The Uzumaki: Chapter Nine

Written By: Slade963

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With the Uzumaki captains

In room almost filled with darkness, only a single candle providing light, six people set around a table with one of them standing. The standing individual pointed to a town on a large map, and grunted. "We have seven captains, all of which have proven themselves in battle. All of which has five capable ninja under them, and yet this will be the single most dangerous mission of our lives." He grabbed a kunai from his pouch, and struck the town on the map with lightning quick speed. "Once we have Port City, make no mistake, Konoha will want it back. It will not matter that Kumo is waiting for an opening, they will come at us, and they will bear down at us as hard as they can. So leave here and prepare your team for any possible outcome."

Immediately after he finished speaking, the captains all started to disappear from their seats, and the room was soon empty; with a ghostly wind blowing out the only candle in the room.

BEGIN CHAPTER:

"Alright Yohei, you got this…" The ninja talking to himself, jumped up and down, "…there's nothing to it man, you know, just three guys against an entire village." He stopped jumping and took a look around, "O yeah, and then there are two freaking beasts rampaging… which is awesome by the way." He stopped talking and then shook his head, "No man, don't get distracted, do not get distracted man. Note to self though, try to get that seal for yourself, it would be so cool. Damn it stay on mission man… wait what did they say again?" He scratched his head and watched all the explosions around him, "Hmm… can't remember, I'll just hunt a swordsmen down or something."

The ninja then took out a pair of gloves from his back pouch and put them on, "All business baby, no jokes, no distractions and no smiles. Ok maybe some smiles, maybe some jokes, man who am I kidding I'll just be me." He calmed down and tried to sense some of the highest chakra signatures, but found that was impossible, "Ok, ok I should have seen that outcome, so I'll go this way!" He pointed to his left, but seconds later a beast came flying past him in that direction, "Nope, definitely not that way. I'd say the right side would be the right way." Finally making up his mind, Yohei sprinted in the direction of his choice.

With the Uzumaki captains

An older looking shinobi stood stock still at the tip of a boat, he was very rigid and tall. Silver and red hair blended together in a tight pony-tail, and his bangs fell over his forehead protector. He lifted his right hand and pulled his glove off, and then took a look at the tattoo on it. It was a name, 'Hikari', deep down the shinobi in him had said to put a seal in its place, but emotion had given him another idea . "Hikari my boy, you have come a long way from the troubled little child I found. I only hope this calm façade you have taken on, one day becomes the true you."

The ninja's ear twitched, and a moment later, someone spoke up behind him, "Sir, the other captains are waiting for you." The captain nodded and briskly turned around to make his way to the lower level of their boat. He stopped next to the bowing ninja and nodded to him, causing him to immediately disappear, and then he made his way to the meeting room.

He stopped in front of an old looking wooden door and slowly opened it, causing a loud creaking sound in the room and catching everyone's attention. The man nodded once at the six people in the room and made his way to the top of the table. "Captains, I'm sure you all know the tactics for C.Q.B, so I'll only spend this time giving everyone their roles." He rolled open a map of the town they were going to capture, and drew a circle around it with his finger. "Inbeda, you will take the seal masters from every team, and secure the town when we enter the target area." He looked toward a masked man sitting opposite him, and only received a nod in response.

"Good, now Chokyori you will take the long ranged fighters, and get eyes on the entire battlefield. We need you to give us support at any and every chance you get, do you understand." The man looked at the ninja in question, and beady purple eyes stared back at him. "No problem, Kouga-san."

The now identified Kouga nodded and looked back at the map, "Nasha…" The girl in question became rigid and paid attention, "You will be with me. There are twelve Taijutsu and Kenjutsu experts in our force, and we will lead them into battle."

Green eyes looked back at red ones, and she nodded at him, "I won't let you down captain."

"There's a reason you are here Nasha-san, I expect nothing less." He then went back to the map and concentrated on it, "Tojiro, you're in charge of the advanced squad. I need all scouts and guards taken out before we arrive, no excuses." Kouga looked up, but only saw a quick nod from the man before he disappeared, already taking off for his mission. "Sapoto, every medic will take orders from you, and you will need to treat both us and the civilians who get injured." The captain nodded in response to her duties, but said nothing. "Hinan, you'll take the close combat Ninjutsu specialists and make sure that every civilian in brought to a safe point here." He pointed to a large building in the middle of the town, "Then you will fortify, and secure their safety."

Kouga nodded in satisfaction and walked around the table, with his hands behind his back. "I need not remind you but I will. For a successful infiltration to take place, we will need to move fast, undetected and as ruthless as possible. We must not separate from our teams, we must not deviate from the plan, and we must be efficient."

The remaining captains nodded, and then said "Retreat? HELL!"

