Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Power Of Three ❯ Betrayel ( Chapter 11 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

A/N: Well, I said I was going to update everyone of my stories on my profiles, but seeing that last month wasn't all that good for me I wasn't able to. To make up for it I will try to get my major stories updated this month alongs with introducing a few new stories, a Naruto/?(Toss up between Yugito, OC jinchuuriki and Sakura) pairing called A Small Change and my full story version of my Naruto Chronicle chapter of Naruto/Yugito called Legend. I was going to rewrite this story, but I decided to stick with what I have though I will go through and fix it up so it looks more presentable. I will add more and change some past battle scenes, but when I do not know. The list of fights that will be edited or redone will be listed in the second A/N. This story still happens to be one of my favorites to write though Blood Naruto far surpasses it. Anyways, sorry for this very late update of the Power of Three.

I Do Not Own Naruto.

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Blac k. That was all anyone was wearing outside as he walked by them. For one of the few times in his life, everyone was wearing the color that represented how he felt. But in this case it wasn't for him, but for someone that meant almost as much to him as his brother, his teammate and his fellow blonde haired jinchuuriki. The Sandaime Hokage.

Naruto still couldn't believe that the old man was dead. He was pretty sure that the old man was going to out live him, but now that wasn't going to happen. While he wasn't sure what had happened on top of that building, he knew that Orochimaru was victorious as he succeeded in taking the life of his former teacher. Even though he felt the pain of one of the few people that genuinely cared for him passing away, he knew that things were going to get worse for him. Without him the council was no longer balanced and would come after him. Sarutobi had counted for two seats in the council as he was the elder of one of the founding families along with being the Hokage.

Putting that aside as it only dampened his mood further, he began to look around him in an attempt to lift his mood. He wished he hadn't as all he could see was the look of hatred on every single villagers' face as he walked by them. While this was normal, the amount radiating off them was far beyond anything that he was used to. It felt as if they're piercing glares were in fact piercing him and causing him physical harm. He wasn't sure if he could take much more as it was becoming all too much for him. Every glare he received he just wished he could rip their eyes out to keep them from looking at him like he was the cause for losing a second leader.

In attempt to calm himself down, he tried to contact his tenant but to his dismay the snake didn't seem to be awake or was ignoring him. The later thought burned angrily in his mind. Her existence entirely rested within his hands and he could squash her at any moment if he so chose to do so. Forget everything she had done for him in the past, he needed some sort of positive reinforcement now. Before his thoughts continued to drift downward, Naruto stopped in front of an all too familiar complex.

Both Hinata and Neji looked at Naruto slightly surprised. They had both thought Naruto would have gone to the upcoming funeral as a representative for the Uchiha clan, so it was quite a surprise to see him here. Before either could say anything, Naruto spoke in a much softer then normal tone. "Hinata-sama, Neji. Can you please tell Hiashi-sama that I won't be able to join you today?"

As if waiting for this exact moment, Hiashi followed by Hanabi exited the complex. Hiashi was surprised as well figuring the same as his daughter and nephew, but hid it with surprising ease. Shaking his head, the normally emotionless leader of the Hyuuga spoke in a more fatherly tone. "I see no problem in that. Just make sure you act accordingly as you are still representing both our clan and the Uchiha's."

With the thoughts floating through Naruto's head, he could only nod at the clan head. He wasn't in the mood to disagree, not that he normally would, but in this instance he really wanted to. He wanted to say he had no family like he did when he was locked in the psychiatric ward, but he knew better then to say that to the man's face. Bowing lightly to each Hyuuga, he was about to turn around when Hiashi stopped him.

"Naruto, is there something wrong?" Hiashi's tone was worried, which caught everyone's attention before it shifted to Naruto. Something was off with him and he could see it. The gleam of his eyes reminded him of a few years back while his subdued demeanor tripped off a few warning signals in his head. And the unsettling feeling he was getting from him only added to his weariness.

Shaking his head in an attempt to pacify the clan head knowing that his mood wouldn't go unnoticed before hand, Naruto sighed lightly as he attempted to figure out what to say. He could just flat out lie, but Hiashi was the head of the Hyuuga clan so there would be no doubt he would be discovered if he lied to him. Telling him the truth would only cause the head further worry and probably have him come with them just as a precaution. Deciding a half-truth would be easier to go with and harder to detect, Naruto spoke in an eerily calm voice. "You should already know that by know, Hiashi-sama."

Seeing him flinch along with Hinata and Neji, Naruto couldn't help but feel a very small satisfaction within his stomach before it turned to revulsion as they were his family. Luckily his already pale skin couldn't pale so they didn't know he felt sick for what he felt. Pushing that aside, he turned around to leave as he spoke in a much darker tone then he had attended. "I'll be okay, so I'll go now... See you tomorrow."

Hiashi narrowed his eyes at Naruto's retreating back. He knew all too well that he wouldn't be okay today as if he was Naruto; he would be ready to break. Then again if he was Naruto, he would have broke long ago and had used Hachimata on the village. Shaking that off, he was about to go inside and send a few branch members to watch over him when he noticed a black and blonde blur following Naruto from the roof tops. He smiled lightly seeing who it was before turning to his children and nephew before motioning for them to leave, feeling a little better knowing Naruto was being watched.

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Wal king back into the village as there was no other way to get the Hokage tower, except for shushin; Naruto ignored the hateful glares coming from the villagers. Even still they were getting to him as he had to refrain from shrinking into himself. It was unnerving that they were looking at him like this. It was far worse then it ever had been before which confound him to no end as he had defended Konoha from destruction. Sure he made Hiboruto blind, but the bastard deserved it and he knew they would hate him for it, but this was not what they're hatred was about. He had a small inkling that their hatred for him right now was about the same it was the day after Hachimata was sealed away into him.

He noted a few of the villagers picking up stones, most likely to throw at him, but he ignored it as even the best of their throws couldn't hurt him unless they hit the eye. He doubted that as most villagers had pathetic accuracy and half of the stones thrown at him in his life had missed their target. There was an occasional ex-academy student or retired ninja among them every now and then as if an active shinobi even laid a hand on him; it was their job and their life. Reaching his hand out on reflex, he had caught the stones thrown at him by the said villagers without even looking towards them. There was no point as he knew they wouldn't stop. Hell, a part of him wanted a stoning just so he could feel the pain so he knew he was alive.

More and more stones were being thrown at him along with the normal yells at him to get out of town and calling him a demon. In all truth, the words hurt more then the jagged stones that hit and caused small bruises to some moderate cuts. He allowed them to continue as he headed towards the tower, not caring in the least that a few had even broken his bones in his hand. He knew he would have to get them looked at as she snake seemed to be ignoring him completely so he was tempted to seal her away and be on his own for a while.

