Uchiha Heiress Remix Chapter 54, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 54: Despair and Corruption!

Back at The Team Seven/Viper Squad residence. . .

All of the female and animal members of Viper Squad were quickly getting their gear together, while Nina was simply doing some stretches as she doesn't use any gear alongside her animal companions.

Once Anko was finished, she looked at her two team members and the Os trio as they were both ready and geared up. "Alright, everyone ready to go?" She asked in a concern yet serious tone.

"Hai, Anko-sensei." Yami replied with a very serious tone that wasn't heard since the time at Snow as she held onto her precious katana. "I will protect those that I care for. . ." She thought in the same serious tone.

"Hai!" Nina declared with all the seriousness she could muster, though with her adorable appearance, it wasn't much as all it was was just puffing up her cheeks.

"Awo! Meow! Chirp!" The Os trio howled, meowed and chirped in unison as they showed their teeth, claws or ruffled feathers, ready for their possible first battle as part of the Viper Squad.

Anko, in turn, nodded in response to what he team members had responded with. "Right, then let's go." She ordered in a serious tone.

"Anko-sensei. . ." Yam started as she got closer to the jonin and out of earshot from the smaller members of the group. "That power that caused Nina-chan and Okki to react like that. . .what do you think it was exactly?" She whispered in a serious yet concern tone.

The purple haired jonin in response to this narrowed her eyes in her own serious manner. "Honestly Yami. . .I have no idea. . ." Anko began to say but stopped as she shook her head. "No, it's more like I don't remember. . ." She then corrected with a conflicted expression on her face.

Yami in response to hearing that narrowed her eyes, however remembering that her sensei used to be the Snake Sannin and the fact that she had some missing memories thanks to him caused her to realize that that was the reason behind it. So she decided not to pry into her sensei's painful past, she decided to to asked anymore until she herself remember it and was ready to tell them.

"However those that were emitting that black misma. . .I can already tell that imouto-chan and the others might be fighting the sources of them." Anko soon stated in the same serious yet also concern tone.

Yami in response to that nodded in agreement. "This basically means we are up against an unknown enemy. . .with an equally unknown power. . ." She replied in a serious tone. "And if we can feel their power from all the way here, it should be worse where they are. . ." She soon concluded while being concern about such a dark feeling.

"Which is why we can't waste anymore time. . ." Anko declared as she nodded in agreement to that before looking at the young looking member before opening the front door. "Nina, it's time to go." She soon ordered as she walked outside.

"Hai!" Nina once more replied as she and the O trio dashed out the door to follow the purple haired jonin.

To witness this, Yami followed suit as the entire Viper Squad exited the estate and dashed towards the gate.

Within the forest clearing. . .

"INCOMING!" Tenten screamed.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated Jirōbō bellowed in an inhuman manner as his body went through a spasm while its mouth was wide open with its needle-like fangs showing and saliva dripping and then jumped through the air to attack the group.

"MOVE!" Kankurō ordered while moving himself and his Crow puppet to grab the kunoichi.

The group quickly tried to escape into different directions, but the mutated Oto shinobi continued its charge towards the injured kunoichi. The Suna shinobi knew that the creature was going too fast for his puppet to get Tenten out of the way fast enough, so with a heavy heart, he used his last pieces of Black Ant and used it to shield.

CHOMP! SHREEEEEEEED!

At being a close perimeter of the broken puppets remains, the monstrous Jirōbō literally chomped on the pieces and landed on the ground, then it began chomping and shredding the pieces as if it was a starving, savage and fanatical animal.

Once the group were far enough and had landed safely away, they all cringed at the sight of the once human shinobi actually trying to eat the puppets remains in such a manner.

Chōji's face meanwhile started to become slightly green. "I-I think I'm gonna be sick. . ." He muttered out.

The injured Kunoichi, on the other hand, shivered as she knew that had it not been for the Suna shinobi's quick thinking, she would have been on the creature's menu. "T-Thanks, for the save. . ." Tenten winced out.

Though still hurt at losing one of his precious puppets, the Suna shinobi knew now was definitely not the time to think of it. "Thank me later. . .we still got this freak to take care. . ." Kankurō got out in a serious manner.

Tenten, in turn, nodded in agreement. "Well at least we now know that we got to stay away from its mouth. . ." She commented before she winced in pain again. "Damn. . .that asshole really mess up my arm and leg. . ." She muttered to herself as she knew she won't be able to help much.

Clank!

The sudden sound of wood and metal was heard being thrown to the ground. "Heheheee. . .heheheee. . ." The creepy laughter was then heard.

Instantly, this got everyone's attention back towards the creature. The group saw that the mutated shinobi had thrown the remains of Black Ant to the ground as if it was either done or simply throwing unwanted trash and began to spasm in place.

Though very annoyed by the disrespect of his puppet's destruction and thrown away remains, the Suna shinobi narrowed his eyes to the enemy. "Damn. . .didn't even slow this freak down. . ." Kankurō swore out.

The Akimichi in response to this looked at his comrade. "What should we do?" He then asked while suddenly wincing with a large surge of pain coursing through his body. "N-No. . .the Curry Pill side effect. . .!" He meanwhile thought in a panic as he knew that the side effects were getting worst.

"Hate to say it, but I don't think we can beat him. . ." Kankurō got out as he knew that his puppets weren't causing any effect on him and the other two weren't in any shape to fight anymore. "We're gonna have retreat and rethink our strategy. . ." He then stated.

Tenten's eyes widen in response to hearing that, then all she could do was frown as she had to begrudgingly nod in agreement. "Yeah. . .This monster's too much for us. . .it's as if. . .he's already dead. . ." She then admitted.

"Now that's a scary thought. . ." Chōji got out. ". . .an undead and regenerating enemy. . ." He then added.

Then as the group slowly began to make their retreat. . .

"Heheheee. . .heheheee. . ." The laughter from the mutated shinobi continued to be heard as the being that was once Jibōbō continued to move towards the three at a slightly faster pace.

The Suna shinobi soon narrowed his eyes at the sight of this. "Shit. . .looks like he doesn't plan on letting us go." Kankurō swore. "Dammit, I rather be dealing with that damn raccoon then this freak. . ." He meanwhile thought to himself.

As if on cue, the mutated Oto shinobi's arms began to spasm until multiple spikes sprout out of them. "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" He screamed with its bellowing like roar before Jirōbō's stretched his inhuman arms at the group.

"DAMMIT! MOVE! Tenten once more exclaimed.

BOOM! CRASH! CRACK!

The puppet user instantly commanded his puppet instantly picked up the girl as the stretched arms went right through multiple trees, crushing them like toothpicks. Then his arms crashed downwards into the ground, large craters were formed.

However when the former human began twitching uncontrollably. "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" He screamed yet again, but only this time with anger as he didn't grasp any of its food. Then even though his arms were still extended, he raised them and then slammed it down with rage.

"OH SHIT!" Tenten swore once more as the group moved once more to the command.

BOOM! CRASH!

As a result, the attack had created a massive fissure on the point of impact, it was five feet deep and ten feet in length as trees and rocks alike began to fell into it.

Tenten's eyes soon widen to the size of the attack result. "Great. . .now we can't get hit by that too. . ." She stated in a serious manner.

"Ya think. . ." Kankurō retorted in a very annoyed tone as there was yet another thing to worried about. "We really gotta get away from this freak now. . .but with those arms of his. . ." He started.

"Yeah. . .we don't even know how far they can go. . ." Chōji added with a slight winded tone in his voice.

As the mutated Oto shinobi finished retracting its arms, he began to spasm in place once more, however this time it was with much more violent manner then the last time almost as if it was going to tear itself apart from the constant violent movement. It continued to do so for a few moments before. . .it simply stopped. . .as if it was a lifeless doll.

The Suna shinobi then narrowed his eyes to this. "What now. . .?" Kankurō muttered in annoyance and confusion.

However, before anyone else could respond. . .

Every single muscle of the creature's body that had stopped spasming, it took a much firmer and solid stance as he turned towards the group. "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutant Jirōbō roared once more before he once more stretched his arms out once more, more specifically towards the injured kunoichi before rushing at the girl at a faster speed than what it had displayed before.

"Tenten!" Chōji called out as he saw the attack going towards her and the Crow puppet as he instinctively rushed towards his friend.

As the creature was near, it placed his arms together as sprouted its spikes from its arms, created a deadly spike flail arm. Then with a mighty swing it right above the injured kunoichi.

"Oh no!" Tenten mentally exclaimed as she saw this happening.

"Dammit!" Kankurō swore once more, but this time the enemy was too fast for the puppet to be commanded on time.

In just a millimeter of a distance, the flail arms missed the girl's head as it smashed the ground.

CRASH!

"KYA!" Tenten shouted as the failed attack was still powerful enough to sent her and the puppet flying away in different directions due to the sheer force of it.

Kankurō jerked at the suddenly been shot at a distance from the rest of his comrades while his puppet was a few feet away from him, but he was at least fortunate enough that he didn't get his chakra threats disconnect from his puppet.

Chōji was also sent flying but thanks to his weight distribution he manages to land on his feet near the Suna shinobi's puppet. "Tenten! Kankurō!" He called out to his teammates.

The spikes on the mutated shinobi suddenly started to extend further out and become dense enough that they literally started shining. Then soon enough, he tightly twisted his torso around as though he had no skeleton. "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" He roared once more and slammed his hands into the ground to rushed towards his next food while his teeth started to sharpen.

The Suna shinobi, however, didn't even the slightest amount of time to think as he soon realized that the mutated creature rushed towards him now.

"NO!" Chōji got out of concern as he knew we wouldn't be able to reach his comrade in time, but as the creature was about to reach the Suna shinobi he saw the fallen puppet below him. The exhausted Akimichi didn't even think about it as he quickly bent down.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated shinobi bellowed in a feral manner.

"SHIT!" Kankurō swore out at the oncoming attack.

Chōji quickly grabbed the puppet. "NO YOU DON'T!" He roared as he used his remaining strength to pull it and thanks to the chakra strings that was still attached to it, he managed to force pull his comrade.

"WAH!" Kankurō shouts in startelement just as the creature nearly smashed him in half.

WHAM! BAM! CRASH!

The earth shook violently from the missed attack but once again another large fissured was created.

Tenten's eyes widen at the sight of this as she looked to her comrades. "You guys alright!?" She called out.

"Ugh. . .surviving. . ." Kankurō grunted out.

"And only barely. . ." Chōji then admitted while panting heavily, the young Akimichi knew that they wouldn't last long enough. "We can't keep dodging his attacks like this. . ." He thought to himself as he. "We gotta end this here and now. . ." He then added with a hint of resignation yet conviction while instinctively bringing one of his hands to his pouch. ". . .It's still there. . ." He muttered as he gave off a serious expression while shakingly standing up.

On the other hand, the mutated creature shook and trembled, but unliked before it wasn't out of spasm, it was because of pure anger from not striking it's food. "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" He roared with pure anger as even more spikes sprouted off of his body and started charging once more, his target this time, however. . .

Tenten's eyes further widen as she saw where the mutated shinobi was heading. "CHŌJI!" She called out in a panicked manner.

The Akimichi's eyes widen as he saw the enemy coming towards him before pulling out his hand from his pouch. "No choice now. . ." He got out as he opened the last lid of the case and took the red pill out. ". . .The Red Chili Pill. . ." He thought as he brought it up and placed in his mouth.

CRASH!

On the outskirts of Konoha. . .

A casually walking Kakashi with Haku as they were just a mile away from reaching the village after they had finished their mission. Well, it started as a casual walk, but after the two had felt that ominous pressure of power, the two ran as fast as possible to hear from their Hokage what was going on.

"Father. . .what was that ominous feeling. . ." Haku questioned with concern while he kept jumping from tree to tree.

Kakashi, in turn, shook his head to that as kept his sight forward. "I'm not sure. . .but maybe the Hokage can inform us about what's happening. . ." He responded in a serious tone. "We better hurry." He then stated as he doubles the pace.

"Hai." Haku simply responded as the two kept moving through the tree branches at an even faster speed.

However, the two made a full stopped when they saw six shadowy blurs heading straight towards them at shinobi speed. At first, the two got their kunai and senbon ready if it was an enemy, but they quickly relaxed when they saw the shadowy blurs stopping and showing that it was Viper Squad.

"Anko." Kakashi calmly stated, though in a slightly hasty tone as both groups came to a halt.

"Kakashi." Anko responded in her own hasty tone.

"What's going on?" Haku then asked.

"You and Ice Boy got back from your mission. Good, get to Tsunade and she'll fill you in." She then all but ordered.

"Does it has something to do with that ominous pressure we felt a few minutes ago?" Haku questioned.

"Yeah! Yeah!" Nina replied with a constant shaking of her head as she made herself known to the two.

"Arf arf!" Okki barked out in an antsy tone.

"Mew!" Ora simply meowed urgently.

"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!" Ori chirped out in an excited manner.

While the two males didn't know who the young appearing girl was, they were able to tell that she must have been a new member of the purple haired jonin's all kunoichi squad.

Sensing what was on the two males mind, the young swordswoman shook her head. "I'm sorry, but introductions can wait for later, we have to get going." Yami stated as she had a twitchy hand on the handle of her katana.

With that said, the squad began to move but was stopped by the male jonin's hand blocking their path.

"At least give us the rundown so we know what we're dealing with." Kakashi counter ordered in the same serious yet hasty tone.

Whatever produced this ominous feeling, it reminded the one-eyed jonin of how it felt when the Kyūbi was attacking the village and that made him know that this was a grave and dangerous manner.

"Sakura Haruno went rogue to go to my ex-bastard of a sensei, ripped her former best friend's off and now your team along with their remaining friends are chasing after her to capture her." Anko briefly stated in a deadly serious manner and narrow eyes.

This left both male shinobi's shocked at every single bit of the sentence.

"So she did have connections to Orochimaru. . ." Kakashi thought with a grim tone as he now knew that the girl will be branded a missing-nin and felt sorry for her former sensei.

"Does that mean Naruto and the others are chasing after her?" Haku meanwhile thought to himself.

"Me and my team are now heading out to the source of that pressure that was released and help out the gakis if needed. A medical team will be coming soon as well, so if you end up going as well, you'll probably be going with them." She then revealed.

With nothing else to say, Viper Squad dashed and left the area as quickly as possible. While both male shinobi's have stayed for a few moments to process everything the female jonin had just informed.

"Let's go." Kakashi simply ordered with a deadly serious tone.

Haku in response nodded to the order as the two dashed back to Konoha.

At the flaming part of the forest. . .

All the shinobis present remain motionless as the current situation was intense as the crackling flames burned all around them, no one moving a muscle whatsoever as the Oto kunoichi was still had a hold on the Inuzuka's throat.

"Troublesome. . .just troublesome. . ." Shikamaru thought as he was still trying to figure out the next move to make, even after his Inuzuka teammate had somewhat stopped the enemy kunoichi's movements, he knew that they were practically in a hostage situation.

Temari was currently analyzing all the possible actions she could take, however without her fan in working condition, she knew they were limited which annoyed her to no end. "This just keeps getting worse and worse. . ." She thought over the manner at hand.

Meanwhile for Kiba, he was still struggling to gather air in his lungs after getting out his compliments to the one that was choking him while being on top of her, who meanwhile seemed to be stunned at the moment, though her grip on him was still painful while partner stayed still so his he wouldn't get hurt. "D-Dammit. . ." He thought as he gasped a little for more air.

As for the Oto kunoichi that created the hostage situation. . .she was silent after what the Inuzuka said about her as her red eye was covered by her hair and her blue eye to glow. . .

However. . .

Tayuya suddenly looked towards her hostage more intently. "Is that so~?" She got out into a more calm and suave yet teasing tone as a satisfied smirk on her now blushing face while licking her lips as she suddenly loosened her grip on the boy's neck

Kiba's eyes soon widen to the sudden yet slight change in her voice as he looked down at the girl while he felt the pressure from his neck fade. ". . .Eh?" He got out in complete and utter confusion.

"?" Both Shikamaru and Temari were also left confused as to why would the enemy had just let go of their teammate.

"Arf?" Akamaru meanwhile barked out in the same amount of confusion to this occurring.

But before the boy or anyone else could have said anything, Tayuya surprisingly grabbed him by the shirt, holding him down and forcing him straight towards her, pressing his chest against her breasts.

BAM!

The Inuzuka, in turn, was so shocked that he didn't see the fiery girl tilted back on the ground and smashing her head in his nose.

"AGH!" Kiba shouted in pain from his now busted nose and blood dripping out as some hit the girl's face.

Tayuya meanwhile licked the blood in a very suggestive manner as a giggle came out of her lips. "Ufufu. . .~ You think I'm. . .smokin' hot~?" She then asked in the same tone while still holding the boy's shirt.

However, the Inuzuka was in too much pain to even register what just happen. "AGH! WHAT THE HELL TAYUYA!?" Kiba roared out before glaring at the girl.

"Ufufu. . .~" Tayuya giggled out some more while licking her lips some more. "Did it hurt Kiba-kun~? I'm sorry if it did~" She then suddenly declared but her fist being raise kind of contradicts what she just said.

The Inuzuka soon regained his composure as his eyes then widen to that declaration as he now realized something was really wrong now. "WHA!?" He mentally exclaimed in utter confusion while sweating from the heat.

Upon seeing the squirming for of the boy, Tayuya smiled seductively and lustfully with delight. "Ufufu. . .You really are a cutie, my adorable Kiba-kun~" She suddenly declared.

To hearing that, the Inuzuka blushed, but was also confused to how the girl was acting towards him. "HUH!?" He mentally exclaimed in confusion once more but that quickly changed into fright at the sight of her fist tightening. "W-WAIT! H-HOLD ON! W-WHAT THE HELL!?" He got in a panic.

SMASH!

Kiba was then sucker punched straight in his busted nose yet again, however it wasn't meant for making any permanent or life-threatening, it was more so just to cause pain than anything else, all the while the girl kept her tight grip on him. "AUGH! SON OF A BITCH!" He roared in agony.

SMACK!

And then yet another punch was thrown at the same area, which only made the girl smiled with even more delight. "Ufufu. . .so adorable. . ~." Tayuya complimented as she brought her blood coated hand to her lips and seductively licked some of it.

Meanwhile, the Inuzuka's comrades and puppy looked on at this with very confused and baffled expression look in their faces.

"What. . .am I even looking at?" Was all Temari could get out as she was honestly baffled at this turn of events.

"Troublesome. . .just. . .troublesome. . ." Shikamaru grumbled out to what was happening. "Is this also cause of that pill she took? Did it do something else to her as a result besides the flames?" He meanwhile thought as he did recall her saying that only one percent was the probability for someone to regain consciousness. "But would that mean all of her mind would return? And wouldn't it be intact?" He added as he found the drastic change of personality to answer his questions.

"Shouldn't we. . .I don't know? Help him?" Temari soon questioned in a deadpan tone as she was having second thoughts about the Inuzuka being in a mortal threat.

This, in turn, made the Nara let out a lazy sigh as he scratches his head. "As troublesome as that is. . .I guess so. . ." Shikamaru lazily replied.

"Arf! Arf!" Akamaru barked in agreement.

With their minds finally set, the Konoha shinobi, hound and Suna kunoichi rush to save their captive comrade.

As this was going on, however. . .

"H-HOLD ON! I-I THOUGHT YOU HATED ME!" Kiba exclaimed as he looked at the girl while futilely trying to cover his face. "WHAT THE HELL'S UP WITH THE COMPLIMENTS!?" He then asked with even more confusion.

Tayuya then suddenly gained a pouty face, though she continued leaning him down towards her. "Mmm. . .isn't it obvious Kiba-kun~? Do I. . .need to spell it out for you~?" She questioned in the same seductive yet slightly more cutesy manner.

