Sound Off
Hey there! In this story...Naruto's going to have to face off against the Sound Four once again. Oh dear...thankfully, he will have help...though this time it won't be the Sasuke Retrieval Squad...this time we'll be sending out different ninja...heh heh.
And yes...this takes place after Naruto's Evil Twin II...
Chapter 1: Return Of The Four
As it turned out, Naruto was enjoying his training with Jiraiya. Why do you ask? Because he was progressively becoming stronger...he could now create more copies of himself and could summon Gamabunta more easily.
For some strange reason, up until recently, he never seemed to listen to him...even after he promised him a jar of flies that he had captured himself.
"Why does he have to be so stubborn?" inquired Naruto.
"Yeah...I had a hard time getting him to listen to me back when I was about your age..." answered Jiraiya.
"Really?" asked the genin.
"On the other hand, Tsunade didn't seem to have much of a problem with Katsuyu...all she wanted from her was to beat her in a race..." answered Jiraiya.
"Wouldn't that be easy for her? Slugs move so slow and all..." noted Naruto.
"Yes, I know..." nodded his teacher.
"I'm starting to miss my friends..." noted the genin.
"Don't you want to save Sasuke from Orochimaru?" asked Jiraiya.
"Don't you want to look at pretty girls in swimsuits?" inquired Naruto.
"Um..." answered his teacher.
"I'm just saying that I'm starting to feel homesick..." explained the boy.
"Case in point...but don't procrastinate training for too long...we only have two and a half years before Orochimaru's ready to perform a body transfer again..." warned Jiraiya.
"Yes, godfather!" exclaimed the genin.
As he did so, Jiraiya wondered where he should look for pretty girls.
"Maybe I should check to see if Mei Terumi is in town...I'm sure we'd get along well..." noted the sannin.
Oddly enough, he had heard in the newspaper that Naruto had fallen victim to his evil twin brother as of late...he sure hoped that his training would serve him well in case he ever broke out of prison.
"At least he can't hold a candle to Orochimaru...though I have to admit, most of the villains I've faced never seemed to do things just for personal pleasure like Naruto's evil twin then...ah well." thought Jiraiya to himself.
Meanwhile...
Naruto smiled, glad that he was able to take the day off for a change. He was starting to wonder if his friends and family were missing him.
Oddly enough, he kept thinking about his friend Hinata. She always seemed so attached to him...though admittedly that didn't really occur to him until after Konohamaru had once brainwashed her with his ray gun.
"At least one good thing came out of that..." noted Naruto.
Speaking of which, he wondered what Konohamaru was up to. But for now, he decided to have some delicious ramen...why he couldn't stop eating ramen, he wasn't quite sure yet.
"I swear...these noodles taste better and better every single time..." thought the genin.
Nonetheless, he wondered where his friends had hopped off too. Did they all forget he was gone?
Surely some of them had to be around Konoha somewhere.
Suddenly, he got an idea of who to look for.
"I know! Why don't I hang out with my apprentice, Konohamaru?" he thought.
Sure enough, he wasn't hard to find. He was currently trying to create shadow clones of himself...much like Naruto usually did.
"Hi there Naruto!" exclaimed Konohamaru.
"Hey there? Have you been on your best behavior?" inquired Naruto.
"What? Of course I have! What made you say otherwise?" asked the ninja-in-training.
"Well, there was the OOC Gun Incident..." explained the genin.
"That was ages ago!" exclaimed Konohamaru.
"True..." noted the genin.
"I promise you, I'm not going to try anything like that ever again! Besides, Tsunade confiscated my gun..." stated the ninja-in-training.
"Oh, right..." nodded Naruto.
"If you want I could build another one...we could probably test it out on missing-nin and see if they turn over a new leaf..." explained Konohamaru.
"That does sound tempting..." said the genin.
"We could probably even test it out on the ninja-that-must-never-be-named!" exclaimed the genin.
"Sorry, I don't think even that would work on him. Orochimaru is the ninja devil." explained Naruto.
"Don't mention his name! He killed my grandpa!" bellowed Konohamaru.
