Disclamer: Don't own Naruto

Uzuki Yuugao walked cautiously across the water turning around watching her back, ninjaken drawn. She felt a punch collide with her ANBU mask, cracking her mask. She fell into the water, but Ronin grabbed her neck. She tried to counterattack, but he yelled "Suiro no Jutsu." She was immediately encapsulated in water, unable to speak or breathe. The water clone Ronin smiled at her.

Ronin had positioned his clones around the ANBU/ROOT shinobi walking into the middle of the lake. The three water clones formed a triangle around the group. At once all three shouted, "Suiton: Mizuame Nabara." From the mouths of the clones sprayed out sticky syrup. The ninjas was caught up in the syrup, there legs were stuck together, causing them to submerge into the water. The clones melted back into the water. The real Ronin shouted, "Suiton: Suigadan" slamming his hand into the water. Spikes shot through the water towards the helpless ninjas. Those who had been sprayed the least were able to escape. But most had gotten hit. The lake was tinged red. All the ROOT were dead and counting Uzuki Yuugao there were only 3 ANBU left. The other two were badly injured.

Uzuki Yuugao mind was starting to struggle. Her lungs burned, it had been over 5 minutes since her last breath. But this clone just kept staring at her with his piercing green eyes, just smiling through his stupid mask. "Fuck. How do I get out? Someone made a mistake... someone fucked up. No one told us he was a mist-nin. I'll ... I'll kill that idiot." She was starting to feel the affects of oxygen deprivation. Mostly she couldn't think straight. She saw the real Ronin through the dissipating mist. He was killing the wounded. But then he spotted her and began walking towards her. She yelled through the water, "WHY?"

"You were going to attack me. It was self defense; I didn't mean any harm to the village you defend. You attacked me, now you pay the price." Uzuki smiled. From through the mist she had spotted a blue glow, a rasengan. Uzumaki Naruto was here. Seeing her smile Ronin turned around just in time to see two blonde teens fly through the mist towards him, a blue ball of chakra in the hand of the right. The left disappeared in a puff of smoke. Ronin stepped back destroying the water clone imprisoning Uzuki. She quickly wrapped her right arm around Ronin's neck trapping him temporarily as Naruto's rasengan plunged into his chest, piercing his armor and shok plate, burning his skin. Ronin yelled out in pain, falling into the water.

Ronin stomach was screaming out in pain. He tumbled through the water, touching the blackened and bleeding skin. The burns were deep and had partially seared his intestines. If not for his body armor he would have been mortally wounded. He looked up at the water's surface to see blondee swimming quickly towards him, while the Hokage pulled the wounded shinobi out of the water. Ronin was going to have to deal with this kid before the Hokage turned her attention to him. Ronin formed some quick hand signs whispering through his water-filled mouth, "Tajuu Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu." At least 50 water clones formed around him, launching themselves, kunai drawn, at the kid.

Naruto swam furiously towards the ronin. "That monster," Naruto thought, "He killed those shinobi through cowardly traps, he injured Kakashi-sensei, he worked for Orochimaru, and he worked for the Akatsuki." That last word sent waves of hate through Naruto's body, palpable even to Ronin. "Sasuke ... SASUKE" Naruto yelled out, his chakra turning red. He formed some quick hand signs yelling out, "Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Over one hundred Narutos flung themselves at the water clones, and the battle ensued.

Though the ronin was a better taijutsu fighter, the overwhelming number of Narutos was simply to much. Eventually 15 Narutos were left. Naruto swam towards the man. He flipped himself upside down, kicking with both legs at the three forward clones causing them to disappear in smoke. The other clones swam around the rogue-nin, and then threw their shuriken at him. The ninja dodged several but 5 hit him: one into his right arm, one into his left thigh wound, one hit, and skittered off, his body armor, and two hit him square in his wounded stomach. The ronin roared in pain as he began to bleed from the ninja star wounds. He turned his body upside down and began swimming quickly into the lakes depths.

Ronin tired. His strength and chakra were ebbing "Damn, how does that kid keep going? What the hell is the red chakra, its endless. Damn those water clones were 'spose to make quick work of him. Damn." Ronin was easily 30 meters deep in the water, he had lost blondee, but not for long. He flicked his wrist twice giving himself a double hit of the drug cocktail. He instantly felt opiate-enabled relief block out his dull aches and sharp pains. He felt his chakra rebound, his muscles tightened and strengthen with the aid of the dextroamphetamine sulphate. "Come get some punkass" he thought.

Naruto swam down searching for the rogue-nin. He spotted what appeared to be an acid green rocket soaring up towards him. He stared at it. "What is tha-" BAM. The ronin's fist collided with Naruto's stomach, he coughed up blood. "OOF. What... where did he get that power- AAAHH." The ninja's left fist collided with Naruto's cheek. Naruto lashed out, but the ninja grabbed both his arms smashing his head into Naruto's. The ninja would not let go of Naruto's arms no matter how much he struggled. Naruto heard the ninja emit growling snarl, then put both his feet on Naruto's pectorals and pushed. Naruto screamed out in pain, "that... damn... AAHH... rogue... he's trying... to... errrr... pull my arms... out... arg... of their... sockets AHHHH." Naruto felt his right arm slowly begin to slip from its socket. Naruto yelled out, the yell turned to a growl. His K-9s grew, his whisker mark grew, two tails of red chakra formed around his butt, and more red chakra exploded out from his body as his strength increased. However the rogue-nin moved his right foot on Naruto's face. Naruto growled, reversing the grip the ronin had on his arm and tossing him over his head like crumpled paper.

"What what is going ON!?!" Ronin thought, "This kid what the fuck is he. I've taken a triple hit and he's ... he's overpowering me! AAAAHHH!" This monster kid driven his kunai into Ronin's stomach wound. This was starting to look very bad for our loveable (anti) hero. Ronin clutched his stomach. Yup things were looking real bad. The amphetamines were starting to take their affect on his body. His head was beginning to pound and his quadriceps, biceps, and pectorals were beginning to involuntarily shake. "Damn this isn't looking good."

Naruto saw Ronin's muscles shake and he smiled. "Time to get you out of your element ronin." Naruto grabbed the shaking ronin by the collar of his body armor and threw him clear out of the water and onto the embankment.

"Shit what the hell is this kid." Then it all snapped into clarity. "This was one of the jinchuriki. The different colored chakra, the tails, and the power. He had heard about the leaf jinchuriki: the Kyuubi. Fuck he was really screwed." Thats all he could think when he was flying through the air. He hit the ground with a dull thump. "Ow. My ribs are cracked ow. Maybe I'll just sit here for a moment or a while." Was what Ronin's concussed mind thought. He cracked open his blackened eyes to stare at the Hokage.