Uchiha Heiress Remix

by JGResidentEvil

They say that you can't expect everything, so what would happen when a crazy secret is revealed? You just have to wait and see! Pairings: Naruto x Hinata x FemSasuke, Neji x Tenten, Lee x Kin, more pairings coming along. Sakura and Civilian Council Bashing. Don't like, don't read.

60. Chapter 60

Uchiha Heiress Remix Chapter 60: Into the Depths

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Up atop a nearby hill. . .

Naruto gently placed the unconscious orangette against a tree. "How did Ero-sennin, who easily fell for Tsunade-baachan's numbing medicine managed to detect Sasame-chan's medicine this time?" He soon asked in confusion while the girls nodded in agreement.

Jiraiya face jerk at recalling that not so gracious moment of his and was thankful that the trio were to busy/concern looking at the unconscious kunoichi to notice it.

"Yeah, since when is Ero-sennin that sharp?" Satsuki soon asked while crossing her arms over her chest.

"Oi, oi. . ." A very annoyed Jiraiya interrupted. "Remember when Sasame talked about Hanzaki and said he's a traitor?" He then asked the trio.

"Now that I think back, you did mention that. However what's that have to do with it?" Hinata soon asked.

"It's because the moment she said that was the instant I knew. . ." Jiraiya declared with a serious tone.

At those words, Sasame's eyes widen from both waking up and hearing them.

"Hanzaki told me everything. . ." Jiraiya revealed. "He told me that when Orochimaru came to this land, some members of their clan wanted to use him to revive their clan." He then explained.

"More like that pedo using them for his experiments. . ." Satsuki however muttered in distain.

"But like any sane person, some of them saw through his evil intent and wish to not join him." Jiraiya then informed.

"So this Hanzaki guy told you the entire truth?" Satsuki asked. "And he's part of the group that knew not to go to that pedo?" She then added.

The Sannin in response nodded to these questions from the Uchiha Heiress. "Yup, but because they didn't join Orochimaru, those guys were chased out of their own village and marked as traitors who were getting in the way of their clan's revival." Jiraiya revealed. "It was probably Orochimaru's idea as well, keep the desperate and get rid of those that wouldn't obey him." He then stated.

"What else would you expect from a literal snake. . .?" Naruto muttered with contempt while letting a low growl.

Jiraiya then smirked playfully. "So, when Sasame called Hanzaki a traitor, I knew that Sasame had ties to a group that was on Orochimaru's side." He soon concluded.

At hearing those words, Sasame who was quiet and unmoving, her eyes suddenly widen and quickly took out a kunai and brought it to her neck.

The moment the kunoichi did this action, the trio were left in complete shock as their brains couldn't believe what their eyes were seeing that they were left momentarily stun.

SMACK!

However the Toad Sage instantly appeared right in front of the orangette and smack the kunai away from the orangette's grip.

"What the hell Sasame-chan!? Did you really just attempted suicide!?" Satsuki exclaimed after witnessing this.

Once everyone calmed down enough, Jiraiya stood tall and looked down at the depressed kunoichi. "You fool!" Jiraiya roared with fury and looked as though he was about to punish the girl.

Upon seeing that, Naruto finally managed to recovered from his stun state. "Hey, Ero-sennin! Wait a minute!" He tried to stop his godfather from doing anything to the orangette.

"You're going to far!" Satsuki soon declared. "Sasame-chan doesn't deserve what you're planning!" She then added.

"I'm prepared!" Sasame interrupted with resolve to go through her decision even if the worst could come.

"Sasame-chan. . ." Hinata muttered as she then kneeled next to the girl and smiled sadly. "You. . .You did it so that you could find and reunite with Arashi. . .didn't you?" She soon stated in concern.

With great shame, Sasame only lowered her head even more. "I'm sorry. . .that was the only thing I could do." She soon confessed in a depressed state.

Immediately, the Hyuga Heiress looked at the Sannin. "Jiraiya-sama. . .please understand. Sasame-chan did it only because she was desperate to meet her cousin once more." Hinata got out in a sympathetic tone.

"Have a heart Ero-sennin! She didn't do it to be evil, she was just desperate!" Satsuki then declared.

"Yeah! So please forgive her!" Naruto soon got out with a pleading tone.

However JIraya only look on with a serious expression. "The law of the Shinobi is a strict thing. . ." He declared with a dead serious tone, which silenced the trio as he then crossed his arms. "I can't just acquit her like this." He added with a seldom tone which clashed with his usual one.

When the blond shinobi heard those words he frown, he knew that it was correct as a shinobi himself, however he couldn't let the orangette be punished like that. Then Naruto closed his eyes and sat right in front of the kunoichi and slightly bow forward.

"?" Jiraiya was momentarily stun by his godson's actions.

The blond shinobi then open his eyes and looked straight at the Toad Sage with an unyielding look in his eyes. "Then punish me first!" Naruto loudly declared with clear conviction in his tone.

These words didn't just shock the Jiraiya but the other three kunoichis as well.

"N-Naruto-kun!?" Hinata stammered out with worry.

"N-Naru-kun!" Satsuki exclaimed in concern.

"I made a promise that I would help Sasame-chan see her cousin Arashi again! We all did!" Naruto declared as he looked at his two fiancées. "And we never go back on are words, that's our Nindo!" He then added to his declaration.

Upon hearing that statement, the blond's fiances smiled at each other and then nodded in agreement as they went and sat down to the blond's sides. "I agree with Naru-kun!" Satsuki declared in a serious tone.

"I will also take her punishment, she has suffered enough." Hinata soon concluded.

"Wow! Cut it out! Your making me sound like the bad guy here!" Jiraiya got out as he brought his hands up. "And besides it's not as if I'm gonna kill her." He then added.

At that last part, all of the younger generation were left stunned and baffled as they were sure that the Toad Sage was going to severely her himself.

Once they all calmed down, Jiraiya gain a soft and compational expression. "Sasame, Hanzaki was worried that you might leave your village to look for Arashi. . ."

Now it was Sasame's turn to be shocked as she looked at the Sannin with disbelief that the one she called traitor was worried about her.

Then Jiriaya turned around and slowly began to walk towards the edge of the hill, once he reached it he simply stared at it for a few moments. "After you escort us to Orochimaru's hideout, you'll immediately head to the inn where Hanzaki is and wait there for our return. That is the punishment given to you." He soon ordered.

"Jiraiya-sama. . ." Sasame got out as she was moved by the Sannin's words.

"Wow! Ero-sennin! I guess I gotta give you more credit!" Naruto soon got out.

"Huh, a not pervy moment from Ero-sennin, how rare." Satsuki meanwhile remarked.

Though Hinata was also moved by the intention, she somehow found it hard to show the same feelings. "Why does this sound so familiar. . .?"

As if on cue, Jiraiya turned around and gain a perverted expression. "Well, Hanzaki treated me to a lot of special services at the Fūma Bar and asked me to look after Sasame. . ."

And also on cue the hot headed members of the trio were left in complete anger and annoyance. "WHAT!?" They shouted with indignation as the went and grabbed the annoyed Sannin by his collar.

"You Ero-sennin! Do you ever think or act without your limbido in the way!?" Satsuki shouted while shaking the older man viciously.

"I feel cheated for even considered giving you any credit at all!" Naruto added while trying to bite the man's face like a mad dog.

"I knew it. . ." Hinata muttered with a depressed and disappointed tone as once again her respect for the Sannin as a decent person fell even more.

"H-Hey! It's alright once in awhile, right?" Jiraiya got out as he was trying to push the two indiginated hotheads off him. "There's something called socializing for adults. . .OW!" He tried to reason but was cut out from the blond biting his finger.

As this banter continued, Sasame could only watch on with an amused yet content expression as she was glad that they had someone like them helping her.

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Meanwhile in Konoha. . .

At the market area of Konoha, Kiba and Tayuya were walking with her holding a few bags full of clothing and underwear. However it wasn't quite a pleasant walk through town as the kunoichi had a clear irritated expression.

"Fuck, when I said I wanted to get some things, I didn't meant I needed a fuckin' nanny. . ." Tayuya muttered in annoyance.

Said nanny could only let out a sigh. "I know. . .but it's kinda my job to follow you. . ." Kiba however reminded as he walked besides the girl with Akamaru resting on his head.

The dark pinked could only tisked with irritation to that reminder. "I just need to get new clothes. . ." Tayuya then stated in annoyance.

Kiba knew that it was reasonable to want most new clothes and he was fine with letting her do it by herself. But he also didn't want to either the Hokage or his mom getting pissed for lack of effort, especially at him. So he had to follow her to make sure she was supervised at all times or risk facing their wrath.

However at thinking of clothing, a thought came to the Inuzuka's mind. "But wouldn't that be a problem? I mean you sort off. . .torch them to a crisp every so often." He however pointed out with a slight blush on his face.

The Inuzuka could still recall the first time it happened at the hospital and sometimes back at the Inuzuka estate as well. Everytime the kunoichi's mind wondered absently, her new fire base powers would spontaneously come out of her entire body, not enough to cause a major fire, just to incinerate her clothing.

Thankfully, such occurrences would happen inside of the house, so almost no one of the Inuzuka clan saw that moment of incineration. . .except him, which resulted in another beating and another pervert accusation.

At hearing that, Tayuya's eye began to twitch involuntarily as she also recalled those moments. "Which is why I need a lot of spare clothes." She countered with a clear tone that she was holding her temper back, as she didn't want to cause a scene out of the Inuzuka estate and risk setting something ablaze.

"I get that. . ." Kiba got out as he didn't want to push the kunoichi patience any more than he had to. "But I still have to follow you though. . ." He then added with a sigh escaping his lips.

Tayuya closed her eyes and took a deep breath to try and calm herself, after managing to do so she then shove all the bags onto the Inuzuka. "Well since you have to come with me, your gonna be holding all the stuff I buy now." She then remarked while crossing her arms over her chest.

Kiba in response rolled his eyes to that. "Women. . ." He muttered in annoyance. "Just don't abuse the money that Lady Tsunade is using to fund you." He then stated, only to receive an annoyed tisked from the kunoichi. "I know that's it's annoying to have someone following around you all the time, but you'll only need to get used to it until your probation and then you'll be able to go around by yourself." He soon added while rolling his eyes.

"Yeah yeah, be a good girl and all that shit." Tayuya waved off while also rolling her eyes as she then look at the stores. "Still have to admit this place has a lot of nicer clothes than I thought." She then remarked with an honest surprise tone.

KIba in response to hearing that chuckled. "Huh, so you are actually a girl." He remarked in amusement.

"What gave it away, my tits or my ass?" Tayuya countered in an annoyed yet amused tone while a smirk on her face, unaware of her left eye flashing blue. "Because even if their smaller than before, their still finer than others your age~" She then remarked in a more playful manner towards herself while licking her lips.

The Inuzuka nearly trip on his feet while doing a double take. "O-Oi! Keep that to a low tone!" Kiba whispered loudly with a large embarrassed tone.

Then Akamaru lean forwards and look at his partner with a shit eating grin. "You didn't exactly denied it though" He commented with raspy chuckle escaping his voice.

However before the Inuzuka could retord, Tayuya got herself closer to her escort as she smirked in a more seductive manner. "Like I haven't seen you checking my goods like a horny dog, my cute little puppy-kun~" She soon remarked in amusement.

Both partner's jaw comedically dropped all the way to the ground while having a massive blush on their face to the girl getting so close to the Inuzuka. "C-Cute!? P-Puppy-kun!? The hell's up with this chick all of a sudden!?" He thought in confusion to this sudden shift in the girl's tone.

While Akamaru was still stupified by the very different attitude, his little eyes notice that the kunoichi's eye was glowing slightly blue. "Arf?" He quietly barked out to himself. "Blue? Wasn't her eyes normally brown?" He thought with a confusion tone.

As the two continued looking closely at one another, the blue vanished from Tayuya's eye as they then widened in shock and confusion. "What the fuck!?" She got out as she jumped away from the boy. "Oi! Don't get so close to me you horny dog!" She soon demanded.

Kiba however gained a tick mark to that. "What!? Your the one that got close to me!" He soon countered.

"The hell I did!" Tayuya retorted in denial and with indignation.

Akamaru could only let out a low sad growl could at that. "This is going to be while. . ." He thought to himself with a sad yet annoyed tone.

As the two continued shouting, all of the bystanders merely look on and decided to continue with their shopping as most simply thought it was a lover's quarrel. Which made some single guys tisk with jealousy, while the girls just giggled with amusement to the interaction.

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At Orochimaru's secret base. . .

It wasn't but a few minutes since the group managed to arrive at the infamus Konoha's traitors secret base. However they stopped a few feet away behind a large tree root as they first observed it incase of any enemy shinobi were guarding the entrance.

"There it is. . ." Sasame declared with a quiet tone.

"Alright, leave the rest to us." Jiraiya informed.

"Sasame-chan, please be careful on your way back to the inn." Satsuki got out in concern.

"And don't worry! We'll absolutely bring Arashi back!" Naruto reassured.

Though still very concern written all over the orangette's face, she still nodded. Then she jumped off the large root and before she left she turned her head towards the group. "Please take care of Arashi-niichan!" Sasame requested with a slight pleading tone.

With a large grin on the blond's face, he gave a thumbs up. "Leave it to me! Just wait and rest assured that I'll do everything I can!" Naruto declared.

This got the orangette to smiled happily and gain a small blush on her face as she then nodded happily and then left the area.

DOOM!

Naruto's entire body tense as he felt a massive and terrifying killing intent straight at him. His head slowly turn towards his right and his eyes widen in pure terror as he saw the terrifyingly sweet smiles on both of the girl's faces.

"Naruto-kun~ aren't you sweet towards Sasame-chan" Hinata began with a terrifyingly sweet tone.

"Yeah. . .you were Naru-kun~" Satsuki replied in agreement. "Especially with your future wives around." She then reminded in the same tone as the Hyuga.

Naruto began to sweat gallons of cold sweat as he couldn't even muster the courage to say anything to defend himself.

"As much as I would rather take notes on my grandson's first hand experience on dealing with a woman's jealousy. . ." Jiraiya began to say with a humorous tone.

"O-Oi!" Naruto got out in a nervous manner as he felt he was being left to the wolves, very angry, annoyed and jealous woves.

However, in an instant the Toad Sage's expression turn completely serious. "We have a mission to do." Jiraiya declared as he turned to face the entrance. "Hinata, use your Byakugan to scan the area." He then ordered.

As if being splash with a bucket of ice cold water, the trio instantly calmed down as they entered into their shinobi mindset. Then they all gaze back at the entrance with dead serious expression on their faces.

Hinata wordlessly activated her Byakugan and quickly gave an intense scan on both the entrance and the area around it. "I don't see any enemies around the area." She reported with a hint of relief in her tone, however she then frown. "However I can't seem to look pass the entrance." She then informed.

