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CHAPTER 9

The first thing Naruto did after seeing the infamous 'Clan Killer Itachi' and the 'Zero-Tailed Beast' was to slam the door shut in their faces.

"Well, that was rude," Kisame grunted. "Do you want to do it or should I?"

"Be my guest." Itachi shrugged.

Kisame pulled his fist back and let it fly onto the door; a loud gong sound resonated immediately from contact and his fist bounced bark hard enough for it to strain his shoulders.

Kisame gnashed his teeth, pleased. He rolled his shoulder and flexed his fingers, ridding himself of the thrumming in his hand. Itachi hummed, looking from Kisame's hand to the sheen of blue chakra that covered the door, a solid barrier of hardened chakra and seals. It was good too, and Itachi remarked, "It seems we have a seal master on our hands."

"It seems so," Kisame agreed and grabbed the sentient sword on his back, he stuck it onto the door and Samehada began visibly sucking out Naruto's blue chakra from the door before the door itself crumbled in on itself. "Well, that's that." He willed his sword to reduce in size and smooth over as he waltzed into the hotel room, only to find the window open and the flowing white curtain blowing inside.

"He ran away," Itachi said blankly.

Kisame grunted. "Let's go. Samehada can sniff him out."

Both ninjas jumped out of the window.

At that moment, Naruto was barrelling as fast as his legs could carry him to where Tsunade and Jiraiya had last been, hoping to the heavens that they were still there. 'Why did it have to be Hoshigaki Kisame?' The streets again were empty, sensing the fight that was going to happen. He ran to where the Sannin and the younger girl were last and cursed foully when he didn't find them.

He had also been sending hurried tingles into the 'X' seal on his belly.

'Where's that man when you need him?'

It just had to be a seal master's natural predator that had come to kidnap him. He groaned again. 'Why did it have to be Kisame?'

If he managed to come out of this unharmed he swore to himself that he would have a contingency plan against that man; he didn't ever plan on meeting the man but fate seemed to have a grudge on him.

"It's very rude to leave when guests are at your place, Naruto," a smooth voice said from a few feet behind him. Naruto turned around and refrained from looking at Itachi's eyes in case his sharingan was activated. He had read all he could about the clan killer and had found out that the man rarely turned off his sharingan, and that the sharingan could cast crippling illusions.

Naruto wasn't too good with illusions, as he now has three times more chakra than the late Sandaime and still growing. He was at least glad that he had an excellent counter against any man's raw speed.

His blue iron bubble could effectively keep Daku out from penetrating, crumbling only after many chakra-enhanced blows thrown by Daku, who was already remarkably physically powerful.

"Yeah. It's also rude to leave through your window," was Kisame's snarky addition to what Itachi had said. His sentient sword chattered noisily in his iron grasp, hyperactive at the forest fire of chakra it sensed from their target. Kisame agreed to whatever Samehada had said. "I know right?"

Naruto chose to keep his cool for as long as possible until Daku appeared. He would give them his all until then. "What do you want with me?"

"You don't need to know that. Come peacefully or we will have to resort to violence." Itachi droned.

"And if you want to be violent, I'm going to shave your legs off from under you," Kisame said with a deep chuckle.

"I'm not going anywhere." Naruto flew through three hand seals and muttered, "Ninja Art: Fuinjutsu: Child of Paper Chaos." The boy threw his arms out, palms facing his opponents, and paper flew out of his sleeves like shuriken, whirring violently fast to the duo.

The fiery explosion rocked the town.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Daku's head snapped up when he felt a tingle in his stomach, then the tingle turned into a violent hum.

'Master Naruto needs help!'

He stood up, surprising Frog, and dropped his cloak on his chair. "I need to head out, Frog."

Frog snapped to his feet, "Where are you going Daku, you still have a meeting scheduled with the civilian council in three hours," he wouldn't believe it if Daku said he needed a break; for the length of time he had known the enigma Daku never needed a break,

"Master Naruto is in trouble; I'll be back soon but, if I'm not here on time, reschedule the meeting. This is much more important."

Frog bowed. "I understand Daku. Do you want me to come along?"

Here, Daku laughed tonelessly. "You won't be able to keep up, Frog." Frog nodded in agreement. The dark shadow leapt out of the window of Naruto's office and jumped from roof to roof till he was at the main gate.

