Hey guys Plutone pilot here with chapter two of Power Rangers Ninjetti. Now as promised this chapter will focus more on Naruto since he is "supposed" to be the main character. Now I just want to thank everyone that favorited, or put this story in their story alerts along with putting myself in your alerts as well. I really appreciate the support and it really motivates me to start writing since I'm incredibly lazy. Anyway time to get started so let's jam.

'Naruto' Thought/telepathy

"Sakura" Spoken Dialog

"Kushina" Flashback4


In an apartment in the downtown commercial district of Angel Grove Naruto laid on his bed reading the latest Volume of Fairy Tail he bought the previous week. As he read through the books black and white pages he thought back to the four teens that walked into the dojo earlier. 'I wonder what they wanted with Adam.' He thought as he turned the page of the book before continuing his thoughts. 'That girl with the pink hair was really cute. What was her name again? Sakura? Haruka? I can't remember.' Naruto thought to himself as he remembered the pink haired beauty from before. As he was about to continue reading his book the building across from his erupted in a massive explosion as the top seven floors were decimated by a massive fire ball. His windows were blown out and glass was thrown everywhere. The room shook and he the force threw him out of his room and into a wall. He rubbed his head in pain and began to get up to his feet.

Naruto looked out his window and saw the once 21 floor office building reduced to only 14. 'What's going on?' He wondered as the sight of ghost faced blue ooze monsters came falling from the sky in front of his window. Naruto's eyes widened in shock at the sight of the humanoid creatures as they began to go on a rampage destroying anything and anyone in sight. Before he could do anything a horde of Oozelings begin to tear their way into his apartment from the destroyed windows. The blue humanoids began to tear their way through his apartment ransacking everything in sight before turning their attention to the blonde.

Naruto quickly ducked under the swing of their three foot blades his fighting instinct kicking in as he kicked the oozeling in its stomach. He turned around and quickly punched another in the chest before backhanding it with his bald up fist. He then kicked it into the wall behind it before turning and ducking under another sword swipe. Naruto rolled out from the confined hallway and into his living room. He stared at the weird creatures in confusion. Their skin was blue and felt squishy like a gel filled ball and their faces were white and resembled the ghost face from scream. His hands and feet slimy to the touch from when he hit the two weird creatures. He didn't have much time to think as three more attacked him from behind. He quickly backflipped over them and landed ln a crouch as he crossed his fingers together. 'I haven't used this since pervy sage taught it to me.' "Shadow clone jutsu." Four clones of the by appeared and they all went about quickly fighting off the ghost faced enemies.

Another explosion rumbled through the building as he finished off the oozelings as they all melted into goop. He dispelled his clones and quickly ran out his apartment after putting on a pair of white sneakers and locking his door before he ran down the hallways of the apartment complex and down five flights of stairs. He ran out the front door of the lobby and saw a large crowd of people running away from the sword wielding ooze monsters and their golden armored leader. Not seeing a way-out Naruto ran down a couple more hallways and left through the service entrance of the building and proceed to run for his life like all the rest. ' What the hell are these things? Where did they come from?' He wondered as he ran amongst the crowd. As he ran he heard what sounded like the scream of a small child.

He turned his head and saw that one of the blue creatures had grabbed a little girl by her pigtails and held its sword high above it ready to skewer her. Without a second of hesitation Naruto ran up to the creature and with a swift jump kick kicked the sword out of its hand and planted another swift kick into its face knocking it away from the girl. He picked up the small child and proceeded to run away as fast as possible. As he turned a corner and hid behind a dumpster in a dark alleyway and began to catch his breath.

He looked down at the little girl in his arms and saw that the girl seemed to be crying. "It's ok. They won't get you now I promise." Naruto said smiling down at her. The girl nodded sniffling all the same seeming to calm down quite a bit. " So what's your name?" he asked the tiny brunette after she looked completely calm.

"Alex." She said answering him.

" Ok Alex do you know where your mommy and daddy are?" Naruto asked the girl but saw that she shook her head no. He was about to say something when he heard a loud 'It's morphin time'. He looked up in front of the dumpster where he saw the form of four power rangers. 'What Power Rangers?' But I thought that they were all dead.' Naruto thought as he began to watch the battle unfold. The rangers moved like lightning. They swiftly dealt with each enemy before hitting the next. Not one move wasted, each move done with a purpose and done without a thought. As he watched them he knew that they were highly trained fighters. Professionals in the art of combat.

