Dragon's Rebirth

by Fresh Prince of Konoha

As a child, Naruto unlocks a power thought to be gone to the universe. Now, as an adolescent and the last known Saiyan, Naruto must balance his wide variety of powers, his Shinobi life, a crazy, demented Uchiha with a power that is as strong or stronger than his own, and a plethora of new enemies that would love nothing more than to skewer him. DBZ X-over

10. Trip to JuuHachi Town

I feel like I didn't establish it enough in the last chapter, but its 10:00 in the morning when Hinata and Naruto leave. Gai had already been infected for 8 hours. Also, according to the most recent chapter of Naruto, the Kyuubi no Yoko's true name is Kurama, so from now on, that's what I will call him. And I left a bit of a cliffhanger at the end of this chapter, please don't kill me.

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After getting their marching orders from the Hokage, Naruto and Hinata both took off towards JuuHachi Town. While they were flying, Naruto was still getting the cold shoulder from Hinata.

"So Hina-chan, what do you think is the poison that's affecting Gai?

"…"

"How are you gonna strap him to the stretcher? If something like this happens again, it might be good to know."

"…"

It went on like this for 10 minutes, until finally Naruto snapped. He yelled "Okay, that's it!"

Naruto flew right in Hinata's way, forcing her to stop. He said "I've been patient and putting up with you giving me the cold shoulder for two weeks, but now I'm getting tired of it. Hina-chan, tell me, what the hell did I do that was so bad to you?"

Hinata just stood there and glared at Naruto, until she decided to let loose. She yelled, "You wanna know what you did? You defended that slut Tenten!"

Naruto said back "So what? She's a friend of mine, and without knowing her for even a day, you called her a slut and got into a fight with her!"

Hinata retorted "What makes her so damn special that you would take her side over me? You barely know her for a month and you're already defending her!"

Naruto said, "Have you forgotten how we even became friends, Hinata? I knew you for 2 days, and barely said 5 words to you in those days. I didn't know a damn thing about you, and I saved you when a CLOUD JOUNIN tried to abduct you!"

Hinata replied, "What does that have to do with his?"

Naruto said "I'm not gonna just stand back and let someone talk about my friends like you did to her. Whether it was Tenten, or anyone else, I'm not gonna just let someone talk about them."

Hinata said, "You still didn't answer me. What is so special about her that you would take her side over me?"

Naruto said, "I don't want to take anyone's side, but you two keep forcing me to. I brought her to the training ground that day because you both mean a lot to me and I wanted you two to be friends. But you both decided to just turn it into one big catfight, and now you're forcing me in the middle. I just want peace!"

Hinata muttered "Well, you're not gonna get it anytime soon."

Naruto said, "Then tell me why? Why can't you two just talk this out like mature adults?"

Hinata blurted out "Because she's trying to steal you from me!"

Naruto was visibly shocked from Hinata's statement. From the way Hinata reacted, she was shocked too. It seemed that Tenten's true goal was something that Hinata didn't want Naruto t know. She didn't mean to say that, but now it was out there. He would've guessed a lot of things, but Tenten trying to steal him from Hinata? That never crossed his mind. "What are you talking about?"

Hinata said, "After we had our first argument, I went to Tenten and told her to stay away from you. She said that she wouldn't and that the second there's something wrong in our relationship, she'd take you from me."

Naruto said "And you think giving me the cold shoulder for two weeks would make it seem like there's nothing wrong with our relationship? (Sigh) Hinata, you're my girlfriend. You're the woman I love, and nothing will change that. But ignoring me and giving me the cold shoulder for two weeks really doesn't make me think that you want our relationship to continue."

Hinata sighed and said, "I know. I don't know what came over me. I...I was just so pissed that I had just gotten together with the love of my life, and some slut just tried to steal him from me. I was so mad, and I took it out on you for no reason. I'm really sorry, Naruto-kun."

Naruto smiled and hugged his girlfriend. "Water under the bridge, Hinata-chan. But this does raise a question."

Hinata looked up to Naruto and said, "What question?"

Naruto said "What the hell are we gonna do about Tenten? I mean, she might be trying to steal me from you, but she's also my friend. She helped me fine-tune my Kenjutsu. I promised her that I would help her achieve her dream no matter what. You know how I feel about going back on my promises."

Hinata turned her head away from Naruto's gaze and said "Naruto-kun, I don't want you to have to end your friendship with her for that, but I don't feel comfortable with you hanging around her. What if she tries to make a move on you?"

Naruto turned Hinata's chin so that she was looking at him in the eye. He said, "She can make all the moves she wants. No one can replace you in my heart. What we have is special, something that no one can take from us. Hinata, I will always love you, and no force in existence will ever change that."

Naruto's words started to move something in Hinata. Her cheeks started turning pink from blushing as her eyes started to tear up. As her voice started breaking, she said "Naruto, that's the most romantic thing I've ever heard." Hinata couldn't hold the tears back anymore as she held her head to Naruto's chest and started to cry. In response, Naruto just hugged Hinata tighter and started to cry silent tears of joy that he got his love back in his life. For what seemed like hours, the lovers just floated in midair, basking in the loving embrace of each other.

As their tears started to lessen, Hinata started wiping her eyes and said "Thanks, Naruto-kun. I needed that."

Naruto smiled and said "Good. Now let's go get Gai before he dies on us."

With that, both Hinata and Naruto took off towards JuuHachi Town as fast as they could.

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(4 hours later- 2: 00 P.M, JuuHachi Town)

Eventually, they reached the town and touched down on the top of a skyscraper. From there, he and Hinata jumped to the ground and started walking around the village. As they were walking around, Hinata said "We need to find Team Gai as soon as we can. Their original mission report said that the Mayor of the village himself hired them. Maybe he can tell us where they are."

With that in mind, both of them started to move towards City Hall. While they were going, they saw that there was a huge crowd gathering in front City Hall. In front of City Hall was a stand that the Mayor was at, getting ready to give a speech. Naruto turned to the nearest civilian and said, "What is the Mayor making a speech about?"

The civilian said, "You don't know? Some horrible Leaf Nin accepted a mission to come here and help us deal with the Privaron. But just last night they burned down a hotel. 30 people died."

Naruto didn't know what the hell the Privaron were, and he didn't care. He was much more concerned with the fact that someone burned down a hotel and blamed it on his friends. He said, "You're lying. There's no way that one of the Leaf nin did that."

Another civilian next to them turned to Naruto and said, "It's true. I live right next to where the KuroiGetsu used to stand. When I saw a red glow last night, I walked out to see what was happening. I saw them jump from the roof and run down an alley while the KuroiGetsu burned to the ground."

Naruto shook his head and said, "I don't believe you. I refuse to believe that they did that."

The first person Naruto asked said "What happened to your common sense, son?"

Naruto retorted with "Whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty?'"

Before the guy could say more, the Mayor started his speech.

"Good Morning, people of JuuHachi Town. My name is Takeshi Yamamoto, and I was wrong. You know as well as I do that the Privaron have been terrorizing our town for years. Well, I had enough of it. I wanted them out, and I wanted it done now. So in order to do that, I concocted a plan to drive them into the ground. The survival of that plan depended on the Leaf Nin helping me. What I didn't expect was for the KuroiGetsu Hotel to burn down with them staying in it. So now, I come to you to rectify my mistake.

"As of right now, we know that there was no physical problem that caused the fire of the KuroiGetsu Hotel. It was not because of faulty wiring, or a candle being knocked over. We are certain that a Fire element Ninjutsu started that fire. While we have no physical evidence that suggests that it was the Leaf Ninja that started this fire, they are the prime suspects. So, as Mayor of JuuHachi Town, I officially put out a warrant for the arrest of Tenten, Rock Lee, Neji Hyuuga, and Maito Gai. Also, until further notice, it will be the policy of this city, to treat any Leaf Nin, as potential accomplices to these four. Until further notice, Leaf Nin are no longer legally allowed to be in JuuHachi Town."

Naruto muttered "Oh shit. This isn't good."

Hinata leaned over to Naruto and whispered "Maybe it's best if we leave before people realize that-"

Before Hinata could finish her statement, someone yelled "THERE THEY ARE OVER THERE! LEAF NIN!"

Hinata muttered, "Damn."

As soon as that person yelled, people trying to hold them down swarmed Hinata and Naruto. Almost as if they were one, Hinata and Naruto sent out a wave of ki that knocked the people around them on their ass. Then, they jumped to their right, hopped to the side of a building, and ran like hell. After they thought that they were a suitable distance away, they stopped running and hopped into an alley. As they took refuge in that alley, Hinata and Naruto agreed to take off their headbands and hide them in their shirts. As soon as they did that, they heard a voice behind them say, "Damn, I wish you guys would teach me how to do that stuff."

Turning around, they saw Neji. Hinata exclaimed "Neji!" and jumped in his arms to hug her brother figure. Naruto said, "It's good to see you, Neji. I thought you guys were hurt in that fire."

Neji said, "We're alright, but Gai is a different story. I trust you guys know the situation?"

At their nods, Neji said, "Well, come on. I'll show you guys where we are."

