Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Return of the Bijus ❯ Tsunade & the Bet ( Chapter 4 )

A/N: Yo! It seems a lot of people have made up rumours about the Chidori. Let's clear up the two main rumors: 1: Contrary to popular belief, the Sharingan is NOT an absolute necessity for the Chidori. Sure, it helps speed up the learning process and also can be used to counter an enemy's counter to the straight thrust, but the secret of the Chidori/Raikiki is in the speed of the thrust. Sora had plenty of speed, even more than Sasuke/Kakashi do. Therefore, the effects of the Sharingan are negated in both of these factors. Also, yes the Chidori was NOT offcially created to protect Kakashi's friends, however, that's the pretense it soon adopted after Obito died. There is a passage in the manga and the anime when Kakashi ties Sasuke to a tree just after the Sasuke/Naruto fight on the roof of the hospital. I will quote the passage word for word from the manga: “You should know from your loss... Chidori is a power given to you because you found things important to you. That power is not something to be used against your friends or for revenge. You yourself should know what that power is used for.” Well, it seems I've just blown two myths completely out of the water. Seriously, how many of you guys actually read the manga and watch the anime? It may be because I disect every non filler episode and issue for it's true meaning, but you guys have asked a lot of questions that I thought were a given Also, it seems some people are saying that Body Flicker belonged only to Yondaime. Those people are obviously not very big fans of the series, as it's describes as a 'D-Rank Supplimentry Jutsu useable by some Genins and just about everyone above Genin level'. Those who truthfully think that it's a Yondaime only jutsu have most likely never watched more than 10 episodes of the anime or read 15 issues of the manga... Also, the only people I seem to be getting negative comments from a people with practically brand new accounts. They have no authored stories, no favorite authors or stoires, no nothing. I just find that a LITTLE too coincidental, considering that their witing styles have some similarities that cannot be ignored. I'd almost say it's either one or two people creating new accounts and posting their criticism in what they think are different ways, but there are tell tale signs that you can look for, assuming you know where to look, that will identify a person's writing style as uniquely their own. The styles I've seen are very very simmilar, some are too close for it to be a coincidence. And for those people's information, you can try changing it all you want, it'll still be recogniseable with enough time. Time which I have plenty of. But you can keep creating new accounts. It takes me far less work to copy and paste a number so that account can't review my stories again than it does to create the account in the first place.

 

OMG! DEEP ANALOGY TIME! Also, I've also noticed something VERY interesting. After reviewing every single episode/issue of the manga and anime which the Rasengan appears in when used by Jiraiya and Naruto, I have determined something. Ever noticed those swirls of chakra that are absorbed into the Rasengan from outside as it's formed and until it's dissipated/explodes? Try counting them. EACH and EVERY single time the jutsu is used by Jiraiya, there is always four swirls minimum and five swirls maximum. So what you ask? Try thinking about it. Who made the jutsu? Arashi. Which Hokage was he? Yondaime. Fourth. Who's the Godaime? Tsunade, Jiraiya's companion and former teammate, who has five swirls when he uses the Rasengan. Kind of fitting, don't you think? If you don't understand yet, read below. There's a VERY subtle hint as to Naruto's destiny when he uses it. The number of swirls change. They start at four, then reach five, then six, then go back to four again when the new lot come in. This can also bee seen as an analogy. He's learnt a jutsu created by his father, symbolising the four swirls as the inventer of it I would bet my bottom dollar on the fact that there would have been four swirls and four swirls only when he could be seen using it. Naruto's teacher who taught him to move is the teammate of the Godaime Hokage, and also improved the Rasengan by being able to do one in each hand, something which I KNOW Arashi didn't or couldn't do, and Jiriaya's Rasengan had 5 swirls. Naruto learnt it and AGAIN improved it, creating the Odama Rasengan, hence the 6th swirl. Know what this leads me to believe? Naruto = Garanteed Rokudaime Hokage. I'm willing to place a bet on that for the official series.

 

Anywho, onto the reviews/comments/suggestions:

 

White Alchemist Taya: Yo! I answered your question via PM, but I'll cover the basics of it again. No graphic parts of Sasuke and Sakura's relationship? I can arrange that, but you're still going to have to accept Sakura walking around pregnant and also giving birth. I need their children for the last part of this story. Well, in my fic, Sasuke didn't feel pressed to compete with Naruto's power. Naruto accepted Sasuke and Sasuke quickly accepted Naruto. Also, before Obito died, Chidri was according to Arashi, 'an incomplete jutsu'. Therefore, he'd just made it to look cool. After he completed it, it adopted it's 'protect your friends' motto.

 

kitsune of the underworld: Well, I guess I overlooked the fact that I should have mentioned a long time ago that soul siphon requires a massive amount of chakra. At best, she could manage 2 with her normal chakra and another 2 with Nibi's. However, it leaves her vunerable to attack at that time, so the other Kages would have stopped her. As for asking whether I'm Jesus? No, I would never want to be him. All he was was an extremely charasicmatic man in a time where people would belive that he was satan himself if he told them. Did you know in some ancient texts, record's of the founding of Christianity have been uncovered? In one of them, a vote was taken to decide if Jesus would be a divine being in the Christian religion. Needless to say he was voted for being a divine being, but only by several votes. Some of you may say 'OMG, that was in the Davinci Code'. Well, I've actually looked up the records that the book was based on. They've been confirmed as authenticate. Sorry if I've completely trashed your religion, Christians reading this, but as a man once said, “hey, I calls 'em as I sees 'em.” I personally don't care about your past, dark as it was, or even what you do in the furure, as long as you leave me and my friends alone, then it's all good. Anywho, getting WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY offtrack here. Glad you liked it :P

 

God in a box: Lol, that filler arc was funny. It was also the only semi decent one there, apart from that one where Naruto/Kiba/Hinata go treasure hunting. It was quite comical to see Naruto form enough Kage Bunshins too destroy Konoha if they wanted to. Considering how much chakra he must have used to make them, he would have at least had to pull out the second or third of Kyubi's tails to do it. “Ah! The special nindo ramen noodles I was stockpiling! AAAAAHHHH! URASANE! ZETTAI URASANEDATTEBAYO! TAJYUU KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!” ROFL, that was great! He made an army that would put Konoha's entire shinobi force to shame. Maybe we should make up a law. 'Never get between Naruto and his Ramen.' If that's the effects, I'd rather give him a life time supply of the stuff and live life on the streets than eat his ramen. Um, yeah, back to your review: As for the seal, it's going to be made very, very soon. I'll leave you to stew on that. Hand seals mean nothing really, if you think about it. Sure they help mold chakra, but how many people have you seen using just the Hebi hand seal and they all end up with completely different jutsus? Creating a hand seal is defeating the purpose of the lvl 4 Ingan. Think about it this way. If Naruto comes up with some funky hand seal, would that equal the Shiki Fuujin? I certainly don't think it would. I mean a carved seal/drawn seal. Trust me, just wait and see.

 

MoOn-ShInE-LoRd: Good to hear from you again. Well, if Hotaru dies of natural causes, then no, she stays dead. The jutsu is the only way she can die and resurrect herself and others. I've actually been considering giving them extended lifespans for a while now, just not sure if I should. In this story, Naruto has already proven that he's not the kind of guy to rub these sorts of things in. He'll just accept it and go on.

 

Chaosmages: Yo! Although Sarutobi didn't die, I'm still going to make him retire from the job. And before you scream: 'OMG, NARUTO 4 HOKAGE!', I've made it an unspoke law that each kage has to either teach one Genin team, or like the Sannins, take on a single apprentice. Since Tsunade's already taught Shizune one on one and is also going to be taking over Sakura's training, that will make her qualify for the job.

