hands, "Yeah, and then I throw down the big one in the center. The surrounding fires will force them all to the center where I can blow up the most people at once." Deidara then chucked a massive bomb down at the center of the town and left a huge mushroom cloud of fire. He and Kisame burst out laughing as they watched the ashes rain.

"I can see why you enjoy this now." Kisame said as the bird flew circles around the devastated area. Deidara placed a hand to his chin and nodded, "Art is the greatest form of expression. By leaving such an impressionable explosion here, I will be renown for my vision…hm." The shark nin laughed as he shook his head, "So what do you think about Tobi recruiting Pein into Akatsuki?" The blonde man shrugged as he stared at the remnants of the explosion, "I'm not sure really…it seems kind of contradictory to Tobi's plan. I mean if Pein is a jinchuuriki then why would he help us capture them?"

"I'm with you there…I seriously doubt Pein is the kind of person to take orders from Tobi," Kisame said nodding his head. "It's a shame though…Pein is really powerful from what I hear," Deidara laughed. Kisame looked over at him and nodded his head, "He's tough, but even he doesn't stand a chance against all of us…let alone Tobi."

"I barely know anything about Tobi…seems like all he ever wants to do is talk to Itachi and send us away on errands." Deidara said shaking his head in annoyance."

"I think we should head back now before Itachi gets anal…we've been gone for several hours," Kisame said as he looked at the horizon. Deidara shook his head in annoyance, "Fucking Itachi…I hate that guy. I don't know how the hell you get along with that arrogant prick." The shark nin shrugged, "Itachi is a good partner but he has a lot of personal issues. Tobi ordered me to follow Itachi's orders so I do just that. Although I honestly don't know why…it seems like Tobi and Itachi hate each other."

"Tobi just keeps to himself and we don't even question him. That seems a bit strange to me. He doesn't appreciate art either…" Kisame laughed and shook his head, "His form of art involves manhandling Itachi and talking about power and dominace." Deidara smirked smugly at Kisame's comment. "That might be my second favorite form of art. Alright let's head back." Deidara sighed as he turned his bird around and flew towards the horizon.

XXXXX

Naruto, Konan, and Fu were at last at the Valley of the End. They passed into the large clearing and Fu's eyes shot open in awe, "Wow this place is pretty! I'm kind of surprised that some secret dark group would meet here." Naruto shrugged as he looked around the valley. A wave of nostalgia washed over him as he saw the statues of Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju in the distance, 'Seems like a life time ago since the last time I was here. Last time I came here I had a great battle with Sasuke…I wonder how the last few years have treated him...' The demon fox huffed at this thoughts, "Who gives a shit! Fucking Uchihas…I don't want to be here any longer than necessary; I've had enough of this place…this valley is a battle scar."

'How so? I've only ever been here once. Were you here a long time ago? You seem kind of scared of this place.' Naruto asked Kyuubi. The fox laughed at his question and answered, "I was at the first battle in this Valley between those two fools…I pretty much created it." Naruto was surprised by the Biju's answer, 'You mean the first Hokage and Madara Uchiha? How were you there?'

"It was a long time ago…but that Uchiha was very powerful. He found a way to control me during his pathetic battle with that peace-loving tree-hugger, Hashirama. I don't know what happened to him though…Madara disappeared after he extracted me from my previous container close to two decades ago."

'Madara Uchiha? You've got to be joking…how could he have extracted you? He's been dead for almost a century…how is he still alive?' Naruto asked shocked. The fox growled in anger and replied, "Madara is immortal. If there is anybody in the world you should fear it's him…his chakra is extremely powerful. Not only that, but his Sharingan puts everything short of your Rinnegan to shame."

'Why what's so special about it?' Naruto questioned as he stared at the statue in the distance. "I'm done talking about this…you can ask him yourself if we meet him." 'I've got the feeling that you aren't telling me everything…is there anything I should know about?'

"It's not my place to tell you. If you ever meet Madara I'm sure he will."

"Naruto! Naruto! Snap out of it!" The man was brought back to reality by the voice of Fu yelling.

"Sorry, about that I was distracted for a minute…I have a lot of memories in this place," Naruto said as he looked over towards the concerned green haired jinchuuriki. She smiled and shook her head in relief, "I don't think those people Konan was talking about are here. This place seems king of tranquil like nothing could possibly go wrong."

Konan face palmed at Fu, "You dumb bitch…they ARE here!" As if signaled by Konan's comment, several black cloaked figures appeared around the trio. Naruto looked at the several newcomers interested as he examined their faces. Hidan, Kakuzu, Sasori, and Itachi were all standing around the three shinobi staring at Naruto with fascinated glances. "Not this asshole again…I guess this is the welcoming committee. Where's Sushi man at I wonder?"

Itachi spoke up first as he walked closer towards Naruto, "It's been several years since we last met Naruto…you have grown considerably." Sasori who was wearing his puppet armor Hiruko cocked his head in confusion, "Wait what? Who the hell is Naruto?"

Hidan sized up the Rinnegan wielder and started staring at his eyes, "So you really do have the Rinnegan…those fucking eyes don't look like I imagined." Kakuzu sighed at Hidan and shook his head in annoyance, "I'm surprised you can imagine anything considering the number of times you've hit your head…" Hidan glared at him and yelled back, "Hey fuck you! I'll go burn all of your money if you keep talking shit!" Kakuzu shook his head and glared darkly, "No…you won't."

Naruto crossed his arms and glared at Itachi, "I hardly think we're on friendly terms asshole…your fucking Amaterasu hurt like hell too, thanks!" Hidan looked shocked at Naruto's statement and burst out laughing, "You made a mistake by coming here Pein!" Itachi sighed as he shook his head, "Kisame and I were only following orders. I apologize for our past transgression."

"Figures he'd go apologizing now…what a bitch." Naruto raised a brow at Itachi and looked over the newcomers skeptically, "Konan told me you guys were here…I came to wrap up the issues your little group has been causing me." Itachi looked over towards the blue haired woman and actually smiled, "It is good to see you are still alive, Konan…although I was rather surprised when Tobi told me."