Just as the stone barrage began to pick up, it instantly stopped as two blurs jumped in front of their paths, each with their own way of stopping the barrage. One was simply stopped by a stream of flames from the user mouth. The other blocked the stones with a spinning scythe that seemed to be dual ended. As the stones came to a halt, Nii Yugito and Uchiha Sasuke stood in-between the villagers and Naruto. Realizing who had stopped them, mainly because it was Sasuke, the villagers quickly went back to what they were doing acting as if they hadn't been stoning the pale skinned blonde before.

While Yugito was seething at this wanting to have the ones that had started the stoning thrown in jail, Sasuke knew the routine very well as he turned to Naruto and sighed lightly. 'Dammit. He's acting like this again... I haven't seen him like this since we were in the ward.' "Naruto..."

"I wanted to go alone." Naruto simply answered as he attempted to continue to his goal. He was quickly stopped as Yugito stepped in front of him with her arms crossed over her chest. Naruto knew better then to cross her like this as he knew the look all too well. It was just a look that all women had.

Seeing that he wasn't going anywhere, Sasuke stepped besides the female jinchuuriki and continue with what he was going to say. "Naruto, you should have waited for us. You knew they were going to be like this today and fortunately and unfortunately I'd be with you and they know better to do anything with me around."

Seeing Naruto only nod to what Sasuke had said further irked the cat container. She wanted an answer to why he was being this stupid. Sure, he just lost one of his precious people in the Sandaime but even she knew how badly he was treated here and knew it would be worse today. Seeing that Sasuke wasn't going to say anything else, believing Naruto to have gotten the point, Yugito was pushed passed her rather small limit. Stopping Naruto from walking once more, making the raven haired Uchiha look at her in wonder why Naruto blankly stared at her. "Naruto, I want to know why you are doing this to yourself."

Naruto looked up at the rather tall girl. On any other day he would be asking himself the same question but today was different. It was one his... darker days. One where he didn't care about himself or others. One of the days were he almost always ended up attempting to commit suicide. One of the days that always happened to be his birthday or the funeral of one of his precious people. Not finding an answer, he attempted to walk by here once more only for her to push him back. Getting annoyed that she was impeding his path, Naruto gave her an answer. "Because no one gives a damn."

For the second time in two days, he had been slapped in the face by Yugito. But in comparison, this one hurt far worse then the other. "Can you not see?! Sasuke cares for you! Sakura and your sensei care for you! The entire Hyuuga clan cares for you! The snake wielding woman cares for you! I care for you!" Naruto stayed quit during her outburst, but in the same time had his more normal self knocked into him by her words. Sensing this, Yugito brought her hand to where she slapped him and rubbed the cheek lightly. "Now come on, we have a funeral to catch but this time with us, okay."

Naruto nodded lightly walking somewhat closer to Yugito as the two headed towards the tower. Sasuke stayed back a minute observing what had happened and he had to admit, he was impressed. While it wasn't his approach, it sure in hell worked and had knocked some sense into Naruto. Looking over at the villagers knowing what they were thinking as they had seen the scene as well, he focused every ounce of killing intent he had onto them as he activated his Sharingan. "Don't even think about it."

With that quiet statement, he released his killing intent before walking behind the two jinchuuriki, intent on watching them further.

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It had been three days since the funeral and in his bed, Naruto sighed loudly before getting up and looking out the window. He wanted to leave the house, but he had been ordered not to by the council. He scoffed at that as after his little display in the finals, he wasn't going to be getting anything good from them any time soon. Then again, he never did as the clan heads only made up half of the council. The rest was made of the elders and civilians, which always tried to bring the subject of him up and tried to have him imprisoned, executed and/or turned into a weapon. But now with Sarutobi gone there was only thirteen chairs in the council, meaning the elders and civilians had more power than the clan heads though they could not make anything official with a Hokage.

Shaking his head, he sighed as he stood up and walked out of his room. He absently wondered why he didn't run into anyone as he walked down the stairs, but he figured it to be everyone training. He pulled open the refrigerator and pulled out a box of sushi as he wasn't exactly in the mood for ramen, which was odd on its own. Sighing lightly, he sat down in the living room and turned on the TV seeing as there was nothing to do since he couldn't go outside. Of course there wasn't anything on so he ended leaving the channel on a movie channel as he started eating his sushi.

Naruto shook his head as he finished the last bite of sushi and leaned back in his chair as he looked up at the ceiling. His thoughts began to wander and wander quickly down the drain. He squashed those thoughts immediately as he really didn't need to be thinking like that with a perverted snake within him. But he had to wonder why he was feeling more and more in the mood as of lately. While he was the correct age that his body was maturing into a man's and teens were naturally ready to go anywhere at any time, it was just odd as he really didn't want that at that moment. And it didn't help that he was imaging more girls then his official girlfriend.

Taking a few breathes, he turned to the TV and cursed loudly as it just had to have a sex scene going on at the exact minute he began paying attention to it. Of course it wasn't helping that a certain blonde haired girl had just walked into the room and saw this. Instead of being accusing, she decided to play this at a different angle as she approached from behind before placing her hands on his shoulders. "So Naruto-kun, anything new or do you need to be laid that badly."

She bit her lip to keep from laughing as she saw him blush madly and was beginning to realize why Nibi always teased her like this. It was quite fun when she wasn't the one being targeted. She was so into keeping herself from laughing that she didn't notice the grin that crossed Naruto's face as he countered back. "Nah, I was just wondering if you were that flexible and comparing her body to yours and I have to say, damn. I hit the jackpot."

It was Yugito's turn to blush madly and cursed her habit of sleeping in the nude and occasionally sleep walking. Then again it didn't help that she wasn't comfortable wearing clothes at night and a certain cat demon made sure she was sleep walking trying to entice the others in the house. Not being one to be outdone, she looked Naruto in the eyes as she came up with a quick and startling comeback. Standing in front of him and the TV, she leaned down so that their knees touched as she placed her hands on his thighs, purposely being close to in-between his legs. Mustering up her most seductive voice, Yugito licked her lips as she replied. "Do you really want to see how flexible I am like that Naruto-kun? I am more then willing to show you."

Naruto's face turned red as he cursed at his fellow jinchuurikis cunning. It was just no fair that she was taking advantage of him like this and the fact that her hands were so close... never mind, one was on it as he could see her beginning to blush as well. But just as it started, it stopped as another person made their presence known. "Goddammit! Will you two stop that?! Another person lives in this house for crying out loud so do that in private! Oh, and we have company."

Both of their faces turned red as they turned their heads to a slightly blushing Sasuke along with Sakura, who had a full blown blush that made her head seem like it was about to explode. The reaction was instant as Yugito jumped off Naruto while he quickly clicked off the TV as for some reason the sex scene on the TV was heating up and showing things that weren't normally shown on movie channels. Once he patted himself down to make sure his hard-on wasn't visible, he turned to Sasuke and Sakura. "Sorry for that... Being stuck in a house for three days does that to you. So Sakura, how are you holding up?" He quickly changed the subject, wanting to get it off the embarrassing situation they were just in.

