Chapter 11

"That's your plan?!" asked both enraged and annoyed blond. "You expect us to sit here and wait for our enemy to come to us? Are you an idiot?!"

"Naruto,*Sigh* I can understand that you're worried, but this is the only thing we can do." said Kakashi sitting on his futon

"Yeah, sure, you're just being lazy, or is it that you're doing this to get a rematch against Zabuza?" asked still angry Uzumaki

"*Sigh* I understand that Hokage-sama allows you to do many things, but you have to remember, that I am your superior." said scarecrow with a strict tone as he glared slightly at the boy

"Look into my eyes, Hatake…" started Naruto coldly "… look into my eyes and tell me how much I care for that." said the boy as the tension grew in the room as they both glared at each other

"U-Ummm… Sensei?" asked pinkette catching the attention of everyone in the room and flinched slightly. The flinch was quickly caught by Naruto who looked away "W-Well if you couldn't beat Zabuza on your own, what makes you think that we can?" she asked not convinced about the jonins plan

"Maa, you're forgetting that you guys helped me beating our opponent last time…"

"Yeah, she helped a lot" said blond sarcastically causing the girl to look down at her lap where she was holding her hands that were tighten into fists by now for that comment reminded her about how useless on the battlefield she really is.

'I'm nowhere near Sasuke-kun level and I thought before this mission, that I'm better than Naruto, but now… he might be even stronger than Sasuke-kun. Am I really that useless?' asked Sakura herself as she tighten her fists even harder and bite her lip to not cry

"As I was saying…" continued Kakashi "… you're not going to fight Zabuza, but his helper, but now we have to train a little before that."

"Oh, that's rich! We had to be attacked by A-rank missing nin for you to come down from your high horse and train us lowly commoners instead abandoning me and Sakura-chan to teach teme. What have to happen for you to train us seriously? S-rank missing nins have to attack us? Maybe invasion on our village? Oh, oh, I know! The war have to break out." said Naruto with excitement written on his face only for all that excitement to be drained instantly and with serious expression and eyes full of cold fury looked straight at the jonin who was frozen in place under genins sight "Tch, I don't need you and your training you pathetic lazy bastard. I don't have time to wait and see if you graciously decide to see that you have three students, not one." said young Uzumaki as he stood up, turned around and started leaving.

"Where are you going, dobe?" asked Sasuke as he was the only one not rooted in place after his teammate rant.

"I refuse to be a free-loader so I'm going to hunt something for dinner." said Naruto without turning back

"Y-You don't have to…" said bridge builder's daughter quickly "… we have enough food to…" she stopped when the boy raised his hand

"We're going to stay here for some time so the least I can do is to bring some meat and from time to time cook something. Please allow me to do at least that to repay your kindness Tsunami-san" said Naruto with a small, gentle smile and when the woman saw it a similar one crept onto her face.

"OK, but when you will be cooking I'll help, is that OK with you?" asked Tsunami

"Yes ma'am" said blond with a mock salute at which the woman giggled a little

"You can cook, dobe?" asked shocked Uchiha

"When you're alone you tend to pick up some things to survive, but what you could know, when you were always given everything on silver platter" said Uzumaki as he reached for a doorknob "Oh and one more thing Hatake" he said the jonins last name with distaste as he opened the door and looked back over his shoulder. His hair overshadowed his eyes, but the eye that could be seen froze Kakashi in the spot as it was full of silent cold rage, but at the same time it had calm and calculative look to it. It was a look the jonin saw only in one person and as if on cue jonin could see a ghost figure behind the boy

'M-Minato… Sensei?' thought the man as the boy spoke

"If you'll stand in my way of protecting my precious people I will squash you like a bug." said blond and with that he left.

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(Three days later)

'Huff… how can Sasuke-kun have so much energy?' thought pinkette as she walked slowly back to bridge builder house from the training she and Sasuke were doing, the tree walking exercise. On the first day of training Naruto "visited" them and when he saw what they were doing he turned around and said only one word 'Pathetic, huh… Am I really that pathetic even when I'm trying to train properly?' she thought to herself sadly 'That's probably the reason why I'm still training even though I mastered it on my first day, well that and because of that Naruto is protecting Tazuna-san so that we can train.' her thoughts circulated on the blond jinchuuriki 'Who knew Naruto can cook so well. His meals are really good and today I can taste it again' she thought as her mouth watered at the prospect of delicious food after the training

As she saw Tazuna's house she quickened the pace forcing through burning sensation in her legs. When she were about to walk past the kitchen window she heard Tsunami saying something that stopped her in her tracks

"… And Sakura-san? Why are you cold to her Naruto-kun?"

