Child of the Touketsu Jurin 9

By: Death's Spear

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It has been two months since the masked ones came into the forest and only one had left; the worries of her running to the old man and telling him of his whereabouts were slim to none. Who would believe that a child could kill two Anbu members a criminal but let alone live in this forest without divine intervention was laughable. Naruto had only seen tracks of the wolx in the past months but never into contact with them since.

The month after the masked ones were killed, was a clear warning to Naruto if he wanted this forest to be his and the animals alone he would have to step up in his training. He hunted once every two weeks and brought back what he could carry leaving some for the wolx less they wander into his territory and killed by traps that had been newly placed. Naruto trained with tree climbing every day for an three hours; one hour with no rocks to weigh him down and then one with them on. The last hour was to see how high and far away he could get by walking upside down on the tree branches from tree to tree from home base.

He had raised his reserves to the level of a seven or eight year old before he tried to make another jutsu. The reason for this was once during his new security sweep routines, he accidentally used too much and passed out. His Kyoumu no Jutsu was the perfect security jutsu. The ice cold mist hung around the coldest and warmest part of the forest which was half way through the woods. The only problem was it took a lot of concentration to do it and a lot of chakra as well. He wanted at one point to freeze the entire forest so now one could come in, but was warned by Kyuubi not too. The words still echoed in his small hooded head as he jumped towards the southern point of his domain to use Kyoumu no Jutsu again to keep it nice and freezing.

-Flashback-

Naruto was traveling to the western point of his domain and was seething in anger that people had managed to come into his new home. The only thing that was good about that was the wolx no longer hunted him like prey. 'I am going to freeze the entire forest so that no one comes in here again. They don't deserve to come here no one does it is MINE!' he was greeted with some pain in his stomach that told him that Kyuubi wanted to see him.

Naruto slowed to a stop looked for a safe place to rest without much worry of attack and meditated so he could see Kyuubi. It had been awhile since he learned he didn't have to go to sleep to see her face to face and was glad for it. He entered the domain of his tenant and was met by a question.

"What do you think you are doing brat?" she already knew about his thoughts but just wondered if he would try to lie to her again. The last time he did that she yelled at him so loud he almost went deaf and then gave him a major stomach ache.

"I am going to freeze the entire forest in order to keep any more humans out of MY home. Why is something wrong with that Kyuubi?" Naruto told/asked her.

"No, nothing rally…well except that you forgot a few simple details in your plan." She said sickening sweetly to the child as he thought of her tone of voice but dismissed it before stating, "What are the things that I forgot?"

"YOU DON'T OWN THE FOREST YOU IDIOT! You live here yes that is true but you do not own anything not even your hut! You took from the land to build your house and storage room; the animals however used that land before you did it is still theirs'! If you freeze the forest, not only will you kill the animals or make them move from here; you will kill your self! Did you not learn anything from my memories? The same memories that gave you your protection, your blood ability and saved you from the wolx and those humans; you do not think for your self but for the land and the lands inhabitants. That means the animals and plants.

Not to mention that you will put the gods into chaos at the fact that a mortal froze part of their domain. Do you know what would happen if you went through with this plan of yours?"

Naruto looked at the ground before answering her. "I'll be in trouble? Right?"

She looked at him and then sighed. She then shot out a tail towards him and then pulled him closer to her before answering, "Oh yea, if you don't from starvation, you'll die anyways. They will kill you without a second thought. Gods and goddess are not forgiving when you have wrong them greatly. So think of something else for the time being and hope that they stay away." As she finished she sent him away and then towards the left side of the cage and stared at the slowly growing icicle that snaked its way upward. 'It is only a matter of time before they tell Shiva that one of her descendents has survived. That could in fact mean he could become a demi god or an avatar for her; either way she will come in one form or another.'

-End Flashback-

He always had to make sure that the forest was not entirely frozen but was enough for the average human to think twice about going in. He would make sure that either every one that entered was killed or ran out with severe mental damage.

He had reached his destination and used his jutsu to keep Zai tsumei and then work on another jutsu. He listened to the woods as he sped on top of the never melting snow all the way back home.