He signed to Haku and Zabuza, who were just coming in after a mission that he would be back soon. The dark shadow held up his right hand in one-handed ram seal and a spiral of seals on the back of his hands and heels glowed eerily and shattered, making it seem that Daku was levitating off the ground before their very eyes. With a loud crack like lightning Daku blinked out of sight.

Daku's weight seals were off.

"Wow…. He always keeps surprising me," Haku murmured, thumbs tucked in the chest pockets of his blue chunin flak jacket idly.

"I'm not," Zabuza grunted, donning Wave's jounin flak jacket. "He beat me remember?" Haku giggled.

With how fast Daku was flying through the forest, he could use leaves and blades of grass as footholds. He zigzagged past trees and bushes as the forest became denser, not so much as brushing the trees. He hummed and flew past Konoha's border and blazed the path where Naruto and Jiraiya had passed through, he allowed his 'gut feeling' to lead him to his master. His eyes caught sight of Naruto's fight with the Akatsuki members.

Naruto leapt away dexterously when Samehada was whipped out of the blazing inferno, the sword shivered and sucked up the fire, spitting it back out to Naruto. The boy defended this with his rectangular blue shield, making the ball of fire bounce back to Kisame. Itachi was nowhere to be seen.

Kisame grinned and sped over to the young boy with his sword raised in the air to shave some skin off Naruto. He furrowed his eyebrows when Naruto slapped his palms together and yelled his next defensive-offensive attack.

"Push!"

The blue iron bubble thrummed dangerously around him and expanded away from his body, shaking the ground and throwing the missing ninja back harshly. The blue bubble came back to Naruto. Daku seemingly appeared on a building and leapt down at Kisame.

"Neat trick." Kisame flipped to his feet and pulled his sword back to whip it at Naruto, to suck out his chakra, but had to cross Samehada across his body to block an attack from Daku. The dark shadow's arm was immediately shaved off and the chakra tube filled with chakra was immediately sucked out, but he wasn't worried; Daku jumped back and reformed his arm quickly. "Who're you?"

The dark shadow didn't answer, instead, he raised his arms and began firing stone stakes at Kisame, forcing the man to run lengthwise away from the attacks. He found Itachi behind Naruto, poking the barrier seal around him and jumping back when Naruto slapped his palms together again.

'This kid is good!' Kisame's exhilaration was palpable.

His distraction cost him; a Daku rock clone gripped his feet from underground, tripping him.

The S-rank ninja cursed and struggled against the iron grasp, allowing Daku to blur to him and kick his shoulder without restraint. A loud bone-chilling crack resonated around the clearing. Kisame bit his tongue to keep the yell in but he did swing his sword at Daku limply with his intent to shave the man in half and suck out all his chakra.

The pesky rock clone kept his hands on his feet, holding him in place but he didn't care. He was in a rage, his eyes were maniacally wide as he swung his sword around and willed it to stretch after Daku. He was using his non-sword arm to do this.

His partner, Itachi, was still busy trying to bypass Naruto's defence; he was not very successful though.

"Itachi!"

The stoic man sighed quietly and turned around, looking away from Naruto's blank but smug face. "Hello, foolish little brother."

"I'm here to kill you, Itachi!" Sasuke screamed and ran at his older brother with a chidori. Itachi masterfully bent out of the way and allowed the attack to smash again Naruto's blue shell, frowning minutely when only a small crack appeared and disappeared immediately, just as if it was never there. His sharingan told him that the barrier was made completely out of the boy's chakra, powered by a seal somewhere on Naruto's body. He grabbed his brother's outstretched arm and bent it behind the boy's back. "You were always too weak."

"I'll kill you!" the last loyal Uchiha hissed and struggled against the hold. "Let me go and fight me damn it!"

"You will never beat me, foolish brother." He smacked the back of Sasuke's head and poked a nerve on his neck when Sasuke was about to snap with foam dribbling out of his mouth. Itachi let go of the arm in his hold and watched with grim acceptance as the boy fell bonelessly to the ground. He raised his head and slightly scowled when he saw Jiraiya and Tsunade running to them. He looked over his shoulder and frowned when he saw his partner, Kisame, glued to the ground and wildly swinging his sword after the dark shadow. Daku blurred out of sight again and appeared in front of Kisame, smashing his fist against the man's chest and flinging him far into the town with the rock clone still tightly gripping his feet.