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(Couple minutes earlier, Tazuna's house)

"It's a beautiful necklace" said Tsunami as she looked like a crystal royal Uzumaki clan crest hanging on a black leather strap. "It's the same thing you have on your back. Is it important to you Naruto-kun?" asked the woman. She became rather close with the boy and found his presence enjoyable and they talk a lot since he tried to help her as much as he could in these three days.

"Yeah, it's royal Uzumaki clan crest. My clan crest." said the boy smiling softly as he touched his necklace with a finger

"R-Royal?" asked shocked woman

"Y-Yeah" said Naruto as he cursed himself silently for his thoughtlessness

"S-So you're like a Daimyo or something?"

"Daimyo of Uzu no Kuni as I am son of the last member of the royal line from what I gathered from information dealers on the black market." said blond as he went back to preparing dinner

"So should I call you Naruto-sama from now on?" asked Tsunami playfully

"No! Kami no! Naruto-kun is good enough. I would appreciate it if you did not tell anyone, too. I don't want anybody to know about this" said young Uzumaki

"Of course, your secret is safe with me…" said woman as she put a hand over her heart as if making a vow "… Daimyo-sama." she added playfully at which he grunted making her laugh.

"Besides this necklace is special. It gathers chakra from air and converts it into healing chakra that is constantly flowing into me to speed up my healing rate that even without it is super-fast, because I'm an Uzumaki of the royal line" said the blond with pride in his voice which brought smile to the woman's face and she ruffled his hair which in return caused him to pout slightly and then they both laughed a little.

After this they settled in a comfortable silence working on a meal, but that silence was quite quickly broken by Tsunami that asked a question that was plaguing her mind "Naruto-kun, I was meaning to ask, why are you so cold to Kakashi-san and Sakura-san? Isn't Kakashi-san your sensei?"

"He was never my sensei to begin with, playing favorites with teme and abandoning me and Sakura-chan to the point that she's even weaker than before the graduation and this plan of his? Making us a sitting ducks? He's putting all of us in danger because he's too prideful to ask for help from the village and too lazy to do anything else" said blond as anger was sipping through his words

"Oh, I see…" was the woman's intelligent reply as she was slightly shocked by the boys answer "… And Sakura-san? Why are you cold to her Naruto-kun?"

"Sakura-chan is… is different." said young jinchuuriki as he looked down at the vegetables that he was currently cutting

'What does he mean by different?' thought pinkette that was now hiding under the window as she was listening in to the conversation

"What do you mean Naruto-kun?" asked Tsunami curiously

"She's frustrating. She has so much raw talent that it's painful to see her waste it all to chase a guy who doesn't appreciate it, hell he doesn't even care for her. There are people that would kill to have a chakra control like her; I had to work two months day in day out to have half as good control of my chakra as she had before learning tree walking exercise. Maybe watching her throwing all her talent away is so painful to me because I don't have talent in ninja arts at all, hehehe" blond laughed at the end causing both females to raise an eyebrow

"What do you mean by saying you don't have talent in ninja arts Naruto-kun?" Tsunami voiced hers and Sakuras question "From what my father told me your "super awesome ninja" so how can you be as strong as my father said and have no talent?"

"I train harder than anybody. Many times during training I broke bones, tore muscles and got many other injuries simply to get stronger. Nothing comes to me easy, well maybe besides fūinjutsu, but even then I'm not that good in Uzumaki standards. Everything I know I learned through hard grueling work, all of that to be strong enough." said young jinchuuriki

"Strong enough to do what?" questioned Tsunami

"To protect my precious people" said Naruto with such conviction and passion in his voice that it shocked both Tsunami and Sakura, who was still hiding "And that's another reason why Sakura-chan is so frustrating. I want to protect her as she is very precious to me, but I know that I'm not strong enough to protect her from this world, that's why I want her to stand on her own two legs. She has potential to become second Tsunade Senju, even surpass her considering her high chakra control and her beautiful mind she has behind her wide and charming forehead, but to do that she needs to take her training seriously."