Naruto gazed at the rangers in adoration never looking away as they finished of the blue foot soldiers forcing their leader to retreat. 'That's what I want. To be one of them. To be a power ranger.' Naruto thought to himself as he saw the rangers vanish in a plume of smoke. He looked down at the little girl next to him and smiled down at her as he got up and held out his hand to her. She timidly took his hand and they then began to follow him out of the alley way. They kept-on walking down the now ruined streets from the attack looking for someone that knew the little girl. After what seemed like hours they stopped in a restaurant luckily not touched by the destruction that was let loose earlier that day.

The restaurant had a beach theme and was called Adelle's Surf Spot. They walked into the restaurant where they saw a man in his early thirties wearing a blue, yellow, and lavender plaid shirt, khaki slacks with brown loafers and neatly combed brown hair. He ran around furiously asking holding up a picture in his wallet of a small child asking if they have seen her. Alex looked up at the man and let go of Naruto's hand and stepped forward toward the man. "Daddy?" the sound of the child made the man turn to look at the door where he saw Alex and started to tear up. "Alex?" The little girl ran up to her father and he got down on one knee to give her a hug wrapping her in his arms. Naruto smiled at the two happy to see Alex reunited with her father. The man got up from his knee holding Alex in his arms. He walked over to Naruto and smiled at the man.

"Are you the one that helped out my daughter?" he asked with a large smile on his face. Naruto nodded and began to scratch the back of his head smiling himself. "Yeah but don't mention it. It was nothing seriously." Naruto said to the man who just shook his head in reply. "No it wasn't. Thanks to you my little girl is safe and sound. I can't begin to thank you enough. " he said extending his free hand to Naruto in a friendly hand shake. Naruto returned the handshake. " Its ok really. I'm just glad that she's ok." Naruto said modestly to the man. The man thanked him again before taking his daughter home with him who waved good bye to the man that saved her. Naruto waved back before he turned and went to a table to get himself something to eat.


"You were forced to retreat!?" Typhon yelled in anger at his subordinate. Typhon's yellow eyes glowed brightly in anger as his subordinate kneeled down before him.

"Yes general. My troops were destroyed by four power rangers." Ryuuga explained to the general before him making no excuse for his failure. At this Typhon was highly intrigued.

"Power rangers? What did they look like?" Typhon seemed to have calm down but was still agitated about what happened down in the city.

"Sir, they resembled the rangers of Aquitar but the rangers themselves were obviously human and not Aquitian." Ryuga said to his leader not moving from his kneeling spot. Typhon sat down on his throne and began to think of what to do next. There was now a new team of rangers on the loose. Ivan had the majority of the army with him conquering Europe along with his own team of rangers and won't be back for six months. That meant that he would have to deal with this himself.

"Ok, prepare a platoon of oozelings and send a monster down there with them. Let's see what these new Power Rangers can do." Typhon said with a malevolent voice that dripped of venom and honey. Ryuga bowed his head and went to carry out his orders. All the while Typhon looked on with a sadistic glee.


It was the next day and slowly the four city blocks that were destroyed in the attack were slowing being cleaned up. By now most of the rubble had been cleared and removed from the area as well as the four dozen bodies recovered that were left intact enough to facially identify. Luckily for Naruto they didn't make it to the dojo two streets over. As he ran to his place of employment the nineteen-year-old saw a familiar head of pink locks carrying four plastic grocery bags with her. He sped up so he was right behind her deciding to greet the girl. " Hey Sakura." At the call of her name Sakura turned around showing that she was wearing the same thing she was wearing yesterday.

" Hey, your Adam's assistant umm,,,," Sakura tried to recall his name but couldn't quite recall it.

"Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto said extending his hand to the girl. She looked at the hand for a second before sweet dropping.

" I would shake it but my hands are full." Sakura nervously chuckled to herself. Naruto smacked himself in the forehead for his lapse of common sense laughing as well.

"Here let me help you with those." Naruto offered as he went to grab a couple of the bags that she was carrying. Sakura gave him the two bags in her left hand and the two continued their trek to Adam's dojo. Out of the corner of his eye Naruto looked down at the bags to try and see what was in the bags. 'I got to know if she really dye's her hair.' He thought to himself. Before he could look into the bags he was quickly brought out of his thoughts by Sakura's voice.

