Chapter 17: The Escort

(With Naruto)

Days passed after Naruto and co finished the mission assigned to them, and they were all just chilling out.

Naruto specifically, was just washing some of the dishes in his Household alone.

All of his beauties were asleep and he wanted them all to rest well and wake up to a good morning meal.

So once he was done with the dishes, he began fixing lots of different varieties of food.

All and all, it didn't take him too long to finish all the different kinds of food he made and fixed up for his women, and once he was done making them, he added numerous different kinds of seasonings to them, finishing them completely.

Once he was completely done making all of it, he filled up each bowl to the brim with as much of each different kind of food and then walked to his dinning room in order to place them down.

Once the plates were all set down, Naruto let out a breath of air, and said

"You can quit hiding now, I now you're there Hedgehog."

With that being said, an Anbu with a hedgehog mask came out from Naruto's ceiling and told him

"It was an order from Lord Hokage, but either way, you're needed for another mission."

"Is that so?" Naruto asked.

"Yes."

"And what is it this time?"

The Anbu then cleared his throat and explained the mission to Naruto.

"The mission is another one from Lord Third that never got assigned."

"Which is?"

"Some political lady with a lot of power over a country needs protection, this time it's to lead them to another Land without being targeted and killed" The Anbu explained.

"You said this time" Naruto pointed out.

"Oh yeah, you see, this lady always asks numerous countries for protection, usually just to act as bodyguards though for a short while while she figures stuff out. This time though, she's pregnant, but her and her family need to go to another Country to work out some business with it."

"Wait, what?"

"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the woman is pregnant now and you also have to protect her family."

"And how many members are there in this family?"

"Six" the Anbu said bluntly, which shocked Naruto. "Herself, her husband, their three sons and one daughter."

"Wow, so is this a solo mission or a group mission?" Naruto questioned.

"It can be either one."

"Alright, then I'll do it myself" Naruto stated. "All that's gonna be attacking them a majority of time is just a group of worthless and very weak bandits. I doubt that there's gonna be any bandits that I can't deal with alone, and it's not worth wasting anyone else's time."

"Okay, meet me at the Hokage's Office in a bit and she'll explain the rest."

"Gotcha."

After both got done nodding to one another, the Anbu Shunshin'd outta there and back to the Hokage Tower.

Naruto on the other hand brought out a notebook, wrote a note, and took off.

(With The Uchihas)

Itachi and Izumi were both just watching a movie together in their Living Room.

They had popcorn set up on top of their laps, Itachi's arm was wrapped around Izumi's waist, Izumi's head was pressed against Itachi's chest, and the room they were watching the movie in was dark.

They were watching one of Princess Koyuki's romance movies with each other, as it was what Izumi wanted.

As they were watching it, one thought was floating through Itachi's head at this moment.

'Funny how that same actress is currently in this village, living with a boy who she has fallen head over heels in love with, despite the fact that she's quite a bit older than him' Itachi thought.

As Itachi was thinking this though, Izumi was thinking something else.

'I wonder how long till Koyuki-San is given another role in another movie?' She wondered as their movie continued playing.

It was at this point in time that Itachi's younger brother, Sasuke, who just woke up, walked into the room, asked Itachi

"Hey, Onii, do you think that?" Only to pause after seeing that his older brother was currently watching a movie with his girlfriend. "Oh, my bad."

Sasuke then proceeded to walk away till his brother asked

"What do you wanna eat?"

"How did you?" Sasuke started before his brother interrupted him.

"I'm your big brother, I know you better than anyone else" Itachi reasoned. "So what is it?"

"Anything really" Sasuke stated.

"Alright, I'll fry up some fish" Itachi stated before pausing the movie, getting off the couch, and heading to the kitchen to make what he said.

(Thirty Minutes Later)

Itachi was just finishing up the last bit of fish that he was frying.

He just decided to have some fun and toss it in the air a couple of times and while at the same time having it drop directly onto the pan again multiple times before eventually setting it on Sasuke's plate.

"There you go Otouto-Kun" Itachi said before taking off the white apron he had on and placing it on top of some chair.

"Thanks Onii-Chan" Sasuke stated before digging in.

Itachi was about to make his way back to the Living Room and enjoy the rest of his movie with Izumi, before he did that though, he decided to remind his younger brother about something.

"Don't forget, you told Sawashu that you would meet her at her house at Five today" Itachi reminded his baby brother.

Sasuke's eyes then widened after being reminded by his older brother about that. He was so caught off guard in fact that he choked on his fish, which made his older brother, pat him in the back with just a bit of force, which resulted in the younger Uchiha spitting out his food and gasping for air.

"You forgot, didn't you?" Itachi asked.

"Yeah" Sasuke panted with a blush. "I feel kinda bad now."

"Ehh, it happens all the time, even with some married couples, so don't beat yourself up too bad" Itachi let Sasuke know.

"Thanks."

"It's fine."

"No, I mean thanks for reminding me Big Bro."

"Like I said, it's fine, but remember next time, cuz I had no idea that you didn't remember" Itachi said before walking back to the living room, where his girlfriend awaited him.

As the elder Uchiha was making his way back to the living room, Sasuke had one thought in his mind as he continued eating his fish.

'I thought he knew me better than anyone else.'

(Uzumaki Household)

Sakura, Ino, Koyuki, Kurenai, and Anko all each woke up in their own separate rooms in the household, and made their way to where they smelled something delicious.

An amazing aroma was being let off and it was leading them all to the kitchen, and when they got there, they saw the dining room table with chairs pulled back, and seven servings of amazing food set up in front of them.

Looking closer, they saw a note attached to one of the flowers in a vase at the center of the table.

Sakura picked it up, read it, and smiled.

-Dear my Himes, I hope you all enjoy the food I made for all of you. It took me a bit of time in order to make it and I really hope you all enjoy it, because as I've told each and every one of you, you all deserve the best for everything. That being said, I made seven people's worth of food and was hoping that you guys could deliver the other two servings to my Inu-Himes, but with all that outta the way, I just wanted to remind you all, that I love each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart.

Love Naruto-

Sakura then passed the note around so all the rest of the girls could read it themselves and sure enough, once they did, they all nodded and talked about who would have to send the two other servings to the mother and daughter Inuzuka duo.

After talking about it for a while longer, Kurenai decided to do it since she has a connection with each and every member of that family.

Once they were done discussing this, they got to eating, savoring each and every last bite as they did so, as the food was too good to go through so quickly.

'We'll see you soon Naruto-Kun, we'll see you soon' Sakura thought as she ate her food with her eyes closed.

(With Naruto)

Naruto was currently making his way to the location given to him by Tsunade. He had a map and everything.

He was following it all the way to his first town, a town known as Hi.

"So I should be arriving to the town called" he said as he looked down at his map before bumping into a brick house. "And what do you know, I'm here."

After scratching his head from slight embarrassment due to the fact that he, a member of the Uzumaki Clan, and Clan which is supposed to be gifted in sensory abilities, just bumped into a wall that he didn't sense at all.

To be fair though, Naruto barely had any idea on using sensory abilities.

Neither of Three Sensei's knew how to do it, so he had to try and teach himself and he wasn't doing too well, to say the least.

After shaking off the embarrassment though, Naruto changed his direction and then continued walking to his destination.

He was just passing through the streets of the Town know as Hi, and nobody seemed to think anything of it.

Usually, anybody would wonder why a Twelve Year Old Boy was wondering through the streets of some random Town using a map as his source of direction, but they all saw that he was a Leaf Ninja, by the look of his bandana of course.

When Naruto noticed this, he facepalmed for forgetting to take off his Head Band.

'Better late then never I guess' he thought as he removed his bandanna and put it inside his pouch. 'Just hope nobody important saw.'

With that thought out of his mind, Naruto continued walking and getting through the town.

He paid no mind to anyone who looked at him confusingly and just kept up his pace, deciding not to rush to his destination as there wasn't really a point, since Tsunade told him that he has Three Days to get to there.

He took his time and admired the town's atmosphere.

The towns fountains, rivers, buildings, parks, etc. were all admired by the blonde boy as he passed through each and every one of them.

He couldn't help it, the town, despite being very small, was beautiful.

He enjoyed the time he spent there and even bought a couple of fish cakes on a stick, to sate his hunger, as he saw no ramen stands.

He bought a total of twelve fish cakes, held them all by the bottom of the stick with his left hand, and proceeded to eat one every so often as he traveled to his destination.

Once Naruto took the first bite from his first fish cake, he was hooked.

"These aren't bad" Naruto said before swallowing the food in his mouth. "Not at all."

With that being said, Naruto continued making his way to the far off village where the political woman that needed his help resided.