". . .Huh?" Kiba got out in more confusion, unaware of the blush on his face.

The Oto shinobi then leaned into the boy's ear. "I~ Do~ Hate~ You~" Tayuya sing song her answer in a whisper while licking her lips.

BAM!

No sooner the girl said that Kiba was hit once again on the nose with enough force to only cause pain yet again. "ACK! THE HELL!?" He got out in pain once more as he tried to move, but was still being held.

"That is why~" Tayuya began before she continued to bring the Inuzuka down towards him. "I'll keep causing you more and more pain~" She then declared in a completely hasty and lustful manner filled with excitement while the blush never left her face while she was breathing deeply and heavily. "Kiba-kun is mine~ Mine~ Mine~ Mine~!" She then added in her mind with a possessive and obsessive tone as she was about to strike him once more when. . .

SCUFF! STREEEEETCH! DON!

"!?" Suddenly Tayuya was frozen in place, she managed to move her eyes and saw that it was the shadow user had trapped her yet again.

WHIRRRRRL!

Then Temari quickly landed next to them and pulled the Inuzuka off, just in time for a small twister heading straight their way.

BAM!

Akamaru then hit the immobilized kunoichi, sending her flying a few meters away from the group.

"What took you guys so long!?" Kiba grumbled out as he winced in pain.

Temari only looked at the annoyed boy with a deadpan expression and without a word, she grabbed his nose and snapped it back in place.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Kiba wailed in pain from the action while he rolls in the ground.

"Didn't want to interrupt your little. . .S&M play. . ." Temari finally answered as she didn't even care for the boy's agonizing state.

Shikamaru, however, looked at the two. "It's troublesome. . .but how do you get into these situations?" He then questioned.

After the pain had finally calmed down, the Inuzuka straighten up and glared at his two comrades. "Like I had a choice in the matter!" Kiba roared back. "That was all Tayuya as she-" He began ranting before looking back towards the enemy and was left confused. "What the. . ." He then got out as he noticed the expression on the girl's face.

The rest of the group turned and saw that the flaming girl had recovered from the earlier hit, but was now in a slight sluggish state.

Tayuya narrowed her red glowing eye as she had a struggling expression on her face. "YOU LOUSY MUTT! HOW DARE YOU STRIKE ME!" She roared in rage, but it was more to herself before her blue eye shined as she looked more intently at the Inuzuka with the same blush on her face. "My adorable Kiba-kun~ He is mine~ My man~ No one shall take him from me~ He noticed me first~ Let him go you bitch~!" She then mumbled to herself the same possessive and obsessive tone.

While the kunoichi continued this, the flame all around the area seemed to be starting to be drawn to her while both of her eyes began to shine their respective colors as the rage and possessive muttering continued.

At listening to the senseless muttering from the kunoichi, the group could only look at her with both startled and confused looks on their faces.

The Suna kunoichi then narrowed her eyes at both the insult and the muttering. "What the hell's wrong with her?" Temari muttered in confusion.

". . .I think this is the side effect of that pill. . ." Shikamaru began, gaining everyone's attention. "I think that even if she did regain her conscious, the powers are still affecting her mind and in turn affecting both her thoughts and personality." He then declared.

"So she's basically going crazy?" Kiba then asked in a bit of concern before wincing in pain again.

"Possibly. . .as troublesome as it is. . ." Shikamaru replied.

The flames soon started to gather some more around the flaming girl. "Are you ready for round two~?" Tayuya questioned as her blue eye shined more while breathing heavily while preparing two fireballs in her hands to throw.

"Great. . .here we go again." Temari got out with annoyance as she and the Nara got ready to fight yet again.

However, the Inuzuka grinded his teeth as he saw this. "Why. . .Why the hell are you even fighting us still Tayuya!?" Kiba shouted at the top of his lungs in both anger and confusion.

Suddenly, Tayuya stopped as eyes widen, both of the mismatched eyes suddenly shining purple. This sudden change of eye color also causes her body to go limp and gain a tired expression along with exhausted breathing with a loud gasp for air while the flames around her were now at a standstill, though still surrounding her.

"!?" All of the group of Konoha and Suna could look on at yet another change from the flaming kunoichi.

The enemy kunoichi continued panting heavily while she held her head as if she was in pain. "What. . .the fuck. . .happened?" Tayuya panted out in exhausted confusion.

This caused the Shikamaru to slightly lower his guard. "Looks like she managed to snap herself out of her crazed state." He concluded.

"Either that or Kiba's voice really annoyed her to snap out of it." Temari, however, remarked with a deadpan tone.

". . ." The Nara didn't even bother to comment on that because he would actually believe that. "Regardless, maybe we can now try to reason with her." Shikamaru suggested as he let out a tired sigh. "After all, we're in no shape to fight anymore." He then reminded.

"I doubt it would work, but it's worth a try." Temari soon agreed. "We just need to be careful and not trigger her again-" She then started, however. . .

"OI! Didn't you hear me, you crazy psycho!?" Kiba roared in anger and annoyance. "Or are you still messed up in the head ya sadistic lust-crazed freak!?" He then added.

SMACK!

Both Shikamaru and Temari hit their forehead at their idiotic comrades shouting while Akamaru let out an embarrassed whine.

The panting enemy then looked over and glared towards the Inuzuka. "What. . .the fuck. . .are you talking about Kiba?" Tayuya questioned in a serious manner while the flames around her rose and fell as if they were matching her breathing.

"What I'm saying is why the hell are we even fighting at all!?" Kiba questioned in a more serious tone as he struggled to get to his feet. "You don't have the Curse Mark right? Then you should be free from that damn monster's control!" He declared while pointing at where the mark was once located.

"What!?" Tayuya thought as her eyes soon widen in hearing that declaration as she somehow regained her energy to get herself to her feet before she started examining her naked body. "W-Where is it!? Where's that damn mark!? It was right here on my. . ." She then muttered in a frantic manner as she felt the back of her neck, however, she only felt smooth skin. "No. . .way. . ." She slowly got out.

This got everyone's attention as the Inuzuka's comrades then remembered that during the entire time avoiding the enemy's, they never saw a single mark on her body after the transformation, meaning that the kunoichi had her mark removed from her by some means. This caused the two to decide to let the Inuzuka handle this as he may actually be able to get through her.

"So that mutation somehow actually destroyed Orochimaru's influence. . ." Shikamaru muttered.

"It's. . .It's gone. . ." Tayuya muttered as she fell to her knee, the mere thought of her leash gone. "Holy. . .fuckin's shit. . .it's. . .fuckin' gone. . ." She then muttered some more, her mind still in a state of disbelief over the mere idea of this situation happening.

The Inuzuka then slowly started to walk towards the flaming girl as she was starting to calm done. "Hey. . .we can. . .just end this. . .right?" He soon asked with a hint of imploring in his tone at the chance of not fighting the girl anymore while Akamaru walked besides him and whining in a hopeful tone.

As this was happening, Shikamaru narrowed his eyes as he was hoping this would work and if not, both he and Temari were making plans if things go south.

Tayuya in response to hearing this gained a small smile of relief at finally, finally being free of the mark that had all but enslaved her. "Your. . .still a pervert Kiba. . ." She quietly remarked with a small blush on her face. "But. . .yeah. . .I'm done fighting. . ." She then muttered.

This caused the rest to finally relaxed and drop their guard while Akamaru was panting happily thinking that the fight was finally over.

Kiba, however, heard that as he rolled his eyes. "Give me a break already." He replied in an annoyed tone as he offered a hand.

Then as Tayuya took the hand and got herself up, her eyes finally got a glimpse of her light blue skinned body that slowly started turning back to its normal tan pigment and with her mind cleared, she finally managed to process what had happened to her. The mutation pill had completely changed her body, as this replayed in her mind, her eye widens in realization over that one major detail.

She had survived the transformation. . .

"N-No. . ." Tayuya thought as she suddenly began to back up in a shaky manner as her eyes dilated and were devoid of any life. "I. . .survived. . ." She got out in a mutter with a hollowed and void filled tone while her body began shivering and started to regain her slightly light blue skin pigment. "I survived. . .I survived. . .I survived. . ." She repeated to herself over and over again as she began to start hyperventilating while also holding herself.

"?" It was the group's general reaction of confusion as they looked at the former enemy.

Shikamaru however eventually saw the changes returning before his eyes widened. "KIBA GET BACK!" He quickly warned.

Kiba and Akamaru's eyes widened to the warning as they started to look back towards the former enemy, however. . .

FWOOOSH! BOOM!

A violent explosion of flames erupted from the Oto Kunoichi as this also sent both Kiba and Akamaru flying a couple of feet as they then landed towards the rest of the group.

"OMPH!" Kiba grunted out as he quickly got to his feet once more. "AUGH! What the hell!?" He got out in confusion.

At the epicenter of flames, they had started to recede once more as she the light blue skinned burning girl was panting heavily again from exhaustion.

"OI! WHAT THE HELL' WRONG WITH YA THIS TIME!?" Kiba roared out.

". . ." However, Tayuya remains silent while the flames continued to expelling outwards.

"Troublesome. . .things just keep getting worse. . ." Shikamaru thought as he examined the newest situation.

"Haha. . ." Tayuya got out with an emotionless tone as the flames circled her once more. "Life just loves to fuckin' screw with me. . ." She muttered.

The Inuzuka blinked as he was caught off guard by that response. "What was that? What do you mean by that?" Kiba got out, not able to understand what that meant.

Tayuya's dilated and mismatched eyes then looked at the Inuzuka. "You think I'm free from that monster? That's where your fuckin' wrong Kiba. . ." She soon started.

To the sight of the dilated eyes, Kiba startled by that could only widen his eyes in shock. "The hell are you talking about!?" He soon asked.

The flames soon started to gather closer towards the light blue skinned flaming girl. "I'm still here. . .I'm still alive. . ." She simply declared with a hollow and dread filled voice.

To hearing that statement, Shikamaru's eyes narrowed in realization. "She's basically saying that since there was only one percent chance for someone to regain their mind after taking that pill. . .Which can only mean that Orochimaru's faction will want her new power now or find out how she survived. . ." He stated in a serious manner.

The Suna kunoichi merely narrowed her eyes to that. "So that's what she meant. . ." She stated in a serious tone.

The Inuzuka's eyes, however, widen in shock to that. "A-Are you serious!?" He exclaimed his question in a serious manner.

The flames soon started to gather even closer to the burning girl. "That's right. . .Because I'm still able to think, it means that he will never let me go free. . ." Tayuya emotionlessly declared. "He'll want me not as a kunoichi but just a test subject for fuckin' experimentation. . ." She then revealed.

"H-Hold on, aren't you over exaggerating!? I-Is he that obsessed with power!?" Kiba tried to reason, but it only fell on deaf ears.

It was at that moment that all of the flames had fully consumed in the burning kunoichi, with the exception of her light blue skin pigment and blue flames, there wasn't much different from her previous form, she still had that black like armor on her arms and legs, with the flame like bits covering her privates, but now her entire aura she was emanating made her look even more menacing.

Another clear change was that now the air itself was feeling like it was being burned, all of the red flames in the burning forest had turned blue, the trees and leaves that weren't already burning instantly burst in roaring blue flames, though they were also being drawn towards the kunoichi.

"Screw that. . .I rather go all out and die here than be a fuckin' test subject like all those other fuckers for that bastard and that crazy bitch. . ." Tayuya soon declared in an emotionless yet serious manner.

"NO! YOU GOTTA STOP THIS YA DAMN IDIOT!" Kiba roared back while shielding his eyes from the intense heat.

Tayuya soon looked at the group with an expression completely devoid of all emotions, her dual colored eyes had changed and were now glowing orange once more like when she first consumed the pill that mutated her. Then raised her hand and began to channel an immense amount of blue fire. "B-U-R-N. . ." She emotionlessly stated devoid of any trace of her personality in her voice.

FWOOOSH!

Shikamaru's eyes widened at the sheer power and intense heat being emanated from the kunoichi. "TOO LATE! MOVE!" He shouted before he grabbed his comrade and dashed backward along with the Suna kunoichi.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

An enormous explosion of blue flames echoed through the flaming forest. . .

At the new desert like clearing. . .

The two Konoha Shinobis and the Suna Shinobi watched as the dark grey claw-like hand forced itself out of the desert like scenery that was created by the Suna jinchūriki's jutsu. However before anything else could be said, the silhouette of a monstrous figure started forcefully rise from what was supposed to be their deathbed.

"He's approaching again. . ." Gaara stated as some sand once more gathered around him.

It was at that moment that demonic figure came out of the massive sand tomb.

Kimimaro's appearance had completely changed, his skin was now dark grey, the sclera in his eyes was now black, his irises were now yellow, all of his teeth had sharpened. On his back there were six large bone spines, another non-human aspect was that he had a long bone-spiked tail and two dark black curved like markings under his eyes, one under each eye and two as elongated eyebrows and one above each eye.

"AND EVEN UGLIER THEN EVER! GAHAHAHA!" Shukaku bellowed out from within the seal in an insane manner.

". . ." Naruto frowned at this however as he could feel literally feel the massive spike in power coming from the Oto shinobi.

Meanwhile on the sidelines, Lee looked on with widened eyes to the sight of the enemy. "Not only his appearance had changed but his malice has increased as well. . ." He commented with concern, not for himself but for his comrades.

Naruto, however, got into a low stance as he looked at the enemy. He just knew that their battle was about to reach another new height of intensity and needed to go all out as even darker crimson chakra started to come out of his body, making his cloak be a bit darker than before.

The Suna jinchūriki meanwhile looked towards the Konoha jinchūriki due to the chakra that was coming out, while he didn't understand why the color the chakra was becoming darker, he could feel that it didn't felt right coming from his friend/comrade.

WOOOSH!

However, the red haired jinchūriki's thoughts were interrupted when he was forced to turn his head back towards the enemy while narrowing his eyes as he was charging at them.

With one glance, the two jinchūrikis saw that it wasn't just the appearance that the Oto shinobi had change, but it looked like the white haired boy was much slower than before. With that in mind, Naruto charged to the right, while Gaara began to pushed the sand on the ground to attack from the left.

This attacks didn't make Kimimaro slow his charge and continued forward. Once both attacks were about to reach him, he stomped his right foot hard on the floor. . .

SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! Crack. . .

Suddenly from the sides of the demonic looking shinobi, large spikes of bones erupted from his sides. This caused Naruto's fist and Gaara's sand to collide with the bones, they were so strong that only small cracks appeared from the hit, shocking both of the boys.

Not wasting a single second, Kimimaro continued his charge, heading straight towards the Suna shinobi.

Naruto quickly got over his shocked and narrow his eyes when he saw this. "Oh no you don't!" He declared as he attempted to stop the enemy shinobi, but as he was about to do so. . .

SHINK! SHINK! SHINK!

Kimimaro made a single hand sign, this causes the bones that had been used as shields to begin shooting out multiple smaller yet sharp bones shards.

"What the!?" Naruto got out in shocked as he was forced to stop and used his hands to block the incoming projectiles from hitting any vital area. However both his arms were covered in many bones. "Ugh!" He got out in pain.

As Gaara saw the white haired boy continued his charge, he extended his arms and made a motion of closing his fist, this cause sand to come out of the ground in an attempt of capturing the enemy shinobi.

However Kimimaro easily avoided the attack, then the red haired jinchuriki continued the same action in multiple sections. But like the first time, he avoided each and every one while continuing his charge.

"WATCH OUT!" Lee called out his warning.

The moment Gaara saw that the Oto Shinobi would be right on top of him, he quickly leaned down and slammed his hand on the sand, this action causing a large plume of sand to be risen and used it as a barrier.

Kimimaro didn't even have to think it as he simply rushed right into the sand barrier.

This made the Suna shinobi believe that now he had stopped him, he was quickly corrected when the enemy shinobi burst out of the sand and continued rushing forward, using the bones on his back to ram right into Gaara and sending him flying.

"GAARA!" Naruto called out in concern before wincing in pain. "Dammit!" He soon grumbled in anger.

CRASH!

Gaara had soon landed back on the sandy ground as he gathered his bearings.

CRACK! CRACK!

Multiple pieces of hard shell fell off Gaara's face and body, showing that the force of that tackle was powerful enough to break through Gaara's sand armor.

The white haired boy, took a moment to realize this and narrowed his yellow eyes. "Interesting. . .a sand armor coating your entire body, no wonder you are known as the Ultimate Defense. . ." Kimimaro commented. "However it is all futile in the end. . ." He then declared in a calm tone.

The blond jinchūriki became furious at this as he used the pressure of his chakra alone to force out all of the bones shards from his arms, which the wounds quickly heal thanks to the Bijū's chakra. "SAYS YOU BASTARD!" Naruto roared and charged him with incredible speeds.

Kimimaro turned his gaze to the incoming blond and narrowed his eyes, then by stomping his foot, two large bone spear came from the side of the blond shinobi as they attempted to skewer him.

This forced the blond to holt his charge from the surprise attack. Acting on pure instincts, Naruto grabbed the incoming spears and thanks to the chakra cloak, he used pure raw strength to catch them and this managed to stop the attack from reaching him. But not without great effort on his part.

"Like that's going to kill me!" Naruto declared as he got out of the bones path, which no soon he did this the bones had made an X shape from their attempt at skewing him.

Gaara used this momentary breathing room to get back up and began gathering sand around him. While his friend/comrade also got ready to resume his assault.

As this was happening, Kimimaro quickly glanced at the two, he knew he could handle the blond, while he was certainly much stronger than initially, he was still attacking head on so he could easily dodge his attacks, but the problem was the red haired boy as his range attacks and his defense would be bothersome. With that in mind, he knew the appropriate action to make. . .

So without saying another word, the Oto shinobi lean down into a low stance while he moved his hand right over his shoulder. As this was happening right at the top of his back, a bone started coming out where his spine should be. . .

"What is he up to now!?" Lee thought in a concerned manner as he looked at the enemy.

The next thing the three comrades saw was that the Oto shinobi pulling out the bone while a very grotesque sound echoed as the bone continued to slowly came out. Until a large whip-like weapon made of bones fully manifested to all to see.

At the sight of this, the Konoha shinobi's eyes widen in both shocked and disgusted at the sight of this.

"N-No way. . ." Lee got out in a surprised tone.

"His spine!?" Naruto exclaimed in shock at the sight of it.

Gaara merely narrowed his eyes to the display of this, then he looked towards his fellow brother in burden. This got the blond to regain focus and nodded in understanding from their wordless communication the two just had.

Kimimaro's whips were swung a single time and this caused it to straighten and tighten into a sword-like shape. "Clematis Dance. . ." He declared as he readied himself.

Naruto meanwhile got into position before he blasted off once more towards the enemy with his clawed hands readied. "TAKE THIS!" He roared.

Kimimaro narrowed his eyes to this action from the blond. "First. . .the Vine. . ." He started as he swung the spine sword.

The instant he did so, the bones expanded and retook their whip-like appearance, the sudden change was so quick that Naruto only had time to react seeing this, but was too late to stop the whip from wrapping itself around him.

"SHIT!" Naruto cursed as the Oto shinobi swung the whip, sending him flying straight to his friend in burden.

"!" Gaara acted quickly as he summons sand to not only protect himself but also cushion the impact so that his friend wasn't hurt.

While this action was successful, the two jinchūrikis were sent flying.

". . ." The owner of the vile voice merely grinned to this display.

"GAHAHAHAHA!" Shukaku meanwhile laughed out in amusement. "Still think that you can win without me!?" His squeaky and high pitch voice asked in an overconfident manner.

This caused Gaara to frown in annoyance while he quickly summoning more sand to blocked another attempt of a hit from the enemy's whip. "Quiet. . ." He simply retorted.

