...Again, I apologize to the people waiting for me to update my other stories.

This was stuck in my head for the longest time and I just couldn't resist. ^_^

I assure you, I will get to my other fan fictions!

Important note: Every person in this story has long, pointy ears, much like in the actual Legend of Zelda series.

Also: 'kouhai' means underclassman, and 'sempai' means upperclassman. If you want a better description of the word, then Google search 'opposite of sempai' and click on the Yahoo! answers link to get a definition.

Disclaimer: Legend of Zelda belongs to Nintendo and Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-sensei.

Kyoko can fully say that Sasuke was the biggest jerk that ever lived, now that she was below deck and a bit annoyed that she'll have nothing to do for the next few hours. Kyoko sat down near the door that separated the the front area of the ship from the upper hull area, which had a guarded room and a staircase that led to the lower part of the hull. She, using the spell Naruto showed her, summoned the books of monsters that Kakuzu gave her and looked through it, before she landed on a page that caught her interest.

It had a drawing, not a very good one, but it had the features of the monsters she fought in the forest, along with two others with similar features, but with weapons and different coloration. She read the description of said monster: Bokoblin, most common, if not one of the weakest, enemies one faces when one is on a adventure. They come in three different types; the blue variety, the green variety, and the red variety.

The blue type is one of most common type of Bokoblins, some having weapons, some not. Their attack is weak and they're quite vulnerable to any weapon/attack. The green type is also a very common type of Bokoblin. They aren't much tougher than the blue ones, but they can take more damage and block some attacks with their small wooden shields. Both the standard, the blue ones, and the green shield Bokoblins sometimes hide in pots and burst out when one draws near.

Sea Bokoblins all have a red coloration to their skin, possibly caused by a skin reaction from being in the sun day in and day out. Like the others, the are easy to eliminate.

Kyoko, after reading the Bokoblin description, summoned forth a few pencils and an eraser, erased the poorly drawn Bokoblins and drew an almost life-like picture of the Bokoblin she faced, as well redrawing the other two Bokoblin types. Naruto, who peeked out from under her hat, watched her draw, her hand moving with an unearthly grace as she finished up the drawings and put the book and art supplies back into the magic pouch.

"Hey Kyoko-chan, let me show you a trick that the pouch can do!" Naruto said, completely coming out of the hat, before muttering a one-word spell.

Suddenly, a smaller pouch and two small sheaths formed, the throwing knifes in the smaller pouch and the trench knives in the small sheaths on both sides of main pouches belt. Kyoko was wide eyed, seeing how they were automatically equipped to her, quickly ready for anything, before Naruto muttered a slightly different one-word spell, making the two weapons immediately go back into the main pouch.

"It's a helpful part which makes it quick and easy to have things on hand, but it can only hold about three to five items at a time so one may have to say the spell many times..." Naruto said, before continuing his explanation, "One has to think of what they want on hand, say the spell, and then it's right on the belt, ready for use. To unequip items, one has to say the unequip spell and it goes back into the main pouch. To switch one item for another, one uses the swapping spell and items you want switched get switched. Say you can't equip anymore stuff, but you need a certain item, you say the switching spell, and the item you need equipped and one item you don't need right away that is equipped get switched. Is that understood?"

Kyoko nodded before Naruto taught her the spells for the bag. She got up and stretched, before she noticed a male a little older than Sasuke with black hair, black eyes, and light skin like Sasuke's, but his hair was longer, tied back with a red hair-tie, his frame was taller and much more masculine than Sasuke's, and lines on his face that look like they start from the inner corner of his eyes and ended a little below his cheek-bones, his facial expression blank as he stood in front of a doorway, which looked like it lead to someone's room. The male wore a light grey long-sleeved shirt, black fleece pants, black belt with skull belt-buckle, and black sandals, much like the rest of Sasuke's crew.

"I believe staring is rude, Kyoko-san..." The elder male said, making Kyoko blush slightly, she hadn't meant to stare, but she was figuring out if he was related to Sasuke in some way.

