In Takigakure, With Naruto
Currently Naruto is in a battle against two members of the akatsuki. The zombie duo Hidan and Kakuzu and as to why is he fighting them or what is he doing in taki? Well after spending three days with his wives (satisfying all three in bed) and playing with his daughters. He then took Mei, Shizuka, Mai and Mito back to their respective villages and after he dropped them all to Kirigakure and Nadeshiko village respectively since both the Villages were near each other. He was alerted through the seal he had given to Fu the seven tails Jinchuriki of Takigakure. He immediately went in the direction of taki since he was in Nadeshiko village dropping Shizuka and Mito. He immediately flew straight towards Takigakure using his Wind style(🍃): Divine Wind Armor (Kamikaze no Yoroi). He flew straight in the direction of Takigakure. In a matter of two hours he was near the hidden waterfall village and through the help of one of his Gods Gates Jutsu (Kamigami no mon jutsu!) (A/N: A improved version of Minato's Hiraishin Jutsu) seals he teleported himself directly to Fu's location and saw that she and Shibuki were fighting against hidan who was shouting about some nonsense about jashin-sama. He also saw that many jōnin were keeping Kakuzu at bay but Naruto knows that Kakuzu is only playing around with them. Seeing as all of them have more injuries than Kakuzu who only had very few scratches on his akatsuki cloak otherwise he was completely fine. Naruto immediately intercepted hidan's triple-Bladed Scythe with his sword Fujin when Naruto saw that hidan was about to strike shibuki. He also created 10 clones to help the jōnins that were fighting against Kakuzu.
Shibuki saw that the akatsuki member scythe was about to strike him he immediately closed his eyes as he knew that he couldn't dodge the attack but when he felt that the strike didn't hit him. He opened his eyes and saw that attack from hidan was blocked by Naruto with his sword. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Naruto and he wasn't the only one as fu and the jōnins saw Naruto there and also breathed the sigh of relief. "Took you long enough to get here eh, Naruto?" Shibuki asked his friend who was holding back hidan's triple-Bladed Scythe with ease and only using one hand and his sword Fujin (The Sword of the Wind God🗡️🍃).
"Sorry but I was near water country when I got your alert." Naruto said while keeping hidan's scythe at bay with ease.
"You! You are the kyuubi F*cking Jinchuriki! You are that bastard that called me the minion!" Hidan exclaimed in anger, "It must be jashin-sama's blessing that I got to f*cking kill you here."
Naruto didn't even bother hiding his boredom at hidan's words which only served to anger the jashinist more but before hidan could even register. Naruto hit him with his fist in the face momentarily disorientating hidan since he has added chakra in his fist before Naruto shot his chakra chains at hidan and wrapped them around his body before slamming hidan into an unsuspecting Kakuzu who was busy fighting against Naruto's clones. Before Kakuzu noticed hidan getting thrown his way it was already too late as hidan collided with him sending both of them to a nearby tree.
"That'll keep both of them from making a move for a few moments." Naruto said to himself before looking at Shibuki and Fu, "Fu, I would have greeted you first but since the situation is like this I want you to take shibuki and all the jōnins back to the village to get their injuries treated."
"But I can't leave you here to fight both of them alone!" Fu protested before Naruto looked at her.
"Don't worry Fu, I won't lose to the likes of them." Naruto said before smirking confidently, "After all I am the strongest. Now go to taki I will meet you there after I am done dealing with them." He finished before looking at the Hidan and Kakuzu who got up.
Fu looked at Naruto in concern before she felt shibuki putting a comforting hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry about him, fu. Naruto will definitely win this fight. If we stayed here then we would only be a burden to him." He said.
"Shibuki-sama is correct, fu-san and as much as we don't want to leave. We have got no choice as all of us are exhausted and injured except you. So, we should let Naruto-sama handle them." One of the jōnin said and got nods of agreement from other jōnins and Shibuki.
Fu sighed, "Alright but you better come back Naruto." She said.
Naruto looked at his fellow Jinchuriki sister before giving her a confident smile, "I promise I will come back unharmed. Don't worry, after all as I said this before I am the strongest."
Fu just shook her head at his declaration before smiling herself since she knew that Naruto would win. She nodded and ordered the jōnins to retreat and she carried shibuki immediately leaving the field knowing that the fight was about to begin.
Naruto saw that they were gone and looked back at Hidan and Kakuzu who got back up with hidan looking absolutely pissed and Kakuzu a little annoyed.
"You bastard!! I don't care if we have to bring you back alive!! I am fucking going to kill you!!" Hidan shouted in anger.
Naruto on the other hand looks at hidan with a very bored expression, "As if, Beside you don't even stand a chance against me because you are the weakest of the akatsuki." He said which caused the hidan to turn red in anger and Kakuzu to snicker at the insult that Naruto sent hidan's way since it was true that he was the weakest of the akatsuki members.
Kakuzu then looked at Naruto, "Well I must say I was actually expecting you to come here to rescue your fellow Jinchuriki but I am more interested in the bounty on your head." He said.
