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Note here, sorry for the delay and the probably bad chapter but I was stuck on what to write for a few days so eventually just decided on this. Sorry if its terrible and I'll try to write another one sooner. And if anyone wants a pairing leave a review on it and I'll look over them for the next few days before deciding and give credit to who suggested it.
Naruto was getting tired, slowly but it was happening.
He flipped back to avoid Jet's swing aimed to scissor him between the two hook swords before he slashed down with one of his Colmillo sowrds only for Jet to block the blade with one and aim to punch off Naruto's head with the blades over his knuckles.
The Uzumaki ducked under the blow even as his other Colmillo sword shot up and would have cleaved off Jet's arm if he hadn't decided to leap back while throwing a fury of explosive kunai down towards Naruto who quickly leapt back to avoid them and turned to cut the razor sharp wire strings forming a net behind him.
Explosive tags planted on the tree he landed on forced him to leap back into the clearing even as he cut the shuriken thrown towards him in half while also deflecting them to the side with good reason as the metal immediately exploded on impact with the ground.
'Fighting him with his swords are hard enough, when he starts using his traps and starts throwing stuff at me it gets nearly impossible to even throw a few of my own attacks out there.' Naruto thought with a sigh as he threw the tip of one sword into the ground and landed on it with one foot as his pistol formed in that hand.
"Cero." Naruto whispered as he fired another shot towards Jet who easily dodged it only to come face to face with a grinning Naruto with both pistols now out as his sword landed in the tree behind Jet.
"Cero Metralleta!" Naruto called out as he fired a barrage of Cero towards Jet even as he flipped over him and landed with his feet on the flat of the blade.
Jet rolled on the ground as he emerged from the explosions and grinned as Naruto once again formed his Colmillo blades.
"Why don't you give up?" Naruto asked as his breaths came in pants." You can't win."
Jet only grinned as he sent a surge of Chakra to his swords.
"You moron, I don't have to beat you. I just have to delay you." Jet answered and Naruto cursed as he saw the convoy far off in the distance, it was moving.
"Enough of this." Naruto growled as he leapt into the air and aimed both guns down towards the convoy.
Blood dripped into the barrels from a cut on Naruto's shoulder and Naruto growled his next words.
"Gran Rey Cero!" Naruto roared as a massive blue supercharged Cero roared towards the convoy and slammed into it in a titanic explosion.
He landed on the ground and turned to jet, energy pouring out of the two guns.
"Think you want to keep this up?" Naruto asked Jet who simply chuckled as he stepped back.
"My jobs done, it was a decoy anyway." Jet answered before he leapt backwards into the trees as he sheathed his swords.
Naruto cursed as he holstered his guns and quickly vanished from sight in a burst of smoke.
He collapsed midway to the convoy moments later, clutching at his head.
'What the hell?' Naruto asked himself as he struggled to even move at the pain shooting through his head.' What is going on?'
Amegakure…
Taka screamed as he felt nothing but sheer agony and soon he couldn't even do that.
"Are you finished yet Itachi?" Konan asked." His screams are getting very, very annoying."
"Not yet but I've damaged his shields during my attacks on his mind." Itachi answered as he stepped away from the suspended Taka.
With Naruto…
'Something is wrong, something is very wrong.' Naruto told himself as he dragged himself to his feet as the pain subsided.
'Pein! Leader! Rinnegan!'
The sudden shout in his mind nearly put him on the ground and he recognized Taka's voice.
"That was a failsafe, an immediate but short link." Naruto spoke out loud as he shook off the effects." What happened to him for him to use that?"
Naruto slowly moved down the road and up to the destroyed convoy and seeing it couldn't even be searched for anything he ended up simply blasting it with Los Lobos again.
Naruto sealed his Zanpakuto and quickly formed several hand signs before slamming a hand on the ground.
A seal spread from his hand and in a poof of smoke an identical Naruto appeared.
"Go meet up with the others and use that old personality, I need to go handle something." Naruto ordered the transformed corpse that sprung to life before rushing off.
With Shino…
Mika laughed as Shino charged her, his Chakra wrapping around him but she knew it was useless against her.
"Time to die." Mika shouted as she threw three senbon forward from each hand, the small weapons aimed to each hit for a certain kill.
Shino held up his arms and allowed the senbon to pierce them before they were devoured with kikaichu swarming out the wound.
"So, you're the Clan Heir?" Mika asked Shino who didn't respond, only moving forward again.
'So he's gone and used that technique?' Mika asked herself even as she dodged Shino's blow and threw several explosive senbon that kikaichu intercepted before Shino slammed a hand on the ground.
Bug burst out of the ground from his palm and Mika cursed as she leapt into the trees only to be followed by the swarm of kikaichu.
'There, that should take care of her.' Shino thought with a sigh of relief as the swarm decimated anything in their path.' I've sent those bugs into a frenzy, they'll tear her to pieces now.'
