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"Uzumaki, why a-are we going on a different path?"

Naruto did not look away from the cliff as Jirou clung to her arm. The moment the two of them entered the path, Naruto decided to take this as an opportunity to drag the shivering girl away from the path set for them. The blue glowing lights stood to the west, almost luring her to go back to the test of courage but the whiskered teen held back the urge to do it.

Taking another deep breath, the blonde darted her eyes to Jirou. Her classmate had her eyes fixated on the bugs crawling below them, her whole body shuddering and Naruto grimaced. That shudder alongside the fact her whole face was now as white as a ghost did not mean anything good if you asked her. If she was not careful with her words then her classmate was going to faint.

"I need you to confirm something."

Jirou stared at her with wide eyes and Naruto schooled her expression into a blank one. She could practically read what was going through her classmate's mind. Why would she want her to confirm something? Was this why she directed her away from the set path in front of them? Judging from the way the girl shivered and gulped, she guessed the girl figured out that it was nothing good.

While the purple-haired girl had lower marks then her, Jirou was still one of the smartest people in the class. The musically-inclined girl knew her well enough to know she was not the type of person to make requests. Naruto grimaced and closed her eyes. Requesting for help was not something she was well-known for in both Konoha and here.

But things were different now.

"What do you need me to confirm?" Jirou asked. Naruto stared at her, trying to figure out whether or not if the girl would faint if she informed her of her suspicion. The fact the girl still looked a little pale and couldn't meet her eyes told the whiskered teen that the girl was going to collapse with the news she had to tell her.

Black eyes gleamed with so much fear that she had to pause. Unlike her, this girl was only now starting her journey of becoming a hero or a soldier really when Naruto about it. How did she go about telling her without alerting anyone? It was difficult. Asking if she could hear another shinobi would bring too many questions.

She didn't even know if it was just shinobi here too.

"I just need you to check if there are more people here then necessary," admitted Naruto, rubbing the back of her neck. She kept her eyes focused on the pale-faced Jirou as the forest around them turned dead silent. "I know it might sound insane but I really think that we aren't the only ones here. My gut tells me that we aren't going to be having a simple test of courage tonight."

"Uzumaki, do you know what you are implying?" Jirou cried. "I-If that is true then how did they find us? No one knows about our trip except for the teachers, parents and our year mates! How would they—"

"—I don't know," answered Naruto, clenching her jaws together. She felt her stomach turned as several possibilities came to mind. What if they had a spy in their midst? That was always a possibility. What happened in USJ was because they stole the plans the day before their trip, but this was a whole different story entirely.

They had a Kabuto in their midst and that knowledge made her legs wobbled.

Jirou gulped. "I'm praying to god that you are wrong and that you are just being edgy because of this s-stupid test, Uzumaki."

The whiskered teen nodded and kept her eyes focused on the cliff. She prayed to every god in existence that was the case but her gut was rarely wrong. Her sensory skill rarely failed her. The only time it did was during the Chunin Exam and even then she had been distracted by her desire to go to the toilet.

It couldn't be coincidence she sensed an unfamiliar chakra signature on that cliff.

"If I'm wrong then I will make it up to you," Naruto promised. She honestly did not believe for one minute she was wrong, not when her whole body shuddered at the undeniable malicious chakra heading their way. But she could be wrong. There was always a chance her body was playing tricks on her. She prayed this was the case.

Because if there was another chakra user then it meant someone was going to get kidnapped again. It meant someone was target again. It could be anyone from Jirou to even little Kouta. Bakugou was a huge possibility too. His Kekkei Genkei was powerful and destructive. She could think of a lot of villages who would want their hands on him.

If they knew Bakugou was the half-nephew of her father then it would make him a bigger target too.

Shaking her head, Naruto stared at Jirou. The purple-haired girl slid a single ear jack down to the ground and furrowed her eyebrows together. What could the girl hear? Was there a lot of people? Could she even differentiate between them? It looked like the girl could differentiate them because Jirou was starting to turn as white as a piece of blank paper.