Daku disappeared after him just as the two Sannins arrived.

Jiraiya looked down at the unconscious Sasuke and the stoically smug Naruto, then at Itachi. "What are you doing here, Itachi?" He crossed his arms and Tsunade mirrored his posture,

"Just paying a visit to Naruto. I'll be on my way now…" he trailed off as Naruto slapped his palms together again and the boy's blue bubble flung him straight to the Sannin.

Not even wanting to take his chance against two legendary Sannin, Itachi's sharingan eyes spun wildly and melded together to form the shuriken-like Mangekyo sharingan.

"Amaterasu."

He closed an eye and hot black flames exploded out of his other eye, spiralling to the Sannin duo. The Sannin leapt away from the attack and looked back to where they last saw Itachi, but glared silently when they didn't find him there. He curiously looked down at the remnants of the curious-looking black flames and sealed them away for later study.

Tsunade was glaring down at Naruto. Naruto was looking up at her.

"What?" the blonde boy blurted out, bewildered at her piercing stare.

"How were you able to hold off two S-rank missing ninjas?"

"Fuinjutsu, just like how I beat you." The woman's hands clenched so hard he knuckles cracked.

"I was holding back, brat." She tried to keep her cool but just looking at Naruto's bored face seemed to enrage her.

Naruto waved her off with a flippant hand gesture. "Whatever you say," The boy seemed to getting some sort of pleasure from getting her angry; her responses to each, no matter how small, were always hilarious, "Granny…"

Jiraiya gasped in horror. "Oh no he didn't…"

"Why you little—" she reached forward to strangle the boy but the toad sage pulled her back. "I am at my prime damn it!"

"Sure, sure whatever." He turned around and went back to his hotel room, making sure to refortify it with seals.

With Kisame and Daku it didn't look too good for the S-rank missing.

After he had crash landed into the ground and shakily got back to his feet he was thrown away from an attack Daku had just perfected; the dark shadow ran at him with half of his true speed and allowed his legs to leave the ground, tucking his knees to his chest. Despite not running anymore he still flew through the air like a missile and nailed Kisame in the face.

Naruto called it the Cannonball, travelling at approximately 170mp/h horizontally.

Blood spurted out of Kisame's mouth after impact but he still stubbornly got to his feet, with Samehada in his iron grasp. When he saw Daku cock his head to the side in confusion, as the shark man was still alive/conscious, he whipped his sword at him.

The shuddering sword carved a deep grove after Daku as it chased him. The dark shadow flipped backwards over the sword and, in mid-air, he shot two stone spikes at Kisame. The man pulled his hands out of the path of the stone attacks and scowled when he saw them break through a residential building wall. The man summoned his sword back to him and was about to flash through a few seals to destroy the insistent bug but a firm hand on his shoulder stopped him, instinctively knowing who it was.

"We have to leave; the Sannins are on their way." Kisame remained in place, glaring at Daku with all the molten hate in his body. Daku took a strong stance, expecting the man to capitalise on his hate, but hummed sourly when both leapt onto a roof and disappeared.

"I'm going to find him…" Kisame started, squeezing the handle of his sword painfully, "and I'm going to kill him." He grunted in pain when he felt some of his broken ribs shift and lightly poked his lungs. In his limp and broken hand was Samehada, so Itachi could help his partner run-walk with the other arm over his shoulder.

Itachi sighed lightly. "I know."

Daku shrugged and got down into a starting position for a sprint, grasping the ground with his hands and leapt forward, disappearing when his feet left the ground.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Naruto couldn't sleep much that night.

He chose to only sleep for two hours, as per the norm and used the rest of the night to study his level nine training scroll and pick out seals to break down.

All he had on his mind was creating an effective attack equal to or surpassing the Rasengan.

Powerful. Dependent. Stable.

The young seal master reached forward and grabbed a transparent sheet of paper and drew a standard storage seal on it, then he drew another seal on another transparent sheet of paper for an explosion, then a clean circle around it to show that it was also a contained explosion.

He tapped his chin with his brush and riffled through the training scroll more ideas. He sighed when he didn't find anything too helpful, so he resolved to break seals apart and create simple seals to combine into a complex seal.