 

Conceptor: YES! GOD CHAPTER! Score! Glad you liked it. It lets me know I'm getting closer to achiving my goal. If you mean introducing cliff hangers, I tried it once to separate the month's training from the main matches for the Chunin exams and found that I didn't like them, not one bit. I felt guilty for doing it, but I kind of had no choice.

 

Kyuubi-Sama: War? The Sandaime is only the temporary Hokage as of this chapter until a replacement is found, so he's not up to leading a war.

 

TrapedSoul: I assume you read the first few paragraphs? If so, then cool, if not, then read them now. As Shino would say “I dislike repeating myself.”

 

hikaru1: What happened when Sasuke shoved a Chidori through Naruto's chest during the Sasuke retrival arc? It healed almost instantly. A sword is nothing compaired to a Chidori, so it healed fairly quickly.

 

Dragon Noir: Hmm, another thing I neglected to mention. Well, here's the explination: Odama Raikiri = draining. If Kakashi can only do regular Raikiri four times a day with full chakra, how many times do you think Sora could manage a far more powerful version using Rokubi's chakra? She'd already expended a lot for her lightning jutsus, so I tried to make it even. I needed Orochimaru for later chapters, especially this one, and also for another reason. You'll find out later why.As for the resurrection jutsu, she can only do it every 5 years and only if the person had died a valliant death. I mean, killing yourself to revive people left right and centre would cheapen the move to no end. Akasuki had been brooding over the fact that since a lot of the remaining demon containers have merged with their demons, their plans are essentailly screwed. How can they drain something that in essesence doesn't exist, if you catch my drift. Westerners will be making an appearance much later in the story, but not for a while yet. They're still setting up the trade routes with Konoha, and have no intentions of coming over to settle just yet.

 

Zarron: Well, yes he did have the forth level Ingan, but using it to counter something would have meant he'd used about a third of his chakra forming the counter. A counter for a single move at the cost of 1/3 of your chakra is a heavy price to pay, don't you think? The Shodaime was most likely the container for Hachibi in the real series too. Read this chapter to find out why. Also, Akatsuki existed even back then, although with different members, and I'm assuming Shodaime died when they drained his biju. Like Gaara when he had Shukaku drained and was reserected, he still had control over the sand, so a resurrected Shodaime minus Hachibi should still give him control over wood. As for when Naruto was resurrected, Kyubi was practically nothing more than an Inner Sakura that dissagreed with him on everything. Kyubi's chakra was Naruto's own, so that was resurrected with him.

 

I hope you all enjoy what I believe to be my masterpiece chapter. It's kind of a dulbe length chapter as well. I hope my creativity gives you some semblane of pleasure to read.

 

Legend:

 

'...Thoughts...'

 

“...Japanese...”

 

“...English...”

 

“...TWO OR MORE PEOPLE SAYING THE SAME THING/CASTING THE SAME JUTSU AT ONCE...”

 

'...Biju Thoughts...'

 

“...Biju Talking in Japanese...”

 

“...Biju Talking in English...”

 

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The Return of The Bijus:

 

Chapter Four:

 

Sarutobi Retires and the new Genins:

 

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The Next Day, at the Hokage's Office:

 

Sarutobi had gathered all of the Konoha Chunin who had participated in the finals. He also had a letter from each of the judges saying who they thought should become Chunin. Little did the others know that the suggestions were practically unanimous. The Hokage smiled weakly at them.

 

“I'm sure you're all awear of why we have gathered you hear today. This is to announce the results of the Jounin Exams. It seems that the other countires were completely shocked at what we had put on display. The almost unanimous decision states that Konoha Teams 1 & 2 should be promoted to Jounin-”

 

Predictably, Naruto went off at the mention of another promotion. Everyone in the room could understand the boy's feelings. He was finally getting the recognition he so deserved. Finally, Naruto calmed himself enough to listen to the rest of the conversation.

 

“As I was saying, you have all been suggested to be promoted to Jounin. This is just as well, as the Village's income of mission requests has more than doubled since the end of the matches. However, I feel it is also time for me to step down as Hokage and for the Godaime Hokage to be chosen. And no, Naruto, not yet.”

 

Naruto looked sullen for a moment before he recovered.

 

“There is another prerequisite for becoming the Hokage. That is you must either take on a single apprentice for several years or raise a Genin team of your own, neither of which you have done. Which brings me to my next point. This Academy year was bursting to capacity with well over the usual thirty students. I'm afraid straight after your promotions, I will have to assign you Genin teams, as they completed the Genin exams just yesterday, and are awaiting your decision to announce the teams to the Genin. Please take some time to look over your teams.”

 

With that, the Hokage got out of his chair, and walked to the wall, where then Jounin flak jackets were hanging. The other former Jounin instructors of the teams helped by giving their own students their flak jackets. They all took off their Chunin jackets and replaced them with their Jounin ones. 'Can anyone actually tell me what the visual difference is between a Chunin and Jounin flak jacket? I'd be interested to know.' Sarutobi went back to his seat and motioned them to come forward, which they all did. One at a time, Sarutobi handed each of them a piece of paper with the profiles of the new would-be Genin on it. Ironically, Naruto had gotten the new Team 7. Even more ironically, each of the members resembled the old Team Seven's members the more he looked at them and their Academy scores. The only difference was that this team only had three instead of the four that had been on the previous Team Seven. There was the top of the class guy, a girl with shockingly small a chakra cpaacity, but she had perfect chakra control. The last guy made Naruto almost stop breathing. He was the 'dobe' of the class who everyone shunned. Even more suprisingly, the boy had an unusually large chakra capacity, but almost zero chakra control. He was loving the prospects of this. Yukiko broke him out of his train of thought when she kised him on the cheek. Yukiko leaned her chin on his shoulder, looking at the team he had been assigned. Her grin widened to a full blown smile when she saw what he had gotten. Yukiko whispered in his ear.

 

“What a perfect selection. You should be able to handle them with ease.”

 

“Heh, we'll see. Let me see yours, Yukiko-Chan.”

 

Yukiko showed him hers. It seemed to be an amusing mix of people. If anything, it was Team Gai incarnate. The fact that having Hanabi, a boy with HUGE brows and a boy who was apparently his generation's weapon expert didn't help to try and think otherwise. Naruto chuckled.

 

“I sincerely hope for your sake that mr fuzzy brows junior doesn't use those corny 'springtime of youth' speeches.”

 

Yukiko groaned at the prospect, but Naruto just nuzzled his head closer and whispered so only she could hear.

 

“After all, I couldn't have my wife and the mother of my children going insane now, could I?”

 

This had the desired effect on Yukiko. She stiffened slightly before relaxing and trying to get deeper into Naruto's embrace, purring softly. This caught the attention of the people nearest them who gave them an odd look, which they ignored. Kyubi decided to make his opinion heard.

 

'I have to admit it, kit. That was really smooth. You might even become as good as me one day.'

 

'Know what the cool thing is? All you will be able to do is watch as I get to make hot, passionate-'

 

'You're a bastard, you know that?'

 

'I've known that for a VERY long time. Old news, furball.'

 

Kyubi sulked in silence at the fact that he had once again lost in a verbal sparring match against the retched human. Yukiko could see the smug look of satisfaction on her husband's face, knowing that there was really only one thing that could give him that kind of satisfaction, and it involved a 'furball', and a few choice words thown at each other. She seemed to get along a fair bit better with Nibi than Naruto did with Kyubi it seems. The Hokage coughed to get their attention, which made Naruto sigh.