Jiraiya nodded in confirmation at that. "Not surprising, Orochimaru is an expert in hiding his secret bases. I wouldn't be surprised if he did something that not even your Byakugan could see." He replied. "Let go to the front first." He then instructed.

The trio nodded and then with a flash, the group disappeared via Shishin and appeared right next to the entrance. Once there they leaned on the sides to look into the large gate entrance as they tried to take a look before going inside.

"Looks like this is the only entrance. . ." Jiraiya informed. "Hinata, are you sure there weren't any traps?" He then questioned.

To that question, Hinata activated her Byakugan once more and shook her head. "While there aren't any in the entrance, I can't see anything deeper than ten metters, but I'm confident that there isn't anyone watching." She soon informed. "Anything deeper however. . ." She began before trailing off.

Thee Toad Sage took a thinking pose at hearing that. "Orochimaru probably made it so that anyone with a unique skill would make them believe that their isn't and made any real security deeper inside to ambush them." Jiraiya deducted as he let out a sigh of defeat. "We'll just have to head into his lair." He then stated.

"But if that's true, wouldn't that mean we'll be easily picked off?" Satsuki then asked with a concerned tone of the possibility of being ambush.

Though the blond nodded in agreement he still look at the entrance with a narrow gaze. "Yeah, but there's nothing we can do but to go in!" Naruto then declared with conviction.

"But still. . ." Hinata hesitantly started in concern.

"Easy you three, don't panic. If four large rats go in at the same time, they'll stand out like a sore thumb." Jiraiya replied."First, let's sent out someone that won't stand out."

"Like who?" Satsuki soon asked.

Instead of answering, the Toad Sage bit his thumb and then slammed his hand on the ground. "Summoning Jutsu!" Jiraiya declared.

POOF!

The next moment a small dark orange toad appeared on the ground. "Yo!" The toad cheerfully greeted.

Upon seeing the toad, the blond shinobi gain a large smile of happiness. "Hey! It's been a while Gamakichi!" Naruto greeted.

"Yeah, been wondering when you'll summon me." Gamakichi replied.

"Oh, sorry about that, things have been a little hectic for a long time after the last time we saw you. . ." Naruto then admitted as the girls nodded in agreement.

"More than dad about to fight that big purple snake?" Gamakichi then asked in a rhetorical tone..

The trio looked at each other and gain various degrees of expressions. "Even more. . ." Hinata vaguely replied.

"Damn! You guys have been having way to much fun without me!"

"Trust me. . .it wasn't. . ." Naruto then got out.

Then a thought came to the female Uchiha smiled widely. "Oh yeah! Aoda might be able help too!" Satsuki replied in realization as she bit her thumb and slammed it to the ground. "Summoning Jutsu!" She declared.

POOF!

Immediately from the smoke, the blue snake appeared. "Ah, it isssss good to sssssee you again, Sssssatsuki-sssssama." Aoda greeted in respectful manner.

Smiling to that greeting, the Uchiha brought her arm out as the snake slither up onto her shoulder. "You too Aoda, sorry I haven't summoned you since everything with Danzō." Satsuki apologized. "So how are things with Manda?" She then asked.

"Hm. . .annoyed, but he'ssssss been keeping towardsssss himself." Aoda replied. "Though the other sssssnakes are ssstill quite satissssfied with no longer being under Orochimaru's command." He then revealed. "Well the more bloodthirssssty onesss, I for one, am glad we no longer asssssociate with that dissspicable human." He soon admitted.

"And once again, you won some major points from me Aoda." Satsuki replied with a grin.

Jiraiya then clapped his hands together to get the group's attention once more. "Alright, alright, that's enough of all of you catching up on things. Gamakichi. . ." He began to say before he turned towards the snake summon. "And you should go as well, Aoda, I wanted to ask you two to do some reconnaissance." He soon requested.

"Alright! That's a simple task. Leave it to me!" Gamakichi declared with confidence as he began hopping towards the entrance.

"If Satsuki-sama wants me too, than I will." Aoda replied with a nod.

"Yes please." Satsuki responded as she returned the nod with her own. "And be sure to keep any snakes from eating Gamakichi." She whispered to the small snake.

"I heard that!" Gamakichi exclaimed down the stair way of the entrance.

There was a ghost of a smile on the little snake summon's mouth as it then slither towards the other summons.

"Alright alright, enough of that." Jiraiya got out. "Jeez, still crazy that Orochimaru lost the usage of snake summons." He remarked.

"It's still a good thing either way. Mainly because there was no way I was gonna let that pedo get away with lying to Manda." Satsuki meanwhile pointed out with a grin, before she stopped as she saw the other looking at her with a deadpan expression. ". . .well despite him also being a huge asshole." She then quietly added.

The group then followed after the two little summons down the staircase of the entrance.

Gamakichi stopped as he observed the entrance carefully. "There doesn't seem to be anything fishy. . ." He revealed more so to himself.

The small snake summon slithered and stopped beside the orange toad, then he pulled his tongue out a few times. "I do not sense anyone's presence either." Aoda then informed.

The orange toad merely rolled his eyes at that. "Yeah, I can see that just fine. . ." Gamakichi retorted as he hopped forward.

And with that the two summons began heading down stairs, while the occasional banter could be heard echoing.

"There doesn't seem to be a trap at the entrance." Jiraiya soon stated. "Let's go." He all but instructed.

Just a small distance away from the entrance, Sasame look on as the group began entering. "Arashi-niichan. . ." She thought to herself as she closed her eyes and put her hands together to give a small prayer.

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At the staircase. . .

They slowly descended downwards, stopping every other step when both summons stop to check for anything suspicious. Gamakichi was using his senses to check for any potential traps, while Aoda was using his tongue for anyone hiding nearby.

As they continued heading down and forced to stop every so odd step, a raising fear would filled them as they never know if there would be a deadly trap or an enemy waiting for them. This continued for several minutes as their fears slowly began to increase with each step. Thankfully there was nothing of the sort as they all finally reached an underground cavern like area that had three entrances.

The toad sage crossed his arms as he looked at the three potential paths. "Hmm. . ." Jiraiya got out in a puzzled tone.

Naruto on the other hand let out a low groan. "Great, what are we going to do?" He got out as he didn't like the idea of three different paths.

Jiraiya took a couple of steps forward and took a thinking pose. "It seems there's no choice but to split up into three." He then decided.

This however caused the bluenette to frown with worry and turn to look at the Sannin. "Is that wise?" Hinata however asked in concern.

The white haired man in response shook his head to the question. "No it wouldn't, especially when its Orochimaru's lair." Jiraiya all but confessed in a serious tone. "But I think you three are capable to handle anything you may fine." He then assured.

Upon hearing that reassurance, the trio couldn't help but smile to the trust the Sannin had given them.

The now fully confident jinchūriki grinned widely as he began heading towards the three paths. "Alright then! My instinct tells me that the middle one is right path!" Naruto declared with a confident filled tone.

"Wait!" Jiraiya suddenly called out while putting his hand forward.

The trio were instantly alerted by this and nearly made the blond fall, but was able to stop himself just in time. "What!? What's wrong!?" Naruto soon asked with an alert filled tone.

"At times like this, it's especially important to move carefully. . ." Jiraiya informed in a serious tone.

While this made the blond frown, the bluenette however nodded in agreement. "I agree, we must be careful." Hinata replied with the toad Sage's reasoning.

"Yeah, we don't know what could be up ahead." Satsuki got out in agreement as well.

Naruto couldn't help but frown sadly, if even the girls agreed with the perverted sage, than that would mean that he had to listen to him as well and not follow his gut.

Suddenly Jiraiya pulled out a retractable metal polepole, he span it around a few times before slamming it onto the ground as hard as he could.

"!?" The trio were left completely stun and baffled by the sudden action of the Toad Sage as they could only waited for the man to finish what he was doing.

Jiraiya remained in that position for a few seconds before he let go of the pole and simply fell to the ground, facing towards the right door entrance. "Alright, i'll go this way!" He declared while pointing at his choice.

THUD! THUD! THUD!

In perfect unison all three chunins fell the ground at hearing that but the two hotheaded ones quickly got back up and glared at the Toad Sage with an annoyed expressions.

"Are you kidding me dattebakon!?" Satsuki exclaimed with great irritation.

"What the hell was different from my instinct and that, Ero-sennin dattebayo!?" Naruto meanwhile asked with an annoyed tone.

Though much more compose that the other two, the bluenette stood back up with a disappointed expression on her face. "I can't believe I wholeheartedly agreed with you before you did something so childish. . ." Hinata mumbled out while cupping her face in shame.

"Well, it's a question of feeling. . ." Jiraiya tried to reason before pushing both the blond and ravenette away from him. "If you haven't found anything after 30 minutes, come back to this place or send a Shadow Clone. Understood?" He then ordered with a moderately serious tone.

With a large heavy sigh, the Uchiha and Uzumaki nodded. "Fine. . ." The two got out in unison.

"However, you three should go together." Jiraiya soon advised while taking a few steps forward. "While I did mean what I said about you being able to handle it, I also know that you can do so if you work together." He then explained.

To that, the trio looked at each other and smiled as they then turned towards the Sannin and nodded in unison.

Jiraiya then began adjusting his headband. "Alright listen well, from this point forward, there's nothing we can predict what may happen." He then informed. He stated as he gained a serious expression. "Because there could be mutated shinobis here. . ." He quickly added with a grim tone.

"!?" The trio's were instantly shock at hearing that. Since this was the former snake sannin's base they had forgotten that there was the possibility of encountering more abominations.

". . ." Hinata gain a very scared and concerned expression as the memories of her encounter with the spider mutated shinobi still haunted her memories.

While both the Uzumaki and Uchiha haven't encountered on, they could still feel the terror on both their friends and Hinata's expression when they told their encounters. And because of those retallings, they knew that mutated shinobi's are much more dangerous than most regular shinobi's and even giant snake summons.

Upon seeing the clear serious yet worrisome expression on the younger generation, the toad sage nodded that they are taking this serious now. "Stay vigilant and watch each other's backs." Jiraiya instructed with a dead serious tone.

They all took a deep breath as they began to calm down and focus on for whom their doing this for. Then the image of a sad Sasame appeared on their minds, this gave them new found resolve, all three tighten their headbands while gaining serious expressions as they look at each other and nodded in unison.

"Then we're going down the middle!" Naruto declared as he and his fiancés walked towards the second path.

"Well I'll take the left one." Gamakichi soon informed as he hopped towards the last path.

"See ya. . ." Jiraiya nonchalantly said while walking towards the first path.

The Uchiha stopped as she knelt down to look at the small face summon. "Aoba, could you go with him? I know he can take care of himself, but I'd feel better if he had someone to watch his back." Satsuki soon requested while giving a smile.

The small snake summon looked up and gave a nod. "Assssss you wish, Satsuki-ssssssama." Aoda responded with loyalty.

Just as the orange toad had entered the path, he suddenly poke his head out. "I don't need help!" Gamakichi however declared in an irritated manner.

"I don't like it either, however it was Satsuki-sama's wish so I will fulfill her request." Aoda soon reminded.

"Tsk! Whatever. . ." Gamakichi grumbled out as he re enter the path while his unwanted companion slithered towards him.

"Call me crazy but I don't think Gamakichi doesn't really like Aoda. . ." Satsuki deadpanned as she quickly catch up with the others.

At hearing that, the blond shinobi gave a half closed stared at the ravenette. "Umm. . . did you see not how their bosses act with each other?" Naruto also deadpanned.

At recalling how those two boss summon's interacting with one another, Satsuki couldn't help but sweatdrop. "Right. . ." She got out.

"Well, its common that snake and toads don't get along well to begin with." Hinata meanwhile clarified while frowning with a worried expression. "It makes me wonder if they'll be alright." She then admitted with concern.

"We'll just have to wait and see." Satsuki simply replied while shrugging her shoulders.

The blond shinobi then smack his right fist into his left palm. "Alright, then let's go find Arashi and maybe even those two traitors." Naruto then declared with a fierce grin on his face.

The girls from Team Seven nodded in agreement and then began heading down their darkened corridor.

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With Jiraiya. . .

The Toad sage quickly saw that his path had a different scene and ambient then when he first entered the cave system. Instead of flames, there were now lights from the ceiling as they dangled from side to side.

Sensing this change, Jiraiya stop as he carefully look around as his nose suddenly twitch a bit. "Hmm. . .the smell of face powder." He commented more so to himself.

And then a bit further away a light appeared in the form of open door and the sound of a musical instrument echoed through the cave.

This caused the Toad Sage to smirk in amusement. "I'm being invited in. . ." Jiraiya calmly informed with a jokingly manner to himself. "In that case, it might be good fun to accept the invitation." He mentally added as he walked towards the source of the light.

The moment the older man passed through the light he saw a woman in a kimono playing a koto instrument in the middle of a four paper walls.

Then the woman suddenly stop and gave the white haired man a very ominous gaze. "Because guests would be arriving from far away, I was directed by Orochimaru-sama to entertain." She said with a calm and slight flirtatious manner.

Jiraiya however wasn't confused or surprised by this in the slightest. "I'm guessing it's a type of fox raccoon ghost. . ." He joked with an amused tone.

The kimono woman's expression didn't waver or felt insulted in the slightest at the comment. "If you're saying I'm some raccoon or fox, you ought to come over here and check to see if I have a tail or not." She countered with the same tone.

"Oh, this path was right on. . ." Jiraiya soon thought in amusement. "How about yours, Naruto?" He then mentally asked himself.

However unnoticed by the Toad Sage, the mysterious woman's hair began to wiggle in almost unnatural manner.

---

With the trio. . .

The trio from team seven walked through the cavern, everything was seemingly looked the same as before. However, they knew that this didn't mean it wasn't any less dangerous if they lead their guard down.

"Girls, we better be careful!" Naruto informed as he took point from the three. "There's no telling what sort of traps there might be. . .or worse." He then added in a foreboding manner.

The female Uchiha frowned at that and gave a single nod. "Yeah, it's already bad that we're in the pedo's lair, but now we have to deal with literal monsters." Satsuki got out in agreement.

Hinata activated her Byakugan to try and scan the area, only to let out a sigh. "I still can't see pass the walls. . ." She informed in a concerned manner.

"It ain't your fault Nata-chan." Satsuki replied in a reassuring tone, thought she couldn't help but also feel unease of not being able to know what could be in the shadows.

The blond shinobi nodded while having a reassuring smile."No use worrying about that now, we'll just be more careful." Naruto also got out as he began to take point.

The two kunoichi regained their confidence and smiled to that advice. "Hai!" The blond's fiancées replied in unison agreement and follow after said blond.

As the trio began walking through the corridors, everything was dead silent. While they were a bit reassure, that quickly began waving as they continued venturing, this was reflected with their nerves tensing every time they thought they saw any potential traps or enemies.

