Kimimaro resisted a groan as he stood back up. This girl was a major problem. Their battle had been going on for the better part of three hours now and he had yet to do anything more than scratch her. Even with the power of his cursed seal, he had been unable to do anything, since the moment he laid that one scratch on her; she had activated her Jinchuuriki cloak, which acted a shield against most blunt damage.
Not that he had been able to hit her again anyways, since her speed, strength and reflexes had tripled. Even though she could not use any jutsu without fear of overloading them, she was still kicking his ass.
He thought about using his second stage cursed seal, but it was easy to realize that he would still be unlikely to kill Yugito. Especially given that she had the entire village with which she could hide in. on top of that he had his illness to worry about, the more he used his cursed seal the worse it got. He could not afford to let himself die here when Orochimaru may still need him.
All thoughts from the two of them were cut off by the appearance of Shukaku in one of Konoha's parks.
It was then that Kabuto appeared next to Kimimaro, "Orochimaru-sama has ordered your withdrawal, Kimimaro-san."
"What?" asked Kimimaro in shock, "But I can still fight! I can still help *Cough* *Cough*" Kimimaro dropped to a knee as he began coughing up blood, "No, not again." Why is it acting up now?
Kabuto shook his head, "You used the cursed seals power too much, and on top of that, you are fighting the Jinchuuriki for the Nibi. In any case the battle is, for the most part, over. We need to get you medical attention."
"I…I understand," Kimimaro stood up, only to cough up more blood.
Kabuto placed a hand on Kimimaro's shoulder and the two sank into the ground.
Yugito frowned as the pair disappeared. Sighing she let her Jinchuuriki cloak fall. Looking around Yugito looked over towards Shukaku.
'Should we deal with that problem kitten?'
'No, if we were to battle Shukaku it was cause tremendous collateral damage,' Yugito smiled as she saw a large puff of smoke. 'Besides I have a feeling Naruto-kun has it well in hand.'
Oh, this is so not good,Naruto thought to himself as he looked over at Gaara. He looked at himself to see that he was covered nearly head to toe in sand. This totally sucks, how am I gonna get out of this? How the hell am I even supposed to fight something that big? I would need a-He stopped and blinked as an idea to beat Gaara came to him.
'Hey Kyu, can you give me a bit of youki?'
Within the seal Kyuubi blinked in confusion, 'I don't see how my youki can- oh!' She said paused as she realized what he wanted to do, 'Yeah I can, here you go.'
'Thanks.'
As Naruto felt a small surge of Kyuubi's youki he brought his thumb to his mouth and swiped at some of the blood that had gotten there from when he was last thrown, and began to make a few hand signs.
Gaara held out his right hand. "Sabaku so-"
"Kuchiyose No Jutsu!"
There was a massive burst of smoke and Naruto found himself standing atop of Gamabunta. Jumping down on his nose Naruto turned to the massive summon, "Hey there Bunta! You want help me out with big bad over there?" Naruto jerked a thumb towards Gaara. "I'd take him out myself, but he seems to have grown too big for me."
"The Ichibi No Shukaku huh…"Gamabunta blew out a large ring of smoke as he looked the giant sand tanuki, "No can do kid. Why would I want to go out of my way to fight a guy like that?"
"Because if you don't, I'm gonna end up as nothing more than a bloody smear on the bottom of his foot," Naruto dead panned, "Besides aren't summons supposed to help their summoner?"
"Well that's tough kid. But I never accepted you as my summoner. We haven't even had a drink yet,"Gamabunta heaved a massive shrug. "Until we share a drink together I can't accept you as my summoner."
"You expect me to buy you sake? With amount of income I make?" asked Naruto. "Are you forgetting that I'm nothing more than a Genin? There is no way my sorry ass would be able to buy enough liquor to get you even slightly buzzed. I doubt I even make enough to get myself buzzed!"
"As I said, tough,"Gamabunta said in an uncaring manner.
"Fine…I really didn't want to do this but you leave me no choice," Naruto sighed before turning to Gaara and raising his hands to his mouth like a microphone. "Hey Gaara! Gamabunta hear says he can kick your motherfucking Tanuki ass back to the time of the Rikudou Sannin!"
