AN: The fight between Zabuza with Myself and Shiva with Haku were written by Aragorn Potter, then edited by me.

Chapter 10: Clash on the Bridge!

(Cue song Car24 by Yoko Kanno from Cowboy Bebop Original Soundtrack 1)

The next week was about as normal as could be. There was no normal training to worry about. However what did happen was training while we were building the bridge. Things like, for Sakura, streaming chakra into her arms and back to pick up very heavy steel girders. Sasuke was put to work using his Fireball jutsu. Kakashi and I used Kage Bunshin for the bulk of the work. Dawn regulated the genjutsu that was thrown around the bridge constantly, with back up foxes taking care of it at night. And Trunks helped out with calculations. He was quite smart when it came to that type of stuff. More so than Sakura time skip version and Shikamaru put together. He was an ultra genius.

At night I told some jokes to keep morale up with the bridge builder and his family. Inari had done a complete 180. No longer was he depressed and angst. Now he laughed like a child his age should be doing every day. Tsunami smiled almost constantly now. It was great.

One day I decided to take a break and survey the land for the rest of the day. I left Trunks in charge and looked around Wave country for a while. It wasn't until late in the afternoon that I discovered something interesting.

It was a beach. A beautiful, pearly white sand covered, sapphire blue water, beach. Like the type you see in 'Welcome to Paradise' pictures, or the type you would only see with a five star beach resort slapped on the side. It was interesting because the beach was distinctly tropical, but Wave was most certainly not a tropical country. Curious I took out my phone and looked up the spot on the inbuilt map. The sensors told me that there was a weather anomaly hanging over the area. It was small, but created a tropical climate all year round. Looking up I saw the sun beginning to set over the water. It was truly a peaceful place. I was then struck with an idea.

"Yeah! That could work," I said to myself as I thought over the idea that was growing inside my head. The idea was simple. At least it was in my head. Build a beach house here on this beach like I had seen in a few pictures in my home world. A big house on the beach.

"That... would be... awesome!" I said to myself while nodding. I could just imagine the parties I would have here. With that in mind I pressed an option on my iPhone 4 that allowed me to place a GPS beacon on the map and bounded back to meet up with my pals and super hot girlfriend.

We completed the bridge the night before we were going to meet Zabuza and co on the bridge. That night was one of, if not themost memorable nights Inari and his family had. Everyone was happy. Even Sasuke cracked a small smile after a particularly funny joke I told.

(Cue song A Little Help from a Friend by Bruce Faulconer from Dragonball Z: Trunks Compendium 1)

And then the day came when I would learn Zabuza's decision. We walked down to the bridge and saw Zabuza, Haku without his mask on, Meizu and Gozu, waiting for us. Sakura was with us, but Sasuke had stayed behind. The night before he had accidently downed a whole glass of whatever Tazuna was drinking. When he woke in the morning, he had complained of a very large headache. In turn Kakashi had ordered him to stay behind and if he felt better, to watch the house just in case.

"Hey ya!" I called to Zabuza. "You come to a decision yet?"

"Yeah! Meizu and Gozu have said they'll join you. My partner Haku and I, however, wish to battle with you before we agree. You win, we join you. But if we win then you join us. How does that sound?" he asked.

"Sounds good to me," I replied. "However I have a suggestion. Since Haku is a Hyòton user I want to match her up with another Hyòton user. Is that alright?"

"Sure, but how did you know that Haku is a Hyòton user?" asked Zabuza.

"I know many things. Didn't the Demon Bros tell you that?" I replied.

"Told you so," said Gozu to Zabuza.

"Yeah, yeah," he replied.

(Cue song Snow's Theme by Masashi Hamauzu from Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack)

"Ok, I'm going to summon the Hyòton user now!" I warned before I picked out one of the red summoning materia from my pocket and streamed chakra into it. I instantly knew what to do as the materia glowed brightly. I tossed the materia into the air, jumped after it, grasped White Requiem and sliced the materia in half. Instantly a wide, complicated, ice blue coloured seal burst out of the crystal. From there the seal split into five sections. These then shifted into five huge ice crystals. I landed on the bridge with the ice crystals speared into the bridge behind me, looking like a flower seen on its side.

Then a glowing, transparent female form with large tentacle like appendages flowing from her head drifted down from the heavens and seemed to meld into the ice. She then changed into a blue skinned woman with 14 very thick bundles of blue hair bounded with gold material in a couple of places per bundle. In some cases there was a gold ring attached to the end of some of these hair bundles. In addition there was a long, thin plat that extended almost all the way down to her feet. The end had a gold ring with the bottom half fitted with pale blue feathers. She was clad in a very skimpy outfit that had all the males except for me and Trunks, and some of the girls blushing at the sight of her generous curves. One breast was covered with clothing whereas the other was covered with a sheet of ice. Attached to the right side of her hip was a bright indigo coloured piece of clothing looking like half a skirt. I instantly recognised her as the Final Fantasy X form of Shiva.

"Ladies and Gentleman, I present the Ice Goddess, Shiva!" I called out and she bowed slightly. She turned to me and smiled. "What is the reason you have summoned me for?" she asked in a light, melodious voice.