With that, Neji took Naruto and Hinata to the warehouse he and the rest of their team were hiding in. On the way though, he looked to Naruto and said "Naruto, what the hell did you do to your hair? It looks like you fell asleep in ketchup."

"Fuck you, Neji."

When they arrived at the warehouse, they saw that Tenten and Lee were sitting next to Gai, tending to him. When Naruto and Hinata arrived, Naruto saw Hinata visibly tense. Naruto grabbed Hinata's hand in his to calm her down as they walked over to Gai.

As they were walking over to Gai's body, Tenten and Lee saw them. Tenten was about to hug Naruto until she saw that he was holding hands with Hinata. While Tenten was looking at them, stunned that they were back together, Lee had jumped up and said "Hinata-chan! Naruto-kun! It is so great to see you two!"

Naruto chuckled a little and said, "It's good to see you too, Lee. Tenten-chan, how's Gai doing?"

It seemed that Tenten didn't hear Naruto since she was still staring at empty space. After Naruto said her name again, she quickly shook her head and said "I'm sorry Naruto-kun, what did you say?"

Naruto said, "How's Gai doing?"

Tenten said "Oh. He's not doing so well. His breathing is getting more and more shallow. HIs pulse is getting weaker too. I don't know how long he has left."

Naruto said "Don't worry Tenten-chan, he'll be fine. I promise."

Tenten nodded and said "Thanks, Naruto-kun."

Naruto said "No problem. Hinata-chan, when do you think we'll be able to move him?"

Hinata said, "I don't know exactly. I'll have to do a few tests."

Naruto said "Okay, Hinata-chan. Tenten-chan, can I talk to you outside for a second?"

Tenten said "Sure."

Naruto led Tenten outside and hid in the shadows of the building so that someone who came around wouldn't see them. He said "Ten-chan, there's something that I need you to do for me?"

Tenten said "Anything Naruto-kun."

Naruto said, "I need you to try and bury the hatchet with Hinata-chan."

Tenten's eyes widened in surprise. As her surprise gave way to anger, her eyes narrowed and her fists clenched. She said, "Why the hell should I-"

Naruto said, "Tenten, I know that you two got into a fight. I know that she's not exactly your favorite person in the world."

Tenten muttered 'No shit', but if Naruto heard it, he didn't say anything about it. He said "But she's my girlfriend and I love her. She means a lot to me and so do you. I'd really appreciate it if you just tried to get along with her."

Tenten said "Hell no. Not after what she did. She's the one who should apologize."

Naruto sighed. 'How come all the women in my life have to be so damn stubborn?'

In the back of his mind, he heard his mother say, "Hey, I resent that."

Naruto retorted 'Don't care.' He said "Tenten, don't you think that Hinata feels the exact same way?"

Tenten started to back down a bit at that statement. Seeing that she was starting to become less standoffish, Naruto continued. "You both did things that you shouldn't have done and should apologize for. All I'm asking is that you be the bigger woman and apologize first."

Tenten shook her head. "I don't know if I can just forgive her for what she did."

Naruto said, "Hey, you never know who your best friend could wind up being. When Neji first met me, he thought that I was just some street urchin and I wasn't worthy of being Hinata-chan's friend. As a matter of fact, that was the first thing he said to me. I punched him in the jaw, and we got into a fight. We were always at each other's throats and calling each other names afterwards. But because of Hinata-chan and how she felt about it, we decided to let the past stay in the past. After we got over that, Neji became my best friend."

Tenten sighed. She thought 'How come Naru-kun has to be right?'

She said, "Fine, I will. But only because you want me to so bad."

Naruto nodded and hugged Tenten. He said, "Thank you, Ten-chan."

After he let her go (even though she didn't want him to), he and Tenten both walked back into the warehouse to see that Hinata had finished her tests. She was tying Gai onto a plank of wood to make sure that he didn't move while Naruto was flying him home.

After she tied him on, she said, "Naruto-kun, he's ready."

Naruto nodded and picked up the prone Gai. As he held him over his head, Lee said "Hurry, my youthful friend. Gai-sensei has less than 12 hours left."

Hinata walked up to Naruto and kissed him. She said, "It took us four hours of flying to get here. You'll have to slow it down so that you don't aggravate his condition. You'd better get moving."

Naruto nodded and said "I'll be back soon guys, don't worry."

Naruto walked out of the warehouse and took off, rocketing towards Konohagakure.

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(5 hours later- 7:00 P.M-Road to Konohagakure)

As Naruto was flying at breakneck speeds towards Konohagakure, he didn't have much to do. Hinata was with Team Gai in JuuHachi Town and he was flying with a comatose patient. So to pass the time, he was chatting with his mother on the specifics of his demonic form. While he was doing so, he didn't notice that there were two bugs on his shoulder hitching a ride with him. These two bugs were from the bug colony located in Shino's body. Usually, there was always one on Naruto so that Shino would be able to find them if they were separated for any reason. But the second was put on him right before he hopped out of the Hokage's window.

As Naruto was flying, the second bug flew off of his shoulder and down to the ground. Eventually, it made its way onto Shino's outstretched finger. He turned to Kurenai and said "Kurenai-sensei, Naruto-san has just flew overhead. He's taking Gai to Konoha to get the treatment. If things stay this way, Naruto will make it to the village in enough time to save Gai-san."

Kurenai let out a sigh of relief as she was given the good news. She said, "That's good. I was worried for a second there."

Shino seemed to ignore Kurenai's statement, but when she looked closer, she saw that he was still interpreting his bug's language. Shino spoke up, saying, "My bug also said that Naruto and Hinata made up."

Kurenai said "Finally. I thought I was gonna have to lock them in a closet together to get them to make up."

Shino nodded and said, "I agree. It sounds weird, but I kind of missed Hinata and Naruto being all lovey-dovey."

Kurenai muttered, "That makes one of us."

Shino went back to listening to his bug. Its last bit of news troubled Shino. Shino said "Kurenai-sensei, we may have a problem when we get to JuuHachi Town."

Kurenai said "What kind of problem?"

Shino gravely said, "While Hinata and Naruto were there, they were attacked by someone. It could've been this gang that Team Gai was sent to take down, but my bug doesn't think so. The only thing it's telling me is to expect opposition when we reach our destination."

Kurenai nodded and increased her speed. She wished that she could gleam more information from the bug, but they weren't perfect. She had no way of contacting Hinata. She was at JuuHachi Town and her and Shino weren't even close to them yet. If Naruto was flying at his full speed, he was easily miles away from them by now. She had no idea what this 'opposition' was that she should expect. Kurenai decided that she would put it out of her mind until she got time to rest and think it through.

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(3.5 hours later-10: 30 P.M-Konohagakure)

After the doctors took Gai into the emergency room, Naruto sighed. Like Hinata said before, it was a four-hour flight at top speed to JuuHachi Town. But at their top speed, Gai's internal fluids would've been splashing around like the water inside a balloon in a water balloon toss. That would've increased the speed of the poison going through his body. Instead, Naruto flew at half speed. While that was still fast as hell, it took 8 hours to fly back to Konoha. Plus, Naruto misjudged the speed and still accelerated Gai's condition. As it was now, Gai barely had two hours before the poison would reach his heart. Naruto prayed to whatever God was listening that Gai would pull through.

Naruto walked out of the hospital, intent on flying through the night to reach JuuHachi Town, but before he could take off, an ANBU agent tapped him on the shoulder. The ANBU agent said, "Naruto-san, the Hokage would like to see you before you depart."

Naruto nodded and took off for the Hokage's office. When he got there, he saw that the Hokage had cleared his desk of needless paperwork and had a big file there. Sarutobi said, "Naruto-kun, I've been reading through this thing."

Naruto sighed and rolled his eyes. "Old man, is that my medical file again? Didn't I tell you before to just burn that thing? It's only gonna depress you more."

Sarutobi said, "I know, Naruto-kun, I know. But it's just that what young Tenten put in her distress letter bugged me. The poisoning of Gai-san. It reminded me of something that happened to you. I was looking in your medical file to help me remember what it was."

Naruto raised an eyebrow and said, "Did it help?"

Sarutobi nodded and said "Naruto, you remember when you were four and you spent a week in the hospital?"

Naruto said "Yeah. This guy gave me a coupon for a free meal at Robaato-san no Shokudou (AN: Robert's Cafeteria). I ordered the fish and chicken dish and got salmonella from the uncooked chicken."

Sarutobi said, "True. But there's a different side of that story that I didn't tell you."

Naruto said "What?"

The Hokage said, "You didn't actually get salmonella, Naruto-kun. You were poisoned."

Naruto looked at the Hokage with squinted eyes and said "What chu talkin' 'bout, Sarutobi?"

The Hokage said, "You never contracted salmonella. When we interrogated Robaato-san about it, he said that he put something special in the tarter sauce that came with the fish and chicken. He put some special poison in there?"

Naruto looked shocked at the Hokage's statement. "How is that possible, ojii-san? I thought that since I had Grandpa Fuzzypants in my body, it made me immune to poison."

