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Satsuki and Kurumi sat down in opposite beds Zale was leaning against a wall tossing a rubber ball against the wall, and catching it. "What are we waiting for?" Satsuki asked as she wanted to go out, and see the town.
"I'm not sure what you're waiting for you two can go whenever you want I have a friend that I need to talk to." Zale said losing focus of the ball that immediately hit him in the face. "Ouch."
"Oh we just couldn't have any fun without you Naruto-kun." Kurumi said with burning sarcasm in her voice. "So who exactly are you meeting, I don't think that you've ever been to this town."
"Someone I met on my way back, and he has a few cool "tricks" that I'd like to learn." Zale said putting special emphasis on the word "tricks," so that Kurumi knew Manipulation was an underlying tone.
"Some new ninja things I would love to learn it." Satsuki said turning to look at them.
"No, some awesome new pranks I can use, believe it!" Zale said throwing in some old Naruto which Satsuki rolled her eyes at.
Knock, knock, knock. Zale turned to the door opening it, and stepping outside. "I think I should go with him just to make sure that he doesn't get into any trouble." Kurumi said emphasis on Iso that Satsuki knew that she shouldn't follow. "We'll be back in a few hours at most, we'll all go out, and see what's left of the castle walls later." She shut the door behind her leaving Satsuki to entertain herself.
"I'm glad that ended up coming Chrome." Zale said to the somewhat scrawny looking boy with greasy black hair. "Come on I have some training to do we'll talk when we get there."
The walk to the clearing was spent in silence that to Chrome was awkward, but to Kurumi, and Zale seemed natural. They arrived after twenty minutes, and then Zale unpacked some items. "Can we talk now?" Chrome asked him.
"We could have talked ten minutes ago you just didn't." Zale said continuing to unpack the items. "Alright then from what I've seen you can use Manipulation. Is it just coins or can you do bigger?"
"I've been able to handle metal pretty well." Chrome said shrugging his shoulders. "Look I don't know a lot about what this is, but the way you're so good at it I'm guessing you do."
"You assume correct Chrome, you see the ability you can do is called Manipulation. It lets us manipulate reality as it exists; the demons you hear about are able to use chakra, and Manipulation giving them amazing power. It has no limitations, and provided it's used right it could defeat any opponent that the world could throw at you. I didn't know that any Manipulation users besides a friend and I existed, so it was quite a surprise to find you."
"But I've only ever been to mess with metal, and you could do it with the roots." Chrome said.
"That leads me to believe that Manipulation as dead a technique as it is has been weakened. My friend has manipulation over sand, and his ability seems to have gotten stronger. With some training you could manipulate more than metal, and I want to use that." Zale said beginning to bounce a ball again.
"What do you want to use it for?" Chrome asked suddenly aware there was a third person that had come with them, and she was casually blocking the only path off the mountain.
"Simple I wish to bring peace to the world, and Manipulation is the best way to do it. Of course leading the peaceful world will require people; people like us." Zale said a lecherous smile spreading across his face as he spoke. "Tell me, would you like to join me in my quest, or will we have to use certain methods to ensure your silence?" As he spoke the earth under them seemed to ripple, and morph as if it was water.
"I'll help you." Chrome said without hesitation. "This is the best offer I've ever gotten, and I don't think I'll ever get anything like this again." Immediately the atmosphere became normal once again, and Zale shook his hand as if they were old friends. "When do we start?"
"We'll start as soon as I figure out the answer to this problem that I've been having lately." Zale said staring at the rubber ball in his hand with a scowl on his face. "God damn it why did I make that bet; without being able to gather chakra I can't perform this jutsu."
"Maybe it's because you haven't learned how to harness charka properly." Kurumi suggested speaking up for the first time that night.
"No I read plenty of books, and sat in on some of the classes that they were teaching new ninja, and I just can't get the chakra out." Zale said with a frustrated sigh.
"I can help." Chrome said, and they turned to look at him. "Well chakra isn't just in a body it's all over, and since I couldn't ever use chakra I messed with seals a lot. I can't promise that it'll be pretty, but I could make some kind of absorption seal, so you can have chakra ready to manipulate." Chrome looked at them, and they seemed to converse with their eyes before turning to face him.
"I knew that you would come in handy." Zale said with a smile patting him on the shoulder. "Just tell us what you'll need to do it, and I'll get it for you however I can. By the way in public it's Naruto, but in private you call me Zale. Keep that close to your mind because if you ever slip I'll kill you in an instant."