"Yes, which is why I'm sure you agree with me. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to look for my other friends...for some reason, I'm feeling the strange urge to see Hinata in particular...anyways, see ya!" exclaimed the genin.
"Bye!" answered Konohamaru.
"It was nice to see Konohamaru again..." noted Naruto.
Meanwhile...
As it turned out, Naruto was not the only one who had been training as of late. As it turned out, Sakura had been training with Tsunade...she was now fairly adept at healing techniques...and could now plow through boulders like wet tissue paper...not to mention toss them into the sky.
"So, how am I doing so far?" asked Sakura.
"Pretty good, pretty good...I think you've actually earned yourself a break, actually..." answered Tsunade.
Sakura raised an eyebrow.
"I thought you said you weren't going to make things easy for me..." questioned the chunin.
"Let's just say I'm having a pretty good day today..." inquired Tsunade.
"How come?" inquired Sakura.
"Because Naruto's evil twin brother just got sent to a maximum security asylum..." explained the Fifth Hokage.
"He did?" asked the genin.
Tsunade nodded her head.
"Yes!" cheered Sakura.
"Hopefully now he'll finally need the therapy he needs...unfortunately, though everyone sees that I'm the greatest healer in the history of ninjas...I can't repair minds." explained the sannin.
"Maybe I should try practicising jutsu like that...maybe Ino could help me?" asked Sakura.
"Maybe she should...now then, why don't you go do something fun...like...break the fourth wall or something?" inquired Tsunade.
"Um...sure..." nodded Sakura.
Logging onto her computer (a device that Konohamaru had invented, interestingly enough), Sakura decided to access her account (known as CherryBlossoms) and see what the Naruto fanfic writers had to say about her.
However, she noticed a fanfic that she found to be rather strange.
"Sakura Haruno Is Evil? By Sasukeismywaifu? Hmm...something tells me that I'm not going to like this fanfic...but I guess I'll have a look anyway..." answered the kunoichi as she clicked on the fanfic.
"Mwahahaha! Bow before me, you worms!" exclaimed Sakura as she began to wipe out the Uchiha Clan.
"Help us!" exclaimed a Uchiha clan member.
"Nobody can possibly stop me!" bellowed the most evil kunoichi in the universe.
"Stop right there!" bellowed a strange voice.
"Who the heck are you?" asked Sakura, the worst ninja of all time.
"I'm Miko Marigold Scorpio Lee The Fifth, the greatest kunoichi of all! And I'm here to end your reign of terror!" exclaimed the heroine that was defeat Sakura Haruno.
Immediately, she began to fire a rainbow ray of doom.
"Oh no..." thought Sakura, right before she was killed.
"Hooray! I did it! The day is saved!" exclaimed Miko.
"All hail Miko!" bellowed the Uchiha Clan members as they bowed down to Miko.
"Ugh! That was the worst fanfic that I ever read in my entire life! Why would I want to wipe out the Uchiha Clan anyway? And why she want me out of the picture? Well, I might as well tell her how I feel about this story..." spoke Sakura as she began to write a review.
"Why do you hate me so much? By CherryBlossom." said the review.
Oddly enough, she actually received a reply.
"Sasuke is mine! Mine! By Sasukeismywaifu." read the reply.
"Sheesh...what did I ever do to her?" asked Sakura.
Curious, she decided to check her Facescroll page to see if it had been vandalized. Sure enough, there was a picture of her with a goatee and horns on it.
"Darn it...this is the third time this week..." noted the medical-nin. Hopefully she would be able to find who was vandalizing her account and beat them to a pulp.
Meanwhile...
As it turns out, Hinata was also editing her Facescroll page. She had uploaded a picture of herself along with the rest of Team 8, including her sensei, Kurenai.
"I hope that the rest of my teammates will appreciate it...then again, I wonder if they've uploaded that same picture too." noted Hinata.
Unsurprisingly, she had spent much of her time checking up on Naruto's Facescroll page, even though a lot of the time he simply said that he was enjoying a bowl of ramen.