"If you want to know, no I don't use hair dye. This is my natural color." Sakura said a small smile on her lips as she walked in front of Naruto not letting him see it. Naruto was shocked at what she said.

Not that she didn't dye her hair but that she could guess what he was thinking without looking at him. " How did you know what I was thinking?" as he asked the question Sakura turned her head back to look at him still smiling ear to ear.

"That's what everyone thinks when they see my hair. And besides you're like a little kid, it's written all over your face." Sakura said giggling again at the blond. Naruto felt a slight blush color his cheeks as he watched the giggling girl.

'She's so cute.' He thought as he looked at the pink haired beauty. "So Sakura what did you need to talk about with Adam yesterday? It seemed very important." Naruto asked after shaking his head. Sakura got quiet for a second looking very stoic. But as quickly as it came was as quick as it went as her beautiful smile returning back to her face.

"Oh I came from a martial arts school out of town and I came here to continue my training and to even teach a class of my own." Sakura said remembering the story that her and Adam came up with yesterday after the attack.

"Oh that's great. What type of class is it? Gymnastics, martial arts?" Naruto asked excited at the thought of having another teacher at the dojo besides himself and Adam. Sakura laughed at his excitement her smile only becoming brighter.

"No. I'm teaching kendo." Sakura said to Naruto as she saw him have a confused look on his face and decided to explain. "Kendo is a type of Japanese martial arts that focuses solely on sword fighting. Adam said that he had some students that wanted to learn and he asked me to teach it to his class today. If you want you can watch. You might like it." Sakura explained to him.

The thought of sword fighting gave Naruto a thrill and nodded his head vigorously. "Sure so come on let's go." And with that Naruto grabbed her hand and ran to the dojo. Sakura could only smile at his excitement.

'Yup, just like a little kid.'


It had been four hours now and Sakura was now sitting on a bench in the dojo visibly sweating from her last class. She had to do a lot more hands-on work than she normally would have but she still enjoyed it. She felt a cool feeling on her left cheek and turned to see Naruto holding a water bottle in his hand for her. She took the bottle taking off the cap and taking a large swig of it letting the cool liquid slide down her parched throat. "You did very well Sakura. You really do make a good teacher." Naruto complimented the young girl who thanked him.

"So Sakura when did you learn kendo? That's not something you really learn here in the states." Naruto asked as he sat down on the bench next to her taking a drink of his own water bottle.

"That's because I didn't learn it in a school. I learned Kendo form my family. You see Naruto I come from a very traditional Japanese family. They were very strict. And one thing that they had me learn was kendo. They were grueling, they never let up on me. But because of them I managed to master it." Sakura said answering his question.

"If you come from a traditional Japanese family how come you don't wear that long rob thing?" Naruto asked her looking confused once again. Sakura shook her head at the question but answered anyway.

"Well one, it's called a kimono. And two it's because my parents were traditional. I prefer the more modern way of things, that includes my clothes. That was one thing my parents never really liked about me. Well my mom to be more specific. But enough about me what about you. I told you about me now it's your turn." Sakura said turning to look at the boy next to her. Naruto looked up in thought before answering

"Well I was born October 10, 1994 so I'm nineteen. Both my parents died during the invasion of 1998. So I was placed in the custody of my godfather. He passed away in a hit and run accident when I was fifteen. I was emancipated a year later and I've been working for Adam since then. Adam was the one that gave me a job when I really needed one. He even let me stay in the dojo until I could get on my feet. " Naruto said a somber look adorning his face. Sakura looked over at the boy, a frown coming on her face as well. "But it's alright. Look at me. I'm fine. I'm not really lonely, and besides I'm used to it!" he said with large grin on his face and an amount of enthusiasm that would make most people think that he was happy. But Sakura didn't look convinced.

'You can fool civilians Naruto, you can even fool yourself. But you can't fool me.' Sakura thought to herself. Being a ninja Sakura learned to look "beneath the underneath" as her master calls it. She can see through the facades of the common person. To know when they're lying, when they're bluffing, and when they're hurting. And Naruto was doing the latter and the former.

