Chapter Four: Of Dawns and Snakes
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Naruto entered the building in front of him, with a smirk in his face. In a few minutes they were standing in front of a blonde girl with kind of creepy eyes and she just excluded an aura that said, Pratt. He looked at her for a minute before turning toward Takagi.
"So we're supposed to protect the blonde Pratt?" rhetorically asked Naruto which caused Takagi and Yoshimura to chuckle and the rest of the council to go red from anger.
"Boy, watch your mouth, se is the priestess, and her name is Shion not Pratt" said a member of the council, which Naruto didn't even bother to learn his name.
"You say Shion and I hear Pratt" replied Naruto looking at the slightly amused face of Shion.
"You'll die" said Shion plainly, with no emotion "you'll will be impaled in the chest by a monster"
"Nice, I'm so scared" replied Naruto.
"Master Naruto, pay attention to her warnings, she can see the future" warned Yoshimura.
"Yeah, I know she sees the death of peoples but I have a bad news for you priestess I will not die, not until I achieve my goal and I have at least meet my nephews" said Naruto with his trademark grin.
"Foolish boy, you know nothing, I wished it was that simple but my visions always come true" said a visibly angry Shion, displaying emotions for the first time since their meeting.
"You know you remind me of a boy who had a fixation with Fate until I beat it out of him" replied Naruto.
"My visions can't be changed" relied Shion back in her monotone voice.
"You know, I'm temped to actually hit a girl for the first time in my life" said Naruto telepathically to Takagi, which made Takagi chuckle.
"Yeah, just wait and see" said Naruto defiantly.
"Enough, with this disrespect toward the priestess, or we will…" threatened a member of the council before being interrupted by Naruto.
"What? Hire the leaf team, you will not because you need the best and I am the best so shut up and let me do my job" said Naruto rather angry "why do councils have to be pricks with a stick shoved up their asses everywhere?"
"Naruto, you will not fall to their level" said Takagi in a calm voice but that showed great disappointment.
"Yes sensei" said Naruto with a slight bow toward Takagi.
"Very well and you will not disrespect him anymore or else… there will no longer be a Land of Demons understood" said Takagi the last part in he said in a demonic voice, and the council members nodded.
"Well, we will be retiring to our room" said Takagi and as he was leaving the room he added "oh and by the way we will be sleeping in the room next to the priestess"
As Takagi and Naruto were walking along the hallways toward their temporary room Naruto looked positively angry and he entered the room so angry you could actually steam coming from his ears. As soon as they entered the room they would be standing in, Naruto summoned some chakra ink and guided it with his chakra to form into a triangular seal which glowed blue before becoming totally invisible. Takakgi sat on a chair and smiled.
"You did very well" commented Takakgi.
"Are you sure, won't the spy get suspicious that we used, a mental channel that can be spied n very easily?" asked Naruto.
"No, since there are very few that can actually do that, he would think that we didn't think that anyone could do that, so we were very lax on security" answered Takagi, taking out a pipe and started smoking a foul smelling herb, which actually made the brain work even better.
"Seriously, paranoia is the sign of a true ninja, but then again, I'm not exactly a ninja" said Naruto with a shrug.
"Indeed, let's just hope Orochimaru, falls for your reckless attitude act" said Takagi.
"I still don't get it how, Orochimaru is more dangerous than, the entire Akatsuki?" asked Naruto.
"He is, because he is a genius, a mad genius, but a genius nonetheless and the fact that he is crazy only makes him more dangerous" responded Takagi.
"Yes, I know you can foresee what a sane person would do but not what a crazy person would' mechanically recited Naruto.
"True, now get some sleep, you'll need it" said Takagi getting up.
"See you in a few days, Gramps" said Naruto laying down on his bed, not before making some other seals, just to be on the safe side.
"Don't worry, if you need me, I'll be there" said Takagi.
"Like, there is anything out there, that can harm me" said Naruto.
"There are" said Takagi
"You seriously lost your sense of humor" said Naruto pouting.
"Well, three thousand years of life do that to a person" replied Takagi chuckling "but if you survive, this mission, I will teach you the ultimate cheat, one taught to me by the emperor himself"
"Really, what is it?" asked Naruto.