"What a coincidence?" Naruto said in a fake surprise, "I was thinking the same thing but the fact is yours will only be a dream but mine will be a reality." As Naruto finished he vanished from his spot startling the zombie duo but before they could look around for Naruto they heard him shouting from behind them, "Wind Style (🍃): Wind Tornado (🌪️)!!" Both Hidan and Kakuzu didn't have the time to dodge the attack and the tornado hit both of them directly sending both of them in opposite direction of each other with hidan crashing into several trees and Kakuzu sent skidding across the ground on his back several distance away.
'Huh? That was rather easy.' Naruto thought to himself as he was slightly surprised that both Hidan and Kakuzu caught off guard this easily.
"Well what do you expect one moment you are talking to them like you are speaking to Normal civilians and then you suddenly get behind them attacking them making them eat dirt. I wonder how they couldn't be caught off guard by this?" Kurama said with sarcasm dripping from his voice.
Naruto sweat dropped at his partner's sarcasm, 'Yeah I get it. No need to be sarcastic about it.' He said and created 10 clones to go handle Kakuzu for a moment as he wants to deal with hidan first before going to finish Kakuzu as well. He then saw hidan running at him with his scythe ready.
"You f*cking heretic!! I swear on Jashin-sama's name that I am definitely going to f*cking kill you!!!" Hidan shouted, as he started slashing at Naruto with scythe since he needed Naruto's blood for his ritual.
"Tell your jashin-sama that I am not interested in becoming his sacrifice." Naruto as he took out his second sword the Suijin nō ken (The Sword of the Water God 🗡️🌊) and slashed at hidan's chest leaving a deep cut that it literally showed his heart.
'So it is true he has some form of immortality. But he didn't have a regeneration factor.' Naruto thought to himself before he decided to put his sword back in his and decided to use Taijutsu on the jashinist.
"Don't think you can kill me with something like this you bastard." Hidan said smirking, "I am blessed by jashin-sama to be immortal."
Naruto however didn't say anything before using Wind Step (🍃) to close the distance between himself and hidan. He reared his fist back before shouting, "Explosion Fist (💥): Fiery Impact!!" Adding More Fire chakra (🔥) in his fist and hit hidan dead on centre in his exposed heart making it explode in hidan's body and due to addition of fire chakra the wound on hidan's chest got burnt as well.
Hidan on the other hand couldn't move for a few moments before he screamed in pain as he not only felt his heart explode but also his lungs getting burned as well.
Naruto saw this and said, "Well look at you now a few moments ago you were blabbering nonsense that you were immortal and that jashin-sama has blessed you but look at you now. You are in this pathetic state." Before Naruto took out Suijin again , "Let me put you out of your miserable life."
Naruto then channel's Water chakra (🌊) in his word before ceasing all his body moments entering a state of complete tranquility before saying, "Water style (🌊): Dead Calm." As he appeared behind hidan as several cuts appeared on hidan's body and his body falls to several pieces.
Hidan in his last moments couldn't even comprehend what happened he had been blessed with immortality by his god but how did he die by the hands a human sacrifice. With that last thought in his mind the jashinist life came to a pitiful end.
Naruto then looked at hidan's remains, "It's better make sure that he will never come back." He murmured to himself before forming several hand seals, "Fire style (🔥): Flame thrower!!" He said and took a long deep breath before releasing a massive flame from his burning the pieces of hidan's body completely that not even his ashes remained.
Naruto then looked at Kakuzu who was clapping and as he looked around he noticed that Kakuzu had already finished off all of his shadow clones and was calmly watching the fight between him and Hidan.
"I must say I am impressed," Kakuzu started as he stopped clapping and folded his arms, "You were able to finish off hidan that quickly and easily. Even though he was the weakest member of Akatsuki, he was still one of the best close combat and weapon wielder in the shinobi world and you defeated him in a close fight. It truly is impressive."
Naruto then looked at Kakuzu, "From your tone you don't seem to be affected by your partner's death." He stated.
Kakuzu just shrugged, "Personally I don't care about that idiot. I have told him multiple times to not let his guard down but he didn't listen and paid the price." He said before looking at Naruto, "But I'm more interested in getting the price on your head."
Naruto then looked at before raising one of his eyebrows, "You really think you can stand a chance against me." He asked nonchalantly though Kakuzu knew that from Naruto's tone that he didn't consider him a threat a thing that greatly irritated him.
Kakuzu on the other hand looked at Naruto irritated by his nonchalant attitude, "Careful boy, that much attitude and arrogance is the first step to death's door in the shinobi world." He threatened.
Naruto just smirked at him, "My attitude is based on how you treat me and as for the arrogance part it is not arrogance when you know it's the truth cause you know you're 'weak' and I am 'strong'." He emphasizes the words weak and strong causing Kakuzu to finally lose it and that is what Naruto wanted since he knew that Kakuzu had a bad temper.
"You damn brat! You will pay for calling me that!" Kakuzu said and formed hand seals shouting, "Fire style (🔥): Flame dragon jutsu!!" As he sent a Massive flame dragon in Naruto's direction.
Naruto countered it with, "Water style (🌊): Water dragon Jutsu!!" And sent an equally massive water dragon which clashed with Kakuzu's fire dragon both jutsu cancelling each other out.
