Chapter 35

"The First and Second Fire Shadows have been reincarnated by Orochimaru," Horse reported.

Crap, this isn't good. I don't really remember the First, but the second was amazingly powerful. He sacrificed himself for Hiruzen and me. A great man. He is against the first two Fire Shadows, both were extremely powerful. Then again, Hiruzen is the God of Ninjas. Still...he's fighting three legends.

"Don't bother trying to pierce the seal at this point, you can only get in the way of the Third at this point," Dog ordered.

Why do people feel the need to destroy us?

Dog shook his head. A report came from the east wall, "Dog, enemy teams are being rooted out. Our current casualties are relatively low. We can thank Kazudo for that much." The reason for such was that the sound ninja's force was focused on the east wall. So that was also where Arido Kazudo went. He annihilated area singlehandedly.

Out of nowhere, and evil presence was felt by all in the distance. "What is that," Dog ordered, "The one-tails?"

"I'll get reports sir," Horse said, who procceeded to start contacting ANBU teams.

Then a report from Hare came in, "Dog, the one tails is fully corporal. I'm moving to handle it!"

Crap. Did it avoid the suppression seals? Not good. I hope Hare can handle it.

"Be careful Hare," Dog ordered, and then said, "Pug, I want you to focus on Hare's fight with the one-tails! Keep me notified!"

"Yes sir," he replied.

After a short while, Pug started reporting, "Sir, the fight is going badly for Hare. Hare has pulled on three tails now...He just got blasted by the one-tails. Severe damage to the forest.. His power level still seems greatly below the one-tails."

This is not good. "Horse, tell Jiraiya we need him to help to seal the one-tail beast. It takes priority..."

"Brace yourselves!" Pug cried! Suddenly, a slight tremoring shook through the village. Pug continued, "Air type attack from the one-tail, it didn't fully make it to the village thankfully, but as you felt, there was still a shockwave."

"Get that message to Jiraiya," Dog ordered Horse, who quickly complied.

"Jiraiya will be there in sixty seconds."

Pug reported again, "Hare used a massive fire wind combination technique. Minimal damage. Hare is attempting to cut into the beast. It seems unsuccessful. Crap, Hare is getting captured by the beast! He has been fully encapsulated by the one-tail!"

"Tell Jiraiya to get a move on it if he want Hare alive," Dog ordered.

Several moments later, a massive presence was felt. One that was remembered by many. One that brought memories of terror to some, and new terror to others. It was the nine-tails. "Alert! Alert! Nine-tails is released! Nine-tails is released! I'm not sure if it's Hare in control!"

"Order all ninja forces to prepare for a tailed beast, and what is going on with Hare!"

"Sir, the nine-tails punched the one-tail in the head, and now seem to be talking. I can't make out their words. The one-tail is receding. Repeat, the one-tail is receding. Crap, the nine-tails has turned to Leaf. It's charging up an attack!

"Order all forces to take cover!"

"Tailed beast bomb! It's firing!"

From the distance, a large black ball of chakra came toward the Leaf Village, and promptly exploded.

Pug reported, "Sir, the attack blew up outside of Leaf in the air. No damage to Leaf infrastructure other than a few blown out windows that hadn't already been destroyed."

Horse then reported, "Sir, Sand forces are starting to pull back. Sound forces are still engaging."

"Sir, Orochimaru has been driven off! The Fire Shadow is down! Repeat, the Fire Shadow is down! Sound forces are also starting to retreat!"

"Make sure the Fire Shadow gets immediate medical attention," Dog ordered.

` "The Fire Shadow is dead." This report was much more somber than any before. "Repeat, the Fire Shadow is dead."

Hiruzen's dead? He's too strong to be dead. How could Orochimaru defeat him?

Crow stood a distance away from his target. Over the radio, Crow heard, "Salmon is in position."

Moments later, an ANBU reported, "The jinchuriki has been hit."

Crow then saw that the infiltrator knock the genin out and was preparing a technique, then quickly reported, "Infiltrator has knocked the genin out. They're still alive. He's preparing a technique!"

"Initiate! Execute Black Hawk!"

Crow immediately launched a volley of kuni towards the fake Leopard ANBU, as did Iguana and Ferret. As that was being done, Salmon was already pulling the two genin out. Crow then promptly charged upon the ninja with the two other Captains.