Sasuke nodded in understanding as he would not be taking too kindly to Naruto's technical house arrest. Sakura took a few seconds as she was still recovering from the sexual taunts of the two jinchuuriki towards one another. Once she recovered, she smiled softly as she rubbed her left arm a little.

"Shizune-san says that I'm okay but to take it easy for the next couple of days before I start helping with the injured. I also heard that she is going to try an operation on Lee to implant one of the enemy soldier's eyes into him, but she has to find a correct donor." At this part she neglected to tell them that the council had forced her to do the same for Hiboruto. Shaking that off, she smirked as she continued. "And this is between us, but I heard that Tsunade-sensei has disappeared. She was healing the wounded in battle one minute and as soon as they started retreating she was gone. It just doesn't make sense. Tsunade-sensei is a sannin, one of the strongest shinobi in the world yet she disappeared in the middle of battle as if she was taken hostage."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at this along with both Sasuke and Yugito. Like Sakura they found it odd that Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin, would disappear as the enemy was retreating. All three instantly counted out abduction as she was far too strong for anyone other then Orochimaru to successfully kidnap and he wasn't able to as Sarutobi had died sealing the snake's arms away. But then what could have made her leave? None seem to have the answer as a knock at the door was heard. Sasuke being the closest to the door answered it and was quite surprised to see who it was. "Jiraiya-sama?! What are you doing here?"

The white haired pervert entered without permission much to Sasuke's annoyance before turning to Naruto. "Gaki, I'm here to take you and your girlfriend if she wants out of town for a while for a mission and to keep the council off your back."

Sakura hearing the last part blinked a few times in confusion. While she knew Naruto was being kept under watch by the council, but she didn't know that the council was trying something on him although it didn't completely surprise her with the way her mother acted to the news of her teammates when they first became a team. In fact it seemed like she didn't like their sensei either. Shaking that thought off, she was the first to voice her doubts. "Jiraiya-sama, if the council is watching Naruto won't they just make a bigger fuss with him not being here? I can understand Yugito-san going as she isn't under any restrictions, but not Naruto."

Sasuke nodded in agreement as he knew of the non clan head portion of the council had it out for Naruto. But something else was bothering him as why would a legendary sannin, a man as strong as a Kage need Naruto and Yugito to come with him. The only reason he could think of was for their protection. That raised another question for him. What could he be protecting them from? "Why exactly do you need them? Couldn't you do this on your own as you are one of the legendary three for a reason?"

Jiraiya cursed lightly at the Uchiha-gaki for already figuring out what he was thinking, but there was no time to answer him or the others as they had figured it out or were close to doing so. "Sorry, but no answers for now. I'll tell the gaki and his girlfriend as it concerns them. It's up to them to tell you or not. As for being in trouble, he is in far worse trouble if he stays here then going off with me. Besides, I've already told the Anbu that report Naruto's status to them to cover up for me. So let's get moving."

Hearing this and looking over to Yugito, Naruto shrugged and followed the white haired pervert wanting to get out of town. Yugito on the other hand shook her head. "Sorry, but I have a few things I have to do today. Naruto, when you get back..." She fell silent at the end as she found herself unable to speak the words, especially in front of a pervert.

Knowing what she was trying to ask, he smiled lightly at her before nodding. "Sure thing Yugi-chan." He turned as he was about to leave with the toad sannin when both Sakura and Sasuke attempted to stop him. Pushing them back, Naruto shook his head lightly. "Sorry guys, but the pervert is right." Seeing both nod lightly, he continued as he thought of something. "Sasuke, Yugi-chan, I need you two to cover for me. Go to the hospital and check up on Gaara as I have a feeling something might happened to him. Sakura, if you can tell your mother of how I'm doing it might take the council longer to figure out I'm not here."

Nodding in understanding as he knew Naruto wanted to help his fellow jinchuuriki as both girls nodded as well, he watched as Naruto quickly followed the pervert at a fast pace to make sure not many could catch a glimpse of them. Sighing lightly to himself, he turned towards Sakura. "Sakura, lets head out. Riki-sensei should be there as well... Wait, what am I saying? Ah, whatever. Yugito do what you have to as I'll cover for Gaara today."

Sakura giggled lightly while shaking her head as Yugito nodded in agreement as she jumped off. After waving to her goodbye, Sakura led the way to the hospital having just been released.

The two walked in silence as they passed by a bar with Kakashi standing by it, reading his book. Sasuke knew something was up seeing that for once the one eyed pervert wasn't paying attention to the book, but to something in the bar. Shifting his interest to the bar, he saw nothing other then rustling leaves. He was wondering what was up when he noticed both Asuma and Kurenai walk up to Kakashi just as he felt a tug at his shirt. "Sasuke, is something up?"

His attention turned to her as a shiver went down his spine. He was unsure why, but he could feel his presence. And if he was there, things were about to get very interesting. Shaking that off as he could see Sakura looking at him in worry as he stopped and was ignoring her, he quickly came up with an answer. "I thought I saw something, but I guess I was mistaken. Anyways, let's go Sakura."

She could tell he was lying. Just the different demeanor in his voice alerted her to that. But it was something else that told her not to pursuit it any further. For one of the few times, she could tell that there was genuine fear in his voice along with raw hatred. Those two things added on with his altered voice put her off somewhat, but she decided to listen to him. "Okay then."

As the two left, two figures in black cloaks watched them leave. The smaller of the two watched Sasuke with a furious intensity as if he was measuring him up. The larger noticed this, but he said nothing not wanting to earn his partner's ire. He did have a vicious temperament when angered and he did his best not to do that.

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Naruto sighed softly as they had taken a much more leisurely pace after they made it past the walls of Konoha. Not only that but he could sense even though that Jiraiya was acting like his normal, perverted self he was tensed as if there was going to be an attack. While he had gotten the same vibe from him when he came to get him, he just had this feeling something was up. But what was getting to him. He had no idea what it could possibly be. Sure it could be the damnable fox again, but something told him it would have been a team of Anbu watching over him if that was the case. While she was powerful, she was no match against a sannin in her current condition.

Putting that aside, he was getting thoroughly irritated by the sannin. Every time a woman passed by them, his attention instantly turned to them and he whipped out that notebook and started writing. Part of him wanted to tear the things to shreds, mainly because of the voice in his head telling him to, but another part of him wanted to see what he was writing, once again thanks to the same voice in his head. Sometimes Hachimata had no clue what she wanted. Getting fed up with both the snake and the pervert, Naruto snapped. "Will you put that thing away and tell me why the hell we are out here or I swear to God I will deep fry your ass and serve you to Manda!"

Hearing Naruto's comment and knowing he would attempt it, not that he could succeed as he was one of the legendary three, Jiraiya snapped the notebook close before turning to him. "Alright gaki, seeing your point I will temporarily stop checking out the women here." Seeing the pale blonde boy nod, he smirked as a hot woman walked by earning him a cobra wrapping around his neck. "ACK! Alright! We're here to find out what happened to Tsunade!"

