A/N: I want to point out I started this, story earlier in the Fall than I did with my other crossover: Arashi Uzumaki of the Blue Plague, but still no where in the beginning, so if you want to know what happened in Blue Plague series before the point I used, you got to read the actual books. Just don't let kids read it.

I'm also censoring curse words as it's too many used in more than just saying usual ways that I can't ignore them all. At least with censoring I'm not going against my usual way of avoiding curse wordsof the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.

Finally, I don't own the Blue Plague series or the Naruto series or it's characters. But I do know the wife of the writer of the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.

If you haven't read it yet, read this first:

Blue Plague's Nine-Tail Fox's Son: The Fall

Gathering Supplies and Whose in Command

They couldn't leave the next day because Mike wanted several of the SAW machine guns to have suppressors. Bruce had given in, kicking himself for not thinking about that. Getting up early, Mike and Bruce made suppressors for three SAWs and one M-240, which was just a larger version of SAW, It just fired the bigger 7.62 ammo. Then, Bruce made suppressors for the 50 cal machine guns on the Stryker and the hummer. He almost attempted to make a suppressor for the MK-19 grenade launcher, but decided against it since that thing made enough noise to be heard twenty miles away.

With the adventure put off for a day. Jake, Matt, and even Naruto put up a large antenna on top of the barn for Raven to extend its range. Naruto was mostly helpful in keeping the antenna steady as Jake and Matt made sure it was bolted down since Naruto could walk on walls without falling, using chakra. Then, they pulled out a large satellite dish that the previous owners left on the farm. After running wires from the dish to the house, Naruto could have a clone outside to move the dish so they worked on something Bruce didn't want to know.

Everyone besides Naruto at least had an M-4 with a suppressor and even Naruto had a pistol. Buffy had gotten some of Danny's old BDUs combat boots, and a tactical vest that Debbie had made for her using one of Danny's old ones. Now, she carried a compact Glock 9mm pistol with her UMP 45 submachine gun. The first time Bruce saw her dressed in camo, he thought she looked like Shirley Temple going to kick someone's a-.

Jake and Matt sent the little Raven up the next day while Bruce and Mike worked on suppressors. The small village of Castor, fifteen miles to the east, had blues running around everywhere. Several blues were seen around the farm on the roads. Switching to thermal, the closest survivors they found were on the Snead farm fifteen miles to the northwest as the Raven flies. It was over thirty miles by road. They had seen several vehicles traveling on the highway forty miles to the west. They could not tell if they were gangs or survivors.

Jake and Matt did built a special camera suit using cameras similar to the Warlord and Raven and fitted on Naruto in Bat form. Bruce decided to save Naruto's flights for when they go out, which Naruto was fine with.

With the suppressors done, Bruce and Mike pulled out the Beast and put the steel plates over the windows. Then, they loaded it with extra ammo and fuel after making sure video cameras worked so they could drive it with the plates over the windows. The Beast was then moved to the front of the house.

With permission, Naruto put a seal on the Raven so if they loose it, Naruto can use the flying Thundergod Jutsu to get to it, retrieve it and come back. TheN Jake and Matt send the Raven out several times during the day, found two houses ten miles to the south, sitting close together with another one besides them under construction. They loaded up Bruce's, Mike's, and Steve's trucks along with Debbie's SUV with tools to take what they needed from the houses. Matt would be the only kid not going with them on the first run. Bruce wanted him at the house to run the Raven. Mike was also staying to run defense in case the farm was hit. He did not like it and voiced his opinion about it to everyone. Debbie was coming along with Paul, Alex, Angela, Mindy, and Naruto with three women from the gas station, seventeen total counting Buffy. The three soldiers were staying behind in the Stryker for backup. Bruce told everyone else to stay alert and do whatever Mike said.