Sakura got up from her seat on the bench and walked in front of Naruto and gave him a small but genuine smile. " I'm not going to pretend that I know how you feel. I'm not going to pretend that I even understand what it's like to lose someone so important to you. But what I can do is give you an ear to listen to, a shoulder to lean on, and another to cry on. I know we just met yesterday but that doesn't mean that I'm not your friend. You can depend on me if you can't depend on anyone else in this world ok." Sakura said as she encircled his head in light hug and placed her head on top of his. Naruto looked shocked at what she said but in the end returned the hug and thanked her for what she said.

They stayed like that for what felt like an eternity until a loud coughing sound cut through the moment forcing them to jump away from one another. They turned toward the back door to see a smiling Ino leaning on the doorway wearing what looked like a cropped halter made of purple dyed cotton, a pair of black sweat shorts with white pin striping going down the side of each thigh and a pair of white and purple running shoes. Her IPod strapped to her right forearm. Ino smiled mischievously at the two a small blush of embarrassment coloring each of their cheeks. "Well, well, well look who's gotten close to each other so quickly. Ah young love is so sweet." Ino said in a fake amorous tone. Sakura growled at her best friend getting very angry at the girls teasing.

"Urusai Baka Hentai" the girl shouted going back into her native tongue. Ino only laughed at the riled-up girl before she had to duck before Sakura swung her shinai at her head. Ino held up her hands in surrender deciding that she didn't want her friend to kill her just yet.

"Ok. Ok I give up just don't kill me." Ino said backing up from the doorway. Sakura felt the tick in her temple begin to calm down after a minute. She turned to look at Naruto only to find him hiding under the bench they were once sitting on.

'Mental note never piss of Sakura.' Naruto thought to himself now wanting to never be on the receiving end of the pink haired girls fury.

"Naruto get up I won't hurt you." 'Sheesh why does every guy I meet think I'm going to kill him?' Sakura said to Naruto before thinking to herself. Naruto got up from his hiding spot nervously chuckling and scratching the back of his head. Sakura shook her head at the boy before looking at the clock and seeing that it was two thirty. " Hey Naruto, do you know a good place to eat? I'm new here and don't really know my way around."

Sakura said starting to hear her stomach growl. "Sure i know one. It's called Adelle's Surf Spot. They have the best burgers in town. Pretty good seafood too." Naruto replied to her after thinking about it for a second. "That sounds great. Do you mind showing me? Like I said I don't know my way around yet." Sakura smiled when she saw him nod his head in reply. She then turned around and went to the lady's bathroom saying that she was going to change. Naruto nodded his head and then sat down to wait on her.

'Actually I already know my way around this city. It really pays to be a book worm sometimes. And to have a secret base that has a very detailed map of the city. There's just something about Naruto that I just can't seem to put my finger on. It's not like he's hiding something, but there's something about him that I just can't seem to ignore.' Sakura thought to herself as she was changing into her street clothes and out of her practice armor. She exited the bathroom and her and Naruto then began their walk to the restaurant.


They were now leaving Adelle's having had an enjoyable lunch and were now going back to the dojo. "So Sakura were exactly do you live in the city?" Naruto asked thinking back on how she said that she was new to the city.

"I live in the apartments on top of the dojo. Adam's renting them to me and my friends while we're getting on our feet." Sakura said looking down the sidewalk at the rivers of people walking down them. Naruto was about to comment but was alerted by his alarm on his cellphone. He pulled the phone from his pocket and looked to see that it was a reminder to go to the bank before it closed. He bid Sakura a farewell and then ran in the direction of the nearest bank. Sakura looked back at him as he ran down the crowded streets.

'Trust your instincts, keep your mind and heart open, and always look beneath the underneath.' Her master's words rang through her mind as she watched him disappear.

'Could he be the one?'


Back at Typhon's citadel Ryuga walked back into his leader's chambers along with a large monster behind him. The monster was large, bulky and looked to be made of rock. It was a tannish orange color and had the snout of an aardvark but the overall head of a bug, and large silver claws and bright sinister green compound eyes. "My lord this is Arterra his rock-hard exterior should prove to give the rangers a challenge. He shall lead the oozelings into battle." Ryuga said to Typhon who looked overall impressed with this monster.

"Alright then now go out and destroy. Eliminate the power rangers once and for all." Typhon commanded the monster. It let out a loud roar before tunneling under the ground heading for the city.


