The Advent91: Hey there everyone and welcome to my second non crossover fan fiction titled Naruto: The Crimson Warrior and I am sure most of you know that Advent is a shorter word for second coming. Now there are a few things I would like to point out first…
ONE: This is NOT A HAREM story and will not have any sort of lemon or such for this is not a MA rated story. I also don't want to hear the excuse of saying that I could do such a thing and that I would have to put up some warning saying that this is a Mature Audience story. That is not going to happen and even though one could put that up it is still breaking the rules of the site, and I am not going to take that risk guys and gals. Just following the rules.
TWO: Now I know that there are fans of pairings and I would like to say the following. Please do not waste your time asking me to pair Naruto with this person or that because even if I do pair him with someone that decision will be up to me. I also do not do polls so do not expect any voting of what should happen next or who Naruto should be with.
THREE: You may notice a familiar weapon Naruto wields similar to that of a character from a video games series. Just because the weapon that he wields is similar does not mean that this story is a crossover or that he got the weapon by jumping through a dimension.
FOUR: The Naruto in this story is different from that of the one in the manga. This means that he is more serious, mostly angry instead of happy (Explanation as to why will be revealed), smarter thinking but not super smart, somewhat goofy at times instead of all the time, and finally with the sound of his voice sounding more mature instead of his voice actor in the games and show (No disrespect to the voice actor). I don't know why but I like to imagine his voice in this fiction when at this age of him sounding like Cloud Strife's voice actor in Final Fantasy VII.
FIVE: We all know that the main characters started at a very young age becoming Genin, but in here let's all PRETEND that it was instead at fifteen. The reason is because I don't like how they were started as small kids.
SIX: This is a warning and it is that this story will not entirely follow the exact sequence of events within the Naruto manga so things will be different.
SEVEN: Naruto is NOT god strong in this story for he will have his weaknesses just as much as he has his strengths.
The Advent91: That is all and I like for you to have fun reading the start of this story as you imagine this in your heads. Now begin and once again enjoy.
Dashing somewhere through the forests within the Land of Fire was what looked to be a fifteen year old teenage boy adorning blonde colored hair that then leaps up into the trees. It looked as if he was running from someone and leaping up into the trees in pursuit was the revealed number of three ANBU of the Hidden Leaf Village. Now you must be wondering why this blonde haired individual was being pursued by ANBU, and the answer was simple, the teenage boy was a runaway from his village for six years running so far.
The pursued being the blonde haired teenage boy wore what looked to be a brown cloak with hood over his head to disguise his face. However with him being pursued like this didn't seem to work. He looked over his right shoulder seeing a senbon needle that smelled of some substance that would render one to sleep coming right at him. He did this obvious thing stopping upon a tree branch leaping away to his right evading the needle that cuts through his cloak right past him stabbing into the bark of a tree to quickly hiding behind the bark of the tree he was upon.
"Damn!" He cursed.
The three Leaf ANBU land upon separate trees looking to the tree ahead being the tree the target was hiding behind.
"There is nowhere for you to go." One of the ANBU said aloud. "Surrender, and come with us quietly back to the Leaf."
"Why should I return to a village and people that doesn't and will never acknowledge me?" The blonde asked. "What reason is there for me to remain?"
"You are special. You are more important to the Leaf village then you believe, Naruto Uzumaki."
"Why don't you people just leave me be to my miserable existence?" The revealed Naruto asked. "I just want to remain alone, to be alone. That is how I was from the start...no family…no friends...nothing, but all except darkness, loneliness, and despair. It's because of those three things that I am what I am now. You called me special. Why? Just because I have some Tailed Beast sealed away in my body? That is nothing special but a curse."
"Please don't make us take you by force?" The ANBU asked. "The Third does not wish harm to be brought upon you should we ever find you, and now that we have if you don't cooperate to come willingly then we will have no choice but to take you against your will. Don't make us do that?"
"Well you are going to have to because I am not going with you or back to the Leaf village." Naruto said aloud immediately. "You think because of me holding a Tailed Beast prisoner is the only reason I am "special"? I know now the reason why the Leaf wants me back so badly. You and your village are going to pay for using me as a lab rat!"
"He knows!"
The hooded Naruto leaps away and out from behind the tree showing off his hooded face that casted a shadow upon the top half of it for all except his mouth a chin with tips of blonde hair revealed from under the hood as well. Naruto swished his right hand out from under his cloak to his right tossing what looked to be paper ball bombs but were instead Flash Bombs. The ANBU saw what he threw and brought their arms up to cover their eyes as best as they could from the bright flash before them. They were blinded for the moment but it was something that Naruto was going to take advantage of to get away through the trees.
"Don't lose him!"
The three ANBU finally regained their sights after a couple of seconds and continued pursuit after Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto came leaping out of the trees to landing and dashing upon a clear field of grass but hot on his trail were those three ANBU ninja behind making him curse in his head. Looks like those flash bombs didn't do much good for him. He was forced to come to a stop sliding along the top of his feet as an ANBU dashed around intercepting his path before him delivering a kick to which the Uzumaki ducked under making his hood fly back off over his head. Naruto rolled forward along the grass after having ducked under the kick of the ANBU to turning himself around spinning around upon his feet while throwing his cloak off into the wind. He comes to a stop with his right hand placed flat upon the grass and his head down revealing his full garment to the three ANBU that stop ahead of him.
Naruto looked to wear a high collard gray DARK blue short sleeved shirt that looked very similar to what the clansmen of the Uchiha would wear. Black pants were his choice of clothing for the lower portion of his body along with blue sandals with the heels of the sandals being plated in steel, and he looked to wear a brown belt that held pouches behind his waist.
That was not the only thing that was upon his belt as supported by it upon his left hip was what looked to be a sword within a curious looking sheath. The reason this sheath was curious to the ANBU was because of what looked to be a sort of rectangular mechanism under it with what looked to be a trigger that could be pulled along with what looked to be where he could grip his fingers around the sheath just between the trigger and box mechanism. They never knew that Naruto had learned how to wield a sword but seeing as Naruto was out of the village running about upon the lands he must have learned how to use one somewhere and sometime ago.
