Do not own Naruto. I do own MKX on PS4.

Sorry I'm late with this chapter, I guess I just got lost on the road of life. HAHA don't kill me.

As Orochimarus northern hideout was rocked by the deafening explosive force of Naruto's Deidara like assault, the walls of the immediate area near the blast nearly collapsed as Naruto shuffled around outside breathing deeply. He felt the lives fade he had just taken, as Karin had started teaching him, Tayuya, and Honoka the Uzumaki sensing technique. While he wasn't nearly as good with it as any of the girls, he still could feel chakra signatures nearby. And he had just made five of them disappear.

His breathing growing more labored, it was surprisingly Suigetsu who placed his hand on his shoulder, Anko watching the Uzumaki with a peculiar expression. Everyone knew Naruto had killed, and even how he had due to his contract with the mamba clan who loved the bloody details. But despite that, he still wasn't really a killer. All of his company that were present could be considered such, but he still hadn't gotten used to the notion in its fullness. Getting a little woozy, he nevertheless stilled his resolve and emptied his mind, nodding his head to his team letting them know he was alright just as a chorus of raging roars echoed from the hideouts depths. Now wasn't the time to dwell in his actions and feel guilty.

"Naruto, instead of rushing in their territory let's wait and pick off any idiot stupid enough to come outside. We'll give half an hour just in case they have a way to call for reinforcements. Make a few clones to watch our backs to be safe." Anko calmly told the blonde more for his sake than anything else. If he went in now and saw the aftermath of that explosion she wasn't sure how he'd take it. She saw the look he had in his eyes now, and she didn't like it. It obviously went against his nature to hurt people, in fact if Tayuya hadn't said anything about how she met Naruto she wouldn't have believed he could kill.

"Got it." Naruto answered a few clones appearing as the group left the entrance to a concealed position close by. He honestly didn't want to go in and see anyway, and he silently had to thank Anko for her quick thinking. Suigetsu seemed a bit crestfallen, the white haired ninja messing around with the hilt of his sword unnecessarily. Tayuya just remained alert with her usual scowl, her eyes on the entryway to the base. At least they were until a large portion of wall collapsed as the shattered shards of stone erupted from the side of the base.

"I'M FREE!" Declared a deep booming voice as the group waited on edge as the dust cleared away. And then they saw it. What could have been an ogre at least 12 feet tall, extremely muscular with four large arms and hands with three huge fingers.(Goro) Their eyes wide with awe at the behemoth, the group only narrowly escaped when the being jumped seventy feet in the air and came down in an earth shaking stomp that would have killed whatever it struck instantly." Puny weaklings, nothing can hide from Goro!" He roared launching himself at Tayuya who was the closest, but Suigetsu intervened swinging the kubikiribocho with a bulked up arm that increased his power exponentially. But it was for naught as the large creature caught the blade with his four arms and kicked him away, even as his hands bled from catching it.

"FOOL!" Goro boomed as he ran forward with unexpected speed looking to kill Suigetsu and Tayuya, only to receive two energy spheres from the blonde that intercepted his charge.

"Rasengan!" Naruto yelled slamming his palms into the monsters gut in a way resembling the gentle fist. While his attack definitely stopped his advance and even ripped into his flesh, it lacked the desired effect of pushing him away as the giant tensed himself and dug into the ground with a roar, weathering the formidable technique and looking down at the startled boy in rage. Naruto couldn't even avoid the powerful hooks he received as two fists slammed into his side at the same time throwing him away in a heap, and Anko screaming in anger sent a fire Dragon barreling toward him trying to scorch him. Even that didn't kill Goro as he used his arms to shield his body, and despite the second and third degree burns he remained battle ready. Nearby Tayuya slamming her palms into the earth summoned her three humongous Doki, the middle one scooping her up and placing her on its shoulder as she played a beautiful yet erratic melody with her flute. Then two of her summons rushed forth, trying to crush their master's enemy with forceful overhead blows. Goro showing immense strength in that moment stopped the attacks, even as his knees nearly buckled as the ground beneath him cracked like thin ice. But it was then that he finally fell, as an enlarged Suigetsu cleaved through his body channeling chakra causing a blade of reddish light to pass through him. Then the top half of his body slid off the bottom as the two Doki smashed him into the ground, ending his existence as Tayuya ended her song and scanned the area.

