Started on January 17, 2017| Philippines| 15:22 hours

I'm back. Not much to say here really so I'll just get on with this. A longer A/N will be present at the bottom though.

(Phantom Master)

Naruto and Temari were walking down the streets of Suna with Temari having her arms around Naruto's. They walked down the street quietly, both enjoying their time together.

"Do you know our flaw, Jubei?"

"Flaw, Master?"

The two enter their house just before night managed to set in.

"Yes, the flaw of Phantom Masters."

"No, none that I know of. I mean, a flaw aside from our sacrifices, that is."

Temari removes her dress as she pushes and kisses Naruto into their room.

"It is the fact that we are weak when it comes to love."

Naruto kisses Temari with such passion that Temari moans into it before they have their arms around each other.

"Love? How so?"

"Nah… Nah-ru… Naru-tooooh!" Temari squirms as she hugs Naruto as the blonde male fondles her breasts.

"Because for a Phantom, there can only be one true love. However, unlike us who are always following our lineage by blood, our soulmate doesn't."

Naruto growls as he pushes Temari onto the bed, the moonlight making the woman more gorgeous in his eyes.

"Do you know why it's our only true weakness?"

Temari kisses Naruto as she removes his shirt.

"It is because there is only one thing Phantoms can never give up when it comes to someone they love."

The passion rises as each desperately try to kiss the other as passionately yet as roughly as they can.

"Their humanity."

A new dawn breaks. Naruto wakes from the steamy night filled with passion. He isn't surprised to see Temari already gone. She was a DUNE after all. That being said, Naruto got up to do his morning routine. To shower, change clothes into his ANBU armor, and to cook and eat breakfast took him only an hour and thirty.

The peace didn't last as Naruto raises a brow when he hears the desperate knocking on the door. And he was just cleaning the table too.

"I'll be a mo—"

"NARUTO-SAMA! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!"

From the tome of the man's voice, Naruto knew it was urgent and quickly went to open the door. It was one of the Ronin. "What is it?"

"We… we just got word that Temari-san has been sent on an escort mission to Konoha! They were ambushed!"

Naruto grit his teeth but managed to keep himself in check. "Who?"

"You won't like it sir… Iwa and Kiri—" The man couldn't finish his sentence as Naruto immediately vanishes into a swirl of wind. "He… he knows… how to use the Shinobi arts?"

The whiskered man, on the other hand, bursts into the Kage room and instantly releases an inhuman amount of KI. "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU—"

"YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT?!" The Kazekage shouts back before Naruto could finish. "I was hesitant, dammit! I even told her she could stay with YOU! I fucking KNOW what you are! SHE ALSO knows what you are!"

Naruto grits his teeth as his clenches his fists. "Then why—"

"I had my reasons, but she truly had feelings for you." The Kazekage answers immediately, barely calm, but still calmer than just a while ago. "Naruto… there were only four people on her team, herself included." The man pauses before slumping into his seat. "Gaara was not with her... I didn't want to take any chances…"

The blonde man snorts as he crosses his arms. He looks the Kage in the eye, but the man interrupts him before he could even speak.

"Phantom, I want to make a deal…"

"A deal?" Naruto asks. He was wary of this man. How could he not after what just happened?

The Kage nods. "I want you to get Temari back… and if she is still alive and well, fight with us… if not then… I guess it really was time that the age of Shinobi were to end."

Naruto then asks cautiously, "What do you mean?"

"Destroy this world of Shinobi. I have grown tired of it. Destroy it. As for Suna… what you do with Suna will be up to you. Just know that no matter the outcome, I won't be here anymore. I've failed. I—"

"Shut up." Naruto says flatly. "I don't want to hear your whining. You do know the costs for making a deal with Phantom, don't you?"

"Souls."

"But not the soul of the one to made the deal unless you yourself volunteer."

"You can have my soul and the entire Suna if you want."

"I shall have your soul." Naruto states firmly. "As for your village? We shall see; depending on Temari's condition." Naruto finishes with cold glare before leaving.

Having reached the village gates, Naruto goes to transform into his Phantom form, but a voice from behind stops him. "Naruto!" He hears and turns. He is surprised to see the group of Ronin from the Caravan arrive. They were all dressed in black armless cloaks that wrapped around them but were only slightly parted for an ease in drawing their blades. "What is it?" Naruto asks.

"We came to help. We may be Ronin, but we've had our own share dealing with elite Shinobi. Especially from Iwa."

Naruto ignores them but is soon stopped when a Ronin appears directly in front of him.

"There is a reason for why we were Ronin." The man says as he places a black straw hat over his head. "We were Samurai who understood the usefulness of the Shinobi arts."

Naruto grit his teeth again. The more he delayed, the greater the chance of failing to save Temari. But he still needed to know. "What can you do?"

""The basics. Nothing else much aside from walking on walls and water and being able to teleport short distances."

"All of you?"

"Yes, all of us."

Naruto lets out a sigh before nodding. "Fine, but I won't wait. You and your men better keep up."

"One more thing." The man says making Naruto turn. He throws the blonde another of their outfit. "Put it on. We can't have the enemy knowing who is who."

