Chapter 37: Pushing our Limits

The newlywed couple was lost in their own world as their kiss deepened, however around them was pure chaos. Bodies lying in their own pools of blood, as the smell of objects burning wafted through the air. Then a lone scream pierced the magical world of the two lovers, "FUCK ALL OF YOU!"

A survivor of the massacred yelled as he attempted to lunge toward the couple looking to cut their happiness short. But before he even began his leap toward the two a tip of a kunai emerged through the front of his throat, he let out a gurgle of blood before falling forward. Revealing a rather proud looking Ino who said with a smug look on her face, while she dusted her hands, "Baka… don't ruin the moment…" as if the moment wasn't already ruined by all the death and blood around them.

Ino let out a squeal and hugged Hinata, "I'm so happy for you Hinata! Now it's my turn right?" Ino said as she hopefully turned to Naruto who dejectedly for Ino shook his head.

"I wish we had more time Ino-hime… but clearly it's not safe. We are lucky that Daimyo-sama wasn't injured during the whole ceremony." Ino pouted while Naruto continue to say, "Look maybe later but for now you and Hinata have to escort Daimyo-sama and his wife to somewhere safe.

"What about you Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked with concern in her voice.

Naruto looked over the railing and up toward the kages booth where a giant purple box had appeared on the roof, "To do my duty as a Shinobi of Konoha…"

"Promise me you will be careful Naruto-kun…" Hinata said now with slight fear in her voice.

Naruto leapt onto the railing and said with her back towards Hinata, "I'll try my love…" with that he leapt upwards onto the roof of the booth and ran toward a wall where he could run up to get to the kage's box.

But as he ran along the outer wall a loud crashing noise directed Naruto's attention toward the walls of Konoha, from his point of view he witnessed giant snake summons ramming their way through the giant walls while crushing people and buildings underneath them. Naruto tilted his head slightly to the side and said, "Are you just going to stand around or actually help grandfather?"

Jiraiya appeared next to him in a swirl of leaves and a smirk, "It hurts to think that you don't believe me to have actually helped already? Oh and congratulations on the marriage by the way, not the way I imagined it but it was… interesting."

Naruto responded with a smirk as the snake summons continued their rampage into the city, "My apologies for not sending out an invitation… if you noticed it was sort of spur of the moment. But enough chit-chat lets even the playing field…"

Jiraiya responded with his own grin and said, "Exactly what I was thinking."

Naruto bit both his thumbs while Jiraiya only bit one as they both simultaneously ran through the same hand seals, Naruto slammed both his palms onto the floor as Jiraiya only slammed one both yelling out " KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!"

3 large puffs of smoke appeared in front of them, which marked the summoning of Gamabunta, Gamahiro and Gamaken. Naruto then yelled out, "UNCLES! Snakes have invaded Konoha soil aid us in driving them out!"

Gamabunta let out a giant puff of smoke from his mouth, while removing his pipe and said, "I see.. boys… let us make ourselves some new snake skinned wallets!" The 3 giant toads nodded than jumped into the air at their intended targets as Jiraiya and Naruto watched. Jiraiya turned to the slightly out of breath Naruto and said, "You think you can still continue? You spent a lot of your chakra on that one."

Naruto steadied his breathing as he closed his eyes for a moment then replied, "I still have more than enough for this…" sparks of electricity surrounded Naruto for a moment than he was gone. Jiraiya cursed himself for not stopping the boy from using the Hiraishin to teleport away, Jiraiya knew the only destination Naruto would go now… Up where Sarutobi-sensei was fighting against Orochimaru…"

In the barrier Sarutobi was currently engaged in hand to hand combat against Orochimaru, his old age had slowed him down considerably but because he had been sparring with Naruto occasionally he was in slightly better shape.

Orochimaru who knew he couldn't defeat his former sensei in a straight one vs. one fight opted to try and kill the old man by spitting his kusanagi from his mouth at close range looking to impale the old monkey in the chest. But what he didn't expect was the sound of whirling and electricity cackling before he felt a chakra infused kick to his chest launching him a considerable distance backwards.

