Vixen
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I'm sorry that I haven't updated this one in so long, but unless I take a story down…you can assume that I will get around to updating it eventually. I got caught up with my other stories and was intimidated by the battle chapter. Anyway, I hope that you all do enjoy this chapter.
Naruko talking to Kyuubi in bold.
Kyuubi talking to Naruko in bold italics.
Chapter Notation: This chapter has a mix of action and pure silliness. The tone is ended up lighter than most battle chapters towards the end, but hopefully you will all enjoy that as this story started off that way.
Chapter 15
Sasuke shakes his head as he flits off towards the sounds of battle. He knew that his Vixen wanted to fight and normally, Naruko was a wonderful asset in times like these. This wasn't normally though.
"I'm not going to let her fight, if there's a chance she's pregnant." The words were spoken so softly, that Sasuke half doubted that he had actually voiced the thought out loud as he continues running.
Naruko would be fine at the Evacuation Site. He knew it. That's what they were for. They were there to provide a necessary hiding place for those who couldn't fight. Which was good because in Sasuke's mind, a potentially pregnant woman definitely should not be marching off to battle!
"What the Hell?!" As he approaches the battlefield, Sasuke hears his stunned brother's voice.
It didn't take long to figure out what the issue was. Their enemy numbered in the hundreds. That would have been bad enough, but about half of them were him!
It looked as though he had made hundreds of clones, but Sasuke couldn't remember doing so. And he most certainly wouldn't be attacking his friends, his family, and follow villagers in such a fashion.
"CHIDORI!" All of his trademark attacks were being called out by his "clones."
Lion Barrages, Chidoris, the sound of his swords swinging, and more. There were black flames emerging on the battlefield. It was disturbing to say the least.
Crash! Clang! Crunch! The sounds of kunais, swords, and other weapons could be heard throughout the battlefield, and far more disturbing ones. The sounds of men and women being wounded and even of them dying.
The scent of smoke and blood hung heavily in the air. Sasuke blinks as he watches one of the Leaf Ninja's slam a sword through "him," but something bizarre happened. The clone cries out in pain and stumbles to the ground.
It didn't disappear. Clones weren't that durable. One hit and they were normally dispelled. Something very strange was going on.
"I see that you've figured it out." Suddenly, Sasuke wasn't alone. "They look so real, don't they?" Someone was behind him!
Immediately, he whirls around and comes face with Orochimaru! Damn it! The Legendary Sannin who had been banished from the Leaf years ago. The one that was known to conduct medical experimentation on humans. It was all starting to make sense now.
His eyes narrow and bleed ruby red with rage. "I don't know what you did, but I don't care." Orochimaru was going to pay. "You've made it look as though I decided to attack this village and that's unforgivable!" He was going to make this abomination of a ninja pay! And pay dearly!
Meanwhile Naruko waits in the cave with the others. Other people who couldn't fit. The young, the old, the sick, some civilians, and of course pregnant women. There was a chance that she fell into the latter group and that was the reason why she was waiting here.
"You know that your Mate is right." Getting taunted by the furball as Sasuke so lovingly called Kyuubi. "You shouldn't fight, if there is a chance you could be expecting your first kit."
Logically, the blonde woman knew that Sasuke and the Nine Tails were right. She shouldn't fight. Not when she didn't know, if she was or wasn't pregnant. It was just so hard though.
"I know, but can't you hear them?!" The screams of her comrades! "It's driving me crazy! We can help! I know that we can!" The scent of fire was all over the village.
Izumi smiles as she walks over to Naruko. "Don't worry." Clearly, her sister-in-law was attempting to comfort her. "It'll be over soon and I know we'll beat them."
Sweet. Izumi was sweet, but it didn't help much. Naruko was going stir crazy waiting in these caves with hundreds, if not thousands of frightened people. Some of whom were young children that were clinging to their mother's or father's legs in absolute terror.
"I know." She smiles at her.
Though Naruko wasn't really sure that she'd be able to keep that promise. Her friends were out there, fighting for their lives. Could she really just stand here and hope for the best.
