The Red Flash Chapter 57 (A Fox vs A Snake) (Patreon)

"I'm not here for your games Orochimaru," Naruto growled. Without looking, he brought his forearm up to block the thrusting strike of the Sword of Kusanagi as it protruded from the mouth of a snake that had appeared out of the trunk of the tree Naruto was standing on.

"I insist," Orochimaru said sinisterly. He leapt forward, snakes blossoming from his sleeves. Naruto deflected several more sword strikes as he nimbly leapt back. As he landed, he inhaled deeply and released an intense stream of flame into the onrush of snakes to incinerate them completely.

Orochimaru burst through the flame unharmed and attempted to land a series of blows utilising his most complex hand-to-hand combat styles. To his surprise, Naruto managed to match his moves in a way that only another master of the technique should be able to do. That knowledge, however, enabled him to dodge in time as Naruto twisted unnaturally and attempted to bury a kunai in his side.

"I see my old comrade has trained you quite well," Orochimaru said.

"Yeh, he talked about you, he told me that if I ever see you to leave you a message," Naruto said.

To his surprise, Orochimaru stopped fighting and looked interested.

"Next time we met, I won't hold back like last time," Naruto said with a dangerous tone that somehow reminded Orochimaru of his old teammate, he, of course, knew his teammate hadn't used Sage Mode last time they fought, despite the snake wanting him to use it out of curiosity.

Naruto narrowed his eyes, and he remembered many times that his toad-Jiji mentioned Orochimaru; he had said it many times that he blamed himself that Orochimaru was out there hurting people.

"I could have done something, despite trying to lie to myself, I failed Naruto, if I had used Sage Chakra, I would have defeated Orochimaru, but I didn't, in the end, I couldn't get myself to kill my friend."

Naruto knew his godfather blamed himself for all the bad things Orochimaru had done throughout the years. No More...

"Cut the crap, Orochimaru, and I am in no mood for chit chat; are you here to fight me or not?" Naruto retorted.

"Well, I think it's time for us to get started, so don't hold back," Orochimaru said evilly, licking his lips.

Naruto did not respond, as he knew that Orochimaru would not accept anything less from him.

Orochimaru looked at him and then suddenly drew his Katana.

Orochimaru then took up his own fighting stance, showing off his own smirk as if this was just a game to him.

Orochimaru then showed him how much he learned from his former teammates.

With pleasure, Naruto charged at Orochimaru, who then raced towards him. Orochimaru crossed the distance between them in just a few seconds.

Naruto's katana clashed with Orochimaru's sword, the redhead swung to his head, but the snake lowered his head just in time to make his own strike; Naruto jumped away immediately, knowing that sword had one of the most dangerous poisonous in the world.

For the first few minutes of their battle, Naruto tried to slash Orochimaru using his Katana. Despite his attempts, Orochimaru would eventually stop him from using his swords.

"Is that all you can do, Uzumaki" Orochimaru mocked Naruto as he continued to avoid his attacks. Naruto then focused on changing his tactics as he cried out, "Wind Slash".

Orochimaru escaped from the Wind's crescent shape by jumping out of the way; When he saw Naruto in front of him, his Katana slashed open his belly.

Orochimaru turned into mud, and he revealed that he had replaced himself.

Orochimaru then showed up right behind Naruto, who was already on his guard.

Naruto added chakra to his fist and tried to hit the snake's neck to crush his throat, but the Sannin grabbed his hand and couldn't help but winch slightly from the sheer strength behind his fist.

Orochimaru punched him straight in the chin; the punch was followed by a powerful kick to the side, which sent the redhead to the ground. Naruto immediately recovered from his hit, taking out a Kunai and throwing it towards a tree branch.

Naruto landed on the branch and immediately threw several senbon needles towards the Snake Sannin.

Orochimaru caught one of the Senbon needles that came at him. His nose immediately smelled it. The poison on it was one used to paralyse the victim.

Orochimaru was amused by the fact that Naruto's godmother had trained him well. He noted that Naruto could still rival Kabuto's skill in terms of combat.

Naruto's eyes turned red; as he rushed towards the Sannin, the snake opened his mouth; a snake with a sword pierced the Uzumaki in the stomach, only for it to disappear. No smoke behind.

What was that?

Orochimaru didn't have time to wonder when several red chakra chains chased behind him; Orochimaru made sure to keep his distance, the chains kept chasing behind when the redhead showed up in front of him with a Rasengan in his hand.

"Take This"

The Rasengan hit him in the chest, sending him flying and smashing with the ground.

Naruto landed on the ground knowing the Snake was very much alive.

"Kukuku, Jiraiya has taught you well", Orochimaru started, walking out from the crater, his mouth opened, his jaw almost a meter wide open.