Back to the clothing they can see he wore black gloves upon his hands having silver plates upon the top of the left glove except the right which was red, and the right glove looked to be longer than the left stretching up just below his right elbow. There was also the shoulder armor he wore upon his right shoulder looking like that of the shoulder armor worn back in the days of the Clan Wars mainly by Madara Uchiha of the Uchiha Clan and Hashirama Senju of the Senju Clan, and the color of Naruto's shoulder armor was also red like theirs. That was not the only piece of red armor he had on as he had what looked to be red forearm armor upon the top of his right forearm stretching up to his right elbow. Then there was the sort of cape that was red like the shoulder armor covered over his left leg (like that of Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children) that had a black swirl of the Uzumaki Clan upon it, and was even on the back of his dark blue shirt.
Naruto lifted up his head looking forward toward the three ANBU ninja showing off his blue eyes, barely noticeable whisker marks upon his cheeks, and his blonde colored hair that looked similar to his father's only somewhat different (Cloud Strife hair style from FF VII: Advent Children). He slowly rises up as his cloak that was thrown into the wind lands upon the grass behind him.
"Why can't you just leave me alone?" Naruto asked. "I have no intention and want to return to the Hidden Leaf Village. Why can't you understand why?"
"We know why you left, but you can't just leave with what you are."
"With what I am…" Naruto repeated. "With that being the container of the Nine Tails that could be abused as a weapon, is that it?"
"You are the hero that saved the Hidden Leaf Village."
"Tell that to the villagers." Naruto countered. "They see me as nothing but the fox itself. If they knew that I was the son of the Fourth do you think they would have seen me differently?"
"How did you!"
"It wasn't hard. Look at the Fourth and look at me. We look almost identical. Guess the Old Man Third failed to mention that to me. I found out on my own. The only thing that I don't know of is the identity of my mother. I am pretty sure that the Leaf knows who she is but knowing them I don't think they would tell me even if I asked, but I do know she was of the Uzumaki which is another thing the village failed to mention to me being part of a nearly extinct clan. So there are some of the many reasons why I will never go back and if you wish to take me back you will have no choice but to use force much to your Kage's disappointment."
"I see…" The first ANBU said.
"Forgive us if we hurt you too badly." The second ANBU said.
"We are just looking out for what is best for you." The third ANBU said.
"What would you or anyone else know what is best for me?" Naruto asked. He brings his right hand up before him while going into a low stance spreading his legs apart. "You don't KNOW me!"
The three ANBU proceed to form hand seals to perform a synchronized jutsu that would put Naruto to sleep, but their shock and surprise THREE Naruto's were already before them with their right hands upon the hilts of their swords. The three ANBU quickly leap back and away as the three Naruto's slash out their swords to their rights revealing the red colored sword. The three Naruto's remain in their pose of holding their swords out to their right with the three ANBU landing upon the grass away from Naruto, the two Naruto's upon the centers left and right going up in smoke.
"Shadow Clones!" The third ANBU said.
"When did he ever learn that jutsu?" The second ANBU asked.
"The way he used his sword preventing each of us from completing our jutsu." The first ANBU said.
"You don't think he knows that style do you?" The second ANBU asked.
"But it is for I have seen that form of kenjutsu used mainly by the samurai of Iron Country."
"That's right…" Naruto said standing tall to sheathing his sword within his sheath. "I learned the kenjutsu style of Iaido."
"How did you manage to learn that from the samurai? They don't usually train ninja."
"Well I am not a ninja now am I?"
"He is surprisingly adept in Iaido so we will just have to use close quarters combat." The first ANBU said.
The three ANBU dashed across the field toward Naruto drawing their swords from behind their backs, and Naruto just stood there going into his stance holding his right hand out before him. His left hand was grasped tightly around his sheathed sword as his right pointer finger came down to wrapping around the trigger. He was not going to pull yet as he begun channeling his chakra through his sword to the rectangular mechanism that was storing his chakra. The rectangular mechanism loading his chakra began to glow the color of blue chakra. The fingers of Naruto's right hand were slowly moving as he waited for the ANBU to get closer wanting to time this right. The third ANBU that was came around to strike first with his sword as the second one went dashing around to his right with the first ANBU in back.
Naruto's eyes widen and so he pulls back on the trigger. The result was echoing aloud was a loud boom from the stored chakra shooting his red sword out of his sheath up into his right hands grasp performing a quick draw. His sword collides into the third ANBU's sword hitting it out of his hands grasp spinning up into the air, he then ducks while quickly sheathing his sword once again from the swing of the sword from the second ANBU to his right. He turned himself toward that ANBU's direction bringing up the hilt of his sword against the armor of the ANBU upon his torso, and once again pulled the trigger shooting his sword out with the hilt of his sword cracking the ANBU's armor sending him flying back while losing grip of his sword that goes up into the air. Now for the first ANBU that was coming to his front he slashes his sword out before him in the ground shooting dirt up into the mask of the first ANBU making him stop. Naruto took this opportunity to leap up kicking the sword out of the ANBU's hand up into the air with his right foot, and even managed to kick the bottom of his left foot into the chest of the ANBU making him fly back.
The third ANBU manages to stop himself from losing his balance because of the power behind Naruto's quick draw and leaps back away, and at the same time both the second ANBU and first land safely upon their feet away from the Uzumaki that lands upon his feet from a backflip. The three swords of the ANBU that were hit up into the air come down spinning stabbing into the ground before and away from the three individual ANBU in a triangular formation. Two swords to Naruto's right and left as well as ANBU with another before him as he twirls his sword to bringing the blunt side of his sword pulling back until the tip reached the hole of the top of the hilt sheathing it within.
"What just happened?" The third ANBU asked as he brought his hand away from the dent within the heart center of his torso armor.
"That was very good." The second ANBU said.
"It's not every day that three ANBU are overpowered by a kid, but we never thought his way of the sword was this good." The first ANBU said. "You were trained well, Naruto Uzumaki. Not just in Iaido, but also your Shadow Clone timing is impressive."
"Thanks for the compliment at least."
"But this battle is far from over. You're good but not good enough to take the three of us on all by yourself. How long can you last?"
The three ANBU then vanish using increased speed making Naruto bring up his guard sighting the three ninja in the air perform the Fireball jutsu that is shot down toward him. Naruto surprised them yet again as he slashes out his sword before him and out to his right sending out a crescent up toward the three fireballs. The crescent of Naruto's chakra collides with the fireballs causing an explosion creating smoke in their air, and then raining down through the smoke toward him were dozens of needles to which he leaps to his left and right and away evading the needles as best as he could as they stab into the grass. When the rain of needles finally stopped appearing behind him was the third ANBU armed with his sword. Naruto looks over his shoulder turning himself around to swing his sword but the ANBU manages to be the one that disarms Naruto hitting his sword out of his grasp as the sword spun in the air stabbing into the grass.