(Hours Later, With Shikamaru)

Shikamaru and Choji were both currently just playing Shogi together, not really minding anything else that went on anywhere.

That was until their Sensei came out of nowhere and as usual, started complaining about the same thing to them.

"Why did she leave me for a Twelve year old, how could she leave me for a twelve year old?" Asuma asked his students and himself.

Shikamaru just sighed and said

"You're the one who cheated on her so get over it."

"Yeah Sensei, you lost her to a Twelve Year Old Blond Prodigy, get over it already!" Choji yelled.

This caught both Shikamaru and Asuma off-guard, hearing the usually super nice Choji yell like that really knocked some sense into Asuma.

Not enough though because as soon as five seconds passed he whined again.

"But she really left me for him? Come on, what does he have that I don't?" He asked them sad, angry, and embarrassed.

"He's young" Choji stated, which earned a laughter from Shikamaru.

"He's nice" Shikamaru added after his laughter died down.

"He's willing to protect everyone he loves" Choji said further.

"He's one hell of a powerhouse" Shikamaru chimed.

"He's loyal-ish" Choji stated.

This statement confused Asuma, so with a whittled eyebrow, he asked Choji

"What do you mean by that?"

Instead of Choji answering him though, Shikamaru did and told him

"He's saying loyal-ish, because Naruto has numerous girlfriends thanks to the CRA, but he would never let a girl that none of his other girls would allow, into his little harem."

"He has more than just her?" Asuma asked with wide eyes and a jaw so down, that his cigarette dropped out.

"Yeah" Choji said.

"Who else?"

"Anko Mitarashi for one" Shikamaru started which further shocked Asuma so much, that he just instantly replied with

"What!?" Envious beyond belief. "How!?"

"He's just that good" Choji decided.

"Yeah, I guess he just has a way with the women" Shikamaru stated while chuckling and scratching his head.

"Is there any other women in his harem that every man in Konoha lusts over?" Asuma asked, extremely curious.

Shikamaru just nodded his head, and so with his head down, Asuma asked

"Who else?" Defeated and extremely jealous.

"Well, there's Tsume Inuzuka" Shikamaru began.

"Oh come on?!" Asuma complained.

"Hey, she's older than you, so do you really think you stood a chance?" Choji argued.

"Fair enough, but like I said, she's one of the women that every man in Konoha lusts over" Asuma responded.

"To make matters worse" Shikamaru said first.

"Don't tell me he also has" Asuma started.

"Yep, Hana Inuzuka" Choji interrupted.

'How can such a young boy like that, seduce such sexy women!' Asuma yelled inwardly with an angry face before punching the air as hard as he could.

Once Asuma cooled down though, he asked the two best friends one question that really frustrated him to the core.

"If women like that fawn over that Twelve Year Old Boy, then I really stood no chance then did I?" Asuma asked.

"Nope" Choji said, straight up. "Also, a little something, Ino keeps mentioning to me and Shikamaru that Naruto is also a master on the bedroom."

"Seriously?" Asuma queried.

"Oh yeah, and if you don't believe us, ask Kurenai-Sensei, she said it to us too" Shikamaru reassured.

Asuma just dropped down to the ground, face-first after hearing this.

"Oh and before you ask the question Sensei, yes, Kurenai-Sensei said that Naruto is better than you in that department too."

Asuma couldn't take it anymore and started bawling his eyes out in the ground.

He lost one of the hottest women in Konoha all because he got greedy and wanted more, now here was a twelve year old boy who just straight up stole that same woman, her best friend, and several other grown women that Asuma wanted all for himself away from him.

Shikamaru and Choji didn't care in the slightest about how upset their Sensei was though, as he brought this on himself. So Shikamaru asked Choji

"Wanna play this elsewhere?"

"Sure" he replied before they both picked up the shogi pieces and went somewhere else away from their Sensei to play it.

(With Kabuto)

Kabuto was currently in his lab, working on a serum for a certain someone.

As he was doing this though, he was also thinking up new things to do and all kinds of different styles of Ninjutsu to use against the village.

"Alright, here it is" Kabuto said as he poured an extract onto another and created a different one.

This one was he had been working on for about two weeks.

"There you go, to stop the extremely fast heartbeats of Lord Orochimaru" Kabuto stated as he looked at the green serum.

As he was doing so, he looked at one of his some footage from one of the tiny surveillance cameras that Orochimaru set up all throughout numerous towns and villages.

When he did this, he saw that Naruto was wandering through the Town known as Hi.

He had no idea why, so he began thinking of possible reasons why till he realized something.

'Why am I trying to figure out the reason he's doing this when I could just get some of my Lord's men to kill him?' He realized. "Ehh, it's would be a waste though, none of our men are strong enough to actually kill the kid, and sending multiple people after him would just end up decreasing our own military."

So Kabuto got to thinking of what else he could do, since even he couldn't beat the kid if he wanted to.

"The kid has access to two tails of the Fox and also has insane amounts of chakra that make it practically impossible for him to run out of it" Kabuto started thinking. 'So how was it that he ran out of it before his fight with Gon?'

Kabuto and Orochimaru knew good and well about the fight between Gon and Naruto, because of the fact that they had him wear a mic during the time that he was sent there.

(The mic was destroyed during the battle between Naruto and Gon).

Kabuto was thinking hard, trying to remember what his Lord told him he did against the kid in order to take away that insane barrier, that made the kid unstoppable.

After a while though, he couldn't remember why, so out of frustration he smashed his hands onto the table and yelled

"Damn it!" Before a syringe that was originally on his table, dropped near his feet.

Due to his obligations, he turned around and bent down to pick the syringe up.

As soon as he did this and picked it up though, he saw the name of the syringe.

-Uzumaki Neutralizer-

It was at that moment that everything came full circle to Kabuto.

"This is why!" He shouted after making the realization. "Orochimaru had all of our Curse Seal Soldiers hold onto two syringes full of this stuff in order to temporarily drain the boy of his Chakra!"

Kabuto just looked at the front of it again then turned it around and looked at the back side.

-Has the power to drain one hundred fully grown Jonin of all their chakra-

'He knew that the kid had monstrous amounts of chakra though, which is why he had each of them take two' Kabuto inwardly explained to himself. 'Thankfully though, it worked, if only for a short amount of time, since based on what I heard from the mic, all of the kid's chakra returned to him seconds before his battle with Gon.'

Kabuto then let out an intake of air and decided something else.

'Okay, since clearly the kid got his chakra back through using the Nine Tails Chakra, as there is absolutely no way in hell he could've beat Gon without it, I must increase the potency of the serum before he is able to do whatever he is currently trying to do.'

With that being though, Kabuto pulled a cabinet open, brought out a notebook, flipped the pages, found the ingredients for the Uzumaki Neutralizer, and began thinking of ways to strengthen it.

(With Sasuke)

It just turned to five and Sasuke was waiting outside Sawashu Aburame's house.

After a couple more seconds passed, the door opened and sure enough, it was by Sawashu herself.

"So you actually came?" She asked.

"Well yeah, why wouldn't I?" He questioned.

Sawashu just took a look at Sasuke's face then asked him

"You forgot didn't you?"

"Damn, how'd you tell?" He queried.

"The look you were giving me, I've seen it all too much."

"By who?"

"Who else? My parents, they're always forgetting everything."

It was at that moment that Sawashu's father walked up to the door, saw Sasuke, and then said

"Oh that's right, you invited someone over today didn't you Sawashu? I forgot."

"You see what I mean?" She asked while pointing at her dad.

Sasuke couldn't help but chuckle after hearing and seeing this.

Sawashu however, turned around, closed the door behind her, turned back to Sasuke, and then told him

"Let's go, I don't wanna stay here, my parents are just gonna bug me."

"Okay" Sasuke replied with a shrug of his shoulders. 'I gotta say, I really like her attitude.'

With that being said and thought, the two then walked off together, just letting the wind guide them.

(With Tsunade)

Tsunade was just walking through the streets of Konoha all alone.

She was just patrolling the streets of Konoha, since she had some time off from paperwork.

'I wonder if the gaki got to the pregnant lady already' she wondered. 'So long as he does what he was assigned to, it's fine though. Just hope he doesn't do anything stupid.'

She however, was so lost in thought, that she didn't realize she was about to bump into someone until it was already too late.

"Oh, my bad, Tsunade-Sama" the person apologized with a bow toward their Hokage.

The Fifth Hokage identified the person immediately, turned around to the source of the noise, and then asked him

"Are you actually sorry, Jiriaya?"

The Sannin then perked his head up and asked her

"So you have me memorized don't you?" With a cocky smile.

"How couldn't I?" She replied with an exasperated sigh. "You're the one who's always been a thorn on my side as kids, teens, and now adults because of how much trouble you get in, especially since now I have to defend you whenever you do those perverted things."

