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The Orange Flash: Lost Chapters	By : Breath_of_the_Wiz Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 120666 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 16
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Orochimaru lounged in his office as he flipped through the pages of a strange book. Upon closer examination, one could see that it was full of deceased ninja from various countries.
Orochimaru eyed the message from Kabuto once more while he fed the carrier pigeon a treat.
"Orochimaru-sama, at the time of writing this message, we are currently in position and are fully prepared to interrupt the extraction. However, they seem to be hesitating, instead, they are setting up traps inside the cave. Judging from what they've said, it appears that Konoha has also been dragged into the situation, it's likely that this is some sort of Akatsuki power play to get both the Shukaku and the Kyuubi. In short, it'd be prudent do send us some reinforcements, both for my team, and also to stop Naruto Uzumaki from getting involved.
~Agent Alpha"
"Kukukuku… Reinforcements you say?" Orochimaru smirked when his mind wandered to the perfect ninja to carry out this mission.
The Kazekage Rescue Squad zoomed through the trees at a pace that would seem grueling to a non-ninja. Naruto was seemingly in a trance as he hopped from branch to branch; his blank demeanor masked hundreds of swirling thoughts and emotions.
Sakura's eyes were fixed on Naruto ever since they'd been briefed in Tsunade's office. She stared at him, eyes alight with worry, she had been hoping to a higher power that she wouldn't have to try and stop Naruto from acting out, not that she thought she'd succeed. While she hadn't seen Naruto fight yet, she could tell from their recent interactions that he'd progressed far beyond where he was when he left.
The monotonous jumping went on in silence for another half hour until Kakashi felt a chill run up his spine. He sniffed the air and a familiar smell came to him, he broke out in a cold sweat. Not wanting to raise a false alarm, he swiveled his head around and began searching. Mitsuki, Yugao, and the ANBU squad eventually picked up on Kakashi's distress.
An ANBU piped up. "Kakashi-taicho, what's wrong?"
Kakashi narrowed eye as he scanned left and right, his gut was telling him he saw something, so he raised his forehead protector. His sharingan's tomoe spun frantically as he looked around. His transplanted eye caught a blur in its peripheral vision.
Kakashi pulled a kunai and whispered. "We're being tailed."
The rest of the group's attention went to Kakashi and they slowed down before coming to a complete stop.
"Kakashi-senpai, any ideas who's following us?" Shikamaru inquired.
Kakashi seemed to become slightly more agitated. "Just one, and I hope I'm wrong."
A cold and empty voice replied from above. "You're not."
Everybody's head snapped upward, but their eyes were only met by the painful glare of the sun.
Kakashi slammed his forehead protector over his normal eye and yelled. "SPREAD OUT NOW!"
Sakura saw an orange flash of light, and time stopped. She rapidly flew high into the air and looked down, she saw that the ball of fire was still expanding, but at a snails pace. Sakura was about to begin flailing in confusion until she realized that Naruto was holding her. They stopped in mid-air and just sat there for a moment.
Sakura was snapped out of her confusion by the distorted sound of Naruto's voice.
"Sakura-chan, can you break this fall without hurting yourself?"
Sakura found the sound distortion jarring. "Y-yeah, I'll be fine!"
Naruto let go of her and time sped back up to normal. They both landed into somersaults, coming out of them next to Kakashi, who was in a defensive stance. One by one, the rest of the team regrouped on Kakashi and they also took defensive stances…
They were positioned on the road next to a river, Kakashi's attention was focused in the direction of the forest on the opposing side of the road. There was a long and seemingly eternal silence, they stared intently into the woods as they heard the rustling of bushes and grass increase in volume. Judging from the rate of the sound, whoever was coming had a slow and menacing walk.
Kakashi muttered under his breath. "Everyone, look at the ground until I say otherwise."
The group looked back and forth between Kakashi and the shadowed figure who stared at them from the edge of the forest. Kakashi spoke once more, this time to Naruto.
"Naruto, I know that you're supposed to lead us, but this is a special circumstance. I need you, Mitsuki, Sakura... and Shikamaru to continue onward so we don't miss our window."