Seeing that his attack work, but wasn't enough to kill the two, Kimimaro moved his free hand in the same manner as before and like before he pulled out another bone from his bone. Then with another single motion, he gains another spine whip as he wiped them at the same time causing two large gashes to appeared on the ground.

Naruto meanwhile stood back up while his face was becoming more and more aggressive while his cloak was also turning darker in color. "This guy is really starting to piss me off. . ." He growled out.

Naruto didn't know why, but something about the enemy was rubbing him the wrong way. It wasn't that white haired boy was stronger or the way he talked to everyone, it was more so that he was giving a feeling that made him feel a great amount of anger, and even if he didn't know why the continues clashed between him and the Oto shinobi caused his anger to grown even more.

Another dark and sinister chuckling echoed inside of the seal as he felt the blond's feelings. "As I thought, that insect will be the perfect trigger. . ." The dark and vile voice muttered in excitement.

The blond shook his head as he tried to get a whole of himself but was finding it getting harder to do so. "We need to beat him and help the others." Naruto got out with anger filled voice.

"I understand your concern. . ." Gaara calmly stated to his fellow brother in burden. "But we can't be rash, he is quite the difficult opponent, to say the least." He then added.

Thanks to the calm voice of his friend, Naruto more or less managed to calm down enough. "Right. . .then let just beat him together." He declared while giving a sharp toothy grin.

With a nod, the two got into position, Naruto was the first to charge at the Oto shinobi while Gaara's sand was right behind him.

Kimimaro soon sent one of this whips to attack the blond, but this time said shinobi managed to bend backward to dodge the whip and continued his charge. "Useless." He declared as he then swung one whip when the blond manage to dodge it and got close enough, he then spun it around in place while swinging the other whip and manage to hit the blond in the chest.

"GAH!" Naruto got out as he was sent rolling on the ground, once he stopped himself he saw a large gashed appeared in his torso but didn't stay long as the wound began to quickly heal itself.

Kimimaro then swung his whip once more but this time at Gaara, who quickly raised his sand to defend himself from his attack. While the suna shinobi manage to block it, he still manages to trap him with the whip.

"Gaara!" Naruto shouts with concern for his friend, but before he could do anything. . .

Stumb! STAB! SHINK!

Suddenly, Kimimaro stumbled his feet on the ground, thus causing the ground below blond shinobi.

Naruto using his heightened sense only barely manage to dodge the spear like bones from delivering a life-threatening hit. But he couldn't escape the true reason for the attack, the bone interlocked themselves right on top of him, making something similar to a rib cage, trapping him in place.

All the blond could do was struggle as the bones were very strong and had a firm hold on him."GAH! Shit!" Naruto cursed with frustration at being unable to move.

Seeing that his trap had worked, the Oto shinobi turn his sights at his other trapped victim. He was actually very impressed that the sand was strong enough to protect him from his whip since his weapon could easily cut through most objects thanks to its sharp edges.

The Oto shinobi then prepared himself. "Now. . .the Flower." Kimimaro started as the bones concentrated around his free arm in a large twisting spike. "Your sand can only help you so much. With you unable to move I will be able to use my strongest attack to remove you from Orochimaru-sama's way." He then revealed. "This bone is the strongest in my body. There is nothing that can stop it from destroying all in its path." He soon declared.

Naruto was now very concerned at hearing that as he continued to struggled, but he quickly calmed down when he saw Gaara looked on unimpressed by the enemy's declaration. This cause a smirk to appear on his face as he continued to break free but with less concern on his face.

"So it will be the strongest spear against the strongest shield, so be it." Gaara responded as he made a hand seal and the sand started to slowly build up in front of him. "Let us see which is the strongest. . ." He then declared.

Suddenly a large construct of sand began to gather in front of the red haired jinchūriki as it took a form to what it appeared to be a giant tanuki that had an enormous sand belly and a straw hat made of the sand on its head, standing between him and their opponent with its arms stretch apart.

"Shield of Shukaku." Gaara calmly declared.

"GAHAHAHA! TRY AND PIERCE THIS SHIELD ASSWIPE! GAHAHAHA!" Shukaku meanwhile taunted with a bellowing laugh from within the seal.

Having enough talk, Kimimaro took his first step. The bone wielder brought his arm back in preparation for his thrust. What it felt like hours, Kimimaro's eyes widen while he thrust his most powerful bone as it clashed with the shield of sand.

WHIIIIIRL!

The sound of whirling and sand grinding echoed loudly throughout the entire area as the strongest spear and shield continued their clashed for dominance and superiority.

The two shinobi's so focus on their clashed that they didn't hear or notice a large cracking sound was formed just behind the Oto shinobi.

Soon enough in just a fraction of a second, the strikes were decided. Grinding was heard as it echoed off the trees. Kimimaro's spear was able to dig into the Suna shinobi's shield almost halfway, but then. . .

CRACK!

A loud crack was heard from the large bone spear, this startled Kimimaro as he soon saw more and more cracks appearing on it.

SHATTER!

Then in an instant, the Oto shinobi's most powerful weapon had completely fallen to pieces as it's remains scattered all over the ground. As with that, the clash had ended and Gaara's shield had prevailed in the end.

PSH!

Not even wasting a single moment, Gaara made another hand seal as the ultimate shield dissolved itself as two large piles of sand erupted from the Oto shinobi's side and struck him, however like last time, he simply forced himself out of the sand with pure strength. But now he had some trouble getting his arms free.

". . ." Gaara meanwhile narrowed his eyes at the sight of this as he then motioned his hands and then more sand erupted, but only this time only to ensure the enemies feet couldn't move anymore.

". . ." Kimimaro said nothing as he continued trying to free himself, but before he could manage to do so. . .

A familiar blond shinobi had appeared right in front of him while an indigo-colored sphere of chakra was in his right hand, startling the Oto shinobi at the sight of the menacing looking orb of energy.

With one swift motion, the blond jinchūriki sent his Bijū empowered signature jutsu straight at the enemy shinobi's face. "DODGE THIS ASSHOLE! RASENGAN!" Naruto roared with fury.

BOOM!

Because Kimimaro's feet were ensnared, he couldn't summon more bone to use as a barrier and thus received the full powered attack. Had he could feel anything, he would had felt the indescribable pain of the drill-like attack on his face and torso, then after another moment, he was sent flying backward upon impact in a spinning motion, this caused the sand that held him in place and sends completely dispersing from the impact.

This impact caused the other Konoha shinobi to grin at the sight of this. "Yes! You did it!" Lee exclaimed before wincing in pain.

Naruto meanwhile smirked as he looked at the flying enemy. "Hell yeah." He got out.

BAM!

With a harsh landing, Kimimaro rolling on the ground, though he couldn't feel it, he knew that even with the Curse Mark's power, the damage he received was very dangerously high. There was multiple large gashes and cuts all over his face and torso, but even then he stood up tall, though began panting heavily as he looked at the two enemies while some blood came out of his mouth.

"It is over. . .You can not defeat us. . ." Gaara declared with his normal monotone voice. "Even with that powerful jutsu, which I presume it's a Kekkei Genkai, you are no match for us." He soon stated.

The enemy merely readied himself once more for that. "It belonged to the Kaguya clan, but now it's mine and mine alone." Kimimaro then revealed.

The Suna shinobi instantly realized what that meant. "I see, so you're the last of your clan," He started as his sand started to surround him. "Then your clan perishes here today. . ." Gaara then stated without remorse.

Meanwhile, Naruto cracked his knuckles in agreement, his red fox-like eyes were still narrow in anger while the Bijū's chakra was surrounding him. Which was very strange, the blond jinchūrki would normally want to stop his fellow jinchūriki from ending a defeated enemy, after all, it wasn't in his nature to kill someone if he could avoid it. But at the moment such thoughts never even crossed his mind.

From inside the seal, a sinister chuckle echoed with vile delight at the change in the blond's current state of mentality. "Yes. . .Just one little push. . ." The sinister voice muttered to itself in excitement.

The Oto shinobi, on the other hand, didn't even looked worried nor concern for his life at the declaration. "That may be, however, I will still live on. . ." Kimimaro retorted with his calm yet emotionless tone, this causes both of his opponents to be confused by his words. "Because I am not alone. . ." He then added as he then started coughing harshly. ". . .I'm running out of time. . ." He thought to himself.

Then the white haired teenager began to recall the time he had received the Earth Curse Mark, how he pledged to follow Orochimaru and how he became the leader of the original Sound Five.

"You're not alone you say?" Gaara questioned in the same tone as before, not understanding what the enemy meant.

"What the hell does that mean?" Naruto got out with anger as he was desired to rip the enemy continued to grow by the second.

"My life has been subsumed into Orochimaru-sama's ambition. That means that a part of me will live on inside Orochimaru-sama's heart, forever." Kimimaro revealed in the same tone.

Naruto began to grind his sharpen fangs at hearing that while glaring with abhor, as every single word the Oto shinobi had said was repulsive and further infuriate him even more than before.

The taijutsu Konoha shinobi's eyes meanwhile widen in shock to hearing this reveal. "How can someone be loyal to someone as heinous as Orochimaru." Lee couldn't help but thought to himself as he just couldn't fathom having such devotion towards a horrible person like the Snake Sannin.

Gaara, on the other hand, remained calm, though in his eyes there was a hint of disgust in them. "Orochimaru has brainwashed you well. . ." He began to say as he made a single hand sign. "You sad little pawn. . .Corrupted by Orochimaru's twisted desires. . ." He then added.

"!" The Oto shinobi's eyes immediately widen to hearing that.

Then sand began to be raised around the Oto shinobi, he swung his bone whip/sword to try to get the sand away from him, however it was a futile struggle as the sand below him began to turn into quicksand and began to swallow him.

Lee sighed in relief to this as he watched the enemy being enveloped in sand. "With this, you have surely ended him." He commented with relief.

However Naruto could only frown while letting a low growl as he didn't feel satisfied that he didn't end the enemy with his own hands.

At the sight of the enemy being completely swallowed by the sand, Gaara finally lowered his hands at what looked like the end of the Oto shinobi.

However. . .

"Go. . ." A low yet hollowed filled voice suddenly was heard from below the ground.

"!" Suddenly all of the comrade's eyes widen in pure shock at hearing the voice.

". . .Bracken Dance. . ." The same voice then declared.

STAB! SHINK! STAB! SHINK! STAB! SHINK!

At that sudden moment, spiked bones sprouted from the ground as they spread out through the entire battlefield.

"!" Naruto eyes widen in shocked at the bones erupting from the ground.

". . ." Gaara meanwhile said nothing to this development as he glared at what was occurring.

As the bones kept sprouting from the ground, they continued to spread out further and further to even the trees in the surrounding area, all the way towards the injured taijutsu using shinobi. . .

Acting quickly, Naruto grabbed his brother in burden and throw him upwards as the bones continued erupting towards him. "GAARA! GET LEE!" He shouted with fear and concern.

SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! STAB! STAB! STAB!

No sooner this happens that the blond saw the bones erupting from below him and the injured shinobi. . .

There a long moment of deathly silence all over the bone cover area, from just a few feet above the valley of bones. Both Gaara and Lee were out of harm's way thanks to the sand being used as a means of floating and hovering to avoid the damage that would have been done.

"Thank you Gaara-kun, I thought I was done for." Lee thanked with immense relief.

The Suna shinobi mere nodded in reply while panting. "I'm running out of chakra." Gaara thought to himself as he looked to the side. "Where's Naruto?" He then asked with concern.

"Oh! That's right! Where is Naruto-kun!" Lee got out as he recalled his friend while he frantically looked for his teammate.

I didn't take the two shinobi's too long to locate their friend, however, they soon wish they haven't as what they saw left them in complete shock.

"GAHAHAHAHA!" Shukaku meanwhile laughed out from within his seal to the display

What they say was a Naruto struggling in pain while multiple bones had pierced his right leg, his right shoulder and his left lung which had forced him to be suspended into the air.

"Naruto-kun! Are you alright!?" Lee asked with fear of how his friend's condition was.

"AUGH! WHAT DO YOU THINK DATTEBAYO!?" Naruto roared in pain, while it was indeed painful the blond had just barely managed to avoid being hit in any vital area, but he wouldn't be able to free himself without help. "THIS FUCKIN' HURTS!" He then declared.

This somehow made his friends relax somewhat as they knew that their friend would somehow pull through.

Gaara then looked towards the bone filled area and slightly narrowed his eyes. "He was very tenacious. . .but now he won't bother us anymore." He calmly declared.

Lee in turn nodded in agreement to that. "Indeed, we should go and help put Naruto-kun." He soon suggested in a serious tone before wincing in pain from his wounds.

Before Gaara could reply or make any moments. . .

"It wasn't brainwashing. . ." A calm yet monstrous voice declared.

Gaara's eyes widen in shocked as right behind him was the Oto shinobi that had come out from one of the bones.

The Oto shinobi's face had finally expressed emotions. "You think you know anything about Orochimaru-sama!? He is everything to me!" Kimimaro declared with fury.

The two floating shinobis could only turn around to watch the Oto shinobi had on of his enormous bone spear in his right hand, ready to strike.

"He gave me a reason to exist! How can you possibly understand that!" Kimimaro declared while he thrust his spear at the defenceless Suna shinobi's head. "Now die so his dreams can become a reality!" He soon demanded with rage.

From inside the seal, the owner of the vile voice's grin started to grow as an enormous amount of dark crimson chakra leaked more from the gates.

Ba-dump!

The blond's eyes widen in pure terror as he couldn't do anything as the image of his brother in burden being killed appeared in his mind, it was at the moment that something inside his very soul snapped.

"GAARA!" Naruto roared with rage and fury while his eyes completely change to a dark crimson color.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Within the Fox Bijū's seal. . .

Suddenly a large ominous silhouette of dark crimson chakra flooded out of the area where Kurama was being consumed by the same chakra.

"AT LAST! I'M FREE!" The dark and vile voice declared in excitement as crimson colored chakra flowed through the bars.

Then the vile chakra lunged themselves to the pipe like tubes around the walls and quickly began to flow through them.

Inside of the cage, the trapped Kurama could only grind his teeth in annoyance while being completely unable to do anything. "Shit!" He grunted out while feeling powerless to assist his jinchūriki.

Outside the seal. . .

FWOOOOSH!

A massive gust of wind and chakra soon spread throughout the entire area, this caused both ally or enemies alike to be blown away.

Gaara managed to regain control of the sand clouds, but it wasn't without great effort. While Kimimaro manages to recover by landing on a large bone and melding his hand onto the bone pillar to remain stable, but even then his could still feel the intense pressure of the explosion.

Meanwhile, at the epicenter of the blast, the bones that been holding the blond jinchūriki had instantly shattered from the sheer pressure of the wind as he fell to the ground and land on his feet as his head faced the ground while his arms were down and swinging slightly and his body was motionless

At first it looked like his cloak had disappeared, but that quickly changed when a circle of dark crimson chakra stirred around him and covered his entire body. The chakra cloak was very different from the usual one as this one was a darker shade of crimson that could be confused by the color of blood.

However that wasn't the most prevalent change, the blond's hand shocked for a few times before the each of his ten nails were shot out, as the blood dripped out they were soon replaced by real claws. All of his teeth were now complete canine-like fangs as a trail of steam escape his mouth, the whisker birthmarks began to bleed as they grew in size and width.

Finally his eyes. . .they didn't look human anymore, they lacked any iris or pupil that human eyes should have. Instated they were now completely crimson, devoid of any trace of kindness or humanity, only pure hatred could be seen in them. . .

The taijutsu user looked from the cloud of sand in shock at his comrade. "I-Is that Naruto-kun. . .?" He questioned with concern.

"I'm afraid it isn't. . ." Gaara muttered as he looked at the changed blond with narrow eyes. "This is something very similar to what I got through whenever I lose control of Shikaku. . .no, I fear it's much worse than that. . ." He meanwhile thought to himself with concern for his friend safety.

From inside of the Suna shinobi's seal, a deranged yet amused laughter echoed. "It HAPPENED! IT REALLY HAPPENED! I HATE HIS GUTS! BUT TO HELL HE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO GIVE SOMEONE GOOD SHOW!" Shukaku roared at this as he knew this was going to happen and was going to enjoy the carnage that would soon follow.

Gaara in response narrowed his eyes as he heard this. "Shikaku. . .What's going on? What is happening to Naruto?" He demanded to know with a serious tone.

However, all the Suna jinchūriki got in response was more of the Bijū's deranged laughter as he looked on at the blond.

Suddenly, Naruto swayed slightly to the side before he suddenly dashed forward with a feral roar towards the Oto shinobi.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Within the darken, mist and web covered forest. . .

Hinata's eyes were instinctively and tightly closed as the fear of being killed was still present in her. However, after a few moments, she couldn't feel any sort of pain in any part of her body. Part of her still functional mind thought it was because of her state of shocked that she didn't feel it, but as her fear began to decree it was more and more apparent that it wasn't the case.

Drip. . .

Then the sudden sound of dripping sound made her thoughts stopped, why did she hear such a sound? There wasn't any sort of water near them, so it didn't make sense for her to hear such a sound.

Drip. . .

It was at that moment that the female Hyuga finally noticed that her face had some kind of murky and thick liquid. . .and it felt eerily warm. . .this instantly raised multiple warning signs in her mind.

Hinata slowly opens her eyes, but the instant she did, she let out a sharp gasp of breath and her eyes shot wide open to what she saw in front of her before becoming completely breathless to what just happened as more drops of blood splattered on her face yet again.

The sight that left the female Hyuga breathless was that of Neji, right in front of her while a small hole was through his right half of his chest while breathing heavily and coughing up some blood while the wound itself was also leaking blood. The Hyuga girl also didn't notice the gold colored arrow that was right next to her body. "A-Are you. . .alright Hinata-sama?" Neji questioned in a serious yet concerned and strained tone before wincing in pain while coughing up some more blood.

Hinata didn't, no, couldn't respond to the question as her eyes were wide in a dead like manner and the only thing she was able to hear was one of her own heart beatings, getting faster and faster by the second.

The wounded Neji, however, coughed up some more blood as his body started to weaken. "H-Hinata-sama. . .you. . .you must. . .run. . ." He got out as he falls to the ground from succumbing to his injuries.

Without saying a word, however, Hinata instinctively rushed to her cousin's side and took off her jacket and ripped the sleeves off, making two large pieces of cloth and quickly using them to cover both sides of the wound. . .tearing running down her eyes all the while as the blood stained her sleeves as she tied them to his body with ninja wires.

Once done, the female Hyuga placed her cousin on the ground against a tree as gently as possible. "H-Hinata-sama. . .you. . .must. . .go. . ." Neji got out before coughing up some more blood. "Finish. . .this mission. . ." He then added.

"N-No! Neji-niisan! Y-Your gonna be alright! W-We'll get back to the village a-and get you all healed up!" Hinata got out in a frantic and fanatical manner to try and convince her cousin as she cursed every fiber of her being for only knowing the basic of first aid and nothing more while she kept trying her best to stop the bleeding, completely ignoring her surrounding around her.

Neji, however, coughed up some more blood and the blood from his shoulders continued to leak from the stained pieces of cloth. The boy's face was turning paler by the second as he was breathing heavily, he knew that he was dying and he didn't have the strength to say what he wants to say, so he used the last of his strength to smile while looking at his cousin. . . "Please. . .live. . ." He could manage to get out as he closed his eyes. . .

Hinata's eyes however widened as she placed him against the side of a tree and looked at the male Hyuga. "N-Neji-niisan. . ." She barely whispered as she then started to shake him slightly. "N-Neji-niisan. . .p-please. . .w-wake up. . ." She begged while her pulps dilated with tears running down her eyes. "N-No. . .p-please. . .d-don't die. . ." She got out

"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!" The mutated shinobi that was once Kidōmaru, however, roared in a feral manner when he felt the dying pry, then he bent his upper body back and puffed up and expanded his cheeks to an unreasonable size. Then after a moment. . .