As she glances towards the children clinging to their parents like that, Naruko decides that the answer was a solid no. The ninja couldn't do that. Not in good conscience.
"The bastard is probably going to be really mad, but I can't do this!" This whole waiting around and waiting to be rescued thing, this just wasn't for her! "Kurama, you've got my back, right?" Kyuubi could protect her and her "kit," if she was indeed pregnant. Right?
She could see Kurama shaking his head in her mind. "I won't allow any harm to come to you or any kit you carry as it would also harm me, but I will strongly encourage your Mate to strike your backside for this!" Wonderful.
The perverted old fox had some sort of spanking fetish. Naruko tries to dispel a lot of weirdly disturbing images that that thought. Besides, that wasn't what was important. What was important was that the pervert had her back.
"Yeah! Yeah." Whatever. Naruko makes sure no one was looking at her quickly, before forming a clone. "Let's get going. We don't want to miss the show!" And with that, she Flickers off.
Orochimaru smirks as he looks at Sasuke. He manages to dodge, if only just. Those pawns had done well when they got his DNA for the clone army.
Not only did this Uchiha have the Sharingan, but he was an exceptional example of his already exceptional Clan. There was a certain fire in his eyes that he quite liked.
"You don't actually think that you're going to kill me, do you?" He smirks as he gestures towards the chaos going on around them. "Wouldn't you rather save your comrades from well, yourself?"
It was all that the Sannin could do not to cackle with glee as Sasuke looks around in absolute misery. His own Clan Members had to fight him. Kunais, swords, Jutsus, and fists were flying. He did hope that that most of them would survive though.
There wasn't much use in taking over a village, if there was no one to rule over. And the Uchihas did occupy a unique role in the Leaf Village. The Military Police Force. Orochimaru could use them in his new reign.
"YOU BASTARD!" Sasuke hisses at him as he channels his Chidori into a sword and comes at him again.
Blood! There was so much blood everywhere. It served this village right, really. Orochimaru manages to think before narrowly avoiding getting struck by Sasuke's attack.
Smoke and the scent of blood hung so heavily in the air that it almost made him dizzy. "Perhaps, but that doesn't change the fact that this village is going to be mine soon and it's all thanks to you." Orochimaru opens his mouth and produces a sword of his own. "Well more accurately, your DNA, anyway!"
"Water Bullets!" Orochimaru smirks as he sees Suigetsu firing off his Water Bullets at some Leaf Ninjas.
It looked like some were going to hit Fugaku, the Head of the Uchiha Clan, but another Uchiha shoves him down, crying out in pain as a bullet struck his arm.
"ITACHI!" Oh. Hmm. "Damn it!" So it was Fugaku's eldest son then. No wonder Sauske look liked like he might jump over to aid them.
That didn't stop the man for long though. Itachi soon gets up and his eyes were whirling madly, as were his fathers. The two were now fighting back to back. Well it looked like they might survive. Good the more Sharingans, the better!
Sasuke slams his sword at Orochiamru. "Take this!" It seemed that his opponent was no longer stunned and was willing to engage him in battle again. "I'm going to send you straight to Hell!"
"TIME TO DIE!" Jugo was running around the battlefield with bloody axe made out of chakra in his hand. "DIE! DIE!" He had lost control again.
Oh well. It was just as well. If they were going to win this fight, it wouldn't be easy. Orochimaru knew that much. There were going to be causalities.
"Oddly enough, that's exactly what I was thinking." Sasuke smirks as he clashes with Orohcimaru again and again. "Only you're going to be the one to die. Still, the guy does give good advice."
He was fast. Very fast, but this brat wasn't going to be the end of him. Orochimaru would make sure of that much!
"Rasengan!" The Sannin hears someone shout in the distance. "GET AWAY FROM MY WIFE!" The Fourth Hokage had joined the fray and was apparently protecting his wife.
"I didn't need any help!" Who didn't seem to relish the role of damsel in distress much. "Don't cha know?!"
