Naruto the Twin Swords:

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Chapter 35

Part 1

Broken Alliances

( ): Thoughts

((" ")): Holy Talon's voice

(( )): Kyuubi's voice

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En route to pursue the Oto Ninja group...

Naruto could not help himself as he and the others continued forward to track down Sasuke and the rest of his group, his thoughts were focused on tracking down the former Konoha ninja and the Oto ninja and deal with them. But at times he also thought of not just his promise to Itachi but also to the women who he had to leave behind while they were going to recover. He trusted that Hinata, Ino, and Sakura were going to be all right with Shizune and Tsunade taking are of them along with the medical staff of the hospital in Konoha. But he did feel the need to be there to help them as much as he could.

However he focused on the mission and hoped to get Sasuke and drag him back to stand trial, for now he and the others were moving forward to try and find any trace of them. Thankfully this situation was made easier by the fact that Shino, Kiba and Akamaru, along with Neji were with them. Neji's Byakugan, Shino's Chakra Bugs, and Kiba as well as Akamaru's sense of smell and hearing were perfect to track them down.

Shino soon managed to meet one of his bugs and spoke to the others.

"My bug has located their trail, they still have at least several hours to at least a day or more ahead of us."

The others nodded and soon Kiba joined Naruto as he spoke,.

"How is Hinata doing Naruto?"

Naruto sighed a bit and replied.

"Tsunade-sama said she will be fine and will be back on her feet soon."

"Good to know...grrrr! Damn Sasuke to hell for this! When I get my hands on that rat bastard."

"You'll do no such thing Kiba, not until I'm done beating the crap out of him first."

Kiba grinned at that and nodded.

"Sorry, Hinata's like a little sister to me and a good friend to Akamaru so I am not going to let what he did slide. But I know the orders we got from Tsunade-sama, bring him back to stand trial for this. Akamaru's the same on that train of thought as well, aren't you boy?"

Akamaru barked in agreement and growled at that, the dog's body language already speaking volumes on how it would want to avenge Hinata and the others.

Naruto nodded and spoke next.

"Can you smell them?"

Kiba smelled the air and replied.

"Yeah, they still got a darn good lead on us...hold it...I smell blood."

The ninja team stopped at that as Kiba smelled the air alongside Akamaru and soon Kiba pointed in the direction ahead of them and replied.

"There, it's human blood all right, but it certainly is not Sasuke's blood, and it smells to belong to adults."

Lee then spoke.

"It could be the ANBU team that was sent ahead of us, we'd best go after them, they might have encountered the Oto ninja and Sasuke."

Shikamaru nodded at that.

"Then let's get to it, Neji, use your Byakugan and see if you can find them."

"Understood!"

Naruto leaped alongside Neji and took out his Bow and then both of them moved ahead of the others, Neji scanned ahead with Naruto ready to provide support for the Byakugan user. They soon spotted the bodies of the ANBU and Neji spoke first.

"There, I see the team and some of them are still alive, I also see two other ninja there, both Konoha ninja to boot."

Naruto and the others landed and both he and Neji located the still living ninja. Naruto soon recognized one of the ninja as the same one who had been the proctor of the Chuunin Exams. The ninja with the metallic needle in his mouth, and the other one seemed to have a very wicked scar on his face as well. They were alive but still badly wounded and Naruto quickly went to work in healing them as well as ANBU who were still holding on.

Shikamaru then spoke to the others.

"You guys form a perimeter now! There may not be a sign of a trap but let's not take chances!"

The others nodded with Shikamaru and they soon formed a defensive perimeter as he walked over to Naruto who was bale to heal them though some were still too weak to wake up and speak.

"How are they looking Naruto?"

Naruto continued to heal them and replied to his fellow Chuunin's question.

"Not too good, they look like they got hit hard by whatever it was that the Oto Ninja hit them with. I can say this much, we were lucky that we found them. Any longer and we'd be looking at corpses here."