Senbon shot towards him and kikaichu immediately intercepted them, being blown apart as a second volley raced past them in the smoke. Shino rolled out of the way of them with little effort and very quickly only to sit up straight into a third volley that turned him into a pincushion.
"Got you bastard!" Mika shouted as she unleashed a fourth volley on Shino before rushing forward, three Senbon held between each finger in her left hand as the right reached behind her for something." Time to die!"
Undisclosed location, somewhere in the Land of Grass…
One Orochimaru smirked even if he was bedridden, a sudden illness weakening him, at least for the next few days until his body would adapt to it. Normally he wouldn't even had caught anything but his current body was beginning to reject him.
'I have no doubt this is Sasuke's doing.' Orochimaru thought as he saw the door open.' This is probably him.'
He was right as the 'last' Uchiha stepped into the room, closing the door behind him.
"Orochimaru, how are you?"
The Sannin laughed at the Uchiha's question as he sat up from his lying down position.
"Get to the point student, I have important things to do very soon." Orochimaru told him as the Uchiha didn't disappoint." So why are you here brat?"
"I'm here to kill you."
A sword shot forward only for Orochimaru to roll off the bed and onto his feet and the sidestep the swing aimed to take off his arm and dig into his side.
"You fool, I taught you everything you know about Kenjutsu!" Orochimaru shouted as he formed several hand signs before taking a deep breath.
"Katon: Fire Dragon Bullet!" the Snake Sannin called out as he fired a multitude of streams of fire, each taking the shape of a dragon that attacked from all angles.
"Chidori Blast!"
The chirping of birds was heard as the fires in front of the Uchiha were thrown back by a wave of lightning as the Uchiha rushed forward behind it, his sword held in one hand with the other reaching into a pouch at his waist.
"Doton: Stone Golem!" Orochimaru called out as he spit out a rapidly expanding stone only for its head to be removed by the Uchiha' blade as he leaped over it.
"I taught you better than I thought." Orochimaru commented even as he slammed a hand on the wall behind him and it crumbled away to show a more open space behind it." But you forget I expected this!"
He leapt back into it as he bit both thumbs and slammed a hand on the ground as he landed in a crouch.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
In a burst of smoke that engulfed two massive cobras shot forward, their fangs bared and acidic venom dripping onto the floor below them.
"Katon: Great Fireball!" Sasuke called out as he breathed out a stream of fire that shaped itself into a fireball, blasting into the ground and throwing the snakes to the side as the Uchiha rushed Orochimaru with the Sannin grinning even as he dodged the deadly sword swings, each aimed to kill him.
'He's coated the blade in a poison, Kabuto's doing no doubt.' Orochimaru thought as he spotted the drips of it running off the blade.' He's also gotten someone to put a seal on it, the poison is constantly replenishing itself, or it's that special one I had in storage, the one that replicates itself with Chakra.'
Forced to dodge another blow that managed to deliver a thin cut to his neck snapped Orochimaru out of his thoughts and he frowned before slamming a hand on the ground.
"Raiton: Bolt Current!"
A wave of lightning flowed from his hands and covered the floor in it and Sasuke didn't even try to avoid it as he allowed it to shoot into him before the chirping of birds were heard yet again.
"Chidori Bolt!"
The lightning was redirected to his hand a she thrust it forward and Orochimaru dodged a lightning bolt that would have taken off his head.
'That was good.' Orochimaru thought, a grin showing he was enjoying the fight.' I'm surprised he can keep up with me and press me like this even in my weakened state.'
He dodged a kunai thrown at him and disarmed it of its explosive tag before throwing it back towards Sasuke on a shuriken which was avoided but at the speed he planted it the Uchiha was caught in the explosion and thrown to the side by the shockwave.
He recovered in midair and stabbed his sword into the ground to stop himself before running through hand signs as he left the sword there.
"Raiton: Dragon's Roar!" Sasuke called out as electricity shot forward, taking the shape of a dragonhead that roared as Orochimaru merely grinned wider.
"Suiton: Water Basin Palm!"
The burst of water from his palm was electrified as it acted as a shield before shooting towards Sasuke who cursed as he grabbed his sword and leapt onto the ceiling, hanging upside down to avoid the now water filled room.
He formed several hand signs as he sheathed his sword and took a deep breath but his red eyes found nothing, Orochimaru was gone.
"Futon: Decapitating Airwaves!"
Sasuke was blasted into the far wall by a burst of air from behind him as Orochimaru quickly ran after him with his next set of hand signs already done.
"Suiton: Water Dragon Bullet!"
Dragons of water emerged from the flooded room below him and they shot into Sasuke as he slammed into the wall, the electrified water both shocking him and sending him crashing through the wall from the force of the impact. Orochimaru destroyed part of the wall with an explosive kunai and leapt through the hole to see Sasuke tossed into the middle of the room by the attack and he quickly finished his next hand signs.
"Doton: Swamp of the Underworld!"
Sasuke felt himself sink into the ground and cursed but quickly thought of a plan as Orochimaru landed in front of him.
