Kyugan: Whooo...been a while hasn't it? You all thought I ws just gonna eave you hanging?

Halibel: *scowling, readies her sword at my neck* ...

Apache: Hurry up! The Kid's about to go balls to the wall!

Mira Rose: *Holding popcorn bucket* This is gonna be good.

Sun-Sun: *says nothing, but waves a styrofoam glove victoriously*

Kyugan: Right then...on with the show!

Awaken! Naruto's true form!

Back in Konoha, two figures paused in the middle of their individual tasks to look towards the skyline, in the general direction of Kusagakure.

One of these was Senju Tsunade, Godaime Hokage and only living relative of the Senju brothers, Hashirama and Tobirama, her Grandfather and Grand-Uncle respectively, who paused in the middle of stamping the documents being handed to her by a straining Genma, as she still hadn't forgiven Shizune enough to be in the medic's presence without snapping.

The Hokage's hand went instantly to the spot where, three years ago, her Grandfather's precious crystal necklace had hung between her notable breasts, clutching almost instinctively for that one-time cursed charm that had now been entrusted to a certain knuckleheaded chunin.

The other figure was Hanabishi Kagero, the immortal Kunoichi and mother of the current head of the recently renamed Hanabishi clan, who paused in the task of interrogating a particularly stubborn informant, her eyes seeing into the distance, resisting the urge to reach for her Eikai Gyoku and see what the problem was simply because she couldn't let knowledge of the madogu reach the wrong ears.

After all, according to Ibiki-san, it wasn't THAT uncommon for some of the scarred jounin's 'guests' to mysteriously Vanish, usually whenever Danzo's subordinates were on shift.

'Naruto…' the two women breathed, looking into the distance, concern for their adoptive son/little brother apparent in their eyes, before snapping out of it and returning to the task at hand, with decidedly more zeal.

For Genma, this was a relief, as it meant that he'd be free of his torment faster. For the unfortunate informant however…it was QUITE the opposite.

*******

Tenchi bridge...

'What is this?' Orochimaru wondered, gazing forward, his eyes wide, as the red-haired jinchuuriki stood up from his crouch, hands on his sword 'Why can't I move?'

Ever since he'd laid eyes on Naruto, back when the Kyuubi had first been sealed into the brat, Orochimaru had known that the jinchuuriki would be trouble. This opinion had been reinforced when they met again, thirteen years later, during the brat's first chunin exam.

Admittedly, he'd been more interested in getting his hands on Sasuke, who possessed not only the vaunted Sharingan, but the drive to seek out power at any cost, and so his interest in the Uchiha's teammates had been negligible. That ended over the course of the exam, as the trio not only outstripped his expectations, they did so in a manner that had him questioning his desire for the Uchiha at times.

But he'd persevered in his endeavors to claim Itachi's little brother. After all, what was brute force and power before the sharingan? When two shinobi of equal strength clashed, the one with superior jutsu always came out on top.

It didn't hurt that Naruto, being the vessel of a demon lord of considerable power, wouldn't have been viable as a host in the first place. And judging from the rumors he'd heard from Kabuto's information network, the same could be said for Rekka.

Immortal or not, Orochimaru wasn't presumptuous to think he could take on EIGHT Dragons of fiery wrath at the same time. He was a Genius, not a God...Yet.

Still, while Naruto's rapid growth had been surprising, annoying really, as the brat was too much like Jiraiya for Orochimaru's tastes, he had always been at a level that Orochimaru was confident he could handle without having to resort to Manda or the Kusanagi. Well maybe the latter if it came down to Kenjutsu.

Now though, staring into those eyes, those same eyes that he'd recalled looking down from as he leant over a cradle, debating whether or not to spirit the little hell spawn off with him, the Serpent found himself regretting his casual dismissal.

He twitched, one golden pupil flicking down to his right hand, which wasn't moving an inch despite the frantic signals he was sending it.

