Second Chance

Chapter 30

"Thanks Naruto, I don't think I would have made it."

"No problem. Sorry I let one get by me." He apologized before raising his hand and slapping the terrified ninja across the face. That seemed to do the trick as he snapped back to life and glared at the blonde who rolled his eyes.

"Yeah I know I slapped you. The big scary Kyubi brat hit you. Get over it! You almost cost your entire class their lives by freezing up like that!" He yelled getting the man to lower his head in embarrassment.

"We'll talk later about that." Iruka sighed. "Catch up with your class. I'll be right behind you. Naruto try not to slap to many people today."

"No promises." He replied as several clones came into the field saluted and then dispelled. Nodding he waited until both chunin were inside the building before speeding through hand seals.

"Jihi no boei! Fuin."

'That should keep the building and the passageway intact. I know that they used summoning snakes last time to break through the walls. However, my clones should have interrupted the summoning by now. Hinata and Sasuke are taking care of the Hospital...Reservoir is covered. Business district it is.' He thought to himself running through a list of the areas that had been hardest hit in the last invasion.

'Just please don't let Orochimaru have thought ahead and bring Kimimaro or Jugo. I don't want to fight either one of them.' He prayed. Taking a deep breath he jumped off towards he destination and began to focus on the seal.

'Academy's clear. I am heading to the business district. Most of the residential area has been cleared already and the last stragglers are being moved as we speak. So far we have already cut down on the casualties by well over 60% just by spreading our clones out like we did.'

'Good. Hospital's safe. All the injured have been moved into the building and the barrier is active. Good thinking on that.' Sasuke replied.

'How's Hinata?' Naruto asked privately.

'Terrifying. I just watched her threaten to do surgery without an anesthetic if the nin she was treating didn't stop resisting.'

'They do know that she can't legally do that, right?'

'Her excuse when he pointed it out "there wasn't enough time and I had to make do in order to prevent him from bleeding to death." Remind me not to get on her bad side while I'm her patient.'

'Noted.' Naruto chirped and glanced towards the rooftop. 'Be careful Kakashi-sensei.'

With Kakashi...

"So Orochimaru, why don't we skip the warm-up I know that you have been wanting to do. We all are busy people and have other things that we prefer doing. So how about we get this over with?" Kakashi declared lazily at the sannin.

"You...have become far more interesting than expected. Almost as much as your genin. Though I am curious as to what makes you think that any of you can beat me? I have after-all achieved immortality."

"You didn't...You completed the jutsu?" Hiruzen asked in horror.

"No he didn't. Otherwise he wouldn't need Sasuke's body, just his eyes." Kakashi corrected making Orochimaru's eyes narrow. "If he had immortality in that body he wouldn't be willing to leave it even if it gained him the sharingan. It is a semi-immortality that depends on you or your chakra isn't it?"