~Summary of time skip~

It has been 8 years since Uzumaki was put into Rengoku. 5 years after being incarcerated he escaped. No-one knows how he did it all they know was that he is the first person to ever do so. For the past 3 years he has been on the run trying to live a quiet life and not draw too much attention. But like every convict it hard to lead a normal life and not go back to old ways. Haruka a bounty hunter that has been on his tail for two years has caught up with him again, in the past 2 years she has had several close encounters with him. She estimates about 10 times she has been face to face with Uzumaki no Yuurei (the Ghost). But this time he finally slipped up and she was able to capture him. *ENJOY*

As Haruka walked into the bounty office she thought to herself I need to find a new line of work...... one of these days hes gonna stop running and start fighting.... and then I will end up with more than just a scar..... as she rubbed the scar on her face absent mindedly while she waited for the clerk to come from the back. As the large man approach she announced "that she had a bounty to turn over." The man patiently waited for her to produce a scroll or a body when he noticed the large steel crate behind her that said NO EARLY RELEASE on the front. He then asked "what the hell is that" to which she replied "thats the bounty, its Uzumaki the Ghost the one bounty that is to be kept alive" she said with a smirk as she watched the man's expression change from curious to fearful. "Well if that is true then we will have to charge a security fee, a transport fee, and a liability fee" the man said as he looked in his book under the name Uzumaki and realized just who it was that she had just claimed to have in the crate. "Well just how much is that gonna set me back" she asked the man with hatred flaring up in her eyes. "Half the bounty" he said with a smirk. "Are you fucking crazy that highway robbery" Haruka stated "I might as well just delivering him myself for that amount."

Haruka stormed out of the bounty office with her captive behind her. Now she would have to hire someone to help escort him back to Rengoku, but who would be crazy enough to help with this job? Maybe just maybe she would be able to hire some Konoha shinobi under the pretense of just needing a escort to help protect supplies. So she headed for Konoha, but on her way she stumbled onto a caravan that just happened to be going to Iron Country where Rengoku was located. And wouldn't you know it had Konoha shinobi already escorting it. And with a few extra coins slipped into the caravan leader he let her join with no questions asked.

For all the protection the Konoha shinobi offered, his genin's proved to be curious little brats. Haruka had spent most of the journey shooing them away from her cargo, but it wasn't until one tried a Kawarimi no Jutsu (replacement jutsu) right beside her cart that she explained to them that no ninja techniques could be used near the box. Due to the fact that any exterior chakra would release the seal on the crate. After that the genin keep trying to get her to tell them what exactly was in the crate. Finally after 2 days of constantly getting asked the same question she finally told them "that what was in the crate was very dangerous and if it was opened a lot of people would get hurt."

They were now 2 days from the border of Iron Country and still 3 and a half days from Rengoku. Haruka woke up right at sunrise and had quick breakfast and was thinking about what she would spend her bounty on. She had given a lot of thought to retiring and getting a place somewhere and finally settling down. The Konoha shinobi was awake and trying to get his genin out of bed so they could start there day with a short training season. He had just finally managed to get his team up and some food down their throats when he noticed fog in the distanced and it almost looked like it was moving towards them. Which seemed kinda strange since fog usually stayed down in the low valleys in the mornings and since they where on a hill side there was no was it would be traveling towards them.

Or so he thought, at first he brushed it off and went back to getting his team ready about 3 minutes went by when the fog caught his attention again except this time he was surrounded by it. So his suspensions had been correct, he motioned for his team to gather in front of him. The genin could tell that something was wrong with their sensi. Haruka noticed that the shinobi and his genin had a look of worry and knew something wasn't right. She quietly walked over to the shinobi and asked "what was wrong" the shinobi replied "we are under attack, this fog is not natural it is man-made." With those words Haruka's eyes went wide with fear if this fog is man made then........ he's escaped......

