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Chapter 25: The Start of it All

The two fighters eyed each other as Genma stood between them. Naruto was back in a spare set of clothes that he always kept on hand. A pair of blue pants, blue sleeveless formfitting shirt with Bandages wrapped around his ankles and arms. A bracer on his left arm and his gauntlet on his right with a set of black gloves covering his hands since his orange ones had met an unfortunate accident. He was not wearing a cloak for this battle, knowing it would most likely be destroyed.

"So, should we set any rules for this engagement?" asked Naruto as he rolled his shoulders in an attempt to keep them loose. While he was looking forward to this fight, he was feeling pretty tired and not at all sure how well he would do. Yugito was not only a Jinchurikki who had full control over her Bijuu, but technically a jonin level kunoichi even without its powers. And while Naruto himself was no slouch, he just wasn't at that level quite yet even when he was at his best.

Though he had no intention of giving up without a fight.

Yugito looked thoughtful for a moment before nodding, "no Jinchurikki powers for this battle. The last thing we need is to utterly destroy the stadium. Today it will all be about skill."

Naruto nodded, "Very well." He smiled. "I've actually been hoping we would get to fight."

"Oh?" Yugito gave him a racy grin. "Looking forward to fighting against someone as beautiful as me?"

Having talked with Yugito and dealt with her personality enough he now had an idea on how to respond, and so not missing a beat he said, "Well I was really just hoping that this spar would give me an excuse to get rid of your clothes." the spiky haired blond gave the female Jinchurikki a cheeky grin as she blushed, Heh, I think I'm getting the hang of this whole flirting scene. "With all the jutsu that will be flying around it would be rather easy to accidentally destroy them."

"And you called me a perv," Yugito shot back, giving a smirk after she had gotten her blush under control.

"I take it both fighters are ready?" Genma mumbled a bit, trying to get the pair back on track.

"You know I am," Yugito got into a taijutsu stance.

"I've been ready since I got here," Naruto slid into his own stance. "And maybe after this I can finally get some fucking sleep," he looked at Yugito and grinned, "care to join me when I do?"

Yugito smirked, "maybe if you win."

"Hajime!"

Almost as soon as the fight started Yugito shot towards Naruto, who had thrown several shuriken and began doing a set of hand seals. "Shuriken Kage Bushin No Jutsu!" the group of five shuriken multiplied into fifty, however Yugito used her cat like agility and reflexes to weave between them all without slowing down.

When she got within range of Naruto she lashed out with a claw swipe. Naruto went in to block the attack, however the moment the hit connected Yugito grabbed his fore arm and tossed him over her shoulder. Not one to be outdone so easily he began doing another set of hand seals as he flipped around. Landing on the ground he thrust out his hands, "Fuuton: Kamikaze Seiken!"

Yugito merely grinned as she did her own hand seals, "Katon: Karyu Endan (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Missile)!" She took a deep breath before breathing out a stream of fire that overtook his wind jutsu, making the jutsu expand as it came towards Naruto.

"Oh fuck me," Naruto cursed as the flames made contact with him, expanding even more as it overtook him. Yugito looked up when the technique ended to see the burnt remains of a log. Knowing he was still around she went back into a stance and began to search the area wearily. However there was no sign of the younger blond, making her frown right before a pair of hands latched onto her leg.

Yugito's eyes widened as Naruto shot up from the ground, unable to move because of the clone holding onto her Yugito got hit. However the reaction one would expect of a person getting hit did not happen here, instead the blond female exploded in a burst of lightning as soon as Naruto's fist made contact, sending said genin rocketing back. Naruto grunted a bit as he hit the ground, forcing his body to move despite the electric current that was running through his body. Looking up he was forced to roll out of the way as Yugito came in and smashed into the spot where he had been standing.

Naruto pushed himself into a series of flips as he moved away from Yugito. Stopping several feet away Naruto reached into his left pouch and brought out a scroll, which he unrolled and channeled chakra into. A torrent of water shot out and Naruto began to make several hand seals. "Suiton: Suiryuu No Kiba (Water Release: Water Dragon Claw)!" A decent sized Dragon formed out of the water, roaring ferociously as it threw a clawed hand at Yugito. However right as it hit, said woman phased out of existence revealing it to have been nothing more than an after image.

She appeared right next to Naruto, smashing two fists into his ribs. The whiskered blond grunted as he got the wind knocked out of him, but still managed to block the next attack. The taijutsu battle that ensued afterwards was fast and furious. Yugito used a mixture of striking at weak points, as well as claw swipes and grappling techniques to go with her fluid movement and flexibility. Her strikes were almost too fast for Naruto to keep up with, and more often than not he had ended up getting hit.

Naruto back pedaled as Yugito took a swipe at his face, then moved in, hoping to catch an opening as she spun around. It was not to be as Yugito continued her spin and kicked him in the face, sending him stumbling back.

The stumble was turned into a back roll as Yugito came at him. Kipping up on his feet Naruto had his hand in a hand seal and his cheeks bulged. He hit his stomach, "Fuuton: Renkuudan!" The ball of compressed air shot at Yugito, however, even though the attack was almost launched at point blank range, the Kumo Kunoichi managed to bend herself so that the jutsu passed over her.

As she got back up Naruto managed to smash a foot in her chest, but before he could pull it back Yugito caught a hold of it. Grinning she spun his foot around, causing Naruto to land on his back, only to disappear in a puff of smoke.

Yugito's eyes widened in surprise, "Wha-"

Several Naruto suddenly burst from the ground and attempted to engage her in taijutsu. However even with their combined teamwork Yugito was able to move through the attacks fluidly, before lashing out with her own. In less than five seconds all the clones were dispelled.

However that was all the time Naruto needed as he appeared right next to her, "Fuuton: Kamikaze Seiken!" He thrust his fist out and this time, he did hit Yugito. The attack smashed into her and sent the young woman flying back, where she crashed into the stadium wall.

Yugito pried herself out and shook her head. Looking back up at Naruto she smirked, "You know you really are pretty strong for someone so young. I don't even think I was that strong at your age."

Naruto grinned, "Thanks Yugi-chan. That means a lot hearing you say that."

"It also means I can stop holding back," The look on her face turned feral.

"Oh shi-" was all the time Naruto had to get out before Yugito was on him. He blocked a kick from the left, only for Yugito to push her leg off and use that momentum to smash her other foot into his face. Naruto stumbled back and shook the cobwebs out of his head.

He looked up to see Yugito already bearing down on him. He jumped back hoping to gain some distance, but Yugito wasn't giving him any and doggedly came after him. He continued trying to block and dodge her attacks, but they were too fast and too numerous, and more often than not Naruto ended up getting a fist, a foot or some other part of the cat womans body smashed into him.