Orochimaru stood back up to witness Sarutobi's reinforcement the blond haired brat Uzumaki-Senju Naruto standing in front of Sarutobi in a defensive stance…

"So your champion arrives Sarutobi-sensei… I am very impressed of his use of the fourth's Hiraishin technique and the Moktuon style." Orochimaru said slyly. "Tell me is he the one that survived? Or by chance is he actually a living breathing Senju with the Mokuton element running through his veins?" Orochimaru than licked his lips with his tongue and said with anticipation dripping through his voice, "I will greatly enjoy experimenting on your body boy!"

Sarutobi's anger spiked as he remembered the dead bodies of those 59 children, "There's no point in telling you anything Orochimaru… because this time I won't be allowing you to get away!"

Orochimaru let out a hollow laugh and said, "And do you honestly think you and the boy can stop me sensei… you're body has long deteriorated to the point where you're nothing but a shell of your former self. And its ages too early for you to even believe that the boy can challenge me!"

"You will be a fool to underestimate either of us Orochimaru… NARUTO LETS GO." Sarutobi yelled as he and Naruto began separately running through hand seals

"FUTON/KATON!"

"Vacuum Bullets/Phoenix Flower"

"NO JUTSU!"

The fire and wind combined into a dead barrage of super-heated death as even the Anbu who were watching outside felt the heat when all the wind enhanced fire missiles converged onto Orochimaru, leading to a giant explosion and fireball that shook the barrier that was put up by the sound 4 to its very core.

However both Naruto and Sarutobi knew that while that attack was strong… it was nowhere near enough to keep the snake Sannin down for the count. And their theory was proven correct when the smoked cleared to reveal the burnt body of the Sannin but suddenly a hand burst out from the cooking corpse.

Slowly slithering out of his former scorching corpse Orochimaru was now in a feminine body, which caused Sarutobi to suck his teeth in disgust. "So he succeeded… disgusting…"

"Fu, fu, Fu" Orochimaru laughed, "Clearly my informant was wrong when he said Sasuke-chan was the most powerful of your generation Naruto-kun. You're right Sarutobi-sensei… I did in a way underestimate the power of the boy so allow me bring my own reinforcements!"

By the time Sarutobi recognized the hand seals Orochimaru was running through it was already too late as 3 coffins began rising from the ground. "NARUTO WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!"

The combined efforts of the two were able to stop the coffins labeled with a 4 and 2 from rising, but both being weary from all the fighting they had done already could not prevent the one labeled with a 1 from completing rising.

The lid to the coffin fell open revealing, "Shodaime-sama!" both Naruto and Sarutobi observed at the same time.

Inside Naruto Kurama was quick to comment, "Well that's interesting."

While one would expect Hashirama to have said something he was oddly quiet as he watched his body step out of the coffin through Naruto's eyes.

Naruto however would not stand idly by as anger ran through his reins as he imbued himself with not Kurama's chakra but Hashirama's. "Orochimaru you truly are a despicable monster! You dare to violate and insult my family line by bringing them out of their slumber of death I will find great joy in killing you!"

As he said this Hashirama's chakra began pouring out of Naruto's body at an insane rate surrounding him in a shroud of green chakra.

This was shocking to the 3 veteran-nin inside the barrier, Sarutobi was shocked at this turn of events. While on the other hand Orochimaru was greatly intrigued by Naruto's display of power and lastly the reincarnated Hashirama was completely baffled by the boy's chakra it was so familiar… almost as if it was his and what sealed the deal for him was when Naruto thrust both his hands at their direction and giant pillars of wood rose from around Naruto then rushed towards Orochimaru.

Nimbly Orochimaru was able to just barely dodge being crushed by the wood and got behind Hashirama to place the seal into his head, "SUBDUE THE BOY!" Orochimaru yelled out as Hashirama immediately charged forward while dodging and smashing down the branches Naruto sent to halt his advance.