"How would you like to fight with a Hyòton user?" I asked. Her exotic blue/purple eyes brightened and her smile widened. "That would be wonderful," she said before looking towards Haku who was both blushing and nervous. "I assume that's him?" she asked.

"That's him. His name's Haku. Have fun," I said as she walked over to Haku.

"Oh I will," she replied without looking back.

As Shiva and Haku faced down, I turned to Zabuza. "You ready?" I called to him. "Completely!" he replied, grinning. (Cue song Supermoves by Overseer)

After a minute or so of staring at each other Zabuza and I charged at one another at top Shinobi speed, despite the fact that we both wielded Zweihander swords.

As we charged at one another Zabuza jumped into the air and brought his Kubikiri Houcho above his head and then did a vertical downward slash as he came down on top of me.

I reacted though by rolling sideways to avoid the attack, where Zabuza 's sword hit the ground and cause a large dent of the bridges path.

A soon as Zabuza's attack missed I quickly spun around and extended my sword out to slash at Zabuza's unprotected side but he back flipped to avoid the sword strike.

As soon as he landed back on the ground he charged head on at me with another powerful sword slash, which I quickly blocked with my White Requiem, upon which a power struggle emanated between us, where we struggled for dominance and tried to overpower each other.

"You're doing pretty good," I grunted as I held my ground.

"So are you," replied Zabuza.

After a minute or so the power lock between us finally ended with me pushing Zabuza back, where Zabuza temporarily lost his balance, leaving a opening for me, which I took and slashed at Zabuza's unprotected chest. But as soon as he did Zabuza's then reverted into water revealing him to be a Water clone.

"When did he...?" I said out loud but I had no time to wonder for as soon as the water clone was destroyed Zabuza the appeared right behind me. Thanks to the enhanced hearing that my fox ears had I detected him in time and rolled forward to avoid Zabuza's sword slash and from my head being severed off. 'He's not pulling any shots. I guess I better ante up my game too,' I thought.

After avoiding the sword slash I spun around, to block another attack from Zabuza, but even after blocking his attack, I remained on the defensive as Zabuza let lose a fury of attacks at me, where all I could do was block them with White Requiem.

For the next few minutes it continued like this until, when I blocked a powerful downward strike from Zabuza, I pushed him back in a impressive feat of strength, sending him flying through the air. This was the perfect time to use my new attack. Focusing a massive amount of Ki into my sword I called out, "Ikkyuu Nyu..." I then slammed the sword down onto the ground. "KON!" A large beam of blue Ki energy raced across the bridge, heading straight for Zabuza. It looked a lot like a mix between the Kamehameha Wave and Cloud's Blade Beam.

Seeing the blade beam flying towards him quickly, Zabuza immediately brought his sword up in front of him to block the beam blade, which it did although the blast caused him to hit the ground hard and skid on it a bit. As Zabuza tried to pick himself up I powered up my Fire Materia and then released the energy at Zabuza creating several large football sizes fire balls speeding towards Zabuza.

When the Fire spells hit Zabuza there was a powerful explosion, but just as I though he was finished I saw movement in the smoke of the explosion. "Not down yet, huh?" I said to myself.

Zabuza appeared right out of the smoke and was relatively unharmed as he had somehow avoided the attack at the last minute and used the smoke of the explosion as a cover screen to launch a counter attack.

Upon appearing out of the smoke Zabuza then rushed at me with incredible speed, where he prepared his sword to do a horizontal slash at me. I was still caught off guard at Zabuza's quick recovery.

But I shook off my surprise and jumped up high into the air, flipping backwards to avoid the powerful slash. Upon landing back on the ground and not wanting to give Zabuza another chance to attack me, I pushed myself forward towards Zabuza and raised my sword up for a powerful strike at the former Mist-nin. Who upon seeing me coming at him raised his sword up and blocked the strike and held his ground. He pushed me back a bit and tried to slash at me but missed as I jumped backwards a bit to avoid it.

For several minutes the sword battle continued like this, as we fought with incredible swordsmanship and skill, showing that we were both true masters of the blade.

]-Third POV with Haku and Shiva-[

Haku and Shiva stared at one another for several minutes waiting for the other to make the first move.

Soon enough Haku decide to make the first move where he cried out "Sensatsu Suishō (Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death)" where a thousand long water needles appeared above Haku and flew directly at Shiva.

Seeing this Shiva quickly jumped up into the air to avoid the attack, where upon landing, Haku used his high speed and appeared right under Shiva and strike at her stomach with his Senbon needles. However Shiva had other plans as she disappeared before Haku could hit her, reappearing in mid air above Haku with a ball of swirling white, ice blue and purple energy between her two hands. "Diamond Dust" she cried out, launching her signature move.

An icy energy blast flew down at Haku, who just managed to avoid being hit by the attack by flipping backwards. When the attack hit the ground a large pillar of ice appeared then exploded into thousands shards of ice and flew through the air all around, including the still midair Haku. But by twisting his body in the air he was able avoid being hit by them, although he did receive several cuts of his arms and legs, along with cutting up his outfit as he avoided the shards of ice.