 

“Why does everyone have to cough to get our attention?”

 

Everyone had secretly been wondering the same thing, but they put that thought aside for now. The Hokage looked up at them.

 

“Are their any complaints of the teams?”

 

Everyone shook their heads, which the Hokage smiled at. He took another puff of his pipe and then looked at them.

 

“Our situation is very dangerous at the moment. We have a lot of new Jounins, but essentialy no Hokage. I'm only doing the bare minimum I have to until the replacement arrives. Which brings me to the final point. After introductions to your new teams, I need a few people to go and pick her up. She tends to be stubbourn in these sorts of things, but I think we have enough on our plates as it is. I will need her to be picked up. She is one of the former Sannin and also one of the best medics in existance.”

 

Naruto grinned.

 

“Tsunade.”

 

The Hokage nodded.

 

“Correct. I need three volunteers to go with Jiraiya. I also have heard rumours from reliable sources that Orochimaru is after her as well.”

 

Naruto, Sasuke and Yukiko's hands shot up.

 

“We'll take it, Ojisan. We've all got personal issues with that snake bastard, and we want to settle the score.”

 

The Hokage smiled at them.

 

“I was actually hoping it would be you three. Of everyone here, you're possibly the best suited to convincing her and making her come back of her own free will. Especially you, Naruto.”

 

Naruto smiled his usual foxy grin at the 'old man'. The Hokage took a final puff of his pipe.

 

“Very well then. The schedualed meeting time for the mission is tomorrow morning at 7am at the west gate. Jiraiya will give you the mission details once you've arrived at the gate. Are there any questions?”

 

No one spoke a word so the Hokage smiled at them.

 

“Well then, this concludes the meeting. Again, congratulations on your promotions. Goold luck to all of you.”

 

They filed out of the room towards the Academy, where Iruka was waiting to meet them. Naruto got excited for obvious reasons.

 

“Iruka-Sensei! How are you?”

 

“I'm fine thanks, Naruto. Please come in everyone, we're about to announce the teams.”

 

Iruka led the procession down the hall way to a class room that was unusually noisy. Once they got in, they saw why. It seems that where one student should be sitting normally, there were three. There seemed to be a Massive School Objects Fight going on, or MSOF as it was known when they were in the academy. Iruka walked in, followed by the 10 newly promoted Jounins. Everyone stopped and stared at the odd group of people. Iruka sighed.

 

“Sorry guys, this class was never one for showing superiors respect.”

 

To prove his point, a boy threw an eraser at Naruto's head, which gave Naruto an opportunity to show these kids how weak they really were. Naruto temporarily body flickered a few metres away and then back to where he was. It gave the impression that Naruto just sort of partially stopped existing for a second before coming back to normal. The Genin had no idea what just happened, but they were speechless. Naruto looked at the boy.

 

“Did you really think I would let that hit me? I'll show you how to throw an eraser properly. I threw a few of them when I was in the Academy.”

 

Naruto picked it up and aimed it at a book that was standing face up on the table. Naruto looked at the kids behind it.

 

“You may want to move. This could hurt.”

 

The kids scrambled out of the way, and Naruto flicked the eraser at the book. None of the Genin knew, but the others knew that it had been a severly chakra enchanced flick. The result was that it shot towards the book, through it and imbedded itself halfway into the desk behind them. The kids boggled at it in pure disbelief. They turned back to the boy who was smiling a toothy grin, which made them shudder. Naruto lessened the smile to a smirk.

 

“If you guys promise to be good for your new Senseis, I'll teach you how to do that. Oh, and sorry to whoever's book that was, I'll replace it.”

 

The kids immediately shut up and listened intently. Naruto chuckled while the other Jounin smirked.

 

“Never fails. By the way kids, if you had bothered listening to Iruka-Sensei's lessons, you would have been able to learn the basics of that trick. Iruka-Sensei, if you would?”

 

Iruka sighed. Naruto had ALWAYS had a way to get kids to do what he wanted. He was astounded that he had never asked Naruto how he had done it, but now he knew. Iruka pulled out his clipboard and started rattling off the teams. Once he called out the three team members for each cell and their Jounin instructor, the four of them left the room to introduce themselves to each other. Finally, it got to Team Seven.

 

“Team Seven: Katayama Daichi. Matsumoto Hibari and Hayashi Kouji. Your Jounin Instructor is Uzumaki Naruto.”

 

Naruto waved to them.

 

“Alright you guys, let's move it!”

 

The three followed him out the door, painfully awear that everyone left in the room was very jelous that they had gotten the cool one. Naruto decided to bring them to where his Team Seven had their talk with Kakashi. He sat on the railing and motioned them to sit down.

 

“Alright guys, I'm sure you know by now that I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I really need to get to know about you guys before we actually do anything, so I need to get you guys to introduce yourselves with your names, likes and dislikes, hobbies and dreams. I'll go first. My name is Uzumaki Naruto. My likes are my wife's cooking, ramen, and my friends. My dislikes are people who pick on those who are weaker than them, people who judge others by their first impression and a certain organisation. My hobbies are training, hanging out with my friends and teaching. My dream is to surpass all of the previous Hokages and become the best one this has ever seen. You.”

 

He pointed to Daichi.

 

“You're next.”

 

“My name is Katayama Daichi. I have a few likes, which include hanging out with my friends. I have a lot of dislikes. My hobbies are to train and get stronger. My dream is to be recognised as who I really am and not for being my brother's sibling.”

 

Naruto pointed to the girl.

 

“Right. Go for it.”

 

“My name is Matsumoto Hibari. My likes include-” Sideways glance at Daichi. “My dislikes are Kouji. My hobbies are-” Naruto groaned mentally. Was Sakura really this bad? “And my dream is to-” Naruto had to fight the increasingly strong mental urge to smack his hand to his forehead. Naruto pointed to Kouji.

 

“Ok, go.”

 

“My name is Hayashi Kouji. My likes are Ichiraku's ramen-” Naruto nearly choked at this, but he kept listening. “My dislikes are people who understimate others-” Naruto did choke at this, causing him to stop.

 

“Sorry, keep going.”

 

“My hobbies are to train, and my dream is to get everyone to realise who I am.”

 

Naruto couldn't believe this. This team was his old one minus Yukiko incarnate. IT was a scary thought.

 

“Well you guys, this is going to be VERY interesting. I'll tell you now that this team is almost exactly what my old Genin team was. The similarities are so close it's startling.”

 

Hibari had a question and raised her hand.

 

“Yes, Hibari?”

 

“You said this team was just like your old one right?”

 

Naruto nodded.

 

“Who were you from this team?”

 

Naruto smiled a very toothy grin, causing his Genin to shudder.

 

“Would you belive me if I told you?”

 

They nodded.

 

“Kouji.”

 

They boggled at him. He'd been the Dobe of his class, yet if the rumours were true, he'd beaten all of the revived Hokages by himself? They continued to stare at them. Naruo arched an eyebrow.

 

“Is it really that hard to believe?”

 

They all nodded, making Naruto chuckle.

 

“I remember being like you guys ages ago, nieve. Trust me, once you've been to almost every major village in the east and also the west, your view of the world changes. If you STILL don't believe me, try asking Iruka-Sensei what I used to wear every day until the day of the Genin exams. By the way, I've actually been assigned an S rank mission that myself, my wife and my brother along with Ero-Sennin-”

 

When Naruto saw the look of blank incomprehension on their faces, he remembered to stop calling Jiraiya 'Ero-Sennin' in front of people who had never heard that name before. Naruto sighed.

