A request to me by Douglas 654, he asked for a Naruto/Fullmetal Alchemist Crossover and I wrote this following the pairing/story direction he gave me, I hope he and you all will like the result ^ ^.

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" You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu

"Let's finish this" - dialogue

" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/ Thoughts

(Naruto/ Full Metal Alchemist crossover) Pairing Naru/Ten/Haku.

Not very long chapters.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything else I will use nor I make a profit out of this, I am writing just for the pleasure of doing it.

Chapter 6: Invasion Part 2.

Konoha – Market Street -

"AAAAAGH!" the Alchemist of Konoha yelled as he went sent flying through a new wall thanks to Orochimaru's attacks making him tumble inside until he left a deep imprint on the opposite wall.

"You okay!?" Kushina shrieked in fear as she once again was forced to knit-back several parts of his spine that had been cracked in various places.

"I just flew through a wall, what do you think?!" her son answered with acidic sarcasm.

"The bad side about your lacking the healing ability of a Jinchuuriki is that you can't take more punishment than normal, like this I will be forced to worry about hurting you too much! This is honestly infuriating." The Snake Sannin said annoyed as he walked inside the ruined store.

"Where is the Hokage?" Naruto asked as he finally got back up to his feet.

"I have summoned two old friends of his to keep him occupied," Orochimaru answered smirking.

"Old friends?"

"Dear First and Second Hokage. A pity he managed to interrupt the summoning of your dear dad, it would have been a very nice, heart-warming moment!"

"...You really like angering people, don't you?" Naruto said with narrowed eye.

"It's a guilty pleasure of mine, yes!"

"Good to know!" the platinum-haired young man said smirking as the wall behind him opened in a flash of red energy before closing-up immediately after.

"...Yes, they use my mocking monologue to run away, they do that too...always." the Sannin muttered sighing as his shoulders dropped a little.

"COME BACK HERE, BOY!" he yelled demolishing the wall to chase the Alchemist.

With Naruto -

"Any news?" the young man asked to the radio around his neck Hiruzen managed to give him before the two were forced to split apart.

"That Gaara boy just turned demonic!" Asuma answered as animal-like roars were heard in the back-ground.

"Please elaborate!" he answered diving inside a near shop to hide between the shelves of dresses to watch Orochimaru pass outside without finding him.

"Pretty much half his face got covered in sand and turned diabolic, his body too grew a little because of other sand covering him," Neji answered.

"You there too, Neji?"

"You are taking your time, so I had to fill your place until you arrive."

"I have a Sannin hunting me down, that takes time to...To..." Naruto said before slowly looking all the way up towards the figure covering him in their shadow.

"...Your friend and Teammate will be plenty busy for the foreseeable future, please do not call for a while or, if you really have to call, please leave a message in the voice mail." Orochimaru said smirking as he leaned down to use the radio around the Alchemist's neck himself.

"I guess asking for you to wait five minutes and let him help us deal with Gaara before you can take a shot at him will be useless." Shikamaru hissed in answer.

"No, I won't wait."

"THEN SCREW YOU!" the Alchemist answered summoning a spear of of rock in front of himself to force the Sannin to jump way back.

"I am tired of hunting you down, you will come with me whatever you like it or not!" Orochimaru yelled elbowing the young man's back making him fly through the showing window and back on the street.

"Damn it! At least I will try to fight back, you want me? Then you'll have to sweat!"

"Good! Like this it will be more fun!" The Snake Master said with a hissing laugh.

"Ngh!" closing his fists tight the young man used his own chakra to force his muscles to tighten several times more than physically possible along making the blood in his veins there flow faster, giving to both arms a dark-red colour from the elbow down as a result.

"Uhuhuhu! That form of Body Manipulation, something only possible to someone with Hyperion Constitution, very interesting! Show me what Tsunade taught you!" Orochimaru said excited as he jumped the boy.

"NNNNGHA!" Meeting the assault head-on the Alchemist's fist went intercepted by the Sannin's open palm that caught it to answer with a forward palm-thrust to the face that launched the young man away with a broken nose.

"Tch!" he growled returning to the assault.

"I broke my arm to stop that punch! Good job! Now come, Naruto-kun! I know you can do better than Th-GUAH!" Orochimaru started taunting before both fist of the young man landed on his chest making his eyes bulge-out.

"DOUBLE HAMMER!" the other screamed shooting the Sannin away shrieking.