The second ANBU came from behind with his own sword and both of them thought they got him. Notice the keyword thought. Naruto didn't just rely on the sword as he reached both hands within a pouch on the back of his belt, and quickly pulled out three pronged kunai that he uses catching both of the ANBU's swords holding them both back upon his left and right. The first ANBU appears before Naruto leaping through the air reaching a hand out for Naruto, who seemed like he could do nothing, that it was over. But what surprised the three ANBU is when the first ANBU grasps his hand around Naruto's neck he is replaced by a log now being held up by the first ANBU, and the other two ANBU's swords lodged within it.
"He used a Substitution Jutsu." The first ANBU said, and then he took notice of something upon the log he was holding up. It looked like three pieces of sizzling away paper and that is when he shouted aloud. "PAPER BOMB!"
The three ANBU quickly leap away with the two ANBU leaving their swords behind in the sabotaged log that then blows up echoing aloud making birds within trees fly away from the disturbance.
"Where is he?" The third ANBU asked landing upon the grass away from the explosion.
"He tried to blow us up!" The second ANBU said as he appears landing next to the third ANBU, and then the first appears landing crouched before them.
"I don't think he knew that would kill us. He just used it as a diversion to attempt another escape." The first ANBU said.
"So he is gone."
The first ANBU took notice that the sword that belonged to Naruto was now missing. "I am afraid so."
"Again…"
"Did you see the kunai he used?" The second ANBU asked. "They looked awfully similar to those of the Fourth Hokage."
"All except adorning the seals." The third ANBU said.
"It is safe to assume that he doesn't know the Flying Raijin so he didn't just fly away in a flash. He is probably just using similarly made kunai like his father." The first ANBU said. "Naruto is just fast. He has grown stronger…"
"Not to mention that he knows that his father was the Fourth Hokage." The third ANBU said.
"The Third is not going to like this one bit. With Naruto knowing he is the offspring of the man that sealed the Nine Tails in his only son he will continue to hate the Leaf village."
"Guess we should get back to heading to the Leaf." The second ANBU said. "Lord Third needs to be informed that Naruto Uzumaki is within Fire Country. At least we can have some search parties sent out after him."
"Yes," The first ANBU said standing up. "Let's go home."
Meanwhile in a far enough location keeping his chakra low sitting against the bark of a tree was Naruto Uzumaki himself giving out a sigh of relief?
"I managed to get away…" Naruto said as he stood up sheathing his sword and then smiled jumping up pumping his fist in the air. "AGAIN!" But then he clamps his hands upon his mouth looking around with his eyes to his left and right. "Got to stay quiet, Naruto." He scolded himself and then his stomach growls. "Great, and now I am hungry. That town is close by. What's it called again? Tanzapu or was it Tanzaku? Yeah it's definitely Tanzaku, but I can't just go walking out into the open like this. Really starting to regret throwing my cloak aside and I can't go back for it risking the chance of those ANBU still there. What to do?"
Meanwhile after an hour word had reached to the Third Hokage from the team of three ANBU that Naruto Uzumaki was within Fire Country. Within the streets of the Leaf the infamous Copy Ninja was walking with his team of Genin compromising of Sasuke Uchiha (15), Sakura Haruno (15), and Sai (15) with them all having come back from catching the cat Tora as well as earning their pay for doing so. As he was walking with his team he took noticed of ninja dashing toward the exits of the village with even noticing some ANBU as well. Kakashi was wondering what was going on as to why this many ninja would be sent out of the village, but this was actually the Third having dispatched ninja to search across Fire Country for Naruto.
"Something's going down." Kakashi told himself.
"Sensei?" Sakura called out to.
"Why don't you three take the rest of the day off?" Kakashi asked.
"Seriously?" Sasuke asked.
"Sure. I have to go a check on something. Bye." He said with a wave leaving through a Body Flicker.
"Where do you think he is off to?" Sai asked.
"Probably to find somewhere quiet to read those perverted books of his." Sakura said.
"Whatever…" Sasuke said turning and walking away.
"Sasuke, want to go out on a date?"
"No." Sasuke immediately said shooting Sakura down who hangs her head.
"I don't see why you keep on trying. He is not going to go out with you, Ugly." Sai said with a smile. Then like from the movie Exorcist, Sakura's head seemed to turn around giving him the death glare. "Was it something I said?"
The next thing that was heard was Sai being plummeted into the ground.
Not far away from the Hidden Leaf Village laid the Inn Town called Tanzaku, and sitting within one of the restaurants at a table in the corner in the back all by his lonesome was Naruto Uzumaki adorning a straw hat upon his head. The hat having gray cloth hanging around it to cover the sides and back of his head with his collar zipped up covering the lower portion of his face. He had finished eating his food which was ramen that the restaurant surprisingly had but was not as great as Ichiraku's. Right now all he had left with him on this table was the cup of water in his left hands grasp that he looks into reflecting his face. As he was looking at himself in the reflection of the water he thought he saw the reflection of his younger self having a big goofy smile, and it made him growl in anger pushing the cup of water away and off the table spilling upon the floor that attracted little attention to him.
"Where should I go from here?" He asked himself. "Obviously I should get out of Fire Country, but that is too far off. All I could do now is try to lay low and avoid the Leaf's sight. Knew coming back in this country was a bad idea from the start, but I just had to let myself think that I would be fine." He stood up from his table leaving behind coins of Ryo as a tip to walking toward the exit of the restaurant. "Time to continue running then."
As he walked out of restaurant pushing the hanging pieces of white cloth aside a man that was leaning against the wall within the shadows adorning an eye patch looked Naruto's way, and armed with his own sword he follows after him exiting the restaurant as well.
"So why are we here again?" Sasuke asked as he, Sakura, Sai, along with Kakashi were walking into Tanzaku Town.
"Sorry for this guys but we are going to run a little search through this town." Kakashi said. "You see there is someone that Leaf is looking for that needs to come back home, and he is very important to our village."
"So if we find this person here we are just going to pick him up and head back to the village?" Sakura asked.
"Exactly."
"Does this person have a name? What does he look like?" Sasuke asked.
"Well I can't tell you out loud outside the village, but he goes by a moniker. He goes by The Crimson Samurai while some call him Crimson Ninja Samurai or simply The Crimson."
"So this Red Samurai is that important?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, and no I can't tell you why he is important to the village. That's high priority. We will split up to cover more ground. Look for anyone adorning a red sword upon their person; once you find the VIP do NOT approach him. Spike your chakra to signal to the rest of us."