Naruto without stopping his maneuvering of his hands to direct the wood said to Sarutobi, "Hokage-sama I will fight my revived ancestor, but please save me a piece of Orochimaru I would like to get my own revenge on him after I'm done!

Sarutobi quickly said, "Be careful Naruto my former sensei is no push over" Than he proceeded to summon forth Enma, charging forth together into battle against Orochimaru. While Naruto attempted to pin Hashirama down with his onslaught of branches, this was easily said than done as Hashirama was clearly the more experienced shinobi and definitely wasn't given the title Shodaime Hokage for no reason.

However Naruto had one advantage over him and that he had spent pretty much his whole life training against the fragment of Hashirama's soul inside his body so every weakness and opening Hashirama gave Naruto was going to look to exploit it!

Running through his memories Naruto was quick to remember some of his strategies that were able to catch Hashirama when they were sparing. Going for one of the more reliable ones Naruto raised a large wooden spike up from the ground directly underneath Hashirama which led to him leaping up into the air.

Naruto than aimed thin branches right at Hashirama's blind spot, which as expected he easily dodged and destroyed those in midair. Naruto did this another few times than when Hashirama was in a mid-dodge. Naruto slammed his palms together which led to two giant wooden pillars bursting out of the ground on the right and left of Hashirama at an insane speed and smashing him flat with their heads.

Naruto watch as dust poured out from the tiny cracks in-between the two pillars, landing on the floor the dust started reforming into the body of Hashirama and soon it was as if no damage had been caused at all.

"Edo Tensei… my brother was a fool to create that jutsu…" Hashirama commented within Naruto's mindscape.

"So Nidame-sama was the one to create this horrid jutsu, surely somebody as intelligent as him placed some sort of failsafe or a way to dispel it?" Naruto asked.

Hashirama thought for a moment then said, "There are multiple ways… one is to remove my soul from that undead body, another is that the summoner must release the jutsu themselves or lastly is to give my soul closure…

"Closure?" Naruto quickly questioned as the revived Hashirama once again ran forward and now engaged in hand to hand combat with Naruto.

"Yeah you know unfinished business…" Hashirama replied as he witnessed Naruto barely dodge a jab and retaliate with a spin kick to the head which was batted away.

Naruto, who was struggling slightly to keep up with the undead Hashirama, was quick to yell mentally, "And what would this unfinished business be!"

And while Naruto was concentrating on the fight Kurama quickly noticed that Hashirama was actually blushing! The nerve of the man, in a fight to the death like this he was blushing what in the world was he thinking about! "Well Hashi-chan?" Kurama quickly barked.

"Forget about it! Naruto wouldn't be able to do it anyway." Hashirama quickly stated as he turned away from Kurama.

Kurama let out a growl as he pinned Hashirama under his paw… "TELL HIM! OR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE THE BOY CAPTURED AT YOUR HANDS AND EXPERIMENTED ON FOR KAMI KNOWS HOW LONG!"

"Dam you fox!" Hashirama gritted out as he struggled to get free of the giant paw. "FINE, FINE!" Hashirama yelled as Kurama increased the pressure downwards.

"…"

"…"

"My one regret in my life is never getting to do my wife in the ass…" Hashirama quietly said.

This statement so strangely out of place and context froze both Kurama and Naruto on the spot… which turned out to be a horrendous idea for Naruto as he took a boot to the side of the head sending him spiraling through the air. Then crashing painfully onto the tiles of the roof.

"WHAT KIND OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS IS THAT!" Naruto yelled in his mind while reeling in pain.

Hashirama pushed Kurama's paw off of him than stood back up and crossed his arms, "Blame the dammed fox for making me tell you… and don't blame me for anything… what the hell are you doing, how are you losing to me so badly in taijutsu you basically spent your entire life training with me!"

Naruto growled as he slowly stood back up looking to engaged the undead Hashirama again, "Don't get complacent now Naruto… you know my style use that to your advantage!" Hashirama said with slight annoyance

Dashing forward Naruto met the undead Hashirama head on as his version of Hashirama in his mind gave him pointers, "Incoming Right jab block it! Counter then leg sweep followed up with an uppercut, THAN FINISH HIM!