"I'm going to need some ink, and brushes." Chrome said as he recalled exactly what he needed to draw the seal. "Zale, I also need to go to the town library just so I don't mess it up. Tampering with seals can be really dangerous, so I'm going to need to double check my work."
"Go with him Kurumi make sure that he doesn't decide to wander off while I go, and get some supplies." Zale said walking off the mountain, and in the direction of a shop that sold ink, and brushes.
"So how long have you known Zale?" Chrome asked Kurumi who followed in a slightly threatened manor. "You two seem really close.
"We've known each other for a few months now, and I suppose we're so close because we share some similar aspects in our life." Kurumi said knowing that Zale wouldn't want her revealing all of their secrets just yet. "Tell me Chrome, where do you come from."
"I came from a little town a few hundred miles that way." Chrome said pointing to a random direction then shrugging his shoulders. "Everyone there used chakra, and they made fun of me because no matter how hard I tried I couldn't. Then I discovered that I could use Manipulation, and they made me leave. Now that I met you guys though it's nice that I have some people that understand me."
"Well don't expect too much I've been dating Zale for a while, and he doesn't show much emotion to me." Kurumi said as they came upon the library where she easily stole a book on seals, and tossed it to Chrome.
"How did you do that?" Chrome asked seeing that none of the security measures of the library had been set off.
"What, just because I'm the girlfriend of someone powerful doesn't mean that I can't have a few tricks of my own." Kurumi said honestly. She had in fact retained fox like speed, and reflexes, even some strength that allowed her to hoist herself up. "Come on we should be getting back to the field I'm sure that Zale was able to find what you asked for."
Sure enough when they got back Zale was standing with a bag on his hand filled with all kinds of inks, and papers. "I'm going to need you to be held down by something, and I need you to take your shirt off. Since it's my first time putting a seal on a person it'll be big, and clumsy, and it's going to hurt a lot." Chrome said as he mixed some inks, and picked out certain brushes.
"Oh please Chrome I have suffered some terrible attacks in my life, and I doubt this will be much worse. GOD DAMN IT!" Zale didn't expect the sudden burning of the ink as it touched the dark skin on his back, and he struck Chrome sending him flying the newly prepared ink across the floor. "Okay then point taken. I'll restrain myself this time."
He lifted his hands, and chains shot out of the ground keeping him restrained as Chrome prepared new ink, and Kurumi rubbed his back. "Not going to cry like a baby this time are you?" Kurumi asked him.
"Shut up Kurumi." Zale said biting his cheek as the brush suddenly hit his skin a terrible burning as the seal was applied. "I swear if this doesn't work I'm going to kill you Chrome."
It was twenty minutes before Zale could be released the seal applied, and hissing as Kurumi tried to sooth him. "Did it work?" Kurumi asked.
"How can I tell?" Zale asked looking at Chrome who told him to release the chakra all he would need to do was focus on the seal, and release it. "Release." There was an intense pressure as a bit of Kurumi's chakra was released, and some of the chakra already absorbed. "Good I really am glad we met Chrome. Now I have a special job for you."
From that day on if you were to ask anyone about it they would say that after walking with Naruto they felt rather drained of energy depending on what their current amount of chakra was.
-SCENE CHANGE- Not sure if this was clear, but Zale will be referred to as Zale unless someone speaks to him as Naruto.
"Hey you guys are bad." Satsuki said watching as Zale, and Kurumi walked into the room. Zale seemed to be walking with some hesitation as if he was in pain. "I thought you guys weren't ever going to come back. Are you okay Naruto, you seem like you're in some pain?"
"Yeah of course I am Satsuki, nothing can keep me down. I mean who on earth could do any damage to the greatest ninja to ever walk this earth?" Zale said with a foxy smile making Satsuki blush a deep red. "You two wanted to go out, and see what's left of the castle walls right. Come on let's go, and see what there is to do in this old town."
They walked outside seeming like a normal group of friends, and for now he supposed they were. Just as Satsuki had said there seemed to be a festival going on. People were going around some hand in hand others just walking, and many wearing kimonos. "Oh look there's a kimono shop over there." Kurumi said pointing to a random shop on the street with kimonos in the windows.
"This looks really cute." Satsuki said stopping looking in the shop window where there was a deep blue kimono with black wings on the back.
"Do you want it?" Zale asked not looking them as she and Kurumi turned to look at him. "What it's my money; I can do what I want to do with it."
"Oh Naruto I want one too!" Kurumi said, and Zale nodded as they walked in. Kurumi picked out one with a deep red color, and an orange sleeping fox on the back. "Come on Naruto put one on."
