Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Power Of Three ❯ I Hate the Cold! ( Chapter 16 )
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By: Zagger the Bloody Angel 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Adventure / Action / Hentai / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.20.2011 | Pages: 6 | Words: 10.5K | Visits: 509 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Adventure / Action / Hentai / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.20.2011 | Pages: 6 | Words: 10.5K | Visits: 509 | Status: Completed
A/N: Well everyone, sorry for yet another late update. This is more of a filler chapter and it wasn't too hard to write but it just took me a while. Anyways, here is the next chapter of Power of Three. Hope you enjoy.
I Do Not Own Naruto
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"Can someone explain to me why we are in this God forsaken place?!" Kiba yelled at the top of his lungs.
Akamaru emerged from his coat for a moment before barking in agreement before burrowing himself back in, trying to stay warm as it was quite cold outside. Mainly because they were in the Snow Country and even if it was summer time, it was really freakin' cold!
"Shut up Kiba… At least you have warm clothes. I've had to put on this damn, thick-ass cloak on because I wear a mesh shirt!" Anko yelled back at him and was ready to strangle her student for reminding her how cold it was.
Hinata and Shino just stood between the two with their heads hung low as their teammate and sensei began to argue with each other once more. The two had to wonder if they were related somehow as it seemed almost everything single day the two ended up in an arguement which ended in something bad happening to Kiba.
And he still hadn't learned his lesson as he continued argueing with Anko. "So what?! You're a jounin and have more knowledge then us! You know how to regulate your own body temperature with your chakra! We don't! So give as a break here as we're freezing our asses off!"
Shino nodded as Kiba did have a valid point and agreed with his logic. That was something that Shino rarely did with his brash teammate, however, it didn't matter if he was right or not. All that matter was Anko's logic and if she said it was like this, you better agree with her or you ended up on the wrong side of one of her torture sessions.
Picking Kiba up by the collar of his jacket, Anko glared at Kiba before hissing at him. "When I say shut up, I mean SHUT THE HELL UP! I don't care if your balls being frozen and then hooked up to a high voltage battery! I don't want to hear you complain again otherwise I'm throwing you over board and keeping your partner here for my next supper!"
Kiba wisely shut up after both he and Akamaru whimpered pitifully, not wanting to piss off their volitile sensei any more then they already had.
Seeing that they were quiet, Anko was half tempted to throw Kiba in the water anyways to teach him a lesson but decided against it as she put him down as everyone on the boat was looking at them. Having all the attention on her, Anko did what she naturally would. She cursed them out. "GET THE HELL BACK TO WHATEVER YOU FUCKS WERE DOING! THIS ISN'T A SHOW HERE!"
Needless say the entire cast of the movie went back to filming Yukie Fujikaze's next movie.
As Anko began to calm down as she stalked towards anyone that continued giving her odd looks, Shino sighed as he rubbed the temples on his forehead. "Kiba, haven't you learned that no matter how logical what you are saying to Anko is, you are wrong. That's just the way it is and if either one of us argues with her, we end up being screwed."
"Yeah I know…" Kiba grumbled to himself as he looked off into the stance and noticed an iceburg. "I just wish she would calm down. I know she was horribly upset like the rest of us about Team Seven's betrayel, but she doesn't have to take it out on us. She is even beginning to bite off Hinata's head and she never did that before they left!"
"Don't talk about that!" Hinata hissed at Kiba as she gripped his collar tightly and her Byukugan flared to life.
Once again Kiba was forced to give in and nodded at the Hyuuga heiress. It was still a very sore subject for the Hyuuga clan and more importantly it was very, very sensetive issue to Hinata and Neji. And he he couldn't help agree with her as he wanted nothing more then to bring back Naruto on that mission.
But to make things worse, both Sakura and Sasuke seemed to have betrayed the village as well and followed Naruto to the village of the Sound. And above all, apparently their sensei had been part of the Sound village the entire time and left Konoha right after his team did along with one of the top Anbu captain's in Konoha.
Sighing to himself as today just wasn't his day and he was being yelled at by everyone except for Shino, he leaned on the railing and looked at the iceburg they were nearing. But as he looked at the iceburg, he noticed a flicker of movement and an unknown smell quickly invaded his nose causing him to growl. "We have company!"
Just as he said that, a giant narwhale made of pure ice formed out of the water and headed straight towards their boat.
All three gennin were caught off guard by this and had no jutsu in their arsenal that could stop this tremendous attack and even Anko was flabergasted as she wasn't the best at fire jutsu and could not stop this whale on her own.
She didn't have to as another whale made of ice countered it and negated it instantly. Anko's eyes widened as she turned around expecting to find Kakashi to see someone she didn't suspect. "Sasuke!"
It indeed was the raven haired Uchiha that had negated the ice whale with his Sharingan.
All attention was on him as he stepped forward with his Sharingan spinning a mile a minute. He wore a simple black robe that covered his torso and down to his knees. However in honor of his family, he still had the Uchiha symbol worn proudly on his back as he would never turn his back on his clan. He wore dark pants that were lightly padded to provide for some protection but not to limit his mobility.
However, what had all four Konoha shinobi's attention was the musical note emblem on his forehead signifing he was now a Oto shinobi.
Growling as he saw this, Kiba was ready to attack when Sasuke swept forward and past them and stood at the front of the boat. "Nagare! Give it up! This land is no longer for your boss' to keep!"
A man wearing his purple hair back in a ponytail that wore an odd suit of armor frowned as he looked over towards Sasuke before beginning to laugh. "You are only a child! What can you do against a grown up shinobi little boy!"
Sasuke only smirked as he crossed his arms across his chest. "It isn't me that you should be worrying about."
Catching this piece of information, he attempted to move only to find that the snow he was standing in was no longer snow but a sticky liquid that made it very difficult to move. Hearing a slight movement in the wind, he followed chakra to his feet before bursting out of the liquid just as Naruto appeared and slashed the air where Nagare just was.
As the snow ninja landed thirty feet away, Naruto just gave Sasuke a flat stare before giving him the bird. "Thanks for that, Sasuke! I could have had him you know and made this all so much more quick! Or do you just want to stay here and freeze your ass off?!"
Naruto was wearing the same gear Orochimaru had given him when he arrived to the Sound village, but now he had two additions to his waredrobe. He now wore a pearl necklace across his neck and a golden braclet on his left wrist being somewhat concealed by his aubergine jacket's sleeve.
Sasuke grunted as he jumped onto the iceburg besides Naruto before shrugging his shoulders. "Eh, I don't mind that much. Besides, I thought it would be more of a challenge."
Naruto simply put his hand in Sasuke's face and flipped him off once more. "I don't like the fucking cold Sasuke. The sun isn't even out so I'm basically dying here as I am a snake and there is no way for me to warm up since Yugito isn't here!"
"I can help!" Hachibi loudly proclaimed within Naruto's mind.
Knowing exactly what she meant by that, Naruto yelled at her. "SHUT UP HACHI! I DON'T NEED YOUR INPUT RIGHT NOW!"
As everyone sweat dropped at Naruto yelling at seemingly no one, Nadare could only laugh as he looked at the two sound shinobi. "So the great Otogakure that managed to survive an attack from the legendary Kyuubi no Kitsune could only send two kids to stop us. Give me a break. You can't do anything again us. Fubuki, Mizure! Finish them off!"
Suddenly a pink haired woman with emerald colored eyes along with a rather large man with dark blue hair and had pitch black eyes appeared behind them wearing the same type of armored suit that Nadare was wearing.
However, their sudden appearance didn't startle either of them as they kept their eyes firmly on Nadare when Sasuke spoke once more. "And you should know… There are three of us."
Just as he said, the ice around them shattered into thousands of pieces and both Fubuki and Mizure were dropped into the zero below water.
With a swirl of pink petals later, Sakura was standing at Naruto's other side wearing a pure white cloak with a sakura petals scatter across it in a circular pattern that had a high collar that covered her mouth from view. "Sasuke, you need to work on not giving our positions up. We could have been in and out already."
"Oh come on!" Sasuke complained loudly as he looked at both his teammates. "Am I the only one here that is looking for a challenge?!"
"Yes." Both Naruto and Sakura answered in synchronization and both equally irritated at being in the cold wasteland known as the Snow Country.
Nadare frowned as both Fubuki and Mizure appeared behind him, completely soaked in the freezing could water and shivering as they hadn't expected to be submerged that quickly. Looking at the three confident young shinobi, Nadare stepped forward. "Fine! You've won this round but we'll be back to get Princess Koyuki along with the Hexagonal Crystal!"
"I could give a rat's ass about her or about that damn crystal. We want your blood for turning your back on us and thinking you could invade our lands!" Naruto yelled at them as he readied Kusanagi for battle.
However before he knew it, all three had disappeared in a flicker leaving the Otogakure team on their own. This only made Naruto angrier as her turned to Sasuke before gripped the collar of his robe tightly and bringing it to his face. "Dammit Sasuke! Thanks to you, they got away before we could even take one out and now that bastard Datou will know we are here and be prepared for us!"
"Naruto, relax. Even if he knows we are here he doesn't know our skill levels. He's just going to believe that they retreated for being out numbered seven to three." Sakura spoke calmly as she placed her hand on Naruto's shoulder.
Nodding lighlty, he slowly let go of Sasuke before turning towards the boat only to see Anko and Team eight jump off the boat, ready for a fight. Sighing as he saw this, Naruto turned away and was ready to leave when a half dozen snakes wrapped around him.
"Where do you think you are going gaki?! I'm not letting you get away, especially after what happened three months ago! We're bringing all three of you back to Konoha!" Anko yelled as she began to reel her snakes in, trying to drag Naruto closer.
Sighing at this, Naruto hissed lightly to the snakes before they released and struck back towards Anko forcing her to quickly reverse summon them. Looking over at her, Naruto's violet eyes gazed her before he sighed once more. "What can you do Anko? Outside of your snakes, you have nothing that you can beat me with and because I am the head summoner, they are useless to you. And even if you could beat me, I always have Hachibi and the curse seal to rely on and draw on their power."
As Anko hissed at Naruto's statement, Kiba stepped forward growling loudly as Akamaru jumped out of his jacket and was ready for battle when Hinata suddenly yelled out, desperate to bring them back. "What the hell is with you Naruto?! We just want to get you back home! Same with you Sasuke! Everyone wants you back! Sakura! Your mother wants you back as she blaming herself for you abandoning the village!"
Sasuke merely scoffed at everyone wanting him back as Naruto closed his eyes knowing there was one thing he left back in Konoha that he would miss. It was his family, but more importantly it was Hinata, Neji, Hanabi, Hiashi and Haruna. He had missed them during the time he had been away from the village.
As he was ready to answer her, Sakura took a step forward and growled at Hinata with her fist clutching and unclutching. "You can tell that bitch mother of mine that she is the reason I left that God forsaken village! She chose that fucker over me and I was glad to hear that Sasuke drove that Rasengan through his son's skull! It serves him right for trying to screw over my best friend's life!"
"Sakura!" Naruto yelled as he gripped her shoulder before pulling her back, however, keeping his eye on the Konoha team to gage their reaction.
To his surprise, they really didn't care about the part that Sasuke killed Hiboruto. Then again, he was pretty sure they knew it was Sasuke as Naruto had stated to Hinata once that if he could kill Hiboruto he would have sliced the bastard into a thousand pieces, grind his body up and then serve it to his father as chili.
