Naruto: Master of Explosions

By: Pyro Firestorm

Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and everyone else who owns a slice of the Naruto pie. I am not making any money doing this. I only own my computer and a sense of humor.

Chapter 9: "Sounding" the Horn of Battle

Remember the Evil Scientist's lair I told you to think about back in Chapter Five? Well, remember it now. Inside said lair is the second antagonist of our story- Orochimaru, the ex-sannin, the ex-Akatsuki member, and the self-appointed leader of Oto, the Village of Sound, in the Land of Sound. The Land of Sound actually borders The Land of Fire, where Konoha is. It is several days march to get to Kiri from Oto. Of course, Kiri and the surrounding islands are abundant of bloodline-laden clans, whereas Konoha is rather protective of their bloodlines. Therefore, Orochimaru decided to attack Kiri and steal from them. It seems there's an evil rant in progress. Let's listen in.

"Ooh, Konoha won't know what happened when I attack them with the power of the Kiri bloodlines! Those fools will regret kicking me out of their village! How dare they think I am a pedophile! I simply requested to open a ninja orphanage, to train small children to become ninjas! Watching their glistening bodies dripping with sweat as their taut muscles grow stronger and larger..." (1)

Let's leave Orochimaru now before he disturbs us any more, shall we?

Meanwhile, near Kiri, Orochimaru's forces were preparing to attack the Kaguya compound. The jōnin in command waited for his forces to quiet down before speaking.

"Alright, troops. Our beloved Orochimaru has given this task to us: We must invade the Kaguya Compound, capture the clan heir, and kill the rest. Kiri has no clue of our mission, and will not be prepared to deliver a counter-attack. With us today are Orochimaru's personal guard, the Sound Four, and Orochimaru himself will be here soon! Now, let's go get us a clan heir!" With that, the large army moved out. None of them noticed the two shadows, one large, one small, taking up position behind them.

All was quiet as the Oto forces neared the compound. Silently, the leader motioned the advance forces to enter the compound. The lead scout took his men, entered looked around, turned back to the army leader, and nodded. Then received 30 shuriken in his back and side, dying as quickly as the rest of the squad. The army leader's eyes widened, before he yelled "It's a trap! They were expecting us! All troops, move out for full frontal assault and extermination of the Kaguya Clan!" With that, the army charged at the compound, weapons raised and hand-signs flashing. The army still outnumbered the Kaguya clan. Right as the first Oto ninja reached the gate, it seemed that all hope was lost...

Until a large Zanbatō spun down, slicing through a random Oto ninja. A man landed next to it, yanking it out of the ground, as seven other ninja landed next to him. The lead Oto ninja paled and yelled "The Legendary Seven Ninja Swordsmen! Kiri is helping the Kaguya Clan!" Zabuza simply smiled, looked at his seven companions, and yelled "Let's go wild!" With that, the eight ninja exploded into action.

"Alright, Naruto, help me spot Orochimaru. He should be a tall, pale, creepy man with four guards."

Naruto nodded at Yagura's words and began looking over the large crowd of ninjas. Soon, he spotted the man in the back of his forces, yelling out commands to the ninja under his commands. "There he is!" Naruto said, pointing at him.

"Good job, Naruto. Now would you please summon a large member of the Fox Summons? We need to cut a path through his ninja."

"But Yagura, that would be a waste of chakra. Here, I'll use my special technique. Bombing Run!" As he said that, Naruto pulled out a large number of senbon, raining them down on the Oto forces.

Yagura blinked and said, "Naruto, what did wasting senbon accomplish?"

Naruto simply shook his head, put his hands in a seal, and shouted "BOOM!" He began laughing as the senbon he threw began detonating, cutting (or more correctly, blowing up) a path that neared Orochimaru. Yagura stared, before simply grabbing Naruto and leaping up the trail of destruction Naruto made. Oto would be without a leader by the end of the day.

Zabuza laughed crazily as his blade tore yet another Oto ninja in two. As he slashed away at the enemy, he called out to his team: "Sound off, Squad A!"

"Kisame, doing good!"

"Raiga, here!"

"Haku, present."

"Ranmaru, fine."

"Chōjūrō, reporting in!"

"Suigetsu, raring to go!"

"Mizuki, here!"

"Alright, use Formation C! We need to draw Orochimaru's guards away from him so Yagura has an easier time! Go!"

With that, the eight ninja began slashing even faster, cutting down row after row of Oto ninjas, moving towards the Sound Four.

Being the most intelligent of the Sound Four, Kidōmaru was the first to see the eight ninja cutting their way towards them. He slowly turned to Sakon, nudging him in the side, before stating "I am fairly certain that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Kiri, as well as Silent Kill Mizuki, are coming this way."

Sakon looked in the direction Kidōmaru pointed, before agreeing with him. "Yes, I do believe that they're working towards us."

The two turned away, before looking back, their eyes widening. Sakon immediately called out to the other two Sound Four members. "There are eight A-class or higher ninja moving quickly to us! Prepare to draw them away from Orochimaru!"