The wooden claws for his hands and feet were almost done and there was only one thing that would finish them. Metal. That meant he wood he would have to sneak into the place he vowed not to return too. Konoha. Before that though he would finish his new jutsu just incase of conflict.

His new jutsu looked good on bark and in snow but in reality he wasn't so sure. The new jutsu he wanted to complete was like Hyoton: Shimobashria no Jutsu in the sense that it was like needles only bigger. They were shards that flew slower than the other one but was stronger. If the other one could cause death at fast pace but required more than one, the new one could cause death in one or two shards.

The first time he used it he almost destroyed one of the sides of his hut. At first it was a fluke to make bigger shards but now they were deliberately bigger. He wasn't good with aiming for a while but then finally got the hang of in two weeks time; one could say it was complete but for Naruto it was only born. For more challenging targets, Naruto shot them at fish and other fast moving game. Today was just another step to completing it and hunting fowl would be the last stage of speed and accuracy. The bird would be used for meat and feathers for arrows. The bones could be used for needles and such.

Naruto went out of the misty layer and into the outer forest in search of fowl to hunt. He found a large group in the middle of small clearing and waited for them to fly away before using his jutsu. They noticed soon afterwards and to the sky as Naruto let his hands go through the seals and then let the shards fly out of his mouth at the flying fowl. The shards ripped through the winged foe and dropped four down instantly, two more fell later. A total of six birds, good enough for him; his jutsu was complete. It was time to finish his claws.

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Two days after he finished his jutsu and finished using everything from the birds, Naruto took his skewer and bow and left for the edge of the forest. This was it for Naruto; this would make him or break him. He got through the mist and started running for Konoha at a speed between middle and top speed, he could not be tired for this task. Nothing could go wrong for Naruto or he would fail.

As he ran he didn't notice a small pack of wolx were running in his direction and ran past them; however they followed him to the forest edge and waited. Waited for something.

Naruto was sneaking towards the wall of Konoha and found that all of the holes had recently been filled with mortar and putty. He ran all around the wall and noticed that there was a medium size caravan moving towards the village so he went over to get a closer look at it. This could be a potential threat to his mission and life in the future.

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The caravan was almost to one of the gates to Konoha when the air started to cooler than it was. It was nine at night and the air was already cool but it kept getting cooler. For two children on the middle wagon, it was enough to ask their father about it.

"Father, why is it colder all of a sudden? You told us that it was cool but not like this." Said a boy wearing grayish black clothes while watching his breathe escape his mouth.

"Yeah, it feels like nighttime in the desert father." Said a small girl wearing the same thing as her brother.

"Well it could be because of some rumors that might be true. You see up until a few months ago this area used to be nice and cool at night. But about two months ago Konoha had a missing nin escape them and sent an Anbu hunter team after him, the only surprising thing was that the missing nin was only a b-rank for his brains and the object that he stole. However the team came back a few days later and do you know what happened?" the children's father as he watched their eyes widen in anticipation of wanting.

"Did they come back blue?" asked the boy earning a hit over the head from his sister who was scolded by their father.

"Where they defeated by the cold and couldn't find the nin?" Asked the girl trying to change the words that her brother had used in his question before.

Their father took a serious tone as he told them about what his spies had told him before, "They came back alright though not successful, or should I say the only one that came back said that she fought a small ice monster. She called it this because it looked to the size of a five year old at most but still took down and killed her teammates with little seen effort. She said he shot icicles at her and ended up wounding her but not killing her.

When she got back the forest seemed to freeze even more. My spies tell me that the forest is still snowy inside and the ice won't melt. They can only guess that the missing nin was killed as well since no one has ever seen him again. If what they say is true that could be the reason why the area is so cold." he finished by pulling his cloak closer as did the two children.

The two kids were wondering about the newly mentioned forest when the boy poked his sisters arm and asked her, "Hey do you see that over there?" he pointed to a small group of white-gray dog like things running after a darker object that was coming closer to them steadily.

She nodded and then asked their father if he did, in which he made some seals and fired a small fire ball at the group effectively lighting the area in a small blaze and showing the three plus their guards that there was three or so white wolf like creatures now running away from the fire. He then looked for the darker figure but found nothing. As the family and their guards came closer to the gates they saw nins running back from where they just came from.