Naruto piped up, still keeping his attention on the shadowed figure. "What's going on Kakashi-sensei?"
Kakashi eye-smiled with his sharingan. "Just go, we'll catch up with you later."
Naruto and Sakura knowingly turned and jumped away, they knew Kakashi was being serious when he made that expression, Shikamaru and Mitsuki followed suit.
Just as the shadowed figure stepped into the sunlight, Kakashi's eye widened as he heard five dull thuds behind him, the rest of the team was out for the count. Kakashi cursed and drew another Kunai for his off-hand and sharingan eyes met.
Kakashi funneled lightning chakra into the knives and menacingly spun his tomoe, preparing himself for battle. 'Dammit! I said look at the ground!'
"Kakashi-senpai."
Kakashi dismissively spun his kunai. "I know you have the Mangekyo this time around, you're not catching me off guard again."
"I'm not here to fight with you. I have things to discuss with you."
"We have nothing to say to each other, Itachi."
He sauntered over to Kakashi, stopping just out of arms reach. "On the contrary Kakashi-senpai..."
"NARUTO! SLOW DOWN! IF WE HOLD THIS PACE WE'LL BE TOO GASSED TO FIGHT!"
Naruto shot back at Shikamaru's pleas.
"No! We have to get as far away from that fight as possible! If Kakashi's fighting who I think that was… that means-! Ooof!"
Naruto ran into what felt like a brick wall, his teammates had already stopped, and were recoiling in fear. Naruto heard a familiar voice come from directly above his head.
"There you are fox cub! … Actually I'd say you graduated from that title!" Naruto could hear him hoist something over his shoulder. "You're not as scrawny as you used to be... Nice work brat, this may actually be a bit of fun."
Naruto hopped backward, the black and red cloak marked him as an Akatsuki member. Naruto narrowed his eyes to hide the shaking in his hands.
"You're Itachi's partner… You tried to cut my legs off."
Kisame tossed his hat into the air behind him and menacingly cracked his neck.
"Yeah, good times, good times! ... Call me Kisame. You and your motley little crew are moving a bit too quickly for your own good, we can't afford to have you getting to Sunagakure too early now, can we? … Let's dance for a bit!"
Naruto shuddered and nervously drew his ninjato.
'SHIT SHIT SHIT! This guy's the LAST thing I wanna deal with!'
'What Kit?'
'How can I fight him off without burning myself out? I've never seen chakra reserves as large as his before. We could be here fighting all day and he'd still have enough left in him to drown this entire forest!'
'I suppose there's no way you can with humans like him. I'd use the term "human" very loosely when considering the likes of him… Just make sure to almost exclusively use my chakra for whatever you're going to do, using your own creates the risk of your own chakra being depleted. Just don't overdo it, demon chakra degrades human tissue… but you already knew that.'
Naruto started to spin a kunai around his offhand as he carefully walked toward Kisame. He turned his head to the side to address his teammates, who stared incredulously as he approached the Shark-Man.
"You all stay back… You'd just get in the way, yeah?"
Sakura took a few steps forward. "What're you talking about?! You're forgetting the first thing Kakashi-sensei taught us!"
Naruto started to glow red. "This one's a special case 'ttebayo. We've fought before…"
Kisame raised his eyebrow and grinned. "If you could call it that…"
Shikamaru grabbed Sakura's shoulder and shook his head. "I read Kisame's dossier before, Naruto's the only one of us with the correct skillset for fighting guys like him."
Mitsuki compounded Shikamaru's opinion with her own. "While I'm not fond of the sidelines, Shikamaru-kun has a point. This is the perfect matchup for Naruto-sama." Mitsuki was still nervous though, she could see his sword-hand shaking.
It made her wonder what happened during his previous encounter with Kisame Hoshigaki, she'd seen scores of traumatized ANBU who'd had encounters with the famed Shark-Man, they all muttered similar things concerning shredded flesh, or even that he "ate them".
Kisame began a menacing jog toward Naruto, gradually building into a sprint. His razor-sharp grin was gleaming as he closed in on Naruto, who anxiously took a defensive stance.