Yugito made one last claw swipe at him, however this time Naruto exploded sending the kumo kunoichi flying back. She landed on her feet and skid across the ground. Once she stopped Naruto came up from the ground right under her and this time when he hit her, Yugito did not explode and was instead launched into the air.

Jumping up after her, Naruto appeared above Yugito and came down with an axe kick. The moment he did the blond knew something was wrong and only a quick Kariwimi saved him from being fried to a crisp as Yugito turned out to be another Rai Bunshin, having replaced herself a few seconds after she had been sent flying.

Appearing a safe distance away Naruto looked around for his query. Not finding her he sent a pulse of chakra throughout the stadium in the hopes of finding Yugito. When there was no trace of her he frowned, There's no way she's out of the stadium since she would be disqualified. That means…!

He jumped up at almost the same time that Yugito came up from under him. Naruto was just barely able to avoid the swipe that came his way. He could not however, dodge the kick that Yugito sent him. Grunting the blond shinobi flipped around before he landed on his feet, only to jump away seconds later as Yugito came down and hit the spot he had previously been.

"Raiton: Gian (Lightning Release: False Darkness)!" Naruto looked up just in time to see a bolt of lightning shoot out of Yugito's mouth. Cursing he used a Kariwimi to replace himself with a log. However much to his surprise, and shock, the bolt of the lightning veered away from the now destroyed log and began to chase after him! Naruto was forced to duck, dodge and jump around the lightning bolt as it followed him.

"Man is this battle getting intense!" Kotetsu said, watching the fight with a critical eye, "so do you think Naruto can win this one?"

"I'm not sure," Izumo shook his head. "That Kumo girl is good, too good to be a genin and we know next to nothing about her abilities. It was unfortunate that Naruto had to face Neji and Lee, those two forced him to reveal a lot of his abilities. They were also stronger then the ninja that Yugito girl faced, and while I'm not certain of it, I'm pretty sure she is stronger than Naruto even at his full strength. If he does win it will be on luck."

"There's no doubts there," Kotetsu said. "That girl is definitely jonin level. Her speed, taijutsu, strength, ninjutsu, tactics… it's obvious that she's only officially a genin. I guess we'll just have to see if Naruto has any other tricks to pull out of his sleeve, and knowing him he might still have some way to pull off a miracle."

Naruto grit his teeth as he dodged the lightning bolt again, however this time it managed to graze his arm, sending a shock through him. Damn it! I need to find some way to get this thing to stop following me! He looked over at Yugito to see her holding a hand sign and realized what was happening, Of course! She's controlling the jutsu in with hand seals! I need to do something that makes her drop the jutsu.

Naruto began channeling Yokai into his mouth, "Kitsune-Bi!" a light blue ball of flame shot out of his mouth, and headed for Yugito, forcing her to cancel her jutsu and jump away as the fox fire hit the ground where she had vacated and created a large explosion. Naruto dodged the Gian one last time before it hit a wall and dissipated in an explosion of electricity.

Knowing that taijutsu was out of the question, Naruto created a Kage Bunshin and both of them began doing hand seals.

"Fuuton: Atsugi (Wind Release: Severing Air Pressure)!"

"Katon: Gokyakou No Jutsu!"

The clone expelled a large fireball from its mouth, while Naruto shot a tornado at the fireball that compressed the fireball before releasing a white hot torrent of flame. The heat was so intense that Yugito felt her skin being singed as it came towards her. Luckily a quick Kariwimi allowed her to escape as the fire hit the ground with an explosion that rocked the entire stadium.

"Wow!" Ino breathed as the explosion ended, "What the hell was that!"

"That was what's known as a collaboration jutsu," Asuma said, not taking his eyes off the fight. "It's when two jutsu's combine to form a more powerful attack. Naruto used a Fuuton jutsu to fan the flames of the Katon jutsu, making the attack power double if not triple."

While the others gaped Sasuke looked at the blond in jealousy.

Naruto began panting heavily as the attack ended. He looked around before seeing Yugito standing a little ways away, a slight singe on her clothes the only indication she had not gotten off from that attack quite Scott free.

He looked himself over and sighed. His other two battles combined with this one had left him spent. While he had near kage level reserves, and had the much more potent Youki, launching out all of those jutsu and battling such talented opponents had left him drained.

"Yugi-chan, I think we both know there is no way I can continue this battle. I forfeit," Naruto said, shocking many of the people in the crowd.

Yugito grinned, "That's a wise choice. Still considering how much you've already fought, you battled extremely well."

Naruto returned her grin with his own fox-like one, "I know, that's what happens when your as awesome as me."

Yugito just shook her head and chuckled.

"Shousa! Nii Yugito!" Genma said.

For a few moments the crowd was silent as they digested what had happened. After that a few people began to cheer while others, the ones who had lost money on bet's boo'd.

"Oh man, I can't believe he lost!" Kiba said. "He was on fire!"

Hinata shook her head, "I-it's obvious he was e-exhausted from his previous battles. T-That K-kunoichi didn't have to fight as t-tough opponents."

"I guess that's true," Kiba sighed. "Do you think he would have won if he was at full strength?"

"I-I don't know."

"That was definitely an interesting battle," Izumo said as he clapped. "There were some really good fighters this year!"

"Yeah," Kotetsu agreed. "That Lee kid, Temari was decent, Yugito, Neji and Naruto. Who would have ever thought he would have been as good as he is now?"

"Definitely not me," Izumo shook his head. "Though out of the five of them I think only Yugito, Temari and Naruto should be given the position of Chunin."

"Agreed, the others showed Chunin and even Jonin level skills, but they simply didn't show the ability to properly use them."

"Aww! Naruto lost!" Ino whined. "After his other two fights I was so sure he would win!"

Kurenai shook her head, "While he has obviously gotten stronger, he was completely exhausted by his previous battles."

"Do you think he would have won if he wasn't so tired?" asked Tenten who had recovered from her battle with Temari.

"I don't think so," Kakashi said, causing the others to look at him. "That girl is obviously far above genin level, and while the same could be said for Naruto, I'm almost positive that girl is at least around the same strength as me." The other jonin nodded their heads, knowing it was true, as well as knowing that she was a Jinchurikki like Naruto himself.

"Still *Munch* it was a really good battle *Munch*," Choji spoke around a mouthful of chips.

"I have to agree," Asuma said, taking a drag of his cigarette. "He's come a long way since the academy."

The two fighters met in the center of the arena. Grinning Naruto held out a hand, "I've got to hand it to you, you really kicked my ass."

Yugito snickered as she took his hand, "I did didn't I?"

