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Chapter 16 – The invasion...
Sasuke finally began to pay attention to his surroundings and saw feathers falling from the sky. "Genjutsu..." he said quietly to himself. He reactivated his Sharingan and saw Gaara surrounded by a golden aura of chakra. He also noticed that the wound on his left side was covered in sand and had stopped bleeding.
"Uchiha Sasuke, your blood will satisfy mother," Gaara yelled manically. The sand began to coalesce only a few meters from Sasuke. Gaara extended his hand and the sand shot towards Sasuke.
Sasuke jumped to the side only to be slammed by the sand and send towards the wall. Sasuke picked himself up and coughed out some blood.
Gaara's face began have an almost gleeful appearance. "Yes, bleed, Uchiha, bleed. Mother will enjoy your blood," he said in a jovial and maniacal voice. The sand began to wrap around his throat and it also wiped the blood still on his chin.
Sasuke's vision began to blur from lack of oxygen. He collected more lightning chakra in his left hand and slammed it down on the arm that had formed from the sand. It immediately fell from the point of the contact with the lightning. He gasped for breath and wearily watched Gaara. "You're a monster," he quietly exclaimed.
"Not yet, but I will be and mother will enjoy feasting upon all of these people," Gaara said happily, as he waved his arm wide to emphasize his point. He began to walk towards Sasuke with a grin that scared him more than Itachi had ever done. He extended his arm and a column of sand headed towards Sasuke.
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Naruto and Shino finished tying up the Suna siblings. Hinata closed their chakra points just to be sure they would stay put. "Okay, let's get down to business," Naruto exclaimed.
"You're loud, but what is your plan?" Shino said with no emotion.
Naruto looked down and saw Gaara and Sasuke fighting. "Well we first need to disable Gaara, while you others take down any enemies. It looks like Oto and Suna are the enemies. You can either kill or incapacitate. I suggest that everyone but Fū and I go and try to find our sensei. She and I will take care of Gaara, especially if Raijin's sensei and father help out, it will be over with quickly," he explained.
"We should then get my parents," Raijin said bashfully.
"So I get to meet your parents? How cute," Nijiko teased. Raijin blushed, but waved the others to follow him, Hinata, Haku, Nijiko, and Shino all followed Raijin out of the balcony.
"It's just you and me," Naruto said happily.
"Won't your girlfriends be jealous?" Fū asked in a playful tone.
Naruto smirked and said, "Only if you're not serious, because if we fool around, they might kill us, instead of the enemies."
Fū giggled and jumped down with Naruto to the stadium floor. He drew his sword on the way down. He swung it in a downward arc, thus deflecting a group of kunai that had been thrown at the two. "Nice technique," she asked, as they touched the ground.
Naruto blushed, but didn't seem to lose concentration. Naruto squinted and sighed. "I'm going to hate myself later, but we need him for now. Wind Scar!" he yelled with a swipe of his sword. This sent a visible condensed air column towards Gaara, it dug a trench in the ground about a half a meter deep. It hit the sand arm that was heading towards Sasuke and cut it in two. The side that now wasn't connected to Gaara fell to the ground.
Gaara and Sasuke turned to Naruto and Fū, Sasuke had a confused look on his face, but Gaara had a look of intense hatred. "You interfere with my getting mother the blood she demands. How dare you?" he asked angrily.
"Sasuke run, this is above your level!" Naruto exclaimed.
Sasuke scowled and replied in a derogatory tone, "Like I would take orders from the likes of you Uzumaki!"
"Then take an order from me. Go find your sensei and follow his orders. I leave him to you Uzumaki-Senju-sama," Genma said with a bow.
Sasuke looked between Naruto and Genma with wonder written all over his face. "Senju, how?" he asked.
"Tsunade-kaasan, adopted me. So get out of here! You heard the jounin!" Naruto yelled, as he deflected sand balls the shape of shuriken with his sword.
Suddenly two Kumo shinobi appeared next to Naruto. "May we be of assistance? Our son told us that you might want some help taking out some Tanuki trash," the blonde female jounin said, while the dark skinned man with glasses and blonde hair nodded, as he rested his hand on the woman's shoulder.
