(A/N: I would like to state that this story is not a Konoha Bashing fic. It may seem like it at times, but it is not. It is an Uzumaki Clan Bashing Fic since Asura's rage is against them alone and not the village that they are a part of. So while he may attack the village in the future, not saying he will, but if he does it will be to get to his real targets and not out of hatred for them. Also took a bit from an old VFSnake story and I am giving him credit for that bit. Didn't take too much this time, just enough to set the mood for Team 7.)

The Elemental countries were in a state of utter disarray since they had all felt a power unlike anything that they had ever faced in their lives. Emergency meetings were made once they were able to move after being floored by such power, and they all were to discuss the same thing and that thing was what the hell had caused such power to do so. Many of the villages believed that it was a Biju of some kind, but many of the villages' jinchuriki told them that their Biju were in fact terrified by the power since it not only was an unknown type of it, but it dwarfed their own by spades. So all the meetings came to the same conclusion, to find whoever or whatever had such power at their disposal and have them join their village either through force or negotiations…

(Konoha – Meeting Room)

"We need to find whatever it was that surged that power we recently felt," said a Civilian council member, as the rest of those in attendance nodded their heads in agreement.

"And we must be quick about it too," said another Council member, "Since who knows who felt that power. If any of the other villages were to gain such power in their own village they would be able to usurp our position as the strongest of the five shinobi villages."

As they talked back and forth about how they needed to gain whoever harnessed such power into the village to increase their own power, the Hokage sat there and pondered on the subject as they did. She had been Hokage for five years now since Hiruzen retired for the second time, and since she had become Hokage there had been so many changes to the village that were made so that the village would not implode upon itself. The Hokage's name was Kushina Uzumaki, former clan head of the Uzumaki clan, that position now being held by Arusha himself since he had been in the village the longest while the rest of the clan was in the Fire Capital. Many of their clan still resided there, but at least half of them were within the village itself to make them a clan proper.

Since her induction into the seat of Hokage, the academy had been given a complete overhaul since she had learned that the previous Civilian Council had been stealing funding from the schools to line their own pockets and were put to death for treason while returning the money along with all the rest of their families finances to the schooling fund. Not only that, but the Civilian Council was forbidden entirely from making such impacting decisions as they did before since the village got the approval from the Fire Daimyo himself to do so, since they had given him a sound reason as 'why do civilians have such power within a shinobi village?' With that money they were able to have the best teachers as well as gear for their students. There were even extracurricular activities afterwards to help those seeking their true calling as shinobi find out exactly what they were good at. And it showed with the quality of the students who had graduated from the academy.

Out of all the students in the academy, there were three who excelled at their craft in the recently graduated class. The first being her daughter Naruko, who at a young age mastered how to fully utilize the power of the Kyuubi sealed within her as well as both of the signature jutsu left to her by her father. She graduated top of her class to the ire of many.

The second was Satsuki Uchiha, the daughter of Kushina's best friend Mikoto. In the first year of her being Hokage, she had learned from Itachi, her former student turned Jonin, that the Uchiha were planning a coup against the village so as to take over. With Itachi's knowledge, Kushina had him kill those who were in charge to end the coup before it was started as well as serve as a warning to the rest of those who were for it so that they wouldn't ever attempt it again in the future. And it worked for the most part, with the added bonus of Itachi becoming a spy in the Akatsuki organization with the backstory of being hunted down for the murder of his family members with the order to capture alive to face Konoha justice. Of course that was all just a ploy and the higher ups had no intention of punishing him for doing as ordered. Makoto was mad aware of the truth, as was her daughter, each of which knew to keep it a secret from others, so Satsuki acted all angry whenever Itachi was mentioned, but she was just happy that he was alive.