According to Kiba's Facescroll page, he was taking a dog for a checkup at the veternarian...and according to Shino's...he was mastering a new jutsu.
"It's nice to see that my teammates are doing fine...though I wonder what Naruto's up too..." noted Hinata.
Suddenly, she noticed something rather strange. Apparently, some of Orochimaru's followers also had a Facescroll page.
"That's weird...I thought that they were all dead..." thought Hinata.
As it turned out, they were busy planning a strike.
"That's not good...but what are they planning this time? Are they sending an army?" inquired the kunoichi.
Before we check on Naruto, let's check on Konohamaru...
"It sure was nice of Naruto to check on me after being away for so long...I heard that he'd been training with Jiraiya like crazy..." noted Konohamaru.
Suddenly, he noticed something rather delicious on the floor...it was a chocolate bar!
"Yes!" exclaimed the boy.
However, when he tried to grab it, it moved a few feet from his grasp...
"Hey!" bellowed Konohamaru.
No matter how hard he tried, the chocolate bar always seemed to escape from his grasp. Nonetheless, he decided to keep following it...unaware that he was being led outside the boundaries of Konoha.
Eventually, he found himself inside an unfamiliar forest.
"Where am I?" inquired the boy.
Suddenly, a rather muscular looking teenage boy picked him off the ground.
"Gotcha, you little twerp!" exclaimed the chubby teenager.
"Help me! I'm being kidnapped!" bellowed Konohamaru.
"Will you just shut up?" inquired a red-haired teenage girl.
"Help me!" exclaimed the boy.
Immediately, Konohamaru found himself being bound and gagged using some spider thread.
"That's better." answered the red-haired teenage girl.
As it turned out, Konohamaru had been captured by the Sound Four, Orochimaru's personal bodyguards...or as some might refer to them due to their participation in the assassination of the Third Hokage...his personal death squad.
Oddly enough, they were technically supposed to be dead, since the ninja of Konoha and Kirigakure had killed them all for regularly slaughtering the innocent.
But thanks to Orochimaru's resurrection abilities...and the simple fact that the Naruto fanbase loved them despite them possibly being the most evil teenagers in the ninja history book...they had been brought back to life.
"Shame...I actually liked hearing him scream." noted a teenager wearing lipstick, who for some reason had another head sticking out the back of his neck.
"Let's hurry up and deliver him to Orochimaru already!" exclaimed the chubby one.
"Wait, can't we play a game first?" inquired a teenager who for some reason had six arms.
The red-haired girl sighed.
"What kind of game, Kidomaru? Can't you say that we're busy?" inquired the red-haired girl.
"I'm just saying...he's friends with that yellow-haired boy, right? Shouldn't we try to take revenge on him...?" asked Kidomaru.
"That sounds rather promising...what do you think, Tayuya?" inquired the two-headed teenager.
"Now that you think of it...that does sound rather promising...are you up for it, Jirobo?" asked Tayuya.
"Of course I am!" exclaimed Jirobo. "I'm going to crush that boy like a bug!"
Suddenly, the head on the back of the lipstick wearing teenager's neck woke up.
"What's this about taking revenge?" he asked.
The other ninja looked rather disturbed by this.
"For the love of the Ten-Tailed Beast, Sakon! Why do you and Ukon always have to live in each other's bodies?!" exclaimed Tayuya.
"Hey, I'm the one whose had him live inside me for years and I've never complained about it..." answered Sakon.
"That's because your brother is a sleepyhead." explained Jirobo.
"I know..." nodded the evil two-headed ninja.
"Let's write the letter explaining the game, shall we?" asked Kidomaru.
Each of them pulled out a pen, with Sakon and Ukon also pulling out a piece of paper. In just a few minutes, each of the Sound Four had written down what they had wanted to say to him.
"Let's send it to him, shall we?" inquired Sakon.
"Of course! Why do you think we wrote this letter?" inquired Tayuya.
Using a sending scroll, the letter was sent to Naruto's apartment.
"You think he'll show up?" inquired Kidomaru.
"He will if he ever wants to see his apprentice again..." noted Jirobo.
"Can't argue with that logic." answered Kidomaru.