Putting that image out of his head for now, Naruto stepped forward as he gave his pink haired teammate a stern look. "Hinata, I do regret any pain I caused you and our family… But I could not receive what I now have there. And most of all… the one I love came with me and therefore I have no reason of going back to that place. So tell Hiashi I am sorry, but I live with my new family now."
Hinata's eyes were as wide as dinner plates at Naruto's response and got even wider when Naruto pointed his legendary blade towards them as Kiba and Shino moved forward. "I would not attack us if I were you. We're only here on a mission to take out the Snow's goverment for invading our lands thinking we were weak after Kyuubi's attack. If you try and attacks us, we will kill Princess Koyuki without hesitation as we don't care about the future of this land's goverment."
Anko narrowed her eyes at this as she pulled a kunai out of her sleeve and was ready to battle when it happened. A cold, sharp blade was placed at her throat making her shiver lightly as Sasuke smirked once more. "And by the way… There is four of us."
Faster then anyone could see, Anko was thrown into the sub-zero waters by a young woman with purple hair and brown eyes. But that was all Team eight was able to decipher of her as she suddenly disappeared and the ice below them suddenly shattered into millions of pieces and they were submerged into the freezing water with their sensei.
Looking down at the shinobi struggling in the freezing water, Naruto sighed before turning to the purple haired woman and shook his head.
She wore a black kimono that only stretched down to above her knees and wore dark purple pants to make sure nothing showed. She wore a katana strapped to her back with a ninjato strapped to her waist. Her long purple hair floated as a light breeze blew by them and her brown eyes shone with slight disappointment.
"Sasuke… You are becoming too much like Riki-kun. You and your team are not skilled enough to let your opponents know where you are. He can get away with it as he is quite capable, despite being injured more then anyone I know." She spoke in a disapproving manner as she looked at the raven haired boy.
"Hai, hai. Both Naruto and Sakura have lashed out at me enough for that Yugao-sensei. I don't need it from you to." Sasuke commented as his shoulders drooped slightly, not liking that everyone was disappointed in him for trying to show off.
He knew he didn't need to, he just wanted to showcase what he had learned so far and how much powerful he had became within these three months since they left the village.
Nodding as she looked over at the four shinobi as they pulled themselves out of the water, Yugao knew there wasn't any time left to disipline Sasuke for his action. "We'll talk about this later… Let's move out!"
And with that, all four disappeared in plums of smoke leaving the Konoha team flustered and the entire movie crew flabbergasted at what the three kids had done on their own.
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Sasu ke panted heavily as he clenched onto his stomach before he slowly began to push himself up. He didn't get a chance to as a foot was driven into his back and he was forced onto the ground. He wanted nothing more then this to stop, but she wouldn't let up because of what happened
"Sasuke…" Yugao spoke in a strict tone as she kept him pinned to the ground before she drove the same foot into his chest.
The Uchiha skidded a few yards from the force of the blow. One would think that the snow would cushion the landing but in truth it was only making this experience more painful. The reason for this was that he wasn't in the snow long enough to numb the pain for away so the snow was making his aching muscles sting even more.
Looking down at Sasuke, Yugao dropped to her knees before picking him up by the collar and bringing his face within inches to her own. "Do you understand the severity of your actions yet Sasuke?! If those three were any better and were prepared for us, you could have gotten both Naruto and Sakura killed! Do you get it yet?!"
Sasuke closed his eyes and looked away from Yugao, unable to answer. He knew she was right, he just couldn't come out and say she was. It wasn't his pride or his dignity that was holding him back from ending this. It was his shame.
He knew if they were any better that his teammates would have suffered but he couldn't stop himself. It could have led to their deaths if they were fighting Itachi and Kisame as neither would hesitate to kill them if they had to and would end the battle immediately.
Frowning at Sasuke's response, or lack of, Yugao roughly lifted him up before walking to the water's edge before dunking Sasuke's head into the water and keeping him submerged.
Soon as she saw this, Sakura tried to get up and help Sasuke. Naruto, however, kept her seated as he watched on with slight remourse. "Sakura, she is teaching Sasuke a lesson. Stay back otherwise you'll be dragged into it."
"But this is a little too extreme!" Sakura countered as she tried to break Naruto's grip to help Sasuke as Yugao pulled his head out of the water for a moment before dunking it back into the icey cold water.
Naruto only shook his head before he firmly forced Sakura to sit as he continued watching Yugao water board his brother. "It is no different then the training Anbu receive, Sakura. It may be a little extreme, but it works. We are being trained to become a special forces unit for the sound and that's why Yugao is in charge of us being a former Anbu captain and if this is what it takes to straighten out our flaws, then so be it."
Sakura clenched her fist at Naruto's statement. She didn't want to listen, but he was right. They were the special forces unit in-training and not only that, Naruto was the Otokage in-training. And pureposely endangering a Kage or a Kage in-training was treason. And the punishment for treason was far worse then the treatment that Sasuke was undergoing. It was only a slap on the wrist compared to what Orochimaru did to defectors.
Sitting silently besides Naruto, Sakura watched in disgust for a moment before turning her head away as she could not watch her friend undergo such treatment.
However, she was forced to as Naruto turned her back around. "Sit and watch Sakura… You need to see this just like I do. By watching this… The less likely we will make the same mistake as we know the punishment could be even worse."
Reluctantly, Sakura nodded her head before she turned her head towards Yugao as she pulled Sasuke's head out of the water and glared at him once more. "Do you understand anything yet Sasuke?! I'm not doing this for pleasure God dammit! I'm doing this because if you do that again, you could end up killing Naruto, Sakura, myself and Rikimaru when he's back in the field."
Looking up at Yugao's stern face, fidgeting and terrorfied for his life, Sasuke could only nod as he struggled to keep his eye lids opened. But she knew she wanted to hear him so gathering what strength he had left, Sasuke trembled as he spoke. "I understand… And I will not… Do it again… Yugao-sensei."
The nod was enough for Yugao, however, the words made her even more sure that Sasuke would no longer do what he had done today. But seeing how quickly his skin had paled, she knew he would be going into hypothermia soon if she didn't get him warmed soon.
"Naruto! Go fetch some wood quickly and start a fire! Sakura, help Naruto set up the fire and prepare dinner! Now move it!" Yugao ordered without taking her eyes of Sasuke.
In a second, a thousand shadow clones had formed and a few trees were knocked down and being chopped into lumber faster then any normal person could ever dream of while Sakura found a nice patch of dry ground to set the wood on before calling Naruto to bring the lumber over. Soon as he did, Sakura set the blocks of wood while the clones threw on some brush before a small fire jutsu set the wood ablaze.
Not wasting a second, Yugao placed Sasuke by the fire before pulling a pill out of her pouch and forcing it into Sasuke's mouth. "Swallow. If you don't you'll go into hypothermic shock."
Despite being completely out of it, Sasuke was able to understand her command enough to do as she said and painfully swallowed the pill. At first nothing seemed to happen, but after a few moments his entire body began to suddenly warm and it almost felt like he was in a warm place like a beach.
It was also probably due to being so close to the fire, but his mind couldn't comprehend that at the moment. All he wanted to do was sleep and there wasn't anything that was going to stop him from doing so.
Sighing as she looked down at Sasuke as he fell asleep, Yugao sighed before turning to Naruto and Sakura. She was absently glad that she had Sakura do the cooking as Naruto was rather horrid doing so outside of a kitchen, but she shook that off. "Well leave as soon as Sasuke wakes, so after dinner we'll be taking shifts to guard camp so everyone will get some sleep."
"Fine, I'll take first shift. I'll wake whoever decides to want second shift when it's there turn." Naruto stated as he pulled out an extra sleeping bag and helped his brother slide into it so he wouldn't freeze to death while he slept.
Yugao nodded as that was going to be her, being the most experienced shinobi and completely used to waking up at hours for different reasons. "Good, make sure to rest well as we'll be chasing down Datou and his croonies in the morning. Genjutsu enduced sleep sometimes helps you sleep heavier, so if you need it I have a few seals patchs to keep you asleep."
Both nodded as both took a patch as they were both light sleepers before they went back to what they were doing before.
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A s soon as Sasuke awoke, they dismantle that camp and made it seem like no one had been there before.
"Naruto, were you able to catch there scent?" Yugao asked as she gave Sasuke a quick glance, making the Uchiha take a step back and put Sakura between him and the purple haired kunoichi.
The snake vessel simply huffed at her question before flicking out his tongue. "Of course I did. Even if they washed their scent off and my nose can't follow, my tongue always can. I know exactly what they taste like and will know if they are nearby."
Nodding at this, Yugao was about to order Naruto to take the lead before Sasuke suddenly spoke. "Naruto, you know that is disturbing on so many levels."
"Yeah, but at least I know what Sakura and Yugao-sensei taste like." Naruto stated with a large grin on his face as Sasuke set him up perfectly.
Both Sakura and Yugao madily flushed before the purple haired kunoichi suddenly delivered a powerful haymaker into Naruto's face, knocking him flat on his ass. "Peverted fuck, now get up and lead the way. Sasuke, you and I will take the wings and Sakura will protect the rear."
The pale blonde only smirked before jumping up and sniffing the air before his eys darted to his left. Taking off with the three behind him, he tasted the air a few times and could feel they were nearby. But as soon as he got their scent and taste, he suddenly stumbled before stopping and looking behind him. "What the hell?"
"Train tracks, here?" Sakura stated in surprise as Naruto lead them, following the three snow shinobi's scent.
Narrowing her eyes a little, Yugao knelt down and looked at the track before frowning. "There's chakra going through these tracks. That's what keeping them from freezing over and becoming a hazard."
Catching a light sound in the distance, Naruto focused his concentration to his ears so he could catch what exactly made the sound. He suddenly gripped his ears in pain and hissed out loud. "Move! A train is coming!"
No one hesitated to jump to the side from what Naruto said and quickly hid themselves within the snow as a metalic train sped by. As they went by, Naruto hissed as he activated his Taiingan as he saw their target sitting comfortably within the train.
As the train passed by, the four shinobi emerged from the snow before Naruto spoke cautiously. "He's on the train with his shinobi guards. It seems their going after Princess Koyuki as I can tell her scent along with Kiba's was here not too long ago."
"If we run into them again, so be it. If they get in the way, we may have to eliminate them. Are you three prepared to do that?" Yugao responded, wanting to see if they had the consitution to actually go through with it despite being friends with them at one point.
Naruto was the first the responded by shaking his head. "No, I cannot kill any of them. I could leave them in near death states, but not kill them. That is all I can do. Maybe in a few years I could or if they endangered my family, but that is not something I can do as of this moment."
Both Sakura and Sasuke nodded in agreement leaving Yugao to frown before closing her eyes. All three still had strong allegences to their friends and they would not be severed easily if at all. And in fact, she would have a hard time killing Anko if it came to it. For that, she understood why they couldn't. "Fine, we'll try to avoid them at all cost. Let's go."
Yugao took the lead with Sakura and Sasuke at the wings as Naruto protected the rear. Entering a cave, they could hear the train screeching in the distance telling them it had stopped. Suddenly stopping, the three hid at the cave entrance as they watched Datou emerged with his three shinobi at the side.
"Ah, Princess Koyuki. It has been such a long time." Datou stated as he looked over at the actress as she slowly stood up, almost frowning at the man before her.
Kiba, instinctively jumped in front of her with a kunai at hand as he growled at the dictator of the land of Snow. This only made Datou laugh as he looked at the boy before shaking his head. "Don't even try, boy. Do you honestly believe you stand a chance here? She is coming with us, one way or another."
