Here's chapter three for you guys. Hope you enjoy, the cross-overy goodness starts now.
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It had been a month and a half since Team Sevens exam and people were still talking about it. Many were pleased to see the genin from four and a half years ago now grown up and making a name for themselves. As far as Naruto was concerned people respected and admired him more then those that feared him. The morning was crisp and cool and the teams were once again found training together. To the casual observer the training field would look like war zone. Jutsu's were unleashed without restraint and taijutsu ran rampant while weapons zigzagged about the field nicking and gashing those unfortunate enough to get in the way.
Currently it was Naruto, Hinata, Lee, Sakura, and Sasuke on the offence while the rest were being forced into the defence. Naruto clones were running rampant and attacking everyone while Sakura was creating craters with each punch against Ino and Choji. Lee was using his chakra-enhanced taijutsu against Kiba and Akamaru while Sasuke used his naginata against Tentens arsenal of weapons. Neji and Hinata sparred mostly in their family's style with Hinata adding strikes with chakra tipped tails added to her style.
The chuunin were into their third hour of training when the siren went off alerting them to the fact that Konoha was under attack. Their reaction was immediate, the training was done and they were ready for battle. Weapons were gathered in an instant and the teams were off and formed looking for any and all invaders that would dare attack Konoha. Each team scoured the village looking for any and all invaders; it wasn't until when Naruto found the wounded Anbu near the warehouse that he knew where his targets were.
Sending out a signal Naruto was soon joined by Sakura, Lee, and Hinata and several jonin. Moving with perfect coordination the group entered the warehouse. Spreading out they found nothing until Naruto sent a volley of kunai into a crate causing the genjutsu to dissipate revealing Orochimaru and Kabuto. It was almost to late when Naruto realized they were standing on a giant seal on the ground. With a wicked laugh Orochimaru activated the seal causing the four animalized chuunin to cry out in pain. The jonin did the only thing they could; they attacked.
With great effort and pain Naruto sent chakra to one of his tails and changed part of the seal layout. The resulting explosion and flash of light left the jonin staggering. When the dust cleared it revealed nothing left of the four teens but it did leave an enraged Sannin and a confused traitor of a medic nin in its wake. Sasuke was the first to arrive at the warehouse after the seals explosion, and at the sight of Orchimaru, he became lost in an animalistic rage. In one swift movement Sasuke cleared the building to where Orochimaru was, spear leading the way. The flurry of skilled spear movement was not lost on the present ninja but even then Sasuke's skill was no match for the rouge sannin. Every twist, trust, and parry was turned aside by the twisted veteran.
As Sasuke's rage grew so did his features, hands turned to claws and feet to talons. Orochimaru was not prepared for the sudden change and caught a clawed swipe across the face and with the grace of a snake recoiled perfectly. Spear abandoned Sasuke charged again in his frenzy much to the shock of his superiors, and once again claws tore at the sannin with crimson results scattering across the floor. As the initial shock passed Orochimaru began to grin despite having been wounded twice. Seeing Sasuke change into his tengu form so suddenly and unexpectedly brought new perverted ideas to the nuke-nin's mind.
"Kukuku, how delightful," Orchimaru laughed," I do believe I like what I see before me Kabuto. We'll have to return soon to take what we've already claimed before." With a grin as sick as his master's Kabuto let several volatile looking vials into the air that broke apart before impact setting loose several humanoid type creatures against the present Konoha nin.
The creatures themselves held no true physical solidness and had difficulty hitting the trained shinobi. It wasn't until members of Anbu root showed up that the true nature of the creatures became known. It was by mistake that one them attacked the slime based entities that it latched onto the man and forcefully fused itself with him that the extent of whatever personal identity that the root nin had (as weak as it was) was soon forced away as the goo creature converted the nin into a bastardized creature resembling one of the Snake Sannin's cursed marked followers.
