'Thinking'
'Kyuubi talking'
"Talking"
/Naruto talking to Kyuubi/
"Jutsu's"
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, only my own characters.
Chapter Eleven part Two:
After many minutes of hissing and growling in pain, Naruto's arm was finally cleansed of poison. He had to keep himself from whacking Tsunade in the face multiple times by reminding himself that she was just healing him, helping him. It wouldn't be her fault if he never gotten cut by that man. Finally, his arm was wrapped in a white cloth to help keep infection out.
"There," Tsunade watched as Naruto pulled his dried blood-stained sleeve down to cover the wound. "Now, try not to aggravate the wound too much or you could reopen it. " As she was talking, Naruto could already feel the Kyuubi's chakra healing his wound, though he didn't tell her.
Sasuke turned away from the window for the first time since Naruto arrived. "Since your life and her life," he said, pointing to the blond's sister who was still on the table, unconscious, "are no longer in jeopardy, mind telling us what you've been doing for the last four years?" His anger was still there, but it was hidden by his usual, emotionless voice.
Naruto sighed. He knew that if he had come here, a conversation like this was going to happen but he was in no place to explain his life, not while he had a death sentence hanging over his head. Besides that, he needed to get Sana to the Sand so she could heal there. "Sorry, if you want to know, we'll have to meet up somewhere other than here. In case you've forgotten, I've been banished from here and my punishment for returning is death. I still have a lot to live for, so I can't be lingering here any longer."
"If anyone tries to kill you, let alone lay a finger on you, as hokage or not, I'll personally kill them myself." Tsunade swore as she crossed her arms and held her ground.
Jirayah stood up from where he was still sitting down and placed a hand on his ex-students shoulder. "And I would too. I will fight for your safety, without a doubt."
'This is just like last time.' He thought, remembering how they two tried to get him to stay in the Leaf. They gave speeches just like how they just did, wanting him to stay. 'But, I can't stay here... I no longer belong here. If I stay any longer, I'll just get them into trouble.'
Naruto took a step back from his old mentor and adverted his eyes, but not before seeing a flicker of hurt in the pervs eyes. "Sorry, but, I can't stand to get y'all in trouble because of me being here." He turned his back on them and walked over to Sana.
Before he could scoop her up into his arms, a hand appeared on his shoulder and gave him a squeeze.
"Sasuke, let go." Naruto suppressed a sigh, knowing without even having to turn around it was him.
"Why, so you can just leave us again?" The Uchiha growled in a soft tone.
The blond did turn around to face his friend, his expressions unreadable. His tone was what betrayed how he felt, "I no longer belong here, so why should I stay? "
Knowing Sasuke, he always had a answer, "You do belong here, you dobe. Not out there in some village, but here, in this village; your home village where you grew up." Naruto opened his mouth to argue back but he wasn't through yet, "Who gives a bloody damn what those elders say. It's not up to them whether or not they can banish you. Why did you even listen to them in the first place?"
"You don't understand," Naruto shrugged the hand off of his shoulder. "No one understands what it's like to live with a demon inside you and to always be abused by those he's supposed to call friends or neighbors or anyone else. No offense to you, Kyuubi," He added, confusing some people in the room.
'None taken.' Kyuubi yawned and shrugged her shoulders.
He continued on, "I didn't leave because the elders made me. I left because I knew it was time to. I don't know how to explain it, but if I didn't leave, something bad was going to happen."
"But that didn't mean that you had to leave!" Sakura blurted out, mad. "Even if something bad was coming this way, we could defeat it, just like we always do."
Naruto shook his head, "This village doesn't need to have a burden on their shoulders to always have to protect. People are after me, not this village. It was time for me to move on and lead things away." That sparked some information he had to tell Tsunade so he turned to her and spoke with authority, something no one in the room was used to, "Before I forget, I also came here with some bad news."
The hokage frowned, obviously wanting to argue back with him that he wasn't a burden, but by his sudden serious tone, knew she had to take this. "What kind of news?"