Having a slight hunch this was the reason he brought him along, he was about to call back his snake when he remembered what he was thinking of earlier. Ordering his cobra to wrap around his neck even tighter, Naruto spoke in a cold yet calculating voice. "Pervert, what is with your tenseness?" Seeing the look of 'I have a cobra wrapped around my neck so of course I'm tense!' Naruto shook his head. "No, not because of that. Why were you tense before? It is as if you are expecting something to attack. Something that you might think I could not handle."

Jiraiya cursed at the brat's observation skills, but he had to admit the boy had grown unbelievably since he last seen him. Before he would have considered him a very powerful gennin bordering the skills of a chunin, but now the boy was as strong as a fresh and cocky jounin. Seeing that the snake was poised to strike, he answered quickly knowing it would take a little work to negate the poison within his system. "You have two S-rank nukenins coming after you for what's inside of you. They are apart of a group I've been recently monitoring and are possibly the same group that have weakened Kyuubi as well. I don't know who they assigned to capture you, but I do know they were heading for Konoha."

Surprise was evident on Naruto's face hearing this. The last thing he was expecting that two S-rank nukenin were after him. While he knew the pervert in front of him was strong, two shinobi near the level of a Kage was not something to joke about. Honestly he didn't believe the white haired sannin could do it. Just as he doubted him, he heard a poof before looking back at the pervert to see smoke where his snake was before feeling someone's hand on his shoulder. "Now gaki, let's get going. Finding Tsunade is going to be difficult as we don't have a lead as of yet. That's why we are heading to the village of Kakariko. I have a few men set up there that might have something on her."

Naruto turned around to see Jiraiya looking no worse for the wear. In fact, if he looked closer he couldn't even see the mark his cobra was making moments ago while constricting his neck. Knowing what this meant, Naruto narrowed his eyes dangerously at Jiraiya. "You could have done that from the start."

Jiraiya gawfed at his statement earning a hiss from the pale blonde. "Of course gaki. I'm not considered to rival Orochimaru for nothing. Now we need to get a move on. The village is about an hours walk ahead and seeing that you know of the mission and who is after you, it would be best to move at a faster pace."

He didn't like it, but the pervert was right. They needed to find Tsunade and fast. Something was still off about her disappearance and he wanted to know what it was. Nodding at the white haired freak of nature, the two rushed off at a high speed once more heading for the village of Kakariko.

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Sa suke and Sakura didn't like what was going on. First they found that their sensei had escaped the hospital once more as soon as he awoken. While it wasn't that much of a shock to them as he did it all the time, the second reason had them stumped and had put the hospital on alert. Sabaku no Gaara was missing. Not only missing, but there was signs of a struggle within his room as sand littered the room but only his blood was found. While Sakura had no clue what had happened, Sasuke had a horrible idea and knew it was quite possibly true.

Knowing the vixen was interested in Naruto for a certain snake; he had to think the same would go for Gaara which meant only one thing. Kyuubi had struck the hospital and that was a very, very disturbing thought. While he was hoping that they had just moved him to the prison ward in the hospital, there was no such luck as Yugao was stationed within it as they were having a shortage of shinobi and she would have known if the sand user had came her direction. So once again they had to find their sensei to see if he knew what was going on.

So checking all around the hospital as the tightened security would have made it difficult for him to escape unnoticed, they found no traces of him or Gaara making the two utterly irritable. Just as they were ready to give up and ask for Haku's aid in their search, they found him entering a hospital room. Neither wanting to let him get away, both chased him down and entered the same room only to see all the jounin senseis along with Kurenai in the room. This puzzled them until they noticed who was on the bed. One Hatake Kakashi. Being the first to put everything together, Sasuke spoke. "What happened?"

Rikimaru sighed softly as he shook his head just learning the story himself from Asuma and Kurenai. While he wanted to tell Sasuke what did happen, he knew all too well what would happen afterwards. Just as he was thinking that, the door burst open once more much to his and the others' dismay as a panicked jounin that helped clear the stadium during the invasion came crashing in. "Is it true?! Is it true that Uchiha Itachi has returned to Konoha in search of Naruto?!"

Every single jounin in the room had to keep their killing intent from spiking and focusing on the man. The idiot had to come it at the one time and shoot off his mouth with the said Uchiha's brother in the room. With that thought in mind, all attention had turned to the only full blooded Uchiha left in Konoha.

All the blood had drained from Sasuke's face as he heard the news. His brother had returned? Not only that, but he was heading for Naruto first and not him? While he honestly knew his unofficial brother was the stronger of the two, having his flesh and blood brother openly admit it by going after him first was not only insulting, but unbearable in his mind. His anger began to rise as the seal around his curse seal began to fade and break. Bright red marks began cover his right arm and the right side of his face before he bolted from the room with speed for beyond what he should have been able to.

Just as Sakura had pieced everything together, she saw Sasuke sprint out of the room and remembered what she had said in the Forest of Death. Not wanting him to be left alone in this fight, she would have followed when she was grabbed and pulled back by Rikimaru who immediately after he pulled her back into the room had slammed the door shut and chased after the out of control Uchiha. Seeing this, she was about to chase after them when Kurenai grabbed her shoulders. "Don't! Rikimaru can handle this before it turns ugly."

Sakura wanted to believe that. She honestly did, but she had a dark feeling that it wouldn't. And with that in mind she began to struggle within Kurenai's grasp, not knowing that her curse seal was acting up and feeding her its power. Unfortunately the others in the room did and narrowed their eyes as there was no containment seal holding it back. Kurenai was about to put her out when a weak chakra spike from nearby had caught Sakura's attention knowing whose chakra that was. With a burst of strength she broke out of Kurenai's grip and head towards the said spike to help a friend.

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She wasn't sure why she didn't go with Naruto and the white haired sannin. Honestly she wanted to be with Naruto at the moment, but her mood kept her from doing that. She couldn't understand why her body and mind were acting the way it were. Hell her teasing of Naruto earlier was something she didn't understand as that was suppose to be it. She wanted to tease him, but it was as if her body wanted to really do it with him. While she knew that he was more then capable of doing so as she had personally seen before, she just didn't think it was right for them to do that so early in their relationship.

Sighing lightly to herself as she tried to think of another subject to get it off her mind, she growled remembering what the civilians of the council did. They had funded more money into the transplant procedure that Shizune was planning for Lee to change it to Hiboruto. She did not know Lee personally, but he was a friend of Naruto's and Hiboruto was on her black list. She was glad that Shizune had stated she would attempt it on Lee first as he had been blind for longer and since it was Hiboruto that made him blind, she wished for him to live through the same thing he put Lee through. The council of course fought tooth and nail but Shizune prevailed as she didn't even have to attempt the procedure whatsoever but still were attempting to undermine her with the funding.

Getting further angered by her thoughts she once again tried to change her train of thought only to become further enraged. Just everything as of lately had been horrible in her opinion. Not only for her but the ones around her, especially Naruto. Feeling the need to break something, she took a short cut to get to her favored training area. While she noted that it was an alley, she honestly didn't care at the moment as she needed to release some stress.