"That's what you think, Datou!" Koyuki's agent yelled as he stood on top of a small cliff. Suddenly, there was around a hundred people standing behind him armed to the teeth with what weapons regular civilians could gather.
Seeing this, Datou turned to them before motioning to Nagare before saracastically laughing at the small army in front of him. "Oh, what's this? An army gathered to stop me?"
Naruto hissed as he saw this and knew each and everyone one of them was about to be slaughtered as he saw the armament thanks to his Taiingan. "Shit! Their going to get slaughtered! His train is rigged with kunai launchers!"
Catching this, both Sakura and Sasuke narrowed their eyes. Yugao knew what the three were going to do, but didn't stop them as a new regime change in the Snow would be a good thing. So, she would help with what she could. "Alright, I'll take out the bridge so they can't escape. You three try to take Datou out now."
Nodding as they watched Yugao flicker to the bridge in front of the train, Naruto simply smirked as he watched the make-shift army get ready to charge. Green chains began to cross his visible skin as his eyes began to darken, nearing the crimson of his second form as he deactivated his Taiingan.
Just as the army charged, the hatchs of the train lifted to reveal the kunai launchers ready to fire. Naruto suddenly appeared before the army as his hands suddenly went through a quick set of seals before bitting his thumb before summoning a familiar boss summon just as the kunais began to fire.
As the dust settled, not a single kunai made it to the army, who now had stopped as the giant snake suddenly caught them off guard. In fact, each kunai had barely left a scratch on Manda's scales although a few had pierced into it.
Datou's eyes widened as Nagare cursed, not having expected the young boy to be able to summon such a power beast to his aid. "Dammit! I'm sorry, lord Datou. I did not know he held the snake contract."
Manda simply rose his head before giving the train a snake like smirk before opening his mouth and baring his fangs. From within the mouth, Naruto emerged with a demonic grin on his face as he jumped out. "You're going to have to do better then that if you want to keep your head, Datou! Any enemies of yours, are friends to us!"
Suddenly from behind Manda, both Sakura and Sasuke jumped out and through kunai with explosion tags attached to them into the launcher. The explosions easily took out the launchers before Datou and his ninja hid into the train. Just as the train began to move, Manda hissed loudly and rammed the train just as it began to move, not wanting his prey to escape.
Despite his force, the train managed to just barely stay on the tracks and started to cross the bridge. Just as it did, however, it went up with two different explosions as both Anko and Yugao appeared, giving each other quick glares before returning their gaze back to the train as it cascaded off the mountain.
There was silence until the sound of the train crashing into the earth below. Even after hearing it, it took a few moments before all the soldiers of the army Koyuki's manager had gather started celebrating in victory.
However, there was no celebration as Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were face to face with Kiba, Shino and Hinata respectively. Anko simply stepped between them and the sound ninjas before both Sasuke and Sakura headed to Yugao when Naruto suddenly snarled. "He's still alive!"
Suddenly, a claw snatch Koyuki and lifted into the air as what seemed to be the final cart of the train had turned into some sort of an airship. Datou smirked as he stood on the back with is three ninjas at his side. "Sorry to interrupt your celebration, but it is time I claimed my treasure."
"Not happening! Manda!" Naruto yelled out before jumping onto the snake's head just before the boss summon struck with deadily force at the flying train cart. Manda, however, was impeeded as a dragon made of pure ice struck him and knocked him back.
As the ice dragon made contact and shattered, Naruto leapt from Manda and straight towards Datou, ready for to take the dictator out. Just as he got to him, Datou smirked as his hands were in a hand seal before a black dragon made of ice suddenly enveloped the blonde and sending him to the earth below.
"Well, that takes care of one problem." Datou stated, slightly upset that he his ninja couldn't deal with the blonde as he entered the train as it flew away, his ninjas following with Koyuki struggling to break their grip.
Watching Naruto plummet, Hinata acted out of instinct and went to catch him when Sasuke appeared before he and stopped her. She tried to break his grip, but she failed before Sasuke spoke. "Activate your Byukugan."
His simple order confused her for a moment before she did so and saw that the clone had too little chakra to be Naruto. But then where could he… Her vision zoomed to see the blonde was safely onto of the make-shift airship. "Dammit… That bastard."
Sasuke wanted to respond, but knew better then to do so. He simply flickered to Yugao before speaking. "Naruto is on the ship. Shall we follow?"
Looking at where Naruto was as the ship faded away in the distance, Yugao nodded as she had barely caught Naruto creating a shadow clone before replacing himself with it and flickering onto the train cart. "Yes, it would be for the best…"
"Hold it!" Anko yelled angrily as she jumped in front of them before they could even leave.
Yugao sighed and was prepared to fight if need be when Anko stood up straight and looked her in the eyes. "As much as I dislike saying this, our goal are the same. You want to assassinate Datou while our mission is to protect Koyuki."
"Are you suggesting we work together, despite knowing we are traitors of Konoha?" Sakura stated disparagingly, not wanting to be around any of the three gennin knowing they would try in some way to bring them back to Konoha.
Despite not wanting to say it herself, Anko nodded at Sakura's statement. "Yes, that is what I propose. …After that, then we can settle our discrepancies, if you four are still around."
"We won't be, so there is no problem. Soon as our job is done, we'll be back in the Sound." Sasuke responded before taking point as his Sharingan scanned the skys. "Naruto is leaving us a trail to follow. I suggest we do so otherwise it will be that much harder to find him."
Sliding down the mountain side to follow the said trail, Sakura shrugged her shoulders and followed suite. Yugao sighed for a moment, wondering what Rikimaru had done to the three before walking to the cliff before stopping and turning back to the four Konoha ninja. "Before you follow, remember, none of us want to come back. Everything that is precious to us resides in the Sound, especially for Naruto."
As she jumped down and slid down after her two gennin, Hinata frowned before one thing came to her and everyone's else mind as they realized why Naruto wouldn't come back. 'Yugito…'
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"Okay, the next time I tried to do something this stupid, tell me Hachi." Naruto complained to the snake out loud as he currently hiding from two Snow jounin, using a boulder as a shield after he failed miserably to inflitrate Datou's lair.
"So you want me to tell you every time you do something not to do it?" Hachibi asked as she kept herself from bursting into laughter as the blonde completely forgot how many times he did stupid things.
"Ha-ha, snake. Now give me a burst of chakra. I don't feel like using mine and I only have five more minutes with the seal." Naruto sarcastically answered the snake demon before two kunai suddenly hit the boulder, forcing him to jump back as the explosion turned it into shrapnel.
"…Fine, but I want to be released next time you and Yugito decide to go at it like rabbits. Nibi has to be released to." Hachibi said after a small pause, hinting at what she wanted.
Naruto simply shivered at the thought before he brought his focus back onto the fight at hand. The purple chakra raged around him before taking the shape of a humaniod snake with two heads and two tails.
This sudden act caught both jounin off guard and Naruto was quickly on them, tearing into their flesh with his claw like hands. To make things worse for them, it seemed even if he didn't make contact they were being cut as he had some sort of wind jutsu activated that surrounded his palms and feet.
Grinning as he saw the blood drip from their wounds, Naruto bared his fangs as he looked at the two jounin. "Ah, it has been a long time since I felt like this… I feel like I just want to rip you bodies apart and watch your crimson essense stain the purity of the snow."
Both jounin shuttered at the pale blonde's statement as the fear begin to seap in. Neither had ever dealt with a jinchuuriki before nor had they ever had to deal with one that was this psychotic and wanted to rip them apart. Add in the additional strength he received from the boost of the beast's chakra, they were ready to retreat and call for reinforcements.
Seeing that in their eyes, Naruto hissed before suddenly lunging out at the two, snakes shotting out of his jacket's coat and wrapping around both jounin. Smirking, he had them bite into their necks, effectively paralyzing them before recalling them as they hit the ground, unable to move.
Calling back his demonic chakra, Naruto looked down at the two inmobile jounin before pulling out two vials. "Sorry guys, but I have to get some information while you are able to talk. In one of these vials is sulfric acid while the other is just pure water. I will inject both of you with one vial if you don't tell me what Datou is up to."
Seeing the fear in their eyes but not seeing them respond, Naruto sighed as he pulled out two scringes and was ready to extract and inject them with the two vials when one of the jounin spoke. "Lord Datou is planning on using the treasure of his brother's buy himself an army so he can begin to invade other lands, one being the land of Rice!"
"Where is Datou and Koyuki?" Naruto commanded as he was ready to sink one of his scringes into the vials.
The same jounin was petrified with fear and ignoring the other one, telling him that he would just kill him anyways. He wanted to live. "Datou is sitting in his throne room while he keeps Koyuki safely in the dungeon as she didn't have the real Hexagon Crystal!"
Hearing this, Naruto frowned before putting up the scringes and one of the vials and shaking his head. "Good boy. That is all I wanted to know. …By the way, none of them were sulfric acid. They were both high concentrations of an explosive mix of mine, the main cataylist being nitroglycerin."
Taking a few steps back, Naruto through the vial at the two before the two were caught in powerful explosion that continued burning after the explosion was long over.
This is what both the sound team and team eight arrived to see. Hinata nearly vomited at the sight of the burning corpses while Kiba had a similar reaction due to the smell. The rest thought nothing of it as it was all too common scene in ninja warfare.
Naruto turned and looked at all who came before sighing as he had a feeling they were temporarily team up with the Konoha team as their goals were parallel to one another. "They're currently inside, but I can't get in without… Never mind. I'll henge into those two guys and claim I captured all of you and take you all to the dungeon while my team goes after Datou."
"Just one question… Why the dungeon?" Shino asked, unsure why they would be taken the dungeon unless…
"Koyuki is located there and your mission is to protect her at all costs, is it not?" Naruto stated dully before creating a shadow clone and transforming himself into the two snow jounin.
Placing cuffs on each of them, making sure they couldn't break out, Naruto smirked a little before cracking his fist. "Sorry, but I have to rough you all up to make it look like it was a struggle. It wouldn't be believable otherwise."
Everyone paled at the thought as the pale blonde was ready to have fun getting revenge on all of them.
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Aft er he was finished and led them passed the guards, he found a small room that was vacant and led everyone into it and released his team from their captive state. "Alright, Datou is in the throne room. I'll be there momentarily, so make sure to leave me some fun."
"I swear you enjoyed that too much…" Yugao complained as she popped her neck and shoulders as she rotated them. "You are becoming too much like Orochimaru and Rikimaru… And that isn't a good combination."
Naruto shrugged as both Sakura and Sasuke gave Naruto deathly glares before Yugao led them out of the room. As soon as they left, Naruto smirked a little before he appeared directly behind Anko, his hands wrapped around her waist. "Anko, I believe you have something I need. So, would you like to fish it out for me, or shall I have to pull it out of your snatch?"
Anko paled as she could see the devious look on Naruto's face and quickly freed herself of the cuffs and his grip before reaching down into her skirt and a moment later pulling out a slightly slickened hexagon crystal.
Slowly taking it, slightly arosed by the scene while her three gennin looked at her wided eyed, he wiped it down before pocketing it. "Thank you, now back into your shackels. I have to get you to the dungeon before you get out and rescue Koyuki. Just remember, get her out of here as we might just bring this place down."
Frowning at Naruto's words, each obeyed his command for now as not only was he mimicking the person's image but their voice as well making it extremely hard to differentiate him from the burning corpse a little ways outside the fortress.
