Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Kale's POV
"Hmm…" I sat on the roof of the inn and observed Sai.
He had gotten up early and gone outside, for as closed off as he was he outside drawing a picture with ink and stencils. Sakura ended up waking up and talking to him about his pictures, it seemed like he just drew what was around but never named his drawings, or the pictures in his picture book.
"You don't name your pictures after what you feel or anything?" Sakura asked as I walked up.
"I can't…" Sai said "They do not make me feel anything, I don't…feel anything."
"Is that why you talk so rudely?" Naruto asked as he walked up.
"Good morning!" Fu cheered striking her usual pose.
"We're getting ready to go." Naruto looked at Sai's drawing pad "Hmph…nothing special."
"I see…" Sai smiled "Just like your penis."
"I hate you!" Naruto yelled "If you have something to say just say it, quit it with that fake smile bullcrap! If you wanna fight let's go!"
"That's not it at all." Sai said defusing the conversation "I don't…think anything of you. Please go on I will catch up in a moment."
"Here let me help you clean up." Sakura said picking up some of Sai's things "This book, it's not printed, did you draw it?"
"Yes…" Sai nodded.
"Maybe you could show it to us on the way." Fu smiled.
"I cannot do that." Sai blinked "It's not finished, and I don't show it to other people. It belongs to my brother."
So…he isn't totally brain dead.
We journeyed a little more during the day and come night Captain Yamato used his Jutsu to build a house for us to stay in, we went over the plan for tomorrow, we were going to be working as teams, Naruto and Sai, Me and Fu and Captain and Sakura.
Later
The next day we did a dry run in which Naruto and Sai screwed each other over.
"Why didn't you just untie me!" Naruto yelled.
"It is not easy to fight when you have to babysit someone else." Sai told him.
Naruto casually shoved Sai out of his way "I will never consider you a member of this team."
"This was pointless." Captain sighed "All they do is fight."
Naruto pushes Sai again and again but Sai never reacts…why anyone else would have killed Naruto for how he's acting.
"I wonder what Sasuke would do in this situation." Sai said "Would he have looked after you…after he betrayed the village and nearly killed you, you still call him a friend."
"If it will save my friend I'll do anything." Naruto glared as he walked off "Even work with you."
"Why does he care about Sasuke so much?" Sai asked.
"Because, they're like brothers." I said "You have one, don't you understand?"
"No…not in the slightest." Sai shook his head "I don't have emotions."
"You feel nothing…" I blinked "Still you have a brother, can't you imagine what it's like for him to not be there?"
"I suppose." Sai shrugged with no effort "Seeing as my brother is dead."
He talks about a dead boy like it's nothing.
"Is that the expression I was supposed to have?" Sai asked.
"Huh?"
"When my brother died I did not know what kind of expression to make." Sai blinked.
This guy…
"Come on." Captain Yamato said "We have to get going."
"Sai, if you insult my friends again…I will kill you." I said clearly.
Later
We were all hiding far in the back as Captain Yamato approached the spy while disguised and Sasori in the Haruko puppet. He engaged the spy in conversation and our hope for information was revealed to be Kabuto.
"The winds strong I can't hear them." Naruto complained.
"It's fine, as long as it blows away from them we're in the clear." Fu told him.
"Why doesn't he just capture him already?" I wondered.
"This is a delicate operation." Sakura said "This is Kabuto remember."
"Too carefully and you arouse suspicion." Sai explained "too aggressive and they'll catch on and flee. It takes skill to walk the thin line of safety."
I blinked and suddenly Orochimaru was behind Kabuto.
"Orochimaru?!"
"He was followed!"
"Do we go?" Fu asked.
"Wait for the signal." I said "We're still in hiding."
Instantly Kabuto turned and smash Captain Yamato's shell. Luckily he was able to use a dummy to get free, Yamato gave us the signal to come out. We all quickly ran to his side, I pulled out two of my staves and got ready to fight.
"Oh it's you." Kabuto looked at us.
"That's quite the face." Orochimaru hissed "Why don't we play, I'll see who's stronger you or Sasuke."
I felt the pressure in the air changing as chakra started to gather around Naruto.
This is like the last time at the bridge.
"Give Sasuke back." Naruto growled.
"There is no giving back Naruto, why don't I explain something to you." Kabuto said walking forward "Sasuke came to us because he wanted to, it's time for you to grow up and accept reality, the way you act now is unbecoming of a man."
"I've had enough of you attitude!" Sakura yelled.