SPEEEEEEEW!

A massive amount of gold-colored webbing sprayed from the mutant shinobi's mouth as it went at a rapid pace towards the female Hyuga. . .

Hinata didn't even so much as move a single muscle because she was in a state of pure shock of believing a close member her family as dead, blood on her face, tears running down her eyes and her pulps still dilated at.

SPLAT!

Then the two were trapped by what looked like an even darker shade of harden webbing that nearly looked as if it was made of steel.

"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!" The mutated Kidōmaru let out another screech but only this time out of victory of both defeating and capturing its prey as drool started to run down its mouth.

Meanwhile, inside of the steel-like cocoon, Hinata was lying on top of her cousin as her head was moving erratically and her eyes dilating even more. Then when she heard the screech of the creature that had killed her cousin, something inside of her mind snap. . .

From within of the seal. . .

"Heheh. . .Hehehe. . .HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!" The echoes of a twisted and derange laughter grew louder and louder in pure vile delight and excitement.

Then suddenly an unbelievable amount of dark crimson colored chakra flooded out of the seal between its bars. The chakra completely painted everything in its path with the sickening crimson color that made it looked almost. . .corrupted. . .

As this was occurring, the bound Bijū's eyes could only widen at the sight of the corrupted looking chakra spreading like wildfire. "DAMN. . .IT. . .!" Kurama could only curse out as he was unable to do anything. . .

Outside the seal. . .

BA-DUMP! BA-DUMP! BA-DUMP!

A loud series of heartbeats were heard from within the female Hyuga's chest as her eyes stopped dilating and then changed to pure dark crimson. . .

The mutated Oto shinobi started creeping towards his webbed prey, ready to completely kill them and claim his victory from the successful hunt. Then suddenly every single survival instincts on the creatures very being sent violent warning signs, not even questioning them, Kidōmaru jumped backward as far away as possible into a tree.

It wasn't even an instant later when. . .

BOOM!

An enormous explosion of pure dark crimson chakra erupted from where both Hyuga members were trapped while blowing away all the mist in the forest. The blast was so powerful that it completely obliterated the area around them while a shadow burst from the remains of the web cocoon.

However miraculously or not, only the area where the male Hyuga's body was laying was completely unscathed.

Then the shadow landed right in front of the mutated creature while it was on all fours. "SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!" It let out a loud scream at seeing the shadow's glowing crimson eyes darkly glaring at it.

"Kill. . ." A feral yet feminine voice growled out.

The shadowy creature was soon brought into the light to reveal that it was Hinata Hyuga, but her appearance was not completely different. . .more precisely, she was barely recognizable in her angered state as she was more like a feral animal than human now.

The young girl's entire head of hair was standing straight up and flowing wildly while intensely dark whisker marks were on her face and her teeth were like canines while her Byakugan eyes were completely dark crimson that had the same slits style as the Kyūbi. Her hands twitch before her nails flew off as claw nails replaced them soon after.

Her clothes that had tears on them began to slowly disintegrate from the intense heat while the blood from her wound started drying and breaking off her body in a solid form. However what was most disturbing was even when all of her wounds were healing, blood began slowly bleeding from different parts of her hands.

Lastly, the most drastic change of the female Hyuga's appearance was that her entire body was coated in the dark blood colored chakra, but this wasn't the same Bijū cloak she and her fellow fiancé had, this one was actually burning the ground around her away from the intensity from the chakra itself.

"I. . .Will. . .KILL YOU!" The feral Hinata Hyuga roared with intense fury before charging at the enemy at blinding speeds, obliterating the ground behind her.

Above the skies. . .

From above the skies, two massive and corrupted dark crimson chakra exploded, which were even bigger than the Oto's shinobi's.

At a cave entrance. . .

Satsuki was catching her breath as she looked at the dark cave entrance from all the running and dashing through the trees. "Haruno went through here. . ." She muttered with narrow eyes as she sensed the other girl's vile chakra. Balling her hands into fists, the Uchiha started running through the cave through the straight path it had. "Haruno. . .you're gonna pay for what you did to Ino-chan!' She declared in anger.

As the Uchiha started running, memories of the girl she was chasing came to her mind. . .though none of them were good as she thought of the past interactions with her. . .

For any form of interaction, Satsuki had with the girl she was chasing. Ever since she'd met her, she had always found her overbearing for the personality she had back in the Academy. She didn't hate her back then, after all, she originally thought she was a guy like every other girl in the class save for a certain female Hyuga.

However, without realizing it, the Uchiha's body was slowly began being surrounded by her orange Bijū cloak.

As Satsuki continued through the cave, she recalled that after a few months in the academy, she slowly began to dislike the constant fangirling from both her and the other girls had for her, she could deal with most, but it was the now turned traitor's, that always annoyed her with her high pitched voice and causing brawls between all the girls as a result.

Then she was fully surrounded by the Bijū chakra and took shape of its Initial form while her whisker marks appeared on her face. When the cloak had fully manifested, Satsuki's speed increased and began running faster than before through the darkness. Even then, the girl still didn't hate her, she annoyed and dislike her, yes, but didn't hate her.

However, those feeling slowly became worse after Satsuki had first shown her true form in the premise of it being her fiancé's Sexy Jutsu. Even if it was for the sake of pranking, Sakura has shown her ugly side yet again and insulted Naruto, because she assumed that he had infected her precious Sasuke-kun.

Without noticing, the cloak began to turn a darker shade of orange, this causes her initial changes to began to stand out even more.

Then the Uchiha's memories came to that of the Chunin Exam Finals where she revealed herself and the traitor were in complete denial and blamed the ones she cared for turning her Sasuke-kun into a girl. This event, in turn, made her finally had enough of her, which cause her to finally and truthfully began to hate her and wanted nothing to do with her anymore. But with every new encounter with the traitor made her hate to grow a bit more than the last.

Now the cloak began to lose its orange shade and began to take a reddish one. This also caused her appearance to turn even more animalistic than they were before.

And finally. . .Satsuki recalled what the traitor had done to one of her precious friends. How Ino had been not just brutally beaten without mercy, but also mutilated and crippled her by taking her arm.

Ba-dump. . .

Now the cloak had turned a dark crimson shade of color and an intense heat began to come out of the girl's body.

"I will never. . .never forgive her. . ." Satsuki angrily declared as she grinds her sharpened teeth.

Then the chakra cloak was absorbed into her skin, making her appear to be normal, but she was anything but normal as her eyes still had her Sharingan active, but they still had the fox-like slit in the middle and was a darker shade of red.

It was at that moment when Satsuki saw a light at the end of the cave, all the while hearing the sound of a waterfall while the mist hit her face. . .

Within the Fox Bijū's seal. . .

A sinister and twisted laughter echoed inside of the seal as little by little, the blood-colored chakra began to spread out of the seal.

"Heheheh. . .All according to plan. . ." The vile voice calmly chuckled out excitement as it had finally reached the Bijū's main host and the girls of Team Seven.

"Che. . .this had to happen. . ." Kurama meanwhile growled out in annoyance at what was occurring.

Within the crater and cracked filled forest clearing. . .

CRASH!

A violent thundering crash echoed throughout the forest as the creature that was once Jirōbō had created an even bigger fissure than the last.

"CHŌJI!" Tenten called out at the size of the fissure.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated Jirōbō bellowed in what it would appear to be pleased with the apparent end of his opponent as it then looked down to find its meal.

"Shit, we're in serious trouble. . ." Kankurō muttered in a nervous manner as he looked at the mutated enemy. "Screw running away, this thing will easily catch up and obliterate us. . ." He added with despair as he couldn't think of a way to getting out of this alive.

N-No. . .we can't die here. . .not like this. . ." Tenten meanwhile muttered in a fear-filled manner, but as she turned to look at the creature, her eyes widen at something strange suddenly appearing next to it.

Oblivious to the remaining meal's thoughts, the mutate Oto shinobi continued looking to the remains of his first meal, but he was letting out loud groans from getting annoyed at not finding it. However, those feelings quickly changed to confusion as he felt multiple small chakra signatures appearing in front of him.

Had the demonic and mutated Jirōbō still had his eyes he would have been able to see that what he felt was many thin chakra like butterflies flying freely.

"Confused?" A familiar voice questioned in a serious tone. "Though I doubt you'll understand how you're just a mindless monster. . ." They then declared.

The monstrous Jirōbō turned towards the voice, claw ready to smash, but he was soon realized that he was the one being hit as his face was hit by a heavy fist. If one would have seen it in slow motion it would have looked his entire face looked like a wave from the pure force of the hit.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

The mutated Oto shinobi crashed into multiple trees and rolled harshly on the ground. Once it had stopped it tried to regain its footing but found it to be very difficult as he was trembling from the force of the blow.

"What the!?" Kankurō got out in shock in confusion to what both what happened and who did it.

"C. . .Chōji!?" Tenten meanwhile got out with wide eyes. "Y-Your body. . ." She then added in shock.

It was then his comrades had gotten a better look at him. Chōji had once again gone into another transformation, however unlike his bulkier muscle form, he had remained the same size, but only this time he looked much slimmer had lost almost all of his fat.

"I know Tenten, this is. . .different then how I usually am. . .but with this form, I'm stronger than before. . ." Chōji stated with a calmer and focused voice. "100 times stronger!" He declared as he cracked his knuckles.

It was at that moment that the mutated Jirōbō's head recovered and turned to the one that had injured him. "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" He roared with anger as he charged at the slimmer Akimichi.

Chōji then narrowed his eyes to this. "No you don't!" He declared as he charged forward himself.

The creature trampled and crushed every tree, stone, and earth on its path leaving it with even more destruction on its way to reach its meal. Then with one powerful leap, he rocked himself with claws ready to both crush and slice its prey.

As the Akimichi was in close in perimeter of his enemy, he prepared a fist as it was lightly coated in concentrated chakra and then he slammed it into the ground

WHAM!

Suddenly a large earth slab was forced up from the ground and hit in the incoming enemy's stomach, effectually stopping its attack dead in its tracks. But Chōji didn't waste a single moment as he ran on top of the slab and ax kicked the creature with immense force.

CRASH!

The mutated Jirōbō was sent crashing down so hard that his own face was used to create a large crater, leaving his head crushed like a tin can. But it didn't take long before his arms sprong out in and grab the Akimichi with its powerful crushing hands.

Chōji grunted in pain from the tight hold he was in as well as some of the after-effects of the three pills over the course of the entire fight with the Oto shinobi. "Gotta keep going. . ." The Akimichi told himself while enduring the pain from everything that was occurring. "I gotta keep going and stop this monster or all of my friend will be killed!" He declared in his head in a determined manner.

With a powerful burst, the Akimichi free himself from his hold, then he cocked back his fist and concentrated his chakra once more as he sent his fist straight to the monster's exposed stomach. The creature entire body had like rippling water like effect as flesh around the area where the fist was about to collide with and by the laws of physics, it was forced to move away from the source of impact. . .

BAM! SPLAT! SPLASH!

The Akimichi's fist collided and went literally through the mutated shinobi's stomach as a puke yellow colored blood was on his hand. ". . ." Chōji said nothing to this as he breathed heavily.

To witness this, Kankurō grinned widely at what happened. "Hahaha! Yes! Finally, you killed that monster!" He got out finally feeling that they got out of this mess.

Tenten on the other hand just let out a sigh of relief, but then frowned. "I guess I wasn't that useful in the end. . ." She thought to herself as she felt that other than a few lucky hits at the beginning was all she really did and that she was basically a dead weight after she lost her weapons.

Crack!

However, they didn't have time to celebrate their victory, as the mutated creature's head crack as it looked straight at the boy that had punched its stomach. "Heheheee. . .heheheee. . ." It let out its eerie laughter while he grabbed the Akimichi's head in a powerful grip.

"What the!?" Chōji got out in shock to this happening as he started struggling to break free.

Soon enough, the creature began to apply more pressure on it hold in an attempt to crush the Akimichi's head. Thinking quickly Chōji grabbed the hand and used it to hold his weight and move his feet upwards to kick the creature's jaw.

BAM!

This action managed to do its intention and the thin Akimichi was able to free from his hold, but because of the quickness of this movement left a large gash on the sides of his head. But other than that, Chōji was relatively alright.

Then Akimichi turned to look at the monstrosity that was once human. His eyes widen when he saw it still moving even though it still a huge hole in its stomach and puke yellow blood dripping from it.

"Ugh. . .I think I'm gonna be sick. . ." Kankurō muttered out in disgust.

Tenten's face meanwhile became a little green to the sight of this happening. "You and me both. . ." She agreed with disgust in her voice.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle. . .

To hearing the murky sounds, the three could only watch with wide eyes as the hole that was created in the mutated Oto shinobi's stomach started to close up with new flesh taking its place at an inhumane speed.

"Heheheee. . .heheheee. . ." The mutated creature eerily laughed as his body made completely heal.

"IT COMPLETELY HEAL ITSELF!?" Tenten exclaimed in shock and disbelief.

"OH COME ON! CAN'T WE JUST GET A FUCKIN' BREAK!?" Kankurō grunted out in annoyance.

Not letting the startled shinobi process this, the mutated Oto shinobi let out another bellowing roar and jumped towards the two.

"Like hell I'll let you!" Chōji declared as he quickly dashed and appeared in front of his friends with a chakra fist cocked back, which soon followed him straighten it to the creature's face.

BAM!

The creature was sent flying once more with its head sunk inside of its own head, but it quickly regains its footing while its head still inside of his skull. Then in a few seconds, the face literally popped itself off and returned to normal while it oozing the same disgusting looking blood.

"Not done yet!" Chōji roared as he dashed forward with both of his fists coated in chakra.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

The Akimichi continued his relentless barrage and with each hit, a small gust of wind was created by the powerful punches. The creature meanwhile was left completely at the mercy of the endless barrage, leaving it in a mess of holes and blood.

"RAAAAAAAAAH!" Chōji roared as he let one more hit.

BAM! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

This sent the creature crashing into multiple trees and rocks while leaving a leveled ground in its path.

Afterwards, the Akimichi began panting heavily from the overuse of the Red Chill Pill. However, before he could do or say anything. . .

Gurgle gurgle gurgle. . .

Once again that dreaded and disgusting sound echoed, and to the dismay of the three shinobi's all of the creature's wounds began healing yet again at an alarming rate.

The Suna shinobi soon narrowed his eyes to what was occurring. "This is bad. . .even if he's stronger than that freak, it means jack shit if it just regenerating. . ." Kankurō thought with despair.

As if thinking the same thing, the only female kunoichi of the group began biting her lip at not knowing what they could do. She knew that her friend couldn't keep this up much longer and once he reached his limit, they were good as dead.

". . .What can we do though. . .?" Tenten soon thought as she looked at the mutated monster of an enemy, scanning it intently to try and find some kind of weakness.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle. . .

While the two male shinobis could only watch in frustration at the wounds that continued to regenerate, the kunoichi, on the other hand, used her trained eyes looked at creature's entire body in hopes of finding something, anything that could lead to a weakness. Then when she focused on her the injuries, she narrowed her eyes when she saw something strange.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle. . .

The wounds areas continued to regenerate, but some of the flesh around the injuries looked distorted and disheveled, almost as if something underneath the skin was moving somehow but that's all she could make out.

"What the?" Tenten muttered in confusion. "What was that?" She meanwhile thought in a serious manner and focused once more on the areas being injured.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle. . .

Tenten's eyes narrowed as she noticed it again. "There it is again. . .something's moving each time it gets injured. . ." She thought to herself as a thought come to her mind. "Could whatever it is that's moving be the source of this freaky regeneration?" She then added in her head.

While the kunoichi was thinking, Chōji's eyes widen as she winced in pain. "N-No. . .the Chili Pills effects. . .they're starting. . ." He thought in a panicked manner.

As soon as Tenten witnessed her friend in pain, she struggled to get her scroll out as she breathed heavily while wincing in pain. "Gotta. . .make sure Chōji knows. . ." She thought in a serious tone. "Something inside that thing's body. . .could whatever it is be causing the regeneration. . .?" She wondered in her head as she then realized a major fact about this discovery. "If so, if we could destroy it, it should stop end the regeneration altogether. . ." She then added in her head as she gripped her scroll.

Though she didn't have any evidence that her theory was right or completely wrong for that manner, Tenten knew she and her comrades didn't have any time to waste as she started to feel woozy due to all the pain she had endured from her wounds. That meant that she'd have to take a huge gamble, one that may end up costing her's and potentially her allies as well.

Tenten soon took in a deep breath as she unraveled the scroll with the seals on the paper being in the direction of the mutated enemy. "But at this point, do we have a choice at this point?" She muttered as she made a hand sign. "Take this you mutated freak. . ." She thought as she focused her remaining chakra to the scroll. "Release!" She declared in her head. "Chōji! Move now!" She then called out.

The Akimichi was startled at hearing this and saw a large shadow cover the entire area around him. Then when he looked up, his eyes immediately widened as he saw a literal hailstorm of hundreds of kunais covering the entire sky above him while they were heading his way. Acting quickly, he got out from being in front of the mutated shinobi just in time.

WOOSH! WOOSH! WOOSH! WOOSH! WOOSH!

"The hell is she doing!? Something like that won't actually affect this freak!" Kankurō thought as he as he looked at the kunoichi, who had a serious expression on her face, but her barely open eyes said that she was on the verge of losing consciousness. "Damn, she must've exhausted the last of her chakra with that last attack. . ." He then added.

SHINK! STAB! SHINK! STAB! SHINK! STAB! SHINK! STAB! SHINK! STAB!

As a result, the mutated shinobi had kunai covered a large amount of their body as the weapons were plunged deep into various parts of its body.

Soon, there was a long moment of pause, no one said nor did they move, the creature also remain motionless as if it lost all motion functions.

Tenten looked on at the motionless enemy as her eyes drooped. "Did. . .did it work?" She soon asked in a mutter.

"I. . .think so." Kankurō responded as he looked on at the enemy. "But we can't say for sure until-" He started, however. . .

Creak. . .

Suddenly the creature's finger jerked a bit, which then was followed by another and then another until they curled into a fist. "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" It bellowed out with a sudden jerk of its entire body.

This action caused all of the kunai to be forced out of its body, sending it all over the area. Chōji quickly dashed out of the way while Kankurō took the injured Tenten and used a tree covered from the rain of kunai.

Once the kunoichi was able to get a better view of the situation, her eyes widened in pure horror and despair at the sight. "N-No. . .I. . .I failed. . ." She barely got out and weakly slammed her fist on the ground. "I couldn't do anything to help. . .my weapons were useless, my tactics were useless. . .I was useless. . .and now we're all going to-" She thought to herself with self-loathing before her eyes became heavy again before she fell completely unconsciousness with a saddened expression on her face.

Although the male shinobis didn't know what the kunoichi had thought to herself, they easily could figure out what it was by the expression alone. But they couldn't do anything as they didn't had neither the time nor the luxury to do so. Then when the boys turned to face the creature. . .

POP! SPLASH! POP! SPLASH!

Suddenly the sound of two large blooded object popping which was soon followed by the sound of flesh hitting the ground was heard.

"Huh?" Both males got out at the unusual sound, they looked around but found nothing that could potentially make such sounds.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The creature then lets out another bellowing roar, but this one was filled with distress.

The two in response were forced to cover their ears to block the sudden shout from entering their ears. "What the hell?" Kankurō asked in confusion at the sudden shouting to this development.

Chōji meanwhile narrowed his eyes to this action. "Why is it shouting now!?" He soon asked, not understanding why the creature would do it when they haven't done anything to it.