"Sorry, but I was trying to figure out if you and that jerk, Sasuke-baka, are related, since you look kinda similar..." Kyoko answered honestly, slowly walking closer to the male guarding the room which she guessed it belonged to Sasuke.

"I'm Itachi, so you can stop adressing me as 'you'... And let me guess, my foolish ototou left a bad impression on you... I apologize for his bad attitude..." Itachi said, bowing in apology, before lightly smiling at her while her mind went into shock.

"You're... Sasuke's... older brother...? But you're so much nicer than him, Itachi-san!" Kyoko stated, quite surprised and shocked that they're so closely related to each other.

"Sasuke has always been rough around the edges, but when you try and get to know him, you'll then see he has good intentions, but people don't often see them at first..."

Kyoko was quiet, a small, sad smile pasted her lips before she said, "I have a younger half-brother named Sai, and he has good intentions behind his words and actions, even though people might not see that at first..."

She tilted her head up to look at Itachi's eyes directly, noticing that his eyes weren't black, but a really dark grey. She subconsciously wondered if Sasuke's eyes were also dark grey.

Kyoko then said, a smile on her face while looking directly into Itachi's eyes, "You're right, I shouldn't have judged Sasuke before trying to get to know him..."

Itachi blinked twice, before a small smile spread across his face, patting Kyoko lightly on the head as he said, "Sasuke may've forgotten to tell you, but he put Kin-san, the girl who was on shore with Juugo and Sasuke, in charge of you, to teach you the basics of ours crew. Before we left, I asked Sasuke why, he merely responded, 'Because wouldn't it be easier for a girl to show another girl how our crew works?' He gave you a 'mentor', if you will, that he thought you may feel more comfortable with..."

When Itachi finished, Kyoko blushed lightly, a little thankful he did that. Not that she wasn't used to guys, but she was much more cautious around males she didn't know at all.

Itachi then added, "She's waiting down in the lower hull, right down those steps..."

Kyoko turned to go down the stairs, before Itachi said, "By the way, this Sasuke's room, but no one's allowed in..."

"I figured as much..." Kyoko said back, before she was completely down the steps.

Itachi grinned as he watched Kyoko go down the steps, before he thought, 'Quite a smart young-woman for one who has lived in the boondocks of the Great Sea... Foolish ototou can sure pick up some interesting characters...'

"That was an interesting conversation..." Naruto said, not too far behind Kyoko as she went down the steps with his hands behind

"It was actually quite thought-provoking Naruto." Kyoko said back as she reached the end of the steps, the floor leveling out as walked through a doorway to see a large room with lanterns hanging from robes, this weird squares of light wood on the floor of the hull, and Kin standing right near the doorway, looking a bit bored before she noticed Kyoko walk in.

Kin's face went from a bored expression to a happy smirk before she said, trying to give off some authority, "Ahoy there, my new kouhai! As of today, I'm your sempai, Kin. I'll promise to go easy on, but you gotta do what I say, alright?"

Kyoko nodded and Naruto floated near her, watching with mild interest before Kin continued with, "Alright then! First off, you now have to take the test all new pirates have to get through. It's a bit tough, so be ready! Watch everything I'm about to show you really carefully so you can cram it into that orange-haired head of yours!"

Kyoko nodded, watching attentively as Naruto mumbled, "She sure is bossy..."

Kin ignored Naruto's comment as she walked towards a switch that looked like one had to step on to activate. Kyoko took a few steps forward before she stopped as Kin turned to face Kyoko.

"Activating this switch is the first thing you have to do and it's the only easy part..." Kin said before she lightly hopped onto the switch, causing it to go down and five platforms to rise from the floor of the hull.

"As you've noticed, the platforms rose from the floor. After this happens, you have to jump from one platform to the next!" Kin said before she ran and jumped to first platform, making it look easier than it was.

"Okay, so I was able to make it to the first one by myself, but, as you can see, the next one is too far right? That's when you have to do this...!" Kin said, getting a slight running start, jumped, and grabbed the rope that the lantern was attached to, before she released the rope, landing elegantly on the second platform.

"Do ya get how to do it? You have ta swing from one platform to the next, to get to the entrance of that room over there!" Kin said loudly, before jumping and swinging from platform to platform, then she was on the last platform before the entrance to the room.