Kisame made the first attack; he pivoted his legs and swung Samehada with one hand. The sword traved swiftly, but in a wide arc, it about waist height. Naruto hopped on the blade and continued his path forward, at the last second, he noticed that Kisame had finished a sequence of one-handed signs behind his back. Naruto skidded to a halt and jumped backward off of the blade and crossed his arms to block the incoming attack.
Kisame altered Samehada's trajectory downward, slamming it into the ground. He clasped his hands together to make another sequence of hand-signs.
"Suiton: Suikodan No Jutsu!" Water materialized at Kisame's feet and he swung his hand. A Great White Shark made of water erupted from the ground and headed straight for Naruto… who disappeared in a flash of orange light.
He was standing some distance back, only slightly in front of where he had started charging Kisame. Naruto pulled a kunai from the ground and started to play with it as he mocked Kisame with a grin.
"See… you may be stronger than I am, but you're waay too slow to keep up with what I've got in my arsenal." Naruto began to spin the kunai, and slowly, but surely, it started to glow a shade of deep orange. He once again walked toward Kisame, who's grin had faded into a look of mild interest.
Enough time had passed for the seal to apply, so Naruto suddenly tossed the Kunai high into the air, there was a long pause, and then, an explosion. Tiny shards of metal began to fall from the sky, peppering the battlefield with teleportation mediums for the Kitsune Kaminari. Naruto shut his eyes and focused, he could feel each and every shard, and with a relieved exhalation, he disappeared in a flash of orange light.
Kisame picked Samehada up and took a defensive stance; he was visibly excited by the new development. "Well, what the hell kid? Is that what I think it was?"
A chorus of Naruto's voice echoed from the trees. "YOU BE THE JUDGE OF THAT!"
Suddenly, a handful of Naruto clones erupted from the bushes and foliage that were surrounding the group of ninja. They criss-crossed each other as they rushed toward Kisame, swords drawn.
Kisame smirked and stomped and the ground gave way. An explosion of water erupted from beneath their feet… Kisame's excited grin grew even larger the instant the clones flashed out of range of the mini-geysers of water.
"You're a riot Uzumaki!"
The Narutos landed on their feet a short distance back, and then blitzed Kisame again, this time, rapidly teleporting around the field, as to create some confusion. The rapid flashes of orange light made the battlefield look like the night sky at a festival when fireworks were going off. Kisame figured he'd take some hits, so he had to make the best of what he was given, Pein had told him specifically not to go all out, as he might accidentally kill Naruto.
Kisame hoisted Samehada above his head for a strike; he selected a clone at random and took a stutter-step, standard practice for wielding two-handed weapons (though Kisame was strong enough to use such weapons with one hand). The movement was used to confuse the timing of faster opponents, allowing a swordsman to increase their chances of connecting with a swing, it worked. One of the Narutos hesitated for a split second due to the deceiving footwark. Kisame brought the weight of the blade down on Naruto's head before he could teleport away, and he was gone in a plume of smoke. Kisame had dispelled one of the 5 clones, but in the process, the other 4 had managed to pierce his toughened shark-like skin with their ninjato.
Kisame grinned and dropped Samehada, grabbing the wrists of two Narutos. "I'll get'cha eventually!" Kisame squeezed his powerful hands until he heard a satisfying snap. The other two Narutos teleported away, while the two whose wrists he'd broken dispelled.
Kisame yanked the swords out of his torso one by one as if they were nothing more than tiny needles; the orange blades clattered to the ground and disappeared as well. He gave a commanding whistle and Samehada floated from the ground to his hand, the bandages exploded from the blade, revealing a disgusting mass of sharp scales.
"So you've learned a few tricks, eh Uzumaki? You can stab me all you want, it'd take you all day to put me outta commission!"
Naruto watched in interest from a tree, he could see Kisame's wounds beginning to close up. He wiped some blood from a small cut on his cheek.
'Hey, are you sure there isn't some other bijuu that we don't know about? This guy's unreal, no way in hell I'm fighting that head on. At this rate, I'll never reach Gaara-chan in time.'