But as soon and he landed back on the ground, Shiva fell from the air and delivered a powerful axe kick down on Haku's head, but as soon as she made contact, "Haku" exploded into water revealing that he was a water clone.

As soon as Shiva realised this she felt an attack coming from behind where when she turned she saw about a dozen or so senbon needles flying at her at great speed from behind her.

Upon seeing this Shiva quickly spun around at high speed to narrowly dodge the senbon needles, after which she then turned fully around to face Haku.

"Mmm, not bad. You're reaction time and evasion is good, however this fight has only just begun," Shiva said before winking at Haku in a sensual way. Poor Haku blushed at this action before he focused on the task at hand. He admitted that, while it was hard fighting a scantily clad Ice Goddess and that her Ice affinity was off the charts, he still believed that he could turn this fight in his favour.

]-First POV - Zabuza and Myself-[

As the battled continued, Zabuza suddenly disappeared and the reappeared right behind me and slashed once again at him from behind, but I grinned and ducked down to avoid being slashed from behind, where I then spun around and kicked Zabuza legs from behind causing him to fall backwards. But as he hit the ground he turned into water revealing that Zabuza had used a water replacement.

"Fuck!" I cursed as I got back on my feet. I looked up to see Zabuza several feet away from me with his sword on his back and was flipping through several hand seals. "Oh boy," I sighed just as Zabuza finished the jutsu he was doing and cried out "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique)". A massive water dragon erupted out from the ocean and right at me. I quickly focused Ki into White Requiem and yelled out "Ikkyuu Nyu KON!". I swung my sword in a wide arc while releasing the energy. This created a blue slicing shockwave that sped toward the dragon which blasted it back into formless water on contact.

Unfortunately though the Water Dragon was just a distraction, where as soon as I destroyed the Water Dragon Zabuza appeared on his knees right below me with Kubikiri Houcho ready to cut me from the lower half of his body. But, again thanks to my advanced hearing, I was able to bring White Requiem around to block Zabuza's, after which I then jumped away a bit to gain bit of distance from Zabuza.

Once I had gained some distance from Zabuza I charged up the Thunder Materia and fired off a Thunder spell, where a bolt of lightning appeared out from the sky above Zabuza and struck him. Unfortunately though, Zabuza was able to replace himself once again with a water clone at the last second to avoid being hit by the bolt of lightning.

When Zabuza reappeared a few feet away from when the lightning hit, I then charged at him with White Requiem, where upon seeing me Zabuza brought his sword up, where he then slashed horizontally at me when I was close enough. But just as Zabuza did so, I jumped up slightly to avoid the slash, where I then battered away his own sword and tried to cut Zabuza's head off.

But upon seeing my attack, Zabuza quickly bended himself backwards to avoid the sword slash, missing it by a hairs breath. After which he then flipped himself backwards into the air, while at the same time kicking me underneath the chin making me take a few steps backwards to regain my footing. Once I did I then saw Zabuza land back on the ground on his feet in front of me and ready to continue.

]-Third POV - Back with Haku and Shiva-[

The two ice users charged at one another to fight in hand to hand combat for several minutes. During the fight Shiva tried to do a leg sweep and cause Haku to fall backwards. Haku saw what she was about to do and jumped up into the air and then did a spin kick to the side of Shiva head but Shiva saw this coming and was able to guard against the attack by blocking it with her arm, where she then pushed Haku back several feet away.

After which Shiva then disappeared and reappeared right behind Haku a delivered a powerful elbow to Haku's back although when she did Haku turned into water, revealing he had replaced himself with a water clone again.

"Tch!" muttered Shiva as she looked around for Haku, who she quickly found several feet behind her doing a few hand-seal and then crying out "Makyō Hyōshō (Demonic Ice Crystal Mirrors)!" After which a dome of twenty-one mirrors made out of ice to trap Shiva. Upon which Haku entered the mirror, where and image of him appeared in all the ice mirrors.

Shiva whistled appreciatively. "My my Haku-chan, very impressive for a ningen."

"Why thank you, but this is where it ends," replied the male Ice user before launching a bombardment of ice senbon from all sides.

Seeing this Shiva the created a sphere of ice around herself so to protect her from Haku's senbon needles, after which she the destroyed her shield and then created twenty-one ice spikes around her and sent them all at Haku's ice mirrors and destroyed them.

As the shards of Haku's Ice mirrors flew through the air Haku launched a counter attack by coming out of one of the pieces and tried to stab Shiva with his senbon needles. Shiva was able to catch Haku's arm before he could stab her and stopped Haku in his tracks. After which Haku kicked Shiva in the side and forced Shiva to let her go, where the two of them then engaged in a fierce Taijutsu battle one again for several minutes.

As the battled continued Shiva was able to kick Haku away from her after which she then cried out, "Heavenly Strike!" where a giant spike of ice formed above Haku and then fell down at him a great speed. Haku was able to narrowly avoided being hit by the powerful attack, but was sent flying a bit and crashing to the ground with several more small cuts and injuries.

