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I don;t own Naruto... I don't own anything... *sadface*
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The two Sannin drew some of their own blood and flashed through a familiar set of hand-signs.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
Gamabunta and Manda towered above the tree line and stared at each other with disgust.
"Jiraiya… you know how I feel about snakes."
"I know, I know, don't worry, I'm prepared to deal with our disadvantage."
The giant toad realized what the Toad Sannin was talking about when he looked atop his head.
"Heh! I'm surprised you didn't invite the Shima an' Fukusaku to the party."
"I figured I wouldn't bother them with such a minor altercation."
"Oi! Bunta!" Naruto slapped the top of the giant's head. "Ya look like ya picked up some weight!"
"This brat again? One at a time, sure, but the two of you in one place along with this prick?"
The giant toad drew his sword and jeered at Manda while the monstrous serpent flicked his tongue hungrily.
The giant snake hissed to his summoner. "It seems you've gotten it right for once Orochimaru. I do enjoy frog after all."
"Imma toad ya prick!"
Manda charged at Gamabunta and his passengers, to avoid being bitten, the toad leapt hundreds of meters into the air and muttered to Jiraiya.
"What's the gameplan? I can't beat Manda head-on."
"You're here to keep Manda occupied, I know you hate snakes, so that's why the brat's here. Naruto will keep Manda at a distance while I handle Orochimaru and the Uchiha."
"Alright then, show me whatcha got pipsqueak!" Gamabunta began to fall back to the ground, and with that, the battle was on.
The trio crashed into the ground where Manda was at first, but the serpent reacted by slithering backward and surrounding Gamabunta with his body, the toad boss positioned his sword in a defensive stance so that Manda would think twice about trying to constrict his opponent.
The ground shuddered and rumbled as the two boss summons tried to outmaneuver each other. Manda reared back and darted in to try and bite Gamabunta.
"Fuuton: Renkudan! (Drilling Air Bullet)" Naruto started leaking red chakra as he thrust his hands forward, forming a diamond with his thumbs and forefingers. There was a thunderous boom as a roaring ball of compressed air flew from the opening between his palms.
The ball struck Manda right on the nose and snapped his head backward. Orochimaru and Sasuke were flung hundreds of feet into the air.
"That's my cue! Stay here!" Jiraiya was gone in a gust of wind and instantly appeared in mid air in front of Orochimaru with a Rasengan in each hand.
Jiraiya tried to lodge the screaming orbs of chakra through Orochimaru's chest, but the old snake had other plans. Orochimaru grabbed Jiraiya's wrists and forced the Kusanagi out of his throat in an attempt to stab Jiraiya.
Jiraiya grunted and planted both his feet into Orochimaru's chest in order to vacate the path of the extending blade. The Snake Sannin let go of Jiraiya's wrists and pulled the rest of the Kusanagi out of his mouth. Jiraiya made a shadow clone and bounded off of it in order to close the distance between himself and Orochimaru once more.
They collided in a flurry of punches, kicks, and sword slashes, but eventually Jiraiya landed a solid punch to his opponent's throat. Orochimaru gagged as the Kusanagi flew from his grip, thinking quickly, he fired a multitude of snakes from his sleeves in an effort to distract Jiraiya long enough to gain some distance.
Orochimaru finally landed on the ground next to an already waiting Sasuke, the Uchiha's sword was at the ready.
Orochimaru charged Jiraiya with Sasuke sprinting directly behind him. Jiraiya dodged Orochimaru's stab attempt and judo-flipped him into a tree, Orochimaru flipped in mid air and landed feet first onto the tree. He paused and launched himself at Jiraiya's back.
Jiraiya sensed Orochimaru approaching behind him, but he also had to deal with Sasuke, who was aiming a slash at his abdomen. Jiraiya waited until the last possible second and caught Sasuke's hand, he then attempted to use Sasuke as a shield for Orochimaru's attack.
Orochimaru grinned. "Perfect."
The snake Sannin dispersed into a cloud of white snakes and weaved around Sasuke in mid air. These snakes grew in size and ensnared Jiraiya's arms and legs. The real Orochimaru then darted out of his hiding spot in the trees, and aimed to stab his former teammate through the chest.