The last of the 'Kunoichi Trio' as they were labeled, was Hinata Hyuga the heiress to the Hyuga clan. Years ago when the Uzumaki settled down within the village, the branch members came to them in secret and begged them to free them from the Caged Bird Seal that had been in their family for generations. The Uzumaki were unable to do anything at first, but once the son of the Fire Daimyo married a member of their clan, he wanted to make his wife happy and poke to his father on the subject. The Fire Daimyo was all for it, and was in fact very pissed that such a seal was ever made in the first place since slavery in all senses of the word was illegal within their country and wondered why such a thing was not brought to his attention sooner. When the order for change came in from the Daimyo himself, the Hyuga Elders along with the clan head Hiashi were pissed. The Elders would rather see the branch members dead than free so they started to activate the seals to kill them all, but Hitomi, Hiashi's wife, stopped them. Hiashi was pissed that his wife went against his orders and attempted to strike her down, stating that 'he could always remarry'. Yet Hinata, who was seven and shy from the constant abuse given to her from her father, struck him down to protect her mother from him. Doing so unleashed a fire within her so that she would grow strong to protect her family from harm.

These were the three members that made up Team 7 with Kakashi as their jonin instructor, and they had been given their first mission out of the village to escort a bridge builder named Tazuna back to his home in Wave Country…

But while there were major changes to the schooling of future shinobi for their village, there was even greater change for their medical field. Tsunade had years ago approached Hiruzen while he was still Hokage and proposed that they start a field medic program to allow four man teams with one of them being a medic so as to keep casualties to a minimum in the field. He had shut her idea down by stating that there was no room in the village's budget to start the program she wanted. She waited until Kushina was Hokage, which was a decision that was made by the Fire Daimyo himself to the ire of Hiruzen as well as Danzo, and had proven a competent leader to pitch the idea a second time. Kushina liked the idea and had given the green light on the project, and wondered why Hiruzen didn't want it in the first place. So she had Jiraiya use his spy network within the village to dig up any dirt on his old sensei. What he found shocked them to the core…

He found that his sensei had been funding Orochimaru in secret since he wanted immortality since he feared death along with his old teammates. There was even further proof that he had let Orochimaru leave that day they raided his labs since he had no intention to stop him and had in fact killed the ANBU that had gone with him to capture Orochimaru. He even learned that Danzo still had ROOT operational even though it was supposed to be disbanded on the order of the Daimyo himself, and once he was found out, the four of them had tried to flee towards Rice Country where they knew Orochimaru was residing. They didn't get far since their attempt to flee had been anticipated and a team of Hunter Nin were already in route to capture the four of them with the proper seals to restrain them, even Danzo and his grafted arm full of Sharingan eyes. They were brought to the Fire Capitol where they were publicly executed, with Hiruzen's face taken down from the Hokage Monument along with his term as Hokage stricken from the history books. And with those greedy idiots gone, they took the funds that were being used to keep ROOT going and diverted them towards their new medical program. And all in the village was going normally…

At least it was until the surge of power caused everyone to drop their knees from the pressure of such power that is…

"I agree," Said Kushina, finally getting into the conversation, "we will have Jiraiya use his spy network to find this person with such power and convince them to come to our village. Once here we will offer him or her a place within our ranks as a new clan head and invoke the Clan Restoration Act to breed new shinobi for the future. All in favor of this motion?"

"Aye," said all those in attendance at the meeting.

'Hopefully this man is as handsome as he is powerful' thought Tsume, the clan head of the Inuzuka Clan. She had felt the power that forced everyone to submit and nearly creamed her pants from it since she could tell that whatever had that type of power was not only a male, but an Alpha male to end all Alpha males. She was a woman who liked strong men, and if this man became part of their village somehow in the future, she would do all in her power to seduce him and have him mount her like only an alpha male like him was capable of.

"The motion passes," said Kushina as she then dismissed the room since the reason that they had come for had been discussed as well as dealt with. She now had to go find Jiraiya and tell him his new mission, and her forehead grew a tick mark since she was fairly certain she knew exactly where he was since he was always peeping o the women in the hot springs to the point that she had her own built with so many seals surrounding it so that she was one hundred percent positive that he would never be able to peep in on her or her friends who she allowed to use it so as to not be peeped on as well. So with a very pissed off aura, she went to search Jiraiya out…

(Whirlpool Ruins)

