Naruto (United): Hey guys!

Naruko: Yo!

Menma: Hey.

Naruto (Oath): H-Hello…

Naruto (Reaper): So what's up with the new guy?

Naruto (Dragoon): No idea really. He'll be alright though.

Naruto (Hellfire): Good to see a new face and a familiar face again. The last chapter of this arc is upon us. Once it's done. You guys can check out Dragoon and Oath's fanfiction so let's enjoy the show!

United I Stand
Chapter Nine: The Heroic Blonde Vs A Taki Traitor! Gift from a Demon

"Are you feeling better?" Naruko asked as Fū separated from her, a sad smile on her face.

"I didn't realize that I was crying so much," Fū admitted with a embarrassed smile. "I'm sorry, I got your shirt all wet."

"This old thing?" Naruko asked with grin. "No worries, I stole it."

The two shared a small laugh before Fū asked "Really?"

"Yeah. I am a shinobi after all," Naruko teased as she stood up and held out her hand.

Fū took her hand and Naruko pulled her up and wiped a stray tear from Fū 's cheek and whispered "No more tears okay? You're amongst a friend that shares your same burden."

Before another word could be spoken, a cruel voice shouted out "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu)!"

Without hesitation, Naruko grabbed Fū and shouted "Kaze Suteppu (Breeze step)!" And with a mighty leap, the pair found themselves in the air before the water dragon exploded in the spot they were in previously.

"What the hell?!" Naruko shouted. It was then Naruko saw a middle to late-aged man with long spiky hair, small dark eyes, and a goatee. He wore a dark blue jacket, grey pants, sandals, and a bandanna that held his hair out of his face with two water bottles on each side of his hips.

But on top of his clothes looked to be see through armor made of water.

Fū paled and whispered "That's him…That's Suien…And it looks like he has his Mizu āmā (Water Armor) Jutsu activeated…It's just that much harder…"

The man smirked and held his right hand back and shouted "Suiton: Suiryuusou (Water Style: Water Flowing Lance)!"

Just as Naruko landed on the side of the building then leapt off to avoid a water shaped lance, which caused the wall to break and scatter into the air. Naruko held her right hand up with her middle and ring finger out and shouted "Reppū Jūdan: Saisho Dangan (Gust Bullet: First shot)!"

A shockwave flew out of her fingers with the blowback causing Naruko and Fū to fly further into the air while the shockwave headed straight to Suien, who smirked and said "Suiton: Kamisori Enban (Water Style: Razor Discus)."

Water flowed from front right container and up into his open palm where it then took the shape of a buzzsaw disk and with a yell, he launched it through the shockwave, cutting it in half and sending the halves slamming into the roof beside him.

Naruko's eyes widened in terror as the water discus flew towards her and performed a front flip in the air, barely able to avoid it cutting through the pair. The minute the two came upright, Suien was in the air above them, water forming in his hands.

"Suiton: U~ōtāhanmā (Water Style: Water Hammer)!" He yelled as a large water shaped hammer formed in his hands before he swung it down towards the pair.

"Tenohira no Soyokaze (Palm of the Soft Wind)!" Naruko shouted as wind formed against her palm and with a thrust of her right hand, the front of the water-made hammer slammed and then swirled around the wind before the wind in her palm and the water hammer exploded, sending the pair soaring backwards to the ground while Suien went further into the air.

Naruko slammed to the ground back first as Suien landed on the rough on his feet.

"Fuck…" Naruko groaned out as she leaned up and looked down at the green haired kunoichi on top of her. "You alright?" Naruko asked.

"I'm okay," Fū responded. "What about you?"

Naruko looked at her right arm, which was now bleeding from the various slice marks that were on her palms, fingers and upper arm and let a grin appear on her face. "I'll live…" She replied.

The two rose to their feet as Suien said "Oh my dear Fū …I should have known that heart of yours would make you betray me."

Naruko narrowed her eyes and motioned of Fū to step behind her and said "So you're the cause of this senseless slaughter…"

"Senseless?" Suien questioned with a smirk. "I was always meant to rule this quaint little village but the villagers made it so hard. Along with that pathetic Shibuki so if I wasn't able to rule it, I would crush it…Using the same water that many tried so hard to protect."

"I was wrong before," Naruko said with a dark tone in her voice. "I called Fū a traitor and a lowlife…When in reality she was being forced into this by scum like you…" Naruko balled up her fist and narrowed her eyes, fury burning within them.