"Orochimaru is recruiting ninja. Anyone and everyone that knows how to fight, whether they are experienced or not."
"Why?" Jirayah asked, looking like this was the first he had heard of it, even though he always went out to gather information that could be useful.
"Rumor has it he's been coming here to attack so he's been creating an army and expanding it." He watched as everyone's eyes widen, even if it was for only a second before they wiped their faces clear of surprise.
Kakashi frowned, speaking for the first time since the conversation had started, "This is the first I've heard of anything."
Naruto shrugged his shoulders, "Gaara told me a few days ago and that was when I really started to pay attention to what the villagers were saying. There's been a lot of gossiping from travelers too."
"So, you predicted this was going to happen." Sasuke said, not backing down. "You knew someone of power was going to come and attack the Leaf and if you had stayed..." He was piecing this all together, getting at why the blond had left. He was just about to argue that that was ridiculous when a small cry erupted throughout the room.
Everyone's attention turned towards where the sound came from and their eyes all landed on Sana's small form beginning to stir. Naruto's eyes seemed to brighten up the whole room and he watched her.
"Sana," He whispered, gently.
The teenager slowly opened her forest green eyes. When she saw who was peering down at her, she smiled weakly, still a bit dazed from the poison, even if it was no longer in her system. "N-Naruto..." She struggled to sit up but her brother wouldn't let her as he gently pushed her back down.
"Just stay down, sweetie." He said softly. "No doubt you're exhausted. Go back to sleep; you weren't even supposed to wake up yet." When Sana managed to give him a confused look, he explained, "Just something Tsunade told me."
With her name being said, Tsunade came over and peered down at the girl with a small, sincere smile, "You must be Sana. I'm Tsunade, Hokage of the Leaf village."
Sana examined her face, looking like she was trying to figure something else. She turned to look at her brother and stated, "She doesn't look like an old –,"
Naruto quickly covered her mouth before she could complete her sentence. "Sana, remember what I told you?" He nervously laughed, noticing Tsunade frown at him.
Sana thought for a moment and weakly lifted his hand away from her mouth so she could speak. "Um... no?" She smiled before asking him something in a whole new language, "Naruto, quand est-ce que tu pars?" (("Naruto, when are we leaving?"))
Naruto answered in the same language, just as fluent as she did, like he had spoken this his whole life, "Tout de suite. Gaara et les autres sont deja en route. On va les rejoindre a mi-chemin et rentrer." (("Right now. Gaara and the others are already making their way here as we speak. We were going to meet them halfway and go back home.")) He said, noticing how his old comrades jaw had almost fallen to the ground in shock at the new change of language. He mentally chuckled.
Sana nodded her head and leaned a bit against her brother. She felt an arm go around her, knowing it was a now natural reaction for Naruto.
"What language was that?" Naruto turned around to see Sakura admiring the language with a small, soft smile. "It's beautiful."
"French." Naruto said, scratching the back of his head as if embarrassed. "Sana taught me a while back."
The others in the room knew better than to ask what they talked about so they kept to themselves.
'If you don't want to be caught, you need to leave now!' Kyuubi voiced in. 'The sun is raising up now and people will be waking up. You need to go!'
Naruto looked out the window to confirm the fox's statement. From the normal size hole in the wall, he could make out the sun rising higher and higher. It was just peaking over the tips of the trees.
"We have to go," he said suddenly.
"Already?" Sakura asked as she watched her former teammate scoop his sister into his arms and then situated her on his back like a monkey clinging to it's mother.
Kakashi walked over and picked up Naruto's discarded cloak and handed it back to him. "You're going to need this if you want to get out unnoticed. That blond hair of yours will be recognizable from almost anyone."
The blond took the clothing with a nod of his head as he slung it around his shoulders. Sana disappeared underneath the cloak and you couldn't even tell she was there; there was no lump or nothing, just a flat back. The only way you knew she was there was when she spoke:
"I can walk on my own..." She said, sounding rather annoyed.
