A/N: Okay, I'm a little late, but this is a bigger chapter. Alright, I am officially declaring this fic the winner. I'm not surprised, this is the one I've put the most work into it anyway, and rereading the other two, it shows. Oh and just to be clear I do not now or will I ever own Naruto. On a side note, does anyone know what the plural of kunai is? By the way, I'm looking for a beta currently, if your interested, send me a pm.
And remember kids, if an evil snake man offers power you say no, he only wants you for your body.
Ino didn't know what to think. The ninja life wasn't supposed to start this way, it wasn't supposed to be this hard this quick. Most of her home had been destroyed, at least three fourths, probably more of the populace was dead, including her own mother.
That was where she found herself now, standing at the feet of dead mother. She needed be strong, she needed to leave, go back to Shikamaru and Chouji, but she just couldn't. She was too weak, all she could do was stand there and cry. At least no one was around to see how weak she was though.
Then she felt a hand land on her shoulder. She would have attacked, if she hadn't sensed the massive chakra reserves of her former classmate. Naruto was probably the last person she wanted to see now, she barley knew him, and almost all of the previous interactions they had were negative. Not to metion he was annoying, very annoying.
As if proving her point, Naruto walked in front of her, blocking her mothers body from view. She wanted to yell at him to move, or hit him, or just do anything other than cry, but she couldn't even bring herself to lift her head.
Then he did something that she never would have expected. He wrapped his arms tightly around her and pulled her into a hug. To say Ino was confused would be an extreme understatement. She didn't want to be hugged...or maybe she did, she wasn't really sure at this point. All she knew was that Naruto was trying to comfort her and that was something she was grateful for. She just wished it was someone other than Naruto. But she was still grateful nonetheless.
She wanted to thank him, but she couldn't find the words, she couldn't really say anything long winded between her sobs anyway. still she attempted a thank you anyway "Naruto-baka," she started weakly...'wait, why did I call him that? What the hell is wrong with me? He was just trying to help me, and I insulted him? Kami he must think I'm a terrible person.'
She expected him to yell at her, or at least do something other than keep comforting her, but he didn't. No, he only stood there, holding her, allowing her to pour all of her emotions out. The anger at herself and to a lesser extent her father for not being there to protect her mother. The sadness from the loss of well...everything.
Ino suddenly felt her feet leave the ground and her vision blurred as she and Naruto spun around partially. She was going to yell at the blond, but then she saw why he had done what he had done.
Six kunai impaled themselves into the orange clad back of the Uzumaki. Blood flew through the air and splattered onto the already crimson stained walls and floor of the flower shop. Naruto had saved her life, the class dobe had saved her.
Out of instinct, Ino grabbed a hold of Naruto, hoisting one of his arms over her shoulders. She had no idea what to do at this point. Should she take out the kunai and try to patch up his wounds herself? 'Damn it, why doesn't the academy teach medical ninjutsu?' Ino thought angrily.
She didn't really have time to contemplate that though, seeing as there was an enemy incoming very quickly. Not to mention that her friend(?) was currently grunting in pain and going in an out of consciousness while she was holding him upright.
The approaching enemy's chakra was by far the strongest she had ever felt, the air actually seemed to get thicker as he approached them. It was unreal. Ino fought to catch her breath when he landed at the entrance of the flower shop. This man was overwhelmingly powerful.
The man was fair-skinned, a stark contrast to his long spiky black hair tied into a ponytail. His most striking feature however, was his red sharingan eyes. He moved swiftly towards the blond duo, his white robes fluttering in the breeze.
Ino knew fighting this man was suicide, he would kill her before she could hope to hit him. But she wouldn't go down without at least trying to fight.
The Yamanaka slowly and carefully set Naruto onto the ground before drawing a kunai and setting herself in a defensive stance in front of the blond jinchuuriki. She would probably die quickly, but she would defend her comrade to the death. That was the konoha way.