"Don't think it will be so easy the next time we spar," Naruto said. "When I see you again, we'll see who's stronger."

"You'll never be able to catch up to me," Yugito said jokingly.

Naruto smirked, "well if I can't at least my ass will be getting kicked by a hot woman like you."

Yugito blushed but was determined not to let her fellow blond win in a battle she had started, "well I'm glad to know what gets you off."

"Ouch," Naruto winced but his grin held, "just for that the next time we meet I'm gonna show you what I would like to do to your ass instead of kicking it."

This time Yugito did blush, and Naruto could finally say he had chalked up at least one definite victory for himself, I guess that pervert Jiraiya really was good for something other than his books and kicking my ass during our spars…

"Are you two with your… verbal sparring?" asked Genma.

The two turned to look at the proctor as if just now realizing he was there, they looked back at each other then and turned to him again. "Sorry," they said in an eerie synchronized fashion.

Genma sighed before speaking up, "and now for the special treat battle! Uchiha Sasuke will get to face Nii Yugito!"

As soon as the announcement was made said Uchiha appeared in the arena, an arrogant smirk on his face. Despite having seen Naruto's battle, he was looking forward to this fight, especially after having seen how powerful this blond woman was. She'll be perfect to test my strength against; he looked at the woman who would be his next stepping stone on his path to killing his brother.

Naruto placed a hand on Yugito's shoulder, "I'm not going to wish you luck, since you won't need it for him. But I would like to ask that you open a huge can of whoop-ass on the arrogant teme."

"I thought he was your teammate Naruto-kun?" Yugito said with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh he is, but the teme can get pretty full of himself sometimes. Actually he's almost always arrogant," Naruto shrugged. "I find that nothing will bring the teme back down to earth like a good ol' fashion ass kicking."

Yugito grinned, "Well in that case…"

Naruto grinned before he used a Sunshin and appeared next to his sensei, "Yo, Kaka-sensei."

Kakashi blinked at his blond student, "Yo, Naruto, nice job on your battles. You've really come pretty far. And I also see you were able to learn quite a few of those jutsu I gave you."

"Yeah, I learned four of them," Naruto hummed for a moment. "I was hoping to get a few more than that, but four's pretty good considering I only had a month to train and Ero-Sennin was a slave driver with my taijutsu."

"Ero-Sennin?" Kakashi blinked, wondering who that was.

"Naruto?"

Naruto turned around and saw Tenten standing next to him. He gave her a smile, "Hey Ten-chan! I'm glad to see you up and about. How are you feeling?"

Tenten blushed a bit but smiled at the concern she heard in his voice, "I'm doing good, thanks to you. I saw your battle with… Yugito-san… you did really well."

"You think so," Naruto rubbed the back of his head, grinning a bit despite the hesitance he heard when Tenten called Yugito by her name. "Thanks, she was a tough opponent, honestly I think she's probably the strongest person in this exam."

"From what I can tell your right," Kakashi said. "In fact I would have to say she is around my level if not stronger than me, so for you to battle her as long as you did was quite impressive."

Naruto blushed a bit at the praise, as well as some of the gawking stares other people in the stands were giving him, "Thanks Kaka-sensei."

Kakashi looked at him for a second as he heard the new apparent nickname. Ugh, great, now he's giving me nicknames like Kushina-san did… at least it sounds a tad better then Kashi-kun. "You're welcome Naruto."

"Hey you two, looks like the battle is about to start," Asuma said.

Naruto turned back towards the arena with a grin on his face, Oh I can't wait to see the teme get his ass beat. Duck butt is in for a rude awakening. While Naruto considered Sasuke to be something of a friend, the raven haired genin always remained aloof and arrogant. The only exception was during the second exam, but almost as soon as it had ended the boy went back to being a prick.

Inside his mind Kyuubi snickered, 'It will be nice to see such an arrogant prick humbled.' That boy has been starting to remind me of 'him' far too much… He would easily betray others if it meant getting power.

'You said it Kyuu-chan.'

Genma looked between the two opponents and held up his hand. "Hajime!" He brought it down before Sunshining away.

Sasuke smirked as he activated his Sharingan, showing that he now had three tomoe in each eye. With it he was easily able to track Yugito's speed as she flew towards him. When Yugito got in range and lashed out with a kick, Sasuke blocked it with his hand. However, Yugito pushed off his hand, and launched herself into the air, attacking with a heel kick that Sasuke managed to duck.

He launched a fist that caught Yugito's left shoulder, sending her spinning. The blond kunoichi went with the blow and used it to enhance her axe kick that she sent at Sasuke's head. Said Uchiha managed to jump away at the last second.

Yugito threw several shuriken at him, going through a few hand seals, "Raiton: Kaminari Shuriken!" Lightning burst from the shuriken and struck the ground near Sasuke, who was forced to dodge the attacks. He was able to, thanks to having seen the jutsu once already in Yugito's battle against Temari. However he had ended up focusing so much attention on the shuriken and lightning, that he missed Yugito.

Said blond managed to swipe at his face, leaving a decent sized and bloody scratch and getting Sasuke to cry out in pain and anger. He jumped back and glared at Yugito who merely gave him a smirk. Growling in anger Sasuke went through several hand seals before taking a deep breath, "Katon: Gokyakou No Jutsu!" a large fireball billowed out of Sasuke's mouth and headed for Yugito.

Yugito jumped into the air, dodging the fireball by a good margin before she sent several kunai towards Sasuke. Said Uchiha got out his own kunai and used his Sharingan to deflect the projectiles. When he had finished he saw Yugito closing in on him, lashing out with a kick. Sasuke dodged the attack before trying to punch Yugito, however the girl used the agility given to her by her Bijuu to dodge the attack. She got into Sasuke's face and before he could react, punched him in the stomach, hard.

Sasuke folded up like a cheap lawn chair, only to be thrown back when Yugito kneed him in the face. There was a loud crunch of breaking cartilage and a lot of people who had placed bets on the Uchiha to win gasped in shock at seeing his bloodied and broken nose. Yugito chuckled a bit at seeing the Uchiha's glare. Hoping to egg him on she made a come gesture.

It seemed to work as Sasuke charged forward, intent on beating her. However as the battle began to come up again it was clear that Yugito was superior in nearly every way. Sasuke was about as fast as Lee with his weights on, Yugito was just a little slower than Lee was when he had opened the Hachimon gates. And Sasuke was unable to utilize his speed to his full potential due to having only copied it, rather than mastered fighting with his new found speed. Even if his eyes negated any tunnel vision he might have received, his body and mind were still trying to work together with his new found speed.