Jiraiya used some of his stored natural energy to grant him enough strength to tear the snakes binding his wrists. Jiraiya quickly flashed through some hand-signs, "Hari Jizo!".
Jiraiya's hair enveloped his body and protruded in a mass of white spikes. Orochimaru's eyes widened and he skidded to a halt in front of the white spikes, he spun on his heals and sprinted for cover.
From inside the mass of white spikes, there was another shout, "Hari Jigoku! (Needle Hell)". The spikes protruded even more so, and fired off in all directions, like a hailstorm of steel needles.
Orochimaru had just made it behind a tree, but Sasuke wasn't as informed about the attack as his master. Luckily, the Uchiha's Sharingan allowed him to weave and slice his way through the cloud of needles with only a few minor scratches.
Jiraiya jumped from tree to tree, finally reaching the top of the forest, he sent both chakra and natural energy to his legs, and jumped nearly a thousand feet into the air. He began forming the biggest Rasengan he could muster, by the time he began to fall back to earth, Jiraiya's Rasengan was the size of a small house. He reared back and threw it straight into the forest below.
Orochimaru and Sasuke's eyes widened as they both fled in Manda's direction. There was a short delay as the rasengan drilled into the ground, but then it exploded into hundreds of giant blades of chakra. There was a huge explosion of air and chakra as any trees in the immediate area were diced into logs and firewood. Orochimaru flipped and weaved through flying tree trunks and branches, Sasuke was close behind, opting to slice through any obstacles in order to keep up with his master.
As the dust cleared, and the rumbling of falling trees came to a close, Sasuke was the first to break the silence while they sprinted through the forest.
"It doesn't seem like we can fight him conventionally..."
Orochimaru licked his lips. "It's our turn to go on the offensive now, he'll have used up all of his natural energy with that attack."
Orochimaru flashed through some hand signs and stomped on the ground mid-run. A pillar of rock launched himself and Sasuke high into the air, in Manda's general direction.
"Manda!" Yelled the Snake Sannin.
Manda's eyes swiveled and he darted away from his duel with Gamabunta and Naruto.
Naruto noticed Sasuke and the Snake Bastard flying through the air. "Oi! Bunta! We can't let him catch those two until Ero-Sannin gets back here!"
"No shit."
Gamabunta jumped up into the air and impaled the end of Manda's tail. The Giant snake roared in annoyance and swatted Gamabunta, while in the process splitting his tail in two. Manda then proceeded on his course to catch Orochimaru and Sasuke.
"Damn it!" Naruto tried to gather some of his chakra, but as usual, the Kyuubi's chakra leaked into his system at an alarming rate. Red chakra billowed from Naruto as he jumped high into the air in order to intercept Manda.
Naruto's eyes began to turn red, as he'd accidentally drawn enough chakra for his body to start changing. His fingernails lengthened, his canines pronounced themselves, and of course, his whisker became more pronounced. Two chakra tails protruded from the base of his spine.
"Ah shit!" Naruto made the best of the situation and went into a nosedive. He used his chakra as a propulsion source in order to increase his speed while he steered himself toward the top of Manda's head.
Naruto angrily hailed his tenant. 'Dammit! What're you doing?!'
'This blame game is unwarranted. I'm not the one who tampered with your seal remember?... Shouldn't you be worried about not killing us?'
'I'm kinda wingin' it right now, help. Please.'
The Kyuubi gave an exhasperated sigh as he pawed the bars of his cage. 'Fucking moron. –heheh- I'd expel my chakra on impact to cushion the landing, like the female with the large breasts does when she hits things… speaking of which…' Naruto could sense the Kyuubi licking his lips.
'Don't even finish that thought. This conversation's over.'
Naruto sped up even more, now assured in his course of action, despite the disgusting implications of his tenant. He became a glowing red comet, streaking toward the top of Manda's head.
Orochimaru growled through his fangs and roared. "Damn that brat! MANDA, ABOVE YOU!"