After a moment she got a weird feeling as if she was being followed. Taking a look back she saw that no one was behind her and that no one was on the roof tops either. Looking somewhat flustered as she could tell someone was near her, she turned back around and started heading to her training area convinced it was just her nerves acting up. After a few more moments she knew she was being followed. The two chakra signatures that were being suppressed were no longer attempted to do so. She was stunned at the size of their reserves and knew that on her own that she wouldn't stand a chance.

Getting a little edgy about the two as she didn't know who they were, she turned around just in time to see two figures jumping from the roof tops. At first she didn't know what to think but noticing their head bands she instantly knew these two were here for something and she had a slight feeling it was for her. Not wanting to alert the two in front of her, she weakly spiked her chakra in hope that someone nearby would notice it and come to her aid. Unfortunately the two did notice what she was doing making her curse as the silvered haired one spoke. "Dammit! She's already trying to call for help! Kakuzu let's take her now!"

The other didn't even hesitate as what seemed to be three masks detached from his back and started floating in the air. Taking a closer look they were held up by strings from his body, but Yugito didn't have time to notice this as a two bolts of lighting blasted from the ox looking mask. She quickly jumped out of the two bolts path before landing on the roof top to attempt to take the higher ground. It turned out to be a mistake as the silver haired one had already saw what she was doing and beat her to it as he brought down his scythe onto her. Using her cat like reflexes, she managed to jump out of the way but only to be hit by something below her. She gritted her teeth in pain as it felt like Naruto had hit her with a close range Daitoppa.

As she fell to the ground, she regained her balance and pulled out a kunai to deflect one of the scythe's blades with her kunai before knocking it back as she landed on all fours. Growling lightly she called upon Nibi's chakra knowing that she would need it as she attempted to charge the mask one but was stopped as a stream of flame hit her. Using her chakra to lighten the blow, she jumped out of the flames before noticing her wrapped hair had caught fire. Having no choice, she sliced it off from about half way as it would grow once more.

Growling louder then before as her appearance slowly turned feral as her hair started to length, she noticed that the masked one seemed to be smiling. This caught her attention instantly and knew something bad was about to happen. Turning around with her kunai drawn, her eyes widened as the scythe was almost on her and was only inches from embedding itself into her stomach. There was no time for a Kawarimi so the only thing she could do was closer her eyes and brace herself for the pain. After a brief moment, it never came.

Snapping her eyes open, she noted that the scythe had been returned to its owner but with a severe dent in the shaft. The cat vessel smiled lightly as she knew instantly of only one person that had that kind of strength to dent a weapon forged that well. Turning to her savoir, she smiled brightened at the pink haired girl. "Thank you Sakura." Before Sakura could even respond, Yugito quickly turned her attention back to the battle. "Be careful. These guys are much stronger then us. At the first chance we have to make a break for it."

Hearing Yugito's rigid voice and the feeling she was getting from the two, she nodded as it was the best option. Gripping the boomerangs tightly, she whirled around just as Yugito ducked and threw them towards at the masked one, specifically the strings holding up the masks. To their dismay a set of strings came and snagged them out of the air. Cursing lightly, she pulled out a kunai before jumping over Yugito and landing in front of her. "I got this guy."

Yugito nodded as she turned around to the silver haired and sent her kunai straight to his neck. He easily dodged it as Yugito smirked as she had used it as a distraction as she was on him just as her one tail transformation finished. She slashed at him furiously, but he was able to parry the blows with ease before hitting her in the gut with his scythe knocking her back slightly. Seeing that he quickly followed up by trying to bring the scythe down into her stomach, she rolled out of the way before smacking him in the face with her tail.

She smirked at her small victory before frowning as the man looked unfazed from her blow. Growling to herself, she increased Nibi's chakra outpouring knowing that it would be needed to win this fight. As more of Nibi's chakra began charging through her system, she growled louder before rushing towards the silver hand man. As soon as she was on him she slashed wildly at him but one more he easily blocked and evaded her strikes while trying to find an opening for a counter attack. Getting more and more angrier as her attacks were being blocked, her frenzied pace picked up her pace even further before she found the butt end of his scythe into her stomach before one of the three blades cut into her hair barrier, barely missing her body.

Jumping back, Yugito took a more thorough look at her opponent as it was the first time someone pierced through her defense with a weapon. Already knowing that he was a high level shinobi, she knew now that he quite possibly beyond her level even with Nibi. Pulling out her second tail, her eyes lit up as she could sense more chakra signatures heading towards their spot before they narrowed as Sakura's chakra level soared beyond it's limit meaning she was using her curse seal. Knowing what this meant, she turned to her opponent with intent on ending the fight now as Sakura was no longer in control of herself.

Yugito growled louder then before as she ducked under a swipe from the triple bladed scythe. If it wasn't for her sparring against Sasuke, she would have had a more difficult time evading the scythe of the Akatsuki member as he continued his assault. Not to mention that his blade was managing to cut through her rather hard hair barrier. Jumping back from his last swing, she was ready to pounce him when he suddenly threw the scythe from his exaggerated slash crouch. Her eyes widened as she tried to turn to avoid the blade and she succeeded with nothing but a knick. Soon as he knew he hit her, the scythe wielding Akatsuki member pulled his weapon back with the chain attached to his scythe as his smirk grew.

Yugito narrowed her eyes at this, knowing that the man was up to something. She quickly moved to strike him when he rammed the butt end of the scythe into her chin, lifting her up into the air slightly before round house kicking her in gut sending her into the wall. Her eyes blinked a few times as she tried to pull herself out of her daze and the hole but a bolt of lighting into the chest kept her from doing so. Grunting in pain, she looked over to the silver haired one only to see him physically change. His skin turned into a blackish red color but it was like a skeleton as it seemed to be white where his bones were. His grin sent a small shiver went down her spine seeing this before noting the seal in front of him as he spoke. "This is your end girl."

Trying to get out of this just as a large explosion went of, she was about to pull herself out of the hole when she noticed that the silver haired man wasn't moving. Trying to figure out the reason why, she pulled herself out of the hole and looked for what was holding him down. Seeing nothing, she was beginning to think he was playing with her when she noted a small trail of shadow attached to his coming from the shadows of the buildings before she noticed another shadow of a person. Looking up, her eyes widened as in shock.

Sakura cursed as she landed a blow on the man in front of her yet he seemed to not even be effected, which meant that either he dealt with blows like hers on a daily basis or this guy had some sort of absolute defense. Having no clue what it was she rushed her masked opponent, feinting to the left before ducking under a pressurized blast of air. Doing so she managed to get under his guard and landed a right hook to his chin. To her surprise he didn't even seemed faze before he back handed her sending her tumbling on the ground before sliding into the wall.

