Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Crossing to the Other side ❯ Fight at the Gates part 2 ( Chapter 24 )

Through most of the night the members of team 7 stayed together almost as if they knew with the dawn things would change and the real fight would began and how right they were. Even as the sat now in the Hokage Tower in Tsunade's office they made physical contact with each other, eventually Kat fell asleep leaning on Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura slept further down on the couch curled together. The Godiame gazed at each of them in turn not surprised to see the Naruto was watching her.

“Don't die brat.”

“Don't die Obaa-chan.”

 

 

Red blood flowed along the ground staining the grass and earth around the 3 shinobi. Each member of the group holding a distinct meaning to the other two, the blonde everything that was strong and honesty the future leader of the hidden Leaf village, the black resolve power a silent weapon turned protector from avenger, the pink hope, faith, love and healing. As all things come back to the begining so did team 7 once again it was the original grouping minus one Hatake Kakashi left to face their evils the difference in this confrontation, the strength and loyalty they each held for each other. It remained unspoken because it didn't need to be they knew and in knowing they could communicate without speaking.

The gleam in the mans eyes glowed with an unhealthy light, insanity dancing merrily behind gold eyes, the power surged around him in visible waves lashing the ground carving deep gouges. He laughed; it was eerie making their skin crawl with goose bumps.

“So you brats think you can beat me, you think you have the strength to stop me Uchiha Madara.” Again his evil laughter sounded loudly around the trio, it started low guttural building in volume until even those who fought far away could feel the menace making them shuttering.

“I don't Think we can beat you,” Sakura answered the man her shoulders squared her hands held in front of her body ready to attack.

“I don't Think we can win.” Sasuke growled at the man sweat dripped to the ground along with blood mixing on the ground with both Sakura's and Naruto's making it a deep almost purple in color.

“We KNOW we can!” Naruto responded his lips pulled back from his teeth in a feral snarl canines elongated, his pupils slitted the blue faded to red then back to blue.

 

“What are you some kind of puppet show? You take turns talking now? How amusing.” The man regarded them with raised eyebrows. “Its to bad Sasuke,” he was already moving lunging at them hands flashing in seals the Sharingan spinning in his eyes. “You and your brother could have joined me and had the power you both sought.” He brought his fist down in the center where they had been standing a cloud of dust and debris flew into the air and the shock wave that followed knocked more trees down.

“He copied my Taijutsu!” Sakura blinked in surprise, green eyes wide, but she quickly smashed it down as the man came at her, she only had time to block both arms crossed in front of her chest as his right fist slammed into them she felt the bones of her arm break and would have screamed but instead she grunted landing on her butt and sliding several feet away. When she stopped Sasuke was standing in front of her in the same stance he had used all those years ago when he fought Gaara during their first Chunnin exam. It was the only thing they had in their favor that he hadn't seen them use and it was the trump card to ending this.

“OI Bastard you don't get all the fun.” Naruto dropped down from the trees to stand beside his brother. Sasuke rolled amused black eyes Naruto would never really change and, he mused, that was good thing.

A loud snarl reached both teens and they waited tense as the black robed Akatsuki leader stood up from the carter he had made just moments ago, green and black Chakra swirled around the man Naruto gasped he could feel the power radiating off the man along with the warring personalities of the different demons sealed in his body and if he could feel the power, the overwhelming desire to run that was suffocating him chocking off his lungs then Sasuke and Sakura couldn't possibly stand it. The Chakra around the man reached out and threw all 3 teens back they would have died but for Naruto's quick actions it took less then a second he dropped deep in his mind when he opened his eyes he was once again standing in front of the sealed gates holding the Kyuubi.

“ ` OI Bastard Fox!'” he shouted.

“ `What do want Brat?'”

“ `Do you want to die?'”

“ `You dare ask me that'”

“ `I don't have time for this Baka Fox!'”

“ `No you don't.'”

“ `Well?'”

“ `FINE!'”

Naruto's blue eyes snapped open red chakra wrapped around his body and his friends like a warm blanket and they landed with a barely a scrap among them. Sasuke came to his feet first a shiver made it's way down his spine, the last time the Kyuubi's chakra had been around his body was when he was 13 and he and Naruto had fought at the Valley of the End. Then the feeling had been entirely unpleasant and he had garnered several burns on the exposed flesh that came into contact with it, this time was different in only the intensity of the heat, however the crawl of it moving over his body was still something he didn't like.

“Thanks Naurto.” Sakura panted while she worked to heal her arm with Sasuke's help.

“Dobe.”

The blonde paced back and forth, he was disturbed to say the least by this new development. He knew the man was crazy but to seal all 8 demons in his body at once!?

“ `He wanted power it's no different then the Uchiha Brat.'” Kyuubi filled the unasked question making Naruto flinch visibly and answer out loud.

“No it is, HE is different!” Both teammates looked up at the outburst but the blonde was to agitated to notice “I need to know how to stop him Baka Fox.”

“ `You can't alone, your precious little friends can't help you they will only get in the way.'” Kyuubi's voice lacked its usual mocking tone, over all the years of being sealed in the brat he had come to respect him and though he would never admit it, like the boy. And it was Only because he didn't want to hear the brat whining at him later about his friends dieing that he was going to help get them out of the way.