WHAM! In a deafening explosion of debris the whole side of a near house exploded as the Snake Master's body crashed through it making the near Oto and Suna soldiers scatter to not get hit themselves.

"RAAAAAAGH!" Screaming in fury the traitorous Sannin broke free from the small mountain of broken bricks that had covered him to glare at Naruto…and finding that the young man was already gone.

"You know what?! You do not need legs to give me your knowledge of Alchemy! So I am going to remove both under the knees and drag you to my Lab!" the Sannin hissed launching himself to the chase.

It was then that he saw the red-eyed Alchemist running atop the rooftops at both his sides, and on the road, and through several stores and even jumping down several manholes to navigate the sewers.

"Shadow Clones...I hate that jutsu..." Orochimaru growled as he started dispelling clones left and right to find the real one.

Unseen by the Sannin, the real Gennin stealthily moved outside of one of the damaged restaurants to enter a half demolished bakery.

"I hate this plan, but I can't win on a contest of strength against a Sannin yet...I need to buy as much time as I can..." Naruto muttered as he started smashing sacks left and right filling the basement with a thick white 'mist'.

"HE IS COMING HERE!" one of the remaining close had the time to scream before Orochimaru's Kusanagi sword beheaded him in a flash.

"You must be the real one, finally!" the Snake Master said with a sickly sweet smile.

"..."

"What are you trying to do? Do you want to use your Alchemy with the flour?" he asked curious as the powder was making air honestly hard to breath.

"No...The Boss wanted me to bait you here and turn this place into a bomb..." the last clone answered holding up an explosive note.

"Eh!...A flour bomb...Clever little bastard!" Orochimaru admitted impressed as he tried to run away just the same instant the bomb ignited.

With Naruto – Near the Gate -

KABOOOOOOOM!

A deafening explosion shook part of the Village as the bakery as a whole simply ceased to exist thanks to the thick concentration of flour turning it into a bomb.

"It won't kill or even hurt him, but it should hopefully distract him long enough for me to help with Gaara...I just hope old man Sarutobi won't get killed by the two Hokages!"

"Where are you?!" Neji roared from the radio.

"I am on my way towards you! I had to turn the Hayasaki Bakery into a bomb to distract Orochimaru and I am now passing the Gate!" the Alchemist answered.

"We will pass it as a Suna attack, now move!" Gai answered.

"I am going! I am going!"

Running as fast as he could the Alchemist followed the trail of destruction left behind by Gaara helped by the bloodlust of the Suna boy Kushina was tracking-down for him from the seal.

"INCOMING!" A scream reached his ears as a ANBU was sent flying towards him forcing Naruto to dodge the flying man mid-air.

"That way?" he asked in a deadpan tone while pointing at the direction the shinobi came flying from to crash-land on the floor.

"Yep...He is pretty angry..." the masked man answered before fainting.

"Thank you." the Alchemist answered nodding.

"THERE YOU ARE!" Neji yelled elated once the young man finally reached his Teammates.

"That bad?" he asked watching the Hyuga keeping an eye closed because of the thick stream of blood passing over it from his forehead.

"He keeps forcing his coils open through the sheer force of his chakra stream, and I think it is all because of his Biju." the other answered.

"Tenten? Lee?" Naruto asked.

"Over here!" the girl replied waving at the duo from on top of a near tree.

"He broke my leg, Naruto-kun! But I am okay!" Lee added from near Tenten.

"That sand keeps hitting everything around him." Tenten explained while pointing at the madly flaying Gaara trying to hit a second ANBU.

"Any idea?" Naruto asked.

"I was about to ask you the same thing," Neji replied groaning.

"...So the Juken is completely useless?" finally the young man asked after a long pause of thought.

"At my current level? Yes, I can't close his Tenketsu Points strongly enough nor fast enough, his Biju still smashes them open in few seconds, but whatever new 'transformation' he is trying to achieve I can still interrupt it." Neji answered glaring at the Suna Jinchuuriki.

"Can we...Can we force him to lose chakra control?" Lee asked.

"Eh?"

"I am no expert, but force Chakra to flow differently on each limb? Maybe it will make him lose control enough for you two to paralyze him until help arrives." the Taijutsu maniac explained.

"You can?" Neji asked Naruto.

"I am still studying...But I think I can still fuck-up his coordination if I hit the right pressure points. But I never did that on a moving and HOSTILE target, What about you?" he answered.

