Naruto

Wings of a Butterfly

Chapter IXX


Three months passed rather quickly for Naruto and Jiraiya. Naruto had missed the Chunin Exam finals and wanted to know who all made Chunin but first he had to report back to the Hokage to let him know he was back in Konoha. As Naruto sat in the Hokage's Office with Jiraiya and Hiruzen the village siren went off indicating an attack on the village.

Naruto rushed out of the tower and saw a giant snake with three heads attacking the village gates. Naruto knew there was only one person who could summon such a snake, Orochimaru. Naruto quickly rushed out of the Hokage Tower and ran toward the village gates where the giant snake was. When Naruto reached the gates he ran through several hand seals before slamming his hand on the ground.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled.

Almost instantly after Naruto slammed his hand on the ground he was standing on top of a giant toad. The toad saw the giant three headed snake and let out a breath of smoke from his pipe.

"So Orochimaru is attacking Konoha. Time to put this child to bed." the giant toad said firmly.

"Gamabunta we need to keep this snake from entering the village." Naruto said from atop the toad's head.

"Noted Gaki." Gamabunta said. "You mastered that fire jutsu yet?"

"Yea. Why?" Naruto asked.

"We're going to torch that snake." Gamabunta replied. "Katon: Gamayu Endan!"

As Bunta sprayed a large stream of oil out of its mouth Naruto ignited the oil with his own fire jutsu. The result was a large stream of fire hitting the snake dead on and causing the snake to shriek in pain. The Snake turned its attention to Naruto and Bunta and lunged at them hoping to coil around them.

As the snake coiled around Bunta the large toad cut off one of the snake's heads with a giant sword. The snake cried out and withdrew from Bunta.

"Time to finish this snake." Naruto said as he formed two discs one in each hand.

The discs were a pale green instead of their normal blue in color indicating he was adding wind chakra to the discs.

"Futon: Hakai Disuku!" Naruto yelled as he sent the discs flying.

The discs found their marks and cut off the two remaining heads of the snake.

With the snake defeated Naruto turned his attention to the invasion. Naruto dismissed Bunta for the time being and rushed to find Hiruzen. When Naruto found the aging Kage the old man was trapped behind a barrier with Orochimaru. Naruto cursed and quickly jumped back, feeling someone behind him.

As Naruto jumped back he saw Gaara from the chunin exams indicating that Suna had joined forces with Orochimaru to invade Konoha.

"So Suna has broken the alliance with Konoha and is attacking alongside Orochimaru. A shame really." Naruto said.

Gaara said nothing, he just stood there with sand flowing freely from the gourd on his back.

Naruto knew he wasn't as fast as Lee so he couldn't get past the natural defenses of Gaara's Sand with speed. So how was Naruto going to win this battle? Naruto had to come up with a plan and quickly he knew that he had to defeat Gaara before he unleashed Shukaku in the middle of the village but how was he going to do that?

"You're the same as me yet you are free." Gaara said.

"I know you're talking about our respective burdens. Let me tell you now I'm not as free as you think. I have a few people who care about me and treat me with respect, but I know that I'm on a leash." Naruto said.

"Then let's settle this like we are destined to, Tailed Beast against Tailed Beast." Gaara said.

Bunta sighed he knew this would even the playing field between Gaara and Naruto but how would he keep the other ninja from interrupting their fight and causing needless suffering. Bunta looked to the Hokage Tower to see if he could somehow get word to Hiruzen but he saw a purple dome around the top of the tower Hiruzen was engaged in a battle of his own.

"Naruto, unleash the Kyubi. I will make sure that your battle with The Ichibi remains undisturbed." Bunta said.

"Fine, just make sure no one gets close to my battle ground." Naruto said firmly.

XxXHokage TowerXxX

Atop the Hokage Tower stood Orochimaru and Hiruzen trapped inside the purple dome with Jiraiya trying to undo the dome.

"So your ambitions have finally brought you back to Konoha." Hiruzen said rather than asking. "Seems I was a fool for letting you live all those years ago."

"Your mistake old man was your soft spot you hold for your village and students." Orochimaru said. "You believed I could be redeemed but make no mistake sensei I don't need redemption."

"I will end what I started all those years ago and this time I will kill you." Hiruzen said firmly.

"No you won't." Orochimaru said with a sinister grin.

In a puff of smoke two coffins appeared and their lids opened and out stepped the First and Second Hokage.

"I would have had Minato as well but the Shinigami doesn't like to share what belongs to it." Orochimaru taunted knowing that Minato alone could have been more than enough for Hiruzen.

XxXWith Naruto and GaaraXxX

Gaara made a single hand seal and instantly fell asleep allowing Shukaku to take control and emerge from Gaara's seal.

"Gahahaha free at last. Now Namikaze unleash Kurama so I can kill him." Shukaku said loudly.

Naruto sighed and closed his eyes and instantly he was in his mindscape with Kurama.

"How do I release you?" Naruto asked.

"Remove the paper that reads seal and it will allow me to take on my true form from within your body." Kurama explained.

Naruto didn't see any other options and reached for the paper on Kurama's cage. However just as he touched it a hand caught his and pulled him away.

"Now how I wanted to meet my son but I couldn't let you release the Kyubi." Minato said.

"Tou-san I need to use the Kyubi's full power to fight Gaara in full tailed beast form. I can't do this any other way." Naruto said.

"I know." Minato said. "But I have to warn you if you do this everyone will know you have the Kyubi sealed in you."

"Everyone already knows or at least the adults do. My generation seems to have missed the memo but they still hate me simply because their parents hate me." Naruto said.

"I had hoped you would have been seen a hero but I guess my pride let me think a fool's dream you have only known hate and for that I am sorry now go fight with the Kyubi backing you." Minato said.

Naruto walked back to the cage and reached for the paper once more. "Remember this Kurama you do anything beyond fighting Shukaku and I will make you regret it."

"I only want to put that overgrown Tanuki back in its place. Your village doesn't concern me even though I could easily crush them." Kurama said.

With that Naruto ripped off the seal and the cage swung open.

A loud sinister howl carried throughout the village as Kurama took control of Naruto and instantly Naruto contorted and and his body twisted into the Kyubi's.


A/N: Hey all Chapter 19 is up, sorry for the long wait. It took me a while to get this one out. I couldn't decide how I wanted to go about the Konoha Crush Arc but I finally got it. I hope you all like it. Until Next time Ja~ne