The man stopped his advance seeing Ino stand protectively over the fallen blond kid. It genuinely surprised him. He had been purposefully projecting his chakra and killing intent towards the girl, he expected her to run. He had actually been hoping she would run, he took no pleasure in killing children.
"My name is Uchiha Izuna, and you have earned my respect. It is a commendable thing, protecting your friend at the cost of your own life."
Ino wasn't stupid, the man may have said he respected her, but he also said he intended to kill her. She was sure he could make good on his hidden threat, but maybe if she could keep him talking she could come with a plan to save her and Naruto.
"D-did you kill my mom?" It was hard to say, but she really wanted to know the answer.
The man seemed taken back for a moment, "Was your mother a shinobi?" Ino shook her head no. "Then it wasn't me. I didn't kill anyone that wasn't a Konoha shinobi. It was most likely one of my brothers more sadistic allies...if it makes you feel any better I will kill them after they've outlived their usefulness."
Ino stood there, taking in the information. Then in what she hopped was surprise move threw her kunai directly at the head of the Uchiha. A move like that might have worked on a genin or maybe even a chuunin, as long as they weren't an Uchiha that is.
Izuna smirked as he effortlessly plucked the kunai from the air. "That was smart, trying to catch me off guard like that...I am sorry about this." In an instant the man was gone.
Ino's eyes widened when the man blurred in front of her, his hand wrapped around her throat tightly as he slammed her against the wall of the flower shop. His arm strained as he gripped the young girl's throat tighter and tighter, intent on strangling her.
Ino could feel her life slipping away from her. She had always thought it was stupid when people would talk about their life flashing before their eyes, she thought it was myth, but here she was, revisiting all her favorite childhood memories.
Her consciousness was fading, the world around her was blurry. Izuna was saying something, but she couldn't make out what. Just when she was about to accept her fate, she saw a blurry orange blob slowly rise.
For some reason Naruto's voice was easier for her to understand, "Drop her...NOW!"
Ino's senses were flooded with a malicious chakra. It terrified her, more than the thought of dieing ever did. This chakra, It promised death, in the most painful way possible.
"Jinchuuriki...unexpected." Izuna allowed a smirk to cross his face. 'This might actually be fun...' He allowed the Yamanaka princess to fall and turned to face Naruto.
Naruto wasted no time, in a burst of speed the jinchuuriki launched himself at the Uchiha. Izuna casually sidestepped the bull rush by the young blond. The kid may have been fast, but to an Uchiha of Izuna's caliber, he might as well had been moving in slow motion.
Naruto, however angry he was, wasn't attempting to damage Izuna, he just wanted to get the Uchiha away from Ino. His priority was to get her to safety. Naruto wordlessly pulled Ino up and tossed her over his shoulder, and dashed out the back door of the Yamanaka Flower Shop.
It took about ten seconds for Ino to realize she could breathe again, and by then she was being carried lack a sack of potatoes at high speed across the rooftops of Konoha. She wanted to tell Naruto to set her down, but she knew that she couldn't run nearly this fast by her self.
Then she felt Izuna's chakra getting closer to them, "Naruto he's catching up to us!" A couple of seconds after that Izuna was close enough for her to see him. "Go faster Naruto-baka!" 'Damn it stop calling him that Ino.' Ino mentally scolded.
"I'm Trying Ino-chan!" Naruto was trying to force as much of the Kyuubi chakra out that he could, but the fox kept a damn tight hold on his chakra.
Ino chose to ignore the "Ino-chan" comment for the moment, reminding her self that it wasn't the time to start an argument. Izuna was getting closer by the second, and if she didn't think of something soon he would kill them.
True to Ino's line of thought, Izuna was currently contemplating the best way to kill them with little to no effort. He would need to get back and help kill the hokage soon, best not to expend to much energy on children.