Asura was sitting down as he breathed deeply to calm himself from having another burst of rage. His wife had taught him how to do so and he was very glad for her lessons right now since it helped him think far more rationally when he had a clear mind. When he had returned to this place that haunted his very soul, his first thought was to find and slaughter all the Uzumaki clan and anyone foolish enough to get in his way, but he had to think smart about this since even though his knowledge about the clan was limited, he at least knew that they were strong in their own sense along with proficient in seals of all sorts. While the strength part of that knowledge meant little to him since they were in no way as powerful as he was, it was the seals that made him think carefully on the subject since if they had the time they could probably find a way to somehow seal up his power and weaken him to the point that they could kill him. Asura just scoffed at that thought since he knew that all that would happen is that he would end back in Naraka since he was far too stubborn to die. So with that in mind, he got up and planned to seek out knowledge about the world since he knew next to nothing about it. While it was true that he wanted nothing more than to kill off the Uzumaki clan to its entirety, he still would need to settle down afterwards and start life anew. Maybe even teach others so that they too would become powerful warriors as Augus had taught him long ago. Or was it in the Future? Asura just shook those thoughts out of his head because they made his head hurt to try and process such a thing.

Asura looked at what was left in the immediate area and saw that somehow the very tree that he had died underneath had remained standing all this time. He walked up to it and placed a hand on it and felt that it was withering away and dying since this was a place of death now and had been such a place ever since the Uzumaki clan had abandoned him here to die. Using his nails he carved out a message as he pumped Mantra into it to give it new life and flourish. He watched as it bloomed into a beautiful sakura tree and smiled as he left it there and headed out to begin his journey. He was amazed that he was able to even do such a thing, but it would appear to him that when he killed the God of Mantra in a way he became the new one in its place. So he left the forgotten ruins to begin his journey, all that remained was the message he had carved into it:

From Death Springs Forth New Life

Asura walked towards the edge of the island, and as he did he remembered when he was a child and had tried to find aid in another village, but was unable to since he needed a boat to get off the island as well as the fact that even if he tried to, he was unable to swim at that age. So he saw land in the distance from where he was standing, and so he got a running start and used his hands to launch himself in its direction…

(Wave Country)

Tsunami was not having a good week, but then again her life had been hectic ever since she was witness to her old lover's execution to Gato's forces years ago. He had done so to kill not only the village hero, but morale amongst the populace as well since by doing so there would be no future attempts to usurp his power he had over the village. But their hope never truly died out and her father had gone to a Shinobi village to acquire aid to protect them while he and his men finished the bridge that would mean their salvation once completed. Gato didn't want this and had tried to stop the construction of the bridge but he couldn't just destroy it since that would put too many eyes on him and then people would investigate the area. Once they did they would know of his illegal activities and aid the village.

So while Tazuna was away to get help for his workers, Gato made his move to get the leverage that he would need to stop the construction completely. He ordered his men to capture his grandson Inari, and or his daughter Tsunami. And that is where we find her at this moment, being dragged out of her home kicking and screaming trying to get away from the dozen men who had come to kidnap her and her son.

"Oh his bitch is a fighter," said a goon with an eyepatch on his face.

"I like when they fight back," said another goon, "it really gets my blood going."

"Why not have a little fun with her before we take her to Gato?"

As he said this, the men agreed in unison and began to rip the clothes off her body in preparation for what they planned to do. She struggled at first, but one of the men forced her by grabbing her head and turning it to look at her son since one of the goons had a flintlock pistol to his head with clear signs that he would use it if she continued to resist them. So with tears in her eyes she stopped resisting and told her son that everything would be alright. And as she said that, as if the heavens themselves heard of her plight, a man crashed to the ground not that far away from the group. The suddenness of the situation caused the goons to stop what they were doing since not a single one of them had expected something like this to happen.

The man who literally dropped in was humanoid in appearance, aside from the markings on his body as well as his eyes and arms. He had spiky hair that was white in color and his skin was of a tanned complexion. His eyes glowed white and although he had irises, he didn't have pupils. During his time as one of the Eight Guardian Generals however, he had red eyes and pupils, which returned just prior to his death and his return to his old world. He wore a pair of torn black hakama trousers with a red flame pattern and a torn golden waist sash hanging. He also wore golden ceremonial greaves with one leg of his trousers tucked into the greave of his right leg and the other leg covering his left leg.

Once the man landed and the dust from the impact of his landing cleared away, he looked around to check his surroundings. He was unsure where he had ended up after his jump, but then again he was new to this world since he had only ever seen Whirlpool in his youth and had died quite young. Yet he did see a group of men standing over a half-naked woman and one of them was holding a child hostage on the side. It didn't take a genius to understand what was going on here and their actions only caused his fury to boil inside of him since he could not stand rapists. Yet as soon as he took a single step towards them to end their plans, the apparent leader of the group yelled out to him.