The next morning, Bruce put at least one family member in each vehicle in case they came under fire. He, Debbie, and Buffy rode in the Beast. At 5:30 a.m., he called out over the radio, "Everyone, load up. Mike, do you see anything with the UAV?" When Mike replied that the coast was clear, Bruce told them to open the gate, and the small convoy left. They kept the speed at thirty-five mph so the vehicles would stay quiet.

They reached the houses without incident. It was not until Matt had to bring the Raven home to change its batteries and Naruto took flight in his new camera suite, the first few infected hit. Naruto was ordered to stay above as Bruce, Buffy and Jake cleared the house, they took the front of the house to stand watch. Debbie, Danny, and David took the back while everyone else went inside to get what was needed. Ten minutes after the group had gone into the house, Matt reported that Naruto's camera had spotted a group of infected came down the road from the direction they had come. Without pause, Jake raised his AR-10, dropping the entire pack of nine in less than fifteen seconds before they got within a hundred fifty yards.

Watching Jake shoot, Buffy ogled at him with an open mouth. Bruce smiled at her reaction. "We taught all the kids how to shoot, BB, but nobody can shoot better at long distance than Jake. Matt is almost as good but not quite."

"He may be able to shoot, BB, but all the brothers still have trouble taking me in hand-to-hand. I can take everyone else," Danny called over the radio:

"I bet to differ on that," Mary came over the radio.

"Drop it, and keep the radio open; we have infected coming through the field behind the house," Debbie yelled over the radio. This froze Bruce's blood.

"How many, and do you need backup?" Bruce asked, fighting the urge to run to her.

"Five, and we have them," Debbie said as the three of them opened with suppressed single shots. Then, he heard someone open up on full auto. Worried, Bruce called them and asked again if they needed backup. Debbie popped off. "We trained also, Bruce. You don't have to hold our hand. One was a runner, so I went full auto and spray his face."

Chuckling to himself, Bruce keyed his radio. "Good job, baby. Stay alert." He was glad everyone had a radio on this raid; it was already making a world of difference. Hearing the inside team ripping out showers, sinks, and toilets, he turned back to the road. "Mike, when is the Raven coming back?" Bruce asked over the radio. "We need Naruto down here incase things get bad."

"Matt's outside changing the batteries now."

Hearing something behind him, Bruce turned and saw several girls bragging out a sink and putting in on the trailer of Steve's truck. Debbie came on the radio. "Inside team, grab all the clothes, shoes, food, towels, toiletries, blankets, and everything else we might need." Bruce almost said something but decided not to; they might as well get what they could. In less than an hour, they had two showers, two sinks, and two toilets on the trailer. The back of the truck was full of clothes and other stuff. Bruce even saw a large, flat-screen TV sticking up from the front of the bed. When he saw the team coming out empty-handed, Bruce told everyone to load up, and they moved to the next house.

Pulling over to the next house, Bruce walked up with the clearing team. Pointing for Jake to take the bed, he moved to the door to find it locked. Kneeling. Jake went to work. Bruce and the others readied to enter as Jake picked the lock. When it opened, Jake swung the door open and pulled up the P90. With his AR-10 across his back, he entered with Bruce, Buffy, Mary, and Debbie behind him. Danny stayed at the door with David. As they entered the main living room, Bruce motioned for Debbie and Mary to head upstairs. They moved up the stairs while Bruce and the others took the first door. Then, Bruce heard Jake call out, "Contact front."

Bruce looked to his right and saw a runner come out a door on the far right, heading toward Jake. Jake let off a burst that hit the runner in the chest, slowing it down. Then Jake lowered his weapons and kicked the runner in the chest, sending it across the living room, slamming into the far wall. Bringing his weapon up, Jake put a burst through the runner's head. "Contact down," he called.

Jake, Bruce, and Buffy, continued to clear the first floor when Debbie called over the radio, "Contact." Bruce listened for the shots but didn't hear any and was fixing to run upstairs when Debbie called out, "Contact down."

P-, Bruce keyed his radio, asking, "Care to elaborate on that contact?"

