Naruto the REAL Fifth Hokage by Traban16

Chapter 16: Coming At You with a BOOM!

Chapter 16: Coming At You with a BOOM!

Looking off in the distance, Deidara saw a giant toad appear from nowhere as it dropped to the ground. From atop his bird he saw the poof of smoke as the toad dispelled, and a black dome where it landed. Deidara grinned as he watched the fight with scope. That was until a shadow moved over him and his head was loped off. His body fell toward the ground, but it was kicked back into the air before it exploded in a wide range of the sky. Naruto landed atop a roof as Yamato jumped across buildings to join him just as he re-sheathed his sword with an audible click.

"I really thought you had him that time, Hokage-sama." Yamato said as he looked up at the black smoke cloud. Naruto merely sighed and ran a hand through his hair as looked up at it to.

"I think I'm starting to see it. His art, I mean; I think I understand it now." Naruto said as he weaved through hand-signs.

"We need to get rid of the bird." Naruto said before inhaling deeply.

"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Bombs!"

Naruto blew out a torrent of red-hot flames that took the shape of a dragon head. They headed straight for the bird as it made no move to get out of the way. The contact between the two was a explosion twice the size of the Deidara Clay-clone's. Yamato grinned only slightly as he looked about, a kunai held tightly in the ninja-style reverse-grip while he gazed around.

"I don't see any movement, Hokage-sama." Yamato said as Naruto glanced over at him, eyes of purple ablaze as Naruto seemed excited and yet bored at the same time. Naruto raised a brow as he slightly pushed Yamato to side. Yamato only gave a confused look as he let himself be pushed. The look turned into one of horror as he watched a rain of clay spiders attach themselves to Naruto and the building top. Yamato used the momentum from the push and jumped across the gap in buildings as Naruto was blown up with the same bored look on his face.

"He really needs to stop doing that. It got boring after the second time, though I'm glad he never does it in the same way twice." Naruto said as he appeared beside Yamato. Yamato gave a slight sigh of relief, only slight because he was mental berating himself for still being surprised at all.

"I think the spiders were his fastest attack, Hokage-sama. If we could just-"

"No, I'm sure that they weren't. They still entered my sight long before they fell from the smoke cloud. He's not going all-out. He's preparing for a large-scale escape. Those two sacks of clay are still half-full each probably, so he's trying to injury me so he can get away with a large diversion. If he can, he'll save just enough of that special clay to create a bird large enough for him and the other that invaded the village to escape on. I just can't see why he's not trying harder to stop us." Naruto said as he shrugged off his haori and scarf, handing them both to a Jonin-ninja he called to him, "Take those back to my office, and then check with the others. While in the air I saw that Hiashi had moved from his post and is now engaging the other enemy alongside Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Neji. I appeared that the enemy took a captive, but I couldn't see who do to some form of a tail-thing being over it." With a nod, the ninja was off.

"A captive? Wait! Didn't you just say the Genin named Neji was there? I thought you ordered all Genin to their homes along with the civilians and Academy students?" Yamato asked as Naruto chuckled with a small smile.

"To be honest, I've never really considered Neji a Genin, even before becoming the Hokage. He's always so calm and cool about things that he always seemed like a Jonin or something, that's why I didn't say anything when I saw him on patrol with Hiashi. Though if any of the others got out…" Naruto said, trailing off as a figure leapt out of the smoke and spun in open air. Naruto threw three shuriken at it as he moved through three hand-signs.