The 'Grandpa Fuzzypants' comment caused the Kyuubi to roar in embarrassment and anger, while Kushina was rolling around Naruto's mind laughing. The Hokage noticed the Grandpa Fuzzypants comment, but if he was surprised, he didn't show it. He said, "That's what I thought. It turns out that it just makes it easier for you to throw off the effects of the poison and fight it. There was enough in that tarter sauce to kill 30 people. If anyone else would've ingested as much of the poison as you did, Naruto-kun, they'd have dropped dead instantly. You're lucky you were just bedridden for a week."

Naruto said, "Did you guys ever find out who did it?"

Sarutobi narrowed his eyes as his anger of that day returned to him. Looking the Hokage in the eye, it reminded Naruto that the Hokage wasn't just some old man. He was one of the most dangerous people on the planet. Whoever was the target of that stare, Naruto almost felt sorry for the poor bastard. Sarutobi said "Kazuya Goraichou. He was one of our village's best poison expert. As a matter of fact, he was the inventor of the poison dart launcher. He was also a Kenjutsu master. The things he could do with his sword could make a Samurai green with envy. But even with all those amazing abilities, he still had one giant flaw. He could never let things go.

"When the Kyuubi attacked, he and his twin brother Kaiza were two of the first people on the battlefield. They were the driving force behind the group that distracted the Kyuubi while your dad got ready to repel him. Kaiza sacrificed himself to save Kazuya, and Kazuya blamed two people ever since for his brother's death. Himself, and you.

"After the attack, he threw himself into training and poison making. He made 5 different potions in four years, each one worse than the last. His last poison was the one he used on you. Afterwards, Gai-san and Kakashi-san hunted him down and imprisoned him.

"A few months ago, the prison he was at had a massive power failure. When the power failed, a total of 30 prisoners escaped. Of those 30, only 20 were captured. The ten left uncaptured were the only ten inmates housed in the supermax wing of the prison. The ten inmates were all former Konoha-nin, all used to be considered great assets to our village. They were on the fast track to becoming Elite Jounin. But each of them tried to do some horrible act to you, and each of them came damn close to succeeding. Kazuya was one of them, and this poison that's affecting Gai sounds a lot like a weaker version of his fifth poison. If it is, he could still have a grudge against you. You need to be really careful out there Naruto."

Naruto said "Thanks for caring, Ojii-san, but you don't have anything to be worried about. I'll be fine."

Sarutobi chuckled and said, "I'll try, but I don't think I will."

Naruto smiled and said, "I know."

The Sandaime said "Okay, enough with the sappy stuff. Get out there and kick some ass. And if you can, bring Kazuya back alive. There's a cash reward for bringing him in dead, but there's twice as much for bringing him in alive."

Naruto nodded and took off out the window. Sarutobi sighed and said "That boy is gonna be the death of me."

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(Minutes later)

Naruto took off out of the Sandaime's window, heading towards JuuHachi Town. As he was going, he decided to take it a bit slower than his usual speed. While he was flying, a thought occurred to him. He mentally said to his mother 'Mom, what is Grandpa Fuzzypants' real name anyway? Kyuubi no Yoko sounds more like a title than a name.'

Kushina said "Well sochi, Daddy doesn't like for people to call him by his real name. The title Kyuubi no Yoko inspires fear in other demons, which Daddy needs if he wants to stay as the King of Demons. His true name is Kurama.'

Naruto replied 'Kurama. ...Now I can see why he would like to be called Kyuubi no Yoko more than Kurama. Kyuubi-sama sounds a lot more intimidating than Kurama-sama.'

As Naruto was flying, he was looking around the world. Call him crazy, but he could've sworn that he hadn't gone past this part of the forest. As he was looking around to try and find his way, he heard screaming off in the distance. Seeing as he had nothing better to do, Naruto decided to fly off towards the scream. As he got there, what he saw made his blood run cold.

Based on all of the wooden towers surrounding the place and its location in the deep forest, Naruto could guess what it was. It was a bandit camp. If the look didn't tell him, the smell of sex, blood, and sweat was a dead giveaway. Naruto was about to rush down there and destroy the place, but he had a thought. He needed to get to JuuHachi Town as fast as he possibly could. But there could be people in the bandit camp being held hostage or worse. Eventually, the side of him worrying about the people in the camp won out as he started thinking about how to help the people. A few minutes later, he had a plan.

Naruto quickly made 10 clones and had them surround the compound. Their orders were simple. Stop any bandits trying to get out. Naruto's clones quickly ascended to Super Saiyan while Naruto landed on the ground. Naruto closed his eyes and concentrated as he flooded his body with Youki and entered his demonic form. Again, his black hair fell out as red locks grew from his scalp that grew to shoulder length. His nails grew and sharpened to claws. His regular ears receded into his body as fox ears sprouted out of the top of his head. His canine teeth grew sharper and his whiskers grew thicker. Luckily for Naruto, he didn't have to re-experience growing out his tail. His current tail, which looked like a monkey's tail, grew red fur with white fur at the tip. When the new fur grew out enough, the brown fur fell off. Again, the transformation hurt like hell, but Naruto powered through it. When it was over, Naruto realized that the transformation was easier than last time. 'Hopefully, it'll get to the point that it doesn't hurt. I can't keep going through this pain every time I want to transform.'

"Naru-chan, the fact that the transformation hurts every time is an indication that you're not ready to fight in that form yet."

'Ah, stop worrying mom. I'll be fine.'

"Please, Naru-chan, I don't wanna see you get hurt."

'Mom, sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.'

"Name one situation where that ever applies."

'Okaa-san, don't stop me now. I'm on a roll.'

(Sigh) "Okay, Naru-chan, but if this blows up in your face, I reserve the right to tell you I told you so."

Naruto quickly took off his headband and put it in his pocket. If this situation turned out for the worst, it was probably best if no one connected him to his village. Naruto quickly crouched down and hopped to the nearest lookout post. Naruto dug his claws into the side of the post and scaled the top of it, as the rest of the lookouts weren't looking. Naruto hopped up to the top of the platform and grabbed the lookout and threw him down to the ground. If the man didn't die on impact with the ground, then his clones would take him out.

From there, Naruto made his way into the compound. He quickly stuck to the shadows as he creeped around the camp. He found a man who was standing alone and snuck up behind him. He grabbed the man around the waist and pulled him into the shadows. Before the man could yell in surprise, Naruto quickly smashed the man's head into the ground. After he smashed the man's head into the ground, he looked to see blood coming from the side of his head. 'That's weird. I know that I didn't smash his head hard enough to draw blood.'

"Once again, maybe it's a sign that you shouldn't be fighting in this form yet."

Naruto decided to ignore his overprotective mother and instead decided to continue his way through the compound. As he was rushing through it, he was quickly and quietly taking out more and more bandits, heading towards where he heard a scream come from. As he made it there, he saw that it was a big building, probably the biggest, in the center of the compound. He also saw that the building had many bandits surrounding it. Getting in undetected would be a hassle.

Naruto quickly tried to make a shadow clone, but frowned as it wasn't working. He thought 'What the hell! Why can't I make a Shadow Clone? ...Damnit! In this form, I have purely youki. There's no ki, and because of that, I can't do any Jutsu.'

Naruto racked his brain from his hiding spot, trying to come up with a plan. If he tried to charge in, he could either get his ass kicked, or the hostages in there could be killed. If he tried to blow the building up, the same thing could happen. Naruto kept racking his brain for what to do, when suddenly a plan came to him.

Naruto turned around and walked to one of the buildings next to him. From there, Naruto went to a window to see that there was no one inside. Naruto quickly started putting explosive tags around the entire building. From there, Naruto ran back to his original hiding spot and blew the tags. When the tags blew, they destroyed the entire first floor of the building, bringing the entire thing down. When the building came down, the guards guarding the big building all ran towards the explosion since they were some of the closest guards. With the front door unoccupied, Naruto quickly went inside the building. From there, the hanyou quickly made his way through the building, listening for the scream. Eventually, he found a stairway that led to some basement. Naruto went down the stairs, still following the sound of the screaming. As Naruto was making his way to the screaming, it suddenly stopped. Naruto also stopped, wondering what had happened. A few seconds later, Naruto heard a man yell "No! Please not her! Anyone but her! I'm begging you, stop!"

Naruto charged forward as fast as he could and came to a door. Naruto quickly jumped up and kicked the door down. As he ran inside, he saw that there was a bunch of people huddled together in one corner, whimpering and crying. In the middle of the floor were two bandits. They were holding onto a man's arms, keeping him from helping a small girl who was being held at knifepoint by another bandit. There was a woman on the floor who was covered with knife wounds. Surrounding them were 10 bandits.

The bandit holding the woman turned to Naruto and said, "Who the hell are you? And how did you get in here?"

Naruto said, "That doesn't matter. Unhand the little girl, now!"

The bandit started laughing and said, "Listen to this kid. He sounds like some after-school special. Well punk, this ain't some comic book. In the real world, when the hero busts through the door into a room full of bad guys, he gets his ass kicked. How about I show you? Boys, get him!"

The other bandits picked up some weapons and rushed Naruto. The first bandit to reach Naruto had a mace. He swung it at Naruto, but Naruto quickly jumped over the man. At first, he was only expecting to jump over him, but Naruto launched himself into the roof and smashed his head on it. As he fell, Naruto was cursing up a storm. 'What the hell was that? I've done that jump a hundred times!'

