When they finally got to the island they noticed that it was practically deserted. "What's going on?" Naruto asked looking around and then collapsing his hands together and shutting his eyes. He opened them and they continued to walk.
They got to the castle were met by a man in a French mustache that was brown with balding brown hair. "Hey!" Hitari shouted. "What happened to mother and father? And who are you?!" she demanded him.
"I am known as Yashimari. Princess Hitari." He said evilly and then guards with shields and swords showed up and started to surround them.
They looked around while glaring at each enemy that surrounded them. "Kiba." Naruto whispered and the dog boy tilted his head to listen while seeming to keep his eyes on the enemy. "Get the royal members out, Hinata-chan. Go with Kiba and both of you protect them with your lives." the two nodded as the fighting started and then another carriage that was black showed up and men in the same uniforms only not in helmets and only a few of them and started to attack the enemies with the helmets on.
Kakashi motioned that they could trust them and Kiba, Hinata and the royal trio got on the carriage with the other men in black uniforms and rode off with Sakura trailing after them at the same speeds.
Kakashi looked at the one who was apparently leader of the new allies. "And you are?" he asked casually as he took down a few more. And saw Lee and Naruto doing the same.
"Captain Inari. And you?" the man said taking more out.
"Kakashi. Shinobi of the leaf here to protect the princess and her kids and trying to get prince Michiru from them." Kakashi replied and then flashed through hand signs and hit his hands in the ground and produced a dust cloud to provide an escape from the enemy.
"You will find prince Michiru, and the king and queen of dream island tied up inside one of the chambers." Inari sighed out as they entered the cave where you could find Naruto and Lee having a staring contest.
"This is pointless. A staring contest is just a stupid game." Naruto sighed as he continued to stare unblinking at Lee.
Kakashi chuckled. "Me and Gai had that same contest a few years back, if I recall, Gai won that one." he sighed out and Naruto found a new determination from those words and only Kami know how he did it.
"I will beat you to get my sensei's honor back because he lost such a stupid game." Naruto said with a determined look on his face.
Naruto and Lee continued to stare on for minutes even past two hours until they both blinked at the same time. "it's a tie." they said reluctantly.
"Okay…" Sakura said looking at them warily. "You guys scare me you know that right? How could you keep your eyes open like that for so long?" she asked and the two shrugged. "Well… lets get to bed." they all nodded and got into a comfortable position for the night.
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Koharu walked out of the cave around dawn and sighed as he watched the sun rise. He had noticed that Hinata was gone and Naruto was too busy making a weird tea over the fire to notice him sit on the cliff.
He watched the waves below and thought of his adventured since the days the ninja had taken over being their guards. He was so lost in thought that when a voice spoke to him he jumped. "Koharu, are you okay?" Katsura asked as she and Naruto sat on either side of him.
"Yeah." he said softly while looking up at the sky.
"Here." Naruto passed him a cup of tea or something and he took it gratefully. He closed his eyes as the wonderful fruity and honey suckle taste mixed with the sweet aroma of spices that filled him mixed with the nice warm sensation he got from the drink. He opened his eyes in shock and smiled. "This is the best tea I've ever tasted!" he exclaimed. "Where'd you learn to make it?" he asked Naruto.
"I actually didn't learn how to make it, one day I was bored and started thinking of a drink you could make from random plants you could find in a wooded area and this is what I got. It took awhile to get the flavor right but with the help of Ino and Tenten I got it in no time at all." Naruto said with a grin.
Katsura smiled. "I think it tasted wonderful Naruto-kun." she said.
"You already told me this." Naruto said with a raised eyebrow.
"I know." she giggled.
Hinata sat next to Naruto shyly with a blush across her features. "Hey Hinata-chan." Naruto said happily standing up and walking back inside. Hinata thought he left because of her but he came back with a cup and gave her one. "It'll give you your energy back." He said sitting back down.
"Thanks N-Naruto-kun." she said taking a drink and gasped in shock. "This is delicious Naruto-kun! You need to give me the recipe!" she exclaimed taking another drink. She stopped and then blushed. "G-Gomen. I don't kn-know what came o-over me." she said.
"No problem Hinata-chan. I actually think I liked it better with you like that." Naruto said with a grin and she blushed a deep shade of red and nodded.
After a few hours everyone was up and had had some of the tea and they were full of energy. Kiba suggested moving around to the other side of the mountain so they were facing the village but Kakashi suggested getting the royal trio as far away as possible while one of them gets into the castle and map out the area.