Naruto took a deep breath and envisioned the effect he wanted to create with his seal, he began drawing chakra affinity storage seals and a seal to mix the affinities then he drew a circle over each affinity storage to show that they were to be separate then a thick line connecting them and to the centre to show that they could be combined through controlled effort.

The ink he used glowed a soft blue and showed the tiny, barely visible miniature seals that were in each stroke. He took the other two transparent papers with seals on them and placed them gently over the multi-affinity paper, the seals glowed a soft red and Naruto switched them so the chakra storage could be under the affinity seal and the explosive seal could be at the top.

It glowed a soft blue and he smiled widely.

He then took out another transparent sheet of paper and began constructing another seal for containment, simply to contain the full brunt of the attack until it reached its target and let loose all its fury.

He put that over at the top of the complex seal and nodded again when it turned blue, showing that the combination was correct.

He hunched over the seal and put both of his index fingers on opposite corners. "Here goes nothing." He braced himself for an explosion but only a small plume of smoke erupted over him. He coughed and waved the smoke out of his face. "Much better than I expected." He looked down at the seal and frowned. "Something's missing…"

Yes, the simple seals mixed successfully and the strokes were now completely mixed into a complex seal, but it still didn't look…finished.

He scratched his cheek and ran a hand through his pale blonde hair, trying to figure out just what seemed amiss from his custom creation.

He added in a custom-made seal to increase the speed of the attack, the density of the attack and the raw strength of the attack but there was still something off about the complex seal.

The seal was flawlessly made.

He could bet his kidneys that it worked, and he knew as a fact that the attack would be very much unexpected. He tapped his brush on the seal in thought before his head snapped up and he began frantically, but at the same time, carefully tracing his fingers over the seal until the multi-affinity seal appeared at the top. He then drew a small circle where each affinity connected and allowed himself to laugh quietly. The multi-affinity seal melted back into the fairly large complex seal.

The twelve-year-old boy slumped back into his chair and closed his eyes. 'Now where do I test this…?' He cracked an eye open and saw that the sun was just peeking out of the horizon. 'Morning already?'

He got out of his chair and stretched, making sure to do some lunges and squats focusing on his dead-but-still-very-much-alive leg. He went into the bathroom and took his bath, then got dressed in his black baggy pants but a different deep blue shirt and black crisscrossing lines with a white Uzumaki whirlpool on the shoulders. He rolled his shoulders experimentally to see if he could still throw his arms out quick enough or raise his shields fast enough. He nodded when it still fit his actions. He was about to reach over and grab his new seal until he felt a small shudder go through him and he sighed tiredly. "One day…. Just one day of peace…that's all I ask."

The seal master grabbed his newest custom complex and sealed it in his wrist before he left the room; he didn't have any bags to lug around seeing as he had all his possessions sealed into storage seals on his arms and shoulders.

He followed the small tracking seal he placed on Jiraiya to the room directly opposite his own. He suspected that the man knew he had a tracking seal on him but didn't want to remove it, maybe because he hoped the boy was warming up to him. He didn't know it was because the boy wanted to know exactly where the man was, in case he ever got them into trouble.

Naruto's mind went back to a memory he had in the first town they entered; a gaggle of prostitutes surrounded the Sannin, leaving Naruto to fend for himself and search the whole casino for the slug Sannin. The sweet temptresses lured the man to the back of the casino and robbed him blind before he could slur out words for them to stop. The kisses and licks to his neck and body left the man so flustered that he lay in the trash can the women dumped him in for hours until Naruto just managed to track him down.

He knocked on the door and waited patiently for a full ten minutes for the man to answer but frowned when he wasn't answered. He knocked again but it still wasn't answered. The boy put his ear to the door and listened in for any sound. There weren't any. He shook his head in disappointment and rammed his shoulder into the door five times before it caved in after him. His eyes scanned the dark room before he spotted the conked-out form of the legendary Sannin half slumped on a bed.

Naruto walked up to the man and crossed his arms. "Wake up." The man groaned and slurred out some incoherent words. Naruto kicked the man's leg. "Wake up. Tsunade is trying to escape."

"Who…?" the man rolled onto the ground and rubbed his face. "What did I do yesterday?" Naruto shrugged and Jiraiya staggered to his feet but he swayed and hat to grab hold of the wall. "Something feels wrong…" he furrowed his eyebrows and groaned again. "My chakra feels off."