"Well that guy's dead, big bastard was quicker than I thought." The Hozuki said to himself smirking as Naruto and the rest of the team regrouped.

"No kidding, his hands felt like bricks, what was that attack you just used Suigetsu?" Naruto asked.

"The kubikiribocho absorbs iron from blood, and it can either be used to repair the blade or as a projectile attack. Thing is it that if I use that attack too much the blade gets smaller and smaller until I get more blood. Shouldn't be a problem tonight though." He explained with a smile that promised deaths. Many deaths. Naruto didn't have time to respond before they saw more movement, and three masked Oto shinobi emerged from the entrance flanked by two of the green clad kunoichi Guren on either side of them.

"It's Guren, be careful up close she can make exploding clones!" Naruto yelled already throwing a shadow kunai at the bluenette and her entourage.

Thrusting their hands forward, the three Oto nin blasted air waves that intercepted his projectiles just as his knife multiplied, and flickering to the side Naruto dodged and fired back with a flame thrower as Suigetsu spit a small watercraft from his mouth that he manipulated so that it would curve around. Neither attack made it through the crystalline barrier Guren erected, but what no one expected was the large taipan that busted through the ground and bit into a sound ninjas skull killing him instantly. Two air waves and a Crystal spear slammed into the serpent dispelling it as Guren growled and went through unique seals. Suddenly there were large Crystal spike formations shooting up from the ground erratically which split the group up, even injuring Naruto and Anko in the process although only a little. Ignoring the sting Naruto took a look at Anko and the two nodded before the snake mistress fired another fire dragon at the Oto nin, and Naruto fired a water Dragon mirroring it. Another Crystal barrier rose from the ground shielding Guren and her team, but hitting her outright hadn't been the plan. Instead the fire and water collided on the barrier, causing a humongous cloud of steam to obscure their vision even more than the shield. Immediately they were flanked by a small group of shadow clones, and a few mud clones that Anko made along with water clones from Suigetsu. As fast as lightning blades of crystal attached to Gurens forearms tore into anything too close, but her men weren't so fortunate. The first met his demise at the hands of Anko as her clones cut his throat just as Suigetsu was cutting off his leg, and the other barely escaped with a replacement as Naruto's clones nicked his upper arm with curved kunai. Then much like before one of Gurens clones exploited in shards of Crystal killing everything nearby, dispelling all their clones in the process.

Reappearing nearby, Guren and her last minion didn't even have a chance to counter attack before they were surprised by a new arrival. And they weren't the only ones surprised.

"AHHH-" His life being ended before he even knew it, the nameless Oto nin had his neck tore into by the clawed hands of one of Orochimarus experiments. It appeared to be a woman with shoulder length black hair and simple clothing, but that wasn't what was disturbing. What was was the large and sharp teeth she had protruding from her cheeks that made her look like a demon along with her glowing yellow eyes, and her malicious voice only made things worse as she literally started eating the deceased shinobis face. Even Guren was shocked still by the display of brutality before she refocused and jumped back launching shuriken after shuriken at everyone in the vicinity. While the seemingly occupied monster lady didn't look to be that powerful, that wasn't actually the case as without even looking up from her meal she grabbed the faceless man's knives from off his hip and rolled away in a burst of purplish chakra. Naruto and his group thoroughly disgusted counter attacked by throwing various projectiles at Guren, but they also aimed at the cannibalistic humanoid woman who didn't seem fazed. In a flash she cartwheeled and rolled again avoiding the spread of attack as Guren simply crystallized everything that came close to her. Then suddenly the battlefield was being overrun by cursed seal monsters, many of which seemed even more inhuman than the woman. Thinking quickly and shouting for his friends to get back Naruto channeled a small amount of kyubi chakra turning his eyes red as two clones appeared to his sides, finishing their handseals as thirty of so beasts gathered near the hole that Goro made and the woman came from earlier. The beasts had only just started their charge when they were all incinerated, Naruto using the great breakthrough while his clones fired two separate streams of blazing fire that turned into a wave of flames overtaking them with ease. The smell of burnt flesh hit his nose like a sledgehammer, and even with the mandatory anger he felt while using the kyubi he couldn't stop himself from vomiting this time. Anko instantly kneeling next to him placed a consoling hand on his shoulder as Suigetsu grimaced from the stench and stood in front of them, and Tayuya while eying her favorite person in concern still played a melody on her demonic flute to capture any survivors in a genjutsu.