Naruto left the bank having withdrawn his last paycheck with only five minutes before it closed. He pocketed the money he earned and began his trek home. As he hummed a tune only he knew the words to his peaceful walk was stopped by the loud shrill cry of a young girl. He followed the sound only to see a group of five males around the age 20-25 ganged around a young girl that couldn't be no more than 16. The men all looked sleazy and deranged. "So girly you gonna have some fun with us or not? Say yes and we won't go rough on ya….much!" The assumed leader said as he let out a loud disgustingly sadistic laugh. Above them Sakura watched on top of a building hiding in the shadows ready to jump at a moment's notice.

But before she could move a trash can lid went flying through the air hitting the leader dead on in the back of the head. He angrily turned in the direction that the lid was thrown from and saw fist slam into his face sending him flying into the street on the other side of the alley. Another one of the men pulled out a pistol but had had it kicked out of his hand by the heel of Naruto's foot before he got a vicious knee in the gut. Another pulled out a knife and ran at Naruto but had his hand twisted until he dropped the weapon. Naruto then slammed the man's elbow down on his knee shattering it before he punched him in his face breaking a few teeth. The last two stood horrified that one guy took out three of them in less than two minutes. As Naruto turned to them they felt all the blood rush from their faces leaving them ghostly pale. They then quickly ran leaving their friends behind running for their lives.

Naruto then turned to the girl a large smile on his face. "You alright?" The girl nodded her head as she dusted off her skirt.

"Thanks. Those bozos have been following me for days. I maced them but they still kept coming." The 16-year-old was about to reach into her purse to reward the boy that saved her only for him to wave her off.

"Nah don't mention it. I have a thing against perverts anyway so its fine. Any way you be safe. See you." Naruto said zas he ran off before the girl could reply.

Sakura stood on that building looking at the scene in awe. He moved like a dancer. Graceful and fluid like water. Not one wasted move, not one wasted movement, everything that he did he did with a purpose. In other words he fought like a ninja. 'Now I'm sure of it. He's the one sensei was talking about. Strong of mind, strong of body, strong of soul, strong of will, and pure of heart. Yes he's the one, the new red ranger.' and with that thought she jumped off heading home to retrieve the fifth morpher.


In the command center Alpha worked with Shikamaru and Lee on their bases communication systems. "So Alpha how come the communicators are separate from our morphers?" Shikamaru asked as he went about activating the communication system on the consoles while Alpha and Lee went about assembling the last two communicators.

"Because there was no room for them. Your morphers are built from using parts from the original power morphers. That was before morphers and communicators were integrated together." Alpha explained as he put on the faceplate of the last communicator it's colored band showing that it was meant for the red ranger. Before Shikamaru could ask another question The alarms blared and Alpha went over to Shikamaru's counsel and pressed a few buttons showing Arterra and a group of oozelings attacking the city.

"Looks like it's time to once again display the flames of our youth in the pursuit of justice once again!" Lee said in earnest as the monster caused large sinkholes sucking up cars and people alike. "You two go get Sakura and Ino. They should be in their room." Alpha said to the two who nodded their heads and ran two the elevator taking it up to the top floor.


Sakura rummaged through her stuff franticly looking for the morpher she had hidden in her room. As she looked she tried not to make her room a mess like her roommate Ino but was starting to get frustrated. As she began to look through her bed she felt the golden remote-sized box under pillow. She then pulled out her own in her pocket opening them both to look at their coins. She sighed in relief as she closed them and put the red ranger morpher in her back pocket and her own in her right pocket. She heard a knock at her door as she remade her bed telling whoever it was to come in. She looked up to see Ino standing there a serious look on her face." We have trouble." was all she said.

Sakura nodded her head telling her to lead the way. As they walked out the door to the elevator she reached back and felt the morpher in her back pocket 'I guess giving you this will have to wait Naruto.'


The four ran down the streets of downtown toward the sound of explosions and the rumbling of collapsing earth. In the middle of It all stood Arterra looking at the four with its expressionless eyes. "So you must be the power rangers. You don't seem as powerful as the others!" the monster laughed as it looked at the four with an arrogant snort. Sakura pulled out her morpher stepping in front of the others holding it up close to her.

"You guys ready?!" Sakura shouted as the others pulled out their morphers and answered in the same fashion

"Ready." "It's morphin time" and with that command the four morphed.

"Graceful like the crane pink ninja ranger." Sakura shouted as she made the sign of the ninjetti with her hands before taking the stance of the crane.