Soon the ninja who were injured were saved, but sadly one of the ANBU did not make it and it was Neji and Rock Lee who laid him to rest. The one Naruto and Shikamaru spoke to was none other than Genma who smiled in greeting of the two Chuunin as he managed to recover enough of his strength to speak.

"Naruto-san and Shikamaru-san, nice to see you made it."

"What happened Genma-san?"

"W-We were on our way back to Konoha on our own mission when we encountered an ANBU unit from the village. They informed us of what happened there and so we moved with them to try and track down Sasuke. One of the ANBU was a Sensor and managed to track them down...cough...we were winning too when they somehow got these weird tattoos, which we recognized as Curse Seals."

Naruto growled and nodded as well as Shikamaru, this coincided well with Ino, Hinata, and Sakura said about the ones who had come along with Sasuke to attack his home and steal the Dragon Steel Katana that he had made previously.

"They managed to severely injure us and left us for dead, they could...have finished us off, but apparently they were too much in a hurry with Sasuke to finish the job. The traitor was the one who killed our ANBU sensor before he and his new buddies left."

Neji pointed to the ANBU he and Lee put to rest under a shroud and spoke to Genma.

"Is the sensor him?"

Genma looked at his fellow Konoha ninja, he soon nodded and replied.

"Yeah, Swallow was a good man..damn that traitorous brat. Hard to believe that he would be willing to work with Orochimaru and attacked his own village's people. As much as we want to help you guys, we can't be of much help to you at least in catching them, but be careful about them. If they have the Cursed Seals, and they know how to use them, then do not underestimate them. Whatever Orochimaru did to make them like that and what he did to make them able to use those Seals without any side effects means that every one of them is bad news to any one of you."

The others nodded and Kiba moved forward as he smelled the air a bit more along with Akamaru. The pup yelped and barked while tapping one of his paws forward in a direction. Kiba nodded and turned to face the others.

"Akamaru said the trail left behind by that bastard and the Sound Ninja go this way, they haven't gone any further, at least several hours and the scent trail's still fairly strong. I'd say they are currently resting at this point no doubt because of the fight so we should be able to get some time to close the distance."

Lee then replied.

"But we have another matter to deal with, what about the others here who are still wounded? We certainly can't leave them in this state."

It was Shino who stepped forward with a solution.

"I'll remain here and keep watch over them, I also will send some of my bugs to my clan so they can send a medical unit here to heal and transport the others back to Konoha. I don't like the idea of me having to sit this mission out for the chance to make those bastards pay for what they did to Hinata, Sakura, and Ino. But we don't leave others behind if there is still a chance to save them."

Naruto nodded at that and replied.

"Thanks for that Shino, we'll make sure to get them for you."

Neji, Lee, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Akamaru nodded in agreement as well to Shino, to which the Aburame clan member nodded in appreciation.

"Thanks, you guys had better get going. They no doubt will be moving on soon."

They nodded as well and soon they moved out while Shino focused on protecting the still injured ninja as well as the slain. He also sent out some of his bugs to guide any relief force being deployed. Since the Aburame Clan had been in Konoha for generations, every ninja of the village knew the bugs on sight and sound so he had no doubt that they would find him. The bugs would also help in defence and offense so all he could do was help and keep the ninja safe. It grated on his nerves to not be there to help the others, but he was no fool. Once the relief ninja force came in and took the injured and the dead from here, he would guide them to find the others.

There was no doubt that some of them would be injured and thus medical help on the spot was going to be critical so that this mission was going to work out for all of them.

...

The Oto Ninja members and Sasuke were still going forward and while they seemed fine, they had the wounds to show that their battle with the ninja of Konoha had not left them unscathed. Sasuke himself was still injured but he cared little for the injuries that he had on him as he was eager to finally gain the power he desired. The traitor ninja had no doubt that they were soon going to be pursued and he had no doubt Naruto would be part of the mission as well. This was something he would be looking forward to, the chance to finally kill the one who had humiliated him for a while now.

