Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and its characters. This is a collaboration work with my friend and beta Shirahane Aikawa.
Chapter II
Minato gulped the saliva that formed at the back of his throat and counted the kunai's in his kunai pocket.
"Only four? Why didn't I pack more?" He glanced back at his twin seeing the nervous expression on her face.
"This will have to do for sister's sake."
He crouched and placed the kunai's in between his fingers and started storming towards his opponents ignoring the voices of Haru and the others to stop.
When he was at a good distance he leaped off the ground to gain some momentum and tossed the kunai's he was holding with great precision to his two opponents. The masked shinobi however easily deflected his attacks despite being the best in his class in using shuiriken jutsu.
"Nice aim but not enough brat!" One masked shinobi spat and lunged towards Minato with great speed and hit the young blonde male in the stomach knocking the air out of his lungs causing him to lose consciousness as his body drop on the ground with a sickening thud.
"Oniichan!" Natsu screamed loudly worrying for her brother.
Natsu's scream was so loud it startled the birds in the forest making them fly away from the trees.
Kaname looks up the sky sensing something foreboding.
"Kaname?" Asuka immediately felt the stiffness on his form as she held his clenched fist to hers, "Is there anything wrong?" she asked worriedly but calmly.
The soft voice and gentle touch of Asuka's hands on his fist diverted the village leader's attention to her beautiful lavender eyes.
"Kaname?"
"Listen I apologize Asuka I have to postpone our quality time together. As there's an immediate business I must attend to." Kaname said calmly as he stroked his fiancé cheeks tenderly.
"An…urgent business? B-but you said this is our time together…" It's not as if she didn't understand the severity of Kaname's job. He is the leader of the tribe he has a big responsibility on his shoulders but still those 'responsibilities' just don't let them see each other too much.
"Something is happening outside the village Kaname-sama." Asuka heard Seiren said making her yelp. She didn't see her come in! Goodness if she didn't know her she'd think of her as a Ninja.
"Outside the village…outsiders?" She asked afraid that outsiders are closing in on their hidden village wanting to conquer their peaceful life hidden from the outside world.
"I'm afraid so, stay here with Akatsuki and your twin siblings. I will personally attend to this matter." Kaname's dark red eyes darken a serious look embedded on his face.
Asuka nodded and kissed him lightly on the cheek watching him run away towards the entrance of their village.
"Take care Kaname…"
"Why the rush Kaname-sama?" Hanabusa the gatekeeper of the village asked looking curiously at the village leader.
"There is some trouble happening just outside the village. I want to personally attend to it myself." He said simply and passed through the gate not bothering to explain further.
Hanabusa placed his long steel rod above her shoulder, "Too soon for your liking."
Not only Minato was defeated but was his friends Haru, Shikadai, Mitsuki and Chocho are helplessly defeated leaving the poor scared Natsu alone to defend for herself.
Shaking Natsu held her kunai at both hands.
"Look at the poor girl shaking looking scared as hell with no one stupid enough to protect her." A masked shinobi taunted closing in on her.
"Stay away from me my father will not be so forgiving with what you did to my brother and friends." Natsu said trying to show a brave face despite her tears flowing freely from her eyes.
"Your father? He can't even locate us what makes you so sure he can save you and your friends?" Another masked shinobi taunted laughing at the young Uzumaki.
Because of the constant shaking of her hands, Natsu dropped the kunai she was holding.
"Oops now go to sleep together with your friends!" The masked shinobi growled and prepared to knock Natsu out of her consciousness but before he could hit the poor girl he was paralyzed to where he was standing at.
"What the?"
"Let them be." The authoritative voice of Kaname echoed throughout the cave startling the masked shinobis.
"You! Kill them!" The paralyzed shinobi ordered and his teammates stormed towards Kaname who just remained standing still at where he was at waiting for his opponents to close in on him.
With a smirk on his face he only needed to use one of his arm to defeat the shinobi's whose ninjutsu's are useless against his powers leaving the paralyzed shinobi alone to give his message back to his master.
"I let you live so you could deliver my message to your master. Now leave before I change my mind." Kaname warned before lifting the paralysis out of the masked shinobi, who ran as fast as he can away from the cave.
Natsu who is still crying hugging her knees looked up to the handsome dark brown-haired man with mysterious dark red eyes, "You saved us why who are you?"
Kaname just smiled at the little girl.
"Where did Kaname-niichan go?" Kiseki asked looking boringly through the window of their house.
"Outside, he said someone's in trouble." Asuka answered her younger brother looking longingly at him knowing he also cares for her fiancé's safety as well.
"Alone? Why didn't he take you or Seiren-san along with him?"
"He needs me here inside the village to protect you guys and the village in case something 'bad' happens, while Seiren is doing her rounds just outside the village keeping outsiders off our land. Besides Kaname's powerful enough to defeat anyone." Akatsuki answered proudly, knowing how good Kaname is at fighting and using his 'powers'.
Nozomi sat timidly in her chair looking outside and immediately saw Kaname carrying three children with a girl walking alongside him.
"It's Kaname-oniichan he just returned." Nozomi announced happily.
Akatsuki looked curiously outside but saw nothing until it was Asuka who confirmed it.
"It is him, he's carrying kids with him I must go to the clinic and help those kids. Akatsuki-san help him carry those kids back to the clinic please." Asuka said and hurry to the clinic together with her siblings Kiseki and Nozomi.
"Strange how can they both see him from a far?"
Still looking for the village Naruto, Sasuke and Shin are running in circles always returning on the same spot they started at.
"Damn it can't we just find the village easily?" Naruto whined frustrated that they can't see anything about the village.
"It is not called mysterious for nothing dobe." Sasuke answered frustratingly mad as well.
Before they could go start searching again a blue haired woman is standing before them.
"Excuse me but me and my friends are at a lost here, we are looking for a mysterious village." Naruto asked calmly.
The blue-haired woman's eyebrows shot up when Naruto mentioned the mysterious village, "And why would you be looking for this mysterious village you are talking about?"
"Children from our village are swallowed whole by the land and we are hoping to have access inside a mysterious village to help us find them, but we have been returning at the same place we started looking at again and again." Naruto explained.
"And you expect me to believe that? Judging by your clothes you are from a shinobi village and there's been a recent disturbance just outside our village involving shinobi's making the three of you suspects." Seiren prepared herself by going into attack stance.
"Suspects? But we didn't do anything it was us who are the victims here lady." Naruto said this time his patience is running out of his frustration of not having any clue whatsoever from the village and being accused as a suspect.
"Anyone trying to find our village is considered suspect according to our tribe's rules." Seiren returned with an arrogant look on her face.
"Be prepared to die!"
Author's Note: Thanks to the reviews, followers and those who favorite Never Ending.