Tap!

"Eh?" The trio got out in confusion to hearing that, then when they lower their heads to find the source of the sound, they saw that the Uzumaki's foot that stepped on some sort of switch.

Bop!

Then part of the ceiling open to revealed multiple bamboo spears, the trio looked up and were momentarily stunned at the appearance of them. However that quickly change when their survival instincts kicked in and their faces turn to terror as they made a mad dash to escape.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The next moment all of the spears were launched at rapid velocity at the trio. "Oh crap!" The Uzumaki and Uchiha exclaimed in panicked unison while nearly being impaled by the spears.

With a somewhat messy performance, the trio managed to barely escape the trap with no real injuries. However they weren't very proud of the less than elegant running skills.

After they had managed to escape the corrader of the spears, they began slightly panting, not because they were out of breath but more so out of fright. "TOO CLOSE!" The Uzumaki and Uchiha exclaimed in an exaggerated manner.

"I agree. . ." Hinata got out as she took in a breath to calm herself. "Though. . .we should watch our step from here on." She then advised.

The Uzumaki's head jerked up at hearing that. "R-Right. . ." Naruto awkwardly replied in agreement with shame.

After calming down, the trio continued their walk through the corridor, making sure to watch for any details that would possibly trigger a trap of sorts. However, to both their surprise and relief, they didn't see or encounter any more traps that the initial one.

Eventually, the corridor came to an end as the trio found themselves in a dimly lit open room that was a bit more space than the last, which meant more room for fighting or running if need be, causing them to sigh in relief.

"Guess we were worried over nothing." Hinata muttered as the others of Team Seven nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, it's way better to deal with traps than ghosts." Naruto then remarked with a slightly overly happy manner.

The two kunoichis couldn't help but sweatdrop at that as they knew of the blond's irrational fear of the supernatural spectrums.

"Ebiiiiiiii. . ." The sound of a chilling cry was heard from a distance.

However that sense of confidence was shattered to pieces the moment they heard that sound as terror began to fill into their hearts, which was reflected in their faces more so onto the blonds face. They quickly went back to back in a triangular formation, trying to make sure not to leave the other's back vulnerable.

"W-W-What was that. . .?" Naruto asked with a somewhat terrified voice as he frantically looked everywhere.

"I don't know, but anyone can tell where that sound came from?" Satsuki soon asked in a serious tone.

The Hyuga simply shook her head to that question. "No. . ." Hinata replied in concern.

However this did little to calm the steadily terrified blond. "Better not be a ghost. . .better not be a ghost. . .BETTER NOT BE A GHOST!" Naruto soon chanted to himself with terror.

The two kunoichi's merely sweatdrop in perfect unison at that. "I. . .do not think that's that case Naruto-kun. . ." Hinata responded with a deadpan tone as well as trying to calm the blond. "However if I would have to guess. . ." She then commented with a slight hinting in her tone.

The Uchiha couldn't help but frown as she manages to get what her teammate was hinting towards. "It's one of the pedo's mutant experiments?" Satsuki soon deducted.

"It's most likely." Hinata once more responded as she scanned the area. "So it is not a ghost Naruto-kun." She then stated, trying to calm the terrified blond.

WHOOSH!

"EBI!" A shrill and high pitched voice screeched out in an over dramatic manner.

However before the blond could even think of a replay, from the shadows a large muscular humanoid-like creature appeared, however what was unique about it was that it had a large shrimp like head and slightly scaly skin.

". . .What?" The trio got out as they were left completely baffled, but not out of fear or terror, more so out of confusion than anything else over how ridiculous it looked.

The blond shinobi blinked his eyes a few times as he was trying to confirm what he was seeing. "Am I seeing this right or am I actually seeing some sort of. . ." Naruto began to say with a very confused tone.

"Shrimp monster?" Satsuki finished the blond's sentence with an equally confused tone. "Yeah, I'm seeing it too." She then added.

The Hyuga simply nodded to that question. "This is nothing like what me and Neji-niisama fought." Hinata meanwhile stated.

"EBI!" The mutant screeched as it opened its shrimp-like mouth and began firing bullets of water.

"!?" The trio's eyes widen in pure shock as they send chakra to their feet and got out of the way.

No sooner that the trio moved did that water bullets passed the area they were a moment ago. Then the bullets hit the stone wall and completely passed through them like a hot knife on butter.

It was then that the shrimp mutant began to rushed at the trio in a sloppy manner. "EBIBIBIBIBIBI!" It then chanted out in a rapid manner.

The blond was instantly on alert and took his battle stance. "Ok! This thing's dangerous! Get ready!" Naruto declared while taking out a kunai on both hands. He hated the fact that he couldn't use his sword in such a narrow area.

"Hai!" The two heiress replied in unison agreement as they also going in position, however like the blond, the Uchiha couldn't use her blade either.

As the monster charge at the trio, the blond took point as he did his signature hand seal. Then three copies of the blond appeared and charged the monster. Two clones used their kunais to block the two muscular arms as they slid backwards and managed to slow its made charge.

Then the final clone jumped above the two clones and gave a drop kick straight at the monster's large shrimp head. This causes it to lose some balance and stuttered backwards, it almost lost all of it when the two clones began pushing back.

Before the monster could even think of countering, the two clones dispelled and causing it to nearly fall forwards. But when it tried desperately to stop himself from falling, they bluenette kunoichi appeared right in front of the now very vulnerable front.

"Eight Trigrams! Thirty-Two Palms!" Hinata quietly declared as a rapid blows of two finger thrusts landed on the monster's body.

"EBI!" The shrimp monster shriek in pain as it felt most of his major chakra points being shut down.

"Take this!" Satsuki declared as she clenched her hand. "Chidori!" She revealed as the sound of chirping birds was heard while the Uchiha's hand crackled with lightning.

VRRRRRR!

While it wasn't a full powered one, it was a low charged meant to paralyzed than to kill."EBIIIIIIII!" The shrimp mutant screamed in even more pain and its body began spazing erratically from the electrical currents coursing through it.

After the smoke began appeared out of the monster's body, the ravenette shushin backwards, the moment she did, the original blond shinobi had already finished charging and compressing his most powerful jutsu.

"Ebi?" The very confused monster got out as he couldn't processed what was happening anymore from the agonizing pain it was feeling.

The blond shinobi then thrusted his dominant hand forward and slammed his jutsu into the helpless monster's torso. "Rasengan!" Naruto roared with power.

FWOOSH! BOOM!

The monster flew backwards at full speed until it reached the end of the hall and crash into a wall, destroying it in the process. "EBIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The mutant let out a death wail before it then melted into a black puddle of bubbling goo that soon evaporated.

Then there was silence in the area, as no more sounds of the monster or the trio were heard from a few moments.

The blond shinobi, who still had his arm stretch, looked at the liquified remains of the fallen monster with a confused expression. "Ugh. . .Is it just me. . .or was that monster. . ." Naruto started with a confused tone.

The kunoichis then drop their stance as they look at each other and nodded. "Weak?" Hinata and Satsuki finished in unison.

The blond in response nodded to the finished statement and turn to look at the bluenette. "Hinata-chan, didn't you say that those mutated shinobi you and the others faced were insanely strong?" Naruto then asked.

The Hyuga also nodded with a daze and baffled expression to the question. "Y-Yes, however this one wasn't even remotely close to the one I faced." Hinata informed the blond.

"Yeah. . .I thought so. So why was this one so weak?" Naruto got out as he then sweatdropped. "I was expecting a way tougher fight than. . .well this." He added with a deadpan tone

Hinata then took a thinking position as she thought of an answer. She then quickly recalled all of the fighting ability from the two monsters she had faced. "Could it be that this one was simply weaker or failed to reach the same level as the one I fought?" She then deducted with a pondering tone.

"Well it was a mutated shrimp monster that kept shouting ebi in a ridiculous manner every second. . .I doubt it would be as strong as that spider monster one." Satsuki got out with a sweatdrop.

"Maybe. . .it's not just the animal its base on that gives them such strength. . ." Hinata then muttered, more so to herself.

However the bluenette's teammate's still managed to hear that. "What do you mean?" Naruto then asked.

However before the Hyuga could reply. . .

"Eeeeebbbbbbbbiiiii!" The sounded sound of a very familiar shriek was heard.

The trio blinked a few times at hearing that and turn towards the source of the sound, they quickly realized that it came from the same direction the wall that the remains of the now defeated monster, had crashed into.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

Then the sound of heavy steps came one after the other and what looked like a hundred or so of the same shrimp like monster began coming out of the broken wall. Each of them letting out their own version of the same weird shriek.

The trio looked on with expressions of shock and terror at the sight of the sheer massive numbers of shrimp like monsters walking slowly towards them.

The blond took an involuntary step back. "Ah. . .girls. . .I think we should. . ." Naruto began with clear terror in his voice.

"Retreat. . .?" The Hyuga and Uchiha Heiresses guessed at the same time while they also took a few steps back.

Naruto then began to take even more back steps as a terrified chuckle escaped his lips. "I was actually going to say run for our lives, but yeah, let's go with that. . ." Naruto awkwardly replied with a forced grin that was filled with fear.

"EBIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The massive hoard of shrimp like shriek in unison as they all made a mad charge at the trio.

"WAAAAH!" The trio shouted in terror as they turned around and made also made a mad dash, but in an attempt to run away.

As the trio ran through the caves, they continued to do so while dodging the monsters water bullets. While each narrowly missing the trio, they still knew that they couldn't fight back as the sheer numbers and the narrow areas would make it next to impossible to do so. And then as they took a sharp turn down a corner. . .

Step!

The blond's feet activated a tile-like switch, which almost caused him to trip. "W-Whoa!" Naruto got out in shock, but managed to stop himself from falling.

This caused the two kunoichi's to stop and turn around. "Naruto-kun!?" The girls called out in concern.

Whirl!

Suddenly the trio began to hear the sound of sharp objects coming their way. Then the moment they turn their eyes widen to near comical levels at the sight of incoming shurikens heading straight at them.

"Naruto-kun!" The two kunoichi exclaimed once more, only this time with a reproching tone.

"MY BAD!" Naruto apologized as his eyes widen to comedic size.

With creative, yet comical dodging maneuvers, the trio manage to dodge most of the shurikens and escape mostly unscathed. And by fortune or just dumb luck, some of the shurikens manage to hit a few of the monsters killing them and turning them into black goo. However this did nothing to lessen their numbers as the rest continued their mad charge towards the intruders.

The trio then quickly ran towards a corridor and jumped left, which allowed them to avoid the rest of the barrage of shurikens. The new hall was much larger than the previous one, then they ran for a few more meters until they were safe enough and took this chance to catch their breaths.

The blond then began frantically scratch his head. "What's up with this insane place dattebayo!?" Naruto complained with irritation.

"I have no idea!" Satsuki exclaimed back, also irritated by this development.

However before the trio could regain their wits the horde slid around the corner while frantically looking for the intruders. "EBBBBBBBBBI!" The moment they saw the trio, the shrimp mutants all screeched out in unison and continued rushing towards the trio, some even pushing each other out of the way to try to get at their targets.

"Ugh, great! They catching up!" Satsuki got out with irritation at the approaching monsters.

"I don't think retreading is the best strategy anymore, we're going to have to defeat them!" Hinata soon enough advised while getting ready for combat.

The blond slammed his fist into his opposite hand and grinned. "I was getting tired of running anyways!" Naruto shouted as he also took his battle stance.

Once the horde was about reached trio, they instantly began firing barrages of water bullets at them. The three then took evasive maneuvers and dodge the barrage.

The kunoichis meanwhile easily managed to dodge the attacks with elegant and graze as the attacks narrowly passed them. However because of the number of them they couldn't charge forward or they would risked being left like swish cheese.

The blond on the other hand use his kunais to deflect them, but he quickly realized that it was useless when the bullets literally cut them in half. "Ok, new plan!" Naruto shouted as he threw away the kunais and rushed at the monsters while doing his signature seal. "And by new I mean old!" He shouted.

POOF!

A dozen clones came into existence right above the original, they all ran via ceiling and then jumped onto the hoard. This caused the monsters on the front to crashed and fall onto the floor, some of the clones dispelled upon impact. However that caused a chain reaction that made the monster right behind them to trip on the fallen and also fall as well.

"Now!" Naruto thought to himself while he rushed at the fallen monsters.

The mutated shinobi quickly yet stumbly began to got back up while pushing or shoving the others out of their way. The ones that managed to stand up quick enough saw that blond coming their way. "EBIIII!" They screeched out, only to fall down because another monster pulled them down.

Not letting them tryin and regroup, the blond quickly headed for the few remaining clones that were still alive. And the moments the clone and the original looked into each other's eyes, the clones realized their creator's plan.

The moment the original reached them, the clones all grab any part of that they could and with a mighty pull. "Go long!" The clone shouted in unison and threw the original above the mutated shinobi.

The still stumbling monsters could do nothing but watch the blond fly above them until he landed right behind them.

Naruto and all the clones then turned to look at the two kunoichis. "Bullet barrage pincer attack!" They all declared the order.

The kunoichi's smiled widely at the crafty plan the blond came up on the fly. "Hai!" The blond's fiances replied in unison.

Thenn the trio and clones quickly made their respective hand seals and took a deep breath.

"Fire Style! Flare Bullets!" Satsuki thought as she spat fire.

"Water Style! Water Bullets!" Hinata also thought as she unleashed piercing water.

"Wind Style! Air Bullets!" Naruto and his clones declared and shot out speedy wind bullets.

FWOOSH! FWOOSH! SPLASH!

The mutated shrimp hoard didn't even see the barrage of attacks coming as they were bombarded by the different elemental bullets. Some were lucky and didn't get hit, others weren't as lucky as they were struck and killed by them, instantly turning them into goo.

After finishing the assault, the blond saw that there were still a good portion of them left. "Can't drag this fight to long!" Naruto thought to himself as an idea came to mind, making him grin. "Satsuki-chan! Let's make some fried shrimp!" He soon declared.

The bluenette was briefly confused by that, only to quickly understood what the blond meant and also let out a playful grin. "One order of fried shrimp coming up!" Satsuki replied with a hint of mischievous tone.

Then in near perfect timing, both the blond and ravenette rushed forward at the hoard. The remaining monsters that were still good to fight saw them and where about to also rushed at them, but before they could do so, both young shinobi's jumped backwards.

The two Konoha shinobi's then quickly made a different set of hand seals and took a deep breath. Then wind and fire chakra began to swell inside of their lungs and slowly build up to increase their power.

The moment the two jutsus reach their pinnacle point of power.

"Wind Style! Wind Breakthrough!" Naruto roared as he unleashed a powerful burst of wind.

"Fire Style! Flame Bullet!" Satsuki shouted and conjured a powerful stream of flames from her mouth.