"Naruto! You need to snap out of it now! I know it isn't easy but this is what happens! It's them or us!" Anko yelled shaking him from his heaving and trembling. While the cursed seal beasts may have looked like monsters, the fact that he had once seen Tayuyas transformation drove home that they were just as human as she was. And he loved her so much. Despite only hearing bits and pieces of what Anko was saying as he spaced out, soon enough the blonde stopped trembling and wearily rose to his feet to see Tayuya make her Doki smash two more cursed seal recipients into paste. He still didn't know why He was the only one in the group that couldn't kill so easily, and just for a second he began regretting becoming a ninja. He shook that thought off just as fast as it came to mind, he knew now wasn't the time to think about it. He had people to protect, and scanning the field he didn't see any trace of Guren. Suigetsu had just shot another monster in the face with a water gun bullet when he saw movement, and I was only his quick reflexes that allowed him to replace himself with a deceased enemy as the woman from earlier blindsided him. Somehow using shunshin and her chakra combined, the woman dive kicked from above Naruto and pounced on the dead man he replaced himself with, ripping flesh from his throat while pinning him down and rolling simultaneously.

"Delicious." She said licking her lips suggestive at Naruto before turning as Anko assaulted her with a twister of serpents that struck from her sleeves. Cartwheeling away and diving immediately after she responded by throwing her kunai which was coated with purplish chakra at Ankos chest, but the special jonin bent her body sideways as a cobra came from under her black trench coat and spit venom directly into one of her eyes. With a feral roar the woman held her eye and rushed forward, stabbing wildly with her remaining knife as Anko swiftly parried her blows with her own kunai. Landing a deep cut into her side as her burning eye hindered the woman's side, Anko went for the finishing blow but the woman desperately flipped forward into a grappling technique which used her legs to slam her. Now as she turned to finish Anko and stabbed her in the chest mercilessly she found that Anko was in fact a mud clone as the kunoichi appeared driving her own kunai into the top of her head, killing her instantly.

Anko didn't have much time to study her dead opponent. Before she was forced to flicker away along with everyone else as the battlefield was littered with crystalline shuriken as Guren revealed herself nearby. Tayuya was forced to dispel her summons because of the sheer number of projectiles that continuously fired at them as Guren stuck to the stone wall over the hideouts entrance, Crystal constantly forming around her body as she scowled at her enemies. Regrouping after flickering back away from her Naruto and his team were faced with a dilemma since she had them edge actively pinned down. Thinking quickly Naruto created some shadow clone flies and had them flank to ambush her while they made a plan, but he was cut short from voicing his thoughts when a few snowflake like shuriken flew past the rock formation they were behind and exploded into shrapnel.

"FUCK!" Tayuya shouted as shards of crystal cut into her arm and she forcefully used chakra to expel them immediately. One thing she wouldn't risk was being crystallized, but as a result she started bleeding profusely as Naruto cursed and scattered seeds around a made a barrier of bamboo shoots. It was for naught as even the chakra rich wood trees were crystallized and used against them, forcing them to flee as thorn like protrusions shot at them from above before exploding into more shards.

"Dammit! Suigetsu take Tayuya to Karin now! We might just have to abort, this Guren chick is too dangerous and our real goal is Orochimaru not her. Go!" Naruto ordered as his purplish eyes bore into Suigetsus and the Hozuki nodded hesitantly. Despite his lust for battle he had to admit he was very ill suited to face this Guren, as she could crystallize any of his attacks and her bloodline countered his own perfectly. Turning into water was worthless if she could just turn him into stone. All it took was a look from Naruto's hardened eyes to silence Tayuya as her argument died and she let Suigetsu flicker her away.

Now it was just Naruto and Anko against Guren, their black clothing blending in seamlessly with the night before they were visible from the combined attack they unleashed. Much like Naruto's technique earlier a wall of flames was sent hurtling towards Guren as Naruto used a great breakthrough and Anko a fire Dragon, although this attack was more like a horizontal twister instead of a tidal wave. Suddenly a plateau of crystal intercepted the attack well before it reached Guren, but Naruto was sure he had figured something out that could help them and explained it to Anko.