'I could probably kill the girl with a kunai now...' Izuna thought. Part of him wanted to let them go, he couldn't shake the thought that they were just children, but he couldn't just let them go. They had saw him, they knew who he was, they would be vengeful, and vengeance was powerful motivator. With his mind made up, Izuna threw a kunai at the head of the Yamanaka girl.
Ino saw the kunai coming, but she couldn't do anything about it from her current position. Luckily though, she wouldn't have to. A senbon hit the kunai, deflecting it away from the girl, and Ino wasn't going question it, maybe kami just loved her.
Izuna watched impassively as his kunai fell harmlessly to the ground. That didn't surprise him, he saw the man coming a mile away. He was surprised however when a large flock of crows enveloped his vision. Normally it would be a minor annoyance, if it hadn't been for the man concealing himself inside the crows with a poisoned katana.
Namiashi Raidou lashed out with his katana in a flurry of swipes from the cover of the crows. Izuna dodged each and every strike expertly, even with his vision blocked.
'I have to destroy the crows quickly, or this guy might become a problem.' Izuna thought while he formed the horse seal "Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!" The Uchiha expelled a gigantic wall of fire from his mouth, propelling himself up into the sky as he did so.
Izuna watched a small satisfied smile as the crows were turned to ash, and with any luck, so was the guy trying stab a katana through his skull.
The jutsu had done major damage to the village, several buildings had been destroyed almost instantly and many more had been set ablaze, but he didn't see the body of the man with the katana...that worried him slightly. For a good reason too, apparently. Being as that he was behind Izuna with his katana ready to pierce his heart.
In mid air Raidou drove his katana through the chest of Izuna. A spray of blood shot from Izuna's chest and back, soaking Raidou in the crimson liquid. The scarred special jonin planted both feet firmly on the back of the Uchiha, kicking off him and doing a back flip to land safely on a nearby rooftop while Izuna plummeted into the fiery streets below. At least that was supposed to happen.
Instead, just before the fire could touch him, Izuna's body began rapidly decomposing, until it turned to dust. Raidou watched with slight confusion...'Genjutsu!' He realized just a fraction of a second too late. Luckily for him, he had comrades, and that was the only thing that saved him from getting a skull shattering kick to the back to of his head.
Genma had managed to block the kick thrown by the Uchiha at the last second. "You must be getting old Raidou, they say the mind is the first thing to go." Genma said with a slight chuckle. Sure it wasn't very professional, but it tended to make enemy's underestimate him if they thought he wasn't being serious.
"Now isn't the time for jokes, Genma." The scarred man spoke with slight annoyance. "Where's Aoba?"
"Chasing the kids, we're on our own." Genma said.
"Are you two done yet? I need to kill you and get back to help Madara." Izuna sounded annoyed by the duo. Unlike with Naruto and Ino, Izuna had no qualms about killing these two. He did however, have a small bit of respect for the one chewing on the senbon for blocking his kick so easily, so he was willing to let them finish their conversation before he killed them, that was the polite thing to do after all.
(BREAK)
"Naruto...you can put me down now...he stopped chasing us like two minuets ago." Ino said, a little uncomfortable by how long Naruto had been holding her. Not to mention his hand placement was annoyingly close to her butt.
Naruto came to a stop "sorry, Ino-chan." The jinchuuriki said, throwing his hand behind his head sheepishly while Ino slid off of his shoulder.
"Stop calling me that. Only my daddy and Sasuke-kun get to call me Ino-chan." Ino said sounding a little angry.
"When has Sasuke ever called you 'Ino-chan'?" Naruto asked.
"Just because he doesn't right now doesn't mean he isn't allowed to!" Ino's anger was now clearly evident from the harshness in her tone.
"Geez, Ino-chan, don't get all pissy about it.
"I can act however I want, you asshole!"
"Good god, what did I do to you?"
"Well let's see, You always insult Sasuke-kun, you chase after billboard brow, your so freaking loud all the time, should I continue? Because I can. You constantly shout about becoming hokage and your not even that good of a shinobi-"
"I was good enough to save your ass!"
