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"I'm, I'm sorry Tsunade, I'm really am" said Jiraiya as he held the weeping woman to his chest, while he fought back his own tears. Seeing Naruto still lifeless body hurt him more than any injury he had ever suffered in his entire life, it was a wound to the heart, one that would never heal.

Seeing this, the two elder Toad Sages on Jiraiya's shoulder bowed their heads.

"I'm sorry Jiraiya-chan, I know how much he meant ta you" said Pa.

"Poor tadpole" said Ma as look over sadly at Naruto, and closed her eyes in sorrow, since she could only imagine Tsunade grief, as parents should not outlive their children.

"Naruto" thought the Sandaime as he looked down at the boy, who was a grandson to him in all but blood, with a pained grief stricken look. "I'm sorry this…everything today is my fault …you should not have had to pay for my mistake."

"Sarutobi, I'm sorry, I know how much you cared for the boy" spoke Enma, as she tried to console his friend in his grief.

"Naruto-dono" thought the Katsuya clone sadly, who like the Sandaime blamed herself for what happened to the blonde boy. For if she had refused to bring Naruto here, he would probably still be alive now.

After a minute or so, the Tsunade's grief stricken cries could be heard throughout the stadium.

"NNNAAARRRUUUTTTOOO!"

-With Tsunade and the others-

After the death of Naruto, the battle inside the barrier took a brief pause, where the only sound that could be heard was the sound of a weeping Tsunade, mourning the loss of her only child.

Jiraiya did his best to console his heart broken team-mate as he held the weeping woman, while the Sandaime kneeled down next to Naruto and had him lay on his back.

"I'm sorry Naruto…it should have been me, not you" said the Sandaime sadly as he mourned the young boy, whose life was tragically cut short.

"Tsk, what a waste" Orochimaru thought with a frown when he looked at the now deceased boy.

After a few minutes a cruel sneer appeared on the man's face. "It seems that your necklace has once again claimed another victim. A shame though, he would have made an excellent vessel one day, but like all foolish children who dream of being Hokage he died needlessly."

Hearing this, both Jiraiya and the Sandaime glared angrily at the man, who couldn't even leave them be to mourn the loss of someone dear to them, without saying something cruel.

Even Tsunade stopped hear crying when she heard Orochimaru's word.

"It really is a shame though, he had so much potential, but like little Nawaki, he was far too reckless and naive…In fact like Nawaki he probably thought he was invincible with the way he would rush off into danger without any regard. Kukukuku…it really is quite amusing"

As Orochimaru continued to laugh, he was suddenly cut short by a powerful punch to the face from Tsunade, who appeared in front of him and shouted "SSHHUUTT UUPP!" The punch was so strong that it broke the former Sannin's nose and sent sprawling across the ground, before hitting a tree.

"Don't…Don't you ever…ever insult my son or my brother like that again!" yelled Tsunade angrily, whose face was still covered in dried tears and her eyes were puffy red from crying so hard.

At the same time Jiraiya and Sarutobi, who looked angrier than Orochimaru had ever seen them, flanked Tsunade as they prepared to back the blonde haired woman up.

"You BBiittcchhh" Orochimaru hissed angrily as he glared at the Senju mother and held his right sleeve up to his now broken nose.

"Kill them!" Orochimaru ordered when he saw the Shodai and Nidaime Hokages appear next to him.

"No!" said the Shodai Hokage suddenly, surprising everyone by his answer.

"What did you say?" Orochimaru said is shock at the Shodai refusing his order.

"He said no, there has been enough fighting and death for today" answered the Nidaime Hokage. After which smoke suddenly began to emanate from their bodies and cracks started to appear on both his and the Shodai's faces, where they turned pale white and their bodies slowly began to crumble to dust

"What's going on? I don't understand this shouldn't be happening" said Orochimaru in dumb confusion.

"Although you have learned how to use the Edo Tensei (Impure World Reincarnation), you still do not understand it fully. Human emotions are not so easily restrained and if a person is affected in an emotional way, such as seeing that boy sacrificing himself to save his mother and protect this village. Then we are able to free our souls from the bindings of the Jutsu and return to the afterlife" answered the Nidaime Hokage.

"Impossible!" said Orochimaru, whose eyes widen in disbelief.

"You have done well as Hokage Sarutobi" said the Nidaime as he turned to his former student and smiled, "The will of fire has clearly been passed on to the next generation, if that boy's actions are any indication. We can now rest easily knowing Konoha is in good hands."

"We caused you all a great deal of trouble and pain …" said the Shodai sadly before looking to his granddaughter, whose eyes were still red from crying. "…especially to you Tsunade and for that I am sorry. I only wish our freedom did not come at the cost of your son."

After bidding their farewells to the three Konoha Shinobi, the two former Hokages bodies crumpled into dust and their souls rose up into the air before disappearing.

-In the Centre of Konoha-

After Naruto left to go after Gaara and his siblings, Kabuto was left to deal with the Senju heir's "girlfriends" who were proving to be quit troublesome for the bespectacled Shinobi.

At first Kabuto thought he could easily defeat the three girls, given their mutual dislike of one another, which would prevent them from working together.

But to his surprise, the three girls somehow found common ground with one another and worked together to fight him.

Furthermore despite the fact they came from different villages and had never worked together with one another. The three girls proved to be an effective team, where Yugito would use her high speed and agility to fight Kabuto in close combat, with Mai's assisting, who also supported with mid-range attacks. Haku remained behind the two girls giving long range support, so to keep Kabuto on the defensive, along with medical aid in the event that Mai or Yugito were injured.

In the earlier part of the fight Kabuto had tried manoeuvre around the three Kunoichi and chase after Naruto. But that soon proved impossible thanks to Haku, who used her Makyō Hyōshō (Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals) technique to create ice mirrors to block his path and force him back.

As the fight continued Kabuto became more irritated with the three girls, and how they were dealing him, since he had already wasted too much time with them.

"This is taking too long, I never anticipated these three to prove so troubling. If I was battling them individually, I could easily deal with them, but since they're working together, their covering for each other weakness" Kabuto thought with a frown. "Furthermore they're only using delaying tactics, focusing on keeping me here instead of trying to defeat me. That make things even more difficult, since they know my real objective is to capture Naruto, and by not attacking they leave few openings for me to exploit."

At the same time the three Kunoichi were all panting heavily, as Kabuto had proven to be an extremely difficult opponent, just as Naruto had said he would.

Each of them had several small cuts on their arms and legs and where covered in sweat from battling so long.

"This is indeed troubling, Naruto-kun was not mistaken in how dangerous Kabuto-san is, he is easily at the level of a Jonin" Haku thought. "Even Zabuza-sama would have difficulty fighting him."

During the fight Haku had used the Water from a nearby well to try and capture the Oto spy using her Makyō Hyōshō to create a dome of ice mirrors around him.

But before the dome could be complete, the grey haired teen had jumped out of it, since he knew how dangerous it would be for him if he got caught inside it, after watching Haku's battle with Samui.

"Damnit, if only I could use Nibi's Chakra, I could finish this guy off quickly, but Nibi is still out after Naruto suppressed her" Yugito thought angrily.

"Tsk, this guy is no pushover I give him that" Mai said in annoyed tone. "And that healing ability of his is really irritating."

"Agreed, also given how we haven't seen any sign of Sabaku no Gaara in his release Biju form. I believe it is safe to assume that Naruto-kun was able to reach him in time and stop him, which means we can stop out delaying tactics."

"Right, but to do that we will have to coordinate our attacks more and catch him off-guard" replied Mai, who although didn't like the idea of having to work with the two girls, knew she had no other choice.

"And how exactly do we do that?" Yugito asked, since they had already made several different coordinated attacks. But Kabuto evaded each and every one of their attacks.