"I told you so."

'Tch, whatever.'

Naruto quickly stood back up and saw that the first bandit was swinging the mace at him again. Naruto moved his hand and caught the mace in his hand, to his and the bandit's surprise. The bandit tried to pull his mace back, but Naruto had a grip on it. Naruto pulled the mace, causing the bandit to stumble forward and causing his face to have a collision course with Naruto's fist. After punching the bandit in the face, Naruto turned towards the rest of them and said, "Who's next?"

The rest of the bandits all rushed towards Naruto as Naruto slipped into a fighting stance. When the bandits got close enough, Naruto jumped up and kicked the nearest one in the face. The guy was knocked off his feet and slammed into the ground. Naruto saw that the bandits were surrounding him, making it easier for them to jump him. Naruto saw one of them charge him and knew that they were about to do just that.

Naruto blocked a punch from one bandit with his left hand. Seeing another coming from behind him, Naruto turned around and blocked the bandit's kick with his left hand. Before the other bandit could try and hit him, Naruto swung his leg around and kicked the bandit across the face. After he lowered his foot, Naruto took a step forward and planted his knee in the bandit's stomach.

Naruto stepped back to regroup, but caught a 2X4 to the head for it. Instead of hurting like hell, the 2X4 broke on contact with his head. Naruto turned to the guy who did it, to see the man with his eyes widened in surprise. Naruto said, "Now that wasn't nice."

Naruto jumped in the air and kneed the guy in the face. As Naruto was coming down, he saw one of the other bandits with a mace swinging it at him. When Naruto landed, he grabbed the guy he kneed in the face and used him to block the mace. After he took the hit, Naruto dropped him and punched the guy with the mace in the chest, the stomach, then hit him with an uppercut in the chin that knocked the man off his feet.

Naruto felt two of the bandits grab him. As soon as he felt their hands on him, Naruto started thrashing and moving, trying his best to shake the bastards off of him. Before he could, one of the last two bandits came forward and started punching him in the chest.

Naruto took four punches to the chest, and one to the face before he did something about it. Naruto focused his youki to his arms. One of the great things about demonic youki is that Demon's can control it very well. Other's, not so much. For example, when Naruto was fighting Sasuke at the Genin Selection Tournament, he injected Kurama's youki into Sasuke. When Sasuke's system was contaminated with demonic youki, it caused his entire body to be put into paralysis as his system tried to expel it. Naruto decided to do just that exact same thing again. From his arms, Naruto forced the youki into the hands of the bandits. As the bandit's bodies locked up, Naruto jumped into the air, and then kicked both of them in the chest at the same time. As he landed, Naruto raced at one of the last two bandits standing. Naruto jumped over that one and raced at the last one.

Before he could get to the last one, Naruto suddenly felt excruciating pain shoot up his spine. One second, Naruto was racing towards the bandit, the next, he was on his hands and knees gritting his teeth and growling in pain. The bandit who was holding his tail said, "Well, well, well. What do we have here? It seems the little fox doesn't like having his tail pulled. Haha!"

The bandit pulled on Naruto's tail as hard as he possibly could. Naruto rolled on his back as the bandit kept pulling on it. Naruto turned his hand towards the bandit pulling on his tail and yelled "Reiki Sword!"

A sword made of reiki appeared in Naruto's hands as he quickly pointed it at the bandit and extended it through his throat. The bandit let Naruto's tail loose as Naruto quickly stood up and went after the last bandit. As Naruto made it to him, the bandit tried to smack Naruto across the face with a hammer, but Naruto blocked it with his left forearm. Seeing that the man's defenses were down, Naruto flexed his left hand, and then swiped his claws across the man's chest, tearing five deep gouges in the man's skin.

Naruto turned to the leader of the bandits, only to see the man had the little girl in-between him and Naruto. The bandit leader said, "If you make a move, I'll kill her."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at the man as the guy held a knife to a little girls' throat. People like him made him sick. They used innocent bystanders as leverage to get what they want. Even though he felt that he shouldn't think along those lines, Naruto felt that the world would be much better if sick bastards like that would just drop dead. No, not drop dead. It would be better if they were all taken, forced to go through what they put others through, then be cremated and have their ashes dumped in an unmarked grave. They deserved to be put through the closest thing you can get to Hell on Earth before they were sent there.

While Naruto was thinking this, he didn't realize that he was creating and leaking killing intent. As the killing intent leaked out, Naruto subconsciously directed it at the man holding the girl. As the man was meeting Naruto's gaze, he started hallucinating. He started to see himself be mutilated, humiliated, and put through horrible things. And the person, who was doing it to him, was the boy who he was looking at. The same boy that he had just called an after-school special. Eventually, the mental horrors were too intense for him and he passed out.

As the man dropped to the ground, the little girl ran away from the bandit, yelling "Daddy!"

As the man grabbed his daughter in a bear hug and held onto her like a lifeline, the other hostages started standing up. As they stood up, they took a good look at Naruto. At first, Naruto could see fear on some of their faces. But as they realized that he hadn't hurt them and had actually saved him, the looks changed into ones of gratitude and respect. At first, no one moved. But then the little girl wiggled out of her father's grasp and ran over to him. She hugged him and said "Thank you, Foxy-kun."

Had she been ANYONE else instead of a cute little girl, Naruto would've been pissed at that nickname. But seeing as she was so adorable, he could do nothing but smile, bend down and hug her back. That seemed like the cue for everyone to come forward and give Naruto some gesture of thanks for his help. Eventually, while he was shaking hands with the de facto leader of the hostages, the girl saw his tail and squealed "KAWAII!"

She grabbed Naruto's tail and started hugging it, causing a jolt of pain to shoot up Naruto's spine and cause him to fall to his knees. When the girl saw what her hugging was doing to Naruto, she blushed from embarrassment and let him go, apologizing.

Naruto turned to the hostage's leader and said "How did this happen exactly?"

The man said, "We're all part of a traveling circus. We were on our way to the Fire Country Capital when these bandits came and ambushed us. They captured us and they wanted our bank account number. They've had us here for the past day trying to torture it out of us."

Naruto said "You won't have to worry about any of these people anymore. Just stay in here until I come back out to get you."

The man nodded, and Naruto walked out of the room. As he was walking out of the room, Naruto saw that the people there were grabbing the weapons of the bandits he had knocked out.

Naruto walked out of the building he was in to see that the guards still weren't there. Naruto took that time to quickly move to the shadows. From the shadows, Naruto aimed his Reiki Gun at another building and shot it down. As his Reiki Gun attack exploded near the building, it set it on fire. As people started moving to put the fire out, Naruto created a Reiki sword in his hand and rushed them. He quickly started slashing and killing the bandits that were in his way. As Naruto kept cutting bandits down, the others realized what was happening and started attacking him in bulk.

As Naruto ducked under an attack from one of the bandits, he quickly sliced the bandit's stomach open, causing the bandit to fall. Naruto quickly ran forward, jumped in the air, and kicked the nearest bandit in the face. A crowd of them tried to jump Naruto, but the half-demon was easily able to force them off of him. Naruto was easily blowing through their entire force, before he felt a sharp pain in his arm.

Looking at his arm, he saw an arrow going through it. Naruto looked to the rooftops, but couldn't see anyone. Suddenly, he heard a faint whistling in the air. Naruto quickly turned to where he heard it, but caught an arrow in the chest for it. Almost as one, the bandits on the rooftops came out of hiding with their bows and arrows. They started shooting at Naruto, causing Naruto to have to run for cover. He quickly hid in the alley between two of the buildings of the bandit camp. The arrows seemed to abruptly stop as the bandits tried to find a new angle to shoot him from.

Naruto thought he was safe to take a breather, but then he heard the faint whistling. Naruto quickly started running as an arrow hit right where his head was 2 seconds before. Naruto looked to the rooftops to see the bandits running with him and shooting arrows at him at the same time. As he was running, Naruto was looking around for any way out of the alley. Naruto looked at the objects and the ledges in the alley, and he had his way out.

Naruto quickly went to a dumpster and hopped on top of it. From there, Naruto leapt 10 feet in the air to grab the ledge of a window. Naruto quickly pulled himself up, shooting himself 10 feet farther up. As he reached the height of his jump, Naruto put his feet on the building and pushed off, back flipping through the air until he reached the building across the alley. From there, Naruto planted his feet on the building, and pushed off, launching himself to the roof of the first building. From there, Naruto saw the archers getting closer and reaching to their quiver. Luckily for Naruto, there was one next to him while the others were farther out. Naruto quickly ran for the closest archer, and jumped through the air as the archer shot. Naruto's jump propelled him to land on top of the archer. Naruto looked up to see the other archers getting ready to fire, so he pulled the unconscious archer up and used him as a shield to block the other shots. As Naruto was contemplating what to do about the other archers, he heard a voice that suspiciously sounded like his own yell "Spirit Shot!"

