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The blonde puppet frowned, “I need to get to a room that’s big enough to apply a seal … and it needs to be one that Madara frequently goes to.” He explained and that did make sense.
It would be ideal if Madara just wandered into the trap. As long as he didn’t walk in before everything was set …
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“He said it was the alcove to the north.” Orochimaru murmured just loud enough for his two companions, Itachi and Tenzo, to hear. “Are they bothering your clone?” He asked Itachi once he noticed the Uchiha’s eyebrow twitch in irritation.
Itachi sighed in exasperation, “If there wasn’t such a tight time limit I’d let Temari and Kankuro come along, but now isn’t the time … they kind of understand that, but they want lots of updates.” He muttered, but then chuckled softly. “My clone got them back to Wave and Yuki is keeping them in line.”
Tenzo raised an eyebrow in amusement, “What’d she do-“
“We’re here.” Orochimaru hissed and the amusing conversation was dropped for now in favor of silently approaching the alcove near the hideout.
The snake sage unsealed the very bird he has been using to send messages to Naruto’s clones. He let the bird perch on his shoulder before they headed deeper into the meeting place. Considering where everyone was and how long it’d take them all to reach this location then they shouldn’t be the first ones here. Hopefully, the bird should prevent any misunderstandings.
Suddenly, the bird flew from Orochimaru’s shoulder to the shoulder of Tori, who stepped out of the shadows, “It’s good to see that you guys made it.”
“It’s especially good to see that you’re ok.” Itachi said still feeling awful about never going to talk to her when Inoichi first claimed that she couldn’t continue as a ninja.
Tori sighed when she saw the flicker of guilt in Itachi’s eyes, “What happened to me and my daughter is not your fault. I know just saying it wasn’t your fault won’t help rid you of whatever guilt you think you should carry.” She said, making Itachi nod understandingly. “Once Madara is dealt with I’ll personally get my payback. Come on. I was the first one here so I set up camp.”
Orochimaru raised an eyebrow as they followed Tori, “That was fast considering you were back in Konoha.”
“Yep, but I had the puppets.” Tori said pointedly and guided them into the hidden campsite.
Apparently, all the puppets changed their appearance to look like random cloaked ninjas in full black outfits. Instead of full masks they had cloth masks that covered the lower half of their faces and what features that were visible, like hair and eyes, were picked at random. It was just to be safe when they got close to the hideout. They couldn’t risk having the henges of their own puppets being recognized right now and now they couldn’t even tell which puppet had a Naruto clone or someone else. The only distinguishing feature was the symbol on the headbands. No one would think much of the symbol, but Orochimaru immediately recognized the line with little squiggles branching off it like the roots of a plant as a subtle reference to ROOT.
“Since the puppets don’t need to rest I hitched a ride part of the way.” Tori explained as she sat down near the sleeping bag on the ground.
One of the puppets unsealed some rice balls, “As grateful as I am to your stubbornness, snake-Jiji, a warning of where you were would’ve been nice. It’s hard to plan when you have to keep finding out where your friends are.” The puppet said, sounding more amused than anything. He tapped his chin in thought. “Wait … that advice sounds familiar for some reason.” The puppet commented clearly teasing the snake sage making it clear who gave that advice first.
“I’m surrounded by brats.” Orochimaru muttered, but the smile that followed up his comment indicated he wasn’t serious. “How long until you guys arrive?” Orochimaru asked one of the puppets he knew was controlled by Naruto as he sat down with everyone and munched on the food.
“About one hour.” The puppet said as he watched the darkening sky.
Itachi nodded and looked in the direction of the building where Madara was hiding, “What’s the status there?”
“We have two allies. After learning of a few of Madara’s lies Konan and Nagato didn’t think Madara had their best interests in mind. The main puppet is working with them to get the base seal down.” All the puppets stiffened and one started drawing. “Perhaps there is a wrinkle.” The puppet said and the other puppet handed Orochimaru the drawing.
While eating a rice ball the snake sage examined the drawing, “A ring … I see. The seals are deadly.” Orochimaru murmured and took another bite of his food.
“That’s what I was afraid of. The ring is being worn by our allies. I don’t think they were aware that it could kill them. This and Zetsu, a very loyal Akatsuki member, are the main issues.” The puppet explained and in an instant everyone focused on the ring.
If Madara wanted to, he could use the rings to force Konan and Nagato to save him in the end. That’s if Zetsu doesn’t try anything and everything would be destroyed if anything happens. Now they had to rectify these problems and do so quickly.
“Actually … I do believe we have a solution to one thing.” The puppet that sounded like Hinata said with a smirk. “You want to risk using that jutsu-“
“In theory it’d be safe to just give him a soul-“ The Naruto controlled puppet wisely shut up when the other puppet pulled his head off.