'… beautiful mind… wide and charming forehead… ' repeated pinkette in her mind and blushed a little

"Then why couldn't you just tell her that or ask her to train more?" asked confused Tsunami

"I tried that. Whole last year I tried, but she never listened so I decided to become cold, telling her truth about how weak she really is compared to the other kunoichi in this world. That way she will either train to prove herself that she can become as strong as me or teme…"

"… or she'll come to hate you and train with the goal to surpass you" ended the bridge builder's daughter for him "Are you ready for that though? I thought you like her" said Tsunami and Sakuras eyes widen

"Yes, I like her, but if I have to choose between her safety or that someday maybe she return my feelings, while putting her in danger the choice is obvious and if she'll come to hate me then I will carry this burden with a smile on my face. As long as she's safe I'm cool." said Naruto smiling sadly

"You know, if only you were five years older I would so go after you" said the woman chuckling a little

"Then it's a bummer, that I'm not older" said blond with his signature smile

"A bummer it is" said Tsunami and the both laughed softly and went to end the dinner in comfortable silence.

'All the things he said…' thought Sakura as she hugged legs to her chest and her eyes watered slightly '… he did it all for me?… To make me safe?… Going so far and I was always so mean to him…'

'That's sweet shannaro' inner Sakura added bringing the outer ones even lower

'O-OK Sakura, you can't cry here or they will know that you were listening in' she thought as she steeled herself, got up and left as silently as possible.

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(Two days later, road between village and Tazuna's house)

"So, Tsunami-san, do you have all the things that you need?" asked pinkette

"Yes, I think so. When we return I will…" started Tsunami only to be interrupted by new arrival

"I don't think you should worry about that, bridge builder daughter" said leader of the group of over thirty thugs that walked out of the forest

"Who are you?!" asked Sakura as she took out a kunai and readied herself for a fight

"Oy, Waranji, since Gatō didn't tell us anything about the brat maybe we take her on a test ride, huh?" said one of the thugs with a perverted grin

"I don't see why not, but I got dibs, I always like to pop a cherry of the new one" said leader with lecherous smile plastered on his face

'This is what Naruto was talking about… t-they want to… O-OK Sakura you have to win this' thought the pink haired kunoichi

'Let's kick their asses' shannaro!' added her inner persona

Sakura then steeled her nerves and with new resolve ran straight at the leader. When she was half way there she threw her kunai at him, that was easily deflected by Waranji who used his katana for that, but pinkette anticipated that and not wasting her momentum she quickly went through handseals "Bunshin no Jutsu" she said and created two clones and channeling chakra to her legs to run faster. The man cut down both clones, but it left him wide open which young kunoichi used and punched him straight in the jaw with all her strength sending him flying back into the group.

"You bitch!" screamed one of the thugs as five men charged the girl. Once they neared her she punched one of them in the stomach, then she kicked second one in family jewels and when he bent over she threw him over his shoulder into the third one. Sakura then barely avoided a battle axe that hit the spot she was in a second earlier. Not wasting any time she kicked the man in the face, then quickly turned around, but doing so she caught a glimpse of a blade so she jumped backwards to avoid it. Unfortunately for her she was to slow as Waranji, who joined the fight cut her shoulder causing her to scream in pain only to be punched in the stomach by the fifth thug that attacked her and then kicked in the ribs by some big guy sending her flying next to Tsunami.

"You little whore! I was going to be somewhat gentle, but now I'm going to be as rough as possible!" said enraged Waranji as he walked towards now frightened girl

'Naruto was right… I'm too weak… Please… somebody help me!' thought Sakura to herself as she shut her eyes tightly 'Please! Sasuke-kun! Save me!'

"Who the fuck are you?!" asked both enraged and annoyed leader of the group of thugs causing Sakura to snap her eyes open. What she saw caused her eyes to become as big as dinner plates

"N-Naruto?" stuttered pinkette as she saw her teammate caught mans outstretched hand with his left hand and had his head bowed slightly so his eyes were overshadowed by his hair. The man tried to force his hand out of the blonds death grip, but when he heard the girl stutter sick grin appeared on his face.