"Hold it right there," said the one with the eye patch, "if you take one more step then we will kill the boy."

"Then I will not take another step," said the man as he glared at the men who smirked thinking that they could continue with their plans to rape the woman since they had a hostage, "but I don't need to to end your pathetic lives." And before any of the men could react, the strange man threw his hands out in such a quick motion punching the air, each punch sending out a small blast of energy that struck true on their intended targets. The goons were blasted backwards, and the man capitalized on this by charging forward and killing the men via brute strength alone. They were not much of a challenge to begin with and died by a single punch to the head each. After he killed all but one, which just so happened to be the one who had held Inari hostage, the goon crawled away in fear from this man until he came upon his pistol. He smirked as he picked it up and aimed it at the man. He pulled the trigger, but to his utter shock and horror the bullet just bounced off of him. The man then kicked the gun out of his hands and placed a foot on his chest.

"Please have mercy," said the goon as he pissed himself in fear that he was about to die.

"No," said the man simply before he applied pressure to the goon's chest and crushed it beneath his foot. The man walked over to Inari and held out a hand to help him to his feet as well as his mother. Tsunami hugged her savior with tears of joy in her eyes since she was just spared being raped in front of her son.

"Thank you stranger," said Tsunami as she bowed in gratitude, "may we have the name of our savior?"

"My name is Asura," said the man as he looked around again to make sure there was nobody else in the area trying to harm the family he saved, "so can you tell me why those men were trying to rape you while threatening your son?"

"Yes I can, but please allow me to get redressed first since my house is just right there."

Asura was then quickly shown into their house and he took a seat on the couch while she went to put on another outfit since her was shredded not too long ago. While she did this, Inari sat on the couch adjacent to the one Aura himself was on and asked him multiple questions about his cool powers and strength. Asura answered each question that the boy had with a smile on his face as he did since he could sense the spirit of a warrior within this boy. Not unlike his teacher Augus had sensed in him when he was younger. Asura made a mental note to train this boy in the future, but he would have to wait for a while since the boy was young and still had a lot of growing to do. Soon Tsunami came back downstairs in a new outfit and made tea for their guest. Asura would have personally preferred sake but he was not one to demand things from a kind host.

"I thank you for the tea," said Asura as he gulped it down in one swig. He didn't even blow on it to cool it off since the heat didn't affect him in the slightest, "now could you please explain what that all was about."

Tsunami spent the next hour explaining he situation of her country and how it was under the tyrannical rule of Gato since it was an island and he owned all the shipping yards leading into it. She went on to explain that her father had begun construction on a bridge towards the mainland, but it was slow going with Gato trying to interfere every step of the way. She told him that she was being kidnapped along with her son since her father had gone to get help to protect them while they finished the bridge, but Gato was going to use her as leverage to halt construction entirely once they returned.

Asura growled in anger as he heard this, but it was towards Tazuna himself instead of Gato. What kind of a father would leave their child without some sort of protection when they were quite literally in hostile territory with a man who was well known for using many forms of dirty schemes to get his way? When his daughter had been in captivity, he had crawled his way out of the realm of Naraka itself and fought a god along with false gods to ensure that she was safe. To see a man do such a stupid thing made his blood boil. But he calmed himself and thought of a quick way to aid this woman.

"So if this man Gato was eliminated," said Asura as he thought about it for a second, "then you won't have any more men trying to kidnap you?"

"Yes that is true."

"Then I will make you proposal. It may not seem like it, but I am new to this side of the world entirely, with my sudden appearance being the first time I set foot in it. I won't explain where I came from since the story is too long and I have neither the time nor the desire to explain my old home to you. So my offer is simply this. I want you to tell me everything that you know about the world as you know it. As much as you possibly can since my knowledge is practically nonexistent as it is right now. Do this and I will aid your family by eliminating the man who seeks to do you such harm for his own greed."

"You can't attack him," said Inari in fear since he didn't want his hero to die so soon after they had just met, "he has an army of men at his disposal that will stop you before you get anywhere near him!"

"I have fought much more destructive things than a simple army boy," said Asura with a grin, "so there is no need to fear for my safety."