"No you can't," Naruto chuckled as he shifted her weight a little. "Maybe when we get away from here I'll let you walk. In the meantime, why don't you sleep and regenerate some energy." He paused for a minute and then added, "You need your rest."
After checking that everything was in place, Jirayah announced, "I'll walk you to the gate so no one would stop you or you won't have to sneak out." When Naruto looked ready to argue, he continued, making no room for him to speak, "I haven't seen you since the last time we meet at that village. I want to know how my old student has been doing."
"You're not the only one walking him out." Tsunade stated, crossing her arms over her chest.
Naruto sighed. There was no way he was going to be getting out of this one. He looked over to his old squad and didn't even have to question them to see if they wanted to come or not, their looks said it all.
"Well, we better go," he finally said. He started to pull his hood over his head to cover his hair when he paused and tilted his head to the side. In a softer voice, he asked, "Hey Sana, are you –,"
A soft even breathing pattern interrupted his question. Naruto smiled and nodded his head to himself. He faced his old family and stated, "Let's get going."
The group of seven walked through the deserted streets. They met no one along the way, but they were cautious. Many unwanted eyes could be watching and it was better to be prepared than totally relaxed, even though this was their home village. As they walked, Naruto was in the middle, surrounded by his friends. They had it that way so if their was people awake, they wouldn't get suspicious by the cloaked man. By him being in the middle, it was easier to shield him.
Knowing that he would rather walk in silence, Naruto noticed that his old comrades looked like they were wanting to start a conversation with him, but didn't know what to say. He had been gone for such a long time, there were many unanswered questions, but no one knew where to start. He cleared his throat and asked a random question, knowing that it would help them find things to talk about, if not for them, than for him.
"What were y'all doing up so early in the morning for?"
"Missions." Sasuke answered, short and simple as always.
Sakura went in a little more depth, "A village was having a lot of trouble with bandits and they asked for our help to dispose of them."
Naruto nodded. There were always villages being attacked by bandits and other hooligans that no one could ever keep track. That was one of the reasons why he took the liberty of helping the village folk, so they could live in peace and know they had someone looking out for them.
"Which village?" He casually asked.
"The Village Hidden in the Rocks," Kakashi replied, not glancing up from his book that he had pulled out when they left the Hokage's office.
Naruto smiled at that, even though no one could see his face. "Well, I guess y'all woke up for nothing this morning," he said. A few confused glances were cast in his direction so he explained, "Me and Sana already took care of that problem. That was how she got poisoned." Just to be sure, he shifted the weight of the girl on his back, making sure she was still there. In response, a soft breathing reached his right ear.
Out of the corner of her eye, Tsunade noticed the blond moving the little girl on his back. She couldn't help but feel happy that he had someone he could look after. And someone to look after him, even though she was a youngster.
Clearing her throat, she stated, "From how she looked when we left, I'd say she's be asleep for a while." Naruto looked over to her, his face hidden behind his hood so she couldn't see him raise an eyebrow. But, she explained anyways, "No matter who it is, after being poisoned, the body goes into a small sleeping coma to regenerate energy. Don't worry, it's normal," she added when she noticed him tense up a bit.
"So, nothing can wake her up?" Naruto asked, curiously.
"Well, that all really depends. But, I'd say for the next couple of hours, she'll be knocked out that not even a horn right next to her ear would wake her."
Naruto nodded. "Well, I guess I won't have to worry about a certain someone talking my ear off for a while now." He grinned and saw the hokage roll her eyes but a hint of a smile was on her face.
"So, what's it been like since I left here?" He asked, the question had been nagging at him ever since he planned on coming here. Now was the best time to ask. "I bet it's been peaceful."
He noticed Sasuke tense up at the question, but he was the only one who noticed. "Quiet." He said in an emotionless voice. Behind his words, you could hear the sadness.
"Boring," Tsunade said. "Sure, it's been peaceful, but there was nothing fun to do or have around."