Kin then said, "But the catch is that the platforms don't stay up forever, and you have to get over here before the platforms drop. If they drop, then you'll have to start over!"

Kin jumped from the platform to the ledge, standing in the entrance of the room, saying in a very confident voice, "It'll probably take you a whole year before you get good enough to make it all the way over here. A whole year full of bruises, but if you make it over here before then, I'll give you a reward! Now give it a try!"

Kin then thought, 'This ought to be good for a few chuckles...'

Naruto then told Kyoko, "I'm gonna go wait by Kin, that okay with you?"

"Sure, go right on ahead, I'll be there soon." Kyoko confidence and conviction in her words, making Naruto smile lightly, before he flew over to Kin and floated near her right shoulder.

"Did you know Kyoko self-taught herself all she knows of fighting? All she had to do is see the move once, and she could do even better and faster than anyone else. She even mastered fighting blind-folded, so she could have the advantage if she fought in the dark. So you should have more faith in Kyoko-chan..." Naruto said as Kyoko started, causing Kin to look at him.

Before Kin knew it, Kyoko was just two platforms away. Kyoko ran for the rope, grabbed it, and had enough momentum to release the rope and land on the last platform. She then jumped right from the last platform to the ledge and was now standing right in front of Kin, looking like she didn't even break a sweat.

"Eeeehhhhh? You got through the test already?" Kin asked in disbelief, before regaining her composure, she faked a cough before she said, "I... I'm very proud to have such a quick learner as my... my kouhai!"

Kin turned slightly before thinking to herself, '...I wonder if it's okay to give that to her...'

Kin gave a quick glance at Kyoko before mumbling to herself, "I don't see why not... It's not like I'll get busted for it..."

Kin calmed herself, smiling lightly before she said, "All right Kyoko-kouhai, you can have the treasure in that treasure chest over there! It's your reward from me, the gracious and generous Kin! ...Just hurry and take it before someone comes!"

Kin moved so she wasn't blocking the door, and Kyoko went through the doorway, heading straight for the treasure chest near the back of the room. She wondered what was in, before she opened the chest, finding a odd purple bag, the design on the front looked much like a face.

"Oh, a Spoils Bag! Quite a rarity, even to use fairies!" Naruto said while looking at the bag from over Kyoko's shoulder, before he continued with, "It's a bag that holds rare item that enemies drop. If some of the item were shown to the right person, one could make a fortune!"

For a couple of seconds, rupees replaced the pupils in Kyoko's eye, before she snapped out of it and had the bag placed into her pouch. She turned around and saw Kin, whom was standing awkwardly with a small blush on her face, to which Kyoko tilted her head in a questioning manner.

Kin answered Kyoko's unspoken question with, "Since it'll be a while before we make it to the Forsaken Fortress, wanna just chat...? I mean the only other girl on this ship is Karin, and she goes on and on about Sasuke! It gets old after a while...!"

Kyoko smiled widely, the only females on the island she was born on were older than her, before she said, "Totally!"

Kin and Kyoko talked for a while, Naruto fell asleep in the first half-hour of their girl-chat, talking about everything from their favorite snacks to how annoying Sasuke can be to strategies one can use on the battlefield.

They were enjoy their chat, until Sasuke yelled from the deck, "Oi, Kyoko! We've reached the Forsaken Fortress! Hurry and get your ass up here!"

They both sighed before they both stood and stretched, with Kyoko saying, "Well, if I successfully rescue my half-brother, I might not ever you guys again..."

"Well, I knew I enjoyed your stay with us..." Kin admitted with a smile, before following Kyoko to the door that lead to the deck.

"Hey, if I'm not successful the first time, I might get to see you guys again!" Kyoko said with a laugh, a gut-feeling telling her that she might not be successful her first try.

"Good luck to ya, Kyoko-chan!" Kin said, extending her head for Kyoko to shake, calling her 'Kyoko-chan' after getting to know her so well.

Kyoko smiled as she shook Kin's extended hand, before she said, "Thanks Kin-chan!"