Kouga smiled and looked at the Uzumaki symbol on the door, "Retreat? Hell, indeed."

With Naruto

The Uzumaki heir was currently crouched down on a half destroyed building, a few feet from him, two of the swordsmen were fighting alongside other mist ninja against the three tails. He did not know how, but somehow he would need to take them out, and it would need to be fast as well. 'Damn it, that seal took more out of me than expected. I need to summon Kyodebi I'd need a miracle to get enough water for him to be useful.' A mist ninja suddenly came flying at him from his right, and he immediately stabbed the man in the head with a golden kunai, that was connected to a chain sticking out of his head. "Maybe the three tails can take care of all of you."

As soon as the words left Naruto's mouth, instinct alone saved him from a crushing blow to the head, when he rolled to the side and a hammer shattered the building he was on. The Uzumaki ninja back flipped off the crumbling building, and away from his attacker while unsheathing his daggers. "I thought you were busy."

Before Naruto stood a man with black beard, an angular face and a rather protuberant nose. He had on a black t-shirt under a grey flack-jacket, and matching pants; but what caught Naruto's attention was the sword in his hand. It was a giant axe and hammer, linked end-to-end by a flat thin leather rope. "My partner can handle the beast; I just need to get rid of you. It should be easy for me to do, since you're nothing but a little pest." The ninja lunged at Naruto with the axe end, and he raised his dagger to block it, but soon found out why it was a bad idea when the axe went right through it. Naruto's eyes widened in fear for a split second, but he quickly brought his other dagger up to nudge the axe upward at the handle, and he did just enough so that he could duck underneath it.

The swordsman landed behind Naruto and laughed, "Hahaha, there is no point in blocking my attack, boy. My Kabutowari has the best attacking force in the world, any defense crumbles before it." He laughed again, and lifted the hammer into the air, "By the way kid, the man who is about to kill you is, Jinin Akebino."

Naruto's eyes shifted around, "Uhh… I knew that…"

Jinin growled, and his eyes narrowed dangerously, "You dare mock me boy…"

Sweat dripped from Naruto's forehead and he wiped it with his now free left hand, "No, I don't mock, however, I'm not good with names either." He inhaled deeply and brought his left hand down to his left pouch, and grabbed a small scroll. "Since this name exchange seems to be a tradition for you mist ninja though… the names Naruto Uzumaki."

This made Jinin laugh, a laugh that had Naruto raise an eyebrow because he did not make a joke of any kind. Jinin stopped laughing when he saw the raised eyebrow, and gave Naruto the widest smirk he'd ever seen, "If you're wondering why I laughed…" Now the smirk became sadistical, and the Swordsman raised his Killing Intent to new levels, "…it's because we Swordsmen had a mission to execute you in two weeks."

Naruto tensed and unclipped the scroll in his hand, ready to rip it out at any time now. "Well, come and execute me… Mist ninja."

The hammer side of Jinins' sword began to spin beside him and his smirk disappeared, "Miroko Uzumaki was a coward, who couldn't stand up to our Mizukage…" A growl escaped the mans throat, "…and now you'll pay for the cowardly way your father defeated him!"

The mist nin launched himself at Naruto with murderous intent and a hammer swinging wildly by his side. Naruto inhaled deeply one last time, to get his breathing in order, and steeled himself. With swift movement he ripped the scroll out of his pouch, unrolling it in mid-air, and pushed two fingers against it with his right hand while closing his eyes. "Flash bomb." He whispered and half a second later a blinding light went off, even with Naruto's closed eyes it still affected him to a degree.

Jinin on the other hand saw the sneak attack too late, and the light that blasted his eyes threatened to blind him for life. Lucky he closed his eyes soon enough, however, they still burnt like hells' fires themselves had burned them and a grunt of pain escaped his mouth. "Damn you, you COWARD!"

Naruto smirked when the light died down, and dashed as fast as his legs would carry him toward Jinin, dirt kicking up from the ground in the process. His purple eyes zoomed in on the taller mans throat and he swung his dagger at it, fully expecting to cut his head clean off. His hopes of ending the fight as quick as possible were smashed moments later, however, when Jinin cut clean through his remaining dagger and the axe came straight for Naruto's head.

Purple eyes widened in surprise and his knees immediately buckled, letting the momentum of his run carry him through Jinins' legs. Naruto sighed in relief and whipped out two kunai from his right back-pouch. 'Damn, that was close…' He suddenly felt intense burning pain come from his right cheek and tried to feel what it was. When his hand tough his cheek, however, Naruto winced from the stinging sensation. '…too damn close for my liking!'

Jinin started laughing from his spot, but his eyes were still shut from the pain he felt, "Stupid boy! Do you think taking my eyes out will win you this fight?!'