Tsunami herself was surprised that this stranger who stated he was new to their country entirely was willing to help them in exchange for just information. She was not about to let this god send of an opportunity pass so she began to explain how their country worked…

(Elsewhere)

Team 7 made their way towards Wave Country without any form of problem with Naruko out in front, Hinata to her right, Satsuki to her left, and Kakashi with the strangely nervous client. The smell of fear had been picked up by the whole group while Hinata could see it in his movements when Tazuna looked around as if he was half expecting some kind of attack as they traveled back to his house. This made Naruko suspicious of the man and half suspected this was some trap in some way or another.

As the group walked further down the road, Naruko saw the little puddle of water, and his eyes narrowed while Satsuki used her Sharingan that she had unlocked with the help of her older brother before his 'escape' from the village, told her about the puddle while Hinata saw her friend tense up making her mind become sharp too. Within mere moments, two figures that once made up the puddle of water launch themselves at the group going for Kakashi first, and were close to striking when he disappeared with a boulder in his place.

"A Genjutsu!" said one of the two through his mask, as each of their claws hit rock, and when they turned their heads they saw the blonde had a sword she had been given by her mother drawn while her two teammate took up defensive positions around the client with their sensei.

"You two idiots really should have tried to hide someplace else with a little more water since it hasn't rained around here for well over a week. Still, I should really give you an "A" for effort even if you did get an "F" for your execution, and speaking of execution...," said Naruko moving faster than the two Shinobi could see and swung her sword at their legs with the two assassins barely able to dodge the attack in time.

"She's fast brother," said the first of the two Shinobi attackers.

"Then let's see how she handles us combined brother," said the second before they both charged at Naruko, who only smirked at them. Once they were close enough, they were stopped mid step and tripped over themselves since they had not expected something like this to happen. When they looked towards their feet to see what had caused them to trip as they did, they saw that their legs were tied up with chains made of Chakra. While the assassins had tried to kill her sensei she had dug her chains into the ground and waited for them to get within reach of them to trap them like this. Once they were down, her teammates quickly came forward and hit them with a strike to the back of the head to knock them out.

It was when this had happened that they felt the power Asura had burst with that was felt by everyone in the elemental continent. It caused them to fall to their knees as it had done with everyone else, as Hinata looked up and saw with her eyes a huge amount of energy coming from somewhere near Wave country. Once it had passed and they were able to move once more, they got up and dusted themselves off.

"What the hell was that power," said Naruko since she had never felt anything like it, and she felt like the power was so angry somehow.

"I'm not sure what that power was," said Hinata as she shook her head," but I saw that it was coming from somewhere near Wave Country."

While they were talking, the two assassins woke up again since the power had somehow woke them up, yet they never got the chance to escape since Naruko quickly made a few restraining seals and used them on the two of them.

"Now...why don't you two tell me why you are after us or rather the very frightened old man that is our client and maybe just maybe I'll consider not sending you back to Konoha to face the wrath of my mother, who just so happens to be the Hokage of the village," said Naruko knowing full well that her mother would tear into the two of them for trying to kill her child. She was her most prized possession and would protect her from anything that meant harm to her. She had made sure to make her as strong as she possibly could as well as altered the seal on her body so that she could easily use the energy gifted to her from being the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. She had no problems with the Biju herself, that is right she was a woman, since they got along fairly well and talked to each other often.

"Why don't you ask the old man himself? He knows the guy that hired us since we don't come cheap," said one of the two.

"If that's the value of your skills, I seriously think you ripped off your client considering the amount he was paying for your services seems to be way too much, and considering how easily I beat just now I think he would agree with me," said Naruko before smashing the man's face into the tree they were placed against, knocking him out and making a clone to carry the two back to the Hokage. She could only pity the men since they were as good as dead once they got there.

"Care to explain what those two were talking about further Tazuna?" said Kakashi eyeing the man sternly making the man even more nervous than he was before.

"He doesn't have to," sighed Naruko getting looks from everyone.

"He doesn't?" said Hinata wondering why her teammate said that.

