Since last chapter was a little poor, here's a super-fast, super-cool chapter for you guys, or at least I hope it'll turn out super-cool.
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"Well, since everyone is assembled here..." Orochimaru sighed, launching into a few hand seals. "Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation!"
Two coffins sprung up.
Asuma's eyes widened. "Is that..."
The lids of the coffins opened, to reveal two familiar bodies.
Orochimaru smirked.
"It appears the Gaara boy you fought was influential to the Sand's plan to attack the village, but he pulled out at the last minute."
Neji, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura jumped through the trees of the forest. Neji's Byakugan was activated.
"So why do you want to capture him again?" Naruto asked.
"He seems at a disadvantage at the moment," Neji explained. "I took a look at his chakra with the Byakugan, and it appears his chakra is at an all-time low. He's at his weakest now, and the only trouble will be fighting his two siblings. If we capture him, or even all three of them in time, we can learn more about the invasion."
"Sounds good," Sasuke nodded.
"They've stopped," Neji declared, deactivating his Byakugan with a smirk.
Naruto nodded. "Let's do this."
"The Shodaime... and the Nidaime..." Guy breathed.
"So you mastered... that jutsu..." Hiruzen frowned.
"Monkey, is that you?" The Shodaime spoke first. "My, age has caught up to you."
"More pressing situations are at hand, brother," Tobirama said in a serious tone. "It appears we have been resurrected... Is this the Reanimation...?"
"Yes," Orochimaru grinned madly. He placed seals on the backs of the brothers. "Annihilate the Konoha ninja."
"Even in the future, there is war and fighting..." Hashirama sighed, as he started to black out. His eyes lost their pupils, and the founder of the Leaf faced his newly-acquired opponents.
"Alright, listen up." Kakashi said to his fellow Jonin. "Guy and I will take the Nidaime. Itachi and Asuma, handle the Shodaime. Go!"
Itachi nodded. "Very well." He unsheathed a katana, and leaped towards Hashirama.
The First frowned, dodging a series of slashes and thrusts. He raised his arm.
"Wood Style: Giant Forest Jutsu!" The arm turned into wood, and it extended towards Itachi to push him away. The Sharingan wielder jumped into the air to avoid it, and Asuma crashed into the battle, racing on the wood arm before jumping into the air and giving the Shodaime a kick to the face.
"So this is the secret Wood Style jutsu developed by the First..." Asuma remarked, chakra blades in hand. "I'm glad I got to witness it."
Itachi stared at the former Hokage as he got up. The Wood Style user looked him in the eye.
"Tsukuyomi."
Meanwhile, Guy was charging towards Tobirama, and launched a fist at the Second.
Tobirama ducked. "Water Style: Liquid Bullet." He opened his mouth, and shot a blast of water at Guy, sending him toppling back. Kakashi helped Guy to his feet, and the two rivals attacked.
Kakashi's Sharingan began spinning. "Water Style: Liquid Bullet."
Tobirama's eyes narrowed. "Water Style: Liquid Bullet."
Both water bullets collided and exploded into temporary rainfall.
However, Tobirama had no time to recover, with Guy reappearing in front of him. Tobirama backed away, but Guy had already given him a strong punch to the face.
"Urgh!" Tobirama crashed onto the ground. As Guy charged at him, the Nidaime got up quickly. "Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!"
Guy was blown back by the attack, with a water dragon slamming itself into his gut.
"To be able to use Water Style techniques in a battlefield without water..." Kakashi muttered. "The Nidaime, indeed."
"This Hokage burns with youthfulness!" Guy remarked, getting up. He jumped into the air, landing a kick on Tobirama's chest to knock him back.
Seeing an opening, Kakashi quickly formed hand seals. Lightning chakra appeared in his hand.
"Chidori!"
Kakashi slammed his hand through Tobirama's abdomen.
"Apologies... Nidaime-sama."
Guy straightened himself, as Tobirama collapsed in a pile of dust. Kakashi nodded, satisfied and ready to join Itachi and Asuma to fight the Shodaime. However, the remains of the reincarnated Tobirama joined together again.
Kakashi frowned as the form of Tobirama reappeared once more.
Hiruzen glanced back and forth at his village's shinobi attempting to subdue the two Kages.
"You don't have time to be dawdling, old man!"
Hiruzen turned, swinging his staff to counter Orochimaru's blade.
Orochimaru smirked, licking his lips.
The staff transformed into a giant monkey.
"I need your help, old friend." Hiruzen informed his personal summon, smiling at the monkey king.
"Bah. Orochimaru." Enma glared at the Sannin. "You should have killed him when you had the chance."
"That's what I'm going to do now," the old Hokage replied. "Let's go."
Orochimaru swung his sword, grinning. He then raised his arm. "Multiple Striking Shadow Snakes!"
Snakes were launched towards the Sandaime. Hiruzen nodded towards Enma.
