NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.-Chapter 168: CH

Hidan's arm was crushed, producing a sizeable burst of blood and getting a yell of pain from the silver -haired berserker. He pulled his crushed limb from the sand and ended up getting it severed by Naruto's sword before he could return to Kakuzu's side.

Kakuzu rushed to the unprotected side of Gaara and attempted to deliver a heavy kick to the unmoving Kazekage that was blocked again by Gaara's sand. Kakuzu was still fast enough however to remove his foot before Gaara could pull a repeat performance of Sabaku Sousou on him. He jumped back, "That's a nice defense. It really is something worth mentioning when one speaks of you."

"I'm forgetting something." Naruto mentioned as he saw Gaara easily defending him from both of the Akatsuki members. Seriously, he wasn't ever looking forward to fighting Gaara ever again, even if it was just a spar.

As he said this, Kakuzu's mask came at them both from a blindspot. It started making its movements to attempt Fuuton: Atsugai once again, but Naruto was damned if he was going to let that thing go off near Gaara without a fight. Naruto formed a Kage Bunshin and formed a Rasengan, "I'll show you a real wind jutsu." The Kage Bunshin put its hands around the Rasengan Naruto had formed and pumped wind chakra into it while Naruto maintained the original shape and form of the Rasengan giving it the appearance of a Rasengan with sharp spikes circulating outside of it, "Come on you ugly, ugly son of a bitch! Fuuton: Rasengan (Wind Release: Spiraling Sphere)!"

Naruto met the mask head on as it was forming the pressurized dome of air and collided the new Rasengan directly with its mask, destabilizing the mask's jutsu. The resulting clash of wind element ninjutsu caused a major outflow of force from the point of impact as a massive tornado engulfed both Naruto and the embodiment of Kakuzu's wind element. The force of the jutsu finally began tearing the black thread body apart and ended up shredding the mask itself into pieces.

Naruto stood with his hand outstretched, cuts on his own palm and insides of his fingers healing from the powerful wind technique, "Baa-chan telling me not to train... How else would I have gotten this down?" Hidan clutched at his missing arm as Kakuzu retreated back to his side. The masked man watched with interest, "I think we've got enough for the time being. We need to report how dangerous the Kyuubi jinchuuriki is to Leader-sama." He raised his voice so Naruto and Gaara could hear him, "This was an enlightening little skirmish. We'll definitely be seeing one of you two sooner rather than later, but for now we'll just let you be. A fight between us now would only be something akin to the unstoppable force against the unmovable object." He and Hidan both made half-tiger seals, "Until next time."

Gaara raised his hand at both men, "Not so fast. Sabaku Kyuu (Sand Coffin)." Gaara covered their bodies in his sand, but before he fully covered their faces he caught a smirk on the face of Hidan.

"So sorry boys, but rest assured Kyuubi kid. I'll be seeing you again real soon." The sand covered his face entirely with his dark grin being the last thing seen. Gaara clinched his fist, "Sabaku Sousou (Sand Burial)." The sand imploded and gushed blood everywhere before receding back into Gaara's gourd, "What a disappointment of a battle. Those were S-ranked missing ninja?"

Naruto walked over to the corpses and frowned, "These aren't the same guys Gaara."

Gaara let slight surprise show on his face as he walked over and realized Naruto was correct. The crushed, unidentified, unmarked men were not the same people that they had been fighting, "What kind of Henge could do this?"

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A distance away, Hidan and Kakuzu came out of their meditative seated positions and stood back up to return to a base. Hidan dusted himself off, "That was actually a solid idea to send in those sacrifices. A damn shame it didn't work eh?" Kakuzu cracked his neck, "It couldn't be helped. My own was almost out of chakra and without me, your copy would have just been diced up. Let's report back to Leader-sama." fгeewebnovёl.com

"Feh." Hidan scoffed, "Shut up. All of this wasted time sitting on my ass doing nothing. We'd better slaughter a random village or two on our way back."

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As Naruto and Gaara picked up the remains of the two men who had just been killed in Gaara's jutsu and prepared to return to Sunagakure a man clinched his fists and glared with his familiar spinning red eyes.

"Kukukuku... What do you think Sasuke-kun? Didn't we come all the way out here for you to fight Naruto-kun? Or is the Kazekage too imposing a figure to make a move on him. I am here with you as well you know?" "Hn." Sasuke stated simply as he turned around and began to walk away, "He wasn't even good enough to beat those two on his own."

"I truly doubt you could do better if you had actually been in there." Kabuto sniped while adjusting his glasses only to get a full powered glare from Sasuke, "Ooh, such a scary face."

"That's enough Kabuto." Orochimaru reprimanded his right-hand man, "He is correct though. Kakuzu and Hidan are nigh impossible to outright kill. I wonder how you would have handled them if it had been you fighting instead Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke stopped glaring at Kabuto and turned his head towards Orochimaru before turning around and walking away, "Whatever... I'm wasting my time out here."

Kabuto looked at his master, "Why didn't we attack them after all Orochimaru-sama?" Orochimaru grinned predatorily, "Akatsuki is just as much a pain in my side as it is a threat to Naruto-kun. If he can run their numbers down then I see no reason to take the boy's life yet. Let them continue to pick away at one another for as long as the other can stand it."

Kabuto nodded in agreement, "And about Sasuke?"

Orochimaru began walking along the direction that Sasuke had just taken, "You and I both know that he is still no match for the boy, however in a few months that will no longer be much of an issue Kabuto, but I'll give him the satisfaction of knowing that his body destroyed Naruto-kun... it just won't be him doing it in the end."

As the group walked away, a scorpion that had been crawling nearby disappeared in a puff of smoke.

XxX Gaara walked next to Naruto back towards Suna with two sand clouds carrying the carcasses of their kills, "Are we both in agreement that engaging them all now would not be practical for us?"

Naruto nodded, "Oh yeah. But it doesn't matter, we have more important things to worry about than the body-snatching teme. They'll come knocking at some point... and we'll be waiting."

"We?" Gaara questioned.

Naruto shrugged, "What? You act like you aren't going to get all over this after today. He did manipulate your country into a war with mine, and he is trespassing in your country as we speak. Who knows what else they did while they were here? I'm certain you aren't going to just let that slide when the time comes Kazekage-sama."

"Don't call me that Uzumaki." Gaara insisted, "It feels odd hearing that from you." "Fair enough." Naruto accepted, "I guess it would seem strange for the guy whose house you crashed over at for almost two weeks to call you by your title, especially when I'm your age and everything. Hey I wonder who won the exams."

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