"I have a plan" said Mai, with a small smirk, after which she began to tell the other two girls her plan.

Seeing the three girls whispering amongst themselves, Kabuto frowned in concern, since he knew it was unwise to let the three girl's converse amongst themselves. But before he could do anything, Mai took out several smoke bombs and threw them to the ground in front of her, creating a large cloud of smoke.

She then swung her fan to create a large gust of Wind that blew the smoke towards Kabuto which envelope them.

Blinding by the smoke, Kabuto raised both his arms in a defensive measure and focused for any sounds.

"What are those three up to this time?"

Kabuto of course soon got his answer, when he received a sharp kick to the side. After which he spent the next minute or two struggling to defend himself from his adversaries, who were attacking him from multiple different directions.

"This isn't good; I'm at too much of a disadvantage like this, I need to get out of this smoke" Kabuto thought.

Moments later Kabuto jumped out of the smoke, with Mai and Haku right behind him.

Turning to meet the girls, Kabuto took out and threw a Kunai at them, causing them to split up and attack the grey haired Shinobi from both sides at the same time.

Seeing this, Kabuto activated his Chakra Scalpels again and ducked under attack at the last seconds and then hit them both in the heart with his Chakra Scalpels.

But just when he thought he had killed the two Kunoichi, "Haku" and "Mai" exploded into Water, soaking Kabuto, and revealing they had been Water Clones.

At the same time, the smoke cloud final dissipated revealing that the three girls had not moved from their location.

Once the smoke was gone, Haku preformed a single one-handed hand seal, which caused the Water that covered Kabuto to freeze, preventing him from moving.

"What the?" Kabuto thought when he saw what was happening. But before he could act he saw Haku unleash a large hail of Senbon needles.

At the same time Yugito spat out a large stream of Fire, which covered the needles, while Mai swung he fan to create a large gust of Wind which increased not only the needles speed but enhanced the Fire around the needles.

Seeing the attack Kabuto could watch in horror as the flaming needles impaled his body, which shortly burst into flames.

"Heh, Gottcha!" said Mai with a triumphant smirk.

"Hmph not bad for an Ame-nin" commented Yugito, since she had to give the brown haired girl's credit, since her plan worked perfectly.

"That was an excellent plan Mai-san, I must admit I-Huh?!" said Haku before she saw Kabuto's burnt corpse turn to mud and felt something grab her legs.

When she and the others looked down, they saw a pair of glowing hands that had sprung out of the ground and were holding the ice users leg."

"What the…?" said Mai when she saw the hands, but before she or Yugito could act, the hands let go of Haku's legs, causing the girl to fall to the ground, as the tendons to her feet had been cut.

Moments after the hands retreated into the ground, Kabuto sprung out of the ground behind the two girls, who quickly spun around to meet him. But before they could attack, Kabuto kicked Yugito away, sending the Kumo Kunochi flying back a few meters. After which he then sidestepped a left punch from Mai and then placed one of his glowing hands on the girl's chest, right above her heart, causing her to spit out blood and fall to the ground clenching her chest in pain.

"Heh, I missed" thought Kabuto with a small smirk, since his intention had been to hit the girl right in the heart with his Chakra Scalpel. But because of her sudden movement, he had narrowly missed the spot he had been aiming for and instead it a vain which temporarily disrupted the blood flow to her heart.

After dealing with Mai, Kabuto then turned to Yugito, who was speeding towards him with her claw like nails.

Wasting no time, Kabuto skilfully evaded the blonde girl's slashes and then broke the girl's long claws with his Chakra Scalpels. After which he then placed the palm of his glowing hand on the girl's upper chest, disrupting her breath and causing her to buckle, allowing him sever the tendo on her right arm and both her legs, causing her to fall.

Seeing that he had finally disabled the three girls, a small triumphant t smirk appeared on his face as he fixed his glasses up.

"Well now, I must admit that was challenging, you three put up and impressive fight. I also must compliment you all on that perfectly executed combo you preformed at the end. Had I not created a clone of myself in the smoke earlier on, and used it to distract the three of you. I'm certain that you would have gotten me with that attack.

"Bastard!" growled Mai angrily as she held her chest in pain.

"Now, now there is no need for language like that Mai-chan" Kabuto said in a mocking tone as he smirked down at the girl.

"Sadly I'm afraid I cannot let any of you live for if I did, given your already impressive skill level. You would no doubt continue to improve and could cause Orochimaru-sama and myself a great deal of trouble later on. Given how you have already caused me to fail in my mission in preventing Naruto-kun from reaching Gaara."

But just after he said this, a sudden idea hit him, causing a cold cruel smirk to appear on his face, and causing the three girls to worry.

"Perhaps I will let one of you live, since I could use one of you as a hostage, when I go to capture Naruto-kun. Knowing him, he would risk almost anything to save his friends."

"The question is which one of you I will use?" asked the young medic, as he looked at three young girls, who just stared back at him angrily and made sure not to show any fear.

But before Kabuto could come to a decision on whom he would spare and use as a hostage to capture Naruto. The grey haired youth was suddenly forced to jump away when he caught sight of an object speeding towards him out of the corner of his eyes.

Acting fast Kabuto quickly jumped back to avoid the objected, which cut his right cheek as he moved away and then embedded itself into a nearby stone wall.

When Kabuto took a closer look of the object, he saw that it was a short sword that had been covered in Lightning Chakra, increasing its cutting power and allowing it to embed itself into the stone wall.

"That was too close" Kabuto thought with a cold sweat, since if he had been a moment slower, the sword would have gone right through his head.

At that moment though, Kabuto noticed a person standing between him and the three young Kunoichi. This person was none other than Kumo's Hachibi no Jinchuriki (Eight-tails Jinchuriki) Killer Bee.

"Sensei!" said Yugito in surprise

"Not so fast you motherfucka fool! Picking on kids ain't never righ" spoke the rapping Jinchuriki as he drew two more short swords from his back and covered them in Lightning Chakra.

"More trouble" Kabuto thought in annoyance when he recognised Killer Bee. "Damnit I don't stand a chance against someone like him, especially since I nearing the end of my Chakra. There's no other choice, I'll have to retreat."

"Sensei you need to be careful, this guy is a medic-nin and is dangerous."

"That fine with me, I won't lose you see" answered the dark skinned man, before he and the girls saw Kabuto make a run for it.

"He's trying to escape!" cried Haku.

"I'm on him like white on right rice" said Killer Bee as he chased after Kabuto. But before either Shinobi could get very far, they suddenly stopped when they saw the Shishienjin (Four Violet Flames Battle Encampment) fall. Shortly after the barrier fell they saw half of the stadium rooftop be destroyed in a massive explosion."

"Orochuimaru-sama!" thought Kabuto with a mixture of surprise and concern, before realizing he needed to get to his master.

"My apologises Bee-sama, but I afraid I must take my leave, let us met again at another time" said Kabuto with an arrogant smirk before he started preforming hand seals.

"Hold it you…" said Killer Bee as he took a step forward, but by then it was too late, as Kabuto had already disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Damn Mothafucka, he turned and hauled ass" muttered the sunglass wearing Shinobi.

"Forget him Bee, you better get back to those three girls and make sure they're okay, after that we need to see what's happening at the stadium, as I have a bad feeling about it" the Hachibi said.

"Right!" replied Bee before he took off

At the same time not far from where Mai, Haku and Yugito were battling Kabuto. Baki was busy fending for himself from the combined efforts of Yamato and Momochi Zabuza the Kirigakure no Kijin (Demon of the Hidden Mist).

In the beginning of the battle, it was just Yamato and him, where the Mokuton user proved to be a difficult opponent to go up against thanks to his Bloodline limit. But the tide soon turned completely against him when Zabuza joined the fray after he and Killer Bee had defeated all of Baki's men, including a platoon of Oto-nin who joined the fight shortly afterwards.