"You'll find out when I teach it to you, its not that you don't have better or more versatile cheats in you personal Emperor cheat guidebook, but this one is pretty awesome" commented Takagi before disappearing in a cold blue flash, a flash with the same color of his eyes.
Naruto wondered what powers did those eyes grant to the old man, probably a lot seeing as those eyes could block the Rinnengan itself. Nothing to worry though a "cheater", could never turn against its master or their bloodline, without permit from a fully-fledged Emperor, they were the equivalent of ANBU and ROOT ANBU, loyal to the end.
Sleep claimed him after a while, before he woke up to screams of men dying, the smell of charred flesh, the coppery smell of blood and massive chakra spikes. He was up in a second, his sword in his hand and in a flash he was outside in the courtyard. Naruto saw the first sight of a carnage, every other battle he had fought had been quick, the least bloody he could manage, even his Heavenly Retribution turned all enemies into ash but this was a true carnage, made by people who loved pain and blood, and they would pay. He didn't have any illusions, he too was evil but at least he granted his enemies a quick death, he was an evil the world needed.
He saw them firing Fire jutsu against the guards which were trapped in Genjutsu. He stopped to use observe on his enemies, Kusuna lvl. 38, Gitai lvl. 34, Setsuna lvl,34, Shizuku lvl.34. They weren't much of a threat but he would play it carefully. With a though, chakra ink flowed from his inventory and guided by his chakra it created a circle which flared with a bright red color creating a massive dome of yellowish energy which prevented anyone from entering or leaving the monastery.
The four ninjas saw the red glowing seal and immediately went toward it to destroy it, "Fools, they act as street brawlers and not as ninja" though Naruto before appearing behind the ninja named Shizuku and with a silent swipe of his sword his head departed his shoulders, before the blood splatters could touch him Naruto retreated in a small bamboo forest, that this guys had planted within the monastery. From within the forest he created a hundred shadow clones and put them to work on seals, for while his opponent were weak, being prepared was the second golden rule of ninjas, the first was to kill silently and quickly.
The three remaining ninjas had stopped and had gathered back to back, smart but useless as he flashed to the nearest of them, his name was Gitai and with a quick slash of his wind chakra enhanced blade, he was now headless. The remaining two tried for the last time to reach the seal and destroy it so that they could escape, but it wasn't mean to be as two pieces of paper appeared beneath their feet and one of them produced a violet fire which engulfed and killed Setsuna while the other piece of paper absorbed Kusuna and with that the battle was over. Naruto walked over to the corpses of the two decapitated ninja and placed a piece of paper on their bodies. The papers glowed before burning themselves and the bodies leaving nothing beyond ashes and at the same time filling Naruto's head with information regarding them.
The information he got made him frown, the demon or at least half of him anyways had found a way to give them some of his power, no wonder they were acting so mindlessly. He turned around to see the surprised faces of the guards, he didn't care so he walked past them and toward the council which had arrived only moments earlier and they to were surprised at the demonstration. With a though the yellowish dome of energy disappeared, some show of power was needed especially if they were to trick Orochimaru into thinking that he was reckless and a show off.
"Did you enjoy the demonstration?" asked Naruto as he passed by them, he couldn't manage a smile but he managed a weird grin, he had killed what did they expect of him, he had just killed three men's and was about to interrogate another
He didn't expect for an answer but walked past them. On his way to his room he saw the blonde girl hugging one of the guards and whispering something to him. She turned around and saw Naruto with a shocked expression, which meant that the person she was hugging had been saved by him, but as to why that would shock the girl so much he didn't get. Shion neared him with an expression that seemed like shyness but he knew it was the pride she was swallowing.
"Naruto, I came here to thank you for saving my friend, his name is…" said Shion swallowing her pride.
"Arashi" said Naruto shocking Shion even further.
"How did you know?" asked Shion.
"Because I'm Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds and I don't like being cheated" said Naruto in a scary tone, frightening Shion and her two guards before laughing at loud "kidding, I heard one of the guards call him by his name and I memorized it as any ninja would"
"Anyway thanks, maybe fate isn't set in stone" she said blushing from the embarrassment of being scared and letting it show.
"I told you so" said Naruto slipping back into his immature persona.
"Very well, see you tomorrow" said Shion as she turned around to leave bright red from abger and embarrassment.