The thoughts of revenge against Naruto for defeating him were deep in Sasuke's mind and he could not help himself but relish the thought of finishing his former ally. But for now he placed that aside as he knew that right now, he had to grow stronger and when he was ready, he would kill Naruto once more for all. He would enjoy it and make sure that he was going to send Naruto's body back minus his sword and his heart.

But as he moved forward, it was not long before the four decided to stop and explain to him just how he could unblock the full potential of the Cursed Seal. Namely on how to not only gain full mastery of it in the first stage so there would be nothing to stop him from using it freely, but also to use the Second Stage of it. The process was risky but the former Konoha ninja did not care in the slightest about the risk. All he cared about was to gain full mastery of this power and soon bring his revenge on Itachi, and soon, those who had held him back.

...

Unknown to Sasuke, the Oto ninja, the Konoha ninja, and even Naruto...someone or rather something else was watching.

(("Well now...this just became interesting, perhaps there ARE some beings in this world with promise. Now let me see just how far this Uchiha will go to gain power."))

...

Naruto and the others moved on and soon Kiba and Akamaru spoke to them.

"Their smell is getting stronger, but the thing that I noticed is that Sasuke's scent has disappeared. Neither Akamaru nor me can't seem to smell him out."

That was more than enough to stop the other members of the Konoha team as they knew that there was no way Sasuke had disappeared just like that. They could have used some sort of transportation Jutsu to send Sasuke to Orochimaru while they were chasing the team. But they were well aware of the fact that these ninja in question were powerful but they did not possess the level of skill and experience to use Space Time Jutsu to allow them to move instantaneously. Shikamaru also knew of these details and decided to take a chance that perhaps Sasuke was still with them, but they must be doing something to mask his smell from Akamaru and Kiba.

"Anything else?"

Kiba and Akamaru both shook their heads, but Naruto was apparently thinking on the same page of thought as Shikamaru was and looked at Neji. The Hyuuga Clan member nodded and used his Byakugan to get a better picture. He was quick to spot the chakra signatures of the four Oto Ninja that they were chasing, but he also spotted something, that through the Byakugan looked very much malevolent and certainly something that he did not feel to be safe to be around for any amount of time. He looked at it once more to be sure that he was not seeing things and reported.

"I am seeing a massive amount of chakra, very foul and concentrated in some sort of container. That container is not normal as well since it seems to be containing the chakra and seems to be allowing the chakra to grow stronger and thicker. I can see some signs that there is someone in there, but who I cannot say for sure."

That surprised the others and Shikamaru knew that this was going to be a major concern for them. Lee then wagered a guess of his own as he took in what he heard from Neji.

"Perhaps that is where Sasuke is being held in. Why in such a container I cannot say either, but I doubt that they had put him there for the fun of it. But the fact that they have stopped must be because of their injuries fighting our fellow Konoha ninja. If we move quickly, then we can win this fight and secure Sasuke and bring him back for trial."

Naruto thought about that and decided to try something.

"Before we do that however, we're going to see how strong they really are. Better we know just how powerful they are before we make a move. Follow my lead guys."

The others nodded in agreement as they let Naruto do his thing as he began to create some new targets to test the four Oto ninja before them.

...

The Sound Four took the time to rest and recuperate from their battles earlier. They were facing Jonin so they had no choice but to use their Cursed Seals. It had given them the power needed to end the Jonin and the ANBU. But they could not stay, they knew that as they had to get Sasuke to their master and without delays. The last thing they wanted was to incur Orochimaru's rage. The pain for the Snake Sannin was growing by the day and they knew that he was not in the least bit pleased in it. Already some of the ninja back in the base had madet he mistake of disturbing Orochimaru and were killed because of it, and right now there was no doubt that if they did not make it in time...even if they were some of his best, they would be next. That thought sent shivers down the spines of the four and they hoped to make it back before it came to that.

However, it was hear that their early warning system kicked in and they were soon greeted by their attackers. It was not long before the two groups smashed into one another. But the Oto Ninja made sure to keep the Konoha ninja from interfering with the container. They knew for a fact that if anything and anyone interrupted the process of increasing the Seal's power and allowing the user to unleash the full power of the Seal, then the ninja inside would die. They saw this themselves and they had endured it themselves which allowed them to unleash the second stage of their respective Seals.