Getting to the dungeon entry, two guards were posted in front before they both nodded and let them through, knowing the person Naruto was impersionating very well. However, soon as they got by, Naruto had two snakes shoot out of his jacket before bitting the two men in the throats.
As they gargled on their own blood, Naruto reverted back to his natural state before turning to team eight and freeing the gennin from their restraints while Anko simply did the same thing she did before. Shaking his head, Naruto finished the job as he slit both guards' throats before he was about to walk out.
Hinata stopped him as she gently placed her hand onto his shoulder. "Naruto… I know why you don't want to come back, and I can accept that… But, please remember… After this we are enemies. I do love Konoha and… I will do what is needed to protect my home and my family. …That includes you, so I will do everything I can to keep anyone from being sent after you, Sakura and Sasuke."
"Hinata!" Anko hissed as he heard what the girl said.
To her surprise, Shino simply nodded before Kiba growled a little before sighing. "Look man, if you were to come, we would find a way to let you back in with cat girl. …But if not, there isn't much we can do other then let you go like we are now."
Looking back at all three of them, Naruto simply shook his head before speaking in a darker tone. "You three will never understand… I am finally myself."
With that, Naruto flickered away before sniffing the air to find his teams scent. Smelling that they were in the same area as Datou and his three lackeys, Naruto quickly hurried to the throne room only to see Koyuki being held by Datou. "What the hell?!"
"Ah, so the misinformation did work? That Konoha team must be in the dungeon and caught in our trap." Nagare stated as he stood in the stairway, looking at Naruto as he was the first to enter the room soon followed by Sakura, Sasuke and Yugao, all three having heard what he said.
Yugao cursed as this situation was a little different then what she planned, but they still could succeed nonetheless. They would just have to improvise and make sure to keep Koyuki safe so it would make things easier in later negociations.
Naruto, however, had another plan going through his mind as he suddenly pulled out the Hexagon Crystal. "Let her go Datou. Give us Koyuki and I will give you the crystal."
"Ah, so you have it." Datou smirked as he looked over at Koyuki for a moment before nodding. "Fine, I'll let you have Koyuki if you toss me that crystal carefully. No tricks, my ninja will see them."
Seeing the looks of his team telling him to do so, Naruto tossed the crystal to Nagare who in turn handed it to Datou. "Yes… It is finally mine! Now I can claim what rightfully belongs to me!"
"Give us Koyuki, now!" Naruto yelled out at Datou, hissing as the man suddenly turned to him and shrugged.
"Kill them."
Soon as those words left his mouth, Datou grabbed Koyuki before entering yet another flying contraption as it burst from the roof top, showering debris on everyone.
Getting pissed as he was deceived for a second time, Naruto leapt after him and managed to grab onto the entrance as it lifted off. Hanging on as he used chakra to stick to the slick surface, Naruto attempted to pull himself up only to find Datou's foot stomp on his hand. "Little pest, die already!"
And with one more stomp, Naruto hand slipped and he fell to the earth below. Crashing into the ground, somewhat cushioned by the now cratered snow, Naruto slowly got up before hissing out loud as he ran in the direction the aerial device went. "That's it! You are fucking dead, you hear me Datou! No one deceives and tries to kill me twice and gets away with it!"
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Hear ing Naruto's curse, Sakura and Sasuke sweat dropped before they suddenly jumped from one another. An explosion erupted at the same spot immediatetly, causing them to go temporarily death for a moment from the sound, being so close to the explosion.
Despite his inability to here, Sasuke caught movement from above and saw the pink haired kunoichi, Fubuki if he remembered her name correctly, gliding above dropping dozens of kunais with tags attached to them. At first he thought them to be explosive tags, but the kanji was wrong and read…
"Shit, ice bombs!" Sasuke yelled out as the kunais hit before shards of ice rained down onto Sakura and him.
As the ice cut into their flesh, Mizure was almost on them and ready to end the fight when he noticed something odd. A single, webbed hand like wing jutted out of Sasuke back and stopped the entirity of ice crystal that were cutting and stabbing his flesh.
His entire visage had changed as his skin darkened and turned gray as yet another wing sprouted from his back. His fingernails extended into claws as his fangs became slightly visible. A black cross like symbol formed on his nose while the white of his eyes turned pitch black. Finally, his raven haired lightened to become a lighter blue but still a tinge of purple to it.
Before he could react, however, something hit him in the gut before he felt extrodinary pain as whatever the object was began to tear through before finally getting stuck into his armor and flesh. Looking down, he saw a boomerang lodged three or four inches deep into his stomach.
Ripping it out and yelling from the pain, he looked over to the direction it was thrown only to see the pink haired sound shinobi had completely changed.
Her skin actually lightened to the point that it was almost etheral and the white glow around her made her seem even more ghostly. The entirity of her eyes had turned pitch black as her pink darkened and was dark purple in coloration. No other details could be made of her as her hands had shrunken into her cloak.
However, to his surprise Mizure felt the boomerang in his hand beginning to budge. He suddenly let go of it in pain as it nearly cut off his fingers before it flew back so Sakura and instead of it being caught, it simply slid back into its pouch.
Being slightly freaked out by what he saw, he was about to tell Fubuki to drop and round of ice bombs when he suddenly saw Sasuke smirk. It an instant, Sasuke had jumped towards the gliding kunoichi and faster then she could react, the transformed raven was beside her with his hands in the tiger seal. "Katon: Kayru Endan."
With a sudden breath, a dragon of pure flame enveloped Fubuki before she could even defend herself. As the flames bit into her skin, the chakra of the attack was absorbed into the chakra armor, minimalizing the damage. However, she knew she was falling and with her wing system burnt to a crisp, she attempted to land.
Sakura was waiting for her and as soon as she landed, Sakura simply disappeared into the air before appearing besides Fubuki. Her hand stretched to Fubuki's head and with a small tap, Fubuki's eyes rolled to the back of her head as she fell to the ground.
Mizure wasn't sure what had happened, but he knew something was wrong as Fubuki hit the ground. She didn't go down that easily and for that attack to do something… "CHIDORI!"
Before he could react, a hand pierced through his chest, directly where his heart was located.
Ripping his hand out of the man's chest, Sasuke turned to Sakura before smiling. "Shall we go help Naruto, Lady of Death?"
Sakura gave Sasuke a flat glare before smiling as she truly loved that name. Just the concept that she could wield death would send shivers down even the most veteraned shinobi. "We shall, but I doubt he'll need our help."
Sasuke simply smirked before releasing his transformation as did Sakura. After all, if they kept up for too long they would be in a world of pain.
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Yug ao stood in front of Nadare with a snarl on her face. This man had caused enough problems for her ever since she brought her temporary team here. She was going to be damned if he was going to get out alive.
Nadare, however, seemed completely confident that he was going to win this fight. "The famous Blade Cat, it is an honor to meet you in battle. I've heard that rarely anyone that sees your sword unsheathed lives to tell about it."
"I don't need my blade to take care of you. Each of my students could have done it easily." Yugao simply stated as she striffed to the side as she looked for an angle to quickly end this fight.
Turning to keep his eye on her and make sure she didn't try a surprise attack, Nagare heartily laughed at her response before wiping fake tears from his eyes. "Ah is that so? Do you really think you can succeed in something that Hatake Kakashi failed to accomplish?"
Yugao only smirked at his response as she gripped her sword, her grin telling him he had just said the wrong words. "Oh, you could not have said something better to make this fight any easier."
Before Nadare could even respond, Yugao was behind him with her sword held to the side, blood dripping onto the white snow below.
Looking back at her, Nadare managed to muster a response as he could feel the darkness closing around him. "But… how… Our armor…"
"Can absorb almost any chakra attack, negate genjutsu and make most weapons ineffective. I would have simply snapped your neck, but once you made that Kakashi comment I had to destroy you as Kakashi was my Anbu captain at one point and I've always wanted to prove I was better then he was. So, I simply used a technique Tsunade taught me to enhance my strength to such a point my blade can cut through anything." Yugao responded before flicking her sword, wiping the sword clean of blood.
As Nadare's eyes widened for a moment, his body slackened as blood spurted from the corner of his stomach all the way up to his chest, through his heart.
Soon as his body hit the ground, Yugao was gone leaving only the body for Anko and her team to find as they searched for Koyuki.
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" Finally! I'm going to fucking kill you Datou!" Naruto yelled out as he found Datou with Koyuki at a strange shrine. He didn't care that there was giant glowing stones around him or that it seemed the ice and snow was beginning to melt. He was going to kill him if it took his last breath!
Datou being upset at his brother's so called treasure turned to see the blonde haired nuisance that wouldn't die no matter what he did to him. It was getting on his nerves that nothing seemed to be able to stop the boy and he was going to end this now. "Boy, I don't know how you got here, but this is your end."
Like before, Datou went through a series of hand seals before the ice around him formed to create almost a cyclone as a black dragon suddenly emerged from the gale force winds and screamed towards the blonde before colliding, the ice cracking below and plummeting Naruto to the water below.
Soon as he hit the water, Naruto's eyes widened as it was the worst feeling he had ever felt. The dragon really hadn't even harmed him, but the water was so cold that he just wanted to go to sleep and never wake up. He had a feeling that was his snake instinct talking to him, but it didn't matter.
Bursting out of the water, Naruto shivered as he clutched his shoulders and tried to warm himself up. "FUCK! That was cold… I'm going to need Yugito soon as I get back to warm up."
Datou's jaw dropped as the blonde didn't even seemed fazed by his attack. Growling, he prepared for the hand seals once more before sending yet another black dragon towards him. Naruto simply sighed before stretching his arm out towards it. "Fuuton: Daitoppia."
The sudden burst of wind instantly shattered the black dragon of ice making Naruto look over at Datou and shake his head. "You really don't understand, do you? No matter what you do to me or what you have, nothing can hurt me. I am going to kill you for invading my village and trying to destroy the home I'm making for my family. That is what…"
Forming a Rasengan in his palm and looking down at it for a moment, Naruto head snapped towards Datou as he smirked viciously. "A future Kage does for his village!"
The Rasengan suddenly took new life as it seemed that the stones were radiating a different type of chakra and Naruto, oblivious to it, was absorbing the said chakra and adding it to his Rasengan. So the result was a blue orb radiating all colors of the rainbow, making Naruto twitch. "Well, that's fruity."
"Just kill him already, Naruto! I want to get there hell out of here!" Yugao yelled as she stood on top of one of the said stones along side of Sakura and Sasuke, who were just looking at the Rasengan as if it was deformed or something.
Naruto simply rolled his eyes before running straight towards Datou. The man tried to stab him as soon as he got to him, but Naruto easily bent around the blade before driving the orb into his chest. The chakra armor he was wearing underneath his clothes didn't do anything to stop the deadily orb. The chakra was so erratic that it just couldn't adjust.
The result was Naruto's hand piercing through Datou's chest, ripping out his heart and his lungs. Grimacing as he pulled his hand out of the body, he looked at his hand. "Dammit. The bastard stained Kyuubi's braclet. Now I'm just have to…"
"Naruto! Let's get the hell out of here already! Yugito's waiting!" Sakura suddenly yelled as she was freezing and wanted out of there, not caring that Princess Koyuki was looking at him in fear.
"Mhm… Yugito." Naruto stated in a trance before as he started to tred towards them when Koyuki suddenly stopped him.
"Who… Who are you?" Koyuki asked, frightened yet at the same time they went out of their way to rescue her.