After dodging several wooden spikes that erupted from the ground, Baki barely managed to avoid a lethal slash from Zabuza's large sword, when the Demon of the Hidden Mist appeared next him.

"Damnit this is getting out of hand" thought Baki angrily, as he held his now bleeding shoulder and saw the bodies of his dead men, who had been killed by Killer Bee and Zabuza without too much difficulty. It was only through a stroke of good luck that Killer Bee had gone after Kabuto and the girls, since if he had stayed with Yamato and Zabuza, the Suna Jonin knew, he would probably be dead by now.

Knowing he needed to make a retreat Baki tried to think of a way to escape, but just when his two opponents were about to attack. Their attention was suddenly turned into the direction of the stadium where they saw the Shishienjin fall. Shortly after that they saw half of the stadium rooftop be destroyed in a massive explosion.

"What the hell?!" said Zabuza said when he saw the explosion.

"Hokage-sama, Tsunade-sama, Jiraiya-sama!" thought a concerned Yamato.

Seeing this as his only chance to escape, Baki formed three quick hand-seals and lifted up both his hands and yelled "Fūton: Kiryū Ranbu (Wind Style: Air Current Wild Dance)!"

After Baki yelled this, a large blast of Wind erupted from his hands creating a large dust storm that blanketed the arena, blinding both Yamato and Zabuza.

"Shit!" thought Zabuza as he and Yamato were force to raise their arms to shield their eyes from the dust.

Once the dust had settled and the two could see, they saw that Baki had disappeared.

"Tsk, he ran off, we were careless" Zabuza remarked with a hint of annoyance over how he allowed himself to be distracted and let Baki get away.

"That no longer matters, we needed to get back to the stadium, the Hokage-sama and the other may be endanger" said Yamato before taking off with Zabuza following closely behind.

In another part of Konoha, Kushina and Katsuya were just wrapping up their battle with the giant Snakes, where Kushina had used her Chakra Chains to retrain the large reptile, allowing Katsuya to finish the creature off with her Zesshi Nensan (Tongue Tooth Sticky Acid).

But before the Slug Queen could fire her attack, she suddenly stopped and froze when she received some news from her small clone.

"Katsuya what's wrong? Finish the thing off!" yelled Kushina as she struggled to hold the massive Snake.

"It's Naruto-dono…" said the Slug Queen.

"Naruto?! Did something happen to him?"

"He is dead" the stunned female Slug said.

"Dead?!" cried Kushina in shock.

Seeing that both Katsuya and Kushina were distracted, the large Snake summon quickly broke free of its binds and the burrowed into the ground before either Kushina or Katsuya could do anything to stop it.

Shortly after the Snake escape, the two females, (who were still reeling from the shock that Naruto was dead), saw the Shishienjin fall. After which they saw half of the stadium rooftop be destroyed in a massive explosion.

"Damnit" cursed Kushina after seeing the explosion, "Come on Katsuya, let's go, we need to get the stadium now."

"Yes of course" replied the Slug Queen and she quickly made her way over the stadium.

-Inside the Barrier-

After seeing the former Hokage return to the afterlife, Orochimaru just stared at their ashes still not understanding what had happened.

"This can't be happening" thought the Snake Sennin, "My plan was perfect."

At the same time some of the dust on the two piles fell, showing the dead bodies of Tsuchi Kin and Abumi Zaku and revealing what Orochimaru had done.

"He used his own subordinates as sacrifices to summon the Shodai and Nidaime Hokge-samas" Jiraiya thought with a frown.

"Orochimaru is there no end to your atrocities" the Sandaime thought angrily after glancing over at the two dead Genin before glaring at his former student.

With the Shodai and Nidaime Hokages gone and his hands now worthless from Tsunade's poison. Orochimaru realized that any chance of victory had faded.

"Sakon! The mission has failed, release the barrier…we're retreating."

"Hai!" replied the four Shinobi before preforming the same hand-seal and shouting "Kai!" causing the barrier to disperse.

Once the barrier had been dispelled Orochiumaru' personal guard quickly jumped over to their master where Sakon and Jirobo took his arms.

But before they could move Tsunade suddenly shouted, "Don't you dare move an inch!"

At that moment the Otogakure no Shinobi Yonin Shū (Hidden Sound Shinobi Four People) felt a wave of Killing Intent stronger than any they had ever felt before in their lives, coming from Tsunade.

The Killing Intent was so strong that it froze the four Shinobi in their place and made them feel as if their hearts had just been ripped out of the chests.

When the four Shinobi and their master turned to the Senju matriarch, they saw that she had her head lowered, where her hair covered her face slightly.

-Enter Naruto OST Anger-

After a moment or two Tsunade suddenly spoke, "Orochimaru…because of you I have lost the most precious thing in the world to me. The one good thing I did right with my life…the ONE thing that gave my life any meaning."

"…because of you…MY SON IS DEAD!" shouted the woman as she glared at the man responsible for her child's death, where tears once again fell from her eyes and she wiped Naruto's blood from her cheek.

At the same time, the others also notice that the diamond mark on her forehead had opened up into a seal that extended down throughout her entire body.

"Tsunade don't tell me…" Jiraiya thought when he saw the markings on his team-mates face and realized that she had activated her Byakugō no Jutsu (Strength of a Hundred Technique), which was the more advance version of her Sōzō Saisei (Creation Rebirth).

"This I swear on Naruto's blood… I WILL KILL YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS!" roared the grief stricken Tsunade. She then slammed her fist onto the tiled roof and destroyed half of the stadium rooftop with a single punch, along with all the trees on it and blasted Jiraiya all the others away.

After destroying half of the stadium rooftop Tsunade looked up and saw Orochimaru and his guard flying in mid-air, where they had jumped into the air to avoid Tsunade's explosive attack.

"Shit! That fucking old hag has lost it" cried Tayuya as she shielded her face from the force of the blast.

"Move! None of you stand a chance against her…not when she is like this!" yelled Orochimaru, who knew that there would be no stopping Tsunade now. Quickly Orochimaru and his guard fell down into the street below to make their escape.

"YOU'RE NOTHING GETTING AWAY!" yelled Tsunade before she jumped after them.

"Tsunade Wait!" cried Jiraiya, but it was too late as the blonde haired woman had already jumped after Orochimaru and his guard.

"Jiraiya we needed to go after her and help" spoke the Sandaime who was holding Naruto's body, after they had been blown away by the force of Tsunade punch.

"Right!" nodded Jiraiya, but before he could leave, ANBU commander and his team arrived, who like Jiraiya and the Sandaime had been blow back by the force of Tsunade punch.

"Hokage-sama! Are you alright?"

"Yes I'm fine," replied Sarutobi as he laid Naruto down of the rooftop "You've done more than more enough today my boy."

"Hokage-sama is he…?" asked the ANBU Commander as he took the blonde boy from the old Kage.

"Yes" replied the Sandaime regretful where he closed his eyes in sorrow again.

"I understand" replied the Commander before he and his men took off after Tsunade with Jiraiya and the Sandaime

-With Tsunade-

After jumping down into the street below, Tsunade continue in her pursuit after Orochimaru, where she quickly closed the distance between them, as she moved with phenomenal speed.

As she moved through the streets, every time her feet touched the ground, she would create a small crater in the ground, indicating her unbridled fury.

"Shit, the Bitch is catching up with us!" cried Tayuya.

"I'll hold her off" said Jirobo as he activated the first level of his curse seal and created a massive Earth Wall in front of him to halt her advance.

Not slowly down even for a second, Tsunade used her enhance strength to punch right through the massive Earth Wall, and at the same time send Jirobo, (who was standing behind the Earth Wall), flying across the street and crashing to a nearby building.

"That useless fat fuck, he didn't even slow her down for a second!" shouted Tayuya angrily.

