Chapter Twenty-One: attack on the leaf

The explosion ripped through the arena causing the crowd to go into a panic.  No one could tell where the explosion came from.  The two Akatsuki on the large bird swooped down dropping someone off at the hokage box to keep the three kages busy as his task was to obtain the three tails Jinchuriki.  The other Akatsuki landed before the one tailed Jinchuriki and the Tengu.  A sharp whistle escaped the long blonde's lips.

"They weren't kidding when they said the one tails was a half demon." stated a man with long blonde hair.  Both Gaara and Sasuke stood in defensive position knowing full well that the man standing before them was a member of the Akatsuki because of the usual cloak that all the members wore.  Sasuke wasn't bound to leave Gaara and let the Tanuki knew that his mate would do the same in his position.

"Who in the hell are you?" Gaara asked with a snarl.

"Deidara of the Akatsuki.  I hope that you like art because mine is a bang!" replied Deidara as he opened up his hands allowing what looked like clay birds to fly quickly towards both Gaara and Sasuke.  Deidara held up a single finger causing the clay birds to explode on contact with the two ninja.

Meanwhile up in the kage box......  Sarutobi, Yagura, and Rasa were facing against an Akatsuki whom looked like a puppet.  The puppet introduced himself as Sasori before he unleashed a bridge of weapons at the three kage.  Both Sarutobi and Yagura avoided getting hit.  But, Rasa wasn't so lucky as he went down hard.  This forced Sarutobi to use his Earth Release: Earth Style Wall  jutsu to protect Rasa until someone could get the injured Kazekage out of harms way.  The third Hokage and former Mizukage stood in defensive position while Zabuza quickly got Rasa to safety.  The two kage knew they could handle this Akatsuki member.

"I have to remember to keep the bear demon's body in tack as much as possible.  I never had a true demon as a puppet." stated Sasori as the Onikuma heard him loud and clear causing the bear demon to snarl at the puppet.

"You will find out that I am not going to be easy prey." snapped Sarutobi snarling at Sasori.

"Nether the less..........  I will have both you and the three tails in my possession before this day is done and over with." replied Sasori as he moved to attack the remaining two kages.

At that same moment, Naruto found himself facing against two Akatsuki whom where arguing with each other at whom gets to take the Kitsune on.

"This is why I hate being your partner at times Kakuzu.  Let me just make him a sacrifice for Lord Jashin!  I will make sure not to fully kill him." stated a man with white hair and reddish brown eyes.  His darker skinned partner wore a mask covering his face as all you could see was his eyes.

"Fine Hidan make sure to try not to do a lot of damage." sighed Kakuzu.  Hidan laughed wildly as he whipped his scythe towards Naruto.    The Kitsune managed to avoid the weapon as he lored the two Akatsuki away from the civilians whom was still fleeing.

"First you have to catch me!" Naruto replied as he made several Shadow Clones as they all split up into different directions.

"Which one is the real one?" asked Hidan.

"How am I supposed to know?" growled Kakazu as he opened up his cloak revealing four masks as his body split apart into four different creatures whom each wore a mask.  The two Akatsuki along with the four creature masks went chasing after a Naruto clone.  Naruto felt more confident with facing one of them in a one to one battle.

-Sasori/Gaara vs. Deidara-

Deidara laughed thinking his clay creation managed to hit the two demons.  But suddenly sand short out trying to grab the Akatsuki member.  Deidara quickly hopped onto the large clay bird that carried him down to the arena taking to the sky.  Deidara thought that he was safe in the sky until he saw the Tengu flying along with along with a large hawk that the Tanuki was riding.  Deidara hands spat out more clay creations as he sent them over towards them over to the two demons.  Sand and lightning darted through the sky destroying or stopping the clay creations.  Deidara was getting frustrated as he created a larger and more powerful clay creation sending it at the two.  Lighning laced Sasuke's hand as he charged at the clay creation.

"Chidori!" snarled Sasuke causing the clay creation to become a dud.  This caused Deidara  eyes to widen considerably.  The clay bomber then noticed sand that came charging at him causing Deidara to take drastic counter measures.  Gaara's sand chased the mad bomber as he managed to grab a hold of one of Deidara's arm.

"Desert Coffin!" growled the Tanuki  causing Deidara to scream out in pain as his arm was ripped completely off.

-Yagura/Sarutobi vs. Sasori-

Sasori made the first move as he brought out several puppets to deal with the two Kages.  The puppet Akatsuki didn't notice that the two Kage had a slug on their shoulders telling them to be careful of Sasori's weapons.  It was laced with a powerful poison one that could kill with in a couple of days.  The old bear demon could smell another scent coming from underneath the puppet which made Sarutobi believe that the Akatsuki was hiding within the puppets body.

"Yagura......  Do you think you can keep this guy busy for a bit?" Sarutobi asked in a low voice.  The former Mizukage nodded his head trusting that the Onikuma knew what he was doing.  Sasori moved to attack with his long scorpion-like tail, Yagura quickly stopped forth creating water as he hooked it with his staff.

"Water Release: Water Mirror!" he yelled out rotating the mirror to create a double of Sasori as the two puppets clashed head to head.  This allowed time for Sarutobi to gather up not only his charka but also his strength.  Sarutobi then appeared before the real puppet Sasori.  The Onikuma brought his full unbridle chakra enhanced strength down on top of Sasori causing the puppet to break.

-Naruto vs. Kakazu-

The masked ninja had only three masks with him by the time he had caught up with Naruto as it seemed that one of them had been destroyed.

"I don't know how you were able to destroy one of my masks using a plant jutsu that I had never seen before." stated Kakazu.  Naruto smirked while Kurama was grinning mentally.