Naruto then appeared in front of Kakuzu again catching him off guard and shouted, "Explosion Fist (💥): Final Devastation!!" And punched Kakuzu right in the chest instantly causing massive shockwave to burst through Kakuzu's back sending him flying backwards crashing through several giant trees 🎄.
Kakuzu then fell on the ground on his knees coughing up blood while clutching on his chest due to the immense pain he was feeling that coursed through his entire body, 'Sh*t! That was his Explosion Fist attack that zetsu showed us! But this attack looks to be way stronger!' He thought as he felt the pain in his body became less for the moment and looked at Naruto who was gesturing for him to get up, 'Because of that attack I have lost two of my hearts. I need to be careful and avoid those attacks from him, otherwise I might really die by his hands.' with that thought Kakuzu took off his cloak showing the four masks on his back two of which were destroyed due to the devastating attack that Naruto used caused two out of five of his hearts to explode inside his body and after realising that kakuzu released two of his remaining masks which were the Wind (🍃) and Fire (🔥) masks with the Lightning (⚡) heart remained in his body.
'So it is true that he has five hearts which help him control the element and expand his life span.' Naruto thought to himself by looking at the Fire mask and Wind mask. 'Now the question is which element he can use since I hit him with the full force of Final Devastation that at least would have destroyed two or three of his hearts.' however his thought process was interrupted when he heard Kakuzu's voice.
"Fire(🔥)+Wind(🍃) style: Wind Inferno Vortex!!" Kakuzu shouted as he launched a massive flame vortex in Naruto's direction, also increasing it's power by combining Fire (🔥) and Wind (🍃) chakra in the jutsu.
Naruto who saw the attack quickly formed hand seals and shouted, "Water style (🌊): Gigantic Water Wave!!" And through the help of the lake nearby launched a massive wave that completely cancelled Kakuzu's attack but it also made the entire area covered in large amounts of fog. Taking advantage of this Naruto used his sensory skills to spot Kakuzu and his two masks and saw that the Wind (🍃) mask was behind him ready to attack but Naruto thinking fast replaced himself with a log which was destroyed from its attack.
"Naruto it's getting annoying and frustrating. Just use my chakra and finish him off." Kurama suggested since he was getting bored and annoyed watching his partner delaying or playing in killing this pathetic akatsuki member.
'Don't worry I will finish him off quickly. Beside you know that I don't need your chakra at the moment." Naruto replied and formed hand seals before shouting, "Wood release (🪵): Deep Forest emergence!!!" As several massive trees sprouted from the ground beneath and rushed at Kakuzu and his two masks.
Kakuzu saw this and knew he had to dodge this attack otherwise he will definitely die. So with the help of his wires he and the fire mask got out of the way in time but the Wind mask (🍃) was not able to and was destroyed by the sprouting trees piercing it right through its mask. 'Dammit! If this keeps going then I won't be able to survive. I have to get away from here somehow?' Kakuzu thought before he looked at his Fire mask (🔥), 'I will get more new hearts from other Ninjas but that will happen when or if I live today.' with that thought Kakuzu sent his fire mask to distract Naruto while he waited before making his escape.
Naruto on the other hand sensed the mask coming in his direction and it fired a phoenix flower jutsu at him which Naruto dodged before drawing out Suijin and went straight at the mask with incredible speeds and leaps forward in the air with his sword ready to cut it in half. "Water style (🌊): Water Wheel!!" Releasing a horizontal water slash that cut the mask in half destroying Kakuzu's fourth heart as well. Naruto then looked around for Kakuzu before he sensed him not that far away from his location. Naruto then gathered Yin chakra ☯️ in his right hand which was of Blood red vortex♦️and Yang chakra ☯️ in his left hand which was Dark blue vortex 🌀 before combining them creating a Dark Purple vortex before Naruto positioned himself in the direction of Kakuzu and shouted, "Yin-Yang Style (☯️): Hollow Purple Vortex (🌀🟣)!!!" And launched it in the direction where Kakuzu was.
Kakuzu on the other hand was jumping from trees to trees as fast as his body allowed him too due to low chakra and fatigue, 'I have to move faster or the kyuubi Jinchuriki will definitely be going to come after me.' He thought before he felt something approaching him at incredible speed and looked back to see only to be hit by a purple sphere which created a massive Explosion 💥 that rocked the entire forest and lakes and created a giant crater with smoke rising out of it in the shape of mushroom and looking from the direction it came from you could see that it had destroyed the path before the attack hit Kakuzu.
Naruto reached the scene and saw the destruction caused by his attack, "Damn! I didn't realise that this jutsu is that destructive but it also costs a lot more chakra beside my 'Rasenshuriken' ." He murmured to himself.
"Yeah but Rasenshuriken and Hollow Purple Vortex are more dangerous to perform since if you are not careful you might end up damaging your arms." Kurama commented while he also whistled at the damage done by his partner's attack.
