Dear Readers,

Welcome back to the next chapter of Yama-Nami-Zuka Formation, Now I know what you're all wondering, why these three?

Well, there is a perfectly good reason for that, it's because, in the show during The Fourth Great Ninja War Arc (Which lasted the entire rest of the series.) Everybody was fighting their hardest to keep Naruto safe, and the ones fighting harder than the rest seemed to me like the Rookie 9, could just be me but I can imagine that Kiba, Ino, and Naruto would end up coming together as a single team if it was required, and also in case you're wondering about Minato's team, I just made up the nicknames and names, but they are supposed to be place holders for the ninja who's names are unknown, I also just gave a random number, because i'm pretty sure the show just addresses them as Team Jiraiya

Also, I never really have read (or seen that often for that matter) a story where the three of them are on a team, it would also serve as a good relief to instead of just having the story based around Team 7 (Like most stories are), so for this story it will be based around Ino, Kiba, and Naruto, to kinda give a fresh take on things.

Plus, unlike all of my other stories, I have a somewhat good idea of how I'm going to play the next few chapters out, this one will be the end of the flashback, and then the real story begins.

Plus I have decided that Pain's Assault on the Hidden Leaf will also be included, and that series of chapters, well, I'm just saying you might wanna grab tissues, it won't be for a while though, so just remember, grab tissues for when you go to read the Assault chapters as they come out, I will say one thing however, there will be some non-canon deaths during the assault, and 1 of them I will deem permanently dead, and I'll leave it at that, I'll leave you all to ponder over who the permanent death will be, but for now, I hope you enjoy the chapter, and leave a review of what you thought of it.

With care,

The best author in the world (Just Kidding) PowerFan132


"Where are they?" Sakura asked as she impatiently tapped her foot, you see the entirety of the team being sent on the mission to help the Sand Village had already met, however they were missing a few members, those members were; Naruto, Kiba, and Ino, the fact that Ino was one of the late ones had surprised even Shikamaru, seeing as how he, Ino, and Chouji are always together.

"What a drag." Shikamaru said as he jumped down from his perch on a fence. "Wait, I think I see them!" Chouji announced as he pointed towards three approaching figures, sure enough as they approached, the three silhouettes had become clearer to read, and strange thing was, the three of them were now wearing a second headband; Kiba had his tied around his left upper arm, Ino had her's tied around her right thigh as well as having the original headband now around her waist like she did when she was younger, Naruto had his tied around his right upper arm. "Whoa..." Sakura mumbled in awe as she looked ahead, only to shake out of it. "Since when did you start hanging out with Ino-Pig Naruto?" She asked as she snickered from behind her hand.

"Well, you see-" Naruto began only to get a set of hands clasped over his mouth, glares pointed towards him from Ino and Kiba.

That's when everybody peaked up when they noticed that all three of them now wore a finger less glove over their right hand.


Flashback Within Flashback


"Naruto, this decision will affect your life as well as your kid's life as well, are you sure that you want to go through with it?" Inoichi asked, Tsume's eyes holding the same question within them. "I'm sure, if my Father has left behind even the smallest legacy aside from the fox, I wanna take and use it." Naruto stared up at them, eyes filled with determination. "Alright then, will you all hold out your right hand please?" Tsume asked as she motioned for a member of the Inuzuka clan to enter the room. "This is a chakra tattoo artist, he uses his chakra to create a tattoo while simultaneously using Medical Ninjutsu to keep it from having the pain of getting a normal tattoo." Tsume explained, Kiba's eyes lit up in realization.

"Is that why I was able to go to the academy the next day when I got my fangs?" He asked as he pointed to the red fang tattoo's on his cheeks. "Yes, and now, please hold out your hands, Naruto, you'll have to choose which clan symbol to have placed, the Namikaze or the Uzumaki." Ino shot up. "What?!" She shrieked as she turned to her dad. "I don't want to get a tattoo!" She yelled, Inoichi simply closed his eyes and shook his head. "Ino, this is just like when you got the ear rings of the Nara and Akimichi clans." He said as he pointed to her ears.