As Haku picked himself up, Shiva cried out "Blizzard" where a cocoon shaped ice similar to the Heavenly strike, where it then came do upon him, lucky though Haku was able to replace himself with a water clone, where when the attack hit the water clone the ice cocoon cracked open and the cold air inside the cocoon flash-froze the water, where it then shattered a few seconds later.

After the attack ended Haku, (who was panting slightly) appeared in front of Shiva, where he then prepared to continue his battle.

"I'm sorry dear. You've handled yourself well, far better than I expected. But here is where this little fight ends," said Shiva before she began to glow with ice blue energy.

]-First POV - Back with Zabuza and Myself-[

"We're still equal," I said.

"You're right. We are," he replied. He then hoisted his blade up again. "What say we finish this in one move?"

"Sounds good to me," I said, activating the Time materia in Haste mode as well as streaming a large amount of Ki energy into my sword.

"On three?" I asked. Zabuza nodded.

"1,"

"2,"

"3!"

We rushed each other, but for me, Zabuza was moving quite slowly. I deliberately clashed my sword against his own, intending on overpowering him. What I didn't expect was my sword to slice Zabuza's in half completely. I watched in slow motion as the top half of the sword spun away in a high ark before returning to the bridge. It stabbed into the ground, light glimmering off it.

(Cue music silence)

"Opps," I said sheepishly. "I never meant to do that."

Zabuza sighed. "No, it's ok."

"Really?" I asked, thinking that he would be pissed.

"Yeah. I guess it's official. I'm joining you and becoming part of your clan," he said.

"Me too!" called a voice from a little ways over from us. I turned to see Haku completely immobilised in several hundred spikes of ice. He had a sheepish smile on his face and a legit anime sweatdrop on the side of his head. Even though this place was real, there were still anime type effects here. Which I thought was awesome. He wasn't hurt, but he was stuck. Beside him, Shiva grinned happily. "He put up a good fight, for sure. But no-one beats the Queen of Ice herself."

"Glad to hear it Shiva. Now do you think you could let him go?" I asked.

Shiva clicked her fingers and the ice shattered away from Haku without slicing him to pieces.

"Thanks. I'll call you when I need you soon," I said.

"Ok. See you then," she said with a wink in Haku's direction before she jumped into the air and curled up into a ball. A sphere of ice formed around her and then shrunk until it was the same size as the materia ball. The ball then dropped into my hands and I saw that it was back to its original red crystal. I slipped the materia back into my sword before turning to my new friends.

(Cue song Stay by Fat Jon from Samurai Champloo OST - Departure)

"I think she likes you," I grinned at Haku, who's face turned into a stop light. "Great! So you're now part of the Kitsune Clan. By the way, I'm creating a group of swordsman, like the Seven Swordsman of the Mist. Zabuza, you're now part of that group," I said.

"Great! Who else is in it?" he asked.

I pointed to my best friend and girlfriend. "Trunks and Dawn are part of it already, along with myself, of course. I'll even get you a new sword when we get back to Konoha," I promised.

"Nice battling," said Dawn as she and Trunks walked up to us. She gave me a quick kiss on the lips.

"Why thank you Dawn," I replied. "

Wait, she's your girlfriend?" asked Zabuza in shock. I nodded. "Man, you are one lucky bastard!" he said, clapping me on the back.

"Well there are plenty of hot single woman in Konoha for you to get. None are as gorgeous as Dawn but there are a few gems," I said slyly.

I then, along with Dawn and Trunks, placed our hands on Zabuza and Haku's shoulders. They were confused for a moment before they jumped in shock.

"What the...? Who are you?" they asked at the same time.

"I guess that proper introductions are in order. My name is Josh Ryu Kitsune. I am a Kitsune Hanyo, Commander of the Kitsune Army, Lord of all Kitsunes and the current Defender of Fire country. My alias is Uzumaki Naruto so I would appreciated it if you call me that when we're out in public," I said before pointing at Trunks. "This is Trunks, son of Kaiden who is 2nd in command of the Kitsune Army. He's here to gain battle and life experience." And last I pointed at Dawn. "This is Dawn, also known as Kyuubi no Kitsune. She was the Commander of the Kitsune Army and Defender of Fire Country but after being sealed, those titles were revoked from her. She passed her powers to me after her spirit was freed thanks to a special jutsu."

"...Wow!" both Zabuza and Haku said.

"Yep! Some big names here," said Kakashi as he came to stand beside us. "I guess you're part of Josh's clan now."

"Looks like it," said Haku.

(Cue music silence)

"Heh! It seems that the Demon of the Hidden Mist couldn't finish them off after all," came a very annoying voice from the other side of the bridge. We all turned to see Gatou and his flunky army.

"Well it's about time you got your fat ass here. I was wondering where you were," I said.

"They're weakened from their battle! Get 'em!" ordered Gatou and his army began to inch forward.

(Cue song Powerful Man from the Darkness by Kenji Yamamoto from Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3 Original Soundtrack)

"Hey Zabuza," I said as I slammed my sword into the bridge and touched the black watch thing on my wrist. A black hilt materialised out of thin air.