"Oh, I get it. You want a go with the pinky, too bad I called dibs, but you can take her from behi-AARGH" Waranji screamed in pain as Naruto in one smooth motion not only broke his arm, but completely crushed it when he tighten his grip, raised his head and snapped his eyes open. When Sakura saw his eyes her own widen as they were full of boiling rage, the kind of that will burn everything in his way. Not wasting any time the blond pulled the man and stomped on the man's calf using his right leg while using his right arm he took hold of the man's neck in a way that Waranji's Adam's apple was under blonds armpit while said genin used his forearm to secure the grip by pushing the back of the thugs neck up into the armpit. Naruto then looked at the group before him and pulled the man's neck up still standing on his calf and a second or two later a sickening crack was heard as the thug's necks broke killing him instantly. Silence was deafening after blond loose the grip on the man allowing him to fall down.

"You know I have a set of rules I created…" started young jinchuuriki as he started raising his right hand "… always do what you think is right, protect your precious people with your life…" said as he raised his hand into horizontal position "… one of them, that concern all of you is that there is only one punishment for rape*poof* …" said Naruto as he unsealed Enraiha and channeled chakra into it putting it aflame. He then stabbed the sword into a body lying at his feet turning him into ashes in a matter of seconds "… death" and with that he sprang into action disappearing from the view of everyone gathered in this place in a burst of speed.

Naruto reappeared in front of the group swinging Enraiha horizontally cutting down six thugs in front of him and their remains were put aflame instantly, just like the body of their leader. Using that distraction to his advantage he jumped into the center of the group and spun around cutting another ten people and used the flames from their bodies as a cover and stabbed blindly through it killing another two people. The blond then easily sidestepped a battle axe that crushed into the ground and kicked the man that was using the axe in the knee shuttering it making thugs leg bent the other way and he fell into the ground screaming in pain. Naruto then in one smooth motion stabbed the screaming man through his mouth, took his battle axe in left hand and swung it behind him shuttering three swords that was about to stab his back. He then swung Enraiha cutting of their heads off and stabbed the man that was coming at him from blond's side into the chest and bent backwards avoiding a spear. The blond ran the battle axe through the man's chest, quickly pulled out explosive note and put it on the spear before threw it at the three thugs, that were trying to run away screwing them to the stone before them. Second later the note exploded turning the three dead thugs to ashes as the boy stabbed the man with the axe in his chest through his heart and he followed the fate of his "friends". Naruto then looked at the remaining thugs and channeled even more chakra into Enraiha and with a scream "Moe-ha!" he slashed his sword horizontally sending a wave of incredibly hot fire that turned everything in its way into ashes, including the thugs, that were to slow to avoid it.

Naruto looked around at his handiwork as he sealed of Enraiha and when he saw that fire started spreading around he quickly used his wind manipulation to put it out. Once that was done he looked at the females that he saved only for his eyes to widen when he saw wounded pinkette. In a burst of speed he appeared in front of the girl generating enough wind to actually blow her hair away, which shocked the girl even more.

"Are you OK? What I'm talking, you're wounded, and you're obviously not OK. Wait a moment, I will heal you" said Naruto as he took out and opened the scroll, looked through the list on the side and unsealed white gloves with red cross and royal Uzumaki clan crest in the center of the cross. "That's why I said you're useless, being too weak to beat down couple thugs. What kind of a kunoichi does that?" he said as he removed his gloves and put on the new ones, trying to put anger in his voice. He failed miserably as the only emotions he managed to put in were fear and worry. As he was about to start healing pinkette she put her hand on his and smiled softly at him

"I'll be fine Naruto" she said and this actually sparked anger in the boy

"In our team only I can be irresponsible. You should reprimand me, not the other way around. Now shut up, I need to concentrate." said Naruto as his eyebrow started to twitch and he started to heal her

"I didn't know you could heal." said Sakura shocked slightly as the wound on her shoulder already started closing itself

"I can't, my chakra is too potent for me to learn how to use medical ninjutsu. This gloves converts all chakra put into it to medical chakra, I only have to use it wisely, but since I learned anatomy when I was learning how to use senbons it's not that hard" said blond as he finally healed the pink haired genins shoulder "Are you hurt somewhere else?"

"No, I…" pinkette stopped, when she saw her teammate narrow his eyes"… O-OK, maybe my ribs hurt a little" she said as she pointed to the ribs next to her breasts. When the boy brushed one of them when he quickly went to heal her ribs, Sakura was about to hit him, but stopped when she saw that he was concentrating only on healing.

