Danzo could only stare as the Third was overwhelmed by the incessant offensive of the combined forces of Orochimaru and lords First and Second. He broke into a cold sweat at the unfolding scene. Despite the possible personal benefit he could see from this, the damage to the pride of Konoha and his own was undeniable if the rogue Sannin was not taken down then and there.

He unsheathed his katana, which he infused with lightning chakra. His stoic facial expression remained the exact same as he began repeatedly slashing the barrier. As he ended his combo, the purple wall of chakra remained unfazed. Not even a shinobi of his level could break it.

The two ANBU standing by him were even more frustrated. Their loyalty, their dedication to the protection of the Hokage and Konoha, their skills and powers as shinobi. None of that mattered in the moment of truth. A ninjutsu barrier of the highest level prevented even Konoha's elite from intervening.

The battle finally reached a point of less activity. The king of the monkeys stood right in front of the old Hokage, while the latter held the clap hands seal. His face, while showing just how tired he already was, reflected the Will of Fire in its purest state.

Orochimaru then grabbed his own face and pulled it off as if it was a mask. What was underneath was the face of a very young woman, and not at all the Sannin, who had to be past fifty years old. Danzo gritted his teeth, while the two ANBU gasped.

Hiruzen's eyes snapped wide open in realization. Forbidden jutsu of the highest level. Enma, however, was furious.

"He's done it, hasn't he?" Asked the monkey, more to himself.

The old man's face turned into a somber one. "Do not tell me you've perfected such an immoral technique."

The Sannin only giggled in response. The image of the woman's face on the body that so far had seemed identical to that of the real Orochimaru caused even the God of Shinobi to feel nauseous.

"You terrible, inhuman monster." Was the only thing the Third could utter after such a revelation. "This is exactly why I could not have possibly elected you as Hokage."

Orochimaru's smirk fell for a short window of time. However, he forced it back up as soon as he realized.

"The art of immortality has always been one of my deepest desires." Began the rogue shinobi. "It's a transference jutsu in which I choose a new body to insert my mind and soul into it, and take control over it."

The disgust became visible through Sarutobi's face, but he knew it would be better to keep the conversation going to earn some extra time.

"I only assumed my old appearance because I wanted to make you feel nostalgic, master." The old man grunted in response, which reinforced the Sannin's smirk. "You will die here and I shall obtain a body that's even younger and stronger, and more beautiful than this one."

Sweat was already coming down from his wrinkly forehead in considerable quantities. He exhaled with unusual effort as he was close to reuniting enough chakra for the fuinjutsu he was about to cast.

"You tried to make Sasuke Uchiha your host, didn't you?"

Orochimaru laughed. "Things did not go as planned, but I'm sure you've figured I still got a certain pair of things out of it. But do not worry, master, I promise to make good use of them!"

"How many more bodies have you usurped?" Questioned Sarutobi.

"This is only my second… I've been grooming a series of different candidates, other than Sasuke Uchiha." His smirk fell. "But I will not forgive you for ruining my first option!"

Orochimaru moved his hand back to his face, but as he completely covered it, something hit the barrier.

Everyone inside turned around in the same direction. To their left, a massive blue flash crashed straight into the barrier. However, what caused Hiruzen, the Sannin and Enma to widen their eyes in shock was the fact that the impact caused a serious amount of cracks on the barrier.

Sarutobi noticed then that Danzo was just outside the barrier alongside two ANBU. But he had not been responsible for the attack.

The blue flash lost some brightness, and instead revealed a silhouette surrounded by a blue aura of pure energy. As its image became clearer, the surprise only grew. A boy was floating while his energy raged out of his body in the form of the blue aura.

He placed both of his hands on his forehead, with his palms pointed straight at the purple barrier. A sphere of yellow energy quickly formed over his hands.

"Impossible!" Yelled Orochimaru as his eyes widened. "Go!"

As he pointed at the man, the two reanimated Hokage charged against the distracted Sarutobi. However, Enma was ready and blocked the swift barrage of kicks and punches. Then, he grabbed the First's arm and the Second's leg. He began to spin while still holding them. He let go of the two and launched them far away into opposite corners of the barrier.

"Masenko," Gohan began as the sphere on his hands turned into a beam aimed directly at the purple wall of chakra, "ha!"