 

“You guys know Jiraiya of the legendary three Sannin?”

 

They nodded. It was impossible to have not learnt about him from how Iruka exclaimed how great he had been.

 

“Drop all thoughts of him being great. He's actually a perverted white haired old man who loves frogs.”

 

They stared at Naruto as if he had grown another head. Naruto smiled.

 

“I would know. I spent 4 years travelling with him. You guys know the Icha Icha books?”

 

They nodded.

 

“He wrote them.”

 

They all gagged at this, making Naruto laugh.

 

“Trust me, each and every Sannin has a massive weakness that will essentially cripple them should you find it. They're powerful until you expose that weakness. Remember this. No person is immortal, or anywhere near close to it. Not even the Kages were. The only beings that were immortal were the nine demon lords, and even all of them have met their demise in a sense.”

 

Naruto's three students litterally drank in his every word like he was some kind of messenger from Kami. Naruto smiled at them.

 

“Well, most of the teams would have already been dismissed, asked to come to a certain training ground tomorrow morning for a test of some description. However, I may not be back for a while, neither will my wife or my brother, so we're having an extended chat. If you guys have any questions, please ask me.”

 

Kouji had one and put up his hand.

 

“Naruto-Sensei?”

 

Naruto looked at him.

 

“Yes, Kouji?”

 

“Did you really beat the Shodaime, Nidaime and Yondaime in single combat a few days ago?”

 

Naruto looked at him and smiled.

 

“If you were to twist the facts around a bit, you could say that. However, I had my wife and friend, as well as Sarutobi to help me out, but I landed the killing blow on all of them, yes.”

 

They were starting to get the idea that there was far more to Naruto than it originally seemed. They questioned him for another half hour before Naruto saw a familiar bird cirlcing the sky above him.

 

“Well, sorry to cut it short guys, but I'm being summoned. I'll tell you what. When I get back, we're going to do that test I talked about. However, those of you who fail it will be sent back to the academy to redo their final year of training.”

 

Naruto waved at them.

 

“Well, it was great to meet you guys. I'm going to get my stuff and get prepared for tomorrow's mission. You guys are free to do what you want until I get back, however, I'd suggest you train. Later!”

 

With that, Naruto 'poof'ed out of there in a very Kakashi like manner. His students were still trying to wrap their heads around what they had heard as they walked their separate ways.

 

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Next Morning, 7 am at the West Gate:

 

Unsuprisingly, Sasuke was the first one there. Naruto and Yukiko arrived hand in hand and greeted Sasuke before settling into wait. About half an hour later, Jiraiya had stumbled up to them suffering from a hang over. He'd obviously spent the night 'information gathering', which Naruto and Yukiko were by now used to. Last year, Jiraiya had told them what his 'information gathering' sessions really consisted of. They had to admit, it was a low way to do it, but it was also probably the most efective. Basically, Jiraiya slowly brought the conversation to bare on any rumors of what his target may have been doing that the workers had heard about. Jiraiya nodded drearily to them and then sat down, motioning them to join him. When they did, Jiraiya brought out a booklet and a note. The booklet was a rough collection of gambling sprees Tsunade was suspected to have been on, while the note was from 'anon' and gave a general indication as to where she had last been seen. The note was very recent, and Jiraiya started to brief them on where they would start searching and what to look for. After he had finished, he slowly got up and started trudging out the gate when they heard a distant thundering behind them. They saw three figures emerge. They were Maito Gai, Rock Lee and Yukiko's new apprentice, Maito Lee. They were heading directly for them, and the group started backing away. Gai spoke first.

 

“Hokage-Sama has ordered us to give you a passionate speech about the flames of youth, which we shall now proceed to do!”

 

Lee continued without breaking pace.

 

“You must use your spring time of youth to persuade Tsunade-Sama to return to us!”

 

Apparently, Maito Lee, as he was called, had taken an extremely unhealthy liking in these two, looking to them as somewhat father figures.

 

“Use the passion of youth to awe her with your grace!”

 

By now, the group assigned to retrive Tsunade were nothing but a distant cloud of smoke disappearing over the horizon. The three green spandex wearing super brows looked at each other in confusion. Maito Lee turned to his older role modles.

 

“Gai-Sensei, Lee-Sensei, why did they run like that?”

 

Gai thought of the only reason his completely twisted mind could think of.

 

“They must have been so inspired by our few words that they have increased their efforts to bring Tsunade-Sama back to us!”

 

He illistrated his point with his nice guy pose, teeth sparkling, which dazzled his aprentices. They accepted this explination without hesitation. It came from Gai-Sensei, therefore, it couldn't be wrong! Fires burned in Lee and Lee jr's eyes. Little did they know that the Hokage actually had no intention of making them listen to their 'spring time of youth' speechs, he'd only used them to give the group an... Incentive... To hurry up. The spandex wearing trio werequickly reduce to rivers of tears and a group hug. Everyone else decided to steer clear in case they spread their disease to them.

 

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Next Morning:

 

Naruto and Yukiko were fast asleep in bed, not having heard the exchange between Tsunade and Shizune whnich ended up with Shizune lying unconcious on the ground. Naruto was the first to wake up and managed to see a mainly black form lying on the ground near the foor of the bed. Naruto got up, and walked over to the figure to revela it was Shizune. Naruto shook Yukiko awake and pointed to Shizune when she gave him a pout. That quickly stopped her, and she quickly set to work healing the minor injury she had to her ribs. Shizune awoke with a start, and looked to see it was well and truly morning. She looked at Nauruo in horror.

 

“What time is it? No, what day of the week is it?”

 

“Monday...”

 

Shizune shot up with a start and ran to the window, opening it and prepared to jump out when her danger sense told her not to. Luckily, she didn't and a kunai went whizzing past her head, imbedding itself in a pipe next to here. Shizune looked to see a very tired looking Jiraiya, who was sweating and panting profusly while leaning up against the wall.

 

“Wait, Shizune.”

 

They managed to get Jiraiya up against the balcony. By now, Sasuke had heard the comotion and he was with them, checking over Jiraiay with his Sharingan, as Jiraiya told them what happened.

 

“Damn that Tsunade. She put something in my sake. Now I can't even mold chakra correctly. On top of that, my body feels numb and I can't throw knives correctly. She's still a medical specialist, reguardless her current state. Only she could make a tastless, odorless drug that works against ninjas. I didn't expect her to find an oportunity to poison me, even if I was slightly drunk. Shizune had gone to fetch a pitcher of water and a glass, which Jiraiya gladly accepted.

 

“Jiraiya-Sama, how are you feeling?”

 

“Better than I was at dawn.”

 

Jiraiya held out the glass, which Shizune refilled.

 

“However, I've only recovered about thirty percent so far.”

 

Little did they know that they were all being spied on by a Sound nin. This was a new one, which Orochimaru had gotten to replace Kabuto with as his right hand man and medical specialist. He had pure white hair, which cascaded around his head and shoulders like a mop. He had a short angular face with high cheekbones and black eyes and wore the Oto hitai-ate. He sported a fairly simmilar style of clothing to what Kabuto was known to wear. However, instead of the purple colour Kabuto had worn, he opted for mostly white, with a purple sash made of what appeared to be dyed medical tape. Over the sash was one of the typical Oto purple rope knots seen on the higher ranking members of the Oto community. He was a fairly lanky man, obviously relying on agility and intelligence over brute force. His mission of confirming the size and personel of the enemy force complete, he body flickered away, which did not go unnoticed by anyone. Jiraiya tured to Shizune.