Coughing up a little blood, Sakura slowly pushed herself up before her eyes widen as a stream of fire enveloped and wrapped around her. The burning sensation was like no pain she ever felt before. Even compared to the pain she felt not a few days before was nothing compared to the sensation of being burnt alive. Just like that, the pain was gone as her charka spiked as an unfamiliar power surged through her body and she instinctively knew it was the curse seal. While she had used the power during the chunin exam finals, it was nothing like then. The power was just as intoxicating as it was when she was in the forest.

With her judgment clouded and unable to feel the pain the flames that enveloped her body, Sakura stood up with black flame marks completed covering her body showing were she wore no clothing over. An evil grin crossed her face as she noticed the mask man narrow his eyes at her, having a slight idea of what was going on. Looking at him with the cursed seals chakra coursing through her veins, she noted that his masks were floating in the air on there own but on a few strings that came from his body. Her grin widened seeing that the mask were part of his battle strategy.

Jumping out of the flames and onto the wall, she reached into her pouch and quickly grabbed a couple of kunai. Taking good aim as she jumped off the wall to avoid another stream of fire, she threw the kunai towards the strings attached to the mask, to her surprise the strings bent around the kunai and avoided them complete. Because of this she barely had time to note the two bolts of lighting coming for her. Attempting to roll away from them in mid air, she managed to avoid one but was struck by the other as the other bolt struck Yugito as she attempted to climb out of a crater in the wall.

Feeling a little fuzzy from the lighting blast, it took her a moment to remember what was going on before she rolled out of the way of a stream of flame. Taking in account that the strings to the mask moved, she smirked as a plan came to mine as her hands reached into her pouch and started attacking exploding tags to the kunai. Before she could anything else, she jumped as a stream of fire caught by the ball of wind scorched the ground he was just at. Throwing the kunai towards the base of the mask, she watched as the strings bent around them once more only for her to pull her fingers back. The kunai connected by chakra strings wrapped around the wires as the explosive tags became active.

In a billowing cloud of smoke and debris, Sakura landed on the ground panting as she looked around to see if the mask had fallen as if her theory was correct, the man wasn't very good in taijutsu. Before she could check to see if she had indeed severed the mask, two bolts of lighting from within the cloud struck her directly in the chest. Her eyes widened in surprise before rolling in the back of her head as she crumpled to the ground.

On the rooftop, Shikamaru along with Anko, Asuma and Kurenai standing at the edge of the building. Seeing the explosion and Sakura crumpling to the ground from the lighting bolts, Anko and Asuma jumped over to her as Shikamaru gazed at the transformed man in disgust. "I don't think so, Kage Mane success. Kurenai-sensei, take him out."

Seeing everything that was happening the mask man shook his head as there was no chance they could capture the girl today as only more and more shinobi would come. Shushining besides the other, he spoke in a lazy tone. "We didn't take them seriously enough and paid for it. Let's go, we can catch her at another time."

The silver haired man nodded though he did not want to leave as he believed that they could win. It was just too much of a risk as more and more chakra signatures were heading towards there area and would be there and minutes leaving them with no time to capture the girl especially if she decided to make a run for it. As the other grabbed his shoulder, Shikamaru attempted to grab him with his Kage Mane but wasn't fast enough as he was forced to let go as he shushined away with him.

Shikamaru cursed lightly under his breath as if he hadn't broken his Kage Mane seconds before he would have been taken with them due to his jutsu's nasty side effect. Shaking that off, he jumped down with Kurenai besides Yugito to keep her from rushing over to Sakura as Anko had just disappeared as well, heading to get a medical team to help. Noticing that she was still in her transformed, Shikamaru looked at her puzzled before asking what was on his mind. "Aren't you going to undo your transformation? Other people are coming and they probably won't take it too lightly that you are a jinchuuriki. I mean I hate to say it, but Naruto is enough proof to what they do to jinchuuriki here."

While Kurenai looked alarmed that Shikamaru knew of both Naruto and Yugito's status, Yugito sighed lightly as she shook her head. "I would love to undo this, but my transformation into my two tail form has a nasty side effect."

"There is nothing nasty about it. You just don't like being exposed." Commented a certain cat demon, flirting with disaster as Yugito wasn't in the mood for it. It seemed she didn't notice as she continued on. "Besides, our Naru-chan seemed to like what he saw and I'm sure he would love every... Oh. My. Fucked. Up. Gods. What is that thing?!"

In Yugito's mind, the said girl looked at the cage demon as she thought of the most terrifying thing she could think of as the cat never seemed to learn. Taking a look at it as the world around them seemed to shift, Yugito turned back to the cat demon with a neutral look on her face. "It is a blender. I don't need your shit right now or any time soon and this should take care of it."

Nibi's eyes widened in horror as she suddenly found herself in demi-human form with her hands tied behind her back strapped to a chain as it lowered her into the blender. All Yugito could hear in her mind was the garbled screams of a cat demon so naturally she couldn't hear Shikamaru. After being shook by Kurenai, Yugito snapped into reality as Shikamaru sighed and rubbed his head as he now had her attention. "Troublesome woman... I said why can't you undo your transformation now."

Ignoring his rude commit to her as she had a slight feeling it was somewhat deserved, she thought about it as she watched a team of medic ninjas jump down and began attending to Sakura. Hearing that she was alive and only had the wind knocked out of her along with chakra exhaustion, she breathed out in relief before returning to the question at hand. Sighing lightly to herself, she unintentionally covered up her chest as she spoke. "Um, I always um... My clothes um... are shredded after transforming... into stage two."

Shikamaru's eyes widened hearing this as he attempted to keep the mental images of her naked from flooding his mind as Kurenai looked mildly shocked before understanding why she wasn't turning back to normal. Pushing Shikamaru out of the way earning her a glare, Kurenai moved Yugito into a dead end alley way before casting a genjutsu over the entire area. Once she was sure no one could see through it, she pulled out a scroll and handed it to Yugito. "It has a spare set of my clothes in it. Since we are about the same size it should work and don't worry, no one here can see through the genjutsu I put over you."

Yugito smiled lightly as Kurenai turned her back as she kept watch to make sure she could get dressed in peace as her transformation slowly undid itself. Part of her wanted to know why she couldn't leave, but the other half knew that Anbu would be there quickly and would ask questions to what happened. She just hoped it would either be Yugao or the dragon masked one as they seemed to not care about her or Naruto's status. Sighing lightly as she put on Kurenai's spare set of clothes; she wondered what Naruto was up to just as an Anbu unit landed where the battle field was.

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Naruto growled to himself as he laid on the bed to the hotel Jiraiya had rented for the day. Even though the bastard said they were looking for Tsunade, he once again was distracted by a fairly attractive woman and chased after her because she winked at him. It still baffled him that all it took for him to chase after her was that wink. I mean sure if he was in his position he probably would have hit on her, but to the extent of leaving him alone when there was supposedly two S-rank nukenin after him was extremely irresponsible. He began to wonder if Jiraiya had brought him along to be his conscious and sanity as the sannin didn't seem to have either.