"Let me deal with her!" said Kidomaru, who quickly activated the first level of his curse seal. After which he formed a single hand-seal and spat out several globs of sticking web at Tsunade, hoping to halt or at least slow down the female Sannin's advance.

Within seconds of seeing the white sticky globs, Tsunade quickly formed the necessary hand-seals for Chakra Scalpels and used them to cut through the globs.

Seeing this, Kidomaru moved back in attempt to keep his distance from her and continued to fire move globs of sticky web, hoping to keep the vengeful Senju mother at bay.

But Tsunade dodged or cut through each and every one of his attacks and within seconds was right on top of him and hit him with a super charged kick to the side, sending the Oto-nin crashing through a stone wall.

"Those useless shitheads, now Kidomaru's out" yelled Tayuya as she turned and saw Tsunade close in on them.

"Tayuya take Orochimaru-sama, I'll handle her" said Sakon where he turned around and raced towards Tsunade.

"Ukon, I'm going to need your help brother" said Sakon as she glanced back at his other head.

"Right!" spoke the Ukon, who then separate himself from his brother.

Once they were separate the two brothers then activated their curse seal and attack Tsunade together. Who easily ducked under their two punches and grabbed both their face in her hands and slammed them both head first into the ground, causing small craters in the ground.

After dealing with Sakon and Ukon, the vengeful Tsunade closed in on Orochimaru and Tayuya. But before she could attack, the last giant Snake erupted out from the ground in front of her and blocked her path.

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" roared Tsunade, as she gathered a huge amount of Chakra into her right fist and slammed it into the massive Snake's face.

The force of the blow was so powerful that it caused the Snake to explode and cover the surrounding area with the Snakes blood a guts, which disappeared shortly after in a puff of smoke.

"Fuck! Can't anyone stop that bitch" Tayuya yelled before stopping, "Orochimaru-sama, please go on a head, I take care of this bitch!"

After biting her thumb, Tayuya quickly performed a few quick hand-seals and yelled "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)!"

After preforming the Summoning technique a large cloud of smoke appeared around her, where once it dissipated, it revealed three massive Orges behind her.

The first wore a dark green full-body suit with its hair covers its entire head and face and wielded a giant studded metal club. The second was shirtless, which showed it muscular physique. It wore dark pants and had scars on its head and wore a blindfold, covering its eye sand thorn-like weapons tied to each arm. The third and final Orge had its upper body covered in bandages and didn't seem to have arms or wielded any weapons. It wore brown pants and held its head in an awkward position with several needles pinned on it.

Once she had summoned the creatures, Tayuya took out her flute from her pouch and activated the first level of her curse seal and used her flute to order them to attack.

Unconcerned by the three creatures the vengeful Tsunade continued to race forward, jumped into the air and performed a perfect falling axe kick down on the bandage covered Orge's head, creating a massive crater, which the creature was now lying in.

After dealing the first Orge, Tsunade turned to the other two, where one used its massive club to try and crush the female Sannin with one blow. But instead Tsunade caught the club with her one hand and grabbed hold of it and swung the Orge around into the third Orge, sending the two creatures crashing to a large nearby building.

Seeing Tsunade easily defeat her summons, Tayuya raced forward with her left fist raised and yelled "YOU FUCKING COW!"

But before her fist could even reach the elder woman, Tsunade backhanded the girl, like she was a fly and sent tumbling across the ground several meters away.

Once Tayuya and her summons were defeat, Tsunade then took off after Orochimaru, where within minutes caught up to her former friend, right when he was nearing the Outer wall.

Using her monstrous strength, Tsunade destroyed the ground underneath Orochimaru feet, (along with several nearby buildings), forcing the former Sannin to jump into the air. Making him an easy target for Tsunade who jumped into the air and kicked the Hebi Sennin in back and sending him hurtling into the outer wall when he made a massive dent in the wall.

Not the least bit finished the man Tsunade chased after him, with the intent of smashing the man until he was nothing more than a bloody stain on the ground.

Disorientated over what happened Orochimaru struggled to get back onto his feet where he Tsunade speeding towards him with fist raised.

With no time to waste, Orochimaru spat out his long tongue at Tsunade in the hope of capturing her with it again.

But this time the female Sannin was ready for him and she side-stepped the long tongue and grabbed hold of it and pulled the fallen Sannin towards her while yelling "YOU'RE DEAD!" After she then punched the man right in the face with a super charged punch to the face, sending flying back into the outer wall. But before he could hit it, Tsunade grabbed hold of his tongue again and pulled him back towards her. After which she unleashed a series of powerful punches on his entire body, causing massive damage to the man, before finally kicking into the stone wall of a nearby building.

- End Naruto OST Anger-

"Bguagh!" cried Orochimaru after he smashed into the wall. After taken so many tremendous and powerful hits, a normal Shinobi would have been dead. But Orochimaru was no ordinary Shinobi, thanks to all the experiments he had done to himself over the years, he was able to survive, but it was not without cost where the man was left in agonising pain. There wasn't a single part of his body that wasn't screaming in pain, where he was suffering from multiple internal injuries with most of his bones broken and his arms and legs twisted and turned in unnatural angles.

Seeing the state he was in, Orochimaru opened his mouth into an inhuman width, after which a new undamaged version of himself emerged from it. But to his anger he saw that his shedding technique had not healed him of Tsunade poison, in fact it only accelerated the poisons effects. His arms were now grey, and felt like they were on fire, while the veins on his arms were blood red, making them visible, and the wounds on his hands were a sickly yellow, making them look infected.

"Curses what sort of poison did Tsunade use on me?" Orochimaru thought angrily, but before he could think on the matter further he saw his former female team-mate racing towards him.

Knowing he was no match for her in his current state, Orochimaru tried to run away, but Tsunade quickly caught up to him and flipped over him, blocking his path. She then kicked him in the chest before he could move away and followed up with several other strong punches and kicks.

Trying his best to avoid any further damage Orochimaru spat out his tongue again, which turned into a Snake that spat out a long blade that pierced Tsunade's chest.

Thinking he had gotten Tsunade, the former Sannin smirked in triumph. But it was short lived, where it turned shock when he watched Tsunade pull the blade out of her chest and the wound healed almost instantly.

"Impossible! What sort of Justu is she using" thought the wide eyed Orochimaru, before pulled on the Snake tongue and pulled him over to her.

"This Orochimaru is you clavicle." she clenched her hand around the Snake Sennin's collar bone. "It is believed by many people to be one of the easiest bones to break in the human body."

With a sadistic smile plastered on her face, and a small amount of her famed strength, Tsunade snapped her former friend's clavicle, causing Orochimaru make a cross between a snarl and a cry in pain. But before he could recover he was yanked by the collar of his shirt again and sent into the air. She then channelled and enormous amount of Chakra into her leg and kicked the Hebi Sennin right in the face.

The force of the kick was so great; it sent Orochimaru flying through the air and back into the outer wall, making a gigantic dent in the wall and nearly brought down the entire section of the wall down on top of the former Sannin.

After Orochimaru hit the wall the paled face man struggled to get back onto his feet, as he could barely move his body after the hit he took, which also nearly blew his head clear off his body. Not to mention he could no longer move his hands or arms, which felt like fire was coursing through his veins.

Before Orochimaru could even try to stand up, he saw a large shadow hovered over him. When he looked up he saw Tsunade standing over him with a look pure hatred and anger in her eyes, where she lift her fist up and channelled another enormous amount of Chakra into it.

"This is for Naruto" Tsunade said coldly.

Seeing the Chakra covering her fist, a look of fear appeared on Orochimaru's face, knowing that Tsunade had channelled enough power to her fist to kill him with one punch.

But before Tsunade could deliver the fatal blow, a figured suddenly jumped up in between the two of them and kicked the female Sannin away.