"How the hell would he know that? Who the fuck is Tobi?" Naruto asked in a serious tone causing the others to look at Itachi. The Uchiha sighed again and answered, "He has kept a close eye on you for years…Tobi wants to speak to you." Naruto stared at the Sharingan wielder with a dark glare, "And I'm supposed to trust the people that have been hunting for jinchuuriki for over five years?"

Fu looked shocked and cut into the conversation, "Just who exactly are these people Naruto? Why do they want jinchuuriki?" Konan looked at Itachi and laughed much to Naruto and Fu's surprise, "This girl just so happens to be a jinchuuriki…I imagine you guys were missing one right?"

Naruto looked shocked upon hearing Konan's statement. Sasori examined Fu interested and nodded his head, "So you found the seven tails…Tobi will need to hear about this." Suddenly, a large clay bird landed on the ground next to the group and Kisame and Deidara hopped off with shocked looks on their faces.

"KONAN! You truly are an artist!" Deidara cheered as he and Kisame walked up to the azure haired woman. She nodded her head at them, "Yeah…I'm alive. I brought Pein and the Seven tail's jinchuuriki here."

Kisame walked straight up to the woman and shook his head in disbelief, "How the hell did you pull this off?" Konan smirked at him and closed her eyes, "Finesse beats raw power every time…just another reason why I am better that you Kisame."

Naruto was in utter disbelief as he looked over at the group of Akatsuki members. Konan walked over to them and turned around to face Naruto and Fu. "Konan, what the hell are you doing?" Naruto demanded. The woman sighed and shook her head, "My job…I knew that if I told you about this meeting you would insist upon going."

Fu growled in anger and shouted, "You backstabbing Cunt! Naruto she sold you out!"

"Why am I not surprised…this is why you don't trust women kit." Naruto glared at the group and cracked his knuckles, "So you brought me here for what? So that you could gang up and ambush me…sorry but numbers won't matter against me."

"We'll see about that! You don't look so tough pretty boy!" Hidan shouted as he drew his scythe. Fu spit on the ground and leered at Konan darkly, "Mother fucking bitch! Why the hell did you lead us into this trap?" Kisame laughed as he looked over towards Naruto. "You're not so high and mighty now are you asshole?" he asked much to Naruto's disapproval.

"I'm surprised you haven't started running yet…you and your girlfriend, Itachi!" Naruto said as he blew a kiss to Itachi. Deidara laughed loudly and looked over towards an emotionless Itachi. The other members of Akatsuki didn't laugh at the comment, but Kisame smiled. "I've been looking forward to seeing you again Pein! Me and Itachi are going to destroy you this time!" Kisame chuckled as he pulled his sword off his back.

"Enough! You insignificant fools will show Pein the proper respect!" Tobi commanded as he landed next to the group. They all looked confused as Madara shook his head at them, "Forgive my minions for their poor hospitality, Naruto."

Naruto looked at the man and sighed, "How the fuck do all of you people know who I am?"

"Itachi and Shizune have told me a lot about you. I had no idea that somebody in your position was the container of the nine tails until after Itachi and Kisame's poorly attempted failure to capture you. Oh forgive my manners…Hi, I'm Tobi. I'm the leader of Akatsuki." Madara said calmly as be began to pace back and forth. The Rinnegan wielder was shocked at the mention of the medic nin. "Shizune? Why would she tell you anything? She's the Hokage's attendant." Naruto stated.

"I don't work for Tsunade, Naruto-kun…I have been feeding Tobi information about Konoha for years." Shizune landed next to the group holding an unconscious blonde haired girl and smiled. "You've grown so handsome since I last saw you…I can't believe how ironic it is that you left, because everybody at Konoha was upset about you disappearing. Tsuande cried for weeks." Naruto rolled his eyes and looked back over to Shizune, "Is that supposed to mean anything to me? Once I make their perfect little society collapse around them, I am going to show that village the true meaning of pain and of fear."

Shizune crossed her arms and looked unconvinced, "I hardly doubt that you have the heart to kill Tsunade or Jiraiya…they won't stand by and let you destroy the village." Naruto glared at the woman and responded darkly, "Who's to say that I won't just resurrect them?" Shizune was taken aback by his response and looked over at Madara who began to laugh.

"Your resolve is impressive, Naruto…you truly are living up to my expectations!" Madara said proudly. Kisame rolled his eyes and traded an amused look with Itachi. The other members of Akatsuki remained quiet watching the scene with interest. Fu's anger had died down out of sheer curiosity as she examined the members thoroughly. Konan's mind wandered at the mention of Jiraiya, 'He's still alive? I had no idea Naruto knew my old sensei.'

"Alright, so you brought me here…now I want some answers." Naruto stated as he looked back and forth between Konan and Madara. The masked man nodded his head and replied, "What would you like to know exactly?"

"I recognize that voice! Is that…no…you are in a lot of danger right now!"

'You mean…you know who he his? That can only mean one thing…' "Yes…He is Madara Uchiha. I can't believe I didn't see this coming! You need to get out of here…those other fools you can handle, but Madara is a different league." Naruto was shocked upon hearing the distressed news from the fox and shook his head confusing everyone around him.

'Shit…as if this situation couldn't have gotten worse…the least I can do if get some answers.' Naruto stared intently at the masked man and answered, "First of all…I want you to take off the mask, Madara." Everyone present was completely surprised by Naruto's comment and all looked over at the orange masked man in disbelief. Deidara shook his head, "Wait a minute…Madara as in Madara Uchiha? Oh god damn it! You've got to be kidding me…we've got two Uchihas in Akatsuki now?"

Hidan scratched his head and looked at the statue of Madera a short distance away, "You mean Tobi is the statue of the guy over there? What the fuck…why doesn't anybody tell me these things?" Kakuzu sighed at Hidan and shook his head, "You're an idiot for not figuring it out sooner. I mean who here didn't know?" Deidara rolled his eyes at Kakuzu, "Not everybody is here is a hundred something years old like you asshole…un." Sasori nodded his head and added, "I was also unaware of Tobi's identity…"

Madara removed his mask and threw it to the ground revealing his face. Everyone stared intently at his serene face. "I imagine Kyuubi must have told you then…he is very clever," Madara stated as he began to smile. "Tell him I said he can eat a dick!"