Turning to the princess, Naruto simply shrugged his shoulders. "Just a simple messenger of the Sound, mam. Now, pleasure doing continued business with you."
And with that, he along with his team disappeared just as team eight arrived to see their flickers.Converting /tmp/phpk1opc2 to /dev/stdout
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"Can someone explain to me why we are in this God forsaken place?!" Kiba yelled at the top of his lungs.
Akamaru emerged from his coat for a moment before barking in agreement before burrowing himself back in, trying to stay warm as it was quite cold outside. Mainly because they were in the Snow Country and even if it was summer time, it was really freakin' cold!
"Shut up Kiba… At least you have warm clothes. I've had to put on this damn, thick-ass cloak on because I wear a mesh shirt!" Anko yelled back at him and was ready to strangle her student for reminding her how cold it was.
Hinata and Shino just stood between the two with their heads hung low as their teammate and sensei began to argue with each other once more. The two had to wonder if they were related somehow as it seemed almost everything single day the two ended up in an arguement which ended in something bad happening to Kiba.
And he still hadn't learned his lesson as he continued argueing with Anko. "So what?! You're a jounin and have more knowledge then us! You know how to regulate your own body temperature with your chakra! We don't! So give as a break here as we're freezing our asses off!"
Shino nodded as Kiba did have a valid point and agreed with his logic. That was something that Shino rarely did with his brash teammate, however, it didn't matter if he was right or not. All that matter was Anko's logic and if she said it was like this, you better agree with her or you ended up on the wrong side of one of her torture sessions.
Picking Kiba up by the collar of his jacket, Anko glared at Kiba before hissing at him. "When I say shut up, I mean SHUT THE HELL UP! I don't care if your balls being frozen and then hooked up to a high voltage battery! I don't want to hear you complain again otherwise I'm throwing you over board and keeping your partner here for my next supper!"
Kiba wisely shut up after both he and Akamaru whimpered pitifully, not wanting to piss off their volitile sensei any more then they already had.
Seeing that they were quiet, Anko was half tempted to throw Kiba in the water anyways to teach him a lesson but decided against it as she put him down as everyone on the boat was looking at them. Having all the attention on her, Anko did what she naturally would. She cursed them out. "GET THE HELL BACK TO WHATEVER YOU FUCKS WERE DOING! THIS ISN'T A SHOW HERE!"
Needless say the entire cast of the movie went back to filming Yukie Fujikaze's next movie.
As Anko began to calm down as she stalked towards anyone that continued giving her odd looks, Shino sighed as he rubbed the temples on his forehead. "Kiba, haven't you learned that no matter how logical what you are saying to Anko is, you are wrong. That's just the way it is and if either one of us argues with her, we end up being screwed."
"Yeah I know…" Kiba grumbled to himself as he looked off into the stance and noticed an iceburg. "I just wish she would calm down. I know she was horribly upset like the rest of us about Team Seven's betrayel, but she doesn't have to take it out on us. She is even beginning to bite off Hinata's head and she never did that before they left!"
"Don't talk about that!" Hinata hissed at Kiba as she gripped his collar tightly and her Byukugan flared to life.
Once again Kiba was forced to give in and nodded at the Hyuuga heiress. It was still a very sore subject for the Hyuuga clan and more importantly it was very, very sensetive issue to Hinata and Neji. And he he couldn't help agree with her as he wanted nothing more then to bring back Naruto on that mission.
But to make things worse, both Sakura and Sasuke seemed to have betrayed the village as well and followed Naruto to the village of the Sound. And above all, apparently their sensei had been part of the Sound village the entire time and left Konoha right after his team did along with one of the top Anbu captain's in Konoha.
Sighing to himself as today just wasn't his day and he was being yelled at by everyone except for Shino, he leaned on the railing and looked at the iceburg they were nearing. But as he looked at the iceburg, he noticed a flicker of movement and an unknown smell quickly invaded his nose causing him to growl. "We have company!"
Just as he said that, a giant narwhale made of pure ice formed out of the water and headed straight towards their boat.
All three gennin were caught off guard by this and had no jutsu in their arsenal that could stop this tremendous attack and even Anko was flabergasted as she wasn't the best at fire jutsu and could not stop this whale on her own.
She didn't have to as another whale made of ice countered it and negated it instantly. Anko's eyes widened as she turned around expecting to find Kakashi to see someone she didn't suspect. "Sasuke!"
It indeed was the raven haired Uchiha that had negated the ice whale with his Sharingan.
All attention was on him as he stepped forward with his Sharingan spinning a mile a minute. He wore a simple black robe that covered his torso and down to his knees. However in honor of his family, he still had the Uchiha symbol worn proudly on his back as he would never turn his back on his clan. He wore dark pants that were lightly padded to provide for some protection but not to limit his mobility.
However, what had all four Konoha shinobi's attention was the musical note emblem on his forehead signifing he was now a Oto shinobi.
Growling as he saw this, Kiba was ready to attack when Sasuke swept forward and past them and stood at the front of the boat. "Nagare! Give it up! This land is no longer for your boss' to keep!"
A man wearing his purple hair back in a ponytail that wore an odd suit of armor frowned as he looked over towards Sasuke before beginning to laugh. "You are only a child! What can you do against a grown up shinobi little boy!"
Sasuke only smirked as he crossed his arms across his chest. "It isn't me that you should be worrying about."
Catching this piece of information, he attempted to move only to find that the snow he was standing in was no longer snow but a sticky liquid that made it very difficult to move. Hearing a slight movement in the wind, he followed chakra to his feet before bursting out of the liquid just as Naruto appeared and slashed the air where Nagare just was.
As the snow ninja landed thirty feet away, Naruto just gave Sasuke a flat stare before giving him the bird. "Thanks for that, Sasuke! I could have had him you know and made this all so much more quick! Or do you just want to stay here and freeze your ass off?!"
Naruto was wearing the same gear Orochimaru had given him when he arrived to the Sound village, but now he had two additions to his waredrobe. He now wore a pearl necklace across his neck and a golden braclet on his left wrist being somewhat concealed by his aubergine jacket's sleeve.
Sasuke grunted as he jumped onto the iceburg besides Naruto before shrugging his shoulders. "Eh, I don't mind that much. Besides, I thought it would be more of a challenge."
Naruto simply put his hand in Sasuke's face and flipped him off once more. "I don't like the fucking cold Sasuke. The sun isn't even out so I'm basically dying here as I am a snake and there is no way for me to warm up since Yugito isn't here!"
"I can help!" Hachibi loudly proclaimed within Naruto's mind.
Knowing exactly what she meant by that, Naruto yelled at her. "SHUT UP HACHI! I DON'T NEED YOUR INPUT RIGHT NOW!"
As everyone sweat dropped at Naruto yelling at seemingly no one, Nadare could only laugh as he looked at the two sound shinobi. "So the great Otogakure that managed to survive an attack from the legendary Kyuubi no Kitsune could only send two kids to stop us. Give me a break. You can't do anything again us. Fubuki, Mizure! Finish them off!"
Suddenly a pink haired woman with emerald colored eyes along with a rather large man with dark blue hair and had pitch black eyes appeared behind them wearing the same type of armored suit that Nadare was wearing.
However, their sudden appearance didn't startle either of them as they kept their eyes firmly on Nadare when Sasuke spoke once more. "And you should know… There are three of us."
Just as he said, the ice around them shattered into thousands of pieces and both Fubuki and Mizure were dropped into the zero below water.
With a swirl of pink petals later, Sakura was standing at Naruto's other side wearing a pure white cloak with a sakura petals scatter across it in a circular pattern that had a high collar that covered her mouth from view. "Sasuke, you need to work on not giving our positions up. We could have been in and out already."
"Oh come on!" Sasuke complained loudly as he looked at both his teammates. "Am I the only one here that is looking for a challenge?!"
"Yes." Both Naruto and Sakura answered in synchronization and both equally irritated at being in the cold wasteland known as the Snow Country.
Nadare frowned as both Fubuki and Mizure appeared behind him, completely soaked in the freezing could water and shivering as they hadn't expected to be submerged that quickly. Looking at the three confident young shinobi, Nadare stepped forward. "Fine! You've won this round but we'll be back to get Princess Koyuki along with the Hexagonal Crystal!"
"I could give a rat's ass about her or about that damn crystal. We want your blood for turning your back on us and thinking you could invade our lands!" Naruto yelled at them as he readied Kusanagi for battle.
However before he knew it, all three had disappeared in a flicker leaving the Otogakure team on their own. This only made Naruto angrier as her turned to Sasuke before gripped the collar of his robe tightly and bringing it to his face. "Dammit Sasuke! Thanks to you, they got away before we could even take one out and now that bastard Datou will know we are here and be prepared for us!"
"Naruto, relax. Even if he knows we are here he doesn't know our skill levels. He's just going to believe that they retreated for being out numbered seven to three." Sakura spoke calmly as she placed her hand on Naruto's shoulder.
Nodding lighlty, he slowly let go of Sasuke before turning towards the boat only to see Anko and Team eight jump off the boat, ready for a fight. Sighing as he saw this, Naruto turned away and was ready to leave when a half dozen snakes wrapped around him.
"Where do you think you are going gaki?! I'm not letting you get away, especially after what happened three months ago! We're bringing all three of you back to Konoha!" Anko yelled as she began to reel her snakes in, trying to drag Naruto closer.
Sighing at this, Naruto hissed lightly to the snakes before they released and struck back towards Anko forcing her to quickly reverse summon them. Looking over at her, Naruto's violet eyes gazed her before he sighed once more. "What can you do Anko? Outside of your snakes, you have nothing that you can beat me with and because I am the head summoner, they are useless to you. And even if you could beat me, I always have Hachibi and the curse seal to rely on and draw on their power."
As Anko hissed at Naruto's statement, Kiba stepped forward growling loudly as Akamaru jumped out of his jacket and was ready for battle when Hinata suddenly yelled out, desperate to bring them back. "What the hell is with you Naruto?! We just want to get you back home! Same with you Sasuke! Everyone wants you back! Sakura! Your mother wants you back as she blaming herself for you abandoning the village!"
Sasuke merely scoffed at everyone wanting him back as Naruto closed his eyes knowing there was one thing he left back in Konoha that he would miss. It was his family, but more importantly it was Hinata, Neji, Hanabi, Hiashi and Haruna. He had missed them during the time he had been away from the village.
As he was ready to answer her, Sakura took a step forward and growled at Hinata with her fist clutching and unclutching. "You can tell that bitch mother of mine that she is the reason I left that God forsaken village! She chose that fucker over me and I was glad to hear that Sasuke drove that Rasengan through his son's skull! It serves him right for trying to screw over my best friend's life!"
"Sakura!" Naruto yelled as he gripped her shoulder before pulling her back, however, keeping his eye on the Konoha team to gage their reaction.
To his surprise, they really didn't care about the part that Sasuke killed Hiboruto. Then again, he was pretty sure they knew it was Sasuke as Naruto had stated to Hinata once that if he could kill Hiboruto he would have sliced the bastard into a thousand pieces, grind his body up and then serve it to his father as chili.
Putting that image out of his head for now, Naruto stepped forward as he gave his pink haired teammate a stern look. "Hinata, I do regret any pain I caused you and our family… But I could not receive what I now have there. And most of all… the one I love came with me and therefore I have no reason of going back to that place. So tell Hiashi I am sorry, but I live with my new family now."