The energy wave hit the barrier directly and caused it to finally collapse. The following explosion caused a powerful expansive wave that pushed back all nearby shinobi. As the smoke dissipated, the boy slowly floated towards the new opening of the barrier, which slowly began to close once again.

The four oto-nin standing at each corner of it were shocked by the penetration of their jutsu. Their own breaths were quite heavy, as the struggle of resisting such attacks and now regenerating the barrier meant an important consumption of chakra.

The Sannin grabbed his sword and charged against the boy. However, someone else blocked his attack as the sound of metal clashing filled his ears.

It was Danzo, holding his own sword with a single hand. Orochimaru jumped back to get some extra distance and find a way to get out of that situation. His jaw was so tense that the muscles around it became visible.

Gohan finally landed on the roof of the tower, and turned to look at the monkey that was once again standing by the old man.

"You can drop that, Hiruzen." Said the monkey, before glancing at the boy.

Suddenly, the saiyan's face softened into a more amicable expression. "Excuse me, which one of you is Orochimaru?"

The boy's warm and serene smile was totally out of place in their current context. It was as if he did not understand that he was standing beside some of the strongest shinobi in the entire world. As if he did not realize he interrupted a Kage-level battle.

"Who are you, boy?" Inquired the old Sarutobi.

"I'm Son Gohan, apologies for my manners." He bowed.

The Third was slightly taken aback by the fact he kept ignoring the stakes of the context around him.

"Why are you looking for Orochimaru?" He scanned his outfit, as he thought the white cape and brown shoes were very unusual. "I would advise you to leave before the situation gets too dangerous for you."

"Oh, don't worry, mister! I can easily defeat anyone that is here." He then scratched his chin as he realized something. "You're Konohamaru's grandfather, right?"

The old man's eyes snapped wide open, while Enma crossed his arms. The monkey king realized something might be off. "How did you…?"

"And well, I'm looking for Orochimaru because Sakura and her master told me to get him and help some person called Hokage." He scratched his head. "Who are they, though?"

Hiruzen laughed a little at the boy's ignorance. "Well, I'm the Hokage, but that is not a name. It's a title."

"As for Orochimaru," continued the white monkey. "That pale man over there. That's him."

"I see." He cracked his knuckles and then began to stretch as if he was about to work out. "You can explain all that Hokage stuff to me later. I'll take care of that guy in no time!"

"Foolish kid." Exclaimed the serious Danzo, who still held his sword pointed straight at the Sannin. "Just go and don't get involved."

The Sannin smirked after glancing in between the mysterious boy and his old associate within the village.

"No, no, dear Danzo." He licked his lips. "Listen to the boy."

As he was about to slash through the advisor's arm, a punch interrupted his move and sent him flying towards one of the walls of the barrier. After he fell down, he began to cough up blood from the hemorrhages caused by the powerful impact.

Shimura was left in awe as the boy stood still right in front of him. He had delivered the powerful punch in a split second. He put his blade back on its sheath and jumped back towards the Hokage.

Enma took a step forward and covered both old men.

"What is he?" Asked Sarutobi softly.

"We shall see." Replied Danzo.

A visibly infuriated Orochimaru then yelled and pointed at the boy. The two reanimated Hokage rushed towards him, ignoring the monkey's attempts to stop them. However, their swift and powerful barrages of attacks were all dodged with ease by Gohan. The speed of his movements was like nothing witnessed by any of the shinobi present.

Then, Gohan grabbed an arm from each of the reanimated Kage and launched them into the air. He pointed his opened hands at them before launching a sphere of blue energy at them. Upon impact, the sphere exploded like a bomb, and the bodies were seemingly disintegrated entirely. There was no need to hold back with them, as he could not sense any energy coming from them.

However, the properties of the Edo Tensei made it so the pieces of ash began to slowly regenerate again.

"That's weird. I've never seen something like it." Admitted the Saiyan.

"Well, foolish boy. That's forbidden jutsu of the highest level, the Edo Tensei." Orochimaru slowly walked towards his new opponent. His curved posture revealed his pain, while the blood that incessantly flooded his mouth indicated his very critical state. "Do tell me, what's yours?"

Two hands then emerged from the man's throat, and forcefully broke his own jaw to open the mouth to a disturbing magnitude. Slowly, a new and unharmed copy of the man's body emerged covered in a strange liquid.

Gohan frowned at the scene, which caused some cackling in the Sannin.

"So even kids as powerful as you are so easily disturbed."