"Adamantine Nyoi Prison!" Enma reverted back into his staff form, and cloned himself. The multiple staffs acted as a shield from the snakes. As the creatures returned to Orochimaru, Enma shifted back to his monkey form and Hiruzen charged forward.
"Ninja Art: Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
"Summoning Jutsu..." Orochimaru slammed his palm onto the ground, and two giant snakes appeared to defend the Snake Sannin from the shuriken barrage.
Hiruzen glared at his former pupil in disgust as the snakes collapsed, dead.
"I will kill you today!" He declared.
"Ah..." Orochimaru licked his lips again. "... but the question is, can you?"
In an instant, the snake-like man was behind Hiruzen. Unfazed, the Hokage ducked as Orochimaru's blade swung over him. Enma leaped onto Orochimaru with a roar, knocking him back with a mighty punch.
Twisting his body in mid-air, Orochimaru landed on his feet. "That was a harsh punch, Enma."
"I'll be giving you harder blows soon!" Enma growled, and attacked Orochimaru once more.
Hiruzen watched on as Enma engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Orochimaru, and turned to watch his former teachers. Even after death, Hashirama and Tobirama were still as skilled as before.
Do I have to use the Reaper Death Seal? Hiruzen thought. Well... it's time for the village to choose a Fifth anyway.
"Did you get him?"
Itachi frowned. "No. He's unaffected."
"Maybe your genjutsu won't work on the dead." Asuma charged up towards the passive-looking Hashirama, and flung one of his chakra blades towards the Wood Style user.
Hashirama made no attempt to dodge the weapon, simply holding up his hand. The blade stabbed into the palm of the First, but the long-haired man seemed unaffected, only wincing, before simply pulling it out and dropping it.
Asuma, getting close enough, swung his remaining blade at the Senju man. Hashirama ducked, and tackled Asuma to the ground.
Itachi's eyes widened in alarm as Hashirama's right hand turned into a sharp sword of wood. He quickly jumped into the fray, knocking the Shodaime off his colleague. Asuma smiled and nodded in thanks.
"Amaterasu!"
Itachi's right eye fired black flames towards Hashirama.
"Even the Shodaime-sama won't be able to withstand something like that..." Asuma remarked, wiping off the sweat forming on his cheek.
The black flames burned around the body of the First Hokage, and Itachi stepped back, satisfied with his work as Hashirama collapsed and turned into dust.
Suddenly, the dust came together and reformed as Hashirama once more.
Asuma's jaw hung open, while Itachi placed a palm over his bleeding eye.
"Secret Wood Style Jutsu: Deep Forest Creation!" Hashirama roared. Instantly, trees sprung up around Itachi and Asuma and wrapped around them, trapping them both.
"Damnit!" Asuma cursed. He couldn't even struggle. The strength of the trees were tremendous.
"Wood Style: Wood Clone Jutsu."
A Wood Clone appeared beside Hashirama. The original descended upon Itachi, while the clone attacked Asuma. Both Hashiramas' right arms turned into a blade of wood.
Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan began to turn.
Asuma found the trees around him and Itachi had disappeared, and when the smoker looked up, he was amazed to see the Shodaime wrapped tightly in his own trees.
"The ability of the Sharingan has never ceased to amaze me," Hashirama remarked, as he deactivated his own jutsu to release himself. He raised his hand, and countless wooden spikes poked out of his palm. "Wood Style: Cutting Sprigs Jutsu."
Itachi got out his katana, while Asuma dug into his pocket to withdraw his last chakra blade. Every spike that came close were brushed away as the two Leaf Jonin fought off the small blades.
"You are all very strong," said Hashirama. "It is reassuring to know that Konoha still continues to produce fine shinobi."
"You flatter me, Shodaime-sama." Itachi replied, sheathing his katana.
"Wood Style: Tree Bind Eternal Burial!"
Itachi found himself caught within a tree. He struggled, but his body was completely paralyzed. Only his head stuck out of the tree.
"Itachi-san!" Asuma yelled.
"I'm sorry," Hashirama said sadly. "But you're going to die." He did a hand seal, and the tree surrounding Itachi was forcefully minimized, crushing the Uchiha's body.
Asuma backed away in horror.
A moment later, the head of Hashirama was detached. His limp body collapsed, and both the head and body turned to dust.
"Itachi-san," Asuma said in surprise. He used the Substitution Jutsu just in time...
Keeping his bloodied katana, Itachi smiled at Asuma and nodded. Then he turned, and frowned as the dust came together again. Hashirama stood there, looking finer than a feather.
"It appears that those summoned back to the living world through Reanimation are unable to die," Itachi said calmly.
Hashirama nodded grimly. "Yes, unfortunately. You will have to force the user of this to do the required hand seals to cancel the technique." His hands flew into a hand seal against his will. "Wood Style: Cutting Sprigs Jutsu!"
More wooden spikes appeared on Hashirama's palm.
"Damn, that attack again." Asuma got his chakra blade.