"That was different!" "No it was not!" Inoichi exclaimed. Naruto decided he should wait for a bit before he told them his choice.

"Just Ino, please do this." Inoichi said. "Fine." Ino grumbled as she walked back over and held out her hand. "Naruto," Tsume turned, "Have you made your choice yet?" She asked, Naruto nodded as he held out his hand.

"Good." Tsume began. "Now we will add the three clan symbols separately." She said as the Chakra artist started emitting chakra from his hand. "Wait." Naruto said as he glanced at Ino and Kiba. "I have a better idea." He said, this earned him a quizzical grunt from Tsume and Inoichi. "Why not use all three symbols to recreate the Inuzuka fang?" He asked, this caused everybody in the room's eyes to widen. "I mean, it would be like the leaf crest, it's the Leaf's symbol but with the Uzumaki swirl." He said, "Very well." Tsume said. "But, how would it work?" Inoichi asked, sending a questioning glance to Tsume. Naruto glanced over. "Simple, the symbol with the sharpest end will be the bottom of the fang, so naturally that would be the actual fang itself, and then either the Yamanaka symbol or my symbol would go on top, depending on which one has a flatter top to it, or just create the fang that has a combined design of all three symbols." Naruto finished as Inoichi began nodding, "I see, and this way it will take up less space on your hand as well as be easier to cover up." He said, Ino, Kiba, and Naruto all stared at him in confusion.

"Why would we need to hide them?" They asked in unison. Tsume and Inoichi shared a look that simply read 'Even their thoughts are in sync.' The two Jonin in the room shook the thought away and turned back to the three young ninja.

"Because, even though the Yama-Nami-Zuka Formation was well known, the village believes it ended the second Minato died, meaning that after you do this, unless you're on missions with only each other, you cannot use the formation, or others will get angry, as you two are aware," He pauses to look to Ino and Kiba before continuing. "Naruto is the host of the Nine-Tailed Fox." Inoichi then turned to Ino. "If you begin hanging around him like you do with Shikamaru and Chouji, then people will start to believe that he's somehow tainted you and start avoiding you too." He then turned to Kiba. "This goes for you too Kiba, I'm not saying avoid being around him at all, I'm asking you space your time with Naruto out, like every three to four days." Inoichi finishes as he motions the artist over and shows him the Yamanaka clan crest. "Naruto, I have the Namikaze crest here, and we already know what the Uzumaki crest looks like, so which do you choose?" Inoichi asks. Naruto stares up at him.

"I'll have a combination of the two crests, because I'm not quite Uzumaki, yet I'm not quite Namikaze either, so I'll take up both clans." He says as he held his hand out. "Just add the swirl to the center of the Namikaze design." He says as the Chakra artist begins.


"There." Tsume says as she motions the artist out. "All finished." She finishes saying as she grabs a box from the corner of the room. "You'll also need these." She says as she pulls two fang shaped rings out and hand them to Naruto and Ino. "What are-" They both start but are silenced by Kiba. "Mom, those can't be, you told me that the clan hasn't given one of those out in over a hundred years." Kiba gasps as he recognizes the rings. "These are the clan rings, they are rarely given out, but those who wear them are acknowledged as honorary members of the Inuzuka pack, and any villagers who see them know that if they mess with one of us, they mess with all of us." Tsume said as she slid the rings onto Naruto and Ino's fingers. "Here." Inoichi said as he pulled out a pair of necklaces. "These are like those rings, they will make you honorary members of the Yamanaka clan as well." He said as he gave them to Naruto and kiba. "Also, here." Inoichi said as he pulled out two Leaf Ninja Headbands. "These belonged to Asumi and Minato, I know they'd want the second generation of the formation to have them." He said as he gave Ino Asumi's and Naruto Minato's. "You too Kiba." Tsume said as Hana brought out the neatly folded headband.

Naruto, Kiba, and Ino all looked between each other, a single goal in mind. 'We'll make our legacy proud.' The three of them nodded, standing up and preparing to leave the house. "Wait." Kiba said suddenly as he ran up stairs, minutes later coming down with three right handed finger less gloves. "Figured since we have to hide this, might as well put these on." He said as he handed out the gloves, all three of them sliding them on in sync.