"You went out drinking with Tsunade and she poisoned you. Non-lethal, since your drunk self is still alive," Naruto summarised correctly. "What did you expect from the woman who doesn't want anything to do with Konoha, and is going to be made Hokage of said village?" The young boy pinched his nose in irritation. "Why do you keep getting yourself into trouble, Jiraiya." The man had the decency to look sheepish, also remembering their experience in Rilke town, the first town they entered.

"You said Tsunade is trying to escape?" He tried to change the subject and Naruto obliged with a roll of his eyes.

"Yes. Can you run?"

"I can, but my chakra control is shot to hell."

"The poison would wear off with time I guess, but we have to make do with what we have."

"Lead the way, kid." The boy jogged to the hotel lobby and stopped at the receptionist's desk.

"We would like to sign out." He dropped his room key as well as Jiraiya's on the desk and slid it to the woman. "Your services here have been excellent, by the way."

"Thank you, Master Naruto. Would you be visiting again?" the receptionist asked as she gave the boy a clipboard for him to sign off his name under the 'leaving early' entry and took it back when Jiraiya too signed his name on; seeing as they were leaving hours before schedule.

Naruto scratched his cheek and allowed a small chuckle to come out, he leaned to the woman and with a secret smirk he whispered, "When I'm passing through." The woman nodded in understanding and gave him a discreet thumbs up. The boy waved and walked to the door with the Toad Sannin.

"You're being awfully secretive, kid."

"We're all entitled to our secrets, Jiraiya. She's going through the east exit so straight ahead." They ran full tilt to the gate there.

With Tsunade, the woman had most possessions on her but even still the younger black-haired girl had more to carry.

"Tsunade why are we running again; you agreed to go back to Konoha." She huffed in strain as she lugged around a large bag on her back, two sleeping bags under her arms, the pig, Tonton, in his carrier and a map in her other hand while at the same time struggling to keep up with her mistress. Tsunade only had a bottle of water in her hand and a bag of money in her other hand which, suspiciously enough, had a toad plastered on its opening flap.

"I'm not going back to Konoha, Shizune."

"But…But you're dishonouring your deal with that Naruto."

"I don't care. That brat can go suck a—"

"Tsunade!" Shizune blushed a deep crimson.

"—For all I care," the lady finished as if she wasn't interrupted.

"Oh Tsunade, where are you going?" the voice that spoke was silky and smooth with just a hint of condescending slithering out.

"Orochimaru." Tsunade sneered without turning around. "What do you want?"

"Straight to the point. Typical Tsunade." The snake Sannin smoothly walked to her, ignoring Shizune as if she was a bug and stood in front of her, making the woman see that he had with him a grey-haired teen in large spectacles behind him. "I require your medical expertise."

"I'm not going to help you, traitor."

The man chuckled, making chills go down Tsunade and Shizune's backs. "Stubborn as always; I like that about you." He stepped forward so he was almost nose-to-nose with her, eliciting a faint blush from the woman. He tucked a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear. "But…" He trailed a gentle finger over her cheek. "I wasn't giving you an option…"

He turned sideways and allowed the woman to see Kabuto cut his wrist with a kunai, his blood pumping out of his body heavily.

Tsunade froze in horror at the blood she saw. Shizune dropped the bags in her arms and took a stance. "Stand back! I'm warning you!"

Orochimaru chuckled again. "You're out of your depth, girl." He grabbed Tsunade by her hair harshly. The woman, catatonic, didn't offer any resistance and allowed herself to be pulled by Orochimaru in the general direction of Hidden Sound. "Take care of her, Kabuto."

"With pleasure Orochimaru." The medic ninja said and began walking menacingly to the younger female medic ninja.

The snake Sannin's ears picked up a light whistling; he furrowed his eyebrows and looked around. Kabuto stopped walking and curiously looked at his master.

Orochimaru looked up and his eyes widened. "Oh, sh—"

A small blue small landed heavily on him, tearing Tsunade out of his grasp and throwing her away from the shockwave. The man winced and squinted into the blue bubble to see who had just landed on top of him; it felt like he had 200 pounds of weight crushing his chest, nothing he couldn't take but it was still bothersome. He wiggled his arms to his chest and his veins bulged as he pushed the bubble up.