"If you want to know about Sasuke, just try and force it out of me." Orochimaru smiled.
"RAH!" Naruto shot forward, kicking of the bridge and shattering a few boards.
Cloaked in a strange Reddish Orange chakra Naruto jumped forward and swatted Orochimaru far away.
That distance from one punch?!
"He's slipping away!" Fu yelled.
"My…" Orochimaru crawled back, his face practically falling off "Seems you've become quite the Jinchuriki Naruto. I see why they chose you to watch over him, Konoha should have appreciated my experiments more."
Appreciate his experiments?
"Lord Orochimaru who is this Man?" Kabuto asked.
"I thought he was a reject from an experiment involving cells form the First Hokage…seems I was wrong." Orochimaru smiled "I wanted that ability to bend a tailed beast to my will. But before I recover you I'll want to see Sasuke fight the Fox boy."
"Stop talking like you own him!" Naruto growled as two more tails grew out of his chakra cloak.
"A third tail!" Fu gasped.
The air is getting hotter.
"GAAAUGH!" Fu grabbed her chest.
"Fu!" I ran over "What's wrong."
"It's…trying to pull mine out with it!" she cried "I only saw two tails before…but his third is ceasing an overdrive and resonating with my Beast Chakra."
Dammit at this rate Sai and Captain Yamato are going to know.
"AHH!" Fu cried again this time though when she opened her eyes they were compounded like a fly's "Not…again…stay in!"
"What's wrong?" Sakura asked.
"I don't know!" I yelled.
Naruto suddenly howled and the entire bridge buckled from the force of the chakra. Kabuto attempted to attack Naruto only for him to howl again and break the middle of the bridge.
"GAH!" I grabbed Fu as we were blasted back.
The bridge started giving out so I dragged her to the nearby grass, I didn't realize that in the commotion Sakura had hit her head and passed out. Captain Yamato used his Jutsu to brace the bridge but Naruto jumped to the other side.
"He's moving away." Fu panted "I feel calmer…"
"Sakura!" I looked back and saw her unconscious body rolling off the bridge.
"Sai help Sakura!" Yamato instructed.
Sai summoned a bird but rather than save his teammate he took off after Naruto.
Dammit I can't go after him and leave Sakura like that.
"Levitation!"
I took a piece of scrap form the bridge and used it to catch Sakura.
"Damn." I hissed using more Chakra "She's not as light as she looks. Need some help here!"
Captain Yamato used his Jutsu to make a beam and carry Sakura back to the ground. Far in the distance I could hear explosions and other commotion.
"Ngh…"
"Are you alright Sakura?" I asked.
"Ow…yeah I'm okay." She nodded.
"Fu feels fine now to." The green haired girl half smiled.
"What is that." I said looking off as a beam of red light shot off.
"Wood Clone!"
Captain Yamato sprouted a clone that ran off to follow Naruto and Sai.
"What happened here?" Sakura asked.
"Naruto happened." I said looking at the damage "No he ran off over to that side. Who knows what he's doing."
I felt the pressure in the air change again and knew something big was going down over there.
Dammit Naruto…and Sai what's he doing?
"…four?" Fu mumbled
"Huh?
"Captain Yamato you know something about Naruto don't you?" Sakura asked "What's happening to him?"
"Sakura there's no need for you to worry." Captain said "There's a reason I was chosen as your captain for this mission."
"It seems Sasori won't be showing up after all." Kabuto said reminding us he was here "His choice to tell you about this meeting means he was planning on you taking care of Orochimaru, you must have impressed him with your strength for him to tell you…he must be captive or dead."
"Option 2." I smirked.
"Ah wonderful." Kabuto smiled "Option 1 was so boring."
There was suddenly a loud bang the a beam shot off far behind us.
"So much Chakra." Fu gasped.
Explosions and blasts went off until Naruto was launched back to this side of the bridge.
"More foxlike than before." Kabuto observed.
Naruto now had for tails and the cloak had gone from orange red to a dark blood red.
"AAHHH!" Fu fell to the ground and stared rolling.
"Fu!"
"No…don't come closer!" she cried "GAH!"
Just like Naruto Fu was surrounded by a shroud of chakra, only hers was a green color, it had one tail and two chakra wings, just like earlier her eyes had become bug like and compound.
"Fu…" Sakura gasped "What's happening to her."
"She's resonating with Naruto." I gulped.
Fu stood up, her head twitching as she made a series of strange clicking noises.
"But how…" Sakura gulped.