"Walker locked in the bathroom. Didn't want to shoot it and damage the stuff inside, so I stuck a knife in his skull," Debbie said.

Shaking his head, Bruce informed her in a really p-off voice, "Next time, throw some hate at 'em. Screw damaging s-."

Debbie politely said, "F- off. Mary is p- that she didn't get to stick a knife in it or shoot it. Be d- if I'm going to listen to s- from either of you."

"I'm sorry, baby, please don't shoot or s- me," Bruce apologized.

"I'm not promising s-," Debbie replied, ready to beat members of her family.

In less than ten minutes, they called the house clear. Bruce, Buffy, and Mary took up watch on the back. Debbie, Jake, and David took the front. Bruce had put Mary with him since they had p- off Debbie. He was not in the mood for Debbie to start spanking kids or him. Being honest with himself, Bruce figured he could throw the kids at her one by one, and by the time she got to him, she would be too tired to bust his a-.

Matt called them over the radio. "Raven overhead. Naruto is making landing on the roof." Bruce looked up, trying to find the little plane when Matt added, "A large group of at least fifty coming down the road from the other direction."

"Anything behind the house?" Bruce asked.

"Some deer about half a mile away," Matt replied.

"Keep an eye out back here," Bruce said. "Angela, Alex, come to the back of the house and stand guard, Naruto watch over from the roof. We're moving to the front," Bruce called over the radio as he led his group to the front.

"We have it, Bruce; stay there," Debbie popped off.

"If this is a group of runners, they will ber on you before half are down."

"Well, get you're a- up here, and quit talking," Debbie replied, making Bruce grin.

Arriving at the front, Bruce looked down the road to the left. He could see over four hundred yards down the road where it ended in a curve. "Jake, set up in the middle of the road. Debbie, you and your group get in the ditch on this side, my group of the other side," Bruce said as he moved across the road and knelt in the ditch. "Everyone shoot at any that try to get in the ditch. Keep them on the road and funnel them to Jake. Buffy watch our back. Naruto if there are any stranglers get killed. Everyone in the house, keep working, but be ready to leave."

Matt radioed, "They're almost at the curve." Bruce told Buffy to watch their back. Raising his rifle to his shoulder, Bruce sighted down the road. He only had to wait a few seconds before seeing the first blues come around the corner. In his scope, he had the distance at four hundred and eighty yards, way out of his range. Just then, he heard Jake's rifle cough and watched one drop.

Meanwhile Naruto found many stranglers, most seem to probe the areas, as if looking for weak spots.

Naruto disappeared and jab every blue with a kunai knife or Rasengan.

"Hey, Jake, save some everyone else," Naruto heard David over the radio.

Mike then came over the radio, "David, shut the h- up. Jake finish 'em off."

Naruto guessed that Jake was doing a good job shooting down blues.

Matt reported that nothing was even close to them now.

"Any stranglers Naruto?"

"A few, Mostly walkers," Naruto said. "I think they purposely came late for the party."

Naruto started catching on the bantering after hearing Bruce and Mike banter each other while making suppressors.

The work crew brought out the stuff and filled the trailer up behind Steve's truck. Then the work group filled the bed of Mike's truck with clothes and stuff from the house. Once everything was loaded they moved to the house that was under construction. Only the frame was up. Several pallets of 2x4s and plywood were stacked around. They loaded them and opened the steel container beside the house. It was full of plumbing supplies, wire, conduit, screws, and nails along with other supplies a build a house. Matt called over and said Raven had to come home for new batteries.

After hearing Naruto took flight—but not before leaving them with shadow clones with real sealing scrolls to help out. Bruce decided then he wanted another Raven. That kind of blanket over you made you feel good, and Naruto was more useful on the ground with his sealing jutsus. In two hours they had everything they could loaded up and what they couldn't load sealed up. The Raven was back overhead, and Matt reported all clear.