Jiriaya just blushed in embarrassment, rubbed the back of his head, and apologized.

"Yeah, sorry about that, I didn't think that even now you'd be the one protecting me from severe punishment because of my research."

"Yeah, *Research*" she muttered sarcastically.

"Anyways, what are you doing?" Jiraiya asked.

"Just killing time, I finally have a break with all the paperwork I've had to do."

"That's good" Jiraiya commented.

"Tell me about it."

The two old friends then spent the rest of the day just speaking an conversing with one another, catching up on what they missed out on all throughout the years with each other.

(With Kurenai)

Kurenai Yuuhi, as currently roaming the streets of Konoha, making her way back to the Uzumaki Compound as she had just left the Inuzuka Compound.

She went there to go deliver the desired food objects to the mother daughter duo that her beloved Naruto loves so much, and after she did, she talked with the two for quite a while.

They talked for a while, mainly about Naruto though and how much they each hope to marry him someday.

Thankfully, Kiba wasn't home, so they could talk all about their beloved without having to worry about that mutt eavesdropping.

So they talked for a long time till eventually, it started getting late and Kurenai had to make her way home.

As she was making her way to the Uzumaki Compound though, she found herself getting distracted by a much border than usual looking Choji and Shikamaru. Out of curiosity as to why they seemed so bored she approached them and then asked them

"What's wrong?"

The two friends looked up at their Sensei and then asked her

"What do you mean?" In unison.

Kurenai just raised a brow folded her arms and then said

"I can tell by the look of your faces, you're both extremely bored, and also appear... exhausted, and I wanna know why."

Shikamaru just sighed and was about to explain why, but before he did, as if to answer the question for him, Asuma came from behind the two best friends, saw Kurenai, and then said to the red-eyed Jonin,

"Oh look at what the kid dragged in, his pedophilic girlfriend" with a very angry and serious voice and face.

This statement not only answered the question for Kurenai, but also pissed her off beyond comprehension and also really stabbed her in the heart to hear, especially from an ex of hers that she used to adore greatly.

Another thing that got her was that, they were in a very populated area in Konoha, so when Asuma said this, tens of even hundreds of people heard it, and so they turned to Kurenai after hearing it.

"Whoah, hold on Asuma-Sensei, maybe you shouldn't be saying that to Sensei" Choji chimed in.

"You stay out of it!" Asuma yelled.

"Hey, Asuma-Sensei, Choji is right and you know it!" Shikamaru angrily replied. "You shouldn't ever say something like that to a fellow leaf shinobi, especially in front of a crowd like this!"

"I said stay out of it!" Asuma shouted at two of his students.

"Shut up already!" Kurenai yelled, her voice cracking mid-way, those words spoken by Asuma clearly having an effect on her.

"What did you just say, Mrs Pedophile?" Asuma angrily asked.

Kurenai gnashed her teeth at this. She was seething mad, but didn't wanna cause an even bigger scene, so with a much quieter but still clearly angry voice, she cockily told Asuma

"You just can't handle the fact that a Twelve Year Old boy is better than you in every way, shape, and form Asuma. He's much more caring, he's selfless, he's far kinder, and not to mention, far bigger than you... in both aspects."

"DAMN!" Choji and Shikamaru shouted in reaction to what the older lady said.

The rest of the people that were watching just busted out laughing that some kid was bigger than a fully grown man, not to mention a Jonin.

Asuma looked around, saw everyone making fun of him, and realized that he lost this argument. He knew it, but he wasn't gonna leave without at least having the last word.

So he ignored the stab to his pride, looked Kurenai in the eyes one last time, and with a grin, he said

"Is that anyway to talk to someone who at least doesn't prey on little kids? Degrade me all you want, that's not gonna change the fact that you're just a pathetic old lady preying on a young boy who's eventually gonna get bored of you and toss you to the side for another, just like I did."

Shikamaru and Choji both gasped in sympathy from Asuma's words. They looked over to Kurenai, who was on the verge of tears and then looked back at their Sensei who was just chuckling before walking off like nothing happened.

The people surrounding them didn't know what to think. They didn't think what Asuma said was funny, but they blamed Kurenai, the reason why is because from what Asuma was saying, it sounded like Kurenai was having an affair with a little kid. So they weren't laughing, gasping, or anything. They just turned to look at Kurenai, with dagger like eyes, and didn't say a word,

Shikamaru and Choji were going to console the woman, but before they could, she vanished.

"Can't say I don't see that coming" Choji said.

"Yeah, and it's especially sad because she used to love him" Shikamaru added. "Why does he have to be such an douchebag?"

Choji just shook his head in disappointment along with Shikamaru and then both friends ended up walking away, not wanting to stay there another second longer.

(Days Later, Naruto)

After Three Days, Naruto finally arrived at his destination.

'Finally, I'm here' Naruto thought to himself as he stretched himself awake. "Now it's time to go find that lady in this country and guide her to the other."

Naruto then followed the map he was given further and further till finally, he came across the building that he needed to get to.

After letting out an intake of breath, he walked up to the building where numerous guards surrounded the boy, all with their swords held high and their shields held up by their sides.

"State your business in the domain, now!" One of the guards yelled.

"Jeez, this is how you approach a little kid?" Naruto asked humorously with his hands raised.

"If you were indeed just an ordinary kid then where are your parents?" The guard asked.

"Touché" Naruto stated.

"So I'll ask you again, state your business in the domain!" The guard yelled.

"He's with me" someone stated from outta nowhere.

Everyone turned around to face the source of the voice and saw a lady in her late thirties popping out behind them.

As soon as the guards saw this lady, they delegated from the blond, made a path for the lady, and instantly chanted

"I'm sorry milady!" With a bow.

The lady made her way over to Naruto and Naruto realized that this was the lady he was gonna be protecting.

He ignored everything that was being said and done, so the only way he knew that it was that lady, was the very recognizable bump on her belly, which let everyone know that she was pregnant.

Now it was Naruto's turn to bow.

"You can cut it with the gesture, Naruto Uzumaki" the lady assured him.

"Alright" Naruto said plainly before standing up straight, stretching his arms, and then asking her "So, what's your name?"

"How dare you speak to our?" The guard started before the lady interrupted him.

"I told him to drop the gesture so zip it" she interrupted.

"Uh, of course, sorry milady" the guard apologized with a bow.

The lady then looked Naruto in the eyes and told him

"My name is Queen Shi."

Naruto couldn't help it and let out a chuckle at the Queen's name.

The guards were going to yell at him again, but the Queen lifted her hand, silently telling them all to leave the boy alone.

'This boy, he's something alright' Shi thought as she looked at the boy trying to calm himself down. 'He is far younger than your average Jonin, far more laid back and relaxed, and seems to just be a bit more... carefree.'

Said boy was able to finally calm himself down and asked her

"Alright, so when do you leave?"

"In about Two Hours, you should come inside to see who you're gonna be looking after" she recommended.

Naruto nodded in agreement and followed the Queen of the country into her building.

(Inside the Building)

Naruto and the Queen were inside the building where Naruto met Shi's three sons and one daughter.

(Shi's daughter was just two years old and her sons were four, six, and eight.)

Her daughter was too young to really feel any kind of emotion towards even her own family, so when she saw Naruto, she just giggled a bit at seeing another boy enter their house.

Her sons were a bit different, they were all at least four years old, so they had a conscience and knew what they were feeling.

When they saw the ninja that was gonna be protecting them from some rogue bandits and whatever else may come, they immediately began to oppose of it.

"Kaa-Chan, you're joking right, how is a kid gonna protect us?" Her eldest son asked.

"Calm down Ares, he's actually a Jonin level Ninja from Konoha" Shi said.

"Are you serious?" Her middle son asked.

"Yep, do you wanna show them?" Shi asked.

"Sure" Naruto said before creating his favorite hand sign. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

And like that, six other hims appeared in front of the sons.

"Whoah" her youngest son said in amazement.

"Could you show us some more cool tricks?" Shi's middle son asked.

"Nope" Naruto said bluntly while dispelling all his clones.

"Ahh, come on!" All three of Shi's sons shouted in disappointment.

"Okay, that's enough, Zeus goes tell your father that we're leaving in a bit, Apollo go gather about Twenty medics, just in case, and Ares... put a shirt on."

"Hai, Kaa-Chan!" They all shouted before taking off.

(Ares was the eldest son, Apollo was the youngest son, and Zeus was the middle son.)

After telling her boys what to do, Shi turned to Naruto, and asked him

"Would you mind carrying Hera during this trip?"

"Not at all" Naruto replied with a smile before opening them and with a confused look, asking Shi "Hera is the girl, right?"