 

“Shizune, you're going to tell us everything you two talked about with Orochimaru, now.”

 

Shizune hung her head in obvious shame.

 

“I wanted to believe in Tsunade-Sama, so I couldn't say it before now...”

 

Shizune stood up with a look of pure determination on her face.

 

“We don't have much time. Please follow me! I will expalin while we move!”

 

With that, they lep from roof to roof after Shizune, who seemed to be leading them to the destroyed castle. She began explaining Tsunade's highly unusual wining streak, which was follwoed by Orochimaru crushing the castle with a snake and making her a deal. In exachange for healing his arms, he would revive both her brother and lover using Edo Tensei. They were hoping to make it in time for the exchange, but unfortunately for them, said exchange was just commencing and they were still quite far away from the castle grounds. Tsunade had agreed to the trade, with one aditional rule. 'Don't lay a finger on the village.' Orochimaru had agreed and they began walking towards each other when Orochimaru's right hand man landed silently on a nearby rooftop, overseeing the exchange. The man watched intently as Tsunade formed a sphere of green chakra between her hands as she held it out. Orochimaru brought his arms forward, seeking the salvation of the green light when a kunai whistled in the wind, landing right where both of their arms had been. The Oto medic nin jumped forward to land behind his leader. Orochimaru stared at Tsunade.

 

“What is the meaning of this... You've betrayed me at the very last minute... Tsunade... Tell me... How did you come up with your answer... Tsunade-Hime?”

 

This personal jab was ignored as Orochimaru continued with his angsty speech which he was oh so good at.

 

“You tried to kill me.”

 

Tsunade had to bite back from screaming insults at how obvious that was.

 

“And, Raido, I trust you deep down inside. Your loyalty and the insite into Tsunade's actions impressed me.”

 

“I do come from a medical squad like her after all, Orochimaru-Sama. It was easy to tell that the chakra was filled with the intent to kill instead of the usual intent to heal.”

 

Orochimaru sighed for dramatic effect, putting on his best puppy dog voice, which suffice to say, made him sound like a squashed cat.

 

“Tsunade, I really intend to revive those two... And I even promised not to crush Konoha.”

 

“That's exactly the point.”

 

This caused the other two to stare at her.

 

“The promise to revive them was real enough, but the promise to leave Konoha alone was a lie. I knew... Yet, I wanted... To see them again... Just once more I wanted to see them... Just once more, I wanted to touch them... Just once more I wanted to see their smiles... But... When I felt I could see Nawaki and Dan again, I realised something... That I was a fool. Just remembering their faces... Blinded my sight.... I loved them... I really loved them, so I wanted to see them and hug them! But because that gaki, I remebered what their dreams were... It was an important dream they both strived for. It was also my wish for that dream to come true. All things with a form eventually perish, that's what you said. But... This feeling won't perish.”

Now, Orochimaru was usually on the end of giving angsty speechs, and he secretly considered himself the king of angst. However, it was rare to recive such a heart felt angsty speech from someone he knew, let alone anyone else. Had it come from anyone else, he would have stopped them less than half way though it. However, he quickly covered up.

 

“It seems negotiations have broken down... I will now have to ask you by force.”

 

Tsunade wiped the last of the tears from her eyes and calmed herself before charging Orochimaru and Raido with a flying axe kick which practically turned everything around her into a 40 foot wide crater. She looked up at her counterpart with a look of pure determination.

 

“Bring it on, Orochimaru!”

 

Orochimaru laughed.

 

“Come to think of it, I've never fought you before.

 

Tsunade took of her green coat and let it billow in the wind before letting go of it and charging the wall they had landed on.

 

“You're right.”

 

Raido obviously wasn't impressed.

 

“That's big talk, considering I'm the one who's going to be fighting her.”

 

Tsunade jumped into the air, slamming her fist into the wall, causing that section to crumble.

 

“I'm goingto kill you worthless bastard right here, right now!”

 

Both of the Sound nin backflipped into a nearby tree.

 

“She still has that monsterous strength. One hit from that, and you're done for.”

 

“It certainly seems like it. This place is too compact to fight and keep distance between us.”

 

Orochimaru listened to his right hand man's suggestion.

 

“Are you going to change locations?”

 

“That seems best for now. A group of troublesome people are with Shizune. They might try and back Tsunade-Sama up.”

 

They both lept off the branch just as Tsunade tried a roundhouse kick to both their heads and then antother axe kick to the tree branch, snapping it like a twig. The Oto nins hit the ground at a dead run. Orochimaru turned his head to his subordinate in intrest.

 

“And who would these troublesome people be?”

 

“They include the last of the legendary Sannin, Jiraiya-Sama, as well as the former traitor's sister, the younger Uchiha and the Nine Tails boy.”

 

Orochimaru knew exactly how much trouble they were in if that group came to reinforce Tsunade. It would be unlikely to escape alive.

 

“Troublesome indeed.”

 

By now, the group being talked about had reached where the path of destruction had begun. Naruto looked at the path leading straight through the walls into the field, where he could vaguely make out fighting.

 

“Man, and I thought Sakura-Chan's strength was scary...”

 

Yukiko nodded in agreement. Shizune gathered up Tsunade's cloak and Naruto pointed to the fighting.

 

“They're over there. I can just see them.”

 

Shizune looked doubtful for a moment before she remembered who Naruto was, and accepted it. Tonton, after sniffing Tsunade's cloak, seemed to agree with Naruto. They charged through the obliterated walls to the source of the destruction. They arrived just in time to see Raido raising a kunai to plunge it into Tsunade's chest. Sasuke pickd a smoke bomb from his pack and chucked it at Tsunade. It bounced off her back lightly and exploded. Raido jumped back and wated for the smoke to clear, revealing that the back up they had so dreaded had finally arrived. Yukiko raised a hand in greeting.

 

“Yo, snake bastard. I'll make sure to get the rest of your soul this time.”

 

Raido stared in horror at the girl. This teenager was the one wo had ripped part of Orochimaru's soul out? He knew they were way out of his league, but he decided to try and bluff his way out of it.

 

“That depends on if you can kill me first.”

 

To illistrate his point, he charged Tsunade and then in a very unexpected move, drew a kunai and stabbed himself in the hand, spraying blood all over Tsunade who instantly started quivering. Raido sneered.

 

“So, the great Tsunade-Sama of the three legendary Sannins, hailed as the world's best medic is afraid of a bit of blood? How pathetic”

 

With that, he punched the quivering woman in the face, sending her flying to the ground, where Shizune broke her fall. Naruto looked at the man.

 

“Well, I'm guessing you're Kabuto-San's replacement. You don't look like much, but then again, I learnt long ago that underestimating your opponents usually proves fatal. Let's see what you've got.”

 

Naruto and Raido charged, exchanging blows while Jiraiya and Orochimaru faced off. Everyone else was left to watch or treat Tsunade. Raido quickly proved his was far more adept at dodging and getting the ocasional sneeky strike in than he was at fighting as Naruto would call it 'like a man'. Naruto growled and jumped back before the man could use a chakra scapel on his leg. Naruto looked at the man.

 

“Your fighting style really suits your personality you know that?”

 

Raido decided to ignore the obvious jab, and countered.

 

“As does yours.”

 

“How so?”

 

“You charge into every situation blindly-”

 

“Leaving you open to attack.”