The snake looked up just in time to see Naruto deliver the MOTHER of all head-butts. There was a echoing 'thud', and then, a deafening explosion of red chakra that tore through the area.
Trees flew everywhere, and for the second time that day, Orochimaru and Sasuke were dodging large pieces of flying wood.
The recoil launched Naruto back into the air with a headache; a large toad hand summarily caught him.
"Heh, nice one kid." The Boss Toad placed Naruto back on his head and took a defensive stance as they waited for the dust to settle.
Not a minute later, Jiraiya appeared on Gamabunta's head, looking less sagely than he did previously.
Jiraiya whistled at the crater and accompanying incapacitated serpent. "I don't remember teaching you to do that."
Naruto scoffed. "You didn't teach me anything on our trip… Oi! What took you so long to get back here anyway?"
Jiraiya frowned at his apprentice. "Your little stunt threw the whole damn forest at me. Heh, we must really hate trees."
"Ero-Sannin, your Sage shit turned off, I thought you gathered enough to finish this."
Jiraiya thumped Naruto on the top of the head. "Like I said, you threw the whole forest at me. I had to use it to dodge all those flying trees… speaking of which, the Mizukage won't be too happy to see what we did to one of her forests."
Naruto cracked his neck with a painful grunt. "Meh, we'll cross that bridge when we get there… Remind me to go feet-first next time, I think I have a concussion."
"Oi, look alive. This 'aint over yet."
Jiraiya sighed. "No, no it's not. With Manda out of the picture…"
Jiraiya knealt down to gather more natural energy while Naruto kept watch. Naruto narrowed his eyes in suspicion. Manda was lying there, muttering curses underneath his breath; Orochimaru de-summoned Manda and began meticulously going through some hand signs.
Orochimaru's voice was venomous. "How… annoying, that a brat like you could force my hand in such a way. You, you will be a problem if I don't eliminate you here, Uzumaki."
Orochimaru finally finished his hand signs and yelled his jutsu, it had a name that was all too familiar to Jiraiya.
"Yamata no Jutsu (Eight Branches Technique)"
Kakashi, Mitsuki, Shikamaru, and Anko, sat in a forest clearing, sorting the bodies of their Oto victims, dead and alive.
Kakashi was busy examining Kabuto's body, or what he thought was Kabuto's body. Somewhere in the skirmish, or maybe the entire time, Kakashi had been whaling on another one of Kabuto's decoys. Kakashi scratched his head and hailed Naruto on the communicator.
"Oi, Naruto."
"…kinda busy."
"Well, we're done over here, need back up?"
"… … Ero-Sannin only wants you here, everyone else would get in the way- ah shit! –bzzt-."
"Naruto… Naruto! Damn. You all stay here and pump as much information as possible."
Kakashi jumped into the trees and made a beeline toward the sounds of the explosions.
Gamabunta darted around the forest dodging blasts of condensed chakra. One explosion came rather close, close enough to blast Naruto off of Gamabunta's head and into the forest below.
Naruto managed to land on his feet and quickly realized he was on fire. He managed to put it out, but by then his hair and clothes were singed and tattered. Strangely, his haori seemed to be no worse for wear, the tail of it was even on fire, but it didn't seem to be burning. The white fabric was as clean as the day he received it, the same could be said for the black reversible side.
Naruto realized that he was surrounded by burning foliage and elected to wrap the haori around his torso. Naruto grunted and huffed in annoyance and anticipation as he psyched himself up to further torch his long mane of blonde hair, and likely a good portion of his skin.
Naruto leaned forward and exploded through the burning trees as fast as he could carry himself. The strange haori protected his ninja tools and explosives from the fire, but his hair and exposed skin were even further damaged. Naruto busted through a wall of flame and saw the ensuing battle from the side.
Jiraiya and Gamabunta seemed to be perfectly in sync, dodging and weaving through Sasuke's lightning and fire jutsu, and Orochimaru's chakra blasts, occasionally firing back a torrent of oil and fire.
Naruto saw that Orochimaru wasn't giving Ero-Sannin an opening, so he took it upon himself to make one. Naruto took out his explosive kunai and stuck every one he had into the trees in front of him.