Naruto scoffed before he slapped his palms together. "Push."

The result of this was the man being dug deeper into the ground and the massive surge of blue chakra tearing up the ground around them, forcing Kabuto and Shizune to run in opposite directions away from it.

"Get off me!" The Sannin, who was still very much alive, yelled. He squinted again and hissed when he saw blonde hair and whiskers. "Naruto…"

The boy scratched his cheek in thought. "I'll consider about it." But he groaned in apprehension when the man melted into a mud puddle.

The snake Sannin's rage was palpable. Killer intent blanketed the general vicinity.

Jiraiya ran up to his former teammate and gently slapped her face to get her to look at him. "Tsunade. Tsunade. Look at me." He offhandedly kicked Kabuto back when he tried to blindside him.

"I…I…I…" The woman stammered, her eyes looked past the white-haired man to the fight ensuing between Naruto and the snake Sannin with the boy having his back to her. The toad Sannin too looked at the match-up and clenched his hand in a vain effort to control his chakra. He ploughed through a long chain of hand seals,

"Summoning jutsu!" A small plume of smoke burst on the ground in front of him but he groaned in frustration when he saw a tadpole. "Aw c'mon!" He cancelled the jutsu.

Naruto blocked a kick with his right forearm shield and shoved the attacker back, swinging his earth-clumped legs at Orochimaru as he came at him again. The older man bent away from the leg but didn't anticipate Naruto slapping his palms together, throwing him into a massive rock.

His blood-curdling yell choked the environment with his murderous intent, "Stop doing that!"

He leapt out into the air and snakes hissed out of his outstretched right arm darting down dangerously to Naruto. In response, Naruto jammed his rectangular shield into the ground so it would remain steady during the harsh onslaught.

The boy grits his teeth to keep the lethal snakes away from him and the feeling of multiple Orochimaru mud clones punching and kicking his visible iron blue bubble. He deduced that after a few more minutes of constant attacks, it would crumble under the pressure,

"Jiraiya! Anytime now!" A barely perceived crack appeared on his right side. "Jiraiya!" He didn't want to call Daku; he had two Sannin and a Sannin's apprentice with him. If the toad sage could snap his partner out of her funk then maybe they would survive today. His tree root seals were working overtime to keep him from sliding back too much against the snake attacks.

"I'm working on it, kid!" A small toad burst out of the smoke on his shoulder and he cancelled the jutsu again. Again, the war veteran kicked Kabuto under his jaw. "Give me a minute! I almost got it!"

Shizune was frantic. She was hesitant to help go up against a Sannin and she didn't know how to snap her mistress out of her funk. She knelt in front of Tsunade and snapped her fingers in front of her eyes, but the older woman kept her eyes on Naruto. "He…He's holding him back…"

Using this as a lifeline to bring her out of her delirium, the younger lady spoke, "Yes. Yes. He's trying to keep him back but he can't do it for long without help."

"My…help…?" she clenched her fists slowly and lowered her head. "The brat needs my help…" The idea was laughable but she was standing in front of the fight right now.

The girl nodded and continued, "Yes. Orochimaru is too strong to be kept for much longer and the poison you gave Jiraiya is messing with his chakra control. Naruto needs your strength, Lady Tsunade!" Shizune shielded herself and her mistress from the backlash of a massive Earth Release: Pillars of The Harsh Underworld.

The jutsu simulated the effect of massive blunt pillars of earth blasting out of the ground and pounding the target repeatedly like pistons. The rocks pounded mercilessly against Naruto's 'Ultimate Defence' in conjuncture with the Orochimaru mud clones' attacks and the 'Shadow snakes' attack. Naruto roared under the effort to keep them all away.

He couldn't 'push' them away; that would leave him vulnerable for even the slightest of seconds.

"I…"

Naruto dug his free hand into his pockets and withdrew a seal on a very thick piece of paper. "I never thought I'd ever need this…" he gripped the seal with his index and middle finger and yelled. "Jiraiya, start summoning!"

"But my chakra!"

"Just…do it!" and he threw the seal at him, having to do so over his right shoulder. Jiraiya flashed through the seals and just as the seal slapped onto his chest, a loud ticking noise sounded as the man yelled his jutsu again.

