Diamond Hound Naruto 50 (editted)

YES YES YES YES YES WE REACH NUMBA 50!, IT FEELS LIKE DAYS AGO WHEN I WAS JUST WRITING CHAPTER 49!

I do not own pirates or Ninjas, in fact, I'm pretty sure they would own me.

-Last-time-

Far off their location, an extremely tall who looked up to 9'8 man in a black coat and a white t-shirt and fading black curly chin length hair carried a sleigh with an unconscious half frozen blonde, one of the oddest feature of this man wasn't his height or the burned scars on his right arm and right side of his torso, but the fact that his left leg is not of flesh, but of ice, he heard growling and saw three wolves, thinking that the boy he was saving was an easy target,

he lightly tapped his foot and large glaciers pierced the wolves, instantly killing them, he continued his journey back to an igloo, where he changed Naruto's wet clothes and gave him fresh ones, even though they are way too baggy on his form, he wrapped Naruto in a white bear cloak and placed him by the fire, he sat down in a corner and drank from a liquor bottle,

"He's safe, now I can relax."

-Line-Break-

Naruto is confused, he doesn't recognize where he is, the place isn't the land of snow, his eyes widened, wait eyes? Naruto reached up and touched where his right eye supposes to be, and to his shock, it's there.

He started to amble down the battered stone road, tripping on each uneven stone, he heard giggling, he turned around and saw that no one was there, where is he? Why does he have his right eye back? His mind was full to the brim of questions, he tried to speak but no words would come.

There was that giggling again, he turns to run, anxiety taking over his entire being, after what seems like hours of running he met a small blond child in the middle of the road, he turned around, his face blooded and the side of his face was caved in as if someone was repeatedly beating it with a sledgehammer, the right blue eye of the child is milky why while the left was a chilling blue,

Naruto recognized the child as himself, the younger Naruto then spoke, the voice was not of a child but a mix of his own and late father.

"ThEy wEre bOrn LuCky, YoU wErE lUcKy tO bE bOrn!"

Naruto woke up in cold sweat, panting slightly, he reached over to touch his right eye, feeling the soft cloth of his eyepatch, he clenched his fist, this is reality. Naruto's lone eye wondered around the strange surrounding and conclude that someone other than his teammates found him and rescued him. He also saw that he was in overly baggy clothes, and a white fur of a bear.

"Where am i?" Naruto rasp out, he places a hand to his throat feeling a short pain, he turned and saw the tallest old man he had ever seen in his life.

"Oh, you're awake?" the old man said, strange, inside the igloo is warm and comfortable, but he could see his breath as if he was outside.

"W-where am i?" Naruto croaked out, his hand shot out to his neck, his mouth dry, incredibly so.

"Here kid, drink this…" he gave him a cup of water, Naruto took it to his lips and recoiled,

"I-it's a-a bit w-warm…" Naruto said, the old man nodded,

"It's no good drinking cold water when I saved you from the cold," Kuzan informed, "And to answer your question, your in my lovely abode."

Naruto stared at the large man in front of him with a blank stare, Kuzan stared back before sighing.

"I've seen your fight, kiddo," Kuzan said, "you possessed a power I never dreamt of seeing again… the Daiya Daiya no mi…"

Naruto eyes widened in shock.

"You know of my powers?" Naruto asked, Kuzan looked away,

"Of course, after all I am the one who killed your predecessor." He revealed, Naruto eyes widened even more, the man in front of him, killed the last user of this power, he doesn't know what to do, strike him down to avenge said predecessor or thank him for being one of the main reasons he has this strength.

Kuzan lightly chucked, he then took another swig of his liquor and sighed in content.

"I can see your dilemma kid, its written clear as day on your face." Kuzan said with a wistful smirk, Naruto had the decency to look away in embarrassment of being easy to read even,

"What kind of Chunin is easily read by a non-Shinobi."Naruto thought in shame a depressed aura surrounding his person.

Naruto tries to remember what transpired that left him in this state, but all he got was a headache, his hand reached up and noticed a soft cloth was wrapped around his head,

"W-what happened?" Naruto asked, feeling a bit dizzy.

"I don't know much, but what I saw was a brute of a man carrying a woman with you hanging on his leg, he flung you off and you hit your head on a rock, I was going to stop him, but I saw that you were bleeding ou, you've been unconscious for three days."

Naruto eyes widened at the news as his memory flashed, he remembers getting his ass handed to him, despite looking like a dumb fighter, that big guy was smart enough to use his blind side, Naruto glared at icy walls and clutched his right eye in contempt, cursing Gato to the grave for blinding him and giving him such liability.

Kuzan saw this and he recognize the emotion Naruto must be feeling, he saw the same emotion on Diamond Jozu's face as he took his arm, and he had the very same emotion when Sakazuki took his leg.

"Oi kid, tell me what's your name?" Kuzan asked suddenly, Naruto looked at him before answering.

"Naruto, Diamond Naruto." Naruto answered, Kuzan sighed, must everyone of that fruit adopt that moniker? Does he go by Kuzan of the ice?

"I'm Kuzan, pleasure to meet you." He said, Kuzan's body stiffened as he glared by the door.

"Stay here, do not follow me…" He instructed before getting up and walked out of the entrance, Naruto looked taken back, he won't follow no orders from a non-shinobi, especially a strange old man who somehow killed his predecessor.