"Okay, and don't take any of your guards with us" said Naruto turning around.
"Why?" Shion asked while her imagination began to run wildly at what the reason was
"I travel very fast and they would only delay us, and while I can carry you on my back, I can't carry them around" said Naruto as he entered his room.
Naruto unsealed the body of Kusuna and immediately activated his Rinnengan. He placed his hand on Kusuna's forehead and activated his Human Path ability Soul Worm, immediately information entered his mind as the soul of Kusuna screamed in his hands, not than anyone who hadn't the Rinnengan or at least the Mangekyo Sharingan would hear or see him. He let the soul go to the afterlife, he hadn't gotten much more information that with the rest of his team even if he had used Soul Worm on him, the most advanced ability of the Human Path, that he knew anyway, it allowed him to extract the soul and absorb all of its knowledge and skills but he couldn't do yet the skill part and also it wasn't supposed to kill the person it was used on.
Naruto disposed of the body with the seal that produced the purple flames, that thing was a life saver, it totally destroyed a single object, unless the seal was modified for other purposes, it didn't release any smoke and it emitted no smell, not even an Inuzuka dog could tell that a person was incinerated on that room. As he laid on the bed his mind replayed on his match with Kakashi, he was awesome he knew it but still without his Rinnengan or the Fur ball's chakra he was way below the S-rank, probably a low A-rank but even if Kakashi had abandoned his training completely he would still be at least a high A-rank.
And when the match was over he actually looked relieved, it had probably something to do with the stone army, Golems to be more exact but they didn't know it, they though they were just elaborate stone puppets and it would be better if they kept thinking that because that would mean that they would still hope that there was a hope to destroy them. In reality they were lucky the Demon was only half awake, otherwise the Golem army would be invincible, by ninja means of course, and they would have lost by now.
That meant the match was just a way to gauge his skills and apparently he was pleased. Naruto suspected it had something to do with his Flying Thunder God: Amusement Park, he had created it to compensate for the his slow progress with the original Flying Thunder God, the technique practically allowed one to defeat even opponents as powerful as Madara or Hashirama Senju but that was if you were a true master of it and he wasn't, hell he doubted if his father had the necessary mastery over it, despite him being the one who transformed the jutsu from a Kenjustsu support technique into a weapon a mass destruction.
Naruto banished those thoughts and emptied his mind, this technique allowed his body to fall asleep faster and require one hour less sleep. As he though sleep claimed him in less than a minute after activating his semi-meditation state. His sleep was troubled by a dream that was remarkably similar to the vision that Shion had told him about. He woke up in the morning drenched in sweat, a quick water jutsu in the back yard of the temple took care of that. He changed clothes to be more similar to the ones his father wore while in missions, it wasn't that he was trying to copy him or anything but that outfit was the most suited when in operations that required stealth, after all he didn't want to draw the attention of a thousand's year old demon by wearing orange as much as it pained him to give up on orange.
Shion was waiting in the courtyard dressed in a white shirt, brown pants and a vanilla colored coat. Falnking her were her loyal protector Toruho and the members o the council, which by theway were looking positively pissed off except for Yoshimura and even she was a bit worried.
What is this travesty I have heard of, boy" spat a male member of the council.
"What you finally realized those robes you are wearing are a crime against all mankind's eyes?" asked Naruto nonchalantly.
"Enough you little…" said the council member.
"Enough, Takeda stop this nonsense, his a kid for crying out loud and you demand of him to behave according to a set of rules he doesn't even know" said Yoshimura in a stern voice that caused everyone present to flinch Naruto included "and to make it worse you treat him like he was your servant, when he is the one who will protect the High Priestess, show more respect"
"Like he deserves it" said the now named Takeda, with a very low voice.
"Did you say something Takeda?" asked Yoshimura in an all to sweet voice
"N-No, nothing" said Takeda quickly.
"Well that's settled then, young Naruto, you may now leave toward this destination" said Yoshimura in a neutral voice "and away from this morons" she added in a voice that only Naruto and Shion heard.
"Hop on" said Naruto pointing to his back.