Naruto's eyes widened seeing hands coming out of the mouth, another Orochimaru came out grinning with no wounds, and the old one liquefied and turned to acid, melting the ground.

"I didn't know you could vomit yourself," Naruto said disgustedly; he knew snakes shade their skin, but seeing a human do that.

Naruto attacked Orochimaru again, and he tried to hit him with his right arm. Orochimaru quickly caught Naruto's elbow...

Orochimaru caught Naruto with a sharp strike to the chin; the latter immediately brought up his knee and hit him with a spinning back kick. Naruto stayed on his feet and quickly recovered.

Orochimaru was surprised by the speed and strength of a kick, as he had been unable to block it. When he landed on the ground, his arm was still a bit numb from the kick, but he quickly shook it off and walked back to his feet.

After Orochimaru engaged Naruto, the latter immediately followed him and stayed defensive for a few minutes. He was also curious about how well Naruto was using various parts of his body.

Orochimaru just saw enough, so he decided to kick Naruto in the side.

Naruto tried to punch Orochimaru with a left hook, but the latter easily avoided it. Orochimaru then tried to hit Naruto with his right fist, but the latter managed to duck under.

Orochimaru avoided facing the Uzumaki by flipping over Naruto, but the redhead used his right leg to him in the face sending him to a tree.

"Is that all you can do?" Orochimaru taunted him with a smirk.

When he got up, he saw a small sticky note on his foot. It was a weight seal, which Naruto must have placed on his foot.

When Orochimaru saw the Seal, Naruto immediately got back on his feet and charged at him as the snake was trying to free himself.

Once he was back on his feet, Naruto raised his fists and slammed Orochimaru's head into his hand. At the same time, he channelled a large amount of Chakra into his fists, adding even Kurama's chakra.

Orochimaru could not avoid the punch, as his lower leg was stuck in a weight seal, which prevented him from running away.

His body was sent flying, hitting a tree at the bottom; the tree fell to the ground from the force.

Before Naruto could enjoy his victory any longer, he heard a familiar chuckle from the dust formed after Orochimaru's smash into the tree.

"Do you think you're the only one who can enhance his skin" Orochimaru smirked; Naruto understood that the snake sannin had enhanced his skin to take minor damage.

He then saw Orochimaru fixing his head back in place, and he was just as scared as he was seeing him.

"Your strength is impressive, but you're not at the level of Jiraiya or Tsunade yet."

Orochimaru avoided punching and kicking Naruto for a few minutes, as he knew that his opponent's strength was extraordinary. When they finally got to the clearing, it was filled with large craters and chunks of trees that had been smashed to bits. Naruto then decided to up the ante, performing a single hand seal.

When the former Sannin saw all the clones, he was not worried at all. Naruto and his clones made the game more attractive due to how skilled Orochimaru handled large numbers.

After defeating several of the Naruto clones, Orochimaru turned into a wooden log. When the others hit him, he used this log to replace himself. Naruto then used his Senses to find him.

Once he found Orochimaru, Naruto ordered his clones to fire a volley of Kunai at him. He quickly avoided the Kunai, though, as he was able to avoid it by jumping away.

The snake saw three large fireballs coming at him; the flames engulfed him, but...

Orochimaru immediately got over it, using his Sen'eijashu to eject the snakes from his body. After destroying the clones, he landed back on the ground and attacked the enemies.

Unknown to him, Naruto kept adding small Red seals around the area...

During this event, the Naruto clones fought Orochimaru in a battle that was more than just a hand to hand fight. Despite their immense size, the latter was still able to defeat the clones without much trouble.

As the fighting continued, one of Naruto's clones made a hand gesture and then shouted, "Doton!" At that moment, the ground around Orochimaru started to spiral inward. To prevent getting crushed under the earth, he jumped into the air and then disappeared.

Orochimaru immediately dispatched the remaining Naruto clones after landing. However, upon destroying the last of the Naruto clones, he lost sight of the real Naruto.

After realising that Naruto was nowhere to be found, Orochimaru started walking around the trees, thinking that he might find a way to get closer to him.

Orochimaru was trying to find Naruto-kun, but the latter was already there. Suddenly, a tree appeared out of nowhere, which wrapped around his body and prevented him from moving.

After that, Naruto went to stab the Snake Sannin, but before delivering the final blow, Orochimaru managed to break Naruto's Genjutsu.

After accidentally hitting a tree, Orochimaru jumped up and started looking for Naruto. While he was there, he saw that he was being wrapped up in vines. He remained calm as he knew that this was just another Genjutsu.

Orochimaru felt disappointed and ashamed that he was still using a Genjutsu. He then used the Genjutsu: Kai to free himself.

He then realised that Naruto used Magen: Nij Kokoni Arazu no Jutsu, which was a distraction technique used to hide the binding vine Genjutsu.

