CHAPTER 3
THE CURSE MARK RETURNS
As Sasuke, Sakura, and Suigetsu jump across the trees heading for the Northern Hideout, to find Jugo, Naruto and Hinata are already at their Hideout waiting for Sasuke's team to return. "Hinata, if you don't mind me asking, what made you want to join me?" Naruto asked, "Well, I joined you because I think that you can achieve world peace, Naruto-kun, I believe in you." She replied, "I see, thanks for believing in me Hinata." He smiles and hands her a kunai and an Akatsuki outfit for her.
"Prove to me that you believe in me and draw a line through your headband and wear this outfit and follow me, to achieve world peace." He told her. She hesitated a little but drew a line through the hidden leaf headband; she blushes as Naruto watches her. "Naruto-kun, turn around I'm going to start changing." Said Hinata, her face turns cherry red as Naruto walks to the other side of the Hideout and waits for her to finish changing. "Okay, you can turn around now Naruto-kun." Her face is still cherry red, while Naruto walks past Hinata, near the outside of the cave like hideout and sits on the edge watching the night sky. "Sasuke, Sakura, hurry up already, soon we will make our first intervention..." Naruto said to himself as he stares at the night sky. Meanwhile, at the Northern Hideout, Sasuke, Sakura, and Jugo have split up and went into different directions in search of Jugo. "Where could that idiot be hiding now?" Suigetsu said to himself walking around the hideout. Sasuke walks around the hideout silently looking into the cells seeing If Jugo locked himself away. "I wonder where this Jugo person could be." Sakura said to herself as she turned a corner and began, looking into cells and finds a man curled up in a ball. "U-Uhmm, could you be Jugo?" Sakura asked as the man turned to look at Sakura. "How do you know my name? Who are you?" Jugo asked. "I-I'm Sakura, I'm here to get you." She replied, "To come and get….me?" He asked, "Who sent you here to come and get me? Was it Sasuke Uchiha? Or someone else?" He added. "Sasuke is here and currently looking for you and so is umm what was his name…Suigetsu?" Sakura said. "You're wearing an Akatsuki, coat…what did I miss while I was here"- He said as his drive to kill took him over and his curse mark activated, Sakura backed away from the cell as Jugo smashed through the bars and turned towards Sakura. "Kill!, Kill! Kill!" He shouted, as he tried to punch Sakura, she dodged to the side and slammed her fist into his spine slamming him against the floor.
"Sasuke! I found Jugo!" Sakura shouted trying to see if Sasuke could hear her. Jugo stops moving on the ground, and then he grabs Sakura's ankle, throws her down the hall, she slams her back against the wall, and coughs to the side. Jugo charges towards Sakura again, and before he can hit her Sasuke appears and ducks below and enters Jugo's blind spot and punches him in the chin and sweeps him so he falls down. He turns around to look at Sakura, "Sakura, are you alright?" He asks her as he offers his hand to help her stand up. "Yeah, I'll be okay." She replied as she took his hand and stood up, Jugo tried to get up again but Sasuke stomped on his back, calming him down. His curse mark effect goes away and he returns to normal. Sasuke throws the Akatsuki coat on Jugo, "Jugo, hurry up and get dressed, I'll explain everything on the way, we don't have much time before we make our first intervention." Sasuke said, already walking towards the exit, Suigetsu comes running from the corner, and stops a few feet infront of Jugo. "What happened here?!" He asked, "Nothing to worry about Suigetsu, let's go, Sakura, Jugo, let's go, we've kept Naruto waiting long enough." He said as he turned the corner. Sakura, and Suigetsu followed Sasuke as Jugo stood up and put on the Akatsuki coat and followed after them, Jugo stopped at one of Orochimaru's labs and stole a small container that has all the materials needed to give Sasuke another curse mark. The same one he had before…he also grabbed a syringe and left, to join Sasuke and the others. As he was walking to catch up, he filled the syringe with the formula.