Naruto never heard Kyuubi's response; suddenly, Kisame was mere feet from Naruto's face, sword at the ready for another strike.
Kisame's disturbingly sharp teeth made Naruto shudder as he flew backward through the air. Kisame charged after him, yelling in a mocking tone of voice.
"I SMELL BLOOD UZUMAKI!"
Naruto grunted in bewilderment, instinctively wiping the cut on his cheek again, Kisame could smell him too apparently. He started bouncing and weaving through tree branches, doing his best to dodge Samehada's scales, and Kisame's kicks and punches. Naruto dodged a kick from Kisame that completely destroyed a chunk of a large oak tree. He stared in awe as the bark splintered everywhere, Naruto landed on the ground and jumped backward once more; Kisame was hot on his tail.
He landed on a tree trunk and glared up at Kisame, who was dismissive of the confidence in Naruto's expression, he recklessly swung his blade. Naruto deftly sidestepped the attack, stomping the sword further into the bark after it impacted next to him.
The blonde roared, glowing an even brighter shade of red as three tails appeared at the base of his spine. He jammed as much demon chakra as he could into his legs and launched off of the tree, shoulder charging Kisame, Naruto could feel a couple of ribs snap under the force of his shoulder. Naruto's momentum took them both high into the air, further separating the Shark-man from his sword.
They began to fall back down into the clearing that they were originally fighting in; Naruto began to expel red chakra to use as a propulsion source, much like in his attack on Manda. The idea was to body slam Kisame into the ground.
However, Naruto was unaware of how physically strong Kisame was and was surprised at the Shark's nearly successful attempt to break his grip. Naruto and Kisame came crashing into the ground in front of the others, kicking up dust and pebbles. When the smoke cleared, they could see a 3-Tailed-Naruto and Kisame brawling at the center of a small crater in the ground.
Naruto was furiously stabbing and swinging his sword at Kisame, who didn't seem to bother himself with dodging. After a few seconds of watching, Shikamaru narrowed his eyes, he could tell that Naruto was losing ground even though Kisame was unarmed. He charged forward and yelled back to Sakura and Mitsuki.
"Naruto's separated him from that sword but he's still losing! Come on!"
Sakura and Mitsuki also charged into the fray. Kisame saw them fast approaching and smiled.
"Keh! So everybody's joinin' the party!"
Kisame found an opening in Naruto's line of attack and grabbed him by the throat, slamming him into the ground and then tossing him at Sakura, who skidded to a halt and tried to catch the stunned Naruto. In an instant, Kisame was behind Sakura, prepared to rip her neck open with his teeth. Before he could clamp his jaws down, Mitsuki tackled him and they skidded out of the crater.
Kisame hopped up, as did Mitsuki. She threw a punch, but Kisame caught her fist. He swung her in a loop and attempted to slam her into the ground, but Mitsuki managed to rotate her body so that she landed on her feet.
Kisame's eyes widened with surprise, Mitsuki smirked at him and grabbed Kisame's wrist with her free hand. She judo-flipped him so that he was the one on the ground, she then stomped her foot on Kisame's shoulder, pinning him there.
Shikamaru's shadow stretched to join Kisame's own shadow. Once the two shadows were connected, Kisame stopped squirming In Mitsuki's hold. His eyes widened when he looked up into the air and spotted Sakura coming downward, her fist streaming blue chakra.
Kisame started to laugh. "Looks like I underestimated you brats… SAMEHADA!"
The scaly blade came shooting out of the trees at Shikamaru, forcing him to break the jutsu and dodge the abomination of a sword. Kisame grinned at Mitsuki, and through brute strength, managed to slam her into the ground with his pinned arm. Mitsuki was still clinging to Kisame's arm, so he stood up and flung her into the sky as hard as he could, as if she were a discus. Mitsuki went zooming past Sakura, who'd spun in mid-air to dodge her teammate. She had built up even more chakra in her body just in case, she was ready to cause a localized earthquake if need be. However, Sakura was completely unaware of the properties of Samehada.