Yugito had more experience, not just from the harsh training she had gone through as soon as she could form a sentence, but also from the many missions she had done. Sasuke's only experience was his fight against the Kiri chunin during his first C rank and his sparring with Kakashi.

In the end there was no contest.

Sasuke continued to be pushed back as Yugito began to increase her speed. Sasuke's Sharingan was able to follow her movement, however like when he had trained with Kakashi, he was unable to react in time. He received a kick to the face. Stumbling back he tried to block a claw swipe, only to find it was a feint and received a foot in the torso. He jumped back hoping to gain some distance, however Yugito merely followed him.

Getting thoroughly frustrated Sasuke used a Sunshin to get away, reappearing on the wall on the opposite side of Yugito. It would not give him much time, but it should be more than enough for what he wanted to do. He went through three hand seals and placed on hand pointed 'down' while the other held onto his arm to stabilize it.

"Chidori (One Thousand Birds)!" lightning sparked from his hand and soon, the sounds of birds chirping filled the air.

"Kakashi you didn't teach him that did you?" Gai asked in a serious voice. "I thought you would have known better then to teach that to a genin."

"So says the man who taught his genin how to open five of the Hachimon," Kakashi retorted. "I had promised him if he surpassed my expectations I would teach him a powerful jutsu."

"Sensei, isn't that the jutsu used in…" Naruto trailed off as he looked away, remembering seeing his sensei's hand sticking through Haku's chest.

Kakashi held in a wince, "Yes, it is…"

"That is Kakashi's only original technique," Gai said, not seeming to notice the tension between the two. "Because of its sound, like that of a thousand birds chirping, it's called Chidori."

"Chidori…" Naruto muttered as he looked at the jutsu with narrowed eyes.

Gai nodded, "It's an A ranked assassination jutsu. Kakashi had created it during the war and he was said to have been able to cut a lightning bolt in half with it."

Sakura looked at her sensei and Gai with a sweat drop, Great, old men telling wives tales.

Sasuke ran down the wall, the lightning in his hand ripping through the concrete like paper. He jumped onto the ground and began to speed towards Yugito who was standing completely still.

Is this kid serious? Using an assassination jutsu like that despite the fact that I'm faster than he is, Yugito shook her head. That jutsu relied on being faster than your opponent, something that this kid certainly wasn't.

She would just have to teach him what it meant to fight someone better and faster than he was.

Yugito waited for Sasuke to come in range. When he did, the Uchiha thrust his fist out, hoping to impale the blond through the chest. It wasn't to be as Yugito Kawirimi'd with a Rai Bunshin. The clone exploded in a shower of sparks and electricity, shocking Sasuke and sending him sailing. The Uchiha genin hit the floor hard rolling around on the ground before coming to a stop, completely unconscious.

"Shousa! Nii Yugito!" Genma announced.

"Well, that was a totally obvious outcome." Naruto said, cracking his neck. "Dear kami I'm so tired. Hopefully now I can get some sleep…"

Before anyone else could say something, feathers began falling from the sky. And the same time a large explosion went up in the Hokage Booth, and two figures shot out.

"What the-" the people in the stadium began to fall asleep, dropping from their chairs one by one. All except the disguised Oto and Suna ninja, who were now getting up from their seats to attack the Konoha ninja. Kakashi, Gai, Asuma, Kurenai and several other ninja who were in the stadium began to battle it out with the Oto ninja.

Kakashi had his Sharingan out and was using it to great effect, allowing it's predicting abilities to defeat the ninja that came his way. Asuma's trench knives were blazing with green wind chakra as he cut down any opponent that stood before him. Gai became a literal hurricane as he launched devastating kicks and punches at his enemies, each attack shattering bones. Kurenai used her talent with genjutsu to confuse and sneak up on opponents, slitting their throats before they knew what was happening.

Naruto and a few of the other genin realized it was a genjutsu, and quickly moved to dispel it, "Kai!" the feathers around them blew away, and the blond took the opportunity to look around. Ino, Choji and Kiba were all asleep from the genjutsu's effects. Meaning he and the others would have to protect them.

He noticed one of the Oto ninja that were not engaging Kakashi and the other jonin, coming for him and the other genin. Without thinking Naruto used his gauntlet and launched a kunai into the man's throat. Said man clutched at it as he gurgled and fell to the floor, dead.

"What the hell! Why are we under attack!" Naruto yelled. He did not get an answer, but he knew better then to actually expect one. Naruto grit his teeth as he summoned his Bo staff and began to fight several of the Oto ninja who were had appeared. Using a dazzling spinning combination to block several attacks that had been sent his way, spinning on his heels the blond Konoha shinobi twirled the staff around himself as he began smacking the Oto ninja away from his unconscious comrades.

"Sakura! Hinata!" Naruto shouted, getting the two frightened girls attention. "I need you to inject the genin who are still out of it with your chakra! We can't afford to have them asleep for this! Tenten, I need you to help me protect them!"

Despite being scared out of their mind the two rookie kunoichi did as told. As the two kunoichi began waking the other genin, Naruto continued defending them with Tenten joining in the fray.

He landed a powerful blow on the head of one of the Oto ninja who had gotten too close to Sakura. Naruto heard the sickening crunch of the man's neck snapping, since his battle in Nami he had refrained from killing, but with this battle he had now killed at least two enemy ninja. However he had spoken with Anko, Sarutobi, Kakashi, Jiraiya and Yugito a lot about killing, and had steeled his mind, knowing he would have to kill again. It still sickened him, but he did not slow down.

Beside him Tenten was launching kunai after kunai at the ninja who were too far away for Naruto to strike. Each one she threw was a head shot, showing just how accurate she was with her weapons.

As Naruto continued his assault the genin were woken up one by one. When they did the blond turned to them, "Hook up with your jonin sensei and get your orders from them!"

Many of the other genin were shocked by Naruto's calm and commanding presence. However due to his previous battles they did not question him, each nodding before taking off. The blond jabbed his staff into another ninja's face, not bothering to listen to it break with a sickening crunch as he turned to Sakura, "Follow me! We're going to Kakashi-sensei to get our orders!"

"But what about Sasuke-kun!" asked Sakura. Sasuke was down in the arena and probably still unconscious, he needed their help!

"Sasuke is with Yugito," Naruto resealed his staff and launched a wind blade at a Suna Kunoichi, nearly splitting the woman in half with the attack. "She'll protect him right now; we need to get to Kakashi however."

Naruto moved away, forcing Sakura to follow him for protection.

"Oh great," Yugito said in an annoyed voice as she found herself surrounded by several Suna and Oto ninja. "I so don't need this," She looked down at the still form of Sasuke and rolled her eyes, "And now I've got to baby sit too."