When everything was said and done he went to change back his gloves while sealing of the medical ones. The girl used that moment to voiced her gratitude "Thank you, Naruto"

"For what?" asked blond as he tilted his head in confusion

"For everything, saving us, healing me" 'caring for me' "if it wasn't for you…" Sakura trailed off

"Mah, I just did what I think was right; there is nothing to thank me for." said young jinchuuriki as he waved of her thanks. The girl smiled softly as she remembered her talk with Kenta and just as she was about to say something Naruto suddenly turned serious "You can come out now, fake hunter-nin-san" he said as he looked at the tree line and from behind one of the trees said fake hunter-nin stepped out.

"I did not come here to fight. I was just passing by" said the person who's hiding behind a mask

"I know, for if you would come here to fight you would attack and loose the fight by now" said smiling blond earning a chuckle in return

"You're that sure that you would win, huh? Well I should go now, goodb-…"

"Before you go I have one question" said Naruto interrupting the person in front of him "Why are you and Zabuza working for Gatō?"

"Zabuza-sama needs money to help the rebel faction in Mizu no Kuni and I as his tool am following." said fake hunter-nin not seeing the reason to lie

"Tool, huh? I don't think he thinks of you as a tool, because tools are to be used in battles and he didn't want you to fight in our fight did he? He even allows you to hide behind that mask to hide your identity. From my point of view he cares for you as a person, not a tool. *Sigh* To try and save his country he's willing to sacrifice this one. That's rather selfish." said blond sadly, but then smiled "Oh, well, it's not like I will allow him to do that. See ya' later, fake hunter-nin-san" and when he saw the person in front of him nod and then disappear he glared at the ground for couple seconds "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" said Naruto as he created 20 clones that wordlessly jumped into the trees to do their job "I sent them on a little errand for me." said the boy answering the unasked questions "Well, let's go! I sure need a nap dattebayo!"

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(Tazuna's house, half an hour later)

"Ah, Sakura. I was wandering where you went. You should say something when you're leaving" said Kakashi not taking his eyes from the book

"B-But I told you that I'm going with Tsunami-san, Sensei" said pinkette hurt a little

"You did? I'm sorry, I forgot it, I'm not the youngest anymore." said scarecrow and giggled perversely

'So… I'm not important enough to remember me?' thought the girl as she looked at her crush that looked her way, at least that is what she thought, until…

"Where were you, dobe?" asked Sasuke narrowing his eyes

"Three people came in: very cute girl, beautiful woman and a boy and the only person that caught you attention is a boy. Yeah… and you're saying you're not gay?" asked Naruto in return and the raven haired genin turned red from anger "And to answer your question, I was here and there doing this and that. You know, grown up stuff, but I don't want to bore you to death since you swing another way" said the smiling blond and when he saw Uchihas eyebrow twitch his smile grew even wider. That smile vanished though when he heard perverted giggle of the jonin

"What kind of "grown up stuff" have you done?" asked Kakashi with an eye smile

"That's none of your business Hatake. As I see it teme could be called one of my precious people, less precious, but precious nonetheless. Sakura-chan and Tsunami are my precious people, but you… to me you are closer to the enemy than anything else." said Naruto as he walked towards stairs "I'm a little tired so I'm going to sleep. Oh and one more thing Hatake. If you one more time put in danger one of my precious people, even teme as much as I sometimes would want to kick his arrogant ass myself, I will crush you and even Jiji won't stop me." he said as he went up the stairs

"Is that a threat, genin?" asked Kakashi as his eye narrowed

"Hehe… It shows how little you know about me, jonin. I don't make threats; threats are empty words for weak minded people. I make promises and as long as I have something to say in the matter I will never break my promises, Hatake." said the boy as he disappeared from the view

"W-Well I need a shower, so I'm going upstairs too. Call me for the dinner, Tsunami-san" said Sakura as she ran upstairs

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(Tazuna's house rooftop, around midnight)

'Naruto was right, the only person Sasuke-kun cares about is Naruto and the person he wants to kill.' thought Sakura hugging her knees to her chest as she was sitting on the roof 'Kakashi-sensei not only doesn't train me, but he doesn't care enough to listen what I'm saying.' she looked at the stars as she thought of todays events 'I-I'm not as important part of this team as I thought if I couldn't even beat a group of bandits. Maybe… Maybe I should quit'

"Beautiful, aren't they?" said a voice pulling her out of her thoughts and Sakura turned around to see who was it

"W-Wha… N-Naruto…?"