"Yeah?" he replied, looking in fascination at what was happening in my hands at the moment. I gripped the hilt with my hand and pointed it at Gatou. I streamed chakra into the handle and watched the blade smoothly construct itself until the blade was fully extended.

"Now you're going to see something really cool," I answered before the special ability of the sword activated and I completely disappeared.

*Third POV*

The army exclaimed as Josh disappeared from view. "Where did he go?" one said.

"Where is he?" said another before he slumped to the ground unconscious.

"What the?" said a mercenary before he was seemingly punched in the gut hard by some invisible force that had the guy coughing hard before collapsing.

"Look out!" cried out one before his face was pounded into the bridge hard.

The outcries continued and every time someone yelled out in fright, he was knocked out, which only sent the rest into more fear.

"What are you doing! He's only one man! Kill him!" yelled Gatou. But it was no use. They were all being punched into unconscious land by an invisible force. And so it continued until there was only Gatou left. Strangely, he wasn't terrified on the sight of all the still bodies everywhere.

*First POV*

I appeared back with my friends. Zabuza, Haku, Meizu and Gozu were absolutely awed at what I did.

"That was some nice work you did there," said Zabuza in a respectful voice. "I couldn't even sense you, never mind see you."

"That was the point," I replied as I deactivated the thin sword in my hands. I looked at the damage I had created and nodded in satisfaction. I didn't kill them because some of the people I just attacked could have had families and simply joined Gatou's army to feed the their family. I wasn't going to become a monster that separated families and friends simply because they were on the wrong side for the right reasons. I picked up White Requiem and attached it to my back. "Gatou! What now?" I yelled to him. What I didn't expect was for him to begin laughing.

"Ha ha ha ha ha! I guess that if you want something done, do it yourself!" he growled.

(Cue song Evil Power by Kenji Yamamoto from Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 3 Original Soundtrack)

"I think you're outmatched and out..." the words died on my lips as I saw the horrible transformation that was taking place in front of my eyes. Gatou bloated into something that was several times bigger than his previous height. His skin turned into an indigo-black coloured, jelly like substance. His eyes turned red and beady like. His mouth stretched and gaped open, with a indigo coloured mist flowing out of it. With the transformation complete, Gatou now looked like a 7 meter tall black-indigo coloured jelly mould with red eyes.

"Is that what I think it is?" I asked to no one in particular as I raised my iPhone to the creature and scanned it. The info appeared on the screen along with a 3D icon of the monster.

Name: Dark Flan

Class: C rank demon

Description: The Dark Flan has a host of attacks at its disposal. It casts Black Magic such as Demi, Bio, Drain, Osmose, and Flare. It can also heal itself using White Wind. And unlike the other flan demons encountered, it does not have an elemental weakness. The strategy to defeat it is to summon a Bahamut-class dragon and use non-elemental attacks. The alternate strategy is to Silence the Dark Flan (its main weakness) and then pound away with Flare and physical attacks after using the Armor Break technique.

"Dawn, why does Gatou look like a Dark Flan from Final Fantasy X?" I asked. She looked a little sheepish before replying. "I forgot to mention but this world is infested with demons, good and bad. Some take the shape of humans to amass wealth and several other reasons. They usually stay undercover but every now and then one will directly attack in its true form. The bad demons also go after power because every time a demon kills another, their power transfers to the winner. This doesn't include the Defenders but if a demon who wasn't a Defender defeats one, they would become equal in power to it. And so every now and then one will come along to try and take on a Defender to claim their power for themselves. Sorry I didn't tell you sooner." Dawn explained.

I sighed. "No, it's alright. I know now, so let's split this Flan open!"

"Hey Josh! Do you know what this thing is?" asked Kakashi, looking warily at the monster.

"It's a demon known as a Dark Flan. Any elemental jutsu used against it will only take half damage. It's almost completely immune to physical attacks. It's also quite strong in its abilities. Let me handle this one!" I replied back before extracting the Bahamut materia from my sword.

(Cue song Screaming God by Yasuharu Takanashi \ Yaiba from NARUTO Shippuuden Original Soundtrack II)

I flooded the materia with chakra and the materia changed into a ball of white-blue energy. I flung the ball into the sky and as it ascended, a large and wide circle of glyphs and seals pulsed out of the ball before fading. The sky became heavily overcast and clouded. Then a wide and complicated seal spread out across the clouds, only to be shattered seconds later by a dragon flying straight at me. The dragon pulled up just in time and landed on the bridge in front of me. His appearance was exactly the same as the Bahamut dragon from Final Fantasy X. The dragon turned to me. "My name is Slipstream. How may I serve you?"

"Use Impulse on the Dark Flan!" I ordered. Slipstream nodded before facing the Flan head on. The dragon concentrated and four balls of black, blue, purple and white swirling energy appeared in front of him. He then launched the balls and they collided with the Dark Flan. A great, gurgling roar erupted from the demon. Then the monster seemed to gesture vaguely at Slipstream. A spiral of fire surrounded Slipstream on the ground. All the fire merged into one spot right underneath Slipstream and exploded upwards violently. A FFX Flare spell. Slipstream flinched but stood his ground.