They both waved good-bye to each other, before Kyoko walked through the door, knowing she had a friend amongst the pirates.

The first thing Kyoko noticed when she was on deck was that it was night, which was kind of odd, because she knew it was half past four in the afternoon, meaning that the sun shouldn't have set until a few hours later. She walked near the mast, a tall ladder leading to the crow's nest, quickly glancing up and seeing Sasuke up there.

"Oi Kyoko! Get up here! I've got something to show you!" Sasuke said loud enough for her to hear, Kyoko nodding before she started to climb up the ladder.

Naruto was still asleep in her hat, even after Sasuke's loud calls, he was still out-cold. When she got to the top, Sasuke gave her a cold glare, cause her to stiffen her body, then she relaxed her body and returned Sasuke's glare with one of her own.

He then inquired, "What the hell were you doing with Kin? Were you playing some sorta stupid game for treasure, were you?"

Kyoko scoffed and said, most of it was the truth, "Kin gave me the initiation test, I passed with flying colors, and then we talked until you called me to the deck."

"Hn, whatever. There's you need to see, have a look over there. It's the cursed isle known as the Forsaken Fortress..." Sasuke said, before he looked at something in the distance.

Kyoko looked in the same direction as Sasuke, and her jaw hit the floor as her eyes widened to the size of dinner plates; rocks jutted out from the outer walls, the strongly re-enforced looked like it could keep out an army of pirate ships, the wall-mounted cannons making the walls of the fortress even more powerful, the large, bright search-lights scanned over the ocean as well as the inner part of the fortress, a tall, tower like structure on the far end of the place with long, horizontal spires extending from the main tower, one of the spires held a large nest which the large, monstrous bird was sitting in, which she now noticed it had a metallic mask over the upper half of it's face, the others had large anchors hanging from them, and at the top of the tower-like structure was partially torn-up ship hull, giving a spooky aura that the place held. Kyoko was at loss for words as she was trying to figure out how not to die in a place like that.

Sasuke then said, "It speaks for itself, causing a lot of odd rumors about the place. I know it used to belong to a group of pirates that competed with us a while back, but they were small-time compared to us. Now this place looks like it could be a maximum-security prison; dangerous to try and get in, even more so to get out."

Kyoko blanched at Sasuke's words before he said, "Ah, I knew it. Look over there, by the window, have you ever seen that many seagulls at one time? I bet that's where they're keeping you're half-brother locked up."

"Sai always was able to attract seagulls to him whenever he was scared or worried..." Kyoko said, kind of thankful that quality of Sai's was able to help them in this situation.

Sasuke frowned deeply as he said, "But thing is, that place is under such a tight guard, we wouldn't be able to dock without being noticed first..."

Kyoko and Sasuke, at the same time, gripped their own chin between their index finger and thumb in a thinking manner, before they both thought, 'Hmmmm, what do we do now?'

Just then, Sasuke got an idea, before he looked at Kyoko with an evil smirk on his face. Kyoko looked up, feeling him staring at her, she now had a bad feeling about what he was thinking behind that smirk...

:: A few minutes and some struggling later... ::

Kyoko was angrily glaring at the raven-haired male, for she was forced into a barrel and placed on the catapult, Naruto was now, finally, waking from his nap.

"Naruto, whatever you do, stay in the cap..." Kyoko said angrily, still glaring at Sasuke, but Naruto was only slightly concerned, he still stayed in her cap, still getting the sleep out of his eyes.

"Hey, to get into a dangerous place like that, it's our only option! If we had any other choice we'd use it! Trust us, we pirates do this kinda stuff all the time. So don't worry!" Sasuke said, before he asked his crew, "Is everyone ready?"

When he got confirmations from his crew, he then started the count down:

"Three!"

Kyoko thought with a shocked face, 'I thought he'd come up with something less juvenile than this...!'

"Two!"

She then thought with a mild frown, brows furrowed in anger, 'I may have to kill this guy one day...'

"One!"

Her final thought before she was launched, a murderous grin on her face, brows furrowed, and a pulsing forehead vein, 'Oh, he dies the next time I see him!'

