85 Decisive Victory
"No! Stay away Uzumaki!!! You will not end my existence!" Gaara shouted fearfully as he tried his best to back away from the blonde Jinchuriki.
"Oh shut up, you're a shinobi, you deal with death everyday. You need to grow a pair if you're afraid of this, seriously. " Naruto replied while looking down at the redhead.
"How?.... How are you so strong? I always fight only for myself, yet you beat me..... What makes you so strong?" Gaara whispered weakly. Naruto crouched down in front of him.
" I'm strong because I don't fight for myself. I fight to protect my precious people, my friends and those I consider family." Naruto explained, confusing Gaara.
"But I…don't understand. Why would you fight for anyone other than yourself?..." He asked weakly.
" Because they saved me from going into the wrong path. You know that we're a lot alike right? Hated for something we had no control over, for something that was done to us by others."
" I still remember the glares, the hatred, and the isolation I suffered because of my burden. Even now it still happens. However unlike you, I worked hard and eventually gained friends, people who accepted me, who saved me." Naruto then glared at Gaara.
" And if you ever try to hurt my precious people or my village again, not even the Sage of Six Paths will protect you from my wrath! " Naruto shouted.
" He's right you know. " Gaara looked at Yugito who stood beside the crouching Naruto.
"Having precious people does a lot of good things to you and your mindset. Even right now, I still don't feel strong enough to protect them. So I train until I drop everyday to get strong enough so that nobody will have even the slightest chance of harming them."
"We Jinchuriki have a choice, we can choose to give in to the hatred and retaliate or we can prove them wrong by rising above it. Right now we stand apart from each other opposites in almost everything. You are one, I am nine. You gave in, I fight against it."
"You don't think anything will change no matter how you act. I know things will. For me they already have. I have found people that I trusted enough to tell my secret to and they have accepted me and my status."
" Someday I hope to befriend even the bijuu inside of me to prove to the nine-tails that not every human is the same. I'm sure with enough patience and perseverance you can get through to Shukaku as well. " Naruto said with a confident grin on his face. In his subconscious, Kurama's eyes were widened hearing the blonde's words.
"Try my way of life, Gaara. Try persistently to reach out to those around you no matter how many reject you until you find that one person that accepts you."
" Then the two of you look for a second. Until in no time, you've surrounded yourself in friends. You don't need many friends, just those that accept you no matter what. After all, quality is better than quantity. "
" I'll be your first friend." Naruto muttered as Gaara's eyes widened in shock. Yugito smiled warmly at the redhead.
" And I'll be your second. " Yugito added.
"I also suggest when you get home you try patching things up with your siblings. I guarantee that they were afraid of Shukaku and the amount of influence he had over you. Let them see the real you, they are your siblings they will always be afraid for your safety. " Naruto suggested as he created a Shadow Clone to pick the defeated Gaara up.
"Thank you... Naruto Uzumaki..." He whispered, making the blonde grin widely.
"Don't sweat it Gaara, you're gonna be fine now."
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" Yo." Jiraiya greeted his godson who smirked at him.
" Hey, Jiraiya sensei. As you can see, I've defeated Suna's Jinchuriki. " Naruto looked at Gaara. Jiraiya patted Naruto on the head.
"Great job kid, I'm proud of you. " Jiraiya muttered with a smile on his face. Naruto nodded.
"Thank you, but this couldn't be done without Yugito-chan helping me." Naruto looked at Yugito who smiled back at him. Jiraiya nodded and grinned slyly at Naruto.
"So, did you ask her out yet?" Jiraiya asked Naruto who blushed with Yugito doing the same.
"N-no. Maybe after this b-but let's not talk about it right now. What about Gramps?" Naruto asked the Toad Sage.
" He's still fighting Orochimaru but from what I heard from the Anbu he's going to win. The main thing is Orochimaru's used the Edo Tensei. He's resurrected the First and Second Hokage and also Mito Uzumaki, the Goddess of Fūinjutsu." Jiraiya explained. Naruto widened his eyes.
" I need to get in there!" Naruto shouted.
"We can help with that." Naruto was confused when Genma and two other Jonin he didn't recognize appeared in front of him.
" Genma, Raido, Iwashi. The Hokage Guard Platoon. So they're going to use that Jutsu huh? " Jiraiya whispered, confusing Naruto.
Raido Namiashi is a tokubetsu jonin and serves as an elite bodyguard to the Hokage. Raido's most distinct feature is probably the weal-like scar on his face, running across the bridge of his nose and down across the left side of his face.
