Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 77: Naruto Vs Root.
The room had stopped they were shocked to see the arrival of White Zetsu. "Is this the Akatsuki?" Oonoki asked in wonder.
"It must be" Mei replied.
Before anyone else could reply the Raikage dove forward and pushed Zetsu to the ground a hand on his neck. "Where is Sasuke" A ordered.
"Alright I will give you a hint" Zetsu choked out.
A's temper ran to the surface and you could hear the neck of Zetsu crack with ease.
"Why did you do that, he could have been a useful prisoner to get information out of" Mei said.
"It would be no use, there is nobody in the Akatsuki who would give out any information on the Akatsuki, they are all willing to die for the cause" Tsunade said.
"Question is, why is Sasuke here, what does he hope to achieve?" Kakashi questioned.
"Well if he is working for the Akatsuki and they somehow found out about this meeting, it would be logical to assume that they sent the Uchiha here to stop us from coming to an agreement, by what ever means necessary" Oonoki theorized.
"So his target is the five Kage's. So now splitting up individually is not a good idea. Any propositions on how we deal with both threats?" Mei asked.
"I will take care of Root by myself, that will free all of you up to take care of Sasuke and his team" Naruto said.
"Are you insane, there are over four hundred of them, you wont stand a chance even if you are a jinchuuriki" Oonoki said.
"Well I have the Hirashin, so that is bound to help, and I am quite good with destructive jutsu, I will be fine" Naruto said.
"Impossible, I will not let you go alone. I am coming too" Tsunade said.
"I will be fine, it's not like I will be alone, I have my summons. I will just summon Gamakichi and the elders, we can handle a bunch of emotionless freaks" Naruto assured her.
"I have an opposing view, I will deal with Sasuke Uchiha myself for what he did to Bee, so everyone else can go with you" A said.
"That would be rather dangerous, you do not know his skills, if he was able to take out Bee then he has definitely improved. We don't have time to discuss this, if I go alone it will be the best way to keep everyone safe, now is there a place where all of Danzo's Root will have to pass through before they get too much further into the complex?" Naruto said.
"Yes there is, but you will be surrounded on all sides, it will be as good as walking to your death" Mifune said.
"I have done that before, after all I never expected to actually be able to defeat Nagato, and after him a bunch of reject Root members will be a walk in the park, after all Danzo would have to keep them weaker than he is to prevent them from trying to replace him with someone stronger" Naruto said and without waiting for further discussion walked over to the blueprints found the room he needed.
"Insanity, how does he expect to take on a small army alone" Mifune said.
"Well if anyone can it would be him, still I don't like it" Tsunade said.
"Then at least allow me to go after him, I can jump in if things get too dangerous and pull him out" Kakashi suggested.
"Agreed, be careful Kakashi, I can't afford to loose two of my best shinobi" Tsunade said.
"His plan is dangerous, he should have at least taken some of the Samurai. But I guess that is just who Naruto is. He wouldn't put anyone in harms way if he could avoid it, even if it cost him his life" Garra said.
"Well it it seems he has at least brought us enough time to deal with the Uchiha" Oonoki said.
"No, I will kill him myself. Shee, find him!" A ordered.
"He is two floors down but they are moving slowly" Shee said.
"Then let's go!" A yelled and destroyed the wall behind him and jumped through.
"Uh sorry about the wall, Raikage-sama get's a bit over the top sometimes" Omoi said before he followed after his leader.
"So, what do we do? Do they both expect us to just sit here and wait for them to possibly die before we take action?" Garra queried.
"Hmph why not, the weakening of other villages will strengthen our own, and the loss of the Namikaze and Raikage would be massive losses to Konoha and Kumo" Oonoki grumbled.
"Where did you loose your way, we have just agreed to form an alliance and you are already talking about letting the other villages weaken themselves, your old fashioned thinking has no place in the formation of a stable alliance" Garra lectured.
"Wow he sure told you Ojii-san. I want to go watch Naruto's fight with Danzo's men, who know's maybe I can repay the favor and save his life" Kurotsuchi said.
"I will go and help the Raikage, he will be outnumbered four to three so lets change those odds. Temari, Kankuro... Let's go" Garra said and slowly standing up he left via the same hole that the Raikage made.
(With Naruto)
Naruto went down a final flight of stairs to arrive at the level he needed to be at for him to stop the approaching forces. At the bottom of the stairs he came to a long straight corridor that seemed to open up at the end.