"You…" Fū whispered, her eyes softening as Naruko looked back at her with a serious look on her face.

"Fū , I want you to run as far as you can and find either a black-ish haired woman or a tall blond man," Naruko said.

"I'm not leaving you to fight him on your own," Fū argued.

"Go," Naruko repeated. "I'll be fine. Just go find one of those two."

Fū looked concerned but then Naruko gave a smile and said "I will make him pay for his treachery. Trust me…"

Fū nodded and smiled before she ran off, leaving Naruko and Suien alone.

'Naruto…Menma….Bad things…Suien, the leader that caused this mess is here and I am in combat with him. Physical damage is a no-go but my wind was able to hurt him but I don't know how long I got before I wind up in deep shit. So um…Help would be nice!' Naruko thought.

"Fucking hell! We're on our way with sensei!" Both Naruto and Menma said in unison.

Help was on the way but for now, Naruko found herself alone with a powerful opponent. "You are very foolish to fight me, a Jōnin level shinobi, all alone," Suien advised with a smirk.

"Heh, Jōnin, Chūnin, Genin, levels don't matter to me," Naruko boasted, despite the bead of sweat falling down the left side of her face. "I'll defeat you all the same."

"The hero water will be wasted on an upstart like you," Suien noted with a laugh. "A little charity from me to you before you die. So come and back up those words!" Suien ordered.

"Kaze Suteppu (Breeze step)!" Naruko shouted as slammed her foot to the ground and took flight towards Suien.

Suien smirked and clapped his hands together and began to spread them apart as water from one of his containers flowed in between the space while he said "Takigakure-Ryū: Mizukiri no Yaiba (Takigakure Style: Watercutting Sword)."

He spread his hands completely as a water sword hovered before he snatched it and leapt off of the building towards Naruko and swung his blade down at her but Naruko managed to avoid the swipe and landed a punch to Suien's face but he while he took the blow, he shrugged it off immediately.

"Nice try!" Suien shouted as he kicked Naruko in the chest, which sent her sailing down to the ground but she quickly flipped onto her feet and held up a sliced up and bleeding right index finger.

"Reppū Jūdan: Saisho Dangan!" She yelled and fired off a shockwave of wind towards Suien, who smirked and sliced through the wind, causing it's two halves to collided and explode against the building behind him.

Suien landed on the ground and dashed towards Naruko, who sneered as her bleeding and cut right hand shook before she ran forward and ducked the swing at her head and landed two palm strikes to Suien's gut, which made no indication that it hurt him.

He smirked and said "Suiton: Mizu āmā (Water Style: Water Armor). Always battle with it," before he landed two knee strikes to her stomach then one to her face, causing Naruko to stagger backwards on her feet.

Naruko rolled behind him to avoid the stab from his blade and leapt backwards off the ground to gain some distance but she wasn't quick enough to avoid his water blade in slicing her back from lower left hip to right shoulder blade.

Despite the pain, Naruko landed and twisted her body around only for him to appear beneath her, his water sword swinging upwards. Naruko leaned back to avoid it enough to not be killed but she was sliced upwards from her right jaw to the bridge of her nose.

Naruko dashed backwards but Suien smirked and shouted "Suiton: Suiryuusou!" Suien then created a water lance and then launched it at the retreating Naruko, which pierced through her right shoulder. Naruko held back a scream that wanted to leave her mouth but instead she held it back.

She crashed through a window and rolled into a living before she pushed herself onto her feet and stumbled out the back door into another street where she fell to one knee, panting heavily.

He had caught her twice now, each time could have ended it but she was quick enough to escape it but how could she land any damage on him when that damned water armor was on?

She blinked and rolled her eyes with a "Duh," before gathered chakra in her left hand and said "Regular attacks won't work. Let's see if wind does…Tenohira no Soyokaze…"

Without warning, Suien dashed out of the house towards Naruko, who then launched launched herself towards him and delivered a flying roundhouse kick but Suien ducked it and aimed a slash at her stomach but Naruko slammed her left palm against the sword, dispersing the sword while the water swirled around her palm.

Suien eyes widened as his now empty hand swung past Naruko's head while Naruko smirked and slammed her palm against Suien's face, sending him spiraling into a building as she landed on her feet and aimed her left index finger at the building but then a water lance shot out, aimed right at her.