Naruto nodded, but then scowled at Sasuke who began to run at Gaara with yet another 'Chidori'.
"Proctor-san, Sasuke is going to get himself killed. Please remove him before we bring out the big guns if you know what I mean?" Naruto asked in almost a pleading voice. Genma disappeared, only to appear right behind Sasuke and hit him on the neck, thus knocking him out. "Thank you." Genma nodded and disappeared again.
"You only delayed the inevitable. I will kill you all!" Gaara yelled at the other jinchuuriki.
All four raised an eyebrow only to begin to pull out demonic chakra. "You want to play demon... well we can play too, but I figure that you're out tailed by about twenty-eight to one. So does that Tanuki think it can take all of us on?" Naruto asked.
Gaara smile faded for an instant, but then came back in full force, as he yelled, "Die!"
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Sarutobi stood over one of his downed jounin and stood next to Jiraiya. They both watched in awe as three caskets began to rise out of the roof. Sarutobi had been too late to try to stop the caskets, because he and Jiraiya were tending to the jounin. The caskets were labeled with the Roman numerals for one, two and four.
The casket tops fell away from the standing caskets, revealing three of the former Hokages. "Don't you just love this jutsu? I've brought back your former sensei to destroy you and this village," Orochimaru explained. He pulled out three kunai. "With these little trinkets they will become my mindless killing machines.
Jiraiya looked at the Four Hokage with tears in his eyes, but that changed when he saw the Fourth both wink and smirk.
"You look old Hiruzen, what has happened during our absence?" Harishirama asked.
"My disciple has caused many problems, I apologize for him to disturbing your slumber," Sarutobi said in an apologetic tone.
The First looked at Orochimaru and nodded. "I'm sorry, but it looks like we're here to fight you Hiruzen," Harishirama said in a dry apologetic tone.
A voice called from beyond the wall. "You bastard! You bring back my family to destroy what they swore to protect?" Tsunade yelled.
Minato turned to Tsunade and smiled warmly. "It is good to see you again. Was the matter cleared up?" he asked.
Tsunade nodded with teary eyes. "Yes, it's true. Also I did an adoption," she explained.
Minato nodded and turned back to Jiraiya and Sarutobi. "You've not done a good job with my legacy did you? Kushina will be pissed when you join us, Sarutobi-san," he said in an angry tone.
"My, my, aren't we talkative? I want you all to destroy them and then the village," Orochimaru explained.
Minato looked at the kunai and smirked. He slowly pulled out a kunai and began to cut his hand.
"Anxious are we?" Orochimaru asked.
Minato nodded. Orochimaru placed the kunai in the heads of each of the Hokage in order. "Now my pets destroy them," he ordered.
Before the dead Hokages finished rejuvenating, the roof was rocked by a shockwave that traveled from the edge through the rest of the roof. The roof began to collapse and the Sound shinobi holding the barrier began to fall. The barrier fell quickly. Tsunade stood there with her fist at the origination point of the shock wave with her fist touching the roof. "So you thought that you could use my family for your dirty games did you?" she asked angrily.
"Hime, you should know that I would do anything to get even with this village," Orochimaru said.
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Naruto had brought up a wall of wind to protect the group only to have it turn into a wall of blue fire. He turned to see a blushing Nii Yugito. "I thought a hot flame might help us with taking out his sand," she said happily.
Naruto smiled wide at her. All four were now showing an aura and one tail. Naruto nodded, as both he and Yugito brought down the barrier. Gaara looked at the group with a stunned look on his face. "What? Did you think that you're the only jinchuuriki in town?" Naruto asked in a joking tone.
Gaara growled at Naruto only to hear Naruto and Yugito both growl back at him. This surprised Gaara. He began to feel very small against the force of four other jinchuuriki. He felt Shukaku push as much chakra through him as possible. He was now surrounded by an aura of gold, while Naruto was surrounded by a red aura, Yugito a blue aura, Fū by a florescent green aura and finally Kirabi was surrounded by a brown aura. He heard a whimper in his mind when all four produced a second tail and Yugito took on the form of a burning cat.