The half-blood suddenly appeared right in front of him, ready to punch the man. However, Orochimaru smirked confidently.

Then, the boy fell on the man, seemingly unconscious. He removed the unconscious stranger off his own body, before slowly walking towards the two old men.

"All powerful, but completely vulnerable to genjutsu… How fascinating!"

The two kunoichi of Konoha stood side by side. Each stood on their fighting stance, while staring at the traitor. The hallway had now been reduced to a bunch of debris and rubble.

The man of the gray hair was missing his glasses, which made it a little harder on his eyes. His sight was quite bad without them, but as a shinobi elite, he had to be able to overcome such handicaps.

At the exact same time, Anko and Kabuto began a combination of hand seals. Noticing this, Sakura rushed towards the man, seeking to distract him and give the woman the upper hand. However, as she reached his side and was about to kick him, the earth underneath the floor of the hallway opened up to swallow him.

Anko finished with the rat seal and her chest became filled with air. Behind her, Kabuto emerged once again. His arm was coated in chakra, which held the shape of a blade.

He raised his arm, clearly wanting to slice off the woman's head. Sakura was faster, and she appeared right next to him in the blink of an eye. The traitor widened his eyes in shock before taking a punch straight to the abdomen, followed by a low-kick. And finally, while still in the air, Sakura slammed him down.

The violet-haired woman then turned around and took two steps back. Sparks appeared in her mouth, before it turned into a flamethrower. The fire that she spit out from her mouth quickly adopted the form of a snake.

The man of the gray hair was too slow when standing up, so he had seemingly no way out. The attack impacted and exploded. The lockers and doors that had resisted the battle so far either fell or burned.

Once the fire dissipated, the only thing that was left was the black color of burnt matter all over the walls. Even Sakura barely dodged the powerful jutsu.

"Is it done?" The pink-haired girl turned around while asking.

Anko slowly shook her head, before pointing at the hole in the ground. She already expected Kabuto to be hard to defeat, but maybe he was a little more elusive than she thought.

Sakura closed her eyes and sensed her surroundings. She noticed that Anko's energy signal was more intense than when she arrived, but then, she felt an even bigger presence. Underneath them.

The girl jumped back and pointed exactly under where she had been. A scalpel of pure chakra emerged from the ground, only to be met with nothing but air. Slowly, he came out of the tunnels he had been digging.

"Very impressive, a sensor." Recognized the man. "And I must congratulate you, Anko. Your elemental jutsu is truly worthy of the jounin elite."

"Your escaping jutsu is top tier, too." Replied the woman. "But I expected more than a coward. I guess Orochimaru's judgment has failed, after all."

Kabuto's face, previously covered by a smirk of confidence, fell into a frown. He raised his chakra blade and pointed it at the woman.

However, Sakura raised her voice. "Lady Anko, I have an idea! I just need you to hold him back for a little."

The woman raised an eyebrow, but as she saw that the girl sat down and put her hands together, she figured it was her duty to protect her.

The traitor tried to go for the defenseless girl, but the jounin stopped him by throwing an explosive kunai in between them both. Kabuto turned once again to stare directly at the former apprentice of his master.

"If you're so willing to die, then so be it."

The man charged at her with his blade first. A barrage of stab attempts were initially dodged by the woman, who was eventually forced to jump back. It was probably not an option to block, given the sharpness of the chakra that coated his arm.

Meanwhile, a small sphere of yellow energy was beginning to form between the girl's hands. It was one of the very few things she had learned from Gohan. She thought it could be useful as the boy used something similar to throw at the wood to start a fire. Even if she did not know how to throw it like that, she could simply hit the man directly with it.

Anko pushed a set of four senbon out of her sleeve, before throwing them at the man. Only one hit the target, and it was one of his shoulders. Normally, a single senbon wouldn't do much damage, but Kabuto felt very clearly that something wet had been put on the needle.

"Not even poison will avoid your imminent defeat!" He said while pulling out the weapon with his chakra-coated hand, making a small cut that drained some blood from the wound.

The jounin then jumped and tried to land a kick on his head, but she was forced to move away as the man tried to chop off her left foot. She landed behind him, and took the chance to elbow his back.

"It's ready!" Yelled the girl before standing back up. On the palm of her right hand, she was holding a small energy sphere.

Anko nodded without even turning to look at the girl, and simply climbed up one of the walls to move away.