Samehada had slithered into Kisame's hand at the last second and he blocked Sakura's supercharged punch with broad side of the sword. The ground beneath Kisame's feet gave slightly, cracking and rippling, but the blade had sucked the chakra out of Sakura's attack, nullifying her strength. The medic's eyes widened and Kisame launched her at Naruto, with a flick of his sword.
Sakura slammed into Naruto, who was still struggling to draw a full breath after being choke slammed, Sakura bounced skidded along the ground, only stopping about 100 yards away, while Naruto was sent flying, he bounced off of a tree and into the bushes. Kisame then turned to Shikamaru and charged him, the Nara boy started flinging every sort of Kunai he was carrying at the charging juggernaut that was Kisame.
Kisame spun and weaved through the explosions and poison clouds, raising his sword to mince Shikamaru. There was an orange flash of light and Shikamaru jumped at the frozen-in-time visage that was Kisame, he was quickly yanked by the back of his collar through the air, only stopping when was crouched next to Naruto in a tall tree overlooking the clearing.
Shikamaru stared at Naruto in confusion and shook his head to clear the dizziness.
Naruto cracked his spine back into alignment and spoke. "Hey, stay here and think of a way to get us out of this, I'm gonna stop him from killing Sakura-chan and… where's Mitsuki?"
Mitsuki had landed in a lake a good distance from the battle with Kisame, who appeared to be toying with the team at this point in time. She dragged herself to shore, and just sat there on her stomach. The stinging sensation covering her back was taking its sweet time going away, she took a look down the back of her pants and could see that not only was her normally tan skin a nice shade of pink, but also, there were a few bruises forming on her rear-end, obviously from her epic back-flop.
Mitsuki groaned and rose to her feet, the sharp pain made her wince, she gave a defeated laugh. "I suppose a night of passion with Naruto-sama is out of the question at the moment."
She grunted, stretching her back muscles, she then jumped back into the trees, making a beeline for the sounds of explosions, clanging swords, and rushing water. Mitsuki reached into her pouch and pulled out a tiny scroll. She tossed it up into the air, and out poofed a bow and quiver full of arrows.
"Here I was, assuming I'd never need this thing again." Mitsuki put the bow over her shoulder, the drawstring holding it in place as she zoomed through the trees. She then took the quiver and latched it onto the back of her belt; she pulled a single arrow from it.
The shaft was wrapped from end to end with explosive tags, and the head was barbed so that it couldn't be pulled out without causing serious damage.
"This mission's going to get much worse before it gets any better."
Naruto was in the zone as he traded blows with Kisame, but there was a visible sense of fear in his dodging, he knew exactly what that blade did to people, and he wanted no part of it touching him. Sakura and Shikamaru looked on in awe as Naruto frantically flipped and twisted over the sword's scaly edge.
Naruto hopped backward and flashed through signs. "Futon: Kazekiri no Jutsu!" Naruto's blade was an orange blur as he fired a torrent of wind blades that carved up the landscape.
Kisame paid it no mind; he just hid behind Samehada, the giant sword taking the brunt of the damage… and chakra. It was here that Kisame noticed a glowing kunai fly past his place of refuge behind Samehada,
There was another flash of orange light, and Naruto was poised to stab Kisame through the neck. Kisame gave Naruto a bored look and caught the orange ninjato's blade with his bare hand. Kisame immediately stood up and kicked Naruto in the stomach before he could teleport again.
Naruto flipped out of his fall and glared at Kisame. "That's mine."
Kisame grinned and spun the small blade in his off hand, examining it thoroughly. "Expert craftsmanship… I kinda like it…"
Naruto reached his hand out, both his seal and the sword pulsed a shade of deep red, and the sword reappeared in Naruto's outstretched hand in a flash of orange light. Suddenly, Naruto heard a whistling sound, it whizzed straight above his head, and he heard Kisame grunt in pain after a sickening noise echoed through the clearing.
"Oh, that's cute... Uzumaki, perhaps you could point me to the person who made you that sword." Kisame dismissively wrapped his hand around the arrow, ready to yank it out of his chest cavity.