At the end of the corridor Naruto found himself in a large circular room with nine entrances. 'So nine ways including the way I entered that makes eight, if they are split up evenly that means they will come with fifty men from each entrance. Good thing I have enough time to set up some traps' Naruto thought to himself before quickly racing away down one of the corridors.
It didn't take Naruto long to set up a wide variety of different traps down each of the pathway's that Danzo's Root would have to enter via.
"That should take there numbers down quite a bit" Naruto said out loud.
"I hope you don't think seal traps will stop them all, after the initial blasts they will be more cautious" Kakashi said from behind the blond.
"Kakashi sensei! What are you doing here? I thought you would have wanted to confront Sasuke-teme" Naruto said.
"Well I do not deny that I would like to take responsibility for my failure as a sensei and make amends keeping you safe is far more important, and besides I don't think the Raikage would like anyone else killing Sasuke at the moment, not when he has a chance to do it himself" Kakashi said.
"Yeah I know what you mean, that's why I offered to take this job instead" Naruto agreed.
"So how confident are you that you can actually pull this off?" Kakashi asked.
"Well at the start I would say I was about seventy five percent sure that I would die, but after seeing the terrain I have an excellent chance, knowing Danzo he has his men combing every inch of this place looking for anyone, that means they will not only be taking there time but dividing equally amongst each other, fifty people from each corridor that means. And if my hidden traps can take out around fifteen to twenty five people each then there numbers will be halved in an instant. Besides my father took out an an army of around four hundred by himself so why cant I, and I am more prepared than he was" Naruto said.
"Well I will be here to help out if you need it" Kakashi said.
"Thanks Kakashi sensei. Well it's show time, they are close now" Naruto said as he entered into sage mode without using his seals, just in case he needed them later.
Down each corridor there was a loud explosion followed by screams of agony. There were several more explosions but the screams were less severe after the first attack.
"It seems they stopped moving in a group after your fist attack and they started sending scouts on ahead" Kakashi guessed.
"It doesn't matter I used quick release seals, they wont be getting escaping them so that is at the least one down for each seal I placed and I placed ten in each pathway" Naruto said.
So basically that's eighty down three hundred and twenty to go" Kakashi said flatly.
"Well, it's a start anyway" Naruto replied.
There here, its time to get to work Naruto said and withdrew eight of his small shuriken. "Hello Root, I am sure you know who I am, I would not recommend coming any further or you will all die a horrible death" Naruto yelled from the center of the room.
"Do you really expect them to just accept that?" Kakashi asked.
"No, not really. I assume if they had any fear of death they wouldn't have been allowed to function as Root operatives" Naruto answered.
"Good theory, I came to the same conclusion" Kakashi replied.
Moments later Naruto could hear movement in the corridor's. "Your funeral" Naruto called out and began to spin.
At eight specific locations Naruto released a tiny shuriken from his arm sending it soaring down a corridor, once it entered there was a loud buzzing noise that came from Naruto shuriken expanding with Fuuton chakra.
'Time to summon help, they wont be falling for the same traps twice' Naruto thought. "Summoning Jutsu" he yelled slamming his hand onto the ground and when the smoke cleared Both Gamakichi and Tatsu appeared,
"Hey Boss, what did you call us for?" Gamakichi asked.
"Do you have any snacks?" Gamatatsu added.
"No I don't have any snacks! Look I need help, I am out numbered, well over two hundred to one, I need your help" Naruto said
"Can we have some snacks later then?" Gamatatsu asked.
"You were dropped on your head as a tadpole weren't you" Naruto said in exasperation.
"I don't know, I can't remember back then" the large yellow frog said with a goofy smile.
"Look just stay alive and take out as many of these guys as possible" Naruto said as the room started to fill with Root Anbu.
"Sure thing, let's go boss" Gamakichi said before releasing a massive stream of fire, which was successfully extinguished by several Suiton users.
Naruto used this time to seal a large quantity of his Hirashin kunai into a seal which he then wrapped around a flash bomb.
'Thirty second's, I can take out about half with one attack, but I will almost be out of kunai after it, I will need to recollect them if I want to keep using the Hirashin and I will need it to survive this' Naruto thought while Gamakichi, and Gamatatsu, were busy casting jutsu at the Root members, but everything they tried was being easily countered.
'Now!' Naruto thought and threw the flash bomb into the air and quickly covering his eyes. At the same time as forming a rasengan.
The flash bomb went off and blinded everyone who did not react in time to turn from the point of the flash, what they did not expect however was for a hail of kunai to fly out from where the flash originated with them all directed towards the Root Anbu. Several of them were impaled even killed by the kunai but that was nothing compared to what happened next.