A few minutes later...
Tsunade sighed. Just when her day was going well, she had won quite a bit of cash from a lottery machine. Once again something bad was going to happen...
"I'm starting to wonder if I should have let Sakura off easily...then again she has learned quite a few techniques..." questioned Tsunade.
"What do you think's going to happen this time?" asked Shizune.
"All I know is that it somehow involves Orochimaru..." explained Tsunade.
"You-know-which-ninja?!" exclaimed Tsunade's apprentice.
"Is it really so hard for you to refer to him by name?" asked the Fifth Hokage.
"He horrifies me!" exclaimed Shizune.
"Well, it's not like saying his name is going to hurt you. Anyways, where is Sakura? I think I might need her assistance..." noted the legendary sannin.
"She's right outside your office." explained Tsunade's apprentice.
"That's a relief." noted Tsunade.
Meanwhile...
"You just got a letter, you just got a letter!" exclaimed the postage delivery ninja.
"Not again!" exclaimed Naruto. Every time he received a letter, something bad always happened to him..even when one letter was apparently from Tsunade.
Naruto sighed, preparing for the worst. He dropped his jaw in shock when he realized who the letter was from.
Dear Complete Human Trash,
Guess what, twerp! We have your apprentice captive! In about thirty minutes from now, we're going to deliver him to our master, Orochimaru! How do you like that, you little pipsqueak?
"Not Konohamaru! He's my best pal!" exclaimed Naruto.
Then again, considering that Konohamaru was part of the Sarutobi clan, it wasn't too surprising that Orochimaru would want his hands on him as a test subject.
Before you ask, you won't need to come alone...since that wouldn't be as fun for us...we'll let you bring three of your little friends with you. Not like it would really matter though...you failed to save Sasuke last time and all...
Naruto let out a sigh of relief. He'd just get Choji, Shikamaru, and Neji and he'd probably be safe.
But don't you dare bring the Fifth Hokage with you! Or Jiraiya for that matter! Or even the sand ninja...if you do, we'll make him watch the Cosprayers! Anyways, if you want to hunt us down...well, you should know where to find us.
"Not the Cosprayers! That's like the worst anime ever made!" exclaimed Naruto.
We look forward to killing you and your three little friends. Unfortunately, Kimimaro refused to participate in one of our evil schemes...said that we'd gone off the deep end. But we'll still be able to kill you and your friends without him.
Sincerely,
The Sound Four
P.S: We brought you an hourglass so that you could see how much time you had left before we head to the Land Of Sound.
Sure enough, there was an hourglass that came with the letter. Thankfully, it was currently full at the moment...but as soon as Naruto put down the letter, the sand at the top of the glasss began to fall to the bottom.
"Oh man! This is bad! Really really bad! I've only got thirty minutes to gather my friends to stop these deranged maniacs! And to think my friends and I had such a hard time taking them down before...am I going to be so lucky this time?" inquired Naruto.
Naruto sighed. For now, he had to gather three of his friends to help save Konohamaru. Thankfully, he knew how to get Choji to help him.
Entering his house, Naruto discovered his bag of potato chips and began to devour them ravenously.
"Om nom nom nom!" exclaimed the genin.
But surprisingly, even when he ate the last potato chip, Choji still didn't show up.
"Where is he?" inquired Naruto.
Suddenly, he noticed a letter attached to the potato chip bag.
My teammates and I are currently relaxing at a local beach. So don't you dare eat my potato chips while I'm away!
Sincerely,
Choji
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!" exclaimed Naruto. According to the hourglass, he had wasted about five minutes of his allotted time looking for him. Now he had just twenty-five minutes to search for helpers.
And to make matters worse, it would likely take him too long to go to the beach and ask Team 8 to assist him...it looked like he wouldn't be able to bring Choji and Shikamaru.
"This is bad...really bad..." said Naruto.
Meanwhile...
"Naruto!" bellowed Choji at the top of his lungs.
"What's the matter?" inquired Shikamaru.
"He ate my potato chips! I just know it!" exclaimed the chubby boy.