It was 10 a.m. w2hen they pulled back into the farm. The excursion had taken less than five hours, and Matt had steered them around several groups on the way home. That little airplane was worth its weight in gold to Bruce. With that kind of intelligence, they could avoid a lot of problems.

As they walked back to the house, Debbie stopped. Bruce telling him, "Mike needs to lead the next mission out. If you don't let him, it will be slap in the face." Bruce knew Mike could do it, but if it got bad, Mike would think with his head and not his gut. Bruce trusted him with his life and the life of his family but worried about Mike when it got bad.

When they reached the house, everyone came out to hug them. Bruce turned to Mike. "Mike, prepare and prep a team by 4 p.m. for the next mission." The same group was going except Bruce, Debbie, and Jake. Mike Nancy and Matt would take their place.

The rest of the day, guards in the fort shot blues that moved down the road, and warlord shot over a dozen in the east field that had moved off the road. No infected made it within a hundred yards of the farm.

True to form, Mike planned everything down to a tee for his patrol. Before they left the next morning, Bruce hugged them all, telling them to stay alert. Mike's mission was taking him twice as far away as Bruce's mission. The group left at 5:30 a.m.

Mike had told them to hold the Raven until they got closer to the scout camp. He wasn't even having Naruto take flight before hand. He wanted both to be on station as long as possible and knew Naruto's jutsu takes chakra. Bruce just wanted something to give him information. Mike tried to deploy his surveillance to maximize the time overhead on target.

As the convoy neared the camp, Mike called for the Raven. Jake launched the Raven, flew it toward the camp, and spotted a large mob heading toward the group. "Big Daddy Two, you have a large group heading at you, about fifteen miles away," he reported.

"I knew I should of took flight sooner," Naruto called over the radio.

"It's okay, we will be gone in thirty minutes. We will take the alternative route home," Mike called back.

Looking at his dad standing beside him, Jake sent a little plane down the road as the group pulled into the camp. It was two miles down the road when they saw another mob, this one huge heading toward the camp. Mike and the group were cut off by two large mobs, one coming from each direction down the road.

Letting out a string of curses, Bruce called on the radio. "Big Daddy Two, you have another mob coming at you."

Bruce paused to make sure Mike heard him as Mike came over the radio. "We have time, Bruce. They can run fast, but fifteen miles."

Fighting the urge to yell, Bruce calmly keyed the radio. Mike, shut up and listen. You have a group coming from each direction. The one following you is about a thousand. The one coming from the other way looks close to three thousand and are much closer, like two to three miles." With that, Mike told everyone to load up; they were leaving. "Mike, you can't leave. There are too many to drive through. Move your team to the field beside the parking lot, and set up a circular defense. Have Naruto unleash his strongest jutsus on the larger crowed with people backing him up while the rest handle the smaller crowd. Have the heavy weapons hit the blues in the legs and everyone else pop them in the head when they stand up." Looking at Debbie, Bruce told her to immediately launch the Stryker with the backup team. Mike deployed the team in the field as Bruce and those in Mission Control watched.

Not taking his eyes off the monitor, Bruce asked how much longer the Raven could stay on station, and Jake replied forty minutes. Well, by that time, it will be over one way or another, Bruce thought.

Then just as the runners of the larger group seem to be reaching the group, there was a flash coming from the side that hit the horde and created a brighter flash that shook the Raven, indicating the explosion. Soon the radio was filled with chatter.

"Oh my god! Did you see that?"

"Heck yeah!"

"What the heck just happen?" Bruce called.

"I think Naruto released his second strongest jutsu," Angela said.

"Heads up! Whatever Naruto did called the smaller mob over your way."

"Naruto is in human form and arming up."

Just as the mob was in range, something was thrown at them and a large ball of spinning wind and chakra. This jutsu Bruce recognize as the one used on the mob in the woods.

"The area is clear now," Jake said.

