The chamber in the sewers that Yugito had lead her enemies to was now open-aired after the battle that had taken place. Hidan lay down in a symbol of Jashin with black skin and white markings making him look like a skeleton. He lay still as if he were dead with a spike sticking out of his chest.
Kakuzu sat on some nearby rubble from the fight against Yugito as he impatiently watched Hidan's unmoving form, "Hidan, it's been thirty minutes. Aren't you done yet?"
Hidan seemingly sprang back to life as he looked over at his nuke-nin partner, "Oh shut the hell up damn it! Don't mess with me while I'm doing the ritual!" He reached up and pulled the spike out of his chest, "Ouch."
Kakuzu sighed as Hidan stood up off of the ground, "You do this Jashin ritual stuff every time. Can't you just skip it every once in a while?"
Hidan dusted himself off and wiped some of his blood off, "It might be annoying to you but it's a part of my religion. It's necessary since we didn't kill the jinchuuriki." He pointed at Yugito who was pinned by both of her hands to a wall with a long pike.
Kakuzu snorted, "We're just lucky that she lead us so far away from the village in the tunnels that you could get away with this. If no one came for her during that fight no one will be coming at all." He stood up and began making his way over to Yugito who was unconscious from her wounds, "That cat set you on fire about three different times… heh, that was actually entertaining to watch."
"Fuck you Kakuzu." Hidan snapped, "That shit actually hurt you know. I had to jump into the fucking sewer water to put myself out. You could have jumped in anytime you wanted you know."
Kakuzu laughed, "Oh I know, and I did if you remember correctly."
Hidan grumbled, "Asshole." He walked up to Yugito and reached out to grab her from off of the wall when a kunai impaled itself deeply through the hand he reached out with, "What the-?"
"Get over here!"
Ninja wire was tied around the ring of the kunai and stiffened out, pulling Hidan back violently up and out of the hole in the top of the open sewer. A blur jumped inside and launched at Kakuzu with a kunai drawn, however this attack was blocked by Kakuzu's hand which turned dark as his odd eyes turned down to his opponent, "Didn't think we'd be seeing you again so soon boy. Come to turn yourself in?" Naruto grit his teeth and cocked his fist back to punch Kakuzu in the face, getting not even a movement of his head or neck for his trouble as the darkened skin carried over to his face as well, "Didn't you learn what Doton: Domu (Earth Release: Earth Spear) could do from our last meeting?"
'Naruto' smirked, "Yeah, I did. But can you take an explosion up close with your elephant skin? Let's find out." Naruto opened his shirt to reveal three quick burning explosive tags stuck to his torso, "Kaboom."
A massive explosion rocked the ruined battlefield as Kakuzu sighed from the smoke of the explosion, looking no worse for wear, "That's not good enough to get through boy." He said as he walked towards Naruto, who had taken Yugito off of the wall and was holding her unconscious form bridal style, "And now it looks like we're going to get two jinchuuriki for the price of one. My kind of deal." Naruto glared at him as he held Yugito protectively, "You won't get either one of us. The last fight wasn't on my terms, it won't go the same this time."
Kakuzu laughed loudly, "The last fight wasn't on your terms? And what do you call this? Or is 110 pounds of extra dead-weight going to give you an advantage here? I suppose you could use her as a battering ram or something. The last time the Ichibi had your back and we were fighting him in the desert at less than full power. What makes you think you have a chance?"
"Who knows?" Naruto said, "You might walk right through me, take us both, and that would be the end of that… but you might lose something very important along the way. Then again I might win… That seems like a good enough reason to fight doesn't it? I might have the chance to save my own life and even if I lose you were going to capture me anyway so it doesn't matter."
"Heh heh…" Hidan landed back inside of the hole in the ground next to Kakuzu, "Did you really think a few dozen of those stupid clones of yours would be able to actually stop me?"
Naruto shook his head, "No not really, but they weren't meant to, they were just meant to buy me some time." Naruto lowered Yugito to the ground, getting surprised looks out of Kakuzu and Hidan when she stood up, facing them with a smirk on her face before she turned into another copy of Naruto.
At that moment, hundreds of Naruto clones surrounded the entrance to the hole, looking down at the two Akatsuki members with the swords on their backs drawn. Hidan smirked as he held the scythe in his hand, "And here I thought I wasn't going to get a slaughter out of this mission."
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The real Naruto had Yugito over his shoulder as he escaped through an exit point under the water in the sewer room Yugito had been fighting in. Hey, the water had to go somewhere, and the grate under the surface of the water had been inconspicuous enough for him to slip away through while his Kage Bunshin had been running interference. How long they lasted would be up for debate, but the search for him after they had been taken out would take a little time even if he hadn't covered his tracks and left without a trace.
Being a village situated atop a mountain, Kumo had a need to pump water from lower on the mountain and even from places on flatland, vice-versa for getting waste and other things off of the mountain. The system set up was large, elaborate, and the most important part, well documented… at least by Danzo in the case of war with Kumo. Hey, ninja don't fight fair, if he needed Root to poison their water supply in case of prolonged siege then that was what was going to have to happen.
However in this case it was a swift way to exit the general area swiftly and under the nose of Hidan and Kakuzu. If he had simply attempted to run back to Kumo the way he had come he would have been overtaken while carrying Yugito. This was taking him so far away from the village it was absurd, but right now, putting distance between them and the Akatsuki members was the most important thing.
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