"WHAT THE HELL!" shouted Dean when he finally saw Hades.

"Fear the Pomeranian," said Natalie evilly.

"That little thing?" said Dean.

"Hades, full bark," she said.

Dean jumped when he heard the full force of Hades' real bark.

"Seriously?"

"Ever seen Blade: Trinity?" asked Natalie grinning.

"No?"

"Hang on... I'll call Lo' to bring my copy over. Trust me, when you see this you'll bust a gut," said Natalie.

She popped in the movie and skipped straight to the scene were Hannibal was being tortured by the vampires. Dean's jaw dropped when he saw the Pomeranian's jaw split into two and growl.

"Meet Pac-Man, a vampire Pomeranian dog," grinned Natalie.

Loki cracked up.

"Oh man, the look on his face never gets old," said Loki. He was glad Natalie was alright.

"What the hell. Why on God's green earth would your turn something as awesome as Hades into that?"

"For laughs. I mean who would suspect a fluffy little lapdog of turning into something big enough to maul you into little pieces and be able ride on?"

"Got that right. Andy damn near pissed himself after Hades killed Ava," snickered Sam.

Azazel was pissed. Why had that idiot demon grabbed that girl when she wasn't one of his? Now Sam was safely behind a demon-proof room and Jake was in jail for murder.

That particular demon was ripped to shreds for his idiocy.

"So Nat, what did you learn from your sugar daddy over here?" asked Dean.

He could live with Loki being his little sister's boyfriend if she learned skills like how to take a demon down without having to use any weapons.

Loki choked on his chocolate from trying not to laugh. Natalie glared at Dean for a moment.

"She only needed a little help ironing out her forms. Most of what she learned came from someone else...someone who knew very well what they were doing," said Loki when he could breath again.

"Really Dean, was sugar daddy the best you could come up with?" asked Natalie.

"Well he eats sugar like no tomorrow and he's definitely older than you so..." grinned Dean. Natalie punched him, and from the way Dean winced he knew it was going to bruise tomorrow.

Loki pouted. His vessel might be barely ten years older than Natalie, but he was literally older than civilization itself. He was too old for anybody, not that it stopped him.

"So exactly what can you do?" asked Bobby.

"Bear in mind that this stuff looks a hell of a lot like magic, but none of it comes from demons," said Natalie.

They were outside while Sam caught up on some reading. Until they figured out yellow-eyes end plan, he wasn't going anywhere. At least not until Natalie could get a second hell hound or something like it to keep demons off his ass. Fortunately she promised to train the dog in becoming much, much smaller so that Sam could keep it on his lap instead of on the back seat.

It was either keep him in Bobby's house or have him travel with Loki while Natalie went with Dean. Either way, he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Natalie took a deep breath. This was the first time she had used this trick outside of pranking Loki.

"Shadow Clone!"

All at once, there were ten Natalie and she wasn't even breathing hard. Her limit (she had tested that out once) was easily over a thousand times the number she had out.

"So you can make illusion doubles. Big deal," said Dean. It was how Loki had gotten them before.

Four of the fake Natalie went over to one of Bobby's scrap cars...and to the shock of the hunters picked it up, one at each corner.

"How... What the hell sis?!"

"Natalie is the strongest woman I've ever seen, without any supernatural enhancements," said Loki, popping in a sucker.

"How did you lift that car? And why are they solid?!" asked Dean gaping.

They knew she wasn't possessed, at least not by anything they were aware of. And Loki wasn't helping her because he wasn't noted for crap like this.

Loki grinned.

"Have you ever heard of the Elemental Nations?"

"The what now?" asked Bobby. It sounded vaguely familiar.

"Elemental Nations. A massive bit of land that was easily twice the size of Texas that went missing several thousand years ago without warning. Some people found writings of a small island and mistakenly thought that the missing piece of land was called Atlantis," said Loki.

"What's that got to do with Natalie?"

"She's from the Elemental Nations. Knew it as soon as I felt the network of energy that she had in her blood without any proper training. Why do you think she has that weird tattoo on her left arm?"

"Wait, back up and explain please?" said Dean. Sam was on the porch in full view of everyone.

Loki sighed.