'Yes!' He wanted to scream in frustration, but Naruto knew he could not waist any time with unnecessary thoughts. Naruto grit his teeth, held the kunai in reverse grip and stood up with a determined look on his face, "You talk too much, Mist nin."

"You talk just enough." A smirk crossed Jinins' pained face, and before Naruto could ask what he meant, the ninja moved as fast as lightning and brought the hammer side of his sword overhead.

Naruto was ready, however, and sidestepped the attack. Before the hammer could even slam into the ground, Naruto stabbed a kunai into Jinins left arm which led to the older man screaming in pain, but just before he could deliver the finishing blow; Kabutowari slammed into the ground destroy a big chunk of their small battlefield. The sudden shift in gravity distracted Naruto long enough, for Jinin to bring one of his powerful legs up and kick Naruto to the side.

The red haired ninja grunted when the wind was almost knocked out of him and he went rolling across the floor. As he skidded to a stop, he took out his last kunai and forced himself to a stand, blood now seeping from his mouth and right cheek. 'Damn this guy, he just won't die.' He slipped a finger into the box attached to left leg, and pulled out a single peace of paper. He glanced at it as he rolled it around the handle of his kunai, and brought it up to his mouth to lick it wet so it could stick. This made Naruto sigh, as it was his second to last kunai and after that he'd have to survive with just one if he's move didn't work.

Jinin grunted as he pulled the kunai out of his arm, an arm that now hung loosely at his side. 'Fucking kid knew where he was stabbing me, even though he went in for the kill as well.' He opened his eyes and the blurry images faded fast and he could finally see again. 'Too bad for him that he didn't make use of his only advantage.' Jinin chuckled darkly, a sound that made Naruto narrow his eyes in wait, "Kid, it's time I crush that skull of yours!"

"Bring it." Naruto's teeth made a screeching sound when he grit them even harder in anticipation. He could see the enemy had regained their sight, and now he was even more tired than he'd ever been. Things were not looking good, but he needed to survive, and he'd do anything to do just that. Sweat rolled down his face and into his open wound, making him wince from the stinging pain it caused when they mixed, however his purple eyes stayed focused.

Jinin bared his teeth in a growl, showing how shark like they were, and started to swing the hammer side of his sword again. This time Naruto could see the faint blue glow that surrounded it, and he guessed that's where the power came from. He didn't have much time to ponder over that little revelation, because, Jinin suddenly disappeared from his vision.

Naruto's eyes widened in surprise in he whipped his head around trying to find the man, with his eyes moving even faster. Soon Naruto heard his movements and he readied his kunai. This ninja thought he could escape his field of vision, by zigzagging as fast as he could, but he was mistaken. The Uzumaki heir threw his kunai to his left, creating a small explosion and sending the mist nin flying. Naruto saw the chance to finally kill the man and went in swiftly, twirling his kunai from a reverse grip into a normal one, and stabbing it deep into the wide eyed nins' head.

Knowing that the battle was finally over, Naruto sighed in exhaustion, and ripped the kunai out of the mans' head. He opened his mouth to speak, but then something odd happened, water started to leak out of the dead mans' head. "What the…"

His sentence was cut short by a scream, "DIE!" The demand came from his left side, and he had just enough time to active his bloodline. The golden chains came rushing out at blinding speed, and covered him just before the hammer of Kabutowari slammed into them. The force behind the attack, however, shattered the chains and created a shockwave so powerful; it sent both Naruto and Jinin hurtling away from each other.

The shockwave didn't just send Naruto crashing across the ground; it also broke his left arm in two places. When he came to a stop, his arm hurt like hell and the ground had torn apart most of flack-jacket. He coughed up blood, and rolled on his back, and then he put his broken arm into his pocket as slow as he could. 'Fuck! I should have been more alert.' His right hand started fiddling with a pocket on his flack-jacket, while he watched the still downed Jinin carefully. 'Open you stupid pocket.' It finally opened and he slid out vile, with red liquid in it. He painfully opened his mouth, popped the top of the vile, and brought it to his mouth to drink it. The numbing effect of his liquid kicked in, and he started to feel a little better.

Naruto saw Jinin start to stir and he dragged himself to his feet, his bones and muscles still aching and in pain, due to the numbing liquid being watered down to not affect his mind in battle. He reached behind him with his right hand for a kunai, and then stopped when he realized he had no more. 'Shit…' His eyes drifted to the seal on his right wrist, where his katana rested, but then he grit his teeth in annoyance. 'I'd rather die.' His mind made up, but still not willing to die, he sent an emergency message through his Uzumaki crest on his left shoulder. "Damn, I hope Hikari shows up, and not that idiot Yohei."

Ten minutes earlier, with Hikari.