Naruto saw the arrow embedded in Kisame's sternum, but this arrow seemed to be on fire, after closer examination, Naruto could see that it was completely wrapped in what had to be at least 20 explosive tags. Naruto's eyes widened and he teleported to where he placed Shikamaru and Sakura, and then, teleported them milliseconds later to the farthest shard he could sense.
They reappeared at the most distant shard, but even so, it was still far too close to the epicenter of the explosion. Naruto tried to stand but a wave up pain shot through his spine and rippled through his limbs, he fell to his knees. Naruto yelled out a warning.
"It's about to blow up!"
Sakura's gave a short gasp immediately after she realized that Naruto couldn't move. She narrowed her eyes and cracked her knuckles, protectively stepping in front of Naruto, who seemed was grunting and shaking in pain as he futilely tried to rise to his feet. Sakura nodded at Shikamaru, giving him a thumbs-up sign. Shikmaru lazily nodded back and took cover, but not behind a tree or anything of that sort. He simply took a knee behind Sakura while he did inventory on the kunai he wasted on Kisame.
"SHANNAROOOOO!" The battlecry was followed by a flash of light, and then, an earsplitting 'BOOM'.
Sakura's fists glowed blue and she effortlessly pulverized incoming boulders and tree trunks like they were nothing. Sakura's sharp eyes spotted an incoming boulder that was a bit too large to safely shatter, if she broke it the fragments would hit Naruto. Sakura stretched her arms forward and gained control the large chunk of stone for an instant.
Things were moving in slow motion for Sakura, she could see the boulder's surface begin to splinter beneath her strength, so she did the next logical thing. In the instant that she'd caught the large boulder, she tossed it upward and it sailed above the group, shattering just late enough to miss Naruto. There was a final wave of fire that Sakura saw coming, she planted her feet and crossed her arms in front of herself, grunting in anticipation for the heat. She yelled back to Naruto and Shikamaru.
"Grab onto me! The last shockwave's coming!"
Shikamaru groaned and crawled up behind Sakura, wrapping his arms around her ankle.
"Why'd I even agree to this mission? Mendokuse."
Naruto struggled to move as waves of pain shot through his limbs, he'd somehow successfully managed to stand on his knees; he wrapped his arms around Sakura's waist. Naruto tightened his grip and braced his forehead against her mid-back, he somehow knew that not even Sakura would be strong enough to outlast the final shockwave of the explosion especially so close to the epicenter.
Sakura saw the wave of heat approaching and shut her eyes. Her muscles tensed and the wave of energy crashed into her, she was able to protect the team from the brunt of the final layer of the blast, but it was too much for even her incredible strength. Sakura's rippling legs buckled under the force and she was inevitably thrown backward into Naruto and Shikamaru, and the three ninja were launched into the air, landing in the same lake Mitsuki did earlier.
There was a large splash, and then a pause, Sakura wearily rose from the lake and collapsed on the shore... with Naruto and Shikamaru still clinging onto her.
Shikamaru groaned. "Ah... Mendokuse... Good lookin' out Haruno."
Naruto sat up and instantly yelped when another wave of pain zipped along his spinal cord.
Sakura crawled over to Naruto and hugged him. "Naruto are you okay?"
Naruto defiantly rolled onto his stomach and tried to stand once more. "I'm fine… lucky for me, your butt broke most of my fall…" Naruto chuckled a bit, but that was cut short by a bolt of pain through his diaphragm, Naruto tensed up and fell back down.
Sakura started checking Naruto for wounds of any sort, but she couldn't find any that weren't already closing or too minor to bother treating. She went on to check him for any concussions or internal damage.
Sakura was as impressed as she was relieved. "Wow, not a scratch Naruto… Hey, what was that you used on that Akatsuki? It was a multi-phase explosion."
Naruto twitched and grunted in pain as Sakura checked over him. "Wasn't me, I thought one of you did it."
"That was me." Mitsuki came strolling down the side of a nearby tree with a bow and quiver.
Shikamaru raised his eyebrow. "A bow? You don't see those very often… You almost killed us by the way."
Mitsuki placed it over her shoulder. "You're welcome… unless you'd have preferred to fight Kisame."