With that, the catapult released, sending Kyoko, who was screaming her lungs out, through the air, but as she got closer to the tower-like structure, she noticed his aim was off, missing the window by a few meters.

Her thoughts before she smacked right into the wall: 'This is gonna hurt...!'

The front side of her body hit the stone wall hard, causing her katana and her kodachi, both still in their sheathes, to get launched upward and land on the top of the highest tower, before her body peeled it self from the wall and she then landed in a pool of water, near an area that looked like it was used for docking small boats. The cold water snapped her out of it and she swam to the surface, taking in air she needed greatly, having it forced out of her when she hit the wall, before swimming to the small docking area and lifted herself onto the level stone.

Naruto crawled out from under her soaked cap then said in a loud whisper, "This why I hate water!", pointing to his soaked wings, before used a spell to dry both of themselves off, after which Naruto floated near near her shoulder.

They both went forward, before a familiar voice said, "Your blades landed all the way up there? Fuck! Sorry about that. Dammit, I guess my aim was off a bit. Heh, but the look on your face: Priceless..."

Kyoko used the spell she learned from Naruto earlier and summoned forth a glowing, red stone that was tied with twine to a thin, black leather 'chain', which wasn't in her pouch before she was launched from the ship. But she knew right away it was Sasuke who was speaking through the stone, because she vaguely remembered Sasuke slipping something into her pouch.

"I slipped this stone into your pouch just before we fired over there and as you can see, it's no ordinary stone either. I call it the 'Pirate's Charm' and I can see, speak, and hear through this stone, so if you hear my voice through this stone, you'd better answer..." Sasuke said through the stone, before he continued with, "But I'm gonna need this back after you save your half-brother, so don't lose it, okay?"

The red gem's glow disappeared, meaning that Sasuke was done talking to her, before she put it around her neck, making it easier for Kyoko to get messages via the stone. She walked up a small set of steps, Naruto following after her, before she spotted some barrels. She walked over to them and picked one of them up, to find that it was empty, didn't have a bottom, and had holes near the top to see out of.

"Naruto, get over here and under this barrel with me." Kyoko said, getting a weird look from Naruto, before she continued with, "Naruto, we have to think stealth until I get my katana and kodachi, so we need to use what we have, so get under here."

Naruto lightly clung to her hair as he stood on her shoulder before she lifted the empty barrel over them, easily fooling the dumb monsters of the Forsaken Fortress when they stood still. She moved up the steps with slight difficulty, however they made it to the courtyard in one piece, but when she started moving up the next set of steps that's when the trouble started.

"Kyoko-chan, some dust got up my nose and it itches!" Naruto whined in a loud whisper, but Kyoko it made her uneasy, for fairy sneezes were louder and more powerful than human sneezes.

"Naruto, whatever you do, do NOT sneeze!" Kyoko whispered, but it was too late; Naruto sneezed, causing the barrel they were using to be sent flying in an south-easterly direction.

"God bless you..." Kyoko said, before the alarms were sounded and the searchlights landed on her.

:: A few minutes later ::

Kyoko, with Naruto still hiding in her hair, was thrown into a holding cell in the southern part of the fortress and not too gently either.

'When I get my katana and kodachi back, they'll pay. Ohhhh, they'll pay!' Kyoko thought as she stood back up and dusted her clothes, before the red gem glowed.

"Do I even want to know?" Sasuke asked through the stone, slightly curious as to how they got caught.

"Naruto sneezed, which caused the barrel we were hiding under to go flying... And yes, fairy sneezes are that powerful..." Kyoko said with a straight face, not amused that they were caught.

"Hn, just find a way out of there, time is short..." Sasuke said before the stone stopped glowing.

Kyoko looked around, before she noticed a pot was on top of a shelf, like it was blocking something. She got onto the table and leaped onto the shelf, before she lifted the pot and chucked it, revealing a small tunnel. She crawled through the tunnel, following it to it's end, until she was on the outside the cell. She then met up with Naruto, who had floated between the bars of the cell since he was small enough to do so, before they headed down the only way they could. In front of her, when she reached the end of the small hallway, was a treasure chest, with her curiosity winning, she opened it to reveal a map of the Forsaken Fortress.