"That would be back then when I don't have enough control and practice for both of them." Naruto replied before he jumped inside the crater and saw Kakuzu's body with all of it destroyed and after confirming that Kakuzu is dead. Naruto then stored his body in prison scroll like he stored some of hidan's since he will need them to collect their bounty and beside it's about time he invites his former teammates and some other people to have a 'reunion.' with that thought Naruto flashed turns to go in the direction of Takigakure to check up on his friend's Shibuki and Fu. On his way he thought about the signal he received a signal from utakata's seal that alerted him that utakata needs help but he was near taki at moment so he sent a signal to mei to go and assist him utakata since he was near Kirigakure. 'Hopefully both of them would be safe and fine.' Naruto thought as he was worried for his fellow Jinchuriki/brother and his wife.
"Don't worry too much brat. Both of them are strong enough to take care of themselves. Also don't forget that utakata can control his full power and he has help from saiken and your vixen who is a High-kage level shinobi. So don't worry too much and once you are done here go to Kiri immediately just to be sure." Kurama suggested.
"Okay kurama, also how many times do I have to tell you to stop calling mei-chan a Vixen?" Naruto asked but all he got was a snort in response from his furball. He just shook his head and leaps forward from tree to tree to hurry up and check on fu and then return to Kiri to check on utakata and mei.
In Konoha, two days After Naruto's fight Zombie duo
We can see Tsunade and Jiraiya were talking to each other about a serious matter. You see jiraiya came back to the village with the information related to Itachi who he told tsunade that he has got a location which was an old Uchiha hideout which was used during the warring clan era but now is abandoned. When tsunade asked him about Naruto's whereabouts jiraiya answered that none of his spies were able to locate him. But he did get some news that Naruto has killed both Kakuzu and Hidan of the akatsuki near Takigakure. Tsunade wondered what was he doing in taki before she remembered that taki has seven tails in their village. She concluded that akatsuki must have sent Kakuzu and Hidan to capture the seven tails jinchuriki but Naruto must be near the village so he must have helped them since he was the hero of taki when he saved the village from the rogue Ninjas because of it he have good relation with them.
"Jiraiya, where do you think Naruto will be right now?" Tsunade asked her former teammate.
The toad sage frowned a little, "I honestly don't know but if I had to guess then he must be around water country since what I got from my spy network, the akatsuki also tried to capture the six tails Jinchuriki but fortunately they were stopped by mizukage and four anbu squad with their combined effort they managed to kill Deidara of the akatsuki but the other one escaped. So my bet is that Naruto must be going to check on them once he is done doing the same in Takigakure." He finished.
Tsunade Nodded, "It is a possibility since Naruto won't leave the ones like him behind and there's a possibility that Naruto has given the other Jinchuriki's some sort of seal to alert him should they need his help?" She asked.
"Yes, it will definitely be a possibility since Naruto has given the seal to Suna, Taki and Kiri that's why he was able to reach their in time to save their lives but I know that we are not the only one who realised this." Jiraiya stated and Tsunade knew who he was referring too.
"The akatsuki must have figured this out as well, right?" Tsunade asked and saw jiraiya nodding in agreement.
"Indeed since they attacked both Kiri and taking at the same time to make Naruto chose between one since he can only save one of his fellow Jinchuriki at the time. Not to mention both taki and Kiri are quite a distance away from each other." Jiraiya commented.
Tsunade closed her eyes for a moment before looking at Jiraiya, "Jiraiya, I want you to tell your spies to keep an close eyes and ears open. I want you make sure that this time they get a solid lock on his location." She ordered jiraiya who nodded his head.
"I will don't worry this time we will definitely going to bring him back to the village." Jiraiya said with confidence.
Tsunade smiled at her former teammate's enthusiasm he still has his boisterous personality that he had during their training days before her thoughts shifted on Naruto and she could only let out a sigh in sadness and regret. Whenever she thought about Naruto's life she always got disgusted at how far the village has fallen that they would scorn, hate and abuse an innocent child like Naruto. It was during those five years that she truly found out what Naruto had suffered at the hands of this village. She found out that Naruto was kicked out of the orphanage at the age of 4 and lived on the streets for one year until Sandaime found him and gave him an apartment which was crappy to say the least. If that is not enough she has read Naruto's academy records and found out that many teachers failed him regardless if he performed well or not. She also found out that Naruto was often get beatings at hands of some villagers whenever he performed well in academics. It created a mentality and fear for him to not perform well at the academy otherwise he would get more harsh beating. It made her blood boil that these stupid villagers would do this to Naruto but what absolutely made her livid is that her own Sensei didn't do anything to help the boy he just left him to fend for himself and not to mention her teammate jiraiya Naruto's so called 'godfather'.
When she asked him as to why he couldn't even help Naruto in secret or provide him with the knowledge that might help him survive in this village that wanted him dead. The answer she got from him was that he didn't think about that. At that answer she gave him the same beating that she gave him at the time he tried to peep on her. It got worse when tsunade found out that Minato and Kushina assigned her to be the guardian should jiraiya isn't able to take care of Naruto. When she interrogated jiraiya for this he looked down in shame and said that it was Sandaime who thought that she might take Naruto out of the village and that would prove to be dangerous since a Jinchuriki can't leave the village under any circumstances beside on missions or under war time. He also told jiraiya that there is a possibility that someone will recognise Naruto's lineage and that could prove dangerous for the boy. So he suggested informing her about her being Naruto's guardian when he was around 14 years old. Jiraiya confessed that at first he protested this decision but Sandaime convinced him and reluctantly he agreed to that decision.