"Summoning jutsu!" The seal, which was shaped into a complex nine-sided shape, unfurled like a flower just as another chakra smoke plume exploded but this time under him. "Now we're talking!"

"Jiraiya! Why am I here!" Even Orochimaru paused in his onslaught to look up at the massive toad. "Snake summoner!" He drew his sword out and took a defensive stance.

Naruto tiredly fell onto his knees and let his guard down, allowing his blue shell to keep attacks away. His eyes widened when he heard a sound like a window smashing open before the snake slipped inside and bit into his shoulder. The boy grits his teeth and activates his shield, shredding the snake to pieces.

He looked at the bleeding bite wound and winced. "That's gonna sting in the morning."

"Kit, the snake's poison is working too quickly!" Kurama roared from inside him as he swirled his chakra and expelled it through his host's body, driving the poison away from his heart and his lungs.

'How long do I have Kyu?' he winced again as his shoulder burned.

"An hour before you lose consciousness."

He put his right hand over the snake bite and it glowed a deep green. 'How about now?'

'Of course, he slowed down his heart.' Kyuubi rolled his eyes. That wasn't a healing jutsu, it was a Temporary Stasis seal drawn using the contact method, where a seal master creates seals by simply touching the area or person he wants to affect. Kyuubi vividly recalled that Kushina could easily use the contact method to create offensive and defensive seals. Minato Namikaze and Mito Uzumaki too. Kyuubi grunted. "Three hours tops."

'Good enough.' He stood up straight and groaned when the bite bubbled. He looked up and met the toad boss's eye.

"Who's the kid, Jiraiya?"

"Uzumaki Naruto, but we need to focus on the fight first, Gamabunta."

"You still owe me a drink!"

"I'll pay you back later!"

Gamabunta snorted out some smoke from his pipe. "Whatever. Hop on kid."

Naruto gratefully leapt onto his head and hissed. "What about Tsunade?"

"Right here!" The slug Sannin yelled from atop the slug boss. Shizune crouched behind her.

"Tsunade, you're back!" Jiraiya yelled. "What pulled you out?!"

"Shizune said Orochimaru called me old!" she joked with a playful smirk before her eyes steeled as Manda, the massive snake boss, appeared with his summoner on his head. Kabuto was crouched beside him.

"Just like the good old days," the snake Sannin said with a sly smirk as he watched Naruto's painfully scowled face. "With a little twist."

"Kid, do you have any more of that juice? That felt great," Jiraiya whispered to the boy standing beside him.

"Yes, but it only works two seconds at a time while you pump as much chakra as you can." He created the seal under the chance that someone close to him would poison his chakra network. It was farfetched but he couldn't be too careful.

Now he had to think about how he would negate the sharingan and the byakugan…

He pulled out a fist full, and Gamabunta leapt forward to Manda. The snake ducked the sword stroke but was met with a superhuman punch to the side of the head courtesy of Tsunade. Manda hissed angrily and wrapped around the massive slug boss.

"Katsuyu, disperse!" the massive slug dispersed into smaller slugs and reassembled metres away from the large snake. Tsunade ran up the side of the snake pulled her hand back, and let it fly onto the snake Sannin's cheek, caving his face in and flipping away in time to avoid Orochimaru's Kusanagi slash.

She landed back on the reformed slug boss. "How're you holding up, brat!"

"I'm fine!" he grunted. "Just hurry." Jiraiya snapped his fingers and went through some hand seals, Naruto slapped a seal onto his leg.

"Fire Release: Giant Fireball Technique!"

On cue, Gamabunta began spitting out a thick stream of oil that crossed with the fire and ploughed into the snake and its summoner.

"Earth Release: World's Greatest Earth Defence." The snake boss pumped in a ton of chakra into the style and a dome of earth covered him protectively against the attack.

"How the hell does he know that jutsu!?" Tsunade asked as she again jumped off and smashed her fist against the earth's shell; the dome caved and cracked slightly in but was slowly fixing itself again. The woman ducked a chakra scalpel from Kabuto, who had jumped out and had to flip away repeatedly. "Do something, idiot!"

"I'm working on it!" he held on as Gamabunta began savagely hacking away at the earth's shell. "I bet you wish you knew the Rasengan now, kid."

A lightbulb lit up above Naruto's head. "Oh yeah…" He spared the hand that was keeping the bleeding from his shoulder at bay and dug it into his pants, pulling out his new seal. "I've got this."