Both jutsus flew from the two shinobi's mouths and flew towards the hoard. The wind jutsu blew through every monster that stood in its path, while the fire jutsu incinerate everything that came on contact.

Then the moment that both jutsus reached each other, there was a violent clash as the two elemental jutsu began twisting with each other and mixing immediately. "NEO FLARE TORNADO!" The Uchiha and Uzumaki mentally declared at the same time.

FWOOOOOOOOOOSH!

A small yet powerful flaming tornado then came to life at the center of the hoard as it began to suck in and incinerating everything in its vicinity. While it wasn't anywhere near as big in size as the one they used in the Land of Snow, it was more condensed and more stable than its parental jutsu, which resulted in it being much more powerful.

"EBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The hoard of shrimp mutant screeched in unison as they all melted into black bubbling puddles of goo.

Tap! Tap!

Both blond and ravenette landed at the same time, with the kunoichi landed next to the bluenette. "Yes! We did it!" Satsuki cheered as she high fived the Hyuga, who happily giggled in response.

Then the blond straighten himself and put his hands behind his head. "Ha! Those guys were all bark! They never had a chance against us!" Naruto gloated with a shit eating grin as he began walking towards the girls with a high and mighty manner.

Trip! Bam!

Only for Naruto to trip over a rope, causing him to fall face first. "Oh come on! What the hell is next!?" He soon asked/complain as he knew that more traps would follow by this.

Clank! Clank! Clank!

The blond's prayers were answered by the sound of multiple wooden-like sounds echoing just above them. Which caused all three of them to gain a terrored filled expressions.

The ravenette then turned towards the blond and look at him with an annoyed and tear filled eyes. "Naru-kun! Why did you jinx us!?" Satsuki exclaimed in disbelief to this happening.

Meanwhile the blond was looking at the trap with a terrified expression. "I'm wondering that myself!" Naruto replied with a frustrated yet terrified tone at his own blunder.

Whoosh! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!

Then by pure survival instincts the blond and the kunoichis jumped out of the way. While this successfully made the trio to avoid the trap, all of the bamboo spears created a makeshift barrier and because of their positions, Naruto was separate from the girls as he was on the other side of the barrier.

At seeing that the trio were now separated the bluenette turned towards the blond with worry clear on her face. "Naruto-kun! Are you alright!?" Hinata called out in concern.

The blond quickly check himself if there was any injury and let out a sigh when there wasn't. "Yeah! I'm ok!" Naruto soon informed dashed to the barrier and tried to break the bamboo's, but he quickly realized that they were much more durable than he thought. "No good, these things are tough. Guess I'll just-" He started as he was about to use a jutsu to break it, however. . .

CLANK!

But then suddenly, the ground underneath the blond opened up as said preteen comedically remain on mid air. "Eh?" The trio got out in confusion unison at the unusual occurrence.

Then after realizing what had just happened and looked down, the blond's eyes widen to dinner size plates when he saw not just the hole, but also the bamboo spikes at the bottom of the hole. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Naruto yelled as he fell down the hole, .

CLANK! SLAM!

Immediately after the blond had fallen in, the trap door closed up and then a large, and no sooner after that a large metal barrier slam right in front of the two kunoichis, effectively blocking the hallway.

"NARUTO-KUN/NARU-KUN!" Both heiresses exclaimed in unison as they ran towards the barrier and began striking at it.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

However their attacks did absolutely nothing to the thick metal, even when using reinforced chakra hits, in fact they were forced to quickly stop from the pain coursing through their hands.

"Naruto-kun! Are you alright?" Hinata soon called out with panic and concern.

"Yeah. . ." A low yet strain voice of Naruto could be heard via mental link.

Inside of the trap door, the blond shinobi was awkwardly upside down, holding onto one of the bamboo spikes and using it to not only stopping himself from falling but also from being impaled by them.

"Don't worry about me!" Naruto called out while trying to sound sure of himself, but failing miserably from his current position.

However, thanks to the fact that the kunoichi's couldn't see the blonds current state, they managed to relax at knowing he was alright. "I don't think we can help much from this side. This barrier is to strong." Satsuki stated in frustration. "Do you think you can use an Earth style jutsu to get yourself out of there?" She soon suggested via mental link.

". . .Yeah! I think I can. . .but I don't think I'll be able to do it quickly enough. . .!" Naruto replied while trying to readjust himself, only to nearly fall and quickly return to his original position. "You girls should get out of this shrimp monsters infested, deathtrap hallway!" He then added.

"But!" The two heiresses got out in concern.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine!" Naruto interrupted while nearly falling once more and was thankful that the girl's couldn't see his pitiful state that he was in. "I'll meet up with you later!" He then reassured.

Nibbling on their lips with worry, the two heiresses looked at one another. They both knew that they didn't have the necessary skills to brute force their way like their favorite blond, to they had to reluctantly agreed with the blond.

"Alright. . .We'll be waiting for you up ahead!" Hinata soon replied.

"Don't keep us waiting!" Satsuki then called out.

"I. . .won't!" Naruto struggled to called back which nearly made him fall once more. "Promise. . .I'll be there as fast as I can!" He then reassured. "You two keep each other safe until then!" He soon requested.

Then with one last look at the metal barrier the two smile as they knew that their favorite blond would keep his promise and then turned around and continued moving forward.

---

Elsewhere in the hideout. . .

The two little summons were continuing to investigate the hallway, thanks to their unique senses that came from their respective summon clans, neither fell for any traps as they saw it a mile away. Because of their senses, it resulted in a very boring and uneventful hopping and slithering for the respective summons.

The little orange toad summon stop for a moment and let out a tired yet annoyed sigh. "Why did I have to be with this guy?" Gamakichi grumbled out.

The snake in mention stopped and simply turn to look at the toad. "Ssssimple, Ssssatsuki-ssssama wasssss concern you'll encounter danger and sssought me to be appropriate to protect you." Aoda explained.

A large tick mark appeared on the small toad's head at hearing that. "Come again?" Gamakichi questioned. "You calling me weak!?" He demanded more than asked with a slight thug-like demeanor and nearly smack his head to the snake summon.

Contrast to the enraged toad summon, the small purple snake summon merely look on with a calm and composed manner. "I merely stating the fact of Satsuki-sama reasoning is all." Aoda calmly responded while being confused by the toad summon's reactions. "I do not see why your so upset." He then added while slightly tilted his head to the side.

"Ebiiiiiiiii. . ." Suddenly there was a low raspy groan echoed through the cave's walls causing both little summons to jolt in fright.

"Ah. . .What was that noise?" Gamakichi asked with a hint of fear in his tone.

Aoda turn and began using his tongue to try and find the source only to find nothing. "That isssssss sssstrange. . .I cannot detect any heat source." He then informed with concern clearly be heard in his tone.

"Ebiiii. . ." The raspy and inhumane voice groaned out.

Suddenly right behind the two little summons, the groan was suddenly heard, making them both flinch in fright. The two summons then slowly turn around and the moment they did their eyes began slowly widening in horror.

What was right behind the summons was a large humanoid monster with a monstrous shrip like head looking down at them. "EBIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The mutant screeched in a frantic it tried to catch the two little summons.

The moment this happened, both toad and snake jumped just in time to escape the monster's clutches. "AAAAAAAH!" Both little summons shouted in pure terror as they moved as fast as they could/

The monster looked at its hands and was briefly confused that it didn't catch its food. "EBIIIIIIIIII!" The monster left out another screeched of rage when it realized that the two summons had escaped and went after them.

WHOOSH!

As the two little summons continued to run from the monster, their animal senses picked up and approaching danger and jumped or slithered out of the way. Then the moment they did a water bullet landed on the area they were last.

"What the hell is that thing!?" Gamakichi screamed while hopping like mad from the floor, the walls and the ceiling in an attempt to dodge the deadly bullets.

"I do not know! It must be one of the dangers Satsuki-sama had warn us!" Aoda informed as he kept slithering like crazy, narrowing dodging every bullet aiming at him.

"I thought they were joking or just exaggerating about that!" Gamakichi countered.

"EBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The monstrous shrimp roared as it continued running and spitting its water bullets.

"Clearly it wasn't!" Aoda responded as a bullet narrowly hit him with a narrow margin.

"Oh shut it!" Gamakichi retorted as he didn't want or have time to banter with the snake summon.

Aoda briefly looked at the monster chancing them and couldn't help but gain a disgusted expression. "Orochimaru is indeed a piece of scum for performing these kind of experiments on mortal life!" He then declared as his disgust for the former Snake summoner return twofold.

"Ain't that the truth! Now keep moving!" Gamakichi got out in agreement as the two did as such.

Step!

No sooner that the orange toad had said that did, he landed on a specific tile and lean down. Then the moment he jumped away because of all of his build up momentum, a mechanical sound was then heard.

"Eh?" The two summons got out in confused unison.

CLANK!

Immediately, multiple metallic sounds began to echoed a few feet up head of the two summons. The sides of the walls fell downwards as if their were made of metal and in there place revealed roads and roads of kunais pointing to the opposite side of their respective wall.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Then every single road began to unleashed a lateral rain of kunais, shurikens and even arrows, each had minimal to no space of dodging for a regular human. However thanks to the two summons small sizes they successfully managed to dodge the hell barrage of projectiles.

"OH COME ON!" Gamakichi loudly exclaimed in annoyance while almost getting hit by the rain of kunais.

"Lessssss complaining, more dodging!" Aoda meanwhile instructed while narrowly dodging any kunai that was close enough to skin him alive.

Meanwhile the mutated shrimp monster continued chasing after the two summons, while somehow being able to escape being hit by any of the projectiles almost as if it somehow knew it wouldn't land on it.

"EBIIIIIIII!" It screeched once more while looking even more crazy than ever before and continued chasing with reckless abandonment.

Or it simply just had incredibly dumb luck. . .

Meanwhile, both of the summons were having the opposite side of that luck as they, and by they it actually meant for Gamakichi, as he keeps activating every single trap that was in their path, which resulted in even more traps being launched at them. So, suffice to say that the two small summons weren't having a good time and it only looked like it was going to get worse. . .

---

Within Konoha. . .

The two members of the Viper Squad as well as the smallest member's animal companions were still training in the backyard of the Team Seven Residence, however. . .

The youngest member of the team extended her hands forwards and crossed them by the ribs while raising her right knee. "Shiny shiny! Tiger!" Nina declared while the tiger cub was on her head.

"Mrow! Mrow~!" Ora meowed out with a kitten like ferocity. "Kurīchāmāji! Tiger~!" Was what she said before the two were enveloped in a white light.

Once the light ended, Nina stood there in her white tiger form and was taking a semi boxer stance, but with her hands were open as if they were claws. Unlike her normal self where she would attack in a wilder and slightly childish manner, she now looked more focus and calm.

"Nina-chan, this spar was suppose to help you get better at fighting without having you rely on Kurīchāmāji." Yami chidded in disapproval.

However the tiger girl continued looking at her teammate with focus and unfaltering eyes. "What kind of fighter would hinder themselves in an actual fight and not use their true strength. Especially if their shinobi who don't follow rules Yami-neechi." Nina however countered in a surprisingly mature tone while having a sassy grin on her face.

". . ." At those words, Yami was left completely baffled at both the logical reasoning and from the fact that it came from the wild girl's own mouth.

Meanwhile both older members of the group were just as baffled as the young female swordsman. "Ok. . .note to self, Nina's smarter when she's fused with Ora." Anko muttered to herself with an impressed tone.

Kurama meanwhile raised an eyebrow to that. Kurama then began to rub his chin from a phantom pain. "Was wondering why the first time we meet her, she fought way more efficiently, she was probably fuse with the sassy cat. . ." He commented more so to himself than to his mate. "New note about the wild child, she takes on some of her companion's personality from merging with them." He then added.

It was then the Yami recovered from her initial shock and frowned. "Still. . .we were doing this to measure your base skills and not your transformations." She once more reminded.

At that Nina's sassy grin soon replaced by a pouting one as she didn't have a counter for that statement. Then just when she was about to admit defeat and undo the transformation. . .

"I'll allow it." Anko suddenly declared and gaining both of her student's attention. "I want to see how she fights with that little sassy cat's brains." She informed with a smirk on her face.

To that, the kunoichi-samurai let out a sigh, but she still calmed down and nodded in response. "Very well Anko-sensei." Yami replied, respecting her sensei's decision, then she turned to face her teammate and took her sword stance. "Then I'll retract what I just said, so don't hold anything back Nina-chan." She soon requested.

To that, the tiger girl nodded back as her grin returned to all of its previous sassiness glory. "Very well." Nina replied as she got into a low stance.

The Nina took a more wild stance as she charged forward, with her arms being in a wide manner. It didn't take even a moment for her to reach her opponent.

Yami was momentarily surprised by the speed of her teammate, but then quickly recalled the white blur that was young appearing girl when they first met. Thanks to that, she quickly recover and dashed out of the way with equal speeds.

While missing the initial attack, Nina quickly use her eyes, ears and nose when into overdrive to pinpoint her opponent. Then her slit pupils narrowed as she felt a presence behind her and just as the female swordsman was about to strike, Nina jumped backwards narrowly dodging slash while gripping both of her hands together and swinging it downward in a hammer blow.

Yami quickly adjusted her blade, making sure to point the edgeless side upwards and put it above her head. She quickly regretted it when she felt the strong force of the attack and felt her entire body nearly given in. However he grinded her teeth and tilted her blade to the side, this gave her the momentum needed to throw the small girl off her.

But this hardly made any different for the tiger girl as she gracefully flip midair and landed on all four limbs. She glanced up and gave a sassy grin before dashing forward once more at rapid speeds.

Not letting the situation repeat itself over again, Yami this time took one step forward and vanished in an instant, leaving a snowflake like marking.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

The sound of metal hitting metal was heard echoing all over the room and flashes of after images could be seen from both of the girls. One second they were in a corner before vanishing and then appearing in another.

Suddenly both girls appeared after finishing their last clash, with Yami taking her sword stance once more while Nina taking her semi boxer stance. However now the female swordsman eyes widen when she saw that the younger girl's nails had grown larger via chakra.

"So, she uses chakra to make her nails as hard as iron in this state?" Yami thought, curious and surprised to witness this.

As if being able to read the older girl's mind, the tiger girl began moving her nails to show them off, but never letting down her pose or guard. "Tiger Style: Chakra Nails!" Nina announce while grinning widely at surprising her teammate. "I did say that in an actual fight and you should use your true strength." She soon requested.

The female swordsman instantly understood the intention of those words. "Then I should also get serious as well." Yami calmly replied as she once more readied and readjusted her blade, the sunlight shining off it as a result. "Come at me, Nina Dōbatsu." She soon commanded in a dead serious tone.

To that, the tiger girl grinned widely and nodded. "Hai!" Nina replied as she pounced forward while staying close to the ground as possible.

