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"Naruto" – Speech

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Naruto – Flashbacks

Naruto – Jutsu/Kekkei Genkei

From the Other Side

The Power, of the Fourth Shinobi Sage

Previously on From the Other Side;

"Immortal? Good, I can finally stop holding back and you will feel the pain while you heal again!" Naruto said, with his arm holding Kabuto's heart! Dropping it, Naruto soon moved his arm to claw at the upper are of Kabuto's back, creating a deep scar on the flesh. Then the blonde punched Kabuto in the neck, sending the traitorous teenager into a nearby boulder. For the final touch, Naruto punched Kabuto again, with enough force to shatter the top half of the boulder in the progress. "Like I said, fun unleashed and not held back. You will love it."

All Kabuto could tell from the dizziness and headaches that Naruto was charging in, with a smile that promised pain. Meanwhile,

"I can do this all day Hebi-Teme! But you are finally showing you age, it has only been an hour!" An old man with warts tried to taunt his adversary while battling over a very, very large reptile. But while Orochimaru was panting and sweating, despite his efforts to show such weakness, the snake-like man smirked.

"Like you are one to talk, your ability to mold Chakra is worse than a toddler's. You look like they drank several gallons of cheap sake and slept with a real toad." The old man growled slightly at Orochimaru's taunts, which were the real deal. "Now that is pathetic, Jiraiya 'the Gallant'."

'Dammit! Tsunade was really trying to get me killed! That was so embarrassing to be this way in front of the brats.' Jiraiya cursed to himself, already feeling like short of breath. 'It was bad enough that the Gaki (Kid) had gotten this new getup out of nowhere, he had the nerve to laugh at me! Wait until he gets wasted, almost as bad as this!' Jiraiya had to cut his thoughts short when he felt the undeniable feel of a tongue around his ankle.

"You have already forgotten when you lost focus during our matches! That was why you always lost in our sparing!" Orochimaru was more and more like a snake every time he showed what he could do; this included a tongue that extended to great lengths and being able to talk all the same.

Jiraiya cursed to himself yet again that he dropped his guard and he was able to try to get free. Instead, two different howls were heard. Jiraiya saw, with his eyes widen to imaginable sizes, that Orochimaru's extended tongue was severed clean; and judging by the rush of revoking blood gushing out, Jiraiya could only take a wild guess was to who made that other howl of pain. "WHAT THE HELL….?" Jiraiya soon lost his voice when he heard the sound of bells, thousands of them going off at once, and a bright light that was about as blinding as the sunshine.

As for the Snake Man and his giant snake, they were howling from that clean cut through the extend tongue and large body respectably. But then the bright light and sound of thousands of bells reached their ears. When they turned, they saw a certain blonde boy, descending like a meteor. And this one had a weapon that none have ever seen in their lives, nothing they ever encountered or ever learned could have prepared them for this. That which was named,

"Futon: Dai Rasenshuriken (Wind Release: Great Spiraling Shuriken)!"

Even though they were both in their fifties, Jiraiya and Orochimaru were made Sennin and their reflexes were harder to fool. They could just hope a good head start was enough to escape the bomb set off on the latter's giant pet snake. Unfortunately for the reptile, it wasn't so lucky.

When both old Shinobi landed on the ground, they got out with just dirt on their clothes but the sight of the devastation was enough to take their breath away. It was a crater that was left but it was deep, as if that shining sphere ate away the very earth. Jiraiya even noticed that the grassland around the crater was also damaged, the grass stalks just fell off when he barely touched on.

"The time to gawk is no now, and especially not for you traitor." The two Sennin got out of their stupor when the blonde boy appeared out of nowhere and marched towards them; his glance was centered on Orochimaru with the promise of pain behind those eyes. But the slimly traitor, mad scientist just got up and had his usual mocking smirk.

"Are you going to kill me, Naruto-kun? Many have tried and failed. And you are still the dope of your class." Orochimaru hid his annoyance that Naruto was taking the taunt. The blonde seriously didn't do as much as twitch his eyebrow.

"So was your teammate. Besides, how many of your enemies have killed your 'most powerful familiar' and forced you to retreat in one fell swoop? I will love to meet one, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right traitor?" Naruto said that in one breath and grew his own victorious smirk to see Orochimaru started to growl. The facts were not to be denied, especially with nothing left of his pet snake but the tip of tail. And Manda was not the type to lose that part of his tail to flee, that was what lizards will do.

"And killing my pet is supposed to get my guard down? Are really that naïve?" Orochimaru retorted and once again, the blonde didn't budge.

"No, its supposed to rob you of your substitute and means to escape. You are not going anywhere anytime soon." Naruto said and this got the traitor Sennin to laugh madly.

"I have other means to flee than the idiot Manda and I can use them…" Orochimaru stopped his tracks, "…now?" The feeling, or lack thereof, scared the old traitor. The feeling of energy no longer being supplied to his arms, just like when his former teacher disabled during the failed invasion.

"You always talked too much and too big, you little coward." Naruto responded. "And you lost must be losing your touch as it was a breeze to place that on you." The blonde pointed out something with emphasize on the word 'that'. Jiraiya had to see what it was and it was a seal, one of a design that neither Sennin had seen before. "I call it the Rokku Damu Fuin (Locked Dam Seal). I got inspiration from an eccentric and loud but strong Shinobi from my village and the forbidden move he used to fight another one of my kin."

"My chakra! You sealed away my chakra!" It hit Orochimaru worse than a punch from his other teammate and it outraged him that a brat about a fifth of his age had gotten sucker punch; even the traitors can call foul. "You damned brat!"

