Chapter 7

Naruto coughed as he sat on the examination table, "So tell me, how bad is it really?" he questioned as he clasped his hands together, "And don't sugarcoat it either Takami, be honest." he said to her.

Takami sighed as she looked at the papers in her hand, "Preliminary scans show that your body is at full health, your energy levels are recovering at a quick pace and all other things are in perfect condition, however, what little blood you allowed me to draw and examine show some minor dings. You have contracted a sickness from the exposure to the modern worlds air, but with some time we should create a vaccine to help you recover. It's nothing major, but it wouldn't hurt to be cautious in case this goes from bad to worse." she told him.

"Well, I guess it's possible, I never got sick really, but things happen so it makes sense. Well, there was that one time I ended up with so much chakra that I accidentally began to tear reality apart and start cracking it but that was a special circumstance when it happened and Sasuke helped cure me back when I was the Hokage. But, a cold like this, it's all new to me." he said as he climbed of the table, "Keep quiet on this will you, no need to make Minaka get all excited and try and experiment on me or for the Sekirei to worry." he said.

"But, what if this can't be cured? If you die, your Sekirei perish as well." Takami said with wide eyes.

"Trust me, this is not going to stop me. I've been through far worse. Remind me to tell you of the time I nearly died fighting some demon that came from a box when it impaled me on its hand." he said before walking to the door only to stop, "Please Takami, keep it quiet, these people have enough problems to take care of, I'm not one they need to add to their list of bullshit ok." he said sincerely as he looked her in the eye.

With a nod, Takami allowed him to walk away.

Naruto snorted as he eyed the small group in front of him, but his gaze was currently locked with one silver haired battle maniac, "Well well well, if it isn't the resident Battle Born, what can I do you for?" he asked pleasantly.

"I want to fight you, one on one me versus you." Karasuba demanded.

"You've been waiting for this for a while now, haven't you?" Naruto asked calmly and crossed his arms over his chest, "You want to fight me that much?"

"That's right. I want to fight you, and I want you to fight me seriously." Karasuba said as her smile widened, her entire body shook with newfound excitement "I want you to use the power you used to defeat Miya." Before Naruto could answer that, Miya and the rest of the discipline squad, even Mutsu who he had knocked out earlier, gained shocked looks. Was she crazy, if he used the same amount of power as he did with Miya, she'd die in an instant!

"That's not up to me honestly, but I'm sure if Miya allowed it to happen then I certainly wouldn't mind the warm up spar to wake up." he said shrugging, "I might be in charge of your training, but your overall commands come from Miya." he stated. Miya ignored him, but anyone who knew her could tell that she was annoyed.

"No! Not on the surface. I am not going to let the two of you fight out here where someone from another country or wherever these attacks on the island originate from to see you. Go and move this down to the Training Ground we visited before." She said sternly before pointing her hand at the blond she nearly winged herself to, "Take it somewhere where you cannot hurt anyone but yourself." With that, Karasuba nodded her head and looked towards her teacher.

"Man, that's cold Miya-chan." Naruto whined childishly at the purple haired woman before smiling at Karasuba "Well, shall we?"

~XxX-Training Ground-XxX~

"So tell me Karasuba, how fast do you wanna lose to me today?" he questioned. Karasuba drew her sword in a flash, but in the end-he didn't wait for her to answer his question.

With the speed only Miya could follow, Naruto shot forward and tackled Karasuba around her waist, launching both of them out of the wood line. Karasuba swung her sword around, hoping to behead him, but Naruto had already seen it coming, and moved his body around, holding the fourth Sekirei from behind. Then, he locked her arms with his arms wrapped under her armpits and hands behind her head, before flipping them around and starting to spin like a whirlwind. As the ground drew closer and closer, Karasuba struggled to break free but found herself unable to match Naruto's physical strength.

Then, when her head was only an inch above the ground, Naruto released her and shot out of the way, dashing his feet on the ground to stop himself, before turning his head around to look at Karasuba as she slammed headfirst into the ground, blowing earth and dirt up in a massive cloud of smoke.