Crow knew the man was capable to be able to take down an ANBU silently. The man showed himself to be extremely capable. Although barely, the infiltrator was keeping three captains at bay. Ferret called out, "Be careful about engaging him, he's using medical techniques offensively."

Which was really all that made it so difficult. That and there were civilians everywhere running around to get in the way. Crow jumped up and fired off a wind bullet, forcing the enemy to jump up, or otherwise lose his momentum dodging into a random civilian.

This allowed Ferret to send a fireball at the infiltrator. The man dodged in mid-air while throwing kuni at Iguana, forcing him to abort his attack. This left him open for Crow's next attack, which was Crow appearing in front of the man and slashing his tanto through the fakes chest.

The Fake ninja fell to the ground, and then got up, his wound noticeably healing. "You got to be kidding me," Crow muttered before reporting, " The infiltrator is high jonin level. It will also take us some time to suppress him"

"Chop his head off," Ferret suggested?

The other two ANBU nodded, as Iguana and Ferret pulled out their tantos. The fake ANBU promptly started running away. "After him," Crow ordered, and as they were running, said, "If this is who I think it is, we may be able to eliminate Orochimaru's right hand man."

A sound ninja got in the way. Crow beheaded him promptly in spite of the ninja he was chasing. Although he was slightly slowed, the other two captains weren't. The two threw a flurry of shurkien mid run, causing the infiltrator to dodge to the side.

The change in momentum allowed Ferret and Iguana to move in on him while Crow was able to get within range. The infiltrator pulled his stolen tanto and clashed against Ferret. Iguana threw shurkien, causing the infiltrator to jump back, while Ferret jumped forward.

Crow came up behind the ninja and slashed out at him. The man blocked with his tanto, as he was gutted by Ferret. The attack didn't seem to faze the man, who kicked Ferret back, and moved away from Crow.

The three captains situated themselves a short distance away from the infiltrator, who seemed to be smirking under their mask. Iguana spoke, "So he can very effectively heal from almost any damage. It makes it difficult to kill him.

"I say we chop his head off. I doubt he can heal from that," Ferret added.

Crow scoffed, and said, "Isn't that the solution to almost all your problems? Chop off the head."

"If it works, then it's not stupid," Ferret replied.

"What about bisecting him, if I use wind with my tanto, it may work, though we have to get it done on the first try," Crow suggested. The other two simply shrugged, before the trio moved in again. Crow sent out a quick air bullet, which the man lazily dodged. The air bullet exploded upon coming close to the man, surprising him, and knocking him off his feet.

Ferret and Iguana took the time to rain down a mass amount of shurkien and kuni in a wide range, zoning the man to the left. Crow moved forward behind the barrage, and launched another exploding air bullet.

The infiltrator was more prepared this time, and gave himself a good distance with his dodge. Ferret and Iguana both shot fireballs at the infiltrators, who jumped up. Crow put a massive amount of chakra through his tanto and threw it.

The man was unable to stop it and was bisected through the chest. The tanto flew away, but the body parts fell down. The three ANBU dropped in front of the man, and Crow said victoriously, "Survive that!"

The upper torso of the body regurgitated a full body that quickly dropped a large amount of explosive tags. The three ANBU were forced to jump back while the infiltrator revealed to be Kabuto Yakushi was able to escape.

Ferret and Iguana stared at Crow, before Ferret said, "You just had to open your mouth."

Then, a demonic aura washed through the air. The trio casually looked in the direction it came from. "What do you think that is," Ferret asked?

"It's probably some cute little bunny that got unhappy," Crow replied. The other duo stared at Crow for several moments before slowly nodding. The three proceeded to eliminate enemy ninja ignoring demonic feeling, as it wasn't their job. Suddenly, a shockwave shot through the village, destroying windows and causing general disorientation.

"What was that," Ferret asked, this time more seriously.

"Don't know, an attack from the enemy jinchuriki maybe," Iguana replied. The three shrugged, before continuing.

Then, a massive power was felt. In the distance, the nine-tails could be seen. "I guess I was wrong about the first being an unhappy bunny. I hope Hare is alright, he wasn't able to pull that much power previously."

"What should we do," Ferret asked quickly.

"All that we can. Kill enemies, and have faith in Hare, that he is the one in control," Crow replied. The other duo nodded, before proceeding with their work.

Even if Naruto isn't in control, I'm not worried. I trust Naruto when he says the beast is not a threat. So now, all there is, is to hope that Naruto is alright.