'I'm…Sweating…?' he noted, looking on in awed confusion as a drop of sweat slid down the back of his hand, to fall from his middle finger 'This can't be…' he stated, anger and pride filling his being as he glared at the offending digit 'from a child like this-?!'

"Yo…" the deep, baritone voice called out, Orochimaru's eyes snapping back to find the brat standing before him, sword drawn and resting over his shoulder cavalierly "You planning on ducking out, Pedo-hebi?"

Orochimaru snarled, biting his own tongue savagely, the pain forcing his body into action as he spat Kusanagi out, grabbing the blade in one hand as he charged the brat, only to be met halfway, their blades clashing in a shower of sparks.

"Ryukansen: KOGARASHI!" Naruto snarled, rolling forwards, transforming into a bladed buzz saw that threatened to drive Orochimaru into the ground and rend him to shreds. The sennin countered the move by leaping back, putting distance between himself and the blazing wheel of death, distantly noting a small explosion as Kabuto detonated the explosive tags they'd prepped earlier for Sasori.

*******

Back on the bridge...

"Damn!" Yamato cursed, crouched safely on the far side of Tenchi bridge, having leapt back, Yanagi in hand, as Kabuto demonstrated just how underhanded he could be "I'm starting to hate that kid…"

"Feeling's mutual." Kabuto opined, the medic appearing behind the jounin, chakra scalpel aimed at Yamato's neck, only for Recca to come in from the side, roundhouse kicking the bespectacled medic in the cheek, sending him skidding across the bridge.

"Hands off four-eyes!" the enjutsu-shi snapped, sending a salvo of shuriken laced Housenka after the treacherous medic to keep him from getting any close "You're not getting within ten feet of Hime!"

'Nice to feel wanted…' Yamato deadpanned wryly, shaking his head at being excluded from the teen's concern, only to blink, looking around the impromptu battlefield in confusion, noting a distinct absence "Recca! Where's Sai?!"

"Sai?" Recca repeated, the enjutsu-shi frowning in confusion as he weaved under Kabuto's chakra scalples, delivering a snap-kick to the treacherous medic's head, knocking him low "I thought he was with you!"

"He was standing next to me when the bomb went off." Yanagi opined, looking around in concern for her fellow artist "You don't think he was caught in the explosion?!"

At that moment, a giant, black and white Eagle soared out of the ravine, a familiar pale figure riding on it's back, racing off in the direction of the forest.

"There he is…" Yamato muttered, scowling grimly, torn between going to back Naruto up, as having one of Danzo's subordinates near the teen was questionable, let alone letting him fight a SANNIN, and protecting Yanagi, as he'd been ordered by Tsunade.

'Capturing Kabuto would give us a tactical information advantage.' The jounin decided, clapping his hands together in a 'snake' seal, a Moku bunshin splitting off from him, riding off on an extending wooden pillar to the far side of the ravine, tailing the pale ink master.

"Yamato-Taichou…" Yanagi asked, the healing princess looking up at the wood-manipulating jounin with concern in her eyes as she watched the clone vanish from sight "Is Naruto-kun alright?"

"He's strong, Yanagi-san." The jounin assured the medic, smiling in a bid to put the girl's mind at rest, before turning to glare at a certain, bespectacled thorn in Konoha's side "Right now, we have other, more pressing matters to contend with."

*******

Woods ahead...

"RYUKAN-SEN HIRAMEKI!"

Orochimaru grunted, switching Kusanagi to his right hand as Naruto lobbed the other off at the shoulder, blood trailing from the wound as the enraged jinchuriki's blow carried him down to the forest floor.

"Not bad, Naruto-kun." He allotted, his mouth widening with a sickening crack, the sennin pulling himself out of the damage form with a sickening squelch, covered in slime, like some parasitic worm "Still, if this is the best you can do, even with a jinchuriki's power-!"