With a lot of training, Naruto-kun was capable of using Genjutsu.

Orochimaru could not move his body correctly, and when he tried to move it, he found seals on the trees. He then realised that Naruto had put him under a Genjutsu Seal.

Since Naruto had captured Orochimaru in Genjutsu, he was prevented from moving.

As Naruto was about to leave the area, he heard Orochimaru's dark throwing of something. He then appeared out of the ground, without so much as an injury to Naruto.

After seeing Naruto draw his sword again, Orochimaru was amused by what he saw. He then charged at Naruto with his blade, but the slash was empty as he tried to avoid getting hit.

Orochimaru then noticed that Naruto was using a technique known as the Arasuijin no Mai, which is a technique created by Uzumaki Kushina, The Red Death.

The concept of this technique was to switch the user's Katana from one hand to the other while slashing a target. This technique was very similar to the method of hitting a target with a regular slash.

Orochimaru immediately fell to avoid the lethal slash that Naruto threw his way. However, even after avoiding the deadly blow, he still received a large wound on his shirt. As he tried to fight back, he was kicked in the chest by Naruto.

Orochimaru quickly recovered from his attack, but he was distracted by Naruto's charging attack. When he saw the kid with his Katana, he took immediate action. He then unleashed a roundhouse kick to send Naruto flying.

After Orochimaru kicked him, Naruto quickly got back on his feet. He then saw the snakes attacking him using Sen'eijashu. Naruto then started to gather the water and created a wall of water around him.

Upon seeing the large wall of water in front of Naruto, Orochimaru was shocked to learn that there was no other water source nearby. He was then surprised to see that the water created the image of Naruto. When the real Naruto appeared, he swung his Katana at him.

When Naruto saw Orochimaru revert into the mud, he thought that he had replaced himself. The other Orochimaru then kicked him, which caused the redhead boy to drop his Katana once more.

Orochimaru then walked towards Naruto with a sadistic grin on his face.

"You are full of surprises! I knew you Uzumaki were strong-headed and hard to kill, but this is just impressive," Orochimaru said, chuckling darkly.

Naruto gritted his teeth tightly; this guy was like a cat with nine souls.

"I have to be honest, you remind me so much of Jiraiya, you have his angry face, but knowing that he is your..." Orochimaru was interrupted by a fist slamming on his face sending him against a tree.

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes at his speed, and he was sure that the brat couldn't move that fast; how did he get to me so fast?

Naruto felt his breath quickened, his hands hurting like crazy, especially his right hand.

"Naruto, you fought his supporter that was as strong as Kakashi, and now you're fighting a Sannin for a long time now, you're an Uzumaki, but that doesn't mean you can't get tired", Kurama warned him, knowing that Naruto was tired of fighting two strong Shinobi.

Naruto said nothing as he tried to catch his breath, don't worry, Kurama, my Seal, is ready, Naruto replied as the snake Sannin rushed at him with his sword.

Naruto felt this one was the original; he tightened his hand around his Katana and rushed at Orochimaru; the redhead knew the Seal would work, his godfather would not need to blame himself anymore for what Orochimaru had become, No. He would stop him.

The snake grinned, he dodged the brat's attack, and his sword pierced his flesh around his heart; the blood spilt out. This was no clone.

"I Won"

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Naruto smiled as his body suddenly disappeared and showed up to Orochimaru's left with no wound and with a big red Rasengan on his right palm, his blood eyes looking at his very soul.

How??

"Reality Seal: Mark III"

The Rasengan hit him in the chest, the flames around the Rasengan scorching his flesh and bones as the Jutsu drilled inside his organs.

The body of Orochimaru was sent flying as a red sphere of fire engulfed his body burning him inside out.

Orochimaru screamed as the sphere expanded, destroying trees and ground, reaching ten meters in diameter.

The temperature itself burning trees and grass far away from the explosion; Naruto put his arms around his face shielding himself from the fire; wind-wave flew around him, ripping out trees and grass from their root.

The sphere slowly disappeared as Orochimaru's body stopped moving in the air and fell to the ground like a rock, his skin black like coal.

Naruto sighed in relief, and he had done it; his toad-Jiji could stop blaming himself anymore. Orochimaru couldn't do wrong anymore.

He breathed heavily, but he suddenly felt a huge sharp pain around his shoulder; he looked at his left to see a slash across his shoulder that stopped at his stomach.

Naruto suddenly started coughing blood, and his knees failed him as he fell on the ground, his palm on his mouth trying to stop himself from coughing more blood.

"Naruto, don't worry, just stay put; I will heal you," Kurama told him.

Naruto kept couching blood when he suddenly remembered that before his Fire Rasengan had flown away with the Sannin, the snake had used his sword on his hand to slash him.

The redhead knew that sword was filled with poison, and it didn't help that it was one of the most dangerous poisonous.