A even larger shockwave then shook the village, and in the sky could be seen the after effects of a massive explosion. Ferret commented, "I hope that wasn't aimed at us."

"No, I don't think it was," Crow replied, "I think it was a warning for the enemy."

The little genin, they think they are so cool, but in reality they are so weak. At least compared to me. Then again, there aren't any that we know of that can compare to me. I wonder if they're aware that the Sand Shadow is an impostor. Oh look, explosive tags.

An explosion shook the Shadow Box. Out of the explosion jumped a figure. When the blast ended, three statues made of rock could be seen. The rocks then crumpled, and three ninja were revealed. The one in the center was Arido Kazudo.

The man yawned, and then after several moments said, "Well, it looks like Sand and Sound are attacking the Leaf Village."

The man to Kazudo right asked, "What should we do?"

Kazudo seemed to contemplate for several moments before replying, "Sound is not in our good graces right now. Find them and kill them. Leave the Sand and Leaf ninjas alone. I don't feel like annoying Sand, and I definitely don't feel like pissing the Leaf off. So yeah, kill Sound ninjas."

The two ninjas saluted before exiting the booth. Kazudo started casually walking down the steps, before jumping up, and grabbing an ANBU out of the air. "You," Kazudo said releasing massive amount of focused killing intent, "Will defend my genin as I go about killing random Sound ninjas. Should you fail to do so, I remember your signature. I will hunt for, I will find you, and I will kill you. Then I will create a diplomatic incident with the Leaf village. Do you understand."

The ANBU quickly nodded. "Good," Kazudo said smiling.

Arido Kazudo was a tall and broad man, black hair, with a full scruffy beard, and wore the standard attire for an Rock jonin, plus some additional small scrolls on each shoulder. Wearing his village crest on his right arm.

The man continued walking down the steps, before raising his hand above the ground. Rocks rose from the ground, and compressed into a small sphere. After looking around for a very short while, the ball of rock shot from its hovering position, and blasted through a nameless Sound ninja.

"That's one," he said to himself. Then a massive amount of rock sphere started rising from the ground. After several seconds they shot out killing numerous sound ninjas. "That's twelve."

Looking around, he found what he wanted and jumped to an ANBU fighting a sound ninja. Arido tapped the Sound ninja, causing them to collapse to the ground. The ninjas mass had been increased exponentially. "ANBU, where are the Sound ninjas mainly entering from?"

Said ANBU looked shocked at Arido's sudden appearance and question. After about half a minute of talking on the radio, consisting of should Kazudo actually be told and making sure it was alright, the ANBU replied, "On the east wall."

Kazudo thanked the man, and quickly ran towards his new destination. Kazudo came upon the breach of the wall, and frowned as he saw numerous Sound ninjas pouring in.

"Well this won't due," he said before forming a hand sign, and cried out, "Fire Release! Totally epic and overpowered fire blast of disproportionate destruction!" Kazudo then blew out a small but quick moving fireball. It connected with a sound ninja, and the result was the said ninja receiving a small sunburn.

The ninja turned to Kazudo and scoffed at the attack. Kazudo meanwhile frowned and shot out another fireball. The man casually dodged, and started walking towards Kazudo with a grin. Kazudo frown deepened and kept shooting out little fireballs. The enemy chuckled, before he was encompassed in a massive explosion.

Kazudo then smiled, before saying, "Ah, it worked that time."

Of course, the earlier ones were just to mess with him.

Kazudo then turned to the wall, and shot out a flurry of fireballs that moved at blinding speeds. The exploded upon reaching the wall, and eliminated many enemies. It also made a bigger gap in the wall. "Oops," Kazudo mumbled, before forming a hand sign, and the wall started to reform itself.

Kazudo then made a massive leap to the top of the wall, and looked down upon the massive amount of Sound ninjas. Over nine hundred spread out through the forest. "I hope they forgive me for this," Arido said to himself. Arido went through a few hand seals, and muttered, "Great Lava Tidal Wave."

The land before him suddenly turned into magma, and formed a wave that washed over many enemy ninjas. "That's nine-hundred and sixty-one. Is it wrong that I'm so awesome," he asked himself. "Then again, they were the idiots for clumping together so closely. They were really asking for it."

After a few more moments of surveying his destruction, at least two hundred acres of land were destroyed into the fiery abyss of magma. "I really hope they forgive me, like, I took out a little over nine-hundred enemies with that attack. Probably most of the sound invasion force."