With reluctance she hoped on Naruto's back and she felt herself being tied by some invisible force into Naruto's back. Naruto immediately jumped across the wall of the temple and landed a few dozen meters away, Shion shrieked from surprise but after a few dozen other jumps like that she finally relaxed. While they were jumping across trees Naruto couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen soon enough and not one to ignore his sixth sense, he created a few hundreds clones which quickly spread through the forest, sealing scrolls at ready for any emergency.
Surprisingly Shion didn't ask any question but just stared at the clones for a moment before returning back to her brooding. Luckily His suspicion was proved wrong and the day went on without a problem even when they crossed the border between the Land of Demons and the Land of Fangs.
Her paused a couple of hours after the crossed the border, the sun was setting and the foliage of the forest was dense enough to hide them from the eyes of all but the most talented ninja, than in part to the seals he had placed around the campsite to prevent anyone from finding it. The seals worked as a subtle suggestion that told one to leave the area without properly checking it and only those with the strongest willpower could go through them.
Such a thing could only be done by an S-rank ninja and some high A-rank but even if they did pass through them he would know and it would take him exactly thirty two seconds to leave the camp together with the Pra… err high priestess-in-training and detonate a whole shit lad of modified explosive tags. He unsealed two tents and called some of his clones to help set the camp while he went to meditate and have a chat with the Fur ball.
He found a secluded place within a minute. It was a small excluded clearing (even more so than a normal clearing in the forest), in the middle there was a stump of a tree and a few flowers that he couldn't make out in the dim light offered from the moonlight that found its way through the dense foliage of the forest and he couldn't bother to activate his observe just to find out their names.
Naruto sat down on the tree stump in the lotus position and cleared his mind and willed himself to enter his mindscape. Once that was a tedious task, he couldn't stay still for long until he found out that that because of his abnormally large reserves of chakra so Takagi had given him some chakra storage seals to pour his extra chakra into them, allowing him to actually stay still for more than half an hour and to always have extra chakra in the far fetched case he might be running low.
He felt himself being pulled into his mindscape, the feeling wasn't bothersome in by itself but for someone who was trying to access mental powers the feeling was quite unnatural especially since he was training to project his mind outside of his body rather than inside but the mindscape was the perfect place to evaluate your progress as it contained what you had learned and even your reflexes but he had learned to stay away from then, a week of getting tickled every time the wind blew over his skin had taught him that.
His mindscape was designed after a giant mountain that never ended, filled with caves that held memories, things he had learned, skills etc. That made it difficult for someone entering his mind to take control especially as the mountain was always shifting and that stopped only when he was inside it. He quickly made its way to Kurama or rather he willed himself there, since inside a mindscape will and thought were the only thing that mattered. The cage looked the same as ever though if you looked inside you would notice that the space was limitless and filled with stuff that the fox liked not that you could tell since Kurama knew a trick to make the seem blurry when you looked upon them.
Kurama appeared right in front of him and stretched his hand attempting to capture and probably squeeze Naruto.
"Yeah, nice one Kurama but we both know you love me to much to actually do that" said Naruto in a bored voice while sporting a small smile.
"That's disappointing considering that you used to jump away when I did that" replied Kurama chuckling.
"Yeah, that was like a million years ago" answered Naruto a bit flustered.
"Not that much, a few months actually" replied Kurama laughing at the expression on his face "so what you came here for"?
"I feel something coming" said Naruto slipping into serious mode.
"I do to, but don't worry you can survive it" said Kurama " after all the most powerful of the Tailed Beasts is going to help you"
"Still insisting on this matter you're not the most powerful of the tailed beasts" said Naruto seriously annoyed.
"I challenge you to find a tailed beast more powerful than me" boasted Kurama.
"Let me think" said Naruto with a wicked grin plastered on his face "The Ten-Tails, The Ten-Tails original form, Thu'ryn of the Flaming Tails, do you still want me to continue"?
"Thu'ryn doesn't count, he is a demon not a tailed beast" pouted Kurama.
"He counts, being made of chakra, check, has many tails, check, is an arrogant bastard, check" replied Naruto his grin threatening to rip his face apart.
"Hey I am not an arrogant bastard" exclaimed Kurama.
"Yeah and I am Kami" answered Naruto.
"Whatever, if you wanted to know if I will help you than yes, now leave" all but roared Kurama.
"Sore loser" said Naruto.
"Am not" replied Kurama as Naruto fully vanished.