The black ball of energy detonated on the roof of a building and took out many of the archers. As Naruto looked up to see where the attack came from, he saw himself standing there in Super Saiyan, his palm still smoking from the attack shooting out. Super Saiyan Naruto quickly flew down to start taking out many of the archers. Demon Naruto decided to help since he knew that one lucky hit would dispel the shadow clone.

Demon Naruto hit the ground (well, roof really) on all fours and started dashing towards the other archers. He mentally noted for later that his demon form was faster on all fours than on two legs. Naruto quickly jumped from the building he was on, to the building of the closest archer. As Naruto was coming down from his jump, he saw the bandit try to line up a shot on him. But before it could sent the shot out, it was hit from behind by a ki blast, courtesy of Super Saiyan Naruto.

As Demon Naruto touched down, he saw that many of the archers were shooting at Super Saiyan Naruto. So the demonic child created a Reiki Sword and extended it to become 10 feet long. Naruto raced forward, and then swung the sword, cutting through many of the archers. As the archers turned their sights on Demon Naruto, Super Saiyan Naruto quickly started gathering energy into his palm. A black orb formed, but then increased in size exponentially. SSJ Naruto quickly turned his hand to the archers and released the attack, shouting out "Spirit Shot 10X!"

The attack completely destroyed the roof of the building it hit, and took many of the archers with it. The rest of the archers started trying to fall back, but SSJ Naruto quickly shot ki blasts at each of their backs and took them out. As SSJ Naruto landed, Demon Naruto walked over to him and said, "Where are the other clones?"

The clone Super Saiyan said "The others are still in the forests like you asked. The only reason I came was because you looked like you needed help."

Naruto nodded to the clone and said "Thanks. As a matter of fact, tell the clones to move in and take out the bandits in here. But do not mess with that (points to the building with the hostages) building. It has innocent people in it."

The clone nodded and said "I'll get right on it."

The clone then took to the skies to go tell its brothers about the new plan. Naruto looked to the ground to see what looked like every bandit in the damn camp moving towards his position. Naruto sighed loudly and charged the bandits.

If Naruto was asked to describe that battle in two words, they would be brutal and bloody. While he was stronger than any singular bandit, they were numbered close to a hundred. Naruto tried a stealth approach to take out the bandits, but he kept being spotted too many times. He tried the 'charging in guns blazing' method, and that worked for a while, but one of the bandits got a good strike to his lower back that partly hit his tail and almost took him down for the count. From there, they landed a good blow to his leg and hurt it. After that, it got easier and easier for them to land blows on Naruto, which weakened him. At the end of the night, Naruto was bleeding and surrounded by bandits. He almost lost before the cavalry arrived. The cavalry, in this case, was his Super Saiyan clones.

With the addition of the warriors, the battle quickly turned for Naruto's favor. One of the clones started peppering the bandits with ki blasts as it airlifted the real Naruto out of the dog pile of bandits. Almost as soon as that clone was clear, Naruto heard two different voices yell "Konoha Cannon!"

From two opposite sides of the bandits shot destructive beams of green ki. The attacks cut through the bandit swarm like a hot knife through butter. As they met, they exploded, taking many of the other bandits with them. From then on, one clone watched the real Naruto while the other clones started to continue the fight with the bandits. They were stuck with using mostly long-range attacks, but the tactic worked. As the morning sun rose at 6 A.M, all of the bandits were either dead or unconscious. Naruto put a few of his clones in the air as lookouts while he and the rest of his clones started separating the living and dead bandits. The dead, he hid out of sight so that the hostages wouldn't see. The type of carnage that was left after last night's battles was one that would traumatize a civilian who hadn't been desensitized to it. The unconscious bandits were all tied to buildings or poles so that they didn't move. He was hoping that the hostages would call somebody to pick up the rest of the bandits to be arrested.

By 8 A.M, the bandits were all tied up or hidden. As Naruto was about to get the hostages out of the building, one of his clones that he had in the sky came down and said, "We spotted some people making their way to the compound. We couldn't identify them from so far away, but they don't seem to be with these bandits."

Naruto told his clone to keep him posted. As the minutes rolled by, he was told that the people coming close to him were a team of Konoha Jounin. Apparently, he was closer to Konoha than he thought. As a matter of fact, they were able to see the glow from the fires of the night before and came to investigate.

Naruto quickly got the hostages out of the building they were in and told them that the bandits were gone. He informed them about the Jounin who would help them, and quickly got out of there before he was found. While the Jounin coming were his comrades, he didn't want to explain his demonic form just yet. Naruto quickly took off the opposite way from the Jounin. As he was going, he changed back to normal, then transformed into a Super Saiyan. As he took flight, he looked at the landscape and saw that he didn't recognize any of it. His assumption from the night before was correct. As realization dawned on him, Naruto smacked himself in the head. When he left the Hokage's Tower last night, he went the wrong way. As he realized this, Naruto thought 'Damn, that harpy Sakura is right. I am a baka.'

Naruto quickly flew to Konoha, and from there, took off down the road to JuuHachi Town. Naruto could've pushed himself and made it to JuuHachi Town in an hour if he wanted to, but that would've expended a lot of his energy, and he was relatively low from the whole bandit business anyway. So Naruto flew at a comfortable speed to JuuHachi town, making it in two hours flat.

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(With Shino and Kurenai-10:00 A.M-JuuHachiTown)

Shino and Kurenai had just entered JuuHachi Town. As they entered, they were both on the lookout for the opposition that Shino's bug had told them about. But as they were looking around, they found none. This didn't assuage them at all. The enemy could be waiting until they let down their guard. So they were on edge since they stepped into town. As they blended in with the crowd, they kept a keen eye open for anyone who looked dangerous.

Kurenai walked up to one of the women on the street and said, "Excuse me, ma'am. Have you seen any other Konoha ninja around here?"

The lady said "Now why the hell would you ask me about those bast..." The lady's sentence died in her mouth as she looked at Kurenai. Mostly, the Konoha headband on Kurenai's forehead. The lady then yelled out "LEAF NINJA! THEY'RE RIGHT HERE!"

Another guy yelled out "GET THEM!"

Before Shino and Kurenai could think 'What the hell just happened?' The citizens of JuuHachi Town swarmed them.

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(With Naruto-10: 10 A.M-JuuHachi Town)

As Naruto touched down, he started flying for where his friends were last. As he was going, he saw a disturbance. Looking down, he saw that Shino and Kurenai were being swarmed and attacked by the people of JuuHachi Town. Naruto decided to stop it before anything bad could happen. He dropped to the ground and told Kurenai and Shino to drop to the floor. As they did, he flared his aura, sending out a shockwave that knocked the people to the floor. Naruto quickly grabbed both Shino and Kurenai, and flew away before the people could identify him.

He quickly landed at his friends' hideout and deposited Shino and Kurenai. After landing, Naruto went to the warehouse and knocked on the door. As he did, the door was flung open as Hinata raced into his arms. She said, "I missed you."

Naruto said, "It goes without saying, but I missed you too."

Seeing that they were hugging, Kurenai muttered "Just what are we, chopped liver?"

Shino sarcastically said "Oh yeah, we're fine. We weren't attacked by a village full of crazy people or anything."

Hinata turned to them and said "Sorry about that. But come on in."

She led them into the warehouse where Neji and Lee were lightly sparring. They couldn't do much since there was a chance they would need their energy to fight later. Tenten was throwing her weapons and hitting some targets on the other side of the warehouse. As Naruto showed up, she secretly let out a sigh of relief. When she saw that the other members of her team were moving towards Naruto, she did too. When she reached him, she said, "Naruto-kun, how is Gai-sensei?"

Naruto said "Don't worry, I got him home in time. The doctors said that he was fine; he'll make a full recovery. For now, let's concentrate on getting the bastards that put him in the hospital in the first place."

The teams nodded, then Tenten said, "Before you try and rush in guns blazing, you should know something. Yesterday, I went out to hear what was going on around town, and they said that they put up another wanted poster. They don't know the names of the people on the wanted poster, but I'm pretty sure that it's supposed to be you and Hinata."

Tenten reached into her pouch and pulled out a rolled up piece of paper. When she pulled it out, right there on the cover were both Hinata and Naruto. Well, not exactly them. In the picture, Hinata's hair was completely black while in reality it more of a dark blue. Also in the picture, they had Naruto's nose slightly off. The picture's nose was more crooked and narrow than his, as if he was some stereotypical villain. Underneath their names was a caption that said 'Wanted for questioning about the destruction of the KuroiGetsu hotel.'

Naruto shrugged and said "Meh, I knew it would happen sooner or later. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the day, Shino and Kurenai-sensei's faces aren't added to those posters also. But onto other matters, I'm starving, what kind of food we got to eat here?"

Neji said, "We don't really have much. We weren't expecting to be on the run."

Naruto said "In the picture, they have me in my normal state. If I stay in my Super Saiyan state, they won't be able to recognize me. I'll try and pick us up some stuff."

Neji said, "Super what?"

Naruto realized his mistake and said, "When my hair turns blonde and my eyes turn green."

Neji said, "You finally settled for a name for that?"