"Yes."

"Okay."

And so everyone got ready for the journey that was about to take place in just a couple more hours.

(With Sasuke)

Sasuke was currently roaming his compound, searching for an old spot of his that he would always go to.

It was his favorite spot to go to whenever he wanted to train or just chill out... the pond.

He would always come here whenever his father looked down on him and train, but he would also always come here, just to chill out and calm down.

Once he found it, he got down on the dock and laid down on his back, hands crossed behind his head, and just looking up at the clouds, wondering just a couple of things.

'I wonder if Onii will marry Izumi Nee-Chan' was his first thought. 'They've loved each other since they were my age and have spent so much time apart that they're trying to make up for it. I just hope that they're able to do what they're trying to and make up for lost time, and fall in love all over again, because my Onii deserves the best.'

After this thought, Sasuke smiled up at the clouds, thinking of how it would be like if his big brother did indeed marry Izumi.

Then he thought of how it would be like if he got together with Sawashu.

'And then there's Sawashu' he started to think. 'I really like her, but don't know what to do still. She might actually reject me though, and that's actually one of the things I like about her. She's not some fangirl who would kill at the opportunity to be my girlfriend, she's a girl who has a dream, but being with an Uchiha is not one of them.'

After thinking this he let out a huge intake of breath and thought about something that he never thought he'd have thought in his whole life.

'What would Naruto do?

(With Naruto)

Naruto was currently helping the political pregnant lady cross a very thin and weak bridge.

Just by looking at the bridge he could tell that anyone over 100 lbs was gonna cause it to break.

Whilst the kids would most certainly not have any physical problems getting through it individually, Naruto knew better than anyone else that those kids aren't gonna cross the bridge without their parents.

The bridge is very frail and looks terrifying by itself, not counting the 1,000 ft drop if anyone was to fall.

So he knew he was gonna have to do something, but he couldn't be reckless, as one of the people that had to cross the bridge was a pregnant lady.

He couldn't just grab each of them individually with shadow clones and hop all the way to the other side, since the kids would be too scared being so far away from their mother.

So Naruto had to think of what to do about the situation and eventually, he got an idea.

He brought out a Kunai and cut the bridge himself.

Everyone looked at him worried and angry,

"Hey!" They all yelled as that was their only way to get to the other side, that was until Naruto went through one of his scrolls.

As he was doing so, he looked at the others and informed them

"The bridge was useless anyways, you'd have to be quite anorexic in order to pass through that, as you'd have to weigh at most 100 lbs in order for it not to collapse on you. So instead, Ima do something else myself."

After a while, he indeed got the scroll, opened it, released whatever was inside of it, and showed it to them.

It was a rope, far thicker, stronger, and longer than the one that was holding the bridge.

"I use this for whenever I wanna go rock climbing just for fun, and it's perfect for the job."

"How?" The husband of the pregnant lady asked,

"It's strong enough to hold Twenty fully grown men, 500 ft long, and very sturdy" Naruto informed as he finished tying one of the ends of the rope onto a big sturdy boulder.

"And just what do you plant do with that?" The wife asked.

Naruto just walked up to the edge of the cliff after finishing tying the rope around the boulder and took a deep breath.

"This" Naruto said before dropping onto the ravine and then through lots of quick movements and acrobatics, he leapt from ledge to ledge, like a monkey hopping from tree to tree till eventually, a bridge was made purely out of just the rope. "Alrighty, now there you go."

The family just looked on in amazement, a fishnet appearing bridge was made using just rope, and from what Naruto said, it would be able to hold them all.

"Well... come on" he said waving before stepping up and walking through the bridge himself, to prove to the family that it was safe, and that the fishnet-like gaps were too small for a foot to get caught on.

The family decided to put their trust on the and began walking through the bridge.

As soon as they all stood on top of the bridge and saw that it was stable, and that indeed, nobody's foot could get caught in between the little gaps that looked like gaps in fishnets, they calmed down and continued walking through the bridge.

As they approached the middle of the bridge, they were interrupted from going further when they heard the sounds of laughter from behind them.

Naruto looked behind the family and saw that it was just a couple of bandits that were for some reason, trying the approach the family by getting on the bridge.

Naruto just sighed, shook his head, leapt up to the bandits, and knocked them each out with a karate chop to each of their necks.

After knocking them out, he tossed them all to the edge they just charged at them from, thought

'Why didn't they just try cutting the bridge instead of fighting me directly on top of it?'

And then turned his back, only to be disrupted again by the same sound of laughter.

Turning around this time Naruto saw that those same bandits that he had already dealt with, were still knocked out, but lots more appeared far behind the bridge and were ready to fight.

This time over fifty bandits came charging at the family, Naruto just face-palmed again then knocked them all out the same way as the other ones, before they could even get on the bridge.

'I definitely made the right call going alone judging by how boring these bandits are to fight' Naruto thought before the family reached the end of the bridge and he appeared right beside them. "Not let's go."

They all nodded their heads and then followed the blond further.

As soon as they were all gone from the bridge and out of sight, the bandits that were knocked out by Naruto, opened their eyes and grinned evilly.

They all then got back up, looked at each other, till one of them asked the question in all their minds.

"Did you all do it?"

They then nodded and brought out their hands, showing the empty ten inch syringes that were in each of the bandits' two hands.

"Lord Kabuto will be most pleased" one of the bandits said.

"That's if it actually works, he may have had a whole day to enhance it, but this is a Jinchuriki we're talking about" another claimed.

They all nodded then made a sign and released the Henge that was hiding each of their real appearances.

There they were, a total of Eighty Ninja from Orochimaru.

They were all actually in perfectly fine condition,

That was until of course they all nodded at one another, made the same hand signs, called

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" And then acting as one, they summoned a giant red snake, but died as a result, since they exerted way more chakra to summon it than they had.

Once all eighty bodies hit the floor, the red snake was summoned, let out a loud and clear

"HHHHHHIIIIIISSSSSSSSS!"

After letting out that hiss, the snake got a really bad headache, shut his eyes, and dropped to the ground.

'Kill the blond, kill the blond, kill the blond boy called Naruto Uzumaki' were the voices going on in the snake's mind till finally, an image of Naruto popped into his mind. 'KILL HIM!'

Eventually, his eyes shot open, he leapt high, drilled into the ground, and made his way for the blond boy, as he could sense the boy through the scent he smelled from the dead bodies of those ninja.

And then slithered off, defined to go chase after the boy that he had pictured in his mind, thanks to a seal from Kabuto.

(With Tobi)

Tobi was just watching from a distance as everything went down.

He saw the blond take down those *bandits* and also saw said *bandits* summon a giant snake at the cost of their lives.

'I just hope the boy knows what to do in this case' Tobi thought as his partner Kisame stood beside him.

"Why are we here, just watching everything go down, and not trying to capture the boy?" The shark man asked.

"Not yet" Tobi replied in a childish voice. "You heard Senpai, Senpai, we need to wait till the time is right."

"Then why are we even here?" Kisame questioned.

"Why else?" Tobi questioned.

Kisame caught on, but was activated that they were there for such a reason.

"I take it from the look on your face, Senpai, that you understand" Tobi declared.

"Yes" Kisame replied.

"Well, can't afford to waste any more time, so let's go, Senpai" Tobi said before hopping from tree to tree with Kisame following behind.

(With Kabuto)

Kabuto was currently in a meditative position with his eyes closed, in the middle of his lab.

'There we go' he thought. 'With this, I can control you telepathically. I just have to think of what to say and you'll do it, so now, go kill Naruto Uzumaki, I will even help you.'

Kabuto was able to see out of the snake's eyes, which is one of the reasons why he was able to successfully guide and control the thing. Another was because of a seal he had attached to each of the ninja that summoned the snake.

The seal was pretty much a kamikaze type of deal, not seal. The reason why was because what the seal does is it depletes a person of all of his or her chakra. However, even when it's all gone, if what they're using the seal for is a Jutsu that requires more chakra than they have, the seal continues to extract more and more life energy and chakra from the human, till eventually, they die.

Seeing that they actually reached their goal, means that the ninja of Orochimaru were able to release a total of two hundred ninja's worth of chakra, and they died afterwards.

'It was worth it, the lives that were lost, it was worth it. This snake is one of the strongest in all of the elemental nations, and there's no way that Naruto will be able to stop it without his summonings' Kabuto thought as he continued leading the snake to Naruto.

It especially helped that Kabuto had the snake's conscience, so whatever the snake smelled, saw, heard, felt, or tasted he was able to feel it too.

'Now, the blond brat who has cheated death already, finally dies now!' Kabuto thought psychotically as the snake continued on in its journey.