The blond then turned around, facing away from the cloud of smoke and raised three fingers.

"Three… two… one…" He counted loudly, taking one finger back with each count, and as soon as he was done, Naruto moved his head out of the way, dodging the tip of Karasuba's sword at the last moment, causing the silver haired Sekirei to widen her eyes slightly in amazement. He then lowered his body and thrust his elbow into her abdomen, with enough force to create a small shockwave, before flipping his body around and kicking the side of her head using his right foot, sending a stunned Karasuba several feet away.

Grunting, Karasuba turned her body around and returned to the ground on her two feet, but immediately fell to one knee as soon as she managed to stop herself, holding her stomach.

"Don't get so cocky…" Karasuba growled as she slowly stood up, holding her sword tightly in her hand "You caught me by surprise. There's no way I am going to let you have another chance like that next time." She pointed her sword at Naruto.

"You looked like you couldn't wait… so I thought: 'why should I make you wait any longer?' so here we are." Naruto pointed out while rubbing the back of his neck. Hearing hurried footsteps coming from behind, Naruto then turned his head around and looked at the other members of the Discipline Squad, Takami, and a good deal of her men, who were carrying many advanced types of equipment, some of them weren't just cameras, appearing from the front gate of the building.

"Oh, c'mon, seriously?" Naruto asked loudly as he threw his hands into the air in a dramatic manner "What kind of cliché shit is this? Is it just my imagination or every time I fight you people, and Sekirei will always stick around to react to it?"

"What are you talking about?" Before anyone could say anything in response, Takami turned to him and asked in annoyance while she was commanded her scientist to set up the devices "This is our opportunity to learn more about you, so of course we have to record and take note of everything, every bit of data we learn is useful and valuable. I mean your ability to fight against Miya who is the strongest woman on the planet as if you're taking a walk alone left us enough data to study, but we need to see if it was a one time thing or not." She stated to the blond as if that explained everything.

"OI! Enough fooling around!" Karasuba shouted, drawing everyone's attention back to her. She did not show it, but she was extremely pissed because she had been ignored since the arrival of the scientists and her teammates "We are in the middle of a battle here, Naruto."

"Naruto is fine, but please my dear, call me Sensei-sama" Naruto turned back to the woman and said with a genuine smile while showing the palm of his hand to her.

"Mutsu!" Saying nothing to him in response, she turned her head to the scarf wearing Sekirei "Give him your weapon." Mutsu looked like he didn't want to do that, but decided to do it anyway.

"No thank you." Before Mutsu could throw his sword, Naruto raised his hand and said to him "There is no need for that." He finished, putting his hands into his pockets.

"What?" Karasuba asked, raising an eyebrow "Are you trying to imply that you are going to fight me unarmed? Are you looking down on me? Didn't I tell you to fight me…" With speed far greater than the human eye could follow, Naruto launched a pair of throwing weapons at Karasuba, who widened her eyes in surprise but wasted no time to raise her sword to deflect them, causing sparks to fly and generating clanging sounds of steel upon impacts. The weapons spun around rapidly in the air, before returning to the hands of Naruto, who moved forward and caught them like a baseball player. From her point of view, they looked like rhombus daggers made from black steel wrapped in bandages, with a small ring attracted to the end of the handle, but Karasuba knew what they were, as she had seen them before.

"Kunai?" The silver haired Sekirei asked, feeling underwhelmed "And here I was expecting you to show off something more… impressive." Though, she couldn't help but wonder where he had taken them from.

"Kunai?" Takami wondered in curiosity. Nowadays, some martial artists used various type of weapons in combat, and kunai was one of them. However, they were commonly known to associate with the ninja.

"Oh ho ho…" He laughed "I may be able to use a sword, but trust me my skill with any of those is unnecessary here. Besides, you don't want to see the magic I can do with these babies." Saying that, he spun the kunai around before gripping them tightly in his hands, taking a simple stance "So, shall we?" He asked, smirking.