The paled skinned Uzumaki crouched in a dark alley, enveloped by the shadow of the night, while pale blue eyes peered at a white haired man as he was guarding the entrance to a large building. Hikari assumed this was the Mizukage tower, and this ninja was there to stop any and all assassination attempts. 'I need to distract him, and end this as quick as possible. These beasts will be stopped sooner or later.'

Explosions rocket through the night sky as jutsu collided with the two tailed beasts, Hikari glanced at them and saw that they were mainly unaffected. 'Perhaps not as soon as I thought, however…' Hikari sighed, '…that Royal Script, Naruto-sama used is sure to drain him, so I will have to kill two of these swordsmen to give him some rest.' He nodded to himself and pulled out four kunai, with paper bombs attached to them, from his back pouch on the right. He then put his left hand on his katana, and cleared his mind of any and all unnecessarythoughts. He unsheathed it a little, letting the white haired ninja hear it on purpose, and sent a warning kunai out of the dark alley.

The white haired shinobi heard the small noise of a sword being unsheathed, and was immediately on alert. His eyes scanned the area as fast as they could possibly move, and soon he saw a kunai fly toward his face from an alley. His eyes narrowed at the object, but he did not move an inch, he just tried to make out who the culprit was.

Hikari stared at the man with calculating eyes, wondering why he did not move when a kunai was flying directly at his face. The answer to that question soon came, when kunai seemed to stab into the mans forehead, but then mysteriously went through his head. This made Hikari pause, and wonder about his next move, however, seeing this as just a minor setback he activated the explosive tag. He saw the mans eyes widen in surprise; Hikari suspected he felt the heat risen behind him, and then the man was enveloped in an explosion.

The fact that a simple tactic like that worked on a Swordsman of the mist, baffled Hikari, and his senses went on high alert. He stood up from his hiding place and quietly unsheathed his katana, while gripping the remaining three kunai tight in his right hand. His face came out of the shadows and in to the moonlight, pale blue eyes scanning the smoke screen with intent, and then he saw water flowing on the ground. 'He could not have made a water clone, could he?' Not being one to leave anything to chance, he activated his sensing ability and expanded it across the block. His face formed a frown when he didn't sense the man anywhere on the rooftops, and was about to assume he was dead, however his face formed a scowl and he threw two kunai at the puddle.

As soon as the two explosions went off, Hikari jumped back onto a rooftop, "You have a very interesting ability."

"You have a sharp mind." The water that was flowing on the ground started to move on its own, and then it formed a man. Hikari watched in curiosity as it formed black shinobi sandals, light-purple colored pants with leg warmers strapped to them, and black sleeveless shirt. Then the water formed a face with shoulder length white hair and white eyes.

"Very interesting indeed." Came the calm voice of Hikari, his thoughts however, were not calm, 'This fight will be troublesome, to say the least.' He glanced at his kunai, and immediately put it back in his pouch, knowing that it would be useless.

"Surrender now intruder and mercy will be shown." The white haired ninja looked at Hikari with calm eyes, but venom practically leaked from his voice. When no reply came from Hikari, the ninja sighed and brought his water bottled to his mouth, he took a quick gulp of the substance and clipped it back to his waist, "Then prepare to die enemy ninja."

Hikari mentally went over his notes from this mission, until he remembered the man who stood below him, "Mangetsu Hozuki, since you have given me a chance to surrender, I feel it is necessary for me to do the same." Hikari spun his katana into a reverse grip and brought held it in front of him, ready to attack. "I warn you now, Mist ninja, you will not survive if you do not stand down."

The now identified Mangetsu stared back at Hikari with almost dead eyes, "You the one who will not survive." His arm became water, and gripped the sword that lay on the ground, before retracting and forming his arm again with the sword in his hand.

"Then we fight." Hikari let go of his katana and went through hand seals at blinding speed, "Earth Release: Spikes." Multiple deadly spikes sprung from the ground impaling Mangetsu, and Hikari caught his katana mid-air before sprinting toward him.

The white haired ninja simply let the spikes go through him; his body already turned into water at the impact points, and charged chakra into his double edged sword. He watched Hikari come toward him with calm eyes, then dashed to the left and slashed with his sword. The sword glowed blue before releasing a chakra arc, sending it flying at Hikari with blinding speed.

The Uzumaki ninja expected this, as he remembered this technique being covered in the files, and simply jumped over it before continuing his run. The chakra arc flashed past him, flying into a building behind him and cutting it in half. Hikari reached into his pouch, grabbing a scroll and unsealing it, he narrowed his eyes before releasing the seal and letting another spike fly toward Mangetsu.