"Another Impulse!" I called and Slipstream prepared another attack. As he was doing so I turned to my friends. They were staring in awe at the battle unfolding before their eyes. "I'm going to need a few minutes to gather enough youki to finish this guy off. Can you pummel it with jutsu while I get ready?" I asked. They all turned to me. "Sure," said Zabuza with Haku and Kakashi nodding. "You got it!" said Trunks, sheathing his sword.

Dawn sighed. "Sorry but I'll won't be any use to you guys until I have access to more youki." She looked bummed out. I placed my hand under her chin and raised her head up to look at mine. I kissed her softly. "It's ok. It won't be much longer before I gain another tail or two. Then you can join in. But for now, you can support the team." As I said this I handed her my Restore and Heal materia. She smiled and nodded. "Ok!"

"Alright gentleman! You know what to do!" I said in a commanding voice. They nodded before they ran towards the battle. I then began to focus on my acquired youki and started to amass it into my sword.

*Third POV* [Cue song Bodies (Vrenna XXX Mix) by Drowning Pool from XXX Soundtrack]

Kakashi flipped through a few seals before settling into a Tori seal. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" he called out before unleashing an enormous ball of fire that roared towards the Dark Flan. Trunks improved on it by going through his own set of seals. "Futon: Diatoppa!" he yelled and shot his jutsu into Kakashi's own. The fireball flickered, almost snuffing out completely before expanding and changing colour to blue. It slammed hard into the Flan. The monster was pushed back several meters, the jelly like flesh smoking.

The Flan roared and gestured at Kakashi. A black puddle formed underneath him and green slime bubbled up from the darkness and splashed onto Kakashi. The puddle disappeared and Kakashi collapsed on the ground, a purple and green mist wafting off his body.

"What in the hell happened?" asked Kakashi weakly to no-one in particular. Then Dawn rushed up to Kakashi, her hand covered in a soothing blue energy, and held it near the area where the poison was concentrated at. Blue and purple seeped out of the poisoned spot while the wound glowed white. After a few moments the energy disappeared and Kakashi stood up, healed of the poison from the Bio spell he was hit with.

"Thanks!" said Kakashi as Slipstream let loose another Impulse attack. Zabuza and Haku were also hammering away at the great blob. "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu!" roared Zabuza after his 44 hand seal chain. A large water dragon exploded out of the sea and crashed into the Flan. The water cascaded into the air from the impact and Haku stepped in. "Sensatsu Suishō!" she called out and all the left over water from the Water Dragon shaped into a thousand needles which struck into the Flan. By now the Dark Flan was looking quite weary and could not take much more of this. Out of desperation it gestured to all four fighters on the field and cast Demi. A point of light appeared above Kakashi, Trunks, Haku and Zabuza. Then waves of black, blue and purple energy rushed towards the point of light and then exploded out, rushing over the four of them. They all then collapsed to the ground, all feeling as if a large chunk of energy had left them as they panted for breath. All of a sudden a power spike alerted everyone to where Josh was at.

There he stood, his clothes whipping around him. His tail and ears were out for the world to see as he cocked his right fist into position. Waves of golden youki energy was burning around his form but was mostly concentrated around his sword. In fact the blade looked like a golden jet of fire that burst out of the hilt. He then charged at the Flan and with an almighty cry, swung the sword two-handed at the Flan. The golden energy rushed around and enveloped the Dark Flan and the monster was blown off the bridge and high into the air. After about five seconds of flight the Flan detonated in the sky, showering the area with warm golden sparks.

*First POV* (Song finish)

I collapsed to the ground, heaving with extortion. I had put most of what I could control of my youki into that strike so naturally I was a little tired. As I caught my breath I watched Dawn use Cure on everyone that was struck with the Demi spell. If Final Fantasy monsters masquerading as demons were around in this world, then things could get pretty wild in the future. 'I hope none of the Superbosses come looking for me before I gain control of the ninth tail otherwise I'll be so screwed,' I thought depressingly.

"You all right there?" asked Zabuza as my five friends gathered around be. Dawn held out her hand to me and I gladly let her pull me up to my feet.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. That attack took a lot out of me," I explained. I looked at the bridge which was still swamped with bodies. "Zabuza, Kakashi, do you think you could tie them up? Some of these people will probably have families and the only reason they signed up with Gatou was to put food on their tables," I asked. "Sure," Kakashi said. Zabuza just looked at me curiously. I saw this and explained.

"I'm not going to become a monster and destroy families. That's not who I am. I know that this is a naive decision, and that some of them don't deserve a second chance. But those that have simply made a mistake, or some who didn't have any other choice do deserve a second chance. "You follow?"

Zabuza nodded. "Never thought I would meet a compassionate ninja. But what you say is true. We'll let the people of this country see who deserves their second chance."

"Thank you," I said to him before addressing everyone. "Ok. Dawn and Haku. Can you go back to Tazuna's house with Sakura and tell them that Gatou and his goons have been eliminated. Trunks, Kakashi, Zabuza, Meizu, Gozu and I have some business to attend to. Is that alright?" I asked. Dawn nodded and kissed my cheek. "Sure thing. We'll be waiting back at the house," she said before grabbing Haku's hand and dragging him off the bridge.

