Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 52: Hunt For An Uchiha.
(Unknown Location)
Rain was once again falling as Pein looked out over his village and did not react when he felt someone arrive directly behind him.
"What do you think of the situation with Sasuke Uchiha" Pein asked.
"I do not know yet, but should he succeed our problems with Itachi will be over and we may even have a new member. Let's just say I am only interested in the one that win's" Tobi said all evidence of the childish attitude gone.
"I see and what about Deidara, is he still set on challenging the boy" Pein asked turning around slowly to stare at Tobi with his Purple ringed eye's.
"Deidara still want's to fight him, but he has lived out his usefulness. And I can use the fight to judge Sasuke's potential. And if he dies he was never a threat in the first place" Tobi said.
"A sound plan, we will begin to plan how to deal with the remaining jinchuuriki once we have this little issue resolved" Pein said before turning back to look over the village and Tobi vanished in a swirl.
(With Itachi)
"Why are we heading into the Land of Fire, isn't your brother who is hunting you there" Kisame said obviously confused as to why they were heading towards a fight something Itachi usually would try to avoid.
"We need to be here anyway, Naruto-kun is my target. But we cant move on him while Sasuke-kun is targeting me, I need to deal with that foolish little brother of mine" Itachi said.
"Well don't let me stop you, this sound's like it could actually be fun" Kisame said.
"Yes but I will need to find Sasuke-kun and get him to meet me at on old Uchiha hideout. I also want to face him alone so you can play with his team if you want. But do try not to kill them, they might be useful later" Itachi said with a blank expression.
"Kami why do you never let me have any fun" Kisame pouted.
"Come on we still have a long way to go, and I need to send a clone to tell Sasuke where to come" Itachi said.
"Where are we going anyway, it's not exactly a small country, at full speed it take's a week to get to the other side of it" Kisame said.
"It's over the other side of the country. Back in the clan war's before Konoha was founded it was an old Uchiha stronghold in fact it was one of the few that were taken from the Senju clan but all evidence of there existence was erased once Madara took control of the clan. he said it was a sign of our superiority over the other clans" Itachi said.
"How do you even know that" Kisame questioned.
"Uchiha member's who never awakened the sharingan were always put to work taking note's on all the event's that happened while the Uchiha clan was busy attempting to conquer the others. So the Uchiha archives in Konoha has great historical records of those time's. However they are slightly biased in the Uchiha clan's favor only major defeat's that would have been marked by the other clans where recorded and even then it was only ever the Senju or Uzumaki clan's that would be mentioned" Itachi said.
"Heh they never had anything like that in Kiri. All I know of those time's is that there was constant fighting until word finally came about the other villages that had formed. That forced our waring clans to come together" Kisame said.
"Make's sense you came together out of fear, and it was that same fear that led to the bloodline war's and agreeing to help Iwa in the Uzumaki clan massacre" Itachi said.
"I remember that, Kiri rented there boat's to Iwa, but I never knew what made the Uzumaki clan so great" Kisame Admitted.
"Nor do I, the only record's I have seen on the Uzumaki clan said that they were great friend's and allies with the Senju's and were considered the greatest seal master's ever to live other than the Rikudou Sennin and they had unusually long life spans" Itachi said.
The two men in there black cloaks continued to walk casually across the countryside as they talked about the old clan war's.
(Konoha)
Naruto walked back towards the village with a huge smile after a successful morning of training and finishing the work on his latest seal. Once he made it to the hot spring's however he stopped to look around. Sure enough there was Jiraiya sitting on top of a large toad giggling as he took notes.
"You know for someone who can become invisible you don't do a very good job at hiding" Naruto said from behind the elder toad sage.
"Oh hey kid" Jiraiya said jumping off the toad so he could talk to Naruto.
"I have a gift for you Jiraiya sensei but you have to promise not to open it until I tell you to or your in a life or deaf situation" Naruto said finishing with a chuckle as he could never foresee his sensei in that much trouble.
