Naruto Shippuden -H-: Chapter 006: Exalted Shinobi
Sasuke had appeared behind Jesei, without the latter realizing it, and pointed his sword towards the throat of the man with a menacing look.
"Any smart remarks, and you are a dead man!" said Sasuke with a serious tone.
"I knew someone would find one of us eventually, I just did not know it would be you, and that I would have gotten myself caught in such a way." said Jesei.
"I also know the location of your other men as well, this little invasion of yours is over now." said Sasuke as he had his Rinnegan focused on the location of Camp Abraham.
"Hehehe, permission to make light of your futile attempt to seem threatening?" asked Jesei with a joking tone.
"That just sealed it." said Sasuke as he swung his sword straight through Jesei's neck, beheading the man where he stood.
"I gave you a warning, but then again, I should know that your kind can never be reasoned with." said Sasuke with an annoyed expression.
"Now, if only that were the real you." said Sasuke as he detected another presence in the woods further out to the south.
"Good, good, you saw through my Mirage Clone, but then again, with that weird little eye of yours, I expected no less." said Jesei as he came walking up out of hiding towards Sasuke.
"I honestly thought that I had killed you, guess I have to give you credit their, but this time I will not make a mistake, my eyes can see through your deception." said Sasuke as he put his sword into a striking position.
"You are not going to get in the way of this great expedition of ours today, I am afraid." said Jesei as he pulled out the scroll that Lunesto had given him earlier.
"Some kind of trap, best to wait and see." thought Sasuke to himself.
"You see, when faced with a man and his sword, it is always wise to counter with a similar plan of attack." said Jesei as he released the seal on his scroll, summoning a sword with a green hilt. The blade was decorated with vines and cranberies painted on it.
"Such a fancy sword you have their, but I am afraid this is over." said Sasuke as he rapidly started running towards Jesei's location.
"Oh boy, I did not count on getting into a skirmish this early, but if I can distract him long enough, Lunesto and Antoine can finish their parts and Naruto will receive the invitation." thought Jesei to himself.
"Chidori!" yelled Sasuke as he thrusted his hand, surrounded by black-enhanced lightning towards Jesei's chest.
"Oh shit, I heard of this one." said Jesei as he was able to narrowly avoid the attack.
Jesei swung his sword towards Sasuke as he was able to dodge the Chidori strike.
"Huh, simple tricks." said Sasuke as he vanished immediately, with a small rock taking his place. Jesei's sword cut through the rock instead.
"Was that the Body Flicker Technique, no, it had to be something else, I cannot find him anywhere." said Jesei to himself with a nervous tone.
"Fire Release: Great Dragonfire Technique!" yelled Sasuke as he suddenly appeared from behind a tree west of Jesei's location.
Three large draconian heads of flame honed in onto Jesei's location.
"Fuck, this is also not good, I do not want to face this man for too long." said Jesei as he started to quickly form some hand signs to counter.
"Eloquent Spacial Barrier Placement Technique." said Jesei as a vineyard of plants and berries grew around Jesei, a purplish charm around the growth deflected the brunt of Sasuke's attack.
"What was that, I never heard of a barrier like this." thought Sasuke to himself.
"You are just wasting your time right now Sasuke, this is not an invasion my friend, this is an invitation to the great golden hero, Naruto Uzumaki." said Jesei with a proud tone.
"Invitation, Naruto, what are you trying to do with him, whatever it is, I will make sure he does not have to soil his hands with a piece of trash like you." said Sasuke as he put his sword away.
"Oho, but I am not speaking of a battle between Naruto, rather, an opportunity to leave monotony behind, to leave this worthless routine of life behind, to ascend into a conciousness of clarity and equality." said Jesei as he had his sights set on focusing on the big picture of his mission.
Elsewhere, Naruto had arrived on the scene along with Hinata, they were both notified by Sai that someone had destroyed the eastern and western walls of the village.
"Who is responsible for this?" asked Hinata.
"Whoever it is, they decided to take advantage of our time of peace to strike." said Naruto with a look of duty.
"We were given the impression that someone had made an intrusion from the southern gate of the village, but once we arrived, their was no one their." said Raido.
"I see, then allow me to detect them, this will not take long at all." said Naruto as he entered his Nine Tails Chakra Mode.
"Naruto, be careful, I do not want you to get hurt." said Hinata as she gave her husband a big hug.
"Don't worry my precious angel, I will not fail this time." said Naruto as he winked at Hinata before vanishing in a flash of light.
