Akatitsune

Ch 6 Orochimaru's Power part 2

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, Naruto would have awakened Rinnegan and formed Akatsuki.

This chapter will begin with a summary of recent events, and than the story shall proceed as scheduled. Some parts I felt would limit story progression, so I added them to the summary, in detail of course

The proper pacing of the story will begin after Sasuke (and Kabuto) take on the remainder of team Kakashi. Okay, anyway, here goes nothing...

While Kakashi, Sakura, and Yamato carry on with their mission to retrieve Sasuke, in doing so, following Kabuto's scent along with the trail that he intentionally left behind, Naruto is locked in a life and death duel with the great snake sannin, Orochimaru.

At the beginning of the battle, Naruto arrives at the clearing where Orochimaru's body crashed, leaving behind a massive crater. Orochimaru's body sustains so much damage that his skin peels off, enough for Naruto to see the face of the host that Orochimaru took over.

Naruto taunts Orochimaru about his sexual orientation, asking if Orochimaru was tired of being a girl (his previous host was a girl) and finally decided what he wanted to be. Naturally, Orochimaru is angered by the assumed simple minded conclusions that the blonde Uzumaki is making about him, but chooses rather to keep his harsh words about that issue to himself, choosing rather to to attack the blonde Uzumaki before he attacks him again.

Having realized that he could not possibly hope to keep up with Naruto's speed in his three tailed form, Orochimaru goes for a one hit kill, using the Kusanagi's ability to extend rapidly to impale Naruto right through the heart. However, Orochimaru clearly underestimated Naruto's speed, as the blonde Uzumaki was still able to avoid contact with any major arteries or organs, the exponentially lengthened sword only piercing through his right shoulder as a result.

Orochimaru tries to yank the sword sideways with the intention of cutting right through Naruto's chest, however, Naruto uses one of his chakra limbs to hold the sword in place. He tries to break the sword with his chakra limbs and does not succeed, but than remembers that the Kusanagi, being one of the late rikuudo sennin's treasured weapons, will not be that easily broken, if breakeable at all.

With that in mind, Naruto finds himself in a desperate situation, one option is to force the sword to shift to the right, with the possibility of cutting through part of his chest and dismember his arm, but he chooses another option, an experimental one, which is to channel the fox's chakra through the Kusanagi and to Orochimaru with the hope that the Kyubi's corrosive chakra would be enough to outright kill him, or paralyze him long enough for Naruto to get rid of him. Needless to say, the latter of the two options was chosen.

Orochimaru however realises the danger in time and spits out the sword from his mouth, along with the snake from which the sword was stored, as he moves away to a position he deemed safe from the fox's chakra. The snake is almost instantly eroded by the corrosive chakra

Recovery of the sage's weapons being one of his lesser but regardless important objectives, Naruto already has an idea of how the Kusanagi might work. He theorizes that one would have to obviously channel their chakra into the sword in order to trigger the extention effect. However, extention is not the only ability that the Kusanagi has, he remembers that Orochimaru levitated the sword and controlled it from a distance when he fought the Sandaime Hokage and he also is able to clearly feel in his body the poisonous effects of the sword.

Spinning all of this inside his mind, Naruto comes up with a theory, he concludes that there had to be a way to determine what effect one wanted when channeling chakra into the sword, but with only one chakra entrance point visible on the seal that is on the handle, he realizes that the seal must serve also as a storage compartment of sorts. The seal stores the chakra of the user in order to confirm the identity of the user whenever he channels chakra into the sword. The sword than reacts whenever that person channels chakra into the seal. This is so that only the owner can manipulate the sword, in other words, to protect the user from the opponent using the user's own weapon against him. He also comes to the conclusion that, all things concidered, the sword works in a manner not too different from a human. A human channels chakra to a specific body part and uses his mind to manipulate what effect said chakra should have on that body part, therefore, he would also have to channel his chakra into the sword and manipulate the effect with his mind. However, he would have to get rid of Orochimaru's chakra that was already stored within the sword, which might as well have been as easy as taking candy from a baby, the Kyubi's potent chakra more than strong enough to push out Orochimaru's chakra out of the sword and replacing it with his own.