"Just hand over the Uchiha and we may let you walk out of here," One of the Oto Shinobi ordered. Orochimaru had said he wanted them to capture Sasuke sometime during the exams if possible, and right now seemed like the best time to get him.

Unfortunately they were facing off against Yugito, who not only had no intention of giving the raven haired genin to them, but was also skilled enough to pull such a thing off.

"Well, while I would personally love to give the arrogant brat to you, he's kind of a teammate and friend to this guy that I've taken a liking to. So, I'm gonna have to decline your offer."

She smirked as the ninja charged her, sliding into her stance she began to weave through the attacks her enemies sent. Dodging a kick to her side, she latched onto the leg and swung the Oto shinobi into a kunoichi from Suna. Bending herself backwards, she avoided a punch from a Suna shinobi, right before she came back up and with a kunai in hand and shoved it in his throat.

Yugito kicked the dying ninja away and into another one that had tried to rush her. Spinning on the balls of her feet, she lashed out with a kick that connected a the throat of the Oto shinobi she had thrown earlier, crushing his windpipe.

As the Oto ninja fell to the ground, clutching at his throat, Yugito ducked under a kunai swipe by a Suna kunoichi, before coming into said kunoichi's guard and stabbing her in the ribs with her own kunai, piercing the woman's heart. She grabbed the now dead Suna kunoichi by the arms and used her as a bat to smack another ninja away.

Getting back into a stance she looked at the ninja who were now eyeing her wearily and grinned, "You know compared to my battle with Naruto-kun, you guys are boring."

The ninja looked at each other before charging back in.

Several miles outside of Konoha several dozen Oto and Suna ninja sat around three summoning seal arrays. Always having been a meticulous planner, Orochimaru had made sure to set several decoy summoning arrays, so that, in case the invasion was found out and the Konoha ninja somehow managed to find his summoning arrays, he would still have several left in the wing.

The one dozen ninja began going through a set of hand signs before slamming them into the array, "Kuchiyose No Jutsu!"

Three large puffs of smoke surrounded the area and when it cleared there were three large snakes. The two on the left were fairly average looking, albeit nearly the size of the Hokage tower, one had green scales, while the others was black. However, it was the one in the middle that looked caught everyone's attention, of course seeing how it had three heads that was understandable.

The snakes surged forward, the one in the middle in the lead. They crashed through one of the towering walls around Konoha and began to wreak havoc on the village.

Jiraiya and the Anbu looked up when they saw the giant snakes smashing into Konoha on the opposite side of where they were located.

"Damn it! It seems that damn Hebi set us up with decoys," Jiraiya muttered. He looked over at the Anbu, "I want you all to start with the operation. I'll take care of the summons."

"Hai Jiraiya-Sama!" the Anbu saluted and took off.

Jiraiya looked over at the stadium where Sarutobi and Naruto were probably fighting right now. "I hope those two are safe," He turned his attention back to the snakes and took off.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto shouted as he redirected a punch sent his way, and then lashed out with his own. Sending an Oto ninja stumbling back before he snap kicked the shinobi in the head in such a way that it broke the man's neck. "What are our orders!"

Kakashi looked over at his two genin as he finished snapping a Suna kunoichi's neck, "I want you two to hook up with the other genin. Group together and start defending the village while we fight here."

"But sensei! What about Sasuke-kun!" asked Sakura as she hid behind Naruto.

"Don't worry about him," A new voice spoke up.

The trio turned to find Yugito standing there with a still unconscious Sasuke over her shoulder. She gave them a small smirk. "He'll be fine in a couple of hours, unfortunately he won't be able to move for a while, even after he regains consciousness."

Kakashi nodded as he threw a kunai into a nearby Suna shinobi's neck, "In that case I want him taken to the hospital where Hiashi is currently guarding the injured." He turned to look at the other jonin and their genin who were helping them fight.

With Asuma, Shikamaru was using his Kage Mane No Jutsu to hold down any ninja that got to close, while Choji smashed them by using his Bunbun Baika No Jutsu (Partial Multi-Expansion Jutsu). Meanwhile, Ino was using her Shintenshin No Jutsu to enter the minds of her enemies and use their bodies to kill her enemies and sow dissension among the ranks.

Over a little ways away Kiba and Akamaru were using the Gatsuuga to drill into enemy ninja left and right, there teamwork tearing through enemy ninja like butter. Hinata had her Byakugan blaring and had shown how much she had improved recently as she used the Jyuken style taijutsu to attack her enemies. At the same time Shino was using his bugs to take care of the enemies that were coming towards them before they got to close to his teammates.

Tenten despite being the only ninja in her squad who was there used all manner of ranged weapons to take out enemy shinobi as she fought alongside her sensei. Launching kunai and shuriken with great precision before most of the enemy ninja could even react.

"You guys mind if I borrow our genin!" Kakashi asked as he ducked under a fist. He came back up and flicked a kunai into his hand, right before he impaled the Oto shinobi through the throat.

Asuma grunted as he slashed apart another Oto ninja, "Sure! I think we've got things here!"

The other jonin voiced their agreements and Kakashi turned back to his team.

"Sakura, I want you to take Sasuke and go with Kiba, Shino and Hinata to the hospital, protect the ninja there." Sakura nodded and went over to Kurenai and her squad while Naruto made two clones to take Sasuke off of Yugito's hands. "Naruto, I want you to go with Tenten, and squad ten, help the village evacuate any civilians who have not left for the shelters."

"Got it sensei!" Naruto took off towards team ten.

Kakashi looked over at Yugito, "I can't order you to do anything, but if you can help out that would be appreciated."

"Don't worry." Yugito said, "Since this is Naruto-kun's home and my kage is currently here, I will lend you a hand."

Kakashi raised an eyebrow at the blonds use of an affectionate suffix for his student, he filed it away in the 'tease students' section of his mind before nodding and getting back to work.

Sarutobi looked around at what was going on impassively. He was currently being held with a kunai to his neck by Orochimaru, who he knew had disguised himself as the Kazekage. There was a large purple barrier surrounding them, preventing anyone from coming in to aid him, as evidenced by the dead Anbu that had run into it and been fried to a crisp.

Not that he wanted or needed help at the moment.

"I see you went through quite the bit of careful planning to get me alone… Orochimaru," Sarutobi pushed the kunai away and spun around with a kick.

Orochimaru jumped back and chortled a bit, "Kukuku, very good Sarutobi-sensei. I wonder, how did you know it was me?" a hand came up and pulled off the man's mask and face to reveal the pale skin and yellow eyes of Orochimaru, the Hebi Sannin.