"He sure is quick, but it would be best for the rest of us to continue to back him up by traveling in the direction he flew off to." said Ebisu.
"Sakura, you are here." said Genma as he noticed that she and Tsunade had also arrived.
"Don't think we are here just for any medical provisions today, I am in a rather bad mood." said Tsunade as she had grown upset with the boredom of being in the Konoha Council.
"Hey, you were the one who offered to take that position, and now you hate it?" asked Sakura.
"Ah hell, let's just get this started, I do not want any more collateral damage to befall the village." said Tsunade as she, Sakura, Genma, Raido, Aoba, Ebisu, Sai, and Shikamaru all headed towards the direction that Naruto ran off.
"That is the eastern wall we are headed towards, that must be where the enemy really is." said Shikamaru.
"That is what I was thinking after I could not find any traces of the enemy around the southern gate." said Aoba.
"We need to stay focused none the less, the quicker we stop this invasion, the better off the rebuilding process will be." said Genma.
"Well with Naruto on our side, this battle will be over probably by the time we get their." said Sai with a laugh.
"Don't say that, I want to be able to join in on the fun, dammit!" said Tsunade as she was determined to be able to contribute in one way.
"Oh goodness, Lady Hokage, just relax." said Sakura with a look of comical disbelief.
"Shizune is staying behind to heal any of the civilians that were hurt by the initial assault, so this will all run smoothly." said Ebisu as the group were almost at the location that Naruto headed towards.
In Kakashi's office, he was staring out of the window watching the events unfold.
"Naruto and Sasuke will deal with this, I am certain, but just who is behind this assault, and how were they able to get through our barrier team's defenses without much effort." thought Kakashi to himself as he continued to ponder what was occurring outside of the gate.
Hinata had stayed behind and decided to assist Shizune in looking for anyone who may have been injured when the walls were destroyed. Tsunade, Sakura, Sai, Shikamaru, Raido, Aoba, Genma, and Ebisu were all in pursuit of Naruto and the location of the eastern wall.
Antoine and his soldiers from Camp Abraham were in hiding as one of the soldiers took the initiative to look for Naruto, or another leaf shinobi's approach to their location.
"I don't see anything yet, but I am sure that..." is all the soldier had time to say as Naruto had struck him was a Rasengan in such a quick manner, it had appeared to be like a strike of lightning.
"Is that Naruto Uzumaki?" asked Sheppard as he was surprised to see such an occurrence take place.
"Yep, the golden hero, deserving of the name, he is an exalted shinobi after all." said Antoine as he, Sheppard, and the remaining soldiers stepped from behind the forestry and confronted the Uzumaki.
"You are the ones responsible for this, what are you planning to do, start an invasion, or perhaps you are from one of the smaller countries and feel you were somehow wronged by us, which is it?" asked Naruto with a stern tone.
"I guess ya have seen it all, but we are here for none of those reasons, we are here for you." said Antoine with a smirk as Sheppard immediately stepped from behind the former, and used his jutsu to activate five hundred explosive tags to zero in on Naruto's location.
"It looks like one is doing the talking, while the other is taking their time to strike." said Naruto as he quickly ran out of the range of the attack, avoiding the explosion.
"I will ask you all again, what is it you want with me?" asked Naruto with a tone of vigilance.
"We are here to offer you an invitation, that last jutsu was just to test your reaction time, and it was wonderful as we predicted." said Antoine as he and Sheppard stood side by side in front of Naruto.
"One of you better take that wounded soldier and get out of here, you're jobs are over, it is our turn now." said Sheppard as he had his sights set on finishing his mission.
"Yes sir." said another one of the nineteen soldiers as they headed towards the location of their injured ally to pick them up.
"Shaaanaroooo!" yelled Sakura as he quickly arrived on the scene kicking the soldier into a tree and preventing him from helping his ally.
"Are you worms the ones who did this!" yelled Tsunade as she performed a drop kick around the remaining sixteen soldiers sending them all flying off into the woods.
"My word, backup sure is incredible in this village." said Sheppard as he whole platoon was out of the picture in quick display of kunoichi power.
"Sakura, Tsunade, where is everyone else?" asked Naruto with enthusiasm, as he enjoyed seeing Tsunade and Sakura perform their combination attack.
"They are right behind us in fact, get ready to see it for yourself." said Sakura.
"Multi-Shadow Possession Jutsu!" said Shikamaru as Sheppard and Antoine were caught in the jutsu without even noticing.
