Naruto

Wings of a Butterfly

Chapter XXII


Naruto had been traveling from village to village looking for Tsunade, so far he wasn't having much luck in finding her. Naruto knew he was being targeted by unknown shinobi in black cloaks for what he wasn't sure but he knew that Kakashi had fought one of the shinobi and fell into a coma making his mission even more urgent as Tsunade was supposed to be the best medical ninja alive.

In the distance Naruto saw a large castle. He knew that the Castle was one of the most popular vacation spots in all of Hi no Kuni. Its name was the Tanzaku Castle the village surrounding the castle was the Tanzaku Quarters known for it gambling halls, brothels, and other adult recreational places. Naruto sighed he had received word from Jiraiya that Tsunade had been seen in the area and he knew it was up to him to convince her to return to Konoha, one way or another.

Just then Naruto saw a large snake appear and strike the castle with its tail utterly destroying the castle. Naruto instantly burst into a full speed sprint knowing that if Orochimaru was there then he would find Tsunade as well.

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"Tsunade come now, is that anyway to greet an old friend."Orochimaru said with malice in his voice.

"I know you killed sensei Orochimaru. You're only here because you want something from me." Tsunade said, rearing her fist back to strike Orochimaru again.

Before Tsunade could hit Orochimaru Kabuto jumped between the two and splashed blood onto Tsunade freezing the woman in her tracks shaking in fear.

"I think I'll send you to rejoin our sensei." Orochimaru said drawing a kunai.

As Orochimaru got close to Tsunade the Snake Sannin was sent flying courtesy of one Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto landed on his feet in front of Tsunadse ready to fight.

"You make me sick, Teme." Naruto said to Orochimaru.

"Kabuto kill this idiot." Orochimaru ordered.

"Yes, Orochimaru-sama." Kabuto said.

Naruto recognized Kabuto from the Chunin exams but when Naruto met hit him he had a leaf hitai-ate not a sound haitai-ate.

"Kabuto? I remember you but I thought you were loyal to Konoha. Seems I was wrong." Naruto said ready to fight them both.

"I was never loyal to Konoha. I was always loyal to Orochimaru-sama. I only pretended to be loyal to gather information." Kabuto explained.

"Do you actually think you can take us on, Kyubi?" Orochimaru asked Naruto.

Naruto didn't bat an eye as he entered his one-tailed state with an active sharingan.

"So you have the Sharingan as well, how very interesting." Orochimaru said.

Naruto didn't reply to Orochimaru's words; he simply dashed forward and raked his claws across Orochimaru's chest only to have Kabuto jump in front of him and take the attack rather than Orochimaru.

"Kabuto I'll leave Naruto to you while I deal with Tsunade." Orochimaru said walking toward the still paralyzed Tsunade.

Tsunade was frozen in fear the blood that covered her reminding her of Dan and Nawaki her cherished lover and brother both having been robbed from her only the memories of her finding them in their own blood in her mind.

"Time to die Tsunade." Orochimaru said. "Actually I think I will tell you something first before I kill you. I'm the one who killed both your lover Dan and your little brother Nawaki. They were weak, just like you."

As Orochimaru's words set in in Tsunade's mind anger flashed in her eyes she never knew who killed her lover and brother and now she knew. Her fear of blood was replaced with unbridled anger as Tsunade rushed Orochimaru and channeled her chakra ready to cave in his chest.

There was a sickening crack as Tsunade hit her once upon a time teammate. However as Orochimaru's body went limp his mouth opened wide as an intact Orochimaru crawled out.

"So even in your exile you haven't lost your touch." Orochimaru said amused.

With Naruto and Kabuto, Naruto was holding his own against the older and more experienced Kabuto. Then again Naruto was using his Kyubi Cloak and Sharingan to aid him in battle. Naruto dodged an attack from Kabuto and formed a Rasengan in his right hand and rushed Kabuto.

Kabuto tried to jump back but was too slow and took the full force of the attack. Luckily for Kabuto he had already been using his special healing jutsu to mitigate the damage he had sustained from Naruto. Kabuto glared murderously at Naruto and rushed the young blonde. As Kabuto got close to Naruto with his Chakra scalpel active, Naruto spoke.

"You're within range of my divination." Naruto's cold voice came clearly to Kabuto. "Jukenho: Lingchi."

Kabuto fell to one knee bleeding from over one hundred cuts had he not had his healing jutsu active Kabuto knew this attack would have killed him.

"Kabuto we're leaving." Orochimaru said nervously knowing that had the two stayed they would likely die in their fights.

When Kabuto and Orochimaru left, Naruto let down his cloak and his eyes returned to normal blue without the Sharingan.

"You have skill gaki. What's your name?" Tsunade asked Naruto.

"Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto replied.

"That's impossible the last of the Uzumaki clan died with Kushina on the night of the Kyubi attack." Tsunade said.

"Kushina was my mother." Naruto said calmly.

"Your, your mother?" Tsunade asked."

"Yea." Naruto replied.

"So you're the one Minato sealed the Kyubi into an Uzumaki. Seems like your clan is destined to keep that beast. If I'm being honest I think that's a fate worse than death." Tsunade said before sighing. "So what brings you here gaki?"

"You. Jiraiya has asked me to bring you back to Konoha." Naruto replied to Tsunade's question.

"Jiraiya? The old pervert is still alive?" Tsunade asked.

"They made him Hokage and he wants you back in the village." Naruto replied.

"They made Jiraiya Hokage?" Tsunade asked, laughing.

"Hai." Naruto answered.

"I have seen you fight and someone needs to keep Jiraiya from doing anything stupid so I'll come back to the village if only to keep that pervert from doing anything stupid." Tsunade said. "And to get to know you Naruto truth be told I was close to your mother and I want to get to know her son."


A/N: Hey all Azrael here. Well here's another chapter in Wings of a Butterfly. I hope you all enjoy it. I know I did things differently than canon considering I couldn't have Jiraiya be with Naruto in the search for Tsunade as he is now Hokage but still I had fun writing this chapter. If you like the chapter and story so far please drop a review. I like hearing what my readers think of my stories.

Anyway Ja~ne.