"I have known about your plan for some time now, my foolish former student." Sarutobi narrowed his eyes, "I am curious however, you have never been the type to simply attack for just vengeance. So why try to destroy Konoha now? What do you hope to accomplish with this?"

"Kukuku, well I don't know if I have any grand goal that I wish to accomplish." Orochimaru smirked, "I suppose you could say I enjoy watching things in motion, life gets dull when things are standing still, don't you agree?" The pale man removed the kage hat and robes to reveal an off white Kimono with a purple bow. "A stopped windmill is so boring to watch you know… though sometimes it heightens the anticipation. Right now I just want to make that windmill spin again, and the crumbling of the leaf village will provide the wind."

Orochimaru took a few steps towards his old sensei, his eyes were a lit with excitement. Sarutobi only smirked at his student as he removed his robes and hat to reveal his battle attire. Near samurai style armor and helmet similar to the kind the Ni and Shodaime Hokage's wore.

"It seems you never change, do you, Orochimaru?"

"So how are we going to do this?" asked Shikamaru as he Choji, Ino, Tenten and Naruto jumped through Konoha. They had been given the job of helping locate and safely escort any civilians who had not yet evacuated to the Hokage Monument.

Naruto looked at him and noticed the others were also staring at him expectantly. He realized they were waiting for orders. This was not something he had expected. "Erm…" He shook his head, right now these four were expecting him to tell them what to do, and even though he did not want to be the leader right now, he had to think of something.

Several dozen plans went through his mind before he selected the one with the best chance at succeeding. He put his hand in the ram seal and called out his most used jutsu, "Tajuu Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" There was a puff of smoke and two hundred clones suddenly appeared around them.

"Shikamaru and Ino, I want you two to take one hundred clones and head off the two west! These clones will provide distractions and support for you! Tenten and Choji, same thing except go to the eastern sections!"

"What about you Naruto-kun?" asked Tenten with some worry. He was giving them all the clones, and that had to have been taxing on him.

"Don't worry about me," Naruto gave her a reassuring smile. He did not have as much chakra as he would have liked, but this many clones wouldn't drain his reserves too much. "I have still have a lot more chakra left. Now go!"

The others looked at him for only a moment before shooting off with one hundred clones following them.

Naruto's eyes hardened again as he took off towards the ninja academy, his instincts were screaming at him to head there. After all, the best way to insure your enemy can not fight back in later years to come, is to get rid of the future ninja the opposing village has.

Iruka along with several dozen other Chunin had barricaded the academy entrances in an effort to protect the students there. The evacuation order had come to them too late. Orochimaru had already foreseen that the academy may be evacuated before the invasion took place. And so he had given the order to destroy the academy the minute they tried to leave.

The moment Iruka and the others had attempted to evacuate, they had been ambushed by several squads of Oto ninja. Many of the Chunin had already died in an attempt to protect the students as they made their way back into the academy, and many more students had died because there were simply not enough Chunin to protect them all.

Turning around the scarred Chunin looked towards one of his comrades, "How are things looking?"

The Chunin slowly shook his head, "Not too good. We've only got about a dozen of us, and six are too injured to fight. We lost nearly fifty students in that surprise attack, nearly a hundred are injured and there is no way or us to get to the shelters."

"Damn," Iruka muttered, things were not looking good. "Those Oto ninja had expected the evacuation, almost as soon as it began they managed to storm us."

"Things are starting to look hopeless," The other agreed.

A little ways away Konohamaru and his two friends heard what they had said and were looking both worried and afraid. Looking around the young Sarutobi saw that many of the other students were also afraid, even more so then he was. Standing up Konohamaru peeked out of the window he had been hiding near, when he did he saw something that began to bring hope back to him.

"It's the boss!" He shouted, causing everyone else to look over at him, "Naruto-nii's come to rescue us!"

The other students and even the teachers looked out of the second story window and saw the shocking sight of nearly one hundred copies of a spiky blond haired ninja plowing through the enemy shinobi that had decided to remain behind.

Naruto was crouched on a roof as he looked over at the academy, using his talent for remaining hidden to avoid enemy detection. He moved the binoculars as he did a thorough sweep of the academy grounds. There a lot of dead instructors and many more students, along with nearly forty shinobi who were surrounding the grounds.

Seeing all the dead students made his blood boil. Konoha had allowed these people to come in here and participate in the exams, and this what they do!

He shook the thought off for the moment, getting angry would not help him here. As he looked at the forty enemy ninja he wondered why they had not attempted to attack the academy yet. Were they expecting some kind of trap if they entered? Or did they just feel that there was no need to rush things?

Whatever, I need to find a way to get rid of them, Naruto said to himself.

"Damn it, I wish I had not told Shikamaru and the others to go off," Naruto mumbled under his breath. In hindsight it might not have been the best idea. However there was simply too much ground to cover in Konoha, and his clones would dispel with on good hit, so they could not protect the population as well as Shikamaru and the others could.

"Well, I guess there's no helping it then," Not wasting a second Naruto came up with the best plan to defeat them. "Tajuu Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" One hundred more Naruto clones puffed into existence, fifty of them jumped off and charged into the enemy ninja. They began to fight using fist, feet, knee's, elbows, head butts and kunai as they tore into the surprised Oto ranks. It took a while but soon the Oto ninja began fighting back, dispelling the clones faster than Naruto would have liked.

However there job was not just to fight against the enemy ninja, but to herd the enemies into a single spot so that they would be trapped for Naruto's planned jutsu. So in the end, it did not matter how many of them dispelled so long as there was enough clones to execute his plan.

The other fifty Naruto clones used as much stealth as they could to make it to the academy walls. A few were dispelled, but most managed to make it in front of the door, which by now was littered with dead Oto ninja. The clones took up a defensive perimeter around the academies main entrance.

Meanwhile Naruto had jumped in the air, using his wind chakra to boost his height so that he was above the Oto ninja and his currently fighting clones. He made another clone in midair and both began doing hand seals.

"Fuuton: Atsugai!"

"Katon: Gokyakou No Jutsu!"

The clone expelled a large fireball from its mouth, while Naruto shot a tornado at the fireball that compressed the fireball before releasing a white hot torrent of flame. The flames shot right into the midst of the enemy shinobi, incinerating them in seconds. An explosion soon lit up the area as Naruto landed on the ground.

The blond dropped to a knee while panting a bit. Grimacing he reached into one of his kunai pouches and pulled out a chakra pill. Normally he would never eat one, in fact, Naruto had never had to eat any kind of supplemental pill in his life, since he had such large reserves and Kyuubi healed everything before it became a serious problem. However he had been fighting in a tournament since this morning, and had now made three hundred clones and had pumped in more Youki into those tow jutsu on top of the amount he had already used during the Exams. So he did not have much of a choice right now. He popped the pill in his mouth and chewed.