"Ok, Zabuza. Think you can direct us to Gatou's hideout?" I asked.

"Sure thing," he agreed.

(Cue song Nagi Heigen from Final Fantasy X-2 OST - Disc 1)

For the next few hours we searched the complex that Zabuza showed us. We collected up all the Ryo that the demon had gathered up from the Wave country. All in all it amounted to roughly several hundred million. There was also a special treasure room that Gatou had. Inside were several very precious items. Among them was the Wolf, Weasel, Racoon and Falcon Summoning Contracts. Using the Summoning Gun that Trunks brought along I summoned four high-rank foxes and entrusted them with the new Summoning Contracts and to also let the Wolf, Weasel, Racoon and Falcon clans know that their contracts were in safe hands. I also memorized their names for the time I would summon them to pass on the contracts. The 6 tailed red fox that held onto the Wolf contract was called Renji. The 6 tailed blonde vixen who was entrusted with the Weasel contract was called Helena. The 6 tailed black vixen that had the Racoon contract was called Litchi and the holder of the Falcon contract was a 6 tailed orange fox called Ichigo.

"By the way, I need you to do something for me," I asked Helena.

"What is it Commander?" she asked. She even had a French accent from her bio in the Dead or Alive games.

"I need you to get in contact with a group of the most stealthiest foxes in the army. I have a mission for them. Tell them to report to me ASAP."

Helena nodded. "The group you're asking for is Zulu Squad. I'll let them know as soon as I get back," she promised before the four disappeared with the acquired scrolls.

"What was that all about?" asked Kakashi as we trooped back to Tazuna's place. There wasn't enough people to carry all the bags and suitcases of Ryo so Kakashi and I used Kage Bunshin to create the necessary amount of manpower.

(Cue song INTELLIGENT BOYS by Toru Hasebe from Dynasty Warriors 5 OST)

"I need to find three people who will be essential on the good side in the future," I replied. "I assume you know about Orochimaru being the Otokage of the New Sound Village?" He nodded "They're all inside Orochimaru's territory at the moment but by no means are they loyal to him. They're loyal to him out of fear, not respect. I'm gonna recruit them over to my side."

"I see. Who are they?" asked Kakashi.

"Well one Zabuza should be familiar with. His name is Suigetsu Hozuki."

"Ah, him!" replied Zabuza. "He's a good kid. Suigetsu was born in my hometown of Kirigakure. He, together with his brother, Mangetsu, dreamt to inherit the title of Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. Last I heard about him was that his brother died and him being captured by that snake."

"I'm hoping Suigetsu will become part of the swordsman group I'm creating. The second is a girl called Karin. She's a strange one but her sensory abilities are extremely well developed. Her main ability, the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, allows Karin to find, sense and track individuals through their chakra over vast ranges that exceed ten kilometres. She can also use this to determine if a person is lying or if they are under a genjutsu from the fluctuations in their chakra," I explained.

"Wow! Sounds like quite a girl!" said Kakashi. "Impressive to be sure."

I nodded. "The third is a boy called Jugo. This guy is about as bipolar as you can get. He's usually quiet and unassuming but when he gets angry, those around him stand little chance of surviving. One time, he became so angry that he devoured an entire village. He curses his existence because of his dark side and lives mostly inside caves, at least until Orochimaru came into the picture. Jugo has unique enzymes in his blood that enable him to change his body into many forms. Orochimaru was able to extract these enzymes and use them to produce similar but more controlled effects in other people. This led to the creation of the cursed seal." At that moment Kakashi hissed angrily.

"I always wondered how that damn seal was created," he growled out.

"Yes, well, if there's any chance of curing someone with a cursed seal, like Anko for example, it would lie inside Jugo. So now you know who I'm searching for," I finished up before we continued to jump through the forest.

"We're home!" I called out as we entered the front door.

"Welcome back!" replied Dawn. "Did you do what needed to be done?"

"Oh yes. All of Gatou's stash is with us here," I replied, pointing outside where a clone popped his head through the door and waved at a bewildered Tazuna.

"What? All his money?" he exclaimed.

"That's right. I thought we should give the money to you so you can divide it up equally to the citizens of Wave Country."

"Well... thank you very much!" he said while bowing, Tsunami and Inari doing the same.

"By the way Tazuna. I have a business proposition for you. Interested?" I asked.

"Sure. I'll even do it for free as thanks for everything you've done for us. You all are real heroes of Wave and we'll always be indebted to you!" said Tazuna emotionally. It seemed he still couldn't believe that the oppression was over.