Her last hit had forced Kabuto to his knees, so he was standing up when the girl was running at him. He turned around just in time to see the sphere hit his face directly. The small energy ball exploded, pushing both Sakura and the traitor back in opposite directions.

Anko jumped in to catch the pinkette, while the one to catch Kabuto was the wall at the end of the hallway.

As he lay sitting with his back on the wall, his head was lowered. This meant his face was not visible initially, as one of the strands of hair he kept out of the ponytail covered it. Even then, the two kunoichi could clearly see that many drops of blood were streaming down to his legs.

"What jutsu was that?" Asked the jounin. "That was… Well, he's dead now."

"I don't think it had a name." Replied the girl while scratching the back of her head.

However, Anko was wrong. The man was not yet dead.

Kabuto raised his head to look at the two kunoichi. Half of his face had been burnt so bad that pieces of his skull were visible. His left eye was completely carbonized, while the rest of his face was completely red, either because of the blood or because the skin had been burnt off.

He held a single hand up, gesturing half of the snake seal. Then, he disappeared into a cloud of smoke, which dissipated to reveal that he had substituted himself with a locker.

Sakura was left with a shocked expression by the horrifying scene of the man's injuries. While Anko was simply surprised that the man had even survived such a thing.

"We'll have to register that jutsu once we go back." As she turned to look at the girl, she noticed her state of shock. She sighed as she realized she would have to take the younger kunoichi out of it before even leaving to continue fighting.

The Sannin licked the blade of his sword as he approached the Hokage and his advisor. In between, the corpulent monkey was ready to take on him. However, his attention was also carefully placed on the reanimated kage, who were about to be fully regenerated.

An explosion caught their attention, though. Orochimaru quickly turned around, finding that the boy had already escaped his genjutsu. The explosion was a result of the energy balls the Saiyan threw at the regenerating bodies of the Edo Tensei, which once again began their recovery.

Orochimaru's jaw tensed and he gritted his teeth. Whoever that kid was, he was getting annoying.

"I would have spared you if you stayed down, kid." Said the Sannin. "But now… Now I'll make you suffer."

His body flickered before appearing right next to the boy with spiky hair. He tried to slash one of his arms, but Gohan stopped his sword and clenched his fist, breaking it.

Not only Orochimaru, but also Sarutobi and Danzo widened their eyes in shock at the scene of the legendary Kusanagi being destroyed by the mere hand of a boy.

The Sannin let go of his sword and wrapped the boy's neck with his long tongue, trying to choke him. However, Gohan dropped the pieces of broken metal and grabbed onto the man's tongue with both of his hands. He pulled the muscle in opposite directions, and tore it apart.

Orochimaru screamed in pain, but still had no intentions to stop his attack. From all the openings of his clothing, emerged swarms of venomous snakes that immediately jumped onto the Saiyan. And while the animals were unable to even bite the boy appropriately due to his hardened skin, he decided to take them off by intensifying his Ki aura.

The sudden rise in heat forced the animals to throw themselves away, and soon all of them had left Gohan alone.

"I can sense it in your Ki." Said Gohan as he turned to face the now tongueless man. "Your evil intentions."

"Ki?" Asked the desperate Orochimaru.

"So you don't know about it either…" The Saiyan then punched the man straight on the face, which sent him flying against the barrier.

Once again, two arms emerged from his throat and broke his jaw. But this time, the boy would not let it happen.

He put both hands together, and then moved them back at the height of his waist. Initially, only heat gathered in between both of his hands, but soon that turned into a blue energy sphere.

Danzo watched carefully as the boy carried out a jutsu that looked oddly familiar, while Hiruzen and Enma were simply awestruck.

"It can't be…" Was all the old Hokage could say.

To them it was clear. Somehow, that mysterious boy knew the Fourth Hokage's own jutsu. The Rasengan.

"Kame…" Began the Saiyan. The blue energy gathering between the palms of his hands became brighter.

The hands had successfully pulled the head of the new body out, but were now struggling to pull out the rest of it. Orochimaru stared in horror as the very familiar jutsu was about to be launched at him.

"Hame…"

His shoulders finally came out after fully tearing all the muscles of the throat of his old body. Now, he only had to pull out his legs and he would be able to dodge the attack. However, as he turned to once again look at the boy, his eyes were blinded by the incoming blue light.

He could simply widen his yellow eyes. Despite all his attempts, his sacrifices, all his efforts; he was now facing death.