"Fuck, I forgot about the possibility of this jutsu being used against us." said Sheppard as he was upset with the events that were transpiring.
Aoba, Genma, Raido, and Ebisu were all surrounding Antoine and Sheppard while Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Tsunade were to the left.
"Well, we got their attention, safe to say, hehehehe." laughed Antoine as sweat poured down his face.
"If you comply peacefully, then nothing will happen, trust me." said Tsunade with a stern voice.
"Ohh, please forgive us, we are sorry for blowing down your walls, which I must add, needed a redecoration anyway, hahaha." laughed Antoine.
"This is hardly the time to play dumb, are their anymore of you around the area, do you have any backup on the way, answer now." said Genma as he pulled out a shuriken and held it to Sheppard's head.
"Look dude, I am just a small chip in this plan, we are only here to offer Naruto an invitation from our boss, that is all." said Sheppard.
"An invitation, what do you mean?" asked Raido.
"That just seems like an excuse to get out of the inevitable." said Shikamaru.
"No, he is serious, we are here to offer Naruto and invitation to come to our city and meet with our boss, he is your biggest fan." said Antoine.
"As if we will fall for a trap like that." said Sakura with anger.
"I figured that it would end up like this, but of course, if we caused the center of your village to be flat-lined, I am sure that tone would change." said Antoine with a grin as he knew of Lunesto's presence from within the village.
"What do you mean, I did not sense anyone suspicious in the village, perhaps you are just trying to fool us, that will not work." said Naruto as he walked over to Antoine and placed his hand of the suit-claded man's forehead.
"Aoba, let me channel your mind reading technique through my charka arms, this will allow us to thoroughly analyze what these guys are really up to." said Naruto.
"Hey that is a good idea, well, here it goes." said Aoba as one of Naruto's chakra hands grabbed Aoba just as he performed his jutsu, causing it to be channeled through Naruto.
"Such ingenious, if only Naruto acted like this all of the time." said Sai to himself.
"Nope." said Antoine as he turned into a plasma-like substance and disappeared into a ball of light.
"The hell, what did he do?" asked Naruto with confusion.
"You are either going to except our invitation or this fucking village is going down, I swear." said Antoine, who still in the form of a ball of light, flew off into the direction of the center of the village.
"Aoba, Raido, and Shikamaru, you three stay here, Sakura, Sai, you two come with me, the rest of you patrol the area and look for anymore of these guys." said Naruto as he quickly followed the trail of Antoine, running at a quick pace.
"Man, things sure are getting heated up, kind of exciting even." said Raido.
"Yeah, but I was really wanting to see what was in that guy's mind, last time I tried this technique, Kisame also interfered, man, I am no good for this after all." said Aoba.
"Listen, this is no time to be fooling around, let's keep this guy here under our control for now, we will wait to hear a response back from Naruto before we proceed any further." said Shikamaru as he turned his attention towards Sheppard.
"Hehehe, you heathens will not succeed here today, because you do not understand what our goal is in the first place." said Sheppard with joy.
"Well, whatever it is, I ensure you that I am ready for it." said Shikamaru with a look of determination.
"Hehehe, you seem so sure of yourself, but trust me dude, this is not an invasion, this is improvisation." said Sheppard as he thought of what Jesei was up to.
Jesei had been struck by Sasuke's Chidori Senbon and had fallen to the ground.
"I can see the chakra of Naruto and many others taking care of things over their, Sakura's chakra is over their as well." said Sasuke to himself.
Jesei's body slowly faded away again, as the real one emerged from the ground.
"This mirage clone strategy will not work for much longer I need to do something drastic now." said Jesei as he formed the Tiger, Snake, Pig, Rat, and Board hand signs in rapid succession.
"Mind Release: Self Doubt." said Jesei as he started to focus his chakra onto Sasuke.
"You make me sick." said Sasuke as he Susano'o formed into it's non-stabilized complete form and pointed an arrow wrapped in the flame of Ameterasu directly at the old man.
"Fuck, the fully formed Susano'o, and in it's Eternal version, if my jutsu does not connect, I am dead, fuck!" said Jesei with a sincere look of worry.
"Vanish from the sight of my eyes, you uncouth vagabond." said Sasuke as his Susano'o shot an arrow surrounded by the flames of Ameterasu at high speeds towards the location of Jesei.
"This, is, bad." said Jesei as he had believed that his jutsu did not even effect Sasuke.
"I win." said Sasuke as he closed his eyes to wait for the sound of screams from Jesei.
-To be continued next time with Chapter 007...-