"Who are you?" Naruto exclaimed. Kakashi pulled out a kunai and switch it with his other hand. Sasuke in the mean while stood there with his arms akimbo, eyes looking up and down at their assailant. Sakura was alert, looking everywhere, making sure that neither anyone nor someone's behind and beside her and Mr. Lee. Her senses were sharp like an alerted snake, fending off any attempts to hit her and Mr. Lee.
"Hrm…." Sasuke broke the silence. "Who do you think you are, trying to disrupt our mission?" Sasuke instantly went into battle mode after he finishes his line, with red eyes looking daggers at the enemies, activated his sharingan. The three comas rotated inside, around the red pupil, breaking any ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu the enemies were using. Through his eyes, the enemies he can make up was 4 out of 20, as only real human have blue chakra flame inside their body, concentrated around their navel.
Kakashi shovel up his hitai-ate, his forehead band, raveling his sharingan permanent eye. Like Sasuke's, the comas went berserk and rotated around the inside of the red pupil. "Move!" Kakashi boomed at them
"Haha. Konoha shinobis. Surrender Mr. Lee there, or better yet, the scrolls that is in his possession. We need those. If you hand those over, we'll just be on our way. Or you choose the hard way?" The masked enemy, obviously their leader said.
"No way bozo!" Naruto answered eyes with determination. He clinched his fist tightly and showed it to the assailants. "We choose the hard way." he continued. "What the!" the enemy said. "Oh, noisy brat. We'll defeat you!"
Sounds of steel clashing and sparks flying out of nowhere were seen everywhere. Everyone was moving at a fast pace. Sakura watched intensely, making sure no one, not even a bug, near her.
"Ping!" Sound of kunai hitting a stray shuriken. Sakura reacted towards that shuriken within a sec of it flying towards Mr.Lee. She than did a jutsu, "Bunshin No Jutsu!" Multiples of Sakuras appeared and circles Mr. Lee, They ran in a circle and she called out again, "Bunshin No Jutsu!" Sakura's doppelganger raced out of the circle and ran towards a hidden ninja, who hid among the bushes. They flung their kuanis, but he dodged all of it.
"Haha! You think you can hurt me with shadow clones? Idiot girl." the shinobi said. "Think again." Sakura answered, as a kunai made contact with the assailant's body, blood oozing out. She walked towards the enemy, channeling chakra towards her fist, and gave him a soft hit. The enemy flew 20 feet away. "What the..." the enemies comrades, speechless at Sakura's strength. "That was only a slow hit." the injured enemy said. "Impossible. You are only a girl!"
Inner Sakura was in rage. "What? You look down at girls?" Sakura boomed, eyes burning with intense fire. She cracked her knuckles, flexing her arms and drew her fist back, and said "Take that you fool!" The fist landed at the enemy's right side torso, he flew and skidded, tearing most of his pants off. He was nearly naked below. He spew out blood, and cursed at her.
Back to the others, Naruto was again fooling around with the enemies with his Kage Bunshin clones. As a golden opportunity arises, his clones ran and slides towards his enemy, with their legs curled uplike a screwed coil spring. As they were below their opponent, they kicked him into the air. Naruto was already up in the air, doing a 360 degree back flip, stick out his, as he completed the summersault, his leg landed at the enemy's stomach, completing his Uzumaki Naruto Rendan. Sasuke did his Shishi Rendan. He ducked below as he dodged an incoming punch, with sharingan activated, he sped up his movement, gave a sharp kick towards the enemy's chin, sending him up into the air. He then followed behind, appearing behind, grabbing the opponent's right clothing and turned him. He then gave a punch to the side left abdomen, a right kick to the stomach, an elbow at the exact location, which sends the enemy down, with the help of gravity, and delivers the final blow, a left kick, after a 180 degree summersault, completing his Lion Combo AKA Shishi Rendan.
Kakashi sensei was up on the tree, enjoying his Icha Icha Paradise book. "What took you all so long?" he asked to annoy them. "We're just flexing our body. Been bored." Naruto said. "Just doing some jutsu exercise." Sasuke answered, looking at the injured assailant, helping their injured comrades to escape. "I don't want to see you all again!" he continued. Mean while Sakura boomed at Kakashi, "You'll so free, you should help me protect Mr. Lee. I had to summon clones to help me." "That's why you need to think fast and make the right decision during battle Sakura." Kakashi explained. "I've been monitoring you all from here and it seems that Sakura has improved a lot since you underwent Tsunade-sama's, the fifth hokage's training. I'm proud." Kakashi continued.