"Then what is the point of giving it to me now, just give it to me when I can open it and see what it is" Jiraiya pouted.
"Because I want you to have it now. But I want to wait till I show it to both you and Yugito together" Naruto said with a smile.
"Ah fine I promise I wont open it unless I am about to die or you tell me to" Jiraiya moaned obviously upset.
"Don't feel too bad sensei I just want to wait until I get back from our mission to find Sasuke and Itachi that way I can give a proper demonstration and not have to worry about being late for this damn mission" Naruto said handing a small flat rectangular wooden box over to the elder toad sage.
Jiraiya accepted the box but his pout remained as he shook the box but couldn't hear anything moving inside.
"It's padded. So tough luck figuring out what's in there that way sensei" Naruto said with a laugh.
"Oh man fine...Oh I almost forgot. I probably wont be here when you get back, I found some information on the Akatsuki and if I can get some more solid information I am going to go investigate it" Jiraiya said.
"Cant it wait till I get back so we can go together" Naruto said slightly upset Jiraiya would leave without him for something that was related to the Akatsuki.
"Sorry kiddo not this time, if the lead proves solid I would have to sneak into a hidden village and country that has it's border's completely closed off the more of us that go the harder it would be" Jiraiya said sympathetically.
"Ah well then I guess we will have to wait for you to get back. I have to go get ready to meet Kakashi sensei at the north gate in a couple of hour's. Good luck in your search, oh and be safe" Naruto said and gave Jiraiya a small hug before jumping off towards his apartment.
When Naruto arrived home he found Yugito waiting for him outside with his things already packed. "Your late you know, Sakura is going to let us have it now. And it will be worse than ever because our mission is to look for Sasuke" Yugito said.
"Heh sorry I was just saying goodbye to Jiraiya sensei" Naruto said with a smile.
"Well I have packed all of your thing's into your scroll's here" Yugito said handing over Naruto's equipment sealing scroll's.
"Thanks Yugi-chan but I still have something to get from inside can you go to the gate and tell the others that I am going to be just a little longer" Naruto said.
"I guess so don't be too long, if Kakashi arrives before you Sakura will freak" she said before jumping away up onto a nearby roof and began heading towards the gate.
(With Sasuke)
Team Hebi were walking down a gray corridor looking for any sign's of life but had not found any until they ran into two small cat's one was black and white while the other was a light shade of orange.
"Ah Sasuke-kun it has been awhile" the Black and white cat said shocking Suigetsu and Karin while Jugo just seemed to be mildly interested.
"Holy shit that thing can talk" Suigetsu blurted out shocked at what he just heard.
"Of course we can we are ninja cat's trained to speak over many generation's" the smaller orange cat said.
"That's amazing do you think they will know where your brother is" Karin asked.
"Ah so that's why your hear your going after Itachi-kun. He was here a few week's ago but he left and I do not know where he left too" the black cat spoke again.
"I see, then we need to buy some equipment and robe's. I assume I can still buy those sort's of things here" Sasuke said trying to hide his disappointment that there was no information on where Itachi was hiding from him.
"Yes of course come this way" the orange cat said and turned around to lead to an open room with a young lady who was folding some clothes.
"You hired some help" Sasuke asked.
"Help? You mean she works for the cat's" Suigetsu asked shocked.
"What's wrong with that we pay her well" the orange cat said.
"So what do you need" the other cat said.
"Basic supplies kunai and shuriken as well as some cloaks" Sasuke said.
Several hours later they left the underground area wrapped in there new cloaks and they made there way out of the town they were in and began heading towards the north of the land of fire. "So now what, we still don't have any idea's as to where Itachi is" Karin said.
"We need need to split up that way we can cover more ground, we will meet up here again at the end of the day" Sasuke said and the group split up.
Once the other members of team Hebi left Sasuke began to head in the opposite direction to the others but after about five minutes stopped dead in his tracks when two people wearing black robes with red clouds came out of the forest in front of him.