Tsume and Inoichi stood in the doorway and watched as the three of them left, they turned and stared at each other. "They look like the splitting image of the three of them." She muttered sadly as she stared up into the stars.


End Flashback Within Flashback


"You can't tell them remember?" Ino whispered into Naruto's ear as she slowly removed her hand, Kiba doing the same with a head start. "Seriously Naruto, you really are a complete idiot sometimes." Kiba whispered loud enough for Naruto to hear. "Well sorry for thinking we can trust our own friends." Naruto muttered. "Trust us with what?" Shikamaru asked as he approached the secretly newly formed trio. "Oh nothing, just a new place for Akamaru and me to practice using Dynamic Marking." Kiba quickly made an excuse which seemed extremely plausible due to him having practiced that move for a while.

Shikamaru wore a look of disbelief, "Alright then, now we're just waiting for-" "Yo." Kakashi interrupted as he poofed in from nowhere. "Sorry I'm late, I was-" "LIAR!" Sakura and Naruto shouted at the same time, everybody else shrugging it off simply due to the reason 'They've been around him the longest.' "Well, should we all get going?" Asuma asked as Kakashi took the spot next to him and kurenai. "Yes we should, we have a lot of ground to cover, and we really should get at least a fourth of the way there before nightfall." Kurenai said as she shifted her weight to he left side.

"Well, c'mon then!" Naruto yelled as he took off running, Kiba and Ino running after him. "Hey Wait Up!" They bot yelled after him. "I don't get those three, enemies one second then friends the next, and now they're acting like teammates." Sakura shrugged, this statement simply caused Shikamaru to place his chin in his hand. 'Maybe they are...' he thought as he ran through as the proof that he had already collected from that one interaction.

'The fact that Kiba just told me a big fat lie is already proof enough that they're hiding something, then there's the case with those identical gloves, why would all three of them suddenly start wearing it at the same exact time unless they all have something to hide, and the fact that Naruto and Ino both had the Inuzuka Honorary member ring, means that they met with Tsume recently, because they weren't wearing them earlier it had to have been sometime today-' "Shikamaru, you're brain is working in overtime, i can tell from the face you're making." Asuma said as he clapped a hand onto Shikamaru's shoulder.

Shikamaru looked up from his deep thought. "Sorry Asuma-Sensei." He said as he began running into the tree line, followed by Hinata, Shino, Chouji, Asuma, Kurenai, Kakashi, and Sakura.


"Naruto Wait Up!" Could be heard from behind the jinchuriki, but he didn't really care, all he wanted to do was get to the Sand Village to protect one of the only eight other people who understood what he's had to go through. "Naruto look out!" He heard Ino shout as he looked ahead and realized he was about to trigger a trip wire, he came to a stop, slightly worried when he head the start of a beeping.

Beep...

Beep...

Beep...

BeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeep

Could be heard right before an explosion had gone off.

"Naruto!"


"Naruto!" Ino and Kiba screamed as they came to a stop, surveying the explosion site, that's when they saw them, Ino and Kiba's eyes widened as they saw a man wearing the Akatsuki cloak while hiding his face with a hat. "Art...Is an explosion!" ? Laughed as he picked Naruto's unconscious form and put him in the mouth of the bird made of clay.

"We don't have much time Deidara, we have to get moving, it may not be the vessel we were sent for, but we got it." ? Said as he jumped down. "Yeah, yeah, I got that, I just wanted to show these people my art." Deidara said as the clay bird finished swallowing Naruto.

"Naruto is not an it!" Kiba yelled as he rushed forward. "Akamaru!" He yelled, the giant white hound instantly doing the same. "Fang Over Fang!" He yelled as the two started spinning at high speeds and came rushing towards the two Akatsuki members, who simply dodge out of the way. "Hidden Art: Death of The Puppet Master!" ? screamed as he pulled his Puppet Master Puppet out, sending it flying at Kiba and Akamaru, they leapt out of the way before it could reach them, Kiba was glad they did, because as the moment it hit the tree, the puppet exploded. "Ino, we need help over here!" Kiba yelled behind him. Ino nodded.