Hinata's eyes were as wide as dinner plates at Naruto's response and got even wider when Naruto pointed his legendary blade towards them as Kiba and Shino moved forward. "I would not attack us if I were you. We're only here on a mission to take out the Snow's goverment for invading our lands thinking we were weak after Kyuubi's attack. If you try and attacks us, we will kill Princess Koyuki without hesitation as we don't care about the future of this land's goverment."
Anko narrowed her eyes at this as she pulled a kunai out of her sleeve and was ready to battle when it happened. A cold, sharp blade was placed at her throat making her shiver lightly as Sasuke smirked once more. "And by the way… There is four of us."
Faster then anyone could see, Anko was thrown into the sub-zero waters by a young woman with purple hair and brown eyes. But that was all Team eight was able to decipher of her as she suddenly disappeared and the ice below them suddenly shattered into millions of pieces and they were submerged into the freezing water with their sensei.
Looking down at the shinobi struggling in the freezing water, Naruto sighed before turning to the purple haired woman and shook his head.
She wore a black kimono that only stretched down to above her knees and wore dark purple pants to make sure nothing showed. She wore a katana strapped to her back with a ninjato strapped to her waist. Her long purple hair floated as a light breeze blew by them and her brown eyes shone with slight disappointment.
"Sasuke… You are becoming too much like Riki-kun. You and your team are not skilled enough to let your opponents know where you are. He can get away with it as he is quite capable, despite being injured more then anyone I know." She spoke in a disapproving manner as she looked at the raven haired boy.
"Hai, hai. Both Naruto and Sakura have lashed out at me enough for that Yugao-sensei. I don't need it from you to." Sasuke commented as his shoulders drooped slightly, not liking that everyone was disappointed in him for trying to show off.
He knew he didn't need to, he just wanted to showcase what he had learned so far and how much powerful he had became within these three months since they left the village.
Nodding as she looked over at the four shinobi as they pulled themselves out of the water, Yugao knew there wasn't any time left to disipline Sasuke for his action. "We'll talk about this later… Let's move out!"
And with that, all four disappeared in plums of smoke leaving the Konoha team flustered and the entire movie crew flabbergasted at what the three kids had done on their own.
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Sasu ke panted heavily as he clenched onto his stomach before he slowly began to push himself up. He didn't get a chance to as a foot was driven into his back and he was forced onto the ground. He wanted nothing more then this to stop, but she wouldn't let up because of what happened
"Sasuke…" Yugao spoke in a strict tone as she kept him pinned to the ground before she drove the same foot into his chest.
The Uchiha skidded a few yards from the force of the blow. One would think that the snow would cushion the landing but in truth it was only making this experience more painful. The reason for this was that he wasn't in the snow long enough to numb the pain for away so the snow was making his aching muscles sting even more.
Looking down at Sasuke, Yugao dropped to her knees before picking him up by the collar and bringing his face within inches to her own. "Do you understand the severity of your actions yet Sasuke?! If those three were any better and were prepared for us, you could have gotten both Naruto and Sakura killed! Do you get it yet?!"
Sasuke closed his eyes and looked away from Yugao, unable to answer. He knew she was right, he just couldn't come out and say she was. It wasn't his pride or his dignity that was holding him back from ending this. It was his shame.
He knew if they were any better that his teammates would have suffered but he couldn't stop himself. It could have led to their deaths if they were fighting Itachi and Kisame as neither would hesitate to kill them if they had to and would end the battle immediately.
Frowning at Sasuke's response, or lack of, Yugao roughly lifted him up before walking to the water's edge before dunking Sasuke's head into the water and keeping him submerged.
Soon as she saw this, Sakura tried to get up and help Sasuke. Naruto, however, kept her seated as he watched on with slight remourse. "Sakura, she is teaching Sasuke a lesson. Stay back otherwise you'll be dragged into it."
"But this is a little too extreme!" Sakura countered as she tried to break Naruto's grip to help Sasuke as Yugao pulled his head out of the water for a moment before dunking it back into the icey cold water.
Naruto only shook his head before he firmly forced Sakura to sit as he continued watching Yugao water board his brother. "It is no different then the training Anbu receive, Sakura. It may be a little extreme, but it works. We are being trained to become a special forces unit for the sound and that's why Yugao is in charge of us being a former Anbu captain and if this is what it takes to straighten out our flaws, then so be it."
Sakura clenched her fist at Naruto's statement. She didn't want to listen, but he was right. They were the special forces unit in-training and not only that, Naruto was the Otokage in-training. And pureposely endangering a Kage or a Kage in-training was treason. And the punishment for treason was far worse then the treatment that Sasuke was undergoing. It was only a slap on the wrist compared to what Orochimaru did to defectors.
Sitting silently besides Naruto, Sakura watched in disgust for a moment before turning her head away as she could not watch her friend undergo such treatment.
However, she was forced to as Naruto turned her back around. "Sit and watch Sakura… You need to see this just like I do. By watching this… The less likely we will make the same mistake as we know the punishment could be even worse."
Reluctantly, Sakura nodded her head before she turned her head towards Yugao as she pulled Sasuke's head out of the water and glared at him once more. "Do you understand anything yet Sasuke?! I'm not doing this for pleasure God dammit! I'm doing this because if you do that again, you could end up killing Naruto, Sakura, myself and Rikimaru when he's back in the field."
Looking up at Yugao's stern face, fidgeting and terrorfied for his life, Sasuke could only nod as he struggled to keep his eye lids opened. But she knew she wanted to hear him so gathering what strength he had left, Sasuke trembled as he spoke. "I understand… And I will not… Do it again… Yugao-sensei."
The nod was enough for Yugao, however, the words made her even more sure that Sasuke would no longer do what he had done today. But seeing how quickly his skin had paled, she knew he would be going into hypothermia soon if she didn't get him warmed soon.
"Naruto! Go fetch some wood quickly and start a fire! Sakura, help Naruto set up the fire and prepare dinner! Now move it!" Yugao ordered without taking her eyes of Sasuke.
In a second, a thousand shadow clones had formed and a few trees were knocked down and being chopped into lumber faster then any normal person could ever dream of while Sakura found a nice patch of dry ground to set the wood on before calling Naruto to bring the lumber over. Soon as he did, Sakura set the blocks of wood while the clones threw on some brush before a small fire jutsu set the wood ablaze.
Not wasting a second, Yugao placed Sasuke by the fire before pulling a pill out of her pouch and forcing it into Sasuke's mouth. "Swallow. If you don't you'll go into hypothermic shock."
Despite being completely out of it, Sasuke was able to understand her command enough to do as she said and painfully swallowed the pill. At first nothing seemed to happen, but after a few moments his entire body began to suddenly warm and it almost felt like he was in a warm place like a beach.
It was also probably due to being so close to the fire, but his mind couldn't comprehend that at the moment. All he wanted to do was sleep and there wasn't anything that was going to stop him from doing so.
Sighing as she looked down at Sasuke as he fell asleep, Yugao sighed before turning to Naruto and Sakura. She was absently glad that she had Sakura do the cooking as Naruto was rather horrid doing so outside of a kitchen, but she shook that off. "Well leave as soon as Sasuke wakes, so after dinner we'll be taking shifts to guard camp so everyone will get some sleep."
"Fine, I'll take first shift. I'll wake whoever decides to want second shift when it's there turn." Naruto stated as he pulled out an extra sleeping bag and helped his brother slide into it so he wouldn't freeze to death while he slept.
Yugao nodded as that was going to be her, being the most experienced shinobi and completely used to waking up at hours for different reasons. "Good, make sure to rest well as we'll be chasing down Datou and his croonies in the morning. Genjutsu enduced sleep sometimes helps you sleep heavier, so if you need it I have a few seals patchs to keep you asleep."
Both nodded as both took a patch as they were both light sleepers before they went back to what they were doing before.
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A s soon as Sasuke awoke, they dismantle that camp and made it seem like no one had been there before.
"Naruto, were you able to catch there scent?" Yugao asked as she gave Sasuke a quick glance, making the Uchiha take a step back and put Sakura between him and the purple haired kunoichi.
The snake vessel simply huffed at her question before flicking out his tongue. "Of course I did. Even if they washed their scent off and my nose can't follow, my tongue always can. I know exactly what they taste like and will know if they are nearby."
Nodding at this, Yugao was about to order Naruto to take the lead before Sasuke suddenly spoke. "Naruto, you know that is disturbing on so many levels."
"Yeah, but at least I know what Sakura and Yugao-sensei taste like." Naruto stated with a large grin on his face as Sasuke set him up perfectly.
Both Sakura and Yugao madily flushed before the purple haired kunoichi suddenly delivered a powerful haymaker into Naruto's face, knocking him flat on his ass. "Peverted fuck, now get up and lead the way. Sasuke, you and I will take the wings and Sakura will protect the rear."
The pale blonde only smirked before jumping up and sniffing the air before his eys darted to his left. Taking off with the three behind him, he tasted the air a few times and could feel they were nearby. But as soon as he got their scent and taste, he suddenly stumbled before stopping and looking behind him. "What the hell?"
"Train tracks, here?" Sakura stated in surprise as Naruto lead them, following the three snow shinobi's scent.
Narrowing her eyes a little, Yugao knelt down and looked at the track before frowning. "There's chakra going through these tracks. That's what keeping them from freezing over and becoming a hazard."
Catching a light sound in the distance, Naruto focused his concentration to his ears so he could catch what exactly made the sound. He suddenly gripped his ears in pain and hissed out loud. "Move! A train is coming!"
No one hesitated to jump to the side from what Naruto said and quickly hid themselves within the snow as a metalic train sped by. As they went by, Naruto hissed as he activated his Taiingan as he saw their target sitting comfortably within the train.
As the train passed by, the four shinobi emerged from the snow before Naruto spoke cautiously. "He's on the train with his shinobi guards. It seems their going after Princess Koyuki as I can tell her scent along with Kiba's was here not too long ago."
"If we run into them again, so be it. If they get in the way, we may have to eliminate them. Are you three prepared to do that?" Yugao responded, wanting to see if they had the consitution to actually go through with it despite being friends with them at one point.
Naruto was the first the responded by shaking his head. "No, I cannot kill any of them. I could leave them in near death states, but not kill them. That is all I can do. Maybe in a few years I could or if they endangered my family, but that is not something I can do as of this moment."
Both Sakura and Sasuke nodded in agreement leaving Yugao to frown before closing her eyes. All three still had strong allegences to their friends and they would not be severed easily if at all. And in fact, she would have a hard time killing Anko if it came to it. For that, she understood why they couldn't. "Fine, we'll try to avoid them at all cost. Let's go."
Yugao took the lead with Sakura and Sasuke at the wings as Naruto protected the rear. Entering a cave, they could hear the train screeching in the distance telling them it had stopped. Suddenly stopping, the three hid at the cave entrance as they watched Datou emerged with his three shinobi at the side.
"Ah, Princess Koyuki. It has been such a long time." Datou stated as he looked over at the actress as she slowly stood up, almost frowning at the man before her.
Kiba, instinctively jumped in front of her with a kunai at hand as he growled at the dictator of the land of Snow. This only made Datou laugh as he looked at the boy before shaking his head. "Don't even try, boy. Do you honestly believe you stand a chance here? She is coming with us, one way or another."
"That's what you think, Datou!" Koyuki's agent yelled as he stood on top of a small cliff. Suddenly, there was around a hundred people standing behind him armed to the teeth with what weapons regular civilians could gather.