"Swift like the wolf blue ninja ranger." Lee also said forming the sign of the ninjetti with his hands before taking the stance of the wolf.

"Cunning like the frog black ninja ranger" Shikamaru announced forming the sign of the ninjetti with his hands before taking the stance of the frog

"Strong like the bear yellow ninja ranger" Ino said forming the sign of the ninjetti with her hands before taking the stance of the bear. They all formed the sign of the ram and held it up before bringing it down as they recited the rest of their war cry.

"Force of shadows, power of light, powers unite, Power Rangers Ninjetti" The rangers said as they grabbed the hilts of their swords in their right hands and the bottom of their sheaths in their left.

With their war cry said they ran into battle with Arterra and the oozelings. In the apartment building next to them Naruto stood in his apartment cleaning and repairing the damage to it from earlier when a rumble shook the building. He looked out the know replaced window to see a battle waging on in the streets. The Power Rangers were facing a giant rock monster with a bug's head and an aardvark's snout and a group of ooze monsters. But this battle was different than the last. 'Their losing.' He thought to himself as he watched the rangers fight for their lives.


Lee locked his blade against Arterra's claws but was knocked back and swiped with the rock monster's sharp claws back into the Oozelings where they slashed at him with their swords. Sakura ran through the Oozelings slashing them as she ran and jumped into the air at the monster but was blasted back. Only to be revealed to be an empty uniform. She jumped from the ground behind him only to be hit with his back-swinging claws. Rolling on the ground she used her sword to push herself back up. Arterra looked to his next victims and saw Shikamaru and Ino holding their ninja blasters up in front of them.

They fired the lasers at him only to have him dig underground and dodge them. They two went underground charging the monster in a subterranean battle. With the monster's greater strength it flung the two into the air following it up with a laser blast from it's eyes. The four tried to fight the oozelings but with Arterra constantly attacking them they began to feel outnumbered in the battle. As they all laid on the ground breathing heavily Arterra laughed at them raising his claws for the final strike. Only to get savagely kicked in the face by Naruto as he jumped into the battle.

"Hey why don't you pick on someone your own size." Naruto shouted at the monster who only shrugged off the hit. " Bring me one and I will." but before he could charge a large plume of smoke covered the area obscuring the vision of everyone there. As Naruto looked around he felt himself being lifted up into the air until he was on top of his 20 story apartment building. He looked around and saw that it was the pink ranger who brought him there. The masked woman ran up to the slightly taller male and gave him a hard punch on his left cheek knocking him down on his back.

"Bakayaro! You could have gotten yourself killed!" Sakura yelled at the boy in anger. She looked down at Naruto who picked himself back up and looked her square in what he assumed were her eyes.

"I saved you, you could say thank you." he yelled in an equally angry voice.

"I'm a power ranger it's my job to save people not yours! You're just a civilian what do you think you could accomplish? I go into battle prepared to die if I have to if it means protecting my people."

She said as Naruto felt fury well up inside of him and he ran at Sakura grabbing her by her suit and holding her up in the air. "Is that really the way a power ranger should be thinking while going into battle? I thought power rangers were supposed to be worried about saving lives? Not throwing them away!"

Sakura stared back into the boy not intimidated by being held up in the air by her new found blonde friend. "Oh yeah than tell me what is it that I'm supposed to do? Since you know so much about being a super hero tell me how is it that I'm supposed to save everyone?" Sakura yelled back into the blondes face her anger beginning to rise even more.

"Your supposed be thinking about making sure everyone lives! If you go into battle expecting to die than the battle is already lost! There is no victory in death! If you want to live think only of surviving. Think about making sure everybody lives. Including yourself! Power rangers are supposed to protectors of the weak not killers. If you can't protect yourself and your friends HOW THE HELL CAN YOU SAVE SOMEONE ELSE?" Naruto shouted as he looked at the pink ranger in a passionate fury. As Sakura gazed into his eyes she saw a lot of things but the one thing that was the most dominate was determination.

'He's serious. Even in insurmountable odds and against opponents that are better than him he still won't yield to pressure. I could easily kill him but even so he's not afraid. Not of me or that monster. Now I'm surer than ever. He is our red ranger.' And with that Sakura reached behind her and pulled out the last morpher and held it out for him. " Here take this." As he looked at the golden device he felt his anger fade away, ebbing away only leaving confusion in its place.

"What is it? He asked as he let go of Sakura and she landed on her feet.