Naruto drew his sword and went through some one-handed signs. The orange blade of the ninjato glowed, "Kazekiri no Jutsu!". Naruto spun 360 degrees and released a wide blade of wind through the air. It sliced through more than twenty trees and tossed them into the air a short distance.
Less than a quarter of a second afterward, Naruto stuck his sword into the ground and blazed through a sequence of handsigns. "Fuuton: Renkudan (Drilling Air Bullet)!" The blast tore from Naruto's hands and struck the still suspended trees. They were launched at the eight-headed serpent like ballista bolts.
Jiraiya saw the incoming trees out of the corner of his eyes, so he tapped Gamabunta on the head. The giant toad and the Sannin simultaneously preformed hand signs and both yelled, "Katon: Gamayu Endan!".
Gamabunta spat oil in a circle around Orochimaru and Sasuke. Jiraiya ignited it with a blast of fire, trapping them while the trees impacted Orochimaru. Sasuke jumped off of his Sensei's head and into the brush below as the flying trees began to explode, one after another.
The Toad Boss took the opportunity to charge the stunned serpent, who was still reeling from the explosions. In a single swing, he decapitated all eight heads of the snake and jumped backward.
Sasuke, looking up at the carnage elected to leave the scene, as this had become much more trouble than it was worth, his master seemed to have lost sight of that.
Naruto appeared on top of Gamabunta's head and arrogantly scratched his nose. "Heh, the bigger they are-" Naruto was cut off when Gamabunta jumped again; he dodged a blast of purple chakra from one of the snake-heads.
All of the decapitated heads had split to become a gang of white serpents. Jiraiya groaned and yelled at his former teammate. "What kind of disgusting crimes against humanity did you commit to get that ability?"
The eight serpents hissed in unison. "Perhaps you should be figuring out how you plan to survive this battle? My methods of transcendence are of little concern to you."
Naruto glowed red as he became severely annoyed with Orochimaru's endless bag of tricks. "WHAT THE SHIT!? WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!
Naruto and Jiraiya tore through hand signs and fired off their long-range jutsu, one after another, over and over. Blasts of wind, fire, and earth, peppered the area. Explosions rocked the entire area, there was an almost deafening drone of continuously errupting explosions. The barrage of attacks didn't seem to faze Orochimaru at all, but it did keep them from firing chakra blasts at them.
Naruto ran out of jutsu to use first, Jiraiya and Gamabunta continued to fire attacks, all the while he stared at Naruto intensely. Naruto took this as a cue to start brainstorming.
Naruto slipped into his mind scape in order to give himself more time to think since time passed differently there. Naruto found himself in front of the Kyuubi's cage.
The massive demon smirked down at Naruto as he mocked him in a patronizing tone. "Dost thou require my help?"
"I need ideas. The Hiraishin would be really useful right now, but that bastard broke the other kunai."
The Kyuubi held up his fingers. "We have five minutes at most in here until we get fried by that chakra blast. You'd better get to thinking."
Naruto sat down and the walls began to reflect and organize his thoughts as he spoke. "The Hiraishin worked through the usage of a special seal formula, normally, anyone could use it if they had the seal, but this seal was special. You had to know how to run chakra through it to be able to activate it, but the paired kunai did that for me, you just had to run chakra through one and it would teleport you to the other." Naruto looked at the diagrams that had etched themselves into the walls of his mindscape in order to reflect his thoughts.
The Kyuubi crossed his arms as he leaned toward the bars of his cage to observe the writing on the walls. Two minutes of silence permeated the sewer, the fox broke the silence first. "Simply brute force your way through the Kunai's seal with my chakra. I know the seal can't stand up to that kind of assault, funnel my chakra into your sword. If you create a circuit of chakra between the two objects, the sword will turn into a new medium for the teleportation technique, allowing you to travel."
"How do you know how this stuff works?"
"When you've been around as long as I have, you learn things. It'd do your dense ass well to pick up a book every once in a while. Anyway, that should keep us from going 0 and 2 against this prick."
"Are you sure this isn't gonna kill me or something?"