"Nope, it's pretty clear when you think about it. Obviously, our client here is important in some way back in Wave Country, who has become a thorn in some possibly rich man's side, and that someone is wanting Tazuna dead for some obvious reason that as of yet I do not know. However, the problem for Tazuna in terms of getting the proper protection he needed because he's dirt stinking poor with just enough cash on hand to afford the protection of Shinobi in terms of a C-ranked escort mission, and now that we took care of the assassins after him word will eventually get out that they failed resulting in more Shinobi coming our way with much greater skill," said Naruko since he had been taught deduction skills by her clan to see things from outside the box since in the world of Shinobi things were never as they seemed at face value.

"It's true I'm afraid. What he just said is true," said Tazuna finding that there was no real way around it since they were going to figure it out one way or another.

"Who hired those men to kill you?" asked Kakashi wanting to know about their opposition.

"Gato. He's a ruthless business man that controls all the shipping around Wave Country due to the fact that we are an island with no way to receive goods unless it's by boat. My people back in Wave Country have been slowly suffocating at the hands of this snake of a businessman, who has used thugs, and other lowlifes that will do anything for money to intimidate them. I am currently working in secret on a bridge that will connect Wave to the main land, which will take away our dependency on Gato, and free our people of his leeching grasp. To do that I need to get back to Wave Country, which I know the amount I paid for your protection is nowhere near the amount needed, but I beg of you to please help me save Wave Country, and I will repay Konoha whatever they want in terms of money for this mission," said Tazuna hoping the group would understand his plight.

"It's up to the team since this now upgraded to a B-ranked mission, which this mission was ironically enough, supposed to get them ready, and now I have to find out just how ready they really are," said Kakashi looking at her three students and wondering what was going on through their heads. The Hokage had sent them on this mission to get them ready for harder missions in the future since they were the best that the academy had produced this graduating year.

"Let's do it. If we don't help them people will suffer because we went back to Konoha on a stupid technicality like not being paid enough money. If every mission was like that, then none of our clients would stay with us, and the village would be screwed several times over," said Naruko, who mentally noted that as an Uzumaki it was her sworn duty to help others since it went to show that the clan was an honorable one that was worthy of the praise given to them and it was not just because they had friends in high places as many have said.

"I agree with Naruto. Despite the mission becoming more dangerous it is still not above our own skills, which combined with our sensei will make us in fact more than qualified to proceed with the mission," said Satsuki, who got a nod from Naruko. Plus in her mind there might be a chance at fighting someone with skills that she could copy with her eyes and train with later. She had been taught by her brother that just because you can copy a technique that you fully grasp it just like that. A person has to train in it to fully gain the power from it, and it was that lesson that was always going on in the back of her head as she copied various abilities.

"It would be cruel to abandon the client in his or her time of need when the reward at the end for when we succeed will be well worth the risk," said Hinata, who wanted to show that she was strong, and that she could proudly represent her clan and prove her deceased father wrong about her being worthless and weak.

"All right then. If that's what you three want then so be it. Team 7 will escort and protect you Tazuna until this bridge is completed, but I will have to send word to the Hokage for additional aid since we have no idea where that power came from other than the fact that it was close to Wave," said Kakashi stressing to the point that while they could protect him from Gato's men, they had no clue as to what in the hell had caused that amount of power and would need assistance if they were to have any sort of chance if they crossed paths with whatever had that power at their disposal.

"Thank you. Thank you so very much," said Tazuna before they set out to continue their mission to Wave…

(Wave)

Asura walked calmly towards the mansion of Gato since he was told exactly where to find it. He was told enough about the ways of the world with the shinobi villages as well as their Kages and Biju as well as Jinchuriki. He had learned a lot in such a short time, but it helped him to understand the world immensely. So he set off after Tsunami had told him everything she personally knew about the world to fulfill his side of the bargain. He was close enough to see the highly fortified mansion with tall walls and guard towers with barb wires atop the walls so no one could climb in. It seemed more like a prison than a home if ne was to judge by outer appearances alone, but Asura was not one to do such a thing and thought nothing on it.

As he neared the mansion he saw a few guards by the front gate, with one of them pointing in his general direction since he had obviously saw him walking towards him.

"Stop right there," said the first guard as he unsheathed his sword just in case it would be needed if this man turned out to be hostile, "what business do you have with my boss?"

"My business with your boss is that I am simply here to kill him," growled Asura, "so step aside so I may do just that."

