AN: Hello Again.

Chapter Title: Fire and Ice don't mix well do they?
Arc 4 Part 4

We had been gone for an hour or so, the group was supposed to be on a twenty minute break before the tunnel they were meant to be going through was something like an hour or just under, it would be a while before anyone noticed we were gone.

Koyuki was running through the forest with nothing but a hastily thrown on kimono and shoes as she trudged through the snow, I still haven't done anything yet. You might ask why that was, and my honest answer would be because she wanted to die and I was more or less only going to step in when she was in a dangerous situation, that might sound like an asshole thing to do, but the woman knew what she wanted and it wasn't like I've ever portrayed myself to be anything that wasn't assholish.

She began to trip and stumble forward, the fumbling was almost in slow motion.

I could tell by the look in her eyes that if she stopped here and no one saved her she would choose this place as her grave, in the middle of the snowed forest where no one could see her or hear her.

I swooped down from the tree picking her up carrying her bridal style as she seemed to go unconscious making a face that depicted acceptance and the lack of light in her eyes made the ordeal a lot sadder, she was ready to die. This was where she was waiting for it to happen. Pushing fate or whoever to just kill her already.

She thought death was a preferable alternative to continuing this existence of hers that only brought her pain and suffering.

We were still standing where she had begun to fall, I hadn't made to move yet. It was a wonder why seeing as her obvious wish for death and wanton Existential Nihilism was getting to me. I wasn't often in much of a good head-space and this wasn't helping it. Everything about the chance I had been given here was slowly beginning to make me want to talk to this woman and give her my piece, hopefully she would at least want to continue living, I wasn't going to force her to become the princess again. I just wanted her to see what life had to enjoy again.

"Yukie… Koyuki wake up." I said to the woman in my arms as I looked at her with a hollow expression, my voice was soft and endearing, I was speaking to her in the same tone I used with my younger sister. Even if this woman was older than me I was going to treat her like a child if she was going to continue acting like one.

A few minutes went by and I had begun walking not in any particular direction.

Koyuki wasn't rousing from her sleep yet, I was fine with walking her until she did, it wasn't like what I'd say to her would be very nice should she wake anyway. I'm not Naruto. I can't tell her to never give up because it's my ninja way, what I'd ask would be something in a different direction. After all it would've been easier for her that way. Maybe she didn't want to cause anyone trouble or make a scene. The reddy pink coat she had on over her kimono was beginning to absorb the warmth I was projecting with my chakra as we continued, if she wasn't going to die just yet then I'd at least make the rest of our walk more comfortable for her.

The princess mumbled in her slumber once or twice going so far as to put her arms around me, it was a little awkward, and I didn't really know how to react to her doing it… a sigh escaped my mouth. It was going to be a long day wasn't it?

Ugh, I'd have said this woman was beautiful or pretty at one point, but now she's just a nuisance.

Well that and the fact that only my right eye could see her in colour properly, otherwise my left eye had gotten worse and I was pretty sure it happened after that battle on the iceberg.

Twenty or so minutes passed again without much warning in my wandering.

"A S-Samurai…?" her voice tired and drowsy filled my ears as she seemed to wake, her eyes were half lidded and her grip seemed to get tighter, and I still felt uncomfortable with it despite it being my fault.

"Sure, and my name is Yasuke." I replied to the weary woman who was nuzzling herself into my chest making my face flush, this was so damned embarrassing. I should just drop her and make her walk.

Oh man. They were going to find me soon, I really didn't want to be found like this.

"Hey if you're awake then mind telling me why you were going the wrong way?" I decided to ask the questions I'd originally wanted to but couldn't.

"What do you mean?" she asked back, blue eyes still not fully awake yet as hers bore into my amber.

"If you wanted to die that badly the cliff was the other direction." I said lazily doing my best impression of Kakashi while keeping the tone I used earlier when I was originally trying to rouse her. "But you don't seem to want death as badly as you say."