"Juken is supposed to be all about 'Opening or Closing' the enemy Juken Points, not go half-way and modify the quantity of chakra passing through them! You are asking me to modify a century-old Fighting style I spent all my life learning until it became a second nature to me! On the Fly!" the Hyuga boy replied growling.

"But can you two do it or not?!" Tenten asked angry.

"Should we say yes?" Naruto asked.

"...Better go with maybe." Neji answered.

"Maybe." both boys repeated in chorus.

"Well, if you manage we'll be damn heroes and will save Konoha from a rampaging Biju, otherwise that Gaara will help the enemy destroy all we love and hold dear. No pressure." the girl of the Team answered with a clearly-sarcastic thumbs-up.

"You can do it!" Lee added.

"...You don't believe it yourself, Lee." Naruto answered as he and Neji moved to intercept Gaara.

"I may believe in Youth, but I am also a realist..." Lee answered shrugging.

With Naruto and Neji -

"I'll try to trap him long enough for you to start with the Juken, I will then join you with the acupuncture, okay?" the Alchemist said as both teens run side-by-side.

"This is simply an overly-complex suicide!" Neji answered as sand shuriken started raining on them.

"I'll take that as a yes!" the other replied as he transmuted the tree he was on into a wooden-made wall to stop the truck-sized bullet of compressed sand Gaara shot him.

"Some days are not worthy getting out of bed for..." Neji muttered as he used that opening to jump down to the floor, cover the short distance between him and the Suna Jinchuuriki and rapidly run up the same tree the deranged red-head was on to get close and personal.

"GRAAAAAAAH!" snarling angrily with more than half his face morphed into a tanuki-like drooling mask of madness, Gaara enlarged his right arm into a clawed paw the size of a house thanks to the sand of his gourd, ready to crush the insolent fly coming too close to his liking.

"I know I should not believe blindly in Fate...But PLEASE make it that I will come out of this alive!" steeling his resolve, and dodging of a mere millimeter the grab attack, Neji sneaked past the giant hand to strike Gaara's shoulder with few rapid pokes that caused the amassed sand to disperse.

"Damn you!" the Jinchuuriki snarled as while he forced open the closed tenketsu, the left arm went transformed into its Biju-like version to punch the Hyuga boy.

"Augh!" seeing too late the incoming attack Neji tried enacting a fast Kaiten to try defend himself.

CRACKLE!

To his relief before the overly-powerful attack could actually smash through his defensive technique the whole arm exploded into harmless sand in a blinding explosion of red energy.

"AAAAAAAAAH!" Gaara though had other things to worry about as a big chunk of his arm's flesh too detonated leaving very little to cover the bones.

"You okay?" Naruto asked as he joined Neji's side.

"What took you so long?" the Hyuga boy asked.

"I was wondering if using Alchemy on him would have counted like Human Transmutation...Turns out it isn't! While I can't turn sand into glass without adding fire and water, I can separate the sand from the chakra guiding it all the same." Naruto explained with a feral smile as Gaara was seen crudely patch his arm with sand, somehow.

"Good to hear!" Neji said as a new tentacle of sand cleaved in half the tree they were on barely missing the two.

"AH!" surprising Neji, Naruto took out several spheres of steel from his pockets, clapped his hands with the spheres in the middle and used the combined metal to form and harpoon he then threw to Gaara.

"You may want to come up with something bigger!" he commented as he managed to run three steps on the outstretched tentacle so to deliver a new attack while sending as much chakra he could inside the Jinchuuriki's body.

"NOT AGAIN!" showing that he could still think rationally enough to learn, Gaara used the sand on his back to keep Neji's arm immobilized where it was.

"Would you look at that, that's what I wanted!" the Hyuga Prodigy answered smirking as he moved his fingers slightly off tilt and pumping charkra in the new area, making the chakra gate there blast open just as the Biju inside the young man was about to shove a large amount of chakra to force it open itself.

The result was an overcharge that had the sand arm detonate uncontrolled with the backlash surprising Gaara enough for his control to falter so that Neji could break free.

And it was a good thing as Naruto's own attack came crushing down in the form of hundreds of wooden-made hands punching all at once every square centimeter of the Jincuuriki's body launching him away and through several other trees.

"Sorry the wait, I had to cut down a couple of plants to get enough wood for that. Now go, while he can still move the sand with his mind, I should have screwed his body's coordination, few of those punches SHOULD have landed in key pressure points!" the Alchemist said with an apologetic tone.