"YOU DARE MOCK ME! I'LL KILL YOU!" Gaara screamed as he went through several hand seals, "Tanuki Neiri No Jutsu (Feigning Sleep Jutsu)!"
The star-shaped pupils began to spin wildly on Shukaku as the Tanuki shouted, "I'm free! Hell yeah! It's time to party!" It looked over at Gamabunta, "And look! There's something to kill! Fuuton: Renkuudan!" A giant bullet of air towards the giant toad summon.
"You know, I think I'm starting to hate you gaki," Gamabunta grunted as he jumped away from the bullet.
"Hey, if you had just listened to me and helped, I wouldn't have had to do that." Naruto looked at Gaara and rubbed his chin in thought, "Though, I'm not exactly sure how to beat an out of control Bijuu…any ideas Boss Toad?"
Shukaku inhaled a deep breath, "Fuuton: Renkuudan!" He launched another massive ball of air at Gamabunta, who decided to counter with his own attack.
"Suiton: Teppoudama!"
"Hah! Why don't I give you a hand with that Bunta!" Naruto flew through his own hand seals, "Fuuton:Renkuudan!"
He sucked in a breath before hitting his stomach, releasing a powerful cannonball of wind. Said ball hit the water bullet, increasing its speed and power nearly threefold as it smashed into the wind bullet sent by Shikaku. The wind bullet was destroyed and the water bullet continued on and collided with Shukaku himself, knocking the giant demon back and sending it crashing to the ground.
A little ways away both Kankurou and Temari watched the fight in shock. When they had seen a fully transformed Shukaku appearing in the middle of one of Konoha's parks, they had assumed that it was going to start going on a rampage. However they had been surprised when not only did Gaara not start smashing through objects, but that a giant toad would appear as well, and was now fighting off Shukaku. More surprising still was that they had spotted the familiar form of the blond who had beaten Gaara in the first place on top of the Giant Toad summon.
"Who the hell is this kid?" asked Kankurou, "I always thought his first battle was more luck than actually being able to beat Gaara. But now he's going head to head with him again and winning!"
"Hey that wasn't too bad gaki," Gamabunta complimented as he watched the great demon fall back.
"Of course it wasn't. It was awesome!" Naruto grinned as he watched the giant sand demon try to get back up, "So how do we do this?"
"We need to wake up the host. The boy on his head is acting as a medium for the Shukaku. A good smack should do it."
"I could pepper him with one of my attacks." Naruto offered, "Though that would most likely kill him."
"Then it's a no go. Killing the medium during a full-possession may very well release the demon. Since it already has a form it wouldn't need the boy."
"So we need to get in close then." Naruto said, "Alright! Get me near that son of a bitch, and I'll wake his ass up!"
"These hands aren't very good at grabbing things gaki," Gamabunto held up his webbed hands. "How would you suggest I get a hold of him?"
Naruto scoffed, "I don't need you to grab onto him, just get me close, I'll take care of the rest."
'Hey Kyuu-chan, think you can give me some juice?'
'Of course Naruto-kun, just be careful, you've already used a tail once today and this will leave you drained, so no more strenuous activity after this.'
'Got'cha! Light me!'
Naruto felt Kyuubi's youki running through him again, and prepared himself for what was either going to be the most awesome thing he had ever done, or get his sorry ass killed.
Orochimaru grit his teeth as he looked at Sarutobi, who was currently holding onto his shoulders and had his sword pierced into the old man's chest. Behind the old Hokage was Enma, who was on the ground with snakes entangling his form, he was holding onto the sword to keep it from going any further into Sarutobi's back. It was at this time that the Snake Sannin was regretting his decision to let his old sensei use the jutsu he had told Orochimaru about, letting his curiosity for powerful jutsu override his common sense. It had only been after Sarutobi had gotten a hold of him that he realized just what the old man had done.
Their battle had been intense, and they had clashed across their little arena for several hours, launching jutsu, battling with staff and sword. Neither had really been able to get the better of the other. Sarutobi was old; his age had made him far weaker than what he had been. Had this battle happened several years ago the aging Hokage would have no doubt won this battle, but his age had made him unable to keep up with his former student physically. However the old man was also cunning and had used his experience and crafty mind to make up for this weakness, thus making Orochimaru unable to really kill him.
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