One of the nins stopped them and asked a question, "Did you see who it was who light the grass on fire?" it was a chunin who had been there putting the small blaze out and looked like he was afraid of something.

"Yes I know of who did it, it was me." Said the father of the two children.

"Why did you do that Kazekage-Sama?" the nin asked him in order to complete his duty.

"There was a group of white wolves or something similar to that extent running near us. Please forgive me as I forgot to put the flame out." the kage answered the man. The nin's face turned dark before leaving them. The family of three could hear the man as he ran off towards the village at a startling pace, "They do exist after all, damn the monster must be alive then as well." With that all over the caravan entered the village and towards the Hokage tower. If the Konoha nins had done a better job then they might have found an extra 'visitor' on the caravan; for underneath the families' wagon Naruto was clung to the bottom of it waiting for the right time to go steal the metal needed to finish his claws.

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Naruto was good at stealth and he had to be in order to kill the animals for food. But even with his stealth he could not be saved from two sets of eyes. He was listening for the people to get of the wagon so he could go into the closest blacksmith shop and steal the metal he needed. When he felt the wagon shift and the sets of feet that got of the wagon and thought that he was in the clear; he got down and crawled over to the edge and was half way out when he heard a girl's voice saying something.

"Hey Kankuro look over here and be quiet there some one under the wagon!"

'Someone under the wagon? Does she mean me or someone else?' he turned around and looked behind him and saw only the ground. 'Oh kami, please not me!' he never got a chance to look up before the boy said,

"Hey, what do you think you're doing under our wagon?" "Kankuro not so loud jeez, Now you've scared him!"

In truth Naruto was scared. He worked so hard to get in here and he was spotted by children. 'Please no older ninja hear these two loud mouths. This is time for some fog.' Naruto started to do hand seals as the boy started to reach for his cloak. Kyoumu no Jutsu. It wasn't powerful enough to freeze them but just enough so that he had some cover to leave.

Kankuro and his sister where surrounded in mist as their father and another old man came out from the tower. The two ran over to them and started to use some small wind jutsus to clear the mist. The old man's mind was busy trying to figure out if this was the same thing as the women who had returned a few months ago told him. Then he felt how cold it was; it was cold for mist and there was none earlier, 'This has to be a jutsu. So our little ice devil has returned for something. Though I wonder what.'

"Temari I need you to tell me who or what made the mist, this was a jutsu right?" The Kazekage asked her; she nodded her head and then said, "It was a boy."

That statement floored the Hokage as he called for a group of Anbu to his attention. When they arrived he told them what to look for without much info because of the Kazekage; "If it was him, I want him brought to me alive, do you understand me?" the Anbu nodded and left in different directions.

"Hokage-Dono, what is going on here? Who is 'Him'" the Kazekage asked his counterpart.

"It might be our little ice monster or devil if you want to call him that. He has killed my nin so I want to know why before he is to be punished." The older man said.

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Naruto was running at full speed dodging the late night drunks and other people as he made his way towards a blacksmiths shop. He was about to run down the street towards the last one he saw when he lived in the village. It was run by a man and his wife with their daughter. They might not have hurt him but still he never went in just in case. Anyways he was turn down the street when two thugs were trying to force them selves upon her when he almost slammed into one of them. He may not have wanted to help anyone from the village but he had heard stories of people like this before and decided it might serve as a distraction for any one looking for him.

He made sure that the women was not in his sights and then called out silently his new jutsu "Hyoton: Kyouhen no Jutsu" again his voice like gravel from not being used much. The shards flew out and pierced through the air and the thugs with the speed like a bird, struck and killed the two men. The men were thrown in to the wall blood pouring out for but a mere twenty seconds before freezing. The ice melted and Naruto left off in search for the blacksmiths again.

When the Anbu got there they found an emotionally traumatized female and two dead men. He called for back up and then waited with the women before the back up came; then he left in search again.