"It was worth the wait, now immobilize him further so I can attack his head and torso, I need to attack those areas if I have to screw-up his chakra control as well!" Neji said in a hurry as he ran towards the already recovering Gaara.

"AAH!" not wishing to stay behind, Naruto used the fallen trees and the broken wood from the previous attack to create a giant hand flying toward the crazed Jinchuuriki.

"Give me a lift!" seeing the way faster attack fly above him Neji jumped on top of the flying wooden construct to stand on top of it.

"I WILL-GUAH!" Roared in denial as he went roughly pinned down and almost crushed.

"Please work..." the Hyuga boy prayed with a low voice as his hands moved as a blur to hit Gaara's chest through the handy hole his Teammate had left in the middle of the giant wooden claw.

"Medical training do not fail me now!" the Alchemist also begged to the sky as he joined Neji with several thin needles he was using to puncture several key points on Gaara's shoulders.

"THAT'S IT! Playing Possum!" surprising both Konoha ninjas, Gaara actually managed to cover his body in a sloppy layer of sand he then made explode outward to get free, a small chain of seals later and he slumped down unconscious.

"...I have a bad feeling about this..." Neji said whimpering as all stood still in abnormal silence.

"Me too." Naruto answered right before a towering geyser of sand erupted from under Gaara and reaching high in the sky while also launching away the two Genin of Konoha with the whiplash.

"Well, the plan failed horribly." Tenten muttered looking pale as the construct of sand kept growing and growing soon forcing her to strain her neck to look all the way up to it.

"Do we have a Plan B?" Lee asked faintly.

"Depends, do you happen to have a Biju stashed somewhere?" she replied.

"...I think I left it in my spare tights." the boy answered with a weak chuckle.

"That's a shame."

"GRAAAAAAAAH!" The sand-made Biju Shukaku roared in fury as he finally managed to summon around himself a body matching his original appearances.

"Kutchiyose!" at that came in answer Naruto's screaming as from the resulting giant cloud of smoke the enormous Summon Katsuyu made her appearances.

"...Okay, a giant slug is good too I suppose." Tenten commented shrugging.

"You are impossible to please, Tenten." Lee said dryly.

"Shush!"

With Naruto and Neji -

"You called, Naruto-kun?" the giant summon asked with a gentle tone.

"I am sorry, Katsuyu-sama, but I need your help with this, even if I have yet to show my worth, Konoha needs help." the Alchemist answered.

"Huhuhu! Drop the '-sama', Naruto-kun. There is no need." Katsuyu answered with a jovial laugh.

"I am standing on one of the three legendary summons...The Main Family will throw a sissy fit about this." Naji couldn't help the comment and satisfied evil smirk from escaping his control at that.

"Do not relax, I will need your help as well." Naruto replied as Shukaku kept glaring at them.

"Okay."

"And a snail should stop me? BAH! That's an insult to my power!"

"That was a very rude thing to say! I happen to be a slug, thank you!" Katsuyu replied huffing.

"Any idea how to stop him?" Neji asked worried.

"Just wake him up." the Slug Summon replied simply.

"Eh?" Both boys answered dumbfounded.

"That boy on Shukaku's forehead is snoring while still keeping his hands in a hand-seal, that's the 'Playing Possum' Jutsu, it must be what is leaving the Biju act freely through him. Wake the boy up and the whole thing should collapse." Katsuyu explained.

"We don't exactly have a better plan..." Naruto said shrugging unsure.

"It is a shot in the dark, but I see what you mean, in the end Gaara is still our target, we'll just need to go through a giant Biju." Neji answered sighing.

"Starting to regret being a ninja?" the other commented chuckling.

"This is one of those times I wonder if it would have been easier being a hairdresser, yes. But let's just go, we have a Village to save." the Hyuga boy answered shaking his head.

"Fair enough. Miss Katsuyu, I need you to keep that thing occupied while I work on a giant transmutation circle, he needs to ignore as I move and prepare everything, also, try to knock down as much trees you can while making it look like an accident."

"Okay, Naruto-kun."

"And what about me?" Neji asked.

"As soon as you see my transmutation you go for Gaara on that thing's forehead and wake him up...If I survive the transmutation I will meet you half-way so we will both give him the finishing blow, otherwise, you'll have to do it by yourself." Naruto answered.

"You are not going to kill yourself by doing something foolish, right?" the Hyuga boy asked with wide eyes.

