In the early years of the civil war, Naoto was sent around to different parts of the Universe. Chasing down and destroying any Federal Capital-class carriers. One person that would follow him around was a man by the name of Jonnathan Santoniri. Older brother of Keilara.
Jonnathan was a big man. Known for carrying Naoto around whether he liked it or not. He's known for his high explosive way of getting the job done, so he has to wear the thickest kind of YHWH armor. And according to Naoto, he's really good at playing Go.
Operation: RIGHT HOOK is just one of many operations of taking over a small Pick up-class carrier, planting a nuclear bomb on it, making it make a refueling track back to the larger carrier, getting hell off it and then detonating it.
Every job seemed like any normal one. Jam their radar, clip the engines and taking out the any fighters that might come back from scouting missions. Sounds easy, right? But todays was different. Naoto was able to land on the carrier, take out most of the defending Clankers, and deactivate the shield to allow the landing craft with Jonnathan and the bomb to land within the hanger. Naoto went off to the bridge to destroy the crew and thats where things went wrong. The main guns were still online and pounding the Frigate-class Mighty Savannah
"Savannah to Kouzuki: sustaining major structural damage! We need to break off, Captain!"
"Copy, Mighty Savannah. We're already in, disengage!"
Naoto arrived at the plasma battery, finding a lone Clanker gunner. Outside the window, multiple plasma bolts could be seen impacting the fleeing frigate. Explosions blossomed along the Savannah's hull.
"Break off! Break off! Hull breach, reactors flaring! Dammit, I'm losing her!"
The Savannah fragmented, then exploded at it's mid-section. At the same time, Naoto was able to come behind the droid and tear in two.
"Any survivors of the Mighty Savannah, can you hear me!"
"Frigate's gone, Cap" Jonnathan said over his CAPCOM. "... Nothing we can do."
"Jonnathan, we're in deep with no cover. I'm going to get this Pick up moving so we can get the hell outta here!"
Naoto ran out of the room, leading to a winding corridor. This led to the control room; a very heavily guarded control room at that. After taking out the crew and guards, Naoto found the navigational controls and reset them.
"Naoto! Our ride is taking heavy fire! Get back to the hangar!"
Naoto arrived back at the battery, and was engaged by more Clankers. "At your earliest convenience, Naoto."
Naoto made his way back to the hangar, which was under heavy attack, but is soon cleared thanks to Naoto's magi abilities.
"Good of you to come," Jonnathan said. "Hostiles are pounding the hell outta the transport."
Naoto and Jonnathan defend the hangar from multiple waves of Death-bot troopers, eventually eliminating all of them. Leaving nothing but burning piles of scrap-metal.
"Savannah did a number on the door. Naoto, form up on me."
In his visser, Jonnathan got some grim news, "Distance is closing on this vessel's refueling track with the Federal Capital-carrier. Seventy-six seconds to endpoint."
He tried to arm the bombs timer, which failed to respond.
"Damn it... So, it's gonna be like that." Jonnathan hit the timer in frustration. "Well, I got good news and bad news. This bird took some fire and her thruster gimbal is toast. Which means the only way off this slag heap is gravity."
"And the good news?"
"That was the good news."
At their current velocity, they had fifty-three seconds until the endpoint.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Jonnathan removed his helmet and dropped it to the floor. His brown, scruffy beard and scars were covered in sweat. And this was the first time Naoto ever saw the look. The one that meant that only one of them were making it off the ship alive. "Bad news is, the timer's fried. I'm gonna have to fire it manually."
"That's a one way trip."
"We all make it sooner or later. Better get going, bud, they're gonna need you down there. Listen, Mandalore has been good to me," Jonnathan removed his dogtags and gave them to Naoto. He lifted Naoto up with one hand and carries him to the shield. "Time has come to return the favor. Don't deny me this."
Naoto could fell the energy of the shield on his back. "Take care of my sister for me."
Jonnathan tossed Naoto out of the hanger and into space. He then started to fall to the planet below. After falling some distance, Jonnathan activated the nuclear bomb under Capital ship. A massive rift ripped through the Capital's midsection. The Pick-up disappears instantaneously, and the carrier was severed in two as its entire midsection disappears into the rift. A shockwave of ionizing radiation passed over Naoto, causing electronic interference with the helmet.
A Warrior in the land of Ninjas
Naruto Uzumaki, known as the sixth hokage to the land of Konohagakure, laid on top of of the head carving of his father just watching the shooting stars come down. He was twenty-six now and has seen his share of fighting do to the Fourth Great Shinobi World War. All of those memories were just one big blur, and he has been trying to keep it that way. In fact, whenever any of the children of the village ask him about it, he would just change the subject to something else.
He noticed that several shooting stars were breaking apart of two huge fireballs, which eventually crashed onto the planet. Several miles away at that. "What the hell?"
"Lord, Hokage," a four man squad of ANBU Black-Ops appeared behind him. "What's wrong."
"Yamoto, take your squad and investigate that explosion." Naruto ordered.
"Yes sir!" They disappeared in a flash.
Naruto settled down... a bit. "I'm never gonna hear the end of this from Sakura in the morning."
XxXxXxX
Naoto was alone in the middle of a grassy field holding his sore arm and was able to regain mobility. He slowly walked back to the Reentry Unit to get a pistol. He then looked up at the remains of the Capital-carrier, crashed on a distant mountain range with more of its parts flying down. Naoto started to walk away from the wreckage with a limp.