"Okay, basically way, way back when there was this piece of land called the Elemental Nations. It was full of people much like hunters and civilians who call themselves shinobi, or ninjas. Now at some point there was this massive all out attack by demons...no one's entirely sure why they attacked or what caused it, but the end result was that the strongest one of all captured a demon and sealed it away before it was split into nine smaller demons. To keep it from happening again, they sealed away the nations and made their own little pocket world that people occasionally wander into."

"Bermuda Triangle right?" asked Sam.

"Bingo! Have a candy bar for the smart one!" said Loki, tossing him a Snickers. Sam actually took it and started snacking.

Dean tended to wipe out any chocolate within hours of returning to Bobby's, and Loki had just annihilated what was left of the sugary stuff.

"So what about Natalie?" asked Dean.

"From what I can gather, someone must have either grabbed her shortly after she was born and tried to reverse summon to another pocket world that's collectively called the Summon Realm which is full of massive creatures that even the demons here are wary of pissing off and dropped her, or they deliberately brought her outside the Nations. How she ended up in Kansas I have no idea," said Loki.

Personally he was leaning towards the theory that something had happened during a reverse summon. According to what she had been told by John, Natalie had been found mere hours after being born with only a thin blanket against the cold and no one had come to claim her.

Loki was betting someone had wanted her for the kitsune in her gut, and had tried to get away with a summoning jutsu only for it to backfire. The fact she had landed in a hunter's home was luck on her part.

It was debatable whether it was bad luck considering which hunter family she landed in though.

"So what exactly can these...ninja...do?" asked Bobby.

"Shinobi use an entirely different energy source compared to witches. They call it chakra."

"I've heard of that... seven paths that had different energies which flow through the body right?" asked Sam. He had looked up a few things about psychics and one of them mentioned it.

"Try eight, though the last one is almost always fatal. But those fake psychics got the basic gist of it from a shinobi who made it to the mainland," said Loki, "Chakra is a combination of physical, spiritual and mental energies. Natalie, for example, has a rather large amount of physical and spiritual energy and a decent dose of mental. It takes a careful balancing act to use it properly."

"It's not powered by demons is it?" asked Bobby.

"That would be youki, and that's primarily from Asian demons, not the western ones you deal with. Chakra is entirely human in nature...kinda like psi only it takes more than just mental training to learn how to use it. Natalie has the largest concentration of it outside the Nations," said Loki.

He wouldn't tell them about the fox. That was up to Natalie.

"So what else can she do with it?" asked Dean.

Natalie smirked. Time to use a chakra-control exercise she knew to freak them out. She put one foot on Bobby's outside wall, and he raised an eyebrow in question...only for both to shoot up in shock as she continued to walk up the walls and onto the roof without even stopping, even hanging upside down at one point!

"What the hell?!"

"I can walk on water too," she added amused.

"That's not all... show them that wind trick of yours," said Loki eagerly.

Natalie grinned in agreement. She rarely got to use her chakra outside of making sure it wasn't backed up from disuse...mainly having her clones do the dishes and the like.

What could she say? She was lazy by nature when it came to chores.

Natalie's wicked grin made Dean uncomfortable. It was pure sin and it was the sort of thing he tended to look for when he was out on the prowl.

Never before had he been so glad she had found a loyal boyfriend who could handle the life they lead, even if Natalie only hunted part time. It meant Loki could handle the guys that would likely start chasing her in droves when she smiled like that.

Dean, Sam and Bobby were all left in shock at some of the things Natalie could do with this chakra. If it hadn't been for the fact that Natalie hated demons with a fierce and fiery passion or that she did it all with a few odd hand signals, they would have believed her to be a witch.

As it was, a scouting demons happened to see her display and immediately reported to yellow eyes that the Winchesters were close with a shinobi...and that she happened to be their sister!

He was really pissed hearing that.

"Dean, duck!" shouted Natalie, as she aimed a glowing white chain of what he could only hope was chakra at the demon. The damn things had been showing up in droves since Sam had started hanging around Loki until whatever yellow eyes had in mind for him was over with.

Neither Loki or Dean were pleased with the switch in traveling partners. Though Loki kept sending hilarious pictures of Sam after he started hitting on him to Natalie. Loki wasn't exactly discriminate and Natalie had something of a yaoi fetish to his amusement.

So long as he didn't go picking up girls to replace her with, she could live with him hitting on guys.

Dean ducked and then shot the demon in the chest with the salt round.