"Bastards!," Sasuke roared his rage feeding into his already deadly frenzy. Chakra poured into his clawed hands giving them a powerful coating of electric chakra on the exposed talons. The few slime monsters not latched onto someone were reduced to steaming piles of useless proteins being unable to handle the large doses of electrical chakra being forced into them.
It was only minutes before Orochimaru's goo creatures were taken care of. The fused root and goo nin proved to be harder to take down due to the fact that every wound made upon it instantly regenerated. Despite the attempt to take it alive the fuse-nin soon keeled over from unknown reasons completely dead.
Sasuke's roar of anger at the sannin and the apparent loss of his team drove the teen to a near animalistic rage unable to tell ally from enemy. The only thing that kept the teen from attacking was the sudden unexplainable pain and the sudden blood leaking from his eyes. Sizune's arrival with a team of medic's and Ibiki in tow soon had those present, bar Sasuke due to getting immediately hospitalized, telling what had transpired. Tsunade was not going to be happy.
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Lightning cracked over the grey sky of Tokyo's Nerma District as rain threatened to fall much to the dismay of a black-haired teen and his current opponent and directionally challenged rival. To anyone one else it might have seemed an impossible fight between the opponents, but to locals it was a near everyday occurrence. The fight, if it could ever truly be called that, was ended as one of the teens with a large umbrella was tossed into a large pooling of mud still lingering from the last rain shower.
"Damn it Ranma," came the mud covered teens shout" I'll not forget this: Akane will be mine someday. Just you wait."
"Feh, I doubt it Ryoga. She has higher standards then going out on a date with her 'P-Chan'," came the taunting reply of Ranma. Before any rebuke could be made by the mud covered teen four bolts of crimson lightning thundered around the district distracting the quarreling teens from their fight. The last of the four thunderous red bolts struck right between the two teens illuminating a single six tailed figure before dissipating and leaving no trace of the thing that had accompanied it save for a pair of near animalistic foot prints in the otherwise burned blast zone.
"So…now what," Ryoga asked, with the same stupid expression on his face as Ranma did.
"I have no clue," came the dumbfounded reply.
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The cold, wet concrete ground and scent of day old noodles greeted the pink haired medic nin as she came to. The blurred scene of an alleyway slowly cleared itself into her vision as her body easily shifted from a cold numbness to needled pain. With unusual joint and muscle stiffness Sakura slowly pushed herself off the cemented alleyway and tried to focus past the mental murkiness that now pressed itself upon her muddled mind. It was a town, she could tell, but everything was wrong. The scent's were not the one's of home, and the buildings structure's were all wrong.
Despite the dampened senses, Sakura's vision soon returned and the figure of a purple haired girl with bun's and a stack of dirty bowls came into view. The muffled sounds that had accompanied her unexpected trip soon came to her more fine tuned hearing and the unrecognizable language that the bun haired girl was speaking. Green eyes focused on the now obviously shrieking girl and her increasing vocal volume. With a great force of pained movement Sakura got herself to stand and was soon making a pained escape on a level not seen since her first week on team seven. She had to find her the others in hopes that they weren't in a situation worse off then she was.
The world was alien to her, unfamiliar buildings and noises soon overtook her sense of direction. There was a familiarity of scents but they weren't the ones of home, they were as alien as they were familiar. There were people, a bit odd in their fashion but nothing outrageous; however, there were no ninja's. As far as Sakura could tell she was as far from home as she had ever been. A cold knot settled in her stomach, she was looking at a world out of one of Jiraya's seal theory books, as chilling and near incomprehensible as it seemed. With a dry swallow Sakura stopped on the roof of a building to steady herself. Nothing made any sense to her right now. A slight chill of fear slid down her spine, in realization of just how many unknowns she now faced alone, albeit temporally she hoped. The wind brought a familiar sound to her ears, a howl of Lee's. A small smile graced her face for a moment, at least some one was close enough to find. Getting home was going to be hard, surviving in this alien world was going to be harder.
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Yeah, I have no excuses for the lateness of this chapter, or any other of the chapters I've been working on. But you know how it is with SQUIRLE!