Naruto got to the shop and found that the door was locked and so were the down stairs windows. He saw that the upstairs window on the left was open and jumped up towards the open window and made sure that there was no one there and crawled in. He did not know that he almost stepped on the young girl that he had seen here before she wasn't fully asleep and when she saw Naruto in his cloak she hid under the blankets. She felt him step on her bed then snuck out her bedroom door and down stairs.

The young girl got up and walked to her parents' room and opened it and ran over to their bed, jumped on it and woke them up. "Mommy, Daddy someone just came in our house."

Her father was a little ticked at the fact that he was just woken up so quickly after falling asleep and said a little harshly, "Tenten no one came into our house now go back to bed."

"But Daddy" she protested, "There is some one here he came in through my window and went down stairs." She shook his arm trying to get up and out of bed to go beat the intruder up.

"Now Tenten, I assure you that there is no one hear you probably had a nightmare or-" Her mom started but was cut off by her daughter,

"But I wasn't sleeping I was awake looking at the stars when he came in. I hid under my blanket when he came in." before she could continue there was a crash from down stairs. CCRRAASSHHKK

"What was that?" her dad said as he got up and grabbed a knife out and went towards the stairs only to see mist coming from downstairs, a cold mist. He heard faint steps coming from the stairs and only could see a small child like figure running in to his daughter's room with something in the Childs' hands.

He followed the figure into the room only to see the window wide open. Wife went down stairs and came back up to tell him of her discoveries. "The only things that were stolen were some un-melted metals and two small pots and two knives and a chain. Oh and a pick; other than that a broken window from the display case."

Before she could continue an Inuzuka Hunter nin came charging through the door downstairs and came up stairs with her dog behind her.

"Sorry for the intrusion, but we are hunting a little monster. He has killed two people although thugs who in the middle of trying to rape a women, and his trail led here. Have you seen him?" the women asked the family.

"Yes we have. He came through our daughter's window, stole some metals, two knives, two small pots, a chain and a pick. He also broke the display case. Then he came up in a cloud of mist and ran out the window." Stated Tenten's father. The hunter nin nodded and left after the thief.

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Naruto had all the things he needed and more. The chain would serve as a weapon and the pick would be used to get frozen bits wood and rocks out of the ice covered ground. The pots for water and the knives for hunting and skinning. His home made one worked but the animals hides were getting thicker and it took longer to skin.

He was going the way he had come until he got to the part where he could see the caravan. Not only was the man from before there the old man from Naruto's past was there as well. He came into their view unknowingly and stopped and looked at all the people there; there was a small blonde haired girl, a small brown haired boy, a man in blue and white and one in red and white. Then the masked ones showed up from behind them. He hesitated for just a second until one of the masked ones said, "That's him! He's the one who killed my teammates two months ago!"

Naruto started with a shot and started going through hand seals and said quietly "Hyoton: Kyouhen no Jutsu" the shards of ice hit the closed gate and went up the gate almost like stairs. He jumped from one of them being the lowest because of his extra weight then to the next one up. A few of the Konoha nin jumped after him and started going through the seals for "Kanton: Gougakyuu No Jutsu" (SP) the fire balls launched from five of the nins started forward towards Naruto as he jumped on the third ice shard.

The first one almost hit him as he jumped to the third one he landed and did a back flip and landed on the fourth as the next two hit and melted the fifth one. The next one hit right after awards almost throwing him the wall he was now clung to with chakra. The last one melted the seventh ice shard and Naruto jumped from the wall onto the sixth one which was melting fast. He made it to it and to the others that thought he was going to fall through it were amazed as the shard healed its self giving Naruto enough time to jump to the top of the wall and run his fastest as the nins opened the gate and gave chase.

The Kazekage and Hokage along with the two kids ran out of the gate to see what was going on only to find a fairly large part of the following nins stopped in their tracks. They looked a head of them only to see the figure jump from the wall to a tree (the tree was a good fourteen feet away from the wall) then to another one before loosing him in the forest. The nins were going to give chase when the old man said not to follow and to return home.

No one knew that the figure was going to survive for much longer and agreed with the Hokage's orders and went home.