After standing in silence for several moments, Arido excaimed, "Ah! The one-tail is up and running. Maybe if I take him out without too much destruction, they'll forgive me!"

Arido then began a leisurely run towards the source. "Oh crap." He was then blasted back by a massive air bullet. Arido pulled himself out of the rubble, and moaned, "So annoying, what did I do to deserve that...never mind karma."

He then restarted his leisurely journey, when he froze in his tracks. The nine-tails in all its glory rose up into the horizon. "Oh crap," he whispered. "Does Leaf have full control of the nine-tails...or did it escape its seal." When it attacked the one-tail, he said, "Rock cannot make Leaf its enemy. They are now the most powerful."

The one-tail beast was walking towards the Leaf Village when from it, burst a large form. It was the form of the nine-tailed fox. The fox rose to its great height, and then beat the one-tail across the face. He then said, "So what was this about beating me up?"

Shukaku seemed to be sheepish, and then nervously said, "Well, I thought I could, maybe slap you around a bit for old time's sake."

Kurama rolled his eyes before replying, "And here I thought we had gotten over that, alas, my thoughts were for naught."

"So, do you want to destroy that village together?"

Kurama critically started at the tankui before replying, "No, and I will not let you destroy it either. I believe I can make this world a better place."

"I thought you had given up on that foolish dream," Shukaku replied.

"I did," Kurama replied, "but a little foolish boy, who had every right to hate me, and did for some time, who was taught to hate me, trusted me enough to give me a chance. Then he trusted me to fulfill his final wish. For that, to humanity who sowed great hate within me, I will give them another chance. After all, it is a brand new world compared to three hundred years ago. Might as well try again."

Shukaku stared at Kurama for a few moments before replying, "Fine, it's not as if I could destroy them with you in the way anyways."

"Oh, and stop torturing that poor boy. I know even you sleep, and you're not going to give him the same luxury? I saw the bags under his eyes, when was the last time he had a rest?"

Shukaku was silent for a few moments before replying slowly, "Since about six..."

"Six what,"

"When he was six...six years ago..."

Kurama snorted before saying, "You're terrible. If it wasn't bad enough that you kept all of us awake with your howling at the moon, you keep him up, when did you last sleep?"

"About a week ago."

"You really are terrible. Let the poor child sleep, although I'm not sure if that's possible at this point," the nine-tails let out a huff before continuing, "I'll heal his mind. And you let him have sleep. If I hear any more about this, I will seriously consider beating the crap out of you and then more. All of you have no regard for how fragile human life is."

Shukaku scoffed, replying, "Please don't enlighten me, I would rather avoid another three week lecture like the one on the importance of eating something green at least once a day." The two stood in silence for a few moments, before lightly laughing. "Nice to see you again Kurama. How have your containers been? My first contained was great, a nice guy and all, though ended up a bit on the wrinkly side. The second though was terrible, blaming me for all his problems. So I kinda took it out in this one."

"My first two containers were terrible, always thinking I was totally insincere, calling me an object or a weapon. At least this kid always considered me a sentient being. He was bad at the beginning, but turned out to be great."

The two then sat in silence before Shukaku said, "Well, I'll see you some other time. Say hi to the others if you see them first."

"The same to you," Kurama replied. Then, the Shukaku started disappearing into his seal. Kurama let out a huff before turning to the Leaf village, and sensing the attacking force. "Well this won't do. Let's scare them a bit." Kurama quickly charged up a tailed beast bomb and shot it into the sky near the Leaf village, right over the remaining main body of enemy ninjas.

"Such a nice explosion. Well, time to heal that poor child," Kurama said to himself. Shrinking down to his human form, spiky red hair wearing a white cloak with various designs upon it. He walked over to Garra of the Sand, and put his hands over his head. Golden chakra started shone from his hand and after a short while, Kurama seemed satisfied. Garra also looked much more at ease in his unconsciousness.

Kurama got up and then turned to the body of Naruto Uzumaki, or was it Naruto Namikaze? Kurama then smiled.

And there is chapter 35. This was to give some life to characters we've met. Yes, Ardio Kazudo is that over-powered. His origin will eventually be shown in a different story. Then the Shukakau and Kurama had a casual chat with one another. For those who think I made Kabuto too powerful, as to hold off three Captains, remember he didn't really hurt any of them. It was rather he survived them. For those who think he was too weak...to bad.

And yes, Crow just did a lightsaber throw with his tanto.

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