"I'm not a jinchuuriki." Naruto countered, standing back to back with the stunned sennin, his blade tapping against Orochimaru's cheek "Write it down on your hand Pedo-Hebi…I'm a full fledged DEVIL."

Orochimaru cursed, barely managing to shed his skin before Naruto hacked him in two with a savage back swing, the redhead cutting off the tip of the sennin's grotesque tail in the process. "Where do you think you're going?" a voice demanded from midair, Orochimaru's eyes widening as a hand grabbed him by the forehead, looking up to find another Naruto bearing down on him, Rasengan in hand "I'm not done with you yet!"

The spiraling sphere of chakra rammed into the sennin's ribcage, sending the quasi-serpent spiraling towards the ground, where he splattered into a pile of mud. "DAMN! A mud clone!" Naruto snarled, glaring around in anger as he touched down in the middle of a clearing, several yards away from the Tenchi bridge "Dammit! Where are you?!"

"Kukukuku…" Orochimaru cackled, his voice echoing from all sides as the redhead whirled round, eyes peeled, nostrils flaring and ears twitching in a bid to sniff the serpent out "What's the matter little fox? Having a hard time finding the snake in the grass?"

'Shit! He's suppressed his chakra signature to almost nothing…' Naruto growled, his fangs visible as he bit his lip 'On top of that, he's covered his scent up somehow…so he's either downwind or-!'

"Beneath you." A mocking voice pointed out, the poisonous blade of the Kusanagi lancing out from below, spearing the startled redhead through the stomach and pinning him to a tree in the process.

"You really should pay more attention, little fox." Orochimaru mocked, his head rising from the rubble, somehow able to talk whilst the Kusanagi was pointing out of his gaping maw "After all, Snakes are notorious from striking from ANYWHERE."

"Look beneath th' underneath." Naruto muttered, the redhead grimacing as he gripped the blade sticking out of his guts in a bloody hand "Figures one of Kaka-sensei's teaching's be right for once…"

"Kakashi…" Orochimaru mused, the serpentine sennin spitting the Kusanagi's handle out to hold it in his right hand "The man was an able jounin, a prodigy really…" he scoffed "but a sensei he's not."

"You'd be right about that." Naruto agreed, a wry smirk on his face as he glared at the serpent, gripping the blade of Kusanagi tightly "Man'd be happy if you locked him in a room with Ero-sennin's smut for the rest of his life."

*******

Kakashi's Lovely Suite...

Back in Konoha, a certain copy-nin paused in the midst of turning the page of his literary nirvana, his visible eye looking up at the ceiling for a moment, half-lidded as usual.

'Someone's talking about me again…' he noted, only to shrug it off and turn back to the more important matter of turning the page and reading on.

'The great sage stood firm before the advancing horde, shielding the awestruck snow princess from them with his body as they assailed their fortress. Just as all looked lost, his once nubile acolyte, who had been battling in the midst of the horde, released the seal and transformed, changing from her sealed state to the true, monstrous form within, a roar tearing from powerful lungs that split the earth and caused the very mountains to erupt…'

*******

Back to the fight...

"So he's still writing that dime store garbage." Orochimaru mused, a wry smirk forming on his face as he leered at the captive jinchuuriki "I honestly can't understand what people see in it. It's merely a glorified autobiography with a few candid scenes of wanton smut."

"You're telling ME?" Naruto deadpanned, the irate redhead thumbing at himself with his free hand, apparently non-plussed regarding the poisonous blade spearing him in the gutt "I had to PROOFREAD that garbage for him!"

"You poor, poor fool." Orochimaru sighed, shaking his head in mock sympathy "Is it any wonder you leaped into death like this?" he twisted the hilt of Kusanagi, earning a grimace from the redhead as the blade turned agonizingly in his gut "Tell you what, out of respect for someone who has suffered Jiraiya's stupidity, I shall grant you a quick death."