Haruka quickly went to cart and prayed the whole way there let the seal hold, let it not be enough chakra..... When she looked into her cart, her fear became a reality he had escaped and was probably breathing down her neck at that very second. The shinobi ordered everyone to the middle and told his genin to surround the caravan and to be on guard. The four Konoha ninja couldn't see there attackers through the fog but the shinobi could tell they were out there. He then told his genin to focus on there senses because they where surrounded by ninja from the Land of Mist, and that this was one of their techniques.

One of the genins was trying her hardest to sense the ninja that he sensi had told her team about but wasn't having any luck. That is until she saw one coming at her in full charge with a sword held high ready to kill her in a second. The young genin screamed at the sight of the man, but before her sensi could turn around the attackers dead body fell to the ground at the feet of the genin. As the genin looked on in shock, trying to understand what had just happened to the man that was about to kill her. Did sensi kill him, was he a shadow clone, was that a diversion? She turned to her sensi who looked just as shocked as her. The both nearly jumped out of there skin when they heard Haruka say " its him" the shinobi turned to her and ask " what do u mean its him?" Haruka just continued to look around trying to see any sight of him, but soon realized that the fog worked like darkness did for Uzumaki.

He was a master in stealth killing and with those eyes of his. They say that he got his eyes in prison but no-one was sure how exactly it happened. On her first couple of run ins with him she had asked him how he was able to see in the dark and all he said was "nature chakra is its own light." So from that she had gathered that his eyes allowed him to see nature chakra being put off by everything and everyone around him.

It was then that she realized that the fog was starting to disappear, and she heard one of the genin say "sensi look there is another dead body over there, and another one there, and look there" When the fog fully lifted she could see that they were surrounded by dead bodies and from what Haruka could see they all had the same headband from the Land of Mist. She saw that even though everyone called him a monster he still had a soft spot for women and children.

The Konoha shinobi rushed out of the formation to go check the vitals of the dead body closed to him. Haruka yelled at him "to come back because HE is probably still out there." The shinobi turned around and said " HE who?" She then told him "that she was a bounty hunter and that she was transporting Uzumaki no Yuurei (the Ghost)." The shinobi turned ghost white at the name for it was a name that had caused fear in his village for many years so long ago, of course the genin didn't know why there sensi had just turned ghost white at the name of this Uzumaki guy.

High above the group was a young man crouching on a tree branch looking down on the group through pitch black goggles. He wore black cargo pants and a black tank top and he wouldn't stand out in daylight so much if it wasn't for that long bright blonde hair on his head. He had been listening very closely to the conversation that was taking place in the group and couldn't help but smirk when he saw the shinobi turn ghost white at the sound of his name. He was just about to turn and leave when he saw a kunai headed straight for him. The Konoha shinobi had sensed his chakra since he never did learn how to suppress it that get, but in the dark he didn't need to since his bloodline that the fox gave him took care of that. He easily dodged the kunai and looked at where it had came from and said " If I wanted you dead I would of ghosted you when I had the chance."

Uzumaki then looked at Haruka with a almost playful grin on his face and laughed and said " you should of took the money Haruka" referring to the money she had pasted up at the bounty office. Haruka cussed because she just realized that she had just lost her dream of retiring and living the quiet life. With hearing such foul language from the women everyone glanced at her and when they returned their eyes to where the man with the blonde hair had been standing they saw nothing but empty trees.

As he speed away from the caravan he thought to himself better clean up the loose ends at the bounty office, don't want any other bounty hunters on my trail. But as he started to make his wide circle around the caravan to through Haruka off his tail he sensed someone moving in the opposite direction toward Water Country at a high rate of speed. He figured it had to be a Mist shinobi who was hiding and had been watching what took place. So first he would take care of the clerk and then take care of Mist. Because just as Haruka had thought he did hate anyone who tried to harm women and children, but what she didn't know that he was sick of trying to live a peaceful life every time he escaped this time he would do it the animal way like his body had wanted to do so many times but he had refused this time would be different this time he would get to the bottom of everything.