"SCREEEEEECH!" "SCREEEEEECH!"

At that moment, two high pitched screeches echoed through the forest before they when silent.

"W-W-WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE!?" Kankurō shouted at the sight, once more becoming green in the face at the sight of this.

Chōji meanwhile got a closer look at what was on the ground with narrow eyes. "Are those. . .leeches?" He got out as he really couldn't find a better way to describe the creatures.

True to the Akimichi's guess, out of thin air in front of the creature, two large disgusting looking leeches appeared out of nowhere as they laid lifeless on the ground in front.

"They're dead. . ." Chōji got out before looking at the mutated shinobi. "Did they. . .come from him?" He then asked.

Kankurō meanwhile blinked in confusion at the question. "Why would those things come from that thing? And why would they be invisible?" He then questioned in a serious tone.

However before anything else could be discussed, the mutated shinobi bent down and grabbed the leeches, staring at them with a spastic head moving around.

"What is it doing?" Chōji thought as in a serious manner.

At that moment. . .

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated shinobi let out a loud bellow filled with rage as it through the dead leeches and went to attack the boy's who it thought did this. As this was happening its entire body began to glow red until its disfigured body gain a rusted red color while its spikes became crimson.

"WHOA!" Chōji got out as he stepped to the side before preparing another punch.

BAM! SWISH! SHINK!

With a mighty punch, the Akimichi pierced the creature's body, leaving yet another massive hole.

Kankurō then narrowed his eyes at seeing the enemy still moving. "Tch! Looks like we're just back to the hopeless situation we were." He muttered in annoyance.

Chōji meanwhile couldn't help but frown in agreement while shaking off the puke yellow blood off his hand as he watches the creature about to regenerate yet again.

Gurgle. . .gurgle. . .gurgle. . .

The sound of the creature's wound meanwhile sounded much slower than how it usually sounds as the wounds themselves, while still regenerated every lost part it had lost, it did so at a much slower pace. Once it fully healed, the mutated Oto shinobi let out a low growl of anger, as if it knew something was wrong.

"Huh?" Chōji got out as he witnessed this.

"Grrrrrrrr. . .BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated Jirōbō growled yet again and bellowed as he charged yet again, with its spikes fully sprung out from all over its body.

The Akimichi was able to dodge the initial charge by side stepping out of the way, then with a well aim punched he manage to hit him in an exposes area, which in turn left another wide hole.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" This caused the creature to bellowed in pain but then swiped its spiked filled arm in an attempt to slice him, however this only forced its prey to get out of its range.

Gurgle. . .gurgle. . .gurgle. . .

Once more the creature's wounds began to heal, but it was at the same speed as last time.

Chōji soon watched the regenerating process of the enemy once more, though now noticed something off about it, causing his eyes to widen in realization. "Wait. . .could it be?" He thought to himself.

Once fully heal again, the creature charged yet again, but this time, his movement was faster and had a much wilder approach. As its arms stretched to attack from a distance, with its strength and the spikes it easily began to tear apart everything it hit.

Rocks, trees and even the ground itself began to break apart or be forced into the air by the wild hits. The Akimichi used this to his advantage to grab a large boulder and drew it at the creature. The creature's wild arms were easily able to crush the large rock, but this was what the Akimichi wanted.

As Chōji appeared right behind the creature, he let out a barrage of powerful punches to around the spikes and leaving multiple holes into its body.

Gurgle. . .gurgle. . .gurgle. . .

As the creature's wound slowly began to regenerate, the Suna shinobi's eyes widen as he came to the same realization his comrade had. "No way. . .Is its regeneration getting. . .weaker?" Kankurō got out in disbelief.

At hearing this, Chōji couldn't help but smile. "Looks like it., Tenten's attack really did something to it in the end." He commented with pride in his voice

And then the two turned to look at the dead like leeches. "Those things are the source of is regeneration!" They both got out in unison.

Kankurō then smirked as he looked at the weakened enemy. "Now we can finally found a way to kill that ugly bastard! We just need to get the rest of those fuckers and it's good as dead!" He declared as he brought out many kunais and shurikens. While they appeared to be normal, if you had looked closely they were dripping with poison.

Then Chōji looked towards the unconscious girl. "Thanks Tenten, you helped us out in the end. . ." He thought in a grateful manner as he then turned towards the infuriated mutated enemy and took his stance.

"Grrrrrrrr. . .BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated Jirōbō roared in a mindless fury as he had enough playing and its desire to eat was long forgotten, all it wanted now was to kill everything around it.

Kankurō was the first to make a move as he threw a hand full of shurikens, they manage to hit the arms and parts of the creature's body. The moment this happened, the skin began to smoke and part of flesh began to melt from the deadly poison.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated shinobi roared in mindless anger from what was done to him and began frantically attacking everything around it

This caused the Suna shinobi to smirk at its reaction. "It looks like he's going frantic and wild now." Kankurō remarked with confidence.

To hear that, Chōji nodded in agreement but still had a serious expression. "Yeah, but now that it's feeling cornered. . .we need to end it quickly before it does something more." He declared as he charged once more and began giving the frantic creature another barrage of deadly punches.

This quick yet relentless assault on the crazed mutated shinobi lasted but a few moments as they quickly realized that even after all the injuries it had received, it still was regenerating at the same speed as when the unconscious kunoichi had killed the first two leeches.

Kankurō stopped throwing his poison weapons as he frowns in frustration. "Dammit! It's still regenerating even after everything we threw at it!" He got out in annoyance.

Chōji also frowned to this lack of development as he looked at the frantic mutated shinobi before he winced in pain. "That means that we haven't killed a single one of those leeches then. . ." He soon stated while breathing heavily from his inner pains coursing throughout his body, a clear sign that his power will end soon. "I don't think I'll last for much longer. . ." He thought with fear of what would happen if that does happen.

"Shit. . .That means the problem now is how the hell do we find them? We couldn't see them until they died, so it's pretty obvious that they're somehow invisible underneath his skin and just can attack every part of its body with those large spikes that can pierce through solid stone." Kankurō then stated with a frown on his face.

Taking a deep breath and enduring the pain while realizing there were no other options, the Akimichi stepped forward with a serious expression on his face. "I guess there's only one thing to do then. . ." Chōji soon decided and then he coated both hands in chakra.

The Suna shinobi, in turn, looked at the other boy in confusion and with narrow eyes to what was said. "Wait. . .your not thinking-!?" Kankurō started to ask, however. . .

FWOOSH!

Suddenly from behind the skinny Akimichi's back, butterfly-like wings made of pure chakra erupted and a surge of powerful pressure was felt throughout the area leaving large cracks in the ground.

Then with a conflicted smile with both fear and determination, the Akimichi looked back towards the frantic and wild enemy as he took in another deep breath. "I just have to hit every single part of its body to make sure I kill those things. . ." Chōji declared with a resolved tone in his voice. "And I know I can't stop until it's done. . ." He added in his head.

"Grrrrrrrr. . .BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated Jirōbō roared while slamming frantically around it. Then its arms begin to literally began to coiled around its body like if it was rope on a top.

Chōji narrowed his eyes as he knew what it means. "Get out of the way!" He ordered as he charged ahead.

Kankurō just nodded to that as he backs up away from the fight while his puppet took a hold of the unconscious kunoichi. "Just don't get yourself killed dammit!" He thought to himself.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" Then as it was expected, the creature's arms span around into a deadly whirl at incredible speeds.

BOOM! BOOM! CRASH! BAM! WHAM!

Not losing focus for even an instant, Chōji smashed through multiple trees, boulders, the ground and rubble, this was to create makeshift shields to block the frantic and erratic attacks from the mutated Oto shinobi.

SLASH! SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! SLICE!

However, this wasn't a perfect solution, mainly because even when Chōji manages to block most of the damage, he was still receiving multiple cuts and gashes. But he didn't stop, he couldn't stop, he was at the limit and if he failed, he won't just die, his comrades and friends would follow soon after.

Quickly feeling the enemy's approach, the mutated Oto shinobi retraced his arms and sprung out large claws from its hands and more spikes all over its body as he charges at the shinobi in a full frontal assault to end him once and for all.

"Looks like it's through waiting around." Kankurō thought with a frown as he took out more poison kunai and shurikens.

Chōji narrowed his eyes at this. "Want a close range fight! Fine by me!" He roared with determination as he cocked back his left chakra coated fist.

BAM! SHINK!

Both enemies slammed their respective punches to the other's, but blood came from the collision, however. . .

CRACK!

The entire arm of the mutated Jirōbō was completely shattered by the raw strength of Chōji's enhance fist.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" It let out an agonizing roared from the intense pain it was feeling as he took a few steps back from the hit.

The Suna Shinobi had to cover his face as he could feel the wind pressure from the last hit. "Holy-!" Kankurō could only get out in pure shock and amazement from the raw power that came from his comrade.

GRIP!

However, Chōji didn't let it gain any distance as he grabbed him the throat with his injured arm. "WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR GOING!?" He roared as he cocked back his blood covered right hand.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

"SCREEEEEECH!"

The echoed of a dying leech was heard before its dead body fell from the creature's head.

"I WON'T STOP HERE!" The Akimichi roared while he began pounding its head with a brutal and relentless assault, with each hit it was visible to see that with each hit the entire head shocked inwardly from each hit.

"BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" The mutated shinobi meanwhile could do nothing but bellow in agony from the assault.

Chōji he then quickly raised the creature about and then gave a nasty uppercut to its already disfigured head sending it flying upwards. However, he didn't stop there as he quickly bends down and jumped as high as he could.

Kankurō could only look on at the now aerial fight that was occurring with a smirk on his face. "Nice! It looks like he's gonna finally end the freak!" He thought in with excitement.

The mutated shinobi who was helplessly falling couldn't do anything when its opponent appeared right on top of him and continued his assault, but only this time all over its body.

BAM! BAM! BAM! SLASH! SHINK! SHINK! BAM! BAM! BAM! SHINK! SLICE!

This didn't come without consequence, as with each hit that Chōji sent, he received large gashes or puncture holes from the spikes of its mutated Jirobo's body, this continued while the two were still falling down.

Despite the pain, the slim Akimichi bared it with pure determination and then when they were about the reach the ground, he cocked back his injured left fist and slammed it straight into the creature's chest just when the reached the ground.

BAM! CRASH!

"SCREEEEEECH!"

As both human and monster were on the ground, another leech's body fell next to them, Choji felt his consciousness leaving for a moment, but he quickly regained it when he manages to see that the creature's body was very slowly was healing, signally that there were still some leeched.

This got the Akimichi's focus to return once again and powered his bloody fists once again. "I'M NOT DONE YET!" Chōji roared and yet again continued his assault.

This time the young chunin completely threw caution to the wind and simply punch and punched and punched every single part that didn't look injured or harmed on the creature's body. The skinny Akimichi continued punching, not stopping for a single moment with his fists coated chakra, to the point of not even caring that his already injured hands receiving even more deep punctures and severe gashes while his and the creature's puke yellow blood flew everywhere.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAH! THIS END NOW!" Choji roared his declaration with his final fist coated in the last of his chakra as it was gripped tightly and shaking.

SLAM!

At that moment with that last punch, the fist went straight through the stomach as a massive crater was formed underneath the mutated shinobi's body.

"SCREEEEEECH!" "BWOOOOOOOOOOOOH!"

The echoes from both the leech and the mutated Oto shinobi were heard throughout the area before silence soon follow.

From a distance away from the entire fight, Kankurō carefully began to approach the crater, where he saw an unconscious, though still breathing Akimichi laying on his back while his arms continued to bleed from the wounds. "Shit, those are really nasty wounds. . ." He thought in disbelief.

The Suna shinobi quickly slid down and reached him, he then quickly began working on the bleeding with some bandages. Once he was finished, he then saw that right in front of him was the motionless creature and that its entire body was completely beyond recognizable from all of its injuries it had received.

Kankurō soon stood up and slowly but carefully approached the creature as he didn't want to take a single chance that it was still alive. "I need to make sure its dead. . ." He thought in a serious manner.

Suddenly, the body of the mutated Jirōbō started spazzing out for a moment, causing the Suna shinobi to jump back for a moment, however just as quickly it started, it stopped just as suddenly before its entire body started bubbling and liquefy into a yellow colored bubbling goo, leaving no physical remains behind.

At the sight of this, Kankurō let out a huge sigh of relief, though held back some vomit from seeing the enemy literally melting in front of him. "I guess it's really dead now. . ." He got out.

Then the Suna shinobi turned around and head back to his injured comrade, he placed one arm around his shoulder while looking at the devastation around him.

"Just what the hell did we face just now? And I just hope that the Temari and the others didn't have worse luck than us. . ." Kankurō then added as he heads back to the unconscious kunoichi and decided to wait for backup to arrive.

Within the burning landscape. . .

FWOOOOSH! BOOM!

A stream of intense blue flames was fired from the burning kunoichi, then from below her feet streams of flames propelled her to hover upwards, then as stream around her broke apart until multiple smaller streams were created and began to fly around the floating kunoichi as if forming a circular barrier around her.

Then the flaming kunoichi looked on at the two Konoha shinobis and the Suna kunoichi from within her barrier. "B-U-R-N. . ." Tayuya declared in an emotionless tone while also creating three blue fireballs on the other hand before throwing them as well.

"INCOMING!" Kiba roared in shock as he grabbed his partner and got out of the way with his comrades right behind him.

FWOOSH! FWOOSH! FWOOSH! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Powerful flame explosions were consecutively heard as the flames that landed on anything while raging blue flames were left behind, scorching the earth itself. The group had seen this happen before, however now they could see that this flames where on a whole other level as it didn't just burn away trees, but it was slowly burning rocks, stones and the earth itself from its intensity.

"Che. . .like we weren't in a tight spot, now those flames that can burn things that normally wouldn't get burn? This goes beyond troublesome. . ." Shikamaru grunted out as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Hate to say it, but I'm useless here. . ." Temari meanwhile begrudgingly admitted as she turned towards the Nara. "We'll need one of your plans if we're going to survive. . ." She then added.

Kiba meanwhile was in complete agreement with the kunoichi as he and the others got out of the way from the next barrage. "And we could use it. . .now!" He shouted with desperation.

"Tch. . .I'll need you to give me a few seconds to think of something!" Shikamaru declared as he got to a relatively safe spot and took his thinking pose.

The Inuzuka nodded while he turned towards the Sand kunoichi. "Alright! I'll keep her busy and you make sure he doesn't get hit by something." Kiba stated as he and Akamaru went towards.

Temari quickly did as she was told and got in position in front of the Nara. "Isn't this the part where the guys supposed to protect the girl? Not the other way around?" Temari then remarked with a cocky grin on her face.

The Nara didn't even bother to look or stop his thinking pose at hearing that. "Not when is the guy being forced to think of something to save our lives. . ." Shikamaru deadpanned. "Troublesome women. . ." He then grumbled out while getting back into his thinking pose.

As this was occurring, the Inuzuka and his ninken were drawing the flaming kunoichi's attacks away from his allies while more fireballs were sent their way.

"B-U-R-N. . ." Tayuya meanwhile got out as she kept throwing more blue flames as the Inuzuka in an instinctive manner.

"Less flirting you two!" Kiba called out in annoyance after he nearly got hit by another deadly blue fireball.

After a few moments, Shikamaru lowered his hands and let out a sigh. "Ok. . .not sure if this will take her down, but we should be able to have a fighting chance." He stated as he wasn't completely sure it will be enough.

Temari frown but let out a sigh of resignation. "At this point, I'll take anything if it can take her down a few pegs." She got out but she was willing to put her trust in the Nara's plan.

As the two were going over their plan. . .

FWOOSH! FWOOSH! FWOOSH!

"DAMMIT!" Kiba roared as kept avoiding the blue fireballs from the burning kunoichi that was dead set on taking him out first while she was inside her blue flame orb of protection.

"Kiba!" Shikamaru called out while pointing at the surrounding rubble. "Sent as many rocks as you can in the air and keep doing so without stopping!" He ordered.

The Inuzuka in response simply nodded as he had enough of this fight and wanted to end it. "On it!" He responded as he looked at his partner. "Let's go Akamaru!" He declared.

"Arf arf!" Akamaru barked out as the two then started spinning.

WHIRL! WHIRL!

Both twister immediately got out of the way of the incoming fireballs and made their way at the rubbles, upon impact, many rocks and boulders were sent flying upward.

"Temari!" Shikamaru then called out.

The Suna Kunoichi made multiple hand seals and took a deep breath. "Wind Style: Air Stream!" Temari declared as a powerful wind blast erupted from her mouth.

In conjecture, the multiple rocks that were airborne were sent flying at incredible speeds towards the flaming kunoichi.

In response to this from within her barrier, Tayuya quickly motioned her hands in a circle and made the flames move at a rapid pace around her. The moment that the rocks hit the walls, they had enough velocity to pierce through it and manage to land heavy hits on her entire body, sending her flying to the ground.

"Gah!" Tayuya got out in pain as she landed on on the ground. Then the fallen kunoichi began to slowly get up as she spits some blood, showing that the damage did had a lot of effect.

This gained a knowing smirk from the Nara to this success. "As I thought, this transformation she had gain had only gained more fire based powers, but her body's more vulnerable to physical attacks." Shikamaru thought to himself as his theory was right.

Then both partners stop and landed on the ground and the moment they saw the fallen kunoichi, the two grinned. "Yes! It freakin' work!" Kiba declared while pumping a fist upwards at the sight of this as his partner barked just as happy as him.

Shikamaru groaned in annoyance at that and turned towards his friend. "Don't stop! Keep it up!" Shikamaru ordered.

No sooner did the Nara had said this,Tayuya's body produced more intense blue flames and quickly used them to become airborne once again as the blood began to burn in the same blue color.

The Inuzuka's face jerk at the sudden order by still nodded. "R-Right!" Kiba quickly replied as he and Akamaru become twin twisters and hit another pile of rubble.

CRASH! CRASH!

Then once the next rubble was on the air, Temari made the same jutsu to launch them at the enemy once more.

This time, however, Tayuya wasn't going to wasn't going to simply hover in place. She quickly used the pseudo thrusters in her feet to try and get out of the line of fire. But she didn't count on the speeds of the stones and only manage to dodge a few of them yet some still manage to land some good strikes.

"Gah!" Tayuya cried out once more as she hit the ground yet again while more blood began to spill from her injuries.

"A few more hits and she's done." Shikamaru thought as he thought that

Not waiting for another comment, the still whirling Kiba and Akamaru head for the next rubble while Temari prepare her jutsu with even more chakra to make sure that the next hit had even more power.

However as this was happening, the group missed that the flaming kunoichi didn't even bother to get back up again, nor did they notice that flames on her hands were flickering with an eerie glow.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

As the next barrage was heading towards the burning kunoichi, Tayuya slowly stood up and gave a very eerie stare to the group. Then just as the rocks were about to reach her, she slowly raised both arms and the flickers quickly intensify even more. "B-U-R-N. . ." She spelled out once more.

WHOOOOOOOOOSH!

Suddenly, a huge and concentrated blast of fire came out of her hands as it took the form of a huge fiery snake.

SCREEEEEEECH! CRASH!

The flaming snake let out an ear shattering screech as it swallowed all of the incoming rocks, the snake melted them in an instant while charged at the startled shinobi's group.

"What the!?" All of them could get out in pure startlement at the creature.

SCREEEEEEECH! CRASH!

With another screech, the flaming snake struck the ground that the group was located so hard that the moment it crushed a huge explosion occurred and sent the group flying until they roll on the ground.

The Inuzuka quickly recovered from the attack by shaking his head as he saw the huge flaming creature. "Oh, come on! What the hell!? This is a load of bullshit!" Kiba shouted in annoyed yet disbelief tone.