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Naruto was glad to get back from his escapade and back into his domain. As he was running back he noticed that for some reason some wolx were running along with him. Noticing one had a scar on it's maw he thought for a moment that he was going to be attacked. So he took out the rabbit meat that he brought with him just incase he was gone longer than he thought and gave it to them in return stopped pick them up and ran back into the brush and away from him. 'That was strange' he thought but then sped off with all of his might towards home while humming a happy tune. He was done for the night and he was going to sleep peacefully.

-Kyuubi's Domain-

Kyuubi watched every thing from within her domain and smiled. She was very happy with Naruto. He had just infiltrated the village stole items that slowed him down and still escaped with out much if any harm. He had killed and didn't stop to feel bad about it. Now that went against some of what he learned but they were rapists and deserved it. The ice on the wall grew a little bit as well and made a three foot tall piece of ice. She was very proud and if she could teach him anything she would, but alas couldn't.

-Out side with Naruto-

Naruto was sleeping soundly as soon as he hit the mat. Tomorrow he would try to melt the metal correctly and pour the melted iron into his Zai tsumei and have them finished. It would be almost another 4 months until human contact again.

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Three month time skip

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Naruto had finished his Zai tsumei after a couple tries and still had some metal and iron for further uses. The good thing about making wooden claws is that you can take out or add wood as needed for growth and repairs. Naruto had made him self a wooden chest plate and elbow guards with spikes coming from the ends of them. His own blood line spikes had grown another two inches on his knees and legs and only grew sharper on his hands.

He settled with making a new type of head for his skewer so it looked more spearish. The two pots were full one with herbs and one with water. Out side the ground was soft enough for planting some vegetables which Naruto stole while hunting one day. He had planted some peas and potatoes. Not much but they would grow in time. He made a small water whole next to his small garden and even made a small lean-too for down on their luck animals. Even though Naruto was a hunter he still let animals travel through his land except his garden. He remembered the talk with Kyuubi and took it to heart after his escapade.

He was now practicing with his chain weapon and was cutting pieces of wood for his fire when he heard something that sounded like a human scream. He had heard those lately and this last one was too close for comfort; so he turned picked up his bow and arrows and left towards the screams. He was about point three miles away before he saw dead corpses of humans on the ground. Some with weapons and some that had messed with the wolx and lost. He just decided to turn around and leave the corpse.

He got back to his hut and got his pick and left to make another water whole for fish later in the months. While he was out and about he saw a glare off something behind the trees. It looked like metal. Naruto jumped into the trees and clung to the frozen branches as he looked for the foreign object only to see a man with a sack that looked to be moving. He could smell the moving object just fine. It was young, it had that new born smell, and the only things to have that smell were new wolx pups.

Naruto could hear the elder wolx howling for the lost pup and that would mean trouble for Naruto as well as the man down below. When wolx pups where missing the adults attacked almost anything in their sight to get them back even other wolx.

Naruto got close enough to heat the man talking to him self, strange; but he listened to the man.

"Hahaha I've heard stories about the wolx in the past, but never thought that they would be down in fire country. Must have been attracted by the cold of this never melting forest. Good thing that I am used to the cold weather though or I would be a popsicle right now. Anyways with these two pups I'll raise an entire pack of them and then sell them to the nins of Iwa hahaha!" that was all Naruto heard before he jumped back to another branch and then let out his own howl, sickly but a howl.

The wolx heard this and came charging towards the man that held the young pups in the sack. It took three minutes for the adults to surround and attack the man. The man threw the sack that contained the two pups up in the air; if they fell they would hit the rocks on the ground and most likely die. Naruto took his chances and jumped forward and caught the sack. He landed on the ground and ripped open the sack and let the pups out on the ground. The other wolx turned from the almost dead man and started to growl and charge Naruto. Naruto only jumped back into the trees and took an arrow and shot the man in the head. He died looking at his dream literally pissing on his face.

Naruto waited for the wolx to calm down before leaving them in peace. Naruto went back to digging his water whole. After which he went back home after sending out an even more powerful Kyoumu no Jutsu at each point then went home to sleep.

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Thirteen months later

Two years since the beginning

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It has been two years since Naruto has started his life in the forest which was at it's worst time ever. This day was the same day he was ran out and beaten all those times and he was pissed beyond heck. Kyuubi tried to clam him down but could not even begin to soothe him. The icicle in his mind was now seven feet tall and four feet wide and growing faster with each negative thought of his past; though a millimeter is small it twice with each negative thought.