"Don't be such a baby, I only used it to seal most of your Chakra. Your wretched, hideous heart is still beating so you can live another hour or two." Naruto retorted with a tone that either sarcastic or sincere. "But you can try to break it, you will just break yourself too. A fair warning, for a fair man such as yourself."

"ENOUGH!" Orochimaru just had it with a little boy trying to talk him down. "You might be the luckiest, dammed, fucking boy I ever came across but I am still your superior. I can kill you with what Chakra I can still use! I am still stronger than you!" A tap on his shoulder caught his attention and when the traitor turned,

"But not me, bully." Jiraiya spoke with eerie silence before a fist entered Orochimaru's vision. (Cookie to who got this slight reference)

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Elsewhere,

"Please Tsunade-sama. That's the enemy's blood, you need to get up on your feet." Shizune begged of her mentor and her ward who was still shaking in her sandals. But she couldn't blame the old lady, not from staring at a human stain on a boulder that was left by a certain blonde boy. What's more, both Kunoichi could have sworn to see bones and bits twitching and moving about.

By the time Tsunade had gotten her legs to stand, the worse had come and they had to witness the terrible scene of a man blown to pieces actually put himself together. "…fucking boy…" The creature that was once Kabuto the traitor/spy had begun to mumble in a distorted voice, still working on the voice box. "…I will…tear…him so…hard…that…" Then the boulder behind the creature exploded, giving the Kunoichi a jump scare.

"What a sad sack you make, 'Kabuto'. But think of it as karma from all those people and villages you abandon to burn." They say if you speak of the devil, he will come. And he did. "I knew that you were a cockroach with steroids and a thing for elderly men and treachery but I had no idea you had a dirty mouth and a disgusting voice. I am trying not to hurl."

All the while Naruto had been monologuing, Kabuto had completely healed but he looked rather tender when he flinched even to the grass and dirt on his flesh. "Alright this is no longer funny. What have you down with Naruto-kun!?" As if right now, Kabuto was willing to consider that the blonde was someone else to play with him and talk the traitor down while he was vulnerable in the midst of healing.

"I found a secret door while training and it was one hell of trip to get back." Naruto answered. "To you it was only yesterday, but it felt like a lifetime of pain, blood, sweat and tears. But since you could care less then I will get right to point: I have been to the other side and it wasn't pretty." Kabuto could only blink when Naruto was suddenly in his space with a cruel look on his face, "And neither will you once I am done."

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Later, back with Orchimaru and Jiraiya, "How ironic old friend." The old toad sneered at the traitor on the ground at his knees. "When we were kids, you could beat me on your bad days and now on your worse, the other man is still standing."

"Silence, you wrenched pervert." Orochimaru mumbled under his breath, feeling the pain and exhaustion consciously sapping the strength from his legs to stand, and his arms could only keep his face out of the dirt. "When I get my hands on your ugly face…" Orochimaru lost his train of thought when a hand grasped his throat and lifted the rest of his body off the ground. The old snake could only force his eyes open to see his prey standing with Jiraiya and Kabuto was nowhere to be seen.

"I am disappointed in you for a lot of reasons and I never thought that a thief will not steal something from one of your Genin from the exams." Orochimaru could only choke in Naruto's grip on his throat with what little Chakra he had left available. "His name is, was, Yoroi was it? Yet another traitor but he had a neat trick; he could absorb other people's Chakra. And I am shocked that you didn't bother to steal that for yourself, you could drain it out of a Shinobi faster than a vampire with blood. So, what's the deal old man? You let me down." Orochimaru started to growl like a wild animal, all of this was too much even for someone like the slippery traitor.

"You want it? Well here it is!" Orochimaru croaked out and his hand started to glow blue, before grasping Naruto's head. "Well? Is that better-ARRGH!" Orochimaru suddenly convulsed and screeched in pain.

"Don't know, don't care traitor." Naruto spoke calmly, like having an old man's hand on his face was no big deal. The traitor in question continued to scream worse than a banshee as the bystanders watch in shock that Orochimaru transformed into something of a snake and toad while the complexion was turning stone-like. "And to answer you, I think that you will make an uglier toad than a snake."

Naruto simply released his hand from the statue's neck and swiped down on the arm that was still attached to his face, the stone crumpled completely to the force. And so, did the rest of the former traitor. All the blonde had to do was turn face to the audience and Jiraiya widen his eyes in surprise and realization. "So that was it? That's what killed the slimly snake."

Tsunade had nothing to add but Shizune was in the dark. "What is wrong with your eyes? They look…look…" Naruto smirked at her lost for a description,

"Frog-like? Its only temporarily, unlike these reserves dry out." Naruto answered with the sun shining on his face that has barely changed except for his eyes that gained the characteristics of an amphibian with orange outlining and vertical slits. "These eyes prove that I have obtained the level of Sennin, a Shinobi Sage and it helped me trick Orochimaru into taking just the thing he could never digest, not with everything he stole."

Silence filled the field, no one had anything to say to that. Then Jiraiya broke the ice, "You can tell us what happened on the 'other side' when we get home. Unless you want to say no still." The old man turned to Tsunade who looked lost in thought but shook her head negative.

End of Chapter 2.

*What do you think? I always wished to try this out to kill the traitorous snake, and I know that it was already done in the canon in Naruto's fight with the Six Paths/Puppets of Pain.

Yesterday was a special day, I have gotten a present for my College graduation; a Nintendo Switch console! And I practically installed it myself too. Now I can try out a lot more games and all the others that are made in the future. The time with Wii U seemed so short compared to the original Wii and the Switch era has just got started! I know that I will having a lot of fun this year while I work on getting a job!*