"So Tankuki, think you can take all of us?" Yugito said in a burly voice that had a playful purr to it.
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As the group stood next to Shizune and the Raikage, the Sound and Sand shinobi began to back off.
"I think you should have kept the cloak on uncle," Raijin said in a dejected tone.
"They should fear the Raikage and it appears that Orochimaru has bitten off more than he can chew," the Raikage said with a smile, while he pointed at the smoldering ruins of the roof that she had gone to.
"Yes, Tsunade-sama does have a problem with leaving things intact," Shizune said with a giggle.
A man appeared behind Shizune only to be split in two by a massive sword. "Sorry to be late, but Anko-hime wanted some extracurricular activities behind one of the pillars," Zabuza explained, much to the embarrassment of Haku. Anko had enough composure to blush and straighten her skirt.
"Please Raikage, if you will follow us we will lead you to the dignitaries shelter," Anko said, but everyone could tell that she really wanted to get into the fight instead of playing nursemaid to a visiting Kage.
The Raikage seemed to notice this and smirked. "I will not leave a fight when it has started. We also have the Lightning Daimyo to protect along with the others. So let's clear this part of the stadium of these annoying pests," he said while he swatted a Sound shinobi into a column.
Zabuza smile became very wide and revealed his shark-like teeth. "As you wish Raikage-sama," he said gleefully.
The group began to move from the bottom of the stands in that section and worked their way to the top killing all that opposed them and guiding those that were awake to a safe exit. Zabuza, Anko and the Raikage were reveling in the carnage. Haku, Hinata, Shizune, Raijin, and Nijiko when compared to the other much more sedate, but just as effective.
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Naruto stood on a scroll and released a torrent of water. This water redirected towards Gaara, who was now covered in sand and looked like a five foot tall tanuuki. Sand flowed at the group of jinchuuriki only to clash with the water. Naruto smirked, as the two items combined. He ran through several hand seals and then said, "Freeze!"
The water and sand turned into a large block of ice. Gaara growled at this and sent more sand at the four. Naruto looked at Yugito who nodded and took a breath. He then breathed out a fireball. Naruto went through several hand seals and then said, "Wind Style: Great breakthrough."
The condensed wind hit the fireball, causing it to both increase in size and speed. It slammed into the column of sand and began to travel down the column. The sand that hit the fireball was immediately turned into glass and pushed to the side. Gaara jumped out of the way only to find Kirabi standing there to slice him with a sword across the chest. Gaara screamed in pain, but jumped to the side since the spot he was at before was still burning.
"You know, yo, yo, that you have nowhere to go?" Kirabi said in a playful tone.
"I will not let my existence be destroyed," Gaara said in rebuttal.
"We're not wanting to kill you, but if you keep this up we will have no choice," Fū said from behind him, just as she hit him into a wall. The wall collapsed along with the first three rows of seat some fifteen meters from the stadium floor.
Naruto turned to Yugito and said, "Remind me to not piss her off. She's scarier than my kaasan."
Naruto noticed the evil smirk on Yugito's cat form. "As you wish young Senju," she said in a playful, but deep voice.
All four stood around the sizable rubble waiting for Gaara to exit it. A large chunk of the wall fell over to reveal a tired looking Tanuuki. "I will not lose," Gaara yelled.
All four looked at each other only to notice Naruto smirk terribly. "Okay, how about we play a game of tag?" Naruto asked.
The other four jinchuuriki looked at him like he was insane. Naruto disappeared and reappeared behind Gaara with a kunai and stabbed him at the base of the tail, in other words his butt. The other three cringed at this. Gaara noticed him and smacked him violently with his tail. "That was useless Uzumaki," Gaara lectured Naruto.