Unlike the last times, he was the one who made the first move. Rushing at Karasuba at beyond inhuman speed that could not be seen by the people around them, but far from his best, he attacked with a wide swing from the left, forcing Karasuba to raise her sword to that direction to dodge. While she was not as fast as Miya, the sword wielding Sekirei didn't have much trouble countering his second attack with the other kunai, which came from the right. However, Naruto didn't give her time to counter and continued attacking her with a powerful combination of slash and thrust that became increasingly faster as time went on, becoming a constant whirlwind of movements as Naruto drove number four back.

Karasuba, meanwhile, was doing her best to keep herself from falling back any further. His strikes weren't just fast, but they were also incredibly powerful. Every time she tried to counterattack, Karasuba took a violent strike that was strong enough to make her stumble backwards. His lightning fast and extremely accurate strikes gave her no time to recover. While he wasn't fighting her like how he had fought Miya, the speed and strength of his movements and attacks were far greater than their first battle.

Even so, Karasuba took each strike head on, because this was what she had been waiting for. From the moment she realized he could defeat Miya, the strongest and most powerful Sekirei in combat, she had wanted to fight him, to experience the thrills of fighting a real battle, where even the smallest of mistake could be made. Miya was her partner during training, but even a blind child could tell that the Pillar had never fought Karasuba seriously, as she would never lay her hand on her little birds with the intents to seriously hurt them.

"That's it! This is exactly what I have been waiting for!" Karasuba chanted as she started to block his attacks by striking back just as hard, ignoring the pain for doing so "More… more… show me more!" For the first time, Karasuba successfully performing a parry, knocking Naruto right hand back. It must be the hardest strike she had ever done. Her hands went numb, but the silver haired Sekirei managed to force her fingers to stay in a tight grip around the handle of her blade, before advancing forward with a sadistic smirk.

"Man… and here I thought Madara was crazy," Naruto commented as he lowered his body down to dodge a horizontal slash, twisted his kunai around and thrust the palm of his hand into Karasuba's stomach, sending her stumbling back. However, it didn't take it long for her to rush at him again with a piercing attack, the tip of her sword screaming for his heart.

And pierced through his heart it did.

But before anyone could say anything, the Naruto who had Karasuba's sword impaled deeply into his chest suddenly turned blue, and started cracking like electricity. Much to Karasuba's shock, 'Naruto' lost his form and became a mass of lightning, which then electrocuted her before exploding and sending her back with smoke coming from her clothes and body.

"Oh, my… now that's amazing." Kazehana admitted truthfully as a stunned Karasuba was suddenly knocked away by a pair of wind dragons, one of which had been cut down by her soon after Karasuba had regained her composure. It was still amazing to see him performing incredible feats that even Sekirei like her couldn't.

"Another weird lightning technique…" Miya muttered, but couldn't stop herself from feeling amazed by the way it had been used. Naruto managed to turn lightning into an exact copy of himself, which she thought must be similar to how he could create the lightning hounds he had used to attack her and placed it in his position before disappearing from Karasuba's sight, moving so fast she almost missed him.

But still, where did he disappear to, was also a question shared by her.

'Where is he?' Finishing the second dragon in less than five seconds, Karasuba thought as she turned her head around, expecting Naruto to appear right in front of her to deliver a strike at any moment.

However, neither Karasuba nor anyone could expect the blond to appear from her shadow and attacked her from behind, kicking her in the back with his arms outstretched, sending her away. The kick was hard enough to break the spine of a normal human, but Naruto knew it would take a lot more than that to do the same to a Sekirei like Karasuba, who turned around and stopped herself by dashing her feet on the ground, with her eyes widening slightly in surprise.

"Don't feel so surprised." Naruto pointed his finger at her "I'm a descended of a god, I'm the reincarnation of the son of said god, I have unending power reserves to draw from… so there's nothing that I can't not do."