Naruko flew to the left to avoid it only for another water lance to shoot out where she had moved. Naruko flew above it while going upside down before she floated right side and shouted "Reppū Jūdan: Saisho Dangan!"

She was then blown backwards into the air as a shockwave flew towards the building but the a water discus flew out and cleave through the shockwave.

With only seconds to act, Naruko bended backwards with an alarmed scream and watched it sail inches above her before crashing into a house behind her. Naruko quickly rose upright only to see Suien running towards her with two water blades in his hands..

Naruko landed on the ground and swayed from left to right to avoid each swipe of his two blades before he managed to land a kick to her chest, making her stumble back before he aimed his sword at her and extended it, causing it to pierce her stomach.

Naruko's eyes bugged out in bright white pain from the water blade piercing her stomach but when she saw him swinging the second blade towards her head, she aimed her cut up left index finger at his feet and shouting "Reppū Jūdan: Saisho Dangan!"

With an explosion, both Naruko and Suien were sent backwards into the air but Suien managed to extended his water blade and swung it before they left the ground, which caught Naruko from her left hip to her right shoulder, barely avoiding her right breast.

She landed on the ground and fell to one knee as blood fell from her second wound.

Naruko knew that she was getting lucky that her wind techniques were beating out his water ones but with her right arm too damaged to do another attack and her left hand getting there, how long could she last before she was unable to defend herself?

She had to deal with him as best she can…And there was one other jutsu that could help her. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Naruko shouted and with an explosion of smoke, ten clones stood in front of her.

"Five of you, remain behind. The other five, Go!" Naruko ordered five of the ten clones.

The five clones then shouted "Kaze Suteppu!" And then flew towards the building at top speed while the remaining five stood in front of her.

Naruko pulled out a piece of paper as flipped it open as best as she could with the use of one hand and said "Okay…Any other special jutsu that can help me out of this?"

Naruko then saw a particular jutsu that was derived from her Tenohira no Soyokaze and said "Whew…That looks good…But I'll be sacrificing my left hand…" She looked down at her left hand before she snorted and said "No pain no gain. Only one shot at this anyways!"

With some difficulty, Naruko formed six hand seals and finished as she pointed her left palm to the sky. Almost immediately, grey and sky blue chakra began to form into her left palm before a streak of lightning slammed into it, causing Naruko to lower her left hand in alarm and pain.

She hunched forward and used the last of her strength in her right hand to grip her left wrist as bolts of lightning streaked across her left hand randomly along with slice marks cutting against her left hand, causing Naruko to wince with each one.

She could hear the sounds of the first five clones falling to Suien and soon, he dashed out of the building with a shout of "Now it's time to end this!"

"Go!" Naruko shouted.

The five clones nodded and began to engage him, each one swaying from the swings of his blade as Naruko fell to one knee, drips of blood rapidly falling from her left palm but as the chakra warbled in an unstable manner.

"No! No! I can't lose it here!" Naruko screamed in terror as Suien sliced through the third of the remaining five clones.

Panic filled Naruko's heart as she looked at her failing jutsu. She was already wounded enough. No one was going to get here in time to save her. She was going to die which meant Naruto and Menma were going to die as well.

"You humans are far too loud…" A voice whispered in her head. At first, she thought it was Menma or Naruto but it sounded so much more menacing for it to be them.

Naruko then felt a burst of chakra fill her veins and the explode outwards from her body as thick crimson wisps of chakra filled her jutsu, seemingly helping to stabilize the chakra enough to complete the jutsu.

"I helped you with this brat now shut up and finish this so I can sleep!" The voice said as a fierce wind blew around her hand and forearm, crimson chakra shaped as lightning crackling from around the fierce wind that was slicing her hand and forearm and onto the ground below.

Naruko looked up to see Suien sliced through the last of the clones with a furious look on his face "Enough of these games child!" Suien exclaimed as he launched himself towards Naruko, who quickly rose to her feet and smirked as she dashed forward as well.

The moment they got close, Suien took a swipe at Naruko but Naruko lifted her right arm and winced as the water blade cleaved part way through it as Naruko shouted "Tenohira no Soyokaze: Gōzen Arashi (Palm of the Soft Wind: Roaring Tempest)!"

Her left palm crashed against the water armor that surrounded Suien's chest, where it began to swirl rapidly before it exploded and with a yell, her palm slammed into his chest, causing a funnel of wind and lightning to explode through his chest and out of his back.