He has brown spiky hair, dark eyes and wears the standard attire of the Konoha shinobi complete with a forehead protector and the standard flak jacket. He also tends to wear small appendages on his hand ranging from black bandages to metal rings on his fingers.
Iwashi has dark eyes, brown hair and a small goatee. He wore the standard attire of the Konoha shinobi complete with flak jacket and forehead protector which he wears like a bandanna.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked Jiraiya. Genma stepped up to explain.
"When we served as Lord Fourth's bodyguards, he taught us how to use the Flying Thunder Formation Technique during his reign. It's a minor version of his Flying Thunder God Technique which requires the cooperation of all three of us to perform it. "
" We made sure to mark Lord Third with the seal for the Flying Thunder Formation Technique so that we could teleport to his aid at any given time."
" C'mon, let's do it quickly! I need to stop the Edo Tensei Jutsu! " Naruto shouted. Genma raised an eyebrow at him.
" How do you intend to stop it?" He asked Naruto who grinned at him.
[Fūinjutsu: Master Lvl 1]
" You'll see it soon enough. Believe it!! "
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Orochimaru was not having a good day. He had gotten out of bed this morning with the intention to raze Konoha to the ground and kill his sensei. However, everything had started to go wrong the second the finals had started.
"Escaping won't work Orochimaru." Hiruzen muttered as he kicked Orochimaru in the jaw, sending him flying up to the air. A appeared in front of Orochimaru.
"LIGER BOMB!!!" A grabbed Orochimaru and raised him high. He then performed a powerbomb move, slamming the snake head first into the ground, absolutely shattering it.
*BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!*
Orochimaru spat out blood as his ribs broke from the impact of the technique. The snake spat out blood as Hashirama, Tobirama and Mito came to his defense.
Suddenly, Genma, Raido and Iwashi appeared beside Hiruzen who looked at them. He noticed Naruto and Jiraiya being encircled by them while the three were performing the seal of confrontation so that their thumbs, middle, and index fingers are touching one another's.
They immediately stepped away from them and stood in a defensive position around Hiruzen. Jiraiya looked at it Orochimaru and gritted his teeth.
The Toad Sage charged towards the snake who gritted his teeth and prepared to fight back. If he doesn't have hands, he'll just have to use his legs.
However Jiraiya wasn't pulling any punches, not again. He raised his right hand and opened his palm.
A menacing sound followed as a big blue ball of chakra about the size of Jiraiya's head appeared spinning on his right hand.
"Rasengan!!" Jiraiya shouted as he thrusted the ball into Orochimaru's stomach.
*BAAAAANG!!!!!*
Orochimaru gasped and spat out some blood as the Rasengan started grinding into his body, making a big hole on his stomach. He was then blown away by the sphere.
"Naruto! Jump!" Hiruzen shouted as he raised both of his hands. Naruto widened his crimson slitted eyes as he entered the One Tailed Chakra Cloak. He jumped as a complex array of seals appeared on his right arm while he made sure to face his legs against Hiruzen's hands.
"WIND STYLE: GALE PALM!!!!"
*BAAAAANG!!!!*
Naruto gritted his teeth as he was sent blasting forward by Orochimaru from a powerful compressed gale from both of Hiruzen's hands.
His controlled his chakra tail so that it wrapped around the still flying Orochimaru. He pulled the snake towards him and slammed his right hand onto his chest.
Naruto grinned victoriously as he threw Orochimaru, sending him tumbling violently on the ground. "It's in the name." Naruto said as the Senju brothers and Mito regained control, the tags combusting near instantly.
"Kuchiyose. It's a summoning and that means that it is affected by the contract seal. The three you just summoned were released from your control and can only be returned to the afterlife when they choose to leave. Oh and also, I canceled all the contracts you had, including the one with the snake clan."
" To think that I had overlooked that..." Tobirama mused out loud.
*BAAAM!!!*
"I told you to destroy the jutsu after you created it, didn't I?! So how is he using it?!" Hashirama shouted after he slapped his little brother in the back of his head.
"Ah...." Tobirama replied weakly, not knowing what to say, making Mito giggle at their antics.
"That is some seal master to have altered the contract seal so well." She commented. Hiruzen smiled and pointed at Naruto.
" I would hope so Lady Mito, this here is Naruto Uzumaki, Kushina's son. " Hiruzen explained as Mito looked at Naruto who waved at her while grinned my nervously.
"Kushina's son eh?" She whispered before looking at him Orochimaru.
"Before we continue, I believe we were going to skin a snake."
To be continued.....