Skidding across the ground, Tsunade ignored the pain coming from her stomach after the kick and looked up towards Orochimaru and the person that that had saved him.

"Excellent timing Kabuto-kun" spoke Orochimaru in a painful voice, as Kabuto slowly helped him up.

Upon seeing Orochimaru's weaken state, the grey haired teen was naturally concerned for his master.

"This is not good, Orochimaru-sama is badly injured, and I can't take him away from here with Tsunade –sama in front of us. Who will no doubt attack us the moment I try to move."

At that moment unexpected assistance arrived in the form of the Otogakure no Shinobi Yonin Shū. Who had all somehow recovered enough from their fights with Tsunade to come and help, although most of them still looked to be badly injured.

Accompany the Sound four were also with Tayuya's three Orge summons, who looked no worse for wear.

But just when things were looking unfavourable for Tsunade, the tables quickly turned again with the arrival of Jiraiya and the Sandaime. Who were also accompanied by, the Godaime Mizukage, the Yondaime Raikage, their respect bodyguards Darui and Ao, along with Kakashi, Zabuza, Killer Bee, Gai, Yamato, Asuma, Anko, Shizune, Kurenai, the three ANBU and Kushina. Who had also brought along the Slug Queen Katsuya.

As the two sides faced each other Tsunde's group quickly choose their opponents.

Orochimaru against Tsunade,

Kabuto against the Godaime Mizukage Mei, Shizune and Kushina.

Jirobo against the Sandaime Hokage, Asuma and Gai.

Tayuya against Anko, Kurenai Yamato.

Tayuya's three Ogres against the Yondaime Raikage A, Killer Bee and Jiraiya, (who was still in his Sage mode).

Kidomaru against Ao and the three ANBU.

Sakon against Kakashi, Zabuza and Darui.

After seeing who they were up against, Orochimaru of course had no delusion of what would happen. Given the number of enemies they were up against and who their enemies were, his side stood no chance of winning. They couldn't even last long enough to buy him time to escape, since not only were they facing his former team-mates and Sensei, along with several notable Shinobi. They were also up against the Raikage and the Mizukage, which of course baffled the former Sannin, since he had been certain that the two Kages and their people would leave Konoha to fend for itself, once the battle started.

The situation was made even more difficult with the arrival of Tsunade's summons Katsuya, who easy wipe out him and his forces out with one blast of her acid.

Knowing he needed to do something, Orochimaru quickly signalled Kabuto over to him.

Realizing what his master was planning, Kabuto quickly bit his finger and moved over to Orochimaru and lifted his left sleeve to reveal his summoning tattoo. After which Kabuto then quickly rubbed his blood onto the tattoo and preformed the necessary hand-seals.

Seeing what they were up top Tsunade, Kushina, Shizune and the Mizukage moved into stop him. But by the time they reach them, Kabuto finished his hand set and slammed it onto the ground while yelling "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

After Kabuto finished the Tsunade and the others were all force to jump back onto the rooftops of some nearby buildings, where they then saw a massive two headed Snake appear.

"Katsuya quickly!" shouted Tsunade.

"At once Tsunade-sama!" replied Katsuya before spitting a large blast of acid, which hit the large summons before it had a chance to attack and caused it to melt before puffing away.

Once the smoke from the giant Snake returning to its home died down, Tsunade and the others quickly scanned the field for any sign of Orochimaru and his people.

"Where are they?!" Tsunade yelled furious as she jump back to where they last saw Orochimaru and scanned the arena for any sign of them.

"Ao can you sense them?" the Mizukage asked as she turned to her guard.

Closing his eye the head of Kiri's Hunter-nin division closed his eyes a tried to sense for the Oto Shinobi. After a minute or so Ao opened his eyes and shook his head, "I'm sorry I can't somehow they're cloaking their chakra signatures and preventing me from finding them."

"NO!" shouted Tsunade angrily as she prepared to try and follow after Orochimaru, "I WON'T LET HIM GET AWAY…NOT AFTER WHAT HE DID!"

Before the Tsunade he even take a step away, someone suddenly grabbed her hand and stopped her in her tracks and said, "That's enough Tsunade."

When she turned, she saw that the person who stopped her was Jiraiya, who had an unusually serious long on his face.

"If you don't want to lose that arm Jiraiya, you'll let go of me this instant!" Tsunade spat angrily.

"No!" replied Jiraiya, who for once showed no fear in the face of Tsunade's anger.

"What?!"

"I said, no…enough for one day, there's no point in going after them, you'll never catch up to them in time. Besides can't you see your body is at its limit, your running on pure adrenalin right now. Even if you find them, you won't be in any shape to fight all of them; you'll just get yourself killed in the attempt."

"I DON'T CARE! AS LONG I TAKE HIM WITH ME!"

"STOP TALKING LIKE THAT TSUNADE…!" yelled Jiraiya, which surprised most people, since this was the first time any of them had ever heard Jiraiya raise his voice to Tsunade. "The kid would never what you to talk like that."

"Don't dare bring up Naruto's name into this!" shouted Tsunade.

"Then stop acting so selfish!" rounded Jiraiya angrily, "Don't think for one second that you're the only one hurting here. I love that kid as if he was my own flesh and blood, but acting like this changes nothing! Do you really want to throw away your life like this, even after he gave up his own to save it."

After Jiraiya said this, most of the gathered Shinobi were left in shock when they heard that Naruto was dead.

But before any of them could recover, Jiraiya spoke again, "Tsunade, I promise you, we'll find Orochimaru and when we do, we'll make him pay for what he did, but not today."

"Jiraiya's right Tsunade" spoke the Sandaime calmly, as he tried to ease Tsunade's anger. "There has been enough fighting for today, now is not a time for vengeance, it a time for mourning."

Seeing that both Jiraiya and the Sandaime were against Tsunade just gashed her teeth in anger. Before pulling her arm from Jiraiya's grip and then letting out an angry roar of frustration as she slammed her fist into the outer wall, blowing apart the entire section of the wall creating massive gap in the wall, twenty meters wide.

When Tsunade destroy the walls the surrounding Shinobi shielded their faces from the shockwave created by the wall's destruction. They then watched as the debris from the wall fly through the air and scattered across the surrounding forest, destroying sever trees as they landed.

"Incredible…Her strength is at a completely different level from mine!" thought the Raikage as he shielded his face from the shockwave.

"Whoa…scary" thought Killer Bee.

"What freighting power!" thought the Mizukage in slight awe of Tsunade's strength.

"I wouldn't want her as an enemy" Zabuza thought to himself after seeing what Tsunade had done

After she destroyed the wall Tsunade let out another angry cry before yelling "I'LL FIND YOU OROCHIMARU! IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAR YOU RUN OR WHERE YOU HIDE! I'LL FIND YOU!"

After screaming out her frustration and anger, Tsunade finally fell to her knees, and broke down into tears again.

Separating themselves from Jiraiya, the two elder toad Sages jumped off Jiraiya's shoulders, allowing him to go over and comfort the weeping woman.

At first, Tsunade resisted Jiraiya's attempts, as she kept pushing him away. But eventually her resistance lessened and she finally allowed him to hold her as she wept into his chest.

As Tsunade wept, the surrounding around remained silent as they watched the heartbroken woman cry, many were even silently mourning the loss of Naruto who died far too soon.

Eventually though Jiraiya lifted Tsunade back onto her feet, where they and the rest of the group made their way back to the stadium.

-In the Kyubi's Cell-

Sitting in his cell, the Kyubi could see the world around him slowly collapsing, growing darker and darker.

"It's getting darker, and my strength is waning…don't tell me?" said the Kyubi, who realized what was happening. "That worthless human…! I told him not to get himself killed."

Growling in anger, the Kyuubi could feel himself growing weaker and weaker by the minute.