"Thanks for the offer…" Naruto muttered, his smirk decidedly feral as he straightened slightly to look into the Sennin's eyes "But I'm not out of this ye-!" He froze, eyes widening with alarm as he clamped a free hand over his right eye, grimacing as he bared his teeth "Dammit…not now…!"

"Hmm?" Orochimaru wondered, quirking an eyebrow as the redhead seemed to grow agitated, noting with interest that the teen's chakra seemed to be fluctuating…wildly so. 'What is this…?' he wondered, his golden eyes narrowing as he glared at the youth that had caused him so much trouble 'These fluctuations…at their lowest, it's less than garbage…' a cold sweat ran down his cheek 'At their highest…they outstrip my own!'

"F-fuck off…" Naruto growled, the redhead gritting his teeth as he lowered his head, his crimson bangs shielding his upper-face from Orochimaru's piercing, inquisitive gaze "This isn't the best time!"

"Sez you." A tone that was both similar, and yet oddly contrasting to the redhead's mocked, Orochimaru's eyes widening in surprise, as it seemed to him thatthe new voice emanated from the same teen before him "You've got yourself a real strong one here…lemme have a piece of the action while you take a dirt nap."

"Like fuck I will!" Naruto snarled, the redhead's fingers bleeding as they wrapped around the blade of Orochimaru's Kusanagi, trying to tug the grasscutter blade out of his gut "The last time I let you out you-!"

"So th' old frog gotta lil' scarred." The darker voice scoffed, Orochimaru quirking an eyebrow at the reference to Jiraiya "Shoulda known better than ta get in my way…something YOU'VE yet ta learn.,,"

"I don't need you!" Naruto gritted, the redhead shaking his head determinedly as he clenched a bloody hand over his left eye, gripping his head with trembling figners "I don't need you! I don't need you!"

"Say what ya like princess…" the mocking voice opined, Orochimaru shivering as a jack-o-lantern leer began to form on the left side of Naruto's face "We both know that without ME, you'd have passed out from blood loss by now."

The bloody hand holding the Kusanagi twitched, releasing the blade to grip Naruto's right hand, pulling it away, Orochimaru shivering as he stared at that feral, twisted smile that seemed to contain more fangs than he'd seen in one mouth in his entire life.

"Ten minutes are up princess." The sinister voice intoned, dripping with false sweetness, the bloody left hand gripping the right down towards the ground "Time fer a tag out."

*******

Forest, Another perspective...

Naruto jerked, the redhead's skull snapping back to lease a feral snarl that echoed around the woodlands, followed by a pulse of oppressive crimson chakra that spread with Naruto as the epicenter, the crimson aura sending leaves and dirt flying in all directions, Orochimaru's hair whipping back, the sennin's arms coming up, releasing the hilt of the Kusanagi to shield his face, his eyes wide as he gaped at the figure before him, barely visible behind a crimson haze.

The wave blasted through the countryside, carrying back to the group battling it out on the bridge, washing over Sai and Yamato's bunshin, who were standing well away from the battlefield, far enough to avoid detection, but close enough that they could monitor what was going on.

'What on earth?!' the bunshin exclaimed, eyes wide as flipped through a series of seals, barely managing to erect a Moku Jouheki to shield itself from the worst of the blast, which was uprooting trees and ripping them to shreds in the process 'This chakra!'

Not even Sai, riding on his ink-beast, escaped the blast, the simulacra exploding in a burst of ink from the wind pressure and sheer potency of the lethal chakra.

'This is getting dangerous…' the pale teen muttered, holding his arms up to shield himself, landing on a tree branch with the grace of a cat 'It's too risky to get any closer than this…'

*******

Tenchi Bridge...

At the bridge, the battle between Kabuto and the remains of Team Kakashi paused, as they group, as one, turned to face the other side of the bridge, Yamato leaping on top of Yanagi to protect her from the chakra wave, which blasted Recca and Kabuto off their feet.