"T-There are several people heading in the direction of the other students," Jirou whispered. The girl gulped and directed her eyes at her. Her classmate's gaze was filled with so much fear, looking at her like she didn't know what to do now. Did she want her to make a decision of what to do? She could make a decision but not with that limited piece of information.

Several people implied that it wasn't just chakra users.

Naruto inhaled. "Did you hear what they have to say?"

Maybe if they knew who these people were after then she could warn Aizawa-sensei and have Hibiki watch after them alongside Bakugou. Even though the heroes have amazing Kekkei Genkei, the blonde knew they were no match against any shinobi. The scale in their powers were too great to overcome if you asked her.

"I only know that they have a list of people that they want to kidnap," Jirou whispered, frowning. She pulled out her ear jack from the ground and locked eyes with her. The fear disappeared and was now replaced with apprehension that made Naruto's stomach churned with concern. She wiped the sweat off of her forehead and sat down on the ground.

The fact that there was a chakra user told her that this was the possibility. She knew this was the most likely possibility. But who could be their target? Was it everyone? No. If she was a Kage then a powerful Kekkei Genkei would be the most beneficial to them. Bakugou, Shouto and Midoriya were very much targets. Kaminari and Kirishima too when she thought about it.

Jirou wasn't a big possibility when they could use chakra to enhance their hearing.

"Did they say who they wanted to kidnap?" Naruto asked, looking up at the older girl. "We need to evacuate everyone and inform the teachers that those students needs to have more guards around them."

Jirou pressed her lips into a thin line and shook her head. The whiskered teen grimaced. That made things even more difficult when she thought about it. Now they had to evacuate everyone and figured out who would be their targets. There was also the fact that the students were already spread out, which meant they were more likely to get attacked.

If she thought like a fellow shinobi, she would attack the students who were already too far away from their teachers and heroes. Naruto poked her tongue against her cheek and began to draw figurines in the dirt. But what if they targeted the students with Aizawa-sensei and Vlad King? There were quite a few Kekkei Genkei that was very much valuable over there.

Either way everyone was in danger.

"We need to warn the teachers but we aren't going to get there on time," Jirou muttered. "Even with your speed, you can't possibly get there in a space of five minutes can you?"

She could get there in less than five minutes. Throughout her time in Yuuei High, she had been careful enough to make it seem like she was only slightly above average. If more chakra was directed to her legs then it would be easy for the two of them to catch up with Aizawa-sensei alongside the supplementary students.

That could work but there was another thing she needed to consider. Even if she warned Aizawa-sensei, he wouldn't be able to warn the other heroes on time. He would also demand that she stayed behind because she didn't have one of those fancy ass license. But she couldn't fight like a hero tonight. This was going to be a battle between shinobi.

Even if she hated what being a shinobi meant, she was still a kunoichi of Konohagakure. That meant she did not have to answer to Aizawa-sensei when it came to this battle. Naruto licked her lips and looked down at her hands. The only other person who was higher than her in rank was Hibiki-ojisan. He was a Jounin and a member of the ANBU.

Only he could tell her to stand down.

Taking a deep breath, Naruto stood up from the ground and placed her hands together into a familiar hand seal. This was a long shot but with Hibiki and her here then it would be possible to save any children who were being targeted by the hidden villages. Not a single one of them was going to go through a breeding program if she had her say.

Not a single one of them was going to go through the pain of becoming a shinobi.

A cloud of smoke enveloped them and Naruto looked down at her outfit. The situation was dire when she had no kunai with her that she could use for the battle. The number of long-distance jutsu she knew was limited but this was going to be another challenge. A challenge that they needed to overcome because her classmates needed her to protect them.

"My clone is going to take you to Aizawa-sensei," Naruto announced. Her blue eyes fixated on the wide black eyes of her classmate before flickering to her grim-faced clones. "You are going to warn him of what you just told me. Tell him whatever he does, don't ever leave anyone alone! I'll warn the Wild, Wild Pussycats."

Jirou paused and stared at her with disbelief and suspicion. That intense look made her stomach churned, ready to make her vomit out all of the food content from her stomach. Did she know this was not her only plan? It looked like it. But if the girl thought she would spill out what her plan was then she was going to be disappointed with her.