The second Naruto felt the pull of his kunai he flashed away, slamming everyone within arms reach with a rasengan at full power sending them flying away into the walls 'This is not fast enough, maybe I should try and learn some Kenjutsu, I would be able to deal with people a lot faster without having to rely on the Rasengan if I did' Naruto thought as he started adding some Senjutsu enhanced kicks and punches to his attack trying to take out as many Root members as possible.
Out of time Naruto quickly flashed back to the center of the room. "Well, from four hundred you are down to below two hundred, do you want to give up now or are you all happy to die here" Naruto said slightly hoping they would just give up and leave after his last attack.
There was no answer until all in one group that was surrounding Naruto they charged. 'Fuck, looks like this is going to get rough' Naruto thought as he quickly ducked underneath the punch of the first member to attack and sent him flying with a quick spin kick that forced him to knock over several approaching groups.
Naruto's summons escaped by leaping out of the way of the assault and sending several of there jutsu back at the onrushing hoard. The first couple of people were burned badly by Gamakichi's Katon jutsu but most of the others were able to avoid any damage by creating a mud wall.
While this was going on Naruto was fending off a huge number of attackers. His superior speed and strength helped him deal with any close range attack with relative ease. Or at least that is what it appeared, in truth Naruto was struggling to cope with the sheer numbers.
Deciding to change tactics a group of Root ninja began running though hand seals and quickly they all blew fire at the blond.
"Ah fuck that" Naruto said in frustration and quickly grabbed a kunai and flung it directly up into the ceiling.
"You shouldn't have done that. You want to play with jutsu, then fine enjoy some of mine" Naruto said as the flames died down revealing him to be safe and standing on the ceiling with two clones on either side of him. 'I have no water source so high level Suiton techniques are out, but I have enough in my Fuuton arsenal to deal with these pests' Naruto thought as he started gathering Fuuton chakra in each hand.
"Fuuton: Rasenshuriken Barrage!" Naruto yelled tossing his two jutsu at condensed areas of root Anbu.
One group attempted to stop the onrushing jutsu with a mud wall but the Rasenshuriken simply cut through it like it was nothing before expanding in a massive ball of compressed wind completely decimating anything that was inside.
The other group was just as hopeless in there defense. They each fired Katon jutsu at the spinning disk but despite this the flames just seemed to be blown to the side and didn't effect Naruto's jutsu at all.
"Sage Art: Fuuton Almighty breakthrough" Naruto roared blowing out a massive gale of wind blowing the ninja who were still gathered around him back against the wall.
(Meeting Room)
"Incredible, I wouldn't have thought it was possible, at least not for someone so young" Ao said.
"What is it?" Tsunade asked. She seemed to be surprisingly calm considering that Naruto was currently far outnumbered.
"It is Naruto-san, he is not only coping with Danzo's Root he is winning, there numbers are only just above one hundred now" Ao said.
"So he has taken out three Hundred trained ninja by himself?" Mei asked completely shocked.
"Yes, he has been using some seriously powerful jutsu however, the power output of most of them would drain most people dry of chakra. I have never seen anything like this, even Kisame was not able to perform such amazing chakra usage" Ao said.
"How is A-dono doing?" Oonoki asked.
"A, has only just begun to directly engage Sasuke Uchiha, he was kept busy by two of the Uchiha's team member's" Ao said.
(With Naruto)
While things may not have been going so well for the Raikage, Naruto was buzzing, he was using using his Hirashin kunai to flash around the room and collect the kunai he used in his first attack while taking out any Root members in an area. It was not long before the groups that were fighting the two summoned toads were the largest group of Root Ninja left.
It was at this point in time that Kurotsuchi arrived in the final corridor where she found Kakashi waiting safely by the entrance.
"How is he doing?" She asked tentatively.
"He is amazing, I didn't think he could have improved this much" Kakashi said as he watched Naruto once more disappear in a yellow flash and reappear, Rasengan in each hand taking out two more of Danzo's goons, before ducking under a kick to the side of the head and flipping away from a Katon jutsu that was fired at him.
"How many of them are left?" Kurotsuchi asked in awe.
"A little over fifty, it seems I misjudged there ability, most of them are little more than high chunin levels, from the start they have not been able to cope with Naruto's mobility, they cant tell where he is going to show up next. He really has surpassed everyone in Konoha, maybe even his father" Kakashi said.
Naruto was still frustrating Danzo's Root but they were in complete disarray. When ever they came together in a group for safety in an attempt to take down Naruto with numbers, he would release a Rasenshuriken or some other devastating Fuuton jutsu. However when they split up to attack separately Naruto would use the Hirashin to pick them apart just as quickly.