"What the hell?!" Recca gaped, the enjutsu-shi flipping in mid-air to land against a tree one hand covering his eyes as the cloud of dust and wooden shrapnel blasted over him "Did someone let off a nuke or something?!"

"That chakra…" Kabuto mused, the treacherous medic's eyes narrowing to a laser-like intensity as his glasses cracked under the wind pressure "I see…so this is what Naruto-kun's like when he's serious…"

"Yanagi!" Yamato prodded, Kakashi's replacement looking down at the healer in alarm, as the poor girl was holding herself and trembling like she was caught in a raging blizzard "What's wrong?!"

"Wrong…" the healer stammered, tears dripping down her cheeks like miniature rivers as she fought the urge to throw up at the oppressive feeling that washed over her "This chakra…it's not Naruto-kun! It's too bad! Too heavy! Too wrong!"

"So even his so called 'teammates' knew nothing about this." Kabuto mused, a smug smirk adorning the medic's features as he pushed his damaged glasses up his nose "Naruto-kun truly is a monster if he can keep something like THAT hidden from those around him."

"You shut your hole..." Recca warned, his eyes glowing dangerously as his fist ignited, the enjutsu-shi lashing out, almost clipping Kabuto's ear "Naruto isn't like you and pedo-hebi! He doesn't keep things from his friends!"

'I wish I could have as much faith as you, Recca.' Yamato murmured, as the connection he felt with his clone allowed him to witness what was happening at ground zero.

*******

Back to the fight...

"Interesting…" Orochimaru mused, the serpentine sennin lying low to the ground to reduce the wind resistance, his tongue sliding across his lips as the wind died down "You just get more and more interesting every time I see you…Naruto-ku-!"

He froze, a wave of palpable killing intent washing over him, forcing him to leap back, just as Naruto's bloody hand gripped the Kusanagi, the sennin's eyes widening as the redhead ripped the katana out of his stomach, sending blood flying everywhere.

'Desperation?' he wondered, only to narrow his eyes as the blood which landed began to sizzle, the earth beneath it melting away, the teen's wound smoking as it healed back up at an accelerated rate 'Advanced Regeneration?!'

"Feh…gimme a break…" the crass voice from earlier scoffed, the redhead twirling the Kusanagi around by it's blade like a baton, heedless of the biting edge, dipped in poison that could take even a kage-level fighter down "This little pig-sticker was what all th' fuss was about?" a crass snort "Psh, yer such a pussy, princess."

"Uzumaki…" Orochimaru began, only to scowl, the sennin's golden eyes narrowing suspiciously as he slowly stood up, glaring at the figure that dared to insult his precious Kusanagi "No…who…what are you?"

"Hoh? Caught onto that have ya?" the crass voice asked, laced with mock applause, even as the redhead slowly straightened up, still twirling the Kusanagi in his hand as he drew his own Katana once more "Who am I…you ask…?"

The head came up, Orochimaru's eyes widening at the blazing red eyes, swimming in a sea of darkness that drilled into him like lasers. The face was Naruto's, but more savage, laced with a manic intent that Orochimaru looked for in his most dedicated torturers, a look that would make a serial murderer cringe in fear, lined with bloody crimson marks that trailed down the sides of his neck and under his shirt.

"I don't got a name!" the abomination cackled, grabbing Kusanagi by the hilt, before lunging at the sennin, cackling at the top of it's lungs as it slashed away with reckless abandon.

Orochimaru cursed, leaping back and unleashing a horde of serpents from his gullet, the mass of writhing, poisonous reptiles, swords erupting from their maws as they swarmed the manic redhead, who merely leered at the oncoming wall of death eagerly.

"That the best you got?!" the redhead demanded, gripping the two swords to the side, crossing his arms before him briefly, before letting out a manic shriek, uncrossing the blades in a flash of motion.

A wave of air blasted into the wall, the serpents parting like the red sea before the wind, several of them dropping lifelessly to the floor, their heads severed or bodies slices to ribbons.