"NO! I won't let this worthless brat be the end of me…! I REFUSE TO DDIIEE!" roared the giant fox as he used all its remaining strength to force his Chakra into Naruto's body. Within seconds the Kyubi's Chakra flooded Naruto's body and started to heal Naruto remaining wounds at a accelerated rate.

Once Nauro wounds were healed, the Kyubi then focused his remaining Chakra into Naruto's heart and used it all to try and start it up.

After a minute or two, the Kyubi suddenly heard a "thumb." Shortly after it was followed by another "thumb" and then another, eventually the Kyubi could hear a slow steady beat coming from Naruto's heart. It was weak, but it was steady, and she could see his world slowly beginning to reform.

"Tsk, Damn brat, nearly getting us both killed, all for that worthless mother of his" grumbled the fox tiredly as he had used up most of his remaining strength to heal Naruto's wounds and start his heart up again. But even with this the Kyubi knew that Naruto wasn't out of the woods yet, and need medical attention…and soon, since he had lost a lot of blood.

"I've done all I can now for you brat, it's up to you now to stay alive!" said the Kyubi out loud before closing his eyes to sleep and regain his strength.

-With Naruto-

"Where am I?" Naruto said to himself, a minute ago he was looking up at his mother. Who was desperately trying to heal him after Orochimaru's sword stabbed him and the next he found himself walking in a dark void-like place.

After walking for what seemed like hours, Naruto saw a small light ahead and walked towards it.

Eventually Naruto saw that the light was from a small camp fire which was burning brightly.

As he got closer he saw a man sitting in front of the fire, who turned to look at him when he heard Naruto walking towards him.

"Hello young man, would you like to come closer and warm yourself? There is more than enough to share" the man asked kindly.

"Eh, yea thanks" said Naruto who was unsure about the whole situation and sat down on a log in front of the fire, facing the man, who staring intently at the large fire.

As Naruto stared at the man, he could help but seem strangely familiar to the blonde. He had a kind-face and long silver-coloured hair that hung over his forehead protector, which had the symbol of Konoha on it. He had dark eyes along with deep lines underneath them, giving him a tired look. He wore a standard Konoha-nin uniform complete with a pair of gloves, flak jacket, bandages on his right arm, and the addition of distinctive short white sleeve which had red edges. He also carried a holster that he worn diagonally over his right shoulder, which seemed to hold a strange tanto sword.

"You are aware that it is rude to stare" the man said with looking up from the fire.

"Sorry" Naruto said as blushed from embarrassment. "You seem kind of familiar to me."

"Do I…? Well I guess that makes two of us, since you too seem familiar in some way" said the man with a kind smile.

"Eh would it be alright if I ask you something?"

"You may"

"Eh, Am I dead?

Raising his left eyebrow in amusement the man smiled again and said, "Yes I suppose you are dead."

"Then what is this place? It doesn't really seem much like heaven…Wait! Hold on a second, don't tell me I ended up in the other place?!" Naruto yelled and started to panic, and looked around for any small red Devils with pitch forks, who would come out to torture him.

Seeing the panic look on the blonde's face, the man laugh heartily, "You need not worry young man, you're not there, but as you said you're not heaven either."

Relieved that he wasn't in the other place, Naruto began to calm down, "So if I'm not in heaven or there then where am I?"

"Hmm, that is a good question; I suppose you can call this a space in between worlds. A sort of half-way point between the world of the living and the next world, allowing a place for those who are not yet ready to move on to exist, and those who are on the verge of death but have not yet passed."

After hearing the man's explanation Naruto nodded, since it did make some sense.

"So I guess I'm here because I'm not ready to move yet?" Naruto said since he remembered the pain of being stabbed through the heart by Orochimaru's blade.

"Perhaps" the man replied with shrug, since he was unsure.

"Is that the same for you?"

"Yes, although I'm also waiting for something?"

"Waiting for what?"

"I'm afraid I don't have the faintest clue" the man said with a slight chuckle, as if laughing at his own ignorance. "All I know is that I'm not ready to move on and I need to wait."

"It must be lonely having to wait here by yourself?"

"It does at times, but from time to time I meet someone such as yourself who is not ready to move on either."

"How long have you been waiting here?"

"Time has little meaning here" the man replied, "Hours or days could pass here, while only seconds or years could pass in the living world."

After hearing this, Naruto just stared into the fire, since he still wasn't sure how to make all of this.

"It seems that I have forgotten my manners as I have yet to introduce myself" the man said with another kind smile before he stood up and offered his hand. "My name is Hatake Sakumo, it's very nice to meet you."

"Oh yea sorry, my name is…" said Naruto with a embarrass smile, as he took the man's hand, but as so as he did, his eyes widen is shock when the man's name sunk in.

"…H-H-Hat-Hatake S-S-Sakumo?"

"I believe that is my name" said Sakumo, who was still smiling.

Still in shock at who he was talking to, Naruto let go of the man's hand and took a step back, causing him to inadvertently trip over the log he had been sitting on and fall on to his back.

Before Sakumo could even ask if the Naruto was alright, the blonde quickly stood with his eyes opened wide and his right finger pointed at Sakumo.

"Y-Y-Your Hatake Sakumo, as in Konoha no Shiroi Kiba (Konoha's White Fang)!"

"Ah, yes that is me" Sakumo replied looking slightly embrassed, since he was a rather humble man, who didn't really like fame. "I suppose given your reaction that you have heard of me then."

"Heard of you?!" Naruto said in disbelief, "You're like a legend in Konoha."

This was of course true, when growing up Jiraiya and Tsunade had often told Naruto stories, not only about theirs and his father's adventures. But also of other well-known and revered Shinobi, Shinobi like Hatake Sakumo, whose fame and reputation was known and revered throughout the Shinobi world.

According to Jiraiya, Sakumo was hailed as a genius Shinobi without equal in his time, and was praised for his talents in the Shinobi arts, even by Naruto's father Minato.

It was said that the man's prowess on the battlefield was so great, it surpassed all three members of the Sannin and that the very idea of facing Sakumo brought fear into the hearts of his enemies.

"No wonder he looked so familiar? He's Kakashi-sensei's father!" Naruto thought, where he could clearly see the strong resemblance between the two.

After a few minutes Naruto eventually settled down and got over his shock at meeting the legendary Shinobi.

"Well now that he have calm down, perhaps you can tell your name?" said Sakumo, where he and Naruto sat back down.

"Eh yea right, my name is Senju Naruto."

After Naruto introduce himself, it was Sakumo's turn to be surprised.

"Senju you say? Then you must be related to Tsunade-sama?" Sakumo said, since she only living Senju he knew of when he was alive.

"Yeah, she's my mother" replied Naruto, surprising the silver haired Shinobi once again.

"Your mother? Well that is very interesting" said the amused Sakumo.

"Yea she told me stories about you, where she said you were an amazing Shinobi. My prevy godfather Jiraiya even told me once that if you had lived longer you probably would've become the Yondaime Hokage instead of my father."

"Your father?"

"Yeah Namikaze Minato"

Surprised again by this news of who Naruto's father was, the former Shinobi of Konoha smiled down at the boy. "Ah yes, now I see it, I knew of your father, he was a powerful and talented Shinobi, you look just like him…I can understand why the Sandaime Hokage-sama choose him to succeed him."

After a minute or two of silence Sakumo suddenly spoke again, "By chance would you know of my son Kakashi? He was a student of your father."

"Yea, I do, he's actually one of my sensei's."

"Is he well?

"Yeah he is, in fact he's one of Konoha's strongest Shinobi and is famed throughout the Shinobi world, just like you."

"I see, thank you Naruto-san, it eases me to know that my son is alive and doing well" said Sakumo with a small smile.

"My Kaa-chan also told me what happened to you, I don't think it was right how everyone treated you back then; if I had been in your shoes I would have done the exact same thing."