"Wow, we got lucky! Now we have an idea of where we're going..." Kyoko said as she put the map away, but she wasn't paying attention and fell, although it looked like she did it on purpose, to the first floor.

Naruto sweat-dropped before he flew down to where Kyoko was, whom was moving behind some barrels where a switch was, which she activated. The door opened, revealing a treasure chest, before she walked into the unlocked cell and opened the chest that was in there. But she was unaware of the fact that some monsters heard the door opening and were on there way to investigate. The chest held a heart-shaped glass-looking item with a small heart in the middle, before it shined brightly and fazed into her chest cavity.

She gave a questioning look before Naruto said, "Those things are heart pieces. If you collect three more, you can form a heart container, which can help you last even longer in battle. For example, you can only take twelve hits before you get k.o.-ed, but if get a heart container, you can take sixteen hits instead of twelve, twenty instead of sixteen, etc. And once you get them, you can't get rid of them, so you can always increase the hits you can take..."

"And now I'm gonna hide in your hair again so the guards don't see me..." Naruto said as he hid himself in a curtain of her hair, to which she quirked an eyebrow in question before she got hauled off to the jail cell once again.

She was thrown into the cell, just as roughly as last time, if not rougher. Instead of taking the long way out, she got Naruto to unlock the door with his magic, and they quickly moved to the opened chest, before she jumped, grabbed the lantern's rope, and, with the momentum she had she made it across easily as Naruto floated across with little effort. After a game of rock, paper, scissors, with Kyoko the winner, they went through the door on the left side of the room. They were now outside and on the pathway that was inside the protective wall, before going forward and noticed a small balcony with a ladder on it. The Pirate's charm glowed, meaning Sasuke was give some input.

"As you may have guessed, there's a monster running the searchlight up there. If you kill the monster, it'll probably shut down the searchlight, but your unarmed aren't you? If I were in your shoes, I'd probably use the shield to block the monster's attacks and wait 'til it drops it's weapon. Then use it's own weapon against itself... but that's just me..." Sasuke said, the light went out as quickly as it lit up.

She used the equipping spell to have the throwing knives and the trench knives handy, before she climbed up the fairly tall ladder. When she reached the top, the Bokoblin lifted it's head when she got near the searchlight, which caused said searchlight to be temporarily disabled as it reached for it's weapon. Kyoko was faster, however, as she threw four throwing knives, with all of them hitting their mark as they were deeply buried into the Bokoblin's side, before she stabbed the Bokoblin in the chest cavity and slit it's throat, thus causing it to poof from existence. A pendant popped out from where the Bokoblin was, a butterfly-like charm on the necklace stringed with pearls, before it was warped into her Spoil's bag.

Kyoko turned to Naruto, who explained, "Joy Pendants, joy flocks to them like butterflies to flowers. You can either sell them, or collect them and then trade them for something even rarer..."

Kyoko shrugged before going down the ladder and going left, her instinctual radar for treasure told her that there was treasure in that room. She entered the room and immediately noticed a treasure chest on one of the lower bunks of the many bunk-beds, a greedy smile spread across her face as she jumped from the ledge to as close to the chest as possible. She opened the chest, for only to reveal a yellow rupee, which was only worth ten rupees.

'Eh, it's better than nothing...' Kyoko thought as she put it into her purse, which now had fifty-five rupees in it, before she backtracted to the room that held the prison cell, and went through the other door.

When she got to the next room she noticed that a treasure chest was 'hidden' by two barrels, which she walked past easily. She opened the treasure chest and inside was a compass, but it instantly fazed into the map, making most of the rooms on the map turn green, the room she was slightly glowing a green color, and about where she was standing a blue colored dot was there. She moved slightly and the dot did as well, before she looked at Naruto, whom seemed able to explain these things.

"That's a Compass, it's magically connected to the Dungeon Map, and it reveals where you've been, where you haven't, hidden treasure that one couldn't find before, etc, etc..." Naruto said, Kyoko miraculously understood everything, before she put away the dungeon map and moving on to the next searchlight.