"Keep doing that and I might actually believe you are a god." Karasuba replied with a small smirk.

"Funny, but if you're gonna try and appeal to me, do it in a skimpy maid outfit with no underwear and feed me ramen while calling me Master." Naruto told her.

With that she charged and began to swipe wildly at the Uzumaki who easily dodged her attempts to kill him. He snorted as he lashed out with a fist and sent Karasuba sliding back before he did something that shocked all those watching.

He closed his eyes and motioned for Karasuba to attack him.

"Don't look down on me, take this seriously dammit!" Karasuba roared out.

"I take every fight I get into seriously, however, I am only showing you a minor ability I picked up when I went to war against a man long ago. You, just need to calm down." he said.

"I'll calm down, only when I separate your head from your shoulders!" Karasuba yelled as she gave a final swipe that Naruto avoided before he leapt high into the air and spun several times and changed his stance as Karasuba proceeded to stab his sword through his upper arm where he caught the bloodied blade with his other hand-his eyes still remained closed and he didn't show a hint of pain from the wound he recieved.

"Did Miya teach you how to fight?" His question left everyone, especially Miya and Karasuba in surprise.

"How did you…"

"I can read your movements." Naruto interrupted, "You two might have the same teacher, but I doubt there is anyone crazy enough to train someone at your level of physical prowess, aside from me, of course." He chuckled before continuing "Anyway, I can see the similarities between your techniques, but while Miya carries her blade with graces, you carries it with aggression, which isn't so bad when you think about it. Now then, Hiding in the Ash" Naruto declared as he inhaled deeply and puffed out his cheeks before expelling a powerful blast of fire and ash that forced the silver haired Sekirei to cover her eyes as she leapt back.

Looking at the cloud Karasuba watched as Naruto charged at her and attacked Karasuba with a lightning fast left hook.

Seeing his fist coming, Karasuba decided to parry it with the sharp edge of her sword, only for him to disappear completely from sight and reappear behind her, where he sent her down to the ground with a strong punch "You are a skilled swords-woman, but unlike her, you are not a warrior."

Not yet anyway.

"Tch…" The Sekirei clicked her tongue in annoyance before turning her body around while bringing her sword with her, slashing Naruto from below. However, the blond had already seen this coming. He moved his body to the side, grabbed Karasuba's wrist and pulled her up before sending his fist into his stomach, causing her to stumble back a bit while gasping for breath. With her full power, the Sekirei used her enhanced speed and strength to attack Naruto, only for the blond to block his sword with his index and middle fingers, much to everyone's shock. Giving her no time to react, his other hand shot out, and flicked Karasuba in the forehead, hurtling the Sekirei across the field.

Before Karasuba could come to a stop, Naruto crouched down and took a handful of earth into his hand, before throwing it at the silver haired Sekirei in the form of a small bird. Karasuba moved her head to the side to dodge, but the moment the bird was one meter behind her, it exploded like an explosive charge of C4. The shockwave knocked her from her feet and hurtled her forward, where she met with a giant dragon made from the ground behind Naruto.

The smirk had never left her face.

Using the blunt side of her sword, Karasuba hit the top of the dragon's jaw and used it as a leverage to throw herself into the air, dodging the creature made from the ground at the last moment before turning her body around and slashing her sword in a circle, cutting the dragon's head off. Another earth dragon appeared and attacked Karasuba from below, its mouth was wide open. With a series of lightning fast strikes, she cut the head to pieces.

However, the dragons themselves were nothing more than a feint. The moment Karasuba landed her feet on the ground and turned around to look at Naruto, he was right in front of her, with a glowing orb of rotating orange energy in the palm of his right hand. Karasuba moved her body out of the way, making Naruto pass her harmlessly. Karasuba brought her sword back to the right side of her head, before bringing it down in a powerful slash.

Her blade passed through his body like butter.