Naruto nodded, and took down a list of everything that they needed. Then, Naruto went out and got it. As he was going home, he looked down an alleyway to see these people in red shirts and black pants roughing up this poor defenseless man. Instead of just going on his business, Naruto decided to intervene. He quickly dropped his bags of groceries and walked down the alley. As he reached it, he grabbed the heads of two members of the Privaron and smashed them together. Before the other two could react, Naruto jumped up kicked both of them in the head. As the bodies dropped, Naruto turned to the man they were roughing up. He helped the man up to his feet and said, "Are you okay, sir?"

The man said "Yeah, thanks to you. I can't thank you enough for helping me, young man."

Naruto smiled and said, "It was nothing. But what were those guys messing with you for anyway?"

The guy said, "They thought I knew where those Konoha ninjas were."

Naruto got a quizzical look on his face and said, "Why would they think that?"

The man said, "It's because I don't believe they blew that building up. They could have, but the fire was started by a ninja. With ninjas being the masters of stealth that they are, there could be 1000 ninja in this town and we could possibly be ignorant of it. There's simply not enough evidence to convince me. And because I don't think they did, they thought I must've been helping them."

Naruto nodded, and told the guy to have a nice day. Naruto then turned a corner into a dead end, and took off; making a beeline for the warehouse their team was based in. As he arrived, he informed everyone that the Privaron were looking for them. Although the news was bad, the others didn't really react to it. The civilians were already hunting them, what difference does a few more make?

Kurenai said, "Okay team. We need to continue where Team Gai left off. We have to find a member of Rodorigo Borruja's gang and get them to tell us where their base is. As soon as that's done, we can capture him and use him to clear our names. Now, we need to get out there and find them. While we're out there, I want everyone to always be near at least one other member person. I don't want any of you getting hurt. Your first order is to come back alive, not kill yourself for an informant. Understand?"

The genin at once nodded. Kurenai smiled and said, "Well then, get disguised and get out there."

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(8:00 PM-JuuHachi Town)

Hours later, the genin returned home. They had nothing. It seemed that the last time that Team Gai had almost got an informant, it spooked the rest of the Privaron. Now, they only traveled in at least groups of 4. Also, the Privaron were barely out anymore. It seemed that the ones that Naruto stumbled upon were some of the only ones allowed out.

After returning to the warehouse empty handed, the group decided to get some early rest and start fresh in the morning. Kurenai volunteered to take the first shift. As she was watching, Naruto dozed off.

Then, 30 minutes later, all hell broke loose.

Naruto was woken up to a loud bang. When he shot awake, he saw that his fellow Shinobi were also waking up while Kurenai's head was moving from side to side, looking for trouble. Again, they heard a bang. Then, they heard another. Looking at the main door to the warehouse that they locked, they saw that there was a giant dent in it. With every 'BANG', the dent became bigger and bigger. Eventually, with the final 'BANG', there was a giant hole in the door. Through the door came a giant group of people wearing all types of red shirts and black pants. That signaled to the shinobi that the people coming in were members of the Privaron. As the members were piling in, one of them opened the door that they put a hole in to let the others in at a faster rate.

As soon as the Privaron started pouring in, the shinobi got ready. Tenten pulled out a staff, Lee released his weights, Neji and Hinata activated their Byakugan, Shino got into a fighting stance, and Naruto increased his power output to it's maximum in his normal form. As the members of the Privaron came closer, both Naruto and Hinata held out their bare palms at the gangbangers. Black orbs of energy started to form by their palm. When the orbs were big enough, they yelled out "Spirit Shot!"

The black orbs shot out of their hands and crashed against the mob of the Privaron. As the orbs exploded, they not only kicked up a smokescreen, they let loose a flash of light. Through the light came dozens of kunai that crashed into the Privaron and cut down their members. But even though the ki attacks and the kunai whittled down their numbers, they still kept coming. Neji, Hinata, and Lee both charged forward in order to fight the Privaron members. Shino let his bugs loose in order to drain the gang while Tenten and Naruto both stayed behind in order to pepper them with long range attacks.

Hinata charged the group and dodged under a punch from one of the Privaron. She then hit him three times with Juken strikes to paralyze him, and moved onto the others. Neji was right beside her, watching her back. When one of the members of the Privaron tried to attack her, Neji was quick to either paralyze them with Juken strikes, or knock them unconscious with a palm strike to the chest. As the two Hyuuga left a trail of paralyzed bodies behind them, Lee rushed forward and yelled "Leaf Hurricane!"

Lee's attack knocked out any Privaron that were conscious. As it was going on, they were easily able to dispatch the Privaron, but it seemed that there was no end to them. As they were attacking, they heard someone yell "Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!"

From somewhere in the dark came a giant ball of fire. The attack raced towards Hinata, Neji, and Lee. Before it reached them, Neji turned to Lee and yelled "Lee, move!"

The only confirmation that Lee heard Neji was the fact that Lee disappeared from Neji's sight. Neji turned to Hinata, and they both nodded, realizing what they would have to do. Both of them started spinning, quickly increasing in speed and letting out chakra from each chakra node in their body. As they increased the chakra output, both of them yelled out "Hakkeshou Kaiten!"

The spinning orbs of chakra easily knocked away the ball of fire. As they came out of it, both Hinata and Neji were a little dizzy, seeing as they had only learned the attack a week ago and didn't have time to perfect it. The Privaron moved forward to hit the teenagers, but stopped when Naruto dropped down in front of them, holding his sword in front of him. The Privaron were about to stop, but they heard someone, the same guy who launched the Grand Fireball, say "What are you waiting for? It's just some dumb kid. Who cares if he's a demon spawn! He can't possibly take all of you. ATTACK!"

That seemed to convince the Privaron to charge forward. Naruto heard the man speak, but he started thinking after he heard the man say 'demon spawn'. Sadly, he had to abandon that train of thought as the Privaron charged him. Naruto quickly jumped back from one member's punch, then he jumped forward and stabbed the man in the gut. Naruto pulled his sword out just in time to dodge a strike from one of the Privaron. Naruto then cut him on his arm, then twisted and kicked the man with the heel of his foot. One of the Privaron had a small pipe that he tried to smack Naruto with, but Naruto quickly sliced through it, then hit the guy in the stomach with his knee. After making the guy double over in pain, Naruto hit him in his head with the pommel of his sword. As one of them tried to attack him, Naruto quickly flipped back and hit him in the chin with the toe of his sandal. Naruto then took a step forward and cut the man in the chest.

As the Privaron started to back up, Hinata and Neji both entered the match to assist Naruto. Together, they easily started to push the Privaron back. Naruto was slashing at the Privaron left and right, but when the went to strike down one of them, a man in a black cloak appeared and blocked the strike with a broadsword. Naruto gritted his teeth, pulled his sword back, and struck again. The man easily blocked the strike and Naruto kept striking, but the man easily met every strike. As they were fighting, Lee said "Naruto-kun! That man was the one who stopped us from getting information from one of the Privaron a few days ago!"

Naruto nodded and kept attacking. Sadly, he and the guy were evenly matched. The man was easily more skilled than Naruto, so he could easily get through Naruto's defenses. When he did, Naruto had faster reaction time, so he could dodge the man's strikes. Eventually the man said, "I grow tired of fighting here. Follow me to your death, if you have the balls to, demon!"

The man in the cloak quickly jumped high and left the warehouse. Before anyone could get him to stop, Naruto took flight and followed him. Naruto followed the man into a secluded clearing a mile out of town. Naruto landed and said "Why did you draw me out here, Kazuya?"

The man in the cloak chuckled and said, "So you found out who I am, huh? Good."

Kazuya then threw off the cloak. Kazuya stood there wearing a black Jounin flak flack jacket without the Uzumaki spiral on the back. His jacket was open, showing his red shirt underneath. He was wearing black Shinobi pants and sandals. Kazuya said "Now I can kill you without that stupid cloak on."

Naruto narrowed his eyes at Kazuya and said, "What makes you think you can defeat me?"

Kazuya said, "Don't sound so high and mighty, you damned demon. I know I can defeat you with one hand tied behind my back, but just in case you tried some demon trickery, I decided to enlist some help."

Out of the tree line came a man and a woman. The man had short, spiky black hair. He had a tattoo of an eight-point star on his left cheek. On the right side of his nose was a black stud, and he had black earrings on. On his side was a tanto in its sheath. The handle was wrapped in black gauze. The man had a manic look on his face.

While the man looked like he just broke out of the insane asylum, the woman looked like she just stepped out of a model magazine. The woman had long white hair that went to the end of her tailbone. She had full red lips, high cheekbones, and alabaster skin. She was wearing a green battle kimono that ended at mid thigh, giving Naruto a great view of her shapely legs and her, at least, D cup breasts. The most exotic feature on the woman was her eyes. She had intoxicating, amethyst eyes that seemed to put Naruto under a spell.

The man said, "So boy, we meet again. Maybe this time, I'll finally be able to cut you up and leave a mark."

The woman just smiled at Naruto, which seemed to cause his stomach to drop. She said "Hello, Naruto-kun. It's so nice to see you again."

Kazuya started laughing and said "Haha! Look at the boy. He's ogling you like some horny teenager. Obviously, all those years of prison haven't diminished your seduction skills, huh Sakuya? Maybe me and you should put those skills of yours to the test sometime?"