"Is he dangerous?" Sasuke asked.
"Let's just say he does not let his guard down even to the simplest innocent villager." Kakashi said. "It's like he is holding a knife behind his back not trusting anyone. Is that understood?" He received a nod from his team of Genin. "Let's go then."
Meanwhile back with Naruto who was walking the streets of Tanzaku Town he comes to a stop as a man wearing an eye patch ahead of him points at him shouting as well as attracting attention.
"YOU!"
"Huh?"
"You think that wearing that hat upon your head is going to hide you from me? Your disguise attempts are pathetic!"
"Who are you?" Naruto asked.
"I am here for you!"
"…..Ok?" Naruto said. "Any particular reason as to why?"
"There is a large sum on you if you are brought back to the Leaf alive." The Man with the Eye patch said brining his hand upon the hilt of his sheathed sword.
"Not this again." Naruto said annoyed. "Don't tell me. You're a Bounty Hunter, right? I really don't need this right now so can you please just forget you saw me, have a heart and let me go?"
"No way kid! You are coming with me!"
"Yes you have made that clear. Look here is what is going to happen. You are going to try and take me in but it will end in your utter failure and humiliation just like all the rest of the Bounty Hunter's like you before. So do yourself a favor and walk away before you get hurt."
"Not an option! I am here for you, Naruto Uzumaki!"
"You have already made that clear the first two times, AND DID YOU HAVE TO SAY MY NAME ALOUD?!" Naruto yelled seriously annoyed and angry that this guy was saying his name out loud.
There was a silence between the two as well as around from the townsfolk as the Bounty Hunter that was still pointing at him with an anime sweat drop going down the back of his head.
"YOU!"
Naruto groans in annoyance at this fresh out of the crop Bounty Hunters stupidity for going after big fish first.
"Let's just get this over with so that I can be on my way." Naruto said not bothering to reach for his sword.
"Right!" The Bounty Hunter said drawing his sword but was confused when he saw Naruto walking the other direction away from him. "Hey where are you going?" He asked. "AH so you are running in fear!"
"Not at all," Naruto said. "There are too many people here that could be harmed." He pointed out. "Let us take our battle away."
Atop one of the many buildings within Tanzaku Town was Kakashi looking down upon the streets like a hawk searching for anyone suspicious. From what the ANBU said he wore red armor upon his person, and yes Kakashi was completely aware that the one he was looking for was his sensei's son. Upon leaving his team in the village at first he went to the Hokage asking what was going on having seen so many ninja deployed outside the village. When he got his answer he immediately volunteered himself to aid in the search and said he would start with Tanzaku Town, but he wasn't to go alone by himself seeing as he was just one man. So to make up for that Kakashi had to find the team he gave the rest of the day off and drag them with him here much to their disappointment, but Sasuke was not complaining. With his team of Genin helping his aid searching Tanzaku it would get things done much faster, and if Naruto was not here then they would go to the next and search there.
Kakashi not seeing or hearing anything or conversations that related to Naruto or anyone suspicious left to search upon another part of the small town. Within another part of Tanzaku, Sasuke lands within the middle of the street looking around while listening with his ears upon civilians conversations but so far he was not getting anything useful. The Uchiha dashes down the streets going around people but then comes to a stop when he hears a conversation between two people, and the area he stopped within was the area Naruto and the Bounty Hunter were just in not far away from that restaurant.
"What a goofball, huh?"
"That's for sure."
"What was that guy yelling about anyway?"
"Something about the other guy having a bounty on his head so I guess that would make him a Bounty Hunter. What he called the younger one I already forgot."
"Didn't hear the first name but I did hear the last name being Uzumaki."
"An Uzumaki survivor."
"Could be or probably some guy having the last name Uzumaki. You can't be too sure."
"They were a powerful clan to. It's too bad that most of them were wiped out."
"True."
"Where did they say they were going?"
"The Uzumaki guy took that Bounty Hunter to somewhere outside of town not wanting to harm anyone here."
"He's the smart one unlike that overexcited attention seeking Bounty Hunter. Wonder why he didn't think of that?"
"When it comes to most Bounty Hunters the money is always on their minds, nothing else."
Sasuke hearing of a location with a possible name dashes off in a direction leading outside of the town. Now ever though he had a possible location and name he was not going to flare his chakra to draw in the others. The reason is because if he did and they all went to the target's possible location not turning out who they were looking for then he would have just waster everyone's time. Sasuke would wait until he found the Uzumaki and Bounty Hunter outside the village and confirm his sights on the target before calling the others.
Outside the town standing upon the green grass standing across from one another were both the Bounty Hunter and Naruto. The Bounty Hunter having his samurai sword drawn out holding it within both hands before him, and Naruto just standing there having the palm of his left hand gently upon the butt of the hilt of his sword. A wind blows by blowing the kimono of the Bounty Hunter and the red "leg cape", and gray cloth hanging from around the hat of Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto was actually surprised seeing the look in the Bounty Hunter's eye filled with determination, and upon looking within his eye Naruto began to wonder how the man lost his other eye.
"How did you lose your other eye?" Naruto suddenly asked.
Upon asking the question the Bounty Hunter gave aloud a battle cry dashing toward Naruto who just stands, and when reaching striking distance swinging his sword Naruto vanished using pure speed alone. The Bounty Hunter having missed looked around with his one eye and if he looked off to his left he would have seen Naruto standing over there. Why he couldn't see Naruto was because of the eye patch he was wearing.
"I'm over here?"
"Oh!" The Bounty Hunter said turning his direction once again readying his sword.
"Did you have some sort of accident or something?"
"What?"
"How did you-," Naruto brought his own right pointer finger up to pointing at one of his own eyes. "-lose your eye?"
"Oh this?" The Bounty Hunter asked reaching up for the eye patch lifting it up revealing that he still had an eye. "I just wear it because I thought it made me look cool."
Naruto narrowed his own eyes to suddenly appearing before the Bounty Hunter reaching up grabbing the eye patch, pulls it back, and releases letting the eye patch smack against the Bounty Hunter's face sending him flying back and off his face tumbling backwards alone the grass.
"Idiot…"
"HEY!" The Bounty Hunter said aloud sitting up glaring at Naruto to pointing an accusing finger. "That was a cheap shot!"
"Why in the world would you wear an eye patch rendering you of sight from a good working eye? I actually thought you had some implanted Doujutsu under it or something, but you were just being an idiot."
"I am not an idiot!"
