Kirin!

Honzu threw a punch at the Akatsuki member but narrowly missed, a strange tentacle broke out of the stitches on his arms. The strange wire tentacle shot at Honzu at an extremely fast speed. Honzu put his hands up and braced for impact, when the tentacle hit him it sent him flying backward, 'Damn the Akatsuki are difficult to deal with!' Honzu didn't know how long he could fight against the Akatsuki members.

Honzu was best at taijutsu but even with that, it was difficult to fight Kakuzu if Sasuke wasn't there he probably would have died almost instantly. Along with his taijutsu, Kakuzu's wires were slashing and cutting him in multiple places, this slowed him down even more. Kakuzu got him into prime position for a punch, "Earth style, mud wall" Kakuzu's hand punched right through the wall. Kakuzu grabbed a hold of Honzu and pulled him through the wall and slammed him into the ground creating a big crater.

Kakuzu threw another punch at Honzu, 'I have to buy time! For the village and the sake of this mission!' Honzu pulled out all the speed he had and managed to somehow avoid the strike that could have ended his life. Honzu knew the best way to buy time was to stay at a distance and keep him interested in you, but he didn't want to get too far away and lose his interest. So there was only one way to do it, fight head-on!

Honzu knew that he couldn't do much against Kakuzu at the moment, but he had a secret weapon, The Three Coloured Pills. The Three Coloured Pills are secret medicines used by the Akimichi clan. As the name suggests, there are three pills, each with a different color. The first is the green Spinach Pill next is the yellow Curry Pill, and last is the red Chilli Pill. because of how quick they had to leave Honzu was only able to grab the Spinach Pill, it was the weakest of the three but it would still hopefully give him enough strength.

Honzu quickly swallowed the pill. Honzu felt his chakra levels rise and his body get slimmer, it wasn't a huge jump in power but it was noticeable to him. 'I can do this!' Honzu pushed off the ground with his max power and speed. 'He's faster.' Kakuzu was still faster than him but it was much closer than before, Kakuzu knew he couldn't end this quickly.

With his new power, Kakuzu knew he couldn't beat Honzu quickly using just taijutsu. One of the masks spit out a large fire jutsu. Honzu ran through it without any hesitation, Honzu came out of the burning flames and healed the injuries that he gained. 'When I heal him I should take his heart, it may be useful.' Kakuzu and Honzu started fighting each other at speeds not even high ranking jonin couldn't keep up with! Honzu was stabbed multiple times, even with his healing his body couldn't keep up, he was at his limit.

Kakuzu noticed the moment his body weakened and kicked him, this sent him flying backward, the power of an Akatsuki member is hard to believe. Kakuzu felt something roll down his neck, 'am I sweating?' That was his first thought but he soon realized that it was only rain.

The clouds in the sky started to come together and darken, it sounded like roaring thunder yelling over the area. In the middle of the clouds something came out, it was a beast! The lightning began to take shape, the face looked like a giraffe with the rest of its body looking like a Chinese dragon.

"This isn't chakra, it's natural lightning?" Kakuzu was shocked, it was as if the lightning itself was tamed! Sasuke walked out of his hiding, "Because the preparation time was so short the power was decreased, but this should still work." Kakuzu unconsciously took a step back, he knew two things, one he had no counter to this jutsu, and two, if that hit him he would die instantly!

"Begone, with the thunder clap!" the giraffe went back in the clouds to gain speed, then it struck. The speed of the jutsu was so fast that not even Sasuke's sharingan could keep up with it! The lightning covered all of Kakuzu's body and disintegrated him and turned him into a pile of dust.

Sasuke fell on his knee, he had used a lot of chakra using the Kirin. It didn't take long for the rest of the members Souei and Usagi to show up. "So we defeated both Akatsuki members and kept one alive for investigation, I would call that a successful mission." said Souei. Sasuke nodded, "We will return to konoha after a little rest." the rest of them nodded.

Over in a tree watching the battle there was a strange creature, "Oh, it looks as if Itachi's brother is getting stronger." he said in a cheerful voice which was his white side. The black side of him then spoke, "Yes, that jutsu was so fast it hit the ground in 1/1000th of a second. We should tell the rest about this." the strange creature then sunk into the tree.

The strange creature appeared at the inside of a strange cave. "What happened to Kakuzu and Hidan?" asked Pain seriously. "Sasuke Uchiha and his ANBU squad killed Kakuzu and took Hidan captive." The rest of them looked serious now too, they were missing 4 members now, Kakuzu, Hidan, Deidara, and Sasori. Kisame started laughing, "It looks like your brother might be a challenge now, I wonder how strong he is?" Itachi didn't answer, 'I'm almost at my limit, our battle will have to be sooner than I expected. I hope you can put up a good enough battle to trick the others, Sasuke.' The Akatsuki then ended the meeting and they all left.

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Hey guys, I might be able to get more chapters out now that we're kind of done with this arc.

Zoro runs the gauntlet. Does he clear or where does he stop?

1. Zetsu

2. Hidan

3. Konaan (No prep)

4. Kakuzu

5. Deidara

6. Sasori

7. Itachi (Sick)

8 .Kisame

9. Pain

10. Tobi

I was watching this fan animation, Zoro vs The Akatsuki and I thought that was cool and it made me think of this.