"You are" echoed the voice of Naruto.
"Cheeky brat" muttered Kurama with a foxy grin.
Naruto, woke up from his trance and nodded to his clones to dispel. He returned to camp and entered his tent without talking to Shion, seriously she was worse than Neji and Sasuke combined and that was saying something. He didn't need to sleep that much but he still needed to be at full strength for whatever was coming and he wasn't talking about the demon, he was a minor nuisance for someone that was a seal master and had his powers but no something else was after them and he had a feeling that he wanted to prepare himself for whatever was about to come.
He woke pretty early and started to pack everything, after he had packed everything except the tent in which Shion was sleeping he created a dozen clones and went to warm up a bit. When he returned he saw Shion sitting in the middle the clones and when they dispelled he learned she had gone through a fit when she learned he hadn't woken her up and that he had left her with some "meager copies"
"You are seriously annoying" said Naruto as he threw over his shoulder and took off.
"Let me down you ignorant peasant" screamed Shion.
"If you say so" said Naruto as he threw her from his shoulder and down the tree but before she could fall to the ground a shadow clone snatched her and brought her in front of the original Naruto and dispelled.
"What was that for?" asked a visibly shaken Shion.
"That was for making fun of my clones, they are a part of me given form by chakra so please refrain from insulting them, least next time you fall they decide to let you fall" said Naruto.
"Are you threatening me?" asked Shion taken aback.
"No, Kami forbid it, I'm simply warning you, I can't always control what my clones do" said Naruto as he offered his back to Shion.
"Why do you treat me like this?" asked Shion as he hoped on his back.
"Because, I don't like people like you" answered Naruto.
People like me?" asked Shion.
"Yes, people that use fate as an excuse for their failures" said Naruto.
"You don't get do you, whatever I see comes true and I only see death" said Shion
"Oh, but I do, the old man told me how it works" said Naruto shocking Shion "however instead of respecting their sacrifices you throw them all away by being a Pratt"
"I'm not a Pratt" answered Shion.
"No, are you sure, because you sure do look like one to me" replied Naruto.
"You don't understand do you? Of course not you have never experienced pain like I did" said Shion bitterly.
"On that one you're right, I haven't felt pain like that, I've had much worse" said Naruto.
"How?" asked Shion.
"I am a jinchuriki" said Naruto confusing Shion.
"But shouldn't you be treated as a hero, you saved them all by imprisoning a demon? Asked Shion.
"True but civilian are idiots and ninja found it easier to just blame me instead of seeing me for what I am, so they just shunned me, they didn't' let their children play with me, they yelled at me for no reason stuff like that" said Naruto with a sad tone.
"I'm sorry I didn't know" whispered Shion.
"Its not a big deal, really" said Naruto "but don't expect me to apologize for earlier, I really hate people that use the Fate bullshit as shield from reality"
"Why?" asked Shion
"Because the only persons who use it are spoiled people who had a much easier life and when life gets tough than they play the Fate card and the fact fate doesn't exists, destiny does but that is more like a destination rather than a set road, you chose the path you want" explained Naruto.
"You really think that?" asked Shion.
"Of course, now keep it quiet or someone is bound to find us and then things will get ugly" said Naruto as he quickened his pace.
The next few hours were peaceful, with Shion asking more of Naruto's life in the Hidden village in the Leaf and Naruto answering. Shion was starting to come out of her shell slowly but she was coming out. The problems started when they passed the border of the land of Claws, a few minutes after the passed through he felt two massive chakra signatures, such signatures could only belong to S-rank ninjas. One of the signatures was weird like there were five signatures mixed in it but four were being surprised by a powerful earth natured signature, he immediately recognized it as the signature of Kakuzu, that while terrible was a tolerable presence when compared with his teammate.
Hidan, the result of the experiments of the Jashinist cult, immortal, could only be killed by the All-killing Ash Bones or the Truth-Seeking Balls, powers that Naruto didn't posses or incredibly powerful magic that while he possessed, Naruto was reluctant to use lest he end up destroying a nice portion of the country in which they currently were. "The fools, dabbling in such dark rituals and magic and what's worse using chakra to fuel them" thought Naruto as he sensed them gain on them.