Sunagakure…
The village was mainly undamaged from the sudden attack and the Kazekage's speedy intervention but he was trapped in a sphere of sand, forced to deal with his inner demon from his use of Shukaku's power.
"Is it wise to allow the Kazekage to remain as he is, we don't know if he will win and now is the opportune time to take action against him."
Kankuro really hated the council sometimes, he had tried to talk Gaara into expanding it and turning it more into an advisory but his brother was busy with other things and the council never had much power anyway, it always fell onto the Kazekage to make the final decisions.
'These bastards are talking about killing him.' Kankuro truly hated the council at this moment and only Baki's look from across the table had him restrain himself enough to speak calmly.
"Do you really think this is necessary?" Kankuro asked, hiding his anger under a calm façade, at least for now." Shouldn't we at least think of an alternative or see definitive proof the Kazekage is about to lose control?"
"It is a major risk to the village, it would be better if we didn't take the chance. We have several candidates for a new Jinchuriki as well." A second council member spoke up and Kankuro recognized him as Bato, a council member he could hold a conversation with as they were a former Puppet Master who was forced to retire after meeting a group of rouge Hyuga during a mission and having his Chakra Pathway System damaged during the battle but managing to kill all but one of the Hyuga." If Shukaku is released or the Kazekage reverts back to his previous personality either way we will face something that could destroy the village in little time and with little reasons."
"I agree but I have faith in my brother and Lady Chiyo has created a seal around him so if the worse happens the One Tails will be restrained long enough to seal it again." Kankuro hoped he could delay the council enough and for once he thanked the long process of politics.
"That is debatable as we have called her skills into question, her seal on the Kazekage allowed Shukaku to influence the boy to a degree that we have seen in no other Jinchuriki." Bato responded and Baki chose to join the conversation.
"I have also posted a dozen Jonin skilled in sealing around the area and they will interfere before things get to out of hand, they've all walked together as a unit in the past so I see no reason that they could not handle the problem." Baki's words seemed to help Bato as he nodded.
"Then if such precautions have been taken I see no reason not to take a wait and see approach." Bato's answer relived both Baki and Kankuro and with the biggest threat to Gaara agreeing on waiting they had some breathing room.
A few minutes after the council clearly had planned to have Bato talk the two into agreeing and with that failure their own arguments were lackluster, not much else to say that Bato hadn't already said.
Somewhere in the Land of Wind…
Suna's attacker finally reached the border on their ink bird and looked down at the burning watch post, having sent birds ahead to destroy it.
'It seems like I am in the clear.' The figure thought right before a wave of wind slammed into him, destroying his ink bird and forcing him to land in the trees nearby.
"Get over here you bastard!" a voice shouted and the figure cursed as Gaara's sister Temari sent a more razor sharp crescent of wind with a swing of her fully opened fan.
The trees were easily cut down by it and the figure quickly drew out a scroll with one hand and drew something on it and rushed through the trees as the three lions sent forward were torn apart and rained down as explosive ink, the figure hoping to kill the Kunoichi in the ensuring explosion. He had no such luck as the ink was batted aside with a swipe of Temari's fan as she raced after the figure, folding her fan as she leapt into the trees and placing it on her back with one hand as the other drew two smaller fans from her side.
'Damn, intelligence said nothing about her power, it's unlucky that she caught me.'
With Kakashi and Shikamru…
The silver haired Jonin sat thinking, trying to work out a strategy to deal with the very likely idea that thy had missed the shipment or the information was wrong and this was all a diversion for the real one to move around undisturbed.
'Either way, this mission will most likely be a failure.'
Kurenia and Kiba…
The sounds of a fight had them pick up speed and appeared just as Hinata finished striking down the last of the eight Chunin guards around her as Kurenia shot forward and intercepted two Jonin aiming to cut her down with a pair of kunai in each of their hands while Kiba and Akamaru attacked the second squad of Chunin behind them, rushing to attack the two as their comrades were dealt with.
"Kiba, Hinata, fall into formation!" Kurenai ordered and moments later Kiba and Hinata stood next to her with Naruto's clone stepping in front of them and holding his sword out to his side.
"I can handle this, the main part of it got ahead of us while these four squads delayed us." The clone told them and a look to Hinata confirmed it and moments later Kurenai sent the two Chunin and one dog forward.
"You can go on ahead too." Naruto's clone told her as Kurenai remained.
She decided to but as she leapt into the trees she created a shadow clone to watch the battle, filled with just enough Chakra to stay hidden and watch with combat out of its league.
"Pierce, Gonryumaru." The clone spoke and his katana seemed to be struck by lightning as it flashed before it changed into a rapier, electricity crackling off of it before with a slight strain it was under control and coating the blade.
"Let's see what you can do." Gonryumaru told the remaining two dozen Chunin and eight Jonin before rushing forward.
AN: Well, like I said at the beginning, it was probably terrible but I really didn't have any ideas and wasn't that motivated in writing it so if you have any ideas of suggestions leave a review with them and I'll respond to them.
Peace.