(With Naruto)

Naruto was still leading the family to their destination, but as he was, he stopped walking completely, as his ears picked up the sound of what sounded like leaves and animals getting crushed.

"Does anyone else hear that?" He asked.

The family stopped, dead in their tracks, listened closely, and responded with

"No" in unison.

Naruto then redirected his gaze forward and said

"I must be hearing things then" and continued on with walking.

After just a bit more walking though, Naruto realized that the noise was getting closer and closer and closer.

So quickly and loudly, he rushed toward the pregnant woman, grabbed onto her shoulders tightly, and then told the family

"Everyone duck!"

And after doing so, they all were just narrowly able to avoid getting crushed by the huge eighty meter long serpent.

"Whoah!" Were the initial reactions of the family.

Once the snake saw that it didn't hit anyone, it stopped, turned around, and looked down at both Naruto and the family.

Kabuto, who was looking through the snake's eyes, saw the pregnant lady, immediately identified her, thought

'So that's what you were traveling through the towns for. Perfect, now I can kill two bird with one stone, literally.'

What Kabuto didn't realize though, was that his thoughts were being heard by everyone else there, as the snake let off vibrations without moving its mouth, like a speaker, as its way to talk.

'Kabuto' Naruto thought as he was easily able to detect who the voice belonged to.

The silver glasses wearing ninja immediately realized the situation and with a devilish grin on his face, he inwardly said

'Yeah, and get ready you brat, cuz now, you're luck runs out!'

"Damn" Naruto said before trying to think of a way to get the people out of harm's way, that was until of course, the pregnant lady known as Shi screamed in agony.

"Whats wrong?" Everyone asked hastily.

"My water broke!" Shi replied.

"Oh no, why now?" Naruto began freaking out. "Alright, all the medics tend to her, I'll keep the snake away from you!"

All the medics nodded, brought out their bags, picked up the pregnancy tools they needed, and began tending to their patient.

Naruto Vs Snake

Meanwhile, Naruto made his famous hand sign, called

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" And nothing appeared. 'What, what's wrong with my chakra?'

The snake wasted no more time though and charged at the people.

Naruto decided that now wasn't the time to worry about his chakra though and tried again

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" But still nothing happened.

The snake soon appeared, right in front of the blond, and using his tail, whacked him hard across the Forrest they were in.

"Oh no!" Everyone panicked.

'Don't quit now, kill the kid' Kabuto inwardly ordered the snake.

"HISSS!" The snake hissed before following the scent of Naruto.

The snake began tearing apart every tree that came it's way for minutes on end till finally, he found the wounded body of blond boy, seemingly drilled into an extremely tall and thick tree.

'There he is, kill him!' Kabuto ordered the snake, and after letting out a loud and deep hiss, the snake charged forward.

The boy was unable to move himself at the moment, he couldn't even open his eyes, the pain was simply too much, and when he saw the snake appear there again, he knew that if he didn't do something sooner, his fate was sealed.

So, he tried using the fox's chakra to call up one tail, but even that failed.

'What? Damn, alright, I'll try two' he thought before doing as he said he would, but still failing.

Meanwhile, the snake had quit gawking at him and was charging at him again.

'Oh no' Naruto thought in panic before realizing the only way out of his predicament... was his own brute strength.

So using all the strength he could call upon, Naruto moved his bloody and bruised up arms, up, behind his head and using his palms as springs, he plopped himself out of there and just narrowly avoided getting his whole top half torn apart.

Naruto dropped down to the ground and landed on his feet. Once he did, he began breathing in and out rapidly, trying his hardest to catch his breath.

"HISS!" The snake yelled before going for another whack.

Naruto jumped high after seeing this happen, but was only barely able to dodge it.

'Shit, that was close' Naruto thought worriedly after just narrowly avoiding the swipe.

'Kill him!' Kabuto ordered in the snake's mind.

The snake this time decided to just ram into Naruto head-first and was trying to do just that.

Naruto saw the snake coming at him, at speeds faster than him with two tails, and through seemingly sheer luck, he tripped and fell flat on his back, avoiding the impact that the skull of the giant snake would've had, had it made impact with his own.

'Not even if I had Two Tails I would've been able to beat this thing' Naruto thought as the snake flew past him. 'I guess Kabuto just wants to insure my death, but I won't let him.'

The snake then turned around, looked at the fallen boy, and after letting out a big hiss, went for a bite.

Naruto heard the hiss, and as soon as he did, he knew he had to act fast, before the snake did. So with his wounded arms, he placed them on the ground behind him, and right before the snake went for a bite, Naruto kip upped, and ended up landing right on top of the snake's head.

That same snake felt the feeling of two feet pressing on his head, realized what it was, and began shaking his head to get the boy off.

Said boy really couldn't do anything when that started and was thrown off the snake with no difficulty.

He managed to land safely on a pile of leaves, but when he got back and realized he still had to fight this thing, he really didn't know what to do but play defense.

So that's what he attempted to do, but then realized he couldn't.

Such was shown by how when the snake launched another whack at Naruto and he tried to leap high to avoid it, he couldn't.

As soon as he got within three centimeters into the air, the tail of the snake hit him dead on in the chest, and launched him far again.

After the whack was made, Naruto got launched through the trees again till he ended up in an even more distant far off place, away from the people he was supposed to protect.

'There you go' Kabuto thought evilly as he ordered his snake to keep following the blond boy.

The snake followed the trail of broken trees till finally, he saw the downed body of Naruto.

There was no more fight left in Naruto, that much was clear. His entire body from his face to his feet, were Dre he did in blood, not only that, but the spots that weren't covered in blood, were covered with clear bruises.

He wasn't getting up this time, that much was clear.

So, the snake slithered up to the body of Naruto and as it was, Kabuto telepathically stated

'The only reason you were able to keep up for a little while was because you were moving before the snake did. So you had a couple seconds head-start, and when you didn't, it was over.'

The snake eventually got close enough to see the body of Naruto up close and personal. Once it did, it hissed one more time, before laying its tail down on Naruto's lower half, which succeeded in both crushing him and keeping him from moving further.

Naruto however, was in way too much pain to scream out his agony, and was dead-silent.

'Now, this is where you finally perish' Kabuto thought as the snake opened its jaws, and dove down in order to go for a bite. 'It was fun while it lasted, but now it all ends, demon.'

The bite connected, the snake's teeth sank into the skin of Naruto and was making direct and painful contacts with Naruto's inner organs, so it was unbearably painful.

As this was happening though, those words from Kabuto echoed in Naruto's mind.

'Demon'

'Demon'

'Demon'

Naruto was so used to hearing that word all throughout his life... and he hated it, so much so, that he'd be damned if it was the last thing he heard before he died.

So his eyes shot open and with a look of pure anger in his eyes, the fox's chakra started building up in his body till it eventually was coating his entire body.

The snake felt a burning sensation in his mouth and was forced to let go.

"RAH!" The snake roared out, after he felt his mouth burning, and let go of Naruto.

And after the snake did, Kabuto looked closer and saw that the blonde boy was gaining a tail.

'Damn, it wasn't enough' Kabuto thought as he saw a complete tail of red chakra build up behind Naruto.

It of course didn't shock Kabuto when another tail formed on top of that one.

'No matter, this snake is still stronger than the kid with two tails' Kabuto inwardly stated before a third and final tail formed behind of Naruto. 'Wait what?'

Naruto now had three tails of the Kyuubi, and with his eyes glued onto the snake that called him a demon, he charged forward,

"Roar!" Naruto roared as he leapt onto the snake and started clawing it as hard as he could.

By no means were the claws pleasant, but by no means did they cause any significant damage to the snake.

So with a smirk still plastered on his face, Kabuto ordered the snake to

'Get rid of him by any means necessary!'

"I don't think so!" Naruto stated in a deep, demonic voice before making his famous hand signs. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

And like that fifty other Naruto's with three tails appeared and charged at the snake.

"Follow my lead!" The original Naruto ordered before bringing out both of his hands and forming two rasengan in both them.

The other Narutos did the same and after they did, they all ran at the giant snake, shouted

"RASENRENGAN!" Before hitting the snake with every single last rasengan they had.

The impact and power from the rasengans caused a big cloud of smoke to form and cover the giant snake.

"We got him!" Naruto shouted before the smoke settled and the snake was revealed to still be standing without too much damage, from the initial move.

'Did you?' Kabuto asked inwardly before hitting every single one of the Narutos with one big swipe.

This in turn caused all of them to disperse but the original was still up and about. Thankfully, the fox's chakra healed him from the initial damage of the snake, so now, he was just thinking of other ways to harm the thing.