"You were wearing an eye patch over a well-functioning eye so that pretty much makes you an idiot."
"IT'S CALLED STYLE!"
"It's called idiocy in my dictionary."
"The only word you will read out of your dictionary will be defeat!"
"If you are going to apparently defeat me how am I going to read it out of a dictionary if I am behind bars?"
"AHHHH!" The Bounty Hunter cries aloud charging toward Naruto with sword overhead.
"This is too much…" Naruto said.
Naruto dashes across the field delivering a single jab up into the Bounty Hunter's stomach who stopped in his tracks from the punch. The Bounty Hunter takes steps back to bringing his hands upon his stomach falling to his knees looking off in another direction.
"Are you ok?" Naruto asked even though he didn't care.
"Fine!"
"Are you sure?"
"Just give me a second."
"Whenever you're ready…" Naruto said having his arms crossed now as he looked off upon the horizon.
"I'll be ready to crush you in a couple of second. Oh wow what a punch!"
"I barely put any chakra at all in that punch."
Watching from a distance was Sasuke Uchiha having seen the fight between Naruto, whose identity he was unaware of, and the Bounty Hunter upon his knees suffering from a weak punch. Sasuke was looking from behind the corner of a tree and said…
"This fight is shameful."
Naruto continued looking off upon the horizon in the distance watching the birds flying through the clear blue sky as the sun shines upon the trees and mountains in the distance. At first Naruto hated looking off like this when he was younger but throughout the years he actually began to enjoy it, and it would help him think as well as relax looking upon such a sight. He looked to the Bounty Hunter now seeing him upon his back still trying to regain his bearings. For the next five minutes Naruto continued looking off upon the land with the Bounty Hunter finally standing back up.
"Ready for Round 2?" Naruto asked.
"When did Round 1 end?"
"When you were on the ground…defeated."
"YOU HAVE NOT DEFEATED ME!"
"Technically I have and with a single punch, and Round 2 is going to end the same if you don't back down now."
"NEVER!"
The Bounty Hunter charges again and this time when he came close enough to Naruto, the young red armored warrior pulls out and hits the bottom of his sheathed sword upon the Bounty Hunter's left knee. The result was the Bounty Hunter drops his sword grabbing his left knee hoping back and around upon one foot, and his sword stabbing into the ground before Naruto that slants afterwards.
"Be thankful that I took this so called fight away from many eyes."
"You monster!"
That was the wrong word to say as Naruto dashed forward slashing his RED SWORD out to his upper right standing in this pose before the now still Bounty Hunter upon one foot. The wind blows and that is when the bottom portion of the Bounty Hunter's kimono falls off revealing his underwear. The Bounty Hunter's face then turns red in embarrassment after seeing what Naruto did to his kimono bringing his hands down to try and cover himself up. Naruto then vanished again reappearing beside the Bounty Hunter's slanted stabbed into the ground sword kicking the sword up in the air that comes spinning back down.
"Get out of here…" Naruto said as he leaped up performing a spinning kick hitting the hilt of the sword sending it spinning toward the wide eyed Bounty Hunter.
The BUTT of the Bounty Hunter's own sword hits him upon the center of his forehead sending him once again off his feet hitting the ground with his sword stabbing into the grass next to him. He picked himself up revealing the red mark in the shape of the butt of his sword getting up grabbing his sword running away.
"I will return Naruto Uzumaki, and I shall have my revenge!"
"You come after me again and you won't see the light of day!"
This threat made the Bounty Hunter run faster that he left a dust trail behind leaving behind an ANGRY Naruto.
"…Idiot."
"It's him!" Sasuke thought seeing the red sword and immediately flared his chakra for the other to sense, but upon doing so Naruto also sensed it turning his head slowly his direction.
Sasuke vanished to appearing within the air dropping down and landing before ahead of Naruto who's eyes slightly widen seeing him again.
"You!" Naruto said in a low tone.
"We have been looking for you."
"Oh?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, said you were important so I am here to take you safely to the Leaf. The others are already on their way."
"Take me safely to the Leaf?" Naruto repeated. "You were obviously misinformed for I have no intention of going or returning to the Leaf village."
"What?" Sasuke asked confused.
"Looks like Cyclops didn't tell you everything now did he?" Naruto asked. "Pretty sure your superiors told you nothing about me as well."
"What are you talking about?"
"Sasuke Uchiha…"
"You know of me?"
"Not because of the tragic massacre of your clan, but because you can say we met once before."
"We have?" Sasuke asked curious. "Then who are you?"
"If you want to find out you are going to have to either make me tell you or remove this hat from the top of my head. Think you're up to it?"
"Are you challenging me to a fight?"
"A fight was going to result in the end with the arrival of your friends so why not start now? As I said before I have no intention returning to the Leaf, and you are here to take me back. So prepare yourself, Sasuke. Let's see what makes the power of the Uchiha so great!"
The front of his right foot cracks through the dirt and Naruto suddenly dashes toward Sasuke with the aid of chakra. Sasuke had no choice but to respond meeting the charge while drawing his own sword from behind his waist, and the two clash and lock swords within center. Sasuke grits his teeth as he looks into the eyes of Naruto.
"So you have trained yourself in the art of swordsmanship?" Naruto asked and chuckled afterwards. "This ought to be entertaining, or at least I hope it will be."
The two push upon one another that ultimately send them both flying back and landing apart from one another.
"Show me how much stronger you have become, Sasuke!"
"You want to see it that badly?" Sasuke asked as his head was lowered. He then brings up his head revealing his Sharingan eyes both having a single black comma around the center black eye pupil. "Then you got it!"
The two then once again dash toward one another with the loud echo of swords colliding ringing aloud…
As Kakashi was traveling his way through Tanzaku Town he could feel the two chakra's being Sasuke's with the others being Naruto's, and he knows they were both fighting and curses. That's when both Sakura and Sai join him by his side heading in the same direction.
"Kakashi sensei! Sasuke's chakra, he found him!"
"He is fighting the target?" Sai asked.
"Afraid so," Kakashi said. "Let's pick up the pace!"