Actually, it didn't. It was just another lightning clone, another distraction that electrocuted her and gave her no time to react when Naruto came at her from behind and thrust the swirling orb toward her stomach. It easily tore away her clothes, which was made from a very strong material, before getting to her skin. Naruto let his attack explode before it could go any further than that, sending the Sekirei several feet away in a violent cyclone. Karasuba crashed into the ground, which then exploded in a giant cloud of earth, and rolled numerous times before coming to a stop.

Karasuba gritted her teeth and shakily pushed herself up

Groaning, the silver haired woman pushed herself up, supporting the weight of her upper body with her arms. The top of her uniform had pretty been torn to shreds, hanging loosely on her body, but enough to cover her chest. Her stomach was bleeding, badly, and there was a huge amount of cuts and bruises on her body, something that she had only recently noticed.

Naruto had really done a number of her, especially that final attack.

Despite that, Karasuba was grinning.

"This is my loss." she admitted as she glanced up and saw Naruto standing right in front of her with a smug smile on his face. Naruto had one hand in his pocket, but the other was holding her weapon, pointing it at the spot between her eyes. As much as she wanted the battle to continue, she couldn't care less about her physical condition. "You are really strong." She said. Yes. He was strong, very strong. He was stronger than her, stronger than Miya, the Sekirei Pillar. She would be a fool if she denied that.

"Admit it," Naruto said smugly while shrugging his shoulders "I'm the best."

"Are you really?" She asked before adding "No, seriously… are you really a god?"

"Depends on what perspective we are talking about." He gave her a small, quick wink and a grin, which for some reason, made her cheek to dust pink, "Here you go." He flipped her sword around and caught the blade before handing it back to her, hilt first. Karasuba took it slowly, before standing up while holding her stomach "Anyway, you should get someone-"

"I have a request." She interrupted with a firm tone.

"Huh?"

"Can you be my Ashikabi? Can you help me grow to be stronger and see what this world has to offer that makes it worth protecting?" She asked with determination burning in her eyes, "I hear what you and Miya discuss, about living in peace with these weak humans, but all they ever do is fight pointless war after pointless war, and I see nothing but death and destruction to the point I can't see the point in wanting to protect it, but at the same time I wish to help her dream of living in peace here come true..." she whispered out.

"Of course, but first, let's get you to the infirmary so they can fix you and I'll do one final chakra injection to fix your brainwaves then we can discuss me becoming your Ashikabi." he smiled as he helped her up to her feet.

Entering the Infirmary, Naruto was perplexed to see Takehito looking over some notes that Minaka had handed to him earlier, "Hey Takehito." Naruto said warmly-despite his blunder with Matsu several weeks ago, while giving a wave.

Looking up from his notes the scientist smiled politely, "Naruto-san, how are you?" he asked as Karasuba entered slowly while giving a slight limp, "Ah, training the Sekirei as per usual I see, anything new happen this time around?" he asked.

"Yes, I asked him to become my Ashikabi, I wish to see what he and Miya see in humanity, so I asked him to show me, though he has yet to wing me." the silver haired beauty stated.

Takehito was almost taken aback by this, "Oh, well, I guess congratulations are in order, but Karasuba-san, are you sure you wanna do this, you know there is no take backs when you emerge to him." he said.

Karasuba nodded, "I would like to think it's fine, I think I understand what I'm getting into. I'm just here to be fixed up." she said sitting on the table, "The harmsway is over there on the wall." she said pointing to the device.

"Forget the harmsway, my Sage Arts are much more effective." Naruto snorted as he walked over to Karasuba, his eyes now a stunning gold with a horizontal pupil.

"Sage arts, what are those, like herbs and stuff?" Takehito asked from behind him.

"Not exactly." he said ignoring Karasuba's stunned look, "See, what the Sage Arts entail is basically harnessing the energy of the world around you-the energy provided in the air the power from the water you drink the life from the soil of the earth the charge of lightning in the storm cloud's and the heat of the core of the planet, and making it your own power by balancing it with your own energy. Its a extremely rare practice and from what I know only a total of ten people managed to obtain the true power provided by the Sage Arts, myself included."