'My chakra heats up exponentially through every level of my chakra. When I'm just covered by my chakra, that's when it's at its weakest but with one tail, the heat and burn multiplied many times over. Judging by how badly that snake was burned by just touching my body, without a single tail, I can only imagine how badly the toad I summon would be burnt if I did' Naruto inwardly started to explain to himself while looking around the area. 'So I can't bring out the toads now, not when I'm using this much of the fox's chakra because doing so would just burn the toad badly and put me in the exact same position since I'd have to be standing on top of it, and because of how hot my chakra has become, I can't stand without horribly burning and injuring them.'

Naruto was at a loss for what to do, meanwhile, the snake was just inhaling the air around him, trying his absolute best in order to memorize the scent of Naruto, so as to not lose track of where he is. Once he finally did, he charged at the blond again.

As this was happening, Naruto quickly made some different hand signs, called

"Katon: Karyuu Endan!" And sent a huge dragon made of fire at the snake.

The dragon hit the snake but didn't cause any significant damage to it, and also didn't stop it from moving.

The dragon was getting far too close to Naruto in order for him to dodge it, so instead, he formed an X with his arms and blocked the hit.

It still hurt like hell, but thanks to the healing factor he had, the pain was soon replaced with a healing sensation.l till of course, the blond ninja landed on his feet.

'Damn, just as I thought' Naruto inwardly complained as he stared the giant snake down. "It's gonna take more than just one."

And so Naruto made his famous hand signs, called

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" And then another fifty Narutos appeared in the field.

So with a smirk on his face, Naruto then made the other hand signs with all the others following suit, and then in unison, they all called

"Katon: Karyuu Endan!" And sent fifty one giant dragons at the snake.

The snake felt powerful, so much so that it just ran toward the Jutsu and powered through it.

'Come on, it's gotta hurt at some point' Naruto thought as the snake just powered through the first twenty dragons.

The next twenty dragons went down just as easily, but then the the next eleven started to slow it down, just a bit.

'It's working, it had to be, even if it's just a little, it had to hurt, he wouldn't be slowing down otherwise' Naruto thought before the snake appeared right in front of him and then head butted him down to the ground. "Give him more power!"

The other Narutos nodded, made different hand signs, called

"Suiton: Suikoudan no Jutsu" and sent fifty giant sharks made of water at the snake.

The sharks however, like the dragons, only barely grazed the snake, and of course, since they barely grazed it.

The snake just angrily turned to the Narutos and with a simple flick of its tail, it dispersed them all again.

The original Naruto, who was still on the ground, tried thinking of something to do in this case and came up with an idea quickly.

He got up, leapt backwards, made some more of his hand signs, and called

"Fuuton: Furyuu no Jutsu!" And shot a single dragon made of wind at the snake, this time though, he aimed for the area that was already hit numerous times by Naruto and his clones, that being the center.

The attack had a much bigger effect than any of the other attacks did this time, mainly because it slightly opened up the small wound made by Naruto and his clones that was located in that center, but still, nothing major.

So the snake decided to see how much damage the blonde could take, but not physical anymore.

After letting out a big hiss, it let out one long, loud, ear killing

"SSSHHHRRRIIIEEEKKKK!" That went on for more than just a second.

Naruto immediately covered his ears upon hearing this but it wasn't enough.

'Damn, this thing is gonna destroy my eardrums if I don't do something quickly!' Naruto thought in a panic before looking around and getting another idea.

He ran toward one of the tree, quickly placed the hands that were placed over his ears, on the left and right side of a big and thick tree.

"URGHHH!" Naruto screamed in agony from not being able to muffle that sound anymore since both hands he used for that were now placed on the tree.

Then in one solid movement, he picked that tree up, off its roots, and then threw it at the mouth of that snake.

The snake saw this though and broke it quickly before doing the same thing again.

This time, Naruto just covered his ears, as he could last another minute hearing those sounds anymore.

'Was a minute' he thought as he looked at his hands and started having a realization.

When he looked at his hands, he realized that he didn't have two hands, he had four. His hands, and the large red chakra hands that were formed from the Kyuubi's power.

So with his actual hands that were still pressed against his ears, he used the hands made of chakra to grab onto two nearby trees and then toss them both into the mouth of the snake.

The snake is forced to shut up once the trees are forced down its mouth, and well... as that happened, Naruto saw a clear opening, and once he did, he decided to risk it all at that moment.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto called before summoning two hundred other hims, then having them all raise both their hands in the air, just so they could form a total of four hundred meteor sized rasengans and then rushing at the snake.

They all arrived within seconds and once they did, they all brought out both the rasengans in both their hands, and crashed them onto the stuffed throat of the snake.

The snake immediately spat out the trees and was actually harmed quite badly by the attacks, so much so, that he was sent flying.

As soon as the snake flew off though, its tail walked every single one of the clones and made them disperse. This however, is what Naruto wanted, as proven by how once the snake made all the clones disperse by whacking them unintentionally with his tail, the original Naruto jumped onto the tail and began running up the snake's body till eventually coming face to face with his face.

Once Naruto was close enough, he managed to manipulate every single ounce of chakra that he had, as well as all the chakra he could muster from the three tails of the fox, brought it all to his arm, creating a sort of glove made of pure chakra, and punched the snake in the nose as hard as he could.

The fact that Naruto used every single ounce of chakra that not only he had, but also the amount that three tails of the Fox gave him, definitely packed a punch.

Only downside to this though, was that since Naruto used all the chakra he had in his body for that, he was now again, low on it.

'Funny, I'm an Uzumaki/Jinchuriki, and I'm low on chakra' Naruto thought humorously, as the fight was over... or so he thought.

"RRRRAAARRR!" Sounded the very familiar voice the giant snake.

After hearing this, Naruto turned his head to look at the source of the sound and saw the snake getting back up.

"You've gotta be kidding me" Naruto said with dissatisfaction laced in his voice at seeing the barely wounded, barely bloody, and barely injured snake getting closer and closer to the blond. "I didn't even come close."

'Nope, but you did come closer than any little brat your age could ever dream of going against Maka' Kabuto telepathically told Naruto. 'So don't look at this as a bad way to go out, you've proven just how tough you really are after all.'

There was nothing Naruto could do when the snake went for another swipe with its tail, hit Naruto dead on, and launched Naruto through the forest one last time.

"Toh!" Naruto shouted in pain from the impact of the tail smacking him through the forest again.

The sound and sight of trees getting uprooted and torn apart by Naruto's back crashing against them was clearly visible and hearable. So much so that Kabuto let out a couple of loud evil laughs before asking the snake

'What do you think you're doing? Follow him!'

And the snake did as Kabuto ordered it to and followed the blond's flying body through the forest.

After two long minutes, the snake stopped, dead in its tracks, and then looked around for the blond boy. After a bit, the snake came across the blond boy's motionless body, which was buried in a heap of rubble as he was halted from going any further by his back crashing into a mountain.

Kabuto looked at Naruto's badly bruised up, bloody, and beaten up downed body, saw that the Kyuubi wasn't gonna save him this time, and so with a smirk, he inwardly said

'Well this is where it all ends Naruto. You've been far too much of a pain in everyone's ass to be left alone, and you've gotten lucky way too much times, and now... your luck runs out. Kill him!'

And so, the snake raised its tail one last time, as high as it could, and swiped down with everything it had, before a big crash was made, and a huge cloud of sand was formed.

'Rest in hell... demon' Kabuto telepathically declared to the now dead body of Naruto... or so he thought. 'W-what!?'

Kabuto said that last part because of what he saw after the could of sand went away.

When the sand cloud ceased, all that Kabuto could see through the eyes of the snake, was a tall Shark Man, who blocked the snake's tail with his sword, and a one eyed orange mask wearing for standing in front of the snake.

Kabuto immediately made his snake retract the attack and stare down both new foes.

'Those robes' Kabuto thought as the robes of both new foes began to whirl around and around. 'Damn it, so the two of you.'

"Oh yes, we are totally from the Akatsuki, Snake-Senpai!" Tobi shouted like a child.

'Is he really a member of such a prestigious group of bad guys?' Kabuto wondered.

"Oh yes I am a Snake-Senpai!" Tobi declared.

'They really must've gotten desperate haven't they?' Kabuto inwardly asked himself, while unintentionally asking everyone else there.

'Nope, or yes, whatever suits your answer Snake-Senpai!" Tobi declared.

Kabuto just face-plamed, decided that the two wouldn't be any problems at all... at least not the one wearing a mask, and then ordered the snake to

'Kill them!'

The snake then went for a swipe towards Tobi, but that swipe just ended up going right through the mask wearing man, without causing any kind of damages at all to that same man.

'What the?' Kabuto started before Tobi interrupted him.