Sasuke strikes with his sword that was in a reverse grip which grinds along the side of Naruto's sword that blocks, but as Sasuke's sword grinds along Naruto's he leaped up in the air afterwards delivering a kick to which Naruto blocks with the blunt side of his red sword. Naruto then pushes Sasuke up and away from him into the air to who goes into backflips, and afterwards looks down no longer seeing Naruto who appears from above. Sasuke looked up seeing Naruto descend down upon him in a front flips swinging his red sword down upon him with both hands grasped around the hilt of his sword. Sasuke brought up his own sword blocking the strike but it was strong enough to send him shooting down toward the ground, and immediately upon landing upon his feet safely he dashes away to his left evading Naruto who stabs his sword into the ground while landing upon a single knee. Taking this opportunity Sasuke brought his hands together making a seal, and blows fire toward Naruto who had his sword stabbed into the ground. Now it looked like Naruto was stuck but he could just simply ditch the sword knowing it will survive, but instead he chose to pull out one of his three pronged kunai with his left hand throwing it toward the approaching flame.
The kunai was able to pierce through the flame going right through its scorching heat to emerging out of the other side heading straight for Sasuke who saw it coming. In a slow motion moment Sasuke motions his head to his left as the three pronged kunai goes past him, and meanwhile with Naruto he brings his right hand up into a seal focusing his chakra as the flame got even closer. The kunai he threw then has seals appear to glow around the hilt of it looking to have been engraved, but these seals looked nothing similar to the ones that The Fourth had on his. What happened next was Naruto suddenly vanished leaving behind a small and not so thick amount of smoke behind as his sword was engulfed in flame. The kunai now behind Sasuke then has a familiar someone appear above it in a similar fashion in how he vanished grabbing the hilt of his thrown kunai. Sasuke's eyes widen as he looks over his right shoulder seeing Naruto above with what looked to be a blue spinning ball of chakra upon the palm of his right hand, and something told Sasuke that his opponent was smirking.
"WHEN DID HE?!"
"What a bore…" Naruto simply said as he swung his right hand with jutsu armed.
BUT suddenly Sasuke was grabbed by none other than Kakashi Hatake from behind the collar of his blue shirt, and Naruto's jutsu hitting the ground kicking up smoke and debris. Kakashi looked over his shoulder upon the smoke that Naruto was surely within with an eye of shock and surprise as he released Sasuke.
"Did Naruto just?!"
"Sasuke!" Sakura's voice called out to.
Landing behind and upon both sides of Sasuke was none other than his two teammates Sakura Haruno and Sai, both of them ready to fight as Kakashi stood up front before Sasuke and the rest of the group.
"Are you hurt?" Sai asked.
"I'm fine."
"Don't drop your guard everybody." Kakashi said as he could see the dirt settle with Naruto's figure seen within.
"Well if it isn't good old, Kakashi Hatake, or who I like to refer to as Cyclops." Naruto said as he walked out of the dirt with hat still on with a spiral sized crater left behind him. "And look who else joins the fold, Sakura Haruno."
"He knows my name?"
"He knew mine as well and I am still wondering how." Sasuke said.
"I don't know you at all." Naruto said as he looked upon Sai. "But how long has it been since we've seen one another? I think six years is about right, just as how long I have been running. As for you, Kakashi, it's been a year since out last encounter."
"Tell us who you are!" Sasuke demanded.
"Guess?" Naruto asked angering Sasuke.
"Enough! Take off that hat and show us who you are, and tell us what that jutsu was in the palm of your hand!"
"Why don't you ask your dear sensei?" Naruto asked. "He knows what jutsu it was. He knows it very well in fact since his teacher was my father."
"So the ANBU were not mistaking, Naruto knows." Kakashi thought.
"Kakashi, what was that jutsu he was going to use against me?"
"It was a jutsu created by none other than the Fourth Hokage himself, the Rasengan."
"One of the Fourth's signature created moves." Sakura said. "But how does whoever this guy is know it?"
"Well let's recap the people that knew this jutsu before me…" Naruto said. "The Fourth created the Rasengan which took him four years to create and master, and his sensei learned it from him taking longer. Now who was the sensei of the Fourth Hokage?"
"One of the Sannin. The Toad Sage Jiraiya!" Sakura said.
"Very good. You are as smart as ever, Sakura. It was Jiraiya that taught me the Rasengan which would make me the third person in the world knowing the jutsu. But unlike him and Fourth taking them both as long as it did to master the Rasengan…it took me a mere WEEK."
Kakashi's eye widen in shock and surprise once again. "No way…A week!"
"I was able to master the jutsu after the day I left the Leaf village. So congratulations to you all for you are the first to have ever witnessed me using it…ever."
"And I would have been its first victim." Sasuke said.
"You may have been honored afterwards when you awoke in a hospital bed." Naruto said.
"While we're on the subject of explanations of to what and how…Care sharing how you used THAT jutsu?" Kakashi asked.
"That jutsu?" Naruto repeated. "Oh now I know what you are talking about. While it doesn't let me move as fast as the Fourth did it is effective working in a similar fashion of moving to one place to the next, but not in teleportation. The secret to that method of teleportation…Sorry but that stays with me, but I am sure you will figure it out eventually. Good luck trying to copy it with your Sharingan though."
"It's time to come home…" Kakashi said to Naruto.
"That village is not my home. That village was my hell."
"How could you call the Leaf a hell?" Sakura asked.
"If only you were in my shoes then you would understand, Sakura."
"Then help us to understand?" Sai suddenly asked. "Start by revealing yourself to us."
"I will tell you a story, and from there you should be able to guess who I am. Kakashi isn't going to tell since we are outside the village."
"Start talking then…" Sasuke said.
"There was once a boy who was happy and carefree living in the village that is the Leaf. He was born in darkness, had no friends or even though he attempted to make friends he was given the cold shoulder because of the hared of their parents. That boy was shunned by his own people…He was never acknowledged…So he made a promise to one day become the Leaf village's Hokage, that way no one would look down on him with no choice to acknowledge him. He pulled pranks for attention for a sense of knowing he existed to others…He wanted to become a ninja…But that all died when I learned the truth to why everyone looked upon with cold eyes."
"The truth?" Sakura asked.
"You don't know this because at the time the Third Hokage made it law to never reveal what I contain inside me, or else he or she would be punished."
"What you contain?" Sasuke asked.
"Tell me what you know of the Nine Tails Attack fifteen years ago?" Naruto asked.
"Well many ninja died that night, and the Fourth Hokage killed the fox." Sakura said.
"Lies."
"What?" Both Sasuke and Sakura said in union.
"The Fourth Hokage never killed the Nine Tails; even he knew that one couldn't kill a Tailed Beast. He SEALED the fox with the use of a forbidden jutsu into a newborn baby on that very same night. That newborn baby was me…"
"You!"
"This is the reason I am pursued because I am the Nine Tails Jinchuriki."