"Well, no duh! It looks like Naruto just fired one baby nukes into those the large group and a ball of twister on the other!" Bruce responded.

"You told me to deal with the Blues," Naruto reported back. "FYI, the first jutsu was my strongest jutsu, but not at full power."

"Naruto, if you're telling me you can nuke out these blues, we're going to have a serious talk when you get back." Bruce hollered.

"Bruce, you do remember Naruto most likely doesn't know what a nuke is, right?" Alex asked.

"Everyone load up; we are leaving." Mike called over the radio.

"Mike, you can't leave. With the noise Naruto made, we won't be able to leave the farm for weeks. Continue the mission," Bruce yelled over the radio. The could see no blues walking around them. Though a lot of infected were crawling in the field, they were not a problem. Bruce told them Raven had to come home now, but Naruto to send a shadow clone to fly around incase they need more of that jutsu. Mike and Naruto both copied.

Still looking at the monitor, Debbie slapped him on the shoulder. When Bruce put the mic down, Debbie yelled at him, "You tell them to come home now!" Bruce told her to shut up so he could think. Mike radioed back and said they had the trailers loaded. After thinking it over, Bruce told them to head out the direction large mob had come from, making a large loop to pick up the septic system, and to keep Naruto's clone in the air. Then Bruce told the Stryker team to stay with them. When they reached the house that sold septic systems, finding nobody home, they loaded four systems and equipment from the shop then started home.

Bruce sent them further out in a loop after seeing a mob building behind them. He then had the Stryker separate from the group, telling them the roads to follow. The group pulled into the from at 5 p.m. almost out of ammunition. When the Stryker pulled back into the farm at 7 p.m. almost out of ammunition. When the Stryker pulled back into the farm at 7 p.m. it was almost out of fuel, having to travel almost three hundred miles.

Naruto's shadow clone disappeared immediately after landing.

"He was tired," Naruto explain. "Hours of flying would do that even to me."

With everyone home, Bruce sent the Raven back out to fly a large circle around them. They saw several large groups to the east where the group had been, but they were all headed away from them. The closest mob was over twenty miles away and heading south. Only a few scattered infected were even close to the farm. The closest was over a mile away, chasing a deer.

The next morning, Mike found Bruce at the kitchen table before the rest of the clan woke up. Plopping down in his chair, Mike said, "I screwed the pooch on that run."

Shaking his head, Bruce stared at him. "How do you figure? You completed the mission and brought everyone home."

"Bruce, I lost control and was just fighting the battle, not leading it. Actions like that get people killed," Mike replied.

"Brother, you might have made a mistake or two, but so have I. Don't worry about. Just don't make the same mistake twice."

"I should have sent the Raven out earlier like you did. Or had Naruto scouted out before sending out the Raven. Then, we would have found the groups before we even got close to the camp. I over planned, Bruce. I don't want to take another group out."

Bruce sat there, studying his brother and best friend before replying. "Mike, even if we spotted the mob, they could've changed direction and hit you elsewhere. Even worse, it might have followed you home. Hindsight is 20/20 and you can't play 'what if' in this game."

Mike shot back, "Bruce, I don't think I could live with myself if I lost someone. These are our kids and family, not troops in the military. From now on, you are in command, and I'm your second—the way it's always been."

"Let's get something straight right here and now. We are going to lose people, probably some of the family, maybe even you and me. We can only do our best, giving it everything at all times, taking only manageable risk. Fight battles on our terms as we can get them. This is the last time you and I will speak of this. If I'm in command, you will lead groups again. Now, let's go over the work schedule."

Then they pored over supplies, making list for everyone to complete. Bruce could see from the look on Mike's face it was not over, but he would fix that later. Bruce could not afford to have Mike sit on the sidelines.

…

Sixteen days later, at 4:30 a.m., Bruce collapsed in his chair at the kitchen table. Only Naruto was awake judging from the movement outside. Both of them even beat Lynn to the kitchen. Looking down at his notepad, he replayed in his mind what they had done over the last two plus weeks.