"Sasuke!" Jugo yelled as he stabbed Sasuke with the syringe, he put it on the back of his neck and put the formula into Sasuke, the curse mark that Sasuke once had returned in the same spot and began to inflict pain on Sasuke. "Arghhhh! Damn you Jugo." Sasuke said as he held his neck in pain. "You'll thank me some other time Sasuke, I've just made you stronger." Jugo said. Sakura and Suigetsu are looking at Sasuke suffering in pain. "We don't have time to stop now." Sasuke said as he blew a giant hole in the ceiling that leads up to the surface, all of them jumped through and began running back towards the hideout. Meanwhile, at Naruto's Hideout, Hinata is sleeping and Naruto is still awake, staring at the night sky, until Kakashi appears at the entrance of the cave. "Naruto, what do you think you're doing here, and why are you wearing that?" He asked, "..Don't tell me you're a rogue ninja Naruto?" He added. "I'm sorry Kakashi Sensei but, I'm going to bring pervy sage's will into reality, I'm going to make this world a place of everlasting peace, don't try to stop me." Naruto replied. "This isn't what Jiraya would've wanted Naruto, he would have wanted you to stay in the leaf and still carry out his will, why would you even betray the hidden leaf village? Everyone looks up to you, you have saved the world twice Naruto, from Pain, and from Obito and Madara, does that mean anything to you? Everyone at the village is worried, come home Naruto." Kakashi said in a sympathetic tone. "I refuse." Naruto said,
"I am not going back to the village because most people always say that world peace is impossible, then you'll think I've gone crazy I would have left the village eventually, Kakashi sensei, don't try to stop me." Naruto added. Kakashi puts his hand on his leaf headband, ready to lift it upwards to reveal his Sharingan. Naruto, I'll ask you one last time before using force, come back to the hidden leaf village, we don't have to do this!" Kakashi said. "I'm sorry Kakashi Sensei, but I won't." Naruto creates 3 shadow clones, and Kakashi reveals his Sharingan. "I don't know what's going on inside that head of yours but I'm going to bring you back to the leaf village Naruto, even if it costs me my life." Kakashi said, as Naruto spaced out for a moment thinking about how hard he tried to bring Sasuke back to the leaf village, and how he failed all those times. When he finally came to Kakashi was fighting his shadow clones, the all disappeared. Naruto creates 2 more shadow clones and holds his hand out, the 2 shadow clones begin moving their hands close to Naruto's creating a rasengan, they don't stop and keep on going until a rasen shuriken is made. "Kakashi sensei, I will defeat you with the skill you helped me perfect." Naruto said as the two shadow clones threw shuriken at him, he dodged them when the two shadow clones jumped and grabed him, the real Naruto impaled him with the Rasen Shuriken, but didn't use lethal strength, the blast of the Rasen Shuriken sent Kakashi flying in the direction of the leaf village. Hinata wakes up due to all of the commotion, "Naruto-kun, what happened?" She asks, "Kakashi Sensei tried to bring be back to the leaf village." Naruto replied. Just before Hinata could say something back, Sasuke came back with Sakura, Suigetsu and Jugo, the three of them looked at Hinata, Sakura smiled and waved at Hinata. "Sasuke, it's good that you're here, especially with your old subordinates, isn't there one more too?" Naruto asked with confusion. "Yeah, but I killed her before we teamed up again." He replied, he felt a strike of pain where his curse mark was but he tried not to let his pain show in front of Naruto. "Sasuke, tomorrow we make our first move, we will raid the hidden rain village, take it over, and the whole village itself will be our hideout, instead of using this place, that's very very small." Naruto said. "For now everyone needs to get some rest for tomorrow, because tomorrow operation Rain thief begins. Then, will we be one step closer to pervy sage's goal. Everyone nods in agreement and set up beds in the hideout, everyone takes turns keeping guard for hidden leaf patrols, or the leaf village trying to stop them, the night is silent…and perhaps the last silent night of their lives.
CHAPTER 3 END.