"Okay, we'll go wait near the outskirts of the forest and near the bay while, Naruto." He looked up with determination in hi eyes. "You will use your stealth to scout the area with the help of Hinata. Hinata, you will need to keep your Byakugan active at all times, got it?" the girl nodded and then the two left in the direction of the palace.
"Now what Kakashi-sensei?" Kiba asked.
"Now, we wait." Kakashi sighed.
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Naruto and Hinata knelt behind a bush as they watched the guards patrol around the gates and Hinata looked at Naruto in concern.
"Don't worry, I've got better stealth than Kakashi-sensei thanks to my new training schedule." Naruto assured her and she nodded in understanding. "Now, we need to get in but we can't be seen. Can you use the Byakugan to see around their blind spots so we can just go around them?" he asked and she nodded.
They inside the gates and looked around slightly and quickly ran across the yard when the light wasn't shining at a certain place and zigged and even zagged. In the end they were in one of the air vents and were crawling along inside them and charting every single room they came across in their minds. The amount of security and what the room was for. And when they were done they had an even more difficult time getting out than they did getting in.
They ran across the yard once more but this time were seen and had to fight off a few low class nin to get out and got away with minimal injury, only a slash to Hinata's shoulder and gash across Naruto's cheek.
They sighed in relief as they reached the point they were to meet their team and the others raised an eyebrow at them. And clearly wanted to know what happened.
"We had difficulty getting in and especially out, we had to scout out the area ten times before figuring out how to get inside and then we had to stay clear of the lights shining in the court yard, which was really hard." Naruto sighed.
"we used the air vents to scout the entire palace and got it all memorized and we came up with a few different strategies while in them. Oh, and we got the area mapped out." Hinata said and took out a sheet of paper and started to right out what they saw.
"but when we tried getting back out we had to figure out how to get back through the way we came and it took awhile to find it. We dodged the light across the court yard almost all the way back across but it turned suddenly and we were attacked and got out with minor injury on the than my face and Hinata-chan's shoulder." Naruto sighed.
Kakashi shook his head in amusement. The two had gave the report with the skill of a Jounin, they were only thirteen and it was only the two of them and they worked together remarkably well. "Good, now Kiba and Lee are getting the row boats in position to get the royal trio out safely and Sakura will set to work at healing you both." he said and they nodded and set to task as Sakura worked on healing them.
When they were all done Kiba and Lee showed up. "We have them in position and no one will be able to see them until they are at least two miles out to sea." Kiba said with a nod.
Lee nodded in affirmative. "Good no lets-" a kunai with a note attached to it and the ninjas' eyes all widened in shock and they pushed everyone out of the way. And no one was hurt. "Get Hitari, Koharu, and Katsura to the boats now!" Kakashi shouted and the soldiers nodded and the group ran towards the bay behind the cliffs.
Suddenly the six Konoha nin were surrounded by four nin that non of them had seen before. "My, my, my. Looks like some leaves fell from the wrong tree." a girl with dark brown hair and pink eyes said with joy.
"Hand over the last royal members and no harm will come to you." one that they guessed was the leader said. He had orange hair and yellow eyes.
"If you don't you will surely have death befall you in an instant." a girly looking one with soft long red hair and green eyes said. While the last stayed silent, he had a big round nose and dark eyes and black hair.
Naruto let a growl escape his throat. "Like hell we'd ever do that." he growled out in a furious voice. Naruto ran at the one with orange hair and swung his kunai at him. His movements seemed graceful yet slow compared to normal.
The man sidestepped swing after swing and flipped Naruto to his back. "What's wrong with him?" Kiba asked. "He's usually better than this." the others nodded as Naruto was thrown across the sand.
A scream was heard and they looked and saw that the royal family members weren't doing too well either. "Idataru. Take care of this brat." the orange haired one said.
The dark haired man nodded and ran so fast only Kakashi could keep up with him. Naruto stood up groggily only to be punched again and sent tumbling towards the water. He was kicked into the air before he even stopped tumbling and then got flung strait into the water.
"No! Naruto!" all the leaf nin shouted.
The leader ran at Kakashi and the two went into a taijutsu battle with kunai and shurikan trying to gain the upper hand and Kakashi was abit distracted and kept glancing towards the spot Naruto went into the water.
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Koharu and Katsura were sobbing as they ran towards the boats with their mother close at hand while the guards fought against their old comrades. They got into the boats and set them to go. They sobbed for their new friends and for their country and loved ones.