"I don't do kimonos; I think they're way too open to be considered clothes." Zale said turning his head as he paid for the items. "What do you girls want to do out here, there's definitely a lot to do here."
"Let's go to the fish scooping." Kurumi suggested as they paid for three scoops. In the end they only kept three of the eighteen fish that they had caught, but none of them were disappointed about it. "You know we should do this more often."
"Yeah well if I could I would." Zale said referring to the abuse they usually got if he tried to take Kurumi out on a date. "Whatever let's just enjoy it while we can. I think I saw a cotton candy booth over there, does anyone want some." He was met with "yes" from the girls.
"Kurumi, so when you said you, and Naruto are going out you really meant it?" Satsuki asked, and met with a nod making her feel a bit dejected. "Oh, okay."
"Hey no need to be so glum I can share." Kurumi said with a playful smirk, winking at Satsuki, and giggling when she blushed a deep red. "Oh calm down."
-Scene change- 3 weeks, and six days later
Tsunade watched as the group of Zale, Kurumi, Satsuki, and a new boy she didn't recognize trained in an area. Out of all of them Zale seemed to be trying the hardest, and had been destroying tree after tree claiming each time that it wasn't good enough although it seemed to do plenty of damage. "I've got the basics down, but I can't keep it in a controlled form." Zale said watching his hand which was scorched the other his left having healed from the Amaretsu fire.
"Don't worry Naruto you'll get it." Satsuki said trying to comfort him only to be pushed off. "Oh come on calm down, you can't be expected to get it right away. I heard it took the Hokage a year to perfect it."
"Yeah well I'm supposed to be better than that." Zale said panting sweat coming off of his brow glaring at the recently torn apart tree his blonde hair long overdue for a haircut. "Hey you three go ahead, and go get some lunch I've got to train some more."
"We don't all need to go do we?" Kurumi asked ever lazy.
"Go." Zale said rubbing his hand. "Besides all you guys have done is watch me run myself ragged go into town I still need to train some more, and besides I'm going to collect my thoughts." They left leaving Zale to sit down exhausted. 'I can release the chakra that the seal collects without problem, but it also releases Kurumi's unending, and unstable reserves. That makes the rasengan nearly impossible to control.' Zale bit his thumb hard drawing blood, but nothing came to mind. "AH why do things need to be so hard?"
He spent the next few hours practicing his group returning, and then leaving when the night fell, and they decided to go back to their respective hotels. "Just a little bit more." Zale panted holding his badly damaged arm before he collapsed onto the ground snoring loudly.
"I can't believe this kid; he won't stop trying even now that there's no way he could win this bet." Tsunade said walking over to him, and doing a quick diagnostic. "Let's see he's just out of energy, he'll need to sleep it off, but nothing besides that." She picked him up, and dropped him off in his hotel before leaving to drink with one perverted sage.
-Scene Change- The Next Day
"Where am I?" Zale asked sitting up slowly holding his head. Looking around he saw only Satsuki. "Satsuki what's going on, and how did I get here?"
"Tsunade brought you back after you passed out last night; she said that you should have been out for a few days at least." Satsuki said slightly surprised by him being awake so soon.
"Please not even death could keep me down after some sleep." Zale said moving his shoulders around, and cracking every possible joint he could. "Where is everyone?"
"Well Jiraiya never came back, and Kurumi went downstairs to explore the town some more." Satsuki said.
"Okay then, we should be heading out too." Zale said getting out of bed, and opening the door to see Shizune about to knock on the door a panicked look on her face. "What's wrong Shizune?"
"Lady Tsunade she's disappeared and I think that she might have accepted a deal with Orochimaru!" Shizune practically screamed, and she stopped to explain everything. "I could not find master Jiraiya, and I think that Tsunade might have taken him. We need to find them."
"I did not need to deal with this today." Zale said cracking his joints. "Alright let's go, and find them before we have murder on our hands to deal with."
They rushed out of the room, and ran around the town. "I think that that's Jiraiya." Satsuki said pointing to a mass of white hair that was in a pile of garbage. "Are you okay?"
"I don't know Tsunade must have drugged my drink last night." Jiraiya said holding his head. "I can't even form chakra properly. Can you do anything about this Shizune?"
"I'm afraid not we're going to have to let it work itself out of your system." Shizune said propping up the old man. "We need to find Tsunade right now who knows if she did take someone else. Naruto do you think you can keep up with us."