"Shocked, Snake-Senpai?" Tobi asked goofily. "It's just one of my many different abilities, you know, the ones I used in order to be let into the Akatuski."

"You we're only let in after one of ours betrayed us, Tobi" Kisame reminded him.

"Toh" Tobi replied to that with his head down. "He didn't know that though, Senpai."

Kabuto started lightly chuckling before inwardly ordering his snake to

'Alright, unlike with the kid, use your abilities on these two, try dealing with them as quickly as possible.'

The snake then let out a big hiss, opened his mouth and spat out a dose of acid, aimed for the two Akatuski members, but the snake forgot that the shark-man was literally right in front of Naruto's downed body.

This of course didn't bother either of the two Akatuski members though, since they were both more than fast enough to grab Naruto, pull him out of harm's way, and then deal with the Snake themselves.

Tobi and Kisame Vs Snake

The snake tried spitting out another dose of acid at both Akatsuki members, but like the previous one, it failed.

The two akatsuki members dealt with this differently.

Tobi just let the acid pass through his body casually, Kisame just sank into the ground, and then reappeared right behind of Tobi.

'How the hell did that Shark?' Kabuto wondered before Kisame explained it to him.

"Your acid turned the sand around here into a liquid, specifically very thin and watery mud, which I was able to sink into like a shark, because I am one" Kisame explained.

"Damn" Kabuto angrily said aloud.

"You'll have to try harder than that if you wanna get us, Snake-Senpai!"

The snake then brought it tail back, waited for it to glow, then went for a whack.

'All these abilities that I didn't have the snake use, all because I wanted the brat to experience a nice, slow, and painful death is now just backfiring on me' Kabuto though disappointedly as the snake brought its glowing tail down on both Kisame and Tobi.

Kisame just jumped out of the way of the hit this time, instead of sinking.

This time though, Tobi just brought out his arm and caught the snake's tail attack with an open Palm.

"Wait, what!?" Kabuto confusingly shouted.

"Oops, I'm sorry Snake-Senpai" Tobi stated before casually tossing the snake over/behind his head.

The snake was thrown at least fifty feet off the ground before eventually crashing down onto the ground with harsh impact.

"Oh come on!" The snake summoner yelled in aggravation.

"Oh come on, Senpai, if that was really all you had then you really had no right to talk to me like that" Tobi stated while waving his finger from left to right.

'Use your other moves, that's not all you have you stupid snake!' Kabuto angrily ordered the snake.

The snake, out of pure fear of his summoner, thanks to the seal, brought out his tongue and tried using it to cut the members of the criminal organization in half.

The tongue of that beast was razor sharp and easily cut through numerous trees, like a hot knife through butter.

Only problem is, that the tongue completely faded through the masked ninja.

"Why!?" Kabuto angrily yelled.

"Oops, missed me Senpai" Tobi mockingly said while dancing cockily. "Well, actually you didn't, it just passed through me!"

'I swear, if you don't at least kill that orange mask wearing child, you're gonna pay!' Kabuto telepathically told the snake.

The snake got all the more scared by the one who was controlling him and was about to try to do what he was told, but before he could, Tobi appeared right in front of him, said

"Goodbye, Snake-Senpai" and seemingly teleported them away and broke Kabuto's connection with the snake.

"What the hell?" Kabuto said aloud in confusion at what just happened. "What just?"

Kabuto was interrupted from speaking further by what sounded like crunching coming from the telepathic signal he had with the snake.

After a few more seconds passed, the snake and orange masked man reappeared out of nowhere again, in front of Kisame.

Kisame looked on, and smiled devilishly, as he saw the orange mask wearing member of the Akatsuki standing on top of the severed head of the giant snake that attempted to harm them.

"Good work, Tobi" Kisame said.

"Thanks, Senpai" Tobi replied while rubbing the top of his head and blushing underneath his mask.

The shark-man then turns his attention to the downed and wounded figure of the blond Jinchuriki, then he asks Tobi

"What do we do with him?"

"Nothing" Tobi responded.

"What!?" Kisame shouted in confusion. "Then why did we?!"

"We can't do anything till we're given direct orders from Senpai, Senpai" Tobi started. "We also can't afford to let any of these guys die, otherwise it's gonna be a pain in the ass to find out where the new tailed beast spawned at."

"So we were just babysitting this kid, Tobi?" Kisame angrily questioned.

"Of course not" Tobi began. "We were Jinchuriki-sitting."

Kisame got angrier by the second from having done such a disgraceful *Mission* because of his partner. He sucked it up though, because as much as he hated to admit it, Tobi was right.

As goofy as he was, he had a point. It was a better choice to look after and protect the Jinchurikis that they needed for later on, rather than let them die and having to deal with the whole finding the original tailed beast, knocking the tailed beast out, and then draining it of everything it had procedure.

So after letting out a sigh of frustration, Kisame asked the masked ninja

"Alright, what do we do now?"

"Simple" Tobi replied before making them both disappear into thin air.

It wasn't long after they vanished that Naruto began to wake up.

"W-what?" Naruto groaned out as he struggled to open his eyes. "Wh-where'd th-the snake go?"

Naruto couldn't help but ask the same questions aloud, afterwards though, he realized that it was best to just get up now.

He turned to his front side, put his hands on the ground, and attempted to push himself back up.

"Argh, rgh!" Naruto groaned in pain as he tried to push his body up.

He tried as hard as he could to get back up, but failed this first time.

He then tried to do it again and again, but to no avail. Till finally, after the fifteenth attempt, he got back up to his feet.

Once he managed to get back up to his feet, he looked around, spotted the trail of broken trees, and then began to limp through them, sure that if he follows the trail it would lead him back to the people he was supposed to protect.

As he was doing this though, he grunted in pain through every step, and through every grunt came a thought.

'What the hell was that about?' Was the first of many thoughts.

(Two Hours Later)

After Two hours of the boy continuing to struggle on and on in order to try and find his way back, he used his extremely limited sensory abilities to find out if anyone within a ten foot radius was nearby.

He detected nothing of course, but let it go and continued to follow the trail again.

As he was doing this, he had a much longer thought in his mind.

'That last attack of mine was a last resort type of move' Naruto thought as he continued struggling to his destination. 'Sarutobi-Sensei, and Ero-Sennin both taught me it from day one. The way it works is that it is supposed to leave you vulnerable, the reason why is because it drains every last ounce of chakra in your body, and then releases it into one last desperate move that being a kick or a punch. The thing is though, it's not supposed to leave you vulnerable, it's supposed to kill you in the end, it's only thanks to my large natural chakra reserves and large Kyuubi chakra reserves that I was able to do this without it killing me. Of course, me not being able to move after using it really isn't any better, as if for whatever reason the snake didn't go away, it would've killed me and I would've been history.'

Naruto just stopped for a bit in order to catch his breath, let out a deep breath, and then got to moving again.

'It isn't even a Jutsu, it's just pure Chakra Manipulation' Naruto thought further as he continued walking. 'Which is a reason why it has costed so many ninja their lives. They mistake it for a Jutsu, treat it like a Jutsu, but then it kills them, like -Hey, got you fool-, and it's ridiculous.'

Naruto just continued to walk further after this thought left his mind, and took deep breaths while also clutching his body in pain from the damage that was done to it.

'It took me so many years in order to use it just this one time, that too without it killing me, and I'm never gonna use it ever again' Naruto started thinking. 'It's just too risky and will kill me next time, and not through lack of chakra.'

Naruto then shook his head, decided that he should stop with these thoughts and just find the family already

(Half an Hour Later)

"Finally!" Naruto shouted in relief after finally finding the family after so long, before groaning loudly in pain and then kneeling onto the ground.

"Naruto!" Everyone aside from the mother who was still giving birth frantically shouted in worry of the boy.

They rushed over to his side, got a good look at him, and when they did, they gasped in shock and empathy toward how much pain the boy had clearly gone through.

"It's okay" Naruto rasped out, exhausted. "Just a bit battle damage."

This wasn't a little bit though. Naruto had two busted lips, two black eyes, swollen cheeks, bruises all over his face and body, and deep gashes starting from his forehead to his chest.

"Cut it out with that, there's no need to act tough in this condition" the husband of Shi assured.

"I'm not trying to act tough, it's just the truth, it's nothing major, I've been through worse" Naruto replied before clutching his shoulder in pain.

"You need to lay down and rest, you don't look too good" Shi's husband replied.

"If I do that, then who will protect you guys from enemy ninja or bandits?" Naruto asked back.

"Well you already dealt with numerous bandits who seemed to have wanted us dead already, and then the snake, and it seems like nobody else is coming" Shi's husband reasoned.

"So?" Naruto responded with a question of his own. "They could sneak up at any moment, plus it doesn't hurt that..."