 

The last part had come from behind Naruto, and Naruto saw a Kage Bunshin behind him. Naruto didn't have time to react as the Kage Bunshin used a chakra scapel on both of Naruto's legs and then 'poof'ed out of existanc,e leaving Naruto to crumple to his knees. The real Raido ran at Naruto and punched him in the face in a simmilar fashion as he had done to Tsunade just before. Raido threw the kunai he had in his hands up into the air, where it twirled and then caught it again on it's way back down. This action, although insignificant in itself, gave Naruto an idea. Naruto looked at Yukiko.

 

“Can you fix my legs? I have an idea.”

 

Yukiko immedaitely began fixing his legs, but Raido knew better than to let her. Shizune tried to give Yukiko enough time to heal her husband's legs, and spat some needles out of her mouth, before revealing the ones mounted in launchers on her arm and fired them as well. Raido was having enough difficulty dodging the needles, let alone move forward. He was actually being forced backwards. It seemed that was all the time Yukiko needed as she finished healing his legs. Naruto stood up and smiled.

 

“Yukiko-Chan, there's no horizontal flat surface to push off, so I need you to throw me at him with a much force as possible.”

 

Yukiko looked at Naruto with a raised eyebrow, but she knew better to second guess him. Yukiko grabbed Naruto by the legs, spinning him around several times before launching him at Raido, who was now a fair distance away due to the constant needle dodging. Naruto started rotating in a barrel roll and formed an Odama Rasengan in between his two hands, which were rotating around the ball so fast that it kept it's perfect sphere with little effort. Naruto decided to engage the final part of the jutsu, the Hiraishin. The image was awe inspring. The red Odama Rasengan formed at the very front of the streak, with the yellow of the Hiraishin coming off it in a roughly parabolic cone shape while the red chakra continued through the centre of the yellow, and also surrounded the trail with six red helix shaped spirals. Everyone had stopped to watch this. It was like seeing a comet streak across the field, ripping the turf up on either side of it. Naruto annouced the jutsu as he was about to collide with Raidon.

 

“Ryusei no Jutsu!”

 

As the name said, it was made in the image of a comet. Raidon had no clue that Naruto could pull off something like this and was even more suprised at the sheer pain it caused when it impacted his stomach. He screamed in agony as the comet ripped through his clothing like it was made of tissue paper and started drilling into his stomach. Naruto soon realised he had a problem. Although the jutsu was officially complete, this guy seemed to be able to somehow hold it at bay. Naruto sensed a great deal of chakra gathering to the man's stomach constantly. Naruto realised he must be using the chakra to shiled himself enough to mean that the Ryusei was not a fatal attack that would kill him the second it hit him. Naruto knew this kind of shileding required huge amounts of chakra and was usually fairly inefective against jutsus that had a concerntraited area of damage like the Chidori or the Rasengan and their variants. IT still seemed to do the job though, as the comet quickly lost it's rotation and speed as it forced Raidon back, taking Naruto out of the Hiraishin. Raidon saw his chance and attempted to sever the muscles surrounding Naruto's heart with a chakra scalpel. The key word was try, because at that moment, Naruto realised that his hands weren't rotating around the Odama Rasengan fast enough to maintain it, and it promptly exploded, sending both of them flying back. Yukiko caught Naruto, while Raido was left to slam through a rock that was sticking out of the ground and then into another one, which just absorbed his impact. Tsundae was possibly the most shocked.

 

“He... He mastered it!”

 

Tsunade ran over to him shakily, before checking his body for any wounds. Naruto was sitting up breathing heavily. He'd done it, but it's taken a HELL of a lot of conerntraition and chakra to do it. Using both Kyubi's and hi own chakra at the same time while maintaining an Odama Rasengan was no small feat. While she was doing this, Naruto grabbed the necklace around her neck.

 

“I won, fair and square...”

 

Tsunade put Naruto's hand down, taking the necklace off and placing it on Nartuo's neck.

 

“One more time.... One more time I want to believe... In you.”

 

Yukiko hugged Naruto while Sasuke was just a tad more than mildly impressed, to say the least. Shizune was smiling and Jiraiya was rather smug. Orochimaru had a somewhat fearful look in his eyes when he looked at Naruto. He decided to take his chances and kill him now while the boy was weakened. He jumped forward, sailing through the air while Jiraiya followed him. Orochimaru turned his body around and used his snake like tongue to take Jiraiya by the foot and slam him into the ground, causing a crater. Continuing, using his his tongue which was still attached to Jiraiya's foot to send him flying again, Orochimaru swiped the others out of the way of the blonde with his tongue much like he had with Jiraiya, who were not expecting it in the least, leaving only Tsunade to guard Naruto, still tembling from her fear of blood. From the snake Sennin's mouth came a snake, which opened it's mouth to protrude the Sword of Kusanagi. Tsunade blocked the sword at the last minute with her body, the sword piercing her upper chest. Everyone was a little more than shocked at this. Tsunade coughed up a chunk of blood, causing Orochimaru to withdraw the sword and his head from what would otherwise be a very compromising position, sucking them back into his mouth. Swallowing, he looked at Tsunade in interest.

 

“Tsunade, I never intended to kill you. If he survives, things will become complicated for various reasons later on. Please don't interfere.”

 

Tsunade was still quivering from her phobia, but she managed to speak.

 

“I will... I WILL protect this child!”

 

“Why is a Sannin like you, who blances at the sight of blood, trying to protect a Jounin like him with her life?”

 

Tsunade breathed heavily for a while before coughing up two chunks of blood. She stared at Orochimaru determinately.”

 

“To protect the Hidden Village of Konoha, our village!”

 

Orochimaru really didn't like where this was going. REALLY didn't like it.

 

“To protect Konoha?”

 

Tsunade turned back to see the boy staring at her in shock and disbelief. She smiled slightly at him before answering.

 

“Because... Because... This boy will follow in the footsteps of his father... And become the greatest Hokage yet.”

 

Orochimaru laughed, causing Tsunade to turn back to him.

 

“What nonsense. Besides, being Hokage is a piece of crap. Only an idiot becomes one!”

 

Tsunade was surprised to no end that Orochimaru used the words she had used no less than a week ago. She slowly stood up, keeping her eyes closed so as not to brake the frail thread of hope she had left.

 

“From now on, I'm fighting with my life!”

 

Orochimaru bent down, smiling in that oh so familiar sadistic fashion of his.

 

“If you're going to throw your life away for a kid like that... Then die a quick death suitable for that sort of life!”

 

Orochimaru threw his head back and brought forth the Sword of Kusanagi and in the same snake like motion, brought it in a sweeping strike from her left shouder down to just below her bust. Tsunade fell back in slow motion as the the others started to come back to their senses in time to see her hit the ground and stop moving. Shizune screamed for her sensei.

 

“Tsunade-Sama!”

 

Orochimari continued walking towards Naruto confidently, who was still only just able to move, but no where near fast enough to escape the Sannin, so he decided to stand defiant in his death, a true hero's death. Orochimaru brought the sword sweeping around as everyone tried to stop him in his own way, however, it was Tsunade again to the rescue, taking the sword hit to her side. Orochimaru was very disturbed. He'd cut through her lungs and she could still move? Orochimaru quickly covered up his amazement by throwing his head to the side, letting the wind rusle though his hair for dramatic effect.

 

“Hmph. You're still going to take hits for that Gaki?”

 

“I told you... From now on...”

 

Tsundae turned her head to glare at Orochimaru.

 

“I'm fighting with my life!”

 

Orochimaru was getting really bored with this, and he let his anger slip though, kickingTsunade off Naruto.

 

“Just die already!”