Ino ignored him "and your an annoying pervert, and-"
"If I pick you up again will you stop talking?"
"You just want to get your hand on my ass again don't you, you perv." Naruto's faced turned a deep crimson at Ino's statement.
He was just now realizing that the entire time he had been carrying her that his hand been resting on her buttocks. "N-no, of course not, I'm not a pervert." The blush and the slight trickle of blood leaking from Naruto's noes seemed to contradict what he was saying.
Ino would have continued the argument if she hadn't sensed an incoming chakra source. "Naruto, someone's coming... he has a strong chakra signature...maybe even more chakra than the hokage."
'Stronger than jiji? Son of a bitch! Why the hell can't I catch a break for once huh? Is that really too much to ask. "Run, go to Sakura's apartment. Sasuke is there, he can protect you till Kakashi-sensei your sensei find you." He wasn't as delusional as he had once been, someone as strong as jiji would kill him pretty quickly, unless he could use the Kyuubi chakra again...then maybe he could hold them off long enough for Ino to get to safety.
Ino looked offended, "I'm a kunoichi, I can protect myself and I can help you fight!" Ino all but yelled at the blond jinchuuriki. It was annoying that the dobe wanted to protect her, she was a better shinobi than he was. Plus this guy was strong, possibly stronger than the hokage, she wasn't just going to let him die protecting her from someone like that. "We should just run, we can go to Sakura's apartment and hide out."
"We'll be leading a kage level shinobi to them that way...in wave...well I almost got us all killed and I won't do that again. You can run, I'll hold him long enough to where he might not be able to find you.
"Naruto, your annoying, but I won't just leave you to die!" Ino protested.
"You have people that care about you, that depend on you...I don't have anyone like that." Naruto said with a small sad smile. 'She needs to run. With that chakra I feel so powerful, but I get so angry...I might accidentally hurt her.' Naruto thought with a shudder, they may not have been the best of friends, but he would never hurt a comrade.
Ino didn't really know how to reply to that. She hadn't ever really thought about how alone Naruto had been. That did explain why he wasn't as saddened as she was though. He didn't really have anyone to lose. "It's too late now, he will be here soon." Ino really wasn't sure how far away he was, but she had bluffed far better shinobi than Naruto. Now wasn't the time to leave him to die. Besides, she owed him, he had saved her life twice now.
"Fucking brats? That's who Izuna sent me after? FUCKING BRATS!?" A loud yell ripped through the air. The voice came form a man of average height with slicked back silver hair and distinctive purple eyes. "Jashin-sama won't be satisfied by just two brats, I promised him a glorious slaughter! And all I got to kill were the fucking academy teachers and more damn brats!. Well maybe I'll just kill him after he gets done with those other guys huh? See how that Asshole likes that." The man shouted into the air with anger.
"Ino, run now!" Naruto yelled, his voice suddenly becoming more feral
Ino suddenly felt that horrible chakra coming from her fellow blond again. It was awful, and there was more of it this time. The vile red chakra had enveloped Naruto, it even looked like it was boiling! And he had ears and a tail, a freaking tail of chakra.
'What the hell is going on with you, Naruto? You seem so terrifying like that...' The Yamanaka princess contemplated her fellow blond's strange chakra.
the red tail of chakra whipped around violently behind the jinchuuriki as he bared his elongated canines at the jashinist. Then without warning he launched himself at the man intent on tearing his throat out with his clawed hand.
Hidan's face took on an expression of shock, then one of pure joy. He leaned back, letting the jinchuuriki's nails scrape his neck, drawing a slight bit of blood. "You're a fucking jinchuuriki...Leader will want me to take you alive. I will have to pray for forgiveness. At least I can still torture the girl righ-ugh!" Hidan was thrown back by a vicious kick thrown by the jinchuuriki.