Hearing a knocking at the door, Naruto sighed once more as he thought it was the sannin now forgetting that he had a key. As he thought that, his eyes narrowed as he knew Jiraiya wouldn't forget something as trivial as that and the fact that he'd probably come in through the window. Having a strange feeling about this, he activated his Taiingan only for his eyes to widen before narrowing dangerously seeing who was at the door. Throwing all logic out the window, his main goal now was to get revenge for his fallen clan.

Unhinging his jaw and opening his mouth, a purple snake slithered from his mouth before spitting Kusanagi out and into his hand before slithering back down his throat. Walking to the door with a purpose, he thought about opening the door and slicing the man's head off with a surprise attack but knew it wouldn't work. Having that idea thrown out, Naruto went with a more clean idea as he thrusted the blade through the door and towards the man's stomach. Unfortunately it was as if he saw it coming and had spin kicked the door, shattering it along with knocking Naruto off balance. Quickly rolling himself back into a crouch position, he hissed loudly as the younger and smaller of the two spoke. "Now Naruto, is that a way to greet family?"

A demonic like hiss escaped Naruto's lips as he gripped the legendary sword even tighter as he glared at the man in front of him with detest. He attempted to lunge toward him but a giant blade slammed down in front of him taking part of the wall out with it. Side jumping away from the blade, Naruto's hissing increased as he glared at the two but focused his anger on the smaller then anything. Seeing this, the larger of the two looked down at his partner. "Damn, you must have done something to get this kind of attention Itachi. He is completely disregarding me. Can I cut off his legs for that?"

Itachi ignored the fish man's comment as his gaze was completely focused on Naruto, more particularly the blade in his grip. His eyes would have narrowed if he knew how to show emotion, but since he had as much emotions as a tea cup he settled for his normal gaze at the blade before back at Naruto. Even if the blade was dangerous on it's own he was in no danger as he was far beyond the boy's level. But nonetheless, it paid to be careful. "Kisame, do you remember that blade?" Seeing Kisame's focus turn to the sword, he noted the knowing look on his face before continuing. "Now don't get careless. I have something I need to do."

Kisame smirked hearing this meaning Itachi was letting him off to take on the brat before a questioning look crossed his face. Turning to the stoic raven, he tilted his head at him so he could look down on him he spoke in a rather confused tone. "Wait, I thought catching the eight tail jinchuuriki was our top priority. What just topped it?"

His answer was thousands of chirping birds as he turned along with Itachi to see Sasuke in the front of the hall way with lighting pulsing in his hand. Itachi was mildly impressed, internally, seeing that Sasuke had a fully matured Sharingan but he also noted the black flare marks stretched along his skin. This time he did show an emotion as his eyes narrowed dangerously at the markings making it seem as if he narrowing his eyes at Sasuke. 'So the snake thinks he can take my prize. I don't think so.'

Sasuke glared at the young man in front of him with searing hatred. His killer intent and chakra was spiking far beyond his previous limits. Now seeing the man that had single handily wiped out both his and Naruto's clan, his mind was far clearer then it had been in years. With his Sharingan spinning madly coming closer and closer to the pupil as if it was trying to form something, Sasuke smiled as the lighting crackled in his hand. "I've waited for this for so long and now I'm close to my goal as you stand in front of me. Only one more Uchiha's blood will be spilt today and it will not be Naruto's or mine. You will not get away for what you've done!"

With another surge of both his and the cursed seal chakra, Sasuke exploded through the hallway moving at speeds far beyond any speed he had ever reached before. The walls around him seemed to crack as he past them before they slowly blurred out of existence as nothing but Itachi stood in front of him. Pulling his arm with the pulsing lighting in hand back, he took deadly aim as he thrusted his arm towards his heart.

A loud crack was heard as Sasuke slammed into the wall as his Chidori pierced through it like butter before fading away. Itachi stood besides him with only his hand outstretched meaning he had batted him away with the utmost ease. Seeing Sasuke trying to pull himself out of the wall to continue his attack, the raven grabbed the back of his collar before lifting him and slamming him into the opposing wall creating a small crater. Blood escaped Sasuke's mouth as he coughed before trying to pull himself out of the crater. Itachi would have none of this as he gripped Sasuke by the throat and lifted him once more with frightening ease. Ramming him further into their self created crater, Itachi tilted his head at his brother as his Sharingan began spinning closer and closer together as it begun to form the Uchiha's most feared weapon in their arsenal.

Naruto's eyes widened seeing this knowing what was about to happen all too well. Not being one to sit back and watch it happen, Naruto gripped Kusanagi even tighter as he attempted to lunge past Kisame. The fish man was having none of that was he easily back handed the hebi jinchuuriki. Using the force of the blow and the flexibility of his body, he bent his back in a very inhuman like fashion as he flipped over and out stretched his arm towards the fish/shark like man. "Sen'eijashu!"

Four snakes flew from underneath his sleeve and towards Kisame. In response, Kisame brought his large sword in front of them to block the snakes giving Naruto enough time to slip by him to help Sasuke. To his surprise he felt a rather large hand grab his throat before flinging him back into the room. Skidding across the ground and running into the wall, cracking it slightly, he shook his head out of the daze only to see Kisame blocking the door way. Narrowing his eyes at this, Naruto stood up slowly as the throw had hurt more then he would have liked. Having no time to think mull over it, he focused chakra through his entire body before charging the fish/shark man.

As he reached him, Kisame brought his sword down to bring an end to the fight but Naruto, to his surprise, bent his body out of the way before wrapping his entire body around his arms like a constricting snake. Needless to say Kisame was caught off guard by this for a moment before he regained his wits and smirked. Dropping his sword, he slammed his arms against the wall only to hear Naruto laughing at him. Looking at the snake boy his eyes widened as he noticed a snake that had just slithered by him before Naruto wrapped around his arms exploded.

Seeing that his plan worked, Naruto transformed back and was about to rush over to help Sasuke as he noticed Itachi had activated his Mangekyou. To his surprise he felt a hand grab his shoulder. Slowly looking behind him, his eyes widened to see a pissed off Kisame glaring at him holding Samehada in one hand. "Boy, I was going to go easy on you. But now I'm pissed! Prepare to die!"

Before he could do anything Itachi released Sasuke as a kunai passed by his face and landed next to Naruto and Kisame. Seeing the tag on the kunai, Naruto closed his eyes as a flash of light exploded from the kunai. Taking the opportunity, Naruto rushed over to Sasuke and picked him out of the wall and headed towards the direction of the kunai only to be driven into the wall by a slightly irritated Uchiha. "Akanami, what an... unpleasant surprise."

Rikimaru could only grit his teeth as a cold sweat began to cover his body. He was hoping he would have caught Sasuke before he found Itachi, but know that he was here he knew all too well what was going to happen. He was going to get his ass kicked, plain and simple. He would have needed to be at a hundred percent along with his curse seal to win this fight and escaping from the hospital a few days early along with Jiraiya sealing the seal again meant that there was no chance in hell for him to win this fight. He cursed lightly as he began praying for a miracle... Or Kyuubi to arrive as she seemed to appear at the worst possible moments. "The same can be said for you old friend."