Mangetsu narrowed his eyes, and decided to dodge this one, the decision proving to be the right one when the spike exploded and blasting away half of his face. He didn't give the injury any attention, because his face quickly reformed and he brought his sword up to block the incoming attack. "Your attacks will do you no good ninja-san." His sword glowed again, before another arc was let loose.

Hikari saw the glow, shifted to the side, turned and slashed at Mangetsu from another angle. When his katana went right through the man, he immediately dashed back to put some space between them. "I see."

The white haired ninja turned to Hikari, his eyes half closed, "I will give you one last chance to surrender."

Hikari's eyes shifted to the two destroyed buildings behind Mangetsu, and then to the water bottle the man took another sip from, 'Troublesome indeed.' He then felt how wet the ground beneath his feet were, 'Mud…' An idea suddenly formed in his head and he let a rare smile form. "I am afraid I have already calculated my victory. Surrender seems illogical."

Mangetsu raised an eyebrow in curiosity, "Then I must defeat you before your plan comes to fruition." He raised his chakra levels and pumped Hiramekarei to its maximum with it, he stood in a ready stance before unleashing a countless number of slashes in the direction of Hikari.

The target of the attacks eyes widened in surprise when he saw the number of chakra arcs flying at him. He charged his katana with Earth chakra and dodged the first one, then the second, the third came close to his head and he had to swipe at it with his katana; breaking it into two. The barrage that followed were too many for him to completely dodge, and he decided to only slice the lethal ones. This attack went on for several seconds and when it stopped, Hikari sported multiple small wounds and was a little winded.

Mangetsu watched the building behind Hikari fall to pieces, the ruble causing smoke to rise into the air. "You survived." The statement was said with just a hint of surprise, but none was shown on his face, that was devoid of any emotion.

"Yes." 'Barely…' Hikari winced a little when the wind blew against his countless wounds. He successfully shut out the pain a moment later and unclipped another scroll from his side.

"Like I said…" Mangetsu disappeared in a burst of speed, before reappearing inches away from Hikari with Hiramekarei pulled back, already glowing with chakra, "it is time to die." He swung the blade at Hikari with blinding speed, simultaneously releasing an arc, intent on ending the fight.

Hikari dropped the scroll, ducked under the slash, letting the chakra arc miss him by inches and in so doing letting it cut off his pony-tail. When the arc made contact with the ground, it kicked up dirt and dust, so Hikari made use of the smoke screen. He made a useless attempt of cleaving Mangetsu in half and sprinted past him.

Mangetsu sighed sighed in annoyance, and turned around to stare into Hikari's eyes, "As I have stated before…" He stopped when he didn't feel his water bottles behind, and then frowned when he saw them in Hikari's hand. "Why did you take my bottles?"

"It seems that your entire body is made of water, but at the same time…" Hikari held up the three water bottles, "…you seem to drink water every time you use that technique." He dropped the bottles and immediately pulled out his last kunai with an explosive tag rapped around it, "Which means you do have a weakness, what that weakness is, I have yet to find out however." He swung his katana into an attacking position and held his kunai at the ready.

Mangetsu looked annoyed and then just sighed, "Sharp mind indeed." He charged his sword with chakra again, then crouched and burst toward Hikari, intent on getting his water bottles back.

'As suspected…' Hikari burst toward Mangetsu, and then threw his kunai, activating the explosion just before the man slashed at it, and immediately unclipped another scroll from his side. As soon as he saw the water flowing on the ground he threw the scroll at it and held the release hand seal, "Gravity Seal: Activate!" The seal hit the water and formed a massive seal around it.

Hikari stopped his charge, and watched the blob of water try to form a body. He raised an eyebrow when it started to have minimal success, and slowly form a face made of water, "I assume you can hear me?" He was marginally surprised when Mangetsu answered him and he took a step back, just to be safe. "Nonetheless, I also assumed this technique turns your body completely into water when large explosions threatens you." He went through more hand seals and more spikes shot through the blob of water. "Since I do not have a way to kill you I thought of a way to stop you." He walked around the gravity seal, toward the discarded sword, and then picked it up before going through another set of hand seals.

Mangetsu saw this and redoubled his efforts to form his body, "What are you doing?!"

"I apologize for not keeping my word and killing you, however it seems that your body is too difficult to expose of at the moment." When Hikari finished his long string of hand seals, he slammed his hands on the ground, "Earth Release: Earth Dome!" An earth dome shot up from the ground, surrounding the two scrolls on the ground and Mangetsu. "I do hope we meet again, so I may kill you."

Mangetsu went to scream something in return, but then he heard the annoyance in Hikari's voice, 'Is he annoyed that he couldn't kill me?' He scowled, "I will find you, and kill you red haired ninja!"