Naruko felt the blood from splash against her face as Suien gasped out, his pupils fading away until she only saw the faint outlines of them before his body rocketed away into the building behind them, causing it to crumble upon impact.

Naruko was blown back from the impact and crashed through a window where she slammed into a fridge, denting it upon impact. Naruko then slide down the fridge door and landed on the kitchen floor, both forearms and hands bleeding heavily as her head slumped forward, unconscious.

"Where the hell is she?" Anko asked with fear in her voice as the group, now joined with Fū , ran towards where

"She's not responding," Naruto told Menma with a scared tone in his voice.

"We're alive so she isn't dead but I fear we will be if we don't find her," Menma replied.

"Menma is right," Inoichi said calmly as he turned to look at the worried Fū and asked "Are you sure she was this way?"

"I'm positive," Fū said as they turned a corner that lead to a new street.

The second they did however, both Naruto and Menma heard a menacing voice say "You humans are far too loud…" Within their heads, prompting the pair to skid to a stop.

"You hear that too?" Menma asked.

Naruto opened his mouth before the voice added "I helped you with this brat now shut up and finish this so I can sleep!" And not a second later, the sound of rushing wind met their ears and the house to their left exploded, causing them to shield their eyes from the debris.

When the smoke faded, Shibuki and Fū let out an alarmed gasp and when Team 11 looked, they found Suien's upper body in the remains of the house, his eyes a bright white and his mouth wide open, blood spilling from it.

"T-That's Suien!" Shibuki shouted.

"He's dead…" Fū breathed out in relief. "Then that means she was able to do it!"

Naruto and Menma exchanged glances before they heard another crash and when the ran to the house and looked across it, they noticed there was another house in front of it with a hole in it where they saw a flash of blonde.

"Naruko!" The two yelled as the group ran past the dead Suien and across the road and into the house where they found Naruko's body hunched over. With a puddle of blood around her.

"Oh Kami no…" Fū whispered as she skidded into the blood and smacked her cheek. "Wake up! Please wake up!"

She was still breathing but there was no response.

Naruto and Menma both shook their heads as a light headed feeling overtook them both momentarily. Inoichi seemed to notice this and shouted "You two sit down now!"

Fū pulled Naruko forward only to feel blood seeping from the wound on her back and said "Shit…This is worse than I thought. Luckily, I can heal her…"

Keeping Naruko's body hunched over, Fū quickly formed a set of seals then said "Chakura no Ito: Hīringu Kumonosu (Chakra threads: Healing Web)!" Fū then lifted her arm and pointed her hand and light green webbing flew from her wrist and landed against Naruko's forearms, shoulder and the entirety of her chest before she aimed her wrist to Naruko's face to heal it and the completed the webbing by getting the entirety of her back.

The group watched as the webbings glow began to ebb from dim to bright with worried anticipation until one by one, the webbing dimmed into a pale white before falling off of Naruko's wounds where they were now healed.

Fū checked over the wounds before Naruko let out a weak groan and slowly opened her eyes to see everyone around her. "Oh…hey…" Naruko said with a weak laugh, only for Fū to wrap her arms around her tightly.

"You fucking moron!" Fū shouted angrily as she tightened her hold on Naruko's body but the group could see tears falling from Fū's eyes and knew that she was relieved to see Naruko alive. "Leave you alone you said! You'll be okay, you said! Well you nearly just died you fucking idiot!" Fū screamed.

"Sorry…" Naruko replied as she shut her eyes and allowed her head to rest against Fū's shoulder. Just then, she was jolted awake by both Naruto and Menma sliding to her side and hugging her as well with relief on their faces.

"You dumbass," Menma said. "Thank you for not killing us all!"

"But damn did you end that guy! Sweet Job!" Naruto said with happy tears falling down his eyes.

"That Kami you're okay," Inoichi said. "I'm going to save the hour long screaming session for a later time. Just relax for now."

Naruko nodded tiredly and drifted off to sleep.

"But while that has been settled, there is something else that needs to be settled…" Shibuki said with a disappointed tone while Fū lowered her head.

This was going to be bad for her…

Rain: And that is the end of this chapter and the mission. The next chapter will wrap up what will happen to Fū as well as some fluff between Fū and Naruko a-

Naruko: Sweet! I win the day and get the girl!

Rain: Not now Naruko! Anyways some fluff will happen along with a talk with a certain demon so until the next chapter…

Fū: Later guys!