Naruto's figure was lying on the ground, almost motionless, resting on his back, the redhead wanted to heal himself, but he used all his Chakra to use the Reality Seal.

Naruto clenched his teeth tightly as pain spread around his body; he kept clenching his teeth tightly, his fingers tightening around his palm and drawing blood as pain spread more and more.

Finally, not being able to hold back, he left out the loudest scream of pain.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

His body started moving around as more and more pain spread around his body, Kurama kept trying to heal the poison so he wouldn't die, but he could do next to nothing to ease the pain.

Naruto kept moving his arms around, hitting the ground, as the pain accumulated around his heart, feeling like the heart itself was expanding around his chest and wanting to come out.

His ribs hurting, his chest felt like it was burning and piercing his organs.

The redhead gripped his chest tightly as more and more screams echoed throughout the whole forest.

He kept on screaming, and his voice was slowly losing sound as blood was leaking out from his nose.

Naruto's hand moved to a seal on his right thigh, adding Chakra; a syringe suddenly came out, he gripped it carefully around his palm, making sure not to break accidentally.

He gripped his teeth again, trying to stop himself from moving; he slowly rolled up the left sleeve and plunged the syringe on his veins, more pain spread as he used the needle.

Pulling it out, he threw it away as the pain eased a bit, his arms and legs feeling like rocks; the redhead sighed in relief as the pain was slowly disappearing, Naruto kept trying to slow down his heartbeat, Kurama was almost done with the poison when a dark chuckle reached Naruto's ears.

Naruto felt his body freeze; everything seemed to stop, as his breath was stuck on his throat; he's alive?

The footsteps coming closer reached his ear; Naruto turned his head slowly behind him to see Orochimaru standing behind him completely fine. Still, his quickened breath and his left hand gripping his chest was the only indication that he was tired as hell.

"I knew you would be trouble, but Youuu, almost killed ME, that Seal was no ordinary SEAL," Orochimaru growled through clenched teeth; despite using his shedding skin jutsu, he still felt pain all around his body and was tired to continue fighting, the Sannin knew he couldn't shade his skin again with this level of Chakra.

Naruto tried to move, but the poison had messed him up pretty badly, he tried to stand up, but his body wasn't listening to him.

Orochimaru gripped his sword tightly around his hand as he aimed at the Uzumaki.

"Say Goodbye"

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"Fire Style: Blue Mouse" several blue flames hit the Sannin square in the chest, sending him flying to a tree.

"Naruto-kun, are you alright?" Naruto heard the voice of Yugito as she kneeled close to him, checking him.

The redhead said nothing as his eyes focused on Orochimaru, who slowly came out of the tree, and his clothes burned around his chest.

He glared maliciously at them but immediately jumped up, dodging a slash from Karui and Omoi.

"Yugito, what do you think you're doing?" Karui screamed at her teammates, knowing they were in deep trouble.

Before Yugito could respond, Orochimaru glanced at them from where he stood before his body started slowly sinking in the tree.

"This Is Not Over yet, Uzumaki"

His body disappeared, and Naruto spread his senses and couldn't detect him anywhere; he left out a huge breath of relief as his vision got fuzzy, slowly blackening.

Naruto felt his body shaking, and he knew Yugito was talking to him as he lost consciousness.

Roshi

Roshi rushed towards the village; he knew he needed to go to Konoha as soon as possible; he suddenly felt a chakra spike near his location. Quickly dodging an attack, his eyes turned in time to see several masked nins; his eyes noticed the word "ROOT" in their masks. He narrowed his eyes and wondered who they were, they had no symbol to indicate from which village they come from, but Roshi was sure they weren't from Iwa or Kiri.

He knew Iwa Anbu didn't attack like this, and the way there were ... emotionless was strange. He prepared his chakra around his arm; six dark chains slowly came out from his right sleeve.

"Demon Monkey, you are to come with us or we will use force" one of them, who Roshi knew was the leader, his chakra level was Medium-Jonin Level.

Roshi narrowed his eyes at his tone; his tone was as emotionless as a rock. "How about 'NO'"

Goku said with Roshi's body and was about to engulf his hand on lava when two ROOT Fell down, their necks slashed to the bone, their blood spilling out like a waterfall.

Before the seven other ROOT could even react, three others fell down dead as well, the leader turned his head around to see who was attacking, but Roshi took a moment and rushed at him, his hand lava and thrust his hand deep in his chest and came out the other side.

"Retre..." his head was cut open, his body fell to the ground, dead. Roshi saw the man who was the one who killed them, what caught him by surprise were his clothes?!

Despite killing them in brutal ways, he had no blood around his sleeves, nowhere around his clothes as far as Roku could see.

Then Roshi noticed his mask; he had no eye holes to see.

"Who are you?"