Naruto was out hunting when he heard the wolx howls in the distance and knew what it meant. Over the last year or so he started to aid them in the eradication of humans in their forest. His bond with them was still shaky but not an enemies bond. In fact the two pups from the year before almost all ways were the first ones that came over to him after the death of a human opponent. They were almost pets and almost always listened to him. Once or twice Naruto saved little children that found their ways into the forest when he could find them in time. Kyuubi asked him once why he did that and Naruto said they didn't do anything wrong so how could he let them die. He did so it was like a dream to them; and the two wolx stared down the rest at those times.

Now Naruto was running as fast as he could to join the hunt and got there in time to see the two groups of people join and look at Naruto's first kill; the frozen one. He watched them talk to each other before he thought it was time for the hunt. He could see his 'friends' coming from behind him and the sides and could see the green glowing glint from their eyes. It was time.

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"Who is, or was he? He might be the only missing nin of the Haruno clan?" They all looked at Iruka as he said that.

Kakashi asked him, "How would you know who he is Iruka?" "Well just noticing that the body has 'pink' hair, and all Harunos have pink hair, he very well could be Haruno Sota. But who ever killed him must have just started making arrows."

Dokugai and Ibiki looked at him and asked. "How can you tell that, just by looking at him, especially when he's covered in ice?" It was no other than Hayate who answered. "These arrows are very crude, must have been a beginner, or a young child who crafted them; but why would a child be out here in this frozen waste land is beyond me?"

"Maybe the child had been out here before the forest became like this, and had gotten lost and had to adapt to the forests harsh changes." Ibiki pondered out loud for a moment,

"The only child to go missing in the 2-3 years was the 'Demon Brat' and it was only four years old at the time it vanished. But still if it is the brat's doing, how are we going to find it? He should be dead if he was here, but if not by something short of a miracle, then where would it be? It's not like it would stay here, would it?" Iruka stated rather venomously

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That really got Naruto angered but for now he wanted them to be scarred. He let his hand drop and the wolx started towards them growling the whole time. He saw them turn and in that instant his nightmare came back to him.

The dead animals screaming, the dead bodies that wouldn't stay dead, the forest turned into an icicle, maybe he wasn't supposed to kill these people; or just maybe not yet anyways. He always remembered the nightmare and the visions he'd sometimes get, they were horrible.

Maybe he wouldn't them…all, but he wanted them to fear him. He reached for his bow and then pulled out an arrow, notched the arrow pulled, aimed and fired at the frozen one's head. For some reason the wolx had stopped their advancement until the arrow hit the head and it shattered. The last piece fell and the wolx charged.

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Finally the expedition group view

YAY!

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The group saw the wolx attack as the cloaked figure jumped backwards into a tree. The wolx came full force until Hiya charged her home made jutsu that complemented her name "Kanton: Hiya no Jutsu!" from her mouth tiny, but many fire arrows shot out towards the wolx stopping them for an instant but not for long.

Two wolx split up and attacked Dokugai, he used the Kaiten and blew them away from him and then activated his Byakugan which was just a little bit green in the middle, and jukyened(SP) one in the side letting a little bit of poisoned chakra seep in the old scarred wolx.

Kakashi and Gekkou were busy fending of an extremely strong wolx with both ninjutsu and kenjutsu (not the wolx). Kakashi got bit in the arm and Gekkou was knocked down in the snow face first.

Enka was using her name complemented jutsu to aid her sister when Iruka was knocked back wards and almost fell on Ibiki as he was fighting the two young pups that Naruto saved earlier in life.

Anko was about to summon a snake to help when she saw the cloaked figure running through hand seals. They all stopped as they heard his voice for the first time even the wolx, although they knew what might be coming and back off all save for the scarred one.

"Hyoton: Kyouchuu no jutsu!" the gravel sounding voice was enough to make Anko cringe as she remembered victims of sensei who never lived very long said for her or some one to kill them with that same gravel tone. Before anyone really knew what was going on gigantic ice pillars sprouted and cut Hiya and Anko from the rest of the group who took this time to fall back a bit.