"Hello" Tobi said with a friendly wave of his hand.
(With Naruto)
The team that had left Konoha had been heading north for a few hours when Kakashi stopped. "Where going to need to split up. And search for any information we can find on either Uchiha. I will go further north with Naruto and Yugito. Hinata and Sakura there is a town to the east go look around and see if you can find anything out there. Shino and Kiba I want you guys to split up and search for any signs of there tracks or sent" he said getting nods from the three groups that would be splitting up.
"What do we do if we find something?" Kiba asked.
"I will give each of you, one of my summon hounds, if you fins something they can get into contact with the other groups" said Kakashi before he took out a scroll and swiped some blood on it before three dogs appeared.
Pakun went with Hinata and Sakura while a large bulldog went with Naruto and a large black dog went with Kiba and Shino.
(With Sasuke)
"Akatsuki... You will know where Itachi is. Tell me now" Sasuke ordered as he stared down Deidara and Tobi.
"He's not like Itachi sempai at all. Tobi thinks Itachi is much nicer" Tobi said happily.
"I don't care tell me where Itachi is before I kill you" Sasuke said angrily.
"Well then I guess we are agreed on something, because I want to kill you too" said Deidara.
"Like you could stand against me I'm an Uchiha an elite you are nothing to me" Sasuke sneered.
"Tobi thinks this Uchiha is underestimating you sempai" Tobi said.
"Well that will just make this easier" Deidara said and behind Sasuke small clay birds shot out of the trees and flew straight at the Uchiha with anger management issues.
Sasuke reacted at the last second to jump out of the way while the clay birds slammed into the ground causing an explosion. And a large whole in the ground.
"Fine if you wont tell me where Itachi is I will beat it out of you" Sasuke said activating his sharingan. And withdrawing the katana that was on his back.
"I'm just going to watch, Tobi wants to be friends" said Tobi jumping into a tree and sitting down on a branch.
"Pfft fine I don't want your help anyway" Deidara said. As he jumped onto his clay bird and flew into the air before Sasuke could arrive to attack with his sword.
"You stole my kill. Orochimaru was supposed to be killed by me so I guess you will have to do" Deidara said as he sent more small animals made of clay at Sasuke.
The clay creatures encircle Sasuke before flying down and exploding giving Sasuke nowhere to run. However once the smoke cleared all that remained was a wooden log.
"Tobi thinks its funny that there is always a log around when people need one" Tobi said from where he was sitting in his tree.
Deidara was not one to be put off by a simple substitution and sent more clay birds to attack Sasuke who easily avoided them.
"Well it seems that my C1 is not enough to cause you problems let's see how my C2 works... C2 Clay dragon" Deidara said from on top of his bird and from his deformed hands.
The dragon flew at Sasuke forcing him to jump out of the way, this time the clay creature didn't explode instead it came onto the ground and pushed back off chasing the emo Uchiha.
(With Naruto)
Naruto, Yugito and Kakashi arrived in a small clearing but the second they arrived Naruto stopped dead.
"What is it" Kakashi asked confused as to why Naruto would stop like that.
"Were not alone there is someone watching us, he feels familiar but it is weird I cant tell what it is but it seems off" Naruto explained.
"Kukuku I should have known I wouldn't have been able to sneak up on you Naruto-kun" came a sickly smooth voice before from the trees came Kabuto.
"Kabuto! What do you want" Kakashi demanded getting ready to strike.
"Easy Kakashi, I am not here to fight don't worry" Kabuto said.
"Then why are you here" Yugito asked wearily.
"I am here to give you all of Orochimaru's information on the Akatsuki I think you will find that it is rather useful" Kabuto said taking out a small book and tossing it to Kakashi.
"What happened to you, you don't feel right" Naruto said cautiously.
"I have injected Orochimaru's cells into my body and they are currently fighting for dominance over my own. But I am confident I can control them in time. Orochimaru's notes on cellular transfer of genes were the worlds best after all" Kabuto said.