It had taken ten days to get the loft ready for the new members of the clan. Twenty bunk beds lined the walls to the right and left with foot lockers under each one. At one end of the room was a men's restroom and at the other end a women's. Each restroom had toilets, showers, and sinks, two of each.

Paul had taken the backhoe to the machine shop and built a shroud line with insulation over the engine and put a muffler damper on the exhaust. Unless you were within 20 yards, you couldn't hear the engine. Paul told them he had seen a man do that in Baton Rouge when he was in college studying agriculture. The man had a field beside a suburb and got several noise complaints, so he designed a way for his tractors to run quietly. They did tend to overheat, so they had to watch the temperature real close in the heat of the day. Bruce and Mike copied his design on the tractor, teaching it to Naruto so he and his clones can do the same to the ATVs. That made the ATVs very quiet. You could hear the knobby tires before the engine.

Paul used the backhoe to dig the hole for the septic tanks and the hole for the A/C units for the loft. Then, he leveled an area to put up the rest of the solar panels that were stored in case of an EMP. Bruce had told everyone that if they were hit with an EMP, then it would be back to the pioneer days, and they would all die. Intelligence and technology were how they were going to outlast the blues and fight the gangs.

Bruce shook himself out of his daydream, looking down at his notepad for the day's activities. It was September now, but the heat would stay until November at least. It was not uncommon to wear shorts at Christmas here.

Naruto came in and headed up the stairs for a shower. Bruce had been teaching Naruto how to drive vehicles in case they need the driver, and Naruto caught on quickly.

Today, Bruce was leading a group to the Snead farm to give them ten M-4s, twenty Berettas, and a SAW, all with suppressors. They were also taking thirty thousand rounds of ammunition and NVGs to give them. He had watched the Snead farm with the Raven as it was slowly beginning to turn into a walled camp. They were cutting down trees to build a fence around the house and barn. Bruce could not tell how high the fence was with the Raven, but it looked well over ten foot.

The Raven was sent out two times a day, once in the morning and once at dusk to see what was close before work started and what had been attracted by the work of the day. So far, only sixty-two infected had found the farm, and all were shot before making the fence. After the area was called clear, they would take out an electric buggy or modified ATV with a trailer to load the bodies and dump them in the scrap pond. Bruce had seen several alligators in the scrap pond before the plague, but after they started throwing bodies, holy s-. The alligators must have called their friends. Yesterday, when they had thrown in the three infected that had been shot, he could see several dozen sets of eyes across the water. The alligator must have like them because the bodies that had been thrown in over the last few weeks were gone. Bruce hoped the virus did not affect them, but Naruto assure him they weren't. If anything the group was just inviting more alligators than blues just feeding them.

"I really think animals are immune to the virus," Naruto said. "The question is why only humans seemed to be infected by this virus."

Bruce told Naruto to bring his theory up to Stephanie, as she might find it useful. It also brought another question to Bruce's mind. Is Naruto immune to the virus?

With that thought, Bruce felt something bump his arm, making him jump. Looking up, Bruce saw Lynn setting down a cup of coffee. She had scared the s- out of him. Bruce thanked her, looking at the clock and seeing it was almost 5 a.m. The rest of the clan should be up soon, and he knew several were already in the gym. He was going to wait until Mike came down before working out. Breakfast was served at 6:30 a.m., after workouts. Everyone listened to the day's briefing while they ate breakfast.

Matt and Jake were turning into quite the little intelligence team. Mission control now looked like a true command center. They had put a huge ten-by-ten foot satellite map of the fifty miles around the farm on the wall marking infected sightings, moving vehicles, and points of interest, like fuel tanks on local farms and such. They had seen several biker gangs move along Louisiana Highway 1. The range of the Raven after the boys put an antenna on the top of the barn and boosted the signal output almost forty miles out, then it had to come home. It was not the signal that was the limiting factor now; it was the battery life. When they found out the limit a few days ago, the Raven did not make it back home but landed on the road a mile from the farm. It was a good thing Naruto marked it for his jutsu because he got it back to them. Leave it to the two computer geniuses and a ninja boy to improve that.