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Normal POV

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Anko and Hiya were surrounded as the wolx seemed to wait for Naruto to move. Hiya started her jutsu as Anko tried to do a summoning jutsu but was cut off when Naruto sent his chain link weapon around their padded arms and torsos. He walked over to them and knocked them over the back of their heads knocking them and then jumped with them into a high tree so as the wolx wouldn't eat them.

The others saw this and tried to help but were cut off when the old scarred one which was now dieing from the poison in his system gave a feral and low growl as he strived to stand. He managed to get up and then with a final burst of speed and strength lashed out biting and snarling at the others. He bit Iruka in the arm and slashed Ibiki's head. He tried to attack Kakashi but was stabbed in the side by Gekkou.

Enka tried to use her families attack on the ice pillars but fizzled out as it hit the sides. Then she tried her name sake attack "Kanton: Enka no Jutsu!" there were four shots of screeching flame snakes that flew from her mouth and collided with the wall. Each one hit with an explosion that rattled ear drums. As the smoke cleared the group only saw one dead wolx the one that was stabbed and no Hiya or Anko; nothing was on the now accessible other side.

"Damn it to hell and back! We have to go after them we have to save my sister and Anko! We have-" she was cut off by Ibiki falling to the ground and Iruka trying to steady him self against a tree.

"What's wrong you two? Hurt that badly?" Kakashi asked teasingly.

His answer was when Iruka threw up blood and food. Dokugai took one look at them and then the wolx that had bit and clawed them.

"We have to get these two back the village now. They have been poisoned by that creature that Gekkou killed. By the looks of it, it was the one I poisoned earlier the poison must have spread through the wounds they received from it." He surmised "We'll have to return to the village for reinforcements before we try to find your sister or Anko Enka. Now lets get moving, I don't want either of them to die from my poison." Enka solemnly nodded and picked up Iruka with Gekkou's help. The two teams left the area for the village; all along not noticing that they were being watched by Naruto.

Naruto's thoughts as he watched them leave were, 'They take them back but don't try to find the others, maybe they are out casts as well and aren't liked. If that is the case they can stay with me…an outcast.' He jumped down and picked up the body of the old scarred one pulled him off to battle field and into to the nearest wolx territory they would need to find a new leader and Naruto paid his last respects to the old warrior. Though the wolx did try to kill him before, he became his ally in the end. A true friend in Naruto's book.

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Naruto walked back to his hut to check on the sleeping women that might become allies; though at first they might try to kill him, he did just try to kill them so it would be just. He watched them sleeping back to back on the far side of his hut on some old wood shavings and then pulled off his cloak and armor, put wood on the fire and go to sleep.

The next morning and Naruto was still sleeping as his captives awoke within minutes of each other. Hiya awoke first to the image of a rabbit pelt on the wall waiting to be used for something. She looked around and noticed that the bonds that used to be a chain was now a rope; too bad she didn't have a nail file on her. She turned to the other side to see Anko wake up and looking at her face, kind of awkward for them to start the morning huh?

Anko woke up and saw Hiya staring into her eyes with a pissed expression. Anko being Anko said something kind of Anko-ish, "What? We get drunk and party a little too much or did we just skip the party and play in the sack?"

"NO IDIOT!" Hiya yelled before hearing Naruto stir and then quieted down again. "We were attacked, bounded and knocked out and now are in the cloaked monsters hut either for food or sick entertainment." She finished kind of freaking out about being in the same hut as a six year old who beat the crap out of them yesterday.

"Oh come on he can't be that bad. I mean take a look at him…" she and Hiya moved enough to see Naruto sleeping soundly with his animal skin blanket half on him and half on the floor; they also saw him reach for his head once mumbling about 'the screaming dead'.

"Ok maybe he is insane but I am insane and you love me right? Right?" Anko said with puppy dog eyes looking at Hiya who just 'hn'd' and kept an eye on Naruto as he went back to a peaceful sleep.

After an hour of waiting for Naruto to wake up; the two women were met with the sight of a nearly naked six year old with a four pack on its why to a six pack and pretty good sized muscles. Then they saw him sling his legs over the edge of the bed/mat and saw spikes of what might have been ice sticking out of his knees.