"Of course I can with my techniques I'm unbeatable." Zale said with a scowl at how they didn't as Satsuki most likely because they had heard of her as being a very talented rookie. "I need to find Kurumi to make sure she's safe. I'll catch up as best I can."
"Okay then Tonton, lead us to Tsunade." Shizune said petting the pig which leapt off them closely following behind. "Do you think that Naruto's going to be able to find us?"
"Please that kid does the impossible on a daily basis finding us won't be any trouble." Jiraiya said as they moved as best as they could with him as he stood. "I can't believe that Tsunade would make a deal with Orochimaru that's like making a deal with the devil."
"If you don't mind me asking Shizune what exactly is this deal about?" Satsuki asked.
"Tsunade's precious people died some time ago, and Orochimaru's offer is to revive them in exchange for healing his arms. That snake losing his arms is the best thing that's ever happened to the world, and if Tsunade gives them back to him then we'll all be in a lot of trouble." Shizune said changing direction as they leapt through the trees, and suddenly stopped. "They were definitely here look here's Tsunade's coat."
"But where are they now?" Jiraiya asked already winded.
"They went that way." Satsuki said pointing to the direction of the rubble. "Come on we need to catch them before they end up hurting anybody. All of this rubble must mean that Tsunade must have blown off Orochimaru's deal, so we need to give her a hand in beating him."
"Alright I knew Lady Tsunade wouldn't have gone to the dark side." Shizune practically cheered.
"I wish I could say the same for Orochimaru." Jiraiya said as they leapt away. Eventually they came upon a large field where a bleeding Orochimaru stood, and a horrified Tsunade was shaking. "Orochimaru what did you do to Tsunade?"
"Why nothing at all my best friend you see we had a deal, and she betrayed that deal. Thankfully my assistant Kabuto here got there just in time to warn me of this. Tsunade's simply suffering from her acute fear of blood." Orochimaru said with what sounded like glee. "Let me tell you shinobi are a lot braver in the Mist then they are here in the leaf. He used a special jutsu that would cost him his life, and stole my arms from me."
'So that's how he lost his arms, but who did it.' Satsuki thought to herself getting ready for the impending fight. "Wait a second I remember you, you were in the Chunin exams."
"That's right Uchiha, let's have some fun huh." Kabuto said pulling out two medical scalpels green with chakra.
'I'll pull a Naruto I'll use some clones, and attack from the right side because of that injured hand of his.' Satsuki thought preparing hand signs only to be stopped by the white haired sage to stop her.
"Satsuki stay here this kind isn't a normal Genin he could go toe to toe with Kakashi if he had to." Jiraiya said cracking his knuckles. "Shizune," the medical ninja turned to look at him. "You take care of four eyes over there; you just leave Orochimaru over there to me."
"Right." Shizune said taking out senbon. 'He's a medical shinobi just like me, so I can't assume that we don't know the same techniques. I'm going to have to pull some fast ones if I want to win.'
"Now then how's about we get this thing started!' Jiraiya said, and they immediately bit down on their thumbs before doing the appropriate hand signs. "SUMMONING JUTSU!" He slammed his palm down on the floor, and there was a large poof as the two summoning jutsu brought forward their summons.
When the smoke cleared Kabuto, and Orochimaru stood upon a giant two headed snake, and Jiraiya had a small orange frog. "What the heck, why are you here, what happened to your father?!" Jiraiya demanded of the small frog that only waved in happiness. "Looks like I can't build chakra because of Tsunade's drug."
"You were always the fool Jiraiya." Orochimaru said with a laugh as Kabuto leapt onto the second head of the snake. "Let's begin shawl we?" The snake launched forward, and Shizune grabbed Tsunade throwing them both out of the way.
She was met with a blow to the chin knocking her back. Satsuki leapt as best she could from one stone to another, but she made a misstep forcing herself through the jaw of the snake. "AH!" she screamed as it came down upon her; sure that she was going to be devoured.
"Can people not die every second that I'm away!' someone yelled, and she was shocked when she was tackled out of the way one arm wrapping around her as they fell to the ground. Looking up she saw Zale with a scowl on his face, and Kurumi in the other arm. "Hey old man sage can't you stall these snakes?"
"Earth style: Mud Swamp!" Jiraiya called out in response, and the snakes sunk. 'Well not a total loss at least these snakes aren't going anywhere.' "Naruto get them out of there, and stay back this is a fight among professionals!"