The next time the boys sent out the Raven, he told them to send it to the dam. Bruce wanted to check out the military check point. Since the check point was twenty miles away, it took several trips to video the entire area. At the west end of the dam was a large collection of military and police vehicles. On the north side of the road was a large collection of civilian vehicles. Bodies surrounded the entire site with the largest pile from the road leading to the dam. Nothing other than animals had moved at the scene in the four days they had watched it.

It was the military vehicles that Bruce wanted, two HEMTTs, three Strykers, four Hummers, and one RG-33L. The RG-33L was a monster of a vehicle, weighing in at twenty-eight tons. It was a 6x6 MRAP or mine-resistant ambush protected. Twelve troops could sit in the back and look out of bullet-resistant windows. The HEMTTs were cargo haulers, and both were loaded down. With what, he didn't know. Also, Bruce knew if the position was overrun, then the equipment should still be lying around. With the clan giving the Snead farm all the extra M-4s, they needed replacements, and new equipment never hurt anyone. Not to mention Bruce wanted more toys. Bruce also did not want a gang to take the equipment. He knew there was military equipment lying around everywhere, but this was too close and needed to be secured for the clan.

They would bring back all the military vehicles, but if the HEMTTs were loaded with c-, then they would leave them. Bruce figured it would take them several hours to gather all the equipment and jump off all the military vehicles. He had called Marcus yesterday and told him to expect company at 8:30 a.m. He told Marcus they would call and give him the name of his wife before turning into his farm in case someone was listening on the CB. Marcus said he understood.

Bruce was taking a team of twenty-one in both of the SUVs and the kid mobile SUV, all with trailers. Mike, Debbie, and Nancy were going to the Snead farm to drop off supplies and to check on their status in Nancy's SUV with a trailer. They were going to stay at the Snead farm for two hours then come to the dam, drop off Nancy's SUV, and take one of the loaded SUVs home to make sure the road was clear. When the area was loaded up, the vehicles unloading the police cars would head back across the dam to the farm. The rest of the military convoy would head the opposite way, making an eighty-mile loop around the lake back to the farm.

Bruce would love to just travel back across the dam, but there were twenty-seven patrol cars parked on it behind the checkpoint. Normally that was too many cares to moves but Naruto can move them. The problem was the vehicles they were bringing back made a lot of noise. The Stryker was quiet for a military vehicle, but as quiet as the world was now, it could be heard from a mile away. Bruce had never been around the RG-33L, but it just looked loud, and he knew the HEMTTs were loud.

Mike walked up beside him, casting a shadow over his notebook as Bruce was making notes. "Let's go, little girl. It's time to work out. It's going to be a big day, so you can get more toys," Mike said with a grin.

"Toys," Bruce said, throwing his pen down and standing. "We need that equipment, so quit your b-, and put your skirt and high heels on because we're going shopping. Daddy needs new shoes." He walked out to the gym.

"I only wear my high heels for Nancy, baby. You're not that special," Mike said following him out.

"D-, and I thought I was goin' to get you dressed up sexy tonight." Bruce put his arms across Mike's shoulders.

"Maybe some other time," Mike said as he opened the door, and they went into the gym and start their morning workout.

Back at the house Naruto came into the kitchen in time to hear Mike and Bruce fake flirting with each other. Naruto shook his head chuckling. "I don't even want to know what the heck that was about."

A/N: I'm going to spend half of November working on this story and the other half working on this months winning story.

Naruto's not going to get a riffle because his jutsus are his main weapons, but he does have a pistol for emergencies or to cover up the fact he's a shinobi if needed.