Sakura looked at her ex-comrade with sad green eyes and shook her head, "When you left, everyone became depressed. At some points in time, I still notice the look. Everyone is still sad that you're no longer here, even though years have passed."
Naruto remained quiet as he looked ahead of himself. He felt Sakura watch him for a minute longer before turning her eyes away. He remembered Jirayah telling him the same thing a few years back. Sasuke, along with some of their friends were trying to go out and look for him and bring him back, much like how Naruto did the same for Sasuke. But, before they could leave, they were stopped.
He remained quiet, wondering how much things would have changed if he had stayed here, despite being banished. What would have happened if he trust Tsunade and Jirayah that they would keep him safe? Where would he be now?
Pushing the thoughts out of his mind, Naruto focused on what was happening now. Many things had already changed since he left. Just looking at his once best friend, and what he was wearing was proof enough. "So, Sasuke," he said and said name looked up, showing that he was listening even though he didn't face him. "When did you become ANBU captain?"
"A year and some months after you left," he remarked. "There was nothing to do in this village except for try for higher ranks."
The blond chuckled, slightly disagreeing with that statement. "I guess so."
"What have you been doing, Naruto?" Sakura asked, glancing at him again.
Said name shrugged his shoulders, though it was hard to see with his cloak on. "Long story short, I travel around and train whenever I get the chance. I visit some old friends and make new. By the way, a lot of people say hi." He said, remembering all of the people Team Seven had helped and became friends with.
Kakashi nodded his head and asked, "Where do you live now? With all of this traveling, I assume you have a place where you can call home." They wouldn't admit it, but the three older ones were concerned about that one. They had their fingers crossed he had a place where he could bunker down and have a little place all to himself rather than just roaming everywhere and always sleeping in a different place.
"Yup. I like with the Sand siblings now. After my banishment," he noticed that everyone slightly flinched at the word like he was talking coldly to them, "Gaara took me in and gave me a home. He doesn't mind me traveling, just as long as I come back every once in a while."
It got silent for a couple of minutes. It was a bit awkward, but not by much. Breaking that quiet, Sakura finally mentioned something that had been bugging her ever since she laid eyes on him for the first time in years.
"So, why did you change your hair for?" She asked. She couldn't really point to it since his hood was covering his blond hair that had blood red tips at the ends.
Subconsciously, Naruto's free hand went under his cowl and touched his pointy hair. "Uh, I didn't really have anything to do with changing it. I already liked it before. After training with Kyuubi for a couple of months, her chakra started to merge with mine and apparently started to change my looks." He said that like he was frowning upon the fox.
Kyuubi flashed him a toothy grin, 'Hey, you needed an improvement.'
Naruto rolled his blue eyes.
All too soon, the group of seven (Including Sana) arrived at the Gate. The man from before, Shiranui Genma, was still at his post and when he saw the on coming party, especially with the hokage along with them, he started to walk towards them. But, Sasuke had walked on ahead and intercepted the man and was talking with him. After a few moments, the ninja nodded and poofed away.
"Well, I guess this is it." Naruto said, somehow awkward when they stopped in front of the gate. He wasn't very good at goodbyes.
Before he could even move, let alone back away, Sakura pulled him into a tight hug. "I don't want you to leave, Naruto." She whispered in a broken voice.
He hugged her back, a little more tightly than he intended, "Sorry, but I have too." He pulled back and stood at an arms length away from her. He looked deep into her sad green eyes and said, "Maybe in a week or so, we can meet on the outskirts of the Fire Country. We can talk and hang out there."
Sakura nodded, feeling her eyes well up with tears. "Just say the word and we'll be there," she said. She tried her hardest not to let the tears spill out, and she succeeding.
He looked over to the rest of the group. They were all expressing sadness that caused him to look away. "Well, I guess I better get going."
"Naruto," Jirayah started to say but was cut off by a sickly sweet voice.
"My, my, my, so this is where you have been, Naruto." The voice said. "You're very hard to find these days. Luckily, I was just in the neighborhood."