The Root members facing the Toads were not doing much better. Gamakichi, and Gamatatsu had great maneuverability allowing them to easily jump out of the way of any incoming attacks before launching a counter of there own. True they were not taking there opponents down with as much ease as Naruto was but with that said they were facing far fewer opponent's.
Body's of the fallen army lay around the walls and all over the floor and after a few more minutes there were only ten members of the failed invasion force left. "So do you give up yet. Please I take no pleasure in doing this" Naruto said as he stared down the final ten surviving Root Anbu who had been fighting Gamatatsu.
They were sweating. If they knew what fear was, this would be the first time they felt it, at least since they were reprogrammed to join Root.
"They wont surrender you know. I did not expect you to be here. Koharu and Homura have gotten softer than ever if they allowed you to come to a place filled with other Kage who could attempt to take the Kyuubi for themselves" came the voice of Danzo from a passageway off to the side of the blond.
Knowing this was a greater individual threat to Naruto Kakashi raced to the center of the room along with Kurotsuchi.
Naruto now turned to face where the voice of Danzo came from flanked by the two other ninja and left his summons to deal with the other root members.
Danzo was not alone however. He had five root members with him, and something told Naruto these were not the completely useless drones he had just taken care of. Then Naruto recognized one of them who was at the front of the group, It was Sai. "So now what are you going to force me to fight someone who I graduated with, even if you did somehow manage to beat me, you have lost, there is no escape for you anymore, now we outnumber you, and once the Raikage has dealt with Sasuke-teme they will be all down here, faster than I ruined your plans to be the Rokudaime Hokage when you called for a vote of no confidence after Nagato attacked" Naruto taunted.
"Oh you underestimate me, but I never intended for you to fight Sai, you see he betrayed me. So while you may be right that I no longer have the military strength here to take out the Kage's we can still escape and with any luck be rid of you in the process. I brought Sai here to kill him" Danzo said
"Not bad, but once again I am going to have to stop you" Naruto said and faster than any of the Guards could see Naruto took off in a blur delivering an elbow to the guard who was holding Sai, then grabbed the Ink user and flashed back to the center of the room.
"Your skills are impressive, but you should have never touched Torune with bare skin" Danzo said flatly.
"What are you ta-Agh!" Naruto roared in agony in mid sentence. Tiny black beetles were amassing and multiplying on his elbow where he hit the root member.
"Torune is a rather unique member of the Aburame family who I recruited to my cause. You see he is the only person capable of living after contact with those beetles that re currently injecting you with there venom while draining your chakra. It seems this was not a complete waste of time coming here after all, soon you will be dead which will mean in time the Kyuubi will come back and then I will have my weapon" Danzo said while Naruto collapsed in agony o the floor.
Kakashi moved to check on him but did not touch the area where the miniscule black insects were spreading. "You can fight this Naruto, there is bound to be a way to get out of this. Kurotsuchi can you go tell Tsunade what has happened, I will protect Naruto until you return" Kakashi said.
"Yes, of course. I will be back as soon as possible" Kurotsuchi replied and took off.
"Oh he could get himself out of this, after all no living poison or insect could survive a good healthy blast of the Kyuubi's Yokai. But I think he knows the moment he uses even the smallest amount I can suppress it or force more to the surface. I am surprised that he has lasted this long without being forced to use it" Danzo said once Kurotsuchi had left.
"So that was your plan all along, get Naruto to use the Kyuubi so you could attempt to take control of its power! You knew that Naruto would attempt to save Sai so you formed a plan to trap him" Kakashi spat in disgust.
It was at that moment Naruto went completely silent and the insects all fell from his arm harmlessly. "What happened? He didn't use any of the Kyuubi's Yokai I would have known" Danzo said flatly.
"I think I can explain that one" Naruto said before kicking himself back up to his feet. "You see, I used up all of my sage mode taking out your pathetic little army. That would be why the person I hit is still alive. In truth I thought I was going to have to try and use the Kyuubi to get them off me until you told me that they were eating my chakra. Then it was simple matter of collecting enough senjutsu to turn the insects into tiny little stone toads" the blond finished.
"But what about the poison, there should have been enough in your system to leave you in a coma by now" Torune said.
"Well, thanks to the Kyuubi I have an amazing tolerance for poisons, and with my healing factor added to the extra healing awarded to me from Sage Mode, and your poison was nothing more than a painful annoyance that lasted only seconds after those bugs dropped off" Naruto said.