Hikari took out a blank scroll from left flak-jacket pocket, and sealed Hiramekarei in it, "My name is, Hikari, and do make sure you find me." Then he felt his Uzumaki crest pulse continually, making his eyes widen in shock. 'Naruto-sama is in danger!' He ignored the sharp pain that shot through his body when he turned to dash in the direction the message told him. Blood seeped from Hikari's entire body, but his eyes were seeing a different kind of red as he sprinted through the streets of Kirigakure.

Ten minutes earlier with Yohei

Yohei paused his run when he saw two lightning flashes go off in the corner of his eye 'I didn't know Naruto went that way.' He gained a thoughtful expression, "May as well help him out!"

He turned and ran as fast as he could toward the source of the lightning, skidding to a halt when he saw an unfamiliar figure stand in front of him. Yohei scratched his head in confusion, before shouting, "Hey, who the hell are you?!"

The person stopped their next attack and turned around in surprise, their eyes widened for a bid and raised one of their blades in a warning, "Who the hell are YOU!"

"Hey…" Yohei pointed at the person, "…I asked you first man, now answer the question!"

Lightning started to course through the raised blade, "Ameyuri Ringo…" The raised their other blade and lightning coursed through that one, as well, "…and I'm female dumbass!" Arcs of lightning burst out of the blades and headed straight for Yohei.

Yohei saw the two arcs, smiled, and then slashed them in to nothing with his two katana, "Well, shit, you don't look like any female." He looked the now identified female up and down, taking in her entire appearance. She was relatively short, compared to him that his. She also had long, red-ish hair, black eyes and a Kirigakure fore-head protector on. She wore a loose pin-stripped long-sleeved shirt with a dark obi around her waist, black pants which became much looser at the ends, and legwarmer. "Yeah, are you sure you're a woman dude?"

Ameyuri grit her teeth in anger, but was still surprised by the way he shrugged off her attack. "How did you do that?"

Yohei frowned in confusion, "How did I do what?"

"How did you stop my attack? Damn how can you be such an idiot?"

Yohei raised one of his katana in anger, "Hey don't you dare underestimate my stupidity!" He paused a minute and then realized what he just said, "Wait that didn't come out right, what I meant to say is… hmm, well I don't know what I meant to say." He smiled at the women and then lowered his katana, "So anyway, are you a member of the seven swordsmen of the mist?"

Ameyuri growled at the needless babbling of this ninja, "Yes, I am, and I'm also the one who is about to kill you!"

"Oooo…" Yohei raised his katana up in mock surrender, "I'm shaking in my custom made, very comfortable might I add, ninja sandals!" He broke out laughing when he saw her get even angrier, "Dude, you might as well give up, I have a wind affinity and you'll lose."

Ameyuri smirked, "You think that gives you an advantage, little man." Her two blades charged with lightning again, this time emitting a humming noise, "I fry you like a fish!" Bigger arcs of lightning flew toward Yohei this time, crackling with built up chakra.

"Shit!" This time his voice was not filled with sarcasm, he did not have a smirk on his face and he was not having a good time, when he had to jump off the rooftop before the lightning arc hit it. Yohei stared in morbid fascination at the rubble that lay at his feet, just a second ago it was someone's house. "What the fuck? She used so little chakra, and almost literally fried me!" His swords started to radiate with wind chakra, and he smirked, "Maybe this sexually confused guy can give me a challenge."

Just as Yohei was about to charge through the dust that picked up, during the last attack, two lightning dragons came roaring at him. He slashed with his katana, hoping it would dissipate the attacks, but the wind arcs that flew at the lightning dragons did nothing to them. This only made Yohei's smirk grow as he dodged the attack, and charged at Ameyuri, "Now we're talkin' dude!"

He laughed as he sent four wind arcs flying at Ameyuri, who countered with her own lightning arcs, and then charged back at him. The broke out into her own laugh as their blades clashed, "You have guts, kid-!" Her smirk widened as she twisted around, letting Yohei's katana pass her by harmlessly, and cut into him with the upward-curved prongs near the base of her two blades.

Pain shot through Yohei's side, but before Ameyuri could send lightning through him, he head butted her and back flipped away. He winced as he landed but his smirk stayed in place, "You actually got me…" He watched as blood started run down her face, starting from behind he forehead protector. "…but just because you drew first blood, doesn't mean you'll win!" When he finished talking, he disappeared.

Ameyuri saw this, and was immediately on high alert; she charged her blades with lightning and prepared for any attack that may come. Suddenly dust picked up around her and she faintly saw two wind arcs coming toward her in a cross, Ameyuri grunted in annoyance and dodged the incoming attack. She didn't expect another wind arc to come at her so fast though, and she had to jump over it, however when she was airborne she heard Yohei say something. "Wind release: Wind Slicers!" Her eyes widened, and she sent two lightning dragons at the voice, but the incoming barrage overwhelmed the counterattack; and she was sent flying while being cut continually.