"Since you went through all the trouble of bringing me here, why don't tell me all about Akatsuki and why I shouldn't murder each and every one of you." Naruto demanded as he stared down the Uchiha.

Madara laughed and nodded his head, "Very well…I am Madara Uchiha. I'm the founder of the Uchiha clan and cofounder of Konoha." Deidara shook his head and face palmed, "Oh damn it…I liked you better as Tobi." Madara glared at the blonde silencing him before he turned his focus back towards Naruto.

"I created Akatsuki a number of years ago to gather powerful allies for my plans. Kisame, Konan, and Orochimaru were my first minions. I found them all wasting their potential in different places. Kisame was working for Kirigakure loyally serving people who were weaker than he was, Konan was still a teenager at the time running a criminal cartel out of Iwagakure, and Orochimaru was waning under the influence of Konoha. I found them and gave them a new purpose."

Naruto raised a brow at the sannin's name, "Orochimaru? If he's part of your group then why isn't he here now?" Madara sighed and shook his head disappointed, "Orochimaru got a bit ambitious and tried to take Itachi's body for his own…I realized that he wasn't interested in my vision…only in his own selfish goals. I cast him out afterwards and I have had Zetsu watch him ever since."

"Such a shame…I always liked Orochimaru," Sasori added. "Why not kill him? I've been hunting that snake for years…" Naruto asked. Madara shrugged and answered, "Orochimaru is still one of my favorite minions…I decided to let him go his own way. Either way I knew that he wouldn't interfere with my plans, and that he would be a distracting threat for Konoha and Suna."

"Who is Zetsu?" Naruto asked as he examined the group in front of him. Answering his question, a maw sprung from the ground and opened revealing the black and white plant man. "That would be me." his dark half answered as he walked over towards Madara. Naruto looked at him curiously.

"That is Zetsu…he is my top agent. I picked him up a year after the original three…I won't go into the details. In the following years, I bolstered Akatsuki with the members you see before you. Kakuzu was a missing nin from Taki…I found his hatred for Konoha and Hashirama most welcoming. Sasori was an impressive missing nin who I offered a place after he single handedly wiped out an army of Suna nin." Madara said as he pointed to each individual member.

Naruto nodded his head and asked, "What about the others?" The elder Uchiha looked towards his followers and began to pace around them. He stopped in front of Itachi and placed his hand on the back of the man's neck, "Itachi came to us next…after I helped him destroy the Uchiha Clan. He is my apprentice."

Naruto shook his head at the sight and smirked, "He looks like your bitch…" Deidara burst into laughter again and added, "Finally somebody else agrees with me on that un?" Madara then walked behind Deidara and placed both hands on the man's shoulders, "This is Deidara…he used to be the Tsuchikage's pupil. He was working as a terrorist bomber before we picked him up. I sent Itachi, Kisame, and Sasori to recruit him. It took a bit of convincing but they eventually reeled him in."

Deidara glared fiercely over at Itachi and huffed, "Yeah whatever…I could have easily just blown us all up hm." Sasori shook his head and sighed, "Oh Deidara…you really need to get over yourself." The blonde crossed his arms and flung his hair in disapproval.

Fu looked over at Naruto and sighed, "Do we really need to hear about their damn history, Naruto? I say we kick some asses or we leave…this is starting to bore me." Madara laughed at the mint haired girl and responded, "Nobody asked for your opinion, princess. Be silent while I am speaking." Fu began to growl angrily at the man and clenched her fists, "Why you!" Naruto placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her and looked into her eyes, "Be patient Fu…I want all the facts before we decide to do anything." The tan girl reluctantly agreed and began to pout.

"As I was saying…" Madara continued, "The last one there is Hidan. He is our newest member…he actually came to us asking to join much to my surprise. Normally I don't accept people who ask, but he is an exception due to his unique abilities." Kakuzu snorted at Madara's statement and added, "He's only here because of me…a decision I live to regret every day."

"Hey Fuck You, Kakuzu!" Hidan yelled at the man causing him to sigh in annoyance. Naruto looked over at Shizune and asked, "So what about Shizune? How did she end up working for you?" The proud medic nin decided to answer before Madara opened his mouth, "I was recruited back when Madara and Itachi wiped out the Uchiha Clan. I am one of his best informants and his second best spy next to Zetsu."

Naruto rolled his eyes at her pride, "I never would have guessed…you always seemed so skittish to me." Shizune huffed at him and replied venomously, "I never would have guessed that some happy-go-lucky dimwit kid like you turned into the most notorious criminal in the world. I wonder what your father would say if he was alive." Naruto glared at the woman darkly and asked, "You know who my father is?"

Shizune nodded her head, "Oh yeah…I know a lot about him. Your father was the Yondaime Hokage. His name is Minato Namikaze. I find it ironic that Konoha's greatest hero sired its greatest enemy." Naruto unleashed a wave of killing intent and clenched his fists, "You knew all this time and you didn't tell me?"

Shizune was frozen still by the wave of anger flowing from Naruto. After a moment she managed to reply, "Why would I? That's not something you needed to know. Although if you want the facts, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Hiruzen and myself all knew. The Sandaime didn't want anybody to find out." He shook his head in disgust before looking at the girl in Shizune's arms, "Who's the girl Shizune neechan?" saying the last part as bitterly as possible.

Itachi answered him much to his surprise however, "That's the Raikage's daughter. Her name is Yugito and she is the two tail's jinchuuriki." Naruto shook his head at the sight and started to laugh ominously, "Well isn't that special…You've got a nice little collection of cocks and assholes here! Now you guys can all go fuck yourselves!"

Madara sighed at the Shizune before speaking again, "These are my followers, Naruto. We follow an ideal very similar to your own. I seek to recreate a new world. The shinobi nations have grown stagnant and have been waning for years. Wars constantly break out and clans fight over dominance. Our mission is to establish a centralized seat of power and break the reign of the Kages. Most importantly I want to wipe out the Senju ruled Konoha. Seeing as how you bear no love for that village I want to give you an offer."

"Ask him why he wants Jinchuuriki." Kyuubi commented. Naruto shook his head skeptically, "There's a few things you need to explain for me first. Why do you want jinchuuriki?"