Sakuya scoffed at Kazuya and said, "As if I would with you." Sakuya then looked at Naruto. At her first gaze, Naruto had a desire to do things with her that wouldn't exactly allow the author to keep this story 'T' rated, but at her current one, he felt like deer looking into the hungry eyes of a lioness. Sakuya said, in the sweetest voice Naruto had ever heard, "I like my men stronger, with more stamina, and much younger."

Kazuya thought 'Damn, I forgot about that little problem of hers. How come a woman that hot is a fucking pedophile?'

Sakuya started moving closer and closer to Naruto, until she was right next to him. At that angle, if Naruto decided to just look down, he would be looking right down her dress. The close proximity caused Naruto to blush a little. Sakuya said "Would you please take me away from here to somewhere more, private?"

Naruto was tempted to say yes, until a voice in his head said "NARUTO UZUMAKI! YOU HAD BETTER BACK AWAY FROM THAT TRAMP OR SO HELP ME I'LL MAKE YOU WATCH THE RECORDING OF ME AND YOUR FATHER'S WEDDING NIGHT!"

His mother's scream in his head, and the mental picture that came with that threat caused Naruto's mind to clear of anything dealing with sex. As he did, he quickly jumped back from Sakuya to put some distance between them. Kazuya said, "Maybe your seduction skills have dulled a bit?"

Kazuya said "Anyway, before I was interrupted by the horny pedophile, I was about to introduce Miroku here."

Miroku pulled out his tanto. Under the moonlight, Naruto saw that it read 'Killer of Demons' on it. Miroku smiled and said "Oh, me and little Naruto are gonna pick up right where we left off before that coughing bastard and the Hokage's son interrupted us."

Naruto narrowed his eyes and said "Well, how about we stop talking and get to fighting?"

Kazuya smirked and said, "What makes you think you'll win? You're outnumbered three to one."

A voice above them said "Not quite."

There, hovering in the air was Hinata. Right behind her, Tenten hopped out of the tree line and landed to Naruto's right. Hinata touched down on Naruto's left and got into a Juken fighting stance. Tenten quickly pulled out her own tanto to match Miroku's and dropped into a defensive stance. Tenten said, "Naruto-kun, you take the red haired guy. I'll take the one with the tanto."

Hinata didn't say anything, but she was glaring daggers at Sakuya. Even though she wasn't there to see the entire conversation, she could tell by the look in the woman's eyes that she was all bad news. Before Naruto or Tenten could make any move, Hinata disappeared from Naruto's side and reappeared with her index fingers jutted out at the previous location of Sakuya's throat. Sakuya had jumped back to dodge the strike she saw Hinata try to hit her with. Sakuya dashed forward and moved her wrist, causing a hidden four-inch blade to pop out. She used that blade to slash at Hinata's stomach. She narrowly nicked Hinata and caused a small bit of blood to drop.

That seemed to be the queue to start the battle. Tenten quickly dashed at Miroku and opened up with a slash to his throat. Miroku easily blocked the strike with his own tanto and kicked Tenten in the stomach. Miroku pulled back his empty hand and aimed a punch for Tenten's head, but Tenten quickly twisted her tanto into a reverse grip and used the tanto to smack Miroku's fist away. As Miroku grabbed his hand in pain, Tenten went for another slash to Miroku and landed a small nick to his chest. Miroku smirked and said "Maybe this will actually be a bit challenging."

Tenten charged at Miroku again, but this time, Miroku was ready. He saw her go for a slash to his neck, so Miroku quickly ducked down and lightly cut Tenten's leg before she could hop back. Luckily for Tenten, the cut was shallow and she could still walk. Miroku didn't let her go that easily though. As soon as Tenten hopped back, the crazed ninja was quickly on her. Miroku started slashing at Tenten, who matched him blow for blow. Miroku said, "It seems that we're at a stalemate. We're both evenly skilled when it comes to a tanto."

Miroku then threw his tanto to the ground and reached behind his back. Tenten saw that he was defenseless and dashed forward. She pulled her tanto back, hoping to put more power into her swing and end this match in one shot. As she moved her tanto forward, a weapon easily blocked it. Then, a mirror image of that same weapon was stabbed into her forearm. Tenten screamed and reflexively let go of her tanto. She hopped back and looked at the weapons the man had. The handles for the weapons were relatively short; barely long enough for Miroku to grip them with his entire hand. It looked like a tri-pronged fork with the middle prong longer than the others. Tenten scowled when she realized what they were. 'Sai! Damnit, why did it have to be sai? They're the only weapon I haven't mastered yet.'

Tenten still had the scowl on her face as she pulled out two kunai. She ran forward and started slashing at Miroku, but it seemed that Miroku wouldn't tolerate any of that. He started to block her strikes as he saw her pushing him back. Miroku's pride wouldn't let him be forced to retreat from some teenaged girl, so he easily intercepted her kunai in-between the prongs on his sai. He quickly rotated his wrist, causing the kunai to go flying. As he kunai went flying, he crouched down and tried to stab her in the stomach with the sai. Tenten saw the attack coming and jumped back, but not before the middle prong of the sai lightly penetrated her stomach.

Tenten put her hand to the wound as it started bleeding. Before she could tend to it at all, she saw Miroku on her again. It seemed that he wanted to finish that battle soon. Tenten started backing up as Miroku started getting closer and closer with his attacks. Before she could try to fight back, Miroku lightly nicked her again. But this time, he also kicked her in the chest as hard as he could, sending her flying back into a tree trunk. As Tenten fell to the ground, Miroku stood over her with his sai ready to stab her.

Tenten could do nothing but look on in horror as the sai descended.

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(With Hinata)

After being slightly nicked by the white haired temptress, Hinata rushed forward and let loose with another barrage of Juken strikes. Sakuya dodged the strikes, making it look like child's play. Sakuya tried to swing for Hinata with the blade again, but Hinata quickly struck Sakuya in the palm, causing her to pull her hand back in pain. As she did, Hinata quickly jumped and spun, hitting Sakuya in the temple with the heel of her foot.

Sakuya was knocked off her feet and landed on the ground. Hinata rushed forward with a death glare and kept striking at Sakuya. Hinata sent a feint at Sakuya's defense, only to send a real Juken palm strike to Sakuya's stomach. The woman was again knocked onto the ground. Hinata rushed forward and jumped into the air. As she started falling, she stuck her leg out to strike Sakuya with. Her foot struck against the ground as Sakuya moved out of the way and used her hidden blade to stab Hinata easily. Hinata let out a scream of pain, only for Sakuya to pull the blade out and stab her again. Hinata grabbed Sakuya, and, in an amazing feat of strength, tossed her ten feet away. Sakuya got on her feet and said, "Well, well, well, it looks like the little Hyuuga decided to finally grow a backbone. Y'know, I saw you around the village all the time when you were a little girl. How you would always run away from the smallest of things, always cower behind your dear old daddy, like a coward. It was so pathetic."

Hinata narrowed her eyes and put her hands together. Her hands started glowing yellow, and then she pulled them apart. As Hinata pulled her hands apart, a yellow string of energy connected her palms. The yellow string turned into a bow as Hinata moved her hands as if she was holding back the string of a real bow. Hinata said, "Well, I guess I'll just have to show you what this 'little Hyuuga' can do. Spirit Arrow!"

Hinata let loose the string as an arrow of energy shot out. Sakuya could barely get out of the way in time as the arrow flew past her and hit a tree behind her. Hinata started shooting at Sakuya more and more, causing Sakuya to continue to dodge. Sakuya dodged out of the way, then swung her arm at Hinata. Hinata didn't see the senbon flying through the air until the moonlight glinted on it for a split second. The senbon was on a direct course for her eye, but Hinata quickly cut power to the bow and moved her hand in the way of the senbon. The senbon went completely through her hand. Hinata screamed in pain as her hand was stabbed through. Sakuya saw what happened and said, "Wow, you're pretty quick. Few people have ever been able to dodge a senbon from my senbon launcher. But it looks like it hit you still. That's too bad. Naruto-koi will be soooooooo alone with his little puppy love crush in the hospital. ...Wait, I have an idea. Maybe while you're holed up in the hospital, I'll show him exactly what a real woman can do. By the time I'm through with him, he won't even remember your-WHOA!"

Sakuya was interrupted, as she had to jump to the side to dodge a white orb of energy. A split second later, the Heaven's Wrath attack exploded. Sakuya looked where the attack came from to see Hinata standing there. Hinata's hair was blowing in the wind, even though the wind was nowhere near that strong. Her usually lavender eyes seemed to glow with some sort of unknown power. Even though Sakuya wasn't close enough to realize it, the air around Hinata seemed to get heavier and smaller particles of dust started to rise off of the ground and disintegrate as it reached a certain height. Lastly, a fiery blue aura was emanating from Hinata's body. Even though Sakuya knew barely anything about Hinata, even she knew that the girl was PISSED OFF!

Hinata held out the palm of her uninjured hand as she said, "Stay away from Naru-kun! Spirit Shot!"