"YOU WON'T FUCKING TOUCH HER!" Another tail of chakra erupted from Naruto, his rage building up, apparently voluntarily drawing on the Kyuubi's chakra left an opening for the demon to push more of the fowl chakra into his system.
Hidan smirked "I'm gonna enjoy your pain so fucking much!" He charged the blond with a large insane smile on his face, leaping into the air, he poised his scythe to cut into the blond.
Naruto however, would have none of that, he jumped back, and let loose an enraged chakra fueled roar. Naruto watched with a satisfied smirk as Hidan was blown back onto the ground with a thud.
The jashinist stood up and began cursing indigently "What the hell was that? Did your roar knock me down? You're one weird little asshole aren't ya? I just can't wait to feel your pain!" Naruto replied with another chakra enhanced roar.
Ino was horrified by the Kyuubi influenced Naruto, but she wasn't just going to let him fight alone. She threw several kunai at vital points on Hidan, hoping that he was too focused on Naruto to notice them coming and with any luck, they would will him. Of course, that would have been way too easy.
Hidan was a loud foul mouthed asshole, but he wasn't blind, he had seen the attack coming a mile away, and he could have deflected it easily enough if it hadn't aligned so perfectly with a second chakra enhanced roar. The sudden burst of wind propelled the kunai faster than anything but sharingan eyes could follow. Hidan, quickly realizing he wouldn't be able dodge, focused chakra to his feet to firmly plant his feet to the ground.
The kunai didn't just hit there mark, they punched straight through. Blood sprayed from the significant wounds, covering the ground in the liquid. Each kunai hit a major vital organ, heart, lung liver...etc.
Ino was both excited and horrified. She was happy that he had been killed, but horrified because she had never killed anyone before, and this one happened to be rather brutal. Of course it was nothing compared to what she had already seen today, the mass murder of innocents tended to overpower the killing of one psychotic man.
Suddenly the man let out a cackle "YOU LITTLE FUCKING BITCH! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BAD THAT HURT?"
Ino's previously excited face twisted into one of shock 'he's still alive!?'
Hidan wasn't just angry, he was way beyond angry. These two brats had manged to land hits on him, they caused him pain, that wasn't how this worked, they were supposed to share his pain. "Die you little bitch!" Hidan yelled as he threw his scythe at the young Yamanaka.
Ino swiftly attempted a dodge. She was fast for such a fresh genin, but not nearly fast enough to completely dodge the tri-bladed scythe. The longest blade managed to pierce her left thigh as she retreated. Ino let out a cry of pain and dropped to one knee, while fighting back tears from the pain.
Hidan licked his lips when he saw the blood splash onto his scythe. "Ha. How does that feel bitch?" He jerked his arms, forcefully pulling the scythe out of the young girl's leg. Ino let out a shriek of pain, even louder than the last.
The jashinist smiled with glee. 'Serves that little cunt right.'
Naruto saw Ino get hit, he saw her blood...he saw that man hurt his comrade...his friend...Naruto was suddenly overcome with more rage than ever before. A third tail of chakra erupted from behind Naruto. Naruto began to feel his instincts start to take over, like the chakra knew what he was supposed to do. He stood and outstretched his arms, causing the chakra to extend out from his hands in the shape of clawed hands.
They twisted extremely fast through the air and latched onto Hidan, pinning him to the wall violently, almost slamming him threw it. Another chakra arm outstretched from the right one. This one grabbed a hold of the scythe and threw it, pulling it from Hidan's hand, sending it whirling out of sight.
"Hey! I spent years making that!" Hidan yelled out at the angry jinchuuriki. He make that little asshole regret that.
Another arm grew out from the two holding him against the wall, it slammed it's clawed hand onto the throat of the zealot. Clinching tightly, trying desperately to crush his throat. Hidan let out a low gurgle noise, making the Demon influenced Naruto smirk widely. Finally after several seconds, Hidan's neck gave under the pressure. His head crooked at an awkward angle as a crack echoed out.