Yohei grinned when he heard Ameyuri scream, "Told you…" He stepped out of the dust cloud that he caused, and looked at the woman who was surprisingly standing up. "Hmm, I though you'd be dead, but I can go for another round!"

Ameyuri growled at him and she raised her chakra to her maximum, "You're dead kid." She spit out blood and raised her swords above her head, before screaming, "DEAD!" Lightning exploded from her two blades and it caused a shockwave that almost knocked Yohei to the ground. Said man was now looking into the sky with stars in his eyes.

"This will probably kill me, but it's still so cool!" He slowly went through hand seals, trying to prepare for her attack, and then braced himself when the lightning stopped flying into the sky. He stood stock still for a moment feeling no attack coming toward him, but just as he was about to relax, an earsplitting roar filled the night sky; dwarfing the explosions caused by the tailed beasts.

Yohei went through his long string of hand seals faster, and then he looked into the sky, seeing the biggest lightning dragon he ever saw. "Kami… help me."

The dragon gave another ear splitting roar and then dove down toward Yohei, with incredible speed. The target of the dragons' attack, finished his string of hand seals and smirked, "I told you wind would beat lightning… and you are totally a man!" He thrust his arms in the dragons' direction and shouted, "Wind Release: Supreme Cyclone!" This time, the chakra exploded from Yohei, as he skidded back a little, and a massive wall of sharp wind blades went flying at the lightning dragon. Yohei smirked when the wind technique hit the dragon with full force, and then started to push it back a little. His smirk soon died though when the dragon let out another roar, and then pushed back against his wind technique.

"What were you saying a second ago?" Yohei looked down at Ameyuri, and this time she smirked, "Well, forget about it, little fish, because no you die!" She stood up straight, still exhausted from her last technique, but thanks to her Kiba which allowed her to use high level lightning techniques for low chakra cost; she sent two smaller lightning dragons at Yohei.

Yohei saw the incoming attack and then looked up at the larger dragon, which had become smaller thanks to his wind technique. "Damn…" Was all he could get out before the two smaller lightning dragons hit him with full force. He tried to hold in his scream of pain, but it was too much and he let it out, almost tearing his vocal cords apart. He stood his ground, however, because he knew he would die if the larger dragon was not dealt with. Blood oozed out of his mouth as he pushed more chakra into his attack, and the lightning dragon was finally nullified.

Ameyuri chuckled when she saw how pathetic Yohei looked, and then he fell to his knees, "Yes bow to your queen!"

"Yeah…" Yohei smirked as he took in Ameyuri's appearance, showing his bloody teeth. He finally took not of he tattered clothing, and took in one specific detail. Her left breast had been cut by his earlier technique, and the piece of cloth that was covering it was gone, letting it hang out a bit and showing him her nipple. His smirk slowly turned into a perverted one, and he strained to hold up his hand and point at it. "I can finally see you're a woman."

Ameyuri's labored breath slowed down a bit as she looked at where Yohei was pointing, and then she froze. It was at this moment that Yohei felt his Uzumaki seal pulse multiple times, 'Damn, I didn't get that last part of the message.' It pulsed again, repeating the message two more times. When he finally understood the entire message, his eyes widened in fear, 'Comrade!' Yohei hastily took a vile with red liquid out of his flak-jacket, and gulped it down. He glanced at the still frozen Ameyuri and snuck away as quiet as he could, and then sprinted to the best of his ability toward Naruto. 'Hang in there comrade, I'm coming… shit I'll probably die with you, but I'm still coming.'

With Naruto

Naruto grit his teeth, turned his body sideways so that his left arm was out of harms way, hand lift his right hand up to his face. "Whether I have a blade or not mist ninja, you will die here today." His eyes glanced around, desperate to find one of his discarded kunai, but had no luck. 'Must be under some rubble. Taijutsu it is then.'

Jinin gave a tired chuckle, "I must admit kid, you were better than expected but now you die. Plain and simple." This time his axe started to swing around, and he ran toward Naruto, although it was at a much slower pace than Naruto expected.

Naruto gave a tired sigh, "I can still survive this." He dodged to the left and punched the man as hard as he could in the face, but Jinin retaliated with a knee to the gut, and Naruto almost buckled over in pain. However, he just spun around and this time kicked Jinin in the face, sending him sprawling back.

Naruto smirked to himself and was just about to say something when he heard two blades clash behind him. He jumped to the side in surprise and looked at the two ninja who were clashing blades. He saw a bloody Hikari straining under a massive bandaged-sword, with an even larger man pushing downward with the blade. "Hikari, thank Kami." Then a blur sped past him and kicked the large man in the head, sending him straight through the only remaining building in their vicinity. "Yohei, so you both won?"

