The Tale of Uzumaki

Welcome back for the next chapter of this peice of work. lol this starts off a little off i think but i am pleased with how i wrote it so for reading enjoyment:

A/N: all the weapons with formal names are real weapons and were used by samurai in japan during the feudal periods. the odachi being a longer sword than the standard katana and the wakizashi was shorter than the katana.

Chapter 10

The Council meeting had ran late, much to Naruto's annoyance. When he was finally allowed to speak, he was just met with contempt.

"And why should this council let a demon start a clan?"

Naruto was about to say some stupid line about the council member that spoke. He was surprised when Hinata, the newly appointed leader of the Hyuuga clan and attending her first meeting, spoke up for him. "H-how is it that this council cannot see the good in Naruto? He has saved this village from many threats, and all you can do is call him a demon?!?" Naruto looked at Sasuke, who was standing next to him. Sasuke just stepped back and awaited the inevitable. The council was all starting to bicker about how Naruto was or wasn't a demon or hero or human. The same arguments that have happen for the past 18 years. "Enough of this!" Everyone looked at Hinata in shock. Her byakugan active because of her anger. She stared at all the council members in turn before speaking again, "It is my generation that will come to power. We have accepted Naruto-dono as an equal. It doesn't matter if he had the Kyuubi no kitsune sealed into him at one point," this got their attention as for Kyuubi's passing was still a secret, "What matters is that he is a member of this village and deserves to be happy. I am here for voting that the Uzumaki clan be reformed. This is the least I can do for him, for Naruto Uzumaki, my cousin."

After all was said and done. The Uzumaki clan was official, but also had to prove their worth. The council deemed that if in five years, the clan was to be reviewed for any positive achievements and growth. While it was a victory, it had the taste of defeat. Them and their oh so pure ideals, thought Naruto as he headed back to his new home. It was late and Sakura was still living at her parent's place. So he wouldn't see her until morning. He wanted to talk to her, to tell her the good news and get advice. Oh well, maybe some training.

A mysterious clocked figure watched as Naruto went to the private training field. This is the leader of the accursed clan. Damn it, they are multiplying like rabbits. With that, the figured took off on a dead run. Naruto first felt the killing intent, then heard the battle scream.

"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" he called as 5 more Narutos appeared. They all spread out before the figure stopped before them. "So, you have learned to be ninja." the figured spat before shedding the cloak. "Huh?" Naruto went when he saw it was a woman. She had dark hair and piercing blue eyes. What he didn't understand was that she wore heavy battle armor. Though what was disturbing was the odachi she had drawn against him. "What do you want?" he asked.

She said nothing, but charged at him trying to skewer him on the long sword. He sent one clone against her while a second tried to sneak up behind her. The woman just smirked as she flicked her wrist and swirled around to get both clones. The dark haired woman was fast as she ignored the other clones coming after her to strike Naruto. He flipped back, but not before he fealt the sting of steel across his chest. It wasn't deep, but it was like a razor had cut him, bleeding slowly at first. With that, the blonde shinobi called one clone to help him and began to create a rasengan. Just before he was going to use it on the female samurai, he felt three jabs in his shoulder. His arm fell to his side uselessly as the chakra points were hit. Looking at the three small weapons she tossed at him. They resembled a kunai, but were as small as sebon needles.

"I see that you are surprised that a Samurai could defeat a ninja," she smirked, "Well, I do have to say that you are not a very good ninja."

"And you talk to much. CHIDORI!" The sound of a thousand bird came screaming into the area as the Samurai turned holding up her odachi and drawing her wakizashi. Sasuke charged at her with the intent of ending this, his sharingan active only to see her speed even outclassed his. She defected the chidori with her odachi, slicing down his arm to the bone. The wakizashi came across his chest. Her strength was enough to toss him back. Sasuke looked up to see Naruto's assailant look away towards the shouts that were drifting their way. It was at this he blacked out.

Naruto was pissed, screaming in rage he formed a rasengan in his left hand while charging the samurai. She turned just in time to catch the full force of the jutsu right into her chest. Naruto pumped all he could into, adding his wind chakra to it and more. The resulting explosion was heard all over Konoha, waking up every sleeping person. Sakura was up and running across rooftops almost instantly to the source of the chakra burst.