"That's just sickening" Naruto said clearly disgusted by what he was hearing.
"Why is it, I idolized Orochimaru but now that he is dead I had no purpose. But then I realized that I could become far more than he ever was, in fact it was you who showed me that when you a sixteen year old boy caused Orochimaru to become incapacitated for weeks. So really think of that book as a thank you for giving me the inspiration to become more than I could ever dream of" Kabuto said before he began to back away.
"He is worse than ever, that is disgusting" Naruto said after he left.
"Yes but what do you think about this book" Kakashi said examining the book sceptically.
"I think we should check it out once we get back to Konoha we don't have time for this now" Yugito said not wanting to waste any time on something when they had a job to do.
"I agree" Naruto said and began to move on towards there next town in search of Itachi.
(With Sasuke)
Sasuke was still dodging the the large clay dragon while Deidara sat on watching on while on top of his bird.
"He sure is fast sempai" Tobi said as Sasuke jumped away from another strike from the dragon.
"Yeah but he cant dodge me forever" Deidara said confidently.
Sasuke seemed to have the same idea and began gathering lightening in his hand. "Chidori Eiso" Sasuke yelled and a large beam of lightening shot out toward the dragon but it was fast enough to get high in the air to miss it. Deidara's clay bird however was not a lucky and it had its head removed.
Seeing that he was in danger Deidara leaped from his bird and was able to cling onto the massive clay dragon's wing.
"Ok it's time to take this seriously" Deidara said and jumped onto the dragons nose. "Take this" the blond Akatsuki member said and the dragon began to open its mouth and it shot out a large chunk of clay towards Sasuke.
Sasuke just got out of the way of the large explosion but he didn't have time to rest when he turned to the side he saw two clay men charging at him.
Sasuke removed his sword and began slicing them up but they seemed to remake themselves just as quickly as he cut them.
"Now...Katsu" Deidara yelled from his high perch upon the dragon. The clay men who were surrounding Sasuke exploded but before Deidara could celebrate two demon shuriken came flying from the smoke right at him forcing him to swerve out of the way. 'Damn, why wont this fucking brat just die' Deidara thought angrily after the blade's flew past his creation.
"Tobi your up here, use these" Deidara said and his dragon flew to the ground and made a bunch of small round clay balls for Tobi to use.
"Aw but sempai this guy looks tough and Tobi didn't want to get involved" Tobi said sadly.
"I don't care your my teammate now do something useful" Deidara said.
Sasuke seeing that the dragon had descended and was not paying any attention to him at the moment charged but before he got anywhere near the range to attack the dragon turned his head and spat out a smaller dragon that flew towards the Uchiha.
Sasuke changed direction but this time the bomb followed him. 'What the hell is this, a homing bomb I am going to have to let it get close enough to explode without getting hit in the explosion. Good thing with the sharingan I would never be hit by something like this' Sasuke thought as he successfully avoided the explosion.
The dragon took off again and and began spewing the mini dragons at Sasuke forcing him to jump out of the way once more. This time when he landed however the ground underneath him felt different.
A huge explosion rocked the area where Sasuke had landed. "Sempai Tobi set up the clay mine's like you asked because Tobi is a good boy" Tobi said appearing from underground yet strangly did not have a trace of dirt on him.
When the smoke cleared however there was Sasuke with longer hair and claw like wings. 'Damn it homing bombs from above and mines from below' Sasuke thought to himself while Deidara examined his new form.
"Now try and dodge me and to make sure of it this one is going to be a big one" Deidara said as his dragon slowly opened his mouth. A second later out shot a larger dragon that flew at Sasuke who had nowhere to run.
Leaving him with no choice Sasuke went to block the explosion with one of his wings. When the explosions went of Sasuke's sword went flying out of the smoke landing several feet away. When the smoke cleared however Sasuke was still alive and well despite the loss of one wing.