:: Two dead Bokoblins and two disabled searchlights later... ::

With all the searchlights disabled, she can now climb the north tower and rescue Sai. As she walked to the room that would lead the northern-most room, she stopped as she noticed a crate, a ladder, and, since the all the searchlights were disabled, the rupees she couldn't get before were now wide open. She pushed the crate off the ledge, jumped down to the courtyard, and collected the forty-five rupees that were out on the courtyard, before she pushed the crate, so she climb up onto it and ascend the ladder. Naruto sweat-dropped as he watched from where Kyoko jumped from, obviously peeved at Kyoko's habit was taking over her train of thought, before Kyoko was at the top of the ladder, back to walking towards the northern-most room.

When they entered the room, Kyoko felt something inside her drop, making her face go pale as she saw that the door she needed to get through to climb the north tower was guarded by these two monsters; brown skin, hog-like face, tiny pig-like feet, curly pig tail, and large upper-body, only wearing blue pants, metal gauntlets, a helmet, and this odd-looking skull-necklace, holding a lantern and a crude-looking spear.

"Naruto, use an invisibility spell on us, so we don't repeat the incident from earlier..." Kyoko whispered, wishing she had thought of it earlier.

Naruto casted an invisibility spell on the both of them, quickly and quietly making it past the hog-like creatures unnoticed, before quietly making it out the door. Naruto's spell wore off just as they made it out the door, making Kyoko release a quiet sigh of relief before moving onward. After climbing the three stone flight of steps, there was another hog-like monster was patrolling the area, asking Naruto to cast the invisibility spell again and to try and hold a little longer than the last time. Kyoko and Naruto, now invisible, quickly and quietly got past the hog-like guard and moved quickly up the inclined stone, the spell wore off after the were more than half way up the incline, out of the range of the hog-like monster. The incline leveled out, but when she turned the corner, she now remembered a wise saying of Kakuzu's: 'If it looks like it's getting easier, than there'll be something that makes it difficult.'

There was a large gap separating the next leveled-ledge from the one she was standing on, before she noticed a slim ledge that connected the two. She pressed her back as close to the wall as she could, before she shifted her feet across the thin ledge, Naruto floating mid-air as he waited on the other side.

'Damn those wings of his...!' Kyoko thought before she made it to the other side, letting out a small sigh of relief before rounding the next corner, finding another slim ledge that she would have to slowly move across.

She, again, placed her back against the stone wall before she slowly sidled across, picking up two small, red heart-shaped objects, which Naruto had explained that those were magical items that can heal. When finally made it to the other side, mentally cursing Naruto's wings, she walked around another corner, but she saw was her swords on the ground and a shield Bokoblin sleeping in front of a large, barricaded door made of wood. She tried to quietly make it to her swords, but spikes came up from the floor behind her, waking the shield Bokoblin instantly, before it quickly moved toward her. She rushed to her swords, quickly grabbing her katana, before slashing the Bokoblin four times, killing it before it disappeared in a poof of purple and black smoke, leaving behind a Joy Pendant, which Kyoko quickly grabbed. She put her katana and kodachi back onto her back, making sure they were more tightly secured to her, Naruto crawled into her cap for god-knows what reason, before she saw the door's barricade had swung upward, making the door openable.

She pushed the door open and quickly walked into the fairly large room, causing Sai and two other males to look up, Sai's face lit up at the sight of his elder half-sister. Kyoko's face lit up as well, before the sound of large wings flapping caused her to look up and see the monstrous bird land quickly. It quickly plucked Kyoko into it's mouth, before flying out of the room and to a battered ship's hull, where a man with long, black hair, sickly pale skin, and black and purple robes was standing, but Kyoko couldn't get a good look at his face because the bird was flapping it's wings to stay mid-air. The male did a nod-like quirk of his head, and before she knew it, the bird quickly jerked it's head and tossed her in a south-eastwardly direction, her screams echoed before she landed who-knows-where.

In the middle of a vast ocean, Kyoko was floating face up and unconscious in the sea, Naruto out cold in her cap as well. A small, black boat drifted up to the unconscious young woman, truly beginning her adventure...

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