"I take a lot of offense to that old man!" Zale called back as he ran to a safer area putting Kurumi, and Satsuki down. "I'm glad that you're both okay." Zale said smiling at them making them both blush. "Can you walk Satsuki?" Satsuki shook her head at this her legs shaking too much to walk. "Make sure she's comfortable Kurumi, I got to go, and help fight."
"Being comfortable doesn't matter." Satsuki tried to protest.
"Of course it does, I'll do whatever it takes to make you two comfortable." Zale said, and Satsuki blushed a deep red at this as he leapt away. When he got to Tsunade, and Shizune he saw the latter on the floor, and neither of them in any condition to fight. The culprit seemed to be the silver haired four eyes Genin. "Although I don't like the old hag all that much I sure as heck don't appreciate someone beating up little old ladies you know."
"Stay out of this Naruto I doubt even with your new tricks that you'll be any match at all for me." Kabuto said adjusting his glasses. "Big talk is all you are nothing else. It would be better if you just ran away let go of what you said, that you'll never run away."
"I said that?" Zale asked supposing that it was before Naruto had died. "Well it sounds like something that I would say. Come at me there's nothing you can do that can hurt me." Zale cracked his knuckles as he charged forward, but Kabuto sidestepped tapping his thighs with his hands. "Agh, what the hell did you do to me?"
"I severed a tendon in both your legs. Now you won't be able to hit me." Kabuto said adjusting his glasses once again. "You should have run away, dreams don't come true when you're dead."
"Trust me I know that." Zale said with struggle in his voice as he stood up used Manipulation of the wind to prop himself up. "Old lady we'll have another bet I'll beat this loser with the rasengan, and you'll return to the leaf village to be out next Hokage. If I lose then well I won't be around to find out, but the stakes seem fair to me. Let's go Kabuto."
"You idiotic kid!" Kabuto said somewhat angrily charging at Zale who stood somewhat shakily. When he was close enough to hit him two earth spikes shot up, and through his feet. "Huh, why didn't you just kill me?"
"I made a bet, and now that you can't move I can do this." Zale said performing a hand sign that the former host of this body was famous for. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" There was a poof, and next to him stood a perfect clone that began to scratch at his hand. 'I can't control the chakra because of Kurumi's chakra being so unstable, but if I use a second party to focus the chakra I should be able to poor more into it, and get better results.'
'I can't believe this making the rasengan like that is pure genius.' Tsunade said shocked at the boy's ingenuity, and she saw noticed the slightly purple color of the rasengan. 'On top of that he's able to use the chakra of the nine tailed fox, without even thinking about it.'
"Here we go!" Zale yelled as the rasengan was completed, and he drove it into the stomach of Kabuto who coughed up blood as it impacted upon his gut. The impact was for approximately twenty seconds before they blew apart, and Zale panted. "There I won two bets, and beat a smart ass. Today was a good day." He suddenly collapsed making Tsunade gasp.
"Ha you stupid kid I regenerated everything you tore apart, and severed the chakra network from your heart. You'll be dead in a few minutes." Kabuto panted only to suddenly cough up blood. "God damn it you did too much damage for me to recover from; I didn't even think that such a thing was possible."
"Naruto!" Tsunade yelled running over to the blonde who was breathing heavily. "No his hearts failing I need to heal it, or he'll die."
"There's no point he's going to die no matter what you do."Kabuto said smugly from his position across the field. "Not even the nine tailed fox can help him now. You'll be wasting time, and chakra."
"SHUT UP!" Tsunade yelled at him shocking him a little. "I'll save this boy no matter what happens do you understand me." The next few minutes were spent trying to support his breathing, and keep his heart beating until it was finally stable. "I can't believe you're still alive."
"Death is but an inconvenience for the strong." Zale said with a smile blood at the corners of his mouth.
"I couldn't agree more boy, but today you're going to die." Orochimaru said flying toward them apparently already having taken care of Jiraiya who was in the rocks seemingly in pain. Out of his mouth came a sword ready to pierce the boy, and everyone was shocked when instead it pierced Tsunade's hand.
"You're not going to touch this boy Orochimaru." Tsunade said her hand bleeding. "I'll protect this boy with my life no matter what happens."
"Why would you do such a thing for such a lowly Genin Tsunade, you don't even know him." Orochimaru said with seeming disgust.
"Because this boy is the future; I may not know what his place in the world is, but I'm sure that he's important to the world." Tsunade said throwing away the sword.
"That won't happen again." Orochimaru said with a hiss bringing back the sword, and swinging it forward ready to chop Tsunade into little strips.