The guards just looked at him like he was insane before the guard with the sword charge forward to cut this fool down where he stood. Asura didn't flinch as he charged forward but instead he grabbed the man's head and crushed it into goo.

"Stand aside or suffer the same fate," said Asura as he began to walk towards the gate again. The other guard fumbled with his belt trying to unholster the pistol he had on his person, but Asura never gave him the chance to use it since he grabbed the man with one hand and slammed him against the thick metal gate again and again, each pound against it turned the man further and further into a thick smear on the gate, and with the last of his corpse Asura put more power into the thrust, blasting the gate inwards and off its hinges. He could have just jumped over it, but just like he wanted, the alarm went off due to the intrusion, and on a balcony far up in the mansion, Gato appeared with a frown on his face. Besides him were two shinobi, one with his lower ace concealed and a large sword on his back while the other had their entire face hidden behind a mask.

"I don't know who you are," shouted Gato who was angry that his men had not returned yet with the woman he had sent them to kidnap. "But you have just made the biggest mistake of your life by coming here."

"I fear no man," said Asura as he saw that one gates was close by and walked towards it, "and you are no exception to that."

"Look around you," said Gato as he held his arms out and as he did, the entire area was swarming with guards that surrounded the perimeter, "you are outnumbered. So why not make your death easier and just give up already. Since you will not get to me as I head back inside and enjoy a glass of whiskey as I hear your pain filled screams, which will be music to my ears."

"I don't see that happening anytime soon," said Asura as he grabbed ahold of the gate and threw it at Gato. The two shinobi next to him quickly jumped out of the way, but Gato had no such skills to do so and just ducked instead. He was spared due to his quick thinking, but the only doorway back inside of his home was now blocked by the gate itself. Before Gato could vice his outrage from Asura damaging his property, Asura had jumped up to the balcony that he was on and landed right in front of the man. Gato tripped over himself backwards in fear as he was scared shitless at this point.

"Wait a minute here," stuttered Gato as he crawled backwards away from the man in front of him, "we can work something out here. Just name your price!"

"My price," said Asura as his eyes glowed with power from his rage. This man had been the cause of so much pain and suffering and now that he was in a position of near death like he had forced so many other people, he had the gall to bargain for his life. This angered Asura, and for him anger meant power. "Is your life!"

Asura then proceeded to pummel the elderly man with his fists, the speed of which got faster with each punch. He continued to do this until the man was nothing more than bloody paste on the ground with all that was left of him was his battered head. Asura threw it down toward the rest of his goons to strike fear into their hearts seeing that they failed to protect their boss. Asura then jumped down himself and landed on the head, crushing it and sending gore into the faces and bodies of all who were near it. The goons looked at this monster of a man and followed their basic instinct at a moment like this and began to run away from this place since they had no intentions to die anytime soon for a man who was now dead and was no longer paying them. Yet while most of the people fled in fear, two of them remained. These two were the shinobi who had been at his side when Asura had first arrived.

"Do you have any idea what you have just done," said the man with the large sword on his back.

"I have killed a greedy man," said Asura as he stood there with his arms crossed.

"No you idiot!" shouted the man this time since he was enraged that Asura ha just killed his employer. "You just cost us a high paying job!"

"And I should care about this why?"

"Because the Rebellion in Water Country needs it you fucking asshole!"

"You say that like I should care about that."

The man at this point was done talking to Asura, and instead did a few hand signs and flooded the area with mist so thick that Asura couldn't see anything around him. Asura tensed up in preparation for an attack, and he was not disappointed since there was a quick slash on his back, but his Mantra healed him immediately afterwards to the point where there was trace of any sort of damage being done. Asura quickly punched in the direction of the attack, but punched only air. He stood there with a smile on his face since the thrill of battle excited him and his opponent was strong. Not strong enough to kill him since the slash had barely nicked his skin since it was very tough from all his training fighting the Gohma, but the fact he could pierce the skin at all with his blade let him know that there were those in this world with the power to actually hurt him in some way.