"I guarantee it will do the same thing. However I am unsure if it will teleport your entire body, you may come out the other end missing an arm, or even worse..." The fox grabbed his crotch as it laughed at Naruto.
Naruto paled and began to chatter. "Oh."
"It's that or die. Now, get out." The Kyuubi promptly booted Naruto from his mindscape.
Naruto shook his head at the jarring transition.
He pulled out his father's Kunai and gulped as he created a circuit of chakra between it and his ninjato. Yellow electricity began to crackle between the blades and then there was a popping sound accompanied by a small plume of smoke from the kunai. The sword began to glow orange and the kunai turned a shade of red much like the fur of the Kyuubi.
'The jutsu should be applied to that kunai and your sword. Keep the seal for later… assuming you don't fucking die.'
Naruto thought for a second and looked at the kunai. He pulled the wooden handle from his fathers' blade, an important move, as it had a seal etched into it. Naruto then tied his last explosive tag onto the handle of the three-pronged kunai. Jiraiya looked at Naruto in horror as he flung the knife high into the air.
"THE HELL ARE YOU-" Jiraiya was cut off by the ensuing explosion and dejectedly turned back to firing more jutsu at the serpents.
Naruto held out his sword and closed his eyes, he could feel the shards of the kunai scattered around the battlefield. Naruto swallowed again as he forced chakra into his ninjato. Unbeknownst to Naruto, who was focused on selecting the right shard, there were purple balls of chakra mere feet away from himself and the others.
The blasts of energy disappeared, from existence. Naruto looked to his left and there was Kakashi, Sharingan spinning frantically. Kakashi dropped to a knee, his voice airy and out of breath as he clutched his bleeding eye. "I've only got a couple of those left in me. Bright ideas anyone?"
Kakashi's eyes widened, there was another barrage of chakra blasts coming toward the group. Kakashi's Mangekyou spun into existence once more, but the Kamui was entirely unnecessary this time.
The group disappeared in an Orange Flash.
Naruto, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Gamabunta reappeared behind the eight snakes who didn't seem to understand what just happened. Gamabunta was confused, but quickly righted himself to take advantage of the opportunity. He charged a snake from behind and decapitated it.
Gamabunta laughed and bellowed. "I don't know what that is kid, but keep doing it!"
Naruto nodded in affirmation and raised his sword to chose another shard to teleport to. In half a minute, the stalemate had turned into a lopsided victory. The giant serpents, all decapitated, disintegrated into clouds of white scales that floated off into the sky.
Orochimaru slithered out of one of the carcasses before it broke down and made a beeline for the rendezvous point with a smirk on his face. "I've gotten what I came for, no point in pushing this any farther now. Oh well." Orochimaru licked the blood from his forehead and slithered off toward the rendezvous point.
Naruto sheathed his sword and looked at his teacher, who was visibly drained from buying them enough time to pull something off. Jiraiya grinned at his student with pride. "You crazy little brat… you figured it out."
Kakashi patted Naruto on the back. "At least I can say one of my students has become an incredible ninja as a result of my influence."
Naruto turned to his teacher and stared blankly. "What about Sakura-chan?"
Kakashi just looked down at his former-student and remained silent. Naruto twitched in response. "Oh."
He eye smiled and scratched the back of his head. "Being completely honest, between having both you and Sasuke as pupils... heh... I kinda forgot about her!"
Naruto shrugged and grinned. "I guess we were pretty awesome huh!"
Kakashi puffed out his chest. "And I'm the one who put you up to kenjutsu. This victory is indirectly mine, in a sense."
Naruto scratched his head as he mused to himself. "-heh- If i didn't have this sword, we'd probably be dead."
"Exactly."
Kakashi spun up his Mangekyou and scanned the area for anything that seemed sketchy.
The group remained on alert for nearly half and hour before they deduced that Orochimaru had left. The three ninja jumped off of Gamabunta's head while he went to go put out the forest fires.
Naruto plopped down on the grass and took a deep breath as his burns started to close up. Kakashi was recalling the group on his radio-transmitter as Jiraiya deactivated Sage Mode and propped his student up on a rock.