“It was stupid to potentially risk your life for a theory. Now it’s no longer a risky theory, right? We have Zetsu.” The black clad puppet with Hinata’s voice said.
The disembodied head in the hands of Hinata’s puppet hummed, “Oooh! Good point. We should catch Zetsu … can you give my puppet it’s head back? Please.” The puppet asked and the Hinata puppet finally gave it back.
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The Naruto puppet raised an eyebrow as Nagato’s orange haired vessels, which he apparently had seven of and would explain why the real Nagato was so weak, led him into a room. It was a very large bathroom that was one step away from an outdoor hot spring. In fact, the steam, lush greenery and the very detailed night sky painted on the ceiling would trick anyone into thinking that they were outside.
“He comes here every night and brings the room with him to every hideout. I only know because my actual body is so weak it rarely leaves the hideouts and since Madara also rarely leaves I witness a lot. I sometimes think he deliberately passes my room every time just to mock me.” Nagato’s orange haired vessel, which was basically a fleshy puppet, explained. “We need to hurry. He’ll be coming down just after nightfall.”
“Nightfall. There’s just enough time.” The blonde puppet said as he and the 7 Nagato vessels began the difficult task of laying down a complicated sequence of seals under the water and steam. “This’ll be a pain to apply, but the steam should help hide it.” The Naruto puppet said and slipped under the water in the hot spring to apply the segment of the network that lined up with that spot.
“Agreed.” The many Nagatos said as they disappeared into the steam to help speed things up by applying parts of the seal network.
Being a puppet that didn’t require breathing made the first part easy. After a few minutes the blonde finished his underwater segment. Of course, he took advantage of this setup and added a little something to the water. When he jumped out to help the Nagato’s in the steamy room he noticed something. As the puppet looked very closely to check the seals he noticed that there were seals on the odd ring they wore.
“There’s seals on this.” The blonde commented.
A Nagato nodded, “Yes. It’s meant to keep the ring on and act as a means of communicating -“
“Who gave it to you? Madara?” Naruto’s puppet asked and almost instantly they were concerned. “Can I look under it?” The blonde puppet asked, suspecting that Madara’s trend for hiding dark secrets behind innocent goals continued even to the ring. The fact that all the seals were on the visible parts of the ring was a little suspicious.
“No one can take them off … in hindsight that should’ve been a red flag.” Nagato’s orange haired vessel muttered. “Konan is slipping some paper under the ring on my actual body … the seals that transferred over aren’t promising.”
Just as he said that a piece of paper zipped into the steamy room and the blonde puppet grabbed it, “Ok … definitely not good. My friends are here so I’ll get them to work on a solution. Let’s focus on finishing this seal.”
Over the following few minutes the seal was applied across the floor, but Naruto noticed a problem, “He’ll see it even with the steam … My group arrived at the alcove. They have Zetsu contained.”
“Ok. We don’t have much time. Madara just walked past my room. Konan is getting me out of there now.” The orange haired vessel reported …
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“Hold on.” Konan said to her red haired friend as she carefully picked the real Nagato up. Since Madara literally just walked past the room they decided it wasn’t worth taking the mechanical walker and risk alerting Madara so they left it behind. “There’s the alcove.” Konan whispered and realized a bird was following her.
As the bird flew past her she saw its henge drop for a split second revealing that a wooden body was hidden underneath. Now that she knew what it really was she followed the bird. Soon Konan carried Nagato into a campsite filled with people. Immediately she saw that one person looked identical to the blonde puppet they met.
“You’re the real one, correct?” Konan asked as a few of the ninjas helped her set Nagato down gently on the ground. She noticed an odd wriggling mound of sand nearby, but wasn’t concerned about that yet.
Naruto nodded, “This time I am real.” He said as all the puppets, even the birds, took off for the hideout and slipped inside.
“Introductions can wait a moment.” Yagura said and noticed that Konan and Nagato were watching him as well. The fact that the Mizukage was there definitely confirmed something for them. “What’s the plan with the steam issue?” He asked as everyone got ready.
Naruto gave a relieved sigh, “We added a seal to pump up the steam.”
Nagato weakly looked over, “The … rings?” He asked weakly.
“There’s a full proof way to save you both and trap Madara and it involves Zetsu.” Naruto said right before he went through a quick summary of the plan. A minute later he headed out with everyone, including the orb of sand that floated after them. “Nagato, cancel your vessels and both of you get ready to join us.” He exclaimed right before an explosion in the hideout was heard.
Konan raised an eyebrow, “Is it time?”