In a mere instant, the female swordsman vanished from here location before reappearing a few feet from the pouncing tiger girl she then unleashed two powerful slashes that took form of chakra slashes.

Then wild girl's pupils meanwhile shrank as she saw the incoming attacks, she was startled and confused that her eyes and ears didn't match how the attack was coming at her as well as a feeling coming from her tail. Not taking any chances she took a sharp turn to the right, narrowly dodging the slashes.

As Nina landed away from the reach of the chakra slashes, she narrowed her eyes while going on all fours. ". . ." She said nothing as she didn't thought on charging blindly anymore as her tail began wagging, almost as she was planning her next move.

"Looks like she realized about Yami-chan's little trick." Anko thought as she smirked at the tiger girl's actions. "Not bad, I heard that even that pretty boy had trouble figuring it out and only after taking a few hits too." She added in her head.

This caused Yami to slightly frown as she also came to the same conclusion. "But she won't be able to win if she keeps her distance. . .so what will she do?" She thought in a curious manner.

At that moment, chakra began gathering at the young appearing girl's legs as she dug them into the ground. "Here I come!" Nina declared as she then charged forward, rocketing at a powerful speed.

The while-light bluish haired girl narrowed her eyes in disappointment to witnessing this action. "Very well then. I'll just end this match. Naruto-sensei's kenjutsu, Blade Beam. . ." Yami calmly replied, whispering the last part to herself as she concentrates her chakra into her arms and slashed the air twice.

SLASH! SLASH!

Kurama meanwhile couldn't help but smirk in amusement as this fight eerily reminded him of his sister's own fighting style, which in turn got an idea of what the tiger girl was probably going to do next. "She's going to end it with a single final strike." He then declared in his head.

As Nina kept running, the chakra slashes continued getting closer to her, she suddenly closed her eyes. Then when a horizontal slash was about to strike her, her ear twitched for a moment and lean towards the left. This caused the attack to land, but resulting in no injury at all.

Then Nina quickly followed this by jumping above a vertical slash, spinning in the air while curled up in a white and black striped ball shaped form and like before, even though the attack landed it didn't harm her at all.

Yami couldn't believe her own eyes as the younger teammate had instantly found the safe areas of her hybrid jutsu. "How in the world!?" She thought in disbelief to this occurrence as she quickly tried to gain some distance in order to regroup and formulate another plan.

However the female swordsman didn't had time to ponder at the moment the spinning tiger girl landed on the ground she sprang forward, increasing her early speed by twice the amount. To which all that could be seen was the blurry grin on the tiger girl's face as she dashed at her opponent.

"!?" Yami's eyes immediately widened to witnessing this turn of events. ". . ." However she quickly narrowed her eyes as she knew that she wouldn't be able to dodge the incoming attack, so she decided to stop her retreat and retook her stance to counter at the last possible moment.

Kurama and Anko meanwhile raised their eyebrows to this display. "Time for the finale. . ." They both thought while secretly channeling chakra into their bodies if the need to intervene would occur, just in case of any possible accident.

As the spinning ball of white and black was but inches from reaching the kunoichi-samurai, she quickly raised her blade upwards and channeled as much chakra she could all over her body in order to increase the final attack.

Then with one powerful downwards swing, everything seem to slow down as the blade slowly began reaching the sphere shape tiger girl.

However at the last possible moment, the ball altered it direction and aimed down instead, then when she reached the floor, Nina return to her normal for and sproung her hand upwards and literally caught the blade between her thumb and index finger.

This immediately caused everyone minus the tiger girl's eyes to widen in surprise and shock to this display. "What!?" Yami finally managed to get out in complete and total shock at witnessing this turn of events.

Then the female swordsman desperately tried to pull back her blade from the girl's grip, but to her and everyone else's shock, she wasn't able to make its budge an inch no matter how hard she tried. This made not just her, but the others realized that the tiger girl's arm, or at the very least her grip strength, was beyond what her appearance would make one think.

"Whoa." Anko also got out to witnessing this demonstration of raw strength, while it was nowhere near the Fifth Hokage's hercule like strength, it was still impressive for one as tiny as the wild girl.

Meanwhile, Nina continued holding on the blade with little to no effort as she let out a fang filled grin. "I may forgot to say, but a clever cat will conceals a few tricks to fool its prey~" She soon purred out as she her eyes flash with a slight savage light before the tiger girl then cocked back her free hand.

Suddenly, Yami felt her survival instincts screaming at her as she could feel her life being in danger. However because of her pride as a swordsman, she refused to let go of her blade or yield, so in an instant, her eyes flashed with determination as she let one of her hand out of her grip and was about to risk it all in order to try to dodge the attack at the very last second.

Both girl's determination and will to not only win but also refusing to admit defeat could be felt from the aura around the two as they were locked in the stalemate. Then as their respective arms were about to reach each other. . .

GRIP! GRIP!

Suddenly two hand appeared out of nowhere and held both of the girl's arms. "Ok! That's enough!" Anko called out.

Because of the sudden hands holding the tiger girl's arm, it instantly stopped her strike at just a few inches away from hitting her teammates face.

FWOOOOOSH!

The moment she did so a strong burst of wind was created, making the silver-light blue haired teen's hair flow backwards, showing the power behind the punch.

However, in contrast to the powerful shock wave, the silver-light blue haired teen's had successfully managed to passed by the tiger girl's defences and was but a few inches away from striking her teammate's throat.

"Damn. . .these two are looking like the gaki, they seem to lack the understanding of holding back. . ." Anko thought to herself with a deadpan tone before letting out a sigh. "Truth been told, that was a close match." She then admitted as she walked towards her two bounded students. "But since both of you held back at the last moment to stop your attacks from causing any serious damage, I'll rule this spar a draw. Good work you two." She then informed with a proud grin on her face.

The moment those words were said, the atmosphere changed and all the tension vanished immediately as the two girls calmed down and smiled at each other. Then the rest of the O trio ran towards Nina and began barking or chirping happily.

"Thank you Anko-neechi." Nina replied with a surprisingly respectful bow, causing the others to once again show just how different she was at this moment. Then she turned to her teammate. "That was a great sparring match Yami-neechi." She then praised in a polite manner and with a toothy grin.

"Ok. . .hearing her talk like this weirds the hell out of me." Kurama bluntly remarked with a sweatdrop.

"Tell me about, so used to her normal speech manner that this sound so unreal." Anko also admitted as she rubbed the young appearing girl's head.

Nina meanwhile purred in a cat like manner to having her head rubbed, her tail also wagging happily before she flipping it with a slight arrogant manner.

The white-light blue haired girl while finding that action amusing, she also noticed the addition to the young girl's outfit. "Good thing we put that tail opening in for your clothes Nina." Yami openly pointed out as she pointed towards the tiger like tail, causing the purple haired jonin to laugh and stop petting the young appearing girl's head to remembering what happened.

It was a small occurrence that had happened after that fateful fashion showdown the two blonds had. While the clothes were indeed practical and functional for Nina's fighting style, they also realized that the moment she fused with any of her animal companions she would have her tail stuck under her shorts, which caused great discomfort and frustration.

So after they enjoyed a few laughs at the poor girl's expense, they decided to make the short pants a custom made hole that would allow it to slightly slide open whenever she gain a tail in her animal form, much to the immense relief and comfort of said girl.

However before the younger looking girl could reply, Nina's expression froze while slowly starting to change, she was at first the same from her usual smug one, then it began to change to an expressionless one while her large blue eyes went blank.

At the lack of any reply, Yami slightly tilted her head to the side. "Nina-chan?" She called out in a slight concern in her tone.

The two other members of the Os Trio also noticed this and were instantly concern. They slowly walked towards their big sister and began barking and chirping for her with concern.

". . ." However Nina was silent and still remain motionless, almost as if she was completely disconnected from the world.

Then after finally noticing this strange behavior from the tiger girl, the purple haired kunoichi took a few steps towards her. "Hey Nina, you alright?" Anko called out with a concerned tone as she tried to reach out for the young girl's shoulder.

When the red haired, human disguised Bijū finally looked towards the smaller girl, he raised an eyebrow at how quiet the usual ball of energy was right now. However his eyes then started to detect small yet powerful traces of chakra beginning to leak in a spiral like manner out of her body. Then in a manner of seconds those trace's slowly began to increase in frequency and in intensity.

The moment he saw that, it caused the human disguised Bijū's eyes to widen. "Wait! Don't touch her!" Kurama loudly warned the older kunoichi, however it was too late.

BOOM!

The moment the older kunoichi's hand touched Nina's shoulder, her entire eyes suddenly turned blue and a violent explosion of navy blue chakra erupted from her body, which sent every kunoichi and little animal flying backwards.

Meanwhile thanks to being the furthest, Kurama used his arms to block the explosion's shockwaves and wasn't sent flying and manage to remain in the same spot, be it a few inches away as he narrowed his eyes.

However, thanks to everyone's high dexterity level,be it human and animal alike, they all easily readjusted midair and landed gracefully on the floor, but that didn't stopped from being in complete shock of what just happened.

"What the hell!?" Anko muttered, surprised and confusion to this occurrence.

Suddenly from inside the orb of chakra a small white object came flying. "Mrrrrrrrrow~!" Ora cried out in pain as she landed on her feet. "Ow! What the!?" Was what she cried out with confusion.

Vrn. . .Vrn. . .Vrn. . .

However before the group could ponder anything else, they were all went silent when they saw Nina was somehow hovering in midair with her limbs spreading out and being surrounded by the same navy blue chakra. Her eyes were wide open and shining with an eerie dark blue light, but strangely enough she didn't seem to look like she was in pain, it was more so as if she was in a trance-like state.

". . .What the fuck?" Kurama bluntly questioned in a mutter to the sight.

While the Biju may have been alive for nearly a millennium and has seen many things, this was something he hadn't seen before. So it would be reasonable to see that the two kunoichi's were just as, if not even more so, confused at the strange phenomenon.

". . ." Contrast to the shocking gazes of the kunoichi's and Biju, it was the Os trio that were much more calmer as they simply stare at her big sister with gazes that showed understanding and even a hint of excitement.

After a few moments of simply floating, the strange navy blue chakra sphere slowly began to flicker until it finally disappearing and little kunoichi began to slowly began to float down until she landed on her feet.

Then after all of the chakra vanished, Nina's head began to tumble from side to side and when she opened her eyes they had large swirls on them. "Swirly swirly swirly~" She got out in a dizzy tone.

To hearing that, the other shinobis almost face faulted as a result. "S-Seriously?" Anko asked in a mutter.

"And all the tension gone in an instant." Kurama mentally declared with a sweatdrop.

However unlike the older ones, Yami let out a small sigh of relief at knowing that nothing bad happened to the younger appearing girl. "Back to normal. . .so to speak. . ." She thought.

Unknown to everyone present, the Os Trio were secretly chatting between themselves as every once in awhile each of the trio would look at the young appearing girl before continuing their secret meeting.

Kurama's ears then heard the sounds from the Os trio's and turn his eyes towards them. "What are those little monsters doing?" The disguised Bijū thought to himself as he narrowed his eyes.

Sensing that their secret conversation was discovered, the trio's heads jerk and they secretly looked at the Bijū, once they realized that he was on the them, they nodded in unison and ran towards their big sister while acting as complete little angels around her.

Kurama however could only look on with a deadpan expression. "Yeah. . .Like I'd believe that shit. . ." He thought before turning at the still dizzy and teetering wild girl. "There's definitely something more to the wild child and those three hell spawns aren't letting us know about." He then added in his head as he knew that hell would freeze over before the little animals would tell him anything.

"Well. . .aside from that strange light show, let's call it a day." Anko soon decided as she placed a hand on the young appearing girl again. "We'll go to Tsunade-sama to look at you so that we can figure out what the hell was that." She then added.

Yami once more let a sigh escaped her lips at that. "Yes, I think that would be for the best." She replied as she was completely in favor of following the order.

"Okay. . .~" The still dizzy Nina got out as her cat ears kept wagging.

"Right. . .Not that we can just asked someone about it. . ." Kurama got out while making sure to keep an eye on the Os trio who were innocently whistling among themselves. "Hell. . .spawns. . ." He thought as his eye twitched.

---

Back within Orochimaru's hideout. . .

A hearty laughter was heard from the lit room as the Toad Sannin was sitting on the ground with a cup of sake in his hands. And while he had a carefree smile plastered on his face, inside of his mind it was running with near hundreds of possible scenarios that could happen.

"The sake doesn't seem tampered with this time." Jiraiya stated as he looked at the liquid. "So what kind of plot has been prepared. . .?" He soon asked.

The long haired woman continued playing her musical instrument for a few moments until she reached the final note to conclude the song.

"Just as I'd expect from the Hidden Sound village. . ." "Are you planning to cast a jutsu on me using music?"

"The music isn't only for guests." The woman began to inform. "It's for myself. . ." She added as she finally stood up.

While looking as if he was completely unconcerned by this, Jiraiya merely pure more sake in his cup. "I see. . ." He simply stated as he kept his senses hone in on the approaching woman. "What do you play for your heart?"

Once he reached striking distance from the Sanin, instead of attacking, she merely lean next to him and nearly touch his face with her own. "Music for my own funeral. . ." She revealed.

Once more, the Toad Sage remained unconcerned, but he was secretly sending chakra to his entire body to move with explosive velocity if need be. Then when he finished his sake, he threw the woman away from him and jumped backwards to gain some breathing room.

"Trying to seduce me. . .You've underestimated Jiraiya-sama!" The white haired Sannin declared in a confident manner.

However those words left the Toad Sage's mouth, the man suddenly was struck by dizziness as his vision bluer and was forced to kneel on one leg so that he would not fall. Then he turned towards the fallen woman who merely chuckled wickedly.

Jiraiya tried to stand up, but found it very difficult, then after finally manage to stand up the woman's face turn slightly demonic. Then her hair suddenly extended to nearly four times its length and used them to hold onto all four of his limbs as it also coiled around his neck.

The woman's eyes briefly turned red as she dashed towards the ensnared sage. Then she leaned once more towards his face and smiled demonically. "Escorting the guest to the underworld is my last mission." She declared with a malevolent tone.

Suddenly, the woman's mouth began to slightly widen and all of her teeth began to sharpen and turn into long yet thin fangs. Next it was her pupils that vanished leaving the eyes to turn into pure white eyeballs. Finally what remains of her hair grew even more having the appearance as it was alive and began to spread all over the room turning it into a nightmare fuel imagery.

"!?" Even in his weakened state, Jiraiya was still able to fully process everything was left in complete shock and disgusted at what he saw. "So this is a mutate shinobi. . ." He thought to himself at finally witnessing one of his former teammate's vile creations.

"SCREEEEEEEEECH!" The mutated woman screeched and began contracting and violently shaking her hair.

Suddenly everything around the room, the walls, the ceiling and even the floor itself began to shake violently.