Naruto nods and they head out.

As they ran at their to shinobi speed, Naruto was surprised that they could keep up.

It took an hour for them to arrive at the scene.

When they arrived, they were all shocked to see that there were bodies that littered the entire place. What was odd, however, was that most seemed to have already been decayed.

"Ronin—"

"Call me Shin." One man says. "I'm one of their four leaders."

"I'm Sen." Another man says. "The two others are back at Suna prepping for an invasion just in case. With the confusion of what will happen to Temari-san, we can't be too safe… No offense."

"None taken." Naruto says as he looks at the bodies. "Your thoughts?"

"We've worked with powerful people before—"

"You mean the Emperor." Naruto cuts them off. "Shin, Sen, and I'm guessing the other two are Gu and Mi? Yeah, the Shinsengumi, assassins under the Emperor… or should I use death squad instead?"

The Ronin look at each other before nodding. "Whichever you prefer."

Naruto nods. "Now that that's settled, let's get back to business."

Sen nods. "Yes, well, as I was saying, we've worked with the powerful before and we sure as hell did not see anything of this scale."

Naruto takes a deep breath before releasing it. "Then you don't know what you're heading into."

Shin narrows his eyes. "And you do?"

"While it hasn't been confirmed, there was once a rumor of a Jutsu that would allow the dead to rise. So long as the caster was alive, the dead would obey him, but if he died… well, there would be no such thing as allies. Thankfully…" Naruto pauses as he bends over one of the dead with a wound to the heart. "This was not caused by a virus I saw once… but that's for another time."

"So what now?"

Naruto closes his eyes and in the silence, he searches for Temari's Chakra signature. His eyes snap open as he starts his stride towards her. "Stick to the trees." He orders.

The Ronin didn't question him. They did as told and followed Naruto by the trees towards Temari's location. Once there, they all knew that whatever would happen to Suna was now out of their hands.

Naruto stood silent as his gaze hovered above Temari who was barely alive with semen leaking out from her mouth, pussy, and ass. "Who?"

Temari just smiled and reached up to Naruto. "Make them pay…"

"Who?" Naruto whispered as took Temari's hand in his, knelt down, and placed the hand on his cheek.

"Iwa…. And Kiri…my team was also…"

Naruto nods. He didn't need her to finish. He already saw the three other bodies. The girl was dead with her pussy being ripped and bloodied. She was only 12 for fuck sake. The two boys died in a blissful state, their dicks limp, but their bodies showed them to have their life sucked out of them.

"Can you—"

Temari shakes her head. She knew she was gone. She was a lost cost now… "I always knew what you were… and I still love you…" She tries to smile as she sees Naruto grit his teeth. "Didn't you know? Phantom was the most powerful being to exist after the gods if you believe in them… or in a God… so… Nature created the others to balance it out."

Naruto remains silent. After those words left Temari's mouth, he didn't bother anymore. His eyes cold as steel, his hand cold as ice, his breath as toxic as miasma.

Temari was dead. Suna, Iwa, and Kiri would pay dearly.

"Ronin." He starts. "I offer you power. Lesser than mine, but greater than those of Shinobi. Do you accept? This is a one-time offer."

Shin speaks immediately. "And what would you gain from this?"

"Nothing… but if I could, I would wish to gain your allegiance."

"In short… you will have your own army of Phantoms?" Sen asks, not liking it one bit.

"Yes. However, if you so wish it, you may go free, but be aware that abuse of my power will not be tolerated as only those under me, and myself will be allowed to abuse it."

"How much time do we have to decide?"

Naruto looks to the surrounding trees locking eyes with every one of them. "Half an hour."

Yet elsewhere in Konoha was Sakura Haruno. She sat on a medical bed with a bandaged arm. How she got here was all thanks to an ambush. They were supposed to take over an escort mission from Suna with the ceasefire, but then Suna attacked them.

"I read your report." A man in an ANBU uniform comes in. The ANBU Head Commander. "What I can say is, this was not Suna."

"But—"

The ANBU Head raises a hand to stop her. "I guess it was time you and everyone that survived understood something about our little world and Phantom."

(TBC)

Well! There you have it! Another chap out and DAMN! It has been a while. So anyway, as you've noticed, I'm finally acting on the Supernatural genre of this story.

It will take a while for me to update this since school will be a hassle and I can't afford to fail. Literally. I'm going broke. Plus, it's hard to be a working student in my school because of our school regulations, AND the bombardment of assignments and performance and product tasks.

Anyway, I'll be working on either a new fic (plot bunny for now) or continuing one of my older ones… maybe. We'll see.

Please review guys! Also, just to be clear, the only time I won't reply to reviews is when I don't see them (server errors) or when they appear as Guests. Since this is still on going, give suggestions, comments, even rate, but just don't flame. Creative criticism is allowed, but no flames.

I guess this is it for now! See ya around!

Who know, I might even end up reading some of your stories without knowing, and some of you probably have stories that I already read. HAHAHAHAHA! PEACE!

Finished on January 28, 2017| Philippines| 9:47 hours.