"Pathetic!" the redhead cackled, his manic leer laced with madness as he stood before the decimated horde, swords held to the sides, at the ready "This th' best th' vaunted Orochimaru can do?! Crawlin' on his belly, spewin' out snakes?!" he threw his head back and laughed "C'mon old man! I'm fallin' asleep here!"

"Careful what you wish for, Boy!" Orochimaru warned, his head snapping out of the rubble to latch onto the redhead's throat, fangs piercing the skin as anacondas burst from the soil to ensnare the redhead's legs.

"You surprised me…Naruto-kun." The sennin admitted, talking whilst his fangs pierced the redhead's neck, retrieving his Kusanagi from the youth "To think you'd change this much in just three years…it makes me wonder how SASUKE's improved-!"

He leapt back, biting back a curse as the oppressive smell of burning flesh filled the air, the serpent quickly shedding his skin before the face dissolved, the mouth melting away like candle wax in an oven.

"Sauce-who?" the redhead repeated, his tone lilting as he cocked his head to the side, the bite marks from Orochimaru already healing over as he rubbed his finger in his ear "Sorry, don't know anyone by that name…" he grinned at the sennin "Still, if he's th' type that has ta resort ter that satanic hicky of yours, he can't be much."

"Well aren't you confident." Orochimaru hissed, a confident smirk on his face despite almost having his mouth reduced to putty by the redhead's corrosive chakra "You think the Tenfuuin makes people weak?"

"I'm sayin' havin ta RESORT to having yer Satanic Hickey branded inta them makes 'em weak." The redhead snorted, smirking mockingly at the sennin, tapping his naked blade against the side of his head "Snake suckin' pussies need ta learn their place."

"And what about YOU?" Orochimaru posed, moving around the teen cautiously, like a wolf circling a kill that still had some fight left in it "You, who have even now rely on the power of your 'tenant' to help you out…" he chuckled "I never took you to be a HYPOCRITE…Naruto-kun, a FOOL perhaps, but not a hypocrite."

"Tenant?" the redhead repeated, quirking an eyebrow at the sennin, before nodding in understanding, mouth an 'o' of surprise "You mean old man Kyuubi?"

Orochimaru shivered, as the crimson teen's shoulders shook with mirth, a shiver of primeval terror washing over him as he felt the perverse, murderous glee coming of the youth.

"Sorry trouser-snake," the redhead cackled, covering his face with his hand as he hunched over laughing "But ya made several mistakes: First off, I ain't princess, so don't go callin' me 'Naruto'." He straightened up slightly "Secondly, this power's all MINE."

"Yours?" Orochimaru repeated, the sennin's golden eyes snapping wide in stunned, unrestrained terror at the apparent implications of the figure's words "Then…you're…the Kyuubi no Kitsune?!"

"And there's strike three…" the redhead cackled, lifting his hand from his face to reveal a vulpine leer with far too many fangs to be considered a smile, a glint of madness in those burning crimson eyes "sorry old man, but pops ain't around no more."

That said, Orochimaru's head snapped to the side, courtesy of a chakra laced-backslap that made Tsunade's strongest punch feel like a love-tap. The skin actually BURNED from the contact with the youth's palm, which he noted was glowing with corrosive red chakra.

'What does he mean 'isn't here anymore'?' the sennin wondered, flipping over, shedding his skin just before the redhead lunged at him, all teeth and flashing steel 'Extracting the bijuu would kill the host…' his eyes widened 'Don't tell me…he's actually assimilated it?!'

"Senei Tajyashuu!" the sennin snapped, sending a horde of giant anacondas and constrictors at the monster, his finger twitching, tugging the Kusanagi back into his palm with a chakra thread "DIE!"