"Calm down Choji...I brought you some more." explained his best friend.
"Thank you." answered Choji.
Naruto decided to head to the Hyuga residence...hopefully at least Neji would be able to help him.
"Hello?" inquired Naruto, knocking on the door.
Unfortunately, rather than Neji answering, it was Hinata. Immediately, she noticed how pale Naruto's face looked.
"Hey there Naruto! Is something the matter? You look like you're about to pass out...I personally know how that feels." asked Hinata.
"Konohamaru's been kidnapped!" exclaimed Naruto.
"What?!" bellowed Hinata.
"I tried to get Choji and Shikamaru to help me...but they're at the beach along with Ino! I won't be able to reach them in time!" bellowed the genin.
"Yeah...that reminds me...I actually gave Ino my red bikini...it brought back bad memories...and she said she had outgrown her old one..." explained Hinata.
"You did?" inquired Naruto.
"Yeah..." answered the kunoichi.
Meanwhile...
"Where is Ino?" inquired Shikamaru.
"She's putting on her new swimsuit..." explained Choji.
"Hey boys!" exclaimed Ino.
Shikamaru and Choji's faces turned red.
"Is something the matter?" inquired the psychic kunoichi.
"It's just that...well..." answered Choji.
"Do I look good in it?" asked the genin.
"Yes! Yes you do!" nodded the Akimichi clan member.
"That's so sweet of you!" exclaimed Ino, giving Choji a hug.
Choji's cheeks turned red...then again, they always seemed to do everything together...maybe she was in love with him?
"Maybe I should ask her on a date..." he thought.
Back to Naruto and Hinata...
"Where is Neji, anyway?" inquired Naruto.
"He's on a date with Tenten." explained Hinata.
Naruto tilted his head upward and screamed at the sky, much to Hinata's concern.
"Is something the matter? That was deafening!" inquired the kunoichi.
"I was hoping that I would be able to get Neji to help me...but it looks like I'm doomed!" exclaimed Naruto.
"Doomed? Wait, you mentioned something about a time limit..." explained Hinata.
"Yes! In twenty-five minutes the Sound Four are going to start delivering Konohamaru to Orochimaru himself!" bellowed the genin.
"What? The Sound Four? You mean the ninjas that trapped the Third Hokage in a barrier so that Orochimaru could assassinate him?!" exclaimed the kunoichi.
Naruto nodded his head up and down.
"That's terrible! Naruto, let me help you!" bellowed Hinata.
"What?! No! It's too dangerous!" exclaimed Naruto.
Hinata raised an eyebrow.
"I assume by "too dangerous" you mean it's too dangerous for you to go alone." answered the kunoichi.
Naruto sighed.
"Naruto, let me give you a hand. If we work together, we'll have a better chance of surviving this, you and me both." explained Hinata.
"Very well..." answered Naruto.
"Good...since we're part of the same clan I'll be able to use much of his same techniques...you said you wanted Neji, right?" inquired Hinata.
"Yes, I did." explained the Fourth Hokage's son.
"I'll also be able to use my Byakugan to search for more genin to help us...that will be useful, won't it?" inquired the kunoichi.
"Er, yeah." nodded Naruto.
Sure enough, Hinata used her Byakugan to help search for more genin to help her and Naruto.
As it turned out, Rock Lee was using taijutsu...on a dummy.
"Hey there Rock Lee! Can you give us a hand?" inquired Naruto.
"Sure...what for?" asked Rock Lee.
"We're kind of in a bad situation...the Sound Four have captured Naruto's apprentice...and in twenty-five minutes they'll start deliver him to Orochimaru!" exclaimed Hinata.
"Make that ten!" bellowed Naruto.
Hinata's eyes bulged.
"OK then, let me help!" answered Rock Lee.
"Good...do you have anything that will make you drunk? I heard that you're practically invincible when intoxicated..." asked the genin.
"Unfortunately, I don't this time..." explained the martial artist.
"Aww..." answered Naruto.
"OK...we have room for just one more ninja...who is it going to be?" inquired Hinata.
"Can we bring Sakura? I...sort of like her." explained Rock Lee.