After swallowing the bitter tasting pill he sighed in relief as he felt it do its job and help Kyuubi restore his youki. He was nowhere near full but it should be enough for this. Turning around he made his way towards the academy entrance.

"Naruto!"

"Naruto-nii/Boss!"

The door opened to reveal Iruka, Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon had come near the door with the many academy students and Chunin instructors behind them.

"I'm glad to see you guys are alright," Naruto said, smiling in relief.

"Did Hokage-Sama send you?" asked Iruka.

Naruto shook his head, "Kakashi-sensei ordered me and a few other genin to help assist in the evacuation. I decided to come here just in case, and it looks like my instincts paid off." He looked at Iruka with a rare serious expression on his face, "Are there any injured?"

Iruka looked somewhat taken back by the serious expression on Naruto's face, but gave a nod, "Half of our Chunin instructors are and about one hundred students."

Naruto grimaced, "Can they walk or do they need assistance?"

"Most of them can walk, however several will need help," Iruka answered.

Nodding Naruto came up with a decision on what to do. "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" around fifty clones popped into existence. Naruto winced as he felt half of his reserves leave him, but knew it was necessary, "These twenty five will help carry any of the injured, while the other twenty five will protect you as you make your way to the shelters in the Hokage Monument."

"What about you?" asked Iruka with a frown.

"There's an enemy that has been dispelling quite a few of my clones for a while now. None of them have been able to touch this one, I have to deal with him personally."

Iruka gave his former student a concerned look, "Are you sure that's wise?"

Naruto shrugged, "Maybe not, but if I don't deal with him he'll attack and kill more Villagers and I can't let that happen."

Knowing better then to try and change Naruto's decision Iruka nodded, "well, good luck then."

"Thanks," Naruto ran off, jumping over the fence and leaving the academy students and instructors staring after him.

Shikamaru caught another shinobi in his shadow, allowing one of the Naruto clones to kill him by slicing his neck open with a kunai. They had been fighting for quite a while, Shikamaru would use his shadows to possess them and a Naruto clone would kill them. Ino was hidden along the walls, using her mind possessing ability to cause chaos amongst the enemies ranks while several clones hid themselves around her for protection.

"Man this is so troublesome," Shikamaru muttered, catching another three ninja in his shadow. Three Naruto clones converged on the enemies, slitting their throats before disappearing.

Were lucky a lot of these ninja appear to only be genin, Shikamaru thought to himself as he watched a Naruto clone kill another enemy ninja. Their elite forces must all be at the arena…

"Shoushouryuu!" Tenten shouted as hundreds of weapons left the scrolls she was weaving through the air. Each and every weapon managed to hit one of the Oto or Suna ninja below, making the groups that had been storming Konoha scream out in pain as they were impaled or bludgeoned.

After exhausting her weapons, Tenten landed on the roof some distance away and used chakra strings to lift the weapons back up and send them to attack more ninja who had just gotten there.

In another street just a little ways away, Choji was rolling over every enemy ninja he came across. Smashing them like pancakes, while the Naruto clones were either fighting their own battles, rescuing the civilians that were in the area, or herding the enemy shinobi towards Choji.

Within a sector of Konoha that looked near abandoned, a cage opened and Gaara stepped out. The left side of his face was covered in sand that held the form of a tanuki. His teeth on that side was likewise fanged, while the other side held normal teeth. Drool was seeping down his mouth and his left eye no longer held the same green as his right, instead it was yellow in color with a star-like pupil in the center.

The sand seemed to stop at his torso, covering his arm as well and allowing it to take the form of a giant claw with three fingers.

His head swished around as if looking for pray, the drool flying everywhere as he glared at not seeing anything here. With nothing here to kill he bounded off, "UZUAMKI! WHERE ARE YOU UZUMAKI! COME AND LET ME PROVE MY EXISTANCE!"

The battle between Orochimaru and Sarutobi had become more and more intense as the two launched jutsu after jutsu, as sword clashed against staff and the two battled all across the enclosed space. The Sandaime, despite being old seemed able to keep up with Orochimaru for the most part.

Everything changed however when Orochimaru used a jutsu that the Nidaime had created, and brought two of Konoha's most powerful shinobi back to life. The aging Hokage had never imagined that his former student would stoop so low as to use this jutsu, a jutsu that he had tried to hide from everyone after he had become Hokage due to how truly despicable it was.

Sarutobi was only glad he had been able to stop the Yondaime from surfacing or this battle would have been so far ou of his favor it would have been considered ridiculious.

"Little Sarutobi is that you?" asked the man on the right. He had long black hair and was wearing red battle armor, "You've gotten old."

"It must have been a long time since we have been dead, eh old monkey?" asked the one on the left. A man with white hair and blue battle armor.

"I would have never thought we would meet again like this, Shodaime-Sama, Nidaime-Sama," Sarutobi spoke with a slight choke, both happy to see his old friends again, and appalled at the way he had to see them. "I suggest you prepare yourselves."

Outside of the barrier several of the Anbu gasped, all of them staring at the two armor clad ninja in surprise, shock, awe and no small amount of fear. Before, Sarutobi had stood a chance of winning. Even though he was old, the man wise and was crafty in the ways of war, and despite his age was still very strong and had taken down opponents far worse than Orochimaru. Now however, he was being forced to face two of the strongest shinobi that Konoha had ever produced, two of the villages founders. The Anbu were no longer sure if their leader could win, not against a Sannin and two former Hokage's.

The Nidaime glanced over his shoulder to see Orochimaru closing in with a set of specially designed kunai. He was easily able to realize what was going on, "I see, so this is the one who was able to perform Eido Tensei (Ressurection of the Impure World), that's pretty impressive."

The Shodaime looked over at the Sandaime Hokage, "If this is true, then I would assume we are here to battle you little-Saru. I am correct?"

"Yes it is. Now if you three old fools are done reminiscing let's get started," Orochimaru stated as he put the two specially tagged kuna into the backs of the Nidaime's and Shodaime's heads. "I want to watch the leaf burn."

The Shodaime sighed, "It seems no matter how much the times change, there will always be battle."

"Yes, but you like the idea don't you?" Orochimaru chuckled.

"Using the dead as tools, Orochimaru, you have lowered yourself even more then I thought possible," Sarutobi clenched his fists.

Orochimaru smirked, "Say what you want, but the times have changed and I've waited too long to watch this village burn to the ground. But don't worry sensei, I'll give you the privilege to watch your beloved village get razed before I end your life."

However much to Orochimaru's surprise, Sarutobi merely smirked, "That will not be happening today my foolish student. Since you plan on using two kage's to fight one, I believe it's time I even up the odds."