After hearing that from Jiraiya Tsunade became completely numb she didn't know what to do and so she just left and locked herself in her room for several days crying and drinking and constantly apologizing to Minato, Kushina, her grandfather and especially her grandmother and Kushina that she was a failure, that she failed in protecting her family, that she wasn't able help Naruto that she failed to keep the oath of her Uzumaki clan heritage. It took a lot of convincing on Shizune, Sakura and Ino's part to get her to come out of her room. They told her that locking herself drinking and crying isn't going to help. She must remain strong and correct the mistakes that happened with Naruto. So for the past five years has been doing everything in her full power to make the ones who wronged Naruto pay and boy did she do exactly that. She got the full support of fire daimiyo himself as when he came to learn of what this village has done to an innocent child he was beyond angry he was ready to punish all of the village by cutting of the funding to a bare minimum but Tsunade convinced him of not doing that and asked him to give her the full support because if he did then she will set the village straight and the way it should have been. Fire daimiyo agreed and with his support not even the elders especially Danzo at that time could not do anything but watch. Fire daimiyo also ordered her and entire shinobi and civilian council that should Naruto ever come back to konoha no one will do anything to him otherwise he or she would have to answer him. He also told tsunade to inform him immediately if Naruto came back to the village. He also told her that no one should do anything to harm Naruto and if they did fire daimiyo gave her the full authority to punish them. She agreed to that and with fire daimiyo support she was able to clean the village of many it's corruption and other things.
Tsunade was then broken out of her thoughts when jiraiya called out to her, "Tsunade!" He said looking at her with concern on his face. "You okay? What happened?" He asked.
"Nothing, Just got lost in my own thoughts." Tsunade said before asking, "Anyway what was that you are going to ask about?"
"I was asking who are you going to send after Itachi since it will take time for me get Naruto's location." He asked though he knew what she was thinking judging from the look of sadness and regret on her face. He knows that despite her saying that she forgives him. He knew deep down she still didn't like what him and their Teacher had done and also for trying to hide the fact about her being Naruto's guardian in case he wasn't able to properly take care of him.
Tsunade answered, "I was sending teams 7,8 and 9 along with Yugao as replacement of Kurenai and Yamato to go after Itachi. They will leave tomorrow morning." Jiraiya nodded in agreement before they began discussing something else.
(A/N: SERIOUSLY I FOUND THIS VERY SUSPICIOUS THAT TSUNADE WASN'T INFORMED ABOUT NARUTO WHEN HE WAS BORN AND SHE ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT HIM WHEN SHE FIRST MET HIM.)
With Konoha 12
We could see konoha 12 members minus team 10 who was on a mission but back in the anbu training grounds were the rest of konoha 12 resting or talking to each other after they were done training with sasuke looking sitting opposite of them but didn't talk or speak anything as his mind was now currently on the subject of his big brother. Itachi Uchiha who sasuke despised for a long time before finally learning of the truth. Sasuke's mind was on the confrontation of tomorrow that he will face his brother demand it answer from him that if he really couldn't find or didn't have any other way beside massacring his entire clan. He thought about it back when his brother used to like before he was forced to do things by the bastard Danzo. Sasuke vowed that if he ever found Danzo out then he will make him pay for all of his crimes that he had committed. But he also had a little score to settle down from his brother and this time he also has a surprise for his big brother.
Sakura saw that Sasuke was in deep thought with a complicated look on his face, "Sasuke-kun, are you Okay?" She asked in concern for her teammate. Others also saw this and a look of concern also appeared on their face.
Sasuke looked up at Sakura and said, "I am okay, Sakura. I just need some time so please leave me alone for a while." After saying that he got up and left the training are to go to his home.
Sakura was about to follow him but was stopped by Kakashi who put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head, "Give sasuke some time Sakura he already has lot on his mind. Let him sort out his thoughts first. After that we will talk to him." He said and Sakura Nodded.
"I cannot imagine what was sasuke going through right now?" Kiba comments as he and others still weren't able to digest the information that they got about , "I mean both him and Naruto had to have the worst of all bad luck for them to go through with what they did in their life in konoha."
"Indeed, I myself am surprised that both Sasuke-san and Naruto-san are still not going against konoha for doing these things to them." Neji said as he was sure if he was in either Naruto's or Sasuke's place he would definitely have gone against konoha for the things that happened to both of them.
"But still I can't believe that Sasuke's big brother Itachi's loyalty to konoha was of this level that he went as far as to kill his entire clan to stop them from committing a coup against the village." Tenten said as she still had a hard time believing that someone can go this far like Itachi Uchiha did for his Village and to go against his own family is something many cannot fathom of even thinking.
"I know what I am going to say is not okay but we have to admit that we all will never be able to do what Itachi has done for this village. Add to the fact that he also accepted taking all the blame and making himself look like a psychopath who killed his entire clan for power and accepted being labelled as a traitor." Shino stated as he couldn't help but respect Itachi for sacrificing so much for the village and didn't ask anything in return and even if he asked for something it was his brother sasuke to be protected that's all. Truly Itachi Uchiha is someone who deserves respect for his loyalty towards konoha.