A pulse of dark chakra, emanating from Orochimaru's sleeve, coursed through the serpents, their bodies disjointing as it drew closer to the target, the snakes erupting in a fiery explosion that consumed everything in the epicenter. "Hmph…Orochimaru scoffed, dropping the severed tails of the summons to run a finger through his hair, as if preening for the camera "That was almost TOO easy."

"That so?" a mocking voice asked, Orochimaru's eyes widening as a shadow appeared amidst the flames, a surge of wind chakra blowing them out to reveal the redhead from before, his upper clothing completely burned away, revealing that yes, the markings DID continue below the neckline, coiling around his flank like tails, two of them spiraling down his arms, another two disappearing below the waistline.

"So you like ta end things with a bang, eh fucker?" the redhead jeered, his smile sickening as he raised his right hand to his face, fingers popping audibly, the grin widening as the muscles in the arm began to bulge and writhe beneath the skin "What a coincidence…so do I!"

*******

Outside the battlezone...

"This is bad…" Yamato's clone muttered, the wooden replica grimacing as it felt the Kyuubi's chakra resonate with it's own, a most discomforting feeling "I can't risk getting closer right now…but at this rate…!"

'So this is the power of the Kyuubi…' Sai noted from his perch, the expressionless teen's eyes narrowed in comprehension 'This is the power that Danzo-sama has sought for the past sixteen years…'

The duo's eyes widened as the surging chakra increased, looking on in awe as the arm of the creature that had once been Naruto distorted, the redhead holding it out to the side as something BURST out of the shoulder.

'Tails?!' the clone gaped, looking on in horrified awe as the four chakra appendages lashed around behind the youth, it's eyes widening as the claw-like hand began to morph into what was unmistakably a fox's head 'SHIT!'

*******

Ground Zero.

'Th-this chakra…!' Orochimaru gaped, the sennin's eyes wide with a combination of wonder and primal terror as the crimson waves washed over him, looking on in wonderment as the four crimson appendages lashed behind the redhead's shoulder, even as the arm continued to mutate 'This density…this malevolence…!" a bead of sweat ran down his cheek 'This isn't good at all!'

"S'matter snake-eyes?" the redheaded abomination mocked, his tone lilting as he sneered at the sennin, holding his arm out, the fox head that had once been his right hand emitting sulphurous smoke from it's open mouth "Ya scared? Should be, the old frog almost bought the farm with this one!"

The maw of the fox opened, Orochimaru tensing as wisps of red and blue chakra began to gather there, his eyes widening as a small, rotating sphere of dark energy began to take form, the colour of old, dried blood.

"If I were you…snake eyes, I'd be pissing my pants right about now." The redhead warned, the tone mocking and filled with madness "Followed by a quick prayer ta whatever gods'll have ya…that is if the devil don't already got claim."

The very air seemed to scream as the dark maelstrom of corrupt chakra continued to gather speed, the sphere now twice the size of the teen's body. Then it began to shrink, the chakra compacting in on itself, the sphere's rotation reaching such speeds that all that could be heard was a high pitched whine as it reached the size of a marble.

The fox's maw widened, engulfing the tiny sphere, before snapping shut, the eyes lighting up, the four tails streaming behind the redhead as if in a breeze as he brought it to bear on the sennin like a cannon.

An analogy which Orochimaru suddenly realized wasn't so far fetched, the sennin bringing his thumbs to his fangs just as the maw opened wide, and everything went white.

Apache:...Whoa...

Mira Rose: That was hot.

Sun-Sun: Ichigo-sama is better.

Apache: Shit yeah but still!

Kyugan: I thought I pulled it off rather well...

Halibel: Which is why your head still adorns your shoulders.

Kyugan: Point noted. Also, for those of you asking, yes, I based Naruto's other off of Hichigo.

Also, yes, that is basically the Kyuubi cannon, only with a unique twist, since Naruto won't be assuming the fox shroud in this.

Those of you who can guess what the new design resembles, give yourselves a Nappa Cookie.

Nappa: Yay!