The Sannin's eyes soon widened upon witnessing this action as he then realized what the woman's last words truly meant. "Shit! She's trying to cause a cave in to take us both out!" Jiraiya thought with panic as he desperately trying to free himself but couldn't from the powerful hold the almost living hair had on him.

The mutated shinobi meanwhile didn't seem to notice or care about the man's struggle as she continued to focus on its final mission and continued to increase the tempo of the shackings the cause large crack marks to appear everywhere.

CRACK!

And then when there was a loud crack that came from the ceiling an almost sad smile adored her face as everything inside the room collapse and made all of the rocky walls and ceiling to fall down, darkening the area completely.

---

Elsewhere in the hideout. . .

Even when there was a large shake coming from somewhere from within the hideout, a certain pair of summons didn't even bother considering as they were running away from their pursuer and the massive amount of traps that they keep triggering.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The two small summons screamed as they hopped and slithered through the hallway while desperately dodging every single trap.

"EBIIIIIIIIIII!" The mutated shrimp monster screech while running with reckless abandonment, however this time the small summons finally realized that it was thanks to its hard shell from on its body that lets it completely ignoring the traps.

When the little orange toad was nearly skew by a large pole a large tick mark appeared on his head. "Ok! This is getting old real fast!" Gamakichi complained

"I agree!" Aoda responded as he zig-zag out of spires that came out of the ground. "We need to end this quickly!" He then stated.

"Yeah! But I don't know any strong jutsu to take this asshole yet!" Gamakichi countered.

"Regrettably I do not either!" Aoda then admitted with shame.

While the two small summons were very intelligent for their age, like those of their age group they weren't ready to learn powerful jutsus. While they knew some basic ones, they didn't have the power or strength that would come from older members of their clans.

As they continued to run, the orange toad began to think of what they could do. He knew that they couldn't fight it even if they both tried, so he ruled that option. Then he looked back and saw that the small projectiles and kunais didn't do much damage either.

However when a large metal spear erupted from the side, it managed to bypass the creatures defences and gave it a large gash, though it completely ignored it.

At that the small orange toad's eyes eventually widened and began to think, then he quickly looked around while using his family jutsu for detecting traps and just saw the same projectictile traps, but a few feet away from them there was a large area that held a larger trap.

The moment he saw that, he momentarily floated in midjump as a lightbulb appeared on top of his head. "Wait! I have an idea!" Gamakichi soon revealed as he then landed back on the ground and continued jumping.

The snake summon had to make a narrowed dodge slide when a two kunais nearly impaled him. "Really!?" Aoda responded in a curious manner.

Gamakichi was soon forced to jump above his forced partners head to dodge another set of kunais and then continued jump/running. "When I give you the sign, trip him! I'll do the rest!" simply informed.

Another kunai nearly impaled the young snake, but he managed to dodge just in time. "I would appreciate a more detailed plan!" Aoda then remarked.

"No time! Get ready!" Gamakichi countered as the hail of kunai's had ended at that moment.

"Very well!" Aoda begrudgingly responded as he wanted to end this ridiculous situation.

Then just as the small toad was about a few feet away, she made a massive leap forward. "NOW!" Gamakichi ordered.

Aoda then slowed down a bit and then the moment the shrimp monster was about to reached him he moved like lighting and ensnared its legs.

Tap! CLANK!

At the same time, Gamakichi laned on a switch and two large metal door like trap doors open below him. Not wasting the momentum he had gained from his earlier jump, he made another jump the moment the trap doors open.

Then in the next instant, the shrimp mutant lost its footing as a result of the snake summon's ensnarement and fell forward, causing him the slide forwards using its own momentum. Once it was about to reach the trap door, the small snake untangled itself and jumped out of the way, landing next to its fellow summon.

"EBIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" The mutated shrimp monster screech as it fell down the large hole and then let out a whaling death scream when it was impaled by all of the metal spikes at the bottom.

The two small summons waited nervously as they were afraid that the monster would jump out of the hole the moment they lower their guard.

After a few moments, the two slowly approached the hole and pick towards the bottom. The moment they did, they saw the inmoviles monster completely impaled by the sharp metal spires at the bottom. Then it suddenly exploded and melted into black goo like substance.

At the sight, the orange toad formed a large toothless grin on his face. "We won!" Gamikichi declared with delight.

"To think that worked. . ." Aoda commented with both relief and surprise that the plan worked. "I think I was wrong to think that you weren't capable of taking this path alone." He then remarked.

The small toad summon merely grinned as he patted the small snake summon's head."Eh! Your not bad yourself, for a snake." Gamakichi remarked which was rewarded by an eyeroll from said snake.

Crack!

However before they could continued celebrate, there was suddenly there was a loud crack right below them where and a large amount of water began to gather.

The two little summons blinked at the same time as they looked down, there they saw the large crack that was slowly getting wider and wider, creating a massive spider like web cracks all around them.

"Uh. . .oh." The two summons fearfully got out at the same time.

CRACK! SHATTER!

Suddenly the ground below them was shattered and the two little summons comedically remain in midair, then they grabbed onto one another before gravity kicked back in. "AAAAAAAAAAH!" The two small summons screamed in terror as they fell through the hole.

---

Back within Konoha. . .

Eventually, the Inuzuka heir and the dark pinked haired girl stopped their loud argument as they arrived at one of the clothing stores.

"Hm, this store has some kick ass styles." Tayuya muttered in an impressed manner as she looked through the rack.

Kiba meanwhile was tapping his foot in anticipation. "Great, another fashion crazed girl. . ." He grumbled in annoyance while rolling his eyes.

"Oi, you try to deal with having to be forced to wear the same crappy styles all the time." Tayuya however countered in a deadpan tone. "And don't get me started on that stupid purple sash thing everyone wore." She then added as she went to browsing through the clothes.

Kiba however sweatdropped to hearing that. "Seriously? That's what annoys you?" He responded in a deadpan tone.

"It was an annoying unspoken rule for uniforms for the snake's lackies. . ." Tayuya casually replied. "So excuse me for wanting actual clothes that don't match his creepy pedo clothing fashion." She then added as her hair ignited slightly, more so like a slight glowing effect as a result.

". . ." Kiba meanwhile was speechless to what the dark pink haired girl was ranting about, mostly because it was just ramblings of a fashion depraved woman.

Then after a moment, the former Oto kunoichi finally calmed down as she gains an eerily calm expression while the glow from her hair faded. "But would still have picked those crappy clothing then end up like those poor bastards that end up being the prototypes." Tayuya confessed.

This in turn got the Inuzuka and his partner's attentions. "Prototypes?" Kiba repeated in confusion with a raised eyebrow.

Tayuya merely let out a tired and slightly annoyed sigh at that. "What? You thought that snake simply gained those freaking pills right on the first try?" She remarked. "Fuck that, there were a lot of failures and a whole lot of death before the first prototypes actually came out." She then revealed in a dark tone.

". . .Damn, I guess it was bad." Kiba responded.

"Not that I'm thankful or some shit, but I guess I'm glad that I didn't get to try those freaking prototype pills." Tayuya then confessed in a more relieved tone.

The Inuzuka heir in response gulped to hearing and learning this. "And. . .how bad are these. . .prototypes?" Kiba soon asked.

"Well those pills aren't as powerful as the ones I took, but they're just as destructive if the right conditions are met. . ." Tayuya casually revealed as she browsed through the clothing racks as she then narrowed her eyes. "But I bet you didn't get any of that so I'll put it in idiot terms." She then remarked.

"Hey, I'm part of the reason you're still alive!" Kiba countered as he took offence to those words.

However Tayuya completely and intentionally ignored the Inuzuka. "Anyway, if the pills I took made me just as powerful as an Elite Jonin, more or less. And with the right conditions, those prototypes would be as strong as special chunins." She then declared.

The Inuzuka in turn groaned to being ignored. "Ok, so their strong, but not that crazy strong like you were. Don't know if I should feel glad or not." Kiba got out, not even getting mad at the girl he was watching over.

"But they all had a zero chance of ending up like me as they were more than likely die in a few days." Tayuya then declared in a dead serious tone.

Kiba in response gulped nervously to hearing that information.

"Though. . .some of them just turned out. . .plain weird. . ." Tayuya awkwardly admitted.

This immediately deflated the nervousness in the Inuzuka. "Weird?" Kiba repeated in confusion while raising an eyebrow.

The dark pinkette in turn sigh to the question. "I don't want to talk about that. . ." Tayuya responded with a sweatdrop as the image of a bird like mutate doing a very weird pose came to mind as she looked through the clothes. "Hey, what color looks better on me, black or pink?" She then casually asked as she held up two low cut punk shirts.

The Inuzuka in response gave a deadpan expression to what was asked. "Why are you asking me?" Kiba countered with his own question.

". . ." Tayuya blinked a couple of times to that question. "Oh yeah. . .good point. Your only useful as being someone's bitch anyhow." She remarked with a smirk.

"WHAT!?" Kiba exclaimed.

Tayuya just looked at the Inuzuka with less than impressed eyes. "When was the last time you ever talk back to a woman? And actual woman that could rip you a new one?" She then questioned before looking the shirts again.

Kiba tried to say something but before he could he was left stunned as he couldn't recall just one occasion of him doing that. So all he could do was be left with his mouth open.

Akamaru on the other hand had an expression of feeling burned. "Oh. . .that was a nasty burn." He thought as he felt actually bad for his partner.

The dark pink haired girl then showed the boy the two shirts. "So again, black or pink?" Tayuya repeated with a smirk, however she wasn't expecting anything because she was just messing with the Inuzuka's already destroyed manhood. "Hehe, I think I'm gonna enjoy being in Konoha now." She meanwhile thought with a giggle.

To that, Kiba groaned as his eye twitched. "Black. I've had enough pink for a lifetime. . ." He grumbled out.

Tayuya's eye immediately twitched at hearing that comparison. "Ah right, that egocentric and psychotic bitch." She remarked in annoyance.

Upon hearing that, the Inuzuka's expression darken at recalling the traitor. "Crazy enough to rip off one of my friend's arms. . ." Kiba stated more so to himself with a low and livid tone.

However the kunoichi managed to hear that as she lazily turn her eyes towards the Inuzuka. "That was all on that bitch, I had nothing to do with that crazy bitch's schemes." Tayuya then remarked in disgust as she didn't want to be associated with that traitor's insane decisions.

"Yeah, I know. You made it pretty obvious that you would rather. . .you know, than listen to the snake's orders." Kiba countered

"Arf. . ." Akamaru whine out with a painful expression. "Dude. . .that's-" Was what he started to say, however. . .

There was a long moment of silence between the two as they both didn't know what to say anymore. More so the Inuzuka as he then realized that he should have commented a very. . .sore subject, especially in front of the person in question.

Then after another moment of silence, the kunoichi stood up. "Come on dumbass, I still need more stuff." Tayuya soon responded in a deadpan tone as handed another basket full of clothes to the Inuzuka.

Kiba meanwhile almost stumbled to the load of clothes that he was given. "Dammit, how much are you gonna by?" He then muttered.

The female in turn looked at the boy as a teasing expression formed. "As much as I need." Tayuya countered with a smirk on his face.

As a result, the two shinobi's and puppy then continued through the shopping district, while the Inuzuka carrying the bags with a dejected expression while his partner and the girl just chuckled and giggled in amusement.

---

Within Orochimaru's hideout. . .

The blond shinobi slowly began to move his feet as he attempted to have a better footing as possible. After many failed attempts he manage to stick on the sharp bamboo spears using the tree climbing jutsu.

"Finally! Now I need to hurry up and get out of this place!" Naruto exclaimed with joy while stretching his arms to get a better balance once he did so, he made his signature hand sign. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He declared.

POOF!

"This is torture!" One clone got out as he struggled using his four limbs from falling.

"What the hell man!?" Another got out in a strained manner as one of the spears was dangerously close to his manhood.

The original blond then tried to stretch out to try and help out his clones, but couldn't because of the distance they had to each other. "I just thought we could do a human latter to get out of here!" Naruto tried to explained.

"What the hell man! We can't stretch out bodies beyond this!" The first clone complained as he was still unable to use any of his limbs.

"My muscles are cramping up!" The other clone got out in pain and nearly lost his grip resulting in almost falling right below the spear near his manhood. "I don't want to be dispelled by having my crouch impaled!" He roared with desperation and terror

While the idea of using clones to escape was good on paper, however the blond forgot at the moment that each clone would appear at the very least the same height level as the original, which unfortunately he wasn't on solid ground. . .

CRACK!

Suddenly, a loud crack was heard right above the trio of blonds.

"Oh what now dattebayo!" Naruto and his clones exclaimed in annoyance and anger.

CRACK! SPLASH!

Then a massive hole crack open and a massive amount of water began pouring in rapid velocity from above the trap.

"WHA!?" Naruto got out in shock.

"WATER!? The clones then exclaimed with terror.

Before the trio of blonds could even finish process this, the stream of water engulfed not only them but the entire trapdoor as well. The pressure of the water was so strong it created a small whirlpool, this causes the two clones to be instantly dispelled as a result.

Naruto however managed to swim until he reached the surface of the whirlpool, then with a lot of effort he managed to grab hold onto the walls using his tree climbing jutsu. "Oh thank kami for this jutsu!" He got out in relief.

"AAAAAAAH!" Suddenly a pair of screams could be heard.

"Huh?" Naruto got out in confusion as he looked up and the moment he did a very familiar orange toad and blue snake landed on his face.

"Holy kami! I'm saved!" Gamakichi declared.

"That was a relief. . ." Aoda got out.

Naruto then shook his head as he tried to get the small summons off his face. "Hey, get off of my face dattebayo!" He got out.

"Oh, it's you Naruto." Gamakichi got out with a lazy and uncaring tone.

The small snake then moved his body to reach the top part of the blond's head as he then nodded, which was a snake's equivalent to a bow. "Pardon the inconvenience, however we can't deal with this situation without your help." Aoda meanwhile politely apologized.

"No problem Aoda, but do you guys know a way out of here!?" Naruto replied followed by the question.

"How would we know!? We were flushed down here too!" Gamakichi countered.

As the blond and summon's continued their banter, the area was continually be flooded with more water by every passing second from the large hole.

"Great. . ." Naruto grumbled out in annoyance to the sight as nearly all of head was submerged underwater for a moment.

However because the two summon's were on top of the blond, they were still above water. "Hey, you alright?" Gamakichi asked with a curious tone.

Then the blond remerge and gain a massive tick mark on his head. "How the hell could I be alright!?" Naruto countered in even more annoyance before his head completely submerged this time.

The small snake summon meanwhile began scanning the submerged area to try and find anything that could be of use. But before he could find an escape route, his eyes caught sight of something.

---

Elsewhere in the hideout. . .