Hinata was silent throughout the conversation between her friends. She thought about both Naruto-kun's and Sasuke-san's life both of them were very lonely in their life with Naruto-kun being lonely from the start of his life where instead of being treated like hero of konoha. He was treated worse than trash by this entire village except for some and Sasuke-san became lonely when his brother was ordered to the heinous act like this by the orders of one of the elders Danzo. After that he became fixated about getting revenge for his clan and kept things to himself and refused to accept anyone else's aid or make friends. Sasuke's condition got so much worse because of the curse seal that Orochimaru put on him and because of it he attempted to go rogue and join Orochimaru but Naruto-kun stopped him which caused his banishment by the hands of Danzo shimura. Hinata got beyond angry whenever she heard that bastards name because when tsunade told all of them about that he was the one who spread the word of Naruto being the jinchuriki of kyuubi to the village to make him lonely and didn't have any emotional balance so he could mold Naruto to be his weapon once he got the chance and he made one by having those stupid previous civilian council members doing his bidding in getting Naruto-kun banished so he could capture him once he is outside of konoha. Just thinking about that made the byakugan princess blood boil in anger. She wanted nothing more to find that crippled bastard and make him experience pain in a way that even the devil and demons in hell will be astonished and horrified.
"I actually don't understand why the lord third didn't do anything when that un youthful Danzo shimura tried to assassinate him. I mean that practically and literally made him a traitor to konoha if he was going as far as to kill Sandaime his old teammate and friend." Lee said but not in his exuberant voice.
Gai put a hand on his mini clones shoulder and said, "It's probably because lord third couldn't bring himself to kill his old friend, Lee." Lee looked and asked what did he mean by that.
This time it was Kakashi who answered, "He means that both Sandaime and Danzo were trained by Nidaime Hokage tobirama senju and at that time both of them were good friends. But everything changed when Nidaime appointed Sandaime as the Hokage from that day on both of them were never the same. Danzo apparently got obsessed on becoming Hokage as he always wanted to prove that he was better then Sandaime. That's why he tried to do those things."
When all of the present konoha 12 members heard that they become disgusted that Danzo went this far just to become Hokage. All of them were very glad that he didn't become Hokage otherwise he would have made konoha very despicable place.
(A/N: *Scoffs* As if it isn't despicable enough!)
"Kakashi senpai, I wanted to ask did Jiraiya-sama get a lock on Naruto's location?" Yamato asked and others also listen in as they also wanted to know where was he.
"Truth to be told jiraiya-sama isn't able to get a solid lock on his location." He said as others were dejected hearing that before they heard Kakashi saying, "Although he did get information from one of his spy that Naruto has killed two more akatsuki members hidan and Kakuzu." He informed them since Tsunade has given him the permission to tell them.
When they heard that many of them gaped in shock that Naruto had killed two more akatsuki members both of whom were said to be partially immortal. They also heard that both of them have a near flawless teamwork and for Naruto to fight and kill them shows that it wasn't going to be easy to fight him.
"Kakashi senpai, I really don't understand this. I mean if Naruto is able to fight off four akatsuki members and kill three of them. So isn't it okay to left him alone. I mean this practically shows that he can take care of himself." Yugao said and many agreed.
"I know what you are saying, Yugao. But we still have to bring Naruto back to the village since akatsuki is not the only one who wants to capture him. Jiraiya-sama told me that Sandaime Tsuchikage has ordered for Kuroi Ryuu to be brought to Iwagakure to become it's shinobi but we fears that if Iwa shinobi somehow learned of Naruto's heritage then they will do everything in their power to kill him and won't stop at anything until they saw him dead not to mention the akatsuki leader will definitely come for Naruto since four of his subordinates had failed and got killed as well. So this time he is definitely going to capture Naruto himself. So we have to bring him back to konoha before anything worse happens to him." Kakashi explained with everyone nodding before they decided to discuss some about other topics.
In Amegakure, With Akatsuki
"The kyuubi Jinchuriki is becoming quite the nuisance. Don't you think pain?" Tobi asked from his place in the shadows.
"Indeed, he has caused more interference in our plans and has been a nuisance more than anyone." Pain stated looking back at the Ancient Uchiha.
"With Sasori, Deidara, hidan and Kakuzu's death we are now four members short in akatsuki." Konan informed looking at nagato.
Tobi nodded before he looked at pain, "Pain I want you to go to konoha once the kyuubi Jinchuriki is brought back to the village. Since now you're the one of the few who is capable of capturing him." He said and pain nodded before the Uchiha in the masked vanished from the view leaving Pain and Konan to themselves.
"So we are going to bring kyuubi Jinchuriki ourselves this time." Konan stated.
Pain nodded his head as he looked at Amegakure, "Yes, since madara is right that I am the only one who is capable of capturing him." He said before he looked at Konan, "Konan go and tell zetsu to inform me the moment kyuubi Jinchuriki is in konoha." He ordered and Konan nodded before she went to inform the merged being of the task.