"Oh shut the hell up." Zale said catching the blade between his hands avoiding any damage. "You're just an old man that doesn't realize that no one wants him around anymore. If you want to see someone with power then I'll show you power, and I promise you that you'll always regret it." Orochimaru was forced to leave the blade behind as the ground beneath him erupted. "Come on stop running!"
'What is this power is the Manipulation I've been hearing so much about?' Orochimaru thought leaping away as every step he took caused spikes to shoot out blocking him from making a stable landing, and keeping him in the air. "Where does a brat like you come across such a technique?"
"You got to be born with it!" Zale said leaping forward the spikes under him flattening giving him a place to leap off of. He brandished the sword he had stolen from Orochimaru ready to fight the snake sanin.
They met in mid air Zale swinging the sword which Orochimaru dodged, and somehow parried with his foot. "You'll never defeat me as you are, we fought in the forest of death, and you lost then too." Orochimaru hissed a smirk on his face. "I'm surprised you didn't die."
"I'm not the same person I used to be you snake freak." Zale said going to a stab in the snake's face only for the blade to be swallowed. "God you seem a little too good at handling hard long things in your mouth Orochimaru."
"You'll lose your tongue for that you brat." Orochimaru said easily getting behind Zale, and wrapping his arms around him. "I'll crush you little by little until you're little more that paste on the ground."
"I don't think so." Zale said forcing the wind to slam them against the ground shaking the snake loose. 'I can't keep up with his speed, so I'll need to make the environment hard to move in.' The air seemed to crackle before water droplets formed in it then dropping to the ground leaving a slippery sheet of ice.
"Oh what an interesting strategy boy, but such a thing won't work." Orochimaru said channeling chakra to his feet only to feel them freezing over. "What on earth."
"Special ice it'll freeze whatever chakra hits it, so you got to be real careful." Zale said with a smirk pulling out two kunai one for each hand, and spinning them around on his fingers. "That'll really cut down on your speed with all that chakra you let out unconsciously."
Orochimaru scowled at him running at the boy every step he took freezing his foot, and he was forced to yank it free cutting his speed in half every time. "You're going to pay for that boy!" Orochimaru said swinging at Zale who easily moved out of the way with the sage's reduced speed. "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!" Orochimaru yelled using the jutsu he had greeted Naruto with in the first place.
With the ice beneath them the wind turned icy tearing at Zale who was hurled off of his feet, and into a rock an ugly noise, and blood following the impact. "That might need to be fixed later." Zale said through gritted teeth peeling himself off of the rock, and staring at the Sanin who was ready for a fight. "I'll burn you through!" His hand waved, and fire formed launching at Orochimaru. "Did it hit?"
The smoke cleared slowly, and just as it was about all gone hundreds of snakes came hurtling out of it all of them intent to tear off a bit of his flesh. "How interesting, you can even produce fire out of nowhere with that ability. Perhaps your body would be better than the Uchiha after all." Orochimaru said coming out of the smoke his skin slightly seared, but it seemed like he was otherwise fine.
Zale was left motionless the snakes digging deep into his flesh, and all seemed to be pumping him full of acid. "Perhaps I'll save your life, and steal your body from you." Orochimaru pondered drawing ever closer with agonizingly slow steps. Then he drew his sword his tongue wrapped around it. "Then again killing you would feel so much more rewarding than that."
CRACK! Orochimaru's head snapped to the side as a foot impacted in his side a small body flying across him. "Did I just do that?" Chrome asked slightly shocked by that.
"Yes, and you'll pay for it." Orochimaru said bringing the sword around only for it to suddenly shorten, and become useless. "My, my Naruto you seem to be saving everyone today aren't you?"
"I didn't do that." Zale said nodding to Chrome who smiled. "Meet the other Manipulation user I've found in this world."
"Oh then I'll take your body instead; what a happy day!" Orochimaru said turning to Chrome (no longer deeming Zale a threat) who tried to back away only slip on the ice. "With the new technique I'll be able to conquer the world with ease." He went to bite Chrome only for a kunai to pierce his neck forcing him to retract him. "I'm surprised you can still move Naruto."
"Never underestimate me." Zale panted moving his arms to gather all the electricity in the air, and forming it into a deadly attack that he sent at Orochimaru.
"AGHH!" Orochimaru screamed as it impacted messing with every body system he had. "What did you do to me I can't move!"
"I've over whelmed your body with electricity messing with the electrical impulses that run it. Your body should shut down in a few minutes, and leave you dead." Zale said removing the snakes with extreme pain. "You'll die here, and I'll just manipulate the fire out."