 

Orochimaru walked right next to Naruto, who could do nothing. His body screamed at him to move, yet his muscles had no energy left to do that. Naruto was fighting just to sit upright. Orochimaru, thankfully, had no interest in him at this moment, however, that could change in a split second.

 

“Even if you try and act all vallient, you won't stop trembling. You cannot escape from the curse of Hemophobia. I don't understand why you keep getting hurt for that gaki, and continue fighting for Konoha. Suddenly, Tsunade's body stopped trembling. Orochimaru had just enough time to register the fact when he felt a snap kick to the jaw from a high heal that was attached to Tsunade's foot. Tsunade finished Orochimaru's obvious train of thought.

 

“It's beacause I am... The Hidden Village of Konoha's Godaime Hokage!”

 

The little purple diamond on her forhead turned the colour of Orochimaru's purple chakra and began tracing strange patterns across her forehead. Naruto was wrapped. He activated his Ingan despite the pain it caused him and looked in wonder at the marvolously complex seal working it's way across Tsunade's foreheaed. Orochimaru got up and looked at her warily.

 

“What are you planning to do? Even if you got over your hemophobia, you can't fight with those injurues.”

 

Tsunade 'hmph'ed and formed a ram seal. Naruto had a fair idea of what this seal was going to do, but Shizune's reaction confirmed it.

 

“Tsunade-Sama! I will heal your injuries! Please don't use that seal!”

 

Tsunade paid no attention as she started to be surrounded by a red aura. Not the blood red aura of the Kyubi, but more a warm, even raidiating red glow. Her pigtails waved as if in some imaginary wind and she announced her jutsu.

 

“Fuuinkai! Ninpou, Souzou Saisei!”

 

The lines on her face began retreating and the healing began. Steam emitted from her wounds as the rapidly sealed up, much like demonic regerneration, however, this was not regeneration. Orochimaru laughed.

 

“It looks like I wasn't the only one developing new jutsus. Tell me, what kind of jutsu was that?”

 

“Nothing much. I've been accumulatingchakra to my forehead for a while now. I used the masive amount of chakra to stimulate the proteins in my body to increase the rate of cell division and the reconstruction of cells. I can regrow all organs and tissues. It's not a regeneration ability, but a creation ability. In other words, I won't die in battle.”

 

Naruto thought to himself.

 

'No, you won't, but you'll die thirty seconds after it if you use it too often.'

 

Naruto had had enough of sitting armound and demanded the Kyubi's chakra, as he was far to prone. It would have some serious effects later, such as possible chakra exhaustion and burning the chakra pathways, but he needed it now. The Kyubi granted him the power, and he stood up. The others were obviously getting ready as well. It was time to pull out the big guns. Tsunade swiped her thumb across some of the blood on her shirt and wiped it down her wrist. Raidon was struggling to get up.

 

“OROCHIMARU-SAMA!”

 

Orochimaru jumped next to his subordinate and watched as he bit his thumb, wiping it down Orochimaru's unbandaged forearm. Everyone was now performing the exact same hand seals.

 

“Ousu-buta, Inu, Tori, Saru, O-hitsuji.”

 

“KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!”

 

Smoke exploded around them, covering a huge area with the stuff. Slowly, it cleared, revealing 6 huge summoned creatures. 5 of them were facing the last. They consisted of a giant frog with a navy gi, pipe in his mouth and a sword at his side, a horizontal scar over one of his eyes. A giant white slug with blue stripes down it's back and sides. A giant brown dog that wore sunglasses to hide the worst of a cross of scars running down the middle of the face, meeting over the bridge of the nose, and also had a blue vest on. A black cat with two tails and piercing green/gold eyes, and most startling of all, a black nine tailed Kitsune with demonic red eyes. All of these were facing a giant purple snake that had dull teal eyes. The frog spoke first.

 

“Manda and Orochimaru, Katsuyu and Tsunadi, Fenrir and Sasuke, Nibi and Yukiko, Kyubi and Naruto... This is quite a gathering we've got here... I haven't met most of them in a long time, if at all.”

 

Gamabunta took a drag of his pipe and exhaled. 'HORRAY FOR CHAIN SMOKERS!'

 

“Are you saying we're having a reunion of sorts, Jiraiya?”

 

“Baka. I haven't summoned you in a long time, so don't tell a stupid joke like that.”

 

The summon bosses exchanged a bit of friendly banter and greetings to friends while Manda just sat there, not moving a muscle. Eventually, Jiraya spoke up.

 

“Actually, I'm thinking of putting an end to fate. We're going to defeat Orochimaru right here, right now.”

 

Manda looked up at his summoner.

 

“Oi, Orochimaru, don't summon me to troublesome situations like this."

 

When Orochimaru didn't answer, Manda got annoyed.

 

“Teme, do you want me to eat you?”

 

Raidon tried to appease Manda.

 

“Please don't say that, Manda-Sama. We will repay you greatly-”

 

“Who the hell said I was talking to you? Don't run your mouth with me, gaki! Oi, Orochimaru. You'd better prepare 400 offerings and sacrifices for this. This isn't funny.”

 

Gamabunta decided to taunt Manda by taking a long drag and then blowing a concerntraited jet of smoke towards Manda, billowing over it's face. It had the desired effect.

 

“You want me to turn you into a dried up piece of frog, teme?” 'I'm almost starting to think Manda would be suited to Naruto in a way. Those both use the word Teme enough...'

 

Gamabunta grabbed the hilt of his sword and prepared to spring.

 

“I happen to have been wanting a snake skin wallet for a while.”

 

'Enter dramatic six way screen cut here'

 

Sasuke smirked.

 

“Orochimaru, you let evil rot your mind.”

 

Yukiko continued.

 

“You're no longer a comrade.”

 

Orochimaru had one of his sadistic grins spread across his face.

 

“Comrade? How shocking.”

 

Naruto smirked, playing along.

 

“This will be the last day you're refered to as a Sannin.”

 

Tsunade growled her part out.

 

“In fact, I think this is the last day we will be refered to as Sannin.”

 

Jiraiya finished off.

 

“We have already found those who are good enough to replace us and we have trained them, and the one replacing you will not be corrupted like you were.”

 

'End dramatic six way screen cut here.'

 

The six summon bosses and their summoners waited for some sign from nature to begin. This time it appeared to be the petals coming off a flower. When the last one came off, Katsuyu prepard for her/his/its/shims jutsu.

 

“Zesshi Nensan!”

 

The slug's frontal area which people presume is it's mouth puffed up and shot out a spray of highly corossive acid that went everywhere. Manda slithered out of the way of the acid and shot towards Katsuyu, but was intercepted by a barrage of midnight black kitsune tails lashing out at it, devistating the ground where they struck. Manda somehow slipped through the blizzard of tails and wrapped itself around Katsuyu, constricting it's body. As it was about to bite down, Nibi spat ball after ball of acid at Manda, stopping it from getting it's mouth over Katsuyu. Gamabunta took this time to leep at Manda, sword prepared for a straight thrust at Manda from the side. Manda pulled back at the last second and bit down on Gamabunta's sword, which made the sound of metal under heavy strain as Gamabunta pulled on it. Tsunade gave a nod and Katsuyu burst into thosands of smaller replications, which regathered and reformed into Katsuyu a short distance away. Gamabunta backflipped and saw Manda approaching.

 

“He's coming!”

 

“I know!”

 

Manda threw the sword at Gamabunt who managed to jump out of the way and instead left the path open for the sword to imapail Katsuyu. The swords was stopped at the last second by a thin, agile midnight black tail which turned the sword upright, giving Tsunade the method she needed to get back atop her summon. Once she was there, Nibi handed the sword back to Gamabunta.