Naruto got up, but found out that his leg is still asleep, he army crawled towards the entrance and used the walls as support, and his eyes widened as he saw eight masked shinobi surrounding Kuzan with the same symbol as the Ninjas who attacked his team.

"Old man, this is the last time we are offering you this deal, Doto doesn't take kindly to refusal, especially from foreigners," The leading one with an armor that Naruto recognized from the other three.

"As I have said for the past 3 years, No I will not join your forces and teach any of you." Kuzan said firmly with an annoyed tone, "this is my last time telling you this, leave and never return."

"You have no contribution to this great land of snow, Die old man!"

All eight rushed towards Kuzan, Naruto had to do something, he tried to move but collapsed into the snow, he only has the strength to turn his finger tips into diamonds.

Kuzan sighed, "Troublesome kid."

As soon as two shinobi were in front of him, he appeared behind them, two spears of ice rose out of the snow, Naruto eyes widened, will he see the power that put the end to his predecessor? Kuzan turns around and implanted both spears into each of the Shinobi's back. Three yelled out in range and charged towards the ice user, Kuzan turned around with a sword made of ice in his hand.

The bigger one of the tree raised a hammer to crush Kuzan, but he stepped aside and cut the hammer in half before the blade of ice dug into his flesh, the last two of the three appeared behind him weaving hand signs, but blood erupted in their vision, they looked down and saw that their hands were missing.

"M-M-M-MY HAND!" one of them cried out before his head flew in to the air, the next one screamed before he started to run, Kuzan tapped his foot and large glacier of ice erupted skewering the frightened shinobi from all side.

The leading shinobi watched this in silence, his eyes narrowed, he didn't sense any chakra behind those attacks he never had seen something like this throughout his years as a Jonin, Kuzan turned towards him with a bore look on his face while Naruto could only stare in amazement.

"Well, are you going to attack me too?" He asked in a lazy tone. The Jonin huffed and turned around,

"Come you two, do not be as foolish as they were and rush in, we are clearly out matched." He said, the other two glared at Kuzan before nodding, they each took out their mobile snowboard and boarded down the hill, Kuzan breathed out a sigh of relief as he took out his liquor.

"No matter where I go, they always find me…" He muttered, he then turned around and saw the amazed look on Naruto's face.

"Get out of the snow, you're wasting my efforts of healing you…"

"O-Oh my bad..."

-Line-Break-

What is left of team seven had no idea what to do, they lost the princess and one of their members is missing. Kakashi sighed, this somehow reminded him the mission back at Kanabi bridge, but instead of saving one damsel in distress, he must find his student and said Damsel.

The thing is, he has no idea where to look, Naruto and Koyuki could be anywhere in this icy wasteland, and the moral of his team is at an all time low the two believes Naruto is dead no matter how much he tries to convince them, he has never seen Sakura so depress, and Sasuke is moodier than he is when he first met him.

"Sensei… What are we supposed to do?" Sakura asked, her hair hanging in front of her face her widened green eyes staring at nothing, she can't believe Naruto would be gone. Kakashi frowned at her, she wasn't taught on how to cope when losing a teammate in any situation, what are they teaching at the academy, flower picking?

Sasuke however, is no different, he had somewhat a brotherhood with Naruto like how Kakashi had with Obito, so he can tell how he must be feeling now,

"We-" Kakashi started but got interrupted as the door of the small shack they were in slammed open revealing Sandayu clad in a samurai chest plate with a red robe, he have a katana by his side and a spear in one hand, other men clad in similar armor behind him.

"We find Koyuki, you must forget your other comrade and complete your mission!" He yelled, Sasuke eyes bled crimson, Tomoes swirling in anger as he rushed towards Sandayu, he clutched onto the man's robe and shook him,

"How dare you. How freaking dare you," Sasuke snarled out looking into the frightened man's eyes, "How can you say that when one of our teammate is-"

"Sasuke enough," Kakashi commanded, no matter how much he wants to shove a Raikiri into the man's beating heart, he cannot deny that he is right, it is the Shinobi way to see the mission throughout, member short or not, "He is right, this is what you've sign up for, do not bring shame to the vest and headband you don, this is a shinobi faith."

Sasuke looked down, his bang shadowed his eyes, his hands fell limply at his sides, Kakashi could only stare at him in remorse,

"Sasuke, I know you lost another person that you see as family, but I swear as long as I live, I will not let lose any of you." He said his hand on Sasuke shoulder, Sasuke shook him off,

"Yeah right, wasn't that you said before?" Sasuke said bitterly, remembering Kakashi's promise on their first encounter with Zabuza as he walked out, Sakura silently stalked behind him, saying nothing throughout this ordeal Sandayu followed behind them with a huff.

Kakashi could only stare at the spot Sasuke stood, his lone eyes open, as a small tear fell from his eyes.

"I'm sorry Naruto, forgive me…"

-To-Be-continued-

Your papa is back and jeez sorry for the wait, I had writers block and thank the real OG, Jss2141 for helping me out of it. Once again thank you Jss2141 for pointing out that i mixed up Kizaru and Kuzan name.

Anyways I hoped y'all enjoy number 50 of Diamond Hound Naruto and thank you all for sticking with me throughout this journey,

Your papa,
Papapryce.