"ROTATION!" Naruto yelled as spun using the famed Hyuga family style to throw the stunned Hashirama away from him while also inflicting massive damage onto his body. Up till now Naruto knew that the only reason why he was able to catch Hashirama so many times was because the undead Hashirama never expected him to use either Moktuon or Juken. But Naruto knew he wouldn't fall for the same trick twice.

Orochimaru who was fighting with Sarutobi smirked, "The boy is amazing! That's twice he has defeated your precious Shodaime now… and while it is only a figment of the Shodai's true strength I must say he will make a great replacement host for me! Shame he doesn't have the curse mark implanted seeing how I wasted it on Sasuke but I will fix that in due time!"

"And like I said earlier Orochimaru… I will not allow you to do such a thing!" Sarutobi said as he gritted his teeth while taking a swing at Orochimaru with Enma who just barely dodged the attack, which would have easily taken his head off.

Back with Naruto and the undead Hashirama, Naruto consulted the two beings in his head again. "We can't keep this up forever… we have to find some way to stop him permanently."

Hashirama closed his eyes in a moment of thought than said, "You're skills in sealing are not yet sufficient enough to seal away somebodies soul just yet, however for Edo Tensei we don't have to seal away the soul per say… we just have to remove it from that body."

This easily confused both Kurama and Naruto who were quick to ask, "What do you mean?"

"This will only work with this reincarnate of Edo Tensei because technically it's me and also because we are both just figments of a whole… we are going to play a game of chakra tug of war with myself!" Hashirama said seriously.

"And if we were to lose." Naruto questioned.

"Then I will be ripped from you, granting my undead counterpart even more immense strength and power!" Hashirama stated solemnly

With determination brewing in Naruto's eye he said, "Let's do it!" then charged toward the reincarnated Hashirama.

"You need to find a way to hold him still so I might begin trying to drain his power!" Hashirama quickly stated. Which Kurama responded with, "Leave that to me!" as he pumped his chakra throughout Naruto's body causing one tail to manifest, the undead Hashirama quickly jumped backwards when he witnessed this and began running through hand seals then aimed his palm directly at Naruto. "Hokage-Style Sixty-Year Old Technique - Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands!"

Multiple wooden pillars shaped with dog heads rose out of the ground then in an instant they charged at Naruto who just glared at them while Kurama yelled at him to move, "NARUTO THEIR GOING TO SUPRESS ME, YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY!"

Naruto didn't listen as he started to channel chakra into his palms as the wooden dogs came closer and closer then when they were mere feet away, Naruto raised his arms in front of him which immediately halted all the wooden dogs, Naruto struggled as he continued to pump chakra outwards to stop the advancement of the wood which was creaking and groaning as both Mokuton user battled against each other for control over the wood to do their bidding.

This proved to be quite a shocker for the undead Hashirama as he couldn't believe that anybody could be at equal level as him in attunement with Mokuton, especially not a boy so young.

But he had other matters to attend to as he felt demonic chakra spike than suddenly emerge from behind him, turning his head around it was already too late as Naruto's chakra tail wrapped around him restraining him and halting him from struggling against Naruto for control any longer.

"Ingenious!" the Hashirama inside Naruto's mind commented. "You purposely allowed his Jutsu to advance so far toward you, then halting it just feet away from you. This gave Kurama the opportunity to dig his tail directly underneath the chakra suppressing wood so he wouldn't notice it until it was too late.

Without either users fighting for control over the wooden dogs they all fell harmlessly onto the tiles of the roof, allowing Naruto to dash towards the bound Hashirama and grab onto his shoulders to further hold him in place.

Naruto felt a surge of chakra emerge from the seal on his stomach then something pushing against his shirt and vest at that area a short moment late with a tear of cloth a wooden hand emerged from Naruto's stomach and reached over toward the undead Hashirama placing a palm against his chest.