Madara sighed, "I want their tailed beasts so that I can use them against their own villages. My original intentions were to extract the Biju from their containers and send them on a rampage. We would then stop the Biju and receive autonomy over the shinobi world." The members of Akatsuki looked at Madara perplexed and Sasori spoke up, "So that's why you wanted them? How do you plan on controlling them…Madara?"

"The same way I controlled Kyuubi…the same way I control the Mizukage…the same way that I control all of you." Madara stated plainly.

"Your original intentions? So what about me? And what about Fu and the other jinchuuriki?" Naruto asked as he looked back over at Yugito. Madara smiled proudly as he responded. "If you and your little green haired girlfriend would be willing, you could join us and there would be no need to extract your Biju. I simply want to remove every jinchuuriki from the control of the five great shinobi nations so that nothing will stand in our way when we finally overthrow the Kages."

"What about her?" Naruto asked as he looked at the unconscious blonde haired girl. Madara shrugged casually and replied, "That depends on what she decides to do. I originally intended on using her as bait to capture the eight tails, but I'm sure she would be willing to listen to you if you gave her some big noble speech like you do to your other followers." Kisame cut in dryly, "She's not going to betray her village. I clearly remember her threatening about how Kumo is going to 'Stop us.'"

Fu looked over at Naruto unsure, "What do you think about all this Naruto? His offer isn't that bad…" Naruto was staring vacantly at the group unsure for a moment as he thought about Madara's offer. The familiar loud voice in his head began shouting, "Don't trust Madara! He's using your own ideals against you…he is trying to control you."

Everyone was staring intently at Naruto anxiously awaiting his response. After a minute, he finally answered, "I refuse your offer!" Everyone's eyes shot open and they all stared at him shocked as he glared at Madara. Konan looked worried and ran up to him. She placed her hands on his shoulders and stared deeply into his eyes, "Naruto don't do this! There's no reason to deny Madara's offer! Isn't that what you wanted? Please reconsider…it doesn't have to be this way!"

"That's the most emotion I've ever seen Konan show," Kisame stated as he watched the scene with curiosity. Madara remained silent and continued to watch Naruto. The other members of Akatsuki were staring at the pair interested.

Naruto gave Konan and blank stare and pushed her back, "You chose your side Konan…I will have nothing to do with you." the azure beauty looked shocked and shook her head in disbelief, "I thought we were on the same side! Why are you doing this!" Fu slapped Konan away from Naruto sending her flying, "Back off bitch!" Konan landed on her feet and shook her head horrified as Naruto turned back towards Madara.

"It's ironic…your mother said the exact same thing. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised that you would turn against me as well. It's your pathetic Senju blood I suppose." Madara commented casually. Shizune looked over at Madara and looked surprised, "He has Senju blood?"

Madara nodded his head, "Yes, the whole Uzumaki clan has Senju blood…but you already knew that didn't you Naruto?" Madara pulled a familiar book out of his pocket and began to laugh, "Rikudo Sennin…I wonder, how much of this did you actually read?" The Rinnegan wielder glared darkly and answered, "The whole thing."

"I'm surprised you didn't know of its value…I wondered why you would leave such a priceless artifact back in Konoha but now it makes sense. You wanted it to be found by the Hokage because she is Hashirama's last living descendant…well besides yourself." Madara said as he paced around enthusiastically.

Naruto crossed his arms and shook his head, "How exactly am I related to the first Hokage?" Everyone was intently interested as Madara answered, "Your mother Kushina was Mito and Hashirama's granddaughter. Kushina's mother was an experiment. I wanted to recombine the bloodlines to create the Rinnegan. Unfortunately, my daughter Kushina didn't receive the Rinnegan...she only got my chakra. You on the other hand inherited the best of both bloodlines which is why you have your eyes, your chakra, and amplified affinities."

Everyone with the exception of Itachi was completely shocked by Madara's explanation. "What?" Kisame shouted in disbelief. "I can't believe this…" Sasori added. Deidara just started laughing, "Today's just full of surprises un!"

"That makes Tsunade Kushina's cousin and Madara your grandfather," Shizune stated the obvious to Naruto. He was shocked beyond all belief. "You wouldn't have believed it from me…"

"See, Naruto…you belong in Akatsuki. Don't turn against us…Madara wants you with us!" Konan said passionately as she stared at the jinchuuriki. Madara nodded his head, "Don't be foolish like your mother…I have given you your gifts. The Rinnegan, your chakra, even the Kyuubi is yours because of me. You owe me all!"

"Shinra Tensei!" Naruto blasted the Akatsuki members back. They all smashed against the nearby cliff wall. Madara was unaffected by the blast and began to laugh, "Your defiance will not be tolerated! If you refuse to serve me than I shall take 'my eyes' back from your head!"

"Just try it mother fucker!" Naruto roared fiercely. "Don't you mean grandmother fucker?" Madara asked amused. Naruto shook his head in disgust, "This changes nothing! You're going to die for killing my mother!" Madara started to laugh louder at Naruto's anger as the members of Akatsuki began to surround the jinchuuriki, "I needed Kyuubi to destroy Konoha. She refused to help me so I extracted the fox and killed her afterwards!"

'Why the fuck didn't you tell me that?' Naruto asked Kyuubi angrily. "We'll discuss that later…right now I suggest you deal with these people." Fu looked around and over towards Naruto, "Let's kill them! These guys are a bunch of assholes!"

"You're not as smart as you think you are Madara! You made one fatal mistake in all of this…you forgot that I AM THE ONE WITH THE RINNEGAN!"

"Hidan, Kakuzu take the girl down. The rest of you kill, Naruto." Madara stated casually as he crossed his arms and leaned against the cliff wall. The assembly of Akatsuki members dashed at the two jinchuuriki with the exception of Zetsu and Shizune who stood by Madara near the cliff. Kisame immediately swung Samehada at Naruto and began to flail the weapon mercilessly at him. Kakuzu launched his arm at Fu attempting to capture her but she cart wheeled away from him and began to distance herself.