"I don't know...the last time we had to save somebody from the Sound Four, which unfortunately we failed, by the way, Shikamaru wouldn't let Sakura participate...he felt that she would only slow us down..." explained Naruto.
"Why would he think that?" asked the martial artist.
"Well..." answered the genin.
Sasuke and Naruto were in big, hairy trouble. They were against Zabuza Momochi...who not only had a sword that would make Link the Hylian jealous, he also had access to powerful water jitsu.
Immediately, they realized that they were going to have to work together as a team to take him down.
"Help us, Sakura! He's going to kill us!" bellowed Naruto.
Unfortunately, Sakura was sleeping on the job.
"Zzz...oh my gosh, Sasuke, you look so awesome without your shirt on...and you are the best ninja ever..." murmured Sakura Haruno in her sleep.
"We're doomed." answered Sasuke.
Two months later, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura found themselves facing Orochimaru, the most evil ninja in the history of ever.
"Aah!" screamed Sakura, running away like a coward.
"Get back here, Sakura!" bellowed Sasuke.
"I want my mommy!" exclaimed the kunoichi.
"My mommy's dead..." answered Naruto.
"Well, mine isn't!" bellowed Sakura, curling herself into a ball.
A month after that, Sakura found herself facing Gaara.
"Don't worry Sasuke! I'll help you take him down!" exclaimed Sakura.
Unfortunately for Sakura, Gaara used a ton of sand to attach Sakura to a nearby tree.
"Let me go!" exclaimed the kunoichi.
Gaara then began to use his chakra to slowly harden the sand around her.
"Sasuke! Save me!" screamed Sakura at the top of her lungs.
"Wow, you make a rather good point..." explained Rock Lee.
"My clan considered me weak for much less than that..." noted Hinata.
"I think you're as strong as Chuck Norris." explained Naruto.
Hinata's cheeks turned red.
"Uh, thank you?" she answered back.
"So, do you understand why Shikamaru didn't want her around?" asked the genin.
"Well, yes...but she's been training with Tsunade now...I'm sure things will be different this time." explained Rock Lee.
"Your hunch better be right." noted Naruto.
Fortunately for our trio, Sakura Haruno was also nearby...she was standing outside the Fifth Hokage's building.
"I think I need some fresh air after reading that horrible story..." noted Sakura.
"Hey Sakura! We need your assistance!" exclaimed Naruto.
"My assistance?" asked Sakura.
"We need you to help us save Konohamaru! He's been kidnapped!" bellowed Hinata.
"What? He's been abducted?!" shouted the kunoichi.
"Yes!" answered Rock Lee.
"Fine...but don't think I'll be working with you just because I'm smitten with you, Rock Lee." explained Sakura.
Rock Lee sighed.
"Yes, Sakura..." answered the martial artist.
"Sheesh...why does everyone have a crush on me?" wondered Sakura.
"So, we're a foursome of ninja like you wanted, right Naruto?" inquired Hinata.
"Yeah...and according to this hourglass, our thirty minutes are just about up..." murmured Naruto.
"Then we better get going!" exclaimed Rock Lee.
"Right..." noted Sakura.
And so they ran towards the forest where the Sound Four were holding Konohamaru captive.
"You know, it's weird...the last time I faced off against the Sound Four, I was on a team full of guys..." explained Naruto.
"You were?" inquired Hinata.
"Yeah...now I'm part of an equal gender team...it feels kind of weird..." noted the boy.
"Oh..." nodded Sakura.
"Anyways, let's save Konohamaru!" exclaimed Naruto.
"Right!" nodded Rock Lee.
As they did so, Naruto began to worry about Konohamaru's safety. Would he able to save him...or will the mission end in failure like before?
These thoughts plagued him as they ran through the forest looking for the Sound Four.
Oh no! It looks like Konohamaru has been kidnapped! It looks like Naruto and his friends are going to have to save him...but will they rescue him before the Sound Four cross the border?
Tune in next time on Sound Off...which oddly enough is my first Naruto fanfic that doesn't actually have Naruto's name in the title...weird.