Naruto felt a pull on his remaining chakra reserves as the wooden hand clenched and began its attempt to pull the undead Hashirama's chakra out of its body. But suddenly Naruto let out a pained cough and a trickle of blood rolled from his mouth as he felt instead his chakra being pulled from his body.

"Naruto pull out! I can't beat him!" Hashirama quickly yelled, Naruto hearing this released Hashirama and leapt backwards as the wooden arm also released hold on the undead Hashirama's chakra

Naruto sank to his knees and clutched his chest as he tried to steady his deep breathing, he knew his body wasn't going to be able to keep going much longer. The effects of prolonged fighting and intense chakra usage were starting to become evident.

Running through all the scenarios In his head Naruto said as he watched the undead Hashirama break free from his tail, "I have a plan." But before either Kurama or Hashirama could question Naruto on his plan. Naruto choose to go on the offensive against the undead Hashirama, which by the way was a horrible plan, regardless of any way you cut it Hashirama was stronger, smarter and way more experienced than Naruto was.

And this showed instantly when Hashirama had Naruto on the back-foot immediately. Which was a horrible position to be in as Naruto was being slowly pushed back towards the walls of the barrier which would incinerate him if he touched it.

With his back just feet from the barrier Naruto knew that if he messed this up it would be over for him. Anticipating a right jab from Hashirama, Naruto pulled a Hiraishin kunai from his pouch and threw it past Hashirama underneath his legs.

Hashirama's fist continued towards Naruto as he turned his head backwards to look at the kunai. Only to see Naruto suddenly appear behind him and drive a fist into his face launching the undead Hashirama back first into the barrier which instantly lit his back in an eerily looking purple blaze.

Kurama quickly sent his chakra into Naruto's arms creating a shroud around allowing him to hold Hashirama in place against the walls of the barrier thus destroying his body as fast as it regenerated.

Naruto felt another dip in his nearly depleted chakra reserves as the wooden hand once again emerged from his stomach and reached onto the undead Hashirama's chest. This time Naruto noticed that the wooden hand was able to easily pull out the reincarnated Hashirama's chakra and soul.

As they pulled more of the undead Hashirama's chakra and soul out, Naruto allowed more of the body to reform slowly portion by portion they ripped parts of Hashirama's chakra and soul from the undead vessel.

It was also at this time the undead Hashirama was freed from Orochimaru's hold. As the last bits of his soul and chakra were pulled out he smiled toward Naruto and asked, "So tell me… how is the Senju clan these days?"

Naruto's attempted to smile back, but was thwarted as he coughed out more blood but still he replied as the blood rolled down his chin, "Heh… not as well as you would think Shodaime-sama, by blood I only know of 2 of us that are still alive, by marriage there are 3…"

"I see…" Hashirama answered with sadness clear in his voice. "Could I inquire on who your parents were? Your skill in Mokuton clearly has the potential to surpass even mine!?"

"My parents? I doubt you would know them… however my grandmother… Tsunade on the other hand I'm sure you know of her Shodaime-sama…" Naruto answered though he was a bit quiet on his Grandmother's name.

Hashirama asked with surprise, "My granddaughter Tsunade!" His expression then changed to one of happiness, "So that would make you my great-great grandson… heh… I couldn't be more proud of you… Naruto-kun right?

With nod Naruto gave Hashirama a smile who also responding with one and a look of understanding as Naruto gave one final tug tearing out the reminder of Hashirama's chakra and soul and absorbing it into his body

Stumbling back a few steps Naruto turned away from the walls of the barrier and fell onto his face in exhaustion, which was noticed by the other combatants inside the barrier, Orochimaru with a raised eye brow and smirk commented, "He actually defeated the Shodai I'm impressed. You trained him very well Sarutobi!" as he clashed his kusanagi against the diamond-hard Enma. Sarutobi quickly forced Orochimaru back with horizontal swing than replied, "To deal with monsters like you… what choice do I have Orochimaru?"