Hidan dashed full speed at the mint haired girl and swung his triple bladed scythe launching the weapon. Just as it was about to hit, Fu's entire arm turned solid and a spike came out blocking the scythe. Hidan reeled the weapon back and swung it rapidly at the jinchuuriki girl who acrobatically avoided the barrage. "Stand still you bitch!" Hidan yelled as he relentlessly flurried the weapon.

Fu flipped over Hidan and managed to land a hard kick to the side of his face sending him into the cliff wall. Kakuzu launched both of his arms at her wrapping her in strings before spikes shot out of her solidified back. He shook his head, "That is an interesting defense mechanism of yours." Hidan swung his scythe from behind the girl but she ducked and delivered another kick towards his face. Hidan caught her leg and threw her off balance before smashing his weapon down. Just as it was about to hit she jabbed her arm at the man stabbing him through the throat with a spike.

Before Hidan could react, Fu kneed him in the stomach as she got up. Out of nowhere, Kakuzu began launching another wave of strings at her. The mint haired girl had another spike protrude from her forearm and she began to cut through the waves. As she plowed through the weaving strings Fu made a dive to stab Kakuzu. "Doton: Domu!" As the spike attempted to stab the man, it failed to pierce Kakuzu's skin much to Fu's annoyance. "What the fuck is this?" She asked angrily before getting blindsided from behind by Hidan. Right as his scythe nearly his again, Fu's entire body turned hard and a shell formed blocking the attack.

"I thought you were dead?" Fu yelled as she turned to face Hidan again. Without a moment's hesitation, Fu launched both spikes from her arm at the man impaling him against the cliff wall. He began to laugh at her confusion and shouted, "Hahahahaha I'm immortal!" Before she had a chance to react, Kakuzu shouted, "Katon: Zukokku!" One of Kakuzu's masks launched a fireball at Fu. Right before it hit, Kakuzu went through his hand seals again, "Fūton: Atsugai!" Fu turned just in time to get hit by a fireball. The fireball blew up and was compressed against her by the wind jutsu causing a massive explosion..

After the blast cleared, Fu was glowing with golden orange chakra with two large chakra wings and a flowing tail. Her eyes were glowing brighter and her body was lined in spikes. Hidan managed to get himself off the wall and looked over to Kakuzu at the slightly transformed jinchuuriki and shook his head, "What does it take to kill this bitch?" Fu began to fly around the duo and wildly slash them with her new arm spikes.

Meanwhile, Naruto was dodging a storm of attacks from Kisame's sword, and Sasori's tail. He back flipped onto the water as he continuously avoided the rain of bombs Deidara was dropping from above. Itachi and Konan remained still watching the brawl. Kisame laughed as Naruto dodged and parried all of his attacks, "You're still the slippery fuck aren't you?"

Sasori's scorpion tail and Samehada simultaneously swung at the jinchuuriki before he flipped in time. The two weapons hit each other much to Sasori's annoyance as he began to yell, "Get out of the way Kisame so I can kill him!" A huge bomb just landed in the middle of the three shin obi before Naruto shot his hand out, "SHINRA TENSEI!" The bomb went flying into the side of Madara's statue and completely destroyed it along with half of the cliff edge.

Madara laughed at the destruction and shouted, "Itachi Konan Stop standing around! Kill him!" Kisame went through several hand seals and shouted, "Suiton: Bakusui Shōha!" (Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave) Kisame spit an enormous amount of water from his mouth and began to flood the valley bringing the water level way up. Sasori leaped at Naruto and began to rapidly flail his scorpion tail at the man. Naruto evaded the powerful whiptail and formed chakra in his hand.

Naruto then formed a huge watery dragon from launched it at Kisame as the shark nin rushed his flank. The powerful jutsu thrashed through the water and smashed the shark nin back and whipped Sasori's tail away with its own. Naruto's body glowed luminously as he poured more chakra into the dragon causing the body to spark with electricity. The electric water dragon then shocked Kisame throwing him off guard allowing Naruto to kick him in the chest.

Out of nowhere, a load of exploding paper tags wrapped around the dragon and began to blow it up. Naruto looked over at Konan shocked as she began to destroy the beast. Assisting her endeavor, Deidara launched a huge carpet bombing at the beast before it finally dissipated leaving a huge splash in its wake. Using it to his advantage, Naruto held his sword high in the air and a huge bolt of lightning shot down at it conducting the weapon before Naruto's swung it, "Fūton: Ryūjin Rasengan!" His body glowed as the wind and lightning combined into a huge chakra dragon that spiraled out of the blade. The Dragon annihilated the area with a static charge and rode the wave of left by Deidara's bomb.

Shizune looked over at Madara and shook her head in disbelief as the Akatsuki members avoided the static wave, "I've never seen jutsus like that before…how is he combining elements?" Madara smiled at the devastation as he answered, "That's called chakra weaving…it's a trait inherited by the Uzumaki clan. Since he has my chakra and the Rinnegan as well it amplifies the ability tenfold." Zetsu looked over at Madara and asked, "I think you should have made him a better offer…what's the point of all this? I know you won't let them kill him."

Madara shrugged at Zetsu carelessly, "I was expecting this…I wanted to know the full extent of his powers." Shizune laughed and shook her head in disbelief, "And they're only getting warmed up…"

Sasori's scorpion tail began to lash at Naruto again after the blast subsided. He parried the monstrous tail with his sword and counterattacked the wild jabs. Sasori's puppet Hiruko opened its mouth and arm and then began to fire shrapnel. As the projectiles closed in, Naruto went through some hand seals, "Fūton: Reppūshō!" (Wind Release: Violent Wind Palm) As Naruto launched the projectiles back at Sasori he unleashed a huge wave of fire with it. Sasori leaped over the flaming rebound and smashed his tail down towards Naruto again.

As the tail jabbed, Naruto held his hand up, "Jūha Reppū Shō (Beast Wave Violent Wind Palm) A huge hand of blue wind chakra launched from Naruto's hand grabbing Sasori. His puppet armor Hiruko was completely smashed in the attack and Sasori jumped out of the armor revealing his true self.

Naruto barely had time to examine the red headed puppet master before exploding tags and bombs rained over him. "Shinra Tensei!" Naruto launched the explosives in all directions leaving a chaotic recoil as one hit Deidara's clay bird. Konan formed hundreds of paper airplane exploding tags and sent them flying towards Naruto. He ran across the water avoiding the hail of explosions as the blue haired woman flew after him on her wings.