She was the first medic on the scene. If one wasn't a ninja, they would of thought a whole storage shed of explosive tags went off. While others arrived, the pink haired medic ninja found Sasuke, and quickly did first aid to stop him from dieing. Looking around, Sakura found naruto and the remains of his attacker. He stood there with blood flowing down his chest. His left arm was hanging limply with three small kunai like weapons sticking out of his shoulder. Naruto's left arm wasn't much better, the hand blistering from the intense chakra burns and heat. The worst part was his face. It was twisted in a mask of pain and rage. The once peaceful blue eyes were now glazed over. Sakura ran to him calling his name, to only realized he was unconscious. Naruto had defended his best friend even when he wasn't conscious of it.

"What happen here?!?" came Tsunade's voice as the older blonde stepped up to Naruto. She then saw his state and began treating him as Sakura just gently held him in her arms crying. "Sakura, he is out of danger at the moment, but he must be taken to the hospital to have those needles removed. Can you please take him and escort Sasuke to there?" Sakura just nodded and took Naruto with her. Tsunade then turned to the ANBU special investigator beside her, "What does it look like?"

"Apparently, she," the ANBU pointed to the corpse, "Attacked Naruto. Judging from the armor and weapons, I'd say she was a samurai. Though I have never heard of one doing that much damage against one ninja, let alone two of them. As for the explosion, her armor took the brunt of the blast and shows damage from a rasengan attack. Their was also wind and fire damage mixed with the rasengan marks."

Tsunade was shocked, let alone Kakashi that had just heard the report as he walked up to them. He spoke up, "But, Naruto is only able to mix wind chakra, unless, hmm."

"He gained fire chakra from Kyuubi," Came Tsunade's reply. "Now, why would a samurai attack Naruto?" she asked, not expecting to hear an answer. Now she was in for a surprise when Karen answered her question.

"To eliminate the Uzumaki clan. She was from the Maki clan's elite unit, judging from the armor. Highly trained, very deadly. She would served under the Matriarch directly," Karen explained as she knelt next to the body and picked up the diasho from the corpse's waist. "Hmm, special assassination squad? Strange, that would make her under the shogun. Of course, trained to take on shinobi specifically to keep the shogun and daimyo safe." Rising, she looked right at Tsunade and spoke four words that the Hokage never wanted to hear, "Prepare Konoha for war."

Jiraiya wasn't happy at what he saw. He was traveling near the coast of the land of fire when he spotted them. Five vessels anchored off shore, with plenty of people assembled onshore. That wasn't so much the problem as was the fact that he had followed one of these people all the way from Konoha. It wasn't rare for samurai to be in Konoha on business or for pleasure, but it was rare for one to ask about any information on the Uzumaki. What was even worse was the fact that these samurai all had the same spiral symbol on them that Konoha used. In his "research", Jiraiya discovered this symbol on the well hidden armor of a very shapely woman in a bar. After a few well placed comments and plenty of sake, he found out that she was part of advance force for the Maki clan. She and several others were to eliminate the last Uzumaki and report the whereabouts of the village that harbored them. Unfortunately, he couldn't find out much more of the plans for the village, but followed her in the morning. Now he had the feeling that she was playing him like he played her. Anyway he had to get this information back to Tsunade.

Standing, he was confronted by 6 people. Their leader was the same samurai from the bar, with two other male samurai and three Male foot solders. The situation just got worse. Time to try talking, "Um, hi nice weather today."

"Stow it, I remember you from the bar. What, wanted something more than a drinking partner?" she sneered and drew her katana.

Jiraiya raise booth hands in defense, "Now there is no need for that. I'm sure I won't remember anything after you let me head on my way.

"And why would we let a ninja go free?"

"Ninja? Oh you must be confusing me with someone else. I'm just a traveling sage, dispersing wisdom while on my pilgrimage," Jiraiya wasn't lying about that. He was technically a sage and did travel a lot.

"Well then, let me send you along to the otherworld then," the female samurai lunged at him while slashing down with her katana. Jiraiya dodged the attack and jumped into the trees. He needed to make his escape quickly, so he summoned a medium sized toad and headed off toward Otogakure to lose any pursuers. It had appeared that the Maki clan had come to finally defeat the Uzumaki clan.