Her eyes were wide as she realized who she was talking to now, or maybe she didn't. I was wearing my hood and had a scarf pulled up over my nose covering my face and obscuring it after all, so it was probably a little difficult.

"W-who who are you?!" she damn near stretched into my ear making me wince.

"I told you who I was, plus I think Naruto is on his way this direction so if you don't want to get his attention I can bring you to where the others should be." the lost princess seemed to accept what I offered and nodded, my eyes flashed wide open as chakra pulsed through me and I launched us into the air and began traveling among the trees.

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I could tell it was going to happen long before it did.

Naruto burst out onto the scene of me carrying her announcing as he did so "YEAH! I found you! Good luck hiding from me I'm the master so I'll always find you!" His voice was loud and it was too quiet up until this point for him to suddenly be yelling like a lunatic.

He did seem to deflate when he realized that he hadn't found Koyuki on his own like he wanted to. "GAH! What! Take! You're here?!"

"Well yes, I am." I said simply. "Could you keep it down please? We're ninja for crying out loud." Naruto covered his mouth and shut himself up only to begin talking in a somewhat hushed manner.

"Wait so how did you get to her first?" he asked, walking alongside me as we approached a tunnel which I immediately could tell something was off. There was a distant and faint sound of a train. I'd know the sound anywhere, I saw and heard them far too much in another lifetime.

"Well I was with her the entire time, I made sure she didn't get into trouble." I replied again making the shorter brightly coloured boy frown. "How long do you think we've been gone anyway?"

"Hmm…. an hour!"

"Try nearly three hours, it probably took everyone ages to figure out we were even gone, huh?" I thought to myself for a moment, Naruto was quiet with his mouth hung open in surprise that we had been gone that long. "Course, it's not like the princess made it easy to realize, she escaped quieter than you've ever been in your life, it was actually surprising."

"Is this why you didn't want to be inside the trucks?" he asked, still a little confused.

The Hime piped up cutting off what I was about to say. "Train."

"Shit thats what I was going to say." I took off at a speed I thought Naruto could keep up with on his own until I realized the kid was nearly a hundred meters behind us and I dropped back to throw him onto my back and I went full speed out of the tunnel making it out long before the Train had even a chance to realize we were in the tunnel with them. I leapt up onto the top of the tunnel exit so we could be out of the way.

"Holy h-hell!" both passengers on me said as the train came flying out of the tunnel, stopping only when a group of Samurai stood atop the hill made themselves known, getting a rise out of the actress as Naruto dropped from my back and watched in confusion.

I was considering letting the princess down when the cliff-side exploded and an avalanche torrented down the mountain crashing into the armoured train nearly throwing it off the cliff next to the tracks. The Samurai had begun to come down the hill sliding along the snow and running cheering out together.

A quiet voice spoke "Sandayu?" she said staring in disbelief at the men gathered here.

"To live and die by the sword, for your lord and no other. That is the way of the samurai." I stated for the two unaware of what they were about to bear witness to.

The train had opened up a large set of compartments along each carriage where shinobi appeared next to panels that had a lard rotating wheel that was probably attached to whatever would fire out of the compartments. I steeled myself for what I knew was coming, this was something they would consider the most honorable thing they would do. I refuse to step in on something that important.

"Wait what the hells going on?!" Naruto started yelling as he watched, he turned to me and I could tell he was more than a little confused at my lack of emotion and care at the current moment.

He only got worse when the arrows began to fly at men charging, slaughtering everyone in their path, blood sprayed the mountain in a display of viscera and gore, the bodies torn limb from limb as kunai were launched as well.

"Hey! We-we gotta stop them!" the future Hokage looked at me like I could do something about what we were about to experience, let alone the slaughter we were privy to.

"I already said that I couldn't."

"Nu-uh! You just said they were Samurai!" he yelled about to take off when the final man- Sandayu stood alone on a hill surrounded by bodies and swords, there was a resounding clang as a fuuma shuriken kept the man from being killed as it blocked the kunai.