Out of Hinata's hand came a black orb that shot forward. Sakuya barely moved in time to get away from it. Sakuya swung her arm and shot a senbon at where the Spirit Shot came from, but the senbon only hit air. Sakuya looked around for the bluenette, but couldn't find her. Sakuya heard a painful, but muffled grunt behind her and as she turned around, she saw Hinata cradling her injured hand with the senbon pulled out. Hinata closed her eyes, and then said "Mystical Palm Jutsu!"

Hinata's uninjured hand was surrounded in a green aura as Hinata grabbed her injured hand. The green energy flowed into Hinata's hand, and Sakuya could see the hand healing up. Sakuya shot another senbon, but Hinata quickly flew out of the way. Sakuya kept shooting senbon at Hinata, but Hinata kept dodging them. Eventually Hinata abandoned completely healing her hand and flew down towards Sakuya. Sakuya sent more and more senbon at Hinata, but Hinata easily saw them being shot and grabbed them out of the sky. Sakuya kept swinging her arm, shooting senbon until she heard a click. Looking at the arm where she hid her senbon launcher, she muttered, "Damn. Outta ammo."

Hinata disappeared from her original spot and landed behind Sakuya. Hinata held her fully extended arm out, showing her palm to the back of Sakuya's shirt. Hinata clenched her fingers and thumb, and then pulled her arm back. She yelled out "8 Trigrams: Air Palm!"

Hinata thrusted her hand forward, sending a compact concentration of chakra to hit Sakuya in the back. Sakuya screamed in pain and dropped unconscious. Hinata let loose a sigh, and fell to the ground. She put her hands behind her to catch her, but then she shot in the air as a jolt of pain shot up her hand. 'I forgot. My hand still isn't healed. Probably won't be back to normal for a while. And that horrible woman stabbed me in the stomach twice. Besides, this isn't the time to calm down. There are still two enemies around.'

Hinata looked around to Naruto's fight. He seemed to be holding his own very well against Kazuya. Naruto had a few nicks, but for the most part, he was holding his own against Kazuya. Hinata looked towards where Miroku and Tenten were, only to see Tenten get kicked in the stomach and hit a tree. Hinata thought 'That man-stealing tramp is finally getting what she deserves. But if I let her get hurt, Naru-kun will never forgive me. Damnit, sometimes love is so hard.'

Hinata saw Miroku standing over Tenten and knew that she had to act right now. Hinata put her hands together and formed a bow with her energy. Hinata aimed for Miroku's stomach and let loose an arrow.

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(With Tenten)

Tenten saw the sai descend closer and closer to her stomach. She closed her eyes and thought 'I wish I could've at least gotten some time to know what it was like to have a nice boyfriend like Naru-kun.'

Before the sai hit her though, she heard Miroku mutter "Shit," and jump back. As he jumped back, a yellow arrow passed through where he originally was. Seeing her chance, Tenten hopped back to her feet as Hinata ran over to where she was standing. Tenten looked at Hinata and knew that it was because of Hinata that she was alive. Tenten quickly muttered "Thanks," and reached behind her to grab a scroll. She unsealed a Bo staff and put the scroll back to its' original spot. She turned to Hinata and said "I know that you hate me right now, and to be honest, I don't care all that much. I need your help to beat him. Will you help me?"

Hinata said 'You're right, I do hate you. But Naru-kun would never forgive me if I let something happen to you. So I'll help you." Hinata's next statement carried a small edge to it. "But just because I'm helping you with this doesn't mean that I'm gonna just let you steal my boyfriend."

Tenten looked at Hinata incredulously and said, "There's someone standing in front of us trying to kill us and you want to argue about boy problems? We'll have this conversation later."

Tenten quickly charged forward, leaving Hinata in her original spot. Hinata quickly formed a bow of energy and waited until she could get an open shot. Tenten swung the bo staff at the crazed knife wielder, but Miroku leaned back to dodge the strike. Tenten quickly reversed her swing and hit the man in the right side of the stomach. As her blow connected, Tenten swung the staff around to hit the man on the left side of his head. This time, Miroku ducked under the strike and tried to stab Tenten in the stomach. But the strike failed because of the extended reach of the bo staff. As the blow hit nothing but air, Tenten spun and swung the bo staff out, trying to take off Miroku's head. Miroku dropped to the ground to avoid the strike, then popped back up to his feet and tried to stab Tenten again. This time, Tenten jumped over him.

As she jumped over him, Hinata released an arrow and hit the man in his arm, causing him to drop one of the sai he was carrying. As he dropped it, Tenten rushed forward and started swinging her bo staff at him. She started pushing him back farther and farther. Without his second sai, he wasn't at his best and Tenten was able to push him back. As Tenten pushed him farther back, he tried to stab at her again. Tenten ducked under the strike and struck him in his shin, causing him to yelp in pain. He was forced to favor one leg, which didn't exactly help him when Hinata shot him in his remaining good leg, causing him to drop to the ground.

As Miroku dropped to the ground, Tenten nodded to Hinata, silently thanking her.

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(With Naruto)

Throughout the entire match, the half demon was matching Kazuya blow for blow. Just like before in the warehouse, it seemed that Naruto and Kazuya were evenly matched. That was, until Kazuya decided to do Jutsu.

As Kazuya kicked Naruto in the chest and knocked him away, Kazuya laid his sword down and said, "You like tricks, don't you demon? Well, let's see how you like this one. I learned this right before that green wearing bastard and his Cyclops butt-fucker put me in jail. Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

In a puff of smoke, 3 more Kazuya's appeared, all with giant broadswords. Kazuya said, "Those other whores of yours might be able to survive against Sakuya and Miroku, but you won't survive. You were barely keeping up with one of me. How will you keep up with four solid copies of me?"

Naruto smirked at Kazuya and said "Like this. Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Naruto created three clones, one for each Kazuya Shadow Clone. Kazuya stammered out "H-h-how? It took me years of training to be able to make three. There's no way that you've put as much work into this technique as me."

Naruto smirked and said, "Maybe I'm just better than you."

Naruto rushed forward to fight Kazuya while his clones also fought. Naruto ducked under Kazuya's broadsword and punched him in the stomach. As Kazuya backed up, Naruto held his hand out at Kazuya. In front of his hand, a blood red orb of energy was formed. Naruto smirked at Kazuya while Kazuya muttered "I always you knew it. You really are a demon."

Naruto said, "Let's see how you do against this. Demon's Rage!"

Naruto shot the blood red orb of energy at Kazuya, who barely jumped out of the way. As he jumped out of the way, Naruto reappeared right next to him. Naruto kicked Kazuya in the chin, causing him to be launched into the sky. Naruto flew up to where he was, and kicked him down. As Kazuya landed on the ground painfully, Naruto stretched out his fingers and tucked his thumb into his palm. He focused ki into his hand, causing a yellow blade of energy to form. Naruto flew down in a dive-bomb towards Kazuya, yelling "Spirit Sword!"

Naruto moved his sword forward, intending to hit Kazuya in the head. Kazuya saw where Naruto was aiming and hopped up and ran. As he ran, Naruto saw that he was gonna miss, so he aimed the sword at Kazuya's head as he was running. Naruto forced the Spirit Sword to extend, and it grew in length until it pierced Kazuya. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your viewpoint, Naruto's aim was off and instead; he stabbed Kazuya through the stomach.

At Kazuya's scream of pain, Hinata and Tenten brightened up at the fact that victory seemed to be a sure thing. Naruto landed on the ground and dismissed the Spirit Sword. Even though the sword was gone, Kazuya was still on the ground, writhing in pain. Naruto started walking towards Kazuya, keeping his eye on the swordsman in case he tried to pull something out of his sleeve.

As Naruto was walking, he felt his foot crush something. As he looked down, he saw the plume of purple smoke envelop him. As the plume of smoke covered him, Naruto accidentally took a breath, breathing in the same poison that killed Gai.

When the poisonous smoke cloud enveloped Naruto, both Tenten and Hinata yelled out "Naru-kun!"

Their rivalry forgotten, the two girls rushed to Naruto's position. They both ran towards Naruto's position, only for him to scream and flare his aura. When he flared his aura, the cloud of poison was blown away, leaving Naruto there looking like it hadn't affected him at all.

Kazuya smirked at Naruto and said, "You still fell into my trap, you demon. Now, that poison will course through your body until it reaches your heart and kills you! Even if I die right here, I'll still have my revenge."

Naruto closed his eyes and called on Kurama's chakra. As he drew on it, he forced it through his entire system, giving him a blood red fox like aura. Naruto said "You won't be getting your revenge any time soon, Kazuya. Right now, as we speak, this chakra is flooding my veins and destroying your poison. I'm not going anywhere."

As Naruto ended his speech, the last of Kazuya's poison was burned out of his system. But the smirk on Kazuya's face should've alerted Naruto that something wasn't right. Kazuya said, "Oh you are going somewhere. STRAIGHT TO HELL!"

As Kazuya yelled the last part of his statement, someone threw a gallon of red liquid at Naruto. When it landed on him, everything was quiet. If was as if everyone was stunned silent. But that silence was only for a second, as it was interrupted by Naruto's bloodcurdling scream of horror. "AAAAARRRGH!"

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(End)