...

Naruto leaped back as several more of the webs came at him and he cut them quickly as the eight armed Sound Ninja was engaging him at long range. Naruto quickly fired several kunai at him and the guy just fired several blobs of webbing to catch the weapons in mid air. The blobs of webbing came at Naruto until Neji came in and used his Byakugan and the Gentle Fist to destroy the webbing, thus the two were now fighting side by side with the foe before them.

He was not the only one as Lee was fighting with the more muscled one of the group, the rather large member of the group, and he was not alone as Chouji directed his attacks on the same foe. This left Kiba and Akamaru to deal with the pale skinned one in the field of battle, and this left Shikamaru to deal with the female member of the group, much to the annoyance of the Nara Clan youth.

"Darn it, why the heck do I have to fight the woman?"

That apparently did not sit well with the woman in question as she glared at him and shouted.

"Don't you dare look down on me you bloody chauvinistic ass!"

That threat came true for Shikamaru as the woman began to attack using several senbon as well as using what appeared to be senbon with explosive tags on the senbon as well. Shikamaru saw the tags quickly and knew that avoiding being hit by these explosive tags was his best chance for survival. He does so and the branch he had been on before was reduced to kindling. He quickly stuck to a nearby tree with Tree Walking and quickly did the hand signs to summon his Shadow to restrain his foe.

Lee and Chouji might not have fought together, but their abilities more than made up for it when they charged at the massive Sound ninja. Chouji launched a number of kunai first and soon used his clan's special ability to launch one hell of a right hook. The ninja dodged him, showing surprising agility despite his size. But it was here that Lee quickly moved in and forced his foe to duck as the green jumpsuit wearing Genin sends a powerful kick to his head. Lee however quickly moved to land a hard left hook in mid air and smashed his fist in the Oto ninja's face. Chouji soon moved in and managed to land a kick into his foe's chest.

However, the young Oto ninja was not fully down and attacked them again. The Konoha ninja moved back to get some fighting room and also to see if they could make a move to take them out. The Oto ninja however made their move to take the Konoha ninja out with Jirobo leading them as he was soon supported by his team mates. Tayuya began to play with her flute and soon unleashed her special weapons and soon several grotesque figures appeared and were able to join Jirobo to take out the ninja while Ukon-Sakon and Kidomaru moved to support their allies. Naruto managed to counter some of the web sphere fired by the eight armed Oto Ninja but was unable to launch a counter-attack as the massive ninja unleashed several spheres of hard earth from his mouth. The blonde ninja moved back and quickly was supported by Neji who was using the Gentle Fist to counter. Kiba and Akamaru were also forced to move back as their fight with Ukon-Sakon was cut short when Kidomaru turned his attention away from Naruto and Neji to support the ninja in question. Kiba was forced to move back along with Akamaru to avoid being caught in the web balls and being unable to move or fight. The same went for Chouji as he was now being attacked by Shikamaru's former foe and her summoned Ogres and facing them all at once was really taxing on the Akamichi member.

They were now on the offensive against Naruto and the others and they were not going to let up either. Neji was forced to use Kaiten to defend himself from a barrage of Kidomaru's chakra enhanced spiderweb spheres as the eight armed ninja came back at him, but as he stopped Jirobo came in and forced Neji to block his attack. But being the strongest of the Sound Four despite not using his Cursed Seal, he was able to force the Hyuuga clan member back and with some injuries. This was soon followed by Tayuya's Ogres attacking Lee while she used her flute to distract the young man after forcing Chouji to help Shikmaru who was attacked by Ukon-Sakon in a dual attack that had the young man on the defensive. Lee groans as the music played on and got hit by the club wielding Ogre and flew back some distance away. Naruto turned and rushed towards Lee, but this allowed the other Ogres to engage the blonde just as Kidomaru turned and fired another arrow at the blonde Chuunin's direction. Naruto blocked the arrow until Jirobo came at him and fired several spheres of Earth, one of which hit Naruto on the back, injuring the blonde.