Next Day, With Konoha group
We could see the team 7, 8 and 9 along with their respective Sensei's minus Kurenai, Yugao and Yamato going in the direction of the Uchiha hideout where they will confront Uchiha Itachi. They all had discussed the plan before departing for the location. The plan was for sasuke to confront Itachi alone upon his insistence Kakashi agreed but also told him that the rest will watch and cover the entire area to make sure that no one from Akatsuki attacks them from behind. After running nonstop for some hours they finally saw the Uchiha hideout in which Itachi is right now. But just as they were about to move towards the place two people appeared before them and the group was instantly on alert since they very well knew who both of them were after all who didn't know about them. They were Tobi of the akatsuki and Kisame Hoshigaki the monster of the mist.Both of them looked at the group who was on guard ready to fight.
"Well what do we have here." Kisame said with a smirk showing on his face his sharp teeth and samehada in his hands resting on his shoulders. "A bunch of leaf ninja, huh. You leaf nin really think that you are very smart. You really thought we would let you go like that well you are sorely mistaken."
"Indeed, only Uchiha Sasuke is allowed to go there. But the rest will have to stay." Tobi said with a deep voice this time since he knew that it is a waste of time now hiding his identity since from what zetsu found out is that konoha somehow knew that he was the one behind the kyuubi attack 18 years ago. He also found out that Sasuke knew the truth and thus will never join him like he initially planned to manipulate sasuke into joining him. But it is impossible but that's alright.
Kakashi saw that they won't let them go with sasuke. So he ordered sasuke to go by himself also telling him that they will stay here and face them. Sasuke agreed and moved towards the location. Once Kakashi saw that Sasuke was gone. He lifted his headband up to reveal his sharingan and ordered others to be ready to attack. With that both sides charges at each other.
With Sasuke at Uchiha hideout
Sasuke arrived at the entrance of Uchiha hideout and went inside. He went to main hall and saw Itachi sitting their with his eyes closed. Sasuke moved and stood in front of him.
"So you have come my foolish brother." Itachi said opening his eyes with his sharingan activated looking at Sasuke, "I was waiting for you to arrive."
"I can see that big brother." Sasuke said causing Itachi to raise an eyebrow at that since last time he remembered sasuke hated him but right now he was calling him big brother with a soft voice that he used to when Itachi was still in the village.
"You didn't appear to be angry at me?" Itachi asked since he was curious to know but he didn't expect what Sasuke said next.
"I know why you massacred the clan, Itachi." Sasuke said causing Itachi go silent since out of all things he expected sasuke to say he clearly didn't expect it to be that.
"How?" That's all Itachi said.
"After the retrieval mission Lady Tsunade and Jiraiya of the sannin told me everything about the massacre and why you did it. When I asked them why they told me this when you asked third not to. They answered that third before his death decided to make the decision to tell me the truth about the massacre." Sasuke replied before he looked at Itachi and asked, "I just want to ask you this was there truly any other way to prevent our clan from doing a coup d'etat."
Itachi was silent for a few moments before he sighed and answered, "No sasuke there wasn't truly any other way. I and shisui at that time tried everything in our power to prevent the coup and we would have been successful but Danzo shimura wanted our clan to rebel so he did everything in his power to make sure that Uchiha clan plan a coup d'etat against the village and then he would swoop in to become the Hokage. He also killed shisui to cement the decision of the coup d'etat in our clan. Shisui before dying gave me one of his mangekyo sharingan and another was stolen by Danzo. If our rebellion would have happened then the other villages would have taken advantage of the civil war in konoha and attaked konoha starting another great shinobi war. Shisui knew about this so he asked me prevent our clan to be remembered as the clan that was the cause of another shinobi world war and the reason for so many innocent to die. So I did the only thing that I could at that time was possible. I massacred our entire clan since it was the only way left at that time. Thus I become the greatest Uchiha traitor of konoha after madara. My plan was to make you hate me and then kill me this burying our clans darkest secret with me." He finished.
Neither brother spoke for long time before sasuke started, "I understand but Itachi I won't allow you to die on me leaving alone once again." Sasuke said with a single tear running down before he wiped it and looked at his brother, "You will come back to the village with me and I won't leave unless you come with me to konoha. I won't leave without my big brother. I will fight you if I have to."
Itachi saw how determined sasuke was to bring him back to konoha. "Then try your best little brother to bring me back to konoha." He said before casting a genjustu at Sasuke who just activated his sharingan and immediately cancelled the genjustu which surprised Itachi a bit since he didn't know that Sasuke will be able to break his genjustu that quickly. Itachi smiled a little at his brother's progress.