Naruto's eyes slowly closed as he fell into the deepest sleep he'd ever had.
A concerned pair of neon green eyes awakened Naruto, the sun was setting on horizon as the group had set up camp there for the evening, the team's sound prisoners were tied to a tree with steel wire.
"Your hair… I can fix it for you."
Naruto yawned and stretched as he looked around, it was sunset already. "Yeah –yawn- sure."
Mitsuki sighed to herself as she pulled out a kunai, she sat on the rock and sat Naruto up between her knees. "You really shouldn't be so reckless when you have people waiting for you, Namika- …Uzumaki-sama." Mitsuki took note of their current company and corrected how she referred to her charge.
Naruto smirked as his bodyguard fluffed his singed hair before she began pruning the burned sections. "I'm too stubborn to die." Mitsuki's kunai moved expertly around Naruto's head, and within five minutes, she'd nearly completed her work.
Mitsuki tied what remained of Naruto's spiky ponytail with a tiny orange ribbon she'd grabbed in the market back in the fishing village. Naruto's ponytail now only came down to his lower neck instead of reaching his waist, afterward Mitsuki evened out Naruto's bangs and gave him an overall touch up. The woman handed Naruto a hand mirror and inquired.
"Uzumaki-sama? Should I take more off the sides?"
"It's fine, I look like my dad, even more so than before. –sigh- Shame about my ponytail." Naruto pouted at the realization.
"I left as much of it as I could Uzumaki-sama. You actually look better than before, less –ahem- scruffy without all that hair."
"That might seem like a good thing from your point of view, but if I look even better, how will that help me fix my girl problems?"
Mitsuki grinned as she inquired. "Oh, right. What are you planning to do about that once you return?"
Naruto groaned. "I'm putting it off for now. I need to touch base with Ero-Sannin on a few things."
Mitsuki ushered Naruto up and turned him to face her. She pulled off his equally singed shirt and did a double take at the eerily clean haori to examine his burns and cuts.
Naruto's heartbeat sped up at the feeling of her hands on his torso. Mitsuki somehow hadn't noticed before, but Naruto was covered in scars, most of them small scratches, except for one. It was on his right pectoral, about the size of a fist.
Mitsuki pressed down on the Chidori-scar and Naruto winced. "This is still tender, isn't it? I can heal it for you."
"No. It's a reminder."
She stared at Naruto's chest, visibly worried, but Naruto didn't notice. He was taking this opportunity to stare at her glowing eyes, they had an unnatural sort of... uh… glow to them, however, he found it quite appealing. Several seconds passed and Mitsuki noticed the silence, she looked back up at Naruto's face, he was staring at her with an enamored expression.
"... Namikaze-sama?"
Naruto leaned forward to get a closer look. "Mitsuki-chan... You... have really pretty eyes."
Mitsuki smiled a tiny bit at her charge. "Thank you... I... I..." she trailed off as she fell into Naruto's blue eyes. They were like that for almost 10 seconds, their lips moving closer and closer. Mitsuki kept trying to stop herself, but her body was ignoring her commands. Their lips brushed and Mitsuki tried to jerk herself backward, but she'd barely moved an inch before her body froze in protest.
Mitsuki grabbed Naruto's head and reluctantly forced herself backward, but then Naruto grabbed her head and pulled her into an energetic kiss. Naruto felt her tense up and then relax into it as she let out a small squeak, like she'd made a mistake or something.
The moment was tarnished when Naruto's lips felt rather strange texture shortly afterward. Naruto opened his eyes and he was holding a log as Mistuki stood over him, frowning, and despite her bronzy complexion, her cheeks were flushed.
"Namikaze-sama... we've already been over this..."
Naruto bowed in shame. "I'm sorry! You're really attractive and you seem so nice... I didn't meant to make you uncomfortable... Ero-Sannin says I need to work on my impulse control." After a long silence, Naruto cocked his head to the side and gave Mitsuki an equal parts innocent equal parts inquisitive stare. "You didn't seem to mind too much though... Am I mistaken?"