The two heiresses were slowly walking down the extremely dark hallway, thankfully the ravenette had a small flare and use it to illuminat while the bluenette would occasional scan the area with her Byakugan. As the two continued walking, they made sure to watch each others backs in case they found another of the former Snake Sannin monstrosities.

After several dozens of feet of walking, the two kunoichi's finally reached a very large doorway, holding their march from proceeding any further.

The ravenette looked at the door and then looked back. "I really hope Naru-kun's ok though. . ." Satsuki couldn't help but vocally voiced out their thoughts.

Hinata couldn't help but wonder the same as she frowns and also turned her head. "While we did agree to continued forward, maybe we should go back and try to see if we can help some other way?" She suggested with clear concern plaster in her tone.

"Y-Yeah, I think we should-" Satsuki began to reply in agreement, however. . .

Creak. . .

However before the female Uchiha could finish her sentence, the large door began to slowly creaks open. Then from within, multiple lights began to ignite from the room. Upon seeing that, the kunoichis knew that they had to continue or they would simply go in circles, so with reluctance, they look at each other and nodded to continued forward.

However when they reached the door, they didn't immediately entered as they picked from the crack of the doorway. There they saw multiple pillars, each having a single candle to illuminate them.

At the sight of this room, the two kunoichi were instantly on guard as they felt an evil presence and they when to be ready with both their battle stances.

So without saying a word the Hyuga activated her Byakugan and scan the room. Once they made a quick scan she frown. "Kabuto is there." Hinata mentally informed her teammate.

"Great, the former Snake Sanin's bottom bitch. . ." Satsuki mentally countered in annoyance.

"I guess there's no point in me hiding when there a Hyuga, huh?" Kabuto's voice suddenly echoed through the room.

Then the sounds of footsteps echoed as the Oto medical shinobi calmly walked from one of the pillars all the while having the same pompous smile plastered on his face.

"While I would normally say that I'm very impressed that you two reached this far." Kabuto began to say as he acted like a typical stereotypical villain, but he then let out an amused smirk while adjusting his glasses/. "But I'm not, you two along with Naruto-kun have a talent to always exceeded my expectations." He generally praised the two.

Seeing that remaining quiet was of little use now the two kunoichi's didn't bother to remain silent, however they didn't got out from their locations.

"Don't be ridiculous with your praise." Hinata retorted with a frown. "Get shadow clones ready Satsuki-chan and have them hide in shadows." mentally instructed.

"Hai!" Satsuki mentally replied as the two prepared the signature handsign. "Yeah, like we like hearing your snake tongue yap." She then declared in a calm yet serious tone.

"Oh~ I'm wounded." "So let me guess, your here to capture Haruno, right?" He soon deducted.

"And while we're at it, you and that Snake too!" Satsuki declared before smirking. "Sorry, former Snake." She then corrected in a more amused tone.

This in turn caused the white haired Oto medic to frown. "I would be careful if I were you, Orochimaru-sama is still sore about that little subject." Kabuto soon informed in a more serious tone. "And as for capturing anyone, well. . .we'll see." He then concluded as he took out two kunais and slowly began walking forward.

"Indeed we will. . ." Hinata calmly responded. "But you shouldn't underestimate us." She then advised.

However Kabuto continued walking without ever slowing his steps. "Am I?" He asked with a playful manner.

Then as the medical shinobi was but a few feet away, the Uchiha quickly activated her Sharingan that to be in ready as her teammate as they glowed in the darkness. "Now!" The two thoughts in perfect unison.

POOF! POOF!

Two exact clones of the kunoichi's came to life as they came out from the pillars shadows and charged at the enemy shinobi. Each of the clones also had their own version of the original's doujutsu so they charge with the full intent of quickly and efficiently incapatited the medical shinobi.

"Hmph." Kabuto however grunted out with a smirk as he merely stopped walking and prepared two chakra blades.

Even as the clones were mere inches away, the medical shinobi merely rushed passed them and appeared right behind the clones. Then after adjusting his glasses his smirk return to full smugness as before.

SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! POOF! POOF! POOF! POOF!

Regardless if they were on the ground or on midair, every single clone was struck by a kunai in every single vital area around their bodies.

Then an expression of pure shock were plastered onto the originals faces as the memories of the destroyed clones rushd into their minds. Even if it was but a moment, thanks to their clones having their doujutus activated, they saw how the medical shinobi quickly and precisely threw his kunais.

The two kunoichi's were forced to lean onto the pillar in order to stop themselves from falling as they felt the phantom pains from every single vital spots in their bodies ache for an instant, but in their minds it was still very fresh.

"Really? You thought coping Naruto-kun's style would be enough to beat me?" Kabuto confidently asked as he could already imagine the two heiresses reactions. "Please, I'm already seen that attack pattern from him that your may as well be wasting chakra on something more useful." He then informed.

The Hyuga Heiress soon narrowed her eyes to this display as she and the Uchiha Heiress stuck to the shadows. "Well that didn't work out the way we hoped. . ." Hinata mentally stated in a serious tone.

"Oh yeah. . ." Satsumi replied vai their mental link, though was still frustrated to this development.

Though they both tried to remain calm, the two were now extremely concern. While the medical shinobi was a very irritating person, they were now reminded that this man was Orochimaru's right hand man. Now they realized that he had such a position was for a reason and were having second thoughts on fighting him head on.

Almost as if the medical shinobi knew the current mental states of the kunoichi's he couldn't help but let out an amused chuckle. "What's the matter? Are you two scared to attack me that you won't stop hiding behind the pillar?" Kabuto began taunting. "I mean why would you? You have the mighty Sharingan and Byakugan doujutsus. How would I be a match for you?" He then reminded in the same tone.

To hearing that, the Uchiha balled her hands into fists before looking towards the Hyuga that shook her head. "He's trying to bait us Satsuki-chan." Hinata mentally informed.

Thankfully this managed to calmed the ravenette somewhat. "I know Nata-chan, I know. . ." Satsuki replied via their mental link, though was still angered by the fact that they were just overly outclassed.

After waiting for a few moments, the white haired shinobi let out a sigh of boredom as he then recalled something about this room specifically and a dark grin appeared on his face. "Well. . .if your to scared to fight me. . ." He soon started with a sinister undertone.

Snap!

"How about playing with him. . ." Kaguto suggested after snapping his fingers.

CLANK! Stumb. . .Stumb. . .

Suddenly from the shadows, a loud boney sound echoed loudly. Then the sound of heavy footsteps soon followed as whatever was making them slowly walked towards the medical shinobi.

The two heiresses's eyes widened to hearing this as they prepared themselves. While the Hyuga would used her Byakugan to looked at the source of the footsteps, she didn't have the chance to as the sounds suddenly stop.

"Eh?" The two girls mentally got out.

HISS! SLICE!

At the sound of the hissing, both kunoichi's eyes widen in shock as they instantly jumped out of the way when they felt incoming danger. However while they succeeded in avoiding the ambushed, they each got a small cut on their bodies, it was but a flesh wound, but they were still more startled than anything.

"Ah! There you are!" Kabuto playfully greeted the girls as if they were old friends.

The creature slowly began to descend from the pillar the two kunoichis were hiding. The creature was a humanoid shape with the size of an average human, however it looked like it didn't have had no skin and only its muscles were visible. And the most shocking aspects about it was that its brains literally exposed, taking most of its upper head and that it had a tongue that was easily five times longer than its entire body.

The heiresses meanwhile looked on in disgust to what they were seeing, part of them unable to even believe that a creature like this even existed. "Oh kami. . ." They both thought in unison paling as both the creature's appearance and realization of fighting yet another mutated shinobi so soon.

The creature began to snarl as it slowly began moving up and down the pillar it was on, while moving its head around as if it was trying to find its prey.

Meanwhile the two kunoichi were momentarily baffled by the creature's sudden halt of its assault. "What's it doing?" Satsuki couldn't help but wonder out loud.

The moment that question was uttered, the creature snapped its head straight at the kunoichi's, before quickly leaping through the pillars, startling the kunoichi's back into battle mode. Once it was a range it tongue flew straight at the Uchiha.

"Oh shit!" Satsuki exclaimed as she dodge rolled out of the way while getting her tanto out and held it reverse grip style.

Then the creature continued leaping from pillar to pillar as it completely passed by the female Hyuga.

"It's only attacking Satsuki? Why would it. . ." Hinata thought as she activated her Byakugan, gasping as she saw the reason. "Satsuki-chan! It's blind! It's using hearing to track you! Stop making any sounds!" She mentally informed.

"Kind of hard when its keep attacking me Nata-chan!" Satsuki mentally replied as she kept avoiding the claw strikes towards her.

Slice!

After the Uchiha managed to block the last of the claw strikes, the creature's suddenly launch its tongue at near point blank range. However thanks to her Sharingan, she managed to see it in slow motion, but at the same type because of it being to close, she only managed to narrowly dodged it, but she still received a small cut as a result.

"Ah! Dammit dattebakon!" Satsuki winced out as she held the wound as it started bleeding.

Snap!

At the sight of that, Kabuto smirked with vile delight as he snapped his fingers. Suddenly the creature stopped its assault and quickly began to retreat, much to the immense relief and confusion of the ravenette, until it was at a safe distance away as it menacingly stood in place.

Then the medical shinobi calmly walked next to the humanoid creature. "I'd like you to introduce you young ladies to our newest prototype." Kabuto casually began to say while adjusting his glasses.

The bluenette quickly made her way to her teammate and after making sure her injuries weren't anything serious, she turned to face the medical shinobi. "Prototype?" Hinata soon repeated in a quiet mutter as the two heiresses prepared themselves again.

"While it's nowhere near as powerful as the likes of the former member of the Sound Five, these newer ones are a bit more. . .diverse." Kabuto vaguely revealed while adjusting his glasses with a smirk on his face.

The creature's extremely long tongue slowly began to retract back towards it mouth, then just as it was about to full retract, on the very tip of its razor sharp tongue, small drops of blood began to drip. Then the creature's entire body began to compulse and shake with erratic spasms, almost as if it was going into shock.

Both of the kunoichi's were caught off guard by this sudden turn of events. "Now what!?" Satsuki thought in both shock and confusion.

Hinata then focused her Byakugan to looked at the interior of the creature and saw that every single part of its body was slowly began to soften and turning into a soft mass. "I think its melting from the inside. . ." She mentally informed.

"Melting?" Satsuki repeated in confusion, but at the same time couldn't help but hope that this was a sign of it melting like the shrimp mutants.

However any and all hopes of the creature dying ended when the enemy shinobi smirked with evil delight. "Fascinating isn't it?" Kabuto meanwhile got out as he stared at the spazing creature. "This mutation, as you already might have guessed, while blind it has very powerful hearing capabilities. However what's it's more unique ability. . ." He then vaguely began to say.

Suddenly all over the creature's body slowly expand as the once softened bones, muscles and outer skin began to increase in mass, forcing it to stand on all four limbs. Meanwhile bone like spires came out of its body before it then hardened.

"It getting bigger!?" The two heiresses thought in shock to this development with widened eyes.

The white haired shinobi continued watching with a fascinating yet vile expression on his face. "Is the ability to grow at least one inch every time it consumes fresh blood, making it stronger, faster and more ferocious than before as a result." Kabuto soon revealed.

Then the creature began panting heavily as it began to rapidly locate its prey. The moment its hearing sense located the two kunoichis it stomb its front limbs onto the ground and let out a loud and furious roar.

"Making it a more lethal predator than it ever was before." Kabuto concluded as he raised his right hand up. "Now then, I believe its his feeding time." commanded before he then snapped his fingers.

SNAP!

"HIIIIISS! ROOOOOOOOAR!" The mutant roared as it charged at the girls.

"Incoming!" Satsuki exclaimed before clamping her mouth shut and barely manage dodging along slash from the mutant.

"Attack it from the side!" Hinata mentally ordered as she charged at the monstrousity's left side.

Satsuki didn't need to be told twice as she nodded and ran towards the opposite side of the creature.

The large creature stopped as its head quickly shook to both of its size, its sensitive hearing picked up the two kunoichi's assault from its sides. Then when the bluente first reached it, it launched its tongue at her with twice the velocity as before.

The bluenette was soon forced to stop and jumped back just in time for the sharp tip of the monster's tongue to slashed through the floor, leaving a large gash in its path. However thanks to this sudden attack, the ravenette had managed to reach it and position her blade for a powerful horizontal slash.

Once again the creature's head snap at the approaching kunoichi and quickly leap back, just in time to dodge the slash. However the ravenette didn't stop for a moment as she continued her charge and send multiple slashes, but like the initial one it merely leap each and every time, showing amazing agility and grace despite its large size.

Then with one last powerful leap, the creature jumped so high that it landed back onto one of the pillars and then proceed in lashing its tongue out once more. This finally forced the kunoichi to stop her pursuit and guard against the attack.

Thanks to her Sharingan, Satsuki took charge and either dodge or parry the sharp tongue with her blade. "Oh come one! This is getting us nowhere!" She mentally got out.

Meanwhile, Hinata took the brief moment of rest to watch and analyze the situation, once she finished she nodded. "Satsuki-chan, we need to use clones to distract it, then we'll attack it from different angles." She mentaly told the ravenette.

"Ok! But kind of busy here!" Satsumi mentally replied as she avoided another slash.

The bluenette then made the very familiar cross seal. "Then I'll use it first to give you time to retreat and then summon yours." Hinata quickly as she summoned a clone, who nodded and both dashed at opposite directions, her towards a pillar and the clone towards the ravenette.

The clone quickly rushed passed the ravenette and made a full sprint towards the mutated shinobi. The moment the clone was nearing the pillar, the creature's senses detected its approach and stopped its assault, it then retracted its tongue and quickly jumped towards another pillar.

"Thanks!" Satsuki got out as she then summon her own clone and ordered it to help out the blunette's own clone, meanwhile she herself quickly hid in the shadows as she regrouped with the Hyuga. "Our timing has to be perfect for this to work Nata-chan." She mentally informed as her teammate nodded in agreement.

While the mutated shinobi was confronted the Hyuga clone, its senses once again picked up another approaching clone. So with its incredible agility, it jumped over the Hyuga's clone and ran towards the Uchiha clone.

Said clone soon stopped its charge and took a battle stance, once the monster was about to reach it, the Uchiha clone began to channel lighting chakra through the blade. Then when the creature finally reached it, with a quick motion she delivered a slash in the area where the creature would most likely reach.

However just like before, the creature's superior agility helped it to stop in time and jumped back out of the attacks range. The moment its feet landed on the floor it shoot its tongue once more at blinding velocity.

The Uchiha clone merely grinned at this as this was what she wanted and thanks's Sharingan, it saw the attack coming at a slow pace, so she merely lean it head to the side and successfully dodge the attack. Then she looked behind the creature and saw the bluenette's clone appearing right behind the creature, nodding to the Hyuga's clone.