"Well it looks like you blocked it but you wont be able to block this one, yeah" Deidara said as he prepared to fire again. Then at the same time the dragon shot its next bomb from his mouth Sasuke tightened several wires that were connected to the shuriken he threw earlier and out of the woods the they began to return the way they came.
Reacting quickly Deidara had to swoop low to avoid the blades as his explosion went off. Then the explosives expert from Iwa got a bigger shock right from below him the sound of chirping birds and a large beam of lightening shot up piercing the dragon's wing before cutting it off. 'He must have threw his sword for him to stand on and used the demon shuriken to draw me into his attack range' Deidara thought shocked.
Before he could jump off the descending clay dragon Sasuke used the still in motion demon shuriken attached to the ninja wire to pin Deidara to his creation as it landed on the ground. A ground filled with clay mines.
The explosions were massive and it caused a domino affect that set off the majority of the remaining mines in the area.
Sasuke still falling and not wanting to be caught in the blast used one of Orochimaru's favorite jutsu the shadow snake hands to pull himself to safety before his curse mark retreated back. Sasuke looked over at where the smoke was clearing and became noticeably annoyed when another clay bird shot up out of the cloud with Deidara on his back looking rather angry as he stared down at Sasuke's sharingan eyes.
'Those eye's, those damn eye's just like Itachi well I will show him my ultimate art' Deidara thought and began eating his clay.
"This looks bad Tobi thinks he should get out of the way sempai's next attack looks like it is going to be dangerous" Tobi said to himself and began running.
Deidara spewed out the clay and it began to grow and this continued until it formed a giant clay version of Deidara. The giant Deidara took off destroying anything below he feat chasing after Sasuke who did not seem to want to hang around. After a small chase the large Deidara began to swell before it ripped apart with no explosion.
'Was it a dud... No it cant be he is still channeling chakra' Sasuke thought. Then he realized something was really wrong all the creatures in the area began dissolving into thin air being erased. 'What is this no way' Sasuke thought as he was wiped from existence.
"Yes I did it, I won. My art it-" but Deidara's celebration stopped when he felt a genjutsu being released and movement behind him. He only had time to turn his head as Sasuke's hand crashed through his chest. 'I was in a genjutsu all along damn him and those eyes. But this isn't over I may be dead but I will take him with me' Deidara thought as Sasuke removed his hand from his chest.
"Sempai!" Tobi screamed from where he ran too when the giant Deidara formed.
"Your finished now tell me where Itachi is.. and I might spare your life" Sasuke said deactivating his sharingan.
"Fuck you. If I'm going to die I will be taking you and everything else in a five mile radius with me... Now experience my final art the C5 he said as the bird he was standing on fell to earth. His heart began to glow and his body began to change shape.
Sasuke could see the chakra building around him and used another chidori to kill him before he could finish the jutsu. "Hehehe it's too late, yeah. This cannot be stopped it was created to go off immediately after my death he said defiantly as blood began to pour from his mouth.
Sasuke for once had a look of fear as Deidara grew to the size of a tall building. The last word Deidara ever spoke was "Katsu!" and the following explosion shook the area for miles around.
End Chapter!
Ok so I changed the beginning and end of that fight. Had no reason for the beginning except to give me an opportunity to cut to Naruto.
The end I did because it gave me the shit's once I thought about it. If Sasuke really had no chakra left to use his lightening to make the bomb a dud. Then how the fuck did he summon Manda and for that matter how did he put Manda under a genjutsu to save him. It just didn't make sense so I left out that bit and just ended it with the whole genjutsu escape thing.
If you don't know what I am talking about just read the manga or watch those couple of episodes again and you will understand what I am saying.
That said I found this whole saga quite annoying, I mean they cut out half way to do the whole Jiraiya vs Pein thing just when it started to get interesting. Not that the fight wasn't awesome just kinda stopped the story dead, and had no real lead in. my theory is he just needed a few weeks to figure out how he was going to save Sasuke and then hope people forgot the small plot hole he created.
Anyway enough of me bitching hope you enjoy and I should update again in a day or so.