"You are going to fight the villains, aren't you?" Jirou asked, grabbing hold of her clone's hand. The girl pressed her lips into a thin line and clenched her jaws together when the blonde kept quiet. "Uzumaki, we aren't heroes yet! Now that we know that there are villains after us, we should only inform the teachers and the heroes before running away!"

"I've no plan to fight villains," Naruto replied.

The villains could be left to the heroes but there was a familiar chakra signature to the south. That chakra signature made her blood boiled with rage and her stomach churned with worry. It was never good news if that traitor was here. If she could sense him then it meant that a few of the students would probably have a fate worse than the breeding program or even becoming shinobi.

"Then what are you planning to do?"

Naruto exhaled and lied. "I'm going to evacuate the other students which is why I made so many clones."

The purple-haired girl observed her. The doubt in her eyes almost made her gulp but the whiskered teen exhaled and forced herself to lock eyes with her classmate. If she looked away then the girl would figure out she was lying and would probably try to convince her not to go off by herself. It would be a useless battle between them and they didn't have time.

After a couple of intense stare down, the girl finally nodded and her clone quickly swung Jirou over her shoulder before the girl could change her mind. Naruto watched as her clone ran away with Jirou. This was for the best. Aizawa-sensei and the others would be safe while she settled a long overdue score with that traitor.

She was going to find out who Orochimaru was after this time and prevent his plan from coming into fruition.

Something didn't feel right.

Sarutobi Hibiki grimaced and stared down at the smiling teens and the bouncing heroes. There was something in the air that made his stomach crawled with worry. The last time he felt this intense worry was that sudden attack during the Chunin Exams. The very same exam where his father lost his life right in front of his eyes. He grimaced and knitted his eyebrows together.

If his gut was right then it would mean there was probably going to be another attack tonight. I can't interfere unless it is that missing nin after Naruto and Bakugou. He rubbed his chin and darted his eyes to the path that Bakugou and that pretty boy walked on. Maybe it would have been a good idea to follow them instead of waiting for them to come back from the test of courage.

If anything happened to Minato's nephew or his daughter then Hibiki would never be able to look at Jiraiya, Tsunade or even Minato's grave.

The leaves rustled and his whole body shuddered at the mixture of warm and cold chakra tickled his senses. He pressed his lips into a frown and knitted his eyebrows together. This chakra definitely belonged to Naruto. Only the blonde would have two chakra sources that contradicted everything about the knowledge of chakra.

But judging from the amount of chakra leaking behind him, he guessed Naruto had used her chakra to make shadow clones again. It was less than the usual amount of chakra that she always radiated with.

"Naruto, shouldn't you be enjoying your test of courage?" asked Hibiki. He twisted his whole body around and locked eyes with Naruto. His brown eyes regarded the young girl and tilted his head to the side when the girl grimaced at his question, looking like she wished he hadn't asked that question. Something definitely happened. The frown on his face deepened.

The girl took a seat on the tree and sighed. "Boss wishes she can enjoy it."

I should have known Naruto would send a shadow clone. The frown deepened even more as the dread in his stomach crept up even more. It was never good news when the girl sent her clone instead of herself. The fact a clone was sent to him told him that there was something troubling the girl. It told him volumes of what was going through the kunoichi's mind.

He might have distanced himself from her because of work but Hibiki took care of Naruto when his father found her begging in the streets.

"Why did you send a shadow clone?" Hibiki asked. He schooled his expression into a blank one and picked up the monkey mask sitting right beside him. He slipped the mask back on and reverted to what his loving wife and mischievous son would call work-mode Hibiki. A sigh escaped from his lips and the man straightened his back.

The shadow clone did not answer immediately, only focusing her eyes on the smiling students. There was a sad glint in her eyes, reminding Hibiki of the fact Naruto hadn't been truly happy until she mixed with these children. The last time he saw the girl truly happy had been when she announced she became friends with the Hyuga heiress. Except her eyes did not shine as brightly as it shined around that pretty boy.

If Naruto was anything like her father then it would be difficult for her to leave that Pretty Boy when those three years were up.