Both Chouji and Shikamaru were soon hit by the combined attacks of Ukon-Sakon and Jirobo while Neji, Akamaru, and Kiba were hit by Kidomaru who was being aided Tayuya's summoned Ogres and tayuya herself who was using her flute to use Sound based Genjutsu and it was working. Naruto managed to break free however and fired several shuriken towards her, forcing her to stop using her flute and block the thrown weapons. The blonde however was forced back when one of the Ogres came at him. This was actually a powerful trick that the Oto ninja had planned as soon as they were attacked by the Konoha ninja. Once the group were there, Tayuya unleashed a massive barrage of sound based Genjutsu that stopped them cold. Then Kidomaru unleashed a hailstorm of his chakra webs, followed by Jirobo unleashing massive spheres of earth into the stunned and bound Konoha ninja.

The results of the combined attack were devastating and when the smoke cleared...

The Konoha ninja were now on the ground and were not moving...only to explode later in a cloud smoke to reveal that instead of the team of Kiba, Akamaru, Shikamaru, Chouji, Lee, Neji, and Naruto but an entire army of Naruto, who also exploded to reveal nothing at all!

The four Oto Ninja's expressions of triumph disappeared as they realized that they had been fighting Kage Bunshin the whole time. and they barely had a warning as a massive explosion of earth came out in the middle of them. This revealed that the REAL Konoha ninja team had actually sneaked underneath them. Rock Lee, the real Rock Lee was the first to strike as he landed a kick at Jirobo right into the stomach, while the real Neji quickly attacked Ukon-Sakon alongside the real Kiba and Akamaru while the real Naruto tangled once more with the eight armed member of the Oto ninja, and yet again Shikamaru was facing the female ninja. Only this time they now had an idea on how the four fought and had gotten the drop on them as well.

...

Rock Lee quickly used his usual attack style with his foe who was Kidomaru with Neji this time around supporting him in the attack, Uko-Sakon was now being attacked by Kiba and Akamaru again, Jirobo was now being engaged by Naruto and yet again Shikamaru was facing off with Tayuya. This naturally did not sit too well with either of the two with Tayuya being the more vocal one of the pair as she tossed a number of senbon at him to force Shikamaru to avoid his attacks. Shikamaru also used his own clan's Jutsu to create a Shadow Wall to block the other senbon at that exact moment.

"You are not going to have easy time here you pig!"

"Great, so I am now REALLY going to fight a woman. Just what I was hoping to avoid."

That served to infuriate Tayuya as she attacked Shikamaru with senbon and also played her flute to summon her orges once more. It was clear that she was going to make sure that the Nara clan member was going to die slowly for his words and attitude. That was not the least bit lost on Shikamaru as he quickly began to defend himself though it seemed that the woman was not going to rely on her summons for the time being. This was something he hoped to take full advantage of once he got a clean shot at taking her out. The others were also busy with their own foes. Naruto managed to fire several shuriken to distract his foe and landed a fierce side kick to the head of the massive member of the Oto ninja. Jirobo roared in anger at Naruto's attack and tried to land a fierce haymaker on the blonde which Naruto managed to dodge, along with the massive shoulder charge that the teen ninja tried to use on him.

He and the others now had an idea on how to fight the Sound Ninja and defeat them, but they also knew that they had not yet seen the ninja use their Cursed Seals. And Naruto had a feeling that since they were usually on Orochimaru's side, the ninja before them had far greater experience with the Cursed Seals than Sasuke. This was also understood by Shikamaru and the others so they kept themselves ready to fight them in their Cursed Seal form though they knew that they had to be careful since apart from Naruto, none of them had faced ninjas armed with the Curse Seal. And even if some of them had seen Sasuke use his Cursed Seal, they were not to sure what powers the ninjas before them had through their Seals.

This worry proved to be right on the money as Tayuya shouted.