(Cue song Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears)

The next week was a complete seven day celebration for the entire country. Everyone left their home to enjoy the festival on the bridge. Artisans and metalworkers were brought in to modal statues of myself, Dawn, Trunks, Kakashi, Zabuza and Haku. Kakashi and Haku declined with modesty but the rest of us agreed. We gave good poses with our swords (except for Dawn and Zabuza) for the artisans and they shaped the statues with great accuracy. The statues were then erected at the ends of the bridge. Dawn and I were at the mainland end with Zabuza and Trunks on the Wave Country end. When all was finished the statues looked like they were guarding the bridge. At my suggestion a tall memorial fountain was built in the middle of the large square at the Wave end of the bridge, to honour those who fell fighting for the country. An identical square was made on the opposite end. Tazuna also wanted to name the bridge, 'The Great Naruto bridge' but I disagreed. Upon answering his following question on the name I said, "Call it 'The Bridge of Good Hope'."

After the week, Tazuna got to work on my beach house project. It soon became apparent that my initial idea wasn't going to be big enough for everyone I was planning to invite to it so the place was now going to be a beach resort complex. Big enough to house 100 people. Thanks to Ken, I was able to get plans for a really expensive beach resort building from my home world. While on construction, a pleasant discovery was made. There was a cliff about 200 meters away from the beach. This had a natural hot spring bursting out of several cracks in the cliff. And so the hot spring was split up into three areas. One for men, one for woman and a co-ed area for couples. Each area was big enough for plenty of space. Several statues of foxes, dragons, wolves, weasels, falcons and racoons were made in which hot water spurted from their mouths in each area.

The entire complex was two huge buildings, one behind the other with the back one higher up [1]. The bedrooms were mostly on the back building, each one looking like a room out of the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney [2] and all with views of the beach. Dining and recreation areas were in the front building and the roof was a large dancing area for parties as well as an infinity pool that stretched across the whole length of the roof. There were enough rooms for everyone to sleep privately. (Everyone meaning all the people I had in mind for future parties to have there) The room where I would stay was as big as my master bedroom back home. There were also plenty of couple rooms as well. The dining area housed a full commercial kitchen capable of several someone's cooking up a storm, and a large dining room with five long tables capable of seating 20 on each. The recreation area was mostly just a heap of couches and recliner seats where we could relax after dinner. Ken also assigned a staff of angels to the resort, to make sure the place continued to stay clean when we weren't there.

Searching the area more I discovered that the waves on the beach were all types. Spanning the entire length of the beach there were waves from toddler size to massive 100 footer monsters. One place even had waves identical to the waves found at Cho-Pu in Hawaii and another spot had waves like at Maveriks where the mound of water suddenly jacked up in less than 10 seconds. I grinned in anticipation for the surfing that would happen in the near future.

(Cue song The Clandestine Dark Suits by Takeharu Ishimoto from Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Original Soundtrack)

A few days after the construction had begun, a small seven tailed, black fox approached me. Looking around I realised that Sasuke was nearby. Indicating the fox to follow I bounded into the trees and looked around before nodding at the fox. It nodded back and morphed into a human-fox hybrid.

"Greetings Commander. My name is Yamu and I am Capitan of Zulu Squad. What is the mission you would have us do?" he asked.

"I require you to seek out three people and pinpoint their locations for me, Capitan," I said before describing what I knew about Suigetsu, Jugo and Karin's appearances. "You're also to find out their feelings for Orochimaru, the Sound Village and their personalities. Have your subordinates reveal themselves to those three after they gain their trust and see if they will willingly join my clan."

"Very well Commander. Zulu Squad will carry out this mission with pride as you have requested us personally. I will report when all three have been located and when all preparations are finished," said Yamu before he disappeared into the shadows.

(Cue song Dawn by Kajiura Yuki from Tsubasa Chronicle Original Soundtrack - Future Soundscape IV)

After two weeks of building the complex was completed, thanks to my Kage Bunshin. The place was furnished, all the white goods were installed in the kitchen and all the bedding was in place. Power and water were connected. I decided that sometime after I had picked up Tsunade I would invite everyone here for a weekend of relaxation.

We stood on the Wave side of the bridge with all the citizens of Wave there to say farewell to us. Inari was crying. In fact there were a lot of tearful goodbyes. I grinned and shook Tazuna's hand. "We'll be back for sure!" I promised. He then handed me a fancy scroll.

"What's this?" I asked.

"It's a request for induction into Fire Country. Even though Gatou, our main problem, is gone for good, we still have missing nins that still see our country as a place of refuge and plunder. If we were made a part of Fire Country then they would leave us alone for fear of capture. Plus Konoha, on a whole would gain more revenue from having a large trading hub and more mission requests would probably be collected there because of Wave being a trading hub," replied Tazuna.

I grinned. This would be a nice surprise for Hiruzen. "You can count on me. I'll get this safely to our Hokage. You can expect a fox at your door with an answer soon," I said.

I then bent down to Inari. "See ya squirt!" I said.

"Bye Naruto-nii-chan," he replied, sniffing.

"Don't worry. It won't be forever kid. We'll see each other real soon, I promise," I said before standing straight and looking at my friends. "Time to go."

Author's Notes

I've updated the chapter as I didn't want to become someone who killed humans. That might come later but for now I'm just a Demon Killer.

[1] - Layout of the hotel and area surrounding it looks similar to the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel in Hawaii. For info click on the link listed on my profile.

[2] - Typical single room. Mostly Ebony and brown colour schemes. For info click on the link listed in my profile.