"How ignorant of you to say that, you of all people Naruto should know there is always a way out." Orochimaru said his mouth opening wide, and what happened next left Zale disgusted. Another Orochimaru shot out of the first covered in body fluids, and sticky as he pulled himself free from the original's mouth. "Manipulate the poison out all you want I'll send more and more snakes out to bite you until all the blood is sucked from your small short body."
'He's right there's no way I can win this.' Zale thought watching as the blood flowed out of him. Suddenly there was a hissing noise that made his body feel like it was on fire. 'What is this feeling, it hurts, but it's getting rid of all of the poison.' "Chrome, what's going on your stupid seal's burning!"
"I don't know it's not supposed to do that." Chrome called out wondering why steam was coming up, and out of his friend.
"What an interesting development." Orochimaru said watching as the blonde burned.
Hand seals appeared in his mind, and his hands shakily formed them. "Ne, tori, I, Uma, Saru, Hitsuji, U, Tatsu, Tora, Mi, art of summoning summon the fox!" he called out slamming his palm on the ground a large palm of smoke appearing, and his body burning red the seal for the chakra harnessing burned right off his back.
"No way." Tsunade said watching as four deep orange legs appeared followed by tails, and finally a snout. "This kid summoned the nine tailed fox sealed within him?"
"Is that even possible?" Jiraiya asked finally coming back to consciousness.
'Wait a second if I'm out here then whose controlling my body?' Kurumi thought to herself looking at the large nine tailed fox stood with Zale on his forehead.
"Is that the nine tailed fox!?" Satsuki asked horrified trying to back off only for Kurumi to catch her. "What are you doing we need to get out of here Kurumi."
"Calm down." Kurumi said touching their foreheads, and effectively knocking the girl out with a simple jutsu she had learned. 'My, did I use to be that big, I should have gone on that diet after all.' "Go Naruto kick his snake ass!"
Zale himself felt amazing although he had no control over it he had chakra coursing through him healing all of his injuries, and burning away the poison. "Alright then we're going to be doing this fighting with my friend here." Zale patted the hallow shell's head, and closed one of his eyes. 'I can see everything it sees with this eye closed, so controlling it shouldn't be too much of a problem.'
"Lord Orochimaru!" Kabuto yelled running over to the white snake, and quickly performing a summoning to summon the purple boss snake Manda.
"Orochimaru why did you summon me out here you know how much I hate being summoned." Manda said angrily.
"Trust me Manda you'll be well rewarded." Kabuto was cut off.
"Shut up you idiot what do you have that I could possibly want." Manda said. "I expect a thousand offerings for this you white snake."
"Of course Manda." Orochimaru said.
'It looks like we're going to be battling it out.' Zale thought to himself watching carefully through Kurumi's old eyes. "Let's see what these claws can do!" The body charged forward scratching at Manda with clumsy movements that seemed to be barely supporting itself.
"This is the Kyuubi no kitsune how disappointing." Manda said easily avoiding the clumsy attacks with his amazing speed. He wrapped himself around the body's legs forcing it to fall down where it in turn wrapped itself around its neck squeezing as tightly as it could.
"Hey guys could use some support!" Zale yelled to the sages who snapped out of their surprise, and preformed their own summons. "Got to get Kurumi, and Satsuki out of danger, and I suppose Chrome too." Zale said making Kyuubi's paws go up, and pry away the snake from its neck. "I'll bite you in half you stupid snake."
"A summoning with the foxes surely is impressive. I will take his body after all what a pleasure." Orochimaru chuckled as Manda wrapped himself around the slug squeezing until it fell apart into pieces then quickly avoiding the toad's blade.
While the sages duked it out Zale had somehow picked up his three friends in the mighty tails of the Kyuubi, and placed them with him on the forehead. "Do you have any advice on how to control this thing Kurumi?" Zale asked hard pressed to make it move it all.
"Will power and focus." Kurumi said confidently.
"Wait a second you used to be this?" Chrome asked slightly shocked.
"Let's save that story for another time; Chrome give me some defense for this body." Zale said.
"I've never done anything this big before you can't expect me to." Chrome was cut off by Zale.
"That's an order not as Zale, not as your friend, but as your emperor." Zale said angrily now feeling the pressure that came with controlling this huge body.
"Alright I'll give it a shot." Chrome said closing his eyes, and focusing as best he could. Slowly out of the earth came iron sand that although seemed to be insignificant was more than enough to do serious damage. "Alright ready to attack."