"Let's stop messing around here! Use the seals!"

The others seemed to agree with the red haired Kunoichi and soon the Konoha ninja were treated to the sight of the Cursed Seals appearing on the four Oto ninja. Naruto kept in mind that Sasuke was only recently using the Cursed Seal so these four might be more seasoned than his former team mate and he shouted to the others.

"Get ready! They are using their Seals!"

Neji, Akamaru, Kiba, Rock Lee, and Shikamaru nodded as they knew that this was now more serious. After all, they had left Shino with the other Jonin ranked ninja who were badly injured and one dead from these four. And soon the warning became reality as the four Oto ninja came at the Konoha ninja at full throttle. Naruto was attacked by several more web spheres from Kidomaru but was soon being attacked by the eight armed ninja with close range weapons, all of which happened to be a mix of kunai and hook sickle like versions of his webs. Holy Talon proved more than able to cut the two types of attack, but the guy was not giving up either. Kiba and Akamaru took on Ukon and Sakon though they were more cautious this time around as they too knew that with the seals active, they were going to harder to beat.

Neji and Lee were not working in tandem with one another to battle the largest member of the Oto ninja who was angry at being engaged by the Hyuuga clansman and the Taijutsu specialist who both trained Naruto. The two Konoha ninja needed to be careful now as they could already tell that Jirobo was a lot more powerful than last time. Tayuya was also more than ready to use her Sound genjutsu but Naruto decided to do something about her style of Genjutsu as he channeled his Dragon Fire into a spell, a fairly quick one and imbued it into one of his kunai. As soon as the spell was done, he avoided Kidomaru and fired the kunai.

"SEEKER!"

Tayuya deflected the kunai quickly and returned to using her Genjutsu now that the thrown weapon was out of the way but to her surprise, it did not fly away but followed her. She avoided it and used a tree as a place to hide, but the kunai was still following her. She swore up a heck of a storm at the kunai tracking her as this prevented her from helping her comrades. Naruto soon directed his attention to the others and moved away just as Kidomaru came at him. Tayuya however decided to sacrifice one of her summoned Ogres, she did so by having one of her Ogres to block the kunai and then un-summoned the Ogre in question. Naruto was not happy but had to divert his attention elsewhere as Kidomaru was once more on the attack. The same could be said for Tayuya however as Shikamaru fired several explosive tag wrapped kunai at her to keep her off balance.

Tayuya moved back and shouted to her companions.

"This damned battle is wasting our time! The longer we delay the higher the risk to Orochimaru-sama! We need to end them now!"

Jirobo replied with a grin at that.

"Let me!"

Naruto's senses came to the fore and he shouted to the others who were moving back to get some distance as he was as well.

'LOOK OUT!"

That warning came too late however as he and the others were suddenly surrounded by a dome of pure earth.

...

Naruto glared at the massive soil dome that was now covering them as he tried to get the energy to cut through the stuff. But whatever that muscled guy was using it was draining them of chakra and he could not help but see the effects on Neji, Lee, Kiba, Akamaru, Chouji, and Shikamaru. It was happening to him as well and while he could summon the Kyuubi's chakra, he decided to reserve it for now. He was only going to use it if the situation got to the point that he was going to need it.

He however had a very good idea that the Kyuubi was not going to be happy being caged away again his mind. But right now the last thing he needed was for the demon fox to go berserk unless the situation was that bad. Even with Holy Talon assuring him, the blonde was not going to take chances unless he had no other alternative. He looked at the others and saw that they were also doing that they could to escape, but he was quick to sense that their chakra was being drained by the wall itself.

"Guys! Stop it!"

Shikamaru already got an idea what was happening the very second he tried to use his chakra to summon his shadows to pierce the sphere of earth that surrounded them. His chakra quickly began to fade in a way that he knew was not the least bit normal.

"Naruto's right, this is no simple Jutsu."