Naruto changed course and quickly created a shadow clone and gave Shion to him and with a gesture which told her not to ask questions but leave he turned into the opposite direction and ran as fast as he could. He stopped when he arrived in the bank of a river, trees didn't grew in a distance of one hundred meters of the river on both sides, all in all as good place as any to fight two S-rank ninja. He didn't have any illusions he would have to use the Rinnengan if he was to stand a chance, especially against the two of them.
The two ninja appeared in front of him in les than a second. He used observe on them and what he saw troubled him deeply. Hidan Lvl. 85 Jashinist Immortal and Kakauzu of the Five Hearts Lvl. ?, that was to put it lightly, troublesome. Hidan was not that much of a problem as he relied on getting somebody's blood but Kakuzu was not a foe to underestimate after all he had fought the first Hokage, even if it was after the first Hokage's prime, and had escaped with his life, a feat only four ninja in the entire world could brag about, including in there Madara.
"Come with us willingly, and we wont hurt you much" said Kakuzu.
"And if you don't I'll offer you as a sacrifice to Jashin-sama" said Hidan with a gleeful voice.
"No, thanks I don't plan on becoming a sacrifice to a demon" said Naruto calmly.
"Jashin-sama is a god, not a demon, you little shit" screamed Hidan.
"Oh but he is a demon, he is called Jashin of the Black Mist" said Naruto calmly enraging further Hidan.
"Enough, Hidan he is trying to get under your skin" warned Kakuzu before Hidan could move.
"Oh, enough with the talks, lets dance" said Naruto as he jumped in the air "Flying Thunder God: Amusement Park"
Dozen of senbons shot out of Narutos sleeves and flew up in the air before speeding in different directions. In the meantime Kakuzu went quickly through hand seals and shouted "Water Release: Swirling Vortex" and from the river a vortex of water circled Naruto and closed on him with great easy. Naruto eascaped flashing away with his Flying Thunder God but before he could rest he heard Kakuzu shout" Fire Release: Spiraling Dragon" massive dragon of fire spiraling onto himself flew toward him, Naruto instead of fleeing as Kakuzu expected blurred through a few hand seals and shouted "Wind Release: Cleansing Wind Of The North" and a massive gust of wind overcame the dragon and dissolved it into a cloud of fire which Kakuzu avoided but Hidan was not so lucky.
"Earth Release: Forest Of Spikes" shouted Kakuzu and true to the techniques name a forest of earthen spikes sprouted from the ground and forced Naruto jump upona nearby tree only to be met by a punch the sent him flying. Naruto recovered quickly and with a single hand seal said in an even voice "Uzumaki Secret Fuinjutsu: Playing Ground Of Death" and immediately from countless slips of parchment different fumes of different colors came out, some exploded and some weird arrows made of some dark wood flew toward Kakuzu who managed to dodge.
Before he could go through other hand seals he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen and he saw Hidan's scythe sticking out of his belly. He jumped forward and activated a seal which glowed yellow before his wound closed like it never existed.
"Nice strategy boy, but you forgot that you are fighting two S-rank ninja, not one" said Kakuzu in a disappointed voice.
"Who said I did" responded Naruto as a shadow clone appeared from a seal right underneath Hidan and shouted "Fire Release: Spiraling Rasengan" and an orange Rasengan that looked much like a drill hit Hidan in the chest and sent him flying a few hundred meters away with a nice hole in his chest.
"Damn kid, I wanted to do that myself" said Kakuzu before he fell on his knees "what is happening to me"
"You breathed" answered Naruto as he plunged a Kunai into Kakuzu's chest.
When he noticed that Kakuzu wasn't getting up Naruto rolled his eyes and made a few hand seals and shouted "Wind Release: Grand Dragon Breath" and a gust of wind came out of Naruto's mouth and headed straight for Kakuzu which substituted with a log in the last moment.
"So you know, what gave it away? asked a smiling Kakuzu.
"You have five different chakra signatures, which one I destroyed?" asked a grinning Naruto.
"Do you really think I will tell" stated Kakuzu.
"It was worth a shot" said Naruto with a shrug.
"You fucker" shouted Hidan waving his scythe "what did you do?"
"I made you look prettier" stated Naruto which turned to Kakuzu "what is he? a street brawler?"
"You know I ask that to myself everyday" said Kakuzu before speeding toward Naruto which simply flashed behind Hidan and cut his head off.