For several minutes, the man would slash at him and Asura would try to retaliate with no success, but soon Asura grew pissed about that fact and just wanted the fight to end. So he punched the ground hard, causing the ground to shoot upwards from the impact. He saw the man with the sword was now in midair and grabbed him by the foot and slammed him down hard into the ground. Asura then punched him in the head, but his anger only grew when he saw that the man was a clone made up of water. It was then that he noticed that he was surrounded by a large dome of mirrors made of ice. In them he saw the reflection of the masked shinobi who proceeded to throw senbon at him. The senbon just bounced off of him as he grew angry and proceeded to punch the mirror they were launched from. The mirror shattered into shards of ice, but as it did, another took its place immediately. Asura yelled in rage and stood his ground. Once he did, he began to punch all the mirrors, each being destroyed, but quickly replaced. Five minutes this went on, all the while the shards of ice began to pile up around him. Once there was a large amount of shards, they took a life of their own and began to circle around him. Before Asura could do anything about it, he was frozen solid in a large chunk of ice.

"Good work there Haku," said the sword wielding man as he reappeared next to his companion.

"Thank you for the praise Zabuza," said the now named Haku as the two of them walked towards the ice chunk and looked at the man frozen within it.

"Now to figure out on what to do with this man," said Zabuza as he pulled out his Bingo Book and flipped through the pages to see if he was wanted in any of the villages so as to collect on a bounty if there was one. But no matter how hard he looked, there was none to be seen. So who the hell was this man to be this strong and not have a bounty on him from a village? Who trained this man?

"Did you find anything," asked Haku as he kept using his power to ensure that the man remained frozen in place since he was taking no chances here on the random off chance that he broke free somehow.

"No," said Zabuza as he shook his head, "and that raises the million dollar question on who the hell is this guy?"

"What do you mean?"

"This man is clearly powerful if what we have seen is clearly any indication of any sort, so some village would have tried to scout him since anyone with his type of power would be sought after. But look at him! He has no hiate on his person so he is clearly not from a village so then that would usually mean he has refused to become part of one and doing so would mean that he would be placed in the bingo book to eliminate him so that his power won't go to another village. But there is absolutely nothing on him in this book, and that is what worries me."

"So what do we do with him?"

"I'm not exactly sure on what to do here. Just give me a minute to think on it." Yet he never got that minute, since they then felt a power like the one they had felt before that had floored them as saw the man in the ice begin to glow with an aura of power. The ice around him cracked and then shattered and flew in all directions. The only reason that Haku and Zabuza were spared being harmed by the ice was the fact that even though Haku was floored on the ground next to his master due to the power this man was emanating with, his bloodline over the power of ice worked on a level of mastery that didn't require him to be conscious to use it. If there was ice of any sort coming at him it would stop midair and do no harm to those around him. Asura quickly stopped his flow of power and walked towards the two shinobi that had frozen him in place. He picked them up by the throats and began to squeeze them so it was hard to breath.

"You dare freeze me in place with your abilities," growled Asura as the two shinobi in his hands tried to break free from his control but were not able to since his grip was so damn strong. "Do you know what I have to say about that?!"

The two shinobi at this point accepted the fact that they were about to die, but what happened next shocked and confused them since he let them go.

"That was a good fight," said Asura as he took a step back and watched the two of them begin to gasp for breath, "I haven't had a fight that fun in quite some time."

"Who the hell are you," said Zabuza as he got his sword ready to fight again if he needed to.

"My name is Asura," said Asura with a grin on his face. "And now that you know my name, what is the name of the two warriors who have entertained me so after so long?"

"My name is Zabuza Momochi, and my companion here is known as Haku."

"Well then it is a pleasure to meet you Haku," laughed Asura since he hadn't had a fight he could fully enjoy since the coop had started and he had died for the first time as Asura. He wondered if this was how his mentor Augus had felt fighting him all those times. "You are the first one to ever freeze me solid like that. It was a unique experience I will give you that."

"What are you? Some sort of god?!"

"No," said Asura as he shook his head, "I am no god, but where I am from I was known as a Demi-god."

"Where are you from," asked Haku since he had never heard of such a place where people claimed to be Demi-gods by the people."

"Well, let's go inside and have a seat," said Asura as he walked up to the front door and kicked it open. He didn't really care about the damage since it wasn't his house, "and I will tell you. Hopefully the man I killed has some sake around here…"

(A/N: Just letting people know that when I do pairings for this story, it will be with older women of the series since Asura is over 15,000 years old at this point. So keep that in mind if you ask me to do a specific pairing! Until next time!)