"I'm not a hundred percent sure but I don't think she can crystallize fire. When my clones from earlier tried flanking her they were all crystallized but every time we use fire she avoids it or blocks."

Her eyes widening as she put it together as well Anko smirked at her luck seeing as how she was pretty much a pyromaniac anyway. This was exactly the sort of thing she could exploit the best.

"Alright Naruto let's use our heaven and earth combo. This bitch is dead!" She said already slipping under ground as Naruto silently shifted into crow form and flew up high until Guren lost sight of him, if she even saw him at all in the darkness.

The crystal wall she had erected was certainly tall and thick as he observed its architecture briefly, and he saw that she was still stationary on the wall over the hideouts entrance. He didn't know how much chakra she had, it it wasn't like she could keep up those kinds of moves all night, right? He was wrong. Very wrong. After counting sixty seconds since Anko slipped underground Naruto split off into a flock of crows using a valuable chunk of his chakra to afford each one near jonin reserves. Immediately spreading abroad and encircling Guren who seemed unfazed the birds all transformed back into Naruto just as a huge thirty foot snake shot from the ground and struck upwards at Guren, attempting to hold her firm in its jaws. Barely seeing it clamp down and Guren remain stationary Naruto's clones unleashed torrents of flames from every direction toward her, illuminating the entire area showing the shadows of three figures that had just exited the base like the other test subjects before them. After nearly ten seconds of blinding light from the scorching fire attack everything was dark again although Naruto saw the end result clear as day thanks to his night vision. There were no results.

As he landed in a crouch he saw that Guren was as unmoved as ever, and only then did he notice the glint of the reflective surface that surrounded her prone form. He was forced to retreat again when three crystal dragons flew through the air toward him almost as if alive, and he flickered through them all retaliating with a shadow kunai technique as Anko resurfaced a short distance away from him with a frown. Guren was keeping her position of fortification and wasn't really pursuing them, and it was more than likely she was gathering intelligence on their skill sets just in case they escaped. Growling Naruto impulsively created a clone which immediately zig zagged flickering toward Guren forming a Rasengan when a few feet away. Even that didn't break through her barrier as a spike of crystal shot from it skewering him mid attack. Guren quickly countered as four mirrors formed under her near the entrance and a clones stepped out of each of them reminding him very much of Haku for a moment. Then in bursts of jonin speed they were charging toward him and Anko, who responded with clones of their own that met halfway. The taijutsu match that followed was more than impressive as the three Hebi users clashed in flurries of feet and fists, Naruto with curved kunai, Anko with kunai, and Guren with arm blades. Guren seemed to have the upper hand against Naruto although Anko was slightly more skilled than her, but Naruto's reflexes and night vision gave him the advantage in the present conditions. As their clones squared off Naruto barely managed to glimpse at the retreating form of the the three escapees that would have slipped by unnoticed, their eyes locking as they seemed to unconsciously recognize something in one another. There were two girls, who looked to be twins but one had black hair and the other white. There was also a boy with white hair he assumed to be their brother, and they all had a eye with a red pupil and black sclera. The white haired girl seemed to pause for a moment as if she wanted to approach Naruto, but her twin pulled her along and the three dashed off into the night. Naruto quickly made a crow clone to follow them before turning to Anko who was focusing on Guren.

"Anko we might have to abort, if this keeps on going now of us might get hurt and she's not even our real enemy. I'll make some clones as a distraction and a few more to follow her in case she lets her guard down. And I guess I'll just have to blow this one sky high without searching this time." Naruto calmly told her pulling a large stack of explosive notes from his cloak and forming a half ram seal. Everything couldn't always go according to plan. Just as the suicide bombers flew towards the hideout an orange haired man emerged from the hole and looked towards Naruto and Anko.

"Both! A man and a woman! I'll kill them both!"

WONDER WHO RECOGNIZED SOME OF THE PEOPLE FROM THE HIDEOUT. MILEENA MY MAIN MK LOL SO I HAAAD TO. ANYWAY NEXT CHAPTER VS ORO IN OTO MAIN BASE, AND HOW WILL HE REACT WHEN LEARNING OF NARUTO AND ANKO? FIND OUT.