Naruto had the nightmare again but this time it was less traumatizing as the past ones. He woke up and got out of bed only to see his captives looking at him with a mixture of fear and question. He got up and put on his cloak and walked out side. Anko and Hiya were slightly ticked that the boy just got up and walked out side, but then heard the faint sound of urinating. A six year olds got to do, what six year olds got to do.

Naruto came back in and took a piece of homemade soap and washed his hands before touching the dried rabbit meat. He ate his while looking at the two women wondering what he was to do with them for now until a voice said "Maybe they need to use the trees Naruto." He looked at them for a moment and the took a piece of rope and walked over to them and tied it to the back of the bounding rope and got his chain link weapon and untied their feet so they could get up.

Anko and Hiya looked at him as he came over and tied them up and then untied their feet. He picked up his chain and slung it over his shoulder and then moved his head in a way that said 'Get up'. Mow normally the two women wouldn't take this kind of treatment from nobody, but when your tied up in the middle of an ice cold forest with giant wolf like creatures that would eat you in an instant they complied.

Once out side of the hut they saw that there was in fact ground around the hut. In fact there was a small garden that looked ready to be harvested. They saw a small deer resting in a small lean-too and not bothered by the boy at all. They followed him towards a bushy area then using the additional rope length to walk away but still keeping an eye on them.

Anko asked Hiya "What does he want us to do exactly?"

Seeing the boy's face he turned around then back facing towards them again, then turned away, she replied, "I think he's saying that he wants us to use the 'bush' to relieve our selves. In other words he saying we can piss and stuff."

Anko then got a naughty smirk and then replied, "So he likes it like that huh? Well I am not going to give that pervert a free show no way no how."

"Anko he is turned around and is not paying attention I don't know about you but I need to pee." And with that Hiya did whatever she needed to do followed shortly by Anko who moved away from the other(s).

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Tune in next time for more

Chapter 9

Finished

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Finally got to the rest of the gang. More about the rest like the Uchiha clan massacre and such later. Sorry for not responding back but I have only been around enough to trudge through my other fic Journey of a Ronin Ninja, this one was all typed up in five or six hours and for me that is fast.

Translations:

Kyoumu no Jutsu: Ice mist technique. A freezing vapor cloud that is still moist; will kill with out proper clothes or treatment if exposed for long periods of time.

Zai tsumei: claws made of wood. Can be fixed and adapted by adding more wood or removing wood.

Hyoton: Shimobashria no Jutsu: Ice needle technique. Shoots many fast needles at targets peppering them with needles; can cause death if used correctly.

Hyoton: Kyouhen no Jutsu: larger and slower then needles, can be fatal with one shot, can be used as 'steps'.

Kanton: Gougakyuu No Jutsu: grand fire ball jutsu. Giant ball of fire.

Kanton: Hiya no Jutsu: fire arrows, small and fast, does not do a lot of damage but be use to start large scale fires and pepper enemies.

Kaiten: Hyuuga ultimate defense, a sphere of chakra that repels attacks and attackers.

Hyoton: Kyouchuu no jutsu: Ice pillar technique, large pillars of ice break through the ground and push together to squish enemies.

Kanton: Enka no Jutsu: A fire technique that fires long streams of fire that makes a deafening noise both when moving and exploding. Think fire works, large amount of damage.

Thanks to…

Mercsenary, isthisparadise, MiseryluvsDeath aka Fidele, hoyt, Tsumetai Taiyoukai, Aidis.

elwing59: all in good time, but yes Naruto will go back to the village. Might be when he is eleven or when the invasion starts. Might be a vote on it.

Shulblaka Saphira: Thanks I did have a happy Thanksgiving.

I thank you all for reading and reviewing my story thanks.

The next chapter will have a "When does Naruto return to the village" vote so be wary. As for anybody who wants pairings still don't know about it, I stink at romance but I might take a crack at it.

Weapon votes will come after the vote to return will. Until then you'll have to wait.

The next story to be updated is Loyal Pain, Disloyal Trust. So until next time. See Ya, and as always review if you want.