*Thank you Yoko Kurama.  It was a good call to have some of my clones actually be your kids.  But we still have this Akatsuki and those three masks to contend with.* Naruto told Kurama.

*Summon Kuu, Tamamo, Kongiku, and Ahri.  They can handle the remaining masks.  Your main focus shall be on the Akatsuki member.* replied Kurama.  Naruto quickly did as told by the older Kitsune as he summoned all four female magic users.

"Keep these masks busy for me please." stated Naruto.  The four foxes took on their true demonic forms.

"Hai.......  Naruto!" they replied as they moved to attack the masks.  Naruto moved quickly with a Rasengan in hand as he charged at Kakazu.

"Your pitiful summon don't stand a chance against my elemental masks." stated the masked ninja.  A fanged smile crossed Naruto's face but, it didn't belong in the young Kitsune.  But rather in nine tailed fox within him.

"I think my girls may surprise you at what they are capable of." Kurama replied through his host as the Rasengan connected with the masked man.

-Shikamaru/Temari vs. Hidan-

The scythe wielding immortal found himself facing against a demon that he had never seen before along with a female human.  The clones of the blonde Kitsune that he had been chasing were nothing but shadow clones.  This lead Hidan to be caught in the Hakutaku's Shadow Imitation jutsu allowing Temari to strike at the immortal.  Her kunai cut deep into Hidan allowing the Akatsuki to turn towards her.

"Ouch......  You can't kill me......  I'm immortal." he stated.  Temari leapt away unsure of what to do.  Shikamaru pulled the female Beta behind him.

"Don't panic.  We will beat him.  Cause I have a plan." stated Shikamaru as he could see Yoko Kurama behind the immortal.  Shikamaru had seen the fox summon perform an unusual plant jutsu that destroyed a mask wearing creature.  Shikamaru had a feeling that the Kitsune was summoned by Naruto to help out in anyways he could.  Temari noticed the fox summon that was going to help them out as the fox summon nodded his head towards them.  So the two had to by the Kitsune enough time to do whatever he needed to do.  Shikamaru used his Shadow Sewing jutsu to hold Hidan in place.  Every time that Hidan broke free, Temari prevented the immortal's scythe from hitting them.

"Sinning Tree!" stated Yoko Kurama as a tree erupted from behind Hidan as the tree wrapped its branches around the immortal.  Hidan screamed, yelled, and laughed wildly unable to move.  Shikamaru sighed softly to himself as he retracted his jutsu. 

"That was one very troublesome opponent."  stated Shikamaru softly.  Yoko Kurama quickly went over to make sure that both Shikamaru and Temari were all right before he went.  When the two nodded that they were fine.  Yoko Kurama then went back into the village to help out where he could.

-Gaara/Sasuke vs. Deidara-

Once Deidara's arm was ripped off.  The mad bomber tried to use a more powerful bomb to destroy the sand Jinchuriki's sand which was protecting the civilians.  But Deidara's attack was stopped by Sasuke whom was surrounded by purple chakra that took on the form of a skeleton.  His eyes were now the Mangekyo Sharingan as his Susanno was armed with a thunder sword.

"Sorry but I can't allow you to unleash any more bombs.  Susanno Chidori Sharp Spear!" growled out Sasuke as he pierced Deidara in the chest where his ultimate ace was kept.  Deidara screamed out as his ultimate trump card threatened to blow up with him.  Suddenly sand surrounded the mad bomber.

"Desert Coffin!" yelled out Tanuki as the sand gathered keeping the explosion to a minim.  Deidara fell to the ground as the sand and dirt buried him.  "Desert Funeral!" Gaara growled making sure that the mad bomber could no longer caused any more problems for them any more.  

-Yagura/Sarutobi vs. Sasori-

After Sarutobi shattered the outer puppet a being moved escaping the rubble revealing a young red head whom seemed to turn himself into a puppet.

"How dare you shatter my masterpiece!" growled Sasori as he summoned a new puppet that appeared to be the third Kazekage.  "Iron Sand: Drizzle!" called out the puppet master as the puppet opened up its mouth unleashing metal sand.  The iron sand took on various shapes as Sasori directed them to strike at the two Kage.

*Yagura......  Transform into me.  My shell shall protect both of you from harm.* stated Isobu mentally.  Yagura quickly went into Bijuu mode transforming into the three tailed turtle.  Isobu gathered Sarutobi into its arms as his hard shell protected arms as his hard shell protected them both from Sasori's Iron Sand which was also coated with poison.

"Eight Trigrams: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms." rang out a female voice as Angel had come to help out the two Kage.  Even though Sasori's body was that of a puppet, the winged Kirin could see the chakra pumping through the puppet.  She managed to cut all of its chakra off completely causing the third Kazekage puppet to collapse suddenly as its jutsu ended causing the sand to drop.  While Sasori was immobile, Itachi moved in to deal the final blow.

"Amaterasu!" called out the Tengu as he set Sasori on fire with  black flames incinerating the puppet completely.

-Naruto vs. Karasu-

As Naruto's Rasengan hit Karasu it seemed to do hardly any damage.  Naruto leapt back ready for whatever this masked ninja might do.

"Enemy Trap!" called out Kongiku trapping Karasu as the four magic had destroyed the elemental masks weakening the masked ninja's power.

"You bitches!  I will kill you!" roared out the Akatsuki as he struggled to free himself. 

"That is no way to speak to my kids.  And I think that you are the one who is finished here!" Kurama stated through Naruto before he gave the blonde Kitsune back control.  Naruto had quickly armed himself with a new jutsu that he had learned thanks to his training.

"Rasenshuriken!" growled Naruto as he threw the wind shuriken at Karasu.  The attack hit the masked ninja causing thousands upon thousands of what looked like wind senbons to cut the masked ninja to shreds before the Rasengan obliterated his body completely.