"Of course. Juugo, Suigetsu, you two good to just hang out with the local me?"

They nod, and she portals them back, then solicits Kabuto's current location from Karin.

To the Keres: "If you would, darling?"

"Of course." And away they go.

Kabuto's strong, but they're better, and they have the element of surprise - Tentou takes down the two Edo Tensei he has guarding him, first, ripping their souls out with a touch, and leaves killing Kabuto to her girlfriend.

He is restrained from moving, crushed with despair, and diced into extremely small pieces which are then set on fire by a grid of lasers.

This is highly effective!

Tentou laughs. "This is all so much easier than the first time."

"You should have come and found me earlier, clearly."

"Of course. What did I ever do without you?"

"Flounder hopelessly." She grins. "But with style, of course."

Giggle. "I always have style, but life was ever so boring."

"Well, best not to dwell on the past."

"Especially when the present is so much better."

"Mhmm."

"Onward to our next target then, darling?"

"We've accomplished about all the gloating necessary here."

Snort.

And onward to terrorize the rest of the Akatsuki.

With the other group -

Their Akatsuki members are easy, if slightly obnoxious, to remove from the equation. After the zombie twins, Naruto's talking down of Pein and Konan apparently involves a lot of shouting as he fights them. Still, he brings them around, and they agree to support his local alt in rebuilding the world.

As they're returning to the rendezvous with Tentou and the Keres, he says, "Oh, hey, local me's heading this way."

"Shall we say hello?"

"I'd like to."

Slowing down so local Naruto can get caught up, then?

Glint and Mora are fine with introductions.

It is always nice to meet new people.

For a given value of 'new'.

And local Naruto catches up. He's obviously a lot less powerful than the Naruto they're familiar with. For one, he's not glowing or flying. He also has less of a presence, the solemn air around him more a result of his body language and less one of him bringing his power to bear.

He stops a bit short of them.

"You guys aren't from this universe," he says, flatly. His gaze flickers to the other him, who seems almost taken aback. "And Hisame died - I felt it - but then she was fine, right?"

"Very perceptive. Yes, she was killed briefly, then resurrected, in order to break the mind control her brother placed on her."

He nods. "Yeah. Her brother was a dick."

"There's - something I wanted. In that vein."

His gaze flicks to Eliana.

"My best friend is a girl named Elieyha. The Akatsuki killed her. I want her back." His voice cracks a little.

Isn't that a suggestive name and glance.

"We can almost certainly help with that."