This made her blush again, more than she had before, the kunoichi was at a loss for words. She went for her first-aid kit and started to wonder just what Anko had done to Naruto in the woods that night. He continued to stare at his bodyguard as he asked her a question that had been on his mind for the longest time. "Been meanin' to ask... Why do your eyes glow like that?"
Mitsuki crossed her arms as she pouted in response, Naruto had to resist the urge to kiss her again just to see how she'd react. She replied haughtily. "They just do, it's a family thing."
"There's gotta be more to it than that! Kekkei Genkai?"
"The Samasugan."
Naruto appeared genuinely interested in his bodyguard's eyes. "Is that it's name, Mitsuki-chan? What can you see with it?"
"Oh, um... I can see most of the electro magnetic spectrum, it's got telescopic abilities, and it's also got kinetic vision."
The boy remained silent as he shuffled and stared back at her.
"Jargon, sorry... Kinetic vision allows me to perceive movement more easily than other people. It's good for hunting, archery, and sniffing out ambushes. It came in handy during my ANBU days... but that's something we should talk about at a different time. Really, it's nothing to invoke the CRA over or anything."
Naruto was about to make a snide remark about the aforementioned Clan Restoration Act before they were interrupted… by a chuckling bush, Mistuki rolled her eyes and went back to treating Naruto's scratches and bumps.
The bush spoke. "You two... You have great chemistry, you know."
Naruto, who for some reason, was still holding the log, opted to launch a pebble at the bush with his big toe.
There was a loud pinging sound and a grunt from the bush. After a pause, Jiraiya sauntered out of the bush with a large dent in his custom forehead-protector, he had a glare aimed at his apprentice. Kakashi was close behind, peering over the Sannin's shoulder, of course so he could sneak a peak at Jiraiya's notepad.
Kakashi spoke so only Jiraiya could hear. "Jiraiya-sama, I know these are based off of true events, but how will you keep readers from thinking it's just a cliché storm like most other novels of this genre?"
Jiraiya looked at his dented forehead-protector. "Meh, I don't do this for the money. I could care less if it's cliché."
Kakashi raised his visible eyebrow without looking up from the page of notes. "… Hn."
Shortly after it was confirmed that Naruto was okay, all of the group excepting Naruto, Jiraiya, and Kakashi, headed back to Konoha with their prisoners in tow. It had taken Naruto almost half an hour to convince Mitsuki to head home and get some rest, but eventually she caved and walked back with the rest of the group. Anko, in being pressed for time, opted to renew Naruto's hickey in place of another escapade out in the woods.
The next day was mostly taken up by Jiraiya's report to the Mizukage, Naruto wanted to meet him, at least until he learned that 'he' was a she. In light of that Naruto opted to stay in camp with Kakashi, he didn't want to chance adding another woman to his cadre of potential girlfriends.
After about an hour, Naruto got bored and decided to drag Kakashi with him to Tazuna's house to bum some free food. Sadly, Tazuna didn't let Naruto stay for dinner after the stunt he pulled with Sasuke the last time, so he was forced to eat in town. Of course, Naruto caused a fuss before leaving, and somewhere during the chaos, Kakashi had managed to remove his mask and eat, much to the chagrin of Naruto.
They said their goodbyes and Naruto decided to finish his business in Wave Country. He called Jiraiya on the radio, they met at Haku's gravesite.
"Ero-Sannin, what's up with the grave?"
The Sannin took a gander and instantly replied. "It's genjutsu, really well done too. I'm surprised you caught it. Kai!"
The illusion wouldn't seem to dispel so Jiraiya tried several more times. "Hmm." Jiraiya stared at the patch of grass and took out a kunai. He cut a seal into the hilltop and ran chakra through it. It dispelled the illusion and Naruto just stood there, silent, his eyes shifted red from what he saw. Naruto was absolutely livid.
"Their graves were dug up... Someone took the bodies and-" Naruto's voice was barely a whisper as his breathing began to speed up. "Who did this?"
Jiraiya turned to his apprentice with a grim expression.
"Naruto, do you know what the Edo Tensei is?"
Naruto fell to his knees and nearly vomited.
"I don't think I want to."
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