They weren't the only ones clashing though. Two Taijutsu Users in green spandex were fighting back to back against some Sound Ninjas. Their technique was rather impressive, even if their fashion sense was somewhat lacking, Orochimaru observes.
At that same moment, Naruko makes her way onto the battlefield. "Kurama, do you see him? Do you see Sasuke?!" She could only pray that she wasn't too late!
"Brat, I see your Mate." The Nine Tails sounds absolutely bewildered. "All over the place. Hundreds of him."
Hundreds? That's when Naruko looks around and notices that Kurama was right. There were dozens of Sasukes running around. Normally, this would her secret fantasy come true, but something was wrong.
The Sasukes were attacking Leaf Ninjas! That wasn't right! Why was her husband attacking their comrades! It didn't make any sense!
There was no time to ponder that now. "Damn it! That snake's fighting Sasuke!" It didn't take a genius to realize which of the Sasuke's was the real one.
The only one that was fighting a Sound Ninja and not just any Sound Ninja, but Orochimaru. A Sannin. Someone that would be a worthy opponent even for the Pervy Sage!
She runs with all her might towards where Sasuke and Orochimaru were facing off. Without thinking about it, she hurls her kunais into the other man's back. Naruko needed to get him away from Sasuke. As fast as possible!
Orochimaru hisses in pain and reverts to his true form. A giant white snake. That was made up of many more smaller white snakes.
"Careful, brat!" Yeah. Naruko had figured that part out! "This form is just as dangerous as it is ugly. There's something highly predatory about it!" No, really?!
"Naruko!" Sasuke looks at her with panicked eyes.
This couldn't be happening! Naruko was supposed to be at the Evacuation Site! Where she (and potentially their baby) were safe! What was she doing here?!
On second thought, this was his Vixen. Of course, Naruko was going to charge into the heart of any battle without any concern for her safety. It's what she did. It apparently, just was in her blood or something!
"It's alright, bastard!" She grins at him. "Let's just deal with this freak and then we can go back to Cuddle City!"
Sasuke twitches. He didn't know what was more annoying. The fact that she had disregarded her own safety or the fact she had actually said Cuddle City. In front of Orochimaru. Damn her.
"Cuddle City?" Orochimaru raises an eyebrow. "I suppose the Honeymoon isn't over yet."
That was really none of the Sannin's business, Sasuke thinks to himself as he slams his sword into the white snakes. Some of them die as they were split open but their blood starts evaporating in the air.
"NARUKO, COVER YOUR MOUTH! IT'S POISON!" Sasuke quickly covers his mouth, after issuing the warning.
Naruko doesn't need to be told twice. She makes as many clones as she could in a few seconds and covers her mouth. This damn freak was so going down!
"I'll give you some of my strength. You and your Mate need to hit him hard and fast! He'll regenerate, if you don't!" Naruko could only nod in agreement at what Kurama was saying.
She glances at Sasuke. Thankfully, her husband seemed to know exactly what she had in mind. The two of them lunge at the snake. Killing the mini snakes wouldn't do any good. They had to find the heart or cut off the head.
"It's such a shame, that you've chosen to die." Orochimaru smirks.
Sasuke's eyes narrow. The snake was likely immune to the poison, but that wouldn't save him. He flits over as Naruko's clones all form Rasengans to distract Orochimaru. Each blow aimed at slicing the snake apart, but the freak just keeps regenerating!
He could see the snakes trying to bite his wife! That only further served to incense Sasuke more! He was the only one allowed to bite Naruko and not with poisonous snakes!
"AHHHH!" Orochimaru clearly wasn't enjoying getting blown to pieces by his wife's Rasengans. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" The snakes were lunging at her fast and furious as the main head came at Sasuke.
He hisses when the jaws wrap around one of his shoulders. Biting him. Biting him hard enough to break bone, causing blood to pour freely from the wound.
"SASUKE!" Naruko's eyes widen in horror and panic.
She knew that this meant. There was now poison rushing through his bloodstream. Though Sasuke manages to stab Orochimaru in one of his ghastly looking eyes with his sword.