The other members voiced their agreement, and the four prepared to defend their leader from certain doom.

"Kakashi."

"...What, Sasuke?"

"I'm bored."

"So?"

"When do we get to fight?"

"The Oto forces will most likely begin to retreat when Orochimaru is killed. Naruto and Yagura are working on that."

"Hn... do you have an extra Icha Icha?"

Without speaking or moving his eyes from the book in front of him, Kakashi reached into a pouch, pulled out a book, and gave it to Sasuke. He took it, opened it up, and prepared to wait for Oto's retreat.

'Ooh, Matsuki! Both Sanare and Nanoro? Teehehehehe...' (2)

As the Kiri ninja neared the Sound Four, they separated into teams of two. Zabuza called out "Alright, Team A! Engage your enemies!" The fight was on.

(Zabuza and Haku vs. Sakon and Ukon)

"So you two are challenging me? The leader of the Sound Four? Hah! I'll make your deaths quick and painless!" No sooner had Sakon said this when he was surrounded by ice mirrors. "...What the hell is this? No matter. Nothing can stand up against the power that Orochimaru gave us! I am unstoppable! Hahahaha-URK!" His crazed laugh was cut off by a senbon to the heart, puncturing the aorta and killing him instantly.

"...Okay... That was kind of pathetic..." Zabuza sweat-dropped at the sudden end of the battle, until he heard sound coming from the corpse.

"Freaking idiot! I tell him not to gloat over enemies stronger than us, and what does he do? He goes and gets himself killed!" A head popped out of Sakon's shoulder, followed by the rest of a body that looked remarkably like Sakon. "Hi. I'm Ukon."

That body also got the 'therapeutic' senbon-to-heart treatment. Zabuza silently glared over at one of the ice mirrors as Haku popped out of it.

"Sorry, Zabuza, but I simply ended the battle quickly."

Zabuza simply grunted and turned away from his apprentice, sulking at his lack of carnage and slaughter.

(Kisame and Mizuki vs Jirōbō)

"..."

"...So, fatty, what does your rock dome of doom do, anyways?"

"My name is Jirōbō, Shark-Face! And it's not a rock dome of doom! It's called Doton Kekkai: Dorō Dōmu! And it's a self repairing prison that sucks your chakra away!"

"Ah. You do realize that we both have Jounin chakra reserves, right? This trick might work on genin, but we'd have to be in this thing for several days."

"... Damn."

"How exactly do you suck out our chakra?"

"My chakra flows through the dome, stealing the chakra of whoever is inside."

"That's what I thought. I wonder what would happen if I began sucking your chakra out of the dome?"

"It would collapse, and I would pass out due to chakra exhaustion. Why?"

"No big deal. It's not like I have a sword that can drain people's chakra, or anything."

"...Oh crap."

Kisame began sucking chakra out of the dome, and like Jirōbō said, the dome collapsed, revealing him passed out on the ground.

"Mizuki."

"Yeah?"

"If anyone asks, we had an epic fight where we finally managed to pin him down so I could drain his chakra and kill him, okay?

"Got it, Kisame."

(Suigetsu and Chōjūrō vs. Tayuya)

"So you Kiri bastards think you can stand up to me? I'm the second most powerful of the Sound Four! You're doomed!"

Suigetsu sweat-dropped at the fourteen year old girl threatening him. 'This is Orochimaru's Best?'

"Chōjūrō, please. Just end this quickly."

"Yes, Suigetsu, sir. Hiramekarei Kaihō."

Bandages fell off the large sword Chōjūrō carried, revealing two swords attached by a small chain. A large chakra hammer surrounded the blades and was slammed down on Tayuya, crushing her instantly.

"Good job. If she was second best, the rest should be pathetic."

(Raiga and Ranmaru vs. Kidōmaru)

"Hah! You fools don't know who you're messing with! I can kill you without even getting close to you! You will fall easily!"

"Rairyū no Tatsumaki." Raiga summoned lightning and began spinning in place, creating a large vortex of wind and lightning, which swooped into Kidōmaru, killing him via buffeting winds and shocking lightning.

"One idiot, served diced and crispy."

"Oh Raiga, you're so funny!"

"...Shut up, Ranmaru."

"Naruto, it looks like the Sound Four have been defeated. We now just need to defeat Orochimaru."

"Yeah yeah, whatever. Let's just kick the bastard's butt. He'll go out with a Bang!"

-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- End Chapter 9 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Wow. I haven't updated in a while. It's kind of pathetic... eh. Whatever.

I considered how to create an epic, page covering fight full of death, awesome techniques, and the like. Then I realized that even with the curse seals, the Sound Four were each defeated by only one or two genin. Jounin such as the Seven Ninja Swordsmen should slaughter them easily. Anyways, onto notes!

I had to decontaminate my keyboard after typing this paragraph. *shudder*

No, of course I'm not making Sasuke a mini-Kakashi like Lee is a mini-Gai. Not at all. Nope.

Finally, review. It'll help me do better. You know you want to. Do it. Come on. Do it. It'll only take a few seconds.

Firestorm, Signing Off.