The others realized this, even more so when Neji used his Byakugan to see just what was going outside of them. He saw that the chakra that was leaking out of him and the others and being taken into the dome and because of the sheer amount of chakra being taken from all of them, he could not see where their foe was. If they continued to assault this structure, then there was no doubt they would be wasting their energies and possibly lose their lives.

"They're right, that ninja who unleashed the Jutsu is draining us of chakra but with the dome taking our chakra and cloaking the outside world I cannot locate him."

That was bad news and it was clear that all of the other Konoha ninja were also in agreement with the situation that they were in. Unless they found a way to escape, they would be drained of chakra and be vulnerable or dead. Naruto would have used his spells, but there was a chance that his team could be caught in the crossfire. He had advanced well enough in the use of magical power but he was not going to risk his team for a guess. There was also the fact that while he could use the Kyuubi's chakra there was no telling what would happen if the guy tasted the Fox's energy and what the outcome was going to be.

However, he turned to Shikamaru and the Nara clan member nodded as he began to set a plan in motion. It was going to be risky and it was only going to work if they could make the one holding them in the jutsu reveal himself.

...

Outside of the dome, Jirobo turned to Ukon-Sakon, Tayuya and Kidomaru to get them to hurry to Orochimaru.

"You guys hurry up, these guys are mine, I am going to have a lot of fun draining them dry before I kill them."

Tayuya snorted and replied.

"Then hurry up and don't take too long you fat-ass! I am not going back to haul your lardy ass back to home base."

Jirobo snorted and turned back to the dome as the others left, he spoke to himself as soon as he felt that the others were out of hearing range.

"Bossy, loud, obnoxious, foul mouthed woman. What Orochimaru-sama and Kabuto-sama see in her I will never know. Ah well, time for me to have a snack for all my troubles."

That did not mean that his fun was spoiled. Jirobo might look like the proverbiual tub of lard but like most of his companions he was a sadistic one and then decided to get down to the matter at hand.

The large member of the Sound Five turned back to face his foes who were still trapped in the dome of Earth and smirked as he spoke to them.

"So what do you all plan to do now? Any Jutsu you use is not going to work here, I will just drain your chakra slowly until you drop dead. I am going to enjoy feasting on all your chakra!"

It was then that Shikamaru soon spoke to the Oto ninja in question and soon the trap was sprung.

...

Shikamaru's gambit was to pretend that he was selling out the others to save his own hide, Naruto was already aware that Shikamaru had a plan and trusted the Nara Clan member. Holy Talon was quick to scan Shikamaru's mind and since no one but Naruto could sense the link and therefore get the information, he played along. And since no one else knew of it, they reacted the way people normally would, and even Chouji did as well. However, having been friends with Shikamaru for so long, Chouji was quick on the uptake and knew that Shikamaru would only say it if he had a plan in mind on how to get them out of here.

And it seemed as if the gambit worked as the feeling of their chakra being drained was cut, and soon this allowed Naruto to make his own move.

...

"You know what, I am going to kill you all but before the rest of you die, I am going to take out both your worthless leaders, namely the one from the Nara Clan. I cannot believe that new generation of the famed Ino-Shiki-Cho Trio are being led by a pair of cowards who would give up their team mates for their lives. And I though that the sword wielding ninja would be more of a challenge, yet here he is in the dome and soon going to be a dried husk when i am done. I am going to kill them first."

That however was right up the alley of what Naruto and Shikamaru had in mind as Naruto had switched to using one of the Vision Spells in his inventory to locate Jirobo. And sure enough he spotted the enemy and pointed in the direction, thus this gave Shikamaru's old friend Chouji a very good idea where to hit. And right now the heir to the Akamichi Clan did not need to be riled any more than he already was.

BOOM!

Jirobo had no time to react as the dome exploded before him, he cursed the sudden and utterly unexpected attack that happened in front of him. He knew quickly that his Jutsu had been overpowered and his enemies were now free and he was all alone. But he did not care, this was going to be fun for him as he knew he still happened to have his Cursed Seal as a backup as he had retracted the seal earlier to conserve it as well as recharge it with the chakra he had taken from his now freed foes.