"You're very kind Naruto-san."

"You should know that most Shinobi hold you in high regard, and believe you we right in what you did. In fact Kakashi-sensei once told me that those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon their friends and comrades are worse than trash."

This of course made the man smile again, where he seemed happier than he did before Naruto met him. The two continued to talk like this for what seemed like hours, sharing different stories with each other.

When Naruto told Sakumo about how he could perform Mokuton, the former Konoha-nin was shocked, more so when he heard about how Naruto had defeated two jinchūriki all on the same day singlehandedly.

After getting over his shock the former White fang of Konoha smiled at the blonde. "You're a very extraordinary young man Naruto-san."

"I could not agree more" spoke a new voice suddenly from the darkness, which sounded familiar to Naruto.

Hearing the new voice Sakumo and Naruto quickly turned in the direction of where the voice came from.

After turning the two Shinobi were surprised to see Senju Hashirama emerge from darkness and he was not alone. Accompanying him as well was his brother Senju Tobirama, and four other individuals.

The first person one was a tall elegant woman, with bright-red hair arranged in buns with hair pins in them and three clips in the front. She had large pupiless eyes and wore an elaborate, high-collared kimono with large obi tied around her waist. She also wore a dark shade of lipstick and had a diamond mark on her forehead, similar to the one his mother Tsunade and he had. She also wore tags with kanji written on them in her hair decals.

The second person was tall man about Hashirama's height; he had several similar facial features to Hashirama, meaning they had to be related in some way. He had dark hair, that was spiked up and tan skin (like Hashirama) and brown eyes. He wore an old style green Konoha flak jacket, with a long black sleeveless coat over it, which had green leaves decorating the edgings and standard blank Shinobi pants with a kunai holster strapped to his right leg. The man also wore standard combat style Shinobi sandals, with bandages wrapped around his ankles, upper biceps, and right leg, and wore fingerless gloves over the bandages around his hands and arms. (1)

The third person was another woman slightly shorter than the second man. She was extremely beautiful, with long blonde hair that fell just above her waist and pale blue eyes. She wore simply dark blue long sleeved robe that matched her shorts and a large grey obi around her waist to hold her robe together. Underneath her robes she wore a simple short sleeved fishnet shirt and wore a pair of open-toed sandals with high heels on her feet. (1)

The fourth and final person was a young boy with short light-brown hair, who looked to be about Naruto's age. He had green-grey eyes and distinct blushes on his cheeks and wore a dark teal poncho top and light green pants and a Konoha headband around his head.

"Hello again Naruto-kun" spoke the Shodai with a kind smile.

Upon seeing both his ancestors, Naruto instinctively went into a defensive stance.

Seeing this, the Shodai quickly raised his hand in a peaceful manner.

"Easy Naruto-kun, Easy there is no need for violence, my brother and I are free from the control of the Edo Tensei."

At first Naruto was hesitant to let down his guard, but given where they were, it did make sense that Orochimaru would no longer be in control of them.

"How are you two here?" Naruto asked before a look of concern appeared on his face, "Are Kaa-chan, Ero-sennin and Jiji okay?"

"After you sacrificed yourself to save your mother, we were able free ourselves the binds of the Edo Tensei" answered the Nidaime. "As for Saru and the others, they're fine, although your mother was greatly distraught by your dead."

Hearing this Naruto lowered his head, since he did not mean to cause his mother pain, he only wanted to protect her.

Seeing this, Hashirama went over and placed his hand gently on the boy's shoulder and smiled down at him, and told him that it would be alright. After which he then turned to Sakumo, who was standing away from the group.

"I apologise for intruding in on you like this, we did not expect Naruto-kun to be with anyone here."

"No apologies are needed Shodai-sama, Nidaime-sama, I am honoured by your presence" said Sakumo with a slight bow of respect to the two former Hokages and the other members of the group. "Also I believe that it would be best if I were to take my leave for a while and allow all of you to speak in private."

"You may stay if you wish, since this is your camp" said the Nidaime, who did not feel right by forcing the man to leave.

"Thank you, but no as I would only be intruding, I shall take a walk for a while and allow you to speak to Naruto-kun alone."

After the two Hokages apologised to him again, Sakumo turned to Naruto.

"It was very nice talking to you Naruto-san" said the silver haired Shinobi and gave the blonde boy a small smile and walked into the surrounding darkness and disappeared before Naruto could say anything.

After Sakumo left Naruto turned to the two former Hokages and their companions, who began to take different seats around the fire,

The Shodai sat on the log to Naruto's right, with the tall red headed woman sitting next to him. The other man and woman sat on the log directly opposite Naruto, with the fire in between them, while the Nidaime and the young boy sat down on the log on Naruto's left.

Seeing that everyone was now sitting, Naruto decided to follow suit and sat down on the log behind him, after which the Shodai spoke.

"Now then…" said the founder of Konoha with a joyful grin, "since we were unable to have a proper conversation when we first met. My brother and I thought now was the best time, since it is unlikely we will speak again like this for many years."

"Huh? Why's that, don't tell me I'm going be staying here?" Naruto asked in concern.

"Oh no, no, no, instead I believe that you will return to the world of the living very soon" replied the Shodai with a knowing look.

"Huh, but how?"

"I'm am not certain myself, it is just a feeling I have had ever since I first saw you."

"What do you mean?"

Before the Shodai could answers, the woman next to him placed her hand on his left arm.

"Hashirama-kun before you begin, perhaps you should introduce the rest of us, since I'm certain Naruto-kun is curious about us?"

"Oh yea sorry, I forgot" replied the former Hokage with a big goofy grin, before blushing from embarrassment and scratching the back of his head, similar to what Naruto would do when he did something silly.

"Naruto-kun allow me to introduce you to my lovely wife, Mito, our son Itsuki, his wife Ise and their son Nawaki."

After hearing Naruto's eyes widen in shock, as these people were his family.

"Wait a second, your Mito-basan (Granny Mito)" Naruto said in surprise as he pointed at the red headed woman, who just smile and nodded.

"And you two are my grandparents?" continued the blonde boy as he pointed to the couple in front of him.

"Yep, that's us, nice to meet magosan (Grandson)" greeted Itsuki with a grin, (that was not unlike his father's and Naruto's), while his wife Ise just nodded and smiled.

"So that would then make you…" Naruto said as he slowly turned Nawaki.

"Yep, I'm your uncle, so you can call me Nawaki-ojisan" said Nawaki with a grin just like his father, Grandfather and Naruto's.

"Just great I have a shrimp for an uncle" muttered Naruto with a deadpanned look.

"Hey who are you calling a shrimp!" yelled Nawaki angrily as he stood up and walked over to Naruto, who stood up in turn.

"You, who else" Naruto said as he looked down at his uncle.

"Hey just because you're a bit taller, doesn't mean you get to call me that!" (2)

"Really and what should I call you then, how about pipsqueak or maybe runt?" Naruto said with a cheeky grin which infuriated shorter Senju.

"Alright that's it! Let's go Blondie, even if you are my nee-chan's kid, I'll kick your ass!" cried Nawaki.

"Bring it brat!" said Naruto ignoring the fact that he and Nawaki were the same age. But just when the two young Senju were about to go at one another, they were both clonked on the head.

After nursing the large bumps on their heads, the two boys looked up and saw Senju Ise standing over them, with her arms folded with a very irritated expression on her face, and a dark aura surrounding her, highlighting his menacing appearance, which terrified both boys.

"You will both sit down and be quite and listen to what Hashirama-sama has to say or do I have to teach you both some manners?"

"No, Kaa-chan/Obaa-san" said the two frightened boys quickly before taking their sets, while those around just smiled in amusement at the antics of the two boys.

As Naruto took his set, he watched his grandmother take her set next to his grandfather who was still smiling.