"The stars, I'm talking about the stars" said Naruto as he sat down just outside of her personal space "Ya' know, Hiroshi old man said to me once, that one of the old civilization thought, that if you do something noteworthy you turn into one of them, the other one thought that ones you reach heaven would have stars as the lights since they would be far above the clouds… Hehehe, they would be pissed if they would know, that Tsuchikages can fly or that people in Sora no Kuni had entire fortress that could fly that high." said the blond as he closed his eyes and laughed a little. Sakura smiled at his carelessness and was completely off guard by his next sentence "Underneath those lights you would look so beautiful, Sakura-chan"

Sakuras eyes widen and she blushed hearing this and remembering the things he said about her forehead "Tha-Thank you" she managed to stutter as she looked away so that her teammate wouldn't see her blush

"I-I said it out loud?"

"Y-Yeah"

"I'm sorry" said the blond clasping hands together as if praying for her forgiveness

"Don't be." said Sakura a little too quickly "I-It's not like I'm mad at you or anything"

After that they settled for silence that is until Naruto saw that pinkette shivered slightly. The blond jinchuuriki then quickly deactivated the seal that made his hoodie weigh more took it off and put it on the girl shoulders shocking her once more.

"Thanks"

"Don't mention it" said Naruto as he sat in his place

'His training sure paid off' thought pinkette as she looked at her teammates body and blushed

'Cha! I can see six pack through his muscle shirt. Touch it! I want to touch it Shannaro!' screamed her inner persona at which Sakura blushed even harder and tried to hide herself in Naruto's hoodie

"You shouldn't put yourself down because of what happened earlier today." said blond gaining the girls attention "You could and should do better, but you lived through and that's what matters most"

"Without you I wouldn't be here though" said Sakura as she gripped the hoodie tighter

"I'm your teammate. Teammates should help each other" said Naruto watching the stars

"Then help me" when she saw him raise an eyebrow she continued "You were right. When they were about to… I wished that Sasuke-kun came and rescued me. I don't want to be weak; I don't want to be on mercy of someone that doesn't even care about me. I don't want to quit, I want to be able to protect people like Tsunami-san and her family, I want to be able to protect myself and my parents and… and I want to be stronger, please help me train. I know that I wasn't too nice for you in the past and I…"

"OK" interrupted her Naruto

"W-What?"

"I said OK, I will help you. I won't be much help, but I will help you with chakra control and taijutsu as long as we will be in Nami no Kuni. Once we'll return to the village I'll ask Jiji for a suitable help for you since you're more suited for genjutsu and medical ninjutsu. We're teammates Sakura-chan so if you need help and I can help you all you need is ask for help." said Naruto with a gentle smile on his face that caused said girl to blush

"All is prepared Oyabun-sama" said the clone that landed on the roof startling pinkette slightly

"Good, let's go" said original as he walked up to the edge of the roof

"Wait! What's going on?" questioned pinkette

"I have something to take care of Sakura-chan, don't worry dattebayo" said Naruto with his signature smile

"When you say it like that I start to worry, baka" the girl said as her eyebrow started twitching

"Hahaha… don't worry. You should go to sleep Sakura-chan since we will train tomorrow and don't tell anybody about this. Sweet dreams Sakura-chan" blond said as he jumped of the roof

"Baka" said Sakura under her breath as she walked back into her room and noticed that she still had a hoodie on her shoulders 'I forgot to give it back to him' she thought as she put her face into the collar and sniffed it 'It smells really nice… ARGH! What have I just done?!' she thought as she threw the hoodie on her bed "*Sigh* Be safe, baka" she said and went to sleep.

Back with Naruto he was jumping through the trees with only one thought 'I'm coming for you… Gatō'

Moe-ha - burning wave, slashing Enraiha creates a wave of hot burning fire

Author's note:

As always I don't own anything besides my ideas and OC's.

I got a beta: animefreaketernally, so I will probably repost this chapter once it will return to me improved

One more thing, the black lightning in the Kaze no ryū is only artifictial, not as strong as the real one, so yeah.