The bluenette clone nodded back as she quickly focused her chakra to its hands and was ready to deliver a powerful attack. . .

POOF!

Only to stop at the sound of a clone dispelling reached the Hyuga's ears. Shocked, it briefly turn her gaze to look in front of the creature and saw the same tongue that it fellow clone had dodge had somehow killed it, by being impaled from her back.

However the Hyuga clone didn't had time to process all of this as the speed of the tongue was to great that it reached it and pierce its head, instantly dispelling it in the process.

"Huh!?" The two heiresses got out in confused unison as they both got the memories from their clones back.

"The hell happened!?" Satsuki harshly whispered to both the blunette and herself.

Because the ravenette's clone wasn't able to see how it was destroyed, since it was an attack from the back, she couldn't use its memories to figure it out what had happened.

". . ." Hinata remained quiet as she realised her clones memories and her mind quickly realized something. "It's tongue. . ." She muttered.

Meanwhile, said creature's tongue was slowly retracting back towards it mouth. However a bit further away from it, there was a strange bend to it, making it clear that it had taken a sharp turn around.

"It can somehow control its own tongue's trajectory even after launching it." Hinata then informed with a concern tone.

The Uchiha's face cringed in slight pain at hearing that. "Oh you gotta be kidding me dattebakon. . ." Satsuki responded in disbelief and annoyance.

After finally fully retracting, the mutate was left confused by the lack of blood in its tongue, the creature looked around its close perimeter to try and locate the two preys. However, it couldn't find them because of the lack of noise, causing it to growled angrily as it slowly crawl down the pillar to try and find them.

Meanwhile both kunoichis cease any further conversation as they quietly and patiently waiting for the creature to get close enough to strike it. They were so tense that they were forced to not take any deep breaths, in fear of giving away their position.

It was a very tense few seconds as they watch the creature slowly walked towards them. And just as they were about to get into the perfect position, it stopped just a few steps from the position.

This caused the two kunoichi to feel even more tense as to why it would just suddenly stopped, the two looked at each other as if to try to ask the other what it could mean. However before they could even finished any train of thought. . .

"SKREEEEEEEEEECH!" The mutant suddenly roared in an echoey like manner as a powerful sound wave that scattered all through the room.

Immediately in response, both heiresses covered their ears from the high pitch sound while wincing in pain and shock by the sudden sound attack. "The hell!?" Satsuki mentally exclaimed in confusion.

Though still in pain, the bluenette instantly saw the only possible reason for the sudden attack. "It can't be! Echolocation!?" Hinata mentally deducted in shock while painfully trying to look at the creature's direction. "It's using its roar like a bat would to locate us now!" She then informed her fellow heiress.

Even through the pain, the ravenette's head turned towards her fellow kunoichi as her eyes widen in shock. "WHAT!?" Satsuki mentally exclaimed.

Then just as quickly as it started, the roar ended, much to the two kunoichi's relief. Then the creature's head turned towards the pillars that the two kunoichis were hiding and launched its tongue yet again. Once it reached their vicinity, it made another midair sharp turn towards the right and went straight to pierce the Uchiha.

However the Uchiha's eyes were instantly onto the incoming attack. "Not this time!" Satsuki mentally declared as she side stepped out of the way just as the tongue struck and pierced the stone ground where the Uchiha was just as the girl held her blade in a reverse grip.

Then as the ravenette was about to slash the creatures tongue, it itself somehow retracted towards the two as if it was a reverse pulley. Once it fully retracted, it launches a powerful claw strike, forcing the two kunoichi's to jump out of the way just in time to dodge the attack.

Once they were both at a somewhat safe distance away, Satsuki let out an aggregated growl. "This is getting us nowhere. . ." She mentally out in frustration.

The bluenette frowned and nodded in complete agreement. "We can't fool him with clones, it won't let us get close thanks to its agility and it uses it tongue in so many ways that its hard to leave him exposed." Hinata mentally categories all of the creatures characteristics and patterns. "So our only option left is to find a way to stop its movement so that we can close to kill it." She then concluded.

"Yeah but. . ." Satsuki began as looked at the mutant.

WHOOSH! SLASH!

The ravenette quickly had to move her head to the side as she was nearly impeached by the creature's tongue. "But that stupid tongue isn't making it any easier!" Satsuki soon declared with great irritation.

The Hyuga Heiress then began to use her Byakugan to analyse the surrounding and the mutant itself as multiple battle strategies began to form in her mind. Then her eyes widen as an idea that a certain blond shinobi would do, would feel proud.

"Satsuki-chan, I got an idea! Could you be the bait and force it to attack you with its tongue? But just make sure it stretches it a far as you can." Hinata mentally requested followed by the instructions on what to do.

"Leave it to me!" Satsuki mentally replied with a smirk as she came out of her hiding spot. "Hey! Ugly! Fresh blood right here!" She vocally declared while giving it twin middle fingers.

The mutate let another roar as it finally located its prey and began crawling and jumped each pillar at a fast pace. Once it was at a close enough range it launched its long tongue once more with double its velocity.

However the ravenette simply smirked, thanks to her Sharingan she saw the tongue soaring at her with a snail's pace. Thanks to that, she easily dodged each strike as she began to move backwards to increase the distance between her and the creature.

Satsuki continued dodging and weaving out of the way, she saw brief movements of the creature that were forced to move a bit forward after a certain distance. "That's its limit. . ." She thought to herself as she narrowly dodged once more, then after finally understanding the tongue's maximum range, the Uchiha began to move towards the closest pillar towards her.

This was the signal that the bluenette was waiting for as she secretly pulled out multiple senbons and at least two kunais, she crossed her arms in front of her, weapons still on hand, while sending chakra towards both of them. Then she focused her Byakugan towards the pillar her teammate was heading and patiently waited for her shot.

Meanwhile, because of the constant lack of new blood, the creature was finally losing any patience it had left. So with an infuriated growl, the creature fully retracted its apandage, it launch it with even more force than normal to finally killed its prey.

As the tongue was soaring at the ravenette that as she quickly concentrated chakra towards her legs and dashed right behind the pillar. Then the creature once again made its tongue make a midair sharp turn towards the kunoichi.

It was at that moment that Hinata's eyes widened and then narrowed, then as if in slow motion, she swung both of her arms. Thanks to the increase of strength and speed from her chakra, the kunoichi's weapons flew with tremendous velocity and landed precisely the moment the tongue passed by the pillar, holting its movements entirely.

"SKREEEEEEEEEECH!" The creature let out a howling and painful shriek of pure agony as it desperately began pulling its tongue to try and free itself.

"Now!" Hinata called out.

The next instant, Satsuki appearied right behind the creature with her blade at the ready as it was covered in flames. The creature heard the kunoichi and tried to instinctively jumped back, however it couldn't move a single inch because of its tongue. Then with a mighty swing using both of her arms. . .

SLICE! THUMP!

A few moments passed as the mutant remained perfectly still and stationary for a few moments. Then the next moment, its head slid to the side and fell to the floor, black blood leaked out of it and soon after that did the rest of the body fell. After a few seconds both parts of the mutant itself started to bubbled and sank into the ground in a black ooze after melting.

The Uchiha Heiress then jumped away from the goo and landed next to the Hyuga Heiress as the two looked and smiled at each other. "Yes! We did it!" The two heiresses mentally declared as they gave one another a high five.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

However any sense of joy and relief from winning the battle ended with the sound of clapping. "But it's not over yet. . ." The two heiress then realized as they watched the Oto medical shinobi walking towards them.

Kabuto continued clapping while his eyes were closed, then he stopped and open his eyes as he smiled at the two kunoichis. "Very impressive! I have to admit, you two have grown much stronger than the last time I saw you two." He got out with a surprisingly honest tone. "Which I can only assume that's the same for Naruto-kun." He then deducted.

"You really love the sound of your own smug voice don't you?" Satsuki growled out as she tightened her hands into fists.

Once again the medical shinobi merely grinned amusingly at that. "Now now. . .no need to be so angry." Kabuto tried to calm down the Uchiha as he then recalled something. "Oh! That's right, your here to capture Sakura-san right?" He soon asked with sarcasm oozing out of his tone.

The ravenette gritted her teeth, but the bluenette placed a hand on her shoulder and shook her head. "Calm down, we already know he's trying to rile us up. . ." Hinata mentally reminded and successfully calmed the angered Uchiha. "You already know our reason for being here, so stop trying to anger us." She then declared

Kabuto merely continued to looked on with his smug expression as he had to gal to take a thinking pose, as if he was actually considering what the Hyuga said."Hmm. . .While I don't particularly care if you succeed or not in that endeavor. But. . ." He replied before trailing off with a grin on his face. "I'm afraid you'll have to discuss the matter. . .with Orochimaru-sama." He then informed.

DOOM!

Suddenly, a massive wave of killing intent washed the entire room with a vile and malicious pressure, as if there was a tsunami of death washing both of the kunoichi's and freezing their entire bodies in there place.

"This feeling!" The two heiresses got out in quiet unison as they, with great difficulty, glared at the darkness as a shadow started to come out it.

Then the two kunoichi instantly knew who it was and realized that it was about to get tougher now as they looked at the former Snake Sannin, who looked at the two of them in a vile and sadistic amusement in his face.

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JG (JGResidentEvil)'s A/N: What's up everyone! JGResidentEvil and fight2protect here with the next chapter of Uchiha Heiress Remix! Just in time for the holidays and the end of 2019!

F2P (fight2protect)'s A/N: Well that's a first. . .We normally do it at the last day of the year! XD But sorry if it took a while to upload it. . .and you know the drill. . . ^^"

JG: Yeah, it took us a while to get it done, but it was so worth it in the end!

F2P: This chapter was to show you true believ- I mean readers, that the whole mutated shinobi thing IS a thing! This is to REALLY spice up upcoming chapters and fights! I hope you loved the Kunoichi vs Mutated Shinobi fight! Really wanted to have that Vs Monster final battle from would come from a game!

JG: Resident Evil being some of the inspiration for the mutations, I mean it can be Orochimaru's field of crazy and sick experiments.

F2P: But don't think it's just RE monsters, there would be familiar ones from other series too. Lets see if you guys and gals can figure from which! And there will be completely new ones too! For that, lets just say that next chapter is going to be an awesome one! Maybe not at the same level of intensity as the Retrieval Arc, but still much cooler than this chapter!

JG: In the meantime, time for something that hasn't been done in a while. A Review Response! Here's mine from Leaf Ranger.

This was quite a nice chapter. Excellent fight scenes, a nice twist on the into Oto mission/arc so far. Very well done. Jiraiya being his usual self, going from perv to badass, but getting no reaspect from Team 7. Excellent work there. And of course, it's nice seeing tayuya and kiba. Seems her singing might have an interesting effect on animals now. Guess we'll see if anything comes of that. I do hope she get's a chance to grow into a badass. Maybe a hybrid of what she was and an Inuzuka? *Did that with Kin in my Wizard of Kitsune fanfic, except she had a warg*

I will say that I find Sakura's statement about the Fuma shinobi to be hypocritical. She's saying that those who rely on other's power don't deserve it when she herself literally is relying entirely on the power given to her by Orochimaru and Danzo. She has not one original piece of power or technique in her arsenal, it's all from what they gave her. So she is, by her own statement, the very thing she's accusing them of being. *Shakes head* I think it works, because here she is an egotistical sociopath who obviously could not see her own hypocrisy. But she is being a hypocrite, in every sense of the word.

I'm glad my last review wasn't off-putting, I honestly was worried it might not be well received. And glad to see another chapter. Keep up the good work!

Glad you like it so far, there can indeed be filler arcs that are interesting, and doing them brings out any new possibilities for the unexpected. Also, Sakura was pretty much of a hypocrite to begin with, even in canon where she gave the false confession to Naruto to try and get him to stop Sasuke along with all the beating Naruto most of his life.

F2P: We're really trying to put our flare to this arc and glad that you're liking the fight! Thanks dude! And well no matter the time or fic, Jiraiya will always be Jiraiya! Epic Shinobi in fights or anything shinobi related, but gets no respect from Naruto and the two heiresses for being a pervert! XD

JG: And with Kiba and Tayuya, they're relationship will be interesting to say the least. XD

F2P: But just telling you right now. . .don't expect much from them. Lets just say that their relationship won't be the usual one . . .Let's just leave it at that. ^^"

JG: Ain't that the truth. There will be more arguing as their relationship goes on.

F2P: As for the last comment, we already said that it's all cool! We know that it wasn't the best and that it had a lot of flaws, so we WILL edit it and make it better! When we get to that point in the rewrites. . . ^^"

JG: Slow and steady wins the race. ;)

F2P: And speaking of Leafranger's last comment, while it's not my review, I would like to briefly comment on Akio Blade. Just like him, yes a lot of your points are very interesting and WAY better than our original and we WILL considered adding too! So thanks for the good feedback! And now for my Review from Salibask.

Weirdly enough, at this point, Sakura became my favorite character. I suppose it's because I enjoy her villainy so much. The hints that she likely plans to stab Orochimaru, Danzo and Kabuto in the back only makes me more interested. A confrontation with her parents once they're freed from Danzo's control would be interesting too.

F2P: Finally! Someone who understands me! Yes! I absolutely hate the characters that fics likes to bash all the time (which are mostly Sasuke and Sakura XD) but they turn out to be nothing but braindead wimps that gets done in one shot! So yes! We WANT Sakura to be the epic villain that has both the strength and brains to be the REAL future endgame boss and a true threat to not just the main Trio, but to everyone in the shinobi world!

JG: I'll admit at first part of it was bashing cause of my own personal annoyance towards the pink haired girl, but then it evolved and grew to where it was no longer bashing and Sakura indeed is becoming a true threat to everyone.

F2P: So while she isn't on screen (or page XD), she's also growing just as strong as our heroes behind the scenes. And if you want anyone to blame for that type of development, blame Shigaraki, if you don't know who that is or from which series he is. . .Than what are you doing with your life! XD

JG: As well as Sakura becoming more and more deranged, loyal and obedient.

F2P: Well. . .for the obedient thing. . .for now that is. . . . *evil chuckling*

JG: And fearfully, much, much stronger too. . .to where you'll never expect her newfound strength will come from in the future.

F2P: You'll have to wait and read! But no spoilers for you all!

JG: Well now, we with this chapter, Chapter number 60, we'll be taking a small break for the rest of the year.

F2P: BUT! We promise that the next chapter is going to be EPIC! Well cool but not the same insane levels as the last arc, BUT STILL EPIC!

JG: It'll be great! We plan to make sure these filler arcs will show a great improvement then the originals

F2P: And are actually meaningful for the main plot of the fic! XD

JG: So for now, we better get going for now.

F2P: Until next time true believe-I mean readers! XD

JG: And Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! See ya in 2020!

F2P: Stay safe and PEACE OUT!