"Just shut up would you!" I said back my anger flaring as my grip around Koyuki tightened causing her to yelp in surprise. This brat wanted to sit here and make light of the sacrifices those men had wanted to make once they had caught sight of their lord. I had a lot of respect for men like that.

"Those men are fighting for what they believe in Naruto and death was a part of that." he was watching me with a disdain at the lack of care for the human lives lost, yet rendered useless at the horror before us.

I was going to continue reaming the fool for what he was saying when another explosion triggered setting an even larger avalanche off that careened toward the Train, said train began firing up and trying to move out of the way passing over a wooden bridge that exploded throwing it all off the mountain. All the carts and the locomotive itself crashed into the forest below, bellowing up an enormous explosion.

[Scene Break]

It took thirty odd minutes for everyone to converge down on the tracks and start trying to help. I had put Koyuki down and was sticking around her. She was going to get into trouble with that Doto guy if he came back or survived the explosion. I realized after the fact that there was a portable microphone on my shirt, and everything got really embarrassing when the director ran over to me and said I should be an actor because those lines I came up with were perfect.

I nearly punched his face in for it.

He hadn't been able to get what it had recorded when I had gone off with her when she escaped thankfully, but the man had the gall to play back what I had been saying and said it would be a great line to play over the Samurai scene where they were running at the train.

My teeth were grinding whenever that man was around, he had slapped mics on us and then was intending on using what we said. Without telling us.

I watched Kakashi and a few others bring Koyuki's attendant over on a stretcher still dressed in his armour. Team seven were standing around on their own watching, Sakura was providing healing to anyone that seemed to still be alive, Kiba and Akamaru were with her and Naruto was arguing with the princess of whom like I said I was standing around.

I didn't pay attention to what was said but I heard Naruto going off about how the man had risked his life for her and all that, it made me mad obviously, seeing as to what happened earlier, but I let it go here. I didn't want to punt the kid off the mountain just yet.

Koyuki blathered on about the futility of what was happening and made a crappy joke about eye drops.

Right as Naruto made to grab the princess while she walked away, a large airship rose up from the hillside and those shinobi from the glacier appeared, the woman was flying with these weird wings like a wingsuit, the violet haired guy Kakashi was playing 'who has the bigger animal jutsu' with was throwing Kunai, the big guy was nowhere to be found though.

The woman with the wingsuit flew down and took off with the pretty pink nihilist princess, tens of kunai were thrown down at us that exploded into ice jutsu destroying all the vehicles.

I said I was always watching her and that I was nearby, so when they landed inside the ship and began flying away I was on the roof as Naruto climbed up a rope and stormed into it, I was glad I brought those ninja wire dispensing bracelets they came in handy to get on here. Quickly though I pulled out a piece of paper and scribbled on it attaching it to a kunai I threw it at Kakashi, I caught sight of him picking it up off the ground and giving a thumbs up. Some time later I moved towards where the front was and a couple of windows were, I found Koyuki sitting on a couch as her uncle walked in and he started saying some shit that had me cringing a little. Man sounded like he wanted more than just the crystal, I was getting ready to break in snag the two and get out.

There was yelling and I realized Naruto had already been caught.

"Fuck" I swore under my breathe as I raised my hearing by focusing chakra into my ears so that I could listen in better, it didn't matter though I couldn't hear anything more than before it was too well insulated.

While I had a moment though I did pull out enough ninja wire from the bracelets so that I could tie it around the loop of the kunais handle, that way I had some easy weapons if I couldn't get any from my pouches or unsheathe my sword in time. They made for decent weapons and if I needed it I could use them like a grappling hook.

Now though we were flying towards an enormous fortress in the distance that looked pretty foreboding that's for sure.

AN: I really enjoyed writing this arc and I still can't really tell why to be completely honest, I just know that I liked it, maybe it was because the movie was decent. I'm not really sure. Though the next arc after this one does go into the third Naruto Movie.