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Chouji quickly made his move and tore through the wall, having eaten the very first of what was his secret weapon. The Three Colored Pills were the secret weapon of the clan but like any secret weapon, it was also dangerous to Chouji and he knew it. Each pill eaten would convert all his calories and stored fat into chakra to increase his power and bring his Clan's powers to higher levels. But each pill was dangerous to his life, and the red pill would kill him. But after the insults hurled at Shikamaru and his team, the kid gloves were off his hands. And he proved it as he was the one to charge right at the Oto ninja while the others looked on to recover their chakra.

...

Chouji quickly used his family Jutsu and slammed a massive fist into the face of the largest member of the Oto ninja. He managed to send the guy flying back and began to get serious even as the large ninja was somehow ale to recover, no doubt he had used the siphoned chakra from them to reinforce his body in some manner. This was not lost to the foe he was facing as he wiped his face with a sneer as he knew full well who Chouji was. After all, as part of Orochimaru's escort force in the previous battle in Konoha, he was informed on just who the ninja of the village were. This naturally included the ninja who came from the clans.

"So you're one of the Akamichi Clan? This is going to be fun. I am Jirobo and I will make sure that I kill you all for having such a weak pair of leaders, but I am going to kill you first. Though I can bet that our ally Sasuke would want to see the blonde one here dead, and after what he did to Orochimaru-sama, that is something I also want to see."

Chouji was all business and replied.

"So you know that I am of the Akamichi Clan? And you dare to insult me, my friend Shikamaru, and belittle my team? Fine, then that means that this fight's between you and me! I am going to kill you for your insults to me, my clan and my friend!"

The others looked at Chouji and it was clear that they could tell that he was dead serious fighting this man. Naruto and Shikamaru nodded and the Nara Clan member spoke to his long time friend.

"You better make it back Chouji, we're going to be needing your help before too long."

Chouji nodded and smiled.

"You got it Shikamaru, go on ahead."

The others soon took off to capture the rest of the Oto Ninja who had now taken Sasuke further into the direction of their land. There was no doubt in the minds of the other ninja that they were going to have a fight on their hands, no doubt from what they had experienced with their brief battles with them no less than several minutes ago. Naruto on the other hand knew that with this guy out of the way, Sasuke would now have less people to protect him. He however decided to get ready for anything since he was still not sure just what the abilities the others had, even more so when they were going to use their Cursed Seals.

Chouji turned to face his foe and soon spoke seriously.

"All right, now let's get this over and done with!"

To which Jirobo smirked and cracked his knuckles and replied.

"Let's do it then!"

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Shino waited and soon was greeted by the sight of a Konoha Medic unit coming with ANBU escort, but they were not alone either. The new arrivals however he quickly recognized and was pleased to know that they were here. And his bugs confirmed to him that the ninja before him were indeed from Konoha, even more so when he saw that it was none other than Shizune who was leading them.

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To be continued...

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Author's Notes:

There, now we get down to the rest of the battle, and while this will follow the path that was seen in the anime and manga, I will be doing my best to add some changes if the changes are deemed to be good for the story overall. I also apologize in advance for the mess that it might look like, having my PC overhauled and not being able to update as much as I had previously scheduled had thrown all my plans up he proverbial creek.

Anyhow, this story is soon coming to a close so don't be surprised that we are going to be coming to the battle between Naruto and Sasuke. But unlike what we saw in canon, there is no reason for Naruto to be kind to Sasuke in this battle. So you can bet that their battle would be a lot more serious and a lot more brutal. Naturally you can bet that Death Fang is going to have a lot of fun seeing how this battle will play out, and if you know what I have done before, then you can bet that the evil sword is going to get involved.

How?

That you will have to see at a later date now won't you?

Also I can tell you that in the sequel to this, there will be the results of Naruto's sexual escapades with the ladies soon enough. Plus I plan to have him do a few side adventure stories before going to the sequel of this story of mine.

Anyway, on to the next chapter and all the way to the end!