"Boss found out that Villains are going to attack the students," the shadow clone finally replied. Hibiki pressed his lips into a thin line and regarded the chatting students below him. Villains. Right, these people didn't see the world as grey but white and black. If a person followed the laws and had one of those license then they were considered heroes.

But if a person broke the law and used their Kekkei Genkei then they were considered Villains.

Blue eyes gleamed with resignation and Hibiki stared blankly at the girl. He might be ANBU and a Jounin but his mission did not mean he had to protect these children. Even with Bakugou, he was only protecting the child from shinobi. Anything related with heroes and villains were out of his derestriction. If he got involved then it would bring too many questions.

"Naruto, why should I risk my job to save these kids?" Hibiki asked. He darted his eyes to the heroes before fixating his eyes on the brown-haired girl that his wife had been cheering for during the Sports Festival. "There are several heroes here, Naruto and if I save them then it will bring questions on you and me. I can't simply announce my presence because of a bunch of bad civilians with Kekkei Genkei."

The shadow clone narrowed her eyes at him and folded her arms against her chest. Blue eyes radiated with rage like she couldn't believe he wasn't willing to risk his job to help them. This was a matter of the village security. There was also the fact he was ordered to protect her and Bakugou from any chakra user, not villains.

Kakashi might have gone off-course in the Wave Mission because his genin team felt pity for that bridge builder, but Hibiki would follow his orders.

"There are two other chakra users among the villains," the shadow clone replied. Hibiki froze as blue eyes pleaded for him to listen to what she had to say. "Boss thinks that one of the chakra users plan to take one of the students for a breeding program in one of the Hidden Villages. She needs you to guard the students from that chakra user while she handles the other chakra user!"

Two shinobi? Now that was bad. Hibiki grimaced and closed his eyes, allowing himself to sense the chakra signatures that Naruto was talking about. Several signatures ran across the forest but those were definitely Naruto and her clones. The other two chakra signatures were faint and not similar at all to each other. Both of them were very much familiar to him. One of them was the chakra signature of the man who had until recently stalked Bakugou. The other chakra user was…

His brown eyes widened and the man swirled his head at the shadow clone. "Are you going after that traitor, Uzumaki Naruto!"

"Better me then you, Hibiki-ojisan," the clone retorted.

Hibiki studied the clone in front of him and held himself back from smacking the clone of that stubborn girl. If the clone popped then he would have no idea of what the hell was happening. Just knowing the situation made him want to tear his hair off and screamed at the girl. Like mother, like daughter! That girl never used her head when it came to something important. That something important being her life!

"Uzumaki Naruto, you aren't strong enough nor do you have the mental capabilities to deal with that rat!" He snarled. The clone didn't flinch as the male grinded his teeth together as faded eyes flashed before him. "Kabuto murdered my subordinate and he was a jounin! I'm not losing you to that traitor!"

The clone furiously shook her head. "Boss thinks that Kabuto will tell her who Orochimaru might be targeting. She knows that the bastard likes to taunt and mess with her! She knows very well what he is capable of doing which is why she won't make the same mistake again! She won't let Kabuto and Orochimaru get their hands on any of these students! There won't be another Sasuke retrieval mission again!"

What if that girl failed again? Jiraiya and him would have to watch her spiral back into a haze of grief again. It had been so terrible that he made sure Konohamaru never saw the girl like that. His son worshipped the ground Naruto walked on, always claiming he would one day surpass the blond-haired girl and become Hokage like his grandfather.

He didn't want his heart to break again to see the girl revert back to that state or even that state when his own father picked her up from the streets.

The part of him that was Sarutobi Hibiki knew that he needed to go after his other charge, while the part of him that was Monkey knew that Bakugou and those students had no hope against a chakra user. Hibiki grinded his teeth together. Faith. That was all he could do because the greater good was more important now.

"I will deal with that chakra user, Naruto," Hibiki grimaced. "But once I'm done with dealing with that bastard, I will head your way and assist you but god help me Naruto…if you die then you bet your ass that I will find a way to bring you back to life and scold the living shit out of you!"

He could never look his son in the eye if anything happened to Naruto.

Why are Jirou and Uzumaki here?