Pulling out two scrolls from his pouch, Sarutobi threw them into the air before going through a set of hand signs. The two scrolls fell back down but Sarutobi caught them, and set them on the ground where he unrolled them. It was then that Orochimaru saw just what was on the two scrolls and felt his eyes widen.

"Kuchiyose No Jutsu!"

There were two puffs of smoke and when it cleared Orochimaru could not hold in the curse, as the tides once again turned and possibly, not in his favor this time.

"Orochimaru I don't believe you were properly introduced before. I would like you to meet A, the Raikage of Kumogakure and his brother, Kirabi."

"Yo, yo, I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, that because I'm the Eight tails Jinchurikki!"

Sarutobi, A, the Anbu, Orochimaru and even the puppet Kage's all sweat dropped at the man's rapping.

A coughed, "Well now that Bee has gotten that out of his system, why don't we start this battle."

"I couldn't agree more," Orochimaru said, deciding to ignore the man's rapping, since even he thought it was weird. It did not matter if Sarutobi had help, he would make the leaf burn.

Katon: Karyu Endan (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Missile) - The user kneads chakra into flames, which are then manipulated into a genuine-looking dragon. Since the art of having the flames obey the user's will is outrageously difficult, its mastery is restricted to a limited number of skillful shinobi. The spat out flames are divided to launch a left side, right side, and frontal assault in all three directions at once, turning the enemy into ash in a matter of seconds.

Fuuton: Atsugi (Wind Release: Severing Air Pressure) - powerful wind technique which is released by Kakuzu's wind-element mask. A tornado-like mass is compressed until it has a very high density and is then released. The wind pressure is raised to its highest limit, and once the technique hits the target, the resulting blast sweeps everyone off their feet.

If the technique is used by someone who has mastered wind nature transformation, the blast can hit a vast range, inflicting massive damage on both the target and their surroundings.

This technique can be combined with the Fire Release: Intelligent Hard Work, to increase the flame's potency in a great scale, causing a massive firestorm.

Eido Tensei (Summoning: Impure World Resurrection) - The Summoning: Impure World Resurrection is a forbidden technique used to revive the dead. It was originally developed by Tobirama Senju, and later completed by Orochimaru.[2] Kabuto now claims to have mastered it to a degree even higher than them. Kabuto also claims this jutsu to be the "greatest, most powerful technique in the shinobi universe",[2] as it poses no risk at all to the user.[3]

To perform this technique, the user must first acquire some of the DNA of the person they intend to revive. Kabuto remarks that this basically amounts to grave-robbing, although blood stains or organs salvaged after the target's death also work. The soul of the intended revived must also reside in the pure world (浄土, jōdo); those whose soul has been consumed by the Death God, for example, cannot be resurrected. Next, a living sacrifice is required for the soul of the resurrected to use as a vessel.[2]

The seal for the ritual.

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Once all prerequisites for the technique have been met, the physical remains acquired are smeared on a special scroll and once the scroll is activated, the remains spread out in the form of a special symbol with the living sacrifice in the center of the symbol. Then dust and ash encases the sacrifice's body, giving them the same appearance that the revived had at the time of their death. The person is then revived and the end product is usually stored in a casket until summoned by the user. The user can theoretically revive a limitless number of people in this way, so long as they have enough sacrifices, chakra and DNA to perform the technique.[2]

When first summoned, the body of the resurrected is stored in a coffin; their body will appear grey and in a state of minor decay, marred by cracks and other imperfections, and the individual will also appear to be asleep. Upon awakening they retain their personality, memories, and all abilities they had in life, including kekkei genkai and kekkei tōta, but it does not seem to be able to recreate unique weapons such as Samehada. The summoned can be recalled at will by the user, causing an empty coffin to emerge and reclaim the individual, and the summoner can also use revived individuals to remotely summon coffins containing additional reinforcements.[4]

After the individual has been summoned and awakened, the summoner can bind the individual to his or her will by using a special talisman, which is attached to the end of a kunai and implanted in the brain. Upon implanting the talisman, the resurrected individual will regenerate further, eliminating any remaining imperfections and restoring colour to their bodies and clothing. The summoner either remotely controls or tracks the summoned individuals using pebbles he manipulates on a simple grid, which acts as a map.[5]

Different talismans can be used to enact different degrees of control. Orochimaru's talismans completely eliminated the personalities of the summoned, turning them into mindless killing machines under his command. Kabuto prefers to use a weaker binding talisman on certain individuals, allowing them to retain some degree of their own personality. The latter method is useful for psychological warfare,[6] and can also allow the summoned individual to tap into their own emotions, memories, or creativity to enhance their effectiveness in combat,[7] but also carries a host of drawbacks; it takes more effort to retain control with the weaker binding which can make it possible for the hearts of the summoned to be swayed by strong emotions, which can result in the soul breaking free and returning to the Pure World.[4]

Even so, Kabuto can completely remove their personalities if needed, and may elect to if they resist his command too strongly. After gaining more experience with the technique, and absorbing Orochimaru's chakra from Anko Mitarashi, Kabuto exerts greater control over the summoned and can even overwrite his own talismans, greatly increasing the power of the binding.[4]

The revived are impossible to kill by normal means. Any damage they receive will regenerate, be it lost limbs or complete disintegration. Not even killing the summoner will get rid of them.[8] There are only three known methods to end the technique:

Seal away the soul of the revived individual.

Have the summoner end the technique. As they are unlikely to do this voluntarily, using a genjutsu to trick them into canceling the technique is ideal. The sequence of hand seals for canceling the technique is Dog → Horse → Tiger and saying "release" (解, kai).

The revived individual is affected in some emotional way that gives them closure;[9] Kankurō notes that human emotions are not so easily restrained.[10] However, this method cannot work if the summoner destroys the personality of the revived individual before their soul is freed of its bonds.[4]

Once any of these methods is accomplished, the bodies will crumble into dust, with the bodies of the sacrificed individual lying among the ashes.

Besides the three mentioned methods, the technique can also be partially combated by immobilizing the bodies in a way that it cannot move or act. Although this does not truly defeat the summoning, it is effective at preventing the bodies from becoming a threat in battle.

Well, there you have it.

Let me know what you think.

Also, I'm pretty sure everyone is wondering about the power levels of the people in the story. Here is a basic ranking classification system based on their skills, power and experience.

Naruto – B

Naruto using Kyuubi's youki – lower A

Yugito – A

Yugito using Nibi's youki – lower to mid S

Neji – C to B

Sasuke – C to B

Lee – B

Lee when he opens the Hachimon – lower A

Look up my ranking system so you can see how powerful they are.