Continuing on their journey towards the magnificent castle, Sakura reflected back on her training with the fifth hokage, Tsunade-sama. "Remember, good and efficient control and use of chakra can last you days of fighting without draining it. Use only what you need, don't overdo it." That was said by the Lord Hokage before she departed and when she underwent her training.
"Hey, hey, Sakura. That was kinda cool move you use there." beckon Naruto. "What inhuman strength. I wish I can do that," Naruto continued as he threw punches into thin air. "It's part of training and skills that was taught by yours truly, Tsunade-sama." Sakura told Naruto.
"Wow, that grandma could do that? No, wait. I've seen her in action way back during the fight with Kabuto." Naruto reflected. As he walked, Sakurawas following behind, looking and monologue, "He's back is still way ahead of me, and Sasuke's too."
"Ok, we're finally here," Kakashi broke the silence between the group. The entrance to the palace was magnificent. Covered with heads of lions like the gates of the forbidden palace in China, it was fierce looking. If you were to stand next to it, the door would dwarf anyone who is very tall, not to mention short brat like Naruto. "Wow, its really big and high. Luckily I've grown." Naruto spoke. Sakura and Sasuke moved to the side of Naruto. He then look beside and frown. "Ok, I know I'm short." Naruto confessed.
Kakashi sensei pushed open the door, to be greeted by two guards, holding a katana, with samurai style hair. "Are you ronins or samurais?" Kakashi asked out of curiosity. (Ronin are free warriors, living freely without anyone to control them. Also, they are mostly vagabond)
"We're the bodyguards of the sire, our master." One of them answered, "And, for your information, if we are ronin, we wouldn't be standing here." He continued. "Haha, It was just a joke. Come on, I'm bored of my group already." Kakashi tried to cheer up the atmosphere. Most of them are tired and Naruto was yawning non-stop. "Awww…." Naruto yawned loudly, "Can we get the important stuff to your whoever master snappy? I'm hungry." Naruto continued.
"We have been inspecting you so we have a rooms prepared for you all, lunch is ready and you can enjoy your meal as soon as you see our master," one of the guy answered. "And, by the way, I'm Tomura. He is Tetsu." "Hajimashite.(Nice to meet you)" Tetsu greeted. "You too." Naruto greeted back.
"Sire, we have guest." Tomura spoke as he opened the door and entered the palace hall. "Presenting Kakashi sensei, Uzumaki-san, Uchiha-san, Haruno-san and your acquaintances, Mr. Lee."
"Ah. Enter. Servants, please prepare food and drinks for the quests. Sit down." the master of the palace ordered. "Arigato gozaimatsu." they answered. "I'm Tokiha Tsubasa. Ruler of this city. Nice to meet you all Konoha's ninja. Good to know that they still give helps to those who needs it…." "With money…" Naruto finished the sentence. "Hahaha, good one there Uzumaki-kun." the king said. "Call me Naruto. I'm not use to Uzumaki-kun. Too formal. I call our forth hokage oji-san(grandpa). Not fond of formal addressing. Except high ranking people. " Naruto explained. "No need to be formal to me. Just call me Basa-senpai is enough." The king said humbly. "Ah, seems that the food is here. Dig in." "Itadakima………………..SU!" Naruto said loudly, making the king laugh again. "Weird child, but funny." Naruto was chomping down the food at top speed while Kakashi scratch his head, apologizing about Naruto's behaviour.
"Oh yes. Here is the reports, sire." said Mr. Lee as he undo the jutsu he put onto his pouch and took out the scrolls, passing it the king.
AN: Another great story here. Sorry for the months of delay as lots have happened. Moved new house, lost my net connection, my hard disk crashed, corrupted the files I copied over to my thumb drive, university assignments, part time work, university's connection do not allow us to upload to fanfic(new rules implemented and now I can.) very very very slow broadband connection at uncle's house( think as worst than broadband) not to mention time and will to redo it 3 times(stupid file keep getting corrupted and have to reformat the com.) Thanks to those who are willing to wait and thanks for reading. Enjoy.