Black flames then erupted across the surface of the water creating a huge wall to block the jinchuuriki. Naruto created a huge wave of water and rode it across the flame wall only to meet Kisame riding a tsunami from the other side. The shark nin dove at Naruto with Samehada completely unwrapped and began to wildly flail the sword. Naruto barely dodged the powerful swings and went flying every time he parried the weapon. Kisame continued to berserk him before finally shaving the weapon across his chest. The sword grew larger after the contact and Naruto went flying. As he descended, bombs, exploding tags, and projectiles hailed him from all directions.

"Shinra Tensei!" The force from the wave left a massive explosion sending shrapnel flying in all directions. By this time, Yugito was awake sitting against the wall next to Shizune. She quickly examined her surroundings and was shocked by the sight of Naruto and Fu battling Akatsuki. "Who the fuck are they? Friends of yours?" Yugito asked Shizune amusingly. The medic nin looked at her and huffed, "Not that it's any of your concern, but that is Pein…and the girl is the jinchuuriki of the seven tails."

"Pein's here! I…I can't believe he looks like that! Those anbu descriptions didn't do him any justice…" Yugito laughed as she eyed Naruto from afar. Madara glared at Shizune and Yugito, "Be silent girl…I am watching the fight!" Yugito reluctantly kept her mouth shut remembering what normally happened when she didn't. Over with Hidan and Kakuzu, they were having a hard time pinning Fu down as the girl flew around slicing and dicing all of Kakuzu's strings and stabbing Hidan.

"Why the fuck won't she bleed!" Hidan asked pissed as he launched his scythe at the girl only to have it repeatedly rebound from Fu's armor and spikes. Kakuzu shook his head as he launched another fireball at her, "Katon: Zukokku!" The blast landed a hit and caused a massive explosion blowing Fu down to the ground. Hidan made another mad dash at the girl and sliced his scythe across her carapace shattering the shell. He cheerfully flourished the weapon and brought it down against her only to have a spike launch from her arm into his forehead. Fu then kicked the scythe out of his grasp and slashed the cable.

Hidan pulled the spike out pissed and attempted to retake his weapon only for Fu to fly into the air and throw it into the water. "YOU GOD DAMN BITCH!" Hidan roared furiously as he chucked the projectile at the woman managing to pierce another part of her armor. Kakuzu noticed the effect and yelled at his partner, "The spikes! Pick up those spikes they can easily pierce her armor!"

Hidan made a swift run by the wall and picked up half a dozen of them and threw a few at the girl. Fu managed to dodge the first two, but was immediately wrapped in a heavy weave of Kakuzu's strings allowing Hidan to throw three more spikes at her. They completely shattered her shell and Fu was unable to move as Hidan dove into the strings with the final spike stabbing it through Fu's chest. He pulled it out and licked the blood as the girl continued to struggle against the strings.

Kakuzu completely enveloped the girl in his strings and began to sink them into her before her entire body was covered in a huge ball covered in spikes. Hidan took the opportunity to retrieve his scythe from water as Kakuzu tried to break it open.

Back with Naruto, black flames left a large arc around him limiting his movement as the other members of Akatsuki violently tried to kill him. Sasori smirked at the man and commented, "You're quite impressive, Naruto…you have earned the right to die from my greatest power. Sasori summoned the third Kazekage puppet and laughed, "Even you won't stand a chance against this!"

The other members of Akatsuki backed away from the two knowing the dangers of Sasori's next move. The kazekage puppet floated around Naruto as Sasori unleashed his attack, "Satetsu Shigure (Iron Sand Drizzle) A large cloud of metallic dust began to form around the two and formed into bullet spikes. The Sand launched itself at Naruto.

Thinking quickly, Naruto looked towards Kisame and held his hand out, " Banshō Ten'in!" (Universal Pull) The shark nin was immediately sucked into the blast and Naruto used him as a human shield from the rain of sand bullets. Sasori halted his barrage and looked amused as Kisame fell over into the water from the blast. "Satetsu Kaihō!" (Iron Sand World Order) A massive sphere of iron sand merged around Naruto and began to protrude with spikes from all angles. Konan and Deidara bombed the area as Naruto avoided the spikes and Itachi used his Amaterasu launching black flames to surround the man.

Deidara laughed as he made more clay in his hands and threw down a massive bomb on the sphere of sand. Naruto had no time to react from the four way assault and was enveloped in black flames as multiple sand spikes stabbed through his skin. The bomb then fell directly on top of Naruto as he was impaled by more spikes. A devastating explosion rang throughout the entire valley completely blinding everyone temporarily.

Yugito watched in horror as the valley went silent. Shizune smirked and looked over at Madara, "Guess he wasn't that strong after all." Madara shook his head with a smile and turned to look at the woman, "It's not over yet…my dear girl." Shizune looked confused, "What do you mean? Nobody could have survived that?" Madara laughed at the girl, "Just watch, Shizune…"

As if on cue, Naruto shot out of the water glowing red with his familiar chakra cloak. Yugito watched in amazement as she noticed two giant purple chakra wings on his back. Naruto laughed at the Akatsuki members below and roared, "Is this it? IS THIS ALL YOU CAN THROW AGAINST ME!" Answering his challenge, a massive cyclone shot out of the water with an extremely pissed Kisame on top roaring, "ARRRRRRRRRRGHHHH!" Multiple cyclones and waterspouts erupted out of the water and violently orbited the pissed shark nin as he held Samehada high in his hand.

"THIS TIME YOU DIE MOTHER FUCKER!" Kisame roared loudly as the massive cyclones began to blast Naruto. The other members of Akatsuki retreated to the cliff edge next to Madara as Kisame created a hurricane. Deidara and Konan continued to fly over the massive lake and carpet bombed Naruto. Kisame made a bloodthirsty charge at Naruto riding down a tidal wave and swung Samehada inhumanly fast at the jinchuuriki trying to strike him. Naruto flew high to avoid the waves and avoided Kisame's relentless intercepts.