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Lee ran at the man, Idataru, who had possibly drowned his friend. He noticed his movements were slowing and wondered why as he tried to get his reflexes to keep up with his mind. He ducked but wasn't quick enough and was kicked in the head and sent flying right into Kiba and the two double teamed the man, but still couldn't get the upper hand, even with Akamaru in his weird human beast form.
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Hinata and Sakura stood there trying to figure things out when… "Awww. Are you two feeling left out that you're all left out?" the two girls asked and they attacked. The red haired one going after Hinata and the brown haired one Sakura.
Hinata ducked under a fist but didn't react in time and got hit right in the jaw and flung right into a tree that shattered and Sakura winced in sympathy as she fought despite her slow acting reflexes.
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Kakashi's mind was racing as he fought. "Kai." he cried out but his reflexes were still messed up. "What, if it's not genjutsu than what?" Kakashi said punching at the orange haired man.
"that's a laugh." the man said. "Bana over there…" he gestured to the red haired girl fighting Hinata. "… is brilliant at remedies and that paper bomb had poison that slows the reflexes down by 69%, it even works on demons, of course, it slows them by 47% instead." he said punching Kakashi in the gut.
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Lee was hit in the gut and coughed up blood and was flung a good twenty feet and couldn't even stand afterwards. Kiba and Akamaru did the Gatsuuga and thought they were doing good until they were punched right into the cliffs which was at least twenty feet away.
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Hinata coughed up blood as she got hit through the stomach with a huge burst of chakra and fell over paralyzed from a strange chakra signature mixed in the attack.
Same thing was for Sakura. And Kiba and Akamaru.
Kakashi held his all and looked in horror as the other man on the enemy's group went towards a retreating boat in the distance and hit it in the side and it flung all the way to the bay. And Hitari fell over and onto the beach landing with a thud next to Kiba while breathing deep, shallow breaths trying to calm herself.
"No." Hinata said with tears flowing from her eyes. "It's not happening. We promised to protect them, we must do this, we have to save them for Naruto-ku--- Aaaaagggghhhhhh!!!!" she scream as Bana sent a huge burst of chakra through her that sent her flying a few feet at the same time as the two kids screaming "Noooooooooooooo!"
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In the water red chakra began to surge around an unconscious Naruto's body, he was trying to get conscious and Kyuubi wasn't helping him at all and then the scream from Hinata and the two kids and then…
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A sudden blast of wind and power drawing everyone's attention to a spot about six yards off the bay. And standing there, right at the center was Naruto, his features more feral, his whiskers more pronounced, his hair feral and finally blood red eyes, while waves of water ran in a circle around him and he disappeared and then reappeared and punched the red haired girl, Bana, -who was walking towards Hinata- strait in the face and into Idataru. The two went tumbling along the sand and Naruto did the same and punched them up into the air and the red haired girl, Bana, flew to the ground with a loud crack as several ribs cracked on impact.
The onlookers watched in amazement and Kakashi began to get the upper hand on the now distracted orange haired leader. The rebellion people watched with mouths agape and wondered just how strong they were at full power. Hinata smiled weakly at her crush and Sakura and Kiba both gaped at the scene while Lee made a vow to figure out where Naruto's sudden burst came from and realized it was right after Hinata let out the scream of pure pain.
He had tears in his eyes, tears of pride for his eternal rival. For he was protecting his most precious person in the world, his true love.
Naruto continued to punch the man until he used his Uzumaki combo to send him crashing to the ground. He walked gingerly towards the other two while glaring and the one girl began to use a genjutsu to surround him in snakes, fruit, and flowers. A bad turn for her, though she didn't know how much Naruto despised snakes with a passion.
A blade of wind chakra hit him in the back, nicked his cheek, hit him through the stomach with an invisible blade, and Naruto stumbled abit but then let out a furious roar to the sky and spun twice-copying a move from the Hyuuga fighting style-, using chakra being forced from his body and sending the girl away from him and making her land panting for breath and full of cuts from the wind he sent back at her.
"What in hell is that brat?" the orange haired guy demanded stabbing Kakashi in the shoulder with a kunai. Naruto ran at him and punched him and he called for retreat. The other three nodded weakly and ran into the trees and towards the palace.
Naruto's hair went from feral to its normal spiky shape, his whiskers went to normal and his eyes faded back to blue and the others found they could move again and weakly stood and ran towards him as he fell backwards into the blackness know as unconsciousness as the world collapsed around him…
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Well there you go, and before anyone asks, I suck at fighting scenes so please be happy with it, well anyway… REVIEW!!!