He failed to notice the smirk on Naruto's face, especially when he quietly said, "Boom." The three paper bombs on the kunai burned for a second and then exploded. This rocked the entire stadium and collapsed more of the stands in that section. Naruto landed on a chair only for it to give way and the floor to collapse below him. He disappeared into the rubble. Gaara on the other hand was doubled over, but holding his butt.
The other jinchuuriki then converged on Gaara. Fū slammed him in the face, only to watch it extend away and then return to shape. Yugito raked her claws down his front, leaving glass furrows in the sand armor. Kirabi sliced down Gaara's right arm and watched the sand fall off of it. Gaara screamed in pain. Suddenly the area where they stood turned into a sand column.
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Orochimaru was scowling, because his tight plan had been setup so that he wouldn't have to deal with his fellow Sannin. Now Tsunade was fighting her grandfather, Sarutobi was fighting the Second Hokage and worst of all. It appeared that the Fourth Hokage was playing tag with his teacher, Jiraiya. He had dispatched several ANBU while others had captured his fabled 'Sound Four'. Tsunade had done more to destroy his plan than anyone else. She had broken the barrier, by taking the floor right out from under his men. Killing the old man was still on his mind, but something wasn't right about the Fourth Hokage, he didn't seem to be fighting to his full potential. He hadn't even used his famed 'Yellow Flash' technique.
There were a few things to be happy about though. Gaara was finally releasing Shukaku and there were other jinchuuriki in the stadium. This would help destroy the village in just collateral damage. The damage to the stadium was becoming grand and this excited him. The Kyuubi brat appeared to have done some damage to Gaara, but he appeared to be out of the picture now. He couldn't tell because of the other jinchuuriki. There was just too much demon chakra floating around the stadium. He did notice the Raikage, but dismissed him, because he was more worried about fighting in the stadium than what was happening in the Kage's box.
A yellow flash before his eyes caused him to come out of his daydreaming. He moved his right arm up in front of him to block the light, but felt pain and the light wasn't blocked. He opened his eyes to see his left arm missing from the upper forearm down. He then noticed Minato standing in front of him with a bloody kunai.
"You're a fool Orochimaru. The death god has possession of my soul, so your little jutsu can't work on me and for the price your arm I can now stay. The more pieces I offer the less control you'll have on the former Hokages," Minato explained.
Orochimaru went wide eyed and then jumped back only to lose more of his arm. He now was missing his elbow. "Damn you Namikaze," he said in a seething voice.
"Oh, by the way, there is no way to repair this damage. You're stuck with losing your soul a piece at a time," Minato said happily.
He looked for his arm only to see it turn black and turn to ash. He jumped back and threw several explosive notes. He turned to run, only to fell a sharp pain in his right wrist. He ignored the pain and jumped to another roof. He quickly sank into the roof and disappeared.
Tsunade looked at her grandfather, who had stopped attacking and wore a confused look on his face. She looked around and saw Jiraiya and Minato pulling a kunai with a seal from her Grand-uncle's head only to replace it with another. A body slowly slid out of her grand-uncle's body.
The two men moved over to the first and repeated the process. A girl fell out of her grandfather's body. She captured the body. Minato, Sarutobi and Jiraiya repeated the process with Minato. A second girl fell from Minato's body. All three people wore Sound headbands and were breathing, but unconscious.
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Orochimaru met up with one of his lead elements, which Kabuto was leading. "Kabuto, we need to retreat for now," he exclaimed, gasping for breath.
Kabuto looked at Orochimaru and saw him missing his right hand and his left arm to the bicep. "What happened, Orochimaru-sama?" he asked in a concerned voice.
"That trice damned Fourth Hokage. He ruined things yet again," Orochimaru said, while he and Kabuto headed back towards the gates of Konoha.
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A loud roar penetrated the stadium, sending debris away from where Naruto had been buried. Shukaku looked down to see the form a three tailed fox made up of chakra. The eyes opened wide seeing a ball of condensed chakra shot at his body. The chakra hit the side of Shukaku and went straight through, it also created a vacuum effect, thus pulling the sand from that side of the demon out through the other side of the monster. Shukaku then felt its right front leg go numb. It turned to see that its leg had been turned to glass. The final straw to break Gaara from the sleep jutsu that he had done was hundreds of insects biting Gaara all over his upper torso. "No, I've only just come out! It isn't fair!" Shukaku roared before the sand of the monster began to fall and Gaara was in free fall.