Orochimaru proceeded to spit in Sarutobi's face causing him to flinch slightly then leapt back and stabbed his kusanagi into the floor in front of him than raised both his arms up and yelled, "Here's a choice for you sensei! DIE! Sen'ei Tajashu!" snakes bursts from both Orochimaru's raised arms as they flew towards Sarutobi. In his blind glee of believing that he would kill his former sensei with this move, Orochimaru let his guard down and never saw Naruto jump at him with his katana until it was too late.

With a wet squelch and splash of blood, Orochimaru found to his horror both his arms had been chopped off just above the elbow and scent of burning flesh made him realize Naruto had imbued his sword with fire chakra thus instantly cauterizing the stumps that were his arms.

Orochimaru let out a howl of terror and in rage lashed his tongue out which grabbed onto the hilt of his kusanagi than thrust it into the weakened Naruto's stomach, lifting him into the air Orochimaru launched Naruto's body off his sword toward Sarutobi.

Sarutobi watched in dread as he watched Naruto's body arc through the air in slow-motion, than come crashing into the tiled roof skidding for a few feet before stopping facedown unmoving.

It was at this moment that Sarutobi unconsciously let his adamantine staff slip from his grip as it fell toward the ground, Enma undid his transformation and let out a roar of pure rage at witnessing the boy he trained, watched grow up and grew so close to get run through by the disgraced snake Sannin.

Sarutobi ran over toward Naruto's body and kneelt next to him turning his body onto his back, his heart clenched as he saw Naruto's eyes with a nearly closed glazed look and a combination of wet and dry blood all over his mouth and chin.

Lifting his head onto his lap tears slipped from Sarutobi's eyes as he shook Naruto, "Naruto hang on! You have to do it for the girls; you have to hang on to replace me!

Naruto's mouth quivered as he tried to get something out but all that came out was choking noises and more blood flowing from his mouth.

Enma who had charged at Orochimaru dodged a wild swing from Orochimaru's sword equipped tongue, allowing Enma to send a powerful right hook into the face of Orochimaru crushing his face in and launching him across the roof top.

Orochimaru landed on his face at the other end of the barrier, but was able to lift his broken face off the tiles and began chuckling. "How does it feel Sarutobi? How long have you waited for a second successor old man! Like your first one how does it feel to know that this one will die to?"

Naruto's eyes were nearly closed now as Sarutobi hugged the boy's body as he continued trying his best to keep the boy conscious. "Naruto come on don't give up!"

Inside Naruto's concious Kurama stood over the body of Naruto, all 9 of his tails were buried into the ground around Naruto pumping his chakra directly into Naruto's body trying to heal the boy's batteredbody. Kurama was also yelling but not at Naruto, "HASHIRAMA GET UP YOU BASTARD NARUTO NEEDS YOU!"

Hashirama had been unconscious ever since fully absorbing his undead counterparts chakra. Around him darkness was quickly closing in and Kurama did everything he could to save the boy but was limited because if he pumped too much of his chakra at one time into Naruto than he would die anyway due to demonic chakra poisoning.

This was happening due to the fact that Kurama's chakra was staying within Naruto's body in an attempt to heal him instead of flowing out of Naruto to be used as a shield or weapon.

While Naruto had been a jinchuriki all his life and had developed some tolerance he was still a human.

Luckily for both Kurama and Naruto, there was movement from Hashirama's body. Than white light overtook his body as Kurama had too squint his eyes to not be blinded.

By the time Kurama could open his eyes again, Hashirama was on his feet flexing both his arms in front of him, "I am complete!"

Kurama growled and said, "Show off later you bastard, save the boy first!"

Hashirama nodded then concentrated for a moment, before green chakra began rolling off his body and seeping into the ground around him. "Fox… I'll stabilize the boy… take control of his body get us out of this barrier, and release all this pooled demonic chakra in his body!

Back in the outside world Sarutobi was shocked when the wound on Naruto's stomach was quickly healing, however soon Sarutobi's face changed to fear as he felt the Kyubi's chakra radiating off the boy.

While Naruto fully trusted the Kyubi, Sarutobi was still slightly skeptical of the demon fox.