"Show yourself," Tsunade ordered, scanning the perimeter for the unknown man. The voice was rather familiar, but right now, she couldn't quite place what face belonged to the voice.
Naruto looked around and when he couldn't find anyone, looked up His eyes immediately sought out a figure sitting on a tree branch, high up from the ground. The man, from what they could make from the voice, had one leg dangling from the tree branch he was perched on while the other was propped up. He looked like he had been taking a snooze from the comfortable position.
"How the hell are you? Naruto growled out. It may not be his village anymore, but he still had the sense of protection for it. The Kohona shinobi looked to where he was starring at and saw the man. They instantly went into a defense position, being ready for anything that could happen.
"My, my, my, being a bit rude, hm?" The voice asked.
Something about that voice sent a chill down Naruto's spine. He knew that voice, but who did it belong to? Why was it so familiar?
Just as he thought the question, Sasuke loosened his sword from it's sheath and growled in a low, dangerous tone, "What are you doing here, Orochimaru?" His body was the most tense out of all of the Leaf shinobi and he glared at the man.
Said name got to his feet. From where he was standing, sunlight shone through the leaves and illuminated his face. And indeed, it was the snake man with that creepy smile he always presented. "That's quite a greeting, Sasuke. I would have thought you'd have more respect for your teacher." He then closed his eyes with a disapproving shake of his head. A tsk tsk sound was heard from him.
Sasuke snarled and with a quick flicker of his wrist, brought his sword out and was about to charge the man when, before he could take a single step, Naruto held a hand out to stop him. He looked taken aback. "What're you doing, dobe?" He hissed.
Naruto shook his head and pulled his hood down from his head. He could see Orochimaru smile a bit wider at the sight of seeing the Nine-Tails host.
"Orochimaru," Naruto called up to him in a loud, calm voice, "Why have you been looking for me?" He asked, wanting to know why after all of this time, the evil man finally decided to search for him.
Orochimaru tilted his head a bit to the side with his smile still in place. "Yes, I am looking for you, but that isn't all I'm looking for." His eyes bored into Naruto's blue ones and for a minute, Naruto's mind went blank.
"Who?" He asked, confused.
"Oh, I think you know. She is rather powerful and with her skill, she would make a great addition to my army."
Naruto's eyes suddenly narrowed as he realized who the crazy man was talking about. He couldn't believe he didn't think of it before! But, before he could utter a single word, Jirayah asked, "Why the hell are you making an army for? What is the purpose of that?"
"Oh I wonder why indeed." Orochimaru replied, sarcasm dripping off of his words. He looked over to the white hair perv. "But, don't worry, you'll find out soon enough." He looked away from his ex comrade and back to a very guarded blond haired blue eyed man. "Let's just make things nice and easy, Naruto: hand her over and I'll spare you and your friends. That is, for now."
"Over my dead body!" He growled with such venom in his voice. "I was wondering when creeps like you would start to take notice in her. Sorry about your luck though, you ain't having her!" Though, he didn't have any sympathy in his voice. Without even realizing it, one of his hands disappeared and wrapped around his little sister's back, trying to comfort himself that she was still with him and that she wasn't going anywhere.
Kakashi snapped his book shut and slipped it back into his pouch. "Whose he talking about?" He asked in a hushed voice.
"Sana."
"Really?"
Naruto nodded and without bothering to look over at his old teacher, he explained, "Sana was born with a rare chakra that not even the Kyuubi has seen. It's an ancient chakra that has never even been listed in books or scrolls. As far as I'm concerned, it's even older than the Rainbow chakra." He paused and added the last part just to give them something easier to understand, "She's powerful, but not as powerful as some would think. Kyuubi has more power, but Sana is still up in the high, abnormal range."
"What kind of chakra does she have then?" Tsunade asked, unaware that there was something that one of the most powerful creatures that ever existed never had heard of. She made a mental note in her head for future references.