 

“Thanks, Nibi.”

 

“Welcome.”

 

“Gamabunta! Give me oil!”

 

“Kyubi! Use fox fire!”

 

Both summon bosses complied with their summoners and used their techniques. Naruto didn't have to do anything, nor did Jiraiya now that he knew what Naruto was planning. Gamabunta shot a fountain of oil in Manda's direction, which a single orb of fox fire touched, and ignited the entire area with a resoundingly big BOOM that covered seveal square kilometres. Manda steak should be served well done today, however, their victory was short lived when they saw that Manda had molted and left a skin in his place. The skin collapsed under it's own weight from the fragile bonds holding it up. They had no idea where Manda had gone until they heard a rumbling under Fenrir. Sasuke alerted his summon.

 

“Fenrir! Below you!”

 

“I know, Sasuke!”

 

Fenrir jumped out of the way as Manda's tail jabbed where Fenrir's heart would have been mere moments ago. What Fenrir wasn't expecting was that Manda's head would come out from behind him and try to eat him from behind. This was covered by Kyubi jumping and biting down on Manda's neck. Manda tried to use his agile body to wrap around Kyubi and constrict him but Manda's plan was again foiled when Gamabunta grabbed the end of Manda's tail, meaning the snake couldn't move either end of his body. Nibi's tail wrapped around Gamabunta's sword which was still in it's sheath.

 

“Give me that for a moment.”

 

Nibi picked the sword up and slammed it blade first through Manda's upper jaw, though the lower one and into the ground, essentially pinning Manda where he was.

 

“Keep it shut.”

 

Now it was really just a personal battle between the summoners. Tsunade jumped off Katsuyu and landed in the top of the sword. Orochimaru shot his tongue out, wrapping it around Tsunade's neck.

 

“TSUNADE!”

 

Yukiko and Naruto jumped off their summons, who were the closest to Manda at the time and went for Orochimaru and his lackey. Tsunade was struggling to pull the tongue from around her neck, but finally managed to do it as Naruto was about to lay into the snake man. Tsunade yanked the tongue, dragging Orochimaru towards her, much like she had when Naruto used his chakra hand on her. When Orochimaru was close enough, she slammed Orochimaru back to the ground with a punch to the face that no one wanted to be on the reciving end of ever again. By now, Jiraiya and Sasuke didn't want to be left out, so they told their summons to get closer so they could join the fight. Tsunade, still holding onto Orochimaru's extended tongue, was about to pull him back up and throw him further up into the air when Sasuke did the pleasure for her punching Orochimaru straight back up. One didn't date a woman who had monsterous strength without learning how to do the basics of it himself. Tsunade jumped up as her former teammate sailed past her, flying up to meet him and began a brutal combo that made everyone wince at the power she was packing into the hits. She let Orochimaru fall to the ground landing on top of Gamabunta's sword, before pulling the 'snake bastard', as Naruto had affectionately termed him, back towards her, readying for another punch. However, the punch missed, due to incredible amount of strain that she was putting on her aging body and shuddered as her muscles bunched and mass cramped. Sasuke smiled.

 

“We'll take over from here, Tsunade-Sama.”

 

Sasuke and Naruto powered chakra to their feet, springing up to meet Orochimaru, while Yukiko was enjoying letting the harmless blows of Raidon glance off her Plasma Ball, much to his dismay. Naruto readied his gantlet to impale the ghost of a man through the heart with a sword of sorts. However, Tsunade didn't want to be outdone. She dragged Orochimaru up and slammed her fist into him. It wasn't a chakra powered hit, nor were any of the ones in the brutal combo that followed. Naruto and Sasuke decided to help her beat the snot out of her former teammate, adding to the punches and kicks all the way to the ground. Tsunade connected a devistating punch to the face, rippping off a small part of his mask. Orochimaru hit the ground, knowing that dodging was his only hope. Tsunade, Naruto and Sasuke were in hot pursuit.

 

“You're not getting away!”

 

Tsunade flipped over their target's head and punched at him, causing him to stop for a moment. This was all Sasuke and Naruto needed and they began laying into him. Orochimaru tongue slapped Naruto and Sasuke away 'It has more power than it seems, trust me.' ,wrapping his tongue around Tsunade and dragging her to him, bringing the Sword of Kusanagi to bare on her, who was already attempting to dive at him. She really wanted to avoid a repeat experience, so she caught the sword between her feet and deflected the blade, kicking Orochimaru in the same motion. Naruto and Sasuke were back on their feet by now and continued just slogging Orochimaru in the face. They all knew this wasn't right. NO fifty year old could take THIS much of a beating and still be standing, Sannin or not. They finally saw why when Naruto did a particularly powerful punch to his face, ripping away a large section of the mask, revealing a girl under the mask. The girl still had the yellow eyes reserved only for Orochimaru, but it was no doubt the snanke man. Tsunade was mortified, but did her best to hide it, powering chakra to her fist for one final brutal punch.

 

“So, you actually managed to complete that jutsu. How disgusting. I wonder what would happen if I were to kill the body you were in before you transferred?”

 

To illistrate her point, the chakra around her hand surged, before she gave him a massive straight punch to the jaw, sending him flying towards Gamabunta's sword handle, which he hit with a thonk before dropping ontop of Manda in a heap. The summons apart fom manda were pleased with their and their summoners handywork. Fenrir bared his fangs in a canine smile.

 

“Guess that's it then.”

 

“Yeah.”

 

Manda had something to add as well.

 

“You put me in an unsightly situation. I would eat you alive, but I can't swallow because of this hole in my mouth. Prepare yourselves for the next time we meet.”

 

Manda returned to the world of the summons in a poof of smoke, leaving Orochimaru, Raidon and Yukiko to fall to the ground. Yukiko flipped over to her friends, breathing heavily. The Plasma Ball required a hell of a lot of chakra to sustain for the amount of time she had. Tsunade fell to her knees, finally giving way to exhastion. Everyone was pretty much beat. Orochimaru panted out his farewell.

 

“Tsunade, I don't need you to heal my arms, as there is one other way to restore my arms. I'll crsuh Konoha for sure. When that time comes, I hope we can meet again, comrades.”

 

Orochimaru used his version of the killing intent to leave everyone momentarily frozen, before sinking into the ground. Raidon formed some seals before looking directly at Naruto.

 

“Naruto-Kun, that jutsu was beyond impressive. I hope to meet with you again in the future. Goodbye for now.”

 

Raidon focussed some chakra and poofed out of existance on the battle field, leaving the others with there summons. Jiraiya started to go after them but winced at the pain of the broken leg and ribs Orochimaru had inflicted on him. Tsunade shuddered and started coughing blood. Naruto, Yukiko and Sasuke ran to her and checked over her. Naruto could see her age changing jutsu was wearing off. Tsunade suddenly turned into the wrinkly 50 year old that Naruto had originally imagined her to be. Age had obviously not been kind to her, probably a side effect from the necklace now dangling around his neck. The fighters dismissed their summons, who waved at them before poofing away much as Manda had, and they sat in a group, licking their wounds, so to speak. After they had spent the night recovering at the Inn, they set off to Konoha, and to instate Tsunade as the Godaime Hokage.

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A/N: Holy cow! Huge chapter! I believe this is my masterpiece chapter so far across all stories. I woul really like your comments on the final fight scene. Was it believeable? Was it awe inspiring? Anyways, I hope you had as much fun reading this chapter as I had the satisfaction of writing it. Until next time, my Avid readers!

 

Ja ne,

 

Specula.