"It will PROBABLY kill me, but I am not sure if it will be lethal or not, but I have to make it BIG if I want to help Konoha." he answered.

"And you will risk your life like that?" Katsuyu asked.

"My father did it for the Village and for myself, I am doing it for my Village and my precious ones living there...Now I get why he did it, I prefer me being the one dying if it means Tenten-chan and the others will have a better chance at surviving."

"I see. Be careful though, Naruto-kun. I don't want to see you die." Katsuyu answered just as the Alchemist jumped down from her head.

"He is a complete fool, but I have never been more proud to be his Teammate." Neji admitted.

"Glad to hear that." the Summon answered happily.

"Though please, keep the fact I said this a secret, they will never let me live it down otherwise."

"Huhuhu! Of course!"

"Come here, slug!" Shukaku roared as he tried jumping Katsuyu.

"Nope!" the summon replied amused as she broke down into thousands of smaller versions of herself.

"Ah!" Neji screamed in surprise as he barely managed to land correctly on the floor from the sudden fall.

"AH! Sorry!" the horde of micro Katsuyu chorused sheepish as they all started crawling on Shukaku's body.

"EEEEEEW! Let go or I'll..."

Pffffffffffffff!

As soon as the giant Biju tried to shake off the aggression a loud sizzling sound echoed all around him as several plumes of purple smoke started emanating from the thousands of slugs covering him.

"Kyaaaaaah! The bitch is trying to melt me alive!" recognizing the burning pain of a corrosive attack Shukaku screamed in pain as he started trashing wildly.

"I am not such a thing! And you shouldn't use that potty mouth of yours with kids present!" the Katsuyu-horde replied as they doubled the dose of acid they were secreting while the ones covering the Biju's feet started covering the beast's lower half in a sticky sludge similar to glue that made difficult for him to guide his sand there.

"Get off! Get off! Get off!" Shukaku screamed madly as he flayed around wildly, dislodging several slugs each time and tearing to pieces the trees around himself.

"Stop attacking the Village and I will stop hurting you." Katsuyu answered simply as every time a bunch of her mini-mes went flying they regrouped to reform her main, giant body.

Meanwhile – With Naruto -

"Bigger, I need to make it bigger..." the Alchemist muttered with clenched teeth as he and several clones dragged few poles of wood on the ground to inscribe there a giant transmutation circle.

"Naruto-kun..." Kushina muttered from the Seal.

"Yes, mother?"

"Don't do anything rush, use this rock here to help you." the woman pleaded.

"If I have to guess what that is, that would be a Philosopher Stone...I have no idea how that would work in this case." the young man answered unsure.

"Then be careful. How are you going to stop that Biju long enough to wake-up Gaara?" she asked.

"By using one of the stories you used to tell me when I was little to make me sleep." Naruto answered smiling tenderly at the memory.

"Eh?"

"More trees incoming!" a Clone yelled as more and more trees kept falling all around the group.

"Break them down to smaller parts and keep piling them! We have almost done with the circle!" the Original blond ordered.

"Yessir!"

When the giant Transmutation Circle was finally completed a giant mount of wood had been piled in its middle ready to be used.

"Miss Katsuyu! Bring him here!" Naruto yelled just in time to see a stream of acid being shot from her mouth to vaporize a whole arm of Shukaku.

"GRAAAAAH!"

"Okay, Naruto-kun!" the giant Slug answered spitting a thick glob of blueish goo that slammed heavily on the Biju's chest making him fall next to the circle along blocking him in a cocoon of glue-like secretion.

"Please work, AH!" clapping his hands loudly and mentally straining himself to the max, the Alchemist of Konoha made the giant Transmutation Circle light-up in a blinding blue and red aura making the wood in its middle disappear.

What everybody else then saw was a legend of Konoha live again as a multi-headed dragon made of wood came to life to circle around Shukaku, biting down on his arms and tightly circling every inch of his massive body.

"That must be my clue!" Neji said as he started running along one of the heads to reach the summit of the enormous sand construct, jumping from head to head until he reached Gaara's position.

"WAKE UUUUUP!" the Hyuga yelled as his double palm-thrust slammed with inhuman ferociousness on the Suna boy's chest making his eyes bulge-out open and his body shot out from its chest-deep position on Shukaku's forehead.

Both awakening and physical disconnection from the construct caused Shukaku's sand-made body to collapse letting Gaara fall towards the ground, right towards a panting Naruto already preparing a blinding sphere of spiraling chakra in his hands.