"This is a ninjetti morpher. If you use it you will become a power ranger." Sakura said as Naruto became shocked.

'Is this for real? She wants me to be a power ranger? This has always been my dream but.. Can I really do this?' seeing his hesitation Sakura put the morpher on the ground before taking off her helmet. Naruto became even more shocked as he saw Sakura take off her helmet revealing who she really is.

"Naruto don't be afraid. I've been watching you. I know you have what it takes. You can do it. You can become the new red ranger. And our new leader." She said as she picked up the morpher and walked up to him holding the morpher out to him. He gazed at the gleaming box before looking at her face and saw that she meant every word she said. His face shifted from hesitant to determined and he grabbed the morpher in her hands and looked at her once more.

"Ok. I'll do it." He said holding the morpher close to him. Sakura smiled at him as he held the morpher in his hand the coin accepting him.

"Ok now all you have to do is say its morphin time and hold the morpher out in front of you and you will transform into a power ranger." She said as she placed her helmet back on and looked down and saw that Shikamaru, Lee and Ino were once again fighting against Arterra. He nodded his head and placed his left hand on top of the morpher and thrusted it forward.

"It's morphin time!" he yelled the battle cry brining the morpher to life blanketing him and a bright red light turning him into the red ranger. Naruto looked down at himself needing to confirm that he truly was the red ranger. Sakura walked up next to him and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"So you ready taicho?" Sakura asked Naruto who nodded his head.

"Yeah. Follow my lead Sakura." He pulled out his ninja blade and jumped down in a streak of red, Sakura following and doing the same in a streak of pink.


Arterra let out a victorious scream as he ran toward the three rangers who were once again forced to the ground but this time not having the strength to get back up. As he raised his claws for the final strike a red and pink blur appeared slashing at him with sharp blades. And with what felt like a kick to the stomach he was sent flying backward falling on top of his troops. He looked up and saw that the pink ranger returned but with a fifth ranger, a red ranger. Shikamaru, Lee and Ino felt their eyes bulge out of their skulls at the sight of the red ranger.

Numerous questions flooded their minds but the shock kept their mouths from uttering a one. "Wise like the ape red ninja ranger" Naruto announced forming the sign of the ninjetti with his hands before taking the stance of the ape. Arterra lifted himself up and stomped his feet in fury once again having been kept from defeating the fallen rangers.

"I don't care who you are. Five or five thousand you won't be able to defeat me." he screamed charging at Naruto. Naruto looked to his left at Sakura pulling out his ninja blade.

"I'll handle bug brain here you keep those blue things busy." seeing her nod her head in agreement she charged the oozelings leaving Naruto to fight Arterra alone. He ran at Arterra swinging his blade at the beast clashing with its claws. Arterra used his whole strength pushing Naruto back who back flipped away landing on his feet with grace. Arterra ran at him again but right as he was about to rip him in two Naruto split into copies of himself both backflipping out of the way and taking the stance of the ape. "What!?" Arterra shouted in shock seeing what should be impossible Shikamaru and the others all had the same reaction but they all knew what it was he just did.

'Shadow clone jutsu? That's impossible. Only a Ninja master can use that technique.' Shikamaru thought as the Narutos charged at the monster cutting him with their swords before jumping or backflipping out the way. Arterra struggled to keep up with the two but was just too slow. As Sakura cut down another oozeling she looked over in pride at what she saw.

'He's amazing. He's a natural at ninjutsu, he even can use shadow clones something even we can't do.' Sakura though with pride as she saw Naruto turn the tide of the battle.

The two Naruto's jumped into the air kicking Arterra in the face and knocking him away. As the two Narutos joined back together Naruto rested his sword on his shoulder. "Had enough yet?" he asked as Arterra struggled to pull himself up.

"Not on your life ranger!" Arterra shouted back as he then ran at Naruto at full speed. Naruto held his sword in front of him running his left-hand index and middle fingers along the blade making a red glow of energy appear along the blade.

"Ninja blade power up. " Naruto said as he moved the blade in a circle in front of him in a clockwise direction forming a red ring of energy. "Full moon slash." And with a final strike of his sword he sent the energy ring at Arterra. The ring hit Arterra full force mortally wounding the monster. As Arterra felt his life fading away numerous sparks surged around his body, no longer having the strength to stand Arterra fell exploding into nothing leaving only a fiery explosion in his wake. "And that takes care of that. "Naruto said sheathing his sword and turning around to see that Sakura defeated all the oozelings. "You clean up pretty fast Sakura." Naruto said as he saw Sakura run up to him.