Even though he didn't want to say what Sana's chakra was, fearing that someone would over heard and come after them, he didn't have a choice. He needed to tell them. So, taking a deep breath, he said, "Solar and Moon chakra." Right as the words left his mouth, the blond did something totally unexpected. He bit his thumb and slammed it to the ground, crying out, "Summoning Jutsu!" Within a second, a black circle with writing and a cloud of smoke appeared and a big thing took it's place. The thing, the the smoke started to clear, was almost as big as Naruto himself when he stood back up.
The wind cleared the smoke away and standing on all four, in the place Naruto had just touched, was a rather large frog. Jirayah frowned, he had never even seen this frog, even though he could summon them.
"Gilagen," Naruto said in a lower voice. The frog looked over at him and stayed silent. "I need you to do me a favor: Get Sana out of here." He rid himself of his cloak and swung the still sleeping girl from his back to his arms.
"Sure thing boss. Any particular place?" He croaked in a deep, deep voice. He stayed still as he watched the blond hair man move.
Naruto gently laid his sister on the toad's back and used some of his chakra to secure her to him so she wouldn't fall off when they started to move.
"Gaara of the Sand is on his way here. Meet up with him and tell him 'after lurking for quite some time, things start to move at a pace too fine'. He'll understand that message." Before Naruto could dismiss the frog to leave the village, he felt a presence behind him.
Out of instinct, Naruto back flipped away with a kunai already in his hand. He turned to face Orochimaru who was standing where Naruto had just been.
"Gilagen, go!" He ordered with urgency clear in his voice.
The toad poured energy into his hind legs and got ready to bounce high into the air, in order to escape, when Orochimaru did a few hand signs and had hundreds of snakes erupt from the earth like a volcano. Gilagen saw this act and lost a lot of his focus to jump and was only able to leap a yard into the air. But at that same time, snakes grabbed onto the toad's legs and brought him back down to the ground. Before the snakes could start attacking, they were met with a ball of flames.
Sasuke shot out another flaming ball from his mouth just as Kakashi and Sakura appeared next to the amphibian trying to get free.
Naruto took off running at Orochimaru, needing to distract him so Gilagen could escape. As he was starting to make hand signs, Kyuubi, watchful as ever, yelled out, 'Behind you!' But Naruto didn't have time to duck as two ninjas, not from Kohona, started to attack him.
"Oh no you don't!" Jirayah came out of nowhere and slammed into one of the ninja while Tsunade grabbed the other one and threw him the opposite way.
"You always lacked in watching your back," the perv yelled to his old student, recalling the old days.
Naruto didn't respond as his attention focused on the snake in front of him. Focusing a little of his attention on his hand, he started to gather a sphere of chakra in his right hand.
Though Orochimaru was waiting for him. As soon as Naruto was within distance, he raised an eyebrow and started to form more hand signs.
"Naruto!" Sasuke's voice filled the air with an urgent message, "Watch out!"
Said name heeded the message and within three yards away from Orochimaru, he had enough chakra in his hand and released the Rasangan in his hand and black flipped away, knowing the explosion would engulf him if he didn't move away from the spot.
But, before the Rasangan could touch it's intended target, the man disappeared on spot.
An explosion shook the ground from where the wind chakra touched down. Chucks of ground and dirt sprayed into the air and a good size crater was left in it's wake.
"Damn it!" Naruto hissed under his breath.
'Watch out. I've seen him do something of this sort before.' Kyuubi warned. She bit her lip, and added, 'What do you think he was trying to do?' She asked, referring to the hand signs.
/I don't know about that. Sasuke warned me to watch out, but.../ He frowned, thinking of a solution when he sensed it. He had just enough time to jump a yard into the air before the ground crumbled and a rather large snake popped out with it's mouth opened and it's fangs dripping with poison.
'Move your foot, kit.' Kyuubi ordered.
Naruto did as he was told and moved it. He looked down and noticed if he had left his foot down any longer, it would have been bitten off.
"Always be aware of your surroundings, Naruto." A creepy, calm voice called from above.