"Anyways, I can use this energy to not only enhance my own physical abilities, but any attack I use be it elemental or physical is given a significant boost by nearly four times its regular strength. If you seen any of the slow motion footage from my fight with Miya, you'll notice I never entered Sage Mode to fight her because I already understood her fighting style and grasped how she fought. My friend Sasuke could have beaten her in a instant and he's the only one to ever match me, he was my rival and brother but that's another story."

"But, another thing that the Sage Arts allow me to do is purge poisons from the body and boost my healing factor by nearly three times. I can send my own energy into Karasuba, and using the Sage Arts I can finish purging Karasuba of her blood-lust and heal her at the same time. I've been doing it for the last three months now each time I landed a hit on her using minuscule amounts of it, but with her being as injured as she is now, it'll be twice as effective." he explained.

"Well, as amazing as you doing all these feats sound, could we just hurry up and fix me so you can wing me." Karasuba said crossing her arms.

Naruto and Takehito chuckled, "I guess we should hurry up huh, alright then let's get you all healed." Naruto said. Placing his hand on Karasuba's chest once again, a aura appeared around the silver haired woman before her wounds began to suddenly vanish before her and Takehito's eyes while at the same time the last remnants of whatever had been screwing with her brainwaves was purged from her body. As he took his hand off her chest Naruto smiled when she looked at him and slowly placed a hand on his shoulders, "Feel better?"he asked.

"Better than before." she said as she leaned in and gently placed her lips against his own, dark wings emerging from her back. Pulling back Karasuba sighed as she leaned in and placed her head against his chest, "Sekirei 04 Karasuba, I'm yours forever my Ashikabi." she told Naruto, "Thank you for repairing this broken birds wings." she whispered.

Naruto chuckled, "You were never broken Karasuba, just misguided is all." he told her with a soft smile as he picked her up, "Now lets get you to your room so you can rest a bit. With that done Naruto walked down the hall and to Karasuba's room and gently placed her on her bed, "Sleep easy, I'll be here when you wake up Kara-chan." he whispered as Karasuba fell asleep with a small smile on her face.

Walking out Naruto sighed as he left the craft and walked to a cliff to take a seat and enjoy the view. The sound of footsteps gained his attention but he didn't turn, it was only Mutsu so he didn't need to worry, "Naruto-san, can I ask you something?" the silver haired man asked as he sat next to him, but not all that close to make them uncomfortable.

"Well you technically just did, but I don't see why not." Naruto snorted out.

"Teach me how to properly use my element. I seen your fight with Miya the other day like everyone else, and when I seen your ability to manipulate both earth and sand I felt I could grow stronger than I already am. I wish to be able to protect the unborn Sekirei and even my future Ashikabi whenever I find them, I don't want to die knowing I could have done more for them." he pleaded.

"Oh calm yourself, I figured you would have come by asking for help on your element sooner or later, it's why I allow all of you to come to me on your own accord if you wish to grow. Karasuba asked for a fight as did Miya, and I have been helping Kazehana with her wind manipulation, I can easily help you grow to be a better user of the earth, but let me warn you, when I do begin training you you'll have the hardest of all forms of training." Naruto told Mutsu.

"What do you mean?" Mutsu asked him.

"The earth is the eldest of all the elements, but it isn't the strongest. All elements have their weaknesses. Wind is weak to fire. Fire is weak to water. Water is weak to Earth. Earth is weak to Lightning. Lightning is weak to wind. That is the basis for elemental manipulation and control for a structure. However, there are vulnerabilities for each element which I can explain later, but what I mean is that there is more to your power than even you realize. While Kazehana and I share a elemental affinity much like we do, the ability to control the earth itself holds far more power than any other element. Earth is the first element, the element of creation, and I'll show you how to harness some of this power." he told the man.

"When do we begin training?" Mutsu asked.