Naruto's chakra arms let Hidan fall to the ground. The beast-like boy dropped back to all fours, staring at his prey, waiting for conformation he was dead.
Hidan, however, was Immortal, simply breaking his neck wouldn't kill him. "You fucking brat! YOU BROKE MY FUCKING NECK! Fuck leader, I'm sacrificing you to Jashin-sama!" The jashinist grabbed his own head and began twisting it violently until his neck popped back into place. His actual windpipe was still crushed though, not to mention the chakra burns everywhere the hands had touched him.
Naruto wasn't willing to give his opponent any time to recover. Before Hidan could even stand, a chakra fist impacted his head, throwing him back into the wall again. The fist drew back again, only this time Hidan knew it was coming. He skillfully ducked under the demonic chakra and began in a mad sprint towards the jinchuuriki. Deciding he was close enough to Naruto, Hidan pulled a retractable spear from his cloak and flipped into the air.
Hidan expertly positioned himself in Naruto's blind spot and with great joy he stabbed his spear through the sternum of the blond jinchuuriki. Naruto let out a horrible roar of pain as he dropped to the ground. Blood dripped from the jinchuuriki's new wound. He tried to stand, but Hidan pushed harder with his spear, forcing Naruto to the ground again.
"How do you like that motherfucker! Feels good don't it." The zealot yelled at his downed opponent. "Now i'm gonna sacrifice you to Jashin-sama, then your little bitch of a girlfriend, then I will hunt down everyone you care about and send them to Jashin-sama. It will be so much fucking fun to kill everyone you love!"
Naruto suddenly found his rage back tenfold so much of the demonic chakra was being pumped into his system he could hardly see straight. Then he felt something in him snap, as if a dam had busted open. It was exhilarating, so much strength...he had to use it...he had to kill...EVERYTHING!
Naruto's chakra cloak exploded with power, blowing Hidan away from him and throwing the spear violently from the wound as it healed. Naruto stood, the crimson chakra spinning wildly around him as he did so. His ears elongated, and another tail was slowly growing behind him. Soon Naruto began lose all human characteristics as the chakra deepened in color. Finally the fourth tail fully manifested and Naruto's version two form was complete.
Hidan smiled as he stood, shrugging off the major burns from Naruto's chakra. "Come and get some you fucking freak!" the jashinist yelled out in a belligerent manner. He would later regret those words.
The Kyuubified Naruto let loose a roar and slammed his arms onto the ground. "What the fuck is that supposed to do?" Hidan yelled at the beast. Then he got his answer as two giant chakra arms burst from the ground and gabbed a hold of the zealot, digging his claws deeply into Him.
"LET ME GO YOU MOTHERFUCKING BITCH" Hidan yelled in vain at the jinchuuriki. The beast seemed to smile at his protesting. With the arms holding Hidan in place there was nothing to stop the Kyuubified Naruto from going for his strongest attack in this form. He wanted nothing more than to destroy the zealot, he desired it from the bottom of his soul.
The beast stood on two legs and began to shake violently, expelling small black and white balls of chakra. Hundreds of them filled the air and began floating about peacefully. The four tailed beast suddenly opened its mouth, causing the floating orbs to start combining into a ball.
At that point, Hidan was starting to panic he had heard of the Tailed Beast Ball, he wasn't sure if he could survive being hit by it. Sure he was supposed to be immortal, and he had survived having his head cut off three times before now, but this thing could annihilate him. He was sure he couldn't survive total disintegration.
He began to struggle, trying his best to free himself from the grasp of the chakra constructs. "Let me go Motherfucker! You can't kill me, I am an immortal I am-" Hidan shut his mouth for the first time since the battle began when the ball condensed from the size of a basketball to that of baseball. Then the beast swallowed the ball, causing the ground to crack and break under him.