Seeing this, Datou turned to them before motioning to Nagare before saracastically laughing at the small army in front of him. "Oh, what's this? An army gathered to stop me?"
Naruto hissed as he saw this and knew each and everyone one of them was about to be slaughtered as he saw the armament thanks to his Taiingan. "Shit! Their going to get slaughtered! His train is rigged with kunai launchers!"
Catching this, both Sakura and Sasuke narrowed their eyes. Yugao knew what the three were going to do, but didn't stop them as a new regime change in the Snow would be a good thing. So, she would help with what she could. "Alright, I'll take out the bridge so they can't escape. You three try to take Datou out now."
Nodding as they watched Yugao flicker to the bridge in front of the train, Naruto simply smirked as he watched the make-shift army get ready to charge. Green chains began to cross his visible skin as his eyes began to darken, nearing the crimson of his second form as he deactivated his Taiingan.
Just as the army charged, the hatchs of the train lifted to reveal the kunai launchers ready to fire. Naruto suddenly appeared before the army as his hands suddenly went through a quick set of seals before bitting his thumb before summoning a familiar boss summon just as the kunais began to fire.
As the dust settled, not a single kunai made it to the army, who now had stopped as the giant snake suddenly caught them off guard. In fact, each kunai had barely left a scratch on Manda's scales although a few had pierced into it.
Datou's eyes widened as Nagare cursed, not having expected the young boy to be able to summon such a power beast to his aid. "Dammit! I'm sorry, lord Datou. I did not know he held the snake contract."
Manda simply rose his head before giving the train a snake like smirk before opening his mouth and baring his fangs. From within the mouth, Naruto emerged with a demonic grin on his face as he jumped out. "You're going to have to do better then that if you want to keep your head, Datou! Any enemies of yours, are friends to us!"
Suddenly from behind Manda, both Sakura and Sasuke jumped out and through kunai with explosion tags attached to them into the launcher. The explosions easily took out the launchers before Datou and his ninja hid into the train. Just as the train began to move, Manda hissed loudly and rammed the train just as it began to move, not wanting his prey to escape.
Despite his force, the train managed to just barely stay on the tracks and started to cross the bridge. Just as it did, however, it went up with two different explosions as both Anko and Yugao appeared, giving each other quick glares before returning their gaze back to the train as it cascaded off the mountain.
There was silence until the sound of the train crashing into the earth below. Even after hearing it, it took a few moments before all the soldiers of the army Koyuki's manager had gather started celebrating in victory.
However, there was no celebration as Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura were face to face with Kiba, Shino and Hinata respectively. Anko simply stepped between them and the sound ninjas before both Sasuke and Sakura headed to Yugao when Naruto suddenly snarled. "He's still alive!"
Suddenly, a claw snatch Koyuki and lifted into the air as what seemed to be the final cart of the train had turned into some sort of an airship. Datou smirked as he stood on the back with is three ninjas at his side. "Sorry to interrupt your celebration, but it is time I claimed my treasure."
"Not happening! Manda!" Naruto yelled out before jumping onto the snake's head just before the boss summon struck with deadily force at the flying train cart. Manda, however, was impeeded as a dragon made of pure ice struck him and knocked him back.
As the ice dragon made contact and shattered, Naruto leapt from Manda and straight towards Datou, ready for to take the dictator out. Just as he got to him, Datou smirked as his hands were in a hand seal before a black dragon made of ice suddenly enveloped the blonde and sending him to the earth below.
"Well, that takes care of one problem." Datou stated, slightly upset that he his ninja couldn't deal with the blonde as he entered the train as it flew away, his ninjas following with Koyuki struggling to break their grip.
Watching Naruto plummet, Hinata acted out of instinct and went to catch him when Sasuke appeared before he and stopped her. She tried to break his grip, but she failed before Sasuke spoke. "Activate your Byukugan."
His simple order confused her for a moment before she did so and saw that the clone had too little chakra to be Naruto. But then where could he… Her vision zoomed to see the blonde was safely onto of the make-shift airship. "Dammit… That bastard."
Sasuke wanted to respond, but knew better then to do so. He simply flickered to Yugao before speaking. "Naruto is on the ship. Shall we follow?"
Looking at where Naruto was as the ship faded away in the distance, Yugao nodded as she had barely caught Naruto creating a shadow clone before replacing himself with it and flickering onto the train cart. "Yes, it would be for the best…"
"Hold it!" Anko yelled angrily as she jumped in front of them before they could even leave.
Yugao sighed and was prepared to fight if need be when Anko stood up straight and looked her in the eyes. "As much as I dislike saying this, our goal are the same. You want to assassinate Datou while our mission is to protect Koyuki."
"Are you suggesting we work together, despite knowing we are traitors of Konoha?" Sakura stated disparagingly, not wanting to be around any of the three gennin knowing they would try in some way to bring them back to Konoha.
Despite not wanting to say it herself, Anko nodded at Sakura's statement. "Yes, that is what I propose. …After that, then we can settle our discrepancies, if you four are still around."
"We won't be, so there is no problem. Soon as our job is done, we'll be back in the Sound." Sasuke responded before taking point as his Sharingan scanned the skys. "Naruto is leaving us a trail to follow. I suggest we do so otherwise it will be that much harder to find him."
Sliding down the mountain side to follow the said trail, Sakura shrugged her shoulders and followed suite. Yugao sighed for a moment, wondering what Rikimaru had done to the three before walking to the cliff before stopping and turning back to the four Konoha ninja. "Before you follow, remember, none of us want to come back. Everything that is precious to us resides in the Sound, especially for Naruto."
As she jumped down and slid down after her two gennin, Hinata frowned before one thing came to her and everyone's else mind as they realized why Naruto wouldn't come back. 'Yugito…'
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"Okay, the next time I tried to do something this stupid, tell me Hachi." Naruto complained to the snake out loud as he currently hiding from two Snow jounin, using a boulder as a shield after he failed miserably to inflitrate Datou's lair.
"So you want me to tell you every time you do something not to do it?" Hachibi asked as she kept herself from bursting into laughter as the blonde completely forgot how many times he did stupid things.
"Ha-ha, snake. Now give me a burst of chakra. I don't feel like using mine and I only have five more minutes with the seal." Naruto sarcastically answered the snake demon before two kunai suddenly hit the boulder, forcing him to jump back as the explosion turned it into shrapnel.
"…Fine, but I want to be released next time you and Yugito decide to go at it like rabbits. Nibi has to be released to." Hachibi said after a small pause, hinting at what she wanted.
Naruto simply shivered at the thought before he brought his focus back onto the fight at hand. The purple chakra raged around him before taking the shape of a humaniod snake with two heads and two tails.
This sudden act caught both jounin off guard and Naruto was quickly on them, tearing into their flesh with his claw like hands. To make things worse for them, it seemed even if he didn't make contact they were being cut as he had some sort of wind jutsu activated that surrounded his palms and feet.
Grinning as he saw the blood drip from their wounds, Naruto bared his fangs as he looked at the two jounin. "Ah, it has been a long time since I felt like this… I feel like I just want to rip you bodies apart and watch your crimson essense stain the purity of the snow."
Both jounin shuttered at the pale blonde's statement as the fear begin to seap in. Neither had ever dealt with a jinchuuriki before nor had they ever had to deal with one that was this psychotic and wanted to rip them apart. Add in the additional strength he received from the boost of the beast's chakra, they were ready to retreat and call for reinforcements.
Seeing that in their eyes, Naruto hissed before suddenly lunging out at the two, snakes shotting out of his jacket's coat and wrapping around both jounin. Smirking, he had them bite into their necks, effectively paralyzing them before recalling them as they hit the ground, unable to move.
Calling back his demonic chakra, Naruto looked down at the two inmobile jounin before pulling out two vials. "Sorry guys, but I have to get some information while you are able to talk. In one of these vials is sulfric acid while the other is just pure water. I will inject both of you with one vial if you don't tell me what Datou is up to."
Seeing the fear in their eyes but not seeing them respond, Naruto sighed as he pulled out two scringes and was ready to extract and inject them with the two vials when one of the jounin spoke. "Lord Datou is planning on using the treasure of his brother's buy himself an army so he can begin to invade other lands, one being the land of Rice!"
"Where is Datou and Koyuki?" Naruto commanded as he was ready to sink one of his scringes into the vials.
The same jounin was petrified with fear and ignoring the other one, telling him that he would just kill him anyways. He wanted to live. "Datou is sitting in his throne room while he keeps Koyuki safely in the dungeon as she didn't have the real Hexagon Crystal!"
Hearing this, Naruto frowned before putting up the scringes and one of the vials and shaking his head. "Good boy. That is all I wanted to know. …By the way, none of them were sulfric acid. They were both high concentrations of an explosive mix of mine, the main cataylist being nitroglycerin."
Taking a few steps back, Naruto through the vial at the two before the two were caught in powerful explosion that continued burning after the explosion was long over.
This is what both the sound team and team eight arrived to see. Hinata nearly vomited at the sight of the burning corpses while Kiba had a similar reaction due to the smell. The rest thought nothing of it as it was all too common scene in ninja warfare.
Naruto turned and looked at all who came before sighing as he had a feeling they were temporarily team up with the Konoha team as their goals were parallel to one another. "They're currently inside, but I can't get in without… Never mind. I'll henge into those two guys and claim I captured all of you and take you all to the dungeon while my team goes after Datou."
"Just one question… Why the dungeon?" Shino asked, unsure why they would be taken the dungeon unless…
"Koyuki is located there and your mission is to protect her at all costs, is it not?" Naruto stated dully before creating a shadow clone and transforming himself into the two snow jounin.
Placing cuffs on each of them, making sure they couldn't break out, Naruto smirked a little before cracking his fist. "Sorry, but I have to rough you all up to make it look like it was a struggle. It wouldn't be believable otherwise."
Everyone paled at the thought as the pale blonde was ready to have fun getting revenge on all of them.
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Aft er he was finished and led them passed the guards, he found a small room that was vacant and led everyone into it and released his team from their captive state. "Alright, Datou is in the throne room. I'll be there momentarily, so make sure to leave me some fun."
"I swear you enjoyed that too much…" Yugao complained as she popped her neck and shoulders as she rotated them. "You are becoming too much like Orochimaru and Rikimaru… And that isn't a good combination."
Naruto shrugged as both Sakura and Sasuke gave Naruto deathly glares before Yugao led them out of the room. As soon as they left, Naruto smirked a little before he appeared directly behind Anko, his hands wrapped around her waist. "Anko, I believe you have something I need. So, would you like to fish it out for me, or shall I have to pull it out of your snatch?"
Anko paled as she could see the devious look on Naruto's face and quickly freed herself of the cuffs and his grip before reaching down into her skirt and a moment later pulling out a slightly slickened hexagon crystal.
Slowly taking it, slightly arosed by the scene while her three gennin looked at her wided eyed, he wiped it down before pocketing it. "Thank you, now back into your shackels. I have to get you to the dungeon before you get out and rescue Koyuki. Just remember, get her out of here as we might just bring this place down."
Frowning at Naruto's words, each obeyed his command for now as not only was he mimicking the person's image but their voice as well making it extremely hard to differentiate him from the burning corpse a little ways outside the fortress.
Getting to the dungeon entry, two guards were posted in front before they both nodded and let them through, knowing the person Naruto was impersionating very well. However, soon as they got by, Naruto had two snakes shoot out of his jacket before bitting the two men in the throats.