"Mind Transfer Jutsu!" She yelled as Deidara fell into her sights, she made sure to hide behind cover before transferring "Mind Transfer complete." She stated as she turned towards the other masked man. "I hope you know what you're doing Deidara." He stated as he threw a Kunai.

"INSECT BOG!" Was yelled before the kunai could reach Deidara (Ino) "Thanks Shino!" He (She) yelled as he (she) leaped away.

"Shikamaru!" Ino yelled after she transferred back to her body. "They have Naruto!" Kiba yelled as he evaded yet another one of ?'s attacks.

"You won't be able to evade this one." ? Stated as he pulled out a giant scroll. "Hidden Art: Revenge of the Twin Puppets!" He yelled before activating the scroll. Suddenly the Earth began shaking as the ground split and two giant puppets arose. "Meet your doom." ? Stated as he jumped onto the top of the left ones head before clapping his hands together. "Now Implode!" ? Screamed as he jumped off, the giant puppets began to crack as those cracks began to glow.

Hinata began to see the danger and jumped in front of everybody else. "Protective Eight Trigrams!" She yelled as she started spinnign creating a chakra barrier. She stopped only as the smoke began to clear.

When everything became visible, there had been no sign of the two Akatsuki members. "Damn!" Kiba screamed as he punched the ground. "They got away with him." Ino said as she fell to her knees.


When Sakura finally arrived the scene was chaos, a small piece of land still standing near the edge of the crater. "Guys!" She yelled as she jumped over. "What happened?" She asked, she was greeted by everybody there looking down at the ground. "Where's Naruto?" She asked, a feeling of dread pooling in the pit of her stomach. Shikamaru was the first one to look up. "They got him." He stated before jumping away. "Who?!" Sakura screams, this time it was Ino who stood up. "Deidara." was all that was said before the others stood up and jumped away.


Present Time


The forest was quiet, a peaceful wind flowing through the air like water in a stream, birds could be heard chirping in the distance, the leaves of the trees swaying with the breeze, all this was interrupted by the group of seven ninja currently jumping through the trees. "Naruto?!" Sakura called out in all directions, they had been out here for days searching for the missing blonde jinchiriki. "Hinata have you picked any chakra signatures up with your byakugan?" Sakura called behind her. "No, it's like he hasn't even been here!." Hinata called, shifting her feet to perch and jump on the branch in front of her. "Don't worry Sakura, we'll find him, wait, Ino! try locating him with the jutsu you've been working on!" Kiba who jumping alongside Akamaru called. Ino nodded, coming to a halt. "Mind Locator Jutsu!" Ino murmured as she weaved the signs required. 'Please Naruto, please be alright.' Sakura thought as she quickened her pace.

"We'll find him, I don't doubt we will." Shikamaru called as he sat next to Ino holding her up. 'I'm not worried we'll not find him, i'm worried we'll be too late.' Sakura thought as she came to a halt, looking up at the sky to reflect on the events leading up to the search.

"Found him!" Ino called as she stood up and pointed towards the Land of Rivers.


"We'd better hurry." ? said as he placed Naruto down. "I agree." Deidara said as he got on his respective finger. "Call the others." He said as ? got onto his own finger as well.

"What is the reason for this calling" ? Who had orange hair and completely purple eyes Asked as his Illusion formed on the very last finger. "Seems to me that Deidara managed to get a Jinchuriki." Itachi said as his illusion formed as well.

"But, it's not the one we need." An illusion who looked like a living Venus Flytrap stated.

"If I was there I would be feeding Samehada." Kisame said as he stood up.

the illusion with blue hair was the next to speak. "It matters not, all that does matter is that we have a Tailed Beast." She said as she took a pose, soon all the members were doing it.

"Then let us begin." The man with purple eyes said as the rest of them took that same pose.

"Sealing Technique: Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals!" They all called out as the statues mouth opened, nine blue dragons coming out and headed straight for Naruto's seal.


Oh no, what's going to happen to Naruto?! Well, to find that out, you'll have to wait for the next chapter.

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