“ `You're going to have to make them leave if you don't want them getting killed.'”

“So you're going to help me Now?” the Kyuubi snarled in his cage all nine tails whipped and lashed at the gates.

“ `You are entirely With. Out. intelligence gaki.” The snarl turned to a leer as the blonde ninja growled deep in his chest making Sasuke and Sakura look at him worriedly. Clamping down on the retort he addressed the Fox.

“So what do you have in mind?” Naruto's furious pacing had ceased and he was standing directly in front of his teammates, shooting them a glance as he listened to the fox.

“Kyuubi?” Sakura whispered to Sasuke, the dark haired shinobi nodded his head. It was unnerving for her to watch her teammate carry on a one-sided conversation with the creature. It showed how much he trusted them to talk out loud with the Kyuubi or he was just that agitated and oblivious to his surroundings. Sakura felt a large drop of sweat roll down the back of her head at the thought of Naruto being so oblivious. Some time ago the teen had gone silent which was even more unnerving then the conversation, when he did speak Sakura jumped, as did Sasuke.

“Ok here's what Kyuubi thinks is happening. He says…” The blonde paused, his brows drawn together in a frown, which turned to a black scowl and a muttered “Asshole.” Before he continued, “He attached all 8 demons to himself. Kyuubi says it's a weak seal and easily broken but it will take most if not all of our chakra to break it.” Sasuke blinked slowly, a lowering of pale lids that lifted again and the eyes he regarded his friend with spun with the Sharingan but the blonde refused to look him in the eye.

“Dobe what else?” Sasuke's demand was meet with stony silence. He wanted the other teen to look him in the eye so he could get his answers straight from the Kyuubi. Naruto wasn't telling them something and he would be damned if he let the dobe do this alone.

“You can't help with this Sasuke-niisan.” Sasuke's eyes widened fading abruptly to black, before he or Sakura could act they were once again surrounded by the red chakra and thrown far away back to the others at the gates of Konoha. The look on the blondes face as he shoved his friends to safety would haunt both of them for the next few hours, it was one of resigned acceptance of the fate he was choosing.

“NAARUUTOOOO!” Sakura screamed clawing at the bubble of chakra around them, Sasuke was stunned, the baka had thrown them away to save them to face a mad man with the power of eight,8!!, demons sealed in him who also possessed the sharingan.

“Idoit,” he whispered, “YOU IDOIT!” he shouted beating his fists on the bubble. The gates came into view and they landed with a bounce in front of them, a group of shinobi consisting of Kakashi, Iruka, and Neji greeted them. Before the bubble completely disappeared a rumbling voice spoke faintly.

“He doesn't want you to die with him.”

“THAT'S MY CHOICE BAKA FOX!” Both Sakura and Sasuke yelled.

“Be that as it may he is the Rokudaime he has always wanted to die for this piece of shit village. Its been decided Boy!” Sasuke glared as the bubbles popped and dissolved the last one floated in front of his face the image of a snarling fox head with red eyes glared back him.

“You better not let him die.” His voice was low so only Sakura beside him with clenched fists heard.

“Can't promise that brat but if it makes you feel better if he dies they will be rid of me.” And with that the bubble popped leaving two fuming shinobi to answer the questions now coming from the three men.

“Where's Naruto?” Iruka asked neither one of them turned to face the man, the teacher followed their gaze to see in the distance a large red chakra cloud spark and twine with a black and green one before exploding into a dense cloud what emerged from the cloud first was grotesque. The body of the creature was mutated and disjointed several different types of tails whipped and curled around one another warring, occasionally they would try to wrap around another to tear them out. The second creature to emerge was one all of Konoha had seen either first hand or in books. The Nine-tailed fox, as opposed to the beast it faced, could have been described as a feral beauty, its tails whipped the air working together to create a maelstrom of wind and debris around the other lashing at its body. Its mouth hung open in a grin gleaming fangs exposed as it laughed at it's sluggish opponent.

“Can't keep up Bastard?” The voice that taunted the beast was a mix of Naruto and the Kyuubi. His friends watched afraid for him as the creature lunged, grazing his side and leaving a long gash that bleed crimson before immediately healing. The guttural noises the beast made only gave the Naruto/Kyuubi vessel more ammunition.

“AWW are we getting frustrated? That's.To. Bad!” The last was low and deadly as the fox launched at the creature again digging fangs and claws in. What followed next was purely animalistic rage and power, for a moment the mutated beast held the upper hand. It picked the fox up and tossed it as if weighted nothing more then a feather taking out several trees and gouging up the earth into a small mountain. The fox planted all four feet on the dirt mound and with a deafening roar flipped back towards the surprised creature. With all nine tails used to subdue the warring tails on the creature's body one clawed foot shot up ramming into the beasts chin knocking the head back. The fox's jaw bit down hard and jerked back and forth blood leaked out then foutained covering the landscape and both animals. As the beast's throat gave the fox yanked on the tails the scream of a dieing monster making the skin crawl and man and beast alike to shrink back. Naruto/Kyuubi yanked on the tails again releasing a wave of red chakra around them hiding them from view.

“ `This will hurt kit.'”

“ `I know.'”

“ `You should tell them goodbye…in case kit.'”

“Thank you Kyuubi-niisan.”

“Shut up brat.”