While he didn't wish to do it Sarutobi was forced to abandon the boy's body as he was forced away when the red chakra came out of every pore in Naruto's body, and while Naruto would often radiate the fox's chakra this was beyond anything Naruto had let out ever before.

Sarutobi had to take another step back as the pressure increased twice fold. Sarutobi yelled "OROCHIMARU SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!"

Orochimaru also feeling the Kyubi's chakra growing began cackling, "This day couldn't get any better Sensei! Now not only will the Kyubi kill you, it will also level this dammed city!" and while Orochimaru would have loved to gloat some more he grew fearfully as a huge pillar of red chakra suddenly erupted from the seal on Naruto's stomach and extending all the way up to the roof top clashing violently with the barrier.

The barrier was now shaking violently as the sound 4 strained to hold the barrier up, cracking could be heard throughout the barrier then suddenly the barrier fell away and for the first time in 12 years the Kyubi's full demonic pressure was felt throughout Konoha.

All the way at the Hyuga compound where Hinata, Ino the Daimyo and his wife had just reached, Ino was quick to notice all the bodies of dead or crippled enemy Shinobi, oddly they were all just quite a few meters from the compound walls all lined up almost in a wall like manner. What stood out from all these bodies was that they all had arrows sticking somewhere through their bodies, some even had multiple ones.

Ino wanted to question what happened but she got an explanation via demonstration, when an oto-nin that had been trailing them since the stadium leapt toward them from the shadows, Hinata quickly said to the group. "Don't move…"

As the Oto-nin got closer to them, suddenly they all heard a whizzing noise in the end then a second later an arrow from seemingly nowhere piercing through the soft flesh of the neck of the Oto-nin who died immediately.

Ino looked quizzically at Hinata who just answered, "A defense set up by Naruto and my Kaa-san, using the same method as the barrier team of Konoha. A group of 4 Hyuga's sit at the top most room of the main building, they produce an invisible chakra barrier that encompasses the entirety of the compound grounds, anytime somebody passes through it, a ping of chakra on a map on the floor alerts my kaa-san to where they are on the grounds. Combining her Byakugan and skill in archery she can easily snipe off any intruders."

Before Ino could ask any more questions the group all felt the demonic chakra wash over them they all turned their attention toward the stadium where the chakra came from. Hinata's eyes grew fearfully large as she knew that Naruto would never use this much of Kurama's chakra unless it was completely necessary, shaking her head to drive all the thoughts of doubts from her mind she was quick to usher the Damiyo and his wife into the compound for safety.

All around Konoha immediately stopped as all the fighters looked toward the stadium where they all saw the pillar of red chakra reaching up into the sky.

Far away on the other side of Konoha at one of the walls where the snake summons had crashed through, Ibiki stood on top of a roof as he was also turned to the pillar of chakra. Tilting his head toward Jiraiya who was standing on top of Gamabunta's head Ibiki scanned the toad hermits face for any sort of reaction toward this phenomenon. And while there was a hint of worry, Jiraiya showed no other real source of emotion.

Back at the stadium pit, Gaara had gotten a front row seat of Naruto's explosion of power. However it was interrupted when a masked anbu landed in front of him, removing his mask it was revealed to be Kabuto in disguise. "Now, Now we can't have these little branches stopping our trump card can we?"

With that said Kabuto threw a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it onto the wooden branches binding Gaara. Leaping away Kabuto triggered the explosion which succeeded in doing two things, one was destroying Naruto's wooden prison and two was knocking the Suna Jinchuuriki unconscious allowing Shukaku to take full control of Gaara's body.

While Shukaku mulled inside Gaara's body. With Naruto in the fallen barrier, the pillar of chakra suddenly disappeared but was replaced with a sudden blob of see through red chakra that kept growing and growing while forming the shape of a fox.

Throughout Konoha everybody saw the blob of chakra become solid then muscles began forming, followed by bones, than skin, and lastly the entire body became covered orange fur. By the time anybody realized what it was they were all deafened by a giant roar that sent nearly the entire population within Konoha to the sprawling.