"Are you serious?"
"I would not joke with such a thing. Being the container of the Nine Tails was not the only reason I left, but your village wanted and still wants to turn me into nothing but a weapon for it to abuse. I hate not only the Leaf, but also the man that brought this burden upon me. How would you feel if your very own father put such a heavy burden upon you?"
"When you say father, do you mean…?" Sakura was about to ask.
"That's right, another reason why I am pursued by the Leaf. I am the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze!"
"He had a son." Sasuke said surprised now looking upon him.
"Was that enough for you two?" Naruto asked. "Do you remember me now?" They were trying but nothing came up. "Then maybe this will help…Sasuke?"
"Huh?!"
"You're nothing but a teme…"
Sasuke's eyes immediately widen knowing of only one person back then when he was younger would call him that.
"Sakura?"
"Y-Yes?"
"It doesn't matter that you have a wide forehead…I think it makes you look cute that it makes me want to kiss it."
Sakura gasped with wide eyes.
"It's you…" Sasuke said in a low tone as Naruto reached up for his hat grabbing its front brining it down.
"It's…" Sakura manages to say before Naruto removes his hat holding it aside with his face revealed.
"Naruto!" Both Sasuke and Sakura said in union.
Naruto suddenly appears in the air above his sword dropping down landing behind it making Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura, and Sai bring up their guard. Naruto reaches his right hand down before him with a smile upon his face wrapping his fingers around the hilt of his red samurai sword.
"The three of you stay back." Kakashi suddenly said.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"The three of you have no experience against him or know what he can do. I on the other hand do and am the best choice to fight Naruto. You two are in an emotional state right now, and he will take advantage of that."
"You are going to fight me all alone again, Cyclops?" Naruto asked having not pulled his sword out of the ground yet.
"We should fight him together." Sakura said. "We will have the advantage in numbers."
"Sakura is right." Sasuke said. "We fight together, and bring Naruto back to the village."
Naruto pulled his sword out of the ground and readies his sword before him and says two words…
"Let's go."
Team 7 readies themselves in their own stances, and approach slowly with caution as Naruto was just standing ahead of them now having his sword leaned upon his right shoulder.
"What's wrong, shy?" Naruto asked taunting all of them. "If you are not coming to me then…" Naruto suddenly twirled his sword stabbing it within the ground to his right with both of his hands grasps. He then dashed forward toward Team 7 leaving behind a scar within the ground from his sword approaching at high speed. "GET READY!"
"Here he comes!" Kakashi said aloud to his team.
As Naruto got closer they were going to separate, but then suddenly dashing from around Naruto with their blades in the ground as well were three other Naruto's being Shadow Clones each heading for Sasuke, Sakura, and Sai while the real Naruto went for Kakashi in center. Sasuke brought up his sword blocking the sword of the Shadow Clone locking swords with it, Sakura ducks under the swing of the Shadow Clones sword but is then countered against being kneed in the stomach sending her back and off her feet, and as for Sai he is kick across the face having been caught by surprise spinning to his right horizontally. What the real Naruto did was slash his sword upwards but Kakashi being a quick one pulled out a kunai catching the sword upon his kunai, but the power behind the strike sent him up into the air. Naruto who just launched Kakashi up into the air then quickly threw up not just one but three pronged kunai toward Kakashi who saw them coming. This was going to be difficult because since Naruto threw three there was no telling which one Naruto was going to 'teleport' to as one goes past his head, and the other two coming upon his left and right. Kakashi was going to have to make a gamble as Naruto made the appropriate seal below, and Kakashi made his choice deciding to look back to the three pronged kunai that went past his head as Naruto vanished at the same time.
Which one did Naruto pick to teleport to?
It was the one to Kakashi's right as he appeared catching the kunai with his left hand and swung his sword toward Kakashi with his sword in a reverse grip that was within his right. Naruto thought he had Kakashi but saw the man quickly make the seal of the Shadow Clone jutsu making a clone appear next to him grabbing and pulling him out of the way of his attack.
"Using one of my own tactics, huh, Kakashi?" Naruto thought.
Naruto saw that Kakashi that was pulled out of the way by his own clone grasped his own clone's arm that went poof a second later. When the smoke cleared Kakashi now had what looked to be a giant demon wind shuriken in his hand, and spun himself around before throwing it down toward Naruto. Naruto countered by simply using the same tactic Kakashi used that was his at first creating a clone above him reaching down pulling him up into the air as the demon wind shuriken fly's past under him, and his own Shadow Clone being dismissed.
"Nice try…" Naruto said aloud to Kakashi who was higher in the air above him.
Then that's when the demon wind shuriken went up in smoke revealing KAKASHI who throws a kunai up at Naruto's turned back…But…
"But that won't work either!" Naruto said aloud turning himself around throwing down his own three pronged kunai that collides with Kakashi's as the Kakashi in the air above goes up in smoke having been a Shadow Clone. "Using my own tactics against me is not going to work, Copy Ninja!"
Naruto and Kakashi's individual kunai fall down through the air landing next to one another stabbing into the ground. Kakashi then quickly makes hand seal performing the Fireball blowing it up toward Naruto who teleports out of the fireballs path reappearing next to his kunai to grabbing Kakashi's own kunai with his left hand throwing it up at him. Kakashi looked over his shoulder and then felt the stab of the kunai into his spinal cord by his own kunai, and then suddenly Kakashi once again goes up in smoke revealing yet another Shadow Clone. Naruto then suddenly turned around blocking the strike of Kakashi's kunai with both of them now locked staring one another with the blunt side of his sword blocking Kakashi's Sharingan eye.
"If you don't want to be caught within your own illusion casted by your eyes own reflections then I suggest you render yourself from using any."
"Smart." Kakashi complimented. "You have trained yourself to fight against Sharingan."
"Let's also say I had some experience against another besides you…"
"You don't mean…"
Both Kakashi and Naruto break away from one another separating.
"Yes, I mean him."
"You had a run in with him?"
"He was after me, but I managed to evade the ones adorning red clouds. His partner has a real hard on talking about his sword shaving his opponents instead of just cutting."
"Him and a partner adoring red clouds?" Kakashi repeated to himself.
Kakashi had to put those thoughts aside as Naruto came dashing toward him swinging his sword making Kakashi move side to side or duck under while backing away. Naruto delivered one final strike swinging his sword out to his right before him with Kakashi back flipping away in evasion up into the air throwing down a hail of needles to which Naruto began deflecting away with his sword hitting them away. After the hail of needles stopped now stabbed into the grass all around him he drops to one knee lowering his head as Kakashi goes over and past him missing in his kick. Naruto sheaths his sword to cartwheeling backwards and away as Kakashi lands upon his feet looking back to Naruto.