"What's that?"

"We're about to find out." He shakily got back to his feet and put his legs into strong stances. activating his tree root seals. "Get back, Gamabunta."

"I hope you know what you're doing, kid!" the toad boss exclaimed as he hopped back. As the toad was in the air, Naruto grabbed the paper seal by its opposite corners and pumped as much chakra into it as possible. The boy's blue chakra cracked to the centre of the seal and leaked into a seal stroke before the whole seal lit up.

"Ninja Art: Fuinjutsu: Chakra Beam!"

A thick beam of blue chakra blasted out of the piece of paper, warping and spinning down at the earth dome like it was the heavens that had sent it down through that meagre piece of paper.

The chakra beam bashed against the dome, caving it before it slipped in and nailed the snake boss on the head so hard it dispelled, leaving Orochimaru to run lengthwise away from the bright blue beam of chakra.

"We need to leave, Lord Orochimaru!" Kabuto shouted from across the clearing, trying his best to keep up with the female Sannin and at the same time dodging Poison Senbon being shot by Shizune. He clenched his fist when a senbon nailed his left calf and Tsunade sent over a devastating uppercut that threw him in the general direction of his master.

Orochimaru glared at his four opponents and grabbed the back of Kabuto's neck as he landed beside him. The boy struggled to his feet and the man let go. "You've won nothing Jiraiya, Tsunade." Both just looked at him blankly. The man melted into the ground and Kabuto ran into the forest.

Naruto sighed in relief and slowly sat down, before lying down comfortably.

"Close one huh, kid?" The boy swayed slightly. "You ok?" Tsunade landed beside them and knelt beside the younger blonde,

"Snake poison. Shizune!" She looked down at the boy and smirked at his current state. The boy had the right side of his shirt ripped off from the snake's acidic bite and blood splotches and dirt stains spotted his shirt and pants, the tips of both his right and middle were bright red, showing that the new seal had at least a small side effect; she touched them and pulled her hand back, they were burning. Shizune knelt beside her and smiled at the boy as she put a delicate hand on his forehead.

"You'll be fine Naruto. You need to rest."

Naruto nodded and closed his eyes. "Start by cutting off the blood flow…" and they began healing Naruto.

Authors note

Jutsu list

Earth Release: Pillars of the Harsh Underworld: An A-rank ninjutsu that was thought to be lost after the second shinobi war. The attack uses the user's raw desire to put the target(s) in pain. Strong stone pillars that slant to the target are fired out of the ground and re-inserted and fired back again repeatedly, the last stronger than the first until the target is a bloody smear on a vertical surface. The attack is among the elemental nations Dark Ninjutsu; all five major hidden villages (as well as most of the minor villages) have agreed that the use of this jutsu is to be barred since the user is said to be in a fit of murderous rage.

Earth Release: World's Greatest Earth Defence: This is a B-rank jutsu with A-rank efficiency and strength. It is the world's greatest defence because after being hit with any jutsu it would automatically begin to fix itself with the speed depending largely on the size of the dome. That is, the larger the dome, the slower the speed it would be fixed and vice versa. It is classified as a B-rank solely because of its large chakra consumption and the constant effort to keep it up. The jutsu, before it would crumble, would cave in and then break apart from constant attack. So, if Tsunade had kept up her onslaught, she would have surely broken it down.

Ninja Art: Fuinjutsu: Chakra Beam: This is a new Fuin-Ninjutsu that has not yet been classified. It takes the user's chakra and processes it through the complex seal, mixing and churning it together with explosive components so volatile that if there was no containment for the explosive seal Naruto's hands would be burned off from contact. The chakra beam is a cylindrical attack that makes use of raw strength, chakra density after it has been thoroughly mixed and brutal heat from the explosive seal to deal out damage to its target. So far only Samehada and the other seven swords of the mist can effectively block this, with a lot of effort. The only known side effect of this seal is that it would make the tips of the fingers turn red with heat, not fatal but still very painful.

So? How was it? Did I do well?

Hope I didn't underpower Kisame, you do remember how strong Daku is right? I agree that (badass) Itachi was useless up against Naruto but take note that he didn't want to reveal his Mangekyo just yet.

Tell me what you all think; I'd like to know,

See you on the flip side.

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Foy.