As they gargled on their own blood, Naruto reverted back to his natural state before turning to team eight and freeing the gennin from their restraints while Anko simply did the same thing she did before. Shaking his head, Naruto finished the job as he slit both guards' throats before he was about to walk out.
Hinata stopped him as she gently placed her hand onto his shoulder. "Naruto… I know why you don't want to come back, and I can accept that… But, please remember… After this we are enemies. I do love Konoha and… I will do what is needed to protect my home and my family. …That includes you, so I will do everything I can to keep anyone from being sent after you, Sakura and Sasuke."
"Hinata!" Anko hissed as he heard what the girl said.
To her surprise, Shino simply nodded before Kiba growled a little before sighing. "Look man, if you were to come, we would find a way to let you back in with cat girl. …But if not, there isn't much we can do other then let you go like we are now."
Looking back at all three of them, Naruto simply shook his head before speaking in a darker tone. "You three will never understand… I am finally myself."
With that, Naruto flickered away before sniffing the air to find his teams scent. Smelling that they were in the same area as Datou and his three lackeys, Naruto quickly hurried to the throne room only to see Koyuki being held by Datou. "What the hell?!"
"Ah, so the misinformation did work? That Konoha team must be in the dungeon and caught in our trap." Nagare stated as he stood in the stairway, looking at Naruto as he was the first to enter the room soon followed by Sakura, Sasuke and Yugao, all three having heard what he said.
Yugao cursed as this situation was a little different then what she planned, but they still could succeed nonetheless. They would just have to improvise and make sure to keep Koyuki safe so it would make things easier in later negociations.
Naruto, however, had another plan going through his mind as he suddenly pulled out the Hexagon Crystal. "Let her go Datou. Give us Koyuki and I will give you the crystal."
"Ah, so you have it." Datou smirked as he looked over at Koyuki for a moment before nodding. "Fine, I'll let you have Koyuki if you toss me that crystal carefully. No tricks, my ninja will see them."
Seeing the looks of his team telling him to do so, Naruto tossed the crystal to Nagare who in turn handed it to Datou. "Yes… It is finally mine! Now I can claim what rightfully belongs to me!"
"Give us Koyuki, now!" Naruto yelled out at Datou, hissing as the man suddenly turned to him and shrugged.
"Kill them."
Soon as those words left his mouth, Datou grabbed Koyuki before entering yet another flying contraption as it burst from the roof top, showering debris on everyone.
Getting pissed as he was deceived for a second time, Naruto leapt after him and managed to grab onto the entrance as it lifted off. Hanging on as he used chakra to stick to the slick surface, Naruto attempted to pull himself up only to find Datou's foot stomp on his hand. "Little pest, die already!"
And with one more stomp, Naruto hand slipped and he fell to the earth below. Crashing into the ground, somewhat cushioned by the now cratered snow, Naruto slowly got up before hissing out loud as he ran in the direction the aerial device went. "That's it! You are fucking dead, you hear me Datou! No one deceives and tries to kill me twice and gets away with it!"
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Hear ing Naruto's curse, Sakura and Sasuke sweat dropped before they suddenly jumped from one another. An explosion erupted at the same spot immediatetly, causing them to go temporarily death for a moment from the sound, being so close to the explosion.
Despite his inability to here, Sasuke caught movement from above and saw the pink haired kunoichi, Fubuki if he remembered her name correctly, gliding above dropping dozens of kunais with tags attached to them. At first he thought them to be explosive tags, but the kanji was wrong and read…
"Shit, ice bombs!" Sasuke yelled out as the kunais hit before shards of ice rained down onto Sakura and him.
As the ice cut into their flesh, Mizure was almost on them and ready to end the fight when he noticed something odd. A single, webbed hand like wing jutted out of Sasuke back and stopped the entirity of ice crystal that were cutting and stabbing his flesh.
His entire visage had changed as his skin darkened and turned gray as yet another wing sprouted from his back. His fingernails extended into claws as his fangs became slightly visible. A black cross like symbol formed on his nose while the white of his eyes turned pitch black. Finally, his raven haired lightened to become a lighter blue but still a tinge of purple to it.
Before he could react, however, something hit him in the gut before he felt extrodinary pain as whatever the object was began to tear through before finally getting stuck into his armor and flesh. Looking down, he saw a boomerang lodged three or four inches deep into his stomach.
Ripping it out and yelling from the pain, he looked over to the direction it was thrown only to see the pink haired sound shinobi had completely changed.
Her skin actually lightened to the point that it was almost etheral and the white glow around her made her seem even more ghostly. The entirity of her eyes had turned pitch black as her pink darkened and was dark purple in coloration. No other details could be made of her as her hands had shrunken into her cloak.
However, to his surprise Mizure felt the boomerang in his hand beginning to budge. He suddenly let go of it in pain as it nearly cut off his fingers before it flew back so Sakura and instead of it being caught, it simply slid back into its pouch.
Being slightly freaked out by what he saw, he was about to tell Fubuki to drop and round of ice bombs when he suddenly saw Sasuke smirk. It an instant, Sasuke had jumped towards the gliding kunoichi and faster then she could react, the transformed raven was beside her with his hands in the tiger seal. "Katon: Kayru Endan."
With a sudden breath, a dragon of pure flame enveloped Fubuki before she could even defend herself. As the flames bit into her skin, the chakra of the attack was absorbed into the chakra armor, minimalizing the damage. However, she knew she was falling and with her wing system burnt to a crisp, she attempted to land.
Sakura was waiting for her and as soon as she landed, Sakura simply disappeared into the air before appearing besides Fubuki. Her hand stretched to Fubuki's head and with a small tap, Fubuki's eyes rolled to the back of her head as she fell to the ground.
Mizure wasn't sure what had happened, but he knew something was wrong as Fubuki hit the ground. She didn't go down that easily and for that attack to do something… "CHIDORI!"
Before he could react, a hand pierced through his chest, directly where his heart was located.
Ripping his hand out of the man's chest, Sasuke turned to Sakura before smiling. "Shall we go help Naruto, Lady of Death?"
Sakura gave Sasuke a flat glare before smiling as she truly loved that name. Just the concept that she could wield death would send shivers down even the most veteraned shinobi. "We shall, but I doubt he'll need our help."
Sasuke simply smirked before releasing his transformation as did Sakura. After all, if they kept up for too long they would be in a world of pain.
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Yug ao stood in front of Nadare with a snarl on her face. This man had caused enough problems for her ever since she brought her temporary team here. She was going to be damned if he was going to get out alive.
Nadare, however, seemed completely confident that he was going to win this fight. "The famous Blade Cat, it is an honor to meet you in battle. I've heard that rarely anyone that sees your sword unsheathed lives to tell about it."
"I don't need my blade to take care of you. Each of my students could have done it easily." Yugao simply stated as she striffed to the side as she looked for an angle to quickly end this fight.
Turning to keep his eye on her and make sure she didn't try a surprise attack, Nagare heartily laughed at her response before wiping fake tears from his eyes. "Ah is that so? Do you really think you can succeed in something that Hatake Kakashi failed to accomplish?"
Yugao only smirked at his response as she gripped her sword, her grin telling him he had just said the wrong words. "Oh, you could not have said something better to make this fight any easier."
Before Nadare could even respond, Yugao was behind him with her sword held to the side, blood dripping onto the white snow below.
Looking back at her, Nadare managed to muster a response as he could feel the darkness closing around him. "But… how… Our armor…"
"Can absorb almost any chakra attack, negate genjutsu and make most weapons ineffective. I would have simply snapped your neck, but once you made that Kakashi comment I had to destroy you as Kakashi was my Anbu captain at one point and I've always wanted to prove I was better then he was. So, I simply used a technique Tsunade taught me to enhance my strength to such a point my blade can cut through anything." Yugao responded before flicking her sword, wiping the sword clean of blood.
As Nadare's eyes widened for a moment, his body slackened as blood spurted from the corner of his stomach all the way up to his chest, through his heart.
Soon as his body hit the ground, Yugao was gone leaving only the body for Anko and her team to find as they searched for Koyuki.
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" Finally! I'm going to fucking kill you Datou!" Naruto yelled out as he found Datou with Koyuki at a strange shrine. He didn't care that there was giant glowing stones around him or that it seemed the ice and snow was beginning to melt. He was going to kill him if it took his last breath!
Datou being upset at his brother's so called treasure turned to see the blonde haired nuisance that wouldn't die no matter what he did to him. It was getting on his nerves that nothing seemed to be able to stop the boy and he was going to end this now. "Boy, I don't know how you got here, but this is your end."
Like before, Datou went through a series of hand seals before the ice around him formed to create almost a cyclone as a black dragon suddenly emerged from the gale force winds and screamed towards the blonde before colliding, the ice cracking below and plummeting Naruto to the water below.
Soon as he hit the water, Naruto's eyes widened as it was the worst feeling he had ever felt. The dragon really hadn't even harmed him, but the water was so cold that he just wanted to go to sleep and never wake up. He had a feeling that was his snake instinct talking to him, but it didn't matter.
Bursting out of the water, Naruto shivered as he clutched his shoulders and tried to warm himself up. "FUCK! That was cold… I'm going to need Yugito soon as I get back to warm up."
Datou's jaw dropped as the blonde didn't even seemed fazed by his attack. Growling, he prepared for the hand seals once more before sending yet another black dragon towards him. Naruto simply sighed before stretching his arm out towards it. "Fuuton: Daitoppia."
The sudden burst of wind instantly shattered the black dragon of ice making Naruto look over at Datou and shake his head. "You really don't understand, do you? No matter what you do to me or what you have, nothing can hurt me. I am going to kill you for invading my village and trying to destroy the home I'm making for my family. That is what…"
Forming a Rasengan in his palm and looking down at it for a moment, Naruto head snapped towards Datou as he smirked viciously. "A future Kage does for his village!"
The Rasengan suddenly took new life as it seemed that the stones were radiating a different type of chakra and Naruto, oblivious to it, was absorbing the said chakra and adding it to his Rasengan. So the result was a blue orb radiating all colors of the rainbow, making Naruto twitch. "Well, that's fruity."
"Just kill him already, Naruto! I want to get there hell out of here!" Yugao yelled as she stood on top of one of the said stones along side of Sakura and Sasuke, who were just looking at the Rasengan as if it was deformed or something.
Naruto simply rolled his eyes before running straight towards Datou. The man tried to stab him as soon as he got to him, but Naruto easily bent around the blade before driving the orb into his chest. The chakra armor he was wearing underneath his clothes didn't do anything to stop the deadily orb. The chakra was so erratic that it just couldn't adjust.
The result was Naruto's hand piercing through Datou's chest, ripping out his heart and his lungs. Grimacing as he pulled his hand out of the body, he looked at his hand. "Dammit. The bastard stained Kyuubi's braclet. Now I'm just have to…"
"Naruto! Let's get the hell out of here already! Yugito's waiting!" Sakura suddenly yelled as she was freezing and wanted out of there, not caring that Princess Koyuki was looking at him in fear.
"Mhm… Yugito." Naruto stated in a trance before as he started to tred towards them when Koyuki suddenly stopped him.
"Who… Who are you?" Koyuki asked, frightened yet at the same time they went out of their way to rescue her.
Turning to the princess, Naruto simply shrugged his shoulders. "Just a simple messenger of the Sound, mam. Now, pleasure doing continued business with you."
And with that, he along with his team disappeared just as team eight arrived to see their flickers.Converting /tmp/phpk1opc2 to /dev/stdout