Sasuke then charged at Itachi with sword ready leaps forward at the sit that Itachi was sitting on however Itachi dodge the and send several shuriken at Sasuke who deflected every single one of them. Before both brothers charged towards each other starting a fierce battle of Taijutsu. Both brothers were almost evenly matched in the Taijutsu but Sasuke had greater strength, speed and agility on his part and Itachi had greater skills, precision and experience. Both of them then separated from each other and jumped a few distance away and performed hand seals and shouted at the same time, "Fire style (🔥): Great Fireball jutsu!!" And both of their jutsu clashed with each other fighting to overpower the other. Itachi then activated his mangekyo sharingan and used amaterasu which caused the explosion destroying the ceiling above them. Both Itachi and Sasuke jumped out and charged towards each other with sasuke his sword in hand and Itachi with his kunai. Both clashed together with Itachi expertly blocking all of Sasuke's sword strike before sasuke jumped back and channel lightning chakra⚡ through his sword, "Lightning style (⚡): Lightning slash!!" Sasuke shouted and launched a slash made of pure lightning at Itachi who saw this jump upward in time to avoid the the attack but he noticed sasuke leaping forward at him with his sword ready which he blocked with his kunai and kicked sasuke in the stomach sending in backwards skidding on his feet. Itachi then performed hand seals and shouted, "Wind Style (🍃): Wind whip!!" As he fired a hip of wind at Sasuke and swiped it but Sasuke dodged the attack before he felt the curse mark pulse on his shoulder and started to Activate on his own but Sasuke suppressed it before forming hand seals, "Fire style (🔥): Phoenix Flower Jutsu!!" And fired small volley of fireballs at Itachi who countered it with his own phoenix flower jutsu both of the attacks cancelled each other out.
Sasuke then shouted, "Chidori senbon!!" He sent hundreds of lightning (⚡) needles at Itachi who turned into the flock of crows dodging them and appeared behind sasuke, "Water style (🌊): Water stream!!" And launched a large water stream at Sasuke who got hit by the attack and was sent flying backwards before he regained his balance and looked at Itachi who was breathing heavily at the moment. Sasuke then fired another jutsu at his brother which was created by him, "Fire style (🔥): Great Fire Dragon!!" A giant flame dragon appeared and charged at Itachi who was able to dodge in time but his right arm got burnt. But Sasuke wasn't done yet and he threw away his Chūnin vest which was already destroyed before he jumped up on a pillar and raised his right hand in the air channeling lightning chakra and draw natural lightning from the thunder clouds 🌩️ and shouted, "Witness this Itachi! This jutsu I created myself!" He shouted and Itachi looked up and his eyes widened as he saw a massive lightning ⚡ dragon coming out the clouds similar to Sasuke's previous jutsu. Itachi then heard sasuke shout, "Guide the lightning down from the heavens! Kirin!!!" And brought his lightning dragon down on the entire hideout causing a Massive Explosion 💥 to go off destroying the entire hideout. The dust settles as Sasuke looked and saw Itachi standing there with his Susanoo activated.
"That was an impressive jutsu little brother. But were you trying to kill me with it." Itachi asked smirking at his little brother.
"If I wanted to kill you big brother then I didn't have changed it's direction." Sasuke shot back at his brother but then suddenly his curse mark started to pulse and activate on his own causing sasuke to fall to his knees in pain as giant snakes suddenly appeared out of Sasuke's cure mark and one of them opened its mouth to reveal none other then Orochimaru of the sannin who was killed by sasuke.
"Ah, finally after a long time I am alive again!" Orochimaru shouted before he looked at Itachi, "And I see a familiar face here as well it just got better for me. I will kill you Itachi this time for sure."
Itachi just calmly looked at Orochimaru and said, "You first." As he cut several sanke heads with his totsuka sword and blocked several other heads with his Yata mirror. Many snakes wrapped around Itachi's Susanoo before he destroyed all of them and impaled Orochimaru with the sword of totsuka and sealed him away right then and there.
(A/N: Orochimaru only came back to get his butt handed to him in the matter of seconds by Itachi's hand! HA!)
After Orochimaru was sealed sasuke got up but he was really exhausted and saw that he didn't have a cursed mark anymore and saw Itachi fall to his knees he shouted, "Itachi!!" He ran to his brother as the Susanoo around him disappeared as Itachi falls unconscious because of his illness, "Open you eyes Itachi! I won't allow you leave me alone again! I will not forgive you! if you leave me behind again! Please open your big brother answer me!!" Sasuke screamed as tears continued to flow down his eyes. He was in so much grief and pain thinking he lost his brother that it awakened his mangekyo sharingan but he noticed this as he was more focused on his brother. He didn't want his brother to leave him behind in this world. So caught up in looking at his brother that he didn't notice konoha group arriving behind him. He looked back when he heard someone calling his name and saw Kakashi, Sakura and Everyone arriving their.
Sasuke shouted frantically for them, "Sakura!! Please check on Itachi he is in bad condition! Please!!"
Sakura got down on her knees and checked Itachi's condition with her medical jutsu and said, "He is in very bad condition we have to get him back to konoha in the hospital otherwise he won't be able to survive." Kakashi then ordered, Guy to carry Itachi to konoha and Kakashi told everyone to move fast towards konoha.
"Well that was intense." Said zetsu as he appeared from the ground and looked at the destruction caused by the battle between brothers. "Got to admit that Sasuke was really strong to face Itachi because even though Itachi was suffering from his illness he was still one of the strongest in the akatsuki." Said the white half.
"Indeed better report this to pain and Tobi. Since there is a chance that Itachi might live but he will be out of commission for a long time and that is enough and if he dies then that will be even better." The black half finished and the merged being sunk into the ground vanishing from the view. Not even once noticing Yujin who was watching all of this from a distance.
"It all worked out perfectly like naruto-sama predicted. Now all that is left for him invite konoha to bring him back to village according to the plan." Yujin said to himself before he vanished from the view to report him about this and start the next phase of plan.
TO BE CONTINUED...