Hikari gave the even bloodier Yohei a nod of appreciation, before turning to Naruto with a concerned look. He took in Naruto's appearance and frowned even more. "I should not have let you go off on your own, when I knew you were hiding how tired you really were." Then he bowed his head slightly. "I am sorry Naruto-sama, and I could not even kill, Mangetsu." He held up a scroll, "However, I did take his sword as a consolation prize."

Naruto nodded, and looked at a nervous Yohei, "And you?"

There wasn't any time for an answer as Hikari hastily erected two earth walls, to protect them from a lightning stream that came straight for them. Then they heard a womans' scream, "I will kill you for what you did, you damn perverted bastard!"

"Yeah about that…" Yohei gave a nervous chuckle, "I sort of pissed her of and now I think we should just make a break for it."

Naruto looked shocked at that revelation, "No…" An image of a scared little girl flashed in his head, "No, we didn't kill that little girls' family for nothing!"

Hikari and his two partners heard rocks being shattered, showing the big man with his bandage sword climbing out of the rubble, and then his two earth walls exploded. "There is no time for this Naruto-sama! We will die if we do not retreat."

"Fuck…" Naruto knew Hikari spoke the truth; he knew what their chances of survival were now that they faced three of the swordsmen at once. Then he saw water moving around at Jinins' feet, and then form a man, 'What the fuck?'

"Hikari, you bastard!" The normally calm Mangetsu was seething, and his face was morphed into an ugly scowl. "You'll die for taking my sword!"

That sealed it for Naruto and he nodded toward Hikari, he and Yohei knew what to do, and all of them reached for different tags. The swordsmen saw their movement and all of them charged in. The Uzumaki trio took the opportunity, and as soon as they jumped back, all three of them unleashed dozens of tags at the incoming ninja. Smoke and flash bombs went off in a chain reaction, stunning and blinding the charging attackers at the same time.

Hikari took point again, using his sensing ability, and lead them on the path with the least resistance.

Four hours later

Naruto landed next to a large tree and gasped for air, desperate to fill his lungs with oxygen, to try and lessen the burning sensation they now gave off, "Hikari… are they… still following?"

Hikari was just as tired and sweat dripped off of him at an alarming rate, "They seem to have lost our trail for the moment, but it's just a matter of time."

Yohei laughed as he leaned against a tree, holding the burnt wound at his side, 'At least one good thing came from taking those two lightning dragons.' He smirked at Hikari, "Ever the optimist, heh?"

Naruto held up his hand to silence all the talking, but mostly just to gain his breath, "I know this is risky, but we have no choice…" He stared at Hikari with all seriousness, "Where is the nearest illegal?"

That statement made Hikari raise an eyebrow, he breathed in deeply before answering, "If we go to him, his cover will surely be blown, Naruto-sama."

"We need medical aid, Hikari!" He flinched when his arm started to throb with pain again, "I don't know when you'll pass out from blood loss…" He looked at the multiple cuts on Hikari's body, that were still bleeding, "Yohei, is practically useless because of his low chakra levels now…" The man in question just gave a tired grin, and a peace sign, "And I'm just as useless!"

Hikari sighed in frustration, he could not argue with logic, because what they desperately needed now was indeed medical aid. Whether that be basic or not, because bandages and food would be enough. "Fine, we will go there after we set our next trap."

One hour later with the Uzumaki Captains

Kouga stood on deck yet again, now looking at a beautiful sight before him. He was looking at Port City, with the suns' rising rays just beginning to illuminate it. He let a rare smile grace his lips, but it soon fell when he felt a presence behind him. "Tojiro, have you completed your mission?"

Tojiro stepped next to Kouga, and brushed his long fringe out of his hair for a moment, "Yes."

Kouga nodded in satisfaction, "Good, you may rest with the rest of the advanced squad."

Tojiro only nodded once Kouga's direction before he turned around, and went to find an empty bed.

Kouga watched as three boats they came on, docked, and their ninja disembarked, he then jumped off the boat and unsheathed his katana. "Let's take this city and have a victory party afterward!"

END CHAPTER

AN: I want to continue writing this chap, but I just feel since it's now 1:06 am, I'll just stop and upload it since ya'll have been waiting since forever.

Reviews:

LordHero: lol dude, you're just too perceptive man. So yeah, I guess you got your answer to if Naruto is tired or not. I actually put the part where those Uzumaki captain were going to take over Port City because I wanted to show how they actually invade when prepared, and also to forshadow this big loss of Naruto an Co.

Lainehalsey: thanks for pointing the Kitana thing out… don't know what happened there.

Everyone else thanks for still reading, hope you enjoyed the chap, and maybe you'll review some day.