Itachi said nothing more as he focused his gaze on the newest threat to his mission as Kisame looked back and forth between the two, trying to figure out what was going on. Before he could ask what was going on between the two, Itachi spoke once more. "You know you cannot win this fight, so why stop me."

Knowing it was the truth, Rikimaru had one and only one answer for him though it would alert him to what was about to happen and probably put him into a coma. "Time."

Raising his eyebrow at his answer, Itachi's eyes widened as he felt two very large chakra reserves heading for their spot and cursed lightly knowing them to be beyond his level. Growling knowing he didn't have time to waste, his left eye began to cloud over as he softly uttered one word. "Tsukiyomi."

Rikimaru cursed seeing the world around him change and knew there was nothing he could do but prepare himself. To his surprise he found himself tied to a pole as Itachi calmly walked towards him. "Akanami, for the next seventy-two hours you will not only witness you greatest fears but experience every ounce of pain they feel as they die." His eyes widened in horror as he found himself in a familiar forest but this time he was looking down at a younger version of himself as Itachi's voice echoed through his head. "Your master's plan will not succeed."

Within seconds Rikimaru crumpled to the ground, unable to stand the vicious technique. Walking over and checking to make sure he was out, Itachi turned around to deal with both Naruto and Sasuke. Just as he did so, the wall behind them crumbled as they fell through it and onto there backs only to see a busty blonde haired woman along with a pale skinned man that looked somewhat like Naruto. Naruto's eyes widened recognizing who both were but was not expecting them and neither was Sasuke as the look of shock and fear was written on his face.

Itachi frowned seeing the two together. There was much that wasn't told and now that he seen it, he would get answer. "Tsunade-sama, Orochimaru. I didn't expect the two of you." Looking over at the two Akatsuki members before turning to the downed jounin, Tsunade walked over to him and started working on him knowing exactly what to do as Orochimaru stood between the two Akatsuki members and Naruto. Seeing this, Itachi narrowed his eyes as he attempted to figure out what was going on. "What are you doing snake? Getting in our way only pushes retrieving our ring from you to top priority."

While knowing this, Orochimaru held his ground with the utmost confidence as he focused chakra to his finger tips. Knowing Itachi could see this, he spoke in an attempt to catch the stoic Uchiha off guard. "You think I would allow you to capture the container of my mother. Ku ku ku, so naive young Uchiha. Too bad I could never possess your body."

Exactly as he planned it, Itachi for one of the few times in his life was truly stunned along with Kisame as neither knew of this. While it was a calculated risk as it would increase the hunt for him, he was now further confident with the slug sannin at his side that he could withstand their attacks. But he needed his plan to go according to plan and for that, he could no let the Akatsuki get Naruto at all costs. Quickly putting that out of his mind, he acted quickly as he focused more chakra to his finger tips before flipping the said arm towards them. "Teshi Sendan!"

Five bone like bullets shot from his finger tips and towards the stunned Uchiha, who quickly recovered and avoided the attack with narrowed eyes. He hadn't expected the snake sannin to absorb another body and was now far more dangerous then before as there were far too many unknown factors. To make things worse another wall collapsed as Jiraiya appeared on top of a large toad. Cursing lightly to himself as there was no way to take on all three sannin, Itachi turned to Kisame. "We retreat for now. We'll come after the jinchuuriki at a later time."

Kisame nodded in agreement as he shushined away as Itachi did the same. Normally Jiraiya would have attempted to prevent them from leaving, but with his arch rival between him, Naruto and Sasuke wasn't a good thing. And seeing Tsunade there was well made this situation all the more tense as she seemed to be completely ignoring him as she worked on Rikimaru. Remembering his mission, his gaze stayed on the slug sannin while carefully watching Orochimaru to make sure he didn't move for the boys. "Tsunade. Where have you been? Shizune has been worried sick about you..."

"She's known were I have been the entire time. While she didn't agree with my decision, she didn't stop me from leaving or inform the council." Tsunade spoke in an indifferent voice as she finished up with her healing. Seeing Jiraiya's look of surprise almost made her smirk as she slowly began walking over to Orochimaru. As she stopped besides him, Jiraiya eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Tsunade, you haven't..."

Tsunade nodded her head as she interrupted the perverted sannin once more. "I have Jiraiya. Look at Konoha and tell me what you see. Nothing but a village that disgraces it leader's wills. I was like you for the longest time before Hachimata's attack. Afterwards I saw the same thing Orochimaru did when he left. They disregard the Sandaime's and the Yondaime's wishes. Not only that but they completely forgot what my great grandfather and uncles did for this village. The council gains more and more power each day while the Hokage loses it making them nothing but a glorified figure head. There is nothing left for me there now. Only pain, sorrow and the people that disgrace the Hokage's name."

Jiraiya was in a state of shock. While he knew of the villages faults, as all villages had them, he could not believe that Tsunade was saying this as she was abandoning her village once more, but this time for good. Taking a few breathes as he regained his composure; he looked over the two sannin in front of him. "Tsunade... Think about what you are doing..."

"I am Jiraiya. This is goodbye." With that said, Tsunade and Orochimaru disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

Seeing what had happened, the toad returned to his world as Jiraiya fell to his knees as a few tears began to seep from his eyes. For the first time in years, he felt completely alone as now all his friends had either died or turned his back on him. Not being able to take it, Jiraiya screamed out to the heavens above. From the fallen wall, both Naruto and Sasuke watched the toad sannin mourn his loses as the pain escaped his body. Neither could fault him, he was now alone in the world.

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A/ N2: Okay, I know a few of you are wondering when my next lemon for this story is and to be quite honest, I don't know. I would like to say in a few chapters, but that would be rushing Naruto's and Yugito's relationship as the next lemon I want to write (for this story) is between them. While one with Nibi could jump in front of them, I rather save her for later. Anyways, here that list for the edit/redo fights.

Edit: Naruto vs. Yugito, Rikimaru vs. Zabuza part 2, the Sound Three versus Neji, Tenten and Lee, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura versus Orochimaru, a lot of the Prelim fights and a still growing list.

Redo: Rikimaru versus Zabuza part 1 and Rikimaru versus Kyuubi. Had so many complaints (One of them being mine) about Riki/Kyu fight that I'm going to change the entire battle. The fight turned out so different from what I wanted it that it made it seemed I over powered Riki, which is something I really didn't want to do. It might take a little while, but it will be the first one done out of all of these, so you can probably check at the end of the week as it should be done. The other battle... there just wasn't anything on it so I want to make it at least a mild confrontation.

Anyways, hope you liked the chapter so hope some of you readers will read in review and any questions to why which fights are being overhauled or just a question on the story, ask away.
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