Chapter 111: Chapter no.110
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Formerly Konoha Forest
Naruto and Natsuki were brought out of the latter's mindscape and were now standing in the charred remains of what was formerly a section of Konoha's surrounding forests. Over an hour had passed within the mindscape, and yet only a few minutes had passed in the real world. That was the beauty of genjutsu and the workings of the mind. What felt like hours in an illusion would really only have lasted a second in the real world.
Natsuki was on the ground, still overwhelmed with everything that had happened. It was to be expected, she had been misinformed about what had been sealed inside of her for her entire life and now that she learned the truth, she was more confused than she had ever been in her life. She had always just believed that having a Bijuu sealed inside you just meant that you were entitled to more chakra, but after coming face to face with the actual being and hearing it speak with your brother made you question everything you knew about the world.
Naruto saw the girl's dilemma and decided that he should do something about it, seeing as how what just occurred was his fault.
"Try not to think about it too much at the moment Natsuki..." Naruto said, gaining the girl's attention. "We've got bigger things to worry about like this invasion. You'll have plenty of time to think things over later." Naruto advised the girl as he began to walk back towards the village before he suddenly stopped.
"Oh, and do not inform anybody about what just happened...well I suppose you can tell Narumi since it involves her too, but no one else. This includes Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and whoever else you would consider telling. They will only become weary of Kurama and try to tell you that it is evil and that it's trying to take control of you. They will also try tampering with the seal, something that will do more harm than goo as you've already noticed." Natsuki noticeably cringed. Her having both halves of Kurama meant that it had been ripped out of her other brother. If the chakra hadn't have been separated into yin and yang that wouldn't have happened.
"If I do find out that you have told them...then consider our relationship over, done, non-existent. I am able to tolerate you right now, but should you betray my trust then I will treat you the same as I do Minato and Kushina." Naruto told the girl.
Natsuki flinched once again at the tone of his voice, proving that he was absolutely serious. She saw how much Naruto disliked their parents and she would hate herself forever if she was the one who forced him to treat her like that. She wouldn't throw away any chance she had of having any kind of relationship with her elder brother.
Natsuki knew that he was also right about her parents, godfather, and sensei. They would no doubt try to convince her to never make contact with Kurama again and to stop using its chakra completely, and if the conversation that Naruto and Kurama had was any indication, she would need it very soon. They would also try to mess with her seal, and there was no way she was letting them come close to her seal with the fine mess they had already made with it.
She would keep this to herself, and Narumi once she knew Naruto's conditions as well.
Natsuki quickly brought herself out of her thoughts and quickly followed her Nii-san back to the village to help fight off the invasion.
Kage Battle Royale
As soon as Gaara transformed into his initial jinchuriki state during his match with Haku, a large burst of smoke erupted out of the Kages' viewing box. Rasa, the Yondaime Kazekage, had immediately fled to the roof with the Mizukage and the Hokage not far behind. His goal had been to lure them up to the roof while Orochimaru's henchmen kept his fellow Kage's bodyguards occupied.
He stopped moving once he reached the rust-colored, tiled roof of the building. Not a second later did Yagura and Minato make their presence known.
"Kazekage-dono, what is the meaning of all this?!" Minato demanded just before the Suna bodyguards who had been training them split into four people who each positioned themselves at a corner of the large rooftop before erecting a large, purple barrier, surrounding the entire area of the roof. What was most notable about those four was that they were dressed in the usual attire for Oto-nins.
In truth, Minato was well aware of what was going on. Jiraiya had informed him about Orochimaru's presence in the chunk exams and the subsequent Suna/Oto invasion that would follow. He didn't make a move beforehand because he didn't have any evidence to support his claim besides Jiraiya's words, but they had been preparing for this for well over a month now.
Minato had not confronted the Kazekage about his accusations either because he had honestly believed that the man was being manipulated by Orochimaru, or that Orochimaru would be impersonating him during the finals. The man had a disturbing ability to copy the faces of others and make organic masks out of them. However, before him was the real Kazekage, so all his theories had all been thrown out the window.
The only response the Homage received was Rasa biting his thumb in order to draw blood and slamming his hand onto the tiles below. There was a poof of smoke, but what stepped out of it was what made both of the men cringe. In all his pale-skinned, snake-like, glory stood one of the three sannin, Orochimaru.
"Ah, Minato-kun. How good it is to see you once again." Orochimaru commented as he let his tongue hang out of his mouth and lick his lower lip. He couldn't wait to kill the Yondaime Hokage, Minato was the man who stole the position of Hokage from him. Him! One of the sannin, while Minato had just been a snot-nosed brat who had only just become a jonin.
"Orochimaru..." Minato growled as he tried to turn the man in front of him to ashes with his gaze alone. Had he been an Uchiha, that may have been possible, but for now he would have to settle with merely glaring menacingly at his sensei's former teammate.
"I'm sure you are well aware by now as to what the meaning of all this is." Rasa declared as he stepped forward to stand by Orochimaru's side. "We will be destroying Konoha today!...I wish it hadn't had to come to this, but Sunagakure is in a state of near bankruptcy because our Daimyo has been sending all of the mission requests that should rightfully be going to Suna to Konoha...this is the only option to our financial crisis."
This earned widened eyes from the two kage before him.
"You're doing all of this for the sake of financial profit! Have you not learned what war does to the villages after the last war?!" Yagura asked incredulously to the Kazekage. Seriously, he was acting as foolish as the Tsuchikage usually was.
To go to war for the sake of earning more missions from your country was preposterous. Suna was likely to lose more than it would gain from this invasion, even if Otogakure had allied themselves with them. Konaha was still suffering from how many shinobi had been killed in the Kyuubi attack sixteen years ago, but the village still had far more shinobi than Suna did. Suna had not yet recovered from the amount of shinobi they lost during the Third Great Shinobi War, not to mention the fact that they were the smallest of the five great villages and therefore didn't have as high of a population.
Orochimaru looked amused at the young kage's comment. "We live in a world that thrives in war and hatred Yagura-kun. As one of the five kages you should know such a simple reality of this world."
Minato closed his eyes in frustration, there was no way around this. The entire village was in a state of crisis right now. Giant snake summons looked to be destroying sections of the forest and the village, every shinobi was fighting to defend their home right now, his family was in danger, Jiraiya and Obito should be finished taking care of the Oto-nin that had swarmed them and should be heading off to take care of the situation throughout the rest of the village right about now, Minato didn't have the luxury of standing here chatting.
"It seems that there is no avoiding conflict here." Minato stated as he pulled several of his marked kunai from his weapons pouch.
"How observant Minato-kun...but I hope you don't think you'll be having an easy time." Orochimaru commented as he went through numerous hand seals before slamming his palm onto the ground.
"Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei (Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation)!"
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