It was soon morning on the grassy plains and Naoto didn't get a wink of sleep. With the adrenaline and guilt raging through his body, all he could do was walk. His optics finally came back on line, so his shields and built in GPS were back up and running but his CAPCOM took to much radiation in the fall and was offline.
The hairs on the back of his neck started to stand up. He was being followed. If his hairs weren't good enough, the stalkers heat signatures with giving away their positions. Naoto sighed as he pulled out his pistol.
"Hey, creepos! Stop following me like lost puppies and lets talk this over!" Naoto's peace agreement didn't seem to faze the four targets. "Or we can do so, with a lead bullet in your leg!"
Again, the targets seemed unfazed by the threat. So Naoto fired four warning shots at the targets. They seemed to back off, allowing to give Naoto a window to escape. Now the training and the YHWH armor already gave Naoto super human strength and speed, but even with that his pursuers were keeping up with him. So he tried different moves to lose them. Zigzags. Doubling back. Slowing down just to speed up again. With every trick he tried, his pursuers just seemed to learn from it.
They then started to back as it was going from morning to mid afternoon. Naoto looked back to watch the shadow people back away, but he looked ahead he saw what these people looked like. It wore a porcelain animal mask, it also had a uniform consisting of black and gray armor, metal arm guards, and a signature spiral tattoo on its shoulder.
The animal person did several hand signs; this, somehow, created a flash of light that blinded Naoto. After it died down, he found himself wrapped in chains with four sickles at his neck.
"Ah... crap..."
XxXxXxX
Whoever coined the phrase "Easier said than done" must have heard about Naruto Uzumaki. Right now, besides all of the left over paperwork from the last Hokage and all of the new paperwork coming in daily, he had to deal with the head medical nin, Sakura Haruno.
She was a full grown woman with emrald green eyes, long bright pink hair, fair skin, and well built body. In fact most of the men in the village would be gasping for air when she walked by. She and Naruto go back to all the way since they were kids growing up. And back then, he had the strongest feelings for here. Enough so, for her happiness, he would bring back her love and his rival.
The Sixth Hokage had acknowledged that he still had feelings for Sakura. Not a big deal. Naruto did acknowledge that he would probably always have feelings for Sakura. The Hokage had also decided that he WOULD win her heart. It seemed his heart-winning skills, however, were severely lacking. In fact, non-existant would be the word of choice.
"Why can't you see how important this is to the welfare of our village?" Sakura asked, her voice starting to increase in volume.
"There's only so much I can allocate for medic-nin supply," Naruto said in a weary voice. "Unless you'd rather everyone go without a kunai."
The past half-hour of the Hokage's life had been passing in exactly this manner. Sakura represented the medic-ninjas for both Konohagakure's hospital as well as their field medics. Her responsibility was to make sure that the med-nins had the resources to save lives. As such, the entire meeting had consisted of her demanding more money from the Hokage and him telling her no. Normally, Naruto tried to make it into a game; he would try out responses that would make Sakura THINK he'd agreed, but in actuality hadn't promised squat. Shikamaru had once told him it would be good training for married life.
"Geez, Naruto," Sakura said, exasperated. "It's not like everyone has your kind of recovery."
"You're right, Sakura-chan. Maybe we should see if there are any more tailed demons roaming around. Sealing them in infants can be our new health care program," he muttered, rolling his eyes. He hadn't even put up the pretense of being polite this time.
"Sorry, Hokage-sama," Sakura said, looking away. "I didn't mean to bring up-"
An ANBU appeared in the office. "Sir!... My lady... We caught someone that was near the crash site."
"Is it a spy?"
"We don't know, sir." The ANBU shook his head. "Ah, also, sir..."
"What is it?" He moaned.
"Your meeting is here."
"Great," Naruto sighed as he got up. "Care to join me Sakura?"
"Is this your form of a date?"
"If business was a form of a date, then we would married by now."
XxXxXxX
Naoto felt like an animal in a cage. They stripped him of all of his supplies and armor, and only allowed him to wear his undershirt boxers. He walked back in forth between the walls of his cell. Constantly keeping an eye on the guard that was put in charge to watch him. The floor beneath him was worn out due to the amount of pacing he has been doing. Any attempts at smashing through the bars, just equalled to several volts of electricity pulse through his body.
The guards found this, somehow, amusing. They were keeping track on how many time he would do that. He was already past the triple diget mark. A new man walked into the dim prison block. He had fairly long jet black hair tied in a spiky ponytail, narrow brown eyes, and wears ring earrings. He also seemed either sleepy, lazy, or irritated expression on his face. As well of a light cigarette.
He looked down at Naoto, who was sitting up against the stone wall, and blew out his smoke at him. "I am Shikamaru Nara. Who are you?"
"Captain. Naoto Kouzuki." Naoto said blankly.
"A Captain? You don't seem like you are in an army."
"I'm in a different type." He snickered. "Besides, you wouldn't believe me even if I told you."
The shadows in the room started to twist and bend, and it didn't help that their was so little light in the room. But either way, it made Naoto stand straight up. "Try me."
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The friend of my enemy is my enemy.
And the my friend is their enemy.
Neck Time: Ninjas, Mandalorians, and Federalists.
Either way you look at it, enemies remain.