"Tomorrow, at noon. Training Ground. I'll meet you at the entrance and we can start your training then. Bring the others, I'll help with them as well." he said standing up, "I've got something to do, but for now just know you and the others are free to relax u-" the blond stopped as his eyes went wide as a POWERFUL chakra signature entered his sensory range.

"Naruto, what's wrong, you suddenly stopped talking and went stiff." Mutsu said.

Quickly turning, Naruto grabbed the yellow scarf that the earth sekirei wore and the two promptly vanished a flash of yellow and appeared near the ship.

"Get everyone inside, all personnel and Sekirei, this is not a request." Naruto said turning his head towards the energy signature to continue sensing these newcomers.

"What is it?" Takami asked as she walked over. She'd ask how they appeared like that later, the look on the blonde's face scared even her if he was this serious.

"You'll see." Naruto said as he walked to the inner door of the ship and hit a button on the wall, a button that let the island known someone that wasn't allowed to be on the island and put the Sekirei on the field.

Walking out, Naruto saw Miya, Matsu, Kazehana and Mutsu standing ready for battle as the klaxon wailed in their ears, "Naruto-san, what's going on, why'd you hit the alarm?" Mutsu asked him. He still felt a little queasy from how he had seemingly been transported to the ship.

"We don't see anyone in the water approaching, so what is this about?" Miya demanded.

"It's not a army approaching from water, but from a single duo that means to do worse than pillage the island secrets." Naruto declared as he continued to walk forward,"You all need to get inside with the humans. This isn't a request from Minaka but an order from me, you'll never be able to fight them much less scratch them." he said walking forward and holding a hand out where a puff of smoke appeared and a katana appeared in his hands. Not the large cleaver, not the twin blades but a seemingly regular katana, "Go now." he commanded.

"Why, if you are so confident we can't hurt them are you coming out to fight them?" Kazehana asked in worry for her Ashikabi.

"Cuz now, you'll truly see me go all out. This isn't a mere spar like when I battled Miya and used my normal state of power, this is going to be a clash of titans and gods, and I don't know if I can defeat them both. However, this also works in my favor cuz I can show you just how much stronger I can get each of you by the time I secure this island." he stated.

"You said this was a fight between gods, what exactly did you mean?" Miya asked.

"I haven't been entirely honest with all of you. I have told you truth about my origins, but not my age. Truth is, I have been watching over and guarding the Ten Tails under the island for the better part of nearly 120,000 years if not more. My people tore themselves apart in a war, and I had to kill my son who was possessed by one of the clansmen who are about to attack. The Otsutsuki are a parasitic species that have spent thousands of years traversing the cosmos in order to carry out their oh so precious Otsutsuki Will, a doctrine which dictates that clan members must consume the life energy and genetic material of other worlds in order to continuously evolve, with the ultimate goal of attaining godhood."

"It was this clan that hid a Ten Tails on the planet while restraining it and suppressing its power to where I couldn't Sense it, and then when we were confronting a Otsutsuki when he drew on its power that revealed it to me. I nearly died fighting this one, but we succeeded, but then my son revealed he had been taken over by one, and I had to put him down. My job, went from protecting my village, to ensuring that nobody freed the Ten Tails and kill any and all Otsutsuki who challenged me." he growled as his chakra began to pour from his body.

The Sekirei felt themselves covering their face as sweat begun to run down their cheeks, he was so much stronger than any of them had thought. He had held back this much against Miya, he was a monster.

Naruto turned down his chakra and sighed, "What are you still doing out here, go inside or you'll be hurt in the conflict." he commanded.

His tone, the Sekirei understood... he was serious.

And just as they went to move, a explosion of rock and debris filled the air before Naruto swiped his sword to clear the air to reveal two men. The Sekirei felt their hearts go into overdrive. They did nothing to hide their power, but each of them knew that just on their own they were far stronger than Miya could ever hope to be. They didn't hesitate to begin running away.

Naruto walked forward to meet these two newcomers and see what exactly they planned on doing.