Nagato made a hand sign to cancel all his orange haired vessels, “Yes.”
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Madara smirked after walking past Nagato’s room. He had to admit that he found it very amusing to walk past the weakened ninja. It just added to his glee as he went down to the bathroom for a hot bath.
After a few minutes and getting undressed in the changing room, he opened the door to the bathroom, “Nice. It’s extra steamy tonight.” He said very pleased as he walked into the room.
As he walked in he paused. For a moment Madara thought he sensed movement in the room. His skilled senses observed the steamy room. There was no sign of movement or even the sound of someone breathing so he eventually shrugged it off. Finally, he stepped into the water and relaxed.
“That’s nice.” Madara moaned as his muscles eased. Unfortunately, he realized his body was relaxing too much. In fact, he was becoming numb. “What the-“
Madara was cut off when a series of seals started glowing. Painful blasts of electricity went straight through his body. At the exact same time a ball of sand smashed its way through the wall and into him. The Uchiha was effectively dragged under the water where he was shocked again by more seals that sat on the floor of the tub.
Of course, Madara was able to pull himself out of the damp sandy bath water. However, by the time he did he realized he was surrounded by unfamiliar ninjas. The ninjas were all dressed in black and had headbands with odd marks on them. What really pissed Madara off was that these people had the nerve to activate the seals that were shocking him. The side effects of the seals were blocking his chakra, which rendered his eyes useless.
“This won’t stop me you pathetic fools!” Madara yelled as he attempted to drag his numb body out of the damp sand. “Wait … Naruto, kill these people!” The Uchiha ordered the second the steam cleared and he recognized one of the people as the blonde demon vessel he possessed.
Naruto grinned, “Sorry, you aren’t my boss.” He said and several needles sprang from all the puppets’ bodies. Madara was hit several times and turned into a bloody mess.
In an instant a second group of people raced into the room. Just before Madara’s body could regain some motion this second group created a powerful chakra barrier around the first group. All of those closer to him were effectively trapped inside with him.
Madara’s eyes widened when he saw a second Naruto start doing a very specific series of hand signs, “Are you actually going to sacrifice these people to kill me?!” He laughed, not believing that Naruto would do that as he finally managed to jump out of the bath.
First, he tried to kill the group who were blocking his chakra, but when the heads were all removed he realized that they weren’t humans. He tried to destroy more of the puppets, but every time he got close to them sharp things shot out and kept him back or the headless things shifted to dodge him. Since nothing was stopped with this tactic he focused on the barrier. To his shock the Mizukage himself appeared right behind the spot of the barrier. When Yagura used chakra to reinforce that spot it sent Madara flying backwards into the sand.
“How the hell are you here? Obito?!” Madara demanded only to be met with a smirk from Yagura and realized Obito was gone.
The sight of Shinigami appearing behind Naruto made Madara panic. However, when he tried to move out of the sand this time something grabbed him. In his panic he punched the thing only to find that it was Zetsu. The punch was sadly right to the neck and left Zetsu gargling in his own blood.
“Shit. Fucking idiot.” Madara hissed furiously as he yanked his hand out of his dying ally’s throat. It was then he saw Konan helping Nagato walk into the room. “Kill these intruders!” He snapped and scowled when they didn’t help. “I can kill you with the rings, so do it!” He ordered, but still they did nothing beyond glaring at him even more.
The two Akatsuki members didn’t even seem surprised and it pissed Madara off. Almost immediately after, Konan and Nagato collapsed in pain when the rings were activated. However, it didn’t immediately kill them. Madara’s attempt to force them into anything didn’t last long.
Naruto looked at the god of death, “Please consume these two souls in exchange for removing the deadly quality of those rings.”
“No! I refuse to die!” Madara screamed, but despite the numbing going away and the adrenaline he found that he was quickly getting weaker again. At this point he remembered the needles that the puppets hit him with. It was a poison. “No!
As the ghostly hand of the death god ripped Zetsu’s soul out and ate it, Madara became desperate. All his attempts to break the barrier were stopped by either Orochimaru, Yagura, Itachi and, much to his shock, Tori. They skillfully worked between those holding the barrier up. The chakra they added to the spots Madara made contact with prevented any escaping. Soon they all saw him getting too weak to fight the barrier and the death god finally grabbed him.
Everyone witnessed the horrified look on Madara’s face as his soul was ripped away from his body. They all watched the jaws of Shinigami close around the man they hated. When the sound of two rings hitting the floor were heard it became clear that he was gone.
As everyone nearly collapsed in relief Naruto sighed, “He’s gone, but we aren’t done yet.” Naruto said, reminding everyone that now there was a massive mess to clean up thanks to the corruption.
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