The blond, forgetting his training, looked up and wasn't prepared as a fist met his cheek. The force of the attack sent him sky rocketing downwards at an angle and he plummeted into the hard ground. Another crater was formed in under five minutes.
"Ugh..." Naruto moaned, mentally cursing himself for acting so foolishly. He could have stopped that punch with something if he had been paying attention. Feeling a light headache form in the back of his mind, he quickly got to his feet with crushed rocks rolling off of him. Taking a minute, he looked across the fighting ground, trying to see what he was up against and if there were any other surprises he needed to know of.
Across the lot, Sakura was still busy trying to kill the snakes that were wrapped around Gilagen's back and front legs. Every time she got one off, two more seemed to take it's place. Luckily, none of them had started to bite, not they had time to. Near her, Kakashi had stopped helping her in killing the pests, and was helping Sasuke kill them so they wouldn't continue to frustrate Sakura. All of their hands were full at the moment. All too soon, Sasuke had to bark to Kakashi to continue what he was doing as he left to counteract some other new ninja that were no doubt part of Orochimaru's gang. A little away, Jirayah and Tsunade were still locked in their own battle, each of them fighting two at once.
Someone stepped into Naruto's view, forcing him to look to look away from the other battles.
"You ain't having her!" He growled to Orochimaru.
The snake man smirked as he had a calm aura about him. "Oh, are you going to try and stop me?"
"Like hell, I know I'm going to stop you!" Naruto threw a kunai at him while disappearing and reappearing behind his opponent and throwing a punch and aimed a 360 kick, one right after the other. It all took a few seconds.
Of course, his opponent dodged them all and managed to catch Naruto's leg in mid swing. "No matter what you do, you're going to lose her today." He threw the leg away from him and took the opportunity of his opponent trying to gain his balance to aim a punch at him.
But, Naruto was ready for that. He regained his composer with such speed and dodge the swing by ducking down. "Is that a fact, or are you just flat out lying?" He tried once again and threw a punch, aiming for the man's unguarded stomach. Just as his hand made contact with the soft flesh, a stinging was felt on his shoulder.
The two ninja jumped back from each other, Orochimaru standing calmly a few yards away while Naruto was holding onto his bleeding shoulder. Already, he could feel Kyuubi's healing ability.
Before waiting to be healed all of the way, he ran forward for another attack and was meet with a punch that he dodged.
Naruto tried everything that came to mind, kicking at the legs, punching him in the chest or face, arms, or anywhere else. But, no matter what, Orochimaru blocked them all with ease. Maybe it was because Naruto was barely trying.
"Fine!" Naruto jumped backwards and threw his arms up like he was going for the Rasangan. Instead of having the chakra forming on his face-up palm, nine little spheres, the size of golf balls, started to form in a circle on the ground around him.
Orochimaru watch with curiosity.
The spheres on the ground started to get bigger as the chakra started to have red swell into them. They started to spin slowly around him and as they got bigger, they started to rise. The half blue, half red chakra spheres started to pick up speed and if you were to stop them, you could tell they their shape started to change along with the size and color.
"Ah, so you've been learning new things." Orochimaru observed, impressed. "That'll come quite handy later on."
Naruto's eyes narrowed as his blue iris's started to turn a bloody red. "Neither me nor Sana is going with you!" The spheres picked up speed, making a dizzy motion. They were going so fast, that they blurred and made it look like a circle of fire was around him.
With a flicker of his wrist, Naruto sent the spheres shooting away from him and straight at it's only target.
"Chakura no tama no bakudan!" ((Chakra Sphere Bombs)) He yelled.
The chakra sphere's spiraled towards him, but he just stood there, another one of his creepy smiles in play.
Right before they made impact, Naruto formed a Rasangan in his palm and started to run after his creations.
Someone suddenly jumped in from of him, but Naruto kept on running. He was going to either dodge around the newcomer, or jump over them, but he was going to keep running.
The person who appeared in front of Naruto was female with her hair cut short. She smirked at the on coming Naruto and at a fast speed, preformed hand signs.