"Because…" I frowned "Fu is the Jinchuriki for the Seven Tails."
"Tick…tick tick." Fu clicked a few times before she flew at Naruto.
"Fu stop it!" I yelled.
"BZZT!" she buzzed as her and the fox clashed in midair. We were all blown back by the force of their chakra colliding.
"We gotta get out of here!" I yelled jumping back "Or we're all gonna get killed!"
"Fu is really a Jinchuriki too?" Sakura asked.
"She wanted it to be a secret." I said as her and Naruto stared each other down "She was afraid of being judged…she kept a part of her secret from everyone…just so you would all be her friends."
"Stop it!" Sakura yelled running forward "The two of you have to stop!"
"Sakura don't!" I yelled grabbing my staves.
This is just like the last time!
One of Naruto's fox tails moved and struck Sakura in the side, right after that wood sprouted up and tied Naruto down.
"Buzz….click, click." Fu flew at the down girl but stepped between my ring of five stave.
"Five Layer Bind: Static Field!"
Fu screeched as she was blocked from Sakura by my Jutsu.
"Now relax Fu." I said "I'm going to put you back to sleep now."
"BUZZZ!" she based her head against the wall.
Luckily she only has three of her seven…I can manage with this…had she spawned another I might have been in a bad spot.
"Five Layer Seal: Beast Cocoon!"
"Hokage Style Elder Jutsu: Tenth Edict on Enlightenment!"
Naruto was surrounded by ten wooden spiked pillars and started having the chakra drained, at the same time I began to diffuse Fu's overflowing Chakra into the earth and air until her eyes returned to normal and she feel to the floor.
Good…the drain was enough for now. But still…how was captain Yamato able to seal Naruto? I've never seen that technique, resealing a beast…my Beast Cocoon just sucks out the Chakra but that reseal the Fox?
As soon as they was back to normal Sakura began to heal Naruto and Fu.
"Sakura about not telling you-." I started.
"It's fine…I understand." She said not looking up from healing Naruto.
This was almost really bad, two Jinchuriki on a rampage…Fu only transformed because her body reacted to Naruto's transformation…but only after he got to three and four tails, when she saw Naruto in the Wind County on the Gaara mission she didn't feel anything…maybe it's related to how close he got to having seven tails?
"Captain." I spoke up "The Jutsu you used to seal up Naruto's fox, can you show me how?"
"Sorry but I can't." he frowned "I'm the only one who can do it, and that's because I have the First's cells in me. Still you managed to subdue Fu."
"No…" I shook my head "I drained her chakra and since you seal Naruto at the same time the resonation stopped and she passed out and returned to normal. Had she changed like Naruto I would be useless."
Wood Style can't be the only Jutsu for sealing a Tailed Beast…I've got to figure something out.
"Fu likes to keep this to herself…" I said "I'd appreciate if we'd all keep this a little hush-hush for now…I'll talk to her about it after the mission."
"Hmmm…" Fu opened her eyes "What happened?"
"You freaked out." I told her.
"Fu…oh is everyone okay?" she asked looking at Sakura's arm "Did Fu-?!"
"No." Sakura smiled "This was from when the bridge collapsed.
She lying…well to be fair that was Naruto not Fu.
"So…once Naruto gets up what's the plan?" I asked "Since Sai's gone…"
I was cut off as Naruto came to, I was actually happy to see he was his usually loud self, he was only up for a bit before he and Sakura were arguing.
"So where's Sai?" Naruto asked.
"Sai…" Yamato sighed "I have a clone trailing him, he's with Orochimaru."
We crossed to the other side of the ravine and found a massive crater, I figured Naruto was the cause Sakura managed to tell Naruto it was just from Orochimaru and that's how he passed out.
"Sai's things are scattered all around." Sakura pointed out.
"What happened here?" Fu wondered.
"Sai had a discussion and then left with Orochimaru." Captain Yamato said.
"Just like the old hag feared." I grumbled.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"Tsunade had he suspicions about Sai." I explained "She asked me to keep an extra eye on him since he works for Danzo. Now it's just as she feared, Sai had a secret mission as well and it must have been to meet with Orochimaru. I worried even more now about what that crazy warmonger is planning in the shadows. He'll remove people with Orochimaru's help…and sprout a new Leaf based on his ROOT. Sai is the go between, we should follow them."
"I agree." Captain Yamato said "Depending on circumstances we may have to dispose of Sai. My clone is following them as we speak, we need to start on their trail right away."
AN
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