As Temari got up, she let out a tisked on annoyance. "It's just one thing after another with her, is she going to keep getting more ridiculous powers by the second?" She complained as she had enough of this absurd fight and how it was going.

Once Shikamaru also got up, he shook his head and then narrowed his eyes to the question. "This is getting too troublesome. . ." He mentally complained,

But then when the Nara scanned the enemy, he notices something strange. The flaming kunoichi had stopped moving as she had her hands hanging in front of her, while she still had the wounds from the prior barrage of attacks, however now there were massive injuries on both of her arms that weren't there before.

"Hows that possible? Why did she get that injured?" Shikamaru said to himself in confusion.

However this was loud enough that the others heard him and when the two looked they saw the injuries, leaving them just as confused as their team leader.

"How that happen? Did we do that?" Kiba muttered as he looked towards the burning kunoichi's wounds.

Temari meanwhile shook her head at that. "I don't think so, we only aimed for her body and her arms were to busy commending the flames for her to used them to block them." She then clarified.

Then the Nara when recalled what had just happened he knew what had happened. "That attack just now, it wasn't just powerful but it also had a severe drawback, it injures her as a result." Shikamaru muttered and

The Sand kunoichi raised an eyebrow to that. "Why bother with that? She's already winning, why risk doing something that reckless?" Temari asked as she couldn't understand the logic of that.

The Nara's eyes then narrowed for a moment before his eyes widen in realization. "No. . .she isn't being reckless. . ." Shikamaru suddenly started as he looked at the still injured enemy. "She is trying to kill herself. . ." Shikamaru revealed in disbelief.

This caused the eyes of the others to widen in shock and confusion.

"What!?" Kiba exclaimed in shock.

"Think about it. Even though she had gained so much power, even if she gains these inhuman abilities, she isn't consciously hurrying to win or killing us." Shikamaru started as he closed his eyes. "That can only mean that her goal isn't winning or killing us. . ." He continued but stopped just as he hesitate to say it.

Temari then instantly realized what the Nara was saying and it also shocked her. "It's to die here. . .regardless if she kills us or not." She finished the boy's statement with disbelief.

At hearing those words echoed inside of the Inuzuka's mind, his eyes widen in shock. Then he slowly turned towards the burning girl, more specifically her face. Though she still had the same emotionless expression, he saw that her eyes had lost any shine of life in them, as if she had already lost all will to live and just simply wanted to die.

Kiba then finally fully grasped that his friend's words were right. His face greatly saddens, his eyes fell downwards and his limbs felt very weak. "Then. . .what the hell are we doing? Why even bother to continue fighting her. . ." He soon asked more so to himself with a defeated tone in his voice.

". . ." Both of his comrades couldn't say anything as they knew that this battle was meaningless.

Meanwhile, the young puppy looked at his partner and then at the enemy kunoichi, then he grinded his small fangs. "Grrrrr. . ." Akamaru meanwhile growled out in anger.

At hearing the growling, Kiba weakly turned towards his partner. "Huh?" He got out in confusion.

CHOMP!

"AGH!" Kiba grunted out in pain from the sudden bite he got from his partner. "What are you-!?" He then started to ask, but then saw the anger in his partner as he was growling at him. "Akamaru why are you biting me!?" He then asked in confusion.

"Grrrrr. . ." Was the young ninja hound's reply as he refused to let his partner stay in the state he was in.

The Inuzuka meanwhile looked on at his partner's angered expression and knew what it meant, he was disappointed in him. This made him realize that he had given up, that's the one thing he hated doing, he was always stubbornly charging in head first and would rather be beaten half to death than ever giving up against anything.

After thinking of this, the Inuzuka gritted his teeth. "But now look at me. . .whining like a little bitch. . ." Kiba grumbled out. "Dammit, I can't just give up now without even trying. . ." He then added while cracking his neck.

At hearing those words, Akamaru stopped his biting as he finally let go of his partner's arm and started wagging his tail. "Arf! Arf!" He barked out as he began panting just as happily.

Kiba then closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he began recalling the short time he had spent with the Oto kunoichi. While it was true that she only did so to keep her cover, but he really enjoyed it. And he somehow knew that she felt the same, even if she wouldn't admit it to anyone or herself.

With newfound resolve, Kiba reopens his eyes and looked at his comrades. "Guys, I'm gonna end this here and now. . ." He declared in a calm tone.

Though startled by the bold statement, the Suna kunoichi narrowed her eyes towards him. "What the hell are you planning?" Temari asked in a serious tone.

Kiba responded by giving his usual cocky grin, but this one was tamer. "I'm just taking a page from Naruto and say I'm gonna be the hero this time around." He revealed before he expression became one full of seriousness. "So I'll need your give help to give me time." He then stated.

The Nara meanwhile raised an eyebrow to that. "You got something?" Shikamaru then asked as he was hoping he did, because they were all out of options at this point.

The Inuzuka, in turn, nodded to that. "Yeah, but it's a one-shot thing." Kiba then answered.

"And you decided to now used it?" Temari meanwhile remarked in annoyance to learning that Inuzuka could have used whatever he had planned at the very start to save them all the pain they had suffered.

"It's because me and Akamaru will be completely exhausted in the end and also we haven't perfected it either so we didn't want to risked it just to be dead weight after using it." Kiba stated with a serious tone as he began making some hand seals. "Be now we're both willing to risk it if it means stopping that idiot's suicide path!" He then declared with conviction.

"Arf!" Akamaru cheerfully replied with equal conviction.

Shikamaru let out a sigh of annoyance to that. "Troublesome. . ." He muttered.

FWOOSH!

At the very moment, the fiery barrier retook its place around Tayuya as she began to hover upwards once again. The blue flames gathering around her hands began to intensify even more than ever while she looks at the group with an expressionless face.

This caused the Nara to cover his face from the intense heat. "Well you better get started because it looks like she's ready to go again." Shikamaru declared as he charged forward.

"Don't waste any time! We won't be able to get another shot!" Temari ordered as she dashed in to join the Nara as the burning Oto kunoichi started throwing fireballs.

Once the two had left Kiba looked at his partner as the puppy did the same. "Alright boy, time for our ace in the hole. . .Wolf Fang Over Fang. . ." Kiba muttered to his partner in a serious tone as the puppy barked with conviction before the puppy climbed onto his head.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Meanwhile, Tayuya continued to send fireball after fireball with deadly precision at the two who challenged her. It was only thanks to a last second-timing that they managed to barely dodge them.

The two shinobi's couldn't really use anything to really damage the burning kunoichi, as wind jutsu by itself was useless and the light from the flames made the shadows virtually nonexistent. So they decided to do the same combination attack as before.

However since they didn't have the Inuzuka helping out, the Nara could only use his shadow contraction to grab the biggest rocks and stones he could and sent it upwards, which would follow by the Suan kunoichi's wind jutsu to send it flying.

Tayuya however spun the flames around it at incredible velocity that it combine to create multiple flaming snakes which would then devour the rocks, crushing and melting them in its fiery fangs. Once done, she then motion the snakes to look at the two shinobi's while blue flames began to come out of its large mouth.

Both Shikamaru and Temari could only gritted their teeth as they were completely out of time and options.

"GUYS!" Kiba suddenly shouted from a distance away from his friends.

Then when the two comrades turned, they could only see was a large smoke covering completely the area that their friend was located.

Then when the smoke cleared, there in its place was a huge white wolf-like creature that had two large heads and that had some semblance of the young puppy, but with a more feral expression. "INUZUKA STYLE: MAN BEAST TRANSFORMATION COMBO: TWO-HEADED WOLF!" The creature declared with a primal voice.

"Kiba?" A very surprised Shikamaru could only ask while the Suna kunoichi was left speechless to the sight of this.

With a loud roar that echoed through the area, the huge creature charged at incredible speeds. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Kiba then declared.

Not even thinking it, the two shinobi's shushin out of the way of the creature's charge.

Tayuya meanwhile was unphased by the sight as she readied her hand. "B-U-R-N." She got out as the two huge flaming snakes charge towards the large creature, ready to crush it and burn it to cinders.

SCREEEEEEEEECH!

As the two huge flaming snakes were a few meters away, the massive creature began spinning. This caused the earth under him began shredding and tearing it apart with ease, while the flames that were around the area went out just from the wind it was creating. "WOLF FANG OVER FANG!" Kiba roared with a primal force in his voice as they charged forward.

WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL!

As the massive twister sped through the burning battlefield, everything in its path was relentlessly shredded to pieces without mercy.

BAM! FWOOSH!

At that moment, the two attacks came in contact with one another as they were locked into a standstill.

Tayuya remained unphased to this as she looked on, motioning her hands to command her flaming constructions.

While one of the burning snakes continued to hold the deathly drill at bay, the other one meanwhile chomped down onto the spinning beast, its power was strong enough to pierce through the drill like attack and began to grip onto the twister while searing into its body as it started coiling around the twister.

"AAAH!" Both Kiba and Akamaru shouted in intense agony, they could literally feel their flesh being scorched from the fangs.

"Kiba!" Shikamaru called out as he witnessed this from a safe distance.

Even though the immense pain, the white wolf-like creatures expression didn't lose any of its strength. "DON'T STOP AKAMARU! KEEP PUSHING!" Kiba told his partner with determination, as he held back wincing from the pain.

"ARF! ARF!" Akamaru barked out in reply as he too refuses to let the pain to continue the two's personal mission of stopping the kunoichis self-destructive path.

With those declarations, the large white creature's spinning began to increase in velocity and intensity. The snake that was holding the twister at bay was slowly beginning to be pushed back while the one bitting was having great difficulty maintaining its hold.

To the sight of this, Tayuya quickly motioned her hands to command her constructions.

This caused the two snakes to reach with even more intensity as they began to grow in size. This caused them to gain the power to slowly pushed back the mighty twister.

"AAAH!" Kiba couldn't stop the pain screams from escaping his mouth, though he kept going on with his attack.

"Damn, he won't last long at this rate. . ." Temari admitted as she witnessed this.

"Yeah. . ." Shikamaru replied with a grim tone as he knew that his friend wasn't going to make it.

Then the Nara quickly and frantically began to look around to think of what he could possibly do to help. Then when his gaze back turned towards the kunoichi, his eyes widen at what he saw.

"Hold on, is she-?" Shikamaru then questioned in a serious tone as he notices that the flames that were around the kunoichi to protect herself were gone. This made him realize one crucial thing he had missed, an attack this powerful meant that you will need all of your concentration, thus leaving one completely vulnerable. "TEMARI!" He shouted at the Suna kunoichi.

Said kunoichi quickly turned and saw his companion pointing at the flaming kunoichi. Her eyes widen when she instantly realized what the Nara meant. Then without any more words, the two nodded and shushin.

As Tayuya was about to unleashed one final push to end the Inuzuka and his partner, her eyes widen with the first hint of emotion in them at the sight of the other two appearing right beside her.

As one, both Shikamaru and Temari cocked back their fist and delivered a strong punch directly at the kunoichi's face. Though they felt intense pain from the flame surrounding her body, the two manage to push her back enough for her hands to spread.

At the moment, both Kiba and Akamaru were startled when they felt the flaming snakes completely stopped their hold on them and they manage to push it back with ease.

"KIBA! AKAMARU! NOW!" The Nara ordered in a serious tone.

"DON'T SCREW THIS UP NOW DOG BOY!" Temari soon demanded.

The two Inuzuka partners, while couldn't see because of the spinning, they instantly knew that their comrades gave them an opening, causing them to smirk. "RIGHT!" Kiba roared with both happiness and gratefulness.

Then both partners completely pour every last bit of chakra and strength they had left and the large creature's twister increased threefold that it began to glow white. "TAKE THIS! ABSOLUTE FANG OVER FANG!" Kiba roared in a primal voice.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!

The two flaming snakes screech in agony as the indescribable twister had pierced through them, sucking in their flames and destroying them as the twister kept going on course at an even faster speed.

At the sight of her flaming snakes being obliterated, the flaming kunoichi wasn't startled or scared in the slightest but at the same time, she didn't bother to defend herself at all from the incoming attack. Because she knew that she wouldn't have enough time to conjure something strong enough to block its, but at the same time, she didn't care to do such a thing.

"Finally. . ." Tayuya thought to herself with relief, relief that she would be put out of her suffering.

The burning Oto kunoichi had found it funny that the one to do so would be that annoying, loud mouth boy she had the displeasure of ever meeting. Such thoughts cracked the emotionless expression on her face as a tiny yet happy smile appeared while waiting for her demise.

"HA! I WIN THIS TIME TAYUYA! YOU LOSE!" Kiba soon declared with his cocky and obnoxious tone dripping from his voice.

"!" Suddenly, Tayuya's orange glowing eyes widen at hearing that declaration as something deep within her snapped. Her? Losing to him?. "WHAT!?" She roared with fury as those very thoughts completely and utterly infuriated her as her orange eyes went back to being her red and blue mismatched eyes with her red right eye shining in full power and with intense fury.

FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

At that moment, just as the attack was about to hit, a massive torrent of fire erupted from Tayuya's entire body while also showing that she regained her emotions once more. "FUCK THAT! LIKE HELL I'LL VERY LOSE TO A PERVERTED ASSHOLKE LIKE YOU KIBA!" She countered, motioning her hands to command more flames to push back the deadly twister.

"WELL SUCK IT!" Kiba then roared his retort.

"ARF! ARF!" Akamaru barked out in agreement to his partner.

WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL!

The two deadly attacks fought for supremacy as the two refused to lose to the other. Flames and powerful gusts of wind blew everywhere, burning or ripping everything in its path.

Meanwhile away from the clash, the Nara and the Suna kunoichi looked on as they witnessed this with deadpan expressions on their faces. "You know. . .if it wasn't for the fact that we're happening a deathmatch in the literal sense. . .I would had thought those two were having a lovers quarrel. . ." Temari admitted while both hands on her knees in an exhausted manner.

The Nara meanwhile groaned to this. "You and me both. . .as troublesome as it is. . ." Shikamaru the replied.

The collision lasted for only a few moments until. . .

WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL!

The deadly twister began to push back the torrent of flames, this made the earth below them to began leaving a large gashed or molted earth and stone.

"NO! NO! NO! NO!" Tayuya infuriatingly shouted at this as she was panicking from her current position.

But her anger disappeared when the flames bent inward in front of her, this causes the twister to finally sent the remaining flames and the burning kunoichi flying and crashing throw everything that was unlucky enough to be on her path.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

After the two shinobi's hit the ground, a massive explosion occurred that it blew away everything at least ten feet around them leaving nothing but a massive crater.

The large white creature was sent flying away from the crater and the moment it landed on the ground, the transformation came undone revealing a heavily injured Kiba and Akamaru laying on the ground.

Both of them had large second degree burns all over their bodies, it was only thanks to their transformation and the force of their combination attacks that saved them from receiving third-degree burns, but even then they would both have nasty scars after their burns were healed.

Tap! Tap!

Then both of the Inuzuka's comrades landed next to him. The two looked around them and they were very surprised by the power in their friends attack, if it was already this strong when it wasn't completed, they scared to think just how strong it would be when it was.

"You alright dog boy?" Temari got out.

"Oooooooow!" Kiba got out as he couldn't move a single inch from both the pain and severe chakra exhaustion.

"Arf. . ." The injured Akamaru weakly got out while he was in the same state as his partner.

"I guess that answers that question." Shikamaru deadpanned.

Then the two turned towards the other large crater as they still felt the concern of the outcome. "Is it over?" Temari then asked.

"Don't know. . ." Shikamaru then admitted while rubbing his head.

Once the smoke from the other crater had dissipated, the two were shocked when they saw the naked Oto kunoichi laying down at the center of the crater with only rubble covering her privates.

"Agh. . .the hell. . .?" Tayuya got out as she rubbed her flaming head that started to die down once more, her hair slowly going back to dark pink color while her skin pigment started to return to its normal tan coloring, all the while not caring that she was even naked. "Dammit. . .I can't fuckin' believe I lost to Kiba of all the damn fuckin' people. . .! Tear me limb from limb or fuckin' rape my asshole. . .but to lose to him. . .!? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" She ranted in annoyance.

The two still standing shinobis meanwhile sweatdropped to hearing that. "You would wonder if she's one of those people who hates/loves people like dog breath here." Temari remarked with slightly closed eyes.

"Yup. . ." Shikamaru bluntly agreed with a nod as he then narrows his eyes. "Looks like those torrent of flames were powerful enough to save herself from the full force of the attack." He thought to himself of how she had survived.

Back with the injured Inuzuka, while he didn't hear what his comrades had said, he also managed to hear the rants from the defeated kunoichi. "Oh will you shut up about killing yourself already dammit. . ." Kiba remarked in annoyance.

"FUCK YOU!" Tayuya roared back before wincing in pain.

Kiba then carefully turned himself to lay on his back and looked at the sky. "Anyways. . .are you still planning to kill yourself?" He then asked in a serious tone while his partner let out a concern filled whine.

". . ." Tayuya didn't reply to hearing that being asked because she herself didn't know what she should do now. After all, if she did want to die, she could have just let that last attack hit her, she knew that a direct hit would have easily ended her, but something inside of her didn't let her the moment she heard his voice. . . "Why did I defend myself in the end. . ." She asked herself in confusion.

Though the Inuzuka didn't know the kunoichi's thoughts, he couldn't help but smile kindly. "Hey, Tayuya." He started with an oddly calm tone, as if the earlier death match never happen.

". . .What?" Tayuya replied in an exhausted tone.

Kiba, while still looking at the sky, he took a deep breath. "Wanna join Konoha?" He asked with an honest tone as if was the simplest thing to ask.

"What!?" Both Shikamaru and Temari got out in shocked at hearing this.

"Wait what!?" Tayuya was just as equally surprised at hearing that. "We just went through a fuckin' death match with me trying to kill you! What the hell is wrong with you!?" She then asked

Kiba only barely shrugged his shoulders but winced in pain from his burns. "Nothing new about that, we have a lot of friends that nearly killed others of our friends when they first met and we're all great friends now." Kiba retorted as if it wasn't a big deal.

The others could only sweatdrop as two of the Inuzuka's comrades couldn't refute that statement because they knew it was true.

"Well? What do ya say?" Kiba soon asked with a small smirk on his face, while Akamaru started panting happily.

At this point, both Shikamaru and Temari let out a united sigh. The two looked at each other and nodded as they decided not to intervene, whether this was the right decision or the wrong one, they decided to let Kiba have this chance. After all, it was thanks to him and Akamaru that the two were still alive.

". . ." Tayuya couldn't believe it, that the Inuzuka was either the stupidest and most perverted guy she had ever meet just asked her, her, of all people to join their village. She was marked as a grunt towards one of the most wanted missing-nin in history. How could he be dumb enough to think it would work. . .

Scratch that, she knew that the boy was stupid enough to think that something like this would actually work. . .

". . ." But here Tayuya was, whenever she would hear something this stupid, she would begin ranting and swearing up a storm about the stupidity of it. . .and yet. . .here she was. . .unable to even utter a single word.

Why couldn't she? She knew deep down that something like that wouldn't save her from the likes of Orochimaru. But she just couldn't say anything about agreeing or disagreeing, rant or not . . .She just didn't know what to think, say or choose. . .

Then after a few moments of intense silence, a small, tiny, microscopic smile appeared on Tayuya's face, but before she could say anything. . .

FWOOOOOOOOSH!

"AAAAAAAH!" Tayuya roared in agony as her body expel a large amount of orange-red flames from all over her body, flailing around in pain in the process.

"What the-!?" Shikamaru got out as he shielded himself from the intense flames.

"Dammit!" Temari got out in annoyance as she also shielded herself from the heat.

"TAYUYA!" Kiba could only shout in concern.