After a minute, Kisame drew all of the water in the valley into a massive maelstrom with the black flames from Amaterasu churning over the surface. The shark nin launched huge pillars of water out to trap Naruto and created a massive water prison. The shark nin then smashed Samehada against the water causing the churning water prison to surround Naruto in a massive orb. Before he had a chance to react, Kisame flew at him and smashed Samehada against him sucking his chakra cloak off and dispelling his wings. Naruto fell into the massive maelstrom and began to get sucked down to the center by the overwhelming pressure. Taking full advantage of the situation, Itachi leaped over to Kisame who stood on a waterspout channeling the massive whirlpool.

The swordsman looked at Itachi and spoke, "It's time to unveil the juggernaut!" The Uchiha nodded his head emotionlessly as he and Kisame were surrounded by a huge red aura of chakra. Madara watched the tag teamed assault amused and looked to the others, "This should be interesting…" Zetsu watched it interested and gave group commentary, "That must be Itachi's Susanoo! What is he doing with Kisame though?" Shizune's eyes shot open at the mention of the attack, "No way! This is crazy!" the red aura surrounding two men began to form a skeleton and armor around them. Kisame held Samehada with the blade facing down and Itachi grabbed the hilt. The two began to channel immense amounts of chakra into Itachi's Susanoo which fed off of Samehada like a conduit making it grow insanely large in size.

Back over with Fu, she was wrapped tight in the spiked ball despite Hidan and Kakuzu's efforts to break it open. They stopped their assault to watch the Itachi and Kisame's monstrosity in awe. Their Susanoo began to change color from red to a dark blue as it absorbed heavy amounts of water from the still churning maelstrom. Deidara watched the transformation shocked as he flew circles around the beast, 'What the fuck is that?'

Konan flew back to Madara and the others and asked, "Did you know they could do that?" Madara laughed at her question and nodded his head, "I know everything about those two…so yeah I did." Yugito shook her head horrified, 'Oh my god…we are in a lot of trouble if Akatsuki can do shit like this…'

"Where's Naruto at?" Konan asked worried as she stared at the whirlpool intently. "Why? Worried that your boyfriend might get hurt, Konan?" Shizune asked venomously causing Konan to glare at her. Yugito looked at the blue haired woman and asked, "Who the hell is Naruto?" Konan rolled her eyes at the blonde and answered, "Naruto is Pein you stupid bitch."

Naruto was lying at the bottom of the maelstrom crushed by the pressure drowning. Kyuubi was roaring loudly in his head for him move, "GET UP! Use my chakra!" another distant echo was ringing in his head as well much to his own confusion, 'Summon hell to destroy them!'A loud noise brought everybody's attention back to the scene at hand as Naruto burst out of the whirlpool glowing blood red with Kyuubi's chakra again.

Naruto's Rinnegan eyes were red with a slit. The whirlpool subsided as he landed back on the water. Naruto looked at the massive juggernaut Susanoo and began to laugh much to everybody's surprise, "HAHAHAHAHAHA! TASTE THE TRUE POWER OF DEATH! Kuchiyose: Gedō Mazō!" (Summoning: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path)

Everybody was shocked as a massive colossus appeared from the bottom of the lake. Naruto stood on the statue's head as it rose from the water to face Susanoo. Itachi and Kisame traded worried looks as the behemoth statue began walking towards them. Then, the red chakra from Kyuubi began to spread over the Gedo Statue. Everyone watched in horror as nine crimson red tails sprang from Naruto.

Susanoo instantly began to slash at Naruto but was unsuccessful as the statue caught the blade. It opened its mouth and a dozen crimson red chakra dragons shot out circling Kisame and Itachi trying break through Susanoo's shield. The statue and Susanoo furiously brawled causing unspeakable destruction to the Valley of the End. Naruto channeled the movements of the statue and grabbed Susanoo's shield and sword arm trying to push it back as he launched more chakra dragons from the statue's mouth.

Caught off guard by their distraction, Kakuzu and Hidan didn't notice Fu burst out of the spiked ball with four golden orange wings and a long flowing tail. They desperately battled her off as she began to go through a transformation. Madara looked over at Sasori and ordered, "Help those two restrain the girl…I don't want her transforming." Sasori nodded as he took off towards Fu and launched his Iron Sand at her cooperatively with Kakuzu's strings.

Fu furiously tried to break from the restraints, but was unsuccessful as Sasori and Kakuzu continued to build upon her prison. Naruto's battle with Itachi and Kisame was intense as the monstrous titans clashed relentlessly against each other. Finally, they became locked in a deadlock as the statue gripped Susanoo's wrist. Kisame looked over to Itachi who was deep in concentration from channeling the ability, "Itachi! It's time for our last ace!" Itachi nodded his head as he and Kisame both gripped Samehada tighter. Everyone watched amazed as Kisame was absorbed into his blade and Itachi was absorbed completely by Susanoo. Naruto laughed as he channeled the red chakra around the statue and formed a super rasengan from its hand. Susanoo held up its shield awaiting the attack before Naruto's statue began to charge towards the warrior. As he clashed against Susanoo's shield, a shockwave of chakra erupted from both sides completely destroying both entities. After the blast cleared, Naruto was standing over the defeated forms of Itachi and Kisame. He drew his sword again and walked over towards their unconscious bodies.

Before he reached them, Madara appeared in front of him and began to clap his hands, "Bravo! Bravo! You really are everything I thought you'd be…now let's see how you fare against me." Madara began to stare into Naruto's now normal Rinnegan eyes again as the red chakra from Kyuubi receded. Out of nowhere, a huge bomb blew up over Madara. He broke eye contact with an exhausted Naruto looking up to see Deidara throwing bombs at him.

"What are you doing Deidara?" Madara shouted as he looked at the blonde man shocked. Deidara had Fu and Yugito on his clay bird and swooped down next to Naruto, "Hop on Naruto!" The Rinnegan wielder didn't hesitate and immediately jumped on the bird with Deidara. Madara looked over at the other members of Akatsuki who were shrouded in a huge fog of smoke. He flew after the Deidara pissed and tried to stop the escaping clay bird.