Time seemed to slow down. He watched in surprise as the ninja in front of him flickered her wrist after her hand signs were complete and the chakra spheres, just before they hit Orochimaru and the Rasangan all disappeared on sight.
'The hell?' He thought, confused.
"I'm called the Vanishing Act Ninja," she explained in a loud, girly voice. Before she finished her sentence, she ran head on to the blond who was trying to stop.
They met, but she had the upper hand and punched him square in the face, would have broken his noise if he didn't move his face just a little before impact.
Naruto went flying backwards and crashed against an empty house. As he fell towards the ground, the house groaned and crumbled, burying him under the debris.
"Where the hell are all of the extra ninja coming from?" He growled to himself as he tried to dig himself out, feeling aching coming from all over. He made it out and slide out to the open. He moved his left leg to stand up and let out a loud hiss of pain. Glancing down, he realized a pole had penetrated through his clothing and into his flesh.
"Damn it!" Grabbing onto one end of the pole, the held his breath. In a quick motion, he pulled it pull it out and bit back a scream of pain. He tossed the metal away from him and looked down at his leg that had blood gushing out from his leg. He knew he needed to stop the blood, but he needed to get on with the battle. He didn't know why, but his mind was preoccupied with something today. He wasn't doing as great as he normally was. He sucked was what it all really came down too.
As Naruto was fixed on his leg, Kyuubi had been observing the battle. When she caught sight of something important, she hissed out, 'Sana!'
Naruto's head perked up and he was instantly on his feet, his leg forgotten. (And it was already starting to heal and patch itself up). He scanned the battle ground and caught sight of the toad he had summoned not even ten minutes ago. And to his horror, he watched as Orochimaru goons managed to separate Kakashi -once he killed all of the snakes- from Sakura and from her to Gilagen. Sasuke was off fighting three on one, though he noticed that no one was protecting the toad and he was trying to make his way over to him.
"Gilagen, move!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs, but just as the toad bunched up his legs again to spring into the air, more snakes appeared from the ground and wrapped around his legs, forcing him back to the ground. They hung onto him, making him unable to move.
"Shit!" Naruto growled.
The Jinjuriki tried to take a step forward, but something was keeping him from doing it. He tried to force his way, but it felt like something was restraining him, holding on to him with invisible string or hands. He was moving his head to look to see if something was indeed holding onto him, when something caught him eye. He turned back to Gilagen and then really tried to move.
Orochimaru had made it over to the toad and the still sound asleep teenager. Since he had the toad tied down, unable to move, he had easy access.
"I won't let you take her!" The toad croaked, glaring up at the man. He he indeed tried to get away. He tried everything, but it was all useless.
Orochimaru just smiled and ignored the amphibian's failed attempts to stop him. He bent down and picked the girl up, breaking the chakra bonds that secured her to the toad. "And who is going to stop me?" He lifted Sana up onto his shoulder like she was a bag of flour. He turned around and met Naruto's enraged eyes. "I'll be waiting for you too, Naruto. Until then." He kicked off the ground and disappeared into the trees.
His ninja must have been waiting for their leader to leave because right when he left the open ground, they all did too, leaving their battles behind. The snakes disappeared as soon as the last ninja vanished from sight.
"SANA!" Naruto screamed in rage. Whatever had been holding him down, broke and he almost lost his balance. But, he didn't give it any thought. Quicker than sound, he poured on speed towards the entrance of the village when a group of people appeared out of nowhere and surrounded him, stopping him in his tracks.
He glared at the newcomers, getting ready for another fight. He was blinded by rage at losing his sister to even notice that they newcomers were the Leaf's ANBU/
Before he could say anything, one of the ninja walked up to him. He didn't remove his duck mask, as was it was protocol, and said, "Naruto Uzumaki. I hear by state that you are under arrest."
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Until next time! Please tell me how you like it!
Author's note: Just want to say one thing, please tell me how you like the battle scene. I say it sucked, since I can't write them. But, tell me how you like it and if it was confusing. Bye!