At this point, the three realized they were at the end game for their fight. . .

At the desert like battlefield. . .

All everyone present, where they were comrades or enemy, could only look on with shock at the incredible yet disturbing pressure that the blond shinobi was emanating. The air was very suffocating as if yet were bleeding deadly and putrid chemicals that wore dangerous for humans.

The red haired Suna jinchūriki looked on at this with narrow eyes. ". . .What is this. . ." Gaara questioned in a serious tone.

"Naruto-kun?" Lee got out in shock.

Then without warning or so much as a word, the blond began to slowly walk forward, with each step he took the earth below was severely affected. Somehow the ominous power the boy had wasn't just producing an intense heat that his normal Initial cloak usually had, but now the ground began to look as if it was being corroded, almost as if it was a type of deadly corrosion.

It wasn't just the earth that was being affected either, the huge bones that had manage tosurvive the initial explosion of power were affecting the same way as they began to look as if they were being corrupted just by being near the blonds deadly aura.

"Tiiiiime to plaaaaaay. . .kiiiiiiiill the boooone maaaaaaan~!" The sinister voice was heard from within the blond's mind as the boy looked at the enemy with his inhuman crimson glowing eyes.

Though Kimimaro physically didn't show it, this sudden changes made very concern, so he quickly adjusted his large spiral spear as he prepared it to launch it towards the boy to quickly end the fight. However. . .

WHOOSH!

The white haired boy's eyes widen in pure shock when the blond had instantly closed the distance between the two, while he cocked back his fist.

"Fast!" Kimimaro could barely manage to think to himself before. . .

WHAM! CRASH!

If was thanks to that the Oto shinobi was still merged with the huge bone structure that he manages to meld back into it said bone to instantly move towards another one that he managed to avoid that fatal blow. However, the bone and everything behind it was instantly shattered to pieces as they were made of glass.

The force of this one punch sent both Gaara and Lee flying away by the immense forced. But the Suna shinobi's sand manages to hold strong and managed to keep the two above the deadly valley of bones.

"What in the world is all of this!?" Lee exclaimed in shock and confusion. "This power he emitting, it as if it is the same level of me using five Gates, no. . .it could easily beat Gai-sensei's level!" He soon added.

". . ." Gaara meanwhile could not say anything to this as he continued to witness the events that were unfolding.

Then from the side of the blond, Kimimaro came out of another large bone with his spear being launched straight at the Konoha's head. "Die!" He roared with full intention to kill.

GRIP!

"!?" The blond shocked everyone when he used his left hand to easily catch the bone like spear. Then like the ground below him, the spear began to quickly show signs of being corroded and was falling apart from the Oto shinobi's hand.

". . ." Naruto didn't even have to look as he just lowly and monstrously growled before he tightens his grip so hard that it completely shattered the deadly weapon it piece.

Not even thinking of what had happened to his most powerful spear, Kimimaro quickly merges back into the bone to get away from the blond.

At the lack of sight of his opponent, the Kyūbi jinchūkiri slowly, almost robotically, began to look around. This action greatly disturbed his comrade and friend as this wasn't his usual behavior, it wasn't even an animalistic behavior that was the side effect of a Bijū transformation either. No, it was simply someone or something that was looking to kill anything, without anger, hatred, remorse or humanity. . .

"Ehehehe. . ." As small yet greatly distorted and ominous laughter began to be heard from inside the blond's seal as everything around it was slowly began to corrode and decay with creat velocity. "Ehehehehe. . .EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!" The laughter quickly grew even more as more blood crimson red chakra burst from the seal.

"Even before I met Naruto. . .I was never like this even when Shukaku took over. . ." Gaara meanwhile admitted in his head. "There's no desire for blood or harm. . .it's just killing without a shred of emotion. . .without a shred of humanity. . ." He then added with great concern.

Shukaku's psychotic laughter echoed within the red haired boy's seal as he was greatly enjoying that his prediction came true. "Looks like he really did came back!" He shouted with psychotic glee.

"This is abnormal. . .this trash's strength. . .it somehow goes beyond that of the Curse Mark's. . ." Kimimaro soon thought with concern. "I have to kill him before I die. . .or he will be a threat to Orochimaru-sama. . ." He then added in his head.

Having enough of this, the blond jinchūriki took in a deep breath as the blood crimson chakra began to intensify. ". . ." Though his mouth moved, no sound had came out before it was followed by another low growl.

SHATTER! SHATTER! SHATTER! SHATTER! SHATTER!

In an instant, every single bone within the boy's radius shattered into tiny pieces. While the boy's friends comrades had covered his ears as if they were blocking an ear shattering sound.

SHATTER!

"!?" Kimimaro was then shocked when the bone that he was merged in had completely shattered, leaving him completely exposed.

Naruto's hands were soon balled into fists as he dashed straight for his target with his blood crimson eyes wide open.

CRACK!

The moment that the fist had made contact onto the face on the Oto shinobi's jaw, every part that compose of bone was cracked and as he was sent flying and crashing through his own valley of bone while shattering in the process.

SHATTER! SHATTER! SHATTER! SHATTER! SHATTER!

While Kimimaro lay on top of his own shatter bones, he slowly stood up as his jaw was barely clinging to the nerves that connect it to his face. The white haired pushed out the broken bones, then he grabbed the dangling jaw and used his ability to reconnect them.

". . ." Kimimaro said nothing while he glared at the blond, but he was now actually glad that he couldn't feel anything because he knew the pain would have been excruciating as he readjusted it.

". . ." Naruto didn't respond as he blankly looked at the enemy, almost as he was contemplating what to do next.

"Kill. . .Kill. . .KILL!" A vile voice from within the blond's head declared in a wicked tone.

The blonds eye's slightly widened as the chakra cloak began to actually bubble and gurgling like it was made of boiling water. Then in an instant, it retook its shape into a more refine and solid looking silhouette of a fox as he went into a predatorial like stance.

Naruto soon took a deep breath and let out a massive soundless yet earth-shattering roar. It caused every single bone in its path, then he charged with indescribable velocity towards his victim.

Kimimaro quickly stomps his feet and sent an arc of bones towards the blond. But the attack did little to no damage and only work to slightly slow him. This was what he wanted as he merges with the bones that were near him to get out of way.

The plan had worked as Naruto was left skidding through many bones, once he made a full stop, he quickly moves his head left and right to locate his opponent. Then in the corner of his eye, he manages to get a glimpse of Kimimaro dashing from bone to bone at incredible speeds.

The blond shinobi didn't even take a single moment to think as he quickly chases after him and attack the area he would appear. But thanks to white haired ability to quickly merge and disassemble himself from the bones, he manages to dodge the attacks just a centimeters away.

Having enough, Naruto let out another soundless earth-shattering roar at the point of transfer, he finally manage to destroy the bones that had protected him and sent him flying a few feet from the nearest bone. Then with a powerful leap, he jumped and pounced towards him with his claws ready to shred him apart.

Kimimaro quickly conjured another large bone lance on his right arm as he prepared himself to pierce the blond. Just as the blond was about to reach him, he used his free hand to extend a large bone to hit the ground, then he used his momentum to spin out of the way from the deadly charge.

Naruto was once again forced to make a sliding stop but was difficult to do so as from the speed of his initial leap.

Seeing his chance, Kimimaro used the large bone to perform a pole vault towards the helpless shinobi while he adjusted his spear to his head, a certain kill if he landed it. "Die!" He practically demanded.

"Foolish. . ." The vile voice remarked in amusement.

Once Naruto managed to stop himself, he was the incoming attack. ". . ." Without saying a single word or showing any expressions, he cocked back his fist and sent it straight to the incoming attack.

BAM! SHATTER!

The chakra fist and the bone spear then collided with one another, the spear instantly shatters, but because of the momentum, the Oto shinobi could do nothing but watch with wide eyes as his arm continued it's path until it reached his opponent's. And just like his spear, every single bone in his arm shatter as well before he was sent spinning through the air.

"W-What is this. . .? Not even the Eight Gates have this kind of power. . ." Lee thought in disbelief at witnessing such power, but at the same time, unintentionally feeling fear at the brutality and inhuman display his friend was unleashing upon the enemy shinobi.

Crimson chakra soon glowed around the blond's legs as he then dashed forward right in front of the Oto shinobi. ". . ." Naruto had nothing to say as he looked at the enemy.

Acting quickly, Kimimaro manage to regain his balance and roughly lands on top of one of his bones. He looked at his destroyed arm that was beyond recognition from the hit before ever part of his arm began expelling every single broken bone as he quickly replacing them win new ones.

Though the Oto shinobi had manages to regain his arm, it was very clear that he couldn't move it like before, showing that many of his nerves were beyond repair even with the power of the curse mark.

However, before he could contemplate this. . .

GRIP!

"!?" Kimimaro was left speechless with widened eyes as he saw the blond literally appeared right beside him while grabbing his face.

Ssssss. . .

The instant this happen, his face was slowly making a hissing sound, this was caused by the chakra in the blond's arm literally started burning his face and smoke started to rise. Then next thing he knew, the force of the momentum the blond had was forcing him to be pushed backward.

". . .This is not like myself with Shukaku. . ." Gaara thought to the sight of this. "What's going on Shukaku?" He then demanded his Bijū to answer.

However all the Ichibi did was continued laughing maniacally, though the Bijū would have preferred that it was him brutally destroying the Oto shinobi, he nevertheless continued enjoying the destruction and mayhem the blond jinchūriki was unleashing.

BAM! SHATTER! BAM! SHATTER! BAM! SHATTER! BAM! SHATTER!

The blond then began to brutally smash Kimimaro's head across the many bones, shattering them like glass while he was helpless to do anything about it. Then after doing so for a few tens of meters, he finally let go of him while continuing shattering more bones in the process.

After making a full stop, Kimimaro was left laying yet again, but unlike last time, because of the bones on his back took most of the damage, he manages to quickly stand up than before. However, he had acquired many nasty and disfigured scars on his face from.

Despite this, the Oto shinobi had a very small hint of anger, but even so, anyone seeing this could feel the rage his was feeling. He was Orochimaru's most loyal and powerful follower, he refused to show or feel as he was weaker or inferior to anyone, as it would make his master look weak. And that. . .he would never permit. . .

BA-DUMP! BA-DUMP! BA-DUMP!

"Enough. . ." Kimimaro suddenly got out with a voice devoid of any emotion or anything that resembled a human tone.

Suddenly, the floating sand jerked back by a sudden burst of an intense pressure. Gaara had to focus his sand or risk it dissipating while still on top of the sharp bone spikes.

"What is happening now!?" Lee then exclaimed as he covered his face with his arms from the pressure being unleashed.

Suddenly, the dark skin from his transform state began to glow once more. This caused his entire body to begin steaming with intense heat, while the skin began to move as something was underneath it.

Blood began to ooze out every ounce of his body until multiple sharp bones erupt from them. Two bones came from his head, making it look like horns, then the jaw began to expand until all of the skin above it fell. His eyes changed as well as they were now more of a snake and had an eerie yellow glow.

Then every skin began to fall off his body as the bones and only the top part of his face had any skin left. The bones then began to criss-cross and connect with one another, until it forms a sharp spike armor-like shape and because of the bone like horns and large bone jaws, it had appeared as if he had taken the form of a white demon.

"I do not care where your power comes from. . .Nor do I care that I have completely merged with my Curse Mark. . .or the fact that I will most certainly perish after this. . ." A demonic sounding Kimimaro declared with terrifying resolve as the Curse Marks seals began to spread around his body.

Suddenly, the horned shinobi extended his arm out as multiple bones erupted from his armor covered arm until it forms an enormous ragged, criss-cross, lance-like weapon that made the one he used before looked like a child's toy in comparison. Then the curse mark seals began to spread to the weapon and began to glow with an eerily black light.

The armored Kimimaro then pointed his newly formed weapon towards the blond before he cocked it backward. "But your existence is a threat to my master. . .I will kill you. . .here and now. . ." He then added to his declaration as he readied his body, he lowered his stance with his right arm still cocked back, but his left arm had plunged into the earth below..

". . ." Naruto simply stared at the now-armored enemy, as if slightly interested in what is happening with his devoid crimson eyes.

"How futile. . .but I'll still enjoy killing you. . ." The vile and dark voice remarked in amusement. "Tiiiime to dieeeeee. . ." It then declared in excitement.

As if on the comment, Naruto dashed towards the enemy at blazing speeds once more with his fists ready.

Just as the blond was a few meters away. . .

CRASH! HIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!

From below, a huge snake made out completely of bones erupted from the earth as it ensured the blond. The boy didn't look bothered or startled as it began crushing him with its powerful and sharp bones that the snake was made of. Though it hardly caused any damage, it did is true purpose. . .trapping him place.

Back to the Oto shinobi, he pulled his left hand off the ground to show that the tail of the snake attached to it.

The Curse Mark's seals soon completely enveloped the huge bone spear, giving it an ominous aura. "Now for the crimes you have done towards Orochimaru-sama. . .and his disciple that will inherit his will Sakura-sama. . .I sentence you to death. . .now die. . ." Kimimaro declared.

With a mighty pull, the snake and by extension, the blond was pulled towards the Oto shinobi..

"CLEMATIS DANCE! FLOWER PIERCING LANCE!" Kimimaro declared as he thrust his the spear at the incoming blond's head.

"Naruto-kun!" Lee called out with a panicked tone at the incoming doom to his true friend.

"No!" Gaara got out with widened eyes at the thought of his first true friend dying, while cursing that he didn't have enough chakra to do anything. He then decided to swallow his desire to handle this alone and to do what he needed to do. "Shukaku! Give me chakra to save him!" He mentally asked with desperation.

"BWAHAHAHAHA! YOU KNOW WHAT!? I'M IN SUCH A GOOD MOOD! SO WHY THE FUCK NOW!? GAHAHAHAHA!" Shukaku roared in with insane laughter and quickly sent his chakra to his jinchūriki.

Instantly to that remark, Gaara felt a massive surge of chakra as his left eye turned to looked exactly like his Bijū. Then acting on pure instinct, the gourd and the ground below him turn into sand and combine in his left arm to form a massive sand arm.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Gaara roared as he sent the huge sand arm forward.

Everything was suddenly in slow motion as the blond was still looking at the tip of the huge spear that was heading to his head. Then he slowly turned towards his right and saw a huge sand arm flew right in front of him.

BAM! CRASH!

The arm soon collided into the spear with such force that an intense and loud impact echoed throughout the area. The hit was not powerful enough to break the spear, far from it, but instead did the next best thing. . .it forced it to change its course. . .

The tip of the spear missed Naruto's head by a few inches away and a powerful bust of gust created a massive gash on the ground behind him, destroying everything on its path until it reached the forest that was a mile away from the battleground. ". . ." He didn't say anything to that as his devoid crimson eyes looked on towards the sight of what happened.

Meanwhile, to witness this, Kimimaro narrowed his eyes in annoyance as he looked at the Suna jinchūriki, who was panting heavily while the sand arm began dissipating. "You dare interfere again. . ." He questioned in rising anger.

CRASH!

Before the Oto shinobi could finish his sentence, a loud crash was heard. When he turned towards it, he saw multiple bones were sent flying everywhere and were his snake was once located was the now free blond.

The blond jinchūriki's crimson colored cloak had expanded double in size so that he could break free from the bone snake's grasp. Once fully freed, the cloak returned to normal size and stretched his arm forward, grabbing the Oto shinobi by the throat with a powerful grip.

As a result of this, Kimimaro found himself unable to breathe by this action, then the next thing he knew he was slammed into the ground, leaving a massive crater because of pure raw force.

"Yeeees. . .destroy him. . .crush him. . .break his bones. . .kill him. . .massacre him. . ." The vile and dark voice from within the blond tempted. "Show him the power that must be forever feared by all. . ." It then added in excitement.

BAM! CRACK!

Naruto smashes his fist into the torso section of the bone armor and making it crack upon impact. This caused blood to fly from the enemy's bone jaw.

Gaara then began to slowly lowered himself and the green wearing shinobi to an area where the bones were shattered. Once safe on the ground, the redhead began panting heavily as his eye returned to normal.

Lee meanwhile started to look on, not knowing what to think as he friend was brutally attacking the enemy shinobi.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

The blond continued slowly strike the white haired shinobi's armor, but only this time at different sections of his body. Chest, stomach, arms, legs, throat, head and every single area that he could hit, all for the sake of causing as much damage as possible while he was still alive.

"GAH!" Kimimaro could do nothing but gasp from each hit, he couldn't feel the pain being inflicted on his body.

The Oto shinobi knew that with each hit, his body was becoming more and more damaged, not just because of the brutal assault, but also due to his own illness which combines with this forced transformation, causing his body to be unable to move anymore.

Once Naruto saw that his enemy had finally stopped moving, he stopped his assault and looked down on him. All save for his head, the Oto shinobi was in a complete shattered state, every single bone that was made had massive cracks, he could tell that most of his organs had massive ruptures, internal bleeding and limbs were bent in unnatural angles.

The bone jaw cracked and shattered to revealed his injured mouth as Kimimaro began breathing heavily while blood leaked out of his mouth. "He's. . .too strong. . ." He weakly thought.

Naruto meanwhile looked down at the damaged enemy, staying completely motionless.

"I'm so sorry Orochimaru-sama, I failed you." Kimimaro muttered out through his broken jaw while his Curse Mark started to dissipate.

The blond jinchūriki brought his hand up as he began channeling his chakra onto it.

"Even after you had given me a purpose to live, I failed to meet your expectations you had of me." He continued as his skin on his face began to glow.

The chakra then began to spiral into a large crimson colored Rasengan the size of a person that glowed with an ominous light as it then slowly began to descend towards the motionless enemy.

Despite the impending doom, the Oto shinobi began to smile with content. "But even if I lay here dying, I'm still glad that I had met you." Kimimaro soon got out as his face returned to his human appearance. "For only you had acknowledged my existence and gave my worthless life meaning." He concluded as the shine in his eyes left.

BA-DUMP!

Suddenly at hearing those words, Naruto stopped his attack, causing him to remain completely motionless. When his eyes locked on the Oto shinobi, he knew. . .he had died with a smile on his face. Then Rasengan completely disappeared and the blood colored chakra cloak began retracting to the seal.

"Hehe. . .looks like it ends. . .for now. . .hehehehe. . .Until next time. . .kit. . ." The vile and dark voice got out in amusement and a sinister chuckle.

Once the chakra had fully retracted, the blond shinobi's eyes returned to its normal shade of blue as he looked on at the beaten and deceased shinobi as all he could think that echoed in his mind were the last words that the boy had said before the light faded from his eyes. Then he weakly looked around and saw the devastation around him

"What. . .just. . .happened. . .? I. . .did this. . .?" Naruto got out in a confused manner, having no recollection of what just happened before he felt woozy and finally fell to the ground unconscious.

THUD!

After the redhead jinchūriki lowered the sands and landed next to the blond, he began gasping heavily from using almost all of his chakra. Then all he and the spandex wearing shinobi could do was looked on at both their comrade/friend and the dead shinobi as they too wonder the same thing.

Within the dense web covered forest. . .

FWOOOOOOOOOOSH!

Intense winds blew throughout the forest as waves of crimson colored chakra raged and forced trees to lean back.

Hinata's entire body flared with the crimson chakra and while most of her figures remain the same, two things were now different, her normally lavender Byakugan were now dark crimson with fox-like slits and from the palms of her hands were small streams of blood coming out.

The mutated Kidōmaru began growling in a feral manner at the changed Hyuga as every single fiber of its being was telling it that what was in front of him wasn't a prey anymore, it was a fellow hunter. But whether it was a better hunter than him wasn't yet seen.

Step. . .drip. . .