"DAMN YOU!" He seethes in rage, all the snakes that were busy reforming his body were now targeting Naruko. "DIE!"
"FIREBALL JUTSU!" Naruko narrowly dodges some of the snakes as a fireball is thrown at it.
Not just any fireball, but a massive one. She glances around and notices that some Uchihas had banded together and combined fireballs. To say the least, that snake was not happy.
"That smells so gross!" The heat from the flames appeared to actually be melting some of the scales on the snakes that made up Orochimaru's bodies.
"Just be grateful that you didn't get eaten." Well yeah. That was true.
With that in mind, she turns her attention to Sasuke. Her husband who had just slashed open a snake's eye and was now drenched in blood. Most of it wasn't Sasuke's, but Naruko knew that enough of it was that it was a major cause for concern.
Not to mention the poison. She could already see it. Sasuke was starting to freeze up and it wasn't from fear. That poison had a paralyzing effect!
"TAKE THIS!" Tenten hurls some weapons at the snakes, cutting them and releasing more blood into the air.
"EVERYONE COVER YOUR MOUTHS!" Naruko barely has time to shout before doing the same to her own as more and more snakes kept attacking them.
Her movements were already sluggish. She must have inhaled some poison. They needed to deal with Orochimaru.
"Melt him. This should give your Mate enough time to cut off his head." And before Naruko knew what was happening, she felt herself enveloped in the Nine Tail's lethal chakra.
Sasuke's eyes widen as he sees his wife display all nine tails. This wasn't good. He had to end this and fast. There was no telling what sort of stress that might have on her body.
As her tails whip about viciously and Orochimaru screams in agony, his snakes trying to bite her, Sasuke charges up a Chidori and shoves the fist of his good arm into the snake. Right where his heart should be.
"AHHHHHH!" The cries of agony told him that he had indeed, hit the mark.
Sasuke rips Orochimaru's heart out as Naruko (or should he say Kyuubi) melts the rest of the body. It was safe to say that the Sannin wouldn't be getting up again.
Suigetsu stops what he was doing and blinks. "That shit was disturbing." Orochimaru had literally had his heart pulled out and his body was melted by the Nine Tail's chakra? Yeah. He was so out of here.
Karin blinks and walks over to Sasuke. "Um sorry about that. We didn't really have a choice." Maybe, she could get some leniency if she dealt with his injuries. "How about I heal your shoulder and girlfriend and we can call it even?"
Naruko twitches. Oh this woman was sooo dead. "I'm not his girlfriend!" How dare she?!
"Really? Oh that's great!" She beams and tilts her head to the side, exposing her neck. "If you bite me, it'll heal your shoulder." Excuse her?!
How dare this slut in her short, shorts throw herself at Naruko's husband?! She was seeing red. And that was a bad thing since Kurama's chakra was slowly receding now that Orochimaru was dead.
"I'M HIS WIFE, YOU IDIOT!" Naruko flails and jumps over there, awkwardly due to the poison. "DO YOU NOT SEE THIS RING?!" Which probably wasn't her brightest idea, but whatever!
Sasuke rubs the back of his head sheepishly with his good arm as he bites into Karin's neck. The woman seemed to enjoy that just a little too much for Naruko's liking. Okay, A LOT too much!
"Sorry, didn't realize you two were married." Karin sighs, after Sasuke releases her neck and Sasuke shoves Naruko towards Karin.
"No sense of self-preservation or perhaps, he wants you to kill the rival female." That was a good point and it was really tempting.
Unfortunately, self-preservation won out and so did concern for her potential baby. Naruko sighs and bites Karin's shoulder. Though she notices that the red head seemed to enjoy her bite a lot less than Sasuke's. Hussy!
Suigetsu looks at Jugo. "You wanna blow this place?" He glances towards Orochimaru's remains. "Not much point in fighting, if our "Dear Leader" is already dead."
Jugo nods in agreement and he grabs Karin. The shockingly gentle giant drags her off as Sasuke watches in astonishment. That was weird.