"Good, we're going to need some power to take down this guy down." Zale said forcing out the Kyuubi's chakra causing large plumes of fire to launch out scorching the area. "Hey Orochimaru it's you, and me!"
"How pitiful." Orochimaru said diverting his attention from his old teammates leaving Manda to do what he must, and leaping up Kyuubi's legs.
"Where do you think you're going?!" Jiraiya demanded of him running after Orochimaru up the same leg Tsunade following closely behind.
"I've got better fish than you to fry my old team mates, so I'll leave you with this as a parting gift." Orochimaru said as two blood clones appeared out of air causing the two sanin to divert their attention. He came upon Zale, Kurumi, Satsuki, and Chrome sooner than he could have hoped. "Good you're both here, so when one of you dies I'll have another body to use."
"You can't have our bodies." Zale said releasing control of the Kyuubi's body so he could focus on Orochimaru. "Chrome, can I have you backing me in this fight."
"I'll be your entire defense sir." Chrome said the iron sand floating up ready to defend at a moment's notice, and attack at any opening that it saw.
"How cute your teamwork is." Orochimaru said with a laugh. "Kabuto take care of the metal user for me while I take care of Naruto here."
"Yes lord Orochimaru." Kabuto said before leaping for Chrome.
"Do you really think you can win boy?" Orochimaru asked approaching Zale who scowled the fur tickling his arms making it hard to keep his fighting stance. "I am one of the sanin with limitless jutsu at my control, and just about an infinite chakra reserve you should really just give up."
"Don't try to bluff your way out of this you're spent old man you must have used a lot of chakra on that new body technique." Zale said with confidence. "You aren't winning here I control this body, and every step you take I can make a living inferno with the abilities of the Kyuubi."
"It doesn't matter I am an opponent impossible to defeat." Orochimaru said running forward sword in mouth ready to decapitate his opponent.
Zale borrowed some of the iron sand Chrome was using to defend against the blow, and Orochimaru jumped back before charging again each blow parried by the iron sand. "It's a stale mate as it stands." Zale said jumping back from Orochimaru now using the iron sand as a sword. 'I need something to tip the scales. I can't use the Kyuubi, and fight Orochimaru at the same time, so what can I do?'
"Need a hand?!" Chrome yelled having already taken care of Kabuto who was on the ground in pain. The rest of the iron sand flew over slamming against Orochimaru tossing him over the side of the Kyuubi soon followed by Kabuto. "Do now Naruto it now crush them with the Kyuubi!"
Zale complied with the order despite him not being the one supposed to take orders from any of his generals. The back leg lifted, and pinned the sage to the ground. "Well I suppose that it's our time to go Kabuto." Orochimaru said sinking into the ground and Kabuto poofing away a few seconds later.
"Where's Orochimaru?" Tsunade asked as they leapt up, and over the Kyuubi's fur onto its head.
"You're a little late." Zale said his energy drained as he fainted the Kyuubi dispersing.
-SCENE CHANGE- 1 WEEK LATER-
"Well it's good to be heading back home, and with so many sexy photos to take." Kurumi said taking pictures of Tsunade who was in a bunny suit a blush on her face. "Come on Tsunade you work that so well show off your nice body."
"Stop taking pictures you're a bigger pervert than Jiraiya!" Tsunade yelled at the girl who ignored her, and continued snapping pictures.
"I can't believe that Tsunade followed through on that bet." Shizune said somewhat shocked by that. "I'm more surprised that Naruto actually won it though."
"Yeah well I've got a knack for finding talent." Jiraiya said stroking his own ego.
Meanwhile Zale, and Satsuki were talking privately having fallen behind the group. "So what happened to Chrome?" Satsuki asked.
"I sent him off to do me a favor." Zale said. 'In other worlds travel the world collecting any other Manipulators he can find, and make them swear their allegiance to me, and my dream.' Speaking of Chrome he had applied a new neater and more efficient chakra seal to his upper chest between his nipples.
"Naruto did you mean what you said back there?" Satsuki asked making Zale tilt his head wondering what he had said. "That you'll do whatever it takes to make me comfortable?"
"Of course I did Satsuki; I never say anything I don't mean." Zale said grabbing her hand in his own, and squeezing it lightly causing her to blush deeply.
"Aww how sweet now we can all be a happy family." Kurumi said surprising them both, and hugging them both to her well endowed chest. "We'll have plenty of kids, and be happy." Zale didn't react whyle Satsuki turned bright red rivaling Hinata.
-CHAPTER END-
SHOULD ALL CHAPTERS BE THIS LONG I THINK THEY'RE WORTH THE WAIT