Then without any warning, the Hyuga began to slowly walk towards the creature while small drops of blood fell from her hands, her expression was the picture of calm and controlled, however, it was her eyes that tell a completely different story as they were blazing with fury, rage and anger. The chakra surrounding her was flowing uncontrollably as if it was trying to shape itself into something.

The mutated Oto shinobi meanwhile stretched out its arms while it let out a monstrous roar towards the kunoichi. Then in an instant, it vanished without leaving a single trace.

Step. . .drip. . .

However, this didn't stop the kunoichi from slowly walking towards the last location the creature was once located. Then when she reached the location, she fully stopped. There she simply stood there without moving a single inch.

Whoosh. . .

The wind gently blew passed the kunoichi as that was the only sound that was heard and then silences soon follow. This silence was very ominous, tense and tremendous as if the shinigami itself was right there in the forest. . .patiently waiting to take claim the next person that was on its list. . .

"Hissss. . ." Suddenly a low hissing sound was heard right behind the kunoichi. There was an upside down spider creature with its mouth with open while saliva was dripping down its hideous mouth.

". . ." However Hinata expression remains the same, even at the impending attack, she was still was calm despite her fury. Her fingers slowly began to wiggle as the chakra around it move in a controllable way.

"SCREEEEEEEEEECH!" Letting out a savage roar, the mutated Kidomaru lunged forward in an attempt to chomp the kunoichi's head.

Then as if slow motion, Hinata's head lean to her right while her right foot extended outwards as she used her left foot to make a full circle motion. The massive jaws harmlessly where her head was located. Once making a full circle, Hinata's right hand widen and then quickly closes into a fist. This action also caused the crimson chakra around her hand to do the same, it first stretched before it contracted to form a large chakra-like fist.

WHAM!

When the creature didn't felt any meat in its mouth, it quickly turned around, only to meet with a massive crimson fist made completely out of chakra, striking him square in the face.

WHOOSH! CRASH!

The mutated Kidōmaru was instantly sent flying and crashed into a tree, which by the massive force was sent tumbling down. Quickly getting back up he let out another loud screech as it turned towards the still motionless kunoichi.

Had the creature still had its eyes, it would have seen Hinata having a semi bouncing boxing stance while both of her hands had massive chakra like fists over her own.

Kidōmaru slashed the fallen tree out of anger as it jumped towards a nearby tree and began to inhale a lot of air, then it began munching its mouth to create its sticky yet powerful web.

At this, Hinata simply lowered her fist and the chakra returned to its normal state. She then rose her right hand and placed it in a salute like position over her chest as the chakra began moving frantically once more as it bubbled around her.

SPEW!

Then the mutated shinobi spit out a very large web, this one, however, was twice as thick than the normal one and had a darker golden color as well. This meant that the web was even more stronger than the golden variety.

SHINK! SLICE!

As the web flew straight at Hinata, her eerily calm expression remain the same and when it was a meter away, the crimson chakra extended and took the form of a large and thick knife, which looked to have the same size as her own body, over her left arm which she used to cut through the web as it was a literally a hot knife on butter.

Suddenly, the sliced web instantly burst into flames from the intensity of the chakra it had come into contact.

Hinata then quickly lowered her knife clad hand, created the same whistling effect an actual sword would make when swing. She then looked straight at the creature with her rage-filled eyes.

The mutated Kidōmaru growled at failing to entrapped the prey. It quickly returned to the trees to make some distance.

Whoosh. . .

The wind gently blew once more as silence filled the forest yet again. . .

The kunoichi remains in her place as her body didn't move an inch, she still had the huge chakra blade on her arm while she waited with abnormal patience for the creature to make its move.

Stretch. . .

Then the sound of stretching was silently being pull through the forest was heard, the creature was five hundred meters at the northwest of the kunoichi's position. While he was holding its huge dark gold bow while pulling the string that had a huge dark gold arrow at the girl's head.

". . ." Hinata then places her hand back to her side as the huge blade dissipates into its normal size cloak form, but now all of the crimson chakra cloak was moving erratically.

"Gah. . ." Kidōmaru let out a low breath while saliva dripped from its mouth practically tasting the flesh of its prey and then. . .it let go of the arrow.

WHOOSH!

The mutated didn't feel that the kunoichi even attempting to defend herself and with that position, she wouldn't be able to react in time, so victory was his in its mind.

Had the creature had paid more attention, he would had felt something strange the moment the girl had lowered her guard like that and had held its instincts right from the start. But how could it? It didn't even realize that the moment Hinata had turned into this form, that kunoichi had spread her chakra around her in the same manner her cousin did to feel any movements around his blind spot.

How long was the range of her new sight? A one kilometer radius. . .

Hinata turned her face towards the creature's current position as her cloak erratic movements stopped for an instant before its shot out of her body in the form of hundreds of tendrils like shapes.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The hundreds of tendrils raised at blinding speeds as they instantly reached the arrow and ensnared it. Many of the tendrils were instantly obliterated by the force of the arrow, but with each new tendril that tried to stop it, it began to lose more and more momentum.

And then when the arrow reached Hinata, it was stopped dead on its track one meter away exactly in between her eyes and only the air that the arrow had push with its remaining force manage to gently blow her hair.

"SCREEEEEECH!" Kidōmaru roared with fury and rage that its arrow missing its mark just a meter away.

Hinata then raised her right hand to command the tendrils to move the arrow right above her hand. ". . ." She looked straight at the angered creature and made a quick flick of her arm forward, this caused the tendrils to sent the arrow back at twice the velocity it originally had.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! SLICE!

"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!" The mutated creature let out an ear-shattering screech as he fell to the ground as all of the arms and legs on its left side were sliced through by his own arrow. It pointlessly used its left arms to try and hold the liters of blood that came from its stumps of flesh.

". . ." However, Hinata wasn't done. . .not in the slightest. . .

The crimson chakra then started to once more reform and configure itself to now where it had taken the form of a whip as the female Hyuga whipped the ground, creating a small crater as a result by the impact point before she then lashed it out towards the mutated enemy at high speeds.

"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEECH!" Kidomaru let out a painful screech as its neck was caught by the chakra-like whip and then being pull towards the sky, just a few feet from the kunoichi's location.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

Hinata then swung her arm in many directions, which caused the creature to crash into many trees, boulders and the ground with brutal force. Then the kunoichi swag her whip up and then downwards, causing the whip to be sent down, which intern caused the mutated Oto shinobi to crashed a few feet away from her.

"Grrrrrrrrr. . ." The creature let out a low growl from the hit, it couldn't even move right from the lack of limbs it was missing. Then it notice that the kunoichi was right on top of him and once again her arms had the same huge chakra fist as the beginning.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!

Then without pause or mercy, the kunoichi began pounding the creature with her huge chakra fist with such strength that made the earth itself shake and with each punch she did made the crater underneath the creature even bigger.

After the longest minute anyone had ever felt, Hinata stopped. . .

The kunoichi then calmly walked out of the large crater as the large chakra fist dissipate and retook its normal shape. Once out of the hole, she turned around and a chakra tendril came out of her shoulder as it went into the crater and held a tight grip on the mutate shinobi.

The tendril then pulled out the enemy as it held the near-death creature in front of the kunoichi. The creature let out weak gurgling sounds of agony as it weakly tried to claw at her, but it was far enough to harmlessly pass her face.

". . ." Hinata's gaze and expression turned into pure fury as the chakra around her arms move frantically once again and turned into large crimson chakra claws. "This. . .end. . .now. . ." She slowly growled out with fury as her eyes glowed crimson.

SLICE! SLICE! SLICE! SLICE! SLICE!

The enraged kunoichi then mercilessly began slashing and slicing the dying creature without any sign of stopping, the claws effortlessly cutting through the hardened body of the mutated shinobi. Arms, legs, abdomen, torso, every inch of its body was sliced until only the head remain as it somehow still moving jaw were the only remaining parts that were functioning

". . ." Hinata said nothing as she looked on with anger while she commanded the tendril to throw the head upwards as her other arm then created the massive chakra blade.

SLICE!

And then when it was falling down, she sliced it in half, finally ending the creature once and for all. . .

". . ." Hinata was silent towards her actions as the crimson chakra slowly began to fade with her eyes drooping while they reverted back to her lavender Byakugan eyes.

The now normal Hyuga weakling looked around her and saw the destruction around her. Then she looked down and saw the dismembered creature beginning to melt into a mass of black goo before it completely dissolving.

"What. . .happened. . .?" Was all Hinata could get out before she fell flat to the ground, unconscious.

"Hehehe. . .how fun that was. . ." A sinister voice chuckled from inside the unconscious Hyuga. "Though she doesn't have the physical strength to hold my power like the kit can at the moment, she still can use what she can in very amusing ways. . ." It then added in amusement. "Hehehe. . .I hope we can murder some more in the future. . ." It concluded with twisted delight in its voice before it faded.

Through the normal sections of the forest. . .

Multiple shadows were dashing through the green trees of the Land of Fire at only shinobis could manage to go. The shinobi being the three members of Viper Squad were taking the front point, the medical team led by Shizune were in the middle, while the two elite Jonin, Kakashi and Gai, as well as Haku were at the back.

Each and every single shinobi taking front had concern expressions as they were very worry about the safety of both students and friends alike. And the ominous feeling that they felt with every single cell in their bodies did little to no help in making them feel less concern.

However, as they got nearer and nearer to the source of the original ominous pressure that it quickly was replaced with something even more sinister and vile as if someone or something even worse had appeared and was now in the area their friends and students were. Because of that, the rescue team were running at triple the pace in hopes of arriving before something worse would/could occurr to them

"Still. . .to think this would happen. . ." Haku got out in a serious tone. "For Sakura Haruno to fall this far. . ." He then added.

". . ." The rescue team could say nothing in response to that at first as they were just as surprised at the boy words.

I mean why wouldn't they? The girl wasn't considered a threat in the first place, an annoyance to many yes, but a threat to them or their loved ones? Maybe because of that mentality they were completely fooled by this turn of events, or rather it was how Orochimaru managed to completely played them like a child.

"We can't change the past, we all never thought that she would betray Konoha. . ." Kakashi declared with the most serious tone anyone had ever heard the jonin talk before.

"Betrayer is indeed the most an unyouthful act, but what she had done to a former friend is completely unforgivable. . .she must be brought to justice. . ." Gai then declared any and all normal exasperating tone he usually had was now gone.

Though the ice user was a mentor by a missing nin, even then he valued loyalty and friendship above all else, so hearing what the traitor had done, it made him even more concern to what his friends were up against. "I just hope the others are alright. . ." Haku then got out.

Further ahead, the Viper Squad members were with the Medical Squad of the group as the two older members had serious expressions on their faces while the younger appearing member and her animal companions had nervous expressions.

"Anko-chi. . .do you think they're alright?" Nina asked.

". . ." Akno couldn't even reply to that as she narrowed her eyes, she knew she couldn't lie and say they were alright because the younger girl would see through it, so all she could do was say the truth. "I. . .I don't know. . ." She then admitted with a sad yet honest tone.

This caused Nina and her little friends to looked down sadly at the thought of something bad happening to her new friends.

"However," Yami then started, getting the young appearing girl's attention. "If something did happen, we have to make sure they're safe. . .so be prepared to fight Nina. . ." She soon advised in a serious tone as she kept her grip on her katana.

This made the girl to raise her face as she then heard multiple cries, she looked at her animal friends and saw them nodding with determine filled expressions. Nina then looked back to the silvered haired girl and also nodded with determination at helping her new friends.

Thankful that the youngest team member had regained her spunk, Anko smiled contently before she looked forward as they all double in speed to reach their friends as soon as possible.

Near the border. . .

The sound of rushing water was heard as Satsuki was taking in deep breaths and finally exited the cave. On the other side, she saw a huge lake on top of a mountain that had a large waterfall. On the side, it had two enormous stone statues of the most legendary shinobis of all times, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, both facing each other while doing the confrontation hand sign while a waterfall flowed in between them.

Tap. . .

Satsuki then landed on the head of the mighty Senju as she looked at it and the other statue. "Hashirama-sama. . .Madara. . ." The Uchiha thought as she instantly knew where she was. "The Valley of the End. . ." She then realized while looking at the grand sight.

The female Uchiha, however, didn't have the time to enjoy the scenery as she looked on at the other side was the one she was chasing for as she stood on the other statue.

"HARUNO!" Satsuki Uchiha called out with anger as she saw the traitor still having her back facing her.

Said girl, lazily turned her head and saw the girl, and strangely enough, she had a completely calm expression that was somehow also devoid of expressions. "Oh. . .it's you. . ." Sakura Haruno replied with an eerily calm tone before she turned fully turned to face the girl, part of her face being covered in her Curse Mark while the white of her eye was completely black. "I'm busy, I don't have anymore time to deal with you. . ." She then declared.

On hearing the green and pink haired girl's declaration, the Uchiha's eyes widened for a moment before she then narrowed them. "You think we would just let you go after what you did to Ino-chan!?" She declared.

Sakura took a few moments to think of what the girl had said and finally recalled what she did before she left. "Oh yeah, I did do that didn't I?" She got out with the same tone before she looked at the Uchiha in the eyes. "And I should care because?" She simply asked without a single ounce of sympathy or remorse of what she had done.

It was at this statement that something inside of the ravenette snapped. "You bitch. . .WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Satsuki then demanded as she grinds her teeth in anger and her Sharingan appeared in full. "I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU REGRET EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE!" She declared with rage-filled voice.

"Hehehehe. . ." A familiar dark and vile voice chuckled out in amusement. "Last prey. . ." It then declared with excitement.

Sakura, however, gained a neutral expression as she looked at the other girl. "I guess I have to get rid of you before you keep getting in my way. . ." She got out as she cracked her neck as the black marks began to glow green for a moment. "I can't make my masters wait any longer. . ." She added.

"YOU AND YOUR MASTERS ARE GOING TO HELL AFTER THIS IS OVER HARUNO!" Satsuki declared as she got into a low stance and her Sharingan glowed.

Then with full enrage state, the female Uchiha charged at full power with the full intention taking the traitor down, even if it meant killing her. . .

JG (JGResidentEvil)'s A/N: Man has it been a while! What's up everyone, this is JGResidentEvil here with fight2protect with the final chapter of Uchiha Heiress Remix of 2017!

F2P (fight2protect)'s A/N: Yo! Also we wish all our faithful readers happy holidays and happy new year!

JG: Man we have come a looooong way so far and this chapter was a doozy to write with all the battles, interactions and exhausting our imagination to create everything!

F2P: But damn was it worth it! Every single fight was insane, crazy and epic! You can't tell my that it wasn't! As long as they took it was soooo worth the epicness that made canon look like a bad fanfic! XD

JG: Save for those that will nitpick and remark about every little detail. ^^"

F2P: *waving hand* Eh! Who cares, was still worth it.

JG: Exactly, now then, we aren't doing review responses this time since we have a lot to talk about for this chapter. To first start, let's talk about the difficult battle that Choji, Tenten and Kankuro had with Jirobo in his final mindless mutated state.

F2P: To be honest this fight was the easiest of the fights, mostly because let's face it though the enemy was very strong, that was just it, so it was a very straight forward fight. And all what made it more difficult was its ridiculous regeneration ability, everybody knows how OP and unfair that ability is for any enemy. But once you find the source of it, just exploint it to finally kill him.

JG: So we in turn decided to make the battle more interesting and unexpected with what happens in it. I mean come on, was anyone really expecting the mutation Jirobo went through that turned him into the mindless mutant and to how it was basically Tenten that saved them all by discovering his weak points?

F2P: Thought it was going to be just Choji saving the day? Nope it was thanks to the down kunoichi that was able to find the way to defeat the seemingly unkillable shinobi but we can't forget that Kankuro helped out too as it was thanks to his poison that made the opportunity to discover the leeches. And Choji using his epic power up to make the epic finish to end that fight. :)

JG: So all in all, it was teamwork that really helped them all out. Now then, let's move onto Shikamaru, Kiba, Akamaru and Temari against the burning Tayuya with the gained split personalities.

F2P: Ok, that one wasn't technically a fight, it was more of suicidal fight from the enemy kunoichi. The split personalities wasn't really that, it was more so the fire affecting her mentally, it was to show the different side of fire, a raging side, a passionate side and a ever burning side where it just burns everything. So no, I wouldn't call it split personalities, more like split sides of the same thing only in a different light sort to a way, no pun intended.

JG: Poor Kiba though in that battle though, he really got the short end of the stick in that one. ^^"

F2P: Bad for him, hilarious for us! XD But regardless, it was because this that help Tayuya to stop her suicidal path, though she doesn't know why. :D

JG: Though it is over, it's also not over after that ending of their battle.

F2P: Yup, thought that she will remain the same after eating that pill? Nope, there WILL be consequences for this and we don't mean her getting those powers. What will those said consequences be you asked?

JG: Think of what goes on in Deadpool's head. . .along with another little extra surprise. . .

F2P: Now for the most epic parts of the chapter. :D

JG: First Naruto, Gaara and Lee against Kimimaro ending!

F2P: That fight was brutal! Naruto when it like a monster! Destroying everything in his path!

JG: Well same with Gaara working with Naruto and Kimimaro with his new final transformation!

F2P: That form was sick! I mean really! He can use bone like weapons, why shouldn't he have an epic bone armor! :D And also who else found it ironic when Gaara used that sand arm at the last second? After all he first use that to try and kill Naruto but now it was used to save/help him. :)

JG: That's irony at its best! XD

F2P: Also to make it clear right now, no, Naruto didn't turn version 2 like in his 4 tails form, this was more like initial stage with only his chakra cloak.

JG: This was more. . .similar to what happened in the fight against Haku. . .but more intense.

F2P: But obviously it had way different things, this one he was more dangerous because Naruto ACTUALLY wanted to kill, not out of anger or rage, he just wanted to just for the sake of killing. . .

JG: Meanwhile for Hinata, we made her go completely savage during her battle!

F2P: Hell yeah! Hinata was a freaking badass! She show absolutely NO MERCY to Kidōmaru! And those chakra weapons were sick! :D

JG: . . .however what happened in the Naruto's and Hinata's fight. . .they were different stories all together. . .especially with how they were. . .

F2P: Yup. . .in these form the two weren't like wild beasts, if you payed attention, not once did they talk/shout vocally nor did they show any emotion and even their appearance were different.

JG: For Gaara, he was indeed confused at what what happening along with Lee while Shukaku seemed to know what was going on. Meanwhile for Hinata, her manipulation of chakra into weapons made the battle she was in at the end made it very brutal. . .especially with the reminder that she actually used them to kill her opponent, something she would never do, before passing out.

F2P: Does that sound normal when they uses Bijū chakra? Nope, this form was something completely different. What it is, well we already given many hints for you to figure it out. But we get the feeling that some of you had already figured it out. Cookie for you! :)

JG: Lastly for Anko's Viper Squad, Kakashi, Gai and Haku are now heading out along with the Medical Squad to make sure the entire group is safe. . .for better or worse terms. . .

F2P: And it will not be pretty. . .

JG: Now for another announcement. . .we will be going on a small hiatus from writing Uchiha Heiress Remix. Don't be alarmed, it will only be a few weeks since we don't want to burn ourselves out since we've been writing a lot for this story. . .

F2P: Yeah, we been at it for a long time and we really need a some time to stop writing and recuperate. We promise that we will return a little after 2018 starts.

JG: And when that happens, we'll start the conclusion of the Sakura Capture Arc with Satsuki Uchiha, aka the Blue Valkyrie vs Sakura Haruno, aka the Snake Empress!

F2P: And if you thought that Naruto's and Hinata's fight were insane, well. . .you haven't seen anything yet! :D

JG: And with that, we have to say goodbye for now! See ya next year!

F2P: Thanks for always being here to read our shit! XD Peace out!

JG: Later! XD