"Man, I think I understand where Kaa-chan gets her scary side from?" the blonde Senju thought as he glanced again at his grandmother. Since the pissed off look she had reminded him way to much of his own mother when she was annoyed with him. They even had the same dark aura around them.

Once everything had settled down again Hashirama turned to Naruto. "Perhaps Naruto-kun you could tell us a bit about yourself and your life in Konoha, so that we can get to know one another. Since I know Mito-chan and everyone here is interested to know more about you."

"Okay" said Naruto, before he started to tell about his life in Konoha along with some of the things that happened before he came to Konoha. He even filled them in other things they were unaware of, such as the massacre of the Uchiha Clan (which Tobimara found rather fitting when he heard they were killed by one of their own).

Naruto then went to tell them on how his father was the Yondaime Hokage, which of course surprised Senju family. Although the Shodai was rather ecstatic by the news, and asked Naruto about his father, wanting to know what he was like and if he was a good Hokage.

Naruto naturally answered as best as he could, although couldn't help but be weird out by his ancestor's eccentric behavior.

After a while though Naruto, went on to explain how his father sealed the Kyubi into him, and how he had Mokuton and four nature affinities natural.

This of course shocked everyone in the group (minus Hashirama and Tobimara), realizing this meant for Naruto.

"No way, you inherited Hashirama-jijisan Mokuton Bloodline limit" Nawaki said with some envy after hearing the news.

"It's true, both Hashirama and I have seen him use it" said the Nidaime. "He's even has a talent for Suiton Ninjutsu not unlike me, where he created a Water Dragon from just moisture in the air and from the surrounding trees."

After hearing this Naruto could not help but smirk, since it made him happy to be praised by his great uncle. Who during his time as Hokage was credited of being the strongest Shinobi alive.

"It's impressive that you can do so much at so young an age, clearly Tsunade-chan and her team-mate Jiraiya have taught you well" said Itsuki with a hint of pride in his voice.

"Yea, Shizune-nee also taught me a lot too."

"Shizune-nee?" Nawaki asked in surprise, did nee-chan have another kid before you.

"Nah, Shizune-nee is kaa-chan's apprentice; she is also my godmother but is more like a big sister to me, since she helped Kaa-chan raise me. She also made sure that Ero-sennin never tried anything funny with me when Kaa-chan wasn't around" Naruto answered.

"Ero-sennin?" Nawaki asked, not understanding who Naruto meant.

"That my nickname for Uncle Jiraiya, since he a sage and a super pervert, which he likes to call himself."

At hearing Naruto's nickname for Jiraiya, all six Senju laughed at the name. Nawaki especially liked it and only wished he had thought of it. Since he had a bit of an issue with the white haired man after he learned that he had peeked on his sister when she was in the hot's spring.

After the laughter settled down, Naruto then went on to tell of his events in Nami no Kuni (Wave Country) and then to the Chunin exam. But when he got to the part about meeting Orochimaru in the Forest of Death, Nawaki interrupted him.

"No way Orochimaru-sensei would never do something like that!"

"It's true" said Naruto with a large frown, "That bastard Orochimaru has done things that can never be forgiven."

"Indeed" said the Nidaime, who then went to explain that Orochimaru was the one who used the Edo Tensei to summon him and the Shodai . But also told them about his immortality Jutsu, which disgusted everyone, including Naruto, who had been unaware of this and now understood why Orochimaru wanted him and Sasuke.

When the Nidaime Hokage finished, Naruto even went on to explain what Orochimaru had done to Yamato and the other infants he kidnapped.

The news of course horrified and disgusted the group, especially the Shodai, who was both saddened and angered by the new, since it was his DNA Orochimaru used.

Once Naruto had finished, the group remained silent, Nawaki of course took the news the hardest since he had looked up to the man when he was alive.

"I can't believe Orcohimaru-sensei would do such horrible things like that" said Nawaki who lowered his head in distraught.

Seeing this, Ise went over to her son and held him close to her in the hope of confronting him.

"What happened to him to make him turn into such a horrible person?" Nawaki asked since although his former teacher looked creepy he had been and good and kind teacher to him and showed him a lot of cool things. He had even encouraged the young boy when he told him about his dream to become Hokage one day.

"Evil is not something born in a person Nawaki" said the Nidaime Hokage. "More than likely the events in his life and some of the choices he made after your passing caused him to turn out the way he is now."

After a few moments the Shodai decided to move the matter away from Orochimaru and asked Naruto to continue filling them in on the events of Konoha.

During Naruto recount, he informed them of the destruction of Uzushiogakure (Village Hidden by Whirling Tides), which of course saddened his great grandmother. But she cheered up when Naruto mentioned that Kushina was his sensei.

"Ah so little Kushina-chan is one of your sensei's" said Mito with a smile.

"You know Kushina-sensei?" Naruto asked in surprise.

"Yes, she arrived in Konoha shortly before my passing" answered Mito. "She came from the branch family of my Clan and was highly skilled at a young age in Fuinjutsu. She also possessed a unique Chakra which allowed her restrain and subdue Biju. It was because of this that she was sent to Konoha, since unlike the other villages we did not possess a jinchūriki and so needed people with unique abilities like her to defend Konoha from other village's jinchūriki. (3)

Nodding to this, Naruto then went to explain his battles different battles during the Chunin exam.

"My, you seem to be quite popular with the girls Naruto-kun" said Itsuki in a teasing tone, after hearing about the number of girls Naruto was friends with, causing his grandson to blush a bit.

"It's not like that!" denied the embarrass boy, "We're just friends."

"Have you kissed any of them?" asked a grinning Nawaki.

Naruto of course did not answer and looked down to the ground in an attempt to hide his blush.

Seeing the blush, Nawaki's grin grew even bigger, seeing this as a perfect chance to tease his nephew.

"Hah you did!" yelled the young Senju excitedly, "So which one was it?"

Naruto of course did not answer, but when he saw that everyone's eyes were on him, he knew they would not drop the subject until he answered.

"Mai-chan"

"You mean that girl from the Hattori Clan you defeated?" Nawaki asked.

"Yea, after I won our fight and healed her injuries, she pulled me down to her and kissed me and the asked me to marry her."

After hearing this, the entire group erupted in laughter, Nawaki who had been laughing so hard, actually fell of the log and onto the ground, but continued to laugh.

Even Mito and Ise could not help but giggle at the image of the young Hattori girl kissing Naruto in front of everyone and then asking him to marry her."

Naruto although just brought his hands to his face and moaned loudly since he had now become the laughing stock of his own Clan.

As the others continued to laugh, Itsuki spared his grandson a sympatric smile, since in many ways Naruto's meeting of Mai reminded him of his first meeting of his wife Isle. Who at the time was strong upcoming Kunoichi and often challenged him to fights in an attempt to defeat him and prove her strength to the village.

Over time their relationship developed and they slowly fell in love, although neither one of them were willing to admit it. At least not until after one of their sparing matches, Itsuki landed on top of her and inadvertently kissed her, which then resulted in a heavy make-out session between the two of them.

After a while though the laughter slowly died down, where a chuckling Tobirama turned to look at his elder brother. "It seems that the women of the Hattori Clan have not changed since our time brother, in fact if memory serves, a large number of them were practically throwing themselves at you."

"Really, you failed to mention that to me Hashirama-kun?" said Mito who turned to her husband and smiled.

Seeing the smile, the former Hokage became very nervous, since that smile terrified him more than anything else, both in the world of the living and in the afterlife.

To most people Mito's smile would seem like nothing more than a regular smile from a kind woman. But that was only because they did not know Mito as well as he did and were unaware of the evil the lurked behind that smile.

"Eh, well…you see… eh…the thing is" said the now sweating Hokage, who was desperately trying to think of a way out of this mess.