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The Raikage and his group had cleaned out half the stadium. The other half was cleared because no one wanted to get in the fight between the jinchuuriki. "So that is what they can do only with three tails. Why didn't my brother tell me that, so that I can evacuate the area he's training in?" he asked in disbelief.
"Looks like the gaki can do some damage. Let's get down there and make sure he's okay," Anko said to no one in particular.
"No, we go now!" Zabuza yelled, as he pointed and then disappeared.
The area he pointed at now held several groups of Suna and Oto shinobi, all heading towards the jinchuuriki.
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Naruto felt terrible, his body ached in areas he didn't know that could hurt. He was also drained. He noticed the Kyuubi's chakra dissipating, along with the other demon chakra with the other jinchuuriki. He then felt a presence behind him. He unsheathed his sword just in time to block another sword from a Suna shinobi attempting to cut his head off. Even with his breathing labored, he knew the fight wasn't over just yet.
He noticed his reactions were slowed and with his strength waning, he wanted to make sure he survived this encounter. He pushed Wind chakra into his sword and began to parry the attacks from the Suna shinobi. He then saw a whirling ball of lighting, it passed by several Sound shinobi, only for them to fall to the ground spewing blood from multiple cuts. Naruto then concentrated back on his own opponent. He did notice that the shinobi was using Wind chakra to enhance his own blade. Naruto struck for the head only to be blocked. He then fainted towards the leg, only to bring up the blade and split his opponent's face with the tip of his sword. The man fell backwards, dead before he hit the ground. Naruto then used his blade to deflect several kunai, but missed three, one to his left shoulder, one to his right leg and the last hit him in the left chest just left of the heart. He could tell that it did hit his lung, but he returned to a defensive stance. He then raised his sword above his head and brought it down in a slicing motion, while saying "Wind Scar."
A single visible crescent of wind cut two of the Sound shinobi in two. Naruto's vision began to turn into a black tunnel, from either the exertion or him running low on chakra. He steeled himself to fight on, but didn't know how much more he could take. He felt a body hit him and take him several meters away from where he was and then the two bodies rolled. He barely heard the explosion that soon followed.
He looked up to see a concerned Fū looking down on him. She looked haggard, but otherwise she was fine. He saw her lips moving, but couldn't seem to figure out what she was saying. He noticed a shadow forming behind Fū and pulled out a kunai and threw it at the shadow to be rewarded by the body of a dead Sound shinobi falling at their feet.
Fū turned and saw the body of the Sound shinobi and stood up to take a defensive stance. She knew that Naruto had passed his limit by a long shot. She had hit hers and was going to be down for the count like Naruto was if help didn't arrive anytime soon. She had tried to ask him if he was 'okay', but she could only see his glazed over eyes. She was happy that he could still react to danger and remove said danger from an ally. She pulled out several kunai and charged them with chakra. She then threw them at several enemy shinobi. Of the five targets only one got away unscathed. One died with a kunai to the head, the other three didn't anticipate that the kunai were charged with chakra and thought a simple deflection would save them, but all three were hit by a kunai. She called her bug allies to help her and they came out in four swarms and headed directly towards the enemies. The bugs blocked the view of the carnage that they wrought upon the enemy shinobi.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw Naruto make several attempts to get back up and each attempt failed miserably. Had the situation not been so dire she would have laughed. She then saw him throw a kunai in her direction. It glanced off of an incoming kunai that she had missed watching Naruto. She mentally thanked him for the save and directed her bugs towards her assailant.
Yugito watched the fight out of the corner of her eye, since she was holding the barely conscious Gaara. She wanted to join the fight, but understood her position with making sure that Shukaku didn't come out and play yet again. She watched with concern, as Naruto had gone all out even after pulling out his third tail at such a young age. She watched him attempt to rise, only to fall. She smiled warmly when she saw him use a kunai to save Fū's life. She glanced over at her husband and smirked at the carnage he was doing to the enemies. He had taken out about twenty enemies, but was showing signs that his fatigue was going to catch up with him.