Naruto suddenly felt pain towards his jaw, right shoulder, and every single one of his ribs.

"Argh!" He screamed in pain before dropping to the ground while clutching his body.

"You see?" The husband of Shi asked .

"It's just a little pain, I can deal with it, it's not anything I'm not already used to" Naruto tried to assure them.

"Even though you have went through worse and can, doesn't mean you should" Shi's oldest son reasoned.

"Outta nowhere I see" Naruto said humorously with a light chuckle before his sides started hurting from the light chuckle.

"Just rest up, nothing bad will happen, and even if it does, we'll wake you up" Shi's husband persuaded.

"Fine" Naruto decided before sitting down on the ground, and going to sleep, while sitting with his legs crossed.

"That's how he's gonna sleep?"Zeus asked his father.

"I gue" Zeus's father was cut off by Naruto falling to his backside and then continuing to rest, quietly. "Never mind."

(One Day Later, With Tsunade)

Tsunade was in the Hokage Tower, just finishing up some paperwork when she heard a knocking at her window.

"Hm" she muttered as she turned to look to see her old friend standing right behind one of her windows. "Oh, it's just you again, Jiriaya?"

"Ouch" Jiraiya replied to his former teammate's harsh reply. "Kinda harsh."

"You've heard worse."

"That is true."

Jiraiya then went inside the room after saying this, and asked his old friend

"Did you hear about what happened yesterday?"

"Are you talking about the public argument between Kurenai and Asuma?" Tsunade questioned back in response.

"Of course" Jiraiya replied.

Both old Sannin then let out an intake of air at being reminded of that incident.

"That jackass really shamed her in front of hundreds of people and had the audacity to ask her what Naruto had that he didn't" Jiraiya angrily pointed out.

"Well he is Minato's son, so it's no wonder where he gets his charms from" Tsunade made clear.

Jiraiya just nodded to that, then with a smile, said

"If only Asuma knew that Naruto got his charms from his father, Minato Namikaze, who also had many women fawning all over him. Only difference between the father-son duo though, was that Naruto's popularity among women started after the academy, whilst his father's started during the academy."

Tsunade just giggled a bit at this fact, because it was so funny to her that both Naruto and his father got more attention from women, as kids, than Asuma ever did as an adult.

"Like father like son" Tsunade replied. "Imagine how many more women's attention he'll get as a teenager. Those girls might have their work cut out for them."

"I wouldn't worry about that though, I mean Minato didn't let the attention he was receiving from all those girls and women effect the love he had for Kushina" Jiraiya reminded the Fifth Hokage.

"That is true, although Minato was popular among women though,there was only one girl he had his eyes on, and that was Naruto's mother, Kushina Uzumaki" Tsunade said back.

The two then inhaled a deep breath and let it out, relieved that they don't have to worry about Naruto falling into the wrong side, thanks to him having his father's genetics. Afterwards though, Tsunade changed the topic, realizing something else about the same topic that they must worry about.

"Naruto is still in the middle of his mission, so we can't exactly tell him this right now" Tsunade began.

"Even when he does get here, I don't think we should tell him" Jiriaya replied,

"Are you outta your mind!?" Tsunade angrily asked. "Why the hell would you ever suggest such a thing?!"

"It's not a suggestion, it's what must happen" Jiraiya claimed. "Think about it, how do you think Naruto would feel if something bad was happening to one of the women he loves, and instead of hearing about it from that woman, he hears it from us?"

Tsunade saw reason with this, but then questioned Jiraiya back by saying

"Well how do you think he will feel if he finds out that we kept it from him instead of telling him right away, the second he returned?"

"He'll be angry, no doubt about it" Jiraiya started. "But Naruto has to hear of this from Kurenai herself, this may cause some complications between us and him, but he'll see reason after a bit. He's a good kid, he'll understand"

Tsunade decided that Jiraiya was right, and so she looked him in the eyes, smiled a bit, then jokingly asked him

"With a mindset like that, why didn't you become Hokage, Jiraiya?"

The two friends then started laughing loudly and uncontrollably for the next five minutes, as what Tsunade said was just too funny for them.

Jiriaya decided to add his own two cents to this joke though and playfully said

"Who knows, I might just take it from you."

Which just made both friends laugh even harder for the next ten minutes till the laughter finally died down. After it did though, the two friends just laughed again, purely because of how they laughed the first time.

This pretty much continued on for the next couple of minutes, the two would laugh and then laugh again due to remembering what caused them to laugh in the first place.

(With Naruto)

After a day of resting, Naruto was just barely waking up from his pain induced slumber.

His eyes were squinting awake, he was breathing heavily, and when his eyes finally opened fully, he saw that he was currently laying down inside a medical tent.

"What the hell?" He gasped out in a raspy voice before pain again took over his body, just for talking. "Oww."

"Oh, you're up" said someone right beside Naruto.

Naruto turned his head and saw that it was Shi's husband who said this to him.

"Yu, what am I doing here?" Naruto asked.

"What does it look like, resting?" Yu replied.

Naruto just puffed his cheeks in frustration before pain took over his face for doing so.

"I thought I told you" Naruto started as he began rubbing his still swollen and very hurting face cheeks. "I don't need any medical help."

"Yes you do" Yu angrily responded. "Quit acting tough, you know you're at your limit and can't go any further, so accept it and rest some more!"

"I told you, I don" Naruto began before a medic entered the tent and loudly shouted

"Lord Shi is giving birth!"

"Oww!" Naruto shouted in agony from the sudden enhance of volume in the room.

"Oh, sorry" the medic apologized.

"It's okay" Naruto responded as he rubbed his head better.

Naruto then turned to his side once he felt better and saw that Yu was just standing completely still and quiet, so he asked him

"Dude, are you oka?" But he was interrupted when Yu shouted

"MY NEW CHILD IS BEING BORN!"

"OWW!" Naruto screamed in pain while clutching his head.

The older man didn't even apologize to the blond thought he just took off to go witness the birth of his new son or daughter.

Once the man was fully out of sight, the medic asked Naruto

"Are you okay?"

"No" Naruto replied. "But that's mainly due to you all yelling in front of me while I'm currently very wounded."

"Again, sorry, but aren't you gonna go see Shi in her own tent?"

"Yeah, just gotta get back up first."

And so the blonde boy used as much strength as he could muster in order to get himself to sit up, and managed to do it.

"There you go" Naruto started before lifting himself off the ground and standing on his own two feet. "Alright, now, let's go."

And so the two went to go check on the pregnant lady.

(One Day Later)

Naruto and company had finally made it to the land that they were trying to get to, and when they did, he said

"Just a little more" as he spotted a hotel that the family could stay at.

The rest of the family saw this and immediately headed towards it.

"That's mean" Naruto said before turning to his backside and looking at Shi, who was currently riding behind Naruto's back, Piggyback Style. "They took off without me even though I spotted the place."

"Yep" Shi replied, too weak from giving birth to her and her husband's new son to walk on her own.

"Well, we should get going too" Naruto replied before doing as he said and walking off to the hotel, with the female ruler of a land, behind his back.

(Another Day Later)

Naruto and the political family just got done with the meeting that Shi was a part of and we're about to make their way back to Shi's land when outta nowhere.

"Hey, all of you."

Naruto, the medics, Shi (Who was still being given a piggyback ride by Naruto), and the rest of Shi's family turned around tot he source of the noise that was following them, right after they left the building.

"What?" Shi asked.

"I noticed that you only had one bodyguard that seemed pretty wounded and on top of that is a kid" the person said.

"So? At least he gets the job done" Yu chimed in.

"I'm not saying he doesn't, I'm just saying, maybe it'd be best if you let him go back to the leaf village, as I can tell from the bandanna in his right pocket, and me and some of my men will escort you all back to your land" the person suggested.

"I'll be fine" Naruto replied.

Shi and Yu immediately turned to Naruto after hearing him say this, and while they respected his tenacity and knew that he could do it even in his current condition, they really just wanted to give him a break. So they both shook their heads at him.

"Oh come on" was Naruto's reply.

"Naruto-San" Shi started. "We know you can protect us, even in your current condition, but we want you to rest, because we know how badly in pain you are."

Naruto still argued but after some more persuasion from the family, Naruto handed Shi over to her husband, bowed his head to them all, and took off for his village.

And so after the young ninja left the premises, the married couple looked at one another, but then the husband told his wife

"Oh yeah, we still haven't picked out a name for our new son."

"How about... Naruto?" The wife suggested as she looked at the area where the blond originally was, only to see that he was gone.

The husband also looked and after seeing that the blond was indeed gone, he smiled at his wife and said

"I think that's an amazing name."

To Be Continued...