"I'll finish this!" Naruto said as he exited his cartwheel leaping back and away into the air throwing his own hail of ninja tools being shuriken and kunai heading toward Kakashi.
The Copy Ninja spun out a kunai deflecting kunai and shuriken away but failed to notice the one single three pronged kunai that was within the mix going right past him. Naruto then suddenly appears behind Kakashi catching his kunai within his right hand upon one knee, Kakashi looking back, and Naruto quickly turning around leaping toward and slashing his sword out to his right going past Kakashi. Naruto was now standing opposite of Kakashi upon a single knee holding his sword out to his upper right that appeared to be longer encased in chakra with the blade seven foot in length. Kakashi falls upon a single knee while reaching his left hand to his right side just under where his right rib cage would be located.
"He got me this time!" Kakashi thought. "He's developed effective techniques. But this attack his just used? My vital organs are not harmed, and not even my skin is pierced nor is my vest, but I still felt physically harmed? Not to mention my chakra has just been reduced to a critical low."
"Feeling low on chakra, Kakashi?" Naruto asked turning around facing the man as his extended blade by chakra reduces returning to its original look being a red colored sword.
"What did you do to me just now?"
"I call it the Octaslash. This technique is meant to take down my opponents with just a single strike of my blade. It renders my opponents chakra to critically low levels near the point of total exhaustion so much you feel like you just want to black out. Do you feel this way, Kakashi?"
"He's right…I feel like I am about to pass out, and my vision…it's blurry." Kakashi thought as he had one of his eyes half open with sweat going down the sides of his head.
"Your chakra was just taken away by the Octaslash not adding to me or such, but this attack has also physically damaged you as well as if you have really been cut through. Hurts don't it?"
"Very…"
"You're not the first to fall to my Octaslash, Kakashi. Many other have fallen to it as well."
"What a jutsu…!" Kakashi thought.
"It's over for you…" Naruto said as he approached. Then out of nowhere landing before Kakashi were Sasuke, Sakura, and Sai. "So you managed to beat my Shadow Clones. Perhaps I should have made them more difficult?"
"Naruto, what did you do to Kakashi sensei?" Sakura asked.
"What does it look like, Sakura? I defeated him. He's lucky that I didn't kill him. Are you three going to make the same mistake as him and challenge me?"
"We never finished our fight, Naruto." Sasuke said stepping up.
"That's right, thanks to Kakashi's interference."
"You're coming back to the village."
"Funny how you two want me to come back to the village so badly since the two of your treated me the same as the villagers did."
"That's no longer us, Naruto." Sakura said. "We know how we treated you was wrong, and when you suddenly left the village we didn't think you would survive out here by yourself. Everyone after a couple of weeks in the academy assumed you have died, and when we thought you were dead…the guilt ate us all up. Especially for me for all the horrible things I said to you…before you left the village."
"It's too late for amends."
"It's never too late…" Sasuke said. "You're coming back to the village. Besides…I want the return of my old rival so that I won't be bored."
"The two of you talk as if the three of us have been friends? We have not…"
"We can start over…" Sakura said.
"Start over…" Naruto repeated. "Forgive and forget, right? Forgive and forget for how the village people treated me? How you two and the others treated me like I was nothing but a waste of space not ninja material? I bet if the whole village knew that I was the son of the Fourth Hokage they would change song immediately just because I am his son."
"Don't live in the past, Naruto."
"You're one to talk, Sasuke."
"It's not healthy, Naruto." Sakura said.
"Tell that to your boyfriend. He is the one pursuing his brother in the name of vengeance for the slaughter of his clan. He lives in the past constantly never moving forward from it. The present is for those who move forward to the future to which is what I continue to do this day!"
"No you don't…" Sakura said sad for how Naruto was right now.
"Why can't you two be like the Mute over there, and let us bring this battle to its close?"
Naruto sheathed his sword and created seals and upon the final seal Sasuke recognized it being a powerful advanced level fire jutsu.
"Fire Style: Fire Annihila-,"
"LEAF WHIRLWIND!"
A kick suddenly connected with the side of Naruto's face sending him flying off to his right, but he managed to air recover twisting his form in the air landing upon his feet sliding upon the grass until coming to a stop. Naruto now crouched with his left hand upon the grass and his right upon his left cheek where he was kicked.
"Who?" Naruto asked looking forward. "Oh no not you…"
"The Leaf Village's Green Beast has arrived!" The voice announced aloud. "Might Guy!" He introduced with a grin as one of his teeth shines.
"It's you with the bushy eyebrows…That's just great." Naruto said standing up.
"Guy sensei!"
"Do not worry for I am-Kakashi what happened?"
"Why don't you look this time, and find out?" Sasuke asked.
Guy looked ahead to their opponent and saw that it was…
"Naruto Uzumaki!"
"Hello, Guy."
"Naruto, you did this to Kakashi?"
"Yes, I accomplished what you couldn't."
"He really got me by surprise, Guy. Stay on your toes." Kakashi warned.
"Naruto…?"A demonic voice called out to in his mind. "Use my power, Naruto. Use it to destroy them. Erase them from your path!"
"He gave you permission to talk?" Naruto asked as he blocked the fox out of his head. "I don't need your power, and I wasted enough time here. I have never fought Guy before but it would also be unwise to face him now, especially since they outnumber me four to one. It's time to go…"
Naruto suddenly turned around.
"Where are you going?" Guy asked.
"What does it look like? I am leaving."
"Running away?" Sasuke asked.
"Not really. To be continued is more what I'd say. Without Guy's arrival I would have finished the rest of you so use this time to hone your skills, and I expect more from you the next time we cross paths." Naruto said.
"Wait!" Sakura said aloud reaching a hand out to him.
"Until we meet again…"
A smoke bomb drops engulfing him as well as the Leaf ninja making them cough, and when the smoke clears Naruto is nowhere in sight.
"Naruto!" Sakura called out to.
"He got away…" Sai said.
"Damn it!" Sasuke cursed.
"Where could he have gone?" Sakura asked looking around.
"Who knows?" Sasuke said. "But even though he got away at least we know he is alive, Sakura."
"Hey guys…?" Kakashi's voice addressed to and the group looks back. "…..Hospital please?"
Finally he passes out letting the world of unconsciousness take him falling forward.