"Rasengan!" the alchemist yelled thrusting the jutsu right on Gaara's back destroying the gourd on his back and almost drilling a hole in his body as well.

"Aaaaaah!" screaming in agony, the vertical fall of the Suna Jinchuuriki went forcefully turned into a horizontal fly as he went shot through several trees to then tumble freely on the ground.

"...Guh!" groaning in pain, Gaara tried to get up only to meet the tip of kubikiribochou held by Tenten in position to strike him down resting right on his neck ready to behead him.

"Do not move, or we'll see what Jinchuuriki blood does to a blood-absorbing blade." the weapon mistress said with trembling, yet determined voice.

"WAIT PLEASE!" at that came the distressed cream of another girl from Suna.

"What?"

"L-L-Let us go away, don't hurt my brother." Temari begged.

"You are asking a lot considering what happened." Neji answered joining the scene.

"Please." She begged.

"Let them go, I am tired and I want to go home, so let's wrap this up quickly before that snake maniac tries again to make me into one of his lackeys." Naruto asked tiredly from Katsuyu's head.

"That won't be a problem, sensei managed to force Orochimaru to relent...Sure he'll need a wooden leg, but better a leg missing than dead." Tsunade said groaning tiredly.

"The boy is good, Lady Tsunade. He has the heart in the right place, sure he could smile a bit more though." Katsuyu said happily.

"He is a bit morose, and a bit moody when he wants to, but he is a good boy. Is he good enough to enter Shikkotsu Forest?" Tsunade asked crossing her arms.

"Shikkotsu Forest?" the young Alchemist asked.

"My house! The land where I live, you will like it, it's a nice place...Okay maybe a bit humid, but it is still nice." Katsuyu answered proudly.

"Glad to see I passed this test of worth of yours." Naruto said sighing.

"I will wait for you once things have calmed down, okay?"

"Thank you, Miss Katsuyu."

"Thank you for your help, Katsuyu." Tsunade said as the giant Slug disappeared.

"What about the rest of Suna forces?" Lee asked.

"Already retreating, I sent Kankurou to make sure." Temari answered.

"And they will listen?"

"Baki is not an idiot, Gaara has been defeated and our Kazekage is dead, remaining here to fight will just make it worse for us. If we retreat now and leave Oto to be slaughtered then maybe we will salvage something." Temari answered with a weak smile.

"Just go, we'll deal with your lot once repaired the damages." Tsunade answered making the girl and Gaara scamper away.

"He is a good guy, a bit misguided, but a good guy." the young Alchemist said watching the twins leave.

"And a bit crazy." Tsunade added.

"That too." he conceded.

"Being Hokage sucks, now I'll have to deal with the rebuilding and everything else."

"I am sure you will manage," Naruto said smirking as he helped Rock Lee to walk back to the Village.

"I saw your fight with Orochimaru, we have a lot of work still to do to make you become a nce shinobi." Tsunade answered.

"There we go, more pain for dear old me."

"Not only pain, but Sage Training, my boy!...Welcome to the Advanced Class of your training!" the Sannin woman said with a savage smile.

"Oh, God..."

"Jiraiya will help me cover the ruling of the Village for the next three years, so go get ready, once done fixing Konoha we will depart."

"Hurray." the Alchemist said in bitter sarcasm.

"It will be fun, have no fear. Unless you fail and become a slug statue of course." Tsunade replied smirking.

"Eh?!"

"Should I prepare the bandages?" Tenten offered with a weak smile.

"Yes, please. All of them."

Pain! Oh so much pain! And horrid slug jokes! And sleeping in a forest with 60000% humidity! And Tsunade being drunk 90% of the time and STILL training Naruto but without restraints and forgetting about his overall safety, really in the end trying to get how Sage Mode worked and almost turning into a Slug statue was actually the nicest part of those three years of agony.

A thing though he and Kushina failed to notice, was that as soon as his wooden dragon had circled Gaara something used the connection caused by the alchemy transmutation to enter Shukaku through Gaara and retrieve something from inside the Biju.

And now the sparks of light inside the Philosopher Stone became two.

Finally done with the chapter! I can't believe I completed it, this story is hard to write, too hard.

New chapters I hope will be easier to write, or else I will abandon this story and focus on my other projects.

Thank you for reading me, and I see you around the net.

Tr230.