Aizawa knitted his eyebrows together at the sight of his two students standing before him. Something must have happened for those two to come all the way here but what? And how did those two manage to get here before him? It had barely been fifteen minutes since he left them alone with the Wild, Wild Pussycats so how on earth had those two managed to get here.

The better question was why were they here?

"How the hell did you guys get here so fast?" Kaminari cried with a tone filled with shock. Yellow eyes gleamed with surprised before darting his eyes to the other students who were tightly wrapped around his white cloth. Aizawa thinned his lips as the 15-year-old boy gawked at the two girls. "Don't tell me that the two of you got so scared in the test of courage that you decided to come here! We can switch places!"

No smile or even the occasional playful smirk played on Jirou's lips at those words and Aizawa thinned his lips at this observation. Between Uzumaki and Jirou, the girl would occasionally loosen up around the boy or even poke fun at him. But the girl only shivered and darted her eyes to the woods before looking back at him.

Uzumaki took a step forward and stared at him with dead, serious eyes. From the moment he met this student, he always knew the girl was different from the other students. Abused had been one thing alongside the lack of trust but for the first time since Aizawa met Uzumaki, the girl stood like a soldier.

"We have a couple of villains heading our way," Uzumaki reported. Aizawa watched the whiskered teen, trying to figure out the state of her mind but nothing really stood out to him. Those eyebrows did not twitch. Her whole body looked as rigid as a rock. Those blue eyes did not shone with any emotions. It was like she was immune to her feelings.

That made his stomach churned with concern.

"How do you know that?"

"Please tell us that you are joking! How the hell did those villains find out that we are here!"

"What happened?"

Their cries pierced through the air and Aizawa threw a glare at the students, who quickly shut their mouths. Villains. He knew there had always been a possibility that villains would make their way here but the school had been careful with informing everyone where the students would be. The parents had the vaguest information alongside the students while only selected teachers knew about the location of the camp.

How did those villains find them? This was the second time they had villains attacking them which meant that this couldn't be a coincidence. He tightened his grip on the cloth and locked eyes with Jirou. The girl kept flickering her eyes between him, Uzumaki and the other students bound to his white cloth.

"Uzumaki asked me to check if I heard more people in the forest," Jirou explained. Her tone was laced with nerves and the words coming out of her mouth sounded like it had been rehearsed a thousand times. The girl probably had to practice her explanation while running here."I used my Quirk to confirm her suspicion and heard Villains talking about a whole list of students that they planned to kidnap."

Aizawa frowned. "Did they say who they want to kidnap?"

Jirou shook her head and the frown on his face deepened at this piece of news. That piece of information was important. Those students would need to be the one that needed extra, extra protection. Now it would be searching a needle in the hay to find out which students that needed to have extra supervision. They would also need to stop the test of courage.

The Underground Hero grimaced and eyed Uzumaki. The girl couldn't fully meet his eyes and then something clicked in his mind. Out of all of his students, this girl was not the type to simply go with Jirou when there were other students in trouble. If he knew Uzumaki as well as he did then this wasn't the real Uzumaki.

He growled. "You aren't the real Uzumaki, are you?"

"Boss is going to warn the others," the clone admitted.

Aizawa regarded the clone standing right in front of him. In the months he came to teach Uzumaki, he learnt when to pick up when the girl was lying to him. Those blue eyes couldn't meet his eyes entirely and she would fiddle with her hand. That impulsive student of his was going to get herself into trouble wasn't she? She was going after those villains even when he warned her about doing things without his permission.

He would scold the original Naruto later and demand to know why she had to think she could be the only one to fight them. Aizawa exhaled and looked at the fidgeting clone before locking eyes with Jirou. The impulsive need to fight villains would be addressed later but another thing needed to be addressed when he thought about it.

"How did you find out that there was going to be another attack?" Aizawa asked. The clone froze and could not meet his eyes. He could see the clone sweating bullets like she was terrified of telling him of how she knew. Did he think the girl was a mole? No. The girl wouldn't come all this way to warn them but it was odd. Nothing about her Quirk would allow her to figure out that villains were going to come.