As he got close, Deidara threw every single bomb he had at once causing Madara to fade back from the blast as the escapees flew off into the distance. After the smoke passed, Madara walked over towards his conscious minions and began to yell, "TELL ME WHY THE FUCK DEIDARA JUST TOOK THREE JINCHUURIKI WITH HIM AND NONE OF YOU WORTHLESS FUCKS TRIED TO STOP HIM!"

Madara's anger was terrifying his subordinates as he paced angrily looking at them in disgust, "Sasori! Kakuzu! Explain to me how the green haired girl got out of your grasp?" The puppet master and Kakuzu shook their heads in disbelief, "Deidara dropped some crazy bomb and I couldn't see a thing…next thing we know the girl's gone." Kakuzu said annoyed. Konan shook her head in irritation and glared at Madara, "Why did you have to go and piss Naruto off Madara! I was talking him down! I mean telling him you killed his mother? For fuck's sake!"

"Be silent, Konan! I don't want to hear anymore from you…be thankful that you chose to remain loyal to me otherwise you would be dead right now." Madara stated angrily. Shizune looked at Itachi and Kisame and spoke urgently, "They look pretty fucked up…I am going to go heal those two." Madara shook his head in annoyance, "Whatever…Deidara of all people. I can't even believe this…"

Hidan started laughing as he looked around the crater that formed in the valley, "Looks like they're gonna have to start calling this place the Crater of the End." Madara face palmed at the man, "I will be sitting under the remnants of my statue…don't disturb me until Itachi and Kisame are conscious. Zetsu…I want you to go find them." The plant man bowed as Madara began to walk away, "As you wish master."

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Meanwhile, Naruto, Deidara, Fu, and Yugito were flying high speed away from the valley east. Naruto was catching his breath after the insane battle and looked at Deidara perplexed, "Thanks for saving us…Deidara was it?" The blonde man nodded his head and replied, "Yeah no problem haha…the loudmouth blonde girl was easy to get, but I had some trouble picking up the little green haired one."

Yugito who was still tied up ironically began to shout at them, "What the fuck just happened back there? Who the hell are you people? Why were you fighting?" Naruto sighed and shook his head, "Babe…it's a long story." Yugito glared at Naruto fiercely, "I'm not your 'babe' asshole! I'm the Raikage's daughter I'll have you know!" Naruto looked at her completely unimpressed and yawned as he looked back over to Deidara, "So I'm curious…why are you helping me exactly?"

"Yeah, that was the world's most unexpected rescue," Fu added as she panted heavily. Deidara shrugged and shook his head, "Well for one, I think you're way cooler than those chumps back there…and two I would rather work for somebody like you than that asshat Madara. You remember him telling you about how they recruited me right?" Naruto nodded his head, "Yeah they said something about forced recruitment?"

"Yeah I lost a battle with Itachi that ended with me being forced into this organization un. I never really thought about leaving because I figured I would rather be on the winning side when Akatsuki takes over the world. Although after watching that battle, I'm convinced that I'm better off working for you…plus I appreciate your abstract art!" Deidara laughed.

"What kind of art is that?" Naruto asked. "My second favorite kind of art…handing Uchihas their asses to them!" Deidara shouted proudly. Naruto and Fu laughed and nodded their heads in agreement. "Well thanks a lot for the help back there…I'm not sure how I would have handled Madara." Naruto said as he looked into the distance. "I feel for you man…being related to an Uchiha must be a kick in the balls."

"Hey! Stop ignoring me!" Yugito shouted causing everybody to roll their eyes at the blonde woman. "What?" Deidara asked annoyed as he shook his head. "Take me to Kumogakure this instant! My father will need to hear about Akatsuki and call for a Kage meeting to stop them."

Naruto traded amused glances with Deidara and Fu and started laughing, "Hahahaha…no babe it doesn't work that way. You're my hostage, and you're coming with us." Yugito hissed at them angrily and started to squirm in her restraints, "If you bring me to my father there will be a reward…I'm sure he'll pardon you guys!"

Deidara shook his head and sighed, "Maybe I should have left her with them…" Fu nodded in agreement, "You wouldn't have heard any complaints from me." Yugito was rocking back and forth and nearly fell off the bird before Naruto caught her. He glared at her, "What are you trying to do? Kill yourself?"

Naruto was holding the restrained woman in his lap and shook his head as she continued to squirm, "Give it up Yugito…you're coming with us. You'll be a lot safer with me anyways." Yugito began to blush madly as Naruto held her bridal style in his lap and stared at her. "Please stop looking at me like that…" she said nervously as Naruto gazed into her eyes. "Like what?" Naruto teased making Deidara laugh.

"Got anywhere you want to go boss?" Deidara asked. Naruto thought for a moment and shrugged, "I don't know…I really need to regroup with my followers."

"My advice is that we go for Kirigakure…the Mizukage is a jinchuuriki and we should probably get to him before Akatsuki does." Deidara suggested. "Sounds like a plan to me…" Naruto agreed as the bird flew southeast towards Kiri.

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OH MY GOD! That was the longest chapter I have ever written…I apologize if it was a tough read but I didn't feel like splitting it up because that would have been an asshole move.

Anyways here's my personal notes for this chapter:

There was a lot of fucking action in this chapter…I will honestly have my feelings hurt if somebody dislikes it because I worked my ass off to pull this one together. But yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed the Zabuza Haku VS Mei thing…that was a juicy bit there.

The Akatsuki fight was incredibly difficult to write…I honestly don't know if I did it well enough or what. I never realized how hard it was to write a damn free for all with ten plus people. I know some of you wanted to see Madara in action, but that will come later…

I smell conflict brewing with Yagura…that will be a major part of next chapter. How will our notorious gang react when Naruto himself shows up with two other jinchuuriki to abduct Yagura? You'll have to wait and see!

The Orochimaru stuff will get interesting soon enough…as well as Sasuke's role in the story. Forgive me for not putting Anko and Guren in this chapter…I had a lot of stuff to cover with Akatsuki and the Kiri conflict.

I want to know in all honesty…were you surprised when Deidara ended up turning on Madara? I left subtle clues there but I don't know how obvious I was about it.

Well anyways that's all for this chapter…don't expect another one for two weeks or so. This one almost counts as two anyways. LOL well thanks for reading. Love ya!