Before he could shove an explosive tag into Hidan's head a black whip hit Naruto in the back and sent him flying, however before crashing into a tree Naruto flashed right behind Kakuzu and crashed into him with the momentum of his hit and before Kakuzu could recover he flashed way again. Kakuzu got up quickly "accidentally" shoving a mouthful of dirt into Hidan's mouth and speed toward Naruto again. Naruto speed toward him to only to flash away in the last moment, and appeared behind Kakuzu but he found his kunai blocked by a black whip and a punch coming his way. He flashed away leaving the kunai in the whip and when he reappeared he found his kunai traveling toward him which he dodged before he made a simple hand seal and said "Uzumaki Barrier: Toxic Death Barrier"
Around Kakuzu a dome of energy appeared and the dome was quickly filled with toxic gas. The gas disappeared after a minute or so only to see that Kakuzu was standing there unaffected and with his senses telling him he hadn't lost another heart. He silently cursed as he settled into "The Ragging Whirlpool", a fighting stance designed to fight an opponent that was ones superior in brute strength and hopefully give him an edge against him, when he felt Kakuzu's chakra spike in surprise and… fear.
He immediately turned around to see a blade coming toward him and he flashed away to a tree in the opposite part of the clearing his battle had created and what he saw made his heart plummet, there standing in the tree exactly opposite to him was Orochimaru, wielding the legendary Kusanagi.
"What do you want, Orochimaru?" asked Kakuzu.
"Ku ku, is that a way to greet a friend?" responded Oorchimaru.
"You little fucker, I'll cut you into little ribbons and offer you to Jashin-sama" said Hidan trying to cut Orochimaru with his scythe only for him to sidestep him and with a swipe to cut him in two.
"Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, leave" ordered Orochimaru in a tone which sent shivers down Naruto's spine.
"Why should we do that?" asked Kakuzu preparing himself for a fight.
"Because you like your little form of immortality, you know Kakuzu, there's a way to destroy all your five hearts at once and I know it and then Hidan I know "that" technique" said Orochimaru making both ninja afraid an making Naruto wonder if there was another jutsu that could kill Hidan as the two ways he knew required the Rinnengan which Orochimaru didn't have.
You're l-lying" stuttered Hidan taking a step away from Orochimaru.
"You want to bet" said Orochimaru getting into a fighting stance.
"Come, Hidan we're leaving, its not worth' said Kakuzu as he joined a now stitched up Hidan and left.
"There nice boys" taunted Orochimaru with a creppy smile.
"What do you want?" asked Naruto.
"Isn't that obvious?" retorted Orochimaru.
"The Nine-Tails?" replied Naruto.
"Stop feigning to e stupid and brash I saw through your act the moment I laid eyes on you" snarled Orochimaru "Now answer me what do I want?"
"To test my Flying Thunder God" answered Naruto.
"True, to an extent, I also want to se the progress of the son of the only ninja to both defeat me and outsmart me" said Orochimaru in an exited tone of voie.
"Jiraya still kicks your ass" retorted Naruto.
"True but the fool can never outsmart outside of combat and even in combat he only wins because he has got overwhelming power more than intelligence" explained Orochimaru calmly.
"Yeah but he can force Itachi to a stalemate and if the circumstances are right even defeat him while last I herd of you he totally crushed you" scoffed Naruto.
"He can but that is much due to his greater mastery over seals when compared to mine" explained Orochimaru with a hint of anger in his voice "and then he fights to kill and I to capture, it wouldn't do to kill such an incredible specimen, would it?"
"Well, thanks, I'll be leaving now" said Naruto
"Ku ku ku and you will leave your little friend to die?" asked Orochimaru pointing toward the unconscious figure of Shion in the hands of an Orochimaru clone.
"What guaranties me that you won't kill her anyways?" asked Naruto.
"Because I still need her to imprison the demon" answered Orochimaru surprising Naruto but his sixth sense told him that that was the truth despite not sensing any chakra fluctuation from him.
"If you want a fight, a fight you will get" said Naruto as he slid into a fighting stance and activated his Rinnengan.
"My my such a surprise, you truly are an unpredictable ninja, aren't you?" said Orochimaru before speeding toward Naruto.