The girl would have to actively use her Quirk to figure it out and last time he checked, there was nothing in the Test of Courage that meant the girl would use her Quirk first.

"How am I supposed to know?" The clone asked, not fully meeting his eyes. "I'm not the original Naruto! I'm only a clone!"

Several heads bobbed their heads in agreement but Aizawa only raised a single eyebrow at the clone. He wasn't stupid. From the moment those clones revealed that they could do the same things as Naruto, he figured out how it was possible. The clone was created from chakra, which meant that she was apart of Naruto.

"You still came from Uzumaki," he replied. Everyone blinked at the reminder while the clone grimaced, not even attempting to deny the fact that came out of his mouth. Aizawa dropped the white cloth and looked out to the lodge standing right in front of him before looking back at the clone. "You know very well how the original Naruto knew when you know everything she knows."

The clone scowled and knitted her eyebrows together. Aizawa only stared at the clone. Would she tell him of how the original Naruto know how they were going to get attack? Or would she try to lie to him? Judging from the internal battle in her eyes, he figured the clone was debating whether to tell him the truth or to lie to him.

"Boss is a sensor," the clone finally admitted. The Underground Hero furrowed his eyebrows together while the students swirled their heads at the clone, eyes widening at this piece of information. "We have always been good with sensing chakra users and well she noticed two signatures that weren't supposed to be here."

Chakra users? Two signatures that weren't supposed to be here? He frowned and looked at the clone, inspecting her for any lies but the girl kept her eyes fully locked onto him. It didn't even flicker for a nanosecond and that told him that the clone was being absolutely truthful to him. Knowing this made his stomach churned with concern instead of relief as his mind processed what the clone just informed him.

Chakra users implied Uzumaki knew there were more than one person with the same Quirk like her. It implied Chakra wasn't some kind of Quirk but something else entirely. But what could it be? Users implied storage. Now that he thought about it, the girl was completely vague about her Quirk in her file. The only implication that it was energy but that energy made the girl do things that mimic other Quirks.

"Chakra isn't a Quirk, is it?" Aizawa questioned the clone. Jirou's eyes widened while the clone frowned. Bingo. What his most talented student had been doing for the last couple of month had been nothing short of extraordinary. He frowned and looked at the girl with careful consideration. "Uzumaki doesn't have a Quirk, does she?"

"We do," the clone commented. Everyone blinked and Aizawa raised his eyebrow up to his hairline as the clone looked down at her hand before looking down at her stomach. "The members of the Uzumaki Clan were born with powerful and dense chakra, which is why Boss can make those chains. But where we come from, our Quirk isn't actually recognized as a Quirk. Outsiders like you would think it is one but not them."

Confusion flooded him as Aizawa stared at the fidgeting clone right in front of him. Outsiders. That implied his student definitely did not come from Japan or any of the foreign countries. Another country that was definitely not in the map in the world. It also implied what Uzumaki could do could be done by the people from where she came from.

"What do you mean Outsiders?" Kirishima demanded. Red eyes flared with confusion as Uzumaki pressed her lips into a thin line, not meeting them in the eyes. She looked to the lodge before flickering her eyes to the cliff and then to the forest. "Uzumaki, what the hell is going on? What are you hiding from us?"

The clone shook her head and took a step forward.

"I already spilled too much information," the clone admitted. She grimaced and looked straight up to the night sky. "Boss only wanted me to tell you that Villains were coming and that Aizawa-sensei can't leave the students alone at the lodge even with Vlad-King. If that rat takes any one of you then it would be hard for her or the others to track them down! Orochimaru isn't easy to track down."

With those final words, the clone popped itself out of existence and left Aizawa with more questions on his most problematic student.

Author Note: So the Vanguard attack is going to happen and Naruto is after Kabuto. Here are a couple of questions:

Question 1: How do you think the meeting between Naruto and Kabuto will go? Do you think that Naruto will hold onto her temper?

Question 2: How do you think the relationship of Aizawa and Naruto will change when Aizawa learns that Naruto is a kunoichi?

Question 3: Who do you think will be the second target?

Please tell me of your thoughts on this chapter and how you feel about the changes in the series.