Suddenly a shout of "Hurricane of Ice," was heard.
Suddenly the last of the enemies were engulfed in a storm of wind and ice. She turned to see the girl Haku, holding her hands up and a stream of ice particles originating from her hands. The enemy's screams were shut out by the force of the winds. The girl collapsed into the arms of the girl she had just recently fought, Hinata. Yugito smiled warmly at the camaraderie that the two girls possessed. She looked over where the enemies were and saw that they were all dead and the area was covered in ice and blood. 'That girl is very powerful,' she thought to herself.
The Raikage ran over and checked on Kirabi, who seemed a little unsteady on his feet. Raijin check up on his mother and looked apathetically at Gaara, who seemed to be sliding in and out of consciousness. Hinata brought Haku to lay her beside Naruto who had finally lost his battle with unconsciousness. Nijiko continued to survey the area for more combatants. Zabuza and Anko left the area to find more sport. They said something about having to catch up with Haku in kills. Yugito laughed at the pair's antics.
She turned and saw the Hokage, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and three men she could have sworn were dead appear with three other individuals on their shoulders. "Greetings, Hokage, Raikage. I report that the jinchuuriki of Shukaku the Ichibi has been subdued," Yugito said, while she showed the barely conscious Gaara on her shoulder to the men.
The Raikage walked over to the Hokage and extended his hand, which he took. "I must say you run a very exciting chuunin exam Hokage-dono," he said with much mirth.
Sarutobi chuckled at this, but said in his defense, "I'm glad you enjoyed it, but this wasn't planned. Are any of your people injured?"
The Raikage looked at his people and at the others and shook his head. "Nothing too severe. We can patch my brother up and we should be fine. I would like to compliment your genin, especially your jinchuuriki and the two girls that accompanied us around the stadium," he said proudly.
"So you would recommend them for chuunin, Raikage-dodo?" Sarutobi asked with a grin.
The Raikage smiled broadly and said, "Most definitely."
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Hinata and Haku watched, as Tsunade gently picked up Naruto in her arms and began to walk towards the exit. The group then followed her lead and left the stadium. They noticed sporadic fighting around the village, but also saw that it was being quickly dealt with as it occurred.
'Allowing the jounin that was tailing Kabuto to appear to be dead, along with the absence of the Sanin did wonders in making the enemy troops think that they had the upper hand and thus made huge mistakes and helped us with the coming victory over the Sound, Sand Alliance. Now with the Sand siblings in custody and with all four of the Hokages present, Konoha just might be standing on a golden age. The things that bother me the most are how and why did Minato get away from the Shinigami? His explanation didn't quite fit,' Sarutobi thought to himself, while the group headed for the Hokage's tower, to both help direct the defense and also figure out what was actually going on. Naruto slept blissfully unaware of what was going on.
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A/N: Well here is the invasion, sorry for the quick ending, I might come back and do a little revision, but it would be adding more to it. To those of you, who are diehard Naruto/Sakura fans, please understand that some of your fellows are threatening writers for not liking my choices in pairing. This is troubling in several ways. First they are using bullying tactics to try to silence others opinions. Second, my opinion in this story rules, sorry but that is how it goes. I write it, you read it or you ignore it.
I have stated my opinion on Sakura several times in my stories. I also have problems with her on a personal level, which I won't go into, but be assured that the character, Sakura, is only a character and if I put her down, it is because it works for my story. The Sakura of cannon is not a nice girl, in my opinion, enough said. So on to the reader reviews.
SpiritWolf32: Nijiko is a young girl and is being given choices, so she is looking around. Whether she takes one offer or another is up to her (the writer), but she is more playful with guys than serious.
The Epitome of Eccentricity: I would love for you to give me some specific examples. It would help. My betas have done what they can for me.
Next chapter: Aftermath…