"I've got an idea," Hashirama said quickly, as he felt his palm starting to move. With all his might, he resisted the control, and found that it worked, with his arm staying still. "You," he nodded towards Asuma. "Keep me busy."
Asuma looked stunned, but nodded.
"And the Uchiha," the First looked towards Itachi. "Go for the user of this technique. When you see an opening, use a genjutsu to make him use the following hand seals. Rat. Ox. Monkey. Tiger. Dragon. Boar..."
The Wood Style user's palm shot up, and fired his wood spikes.
Itachi fought off the missiles with his katana. "Anything else?"
"He needs to shout 'release' after he does the hand seals. That'll release the jutsu."
"I've got it." Itachi fought off the last of the wood spikes. "I'll leave this up to you, Asuma-san."
Asuma nodded, and charged towards Hashirama.
"Those summoned by the Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation cannot be killed." Tobirama spoke, as he felt his body move towards Kakashi.
"I knew it..." Kakashi sighed, whipping out a kunai and infusing it with Lightning Style chakra. He swung the short blade at Tobirama, who backed away and launched a kick into the masked ninja's face.
Kakashi grabbed Tobirama's leg and knocked the Nidaime back with a punch, before flinging his kunai. It piered through the body of Tobirama.
Tobirama grunted in pain, and pulled out the kunai.
"You, who has the Sharingan..." Tobirama tossed the kunai away. "You don't seem to be an Uchiha."
"No," admitted Kakashi, not exactly wanting to go into details.
"Water Style: Explosive Bite of the Water Dragon!"
A whirlpool of water appeared around Tobirama's palm.
"What youthful technique is this?" Guy questioned.
From the whirlpool, water bullets were fired.
"Guy, watch out!" Kakashi called. His self-proclaimed youthful rival attempted to counter the water bullets with his fists, but only ended up getting knocked back with bloodied hands.
The whirlpool then transformed into a water dragon that lunged itself towards Kakashi.
Thinking quickly, the Copy Ninja performed a few hand seals.
Lightning chakra appeared in his hand once more, but this time, the chakra was more concentrated and looked deadlier.
"Raikiri!"
Kakashi slammed his hand into the water dragon, and there was a burst of light. Guy watched in awe as the water dragon was absorbed into Kakashi's Lightning chakra.
Tobirama had a look of interest on his face as the massive amount of chakra in Kakashi's hand now took the form of a real lightning sword.
"The Raikiri, indeed," the Water Style user commented.
Kakashi sped past the Nidaime.
Guy shook his head in disbelief. "My eternally youthful rival missed!"
Stopping in his tracks, Kakashi swept his hand backwards, and the lightning blade slammed into Tobirama's back.
Tobirama shrieked in pain.
"I-Incredible... You used my Water Style technique to power up your Lightning Style one and utilized it so greatly..."
The blade of chakra disappeared, only leaving a massive hole in Tobirama's back. He collapsed, disappearing into dust. As Kakashi expected, the dust reformed back into the form of Tobirama.
"Rat. Ox. Monkey. Tiger. Dragon. Boar, and then shouting 'release'..." Tobirama said grimly. "... if the user of this Reanimation technique does this, it'll cancel out the jutsu. I think if you manage to use your Sharingan to manipulate him, it'll be a piece of cake."
"I will keep our youthful Nidaime occupied with my Flames of Youth!" Guy declared. "Kakashi, you go on ahead with Orochimaru!"
Kakashi nodded. "Thanks, Guy." He edged away from the battle.
"Now, Nidaime-sama, we fight! Let our Flames of Youth burn!" Guy positioned himself into the stance of the Strong Fist.
Tobirama raised an eyebrow at this particular shinobi, as he too got into a fighting stance against his will.
Kankuro leaned against the tree. Gaara and Temari were both beside him.
"I'm sorry for putting you two through all this trouble," the youngest of the Sabaku sighed. "If I hadn't got carried away in my battle with Naruto Uzumaki..."
"It's what siblings are for, Gaara," Temari smiled, putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
Gaara grinned, and turned to Kankuro. "Kankuro, how are you feeling?"
"Better, since we've taken a rest," the puppeteer lied. He wasn't feeling too good. Having a Chidori slam into your body didn't exactly make you feel too well. "Let's go on."
"Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu."
Gaara gasped as he felt himself being pulled into the ground.
Temari and Kankuro were instantly on the alert.
A few shuriken shot towards Temari, and she brushed them away with her fan.
Sakura burst into sight from underground. Neji made his appearance known, standing on a tree branch with his arms folded and staring down at the Sabaku Siblings. Naruto and Sasuke walked out from the bushes.
A single word passed through Temari's mind.
Shit...
And that's it for today. Hopefully everyone liked the chapter and no one was bothered by the constant scene changes. In the next chapter - Itachi and Kakashi must team up to stop Orochimaru's technique. Meanwhile, Neji & Team 7 engage the Sabaku Siblings in battle. Until next time!