Shikamaru put his hands up defense. "Don't get it twisted, I'd take any explosion over an Akatsuki front-line-assault specialist."
Sakura stood up and rubbed the soot, ash, and splinters out of her hair and clothes. "Thanks Mitsuki-san, though I'm not exactly thrilled about my hair right now, you owe me a salon visit when we get back... Before we start moving, is anyone injured?"
Mitsuki and Shikamaru shook their heads and sat down next to Naruto.
Shikamaru stared down at the Uzumaki heir. "We can't move forward unless you're back on your feet. While I don't want to stick around long enough to figure out if Kisame survived that attack, forcing you to move now would only screw us over in the long run."
Naruto frowned, trying to stand up, but his legs gave out and he fell back down.
Naruto punched the ground in frustration, it cracked beneath his fist. "Dammit! We can't afford to waste any time! Kisame said that we were ahead of schedule… at this rate…"
Naruto's head hung a bit.
Sakura grabbed Naruto's hand. "Don't think about what'll happen if you fail, it'll only slow you down. I learned that lesson the hard way on a surgical table, it's probably the most important one that any medic can learn."
Naruto nodded. "… You're right…" Digging into his sub-concious, he prodded his tenant.
'What's up with this? I thought I only used your chakra.'
The fox paused and answered. 'You did, but you used too much… Next time you have to do this, keep at least 10% of your own chakra in your system instead of storing almost all of it in your seal. You've damaged your nervous system.
'Is that bad?'
'Not for you, I can patch this up… Separate my chakra from your own, and then pull the human chakra back into your system. It should shock you back to normal so you can move again.'
Naruto made a tiger sign and visualized a ball of purple chakra splitting into separate orbs of red and blue. With the image in mind, he began to separate the human and demon chakra in his system, slowly, but surely, he could feel his energy return to him.
Sakura slung Naruto over her shoulder and deferred to Shikamaru. "I'll carry Naruto-kun until we get somewhere safe, I still need to take a look at him. He appears to have nerve-damage... let's get a move on!"
Mitsuki whipped out a compass and pointed in the direction they were originally headed.
Naruto wasn't paying attention, he could feel the strength returning to his limbs as his own chakra re-entered his nervous system. The group was about to move, but they froze in a cold sweat when a voice came out of the tree line.
"Oi... that hurt you know."
Their eyes widened and they snapped to the familiar voice. Standing in the trees, was a decidedly less-human looking Kisame, posessing even more shark-like features than previously. He flicked his tail as he addressed Mitsuki.
"You, with the bow. Where'd you get that? I kinda want one of my own now."
Mitsuki pulled another arrow from the quiver on her lower back. "It's a family trade-secret."
She fired it at him, but Kisame caught it by the head in his teeth, he talked back while he picked his teeth with it.
"I'll keep that in mind..." Kisame's shark face contorted into a traumatizing grin. "Wanna see something cool?"
Naruto answered for his bodyguard. "No! Nonononono!"
Kisame flashed through some hand signs and fired a torrent of water from his mouth, it appeared to be forming a large sphere around him that began to grow exponentially in size.
Shikamaru's eyes widened. "Shit! WE NEED TO GO, NOW!" Shikamaru blurred through some handsigns and slapped the ground. A box of stone encased Kisame, but it was no use, it immediately began to crack and spray water through every fissure, the box giving way less than 3 seconds after it was formed.
Naruto prepared to toss another kunai and teleport the group, but there was no need, a wall of ice erupted out of the air and flash froze Kisame within his sphere of water. There was a gust of freezing cold air, and with that, came bits of snow, followed by large snowflakes.
The group turned to the lake, and even though the light of the sun obscured them, Naruto's heart skipped. A pillar of ice was standing tall in the center of the lake, and on top of it, stood two figures, Naruto felt a familiar presence, one that hadn't touched his senses in years, one that made him feel painful emotions that were all too familiar.
Staring from his spot on Sakura's shoulder, Naruto's eyes went red once more while he anxiously whispered to himself.
"Edo Tensei…"
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