"I could say the same about you. You were great out there Naruto." Sakura said congratulating Naruto on his first battle. Naruto chuckled under his breath at the praise Sakura was giving him. He heard the sound of boots running and turned to see Shikamaru, Lee, and Ino all running toward the two. Ino then grabbed Naruto by his suit and pulled him to her as she stared him down.

"Who the hell are you? And how did you get the red power coin and the last morpher?" Ino spat out with anger in her voice. Shikamaru didn't comment on it but instead looked over at Sakura who tried to get Ino to let go of Naruto.

"Sakura you gave him the power coin and morpher didn't you?" Shikamaru said in a lazy tone in his voice. Ino turned and looked at Sakura in shock at what she heard. Ino walked up to Sakura disbelief evident in her stance and in her voice.

"Sakura you didn't, did you? You didn't lie to us did you?" Ino asked as Sakura looked away from her best friend not looking her in the eye.

"Yes...I did. I gave him the coin, along with the morpher." Sakura said in a low and meek voice losing the amount of enthusiasm and life it once had.

"Why? Why did you do that? Why would you make such a big decision on your own and not tell us?! You're our teammate, we should have a right to say who can and who can't join us! Especially the person you make our leader! The fate of the world is at stake, you can't just let any random nice guy have the power coin!" Ino shouted at Sakura having felt betrayed. Sakura looked up at her friend feeling hurt at her friends words.

"I couldn't tell you! Master Sarutobi told me not to! He entrusted the last coin to me! He told me to find the new red ranger! I wanted to tell you but he told me not to! It was my decision Not yours Ino!" Sakura shouted back small tears starting to well up in her eyes.

"And why you!? What makes you so much better that he would only let you pick our leader!?" Ino shouted back.

Before she could continue she felt Shikamaru grab hold of her shoulder and saw Naruto stand between them. "Cool it Ino." Shikamaru said as he looked at Ino in a dry and calm tone. He then looked at Sakura and Naruto who simply stood there not uttering a word once.

"Sakura I won't argue with you since you were only following orders. I may not like that you lied to use but I won't condemn what you did. But I would like to know who you chose as our leader." Shikamaru said acting as the voice of reason and the neutral party in the argument. Sakura took in a deep breath calming herself down but never got a chance since Naruto now chose to speak up.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki. It's nice to meet you." Naruto said extending his hand out to the lazy black ranger. Shikamaru then grabbed the hand shaking it. "Shikamaru Nara like wise." Before Naruto could say anything else he felt Lee who was awfully quite during the exchange crush his lungs from behind in a crushing bearhug.

"IT IS MOST GOOD TO MEET YOU NARUTO! I AM ROCK LEE THE BLUE BEAST OF THE HIDDEN LEAF!" Lee screamed before he dropped Naruto at Shikamaru's request. Naruto turned to Shikamaru and Sakura feeling confused at the nickname.

"Blue Beast?"

"Self-proclaimed blue beast. No one actually calls him that." Shikamaru said as Sakura rubbed her helmet covered face in exasperation at her teammates antics.

"But one day they will for one day I will be the greatest Ninja in all of the world!" Lee shouted with the enthusiasm off a small child

Naruto then looked at Ino who only turned away from the four and began to walk off. "Sakura." Ino said stopping and looking back at her friend. " I don't want to see you again." And with that she walked away. As her words finally sunk in Sakura fell to her knees trembling as her tears fell unseen to remaining teammates but known to them all the same. Naruto got on one knee and wrapped his arms around her as she cried. Shikamaru and Lee looked on silently.


What a way to end chapter 2 huh? Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I will have the next chapter up by mid-february. Anyway favorite and review. And if you gave an Idea for a monster let me know in a review pm.

Edit: This was the simplest rewrite by far. I tried to convey more visually why Naruto was fit to be a power ranger and why Ino was so angry with Sakura. Which she does have a point about. If you're fighting to save the world after its been mostly concurred you can't just put anyone on the team. They don't have the time to be training newbies. And they definitely don't need some incompetent new guy as the leader. Anyway with this out of the way time to start the next chapter of Kallen of the rebellion.