"That's the fourth one this month. Where the hell are these things coming from?" asked Dean.

It had been two months since that backwater town, and the amount of demon signs had risen to ridiculous levels. Rumor had it that yellow eyes had sent in some moron who had made a demon deal in with the Colt, and that a few hunters in the area had barely been able to close the hell gate the idiot had opened in time.

Ever since, they had been up to their ass in demons. It was infuriating, because yellow eyes clearly wanted Sam for something and they had effectively hidden him.

So now the word was out that yellow eyes wanted one of the Winchesters brought in, preferably Sam if possible.

Too bad Loki knew a back way into the Elemental Nations, and had dragged Sam with him to learn about it.

The main idea was to bring something back for Natalie to play around with.

"This is getting out of hand..." said Natalie.

"I agree," said Dean, panting. Unlike Natalie, Dean lived off of fast food and a lot of fried crap. He also didn't exercise outside of hunts, so he got winded rather easily. And hunting demons wasn't child's play...it was something one had to be very good at or else you were dead.

Fortunately Loki knew how to make demon-killing weapons and Natalie didn't mind sharing them with Dean.

"So what was this I heard about a girl named Ruby?" asked Natalie.

"She showed up shortly after that hell gate opened, saved Sam and killed two of the Sins with a knife. Thing is she was giving me a really bad vibe," said Dean.

"Well, we can either assume she's a demon with an agenda, or I can ask around about her. Demons with skill like that don't show up out of nowhere."

Dean winced.

"In the meantime, I'm thinking Tahiti. These idiots are looking high and low for you and Sam, and I can disguise myself in seconds. They usually avoid those with chakra-training."

She could use jutsu and knew was chakra was, but she wasn't a shinobi. Shinobi were assassins, trained in killing others.

She was a hunter, trained and raised to protect the innocent from creatures who were beyond normal human abilities. The two couldn't be more different.

Besides, she had seen some of those headbands they wore and thought they were beyond tacky looking. No way was she binding herself to a village like those idiots.

Sam was in one of the larger 'hidden villages' which was called the Village Hidden in the Leaves...and he wasn't too impressed with it.

Sure it was one of the bigger ones, but these people were worse than that vampire hunter he and Dean had a run in with by the name of Gordon. They looked down upon him and Loki because they were civilians, though these...ANBU...seemed to be wary of them because they recognized the signs of someone trained to fight.

But the biggest thing that bothered him was the history books... specifically the ones about the Hokage that Loki had gotten for him. It was all very basic stuff, and had pictures of each of them.

The reason why it bothered him was the picture of the Fourth Hokage, one Minato Namikaze.

Namikaze had finished the war against the Village Hidden in the Earth and was one of the youngest Kage to date. Right up until his sudden death sealing away the Nine-Tailed Fox over twenty years earlier. The village had since recovered, but Sam had noticed an undercurrent of resentment towards the fox...and it's carrier.

And then there was this one journeyman ninja who had really pissed Sam off.

He was apparently the last of a very famous and successful shinobi clan called the Uchiha. This...Sasuke...was an arrogant asshole and Sam really wished he could punch him in the face, just once.

Loki had sounded amused when he voiced that opinion in English so that the shinobi didn't know what he was saying.

What bothered Sam was the fact that if one made the Hokage's hair a little flatter and his face more feminine, he would be a dead ringer for his sister Natalie. She had clearly inherited her father's hair and eyes, but her mother's facial features.

"What's up Samsquatch?"

Sam had begged Loki not to use his siblings pet nickname for him... so Loki had immediately started calling him Samsquatch as a joke considering he was the tallest of any of them. It was either that or let Loki find something infinitely worse that Dean could use against him.

"What's this hidden village's policy on the children of Kage?"

Loki became serious in a second.

"Very serious...they're considered practically royalty next to the noble clans. If they found a missing child of a very popular kage, they would stop at nothing to make sure that the child is brought back into the village...especially if they've had shinobi training. Bloodlines are very highly prized in villages...except Mist but it's getting much better lately. Why?"

"This Fourth Shadow...he's almost a dead-ringer for Natalie."

"Let me see that," said Loki. Sam held the book open to the appropriate page.

He mumbled under his breath about the hair and the face, but he could see what Sam had caught in one look.

Natalie looked like a more feminine version of Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage. And if Konoha ever learned of her, things could end very badly.

For them.