Chapter 1
Naruto stood opposite of his opponents. There were several ninja on the other side, and only a small team on his. Just as the village had thought…enemy lands had come to take advantage of the hidden leaf's weakened defenses and destroy Konoha entirely. Naruto and his team were the only thing in their way.
"Step aside! And maybe we'll let you live!" one shinobi said.
"Not on your life!" Naruto replied.
"Guess you leave us no choice! Let's kill em boys!" shouted the leader!
A small battalion of nearly twenty shinobi charged at Team 7's five members. Kakashi, Yamato, Sakura, Sai, and Naruto all split into sections and started fending off the attackers. It was obvious these guys were no pushovers. They were at least chunin rank or higher. Kakashi was easily able to take out five of them in a few blows, Yamato had trapped a few with his wood style, Sai had his super beast scrolls take out several enemies, and Sakura was taking her side out one by one with one hit. Naruto approached the shinobi who seemed like the head of the whole operation.
"Ha! This won't even be a warm up." taunted the leader.
"Don't underestimate me…it may be the last mistake you'll ever make!" Naruto grinned. He formed a hand sign and shouted, "MULTI-SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" Suddenly several hundred shadow clones were surrounding the area.
"So what! A few hundred shadow clones isn't enough to stop me!" the leader cried.
"Let's just see about that!" Naruto bellowed, "Rasengan!" Pair by pair the shadow clones formed a ball of chakra in their hands and charged at the enemy leader. And pair by pair the leader took them out just as easily.
"You make this too easy!" he shouted throwing a kunai towards the real Naruto. A clone jumped in the way to take the hit and Naruto laughed.
"I warned you…those clones were just to distract you so that I could charge up Nature Energy" Naruto claimed. He quickly charged at the shinobi who wasn't able to dodge Naruto's punch.
"Gah…what the hell…happened?" asked the shinobi.
The others had finished their fights and came over to watch Naruto finish his.
"So…Naruto has decided to enter sage mode…this should be interesting." Kakashi explained.
"S-sage mode!" exclaimed the leader. He looked back at Naruto who delivered a kick right to the face of the shinobi. He landed on a branch a few hectometers away.
"I'll give you one more chance…go back to your village…and I won't have to take you out!" Naruto warned.
"How about…NEVER!" he cried. He chucked a kunai in Naruto's direction, but missed due to Naruto dodging and jumping at the leader. The kunai hit a branch and exploded. Debris started to fall and Team 7 narrowly avoided it.
"Big mistake! Wind style: Rasenshuriken!" Naruto commanded. He threw a huge shuriken shaped ball of energy towards the leader which hit and knocked the shinobi to the ground, killing him in an instant.
"Well, that should do it." Sakura said. But she spoke too soon. As the leader fell he smiled and pulled a hidden string. The entire forest started to explode with Team 7 still inside.
"Everyone! Hurry! Let's get out of here!" Kakashi demanded. A tree close to Sakura exploded and threw her off knocking her unconscious and falling to the floor.
"SAKURA!" Naruto cried. He jumped down after her and caught her…then he felt his power weaken as sage mode vanished. "NO! Dammit! Not now!" he shouted as he fell. The ground was getting closer and Naruto quickly moved Sakura out of the way of immediate injury and took the full blow of the ground himself.
"NARUTO!" screamed the members of Team 7 as they jumped down to assist their comrades. Naruto felt the light slowly leave his eyes and then it was black. Suddenly everything was gone.