Hidan remained silent, he couldn't think of anything to say, for the first time since the Jashin cult had found him as a small child, he was at a loss for words. 'Am I gonna die?' Hidan thought with worry. He had never faced a legitimate threat of death before, he was supposed to be able to survive anything.
As if answering his unspoken question Naruto swelled larger and larger. Steam began leaking from his mouth until he released a consecrated beam of energy tearing up the landscape and everything else in its way until it hit Hidan.
The beam overtook Hidan's entire body along with everything behind him for a good half a mile. Dust and various other debris filled the atmosphere. Smoke rose high into the sky, high enough for people to see for miles.
When the dust and smoke finally cleared, nothing was left but dirt and ash. The landscape had been utterly destroyed. All the buildings, the roads everything the beam had touched was turned to rubble, And all that was left of Hidan was his ribcage and partial chest cavity held in the hands of the chakra arms. The kyuubified Naruto roared loudly, celebrating his own victory over the enemy.
(BREAK:Ino's POV)
Ino watched in horror as someone she thought she knew became a monster, his chakra was so evil. It shook her to her very core. If It hadn't been for the gaping cut in her leg she would have ran for cover. She didn't think Naruto would hurt her, but she wasn't willing to bet on it at this point. That chakra made him seem like an animal.
Ino's eyes widened when she was suddenly but gently lifted up into the arms of a man she had known for a good portion of her life. Yamashiro Aoba, her fathers only surviving student from his short stint as jonin instructor.
With out saying a word he leapt onto a large building. "What are you doing, go help him!" Ino yelled at special jonin as he sat her onto the rooftop.
"Ino-san, I fear Naruto-san isn't in control of himself, I have to get you out of here." Aoba tried to explain himself, but it was plain to tell he was scared of Naruto.
"No, I am not leaving that baka behind." Ino said defiantly. Sure he was scary right now, but he had saved her life three times now, she wouldn't just leave him.
"Ino-san, I am afraid you don't understand, he isn't himself. It isn't safe to be around him." Aoba argued.
"I can sense his chakra, I know he isn't himself! But he saved my life three times today by using that chakra!" Ino yelled at the man.
"Ino-san that chakra is evil! It could take over his mind! He could kill you!" Aoba yelled at the stubborn girl. He couldn't understand why she would stay, he wasn't even a sensor and he could tell how foul that chakra was.
"He's right. Not about it taking over his mind, but it can hurt you." A monotone voice rang out from behind the two. The man placed a ninjato to the throat of Aoba "Don't move or I'll have to kill you and I have killed enough for today. I only wish to talk now." The man removed the ninjato as a show of faith. "Don't turn around until I'm gone...I would wager Naruto-kun is not in control of his actions at this point. Young jinchuuriki rarely access version two state without letting there bijuu have some control. As soon as he kills Hidan, I can block off the bijuu chakra. He will most likely fall into a coma as a side effect however."
Ino opened her mouth to argue with the man but a harsh glare from Aoba shut her up.
"His bijuu should keep him alive until he comes out of it. When I place him in the coma, you will need to take him somewhere safe, there are people that wish to capture the bijuu, and most of them are in this village now."
The man turned his gaze to the floating ball of purple chakra in front of Naruto. "That is a Tailed Beast Ball... Hidan will be dead soon. Go take cover, I will end this."
Aoba wasn't going to test his luck, he quickly picked Ino up again and began retreating.
He didn't even bother looking at the man, he already knew who it was, he would recognize that voice anywhere. He had just had just been talking with Uchiha Itachi.
A/N: Okay, done with this chapter. The next one should officially end the prologue arc. Konoha will be officially declared destroyed.
Preview of whats to come:
The village is gone, there are only twenty-two (give or take) Konoha shinobi left. The land of fire is in extreme military trouble. With every major and minor country wanting to take over the government, what will the newly formed Konoha Mercenary Corps do? What side will they be on?
Find out (provided everything goes as planned) Friday December 27th.