"Sir, I recommend a retreat, if the boy is even close to one hundred percent, I do not think we have much of a chance here" one of the Root bodyguard's whispered into Danzo's ear.
"You may be right but you and Kentanka will have to stay behind along with half the men to allow myself Fu and Torune time to escape" Danzo said.
"Very well sir, it was a pleasure serving under you" the Root Guard said loudly before he turned to face Naruto.
"Men we need to pull back, you five stay behind to cover our retreat" Danzo ordered before he turned with Fu and Torune and ran from the room.
"Hey where do you think you're going?" Naruto yelled.
Naruto went to fling a kunai at the old war hawk but was stoped when he saw the shadow of the man who had been whispering to Danzo move. And the other bodyguard who remained charged forward, his arm expanding.
"Fuck! A Nara and Akimichi. He must have taken them from there clan's" Naruto yelled as he jumped out of the way before he could get caught by the Nara's shadow.
"Yeah, I am sure these two would have been stolen from there families as children" Kakashi said as he avoided the large punch from the Akimichi that left a large crater in the wall.
"One thing is for sure, these guys are on a whole other level from the useless goons I just faced" Naruto said dodging sharp spikes of shadow that impaled the wall like it was going through paper.
The attacks were coming in so fast Naruto didn't have to launch any counter attacks. Naruto knew that he couldn't use a simple Hirashin kunai on this guy, Root member or not he was a Nara, and that meant at least to Naruto that he would be expecting it and find a way to counter the attack.
Kakashi and the toads were having a much easier time. While they could not land a decicive blow to incapacitate there opponents or in Kakashi's case the large Akimichi, they were however on the offensive and it only looked like a matter of time before they finished them off.
Naruto was forced to escape from another thin shadow that acted like a spear by tossing several kunai in all directions and flashing to one of them. Just like Naruto predicted the moment Naruto threw a kunai the Nara had sent shadows to intercept the location around where he thought Naruto would appear.
This went on for awhile, and much to Naruto's surprise the Nara did not change his tactics even though it had become obvious that Naruto would not be caught out buy that level of attack. 'Of course, he doesn't even expect to win, he is just using this attack because he knows it will be the best way to keep me busy long enough for Danzo to get away' Naruto cursed mentally.
After coming to this realization Naruto had clearly had enough of being chased around by shadows and began forming hand signs. "Uzumaki style Fuuton: Spiraling Wind Blade" Naruto yelled and swiped his hand in a large arc across his body. A thin blade of wind shot forward before it started to turn until it became like cork screw spiraling out from a single point.
The Nara was forced to cancel his jutsu and jump back when the tip of the blade buried into the ground and began to spin around drilling deeper. After a couple of second however the spinning stoped and the blades expanded out in the spiral forcing the Nara to contort himself to avoid being turned into tiny little pieces.
Fortunately for everyone else in the large room the wind blades did not extend to far out before dispelling. But for Naruto the effect was perfect, and charging forward before the Nara could correct himself he slammed a rasengan into the Nara's back sending him flying into the wall. "Heh I didn't kill him. Maybe it was because I know he must be in some way related to Shikamaru. Anyway, he can go to Ibiki" Naruto said solemnly.
Kakashi seeing that Naruto was done charged forward and activated a Raikiri that he fired off through the heart of the the Akimichi Root member. A couple of seconds later and the large toad summons finished off the last of Danzo's goons.
"We have to get after him" Naruto said.
"Yeah let's go, he might be out of the complex by now though, I will summon Pakun so we can follow him" Kakashi said once Gamakichi and Gamatatsu were done.
"Hey boss, this was fun and all, but next time you summon us, can you try to not be in a life or death battle, I almost lost an eye" Gamakichi said.
"And remember some snacks, you didn't have any snacks this time" Gamatatsu complained.
"No worry's guys, you were both brilliant. couldn't have done it without you" Naruto said with a wave before both toads dispelled themselves.
"So what are we waiting for, Danzo is getting away we have to catch him" Kakashi said.
They began to make there way towards one of the passageways that would lead them to the lower levels but before they made it half way across the room the air before them began to ripple and the man in the orange spiral mask appeared.
"My you have been busy, just look at all of the blood, I must say I'm impressed. I want to talk to you, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze" Madara spoke.
End Chapter!
I did it again with the cliff hangers, I'm getting bad at that. Still one problem down and I let Naruto absolutely decimate a Root, although I could have probably made it more believable if he didn't do it basically alone. Anyway tell me what you think, and next chapter I can go on to focus on A's fight with Sasuke and Madara informing everyone about his plans.