Right. Now, they just had to deal with the fallout from all that and sadly, there was a lot of fall out to deal with!
"LORD OROCHIMARU IS DEAD!" Someone's voice rings out.
Sasuke decides they must have been using a Jutsu to amplify their voice. That was the only logical explanation for why the ninja's voice was ringing throughout the Leaf Village.
Upon hearing this, some Sound Villagers broke down. Sobbing or paralyzed with shock. Others tried to bolt out there. Either way, they Sound was now on the treat.
Sasuke Summons Aoda. "Catch as many of them as you can." After all, they might have useful information about Orochimaru's little Village of Horrors.
Aoda quickly takes off and Naruko summons Gamabunta. It was odd to see a giant toad helping a massive serpent catch ninjas, but whatever worked. Sasuke certainly wasn't in the mood to argue with the fantastic results.
"And Naruko, don't look at me like that." Sasuke sighs and shakes his head. "She was just healing my injuries. It didn't mean anything."
He was flattered that Naruko was glaring daggers at Karin's retreating form, but honestly…she should have known better. His Vixen was really the only one for him and damn it, he was in big trouble.
"Uh huh!" His wife was now dragging him off by the collar. "Well then you won't mind if I Rasengan her, if she ever touches you again!" This was just embarrassing!
Sasuke blinks. That was both hot and scary. "Um right. Deal." It wasn't like he ever intended to see the Sound Ninja again, anyway.
"That's right, brat. Best to make your Claim clear." Kurama nods approvingly in her head. "If you don't, he's more likely to think you don't want him."
Yeah! Naruko was laying down the law. There was no way that she was going to let some Sound Woman steal her Bastard. Sasuke might be a Bastard, but he was her Bastard! And that was that!
"Good!" Well it was a start anyway.
Sasuke sighs and shakes his head. "Shouldn't we be taking care of my clones or whatever those things are?" Oh right. That was a good point.
That's when Naruko looks outside and blinks. "I guess we don't to. They all fainted." That was disturbing. "We should probably go and see what's going on."
Sasuke nods in agreement as the couple head off to find Minato or someone who would know what on Earth was happening. Thankfully, it didn't take too long to find the Fourth Hokage. He and Tsunade were busy interrogating a silver haired medic.
"Ah. There you are, Naruko." Minato smiles. "We were just having a nice chat with our friend here."
A nice chat? Sasuke though that the Sound Ninja looked positively traumatized. God only knows what the Fourth Hokage and only female Sannin had done to him.
"Great!" Naruko blinks as she looks at the bespectacled ninja. "So what happened?"
Tsunade sighs and shakes her head. "Apparently, Orochimaru somehow got hold of Sasuke's DNA and used it to make real clones. These aren't Shadow Clones." The medic seems well stunned, in Naruko's opinion. "They're flesh and bone, but they aren't conscious."
Flesh and bone? How was that possible? Naruko just didn't get it and apparently, neither did Sasuke.
"So you're saying, they're just bodies with all my abilities?" Sasuke sounded sickened and for good reason. "That's…an abomination. He had no right to do such a thing!"
Tsunade nods. "That's exactly what I'm saying. They were all following Kabuto's orders." She glances at Minato for help. "Once we caught him, they stopped moving. After we chakra cuffed him."
"Orochimaru is dead now and we have Kabuto." The Hokage nods reassuringly at Sasuke and Naruko. "We'll get this straightened out. For now, we will do our best to track down the Sound Ninjas who fled and tend to our wounded."
Naruko nods and sighs as she leans against Sasuke. "Yeah." She looks at Sasuke. "Well as long as my Bastard and everyone else is okay, I guess that's what matters most." And the other ninjas couldn't help, but nod in agreement.
"And of course, you'll need a pregnancy test in the near future." Kurama adds helpfully.
"SHUT UP, YOU PERVERTED FURBALL!" Naruko twitches. "Now, is so not the time to talk about stuff like that!" Honestly, why did she have to get the perverted demon?! Why couldn't she have a normal one?!