Disclaimer: I own nothing of Naruto except the OC's in the story.

Chapter Seven

"Let's begin.." Eiji smiled, "Don't you dare fail me again Kami!" His words cutting through her like a knife as they echoed along in the large dark room.

Naruto snarled and made a simple handseal, two clones appearing beside himself. The first clone rushed at Kami with a kunai in its hand, the other stayed behind and helped Naruto form a Rasen-shuriken in his hand. Naruto intended on making this fight quick so he could take care of Eiji.

"There's a reason why they call me Kami. I have the speed and quick wits of a God!" She yelled her face breaking into a smile. "There's no way you can beat me!"

Kami quickly withdrew a fan, leaving it compressed as it flew out of her hands and knocked the clone under the chin, it fell onto its back and then exploded in smoke. Naruto and his other clone were just about to finish the technique, but Kami wasn't going to let them. She flicked out another fan and tossed it straight at the forming technique, planning to make them both split apart from each other.

Naruto stood there and took the blade of the fan, letting it run across and skin his arm for the sake of finishing his Rasen-Shuriken.

"That little punk is up to something!" Kami mumbled under her breath as she rushed Naruto down, although by then he'd finished his technique and the clone stood back.

Naruto chucked the large shuriken at her. Her eyes jolted as she saw the rushing blade head toward her, she jumped to the side but the tip of it caught her and flung her back into the wall. Naruto rose his head up from the floor, the shadows of the fire covered his face as his two blue eyes shined in the darkness. The clone stepped forward again as they began to create another rasengan, this time, an odama rasengan.

Kami became infuriated, she ran at the boy with two fans extracted, she was ready to slice him to pieces. Naruto kept silent as he completed his second rasengan and the clone dissipated into smoke. Naruto drew back and slammed the rasengan into the floor. It began to make the room shake as Kami was thrown into the air.

She began to spin from the force of the rasengan, frantically she lashed out for her rip cord. She eventually got hold of it and ripped it out. Her wings spread into the air as she caught herself before she made impact with anything solid in the room. She pulled out two of her fans and tossed them at Naruto, making a single handsign after she did to manipulate the direction of the fans, she yelled out into the large room, "Double helix windstorm!"

Air was blown from her direction as it guided the fans gently, the spun I three hundred sixty degree angles and crossed each other like a pattern. It was almost like a brilliant dance performance, but it was Kami's ticket to wining the fight.

The fans hit Naruto at his ankles first and worked their way up his body, spinning around him and cutting him all over. Once they returned to her, Kami noticed Naruto was nowhere to be found. After a moment she heard a clanking sound and noticed her weight distribution was thrown off balance, she turned and saw Naruto prying her wings off with a single kunai. He ripped the final bolt out of place and used his feet to launch her into the floor, he himself falling and landing on one knee as Kami hit the ground unconscious.

Naruto looked up to the sound of clapping from Eiji.

"Well done kid! I'm impressed.." Eiji said as he stood up and walked a few feet away from Naruto.

Naruto said only a few words in reply, "Unless you want to be beaten too.. Leave!"

"I would, but.. My business isn't finished." Eiji replied making a handsign as he faded into the air. He and all his soldiers were gone.

"Naruto!" Seira yelled as she ran down to him. "What's going to happen..." The girl only feared the worst now.

"It's okay, even if he got the old man, we'll get him back!" Naruto said as he turned to the door, Idato's beloved granddaughter followed behind him.

The both of them unlocked the door and met with the others on the outside. Shikamaru and Tenten were standing around talking. Sachi sat by himself in the shade again, while Hayai sat in the grass with her back to them. Once Naruto and Seira left the hideout everyone immediately turned to them.

"Let's get the old man back!" Naruto shouted. He was mentally prepared to finish the fight and save the small town from Eiji and his band of thieves. "There's no way I'm letting this creep get his hands on Kariku, or anywhere else in the Land of Fire!"

"Let's finish up and get this over with then.." Shikamaru said as he started walking into the forest. "They headed this way."

The others followed behind him into the thick woods. The forests of Kariku were unimaginable except if seen by the naked eye. There was no sight of sky at all, trees as far as the eyes could see. The air was a cool, perfect climate. No one could argue with the forest's temperature. Occasionally there were sakura trees in blossom along the path, yet as they ventured deeper into the forest, the air became more dense.

The air was now filled with chakra, the temperature drastically increasing to a tropical climate and the trees in the forest looked twisted and manipulated.

"I guess the old man was right." Sachi said as he swung his swords at the roots that continued to entangle his feet.

In the center of the forest, Idato was being guided by Eiji. They came across a clearing in the forest, a gentle mist rolled out from the center. The trees in this part were all mutated and demonic looking and in the center hanging by a vine, was a katana that gleamed in the light of its surroundings.

Eiji shoved Idato forward. "Move old man!" Eiji growled as he stepped pass him and walked up to the sword.

The sword would begin to change, the blade of the katana turned into different forms. First the blade became engulfed in flames, after that it turned into a long stream of bubbling water keeping its shape and form, next it began to emit electrical energy from the blade, as it then turned into a visible thin tornado like structure, lastly becoming a hard steel weapon as it once was. The sword repeated this cycle after every few seconds.

Eiji was pleased with the discovery as he reached out for the sword. Once he was close enough to have his fingers touch it, a vine lashed out and whipped him back. "Gah! Blasted chakra aura!" Eiji yelled as he took out a small knife and cut the vine that held the sword. He knelt over and picked up the sword after it lay on the soft grass. "I've done it!" He yelled, "I've gotten the Yodachi katan - ahh!"

The vines in the clearing started crawling over his body. They began to entangle him and constrict his body. The vines then dug into him and became as part of his body, the Yodachi was taking over Eiji like a parasite controlling a host.

Idato stepped back and hid himself in the brush of the clearing while the wild monster that wa once Eiji lashed about.

"Hey you!" A voice shouted from the distance as a kunai flew from the shadows and struck the beast in the chest, it hit, but didn't kill it as the vines acted like a suit of armor.

The demon looked over and saw Naruto standing on a tree branch in the clearing, his face was holding a cocky smile between his cheeks. "Don't start the party without me!" Naruto said as he stared at the creature.

Eiji's body was now covered in the vines, his entire right arm which held the katana, left left, part of his torso and half of his face were tangled by the roots. His eyes were now fully red with chakra pouring out of his body. The katana was in its pure non-elemental form as Eiji swung it back and growled at Naruto. The transformation Eiji took on made him lose all ability for logic and sense, he was now just a mindless beast.

The others approached Idato from behind.

Seira set her hand on her grandfather's shoulder, "Don't worry Grandfather. Naruto can do it!"