"I AM FREE!" Kurama roared out as the fully formed Kyubi was now over shadowing the stadium. Kurama tilted his head down toward Orochimaru and said with a smirk, "Hello you dammed snake bastard, I'm going to enjoy blowing you away." Just as Kurama wanted to begin charging a tail beast ball, he was suddenly hit in the side by multiple blasts of wind.

Which so happen to barely phase Kurama but it did annoy him, Kurama turned his head to find his attacker which turned out to be that bastard Shukaku.

It was at this moment the sound 4 took advantage of the giant fox being distracted that they swooped in and grabbed their master immediately taking him away to safety, the anbu who watched from outside also took this chance to rescue the fatigued Hokage also taking him away to safety.

Kurama saw this out of the corner of his eye and said in a growl, "Shukaku… you have deprived me of my prey!

Shukaku was quick to growl back at his brother, "I was just getting your furry ass back for attacking me inside my own host's mindscape before!"

Seeing that Orochimaru was now gone Kurama shifted his rage toward Shukaku, "How about I blow you away out here and see if you can reform!"

Once again Kurama readied to charge another tail beast ball, but this time was interrupted by Hashirama, "You can't possibly be thinking about unleashing that here can you! You'll level the whole city with an attack that powerful!"

Kurama growled mentally in annoyance and said, "And if I don't level the city, then the bastard Shukaku will… I'm sure you know how bloody unstable he is!"

"Then we stop him before he does!" Hashirama said as if it was the easiest thing in the world. "Pray tell me Hashirama, what great plan do you have to stop him aside from me just blowing him to bits."

Hashirama started forming a set of hand seals that were extremely familiar to Kurama, "By working together! Charge him Kurama we will use your tails as a reagent for the jutsu!"

Kurama grumbled something about crazy senile kages but stampeded toward the mad tanuki regardless, "After I use the jutsu… the ambient wood chakra will most likely suppress you as well, so I will take control of the boy's body to finish Shukaku off!"

"Yeah, yeah whatever let's just go I'm bored" Kurama finished as he lunged forward while also launching his tails forward wrapping them around Shukaku who attempted to fight them off, but it was already too late as Hashirama finished the last hand sign and called out his newly invented jutsu, " KURAMA-STYLE Sixty-Year-Old Technique - Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Tails!"

The tails that bound Shukaku, turned into wooden bindings as Kurama began shrinking into himself until all that was left was Naruto's body. Which continued to fly forward toward Shukaku due to the momentum of Kurama's charge, Hashirama took control over Naruto's body as he landed on top of the struggling Shukaku's head where Hashirama.N found an unconscious Gaara's running toward the boy Hashirama.N slammed his palm into the chest of Gaara then leapt back while a string of green chakra connected his palm to Gaara's chest, "SIT!" Hashirama.N said as Shukaku roared out in anger as the sand that constructed his body began falling away. Leaving Gaara and Hashirama.N in midair, Hashirama.N quickly flung Gaara toward the roof of a building so the boy wouldn't fall all the way to the ground.

But however just as he was about to right himself Hashirama.N felt Naruto's body lock up and his control over the body was suddenly limited. "Kurama what's happening?"

There was a slight pause by Kurama but then he said, "The boy's waking up, he's subconsciously taking back control of his body!" As hard as Hashirama mentally struggled to stay in control he soon lost and found himself back inside the grassy plains of Naruto's mindscape, which could only mean that Naruto's body was now plummeting helplessly toward the ground.

Hitting the ground on his back with a loud crash, Naruto's body left an imprint on the ground. Groaning in pain Naruto who had just woken up to being dropped from some five-plus stories onto the hard pavement below felt his conscious fading again, but just as he was about to let unconsciousness claim him, Naruto felt a huge chakra source approaching him, with the last ounce of his strength he tilted his head toward the direction of the chakra source which turned out to be the Tsuchikage who was floating a few feet above the ground.

Onoki put his hands together in a sign and Naruto was able to hear